how do you feel about elena casually sipping on tea reading how her dad tortured enzo for years (right after calling wes a monster for doing the same) and then defending it to damon knowing full well he was tortured for 5 years too?
i just…the way the show keeps elena’s parents as some saints and gives them peace like grayson didn’t torture living beings for decades
I... don't like it. That should be obvious though, considering how deeply I care for Enzo. You're totally right though, I never thought about it like that before, but the show does have a habit of keeping Elena's parents uplifted. Normally, a reveal as horrifying as her father secretly taking part in torture and experimentation for pretty much Elena's entire life would be treated as a major thing. Instead, it's... just kind of glossed over. Probably because the writers didn't care enough about Enzo to make it a conflict in the plot, but it certainly should've been.
I don't believe that Elena's reaction was necessarily in character for her. She has been horrified by much smaller things before, so surely she should've then looked at Grayson as she did with Isobel after finding out what she was truly like? Or at least, should've had some sensitivity when talking about how his "experiments" were "helping people" to Damon. I don't know, it's a really weird storyline and I absolutely do wish it had been treated better because Elena just deciding it was fine that her dad was doing that simply because it was ultimately "for a good cause" does not sit right with me. (Maybe that's why I wrote that fic about 7-year-old Elena freeing Enzo from the clinic's basement.)
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I think self shippers are allowed to have complicated-ass relationships with their F/Os, like yeah we love the lovey-dovey sweet flustering stuff, but also some of us go nuts for a good case of
‘we want to and probably have practically strangled each other but also you’re my soulmate and fate has intrinsically tied us together and I would protect you and fight for you in any given universe but also you’re an actual dumbass and I will tell you so and if we ever go down it’s going to be by the others hand’
Or other related variations, I think it’s great to go hogwild and not all F/O relationships stop at Romantic or Platonic or Familial, the dynamics are endless and can be so fun to play with and navigate
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It was there, before it was there.
For Hal, it was dreams. Awake and asleep, he would finally fly. There he went farther and faster than his father ever did. Tinged in green, he would touch the stars. But it always ended the same. He was a Jordan, after all. At least the end was warm, like sunlight.
Guy got knocked down a lot. Picked himself back up a lot too. Sometimes went down again right after. Each time though, for a second after, he could only see green.
John heard voices. Sometimes just a few, a council, old and wise-- sometimes more: a town, a city, a planet. They all wanted something. Wanted him to do- to be- ..... something. Well, they could just get in line.
Kyle would know things sometimes. But only sometimes. Moments in between moments. In his dreams, he always knew his father's face. They would smile, and talk, and share a drink. Then his eyes would open, and the blurry photo would return.
Once Simon saw an injured squirrel on the ground. It looked almost dead. He touched it, and it rose up and scurried away. His arm ached. His mother scolded him for using the markers (what markers?) again. He took it as a sign. Courage.
Jessica knew whispers well. They told her that she was a mess. That she was weak, or scared. Sometimes it was her own voice. Sometimes it wasn't. Sometimes, it even told her she was strong. Brave.She always liked those ones the best.
Jo's phone never died. Or rather, never stayed dead. On nights she would stumble in, tired from work, friends, or if she was lucky, the cute girl at the bar, she would leave her nearly-dead phone on her desk, cord forgotten. In the morning though, it would always be ready for her, battery life pulsing green.
It was there, before it was there.
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Eeeeeh
Soooooooooo I drew Leander @braisedhoney (my brain keeps saying Leonardo...why)
I think like the first minutes of drawing him i was trying to figure out how to draw his beard so I'm glad I somehow drew it
The pic is shity because I was drawing this on tablet that isn't mine and my phone is bad at taking photos.
I hope next week I'll be able to get it at least on USB stick or how it is called i dunno.
Někdy kroužky vytvářejí.... určité problémy.
Anyway-
More rambling in tags
Have a nice day/night
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Oh See....
[ID: Three drawings of op’s original character, Sameeh Olssen. They are labeled “1 minute”, “10 minutes”, and “From Memory”, and each done in a very sketchy style. “1 minute” is a very bare bone face shot, 3/4s angle with a serious expression. “10 minutes” is a more detailed sketch bust, with them moving forward with a small grin, where fangs are visable. In this he is wearing a tweed jacket and a turtleneck. “From Memory” is a fully colored sketch. They are sitting down, leaning forward enough their hands are flat against the ground. He looks upward slightly vulnerably. They are wearing a loose-fitting black shirt with “METAL BAND” written on the front, grey pants, and fuzzy earrings. Behind their head is sketched bugs in red. Over all, Sam is lanky with a scruffy beard. They have an undercut, with shoulder length black hair that is tied back into a pony tail. The pupil of their eye is a W shape. end ID]
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