#dare i say this is why tvd season 5 is bad

[livlepretre]

This is a complete side note to what you and the Caroline anon were talking about but holy shit, all of Caroline's outfits are so fucking ugly. Do they just dress her in garbage they found laying in the street? Nothing she wears looks good for her body type at all and it's so painful to look at. Like that gif set with her digging in Klaus' back, WHAT IS SHE WEARING? The period clothes are an abomination to my eyeballs especially the ancient Greece stuff that looks like it came from party city.

Have to disagree! 😂😂😂 I’ve seen this comment before, but I have to assume the critique is from people who weren’t high school girls in the aughts, because Caroline’s look is so classic for that specific time period. Like, I graduated from high school just a couple of months before tvd premiered, and I remember one of my earliest thoughts about the show is that the teenage girls actually dressed like my friends and I did in high school and how much I appreciated that. Those weirdly cropped sweaters and jackets, the super long shirts that are maybe actually dresses and had no waists, paired with the leggings underneath were pretty much the hip look— yes, if you can believe it, Caroline had the trendiest fashion sense out of the three girls. But Elena’s sweaters with the camisoles showing underneath were also classics, and while Elena’s and Bonnie’s looks have stood the test of time, it’s because they were less hip and their outfits played it safe more, and at the time that felt like a strong character note that Caroline would have a riskier and more daring fashion sense than the other two. Plus, even when Caroline’s outfits would fail, I would think, well, that happened to me a lot when I was that age too, because I would try to experiment and sometimes it looked great and sometimes my outfits were just mistakes.

The only one who’s clothes I really disliked in later seasons were Elena’s.

I do generally agree about the period piece clothes though, but I think 1864 deserves an exemption because who cares about accuracy, it looked AMAZING all around. I would say that the Creole look in the Originals is ALSO amazing, and Creole!Klaus is the very utmost hottest Klaus. That black lace on his sleeve. Honestly, I faint. I also really love his 1482 leather jacket.

But I have been wondering for years why none of the women have their hair appropriately covered in the flashbacks (loose and down would not have been a thing???) and the party city costumes for Ancient Greece were so bad that that was when I stopped watching tvd week to week and instead later went back and watched season 5 and most (half?) of season 6 in a binge spree.

#anonymous #tvd #fashion

[hithelleth]

Ship history meme

Embrace your past and get to know your friends’ fandom origins!

Rules: Post gifs of your fandoms / ships starting with your most current hyperfixation and work backwards. (Bonus points if you share any stories about how or when you got into that ship! But not necessary!!) Then tag anyone whose fandom history you’d like to learn about!

I was tagged by @jadedbirch - thank you! <3

Under the cut, because my history of shipping, or multishipping (because you know me, but I only put in gifs of single ships, b/c tumblr gif inserting function hates me), is a bit long even with only hyperfixations.

1. Victoria Hughes/Lucas Ripley (Station 19)

Ah, yes, I’m back in this hellhole, rereading fanfic, because Grey’s & 19 are back and easy to watch legally without jumping through hoops and I know I’d said I wouldn’t but then I was bored and now I have all these feels again. (I’ll say a few things on it in a separate post when the season’s done in three eps.)

Anyway, this one slammed into me last spring out of the blue, but how could I not ship it when it checks all the right points? 

2. Garcia Flynn/Lucy Preston (Timeless)

Another Kripke show, and third time being the charmed, Kripke and co. actually learned from their past mishaps and actually made a good show (except the finale, but what finale? I don’t know it.)

So, there’s this tall, dark, brood, and bad (or maybe not) and lil’ miss goody two shoes (or maybe not) who get each other, what’s not to ship?

3. Bellamy Blake/Roan (The 100)

(No gif, b/c it’s a minuscule ships with maybe 5 gis and tumblr is a bitch, nothing shows up in search and apparently now you can’t save & reupload gifs - which is a good thing, finally, should’ve done it sooner.)

Oh, boys! My boys. I love(d) them so much. The last ship I have written extensively for - even the most extensively after Revolution (I, mean I only published one short oneshot, but the 35K monsterfic that is 3/4 done is still there in my drafts and I still think about it and them, because dammnit.)

Also very good with Clarke thrown in, or just Roan and Clarke (which I also managed to publish a fic for and kudoses that still come on the regular keep my writing heart at least hibernating and warm - here’s to hoping it wakes up from hibernation one day and I can write again.)

4. Shelby Wyatt/the Haases (Quantico)

Yes, all of them. Even Claire, because why not. And I’m sure if they had had the sister on the show, I’d have shipped her with her, too. 

(I mean, I’d say I only shipped Shelby separately with each of them and I didn’t think of also poly shipping them, but that would be a lie and hardly the worst thing I’ve ever thought of shipping.

I hardly said anything about it on here because that was the peak of Moral Purity Wars time on here and Shelby was wildly hated across fandom, ugh, so I jsut squealed a lot inwardly. 

5. Grant Ward/Leo Fitz & Jemma Simmons/Sunil Bakshi (Agents of Shield)

Ugh, then there was this shitshow I loathe. But for a while there, there were good things. And now we’re really getting into my multishipping tendencies. 

I started with Fitzward, surfed Skyeward, and then hurled straight into Bakshi/Simmons, also managed to write a ton of fic for the first and the last, but none for the middle. 

(That was also the era when I was into highly questionable stuff, like I may or may not have half a notebook of a Ward/Simmons/Rumlow fic somewhere, oops. But I have no regrets, so we understand each other. And that isn’t the worst thing that’s ever come across my shippery imagination, either.)

6. CM2 or Charlie/Miles/Bass (Revolution)

(gif mine)

The best fandom had the best ships! 

Who even got me into this show? It may even have been @lglorien​ who mentioned the new Kripke show when we were both binging SPN that summer. And then she didn’t even watch all of it and left me to suffer on my own. 

Well, not on my own, because I found the best fandom along the way, so yay!

Anyway.

If you think knowing Miles was Charlie’s uncle stopped from shipping them from the moment she stepped in The Grand in the pilot and he was an asshole to her, you don’t know me. Then Miloe flashbacks happened in ep. 3. And I simultaneously started shipping that and noticed Charlie and Bass have things in common (mainly, Miles being an asshole to them, as it turned out later.)

But there were so many other good ships (Jeremy x everyone, yes?) and some random minor ones, including one or two of only my own concoction. 

And nobody hated anyone for shipping. The best of times, really. 

7. Elijah Mikaelson x everyone (TVD/TO)

Elijah is very shippable with anyone, but Elijah/Elena - there’s a lady who’s not on tumblr anymore (Hazel) that got me into this, and Elijah/Elena/Klaus - the fault of Sandrine_Shaw on AO3′s fics - were on top of my faves (and still are, TBH.) 

You know, when itsy bitsy vulnerable human dares (the nerve! negotiate with a big bad original? Elijah was impressed. And so was I. The rest was history. 

And for the second, well, when the two Original dumbasses keep falling for the same version of one woman, the solution is rather obvious. 

8. Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester & Dean Winchester/Castiel (SPN)

Yes, I was a Wincest shipper, that shouldn't surprise anyone. Because the early seasons had their charm. And then Cas showed up and jumped onto a Destiel bandwagon as well. So, yeah. 

9.  Buffy Summer/Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 

There were a few years when I had to much work and studying to watch things, so now this trip into shipping history brings us to early 2000s/1990s. 

I liked Buffy/Angel well enough, but Buffy/Spike was it! I mean, he went to get his soul back for her. That scene when he’s hugging the cross haunts me to this day. Enough said. 

10.  Harmon Rabb Jr./Sarah MacKenzie (JAG)

Oh, god, Harm and Mac! Ship of all ships. The show tried to throw three different women at him and the third stuck. And we had to go through 8 seasons of slowburn then. A+++++

And, um, yes I shipped Mac with Webb for a while, too, because it’s me. 

But yeah. As far as I’m concerned Harm and Mac are happily married and managing their careers and NCIS: LA can bite me with their BS in last season finale. . 

11. Xena/Gabrielle (Xena: Warrior Princess)

Back when my very catholic grandma watched Xena and Hercules with me and also shipped Xena/Gabrielle, because ‘sometimes girls like girls, it’s nice’. Good times. 

I also crosshiped her with Herc, a bit. and definitely had a thing for Xena/Ares. Yep, my ship type started showing early. 

***

I’ll stop here.

Obviously, there have been a lot of other ships, but I tried to stick with the major fixations, otherwise we’d be here all week. (I haven’t even mentioned Marvel, or for that matter, books, so many books.)

Tagging: @lglorien, of course, @eveningspirit​, @wellwhataboutme​, @bea2me​, @stargazerdaisy​, @vesperass-anuna​, @elemenopew​, and anyone else who wants to do it, my mind is drawing blank, forgive me. And, as always, feel free to ignore.

Anyway, this took a lot of work, but it was satisfying. What a trip down the memory lane! So many feels!

#shipping #tag meme #about me #shipping history

[firelxdykatara]

This is for the ask meme, but how about top 5 underrated characters or movies? (also your blog has easily become one of my favs, thank you for existing and for your excellent commentary/takes!!!

kjfdgkdjfg well thank you! i’m glad you enjoy my ramblings

TOP 5 UNDERRATED CHARACTERS: UHMMM this is hard, cause some characters are underrated by the show but loved by the fandom, and sometimes the opposite, but these are the ones that come to mind:

1. Tyler Lockwood, from The Vampire Diaries. In the first two seasons of the show, he had a pretty fantastic ‘jerkass jock to decent human being’ character arc, and his relationship with Caroline was beautiful to watch. In season 3 Forwood lost all of the emotional depth it’d had and became almost entirely about sex, and then Tyler got put through the absolute ringer and then... kind of vanished? He came back every once in a while to get shit on by everyone (I will never not be pissed that Stefan punched him in the face for daring to be upset that the woman he loved had slept with the man who murdered his mother and slaughtered his pack--he had every right not to want to be around her after that, and to get upset when she refused to back off), and then got unceremoniously killed at some point, I think over on The Originals. I don’t know, cause I stopped watching TVD after season 6. Anyway, Tyler Lockwood deserved better, and that is that on that.

2. Wells Jaha from The 100. It’s been, what, five years since season 1 of that show? And I’m still fucking pissed about the way Wells was unceremoniously killed off in the third episode, and barely referenced again. After having been Clarke’s best friend for most of her life. Meanwhile, the ghost of Lexa, Clarke’s two-week fuck buddy (god, ok, before anyone comes to yell at me, I’m sure they were in love and it was longer than two weeks, whatever, I never cared for the relationship and I didn’t buy it in the slightest) has been haunting the show ever since she died, turning up every season like a bad fucking penny. But Wells who????

3. Alistair Theirin from Dragon Age. Now, don’t get me wrong, a lot of the fandom loves him, but I see a lot of that love centering on like... cheese jokes and ‘lol he’d be a terrible king he’s a fuckin dork’ and like, I get it, but also??? This man has been through some shit. He was abandoned by his mother, his father dumped him on Arl Eamon’s doorstep where he grew up feeling lonely and unwanted because Eamon’s wife thought he was Eamon’s illegitimate son and treated him like trash because that’s the kid’s fault of course, then he was shipped off to the Chantry because said wife was sick of having to look at him--and he didn’t even fit in there, it wasn’t until he joined the Grey Wardens that he finally felt like he had a place in the world, and he had a family he loved, and he lost literally all of them. Including the man he’d grown to care for as the father figure he’d desperately wanted all his life. And it of course depends on the choices made, but Alistair can be a damn good king if given the chance, and sometimes I get tired of people acting like he’s some helpless fop who exists to be the butt of jokes.

4. Clint Barton from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I’m sure I don’t have to go into detail regarding how he was criminally underutilized from the very beginning--he was taken out of half the action of The Avengers via brainwashing, and it only got worse from there. A family was dropped on him out of nowhere, effectively cutting off any potential development and growth he had via any other relationships. And all of that aside, there is a wealth of potential characterization and personality in the comics that MCU!Clint just... doesn’t get. There are glimpses of it, and Jeremy Renner absolutely could’ve pulled it off.... but nope. And I don’t even want to get into what Endgame did to him. But basically, he was written off as the ‘boring human’ (where even Nat got to be The Gorgeous Superspy) from the start, and just... never got to grow beyond that. And it was incredibly frustrating to watch.

5. Luther Hargreeves from The Umbrella Acadmy. I’m still mad about the way the fandom treated Luther and his trauma vs how they treated Vanya’s (and there are exceptions on both sides but you still can’t throw a stone in the general tags without seeing some anti luther crap), and how it’s totally ok and understandable that Vanya slit her own sister’s throat because she couldn’t control her emotions or her powers, but Luther was evil incarnate for believing she was dangerous and trying to keep her contained until they could figure out how to help her without risking her destroying the planet (remembering that he had no way of knowing what a trigger that room would be for her). Anyway, Luther deserves better and I hope season 2 treats him well.

TOP FIVE UNDERRATED MOVIES: Probably won’t get as detailed here but!

1. Aquamarine. I actually wrote a post a while back about this movie cause it’s??? So good??? And such an amazing take on how love is important in all forms, not just romantic, which is pretty rare for a romcom, and I just really love it.

2. George of the Jungle. There’s a post floating around out there about why this is such a great movie, and how it flipped the ‘sexy/objectified female love interest’ trope on its head, but I don’t see this movie talked about enough and it should be. (The first time I saw this movie, I was six years old, it had just come out on VHS, and my father laughed so hard he fell off the fucking couch. It was the kind of thing that can only happen once, the first time, because after that you know it’s coming, but it’s still great on rewatch and I just. It’s such a good fucking movie ok.)

3. Sky High. Why isn’t there more of a fandom for this movie. It was great, and I’m still mad it didn’t get a sequel yes I still ship layla/warren don’t judge me, but it had so many great comedic beats and had a great take on superhero school and breaking down the superhero/sidekick dichotomy and they’re still teenagers with teenage problems but that won’t stop them from saving the day. And also Ron Wilson, Bus Driver, was absolutely fucking priceless.

4. Cinderella (2015). In fact, Cinderella herself routinely gets a lot of flak just in general, I guess because people can’t understand why someone in her position wouldn’t just stand up to their abusers and leave (and where the fuck would she even go?? it’s not like she had anyone she could trust to take her in, and being treated like a servant in her own home was better than starving in the cold), but I just... love so much that the live action remake focuses on her kindness and her courage and just... Have courage, and be kind, and she offers forgiveness to the Lady Tremaine, even if she didn’t deserve it and wouldn’t take it, because that’s who Ella always was. There was no room in her heart for anger and bitterness, and that’s not to say that anyone who is angry at their abusers is wrong for it, but that’s not the only way to cope. And Ella got her happy ending because she never stopped being true to herself, and it’s just. So very beautiful.

5. Enchanted. It was a really cute movie but also a great look at the typical Disney Princess formula and turning it on its head while still showing such a deep love for the source of that formula and I just love it so much. Plus Patrick Dempsey. A+++

#underrated characters #underrated movies #ask meme #syques #asked

[zalrb]

TVD 1x20 Review

1. I am extremely tired so that’s almost like being tipsy. Sort of. So you have been forewarned about the quality of this review.

2. Not gonna lie, I’m like pretty irritated that we see Ian topless by the quarry but Stefan wakes up in transition with his top on. Like wrong brother to clothe, guys.

3. “You had Katherine’s blood in your system when you died.” “No, I never...” “She’s been compelling you to drink it for weeks, Stefan.” I know a lot of you like Steferine and I get it, I find them very intriguing, the Dobsley chemistry is insane, but their dynamic is problematic, this was extremely selfish of her and Stefan had no say in it. 

4. Also find it totally adorable that Elena had been spending nights at the Salvatore Mansion looking after Stefan.

5. Also cute that she asks what his preferred animal blood is. Damon being Damon is just exhausting. I think there was a time I found him funny and I’m just like, why?

6. Wait, did I miss something? Does Elena hate John because he’s supposed to be an ass and everyone is supposed to hate him or does she hate him because he knew Isobel, which is like ... why do we care about Isobel again? I always forget why.

7. Topless Stefan!

8. “So that’s your choice then?” “Isn’t it yours? This was all to be with Katherine and now she’s gone, I want it over.” This is why Damon saying he would be human to be with Elena does nothing for me. He became a vampire to be with Katherine. This just seems to be what Damon does.

9. Here is another thing about this show and dynamics, no one is freaking out about how entwined everything is. Anna watched Jonathan Gilbert betray and attack her mother and now she’s in love with Jeremy, I get originally it started as a means to an end but like wouldn’t it freak her out that she’s falling for someone in the same line and Jeremy knowing that Anna was around when his ancestor was alive and knew him? And even Stefan and Elena, Stefan wiped out her ancestors after what they did to him, Elena’s ancestors consistently screwed over/owned Bonnie’s, like this is actually very meaty and could make for interesting plot lines and it’s also really fucked up, like there should be a need to work shit out. But everyone stop what you’re doing because Alaric knew Isobel who is Elena’s mother. Yeah, OK.

10. Elena’s progression of how she reacts to Stefan is also really great in this episode. She starts off cooing him, saying she loves him, trying to comfort him through his withdrawal and then when he says he won’t eat, she’s confused and frightened and now, she’s pissed, now she’s storming into the cell like I love you and you’re going to live.

11. “Get. Out.” “NO.” Still one of my favourite scenes because it shows how much they both love each other. He’s trying to scare her away because he loves her and doesn’t want to hurt her and she’s holding her ground, standing firm because she’s not going to abandon him. I love it. Because it’s also in action. Stefan vamp speeds and his veins are showing but when Elena stares him down they disappear. This isn’t like Caroline talking AT Stefan about how she’s going to be there to bring him back (when she actually isn’t there, she leaves and let’s Damon deal with it), this isn’t Elena telling Damon “I love you” in a bored voice, this is action, this is proof.

12. I also like how she shakes her head when Stefan sits back down like “Why did you even try me?”

13. Poor Henry. He was nice.

14. “And then Mr. Gilbert, may you rot in hell.” Oh Pearl. We needed more of her.

15.  Can we talk about the fact that the show frames Stefan as intentionally going to his father’s house to kill him when what actually happened was that Stefan went to his father’s house to try and explain himself because he still had faith in his father and then Giuseppe attacked him and not knowing his own strength, Stefan defended himself and when he got hurt Stefan genuinely wanted to help but he was in transition and there was blood everywhere? Like can we talk about how it was legit an accident and that’s a really fucked up thing to experience?

16. I also side-eye the show for making it seem like what happened between Stefan and Damon is somehow worse than what happened between Stefan and Giuseppe. And that Damon’s aversion to being a vampire was an aversion to being a vampire, he thought Katherine was dead and didn’t want to live anymore.

17. Lol I do like how Damon was like ELENA THIS IS MY SOB STORY and Elena is like Oh THAT’S why Stefan’s fucked up, OK let’s go help Stefan.

18. Damon literally vowing to make his 17 year old brother’s life an eternity of misery. Stay classy, Damon.

19. “Because even death, your heart is pure, Stefan, I sense that about you. That will be your curse.” Also why we love Stefan.

20. I also love how Elena kisses Stefan when she gives her “keep fighting” speech, she holds the side of his face, rubs his chest ... always has to be touching.

21. And her face right before they kiss, that relief and that sort of sadness like “how dare you scare me like that?” and the way she sighs when they do kiss. So much catharsis.

22. And how she smiles when they hug.

23. I also side-eye how easy it was for Pearl to die.

24. I really would’ve preferred if they just made Damon hate Stefan for making him turn from the beginning but no it was about Katherine, about the fact that Katherine turned him too, it was ALL about Katherine and then in season 2, it was “I miss being a human so much!” but I don’t believe him, I believe he regretted spending over a century looking for a woman who didn’t really love him, I believe he regretted ever thinking he would spend eternity with that woman but wanting to be human? Why? Because you kill people? THEN STOP, DAMON. YOU DID THAT AS A HUMAN TOO.  Like uuuuugh his writing is just so bad.

25. I didn’t feel emotionally attached to Anna finding Pearl dead like I did when Bonnie found Grams but I still feel really bad, like she spent how long on a plan to get her back and then she dies? Brutal.

26. OH AND ISOBEL SHOWS UP. Completely underwhelmed.On to the next.

#stelena #the vampire diaries #tvd 1x20 #tvd blood brothers #stefan salvatore #elena gilbert #dobsley #tvd review #tvd meta #review #meta #anti-tvd #anti julie plec #anti caroline dries #kevin williamson #the vampire diaries 1x20 #blood brothers