I honestly don't care what you do with it, Daniel. TVD 3x11

[bookishy]

I meant to do a recappy post thing much earlier than this, but my subconscious has decided that my life isn't spontaneous enough and we should play this hilarious game where I forget my keys and lock myself out of the apartment at inopportune times. Keep in mind that in my seven years of upstanding key-ownage and apartment living, I have only done

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[youcallitwinter]

Oooh, I loved reading this; I'm suppose to be asleep right now, but I have to say:

Elena: (panicked) The hybrids are amassing down by the falls!
Matt: . . . But with tequila!
Everyone: o_0

WHAT IS YOUR BRAIN EVEN AND HOW CAN I HAVE SOME OF IT?! But this. is totally canon for me. Every dialogue Matt says has this line attached. And if it doesn't, I'll say it in my head. THIS BASICALLY IS WINNING FOR LIFE.

[bookishy]

But this. is totally canon for me. Every dialogue Matt says has this line attached. And if it doesn't, I'll say it in my head.

Hurray! You and me both. I will probably start adding it to the Fortune Cookie Game as well--"You will have great success in life . . . but with tequila!"

Anyhoo, yay yay glad you are reading. And I hope you are not still asleep! Or are sleeping again!

[ever_neutral]

Oh no! I've done that locking myself out thing before. How inconvenient. Esp. re: keeping you from chatting with us folks. D: But you are here now, and all is well.

If this show were looking for a job, I would happily be its reference, is all I am saying. ("Sometimes TVD spends a little too much time showing off its new tablets and Mi-Fi capability, but a good worker, yes. Handsomes up the office like you wouldn't believe.")

WHAT YOU SAID

1. Stefan.
2. Elena.
3. Ric.
4. Makers of luxury soaps and shower equipment.
5. Liz.

Flawless. I can add nothing.

Elena: (panicked) The hybrids are amassing down by the falls!
Matt: . . . But with tequila!
Everyone: o_0

WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME LAUGH SO

Also, not gonna lie, the D/E shipper part of me, which refuses to go away no matter how much logic you throw at it, did leap a little bit when she said "who falls in love with vampires," plural. I don't think Elena is in love with Damon right now at all, but I still think it's telling, and wouldn't be surprised if it was deliberately

[bookishy]

I wrote this long reply and LJ ate it. GAHHHHHHH. The gist:

Elena knows full well that she is heading down that path and that it will be a thing of terribleness. I appreciated that the subtext in 3x04 (in which she asked "what does it say about me?") was that she feels ashamed not just because Damon's awful, but because of the specifically awful things he's done TO HER. "Not right" indeed. Yes! Yes! This is why I don't understand how there's so much "I hate Elena, the writers have ruined her, because how could she ever like Damon after everything he's done." I'm always like first off, stabbing you, secondly the show is acknowledging all the time that Elena is hating Elena because she wonders how she could ever like Damon after everything he's done. It's there! She is having all the appropriate responses that she should have when forced into close allegiance with the only other person who kind of knows what you are feeling and who has been clear that he thinks you are the bestest and is always touching your chin and also really

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[ever_neutral]

oh no no lj

This is why I don't understand how there's so much "I hate Elena, the writers have ruined her, because how could she ever like Damon after everything he's done." I'm always like first off, stabbing you, secondly the show is acknowledging all the time that Elena is hating Elena because she wonders how she could ever like Damon after everything he's done

YOU ARE ME, I AM YOU. This is one of my favourite things about Damon/Elena currently! It is ~challenging her to question and examine herself and her worldview, etc. etc. And I think the show is doing a nice, subtle, NUANCED job of showing how D/E is in fact very questionable and discomfiting (and certainly not all that is good and right) but also "right" in its own way, in how the connection is real and significant to the characters despite everything, without romanticising anything.

For all his patience and understanding and restraint, I think at this point Damon would have a problem with Elena being with anyone other than him or Stefan.lol, he so would. He'd rather

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[bookishy]

You are totally sense-making! The sense-makingest, I think. They should crown you queen in all the logical countries.

I don't think Damon would RAAAAAGE if she started dating Matt. He would be seriously unimpressed and WTF, but he'd prob just throw up his hands and go bone Katherine for a while to pass the time.

Agreed. I think he would have . . . a fit of pique, but it would pass and he would get over it and realign the future of their relationship in his head according to this new, yet unbearably stupid, information.

I kind of can't see Elena being willing to commit to Damon THIS SOON after the disaster of her and Stefan. It's weird, because as much of a non-committee as she is in her r/ship with Damon, I feel like that's because he means *too much* (both personally and ~symbolically). EXACTLY. If the show had her move onto Damon this soon, I would see it as somewhat understandable due to her age and the stress of living in Klaus Falls. But it would be dumb of her, and while Elena is often naive and willing to wear blinders

[bookishy]

BAHAHA I think many of us could say that. ;)

Today I meant to go to the deli on the way home but walked right past it because I was contemplating what kind of candy Damon is. (Answer: a Kinderegg. You're like yum, chocolate choclate chocolate chocolate, wtf is this plastic thing? Guilt? That's unexpected, but not entirely unwelcome.). MANY OF US CAN SAY THAT TOO, RIGHT? *laughs nervously*

I wonder if there's a really upscale version of Bed, Bath and Beyond, because if so, I bet Damon goes there a lot.

I like to think he watches Bathroom remodeling shows on TLC. And jots down notes in his "Bathroom Idea Book."

Haus of Klaus is totally what the Originals' VH1 reality series will be called. If I wasn't trying so hard to resist falling down the fanfic rabbit hole, I would be writing crack!fic right now.

his disdain for Daniel was indeed a beautiful thing.
I am glad Stefan didn't end up killing him (he didn't, right?). I hope Daniel the Horrible Hybrid is a recurring character.

Elena's face was definitely not a protest face. I

[thunderemerald]

"But with tequila!"

You can't TYPE things like that, KNOWING I'm going to read them at work, because now everyone in my office is giving me funny looks on account of how I just snarfed my tea. Anyway.

You know, the only thing I DISagree with here is the shipping of Stefan/Elena. That crazy-arse car scene made me like Stefan more, but it didn't necessarily make me like them together more? IDK.

I'm also guessing beige.

And aren't my peacock pajama pants just the greatest? They are so soft and comfy! My mom hates them. She has wrong opinions sometimes.

[bookishy]

Tell your coworkers to snarf their own tea! I will write them notes, too, if necessary.

That crazy-arse car scene made me like Stefan more, but it didn't necessarily make me like them together more? IDK.
This is fair. I think I just dig doomed shit.

How can you hate those pajamas? They are cuddlebuckets.

[thunderemerald]

I just need you to write me a new schedule, with "snarf tea" in it, so that next time it happens, I can blame you. Easy!

I think "cuddlebuckets" has officially entered our lexicon. Oh no.