#delena gifset

[blairwaldcrf]

But say I do leave her here under your protection, what then?

[tvd 3x13 | every klefan scene ?/?]

[whitmoreoccultstudies]

[userlaylivia]

@makeyouminemp3, @nikkiruncks, @maya-matlin, @poguelandia

[zalrb]

Mhmmm I have seen you made Delena “best moment” gifset 😂 please make a Steroline “best moment” gifset 😂 that should be fun 😂

[blairwaldcrf]

"You know, probably best to keep Elena in the 'do not discuss pile' "

[tvd 3x13 | every klefan scene ?/?]

[thepromisethatlovecouldbeeternal]

♡ 365 days of delena ♡ ↳ (361/365)

anon request: Could I please request a side by side gifset of the scene in 2×22 of Damon biting Elena's neck vs Elena pulling her hair back for him to put the necklace on in 3��01?

[powderblueblood]

oh you’re so real and brave for bamon… now my nosy ass who was obsessed w tvd when i was 13 needs to know whether you shipped stelena or delena and your thoughts on klaroline😭😭

emmy this is such SERIOUS business!!!!

with absolute perfect honesty and truth i must tell you that i shipped elena with one person and one person only and that is the love of jesus christ i shipped elena with getting a grip i had no time for elena gilbert and i don't think she should have been around either of those boys. i think she should have discovered lesbianism with rebecca if i'm so serious and honest

and this is a mad one but i was like. not really in it for klaroline either, i don't actually KNOW why because i've seen like. gifsets of them since and i would ordinarily be soooo well into that dynamic but at the time i was like PFFF who cares show me the old guy again (why was i freaking it for elijah mikaelson.... anyway)

steroline on the other hand...... hello nurse. administer me 10ccs of that

[userlaylivia]

there's quite a few delena gifsets in my queue I apologize to all my non delena lovers for the amount of delena on your dash if you don't have it blacklisted lol I'll be adding more soon because I have so much in my likes I liked awhile ago I'm trying to clear them out lol

[userlaylivia]

@makeyouminemp3, @nikkiruncks, @poguelandia, @maya-matlin

Stelena Things ➜ Deep gazes

[sulietsexual]

Hi Rachel! I'd love to hear which ships you were most surprised to like or dislike - ie ships that you EXPECTED to like or dislike based on all you'd seen and heard beforehand but ended up feeling the opposite about. For example, as a Bangel fan and someone who generally prefers Stefan's general type of character to Damon's, I expected to love Stelena and dislike Delena, but much to my surprise I shipped Delena and really didn't like Stefan or Stelena much at all. And based on gifsets and discourse I thought I'd love Piper/Leo, but when I actually watched Charmed I'm like, "how is it possible that Leo is in every episode yet given no personality, interests, quirks etc and why is he okay with the perpetually dour, infectiously miserable, NEVER satisfied and increasingly mean Piper sniping at him, insulting him, nagging and complaining in every single scene?!" Finally, I thought I'd love Barchie but really disliked them and fell weirdly in love with Varchie instead! I'd love to hear yours!!

Wow, Nonnie, little harsh on Piper there! Surely she's not that bad? :P

Similarly to you, I expected to like Stelena but found the ship fairly dull. I didn't hate it by any means, but I found the Delena dynamic much more interesting.

I also did not expect to fall in love with Klaroline, but it became my main TVDVerse ship.

[kennyomegasweave]

Shipper Tag Game

I was tagged by @foralleternityidiot! Thank you!

1. What ship were you completely obsessed with when you were a teenager, but now you don't care anymore? Christian/Sean from Nip/Tuck. Letting them go was the first step in me trying to free myself from the demon that is Ryan Murphy and his shows.

2. Which ship would you consider your first one? Eric/Jack from Boy Meets World. I shipped them before I even knew what shipping was. You couldn't tell me shit about them and you still can't. They were, are, and always will be in love. You will never change my mind.

3. Your first fanfic belonged to which couple? So I didn't get into fic until WAY late, like 2008. Which is weird cause I was on message boards and in so many LJ comms, but I just didn't read it. Keeping that in mind, it was Phlochte. I'm not proud but I'm not as embarrassed as I should be. If you knew anything about those two back then, you'd get it okay. lol

4. Do you remember the first couple you saw a fanart over? I don't actually. I still don't seek out fanart, so I'm not surprised I don't remember the first one I saw.

5. Did you ever get into ship discourse? I still have anti-delena and anti-stydia tags on old posts on this account sooo...lol. But I was never in the inbox, messages, comments, or posts of people who actually liked those ships! People just came to me to fight when I would post my hate posts on my own account.

6. Did you used to have any no-otp or have it currently? The previous answer answers that, lol. But I don't have any currently. I've hit the point where if I love a ship that's not happening and/or I hate the main pairing, I tend to just peace out. I only ever had NOTPs cause I wouldn't quit shows, but now I'll drop them. I keep up with my faves through gifsets with no need to actually watch the show.

7. Who were the couple in the last fanfic you read? WangXian. I finished the show in four days and read all five books in five days. I have been OBSESSED for like a month.

8. Currently, do you have any OTPs? I will never not have OTPs, lol. Current: CaptainKeen, CharlieBabe, NorthSonic, KhemThongthai, WangXian, Buddie All time favorites: Stelena, Scallison, Matt/Elektra, Amy/Rory, Ian/Mickey, Spashley, TeamWin, PalmNueng, PrapaiSky, Brittana, Pacey/Joey, DeanCas, Graham/Megan, Amy/Lucy Diamond, Webgott

9. Is there any couple that, to this day, you are extremely mad about not getting together? Of course. I have more noncanon ships than canon since gay ships really just weren't happening back in the day. I also have several ships that got together but broke up, which I think also answers this question. The biggest will always be Shane/Carmen. It's been 18 years since Shane left Carmen at the altar and I'm still mad.

10. Is there any ship you used to dislike but now you think they are kind of interesting? I'm watching Playboyy and I didn't give a shit about AobPuen and I didn't really care about PromNont but now I'm invested in them both. AobPuen got me in literally one episode. PromNont became intriguing when Prom gave Nont the gun and then it's just built from there.

11. Do you have any ship that, in the past, was considered normal but now you would be cancelled over? I watched and loved Love Syndrome III in 2023 so obviously I have hella ships from the past that would get me cancelled. I regret nothing.

12. What was your favorite crack ship? I honestly think I've only ever had one crack ship and that was ChanBig and it went from laughing online to "I am fully pretending this was actually happening and Chan and Big are fucking in the sky now, thank you, god bless" in record time.

13. Who is the couple you read more fanfics of? This isn't a fair question since a lot of my ships just don't have fic written about them. But I'm currently all up in WangXian fic.

14. What most of your ships usually have in common? I tend to like ships that are ~unhealthy~ ~toxic~ and ~problematic~. No regerts.

15. What do you absolutely hate in a ship? Just not talking to each other. I don't need them to agree, sometimes even on anything, but they have to talk. I don't care if they yell, fight, punch each other, whatever, as long as they talk. I don't like miscommunication because of that either. Because if you're actually talking, there's not miscommunication.

Tagging the last five people in my notifications: @theflagscene, @loudspeakeer, @beaucadeau, @bunnakit, @deepbutdazzlingdarkness Feel free to do it or not, no pressure! It's all for fun! <3

[kiss-my-freckle]

Something I miss about Tumblr when TVD was airing was how many Delena shippers actively posted analyses, gifsets, etc. There are still some that create gifsets, but not many. And there's barely anyone that posts analyses of them now. Many Delena shippers left Tumblr after 3x22, 6x22, and 8x16. Judging Delena shippers was rampant on this platform so the people that used to post either post other fandoms now, migrated to Twitter or left the TVD fandom completely. I didn't have Tumblr for the most part at the time it was airing, but I was often reading well-written posts on Delena. As toxic as it was from anti shippers, it was a more enjoyable fandom experience. Because Delena got endgame and people are more toxic and hypocritical than they were back then against Delena and their shippers I don't see text posts about them much on Tumblr. Even the Delena shippers I interacted with back then were more pleasant than the ones now because the ones now have been brainwashed into being overly critical of Damon and barely critical of Stefan so as not to get on the bad side of anti shippers that may follow them. I wish I didn't get rid of Tumblr so soon and stayed on the fandom when it was airing so I could enjoy reading more about Delena and interacting with fellow shippers as I miss how those interactions were. Now a lot of the text posts are anti Delena, Elena, and Damon salt posts or unrelated posts.

I'm huge on analysis, parallels, themes, overlays, and gif posts. Most of my posts focus on the actual writing. While Stefan and Elena parallel each other a great deal, not all of those parallels are positive ones. Denial is something she and Stefan have in common. She could've spent 145 years denying she fell in love with Damon just as Stefan spent 145 years denying he fell in love with Katherine. She would've remained with Stefan for those 145 years, but she would've been miserable her entire existence because Stefan isn't the brother she wants. That's why they had to make her a vampire. They forced Elena to face her fear for the sake of living true to herself. She's not meant to repeat Stefan's history. Delena has an insane number of parallels.

[papatundespainknife]

Every time I’m reminded of delena or see a gifset I just end up looking at my screen like

[alethiaii]

Me, logs on Tumblr after some hours away: Can't wait to see all the stuff good and bad on my dashboard.

@marril96 : It's free real estate to flood it with Delena gifsets.

Love ya😘

[zalrb]

why do you think the writers chose to make the steroline proposal so similar to the stelena one?

If I were a Steroline shipper, I would say that the purpose is to show that SE was a long-ago fantasy but SC is what's real and immediate and in front of him and that's what the parallels are meant to indicate. The "healthy" Steroline equivalent of Delena's "We're messy and we're complicated but we're real".

As a Stelena shipper, and taking in the fact that season 8 has a lot of loaded Stelena moments (not even accounting for season 7)

In season 8 Stefan could’ve spoken about how he told Caroline at the festival that things would be OK again, that they’ll make it through, he chose to speak about Elena

Caroline is the one who brings them up

Bonnie tells him to find hope,

the first thing we see him do is write in his diary to Elena:

The show even continues the narrative of Stefan being unable to leave town because Elena keeps him in MF:

which is a pattern Katherine brought up in season 5:

that we saw in season 1:

And season 3:

In 3x04 Klaus returns with him to Mystic Falls because Stefan couldn’t adequately lie to Rebekah about maybe loving someone else the way he loved Elena.

In 3x21, 3x22 he says he’ll leave town if she chooses Damon but she chooses him instead and more than that becomes a vampire so he stays.

Even Cade who is manipulated by Katherine, the way Katherine tortures Stefan has nothing to do with Caroline directly, she’s a casualty of her plan yes, but her plan is focused on making Stefan destroy his relationship with Elena once and for all, to poison their relationship:

taking in the fact that Elena is the last person he sees before he dies

taking in the fact that in season 6, Julie said this

Julie Plec: They [Stefan and Caroline] are sharing an experience of having to say goodbye to someone they care about [who] ultimately is Stefan’s true love. (source)

in season 8 KW said this

He pauses, then continues, “If there was any other conversations, we ended on this one. This show was always about Stefan being the hero, and if Stefan could not have Elena, Stefan could do this very nice thing of giving his brother the chance to live with Elena.”

I think the parallel is what I said in my "Just Be Happy" gifset

When I spoke to the anon about 8x05 and the kitchen scene, there was something about it that felt off to me that I couldn’t articulate until now. Making breakfast and getting coffee/tea whatever in the morning with your partner is innocuous enough, thousands of couples do that all the time, but within the context of other scenes in the season it feels as if Stefan is trying to recreate the Stelena fantasy life with Caroline in an effort to do what Elena told him to do in 6x22: be happy.

When push comes to shove, Elena is still the person Stefan draws hope, strength and inspiration from as seen in 8x01 and in 8x05 and there’s just something mechanical about his life with Caroline.

[blairwaldcrf]

Love. Hate. Such a fine line.

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