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We should make some giant historical style guide just for us TVD writers. Hell I bought an entire book on Seiðr witchcraft because it's probably what Esther and Ayana practiced!

all the research i’m doing for a singular line in a fic that’s probably mostly historically inaccurate….

i do this shit to myself 😔

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I think writing fanfic of the the vampire diaries definitely changed my view point on the characters, by a lot, because you stop thinking the actor and think the character, and who they are, and what they are supposed to be. And I think the ages of the characters than soak in and the relationships and the supposed internal thoughts, the trauma, the logos and the pathos, and then these characters whom I hated (Elena) I start to love so so much, and characters whom I loved (Damon) I start to utterly hate, all because I think I start to see the story differently. The show stops being this CW show of hot 23+ year olds, and you start seeing these characters for what they are. And it also made me love Caroline, Klaus, Stefan, and Bonnie all so much more, and I didn't know that was possible.

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"I am a stranger to love so I knew the moment I first felt it” versus "I am a stranger to love so I didn't recognize it until I got to know it." And's it's just Klaus and Caroline.

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Nothing inspires me to write more than your fic, Who put Bella down the Wych Elm? I have read it now twice, and I keeping thinking about it! And I guess part of me is asking permission to write a Murder Mystery Klaroline fic in Boston with an assemble OC cast of lovable but confused characters who just don't understand Caroline. Ofc I'd veer into a different direction than you did, because I don't want to copy you, but I just love the concept so much, but I want permission first! I just also adored it so much! Like so much! I loved how confused they were by Caroline, and how confused she was by the realization that her supernatural experience was so utterly far from normal. I just!!!! AHHHHHH!!! I love it so much! I loved Sean so much, and his allergy to bags, and I love how you wrote Oscar, and Courtney, and Adrianna, and Ryan and Jess. And Bella ofc! And how you created the Klaroline? Chef's kiss! It's so good *cries*! Part of me is so curious about the myriad of theories the group had about Caroline before slotting it together? And like Oscar? What was going through that poor man's head from learning about the cure for werewolf bites to meeting Klaus to realizing Caroline and Klaus are clearly together. Thank god vampires can not get heart attacks lol.

ah, thank you so much! bella in the wych elm is possibly my most unhinged fic title yet, and one whose acronym is a literal crime (wpbdtwe? ??? really???) but it was also a very fun story to write, despite the fact that my laptop decided to take a break from operating halfway through my writing the final chapter, meaning i finished writing it in a daze and frantically because i was afraid i wouldn't complete it in time.

the OCs in that story kinda grew with it, and they grew on me as the time went on, oscar really most of all. when i begun, he really was just an insufferable asshole and mostly there just for comedic relief. i liked the idea of someone that the society would have considered their authority on all things supernatural before caroline came along, and i do think that a lot of his initial hostility towards her comes from the fact that she's supplanted him in a way.

but also, the thing i had the most fun with in this fic is playing with how the things that are so commonplace to us and the mystic falls gang are very much not to people outside of it (because tvd's worldbuilding is haphazard mess held together by tape and spit). and i don't even mean like ... originals. i meant werewolves, that stefan and damon didn't think were a real thing at the beginning of s2.

i guess that's why oscar was so much fun for me. he's heard of the originals, and of katherine, and of stefan. and in the final chapter, he comes face to face with klaus, who he wasn't even sure was a real person, and his brain just kind of short circuits? (mf gang's first instinct on meeting scary supernatural creatures who can kill them is to fight them, bless their souls. oscar's got more self-preservation. caroline, who mostly subsribes to mf gang's school of dealing with supernatural threats--girl's got a lot of pent-up frustrations and what better way to exorcise them than to get into fights with people bigger than her?--thinks it's hilarious). i like to think he visits nola sometime in the future. i think a meeting between him and elijah would be hilarious, and by the end of it, caroline has to step in and rescue him from pledging his service to elijah until the end of time. (elijah pouts at her for the next week because of it)

all that's a very roundabout way of saying please, go for it, and have fun with it! shoot me a link when it's posted if you feel so inclined!

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Reblog this with quotes of you describing Caroline's appearance (from a fic of your own) and I will hopefully try an draw her!

(Be patient with me I am afflicted with both finals and ADHD).

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Me wanting to do Klaroline Week but finals be killing me... So gonna do it late (hope that's okay)? I have a bunch of wips for each prompt. <3

(Historical is my favorite thus far: Caroline may or may not have time traveled to the 1980's...)

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Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Inspired by (x)

For @artemisravencourtney, hope you like it💜.

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Love drawing Caroline Forbes Fanart, but the best fan-artist of her to this day will always be Klaus Mikaelson. No one can beat his fan behavior.

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Really really bad joke...

but crazy how Alaric, Tyler, and Caroline have all had Klaus inside them at one point.

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Isekai Klaroline?

Here me out, a witch coven is attacking Mystic Falls again, using doppelgänger blood to open up a portal (in this au Elena is human and Katherine is not—also no cure plotline) and the witches used both Katherine and Elena’s blood to do it. Elijah, Caroline, and Stefan made the plan to save them, getting Rebekah and Klaus involved at the last minute. Rebekah says she is more so there to aid Stefan (but also for some reason she recognizes the coven and seems frightened—very suspiciously), and Klaus isn’t about to risk his hybrid army.

But the spell goes haywire and sends everyone there including a few dead witches to this other world. One only Rebekah seems to know. It’s suspiciously like the tales of wonderland, and she mentions of course it is, it’s the realm of mirrors, which is where the inspiration came from. She’d know, it’s here fault it exists.

But now the group must team up and find somewhere to get out of Wonderland of all places, and it doesn’t help that Klaus get trapped in the form of his wolf. He’s at least seemingly in control, unlike most werewolves are. Caroline wants to help him, desperately, but also keeps finding her self stroking his fear and taking the prey he finds for her. Elijah teaches her how to head dive so she can talk to him, after she asks, but Elijah has little hope Klaus will allow that, so he teaches her anyways.

Eventually Caroline gets into Klaus’s head.

Elena is worried about being the only human in the group of vampires. But she and Caroline are positive Bonnie will save them.

Rebekah though has a secret. And it’s that in 1607, 200 years after Katherine, she met a coven hoping to speed up the the process of doppelgängers to get on Klaus’s good side; hoping if she does this for him, he will trust her to go on her own for love. It works, and she checks in every few years of this doppelgänger’s upbringing, keeping in a secret, but this doppelgänger is like the rest capable of great kindness and great evil, and she unlike the others a witch. During a mutiny within the coven, she learns the truth about Rebekah, she was raised to be culled, a cow for the slaughter, and her revenge spell meant for Rebekah becomes her escape spell, and Rebekah watches as her gift to Nik disappears into the realm of mirrors, and she never says a thing about it. Never.

But now they are in this dimension, and Rebekah is sure that the queen of hearts must have been inspired by someone, and she dreads the moment everyone discovers her secret.

(The doppelgänger oc would function mostly as an antagonist character, and a fun exploration of doppelgänger lore I think).

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Thoughts on Marcel? (I think the writers really failed to see the potential of his story, and went really left field of what could have been. But I want to know you're thoughts!)

Oh boy, where do I even start.

I freaking LOVE the concept of Marcel. Not Rebekah's relationship with him---that I side-eye hardcore. But the whole idea that vampires can't procreate, that they're mosntrous killers so far removed from their human side, but still, you see these tragically human glimpses regardless. I'm a big fan of Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire (haven't read the books, but the show with Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid sends me absolutely feral) and that's basically the concept of Marcel realised in Claudia. That is how they should have done it. No magical babies. Just stuck with the actual fucking lore already established, and seen how these monsters raised a boy as their own. Seen how that boy became a man, and grew into a vampire just as vicious and dangerous as the ones that raised him.

And throughout all that; throughout all the vampire politics and keeping up with oh right, vampires are not some guilt-ridden redemption-seeking imbeciles, but actual cold blooded killers--- creatures of the night in all their horrifying glory---you'd show glimpses of humanity in the way they raised this boy like he's their own. Show the actual idea of family, not something that is forced through blood. You'd watch Klaus see his best vampiric self in Marcel, but also the human boy he once was, before he was turned, when Mikael's beatings were still fresh. And you'd see them actually establish a home in New Orleans, filled with a child's laughter for the first time in hundreds of years (but also, like, his screams. Because let's be real, they probably traumatised the poor kid several times too lmao).

Marcel is the very idea of unifying those two warying worlds vampires so closely court; passing on a vampiric legacy as bloody as their ledger, while also serving as a constant reminder of the humanity that still haunts them even after centuries.

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Joseph Morgan as Klaus Mikaelson THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, 3x01

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Ever since your Klaus power-scaling post, and just in general loving your changes to the world building, which imo perfect it greatly.

But one thing I want to hear your thoughts on, is the ever elusive head dive power vampires have. And the ability to get into other’s head. And we know powerful vampires (seen by Lexi and Katherine) can make other vampires hallucinate, and be in their head without touching them. Which means it’s not an original only privilege to get into others vampires, such as they have with compulsion.

Do you think Originals do have a special thing they can do with it? And also what are your thoughts on it. I always found it odd how little the power was used.

We also seen Caroline make someone hallucinate once, and thought that could have just been a high level form of compulsion, so jury is out on that one, but it’s Caroline, any vampire ability she learns she masters very quickly like the future vampire queen she is.

I think you can credit how little the mind powers were used to the inconsistencies that plagued the shows. Continuity? Julie Plec don't know her.

But, lore wise, I'd headcanon not everyone can do it because it's a taught skill. And it's a skill that can only be learnt with age. The older the vampire, the more powerful they are. Damon knew how to do it because Sage taught him most of his tricks, and she's the oldest vampire there is, apart from the Originials---in the canon scene between Finn and Sage when they're talking in the town square (I think), Sage mentions they used to meet in that exact spot, when Mystic Falls was once the village Finn and his siblings grew up in. It's implied either she was alive when the Originals were, or at the very least turned not long after they were (funny tho, how she is never once mentioned again after she dies lol, and then completely erased in favour of introducing Aurora, Tristan and Lucien. Like where was she when they met those three? Where was Finn? asdfghjlkajkfj--- again, no continuity, Plec don't know her). She was the first they turned, the first that taught the Originals how to turn others. I headcanon Finn was married, but had an affair with Sage. When his wife died in childbirth, he started seeing Sage openly, but his siblings despised her because Finn's wife had been kind, too kind for Finn's disloyalty. They liked her, more than they ever did Sage. Very much a Diana Vs Camilla situation. And I figure one of the siblings attacked her after the village turned against them, and in his desperation to save her, Finn accidentally turned her into a vampire. So yeah, Sage was an old as fuck vampire, older than Aurora, Tristan and Lucien; older than my oc Kiera. She could have easily known all the mind tricks a vampire can learn, and taught Damon in turn.

So, in conclusion, I think you have to wait till you're older to learn all the cool vampire shit, and I'd say some vampires are more natually gifted at it than others---Caroline a prime example.

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Laz’s TVDU headcanons 9

✨Sexuality edition ✨ all my opinion, feel free to leave a comment on who you disagree with, and I left out the characters with either confirmed sexualities.

(I made this as a queer person btw)

- April Young is a lesbian and imo on the demisexual scale imo

- Anna Zhu is straight

-Bonnie Bennett I think she is pansexual, though if you asked her, she would shrug and not really have an answer for you, it’s all about who she has a spark with. I think she finds people hot, but it's the connection that sparks trues attraction. And she finds people more attractive once a spark occurs.

- Cami is a proud bisexual. Rip she would have loved pride week and she would have bi flags up in Rousseau’s

- Caroline Forbes took me a while to figure out. Admittedly I first believed she was one of the straight friends, but I don’t actually think this. I think she may be bisexual, possibly comphet (and not in a extreme internalize homephobic way—though I assume she saw how people treated both her parents and definitely has a fear of being judged) just she also is someone who thrives being in a relationship and I think her fear of being alone means she doesn’t really experiment that often. I also think she loves being approached first (chosen) and she grew up in Virginia in the early 2000s where she wasn’t asked out by many women my guess. I imagine in the fics where it takes her and Klaus decades or centuries to get over their shit and finally get together, she would become aware she is also into woman in that in between--but in the ones where they get together pretty quickly I don't think she would. It's really about situation for her tbh.

-Damon Salvatore is a complicated character. Because on one hand I would love to be like “ha ha only straight guy… and you suck” to him, but one; I have headcanons of others just being straight, nor do I think that’s an sign of terribleness (even if I am guilty of doing that to the one not-great character present, I am from the MHA fandom, and if you know, you know). But Damon is complicated, because he has a such an odd relationship with sex and people have such an odd relationship with sex with him (someone did a great analysis, where they realized that no one but him says he is great at sex and those who have had it with him honestly tell him he’s bad at it— he probably doesn’t enjoy it much himself, and yet the dude is the king of self destruction). But he is so internalized homophobic frat boy vibes (and occasionally outwardly? Like he canonical has the most homophobic lines, which of course Julie and co gave those lines to him 🙄). Damon also clings to the face of one woman for over a century, a woman who is, to him, locked in a tomb, he maybe has a one night stand with Sage in that time, a female character who is more on the masculine side. Then he gets infatuated with another (at the time) doomed relationship with the girl whom his brother is with after he realizes Katherine wasn’t going to want him (which really tells you how fast he switched loves tells you he didn’t really love Katherine). When he is with Elena, he consistently pushing her away, and when they are together, it's always after he did something bad or when it feels impossible. Is Damon gay? I don’t know. But I don’t think he likes women. He’s a character who honestly hates women, he hates them so much, and it really does seem deeper than just being misogynistic (and when he is being misogynistic it’s never consistent). His best relationships with woman were the ones that are platonic, those being Rose and Bonnie, and even Liz. I struggle with Damon, because it really would be easier to be like “ha ha you are straight (derogatory)” and leave it at that because oh boy do I hate him, but also I want my head canons and writing to still retain some nuance. Uh oh… I wasted so much time writing about Damon.

- Davina I see as straight. But I don’t remember much about her tbh.

-Elena Gilbert! Another tricky character! I think she is straight, but not in a labeled way. I think she is the kind of person who isn’t opposed to finding love anywhere, but she’s only ever been attracted to guys this far and she determines that she is straight. If anything I think she is really drawn to people who are caring and have a right and wrong code (even if it isn’t a code that is strictly good or evil, but people who have lines they don’t cross, and convictions), but also people she can learn about. She wants substance. I do think she is a victim of manipulation with Damon, and that did change things for her. But I think at the end of the day she is someone who is attracted to complexity and conviction. Though I do think she considers herself straight, but doesn’t see labels as permanent markers either.

-Elijah is demiromantic and demisexual. I don’t think I need to say more tbh.

- Enzo is a straight man, but I recently discovered him with Kol as a ship and I do love it.

- Finn is a straight man I think. But only because he is so devoted to Sage, he isn’t about to think about other possibilities.

- Freya is a lesbian all the way. Like I can’t see her with a man. Yes I hear Lucien’s sobs in the distance too.

- Hayley depends on the fic. I actually have been really vibing with the concept of Hayley/Cami and idk why, so for no reason I think Hayley is bi.

- Jeremy gives straight vibes, but again depends on the fic. I have read a good Jeremy/Kol fic, so I can be convinced otherwise.

- Jenna is bisexual. I don’t think I need to argue this.

- Jo is straight

- Katherine Pierce has zero preferences, just that they be hot.

- Klaus doesn’t care about labels either, and has no gender preferences either. I don’t think he’s demiromantic, because he fell for Caroline fast.

- Kol… yeah he’s the same as above, he really doesn’t care what gender or sex a person is. (edit: Writing this has taught me, he ascends sexuality so much that he can change my normal headcanons).

- Kai is straight

- Lexi is another pansexual queen

- Lily Salvatore is a comphet lesbian who kept ending up in an abusive relationships with a man.

- Liz Forbes, I think she is a straight. But I also think she is more so graysexual to ace, where she could go without sex, like doesn’t need it or even really want it, but will it if her partner wants it. Prefers the romance part of relationships. She and Bill really only ever had sex to have Caroline, but neither really wanted sex ever.

- Matt is straight

- Marcel I think doesn’t give a fuck about gender, but also has no label

- Nadia is bisexual

- Ric is a straight man

- Rebekah is a bisexual queen. But don’t think she has a word for it in her vocabulary.

- Stefan is another person who seems to be pretty open to any one. I think he is drawn to complexity, and needs to be with someone he can enjoy talking to. He needs to be mentally stimulated, and that’s his primary desire.

- Tyler is straight, but I think he needs the woman to be stronger than him in a relationship. He seems to really like it, be that with physical strength or with magic. He seems attracted to strength.

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Kol is such a baby in this scene and I love him for it. Clearly, Klaus can't resist how adorable he is either.

Another reason to resent Julie, because imagine if The Originals was actually about the family becoming whole again...

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Julie Plec when I catch you

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TVD canon divergent fic idea

no plot armor au. aka any thing can happen, anyone can die, no last minute deus ex machinas. I can't really pinpoint exactly what the first change is. Honestly probably it's Damon outsmarting and killing Lexi (because how?), but also him surviving Jules when Rose died. Honestly imagine if Jules did bite him then, and it was him who died? Somehow I would still make this Klaroline bc it's me, but the goal is to give everyone the same amount of agency. Will I do this? Who knows.

(honestly the first biggest plot change is Damon falling for Elena, because that actually doesn't make any sense).