gratuitous TVD venting (spoilers)

[silviakundera]

A short rant about TVD fandom that contains spoilers for the new episode but doesn't really talk about the episode at all. This isn't related to anyone on my friend's list. Just had to vent. You know how that goes.

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[darlulu]

Wow, you make me damn glad I don't have many TVD fans on my flist if that was the general sentiment coming away from the ep.

I stumbled across an anti-Elena post on tumblr for the first time the other day that implied Elena hate was like a common thing online and all I could do was boggle at that. I get people not liking Damon (although personally he's one of my faves from the show even if I should apparently feel ashamed of that according to that latest bit of meta about bad boy woobies going around), but Elena? WTF.

[silviakundera]

No one on my friends list has been slut-shaming, just people in comments and over on tumblr. But Elena hate is nothing new to me unfortunately. It can go goes hand in hand with the Damon hate (people who despise Damon disliking the characters who doesn't despise him as well) but not always -- it can be just hating Elena for being boring/slutty/selfish/stupid/etc. Sometimes it's that someone resents that Elena is the protagonist instead of their favorite, sometimes it's other reasons.

oh well, I feel better after venting now. There are lots of good things about this fandom. The haters can't ruin it for me. :)

[swirlsofblue]

I agree with this so much, I was just going around the internets looking for some nice discussion for the lovely episode that was 3.10, and then am barraged with all of the annoyingness of haters. You're completely right Elena is the only one who gets to decide who gets to kiss Elena, although there's also some debate somewhere that Elena was too scared to pull away--I'm really not sure what show those people are watching. Also Stefan said that Elena's brother dying wasn't his problem; they've already been broken up, but that's rather shattering the broken pieces. I don't really ship Stefan/Elena or Damon/Elena, and it's all just so frustrating.

Side note; I did wonder why Jeremy didn't ingest Vervain straight away after almost getting turned into roadkill.

[silviakundera]

I did wonder why Jeremy didn't ingest Vervain straight away after almost getting turned into roadkill.
I know, right?! The first thing I would have done would be to chug some. I'd be like GIVE THE VERVAIN. GODDAMN IT VERVAIN ME PEOPLE.

[mickeym]

Ah, fandom. Never a dull moment, yeah?

I don't watch TVD. I recognize the names, but I couldn't tell you which vampire was which. I do, however, know a little something about fandoms that lose their shit over stuff like you're describing. (Someone posted a story in SPN very recently where one of the 'warnings' was for "that bitch Cassie". o_O)

You have my sympathies w/ the stupid :)

[silviakundera]

I know, that's the frustrating part isn't it? That we can recognize this stuff because we see it again and again.

(that bitch Cassie what? ahahahaha. oh, FANDOM.)

[mir8lle]

So much yes. SO.MUCH!

[turnonmyheels]

AMEN