#like so many people either dont notice or don't care to mention the racism and it ticks me off

[cowpokezuko]

Absolutely detest how central lovecraft is to cosmic horror because he was like a huge racist twerp and it absolutely invades his writings in extremely obvious ways. Cosmic horror is so cool and fun but like every time someone talks about it they inevitably bring up lovecraft and I have to think about that fucking guy again.

That's not to say his work is like irredeemably or that you shouldn't read them, he's dead and I'm not your mom, but like I just hatte him so bad.

[leianaberrie]

As other anon asked, I dont think the bonkai fandom is as active anymore bc we have so little content to work with, just the potential of what they "could have been" if the writers knew how to handle a dark ship... which probably never would have come to fruition under the CW network (at least nothing of high caliber)... Bonnie was considered the most righteous out of everyone, so it would have been far more interesting watching her struggle against this internal push-and-pull unlike what they failed to do with Elena. Writers wanted us to believe Elena was the "good girl" but she was way too one dimensional, so her empty gestures definitely came off as fake & unrelateble, that's why so many fans hated her lol. It was the actors (Kat & Chris) who really took something that was meant to be/or particularly expected to be nothing & instead turned a few brief encounters into this huge overnight success. We really were under the impression that Kai would be the pivot to Bonnie's new character development. J.P. hinted to us before hand that Bonnie would get more focus S6... & at the time I naively held onto this belief that things would indeed change)..that the prison world would serve a greater purpose in changing her nonexistent role, decision making, & that she'd finally question her unwavering loyalty to the MF gang. Making the ship bittersweet bc it ended way before it even got started. We as Bonnie fans know them canning Kai (his death in 6x22) was complete & utter bullsh*t. That's when my love for tvd really declined, I gave up all hope & started reading the fanfics instead. I think most bonkai fans have that in common. Notice how majority of Kai-stans don't even mention bonkai?? Yeah that's bc they were predictably shipping him with someone as basic as Katherine by default. Hence, they never cared about Bonnie's part in the show regardless. But everyone knows Kai can't exist without Bonnie, essentially that's why he's not the same character in Legacies (just another desparate one note villain).

I think all ships take a nosedive after content is over, but it's still remarkable IMO that with so little content, BK is as active as it is now. Thank you for reminding us that there were a lot of pre-season 6 hints that Bonnie was going to undergo a change in the show. I remember an interview where Kat said she'd get a love interest in season 6, too. Of course, all that came to nothing when Kai proved to be too popular for Bonnie.

Kai stans who hate Bonnie are one of the great mysteries of racism life to me because Kai isn't memorable without Bonnie. He's a fast talking, pop culture cracking villain, and the show is full of them. It was interesting the first time Elijah Mikaelson said "I believe the correct expression is O M G" but by the time Silas was making Madonna reference, it was a running joke that no one found funny anymore. Shipping Kai with Katherine is even more ridiculous because neither of these people would like each other. Between the way Kai hated Damon, mocked the Delena relationship, and cracked jokes about Caroline's humanity off phase, Kai lowkey looked down on vampires. (Which is why, btw, I hate hate the heretic arc because Kai would not have wanted that. Even if Kai had gone evil and chosen to kill the coven, it won't be at the cost of turning himself into an undead blood-drinker). The men Katherine loves are men like Elijah and Stefan who are "good" men, or try to be good, or pretend very hard to be good. The honourable, long-suffering soul. Even the redeemed version of Kai won't be like either of these men.