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Some things!
+ Okay, so episode two of Sherlock was a bit of a let-down. Not bad, just not nearly as delightful as the first one and also with some ooky-feeling race!fail. You could totally tell that Moffat didn't write this episode. Does anyone know if he wrote the next one? And is it only three episodes? I want MOAR!
+ Job search: applied for an administrative assistant position in one of the departments at my alma mater (I like calling it that. It makes me feel accomplished). If I got it, I would get to eat lunch with my sister and cousins (the ones who will deign to be seen with me) and see my former professors a lot more. It isn't my ideal job, obviously, but it would be five minutes from my house and pay more than I'm currently making. Which are good things.
I also updated my resume (which looks much more impressive now that I've had a year more of experience. I also moved my educational stuff below my work experience now, which makes it look like I've accomplished things outside of school! Yay me!). Other than that, I have done nothing, and I feel guilty but I just can't. This job search is going to kill me unless something falls into my lap.
+ Tomorrow: pancakes at the crack of dawn at the best pancake place in town! With my friends! Yay!
+ Also, I am seriously sitting here considering rewatching all of The Vampire Diaries.And also thinking that I ship Damon/Elena a whole lot more than I thought I did. Because I have been dreaming about it. Is that a weird thing to admit? I think my dreams, which have always been vivid and not-with-the-sense-making, have become more interesting and easier to remember since I went on this medication, and I sort of love it. Anyways, for some reason, TVD keeps popping up in various ways in my dreams.
Also, I rewatched the ComicCon teaser for the new season (will they EVER release a good-quality version?), and I have some thoughts.
+ I seriously ship Stefan/Katherine now. Seriously. Because Y'ALL THEY ARE ANGEL/DARLA 2.0! And as there is currently no one on the show who could take Cordy's place, I am going to ship my secondary Angel-related OTP on this show. ANGEL/DARLA! Stefan's all broody and trying to be good but recently struggling and Katherine blows into town and is like, "I came back for you!" Seriously, it would not have surprised me one little bit if she had said, "God doesn't want you but I still do." I really, really hope they go there and that these two are EPIC. Katherine is going to have some fun this season!
+ I really don't want John to be really dead. Because that would be a waste. Not only a waste by not having David Anders on my television screen each week, but also because we haven't even begun to explore his relationship with Elena, which has the potential to be all kinds of fascinating. And also because he should now be a vampire. Watching him become the thing he's always hated most would be incredible. Like more than I can describe. That should happen, y'all.
+ I reiterate my feelings that they should take the Damon/Elena thing slowly. Lots more BFF-ness! With UST! But don't really go there so soon, show! You'll ruin it! THIS MUST BE HANDLED GENTLY. I strangely trust the writers on this.
+ I could write a huuuuuge long post about how Damon and Stefan resemble Spike and Angel and how Katherine is sort of a combination of Darla and Dru and Elena is Buffy-ish (though obviously not as awesome as my girl). But I feel like it's all so obvious, so I won't. Still, the parallels are fun.
+ I find myself becoming a huge Alaric fangirl. When did that happen? Like, I liked him before, but now I'm all, "OMG HE AND DAMON ARE MY BOYS." And I just want more of them bonding and kicking ass so bad. I'm gonna be crushed if that doesn't happen in S2. I need an icon with the two of them. Also, my new never-gonna-happen dream for the show is Alaric describing himself as a rogue demon hunter and someone (Jeremy?) saying, "What's a rogue demon?" PLEASE.
+ Eventually, I'm going to want a good Bonnie ship, but there is no one on the show who is awesome enough for her. They should write a new character and make him cool. But not right at the moment because I'm content for her to be kicking ass and taking names. Also, in the little bit of Damon/Elena fic I've read, I see a lot of Bonnie hate, which startled me. I thought it was in character--and, frankly, probably pretty smart--of her to not disable the device. Sure, she shouldn't have lied about it to Elena, but she thought she was doing the right thing, and I can't blame her for that. I still love her. CARRY ON, BONNIE BENNETT.
+ Did I mention in my other post just how happy it made me that Caroline got Miss Mystic Falls? I want Caroline to be happy always and get everything she wants. And for her and Matt to keep being adorable and one day make adorable blonde babies.
+ Are there any long, good, completed Damon/Elena fics? Preferably with lots of Damon-and-Alaric-being-awesome-together as a side show? I've found some good shorter stuff but nothing long and complete. *sigh*
Yeah. I'm gonna go rewatch now. Toodles!
+ Job search: applied for an administrative assistant position in one of the departments at my alma mater (I like calling it that. It makes me feel accomplished). If I got it, I would get to eat lunch with my sister and cousins (the ones who will deign to be seen with me) and see my former professors a lot more. It isn't my ideal job, obviously, but it would be five minutes from my house and pay more than I'm currently making. Which are good things.
I also updated my resume (which looks much more impressive now that I've had a year more of experience. I also moved my educational stuff below my work experience now, which makes it look like I've accomplished things outside of school! Yay me!). Other than that, I have done nothing, and I feel guilty but I just can't. This job search is going to kill me unless something falls into my lap.
+ Tomorrow: pancakes at the crack of dawn at the best pancake place in town! With my friends! Yay!
+ Also, I am seriously sitting here considering rewatching all of The Vampire Diaries.
Also, I rewatched the ComicCon teaser for the new season (will they EVER release a good-quality version?), and I have some thoughts.
+ I seriously ship Stefan/Katherine now. Seriously. Because Y'ALL THEY ARE ANGEL/DARLA 2.0! And as there is currently no one on the show who could take Cordy's place, I am going to ship my secondary Angel-related OTP on this show. ANGEL/DARLA! Stefan's all broody and trying to be good but recently struggling and Katherine blows into town and is like, "I came back for you!" Seriously, it would not have surprised me one little bit if she had said, "God doesn't want you but I still do." I really, really hope they go there and that these two are EPIC. Katherine is going to have some fun this season!
+ I really don't want John to be really dead. Because that would be a waste. Not only a waste by not having David Anders on my television screen each week, but also because we haven't even begun to explore his relationship with Elena, which has the potential to be all kinds of fascinating. And also because he should now be a vampire. Watching him become the thing he's always hated most would be incredible. Like more than I can describe. That should happen, y'all.
+ I reiterate my feelings that they should take the Damon/Elena thing slowly. Lots more BFF-ness! With UST! But don't really go there so soon, show! You'll ruin it! THIS MUST BE HANDLED GENTLY. I strangely trust the writers on this.
+ I could write a huuuuuge long post about how Damon and Stefan resemble Spike and Angel and how Katherine is sort of a combination of Darla and Dru and Elena is Buffy-ish (though obviously not as awesome as my girl). But I feel like it's all so obvious, so I won't. Still, the parallels are fun.
+ I find myself becoming a huge Alaric fangirl. When did that happen? Like, I liked him before, but now I'm all, "OMG HE AND DAMON ARE MY BOYS." And I just want more of them bonding and kicking ass so bad. I'm gonna be crushed if that doesn't happen in S2. I need an icon with the two of them. Also, my new never-gonna-happen dream for the show is Alaric describing himself as a rogue demon hunter and someone (Jeremy?) saying, "What's a rogue demon?" PLEASE.
+ Eventually, I'm going to want a good Bonnie ship, but there is no one on the show who is awesome enough for her. They should write a new character and make him cool. But not right at the moment because I'm content for her to be kicking ass and taking names. Also, in the little bit of Damon/Elena fic I've read, I see a lot of Bonnie hate, which startled me. I thought it was in character--and, frankly, probably pretty smart--of her to not disable the device. Sure, she shouldn't have lied about it to Elena, but she thought she was doing the right thing, and I can't blame her for that. I still love her. CARRY ON, BONNIE BENNETT.
+ Did I mention in my other post just how happy it made me that Caroline got Miss Mystic Falls? I want Caroline to be happy always and get everything she wants. And for her and Matt to keep being adorable and one day make adorable blonde babies.
+ Are there any long, good, completed Damon/Elena fics? Preferably with lots of Damon-and-Alaric-being-awesome-together as a side show? I've found some good shorter stuff but nothing long and complete. *sigh*
Yeah. I'm gonna go rewatch now. Toodles!
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I am so glad you're watching DW! YAY ELEVENAMYRORYRIVER!
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1.Stefan/Katherine are going to be epic. I can feel it!
2. I don't want John dead either. People really hate on him and I don't get it. Yeah, so he's kind of evil master planny. But so is Damon.
3. We're so on the same page with D/E.
I wore you down, didn't I?. Slow and steady with bffness and ust, please.4.Alaric is awesome. Enough said.
5.I think a lot of the Bonnie hate comes from Damon/Elena fans being afraid of the Damon/Bonnie ship. Seriously people in this fandom are crazy. I don't like what Bonnie did but I GET why she did it.
6. And for her and Matt to keep being adorable and one day make adorable blonde babies.. YES.
7. Okay, you asked for it.
+History is, in my opinion, the best completed, post finale, D/E fic out there. There's also plenty of Damon/Alaric bffs and badassness. And other stuff but I can't tell you because IT WILL RUIN THE AWESOME.
+Turnaround is also Post Finale, complete, and full on DAMON/ALARIC/JOHN bffing.
+Cereal & Co. is D/E being all bffy and usty. Read it.
+Okay fine. here's my whole ff.net favorites list
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Also? Good luck with the job hunt. At least you've started searching. Baby steps.
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2. BONNIE. I...actually 'ship her pretty hard with Damon in a hatesexy way. I like Stefan/Bonnie too. I don't know, I love Elena and the Salvatores very much, but I want Bonnie to have endless interaction with them also. Also, Bonnie hate is sad and strange. This is why we can't have nice things, fandom.
3. CAROLIIIIIIIINE. That is all. (True story: I realized I had no Caroline icons awhile ago and immediately uploaded four to purge myself of my sin. Because Caroline should always take up iconspace, on every single account involving icons on the internet.)
4. I am very captivated by that gif at the moment. Everyone's hair is so shiny.
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The Damon/Elena stuff I've written is... kinda unhealthy and dark and twisty. Which I don't think is up your alley but
The Spike/Buffy parallel for Damon/Elena is tempting but I don't completely buy it because they aren't the same shows ;) Also, I'm enjoying Damon/Elena way too much and at least there aren't three earlier seasons with a different premise of how a vampire's soul works or doesn't being undermined. We've talked about this :) I think I also like how Elena's not dealing with just internal or just external stuff, which I thought S6 of Buffy dealt with too much internal and not enough external to balance it out.
The Bonnie hate makes me really sad but I've decided to ignore it for now. Apparently she's just awful in the books and I think people might be transferring that to the show right now. There's also apparently a Bonnie/Damon ship which they're quite defensive over. I got an ~education in this today by accident, but I think it's more reflex than anything. With a chance to shine, I hope the hate dies down.
Also Alaric is still love. I'm not spoiling you for S2 but I heard EPIC things about him. Js. :)
In other news, congrats on applying for the job and I caught up on SH! Oh my god. I need it to be so much longer than four episodes now. Or three. Whatever ridiculous restrictions BBC has put on it.
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Or perhaps that was just me.
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Angel was a drunken care for nothing pre-Darla and he gloried in being a vampire with Darla until he was cursed with a soul.
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And also thinking that I ship Damon/Elena a whole lot more than I thought I did.
YES. THIS SENTIMENT MAKES ME HAPPY. And word on wanting the slow burn. I am expecting no less than perfection for my potential OTP. ;)
+ Stefan/Katherine. Huh. Obviously I'm a big Angel/Darla fan, but I tend to get caught up on the "But what about Daaaamon?" part of this triangle, since I believe he really did love her whereas Stefan didn't (the compelling thing, etc). And also 'cause in flashbacks Damon/Katherine appeared to have this sort of endearing, more intimate dynamic (under the covers, etc). But I could be sold yet!
+ I don't want John to be dead either. 'Cause I kinda love him. And OMG HIM BECOMING A VAMPIRE WOULD BE THE MOST AMAZING PLOTLINE. HIM AND ISOBEL AS A POWERHOUSE VAMP NOT-COUPLE? Make it happen, writers.
'Cause I may ship that a lot.+ Damon and Stefan are totally Spike and Angel. *nod*
+ I'M PRETTY SURE I'M AN ALARIC FANGIRL TOO. And him and Damon are officially my new BROTP. (Along with D/E.)
+ I don't hold the disabling of the device against Bonnie either. On re-watch she's really growing on me - she's this intriguing combination of sad and hard-ass. It works for me.
Uh, yay for essay-length comments? HELLO NEW TV OBSESSION.
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So, Damon girl here. Saw that coming from a mile (and a year) away - there's a post somewhere in my journal I'm too lazy to find right now predicting this very inevitability. And I also really liked Anna, probably for the same reason I like Jessica: we rarely see teen girl vampires. Bonnie and Caroline are brilliant, and I actually prefer them to Willow (never was a big Willow or Xander fan, to be honest). I also like Jeremy, and I LOVE Aunt Jenna, for some reason I can't pin down. Alaric and Damon totally need to do their own version of Supernatural at some point in the near future, and I like how Dawson's Matt and Caroline are - this show remembers it's a teen melodrama on the CW, which Buffy never exactlty was.
Was disappointed that the Elena/Damon kiss was a cop-out and it was Katharine/Damon, but I felt the Miss Mystic dance was the show's official "Okay, you can now start shipping them" announcement for Damon/Elena, which is something I never felt as welcome in the Spike/Buffy relationship on BtVS (because we needed an AR to remind us that being soulless is a bad thing, and liking Spike makes us like girls who write letters to serial killers or something).
Ian Somerhalder is now Damon. Never, ever thought he'd be anyone but Boone, and now I'm so damn proud of him for his awesome year in the Lost final season and in TVD. Go, hot boy, go!
Stefan annoys me. Never saw that one coming. Yawn.
I miss Bonnie's Gran. And I don't know if I'd have liked Elena's parents, if they were as messed up as the other Founder grown ups or whatever they're called.
You know what's one TVD relationship I kinda liked seeing and would like more of? Damon and the Sheriff, Caroline's mother. I loved how much she relied upon him and accepted him (a residual from my "boo hoo no one was nice to Spike but Joyce and Dawn and Fred EVAR!!" complex - I like people who like my boys), and they worked well together.