#i'm a clown nonnie 🤡

[galvanizedfriend]

Purely out of curiosity since ur rewatching TVD, what is your opinion on the absolute use and abuse of Bonnie Bennett throughout the entire series?? And how would you as a writer have approached her character and arcs instead?? Just wanted hear ur trusted and intellectual perspective on this 😔😔🤍

Trusted and intellectual, nonnie? 🤣 I can't tell if you're being ironic and this is trying to poke fun at me somehow or not, so I'll just assume it's an honest question, even if there's nothing trustworthy or intellectual about my takes on this teen vampire drama 🤣🤣

I have talked about Bonnie before, but I don't think I had ever watched the show start to finish from season 1, and it becomes even more glaringly obvious how awful the writing for her character is. Even when the show is at its best, Bonnie never is. She starts from a place of semi-protagonism, discovering her witchy powers at the same time Elena meets Stefan, and we're led to believe she's going to play a huge role, right? That figuring out this story is gonna go right through her. And then by the end of S1, they bump her down to somehow being less relevant than Caroline, who at this point had nothing going on for her besides a failed romance with Matt (she becomes a vampire on the last episode of S1, I think). Caroline gets the complicated romances, she gets the vampire arc, then Tyler being a werewolf situation, her drama with her mother, and then she gets Klaus. Meanwhile, Bonnie gets absolutely no plots of her own.

She's barely a person at all. Literally, when they have no use for her saving Elena, she doesn't even appear. We know nothing about her family, I don't think they even mention Bonnie's mom abandoned her, we don't even know she lives with her father, we don't see her house like we see Caroline's and Elena's. I just watched ep 1 of S3 today, and she's away with 'her father's family' but who are they? Who's her father?? We only meet him in S4 and somehow are led to believe he'd always been there and was somehow important enough to be appointed mayor, even though he was never a part of the town council. Why??

I can get behind Bonnie taking her mother's last name because, I don't know, the Bennetts are important, but they never make it seem like they are, so it doesn't make any sense?? Although, coming to think of it, it's weird with Caroline too. Liz is not a Forbes, and yet we hear her family has also always been in on the whole vampire thing, even though the founding family is on her father's side?? Just stupidity, I guess. But anyway. Why couldn't they make Bonnie's father a Bennett instead and then have him be a major part of the town's secret dealings like everyone else? Why not get them involved in the whole political shenanigans going on? The Bennett's had been there since BEFORE the founding families, they are a powerful witch line, and yet we're supposed to believe they relinquished all the power to the white idiots all this time? Why haven't they been pulling the strings around the city? Why did Emily Bennet never play a bigger role other than as Katherine's maid?

Why wasn't Bonnie even selected to be among the Miss Mystic Falls girls?? Why wasn't she invited to the Mikaelson ball? Are we supposed to believe that Esther wouldn't want to meet the descendant of the witch Ayana?? Why bring Bonnie's mom into this at all, someone who had never been a part of anything, if they could've just had her father play a big role in EVERYTHING from the start and make the Bennetts a real powerhouse in the story? They could've been the real chiefs in town, not the Lockwoods.

And then when we learn about Bonnie's mom, we find out she ALSO sacrificed her powers AND HER DAUGHTER just to protect Elena because of her good friend Miranda??? Seriously?? This is so fucked up.

Bonnie honestly has no agency within the plot, ever. She's just this artifice to fix whatever the writers come up, just a tool for salvation. It's lazy, lazy and RACIST writing, IMO. We hear she's super powerful, that her witchy line is the most powerful one ever, going all the way back to Qetsiyah, and yet that never manifests into the story. When they need Bonnie to be some deux ex machina type, she is. When they don't, she's weak. She loses her powers, she gives it away willingly, she DIES about 100 times like she has no aspirations of her own other than saving Elena and Jeremy. Caroline gets a full personality (even if everyone rolls their eyes at her, which is a different thing), but what are Bonnie's traits, other than being brave and loyal and self-sacrificing? What are Bonnie's aspirations?

The fact that out of eight seasons, she doesn't have a love interest for one and a half, and spends from S2 to S6 hung up on Jeremy is just !!!! Dude cheats on her, betrays her, is useless and boring, leaves the show, comes back, and Bonnie is somehow ALWAYS still in love with him. Tbh, their entire relationship seems like an attempt at giving Jeremy more purpose than adding anything to Bonnie's development. It's ridiculous.

At some point, we meet this woman who says she's a Bennett cousin, someone who was helping Katherine in S2, and she tells Bonnie she'll come back, but then we never hear about her again??? Why couldn't this woman have come back to teach Bonnie about her ancestors, about the Bennetts, about magic? Why didn't she get that story arc?

It's been mentioned several times how awful the treatment of Kat Graham was. So much so she gets war flashbacks whenever anyone mentions The Vampire Diaries next to her. I even read that they were giving her crappy story lines in order to get her to quit the show on her own. That they'd act like that towards their single black actor on the show, knowing she was facing blatant disrespect behind the scenes from some of her coworkers, is just awful. It's racist, racist crap, there's no other word for it.

How I would fix her arcs is too loaded a question, because there are too many arcs, and too much to fix. I'm not really a writer, nor am an intellectual lol So I don't know if I'd be capable of giving her the protagonism she deserved. But I just wish they'd fleshed out Bonnie the way they did others. Given her aspirations, plans, her own story lines separate from everyone else (like Caroline and Tyler or Caroline and Klaus or Caroline and her mom or Caroline and the twins). Giving her a home and a family would've humanized her. I wish they'd made the story run through her, instead of using her, that they'd given her all the power we hear she's supposed to have. By the end of TVD, Bonnie should've been crowned THE MOST POWERFUL WITCH ON EARTH, period. Her journey should've taken her there. Instead, she keeps getting outshined by everyone else.

I wish she'd gotten a good love interest (NOT JEREMY). Personally, I liked her and Damon in S6/7/8. WAY more than I ever liked her and Enzo, tbh. I read that Ian and Kat were SUPER pushing for Bamon, and it honestly would've been an interesting arc?? I know people are gonna say 'ew, problematic', but honestly every single ship on this show is problematic in some way, it's a vampire show, and the two of them as friends were super cute. Plus, they did have a lotta chemistry.

And the big thing for me is that Bonnie should've been leading lady after Elena leaves. It just made sense. Bumping Caroline up to that spot was ???? I love Caroline, she's my absolute favorite, but why?? What about her character journey or her importance within the show made her leading character material? Bonnie, otoh, made perfect sense. She was super powerful, she could steer the story, AND there was the beautiful poetry of her taking over Elena's place. Since Elena was asleep for as long as she was alive, then why not actually give a great life to live, for once, since they'd never allowed her to do it while Elena was in the picture. But no. Instead, she loses her powers. 🙃

Something I also would've loved to see happen is having her moved over to TO. Since they clearly didn't want her in TVD, why not put her in the neighboring show and give her a more important role? A Bennett witch among the New Orleans covens could've been great. Even if it was just for a short arc, I would've appreciated that. There's a whole thing at the end of S1 of TO where Klaus gets in touch with Bonnie about the collapse of the Other Side and then we learn Esther used that to bring herself, Finn and Kol back to life. There was a good crossover opportunity there that was just wasted. Even Matt and Alaric crossover to TO. Why not Bonnie?

Anyway. 🤣 If this wasn't meant as a serious ask, nonnie, I'm sorry for the bible answer, but joke is on you cause clearly I have lots of FEELS. Though none of this is groundbreaking, it's just obvious stuff. I've only just started S3 though, I'm sure I'll get more outraged as I move forward.

IN CONCLUSION 🥲 Bonnie was a badly written, barely humanized character ON PURPOSE, but Kat Graham portrayal of her, in spite of all the awful story lines, was so genuine and so full of heart that we cared for her and loved her anyway. She gave life to someone who was mistreated by the writing team from start to finish. She deserves the world, JUSTICE FOR BONNIE BENNETT.

#yokan answers #anon #bonnie bennett #thank you for coming to my ted talk #i honestly don't know if nonnie is making fun of me because i'm rewatching tvd and posting my thinky thots here like an idiot 🥲 #i'm a clown nonnie 🤡 #the vampire diaries #long post

[flowercrowngods]

I loved your tumblr ficlets, but I understand not wanting to go back to the guy again for another issue. 💔

I AM BEING SO DRAMAATIC NONNIE YOU HAVE NI IDEA I WANNA SCREAM SO BADLY I AM THE DRAMA

god this feels like a funeral to my words 😭 one shots get written on the phone, multichaps get written on the laptop. most of all my words are phone words. so uh yeah rip i guess 😭😔 (but also thank you 🥺 i'll need a eulogy soon quite possibly)

#nonnie asks #dio talks #i will probably go to the repair guy again because otherwise my brain will eat itself and i've been there once i can't go there again #the brain eating part i mean. it ended badly the last time. 🤡 #i'm a fucking clown jesus christ toot toot all aboard the clown train we're on the road to insanity hop off while you can #in my defense i'm running on 8h of sleeep for 48h wakefulness. a little insanity is inevitable #imagine all the fics i could write about it 😔

[colorlesschristmastree]

So some anti's are shaking 😂 figured some of my favorite feyre blogs should see the clownery for themselves.

toast-com in acotardeservesbetter's anon

reblogged by readingwritingwatching

"Why is Feysand popular again? Did the stans forget what Rhysand did? And while I'm at it, the bargain he made with Feyre was frankly excessive. He healed her arm, and in return she has to spend time with him every month. I don't get it."

What a bunch of clowns 🤡 one is an obsessive t*mlin apologist infamous redhead who creeps out half of the fanbase by all the weird and ridiculous sh*t she says and does, the other is an account who's name is toast.com..need I say more and the other is an anti acotar account who dedicates their time and energy to a series that mostly revolves around feyre and rhysand yet they can't help obsessively posting about them and creating an entire anti blog dedicated to the series that aggravates them more than it makes them happy, that on it's own? is WEIRD. I've been seeing alot more support and much deserved love for feyre and rhysand and of course the anti's picked up on the shift in the tide so they're fretting now that their anti arguments are getting easily shut down more than it did after acosf. "why is feysand popular again?" LMAO, stay mad I love it.

I’m sorry but this is so funny to me. They’re right though, Feysand nation is stronger than ever and thriving. I’ve been seeing so much love, especially after Rhys week that just passed, on here, instagram, and twitter. All of the lovely fanart commissions and even things that artists chose to post for free bc they simply love Rhys and Feysand, the fanfics that people put their whole souls into that just radiate a love and appreciation for Feysand. I love being a feysand stan, I love winning, I love being able to open the books and just have a good time, enjoying the story with all the characters, even ones i don’t like as much.

They got so used to seeing their faves be loudly stanned they forgot that they’re not actually the series’s most beloved characters.

People come for Feysand and stay because they love the world Feysand introduced them to. And you’re right, the way certain people who participate in fandom have a weird obsession with hating everything about it is so weird to me. Do something more productive with your time and find yourself a series where you can actually love every single character and not just a few whose characters you warp and distort into different people inside your head. If you don’t get why Feysand, the couple and characters that have always been beloved, are being appreciated again, it might really just be time to move on. I swear, some of them have Feysand on their minds more than I do.

And nonnie, you are so right about that last part. They’re bitter they can’t make their bizarre anti posts without someone disagreeing and responding with a genuine argument that’s based on the text and not just vibes. They’re mad that no one cares about their “sjm is a bias author!!! feyre is a self insert! that’s the only reason y’all r winning.” arguments, and instead we’ve been leaning into it, bc despite disagreeing, if they know that their opinions are so wrong and in such opposition to the text, that they only way they can justify it is by saying that the author herself is out to get them and their faves, then ik I’m stanning the right people.

#pro feyre #feyre archeron #feyre #my posts #acomaf #acotar #rhysand #feysand #pro feysand #sjmaas #a court of thorns and roses #pro inner circle #pro rhysand

[yooniesim]

That Timm guy has apparently deactivated his twitter again. I’m pretty sure he’s just doing it for attention now after he decided to be pals with CowBuild or whatever that was.

Pffft. Sounds about right, nonny. Guess my, like, 20 notes text post really hit him in the feels. That's called ego 🤡 but fr. What should've made him sick was realizing how he excused cowbuild like that. Love how he let Mack run around calling the paywall thing "an LGBT issue because Timm is gay" but immediately forgot about Cow's transphobia. Interesting.

smh... it doesn't surprise me one bit. It does feel like a continuation. Racism, martyrdom... Reuploading all that cc he didn't go through the trouble of getting himself made him feel real special. But everyone I talk to seems to think he's a clown so I don't think he has the reputation he thinks he does...

First of all, this man did not get sued lmfao. Do people know how difficult it is to sue someone in another country? Afaik it's like, near impossible and extremely expensive. Plus, no lawyer would take a fucking DMCA case concerning EA's intellectual property being claimed as Cowbuild's. Their policy is very clear that your CC doesn't belong to you and can be re-uploaded at anytime by anyone without your permission. Either Timm made it up, or he thinks Cowbuild just saying "i'm suing you" means he's in actual legal trouble. But, you're right. For the sake of clout, he re-uploaded all the cc we already fucking had under his own name and brought all that shit down on himself. Bc it wasn't about bringing free cc to people or spiting cowbuild, it was about being an important figurehead.

👆 all of this, milu. Since I haven't seen cowbuild say anything publicly, I'm inclined to think the conversation never even happened lol. But if it did happen, it's a real shame. Like you said, that wasn't nearly the only issue there, and we already know there was a whole doxxing ring and everyone involved should be considered complicit. The way all of that was just brushed aside was... well, sickening to be honest. @milugameplay

Edit: I forgot one 🤡

Would it be out of character for cowbuild? Probs not. Do I think he's important enough to be paid off? Lol no.

#asks #anonymous #milugameplay #ceci speaks #the patreon issue #timmssimms #see im learning i combined some into one post! #lol #long post

[sometransgal]

"Oh, so she's a clown fucker? Cool."

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WAIT I HAVE A PIC OF ME DRESSED AS A CLOWN FOR HALLOWEEN FU-

Awwww you flirting Nonny or ashamed of immediately thinking of yourself as a clown after hearing I'm a clown fucker?

Either way honk honk 🤡

#i totally could do a little clown thing for halloween too... #gonna have to get facepaint...

[binaryeclipse]

🤡✅

Hello Nonny, thanks so much for the ask! 💖

🤡 - What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

I laugh every time I write because Anakin Skywalker is a clown

There's been a few scenes because I think I'm hilarious and I do try to inject some amount of humour into my writing to varying success (hey I make myself laugh and that's what's important), but the one that stands out the most to me and still makes me laugh every time is in chapter two of kick at the darkness:

Anakin tossed a bottle of analgesics and made sure it hit Kenobi on the back of the head, cutting off the forthcoming vitriolic insult. “Here, take something for the pain. Maybe it will give you a better attitude.”  There was a rattle as the Sith grabbed the container. “I doubt these will do much.” 

I love a wry and sarcastic Obi-Wan.

✅ - What's something that appears in your fics over and over and over again, even if you don't mean to?

Flowery descriptions of Anakin and Obi-Wan's Force Signatures 🙈

I just love the concept of the Force and in writing there are ways we can use it to convey things that film and fine art can't. It's a tool I lean on really heavily and sometimes I think I should pull back but other times... I'm having fun and what's the harm in that?

#ask game

[katsukikitten]

I know how to cook rice and some other things if you're interested 🤡

Why the clown face 😂

Well nonny if we don't like what you made we can always order take out 🖤 I'm just happy to have company

#kitten chats 🖤🐈‍⬛

[jokerownsmysoul]

✍ 🎉. 🤡 because of the clown emote. 😉

Thank you so much nonnie 🥺 both for sending this in and for the clown emoji, it made me giggle and definitely is very appreciated 😂💙🤭

fanfic writers ask

✍ Do you have a beta reader?

I don't! 💙🤗 I'm aware of how helpful they can be, but for the way I write and the kind of significance that writing holds in my heart beta-ing it's not something that works for me personally. But if I ever need some help (and considering a few wips I've planned it's something that will happen sooner rather than later), I know who I can count on 💙

🎉 What leads you to consider a fic a success?

I consider it a success if I love what I wrote and my soul resonates with it. If the process of writing it filled me with magic & love & inspiration, if brought me a little closer to Arthur, and if I can recognize myself in every word, written by staying true to my personal & deepest feelings and unfiltered heart. 💙 I love sharing my pieces and my art with people who love Arthur as much as I do is, but as silly as it may sound I'm my own first reader. If I love what I do, then it's a success. I can be only happier to share it on here 💙 but I've to admit that sometimes I need to be a little braver to post my unfiltered feelings here, in this case if I decide to post the piece and someone likes what I wrote it helps me to soothe my embarrassment & enjoy this feeling of fulfillment a little better. 🙈

🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?

My first thought went to the sweet Arthur's puns that I've come up with so far ❣️ which are not the best but I try. 😂

I was particularly grinning to myself like a dumb when I wrote this paragraph of My favorite cup of tea, where Arthur and the reader decorate mugs for each other:

The decoration was not so different from the Murray Franklin show mug, but this time his handwriting was in velvet red color and read: “I love you very mug.” It captured Arthur’s sweet and romantic nature, but also his playful, comedian side. All parts of him you loved with all your heart and soul. It didn’t take long for Arthur to make you burst into a fit of laughter even this time, even this way. It was instinctive for him to find ways to make you laugh. “I love you very mug, too. And also this mug.” 

Not sure of what it means, but giggling over these puns surely makes me very similar to Arthur, if anything, and I know he'd be delighted if he got people laugh with these kind of corny puns 🤭💘

#Ask game #writing ask game

[doublel27]

I’m ready to clown for episode 13 proposal BUT will also not be surprised either way if we have to wait for episode 18. I just love how next week we will all expect it but will be like “oh I knew it would be episode 18” if it doesn’t happen. Down to clown yo

I mean, sweet nonny,🤡 my clown wig and nose are on,🤡 and I HATE clowns.

I have been tagging most things for 3x13 and the rest of the season with #I can hear the bells and #💍🎊 - ENGAGEMENT WHEN. Ronen has said that 3x13 ends with a Happy Ending and I'm just saying, the happy endings I will accept include the following: 💍, or 🍆 or both. So... And you're right nonny, we're out here clowning, but will absolutely be ready to be like "We've all been saying episode 18 all along!" like absolute loons, and I LOVE that for us. You know why, they're already married in Carlos's mind, so...the engagement and wedding are just a formality. But you know what I cannot wait for? What I am actually at true clown for: The engagement ring TK gets for Carlos is going to be 100x cuter than the one he got for Alex and I CANNOT wait.

#down to clown #911 lone star speculation #911 lone star 3x13 #911 lone star 3x18 #i can hear the bells #💍🎊 #yes tk is going to be the one to propose #i don't care #it narratively brings tk's story from the pilot full circle #and carlos needs tk to do the grand gesture next #full clown mode activated #anon ask #anon reply #asked and answered #doublel27 talks

[matan4il]

I would love it if you allowed me a scream into the void moment. No worries if you dont post. But I'm bothered today by antis.

Heres the thing I ship for leisure, I have shipped queer, straight canon ext. I have had ships sail, sink or die. When I'm on the 🤡 end of the ship it doesn't bother me. I get it. Eddie and Buck are canon "straight" on the show. I get why you think I'm a clown 🤡.

But heres the thing I dont get, why are antis not getting this writing isnt normal. I fully am prepared for Buddie not to happen, shit with my luck the will thing was because they plan to kill Eddie off because Ryan wants to leave and they want to keep Christopher with Buck and Taylor. However my point remains nothing about the writing of Eddie and Buck is typical and just admit it.

The constant queer baiting on the small scale mixed with your my kids legal gaurdian on the huge scale. Eddies panic attacks. The angst of Eddie leaving combined with all the Buck adondenemt issues and also Eddie stopping him from leaving. It just doesnt add up. And maybe I'm wrong, but also antis need to acknowledge this isnt normal and they could be wrong and not hate as much.

Hi Nonnie! You are ALWAYS welcome to scream whatever you need to in my inbox! *hugs*

I get what you're saying. I'm not sure I can say that I ship for leisure with the amount of meta'ing I have done, but I do generally believe in "live and let live" in fandom. Everyone's free to disagree with any of my meta's, to interpret things differently, to like whichever characters or ships they like, etc. I firmly believe that at the end of the day, fandom is what we do to help make real life (rl) better, so whatever brings people joy is fine in my book (as long as we're not talking downright offensive opinions).

But even so, I agree with you fully and think that there is something quite unusual about the writing for Buddie. 'Coz here's the thing, yeah, maybe if we search hard enough, we could find a good rl het explanation for everything Buddie have done/been through, but shows aren't rl. To make my point, in rl we go to the bathroom every day not long after we wake up. But we don't see it on screen. If we suddenly do see a character go to the bathroom in the morning, then something IS UP. Maybe we'll discover that they have some sort of a serious medical condition, or that she's pregnant. We don't know yet, but we know that there is some reason for why the show made this unusual choice, and that it's asking us to pay extra attention to this. The same thing can be said about the way Buddie has been written, there are a lot of unusual choices that beg us to pay attention to these two together, as partners and as a family unit with Chris. If you look at the sum of my meta, those are the choices that I'm trying to highlight, the ones that are out of the ordinary and that call attention to Buddie as possibly something other than friends... If a straight couple would have gotten this treatment, then even if they didn't eventually get together, I would fully expect at least one of them to have a feelings realization at some point (an example for that are Dean and Vic on Station 19, who got a lot of similar elements to Buddie, and where eventually Dean was forced to admit he's in love with Vic, even though the actor decided to leave the show before the two of them ever got the chance to get together).

Anyway, my point is you're right and I'm with you, and please feel free to use my meta as proof whenever you wanna point out that the writing for Buddie is NOT the standard writing for friends, even really good, close friends.

Thank you for sending this and big hugs to you! xoxox

To anyone else who sent me an ask, I am going through all of them, thank you so much for your patience! If you wanna check whether I've replied to yours yet, you can have a look at my ask tag. xoxox

#buddie #911meta #buddie meta #911 meta #9-1-1 #evan buck buckley #evan buckley #eddie diaz #edmundo diaz #ask #anon ask #911onabc #911 on abc #911abc #911 abc

[sunkissed-moon]

OHMYGOD I'MSOSORRY WOIRUEJDSF

I SENT IT TO U BYMISTAKE

I'M SO SO SO SORRY PLS KSKSKSK

-💍 (i'm also the clown anon 🤡)

HAFDJWUGJE NO DW AT ALL NONNIE IT WAS CUTE <3333

it makes sense why you're the clown anon i see i see /j-

#🤡 anon #anon ask #💍 anon