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I should write my fanfic vampires with Damon's warg ability for the sake of pulling a Delena Hitchcock scene.

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Stefan looks like a complete ass in season 4. Not only because he knew that Elena was in love with Damon and knew that she was lying about it. He looks like a complete ass because he did the same thing with Katherine, and he manipulated Elena into repeating his history. He fell in love with Katherine and lied about it for 145 years.

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If Delena shippers want it in full context, let me show the truth of Denver and the reality of Delena's sire bond.

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When you see Damon getting outed in front of Stefan and Elena in 1x21, you can understand why Elena gets outed twice. You can also understand why Elena lies to Damon in 3x22, then lies to Stefan in 4x1.

These are the parallels....

And this is how Elena's lies work...

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Damon being outed was gorgeous, but Elena being outed is twice as gorgeous because it happens twice...

In 3x2, Elena outed herself to Damon just as Damon outed himself to Isobel in 1x21.

In 3x18, Elena outed herself to Stefan just as Damon outed himself to Isobel in 1x21.

3x2, 3x18, and 1x21 is all it takes for that triple parallel. Follow that, and you'll understand what Elena means when she tells Damon that she cares lol

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And perhaps that's why I love Damon and Elena from 3x14 to 3x18. Emotions aren't variants, the degree of those emotions are. They can be mad at each other all they want, they're still in love with each other and it shows. It shows so well that Stefan confronts Elena about her feelings for Damon lol

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Perhaps that's why I'm able to debate Delena fans while shipping Delena myself... Because I don't ship them to the extent that I'd lie about what I see.

I got into a debate with a Delena fan who claimed Damon fell in love with Elena prior to 1x14. I told this particular shipper the truth... had Stefan burned Emily's grimoire, Damon would've snapped Elena's neck after feeding her his blood. He only cares about her at that point. Even as you watch him stroke her hair afterward, that's not love he's expressing... it's care.

Love, in love, and care should be viewed separately and together in certain situations. A person who loves isn't necessarily in love. Such is the case with Elena. She can love Stefan but not be in love with him. They show this when Rebekah compels Elena in 4x10. She loves Stefan as she loves Matt... as a friend.

A person who cares doesn't necessarily love. Again, such is the case with Elena. She can care about other human beings, but not necessarily love them as she loves her friends. Her care for human beings is the reason she builds a friendship with Aaron... and why I tell fans that Stefan doesn't have to hurt her loved ones to hurt her. Him ripping up and down the eastern seaboard hurt Elena because his victims were human beings.

Shippers get it wrong in season 3 because of these differences. She not only falls for Damon, she un-falls for Stefan. So... from 3x1 onward, Elena is terrified of admitting her feelings for Damon because she doesn't love him as a friend anymore. She's in love with him. Elena loving Damon as a friend wouldn't be terrified to admit her feelings for him in 3x2 because it's natural for friends to worry about friends. Damon pushes Elena to admit her feelings because he KNOWS she fell in love with him. That's why he needs to hear her say it even though he's heard her say it before. That's also why he accepts her confession even though she didn't explicitly say she's in love with him. She said enough.

Again, the difference between loving as a friend and being in love with. It's my opinion that Elena un-fell for Stefan in 3x5. That's why she's able to tell Stefan she loves him, but her love is that of friends. So... from 3x5 onward, it's of my opinion that Elena loves Stefan as she loves Matt. That's why season 4 plays out as it does. She lied to both brothers. She lied to Damon in 3x22 and lied to Stefan in 4x1. While she tells Stefan she was on that bridge because she loves him, she omits the fact that she's not in love with him. She died on that bridge because she's in love with Damon and loves Stefan as a friend.

Care is all-inclusive. Elena would care about the friends she loves and care about the man she's in love with. Emotions aren't variants, the degree of those emotions are. Elena would care more about her friends than she'd care about strangers. That's why Damon hurts Elena's loved ones while Stefan hurts strangers. She cares about both, she simply cares about her loved ones more.

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Stefan stans demonize Damon for touching Vicki's hair while talking to her in 1x2 as if Stefan never did anything like that. Speaking of, how was Damon able to compel Vicki about Stefan when he didn't look in her eyes to do so? I'm assuming he got inside her mind to put that thought into her head. Stefan was unnecessarily touching Amber's hair while talking to her in 1x19 and at some point his face got close to hers while talking but I never see people criticize him for that. They romanticize it as Stefan having a thing for blondes. In 3x8 he says he wants to drink something was warmer and blonder while checking out and smirking at the waitress doing her job in a place where there's multiple types of people. People romanticize him objectfying his victims in that way cause Stefussy but I've seen gifsets of people demonizing Damon teaching Elena how to pick people to feed on in 4x4 because he described one of them as blonde and self aborbed, adding gifs of him and Caroline in 1x1 on the side. That girl in 4x4 did match being self aborbed since she wasn't paying attention in class and he showed her multiple other people in class including guys so I don't get the selective outrage.

I don't know how fans can demonize Damon for touching Vicki's hair. I would term it "1864" because that's the kind of man Damon was as a human. You see him do the same with Elena even before he falls in love with her. It's a comfort thing with Vicki in 1x2 just as it is in 1x6. Fans have to stop perverting every single touch, but that's what bias does... It misinterprets. That's why I refuse to ship so badly that I lie about what I see. In the scene you're speaking of... it makes absolute sense for Damon to stroke Vicki's hair while he compels her, and do it for the sake of comforting her. As I made mention in my previous ask, that scene shows both sides of Damon... the lion and the lamb. He does the same in 1x6, which only supports my feelings about why he turned her. Vicki is straight-up crying in his arms and he's comforting her because he cares.

Compulsions reach the subconscious. It's not just the eyes, it's the mouth. They only require the eyes at first to reach the subconscious. That's why you'll notice some compulsions focus on the mouth, and vampires don't have to look in their eyes to compel them. Watch how the camera pans on his mouth...

Without the eyes, they still have the mouth.

imo, there's nothing more beautiful than a vampire comforting a woman that he sunk his teeth into... comforting a woman that he knows he hurt. It's not necessarily romantic because not all touch is. If it were, Stefan would be slammed for every woman he comforts. Both brothers tend to comment their preferences. Damon's teaching in 4x4 had nothing to do with his feelings about blondes, but about his character being extremely intuitive. He reads people, period. It's not because she's blonde, it's because she's self-absorbed and he knows it. But like I said, the biased misinterpret.

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People see Elena's relationship with Damon as thinking she can fix him but I see it as her holding him to a standard, something people only think Bonnie is capable of. I don't think Damon would be less different with her instead, but they wouldn't say Bonnie's character was ruined for being with him like Elena's. What are your thoughts?

I don't see it as her thinking she can fix him because she doesn't. Elena is what I term a golden character because she's more God-like. God created the lamb and the lion. He is both kind and cruel just as Elena is both kind and ruthless. She accepts Damon as he is, but also knows what he's capable of. She holds him to a standard because she has standards, so she sees it as Damon fixing himself rather than her fixing him. It takes 6 seasons for Damon and Bonnie to get as close as they are because she's not Elena... and I say this because it's not on Damon, it's on Bonnie. It took her 6 seasons to see what Elena saw in the first season.

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Reviewing an actor/actress performance. Not sure you like to, but you have in the past so I'll ask anyway.

So much hate and love, in equal measure, for Ian's performance in fandom. Like most ppl, he is the reason I rewatch and I am disappointed that his career didn't go further. But I am biased because I love (like a whole lot) the character of Damon.

I love Bonnie too. But I find it odd how so many people praise Kat's performance to an exhausting level. Kat absolutely grew from season 1-8 and it shows. This is where she got her "acting chops?" Perhaps. She was never ever bad but going up against some of the talent in the show, I just don't get it. I adore Bonnie the character, but it's impossible to pick up any further nuances then just delivering the script. The others seem to have many layers. True, her storylines were muted or curtailed (like I'm still really pissed we never saw more of Lucy) and this may be the reason. There's a lot of hate slinging around for Julie in this regard. I don't know, I didn't watch it when it was airing so I'm not sure what the drama was at the time only that they forced her to wear those horrible wigs.

Then there is Caroline. I cannot stand the character. But Candice's acting is wild. She never misses the mark. I mean she makes some of the bad writing in later seasons sound, reasonable? And in the early seasons, she makes me hate her. I think that was the point.

Thoughts?

Ian is a great actor. I didn't see him in anything until I watched TVD, but I wanted to see more after seeing him. That's why I chose to watch V Wars and why I often argue Fifty Shades of Grey. I feel Ian is too good of an actor to have done the films. Not because of the sex of it, but because of the writing. I'm not a fan of Fifty Shades because it's my opinion that the writing sucked. The writing didn't sell the books, the sex did... that's why I'm glad Ian didn't do the films. For me to want Ian playing Christian Grey, the films can't follow the books. Had TVD writers followed the books, I probably wouldn't like Damon, but I'd like Ian as an actor. Hating Katherine, Caroline, and Stefan as much as I do only speaks to how great the actors are. I hate them almost as much as I love Damon... which is actually a good thing. I'd probably love Candice in other roles. It's my opinion that some actors own every role they take, like Johnny Depp. And some actors only own one or two roles they take, like Matthew McConaughey. I didn't like Matthew as an actor until I watched True Detective. Sometimes it's the actor, sometimes it's the role and the writing, sometimes it's both. Had they put Ian in Kat's role, there wouldn't be many Damon fans because his acting would've been limited by the writing. Kat's problem isn't Kat. Her acting was limited by the writing. She'd need another role to get her acting chops because "Bonnie" didn't do it for her.

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I'm in a debate with a fan about Damon and his crow. While Damon is a shapeshifter in the books, he's not a shapeshifter in the show. Damon and the crow are two separate beings, and shapeshifting isn't taking over another body. If Damon were truly a shapeshifter in the show, he wouldn't need Caroline to unlock the cellar door. He'd shapeshift into the crow and escape through the bars himself. If he were a shapeshifter, he wouldn't be able to eat the crow because he'd be eating himself.

The way I view Damon in the show is similar to Bran Stark on GoT. What he has with the crow is like warg ability.

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I wonder why Netflix never plays The Mentalist.

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I'm not sure what I'm gonna watch next. But I wanna watch something before I get back to TVD.

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Peter and Neil have been acting as father and son from the moment they knew about each other. I mean... Neal is sending him cards while he's on the run lol.

He's got his biological father commending him for the art he forges and his surrogate father jailing him for his forged bonds... Nature vs nurture.

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2x1 was the episode. I believe it inspired the newspaper article.

"Basement access let me bypass the metal detectors at the entrances. The teller cages are nicely protected, but your employees need to be more vigilant. Also, the staff should wear their access badges around their neck, not clipped to their waist. It makes them too easy to lift. And the old dye packs you're using are way too easy to spot. And guys, the pass codes need to change daily, not weekly."

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"And to be an artist, you have to know who you are." "You're my son. And I'm very proud of that."

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Peter gave Neal the one thing his father couldn't... his sense of identity. I feel that was the point of their father/son comments to each other at the end of the series. Neal finally knows who he is because of Peter.