I AM TRYING NOT HAVE FEELINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF BARNES AND NOBLE, MAGGIE. RUDE.
but ohhhh, yes. Everything in here is so so so gorgeous. Never over her bringing him back to life in that scene. And like the sheer delight she takes in magic and having magic around her, even though it's brought pain into her life and how bad it can sometimes be.
PLEASE LET HER BE A GOD THIS SEASON AND LIKE I JUST REALLY NEED THAT JOURNEY; spoiler alert, it won't go that way.
I just want Bonnie to dip her finger in it, even for five seconds inhabit the cloak of divinity that is hers by right and destroy some shit or some people and laugh while she does it. Then the show, being the show, can punish her for it and all that rubbish. But just give us a taste. All the better, if she does it while using Professor Shady for transcendent god-sex with a lot of magical channeling. (priorities, I have them, and they are singular).
Things that I screech daily at the TV for this show. ALL I WANT NEXT TO ELIJAH COME BACK TO TOWN; and since they denied me having him teach Elena, NOW I AM ROOTING FOR BONNIE CHANNELING SO MUCH MAGIC AND AWESOME POWER THAT SHE LIKE SHUTS DOWN ALL OF MFALLS AND CAUSES A BLACK OUT. VIA CUNNILINGUS ON A DESK.
Legit, one of the only reasons I would support a time-jump for this show (like fifty or a hundred years, for an episode or two) is so that we could see Elena and Elijah hook up in the future. Because it's only a matter of time. Just need it to be now.
Ugh, shut the front door. Please can I have that?
If the show does make this ship happen, I am almost preemptively embarrassed for how much smut I'm going to write. I mean, it's going to happen regardless. But.
*Rolling around in feelings* Oh this divine child. Yes she is too big for this show where the people in charge thought a triangle would be a gr8 foundation for a series. Like, they couldn't put the thing in the background?
Great choices!
Now I'm wondering if I should put my moment on livejournal. Hmm.
It hurts me because actually there are a lot of elements on this show that are too big for the current frame and the show deals with this by ruining them, like a child who breaks a toy that's too complicated for it to understand how to play with.
Lol, the list is long, where would I start: 1. Doppelganger mythology, which I love, but the show doesn't care about unless it's convenient. 2. Originals because lol. 3. Werewolves. What are they? Why are they so useless? Tell us more. 4. Hybrids. Why they exist, the lord knows. 5. The Council. 6. Anything to do with anything to do with the town and how it interacts with/doesn't interact with the supernatural. 7. I mean they might surprise us but lol, the hunter mythology is already looking ratchet - but killing Connor will do that.
there’s something really exciting about what her using magic says about her (and it does say a lot, not many people seem to grasp this and it drives me mad) Yes. I'm so, so tired of people erasing Bonnie's development in the attempt to defend her -- as though being a witch isn't a crucial part of her identity, as though she doesn't define herself as such. If you want to ~get to know~ Bonnie, pay attention to how she uses her powers, jfc.
and she’s seated above him grinning and looking like she might be on the tip of a really amazing orgasm. ikr
This isn’t about Bonnie being used as a plot device, it’s about the lengths and depths to which she’s willing to go in order to DO, to help, to protect and save the people she considers her own. Y E S. I can add nothing.
And I am 100% sure that Bonnie’s journey this season is moving towards finding the balance or tipping it in favour of witch as independent agent who does whatever the fuck she wants; witch as “architect” of the supernatural universe and actually the most powerful
( ... )
Yes. I'm so, so tired of people erasing Bonnie's development in the attempt to defend her -- as though being a witch isn't a crucial part of her identity, as though she doesn't define herself as such. If you want to ~get to know~ Bonnie, pay attention to how she uses her powers, jfc.
Preach.
Amen. Obviously I'm wary because - this show - but I think that's clearly the shape of her arc and has been for a long time now.
Me too, me too. please don't disappoint too much show.
The thing is that yes, she has a very strong moral core and she can't not help people in need, but there's always been a lot of hubris in her -- because she can do things that others cannot. Yes this. It's what always troubled me about people saying that she's the most "heroic" character on the show and implying that her base motivation for doing things is simple altruism. It flattens her out as a character and it doesn't really jive with so many of her actions - I just need this season to get her to articulate something to this effect this season because surely
( ... )
But I'm mostly really just into this black-veined goddess ending the life of the boy she once loved in order to get shit done and getting off on it.
lol, you're not the only one :) I enjoyed that scene on several different levels, one of them being reveling in Bonnie's utter POWER and perfection.
Ugh, and that second moment...I LOVE your theory that Bonnie did this more because she wanted the POWER to save someone than because she wanted to be Elena's hero.
I LOVE your theory that Bonnie did this more because she wanted the POWER to save someone than because she wanted to be Elena's hero. Thank you. I am so uncomfortable with the readings that (a) Bonnie is motivated purely by her love for Elena (b) she is just a purely heroic in the most altruistic sense of the word character - although both of these things are part of what drives her? But there is just so much more to this girl who saw her dead grandmother on a bed and knew that the reason the most important person in her life was dead was because SHE asked her to do a big spell, and SHE wasn't powerful enough to take the brunt. And I think that we see Bonnie building up her walls and her ideas about what power means (it means not getting hurt, not letting the people around you get hurt, it means not being weak, it means answering the call even if you have to pay the price with your life, it means making decisions about who gets to die or people's bodily autonomy to save the people you care about etc. etc
( ... )
I feel like Bonnie is the "outsider with desire for power" done so right. Because - this is the totally reasonable reaction to living in Mystic Falls. This world where everything around you is a threat, to your safety and your humanity and your consciousness. The world doesn't play by any rules, and I feel like somewhere she thinks that means she shouldn't have to abide by its arbitrary limitations like "life and death" because it's only fair. Bonnie doesn't know from security and stability; the closest thing she has is the control her magic gives her, and the way her power anchors her into this tenuous, dangerous group. She does want to do the right thing, to protect the innocent and keep the dangers from flourishing, but that's not really either motivation or hindrance to her relationship to magic.
The world doesn't play by any rules, and I feel like somewhere she thinks that means she shouldn't have to abide by its arbitrary limitations like "life and death" because it's only fair.
She's long past the stage where she could abide by these sorts of arbitrary limitations. I feel like Mystic Falls is such a frontier space in a sense? At least for someone like Bonnie, she does want to "hold the line", to keep the dangers from flourishing, it is a place where everything around her is a threat and every one of them is being forced to become someone or something else that's capable of surviving there - and this is Bonnie's route which is distinct from everyone else because of her power and the control magic gives her. Favourite forever basically.
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I AM TRYING NOT HAVE FEELINGS IN THE MIDDLE OF BARNES AND NOBLE, MAGGIE. RUDE.
but ohhhh, yes. Everything in here is so so so gorgeous. Never over her bringing him back to life in that scene. And like the sheer delight she takes in magic and having magic around her, even though it's brought pain into her life and how bad it can sometimes be.
PLEASE LET HER BE A GOD THIS SEASON AND LIKE I JUST REALLY NEED THAT JOURNEY; spoiler alert, it won't go that way.
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I just want Bonnie to dip her finger in it, even for five seconds inhabit the cloak of divinity that is hers by right and destroy some shit or some people and laugh while she does it. Then the show, being the show, can punish her for it and all that rubbish. But just give us a taste. All the better, if she does it while using Professor Shady for transcendent god-sex with a lot of magical channeling. (priorities, I have them, and they are singular).
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Ugh, shut the front door. Please can I have that?
If the show does make this ship happen, I am almost preemptively embarrassed for how much smut I'm going to write. I mean, it's going to happen regardless. But.
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Great choices!
Now I'm wondering if I should put my moment on livejournal. Hmm.
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Thank you!
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1. Doppelganger mythology, which I love, but the show doesn't care about unless it's convenient.
2. Originals because lol.
3. Werewolves. What are they? Why are they so useless? Tell us more.
4. Hybrids. Why they exist, the lord knows.
5. The Council.
6. Anything to do with anything to do with the town and how it interacts with/doesn't interact with the supernatural.
7. I mean they might surprise us but lol, the hunter mythology is already looking ratchet - but killing Connor will do that.
And yes, my bitterness at Stefan. Sigh.
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Yes. I'm so, so tired of people erasing Bonnie's development in the attempt to defend her -- as though being a witch isn't a crucial part of her identity, as though she doesn't define herself as such. If you want to ~get to know~ Bonnie, pay attention to how she uses her powers, jfc.
and she’s seated above him grinning and looking like she might be on the tip of a really amazing orgasm.
ikr
This isn’t about Bonnie being used as a plot device, it’s about the lengths and depths to which she’s willing to go in order to DO, to help, to protect and save the people she considers her own.
Y E S. I can add nothing.
And I am 100% sure that Bonnie’s journey this season is moving towards finding the balance or tipping it in favour of witch as independent agent who does whatever the fuck she wants; witch as “architect” of the supernatural universe and actually the most powerful ( ... )
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Preach.
Amen. Obviously I'm wary because - this show - but I think that's clearly the shape of her arc and has been for a long time now.
Me too, me too. please don't disappoint too much show.
The thing is that yes, she has a very strong moral core and she can't not help people in need, but there's always been a lot of hubris in her -- because she can do things that others cannot. Yes this. It's what always troubled me about people saying that she's the most "heroic" character on the show and implying that her base motivation for doing things is simple altruism. It flattens her out as a character and it doesn't really jive with so many of her actions - I just need this season to get her to articulate something to this effect this season because surely ( ... )
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lol, you're not the only one :) I enjoyed that scene on several different levels, one of them being reveling in Bonnie's utter POWER and perfection.
Ugh, and that second moment...I LOVE your theory that Bonnie did this more because she wanted the POWER to save someone than because she wanted to be Elena's hero.
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I LOVE your theory that Bonnie did this more because she wanted the POWER to save someone than because she wanted to be Elena's hero.
Thank you. I am so uncomfortable with the readings that (a) Bonnie is motivated purely by her love for Elena (b) she is just a purely heroic in the most altruistic sense of the word character - although both of these things are part of what drives her? But there is just so much more to this girl who saw her dead grandmother on a bed and knew that the reason the most important person in her life was dead was because SHE asked her to do a big spell, and SHE wasn't powerful enough to take the brunt. And I think that we see Bonnie building up her walls and her ideas about what power means (it means not getting hurt, not letting the people around you get hurt, it means not being weak, it means answering the call even if you have to pay the price with your life, it means making decisions about who gets to die or people's bodily autonomy to save the people you care about etc. etc ( ... )
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The world doesn't play by any rules, and I feel like somewhere she thinks that means she shouldn't have to abide by its arbitrary limitations like "life and death" because it's only fair.
She's long past the stage where she could abide by these sorts of arbitrary limitations. I feel like Mystic Falls is such a frontier space in a sense? At least for someone like Bonnie, she does want to "hold the line", to keep the dangers from flourishing, it is a place where everything around her is a threat and every one of them is being forced to become someone or something else that's capable of surviving there - and this is Bonnie's route which is distinct from everyone else because of her power and the control magic gives her. Favourite forever basically.
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