You want a better story. Who wouldn't? (Damon/Elena Top Ten Scenes)

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So. Once upon a time, ever-neutral wrote a HUGE Damon/Elena Top 10 Scenes, and she made me promise I would also make my own D/E Top 10. I started working on it after 3x15 aired, but then decided to leave it until the end of s3. A challenge at tvdbloodstream was a motivation to finally finish

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[vergoldung]

Everything about this. Yes. Perfect. I have nothing to add. (Imagine that!)
I love it when you remember me why the fuck I'd ship this nonsense. It's such an awesome, hypnotising nonsense, isn't?

Your time on this was well spent! So many pretty sentences. I envy you.

Anyway, this post makes me happy. I can now go out and battle with the world!
Oh and good luck with your boxes today! I'm sure it won't be as bad as it looks right now :)

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Awww, thank you, bb :D. I'm glad sleep treated you well ;).

It's such an awesome, hypnotising nonsense, isn't?

Yep, that pretty much sums it up. They can ruin my life all they want ;).

[ever_neutral]

Oh, fuck this post.

Once upon a time, ever_neutral wrote a HUGE Damon/Elena Top 10 Scenes, and she made me promise I would also make my own D/E Top 10.

omg WHYYYYYYY DO YOU KEEP DRAGGING MY NAME INTO THIS BUSINESS LMFAO? ISN'T MY REPUTATION TERRIBLE ENOUGH. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS, LOSER.

First unfiltered thought: LOL you totally wrote what you did here to start flamewars, didn't you. Probably 2% of D/E fandom will agree with the opinions contained in this post. You troll. You fucking troll.

Onwards.

This is who Elena is: she doesn't have to try to accept Damon, it's not an effort for her. She can't help it, which means it's real (in Damon's world, things aren't real if you can control them).Does she really though? I would think Elena has enormous difficulty accepting Damon. She has no trouble UNDERSTANDING him -- or seeing him as he really is -- but that's not quite the same thing. Since Damon acts as a narrative ~mirror for Elena, accepting all of him would mean accepting all of herself, which she can't

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In this scene, Elena is taking up the role of The Good Woman whose Compassion will Save The Dark Antihero... She sees that he's worth saving. And you know what he does after he hears all that? // He goes out and kills an innocent girl, because he can't handle the expectations.

THE. FUCKING. BEST. DSLJFDS;LKFJDFJDS;LJFDSL. I actually don't care for that particular scene (or episode tbh, way too heavy-handed), precisely because I don't care for the way Elena behaves wrt Damon. This Good Woman business does not fly. Not in my ship, thank you and goodbye. BUT. THE ARC. THE ARC HAS IT. This is one of the many reasons why I do not comprehend why S2 D/E is considered inferior to S1 D/E. S1 was just the set-up for the ugly, ugly deconstruction, fools. This is where shit gets real.

He wants something, and when he gets it, he doesn't know what to do with it, so he ruins everything. It's not Elena's place to save him. See what happens when she tries?

PREACH. It is not Elena's fucking job to be the saviour of any dick.

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This is one of the many reasons why I do not comprehend why S2 D/E is considered inferior to S1 D/E.

IKR? Not that I dislike s1 D/E, it's fun. But in s2 it gets INTERESTING!

It's not that he actively decided to ~turn over a new leaf so as to earn her love, but… something. IDK. He was definitely wrapping up his idea of happiness/contentment/whatever in his relationship with her.

I had an impression that at some point he was thinking that she would just naturally fall for him. "It's right, just not right now". He sure as hell knows that she lusts after him, and things between them were so good, so he assumed this is where they were heading. It didn't take Elena long to prove him wrong.

You say these things JUST TO HURT ME, DON'T YOU

I enjoy your pain and misery as much as you enjoy them.

Bless your pretentious quotes.

Thank you, I quite enjoy them myself.

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Fuck you, too. (Never leave me.)

First unfiltered thought: LOL you totally wrote what you did here to start flamewars, didn't you.

I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT NO FLAMEWAR HAPPENED. I spammed so much D/E nonsense that everyone grew tired of it, and only a few people read this post at all. So here you go.

I would think Elena has enormous difficulty accepting Damon.

Hmm. I think we're talking about the same thing, but using different words. I think Elena intuitively accepts Damon, but she intellectually knows that it's wrong, so she chooses to push it away. It's her instinct to accept him, and she fights that instinct. It's like you once said that she has to work very hard to keep herself isolated from him. (Ugh, there is a better word to say it, but I'm just totally braindead, and I can't find it :(.)

But I think this moment is significant because it's the first moment (in a long line of) that Elena shows that she has the power to break him. It's the first time she's deliberately (and EASILY) cruel to him.I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED THIS

[hisui_ryoshi]

This is golden. The idea of Elena playing power games with Damon I could so very much go for that. After all in late season two it's all about doing it her way. Which Damon completely destroys by feeding her blood. The idea of them as a mirror to each other works so well. I am so excited to see what vampire Elena is like.

Thank goodness, Elena is not a reward for Damon's good behavior. That would be hard to take. I think you have to be fairly masochistic to be a D/E fan because of all these big romantic tropes that never work out. I mean society almost conditions you to expect that because Damon watched her while Stefan was gone he would get the girl, or because Damon loves her and changed he would get the girl. All these moments that never happen can be very painful on a a shippers heart. But! Then we get the hottest make out scene on television so I suppose we recover. Character development is better anyway

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After all in late season two it's all about doing it her way.

Exactly. This is my favorite thing about her: Elena doesn't want to be saved, refuses to be just an object, she wants to be the subject of her own story. She wants agency.

I think you have to be fairly masochistic to be a D/E fan because of all these big romantic tropes that never work out. I mean society almost conditions you to expect that because Damon watched her while Stefan was gone he would get the girl, or because Damon loves her and changed he would get the girl. All these moments that never happen can be very painful on a a shippers heart. But! Then we get the hottest make out scene on television so I suppose we recover. Character development is better anyway.

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Amazing as per usual.

As per usual, I WILL BE BACK WHEN I AM DONE WITH CHEM!

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Thank you! :D. Good luck with your chemistry!