#marisol can say whatever she wants she's justified

[sunflowerdigs]

I see so many people saying this is Eddie's own doing and it's wrong and how could he and I agree with all of that in a sense. But also.

I don't want to see Buck yell and scream at him. Like, what's he going to say "fuck you for letting your trauma over your dead wife get this bad?" Buck is the last person in a position to judge Eddie over infidelity. I know that, in a sense, it's good sign for Buddie if Buck feels personally wounded but I don't care. I want Buck to be so understanding of Eddie because absolutely no one else will be (and that's completely fair). I want him to see the worst parts of Eddie as a person and tell him he loves him anyway. Buck is in a relatively good place right now, unlike Eddie in S3 (and don't say you weren't thinking it, you were), so he should be able to offer more compassion than Eddie was at the time. It's Eddie's mess, sure - he's made the whole bed, every fold and every wrinkle. But I want Buck to let him know he'll lie in it with him until Eddie feels better. I want Buck to be one of the first people who believes in what Eddie could be rather than telling him what he should be.

It would also be very interesting if everything falls apart for Eddie in the same episode where Tommy inevitably clocks Buck's involvement in Eddie's life and tells him "I don't think I'm the one you want." Because then Buck isn't so innocent. He's coming into the situation with his own guilt and his own shame and his own sense of disorientation. And so, when Eddie inevitably cries, Buck can just hold him and let him know that it's ok. That he screwed up but they'll get through it together. As the best friends they are and always will be.

#buddie #911 spoilers #911 abc #marisol can say whatever she wants she's justified #kim can rightfully call him a creep #but Buck...i want him to see the worst parts of eddie and love him anyway

[mintedwitcher]

I think it should be clear that anyone who thought that Buck wasn't wrong to cheat on Taylor is a weirdo, but I don't think it's comparable to what Eddie is doing. They both suck for it plain and simple but Buck was twisted about it and he was DRUNK, not an excuse but really put into perspective. Eddie is actively hurting those both women, sober, by choice, he's acting as if his trauma justify traumatising them or at least everyone is acting like it's okay because of it.

My issue with Eddie's cheating is that everyone are actively cheering for it for the fact that they want queer Eddie (or they hate Marisol). Being queer doesn't excuse you cheating and hurting people, it's not "se×y" of him or "cvnty" or whatever people keep saying. I think that some are getting way too wrapped up in their hc or their desire for the ship that they are willing to overlook everything so long as they get it. It was bad to suggest that Buck and Eddie should cheat on the bachelor's party and it's bad to act like Eddie isn't acting a fool now.

100% I agree with you.

Cheating isn't acceptable under any circumstance, but yeah Buck dealt with his guilt about it (badly at first but he did it). Meanwhile Eddie's doing this of his own free will, and doing far more than Buck did.

I do think his trauma plays a heavy role in his cheating, but like you said, it's not a justification. Eddie has a pattern in the show of dealing with his trauma in unhealthy ways, even when he's supposedly healing, and this is just another repeat of that. It does make me worry about how bad the fallout is going to be, especially since Ryan has said that Eddie is going to be "isolated" by the end of the season.

As for queer Eddie.... that coffin already had its last nail put in with the PR about this arc. They're not doing a queer Eddie storyline, and that is for the best. Especially since, if they did, it would mean that every cheater on the show is canonically queer, which is an uncomfortable and cruel stereotype that I'm really Not okay with.

Its easy to hate Marisol based on her actress being an outright bigot, but as for the character, there's just... nothing there to hate. She's a blank slate. She's there to reflect back on Eddie and be Eddie's girlfriend, to trigger his Catholic guilt, and that's... pretty much it. There's no substance to her at all. And still, that isn't a justification for Eddie to cheat.

I've said before in a long post that I want this arc to culminate in Eddie being single on a long term basis, back in therapy, and actually facing his trauma and grief over Shannon. To me, that is the ONLY way Eddie's story can move forward in a meaningful way. And I hope they do that. There is nothing more snooze-worthy than a storyline that keeps repeating itself. They're breaking Buck's cycle, it's time they broke Eddie's too.

Anyway. This got long lol. Fandom stop being Weird about cheating arcs challenge.

#asks #anon #eddie diaz #911 abc

[hikarielizabethbloom]

Charmed ep 12 review

It’s not really a review. I didn’t enjoy the ep... it had good moments but something felt off. I don’t know. I guess I hoped for more Ruby instead we got just two scenes (yes, the ‘I love yous’ were nice, but maybe she could’ve gone with Harry and Mel? But I don’t even know why I am surprised. 

Also, I love my hacy, but honestly, I don’t need a love confession every ep. I just need domesticity like in the beginning of last ep. Him making her breakfast, saying goodbye with ‘love you’ and stuff like that! 

The things that I really loved about the ep: 

Sarah’s acting, Maggie finally realising that she can focus on herself and still be with Jordan (who is also focus on her so...), the Harry and Mel adventures and Marisol (I love her and I want to know more about her and her past, and her love story with Dexter and Ray). 

Now about that character. The writers decided to use a ploy I’ve seen so many times before and that I like to call ‘retroactive redemption’. Instead of making a character responsible for their actions and work through a sort of redemption, the writers use a sobbing sad past to justify whatever said character did or does. 

A tv show is still a story and has rules. In a story, the moral range in which characters can move is established through the leads. If you watch a show like Law&Order, you don’t expect Benson to say ‘you had a traumatic past, you get a free pass for killing a woman’ but if you watch a show like Hannibal obvs you cheer for the cannibal! 

I mean, according to the Lord of the Rings lore, orcs were originally elves kidnapped, and tortured, but I don’t see people screaming ‘redemption for the uruk-hai!’. 

This to say, that Charmed is not a show with characters with grey morality. 

#charmed #charmed 2018 #charmed season 3 #hacy #joggie #melby #macy vaughn #melanie vera #maggie vera #harry greenwood #jordan chase #macy and harry #macy x harry #maggie and jordan #maggie x jordan #mel and ruby #mel x ruby

[daphnefms]

hi and hello   !   i’m t and i’m so excited to be introducing u to my little daphne   …   we love to hate her and we can’t help but love her. she and i will both just be tryin’ our best out here honestly so feel free to like this or hmu if u’d like to plot, i’ve got a few ideas kickin’ at the bottom of this post but i’m also more than happy to fill out one of urs if u’d prefer it   !   without further ado, hit that read more to learn a lil bit about america’s sweetheart and behind the scenes terror daphne santos

oh my god ! @daphnesantos just liked my tweet ! you know , they’re the actress with 13.2m of followers ? i can’t believe they noticed me .  seriously ? you’ve never heard of them ? what … are you living under a rock ? they’re daphne santos , and they’re twenty two years old . i’ve never met them , but the tabloids all say that they’re gregarious and altruistic . it’s kind of sad , though . ever since they moved to downtown los angeles from stowe, vermont, they’ve become really irascible and mendacious . some say that wrath has become them . i’m not sure if i believe that . there’s more than what meets the eye , right ? they’re more than just at wide and empty eyes, screaming into a pillow searching for release, & tear stained cheeks after spending another night alone in a hotel room, i know it !  ( kelsey merritt , cis female , she/her ) .

name   -   daphne marisol santos

birthday   -   october 23rd ( twenty two years old )

birthplace   /   hometown   -   stowe, vermont

profession   -   actress

movies   -   lady macbeth, 2017 (   katherine   ), midsommar, 2019   (   dani   ),   little women, 2019   (   amy marsh   ), etc

labels   -   the amaranth, the babydoll, the blackhole, the charlatan, the hellion, the paradox

positive traits   -   gregarious, altruistic, charming, articulate

negative traits   -   irascible, calculating, mendacious, haughty

likes   -   sun showers, crowded parties, prolonged eye contact, cool summer nights, sleeping on satin sheets, the moment before stepping out of the car for a red carpet event, ornate and gaudy accessories, classical music dominated by the string section, reaffirming compliments, being told she is not a bad person, waking up early for a day of work, renaissance art

dislikes   -   sleeping alone, being underestimated, appearing weak in public, losing attention to someone else, sitting still for too long, intense humidity, bad reviews, stumbling over her words, stepping on cracks in the pavement, people seeing her cry, talk show interviews

biography

daphne was born in the   ‘   ski capital of the east   ’   stowe, vermont. a town of just over four thousand people, the expectation of her excelling in an acting career was almost non-existent. but she was certain of her talent and she knew there was only one thing she wanted from life, so she moved to LA fresh out of high school and got to work with small jobs, slowly building up to her first truly big break with lady macbeth

after that she began her rise to real stardom, filming midsommar and little women and racking up nominations for a variety of awards, including the academy award for best supporting actress. that being said, she’s won few of the awards she was nominated for, always a bridesmaid never a bride or whatever, and that’s weighed on her pretty heavily.

all she can see is this conception of being the best, being beloved, and a lot of that lies in producing exceptional work and perfecting a public persona that makes her the height of elegance and someone it is impossible not to be a fan of

big ol’ fake right here, she never really lets anyone see the real her, the girl who snorts when she laughs and and panics before every interview, and she tries not to keep anyone too close because it’s just another opportunity for scandal

so that’s some intense pressure, which leads to the explanation of her sin   -   wrath. daphne’s prone to fits of rage, tantrums when she’s alone in her hotel room, rambled rants in the makeup chair between takes, profuse apologies afterwards. she’ll smile in front of the cameras and make you regret it in private, i promise you.

she’s not afraid to use people for her own benefit, but she has this way about her that makes you feel semi-grateful you even got the opportunity to be apart of her larger plan

hasn’t kept close contact with her parents since moving, they weren’t in love with the idea and she was not going to allow herself to be held back. she justifies ignoring their calls by saying she’s cutting out negative energy

has been trying her best for so long, doesn’t remember what it’s like to feel normal, just has a bunch of pent up aggression and sadness but it’s fine she’s fine

wanted connections

someone she’s known since the beginning of her career, maybe they used to work on smaller projects together or go to the same auditions while they were starting up, but maybe there’s a lil bit of a connection there bc they knew/liked one another before the fame and now they just vibe together

imagine the potential of two people who bother each other so much and then eventually start to see the good in one another but it’s complicated but hey we’re both on this elevator so why not kiss but then the door opens and it’s ur floor and i don’t get off and we don’t see each other for a week and when we do we pretend it didn’t happen bc we just started being friends and then who knows ... just a thought

exes ? maybe they were in love maybe it was just pr idk

surrogate family   !   since her parents are cut off she does need someone to love and care for her a lil bit and also to reciprocate that with she’s not completely heartless

enemies  /  rivals, someone who’s constantly trying to best her and with whom she is trying to do the same

publicity friendship maybe ? they hangout on occasion bc they know their fans are obsessed w them being friends and love a good photo op but lowkey dont like each other

that’s all i have but hey .. we’ll figure smth out if u don’t like those

#ooc. #7sins:intro

[locktobre]

some Dominick meta while I’m rereading and reflecting about how much I left out in some early chapters

chapter 3 is so interesting for Dominick, even tho it’s a pretty short scene with him and Erika after the festival, but I remember very specifically why I wrote him that way.

like, the first thing he asks is if Erika is seeing someone else, and that isn’t just like... him thinking she’s cheating. that’s him thinking well, he might just let her carry on, bc he loves her that much. that comes partly from my love of the ot4, from the outside, but on the inside, in Dominick’s head, I think he’s thinking about Anneliese and what might have been. I don’t think he has feelings for her, but I do think they ended up spending time together post-movie, when he helped her kingdom get back on its feet after the whole thing. (the gem thing doesn’t make much sense to me, so I think of that as a component of a much larger plan that includes a loan from Dominick and diversifying the kingdom’s industries against future situations like this. the geodes are more like a stop-gap to pay for all of that.) 

so like, they spent time together and he thinks he could have fallen for her, if they’d gotten to know each other (me again), but he sees how she is with Julian. he doesn’t think they would have stopped being in love even if he did marry Anneliese. and in the two-year interim when Erika was gone, and Anneliese was off being industrious, and he was kind of just sitting at home alone, he thought about that a lot, and how he might have handled it. and I think he came to the conclusion that he would have let her be happy. (I’m not sure if he would have just given his permission, or simply turned a blind eye.)

so he had already decided all of that, so him asking Erika is more like... putting himself to the test. can he really just look the other way? if that’s what she needs to be happy? if that’s what she wants?

of course, that isn’t the situation at all, she says no and they just move on and it bypasses that whole backstory and thought process, for him and for me. but that’s why he starts with that.

and then they get to the actual secret, and Erika’s full feelings are explored more in the flashback in chapter 16. but Dominick’s aren’t really at all, except for what he says right then: that he wished he could help her. and the thing is, he would have done that for her even just as a friend, the same way he helped Anneliese. like, if Erika had shown up after two years with a new love interest, he would have been crushed... but he still would have helped her, given her money, a job, whatever she wanted. he likes to feel like the protector, the provider, someone who’s wanted and needed, not even romantically, just being there for ppl. he’s the king, that’s his job.

and I hope I made it clear that this isn’t like... a manliness thing. it has nothing to do with that at all. it’s bc he’s the king, he’s the leader of the kingdom, he’s supposed to be strong. (I think almost everything in ‘To Be a Princess’ would apply to princes, too. ‘stiff upper lip,’ ‘never show a thing you feel inside’...)

I’ve worried a lot whether I’ve made Dominick too emotional in this fic. I think he’s cried the most, and he actually fainted in chapter 19, which even I thought might be a bit dramatic. (but also, he just saw literal proof of magic in front of his eyes, which kind of shakes up his entire worldview. so it’s justified, imo.) and ironically, he hates showing that kind of vulnerability, as he’s stated at various points. and that isn’t just bc he’s been hurt, but also, as I said, he wants to be a pillar of strength, someone for ppl to lean on, instead of being the one who has to do the leaning. 

and also, like, that didn’t start with Marisol, either, that was there before, altho of course was exacerbated after the fact. I haven’t really found a good way to showcase that, but it’s always been how I’ve thought of him. but then trauma happens and no matter how strong you are, it can knock you down. he lost his mom (when she gave birth to Oliver), then his dad, then he met Marisol... then the movie happened (hopes for a perfectly arranged marriage, or at the very least feeling useful and like he was helping ppl, that were dashed)... and then, two years after that, he finally feels like he’s in a good place. for a minute. before the plot kicks in.

in chapter 20, he says he feels like he opened the whole thing up again by mentioning Marisol for the first time in a long time... but really, he never really dealt with it. his way of ‘dealing with it’ was to kind of ignore it and move on, but without acknowledging how much he was hurt, which is why he falls apart again so easily. he doesn’t want to admit he was hurt, bc he correlates the ability to withstand pain to strength. but that’s not what strength is, and that’s what he really needs to learn in order to move forward.

of course, that may make Erika saying “I believe in moving forward and not looking back” a bit ironic, but she absolutely acknowledges how much growing up under Mme Carp fucking sucked. she absolutely does, while Dominick’s still kind of in denial. so what Erika’s saying is more like, I’m not going to let my trauma hold me back, I’m going to move forward and keep moving forward. (not that anyone “lets” stuff like that happen, but you know what I mean.) but she acknowledges it. and getting out of that situation helped her a LOT. Dominick’s case is different, which she also acknowledges, but she’s trying to use her own experience to relate with him and tell him that he’s not alone in these feelings and that she is going to be there for him for the rest of their lives, which is what Dominick really needs, and at least he’s admitted that to himself.

anyway I hope I’ve illustrated all of this better as I’ve moved along, I really hope, bc Dominick’s arc is one of my favorites, and not just bc it’s pretty central to the fic, but bc I like the picture it paints. I started this fic when I was 19 and was more trying to be ~edgy~ in some areas (guess which), and Dominick kind of took the brunt of that. but at least now I feel like I’ve turned it into something more cohesive. I think. I hope.

#mel irl #barbie babbles #I think I've gotten better about writing Dominick as I've gone on but my early work leaves something to be desired I think

[ma-ri-yana]

Wanderlust

A/n: Can you believe I have yet to give this thing a title?? Crazy, I know. Let’s see if I give it one before I post the third chapter. Lmaooo, watch me wait till I finish this fan fic to give it a name...

Wait, tHat’D acTuaLly bE pRetTy cOoL! If my writing wasn’t complete shit, but okay.

Edit: she has a name now. Not that anyone cares or anything...  😔👉👈

I’ve got some good news and bad news: Hurricane Dorian doesn’t seem like it’s gonna come to Florida. The good news is that my hurricane snacks haven’t gone to waste because of the hurricane parties I’ve been having. Just kidding, I ate them all by myself. As if I have friends...

Me: Should I even bother with a word count?

Also me: alright, y’all. Word count: 2678

Chapters: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

HaVe fUn ReaDinG tHiS piEcE oF ShiT thAt iS aLsO noW mY bABy. but if it thinks it’s not a piece of shit, it’s got another thing comin’.

"You seem to be taking everything fairly well." Sypha commented, sitting beside the other female as they travelled through the forest in a carriage. This carriage looked very much like the ones used by the pilgrims. Sypha's words were heard and processed almost immediately but Aurora didn't verbally respond to her with the same speed, she only nodded her head as she shivered uncontrollably from the unbearably cold wind the breezed over her. She couldn't bring herself to speak. Taking it well? How does one take something like this well? She wasn't 'taking it well' at all. She was worried. Beyond worried. Downright scared out of her mind. What if Marisol was killed? What if she was kidnapped? These were different times with different laws and different mindsets. Speaking of different times, she somehow managed to go five hundred and some odd years back into the past in a completely different country on the other side of the world with no way to communicate with anyone she knew and no way to go back to the world she knew. She was in a foreign land, foreign country, foreign time and she was alone with strangers she'd just met. She wasn't exactly the type to voice her true feelings, she only ever exposed enough of herself and her feelings to make people think she was the type to overshare and that she couldn't keep her mouth shut. But whilst she ran her mouth about a lot of subjects and joked around to no end. Whilst she made people believe she was a motormouth, she kept her mouth shut when it came to a whole lot more, when it came to truly expressing herself.

She couldn't help it, she'd been that way since she was little. Even when things that were beyond horrible, absolutely atrocious happened to her. When she'd been ripped of her innocence at far too young an age to be able to even know what was going on, she'd kept her mouth shut. She didn't even tell her sister, the person she confided in the most. All she needed was to be with her to feel better. Aurora didn't realise how accustomed she was to having her sister around to comfort and reassure her, until she almost felt like suffocating. But of course, she wasn't going to say anything. This was how she ran her life for seventeen years and it wasn't going to change in the span of two hours.

It wasn't as if anyone would notice that she was 'uncharacteristically quiet', they'd just met her. Well, that was what she thought, but Sypha knew something was wrong, her intuitive nature told her so. She didn't ask at the moment because she didn't want to pry, but she had made a mental note to herself to try and get Aurora to open up to her at some point.

They continued walking a bit longer before Trevor spoke up, "Let's make camp here."

The group hunkered down and made themselves a little camp site, built a fire with the wood they found and sat near the fire. Aurora remained quiet in the duration of it. She sat the closest to the fire with hopes of keeping warm, but she didn’t feel like speaking to anyone. Luckily for her, it didn't seem like there was going to be a lot of talking on her end as the conversation the group was having revolved around the tall blond male she'd just met not too long ago. Apparently, they'd all just met each other a few weeks ago. She thought they were close friends that'd been together for a long time, turns out, they met by unfortunate circumstance. Aurora didn't quite believe the things the man was saying, though. Half vampire? Him? Vampires didn't exist. They never did. This story he told was full of hyperbole. Everyone knew that this "mass genocide" was really a plague and that this whole story was just something the people in the area made up to explain something they didn't comprehend. It was reminiscent of the blame the Jews got for the black plague not too long before their current time. Of course, this perspective would not have been easily shared with the rest of them.

"You? A vampire? Those don't exist. They're myths." She finally spoke up from her little spot near the fire whilst she put her hair in a ponytail using the hair elastic -or as she would say, ‘cola’- she had around her wrist.

"Oh, but they do exist. And so do the night creatures." Adrian chuckled, watching the girl as she put her hair up only to let it back down once she realised how much colder she was with it tied up.

"And magic." Sypha interjected.

"Prove it." Aurora challenged, crossing her arms. She was confident they wouldn't be able to. Whatever tricks they could pull out of their hats, she was sure there'd be a scientific explanation for it. There was no way, absolutely no way in hell they could change her mind. No way at all.

"Would you like to go first? Or shall I do the honours?" Adrian asked, not making any attempt to hide his amusement. The youngest of the group wasn't pleased.

"We should save the best for last. You should go first." Trevor intervened, crossing his arms as well as he leaned back against the wagon they had. Sypha smiled to herself and answered his comment whilst tucking a lock of her rather short hair behind her ear.

"Well, I'm not going to deny that my powers are be--"

"Got anything other than teeth?" Aurora asked the dhampir, rather unimpressed. Her face was void of any amusement to just how uninterested she was. But as cocky as she was about her beliefs, she wasn't quite expecting what she saw next. She watched in awe as he levitated off the ground and her jaw dropped without her permission. "What the hell? You're lying. You're probably wearing some sort of harnesses with like, a wire hooked to it that's also attached to a tree. That's not scientifically possible. Humans can't just--"

"As I’ve said, I'm not human. Only half that and half-vampire." He spoke nonchalantly as he circled around her. Aurora watched him as he did so, trying to find a way to justify what she was seeing without openly admitting she was wrong; without having to openly admitting that the things she'd been told her whole life were just stories actually had truth to them.

"If you think that's impressive, look at this," Sypha giggled, drawing her hands together before separating them and moving them around in awkward motions. Aurora watched the older woman as fire spouted out of the tips of her fingers. After a few seconds of her demonstration, she stopped. "What do you think?"

"I don't think I know what to think right now."

The three strangers laughed at her response, prompting her to laugh nervously and tear her eyes away. "I think I'm just gonna listen to music for a bit…" she mumbled to herself as she reached for her backpack and looked inside. The group was, needless to say, a bit confused as to how this girl was just going to listen to music without a band of musicians to play something for her; but, they decided not to question it and leave her be. Alucard watched the girl closely as she pulled out her iPod and plugged her headphones in. Aurora put her headphones on but she didn't play any music. She suddenly wasn't in the mood for it any more. Her conflicting emotions were replaced by her ever growing anxiety. "I don't have enough medicine."

"What do you need medicine for? You look fine." Trevor scoffed.

"I don't really know, I just need it," she shrugged. "My mom told me that I have a medical condition and that I need to take these pills three times a day or else I'll, uh… die."

"Have you ever tried not taking them?" Sypha cross-questioned.

"Do I look like I wanna die?" Aurora chortled, but stopped abruptly for dramatic effect. “Don’t answer that.”

"How long have you been taking them?"

"As long as I can remember...?"

"What exactly are pills?"

"May I see the ‘pills’ you speak of?" Adrian asked her. He was fairly interested in seeing how medically advanced humans have gotten.

"Why don't you stop taking them? I mean, if anything goes wrong, I'll fix it. I'm a pretty good healer, if I may say so myself." Sypha bragged, pointing to herself with her thumb. She had a pretty smug expression on her face when Alucard called for her.

"Sypha, do you mind taking a look at this? I need a second opinion."

"Huh? Ah, yes." The woman walked over to him.

"It looks like it's laced with magic." He analysed, holding the pill up so Sypha could see it better.

"Magic? That can't be right," Aurora muttered, watching the woman that stood next to the dhampir as she too looked at the pills inside the bottle. “How does it look like it’s laced with magic?”

"I recognise this… This type of magic is used to conceal things…" the woman began, "certain physical features… it's also used to neutralise other kinds of magic."

"Why would my mom give me those?"  She was still very skeptical.

"To protect you, maybe? People do get killed for practising witchcraft, you know." Trevor chuckled.

"Interesting…" Sypha whispered before clearing her throat. "The magic in this thing is oddly specific."

"Specific, how?" The brunet inquired.

"The characteristics and powers it's focused on hiding… are those of vampiric nature."

"Meaning…?"

Sypha rolled her eyes to express her annoyance. Could this man be any dumber? "Do I need to hold your hand and walk you through everything?" She scoffed, "it's clear she's a vampire."

Aurora erupted into a fit of laughter, causing everyone's attention to turn to her. "What's so funny?" They all said in unison. Their question wasn't answered. For a while, she kept laughing. Laughing and laughing and laughing until her laughs turned into high pitched wheezes that signalled her increasing need for oxygen intake. Once she'd caught her breath, she continued until her fit of laughter turned into a fit of coughing and more wheezing.

"Oh, shit. I'm sorry, this just sounds like a shitty fan fiction plot. Am I getting Punk'd or something? You guys really had me going there. I even believed you guys with that whole magic spiel. Y'all really got me with the flight and light show. Really, you guys really did. But now it's time for it to stop. Where are the cameras? Marisol must be laughing her ass off. I bet she orchestrated the whole thing," she ranted. Aurora walked around the perimeter of the camp site and looked for hidden cameras and her lost sister who, in her mind, wasn't lost, just hiding. She was desperately looking for a rational explanation for everything that had happened within the past 3 hours.

"What are you doing?"

"I think she's gone mad."

"Maybe my Romanian's shit." Aurora muttered to herself. She slowed down her speech as she spoke to them. "Cameras. Where are they?" When they stayed quiet, she pulled out her phone and pointed to the camera. "Where are they?" Again, nothing.

At that moment, her alarm went off. The alarm that told her to take her medicine. "Ah, it's time. May I get those back, please?" She reached out to grab them.

Sypha pulled back, "how about you don't take these pills and you see what you are for yourself?"

"Because I’m nothing but dead if I don't take those damn pills?" The seventeen year old argued.

"Those pills will only hinder you, we don't know how long you'll be stuck here and you’re going to need to--"

"You're gonna hold us back if you don't learn how to fight." Trevor interjected.

"Right, better I die than hold you back from your made up war with vampires that sparkle in the sunlight,” she cackled. Alucard seemed to be amused by her comment and didn't waste a second to answer.

“Well, I hate to break it to you, but vampires don’t sparkle--”

Sypha interrupted him rather rudely and made a poor attempt of reassuring the frightened woman,  "I'll heal you if anything happens to you--"

“You can’t heal me if I don’t even know what in the living fuck is wrong with me. If I don’t know, what makes you think you will? Are you a doctor?”

"I've had enough of this." Trevor complained. "Sypha, can you please make her shut up?"

"Um.. No? I don't know any spells for that."

"She's just in denial, she needs time to process this." Alucard sighed.

"We don't have time for this," the brunet complained, his arms extended all the way out to point in the teenager's direction.

"We don't, but we have no choice. And we can use all the help we can get. Assuming she can read, she can help us look--" Adrian was interrupted by the Belmont.

"What was that?"

"Animals humping in the undergrowth." Adrian chuckled to himself at his own joke. "Wait, no." And that was when he heard Aurora shriek.

"Which is the nearest town? Is it still Gresit?" Trevor asked.

"Argeș is closer to us," said Sypha.

"What in the actual living fuck are those things?"

"Night creatures," the blond answered as he kicked dirt into the fire, killing their light source. He turned to face the beings and didn't bother to look back at her when he spoke again. "Do try to stay out of the way." Aurora rolled her eyes at his request but did as was asked of her anyway. He was treating her like a child and she wasn't too keen about it. That was something her sister would've said to her. One of the many things that aggravated Aurora about her look alike. Now that she thought of it, she couldn't help but feel slightly better. Now that she knew she was… a vampire and that her sister was one as well, she had felt relieved to know that she was most likely safe. Then again,was she really a vampire? Or was her growing suspicion of being the victim of an elaborate prank not merely speculation, but the absolute truth?

Alucard drew his sword and muttered, "no further," just before the beasts lunged at him. He teleported further to the right and sliced one of the beasts in half, vertically. He continued to fight and dodge different blows as they breathed fire in his direction. Aurora distanced herself from the fight a little more. Unfortunately, this drew the attention of a night creature that was just flying in. So now, instead of finding a safe hideout, she was running for her life. Luckily, Sypha caught on to what was happening and burned the thing to death. Aurora panted and thanked her, earning a grin from the woman. Trevor's whip cracked against one of the beasts, forcing it and the other creature it was clinging to, to fall from the sky. The vampire hunter happily finished them off. And just when they thought it was over, more appeared. Those night creatures directed their attacks at the two men. Sypha used her magic to stop the fireballs from hitting her friends and collected the fire, redirecting it to work against the beings they came from. All were killed except for one. That one beast decided it wasn't having it and the second time it tried to burn her alive, she forced the fire to stay within the thing and cause it to combust instead. A few seconds after it's sure defeat, it forced itself up and flew off. All four of them stared at it as it left, Aurora quietly walked over to the other three without tearing her eyes away from that creature. Alucard was the one to break the silence. "Nobody's going to Argeș tonight."

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I figured out my issue with the new Charmed

First I want to say I like most of these characters in the new one. I’m rooting for them and I hope they do great. I’m going to keep watching through this season because I want to know how Macy died and how she got brought back to life and I want to know who killed Marisol. 

That said. There is too much crap going on this season and we are only halfway through.

At the risk of comparing this show too much to the original ... actually, fuck it. Everything about this show from its marketing to the premise asks to be compared to the original, so here goes. I know I look at the original through a nostalgic lens, but I have tried to remove that lens when looking at this new one and I am pretty convinced that in this one aspect, at least, the original Charmed was better.

A lot of things that were memorable about the original Charmed -- the romantic subplots, the conflict between the Charmed Ones and the Elders, the mom’s love triangle and reason for giving up one of her children -- all those things developed slowly over multiple seasons. Never were there two major romantic subplots going on at once, at least not in the first four seasons (which are the ones I actually remember). The Whitelighters weren’t a thing until more than halfway through the first season and the Elders were even later than that. The mom’s love triangle was introduced in one episode in Season 2 to parallel with Piper’s romantic subplot and then only picked up again when they had to retrofit it to introduce Paige after Shannen Doherty left the show. Meanwhile, the main myth arc plot of each season involved all three sisters ... if there even WAS a main myth arc plot. It was the late ‘90s, and Charmed episodes were less like Supernatural, which has season-long plots, and more like Touched By an Angel, which involved the main characters helping out one or two people per episode and then moving on to another mini plot. With some exceptions, of the episodes stood alone.

That’s not in vogue now. Television today is all about season-long plot arcs and cliffhangers and making your entire show one story -- even though TV shows are a risky medium for that type of story because you never know how many episodes you’ll get a season, if you’ll be renewed and which actors will sign back on.

Which isn’t to say it can’t be done. Veronica Mars was super good about telling complete stories in the span of a season, at least until the network micromanaged Rob Thomas into fucking it up in Season 3. Justified is the same way, as is The Hour, my favorite TV show.

The new Charmed, knowing one, that the thing to do in TV shows today is tell a story over a season and two, that all those things I mentioned previously -- the Whitelighters, the Elders, the babies given up for adoption, the romantic subplots -- are all big Charmed things, is trying jampack them all into the first season to make sure you know it’s Charmed and it is ... cluttered.

We are what -- 10, 11? -- episodes into the season and every single character -- including the Whitelighter who at this point in the original had been in like three episodes and only had magical powers in one -- have their own plots and romances. For two of those characters, the romances don’t even have anything to do with their magic plot, thus giving them a separate plot. And if these plots are all related, they’re very tenuously so. Here’s what I mean.

Macy: Romantic interest in Galvin, and it’s so far going pretty smoothly. There were bumps in the road what with him being a mortal and with her thinking he was being preyed on by a succubus or a siren or whatever his earlier girlfriend was supposed to be before she turned out to be a perfectly normal lady who just conveniently broke up with him. And there’s some issue with her being a virgin and a little unsure around guys in general. Right now they’re together and figuring out how to be a couple with everything she’s got going on. Also, Galvin’s not really supposed to know about witchy stuff and Harry keeps wanting to wipe his memory.

Macy has another plot, though, the secret back-story plot where her mother gave her to her dad to raise her as a mortal, and Macy doesn’t know why. In this last episode, Macy learned her parents kept in touch and were still in love, even to the point where they conceived Maggie, making her Macy’s full sister and Mel’s half-sister (opposite of what they’d always believed). Then at the end of last episode, it turned out that Macy’s parents did something BAD -- something they worried Macy wouldn’t forgive them for -- to bring her back from the dead. (It was at this point that I decided that, no, I would not be waiting for the show to come on Netflix to finish out the season like I’d been considering, I would be watching the next episode the night it aired.)

But also, Macy has a plot where the lab she’s working for has been pseudo-taken over by demons who have stolen all the Charmed Ones’ DNA for presumably nefarious purposes. This plot actually is tied to one of Maggie’s plots and is the closest any of these plots have to being about all three Charmed Ones.

Mel: Gets TWO romantic interests and what might turn into a love triangle, despite the fact that it was looking like her two romantic plots might not overlap. First there’s her long-time girlfriend Niko, a cop whose memory Mel ends up having to erase for Niko’s safety -- a nice tragic romance trope which usually stops the memory-less character’s plot cold. Now Mel is falling for Jada, a cool-ass witch who works for a secret, possibly-nefarious, possibly just politically and philosophically different from the Elders witch organization which has a cool name that I forget. But wait -- there’s more! It turns out, after having her memory wiped, Niko became a private investigator hired by Jada’s family to save her from the “cult” she’s joined. Remember what I said about memory erasure usually stopping the character’s plot cold?

At least Mel’s romantic subplots tie into her actual plots, and at least Mel gets character points for seeming to be the only character who is actually interested in finding out who killed their mom. She first starts to infiltrate Jada’s witchy organization on the Elders’ orders when they all think Jada’s organization might have had a hand in Mom’s death. Now Jada says her mom was actually a part of the organization, which is also trying to figure out who killed her. Mel is secretly working with Jada, without telling the Elders, Harry or even Mel’s sisters (unless that came up in another episode and I totally forgot about it while trying to keep track of all these other plots).

Harry: Harry’s romantic interest is Charity, an Elder. It’s a little unclear what exactly Elders are in this version of the Charmed verse. Are they powerful Whitelighters, powerful Witches or a mixture of both? Charity says the Charmed Ones’ mom was an Elder, suggesting at least some of them are witches. In the original Charmed, the Elders were extra-powerful Whitelighters, but the suggestion was that once witches were dead, they not only were not beholden to Whitelighters anymore, but they were even more powerful than them. (At one point Grams tells Phoebe, “I’m beyond them now.”) What IS clear is that Elders and Whitelighters aren’t allowed to be together -- little shout-out to the Piper-Leo plot from the original there. So not as dramatic as Mels’s love triangle, but more dramatic than Macy and Galvin.

But Harry, it turns out, has another, totally unrelated-to-Charmed-things plot involving wiped memories and a son he THOUGHT died, who he then forgot about, but he now remembers and now actually IS alive after all. What this has to do with ... anything else on the show ... remains to be seen.

Maggie: Maggie had a forgettable love interest for two episodes on the show before moving onto the most dramatic romantic subplot a teenage girl can have -- she falls for her best friend’s boyfriend! After several episodes of angst and an illicit kiss, the boyfriend, a totally boring dude named Parker, breaks it off with his girlfriend so he and Maggie can be together. Maggie’s BFF, whose name I forget, gets an episode dedicated to her rage and Maggie being sorry before she’s shuffled aside so Maggie and Parker can be together, which is important because ....

Psych! Parker’s actually half a demon who needs to become whole demon through Charmed magic or he dies. His mother runs Macy’s lab and his father is an evil demon who controls people, which led to him stealing the Harbinger from Charity and --

Wait, I just realized none of these plots are the actual plot of the season -- because the first episode established that Trump becoming president and the rise of the Harbinger -- which is some kind of evil demon -- are both signs of the apocalypse which the Charmed ones have to stop. (I wasn’t even done explaining Maggie’s plot yet!)

Anyway, this show has too much going on.

How all these plots affect the show:

One thing -- and this sounds sarcastic but it’s totally not -- the characters all deliver their lines extremely fast. They have to -- they have plot things to say. They don’t get much time for the usual CW pop culture references*, let alone verbal pauses and room for their lines to spread out and let them react to what’s going on through their facial expressions and body language.

*at least that I recall -- although Macy got a very good one a couple of episodes ago where she called a demon “Daenerys” because he introduced himself by listing a million titles he supposedly has. 

It also makes it really hard to keep up with each individual plot arc while taking away valuable time we need to get to know the characters. Occasionally the show fits in a good sisterly-bonding moment -- Macy and Maggie in particular get scenes to themselves where they’re goofing off together while Mel’s off brooding somewhere. Plus, at least for a while, there were some good scenes between Mel and Harry at least until they each got their own romantic subplot. But with the last couple of episodes -- which managed to fit every gd one of the above-mentioned plots into their 42-minute runtimes -- I’m kind of left wondering how the sisters’ plots are related and what Harry’s even doing in the show.

And I love Harry -- I love that the sisters were bringing him tea in the episode after he got out of Tartarus. Except that they actually gave it to Charity to give him, because we can’t have family bonding time when there are romantic subplots to get to, and other than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it reference to worrying about Harry in the exposition, they seem to have pretty much forgotten about his trauma by next episode. I thought he was becoming part of the family. 

And what I said above -- I wasn’t being funny for effect, I actually did forget that there was a whole plot with the Harbinger -- who was introduced in the very first episode -- until I typed “Wait I just realized none of these plots are the actual plot of the season.” All these plots literally made me forget about the season’s actual plot.

I’m not a die-hard fan or anything -- I’m sure there are people who know the names of Maggie’s ex-boyfriend and best friend and know what Jada’s witchy organization is called or can remember whether Elders are witches or Whitelighters. But I’m watching each episode one time once a week, which is what most viewers are going to be doing, and I’m missing major stuff. 

Charmed needs to -- step back, de-clutter, do some spring cleaning. But at this point, I don’t know that they can. They’ve invested too much into all these plots and I think it would be pretty weird to just ... never tell us if Parker died. Personally I wouldn’t mind if Parker died because I found him extremely boring and thought he took up time from more interesting characters and story arcs, but there was so much time invested in telling us his story that it would be a mistake to leave it where it is and come back to it next season. And the same thing goes for all the other plots.

This isn’t mean to be wank. I legitimately like this show and want it to succeed, but I’m wondering what everyone else thinks. I don’t know that new Charmed will get enough of a following if it keeps throwing new plot lines at us every episode in hopes of bringing us back every week. There needs to be more time developing characters to make us actually care about these plots. And if you’re hoping to have more seasons, then surely some of these can be saved for farther down the road like in the original Charmed.

In the meantime, ... team Niko. (Sorry Jada.)

#this isn't anti-jada i actually like her a lot #i think she's going to be the new cole #i just really liked nico ok? #new charmed #not wank but some people might read it that way #also maybe people who are watching this more than i am can answer some of my questions #but ... there are just so many plots #charmed #*niko