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[so-wonderful-so-beautiful]

Hola amigo 😁

Espero que te sientas mejor. Me gustaría saber tu opinión sobre el final de Carmen sandiego.

Tu opinión importa y me gustaria escucharla.

Cuídate mucho

Woof. I get why they did season 4 the way they did. Having Carmen not end up with anyone was their safest route. I think it kind of sucked to do it that way. I don't think they wanted to upset the community and piss of either shipper. They also had to put a lot into a short season since season 3 was so short to begin with.

There was a lot of character growth that needed to happen in 3. And I totally get why. It helped set up season 4. I will always secretly hope that Carmen and Julia got together. I know RedCrackle shippers out there felt shafted too.

I think everyone stayed pretty true to character. The ending was super rushed, and again, I understand why. A lot to fit in, not enough time to do it. But I feel like they did the best with what they had. I do love that Zack and Ivy ended up at ACME working along side Julia and Devineux. And that Zack is Chiefs favorite. *I need to see that dynamic.* I wish they'd do a surprise season 5, or even just a short of "Where are they now?" Kind of deal. But oh well. I love the universe, and I love the characters. And that's why we have fanfiction to begin with. Haha. So, hopefully I can try and show you guys how I would tell the story.

I hope my ramblings made sense! 💜

[bisexualmikisayaka]

can’t stop thinking about ki-adi mundi. anakin must have fucking hated that guy. the republic probably pays for his child support because he clearly wasn’t spending time at home and wookieepedia explicitly says he tried to avoid developing attachments to his seven children and five wives. this is literally anakin’s walking nightmare, because here his attachment-prone ass is, in a semi-secret marriage with a fucking senator who’s got kids on the way, and he’s got to hide it from every person who knows him with varying degrees of success.

he’s also got to deal with all of that on top of being a general on the front lines in his 20s who’s been saddled with a 14 year old, a dadbrother he is incapable of communicating with, a fuck ton of soldiers under his command, and trying not to die every day of his life! and then ki-adi mundi is just allowed to have a family because of yoda and his species i guess! do you think he was mad that the 21st got to ki-adi before he could during order 66? because i feel like darth “just murdered a bunch of children for the second time in my life because this will save the wife i’m going to force-choke into unconsciousness during my mental breakdown” vader would really like to kill the only man with an order-sanctioned marriage

[livlepretre]

In the absence of the other original siblings in SWBS/SWSB, what do you think each would think about Klaus and Elena having a baby?

Would it be kinda the same as on TO with Hayley?

Too early for me to answer this >:D 

but I would plan to do something different than in the Originals, because they (mostly) all have history with Elena

[so-wonderful-so-beautiful]

Feliz navidad mi amigo!

Espero que hubieras podido descansar por un momento de todo el estrés que se encuentra afuera de la puerta de tu hogar

En caso de que no pudieras descansar, te agradezco por tu esfuerzo si es que te toco trabajar

Eres una maravillosa persona.

No dudes de ti! Yo agradezco que exista y aunque no te conozco mucho, me preocupo por tu bienestar.

Ten un excelente día, una excelente semana, un excelente mes y un futuro brillante.

Hello my friend! I am so so sorry for the late reply. Between the two jobs, and our inventory, and everything else, I read the message, but it slipped my mind to answer. It may or may not have made me cry happy tears.

But I hope you had a wonderful holiday! I actually finally had a good Christmas. It was small, just those of us at our house, and it felt nice.

Your encouraging messages have been a beacon for me in this last year. I'm sorry that the fic ended up taking a back seat. But I've been keeping it going just for you. I hope you enjoy the new chapters once I've finished editing them.

Thank you, and belated happy holidays, and I hope your new year has been off to a good start so far. ❤️❤️

[livlepretre]

Awesome chapter of SWSB/SWBS bc I can never remember which way those words go lol

Good for Elena standing up to the Salvatore's and I can only imagine the possible ass kicking at least Damon might get from Klaus if he sees those bruises/smells him on her.

Speaking of Damon, I love how in character he is (technically I think they're all in character bc you're amazing), you don't tend to "woobify" him as we used to say in fandom lol

And oh yes the Jenna problem. I kind of never really see it as a huge problem where Elena and whomever she's with are concerned. I feel like bc of the nature of it being a supernatural show and what not, that it's sorta something all the characters have to go through anyway (loss, grief, etc) just bc the nature of their characters (becoming vampires, witches, etc). But at the same time I'm glad you do address it in your fics bc it is more realistic and I loved Jenna and wished she could have just became a vampire. Like I always wonder how that could have gone and if Elena would have made the same choices after the sacrifice had Jenna lived in some fashion.

The worst part being that Klaus basically did it out of spite, since she had already agreed to die for the sacrifice anyway, which honestly just makes him that much more of a deliciously evil sob. 😈 Oh the love to hate!

I haven't missed anything about Elena knowing it's Klaus's baby yet, right? I'm sorta blanking on if that came out yet haha

Can't wait for the next chapter! What do they say nowadays, *chefs kiss*

bahahaha that’s what I get for naming this fic after a line in a song (and screwing up the lyrics because I did it from memory LOL)

There are going to be fireworks, don’t you worry!

Woobification is such a great term. You’re right that it seems to have fallen out of vogue though. I think encountering woobification in tvd fic in particular was one of the frustrations that finally lit a fire under me to start writing my own fic. I’m all for people woobifying however they’d like and enjoying whatever they want, but it’s not my particular cup of tea-- I really enjoy digging into the really difficult parts of these characters-- the monstrous, the horrifying, the cruel, the selfish, the jealous... and thinking about which parts of those might actually be parts of their humanity. 

I’m incredibly thrilled that Damon is reading as “in character”-- if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times-- I find him incredibly difficult to write! After a decade of writing tvd fic I’m only just now gaining enough confidence with his character to have him actually stay in a scene rather than conveniently leave right away. 

Oh, I think Elena would have been soooo much better off if Jenna had lived! Her primary issue is that without a parent figure meaningfully in the picture-- in this case, that would mean a parent figure fully aware of the supernatural dangers and pressures Elena faces-- she ends up succumbing to the influence of the Salvatores, who are both such terrible influences on her and lead her further and further down this dark path to the point where they’ll eat someone in front of her, and she just doesn’t care so long as it’s not one of her friends. 

Part of this is that Elena has this remarkable capacity to forgive when she really shouldn’t. One of the most informative things to me about the incident where Damon breaks Jeremy’s neck and she ends up forgiving him, even after declaring that she never would, is that actually, Elena can forgive anything so long as it’s ultimately undoable. She can forgive Damon for murdering her brother, because her brother happens to come back to life. That shouldn’t in any way absolve Damon, who 1) didn’t know about the ring and 2) that’s really not an excuse at all, but for Elena, who is under those intense psychological pressures from her status in a supernatural setting, that’s sufficient. 

The Jenna thing becomes a huge issue then. It’s permanent. Jenna’s dead and that’s it. To me, this is actually the biggest impediment against Klaus/Elena in the show (unless we imagine a situation where Jenna lives, or remains a vampire, or there’s a canon divergence pre-sacrifice). I think her heart would want to forgive him, but she would keep coming up against the implacability of Jenna’s fate... so, that’s where one of the huge focuses of my fic writing and set up always comes in-- figuring out how Elena could possibly move past Jenna’s murder in order to fall for Klaus-- in SWBS, the answer turned out to be: make her so isolated and alienated and feel so broken and rejected that any company seemed like good company. 

I too think Klaus totally killed Jenna for spite. I have this head canon that he really does want Elena, but he’s angry that he has to kill her (and he’s wayyyyy too selfish to ever consider doing anything else) so he takes it out on her by killing Jenna. Because honestly? It’s such a weird choice for him to make! It’s so targeted and mean! Especially since Elena has always been loud and clear that she would go willingly with him! 

No one knows that the baby is Klaus’s, although, Elena almost put it together on the car drive to Whitmore... but she repressed repressed repressed rather than consciously figure that one out. But don’t you worry, there’s a clock counting down to when all will be revealed, and it’s getting very close to zero... Literally you can see me setting the stage for the end with the Salvatores coming back, plus a couple of other curve balls I have planned! 

Thanks so much for your comment, loved reading your thoughts!!! 

[so-wonderful-so-beautiful]

Hola mi amigo! Espero que estés bien

Te quería contar que empezar la universidad y es muy difícil, pero al mismo tiempo algo gratificante.

Extraño escuchar de ti, espero que estes bien y si no lo estas, eso también está ok. A veces la vida es difícil y tenemos que levantarnos del suelo para seguir avanzando, pero hazlo a tu ritmo e incluso si necesitas, puedes disfrutar la vista del cielo desde donde estas recostado para recordarte que estás en el presente y mereces cosas buenas.

Espero que estes tomando tiempo para ti mismo, no dejes de cuidar tu salud física y mental, no es fácil ya que nadie nos enseña cómo, pero confío en ti.

Cuídate

I am alive. Barely. I've been working over time this last two weeks since the store manager quit and found a new job. This week was supposed to be my last week. But that didn't happen.

I hope University treats you well. It can be stressful. But I'm sure you've got this.

Today is the first full day off I've had for at least two weeks. I am so unbelievably tired. I will try and post the next couple of chapters today too. I've had so little time to write. And I just feel like I'm shit at it anyways, and that I'm not doing the characters justice or portraying them accurately. *Sigh*.

But if you guys want to keep reading it. I'll keep posting it. 💜

I do have another fic in the works as well if anyone wants to read it.