#verse: human Katherine

[malka-lisitsa]

"Door dash got my order wrong and I need to know if hiring an assassin is 'over reacting'."

[malka-lisitsa]

The doppelganger couldn't help but laugh at the comment.

"Wont end your suffering but it certainly will end mine."

She is of course referring to having to suffer this conversation and all of its obnoxious reasons to doubt she'll get what she wants again.

It's already hard enough struggling between wanting to be happy more than anything else, while also feeling like youre a monster that doesn't deserve it... but all she wants in the whole world..

Its not money. It's not power. Katherine just wants love.

           amara’s eyebrows furrowed together and her mouth opened, unable to believe katherine didn’t take her seriously. did she actually hear what she was saying? it made amara doubt whether she could communicate understandably, what if she imagined everything? she turned her eyes away from katherine and looked around in the dim basement room, where no one else was, at least not visible. but there were other voices, quieter ones, a whisper that blended into a constant tone in the background. a clear difference to the clear words that left her mirror-self.

          nevertheless, it unsettled her and this uncertainty was now reflected in her facial features. what if she was talking to herself? of course, her reflection would not act for her own good, after all, she was not actually there...

          her gaze returned to her doppelganger, holding a strange thing in her hands. amara didn’t know what it was for, but it didn’t really matter if she only imagined everything anyway.

          "go ahead, maybe this will end my suffering..." amara’s thoughts turned, her gaze fixed on this thing. 

[malka-lisitsa]

"Let's go home." [ from @dgrayd i'm too lazy to switch blogs teehee ]

Send "Let's go home." to find my muse out in the rain, alone and freezing

She's standing on the porch of his house. Shes rung the door bell twice. It's cold and raining and for a moment she contemplates breaking in.

She kicked the door and started screaming about how cold it was, how he's being an asshole. Asking him if all the cartoons, all the games they shared meant nothing. If the way she fought for him to see himself as someone who mattered meant nothing.

Tears brim her eyes as the anger and abandonment well in her chest.

"WELL FUCK YOU THEN." She hissed slamming her fist on the door once more.

Sniffling, she sat down and buried her face in her knees, trying not to cry and also to conserve as much body heat as she could.

Suddenly a car pulls up. She lifted her head to see Peter stepping out with an umbrella.

"Katherine...?" He asked in disbelief. It's not uncalled for, he's never seen her in this state. Peter's used to vampire bad bitch Katherine... not human sad bitch Katherine...

She feels dumb for a moment, and grateful he wasn't around to see her fit a second ago.

The fear still hasn't gone away, the feeling of abandonment. But maybe that's not what's choking her up. Maybe it's just that shes so tired and helpless and she hates feeling like this...

So when he walks up and offers his hand with a soft "Lets go home..."

She can't help but start to cry. Peter, the boy who the world fucked over and over, but had still stayed kind... and not only that... the boy who was kind to her.

Taking his hand she lets him help her up, and follows him inside... for once, she's resigned and almost grateful to let someone take care of her... because she knows that if anyone will... Peter will.

[mikaels0n-elijah-writing]

closed starter for @safestkittykatintown

He had heard rumours. Which he urgently needed to investigate. He had to see it with his own eyes and believe it, otherwise it was impossible. The cure. Katherine was supposed to have taken it? Voluntarily? Involuntarily? He wasn't sure. He rather fancied the latter.

Elijah picked up more rumours about where she was living now. He looked for her. He knew others would be looking for her too, to get the antidote out of her bloodstream. Hadn't he once offered it to his sister himself? When he arrived at the place where she was supposed to live, he hesitated for a moment. What awaited him?

But then he opened the door. He tried to take a step inside, but she obviously owned the flat. So he knocked on the frame, even though she had certainly heard that he was here.

"Katerina?"

[malka-lisitsa]

No Bonnie wasn't someone people went to for fun, they went to her because they needed her. Ironically, that tended to be half the reason people sought Katherine out too. If they werent hunting her for Klaus' points they were hunting her because she was useful. That part she understood from Bonnie better than most.

"Where on that list did I mention anything I wanted from you? Besides maybe a drink." The former vampire shrugged.

"I already asked you for something remember? And you lied to me, put me in a shit mood and now we're here." She smiled overly sweetly at the witch.

" I just want to drown out my current reality till I can figure out how to get back to my old one." A heavy sigh as she raised her hand to the bartender. He nodded and added it to the 'Gilbert' tab. Still endless perks of looking like Elena.

"So what are you searching for at the bottom of your glass?"

Taking care of Katherine was it's own test of endurance. The girl bit anyone that got too close, whether it was verbally or literally. There's a brow raised as she looked over the doppelganger. Letting her get that steam out before responding, taking a long sip of her own drink as she did. She was scared. She couldn't blame her. Not only was Katherine mortal again, she was the cure.

And she had a list of enemies longer than her age should have permitted her. It's almost like she collected them like trophies or collectables.

"I'm not usually the person you go out of your way to find, Katherine." Bonnie pointed at her, "Unless you want something." That was pretty par the course with vampires, "Or you're ready to go back home."

Calling her house home for both herself and for Katherine was alien to her still, but she recognized that it was probably the safest place for her to stay. For her to just exist while they figured out what to do now. Elena had acted out of a fit of survival and anger making Katherine human, but it had a whole ripple effect of consequences Bonnie would have to deal with now.

She knocked back the rest of her glass.

[barren-heart]

We already know the ending of What We Do In The Shadows the show. The movie told us.

Spoilers from both the movie (2014) and the show (2024)

I think it’s obvious when Taika and Jemaine set out to make an American version of their vampire comedy, they weaved a lot of the same storylines into the show. We have vampire roommates, werewolves (not swearwolves) , familiars, an ancient vampire, vampire hypnosis, and a camera crew.

All the same ideas exist from movie to show, just presented differently.

Guillermo, the familiar turned vampire hunter turned bodyguard turned vampire turned back to human, is a combination of the movie’s familiar and vampire Hunter roles. I believe he’s also the love interest, Katherine.

I think the show, while becoming it’s own thing entirely, has a deep connection to the movie. I think they’ve been trying to follow viago’s love interest storyline since the show switched hands from Taika and Jemaine to Paul Simms.

While probably not known to most, Paul was instrumental in bringing the show over to the States, having helped to fund it.

He was already in the world of Shadows, and while I haven’t agreed on the way he’s said things and some direction the show had taken (season 4 had some growing pains), I do believe he’s understood the heart of the show.

Which is why I think they took such a dramatic shift in season 4 to tell and show the audience that Nandor doesn’t want to just date, but to really have a life or afterlife partner. That season had two “coming outs”. Guillermo obviously coming out as gay, and Nandor coming out as pansexual before he was turned.

I think this distinction was really important to build their romantic dynamic. They wanted to show Nandor’s interest in Guillermo wasn’t attributed to just horny vampireness, but actual true love and affection for him.

And having Guillermo formally come out as gay was more than just the Freddie gag (or the purpose of Guillermo having a boyfriend so that Nandor sleeps with him causing Guillermo to get upset about it which encourages Guillermo to take vampire turning into his own hands, leading to the events in season 5), but to show the audience that Guillermo’s not just a hero worshipper of his boss. He could very well have a crush that could become something more.

And while Simms’ execution of Nandermo so far has not been executed perfectly, (mostly because I think his version of Shadows uses jokes to cover or masque serious moments whereas Jemaine’s comedy often highlights and exposes the truth about life in funny situations), I think Paul’s vision is headed in the right direction.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Guillermo has a far larger familiar role than the one in the movie. Storytelling wise, it’s expected that Guillermo’s ending will solve the lingering vampire question that was halfway resolved in season 5. Because the show is telling the audience, “Wait. There’s more.” There’s more change to be had. I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that a part of Nandor’s arc is finding love. And part of his ending will have to be resolving this, as well.

And funny enough, Viago’s ending resolves both of these issues. He finds love with Katherine again and turns her into a vampire, but she got to have a full life first. There’s comedy there (he’s still older than her even though they don’t look it) but also there’s heart. She got to have a full life and agency of her own instead of being robbed of it.

I think Paul wants to set up this ending because it’s funny but also, to highlight his appreciation to the original. We expected from the jump that Nandor would turn Guillermo eventually and we can’t just have that without growth and change and conflict in between. It’s nice to get everything we want, but that’s not what sitcoms do. Sitcoms subvert expectations, and Paul is highly versed in sitcom structure. (Something that I think even Jemaine and Taika had to learn. )

Paul Simms’ isn’t just a writer in the room, he is a writer familiar (haha insert lame reference joke here) with the source material in a sitcom format. The movie wasn’t a sitcom. They could resolve Viago’s relationship because movies resolve arcs at the end of the movie.

Sitcoms don’t resolve anything at the end of an episode or even the end of a season. They resolve them at the end of the show. He knows Nandermo would end the show, because when characters get what they want (whatever their aspirations are) it completes the narrative. In sitcoms, the characters wants drive the purpose of the show.

And all good sitcoms don’t immediately give you (the audience) what you want until the end. And yes it can be frustrating, but when done right, the payoff is worth it. When the arcs are finished, the story ends. Even in sitcoms and comedy shows. So, Guillermo and Nandor being together and Nandor even eventually turning Guillermo, would have to be arc finishers. That would end the show. Which is why I think s6 is ending here, because the lead (Nandor) finished his arc.

Now whether that means Nandor will turn Guillermo on screen or not is yet to be seen. Maybe at some point down the road when Guillermo’s family is much older or have moved on from this earth and maybe when there is a new way to be a vampire without blood, Guillermo will be ready.

[malka-lisitsa]

"Let's go home."

Send "Let's go home." to find my muse out in the rain, alone and freezing

Being human is a weakness that doesn't sit well with Katherine. Relying on other people. She hates it. Still her pride has never been a factor when it came to survival. Some hate her for it, some think she's smarter for it.

But as she stood out in the rain, tucked under a small bus stop shelter, with no phone, no protection and no where to go? She found she felt helpless in a way she hadn't for a very long time.

It wasn't till a car pulled up and the window rolled down that she managed to get out of her own head long enough to understand the real risk here of being human and exposed like this.

Hackles raised at the stranger as the window rolled down she snapped "What do you want?"

It's only after she sees a familiar face that she feels any sort of comfort.

Rachel.

Let's go home.

Katherine fights the smile tugging at her features as she hears those words. All of mystic falls would be emotionally if not physically abusing her right now, but then there's Rachel.... who used the word home in relation to Katherine.

She hadn't even had to ask.

"You've come a long way from the girl I knew at the start."

Katherine's way of acknowledging how her sire has grown, which is ironic given her vampiric nature.

"But I always knew you would."

Katherine doesn't turn just anyone after all...

[malka-lisitsa]

This was stupid. This whole concept was stupid. It's been five hundred years and shes been FINE. She hasn't. The minute Stefan found out about a supernatural counselor Katherine knew it was coming. The 'you should talk to her' bullshit. Honestly if she wasn't trying to get on his good side she's of jumped out the window already- but she did promise to at least give it a TRY.... for him. He's lucky she loves him more than anything.

However she never promised to behave, which was evident in the way she did what any little fox does best- snoop. Nothing in particular that she was looking for when she set out. She just likes to be nosey. The snacks were a bonus though. Since turning human Katherine had almost an insatiable apatite for things that delivered dopamine... a.k.a junk food.

Being human also came with duller senses, which she was reminded of when she didn't hear the therapist enter till she spoke. Caught off guard, Katherine spun around and tried to look innocent before deciding the evidence was already damning and it was worse to pretend.

"I was making sure your confidential files were kept well hidden. I'm not talking to someone bad at keeping secrets." Sure. Go with that.

"Are you finding anything interesting?" Nettie tilted her head looking at who, she presumed, was her newest patient. Well, maybe a new patient. She had some questions about the form she filled out. But now she just saw a young woman who seemed...like she was trying very hard to look like an adult with bold makeup and very flattering clothing, but she'd seen quite a few teenagers do similar things. She raised her mug of tea to her lips and took a sip, not dwelling on it.

For the moment. Instead focusing on Ms. Petrova as she went through her desk like she was trying to find something. Luckily, she didn't keep her paperwork or anything incriminating in this office. Except for her mid-day snacks. Which were strewn across her desk now. Along with a new sketchbook for patient notes that didn't really have anything in it.

@malka-lisitsa is a new patient, maybe.

[thesinglesjukebox]

CHARLI XCX FT. LORDE - "THE GIRL, SO CONFUSING VERSION"

We opened July by giving you a Charli remix; we now close July by giving you a Charli remix. Let's work it out in the blurbs, then see you next month!

[7.62]

Julian Axelrod: The girls are fighting. The girls have always been fighting. Sometimes with each other, sometimes with their labels, usually with themselves. But even in a year dominated by petty beef, the girls are rarely fighting on record. Leave it to Charli to realize pop music is all wrestling and execute a perfect reverse heel turn. The week BRAT dropped, pulling back the coke-stained rug to reveal a trap door of professional insecurity, fans and critics clung to "Girl, so confusing" as the last vestige of the carefree club romp we were promised, spawning a million think pieces about which curly-haired brunette started the beef. Bringing Lorde into the mix one week later was at once an escalation and denouement, negating the feud narrative and digging down to the real emotions buried beneath its glossy sheen. Charli resents Lorde's success, her flakiness, and her critical acclaim. Lorde sees Charli as a 365 party girl too cool to acknowledge her, let alone invite her to collab. It's all so insular and meta and self-obsessed and earnest and honest and real, to the point where it's almost too intimate to witness. But it's a testament to Charli and Lorde that the whole thing doesn't topple under its own weight, and hearing them write to each other's style makes you realize they have more in common than just hair. The girls are talking. The girls are collaborating. The girls are working it out on the remix. [9]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Iconic! Culture-changing! This could have been a podcast! [5]

Andrew Karpan: Upon release, it was funny to hear the speculation that this record was about Lorde, in that way that it is always funny to know something that feels intimate and real about a roving symbol of pop phenomenology. At any rate, it was satisfying to hear that we were right. Turning this from subtext to text feels like a decisively modern gesture, a living and breathing genius dot com annotation, something one could easily confuse for Taylor Swift’s 1989 rollout or any other kind of “this phony fake friends fake girl power shit” -- but I’m less inclined to be cynical, even in the meme economy of it all. The fiction of these two people with their relatable problems is played so straight that I practically cried at the end. She rides for Charli! Charli rides for her! Hang it in the Louvre, but down in the back.  [8]

TA Inskeep: I've traditionally not been a fan of Charli XCX, for various reasons not worth getting into here. That's relevant because I am thoroughly knocked the fuck out by the next-level-meta "girl talk" dialogue of this meeting-of-the-minds remix. Lorde responds to Charli's verse with a lacerating one of her own, spilling her guts and getting very real; talk about "work[ing] it out on the remix," goddamn. Charli, of course, is expert at riding producer A.G. Cook's hyperpop rhythms, but to hear Lorde matching her as the track heaves and bumps is a shock. This is profoundly soul-baring pop, what with Lorde candidly talking about eating disorders and Charli admitting on her opening verse "I don't know if you like me / Sometimes I think you might hate me." That they're doing this so publicly is frankly stunning. This feels like -- this is -- a true pop moment. [10]

Alfred Soto: They're having fun, and for once one of these interrogations sounds lived-in. The beats pop harder. Listening to Lorde and Charli ribbit around the cheerful electro-frogs is a visceral pleasure. Few of the problems they describe code as "girl," though, so I'll be the spoilsport. [7]

Katherine St. Asaph: The original "Girl" had three problems, none of which got worked out on the remix. Problem the first: As with hot girl walks and girl math, this stuff is not especially girl-coded. Social anxiety and fake friendships are the human condition! Problem the second: I know it's a fandom joke, so apologies for bringing reality into your memes, but it must be said that basically no one is out here seriously comparing Charli XCX to Lorde, at least that I recall. I did a quick search to prove that I hadn't gaslit myself for a decade, and all I could find was this interview; which was almost definitely a bit; this anecdote about a taxi driver, which is mostly telling about the tastes of taxi drivers; and this Vox piece, which is... not good (or if you want to be charitable, maybe also a bit). In a music world where half the girls are regularly compared to half the other girls, that's an honestly impressive display of how much something hasn't happened. I know that none of us are privy to the actual lived history of Charli and Lorde's friendship, and I can certainly admire Charli stoking a grudge for 10+ years. But the emotional stakes just don't feel as dramatic as they've been hyped to, and thus the Internet inside my heart remains unbroken. Problem the third: There's also a song beneath the parasocial moment-making, and it sounds like "Take My Hand" but not as fun. [6]

Will Adams: Will I be sent to the gallows if I admit that this pairing had about the same emotional impact on me as when Taylor and Katy reunited in the "You Need To Calm Down" video? [6]

Hannah Jocelyn: I got thrown into the fire when it comes to female friendship, and honestly I still don't get it. There are entire movies about how nobody gets it, men just assuming women disappear into each other without a man to anchor them. I feel like cis women have the same bafflement, and they've been women for longer than I have. The questions are the same: do you like me? What do you need from me? Do you desire my company? What can I be, and what do I look like from this particular angle? Am I the one you tell your fears to? Do we have the same hair? Do you want to be me? I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this is in the tracklist right after the SOPHIE tribute of “So I”; it’s the same push-pull dynamic, the fascination and the fear of getting too close. Lorde’s devastating verse reveals the insecurities underpinning her decade of coolness, but she manages to add another quotable to her pantheon at the same time: “let’s work it out on the remix” is as sweet as “you buy me orange juice” and “down the back, but who cares, it’s the Louvre." I don’t care much about the rivalry (if there really is one) and don't need to, and that lack of care for extraneous knowledge is why I don’t quite love Brat like the rest of the internet. The juxtaposition between electroclash and Real Feelings occasionally feels like a gimmick, but the best songs make the melancholic subtext into text. This one, with its flanged chorus and cyclical chord progression, gets across the angst underneath the blurry JPEGs and silly memes. [8]

Taylor Alatorre: It's unfortunate that the zero-sum economy of the pop remix led to the excising of the song's most crucial lyric: "Think you should come to my party / And put your hands up." Apart from its now-obsolete function as a barely veiled clue, it encapsulates the nervous mixture of resentment and admiration that bleeds through both versions and that is so hard to portray sympathetically, let alone with such an impish wink. Charli, as someone who attended more warehouse raves than I did in the early 2010s, had more of a reason to puzzle over that particular line from "Team," to shake her head and wonder whether this post-twee moralizing was really what the kids were into – "the kids," of course, being those three to four years younger than her. Like, it just seems so childish to be genuinely bothered by the chorus to a Flo Rida hit, doesn't it? And yet Charli XCX still goes by the MSN screen name she had when she was 14. The "girl" in the title is as much an age signifier as it is about gender, and the humanizing awkwardness of the remix is a product of its function as an intermural high school reunion, the kind of event that's "confusing" by necessity even if it goes well, which this one does. Your Pop Class of 2013, 'til infinity. [7]

Jonathan Bradley: In 2011, an eternity ago, Drake offered Kendrick Lamar an entire track on his Take Care album, giving the then up-and-coming Lamar space to talk over his worries about fame and the professional anxieties he felt regarding his more successful host. "React like an infant whenever you're mentioned," Lamar recalled of the Canadian. "He said that he was the same age as myself, and it didn't help cause it made me even more rude and impatient." Having worked it all out on the remix, surely no trouble between the two would ever rise again. So confusing! In 2024, Lorde and Charli XCX connect to puzzle out some feelings, and it works better as an event than a single. Lorde is a savvier writer than Charli and works away at old wounds and insecurities with a sense of intimacy that only appears artless. Unfortunately, the production runs her through filters and bleeps that mold her presence into simply another type of Charli, dispelling the tension created by bringing these two women together. Blame it on Ms. XCX. [5]

Jackie Powell: The beauty of this remix is how it shines a light on how women in pop in 2024 deal with "diss tracks" -- although, to be honest, the remix makes me question whether "Girl, so confusing" really was one in the first place. Diss tracks often don't reveal complex emotions but just function in a universe filled with envy and pettiness, but this remix reveals the chaos that resulted from poor communication, fear, body issues, anxiety and depression. Both Charli and Lorde admit that the confusion of being a girl is a result of comparing your insides to someone else's outsides, a mental exercise that's often destructive but difficult to stop. "It's you and me on the coin/The industry loves to spend" is their acknowledgment of what came across as transparent and icky on Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us." Also, Lorde sounds the most compelling she has since 2017's "Melodrama"; while I always prefer less Auto-Tune than more, her talk-singing with audio distortion behind her vocals reminds me why she was so beloved. Her messaging is focused: Lorde at her best. Her vocals are dark: also Lorde at her best. What I find most fascinating here is the choice of words during the final pre-chorus. Charli and Lorde sing that they "ride for each other" after working this out, which sounds more sincere than singing that they now magically love each other. It's not an artificial "love ya," but the more sincere "I see you and I know now what you've been through." I'm actually quite jealous of how seamless this appears. Charli and Lorde are somehow giving me some hope that maybe my own friendship breakups could have been resolved by something like this.  [8]

Wayne Weizhen Zhang: Too many friends, not enough time to keep up. Too much life. Too much work, too many health issues, too much doomscrolling. Too much fun and connection and joy had together, but then rewinding it back, wondering whether everyone else felt the same way. Too much anxiety, becoming paralysis, becoming withdrawal. Too much wondering, "Did people notice I was missing? Should I reach out? Is this made up in my head, and if so, why?" Too many panics, trying to find the exact date of their birthday. Too much energy spent internalizing the loss—or even the potential loss—of friends as my own fault, not enough time spent understanding circumstance and accepting change. (Coincidentally, too much “Bad Friend” on repeat, god bless.) Too much time wasted not reciprocating the love of others, when they easily and excitedly extended the grace that I didn’t extend to myself. Too much adulthood, so confusing. But in this song? Just enough. Just enough sweat, enough mess, enough of the internet going crazy. Just enough payoff for being terminally online. Just enough intrapersonal catharsis, brought by talking it out, and making it clear that you do indeed ride for each other and will always “work it out on the remix.” Just enough tears shed, understanding that others, including the ones I idolize, can feel the way that I sometimes do. Just enough possibility of redemption. Just enough hope for salvation.  [10]

Nortey Dowuona: Two things I learned today. 1. Lorde is still her. 2. We need to re-evaluate Solar Power. [10]

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[splatooshy]

winner from the au poll: 🦇🔮

it’s the least developed au of the lot, so. you guys chose wrong. ANYwho—

🦇🔮

aka, “the promise.” (working title).

denzo are bonnie’s fairy godmothers (and the rest of the bennett line’s) due to damon’s promise to emily. kol’s there too, at some point. it’s basically the step sister of the eternal teenager verse. just with more witchy shenanigans & denzo getting themselves into trouble in the name of helping bonnie learn magic. damon gets turned into a cat at one point, and is one for over a week. it only takes a day to figure out the counterspell, he just likes being a cat. only turns back on accident, mopes about it for a while.

seriously this au is underdeveloped as fuck why would you guys choose this option.

there’s two diverging storylines because i have never made a decision in my life. one is where denzo escape augustine together, the other is where they don’t. the second one is more angsty but the first is really fun.

storyline 1 general outline:

denzo escape together, damon’s like “hey i’m supposed to be babysitting these witchies but i sort of neglected them the last five years. sure hope they haven’t gotten themselves into any trouble.” cue teenage sheila in the background running amok and using her magic to trip people over. enzo instantly takes a liking to her & joins in. damon and amelia are severely unimpressed. amelia is a witch doctor / therapist & helps denzo readjust to life, sheila is a menace and should not be left unsupervised lest she overthrow the government and give the president an aneurysm.

damon’s like “oh you were such a sweet child. so polite and shy. the loveliest ten year old.” and now sheila’s the loveliest sixteen year old and she’s angry at the world.

anyways, haven’t decided on what happens with the abby situation — maybe she spells denzo inside the house while she goes to confront mikael?? no way they’re letting her go alone, and no way she’s letting them come with (the bennetts keep getting more stubborn by the generation).

little baby bonnie is the cutest cutie to exist. she loves being carried around at vamp speed & thrown up in the air. she has a habit of accidentally turning people into frogs - turns enzo into one & goes to find some more frogs. lines them up in a little row and makes damon guess which one is enzo. he guesses it first try (one of them looks far more smug than the others.) and has to kiss frog!enzo to turn him back. bonnie thinks she’s hilarious & runs off to tell grams about her new spell. she has a sparkly purple diary grimoire (with a voice activated passcode) and writes in it with her smiggle gel pens.

when bonnie’s ten, someone’s picking on her at school, so she tells denzo. it goes a little something like this:

denzo: right let’s go beat up a ten year old.

bonnie: NO! you can’t do that!

denzo: fine. we’ll compel them to stop?

bonnie: no. that’s not fair.

denzo: what if we compelled them to embarrass themselves, completely unrelated to your predicament?

bonnie: …perhaps…

also also also! grams won’t let denzo into her house. mostly for the lols. it’s become a running joke by this point. they have dinner on her patio once a month, but aren’t invited in because they’d get into everything and touch the wrong spelled object and blow the house up. she has a ward up to keep pests out, claims that’s why they can’t get in.

i haven’t figured out canon yet, but it’ll probs be similar to etv (just with bonnie also knowing denzo. she finds them hilarious, stefan disagrees.)

storyline 2 general outline:

damon escapes alone, next few decades occur a la canon. sheila hates damon because he wasn’t there to save abby. damon… doesn’t care.

damon goes out of his way to get the tomb opened only to discover that katherine isn't there, becomes disillusioned with her, and by extension, elena. his humanity comes back around this time, decides he might as well keep his promise to emily, even if she didn’t keep her end. mostly because he needs something to live for & it’ll annoy stefan.

damon and stefan still butt heads, causing elena (and stefan, and isobel, and pretty much everyone because elena makes a Big Deal about it) to think he's romantically interested in her, when in reality damon is just looking out for stefan and bonnie in his own way (the typical, hardcore damon way). bonnie starts to withdraw from her friends, damon swoops in (literally. he keeps his powers) to save the day / piss off his brother even more. she doesn’t trust him & makes that very clear, but eventually they come to some sort of mutual ground. damon probably shares stories about emily, brings bonnie spells that he thinks would be fun. there are… a Lot of spells. he probably writes down some harry potter ones to see if they’d work. bonnie just raises an eyebrow at him. they start to form a bestiehood. cue stefan and elena’s meddling.

bonnie goes on a college tour of whitmore?? something seems off, so she tells damon. who in turn scopes the college out to just… check what’s going on. finds enzo. brain stops functioning, somehow he gets enzo out & back to the boarding house. calls bonnie in the middle of the night and actually BEGS for her help. she and damon get enzo back up and at ‘em, denzo cautiously reform their friendship & eventual romance. they probably hook up multiple times by accident before they’re actually on good terms. more stefan and elena (and caroline) meddling.

instead of college, because the whitmore thing really freaked her out, denzo take her on a trip to NOLA. klaus is there, frenemies with damon & begrudgingly on decent terms with enzo (nobody knows how that happened). bonnie and rebekah end up together, she also becomes good friends with davina. kol is having a wonderful time, reunited with his old pals (iykyk) and tormenting his siblings. elijah sighs more often than usual. freya misses her coffin. finn misses his. but sage shows up and she and freya are BFFS (finn is not displeased with this, but he does wish they would refrain from teasing him). marcel keeps trying to ban damon from the quarter (again), but it doesn’t stick. idk.

elena dies, either in some ritual or because she stuck her nose into someplace she shouldn’t have. stefan shows up in new orleans, rebefriends klaus, bonds with damon. stefan/hayley/klaus love triangle??? it’s not quite clear.

and yeah. that’s what it is so far.

[malka-lisitsa]

"..... Then compel him after we drain the vervain from his system. You really are small brain for survival aren't you? We have to compel the information out of him anyway- might as well make him more.... cooperative in general for us."

well, when she put it like that.

"listen, I just don't want whatever WE do, to come back around and bite ME on the butt later on. I still have to go here for another two years. I don't need an even bigger target on my back"

[thatslayer]

Always and Forever. That was the promise made, and yet the Mikaelsons have gone their separate ways. Klaus is rumored to have remained in New Orleans, but he so rarely leaves The Abattoir that no one knows for certain. The city thrives under the heavy hand of Marcel Gerard, and all is humming along smoothly until the ground starts to rumble beneath St. Anne's church. A new mouth of hell bubbling up power like a beacon, attracting vampires, demons and the forces of darkness.

Immortal Beloved is a casual panfandom group verse and discord server spanning The Vampire Diaries, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Teen Wolf, Supernatural (other like-fandoms welcome) and is vaguely set in the first two-ish seasons of The Originals. Plot-heavy group. Accepting canons and OCs are welcome and encouraged to join! Note: OCs must not have pre-established relationships with canon characters without prior discussion. Group is friendly and supportive! Contact @thatslayer or @phdinrage for info, or just add faithlehane on discord!

THE CAST

The Originals/The Vampire Diaries

Klaus Mikaelson ; @thisbloodlust Elijah Mikaelson ; @enduringlystoic Rebekah Mikaelson ; Discord Muse Kol Mikaelson ; @worthbeinggoodfor Finn Mikaelson ; @astormymind Stefan Salvatore ; @destroyedbyguilt Damon Salvatore ; @damonstevedore Bonnie Bennett ; @littlebennettbitch Katherine Pierce ; @bourbonandheels Marcel Gerard ; @onegativeandtequila Davina Claire ; ---looking--- Hayley Marshall-Kenner ; Discord Muse Jackson Kenner ; Discord Muse Kai Parker ; @sociopathicryanreynolds

Aya Al-Rashid ; Discord Muse

Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel

Buffy Summers ; @insufferablemonsters Angel ; @shanshu Faith Lehane ; @thatslayer Willow Rosenberg ; Discord Muse Xander Harris ; @strangeandoffputting Rupert Giles ; Pending Spike ; Discord Muse Whistler ; Discord Muse

Teen Wolf

N/A

Supernatural

Dean Winchester ; @pulledfromhell Sam Winchester ; @samattheend Rowena MacLeod ; Discord Muse

Grave Encounters

Lance Preston ; @demcnsinmymind

Percy Jackson

Lou Ellen Blackstone ; @nosestealer

Interview with a Vampire (AMC)

Lestat de Lioncourt ; Discord Muse Louis de Pointe du Lac ; Discord Muse

The OCs

Maria Gonzales (Vampire Slayer) ; Discord Muse Robin Clark (Human) ; Discord Muse Jedi Collins (Witch) ; @jedicollins Chase Preciado (Werewolf) ; Discord Muse Gael Morrow (Psychic Medium); @misfitpuzzlepieces Irina Rybar (Feral Revenant) ; @misfitpuzzlepieces

[sialiia]

As promised! Posting a fresh STARTER CALL today~ Mutuals only. Length will vary. Multi's you don't have to specify but it is encouraged. If you would like a specific verse, do let me know! I'd be more than happy to accommodate! quick verse info below: Featuring verses such as: zombie.apoc, his.dark.materials, the.nevers, super.natural, super.heroes, squid.game etc!

Verse 1: Catch All;; non-specific verse for threads and a verse for threads I don't know where to put. Sydney is a physical medium (can see ghosts/spirits and entities.) verse 2: Super.natural;; Sydney uses her gift to help put beings at ease. She travels across north and central America when needed. She isn't skilled in combat, but rather enjoys the research part of it. But she would give actual hunting her best shot if need be. Win.chester of Choice: Sam. Verse 3: Vampires;; Twi.light, Vampire.Diaries, Vampire.Academy... We love the vampires. Twi Syd is either a human who knows about the Cull.ens or is a vampire who is turned by Riley or comes to help in BD. I'm pretty flexible with this one. I love twi. Vampire.Diaries, Syd is a human who gets caught up in the vamp shenanigans. She thinks Kol is hot and is terrified of Klaus. :D Also has unintentional beef with Katherine (malka-lisitsa). Vampire.Academy, Syd is a feeder... Needless to say Syd would not mind if a vampire bit/drank her blood. That shit is hot LOLLL. Verse 4: Zombie.Apoc;; Syd is a mess. She is out of anti-depressants, she is seeing HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS OF DEAD at any given moment. She is basically in near constant agony from all the spirits wanting help to move on and she can't keep up. She isn't a fighter. But she gets pretty good at making maps and pottery. WD specific: She lives at Hill.top, she is terrified of Negan and anytime he shows up, she hides. :D Verse 5: Super.heroes;; Power.Rangers/Super.Sentai have had crossovers with Dis.ney, Mar.vel and D.C comics. So this can fall into any of those! But Sydney is part of the english version of Choujin Sentai Jet.man team. "Power.Rangers Sky Force" She is the blue Ranger of that team. Since I am friends with Alyson who played Taylor in PR Wild.Force, I have full approval for this idea from someone who was an actor on the show B) [MORE INFO HERE]

Verse 6: anime/cartoon;; Basically the same shenanigans but I use an icon banner instead of irl icons.

Verse 7: Fantasy / dnd/larping;; Sydney is a fairy/pixie, For convenience, she is able to shrink herself to a small size, or make herself 5'4. Verse 8: His Dark.Materials;; Sydney is able to see dust instead of ghosts/spirits/entities. She has a daemon named Paul who is an eastern bluebird. Verse 9: The.Nevers;; it's 1899 in Victorian Era London, England. Sydney still can see ghosts/spirits/entities. She is a member of the Touched (person with a special ability) She came over from America with her family on a business trip, but realizing others had gifts, she decided to stay. During the attack during the finale, she survives. Verse 10: Skill Swap;; Since I also really love the power of hydrokinesis Sydney instead of seeing ghosts/spirits/entities, can manipulate water. Verse 11: Squid.Game;; Sydney is number 056. She is either in SK, knows the language. Or she is in an Americanised version of the games. thread-depending she survives or perishes.

[manyfandomocs]

Descendants OC Introductions

because I had an idea for a big plot and universe and here we are. This is No One Mourns The Wicked, my Wizard of Oz focused Descendants verse. In this universe, Oz lost contact with the rest of the world years and years ago and by the time Descendants rolls around, is thought to be a genuine fairytale and not true. Until a tornado blows through and brings 10 children to Auradon and the Isle of the Lost

so much of Oz lore is gonna be pulled from various sources and some just made up by me but Wicked (book and musical) is a large part of the inspo, especially for names

and thanks to @randomestfandoms-ocs for helping me go with Descendants

Orion Diggs (Mike Faist FC), Audrey and Chad ship. Son of Oscar Diggs, otherwise known as the Wizard, he is the main reason they were whisked to the Isle and Auradon as Orion artificially created the tornado with the help of Lilliana. He lands in Auradon

Eden Thropp (Brittany O'Grady FC), Jay ship. Daughter of Elphaba Thropp, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the West, she is one of the most skilled sorceresses of her age. She lands in the Isle and struggles with the lack of magic.

Nadia Thropp (Logan Browning FC), Uma ship. Daughter of Nessarose Thropp, otherwise known as the Wicked Witch of the East, she has little interest in big magic and is more interested in science. She lands in Auradon and hates being separated from her cousin Eden.

Lilliana Taylor (Maia Mitchell FC), Mal and Evie ship. Daughter of Locasta Taylor, otherwise known as the Good Witch of the North, she is not the strongest sorceress but she is the best at planning, and she loves to plan for herself, which is why she used her powers to help Orion create the tornado. She lands in Auradon

Garrett Upland (Evan Mock FC), Jane and Carlos ship. Son of Glinda Upland, otherwise known as the Good Witch of the South, he is close to Nadia and had the least desire to leave Oz so he's not enjoying being forced out but he's trying to make the best of it. He lands in the Isle

Donovan Gale (Milo Manheim FC), Gil and Harry ship. Son of Dorothy Gale, he always wondered what it was like being around other humans besides Orion, who seems to have the opposite desire. He's relatively lonely aside from Opal and desperate for friends, and lands in the Isle

Bennett Chopper (Jonathan Daviss FC), Faye Tigelaar ship. Son of Boq Chopper, otherwise known as the Tin Man, he is always here for a good time. He always likes to gain interest in people though it doesn't really last and he lands in Auradon

Faye Tigelaar (Katherine Langford FC), Bennett Chopper ship. Daughter of Fiyero Tigelaar, otherwise known as the Scarecrow, she prides herself on her smarts, even being known as a know-it-all which makes it hard for her to connect with others. She lands in the Isle

Landon Lahr (Drew Ray Tanner FC), Lonnie ship. Son of the Cowardly Lion, he proves that he's not like his dad was and is very reckless and unafraid to do absolutely anything. He lands in the Isle and is very excited to roam somewhere new

Opal Baum (Abigail Cowen FC), Ben ship. Daughter of Princess Ozma, she is the rightful future ruler of Oz, a job that she takes seriously. She loves meeting others and finding out what they're like, she's long had a crush on Donovan and lands in Auradon

[malka-lisitsa]

"Um, it's not my fault I didn't ask for the cure in any capacity- and I certainly didn't ask to be held hostage or chased by all of mystic falls and friends..."

But she DID crash the car and run off into the night wearing very little.

"I recall a time where I also didn't do vitamins. Seems like it was only yesterday." She let out a long and dramatic sigh. "Oh wait."

She will die angry about this bullshit.

However this 'we' business with Stefan, this she can get used to. While Elena is off making bad choices with the worst boyfriend in the world, Katherine is free to galivant around on Stefan's arm. Maybe this frail human thing had it's upside. One. One upside.

"Oooooo a road trip. If I behave can I get snacks?" Shes always fucking hungry now. Always. Chronic munchies. It's like her body is trying to ingest five hundred years worth of missed food.

"And whose fault was that?" Hers, it was her fault. He certainly wasn't out there chasing her. When she conceded to the fruit part (though suspiciously not the vegetable) he nodded and grinned. He had the perfect plan. Throw that shit in a smoothie and she wouldn't even notice the kale.

"We should probably go to the pharmacy because as you can imagine, I don't really do vitamins." A short stop, and maybe he'll even let her get the gummy fruit kind.

"As for vaccines...we'll have to compel someone because most regular adults don't need them and can't just walk in and ask for them. We know they're all on vervain here so that won't work...we'll have to try a clinic out of town."

And she wouldn't be terribly upset about that because he had said 'we' as in, with the intention of going with her. Because he couldn't just send her out into the world like this. She would die immediately.

[silkfyre]

W.I.D

The following content does not limit the type of requests I accept. If there is a topic or character that is not listed, but you wish to have included feel free to ask! If I’m ever uncomfortable with something I will simply deny the request.

HIGHLIGHTED names are my personal favorite characters. 

WRITING

Fluff

Smut

Angst

Yandere

Violence

Dub-Con

Polyamory

OTHER

Fancasts

Writing Tips

Script Creation

Character Building

CHARACTERS

HORROR

The Boy

Brahms Heelshire

The Quarry

Abigail Blyg

Emma Mountebank

Jacob Custos

Laura Kearney

Max Brinley

Ryan Erzahler

Travis Hackett

The Lost Boys

David

Dwayne

Marko

Michael

Paul

House of Wax

Bo Sinclair

Lester Sinclair

Vincent Sinclair

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Thomas Hewitt (Leatherface)

Halloween

Michael Myers

Scream

Billy Loomis

Randy Meeks

Stu Macher

American Horror Story

James Patrick March

Jimmy Darling

Yellowjackets

Lottie Matthews

Misty Quigley

Natalie Scatorccio

Shauna Sadecki

Taissa Turner

Van Palmer

SCI-FI

The Boys

A-Train

Billy Butcher

Black Noir

Frenchie

Homelander

Hughie Campbell

Kimiko Miyashiro

Mother's Milk

Queen Maeve

Soldier Boy

Starlight

Detroit: Become Human

Chloe

Conner

Gavin Reed

Hank Anderson

Josh

Kara

Luther

Markus

North

Ralph

Rk600 (Sixty)

RK900 (Nines)

Simon

Fallout

Fallout 4

Deacon

John Hancock

Nick Valentine

Paladin Danse

Piper Shaw

Preston Garvey

Robert MacCready

Fallout (series)

Aspirant Dane

Chet

Cooper Howard (The Ghoul)

Knight Maximus

Lucy MacClean

Norm MacLean

Alien vs Predator

coming soon!

Stranger Things

Steve Harrington

The Walking Dead

Daryl Dixon

Eugene Porter

James Cameron’s Avatar

Eetu

Lyle Wainfleet

Mansk

Miles Quaritch

Nor

So’lek

Teylan

Tsu’tey te Rongloa Ateyitan

SUPERNATURAL

TVD Verse

Bonnie Bennett

Caroline Forbes

Damon Salvatore

Elena Gilbert

Elijah Mikaelson

Finn Mikaelson

Jeremy Gilbert

Katherine Pierce

Kol Mikaelson

Niklaus Mikaelson

Rebekah Mikaelson

Stefan Salvatore

FANTASY

Baldur’s Gate 3

Astarion Ancunín

Dammon

Gale Dekarios

Halsin

Karlach Cliffgate

Lae’zel

Raphael

Rolan

Shadowheart

Wyll Ravengard

Zevlor

REALISM

Red Dead Redemption II

Albert Mason

Arthur Morgan

Charles Smith

Dutch Van Der Linde

Flaco Hernández

Javier Escuella

John Marston

Kieran Duffy

Sadie Adler

Call of Duty

John Price

John “Soap” MacTavish

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick

Simon “Ghost” Riley

Grand Theft Auto

Franklin Clinton

Michael De Santa

Trevor Philips

Outer Banks

Pope Heyward

Rafe Cameron

Sarah Cameron

Topper Thornton

W.I.D.D

Notes :: There may be some things on these lists that are debatable. If they are something I’m willing to write under certain circumstances then it will be ITALICEZED.

WRITING

Racism

Ableism

Ageplay

Underage

Homophobia

Transphobia

Character x Character (w/o reader)

CHARACTERS

Bubba Sawyer

Freddy Krueger

Pennywise