#tvd review

[boushwrites]

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

from 10 Things i hate about you (1999).

[theaftersundown]

I get it now. You b*tches didn't like TVD because it was too normal and tame for you. A love story? Ew. Generational family drama and magic? Pathetic. Redemption and character arc? F*ck no. Hot guys and women? DISGUSTING.

No, no you mfs clearly want to be Ellen in Nosferatu and get manhandled by an actual demonic vampire... okay you crazies.

[nocturniashifter]

I just read my s/o's reading and my god, you are perfeeect.

it completely resonated, not only in my personality but in relation to the memories I have and the personal readings i do to myself. freaking out here, he's cuteee.

and the reading about my shifting journey also resonated a lot

my god, your readings were perfect 🥹🥹🥹

i loved it so much and I will definitely go back

AWWWWW I'm really happy that you enjoyed the reading and that it was accurate with you 😭 ❤️

you have no idea how good it is to know these things, I love reading your feedback <3

[capnsaveahoe]

TO S1/E11 Hayley/Elijah thoughts:

Not Hayley betraying Elijah’s trust by divulging everything he had written about Celeste in his journals to Sophie so she could find her remains and complete the harvest. 😒 And then, she has the audacity to ask Elijah if he’s forgiven her yet instead of asking for forgiveness. 🙄

Like, girl, you went through this man’s personal thoughts, sold out one of his secrets to someone you know you shouldn’t trust, and you still think you have the right to ask him if he’s forgiven you? 🤦🏻���♀️ She needs to be slapped 6 ways to Sunday. 👋

She also has the balls to say that she thought they were just bones. 💀 Who would write about random bones being buried somewhere in their journal and have it not mean something? 🧐

Then she brings it home by saying that she knows what a promise means to him, but obliterates everything about that meaning by stating that he made it 200 years ago, and that he should get over it. 🤯 “Because she lives in the now. If she feels something, she acts. If she wants something, she takes it.” 🙃 This girl really has zero home training. 🫠

And, before anyone starts, this has nothing to do with shipping. It has everything to do with the fact that she is in the wrong and she betrayed the trust of an individual that has helped her time and time again. 🛑 Rant over. 👋

[chloesreality]

Have you read the vampire diaries books? And if you have what do you feel about the changes they made when making the show?

sadly I won’t be able to answer this very well considering im only on the 5th book in the series and I love it so much haha

I wasn’t a super fan before the show came out and i watched the show before then I read the books so I don’t have much of an opinion on it, im not like “omg why is the town called mystic falls and not fells church?!” but because I watched the show before reading the books im was more like: “omg that’s weird that it’s called fells church and not mystic falls” haha

it was also weird to me when I read the high school name, “Robert E. Lee High School” EHH? it’s not Timberwolves?! 😭

also can we talk about how Meredith wasn’t an actual character in the show??! it’s Elena, Bonnie and Caroline Not Elena, Bonnie and Meredith?! I love her character in the books and it would’ve been so cool to see Meredith in the show too!!

I find the last names weird too:

- Vickie Bennett?

- Bonnie McCullough?

- Matt Honeycutt?

- Tyler Smallwood?

why did the writers change their names in the show?

elena having a little baby sister called Margaret and an aunt called aunt Judith? 😭

Matt and Vicki not being siblings in the books 🤷‍♀️ also I love. Matts character they definitely should’ve developed it more in the show fr

the writers also changed the fact Stefan and Damon can transform with their vampire powers, like Damon is a crow (but then they got rid of that after the pilot?) and stefans an eagle? or some sort of dog? I can’t remember lol but they took that out? also I was thrown off by Stefans appearance in the books, it’s so different to the show “curly black hair, and deep green eyes, and he was originally born in Italy in the year 1490 but they changed his origin in the show to mystic falls 1846.

elenas angel white power, she should’ve stuck with it in the show but they turned her into a damsel in distress icl 🤷‍♀️

The vampiric and witch power to send thoughts to eachother, like a calling power or something? That would’ve been cool to keep ln the show.

Mrs. flowers (the witch who owns the boarding house in fells church) instead she’s just a bed in breakfast hotel owner in the show, but to be fair I think I like the idea better of the salvatores owning the boarding house.

+ im only on book 5 and Damon and Bonnie have kissed a few times and I think Damon has a soft spot for her so I hope they get together (I heard they do but still, wishful thinking 🤪)

also im hating the malach right now and Shinichi or whatever so im glad that doesn’t happen in the show 😭

+ HEAVY on the anger I feel because they didn’t add Meredith to the show 🤨

Also can i politely ask that no one gives any spoilers to the books? Im still reading it. Thank you 🩷

[bonivers]

s5 of tvd was like the showrunners were like fuck how can we capitalize on dobsley chemistry now that we broke up stelena in s4. oh i know, MORE doppelgängers. and steferine bc fuck it why not

[thotbugatti]

The Audra Diaries

Hi so I’m doing the second episode so soon after the first because I watched the pilot yesterday and just finished episode 2. Only just got around to posting it here a little while ago. It won’t always be like this, I want to try to just do one per day at most.

Season 1 Episode 2

* so if Stefan is over a century old, what are the implications of him being attracted to a high school girl

* The way they’re not afraid to use blood as liberally as they do for a show made for teens on cable tv is fascinating to me

* How old is the aunt? She looks like she’s only a few years older than Elena

* Some of these teachers are fucking dicks man

* Nice faux hawk bro nice deep v bro

* Bro said dick on cable tv

* I feel a little bad for Matt but also like you might need to get over her man

* I hate this teacher so fucking much oh my god GO TO HELL

* if she’s deeply traumatized from almost being murdered why would you just grab her like that

* A vampire walking into a room with so much blood must be like an alcoholic walking into a bar during happy hour huh

* Jump his bones? What is that, stoner talk?

* Jeremy is a freshman?? How

* “You get high? 😏”

* So if she survived a vampire attack does that mean she’s going to turn into a vampire too?

* Kiss him girl he wonts u bad

* Now idk if you should be walking into this creepy old house girl

* Sotheby’s auction?

* YOUNG MAN KILL YASELF (old man?)

* She’s got…spunk…

* Nice deep V douche

* Jeremy is trying so hard to be the cool rebellious teen but man he sucks at it

* I thought vampires didn’t have reflections how did Damon show up in the mirror

* The way these guys just randomly disappear all the time must make these girls think they’re schizophrenic sometimes

* Where is Jeremy getting all these pills

* “You seem to spend a lot of time apologizing” me

* Why is she so hung up on his supposed ex he’s into YOU girl

* Okay, now this is epic

* What is her problem why is she mad at him he’s into you girl

* “Are you dealing?!”

* The way she treats Jeremy it’s almost as if she forgot their parents are dead and very recently too

* KILL YASELF YOUNG MAN

* I took some pills mannn

* Damon’s a little goober trickster weirdo (and an evil freak)

* Caroline is a BITCH wow

* “She kinda wigs out it’s kinda her thing” CHECK ON YOUR FRIEND

* Don’t talk about your dead sister like this to her daughter Jenna why is everyone so strange in this show

* I’m sorry but there’s no way this kid is 15

* Don’t attack Caroline Damon she wonts u bad

* Elena and Damon have known each other for three minutes why does she act like this

* It was EPIC

* So are you gonna tell her that you’re a vampire since you guys like to pretend that you’ve known each other for so long cause it’s kinda important I think

Right, so, I’m not sure how to feel about this episode honesty. It doesn’t really feel like much progress was made in advancing the plot. In fact, they just kind of did more of the same from the pilot. Elena and Stefan do some more of the “will they wont they” dance, Jeremy wanders after Vicki like a wounded dog; Damon attacks some more people, Stefan struggles around blood, the episode ends with another girl getting attacked. I’m also kind of realizing that most of the people in this town are terrible people. Nobody seems to know how to talk to each other like normal people. In reality, it’s probably just CW writing, but it’s making it hard to like a lot of the characters. I’m not really sure who I’m meant to be rooting for aside from Stefan and Elena. This is only the second episode though, so I wont be too harsh and actually give them a chance to get it going.

[xdarkeningkrystals]

Friendly reminder that hatewatching/hatereading is not only a thing, it's also valid.

[ismahanescorner]

These Violent Delights | Book Review

Author: Chloe Gong

Series: These Violent Delights

Genre: YA Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Historical Fiction

Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books

Release Date: 17/11/2020

Rating: 2/5 🌟🌟

Synopsis:

The year is 1926, and Shanghai hums to the tune of debauchery.

A blood feud between two gangs runs the streets red, leaving the city helpless in the grip of chaos. At the heart of it all is eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, a former flapper who has returned to assume her role as the proud heir of the Scarlet Gang—a network of criminals far above the law. Their only rivals in power are the White Flowers, who have fought the Scarlets for generations. And behind every move is their heir, Roma Montagov, Juliette’s first love…and first betrayal.

But when gangsters on both sides show signs of instability culminating in clawing their own throats out, the people start to whisper. Of a contagion, a madness. Of a monster in the shadows. As the deaths stack up, Juliette and Roma must set their guns—and grudges—aside and work together, for if they can’t stop this mayhem, then there will be no city left for either to rule.

Perfect for fans of The Last Magician and Descendant of the Crane, this heart-stopping debut is an imaginative Romeo and Juliet retelling set in 1920s Shanghai, with rival gangs and a monster in the depths of the Huangpu River.

Review:

Okay y’all! Strap in for a long-winded review, that’s mostly me ranting about how much I hate hype!!!  So we all know the hype that surrounded this book around its release. I fell for it!! and all the pretty aesthetically pleasing edits and fanart. ffs I got the book; and the sequel, before I even finished the 1st!! 🥴😩

Anyways, I started this book back in March 2022 and it was going fine. I dropped it for another read around chapter 10/12, cuz it wasn’t gripping me like the girlies said it would. I picked it up again a few weeks later, and read up to chapter 16, then stopped again! That time around, I shelved as restart cuz I felt I wasn’t giving it all the attention it deserves so I can enjoy it fully like all the girlies did!!!  Well, fast-forward to this weekend! I got the audio on Libby and I restarted it. Again, I liked the first few chapters, then got bored outta my mind once I hit the tens chapters! Literally, from chapter 13 to 28, I tried my hardest to actively listen and not to let my inner monologue take over! All I could think about was: “damn! this! this! was marvellous to y’all?” “I’m boooooredddd!!” “how am I gonna explain the 2 star I’ll rate this book?”  Honestly, I’m so disappointed, because I didn’t hate this book (per se), I just feel fooled by the hype! 

Now, onto the actual review! This book had sooo much potential! Unfortunately, the execution fell short! The setting, the characters, the plot, they are all very intriguing and make for a great mystery or a romantic suspense novel. However, this was marketed as a fantasy!! Why??  It offered a good commentary on capitalism and colonialism, but even those parts were neither cohesive, nor coherent, nor did they mesh-in well with the plot!  Honestly, this novel woulda been much better if it was 150 pages shorter and didn’t rattle on and on all throughout the middle chapters. The first few chapters did averagely well setting up the plot and the last few also did averagely well as a closure; but those middle chapters just bored me outta my mind. Where was the editor?? So much of this book was unnecessary!  Another thing I really didn’t like was the reveal in the epilogue! I had hope that maybe the sequel is gonna be different and I’ll actually enjoy it. However, that final reveal makes it very clear that book two is gonna be just like book one. The only difference will be Roma hating (rightfully holding a grudge against) Juliette!  I’m just soooo disappointed! but since I own the sequel I’ll probably be reading it!

[wyllzel]

😦 convinced that goodreads has awful taste i am so sorry but many of the latest comments are saying the TVD tv show is better than the novel(s)... HUH?! in what universe 😭 ?! i'm sorry but wesley pretending to be the jonkler... somerhalder going 🔵👄🔵............ hybrid vampire-werewolves....??!!??!??!?! (😭) all of THAT is better than this???

And blood. That arrogant, sensitive, sensual mouth was smeared with blood. It showed ghastly red against the pallor of his skin, against the sharp whiteness of his bared teeth. In his hands was the limp body of a mourning dove, white as those teeth, wings outspread. Another lay on the ground at his feet, like a crumpled and discarded handkerchief.

like this ratios i am sorry 😭

[newspapers24]

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[inverter110]

[theaftersundown]

I'm going to write myself into exhaustion tonight even though I know I won't get a lot done. Tomorrow I would love to post a small preview of my first chapter to my story and get some feedback from you all.

I haven't decided if I'm going to turn it into FF or my own novel. Either way I wouldn't actually publish until I was completely done but some comments on previews/small paragraphs would be nice. ♡

[highanonn]

spoiler warning for the vampire diaries…

this is about the vampire diaries: TV SHOW

don’t get me wrong, i love the vampire diaries with all of my heart and i will probably continue to rewatch it until i die.

elena gilbert is one of my least favorite characters. i understand all of the trauma that she has undergone, but curious how she is so oblivious to all of the trauma her friends go through. she has the same like three expressions, the above being one of them.

her turning off her

bonnie is superior. team bonnie and enzo for life.

[zeighost]

Watched and read TGCF, watched and have yet to start the MDZS novel (I did start the series on yt but I'm only on the episode 8, still) and after I finish reading mdzs novels I'm going to read SVSSS but the tags on that one are making me bit reluctant to start bcs it has few tw that I person try to avoid by any means so but still! I was recommended it and I heard lots of nice reviews about it-

But anyhow, that's not the reason I'm typing this!!! I got so deep into the hyperfixation that my brain is rotting to the point that I'm connecting every possible interest I had throughout the past few years and Idk how to feel about that

Sure, first I started small, ya know? Connecting tgcf and mdzs!!

WWX becoming a Ghost King (or at least the same level as Qi Rong aka I think that's the savage lvl?) instead of him dying and getting resurrected soundš really sick

And then just normal crossovers of Hualian and Wangxian cus I just love the idea XL and WWX being besties

But now I'm connecting things I can't even think make sense like fym Touhou crossover?? Wdym that one sentence I randomly remember from TVD makes sense to connect?? 😭

[playstationvii]

#SamuraiSkirts #MOBA

Expanding on the gameplay of SamuraiSkirts, a MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) game, involves a deep dive into its mechanics, world-building, and strategic nuances. Here's a more detailed exploration:

Game World and Lore

Setting:

SamuraiSkirts takes place across a multiverse of arenas inspired by historical and fantastical Asian cultures. Players battle in environments like:

The Ghost Town Shinto Shrine (a haunted ruin of ancient Japan).

The Crystal Pagoda (a floating battleground filled with fragile crystal pathways).

The Midnight Sakura Gardens (a maze of blossoming trees and hidden ambush points).

Each map introduces unique hazards—e.g., the shrine’s crumbling floors or the garden’s stealth-friendly foliage.

Faction Lore:

Players align with factions like the Four Winds (Fire, Water, Earth, Air) or Mythical Blades Guild, influencing their abilities and unlocking special items tied to their chosen faction.

Gameplay Mechanics

Battle Doll Classes:

Each Battle Doll belongs to one of six main classes, each with strengths, weaknesses, and customization options:

Samurai: Fast, dual-wielding warriors with devastating mobility-based attacks.

Cleric: Healers and support units capable of boosting allies and disrupting enemies.

Mage: Ranged attackers with high-damage spells and area control.

Assassin: Stealthy, high-damage characters who excel at surprise attacks.

Tank: Durable front-liners with crowd control and shield-based defenses.

Round Class: Versatile fighters who adapt to melee, ranged, and mid-range combat.

Customization:

Players equip their Battle Dolls with DressBlades (like Bebe’s Blade of Fire), Battle Accessories, and DressSpheres to enhance stats and unlock unique abilities.

Cosmetic options (e.g., skins, voice packs, emotes) personalize each doll.

Combat Features:

Lane Strategy: Teams are divided into lanes (top, mid, bot) and jungle zones, requiring coordination to control resources and objectives.

Dynamic Objectives: Maps include objectives like:

Capturing ancient shrines to summon a temporary ally.

Securing "wind gates" that provide mobility buffs.

Skill Combos: Each class has skill chains that can be combined with allies’ abilities for powerful effects (e.g., a Mage freezing enemies while a Samurai delivers a finishing blow).

Progression and Strategy

Leveling Up:

Players earn XP by defeating enemy dolls, minions, and completing objectives.

Each match allows for in-game skill tree progression, letting players adapt their playstyle mid-battle.

Item Economy:

Collect Elemental Shards and Mythic Coins during matches to purchase gear upgrades and potions.

Specialized items, like Sacred Wards or Blade Enhancers, can turn the tide of battle.

Team Coordination:

Victory depends on team synergy:

Tanks initiate fights, absorbing damage.

Assassins flank enemy backlines.

Clerics maintain healing zones and buffs.

Unique Gameplay Features

Summons and Champions:

Players can summon legendary NPCs or creatures from the game’s lore, like Phoenix of Fire or Koi Dragon of Water.

Summons temporarily shift the battlefield dynamics, forcing enemies to adapt.

Dynamic Weather:

Certain maps have real-time weather effects that impact gameplay:

Rain reduces visibility and boosts water-based attacks.

Windstorms scatter projectiles and open secret pathways.

Replay Mode:

A cinematic replay system allows players to review their matches with customizable camera angles and editing tools for content creation.

Expanded Example Match

The team of Skitts continues in their queue. After their first victory, they are matched against another team of equal skill. The match begins in the Crystal Pagoda.

Opening Strategy:

Bebe's Sakura Blade Asterid takes the mid-lane to face an enemy Mage.

Nikkia Belle’s Round Class moves to the top lane with TVD’s Samurai to apply pressure.

Chloe's Cleric and IshiiORen2.0 support the bot lane, securing early objectives.

Mid-Game Chaos:

The enemy team activates a Wind Gate, enabling their Assassin to leap between lanes and ambush Nikkia.

Bebe counteracts by using her Fire Wave Ultimate, dealing massive damage and forcing a retreat.

Climactic Finish:

With both teams neck-and-neck, the Phoenix of Fire objective spawns.

Bebe’s team fights off waves of minions while IshiiORen2.0 heals the squad.

The final blow is landed by Bebe’s DressBlade, unleashing a fiery explosion that wins them the match.

SamuraiSkirts seamlessly blends strategy, customization, and lore to create a rich MOBA experience. What other features or expansions would you like to explore? Perhaps a story mode or eSports potential?