#is this anit?

[andreal831]

What are your overall thoughts on Katherine Pierce? I don’t think I’ve ever seen you talk about her.

My personal opinion: Everyone always says she did terrible things in the her 500 years and make it seem like she had a choice in the matter, when she really didn’t. She didn’t have a choice in general regarding the direction her life went, she would be hunted by Klaus.

I think majority of the things we see her do is justifiable or can be explained: it was for survival. If the protagonists gang doing immoral things for survival is justified, then why can’t Katherine? Speaking of protagonists, I absolutely despise the fact that she’s the villain when characters like Damon or Klaus do so much worse.

You're not going to like this one.

I don't talk about Katherine Pierce very often because I'm just not a fan.

I'm going to preface this by saying this is just my opinion and it doesn't mean liking Katherine is wrong. People tend to get offended when I don't like their favorite characters or ships, but it's just my opinion.

This is going to need some TW: SA/Rape

For me, I have a few deal breakers for characters and one of them is SA and rape. I know there is a lot of debate in the fandom about Katherine and Damon, but I've said it before, what Katherine did to Stefan is rape. She took away his autonomy and continued to have sex with him multiple times. No wonder when he turned into a vampire he hated her. I could never just move past this. I get a lot of what she does is for survival, but that was not. I can justify a lot of behavior because I think people can be pushed into situations where they do terrible things, but what Katherine did to Stefan has no justifiable reason.

But I can put that aside and talk about her as an overall character.

To me, Katherine had more of a choice in her life than a lot of the fandom gives her credit for. What the Mikaelsons and her own family did to Katherine when she was a teenager was beyond awful, but it doesn't blanket justify the next 500 years. Just like what Mikael did to Klaus doesn't justify the next 1000 years.

I would be more likely to feel more sympathy for Katherine if we saw any kind of evidence that she was living in fear for 500 years of Klaus. But we just don't see that. During the time she is supposed to be running for her life, we see the Mikaelsons hanging out in New Orleans never once thinking about her. Now we can insert some headcanons and say that the Mikaelsons had their network of vampires out there hunting Katherine, but we don't see that from Katherine's perspective either.

When she meets the Salvators she is just hanging out with them. I won't even get into her problematic relationship with Emily right now. But the Katherine we meet in the 1800s is acting like life is all just a game and inserts herself between brothers just for fun. The show just needed to spend more time showing her running or even just showing that Klaus even remembered she existed. To me, Katherine could have just settled down somewhere and stopped causing havoc and been safe. Much like Klaus from Mikael.

Katherine is the only person to know that she had a child and there was a possibility of more dopplegangers. Seeing as how she treated Elena, I'm honestly surprised she didn't seek out her doppleganger sooner to turn her over to Klaus. I personally headcanon that's why she ended up in MF. She was tracking down her ancestor to trade them for her own freedom and got distracted by the brothers.

I do think there is a lot of misogyny in the fandom and Katherine does face a bit of it. Her and Damon are essentially the same character and I have definitely seen her criticized for things that Damon is applauded for. But at the same time, I think Elena gets it a lot worse because of Katherine. Katherine is not a girls girl and is constantly making misogynistic comments. She criticizes Elena for the exact same thing she is envious of Elena. And it's not like Elena had some blessed life that Katherine missed out on. Elena also lost her entire family. I do think Elena had more of a support system, but that is in spite of Katherine's best efforts. Like Elijah points out, Elena was "fated to live the same life that [Katherine] endured" and a lot of that was because of Katherine.

To me, I think they needed to let the villains be the villains and that was something I appreciated with Katherine. Because, yes, she had a tragic past, but no, she didn't need to do a lot of what she did. The fact that half her motivations throughout the show was just trying to get Stefan back or ruin Elena's life made her more of a villain than a protagonist. What she did to Stefan, Elena, Mason, Caroline, etc. makes her a villain. I once saw someone say she only kills when necessary, but the scene at the party where she so easily kills a teenager to prove a point to Stefan makes me disagree. Much like all of the villains, she kills without reason or care. I wish they had gone more into her dark past to really cement her as a villain, but I actually like that they never redeem her.

I love a good villain and even more so when it's a woman. But, like I said, Katherine just went to far with Stefan and I can't look past it. I also didn't find her Stefan obsession that compelling. Or her hatred of Elena. I liked the season when she grows close to Nadia and when she did try and help Stefan with his PTSD, but other than that, I didn't find her to be a compelling character. Although, I absolutely love her entrance into the show. It will always be iconic.

Thanks for the ask! I don't get a lot of them from TVD so it's always fun to talk about!

[osinthewhite]

just a girl and her problematically older crush against the world

[quitebashfulexe]

Feels like they would have a lot to vent about together (╯▔皿▔)╯

[agentcaboose]

join the army?? the thing that killed leonard church? and leonard church? and leonard church? and leonard epsilon church?

[kara-zor-els]

Ngl, while I love the core four, I also feel the grouping of Kon, Tim, Bart ("the boys") and Cassie ("token girl") often leads to the erasure of the other members, especially the girls. Never forget that for most of it's run Young Justice had an equal amount of male and female team members and that Cassie was introduced to the team pretty much simultaneously with Cissie and Greta.

[shaiatka]

marked for culling

[sheepwhosleeps]

People seem to forget that when Aegon and Helaena were married it wasn't just Helaena who was a child but Aegon as well. They both were teenage parents and clearly didn't even want to be married to each other so seeing people make Aegon this big pedo for marrying his sister (forcefully by the way, he had no say in this) really grinds my gears.

[princemick]

saying george has the fia in his pocket and claiming massive british bias when you're literally able to threaten a man with death/injury without any consequences is wild to me

[supernaturalkickparty]

Telling people to kill themselves over a fictional ship is wild as hell.

Like y'all can't be normal and just scroll on?

Why do y'all go out of y'alls way to look for post or blogs to bother if you don't like whatever is being posted?

Just scroll on.

[blueberry-obsessed]

What if you were SICK because your rival (husband) was threatening retirement and you had the WEIGHT OF A WCC on your shoulders and you finally feel OPTIMISTIC the day of the race and your husband HELPS you in turn 1 and you go from nineteenth to THIRD but your fuckass TEAMMATE can't even catch a SINGLE car because he FUCKED his tyres by pushing too hard too early

[simplylotus]

is it wrong to worship deities but in an agnostic way?? like they may or may not exist and I worship to appreciate them and maybe gain their favor but i wouldn't really like believe in them as someone does with say the christian god??

[potterheaded-hipster]

do you ever think about how snape actively chose be a crap teacher? like harry went from sucking at potions, to be top of his class, just by getting different instructions from snape. instructions not written to be followed by someone else, and likely written by a literal child. like this was his high school textbook, and his annotations are still better than anything anyone is teaching.

like he could have been one of the best teachers ever, if he was just a bit more patient and not such a dick to literal confused kids.

[why-i-love-comics]

The Monitor info page

art by George Pérez

[wandering-wolf23]

PSA

Things I should not have to say:

Don't threaten to blow up pro-shippers on social media. That's called a terroristic threat. Don't even joke about it. You might think it's funny and it might get a few eye rolls from the adults in the room, but the DoJ/FBI/Homeland Security/People it gets reported to have no sense of humor.

Trust me. I work with them. I swear any sense of humor gets trained out of them.

At best, they're going to knock on your door and explain to your parents/partners/assorted housemates what you're doing online. At worst, it's a no knock raid because they think you're a terrorist.

All it takes is one person reporting what you said. What may be an obvious joke to you probably isn't to the team of people going through the cyber tip line. While you might be joking, Cletus in Montana with the pile of tannerite talking about how he wants to blow up the government probably isn't. There have been too many Cletuses recently for online threats to be ignored.

TL;DR: Don't be a fucking dumb ass and make threats on social media. It's a good way to ruin your life.

[a-v-j]

How do Anit... exist? According to the tag, he seems to be a codespawn of Anti, so is he being spawned like mitosis or something?

Haha nah

Welllll...kinda???

He did it like this

But with the happydemic(first yellow event)

The happyness and the negativecure fought in his body and was fatal for him so his body gotta do EJECT-

[shaiatka]

space dwaggon ✨