russianspacegeckosexparty:

scorpio-karma:

It’s funny while I will agree that TO is better in terms if quality compared to TVD, it definitely isn’t in the racism department. That was thrown out the window the moment they decided to set the show in NO, one of the few cities in the US that has a majority black population, and 90% of the main cast is white. Like that had to be a conscious decision just like setting TVD in 1864 (it’s the 1500s Italy in the books), Civil War era in the south no less, and completely ignored slavery even going so far as to call Emily Katherine’s handmaiden. Those weren’t happy accidents caused by ignorance, that’s just having a whitewashed view on the world and trying to hide it with “diversity” (and by that I mean the casting a few characters of color and calling it a day without even thinking about how they’re being represented).

And, oh dear lord, the white savior plot with Klaus and Marcel, one of the most poorly thought out storylines of the show, especially when the Mikaelsons started expecting gratitude for granting him a basic human right.

While I wasn’t a fan of how Marcel ran the city, essentially a dictatorship especially when it came to witches and oh, the werewolves–I always likened werewolves to the Native Americans of the show, but TO went as far as to actually banish them to reservations–but I was always more on his side because the issue I’ve always had with Klaus is his entitlement. Marcel worked hard to get what he had and Klaus feelings of entitlement to that because he “saved” him was just peak Plec–like how can she claim to still be this ignorant.

And don’t get me started on Hayley. Weirdly, I would have been alright if the baby was actually Tyler’s–at least then I know he’d get some focus because the writers don’t care about him unless he’s with a white girl. But overall I would have been more interested in exploring the Lockwood, characters we’re actually familiar with, instead of Hayley, rando girl number 3 there just to cause trouble for Tyler. Much like the Bennetts there’s a lot missing from their origin and will continue to be missing because his entire family line was wiped out.

We could’ve had Bonnie and Tyler growing extremely close when he triggered the curse, and discover he’s from a royal werewolf bloodline and goes to New Orleans with Bonnie to help the wolves and witches.

There’s only one ship I can even remotely ship over Bonkai and that’s Tonnie. Probably because they’re the most marginalized characters in the series and seeing them thrive together would just be perfection.

Although if Kai was in the mix I still don’t know if I could I could have in a relationship over him. Dark!Bonnie just appeals to me in a molecular level.

scorpio-karma:

houseyousana:

uh no disrespect to hope mikaelson but no one does it better than bonnie mother’effin bennett

Full disrespect to Hope MiKaelson. She literally exists as a way to disrespect the entire Bennett line because Plec can’t “relate” to a witch if she’s black, so she created white witches so that witches could have agency while leaving the witches of color as servants. All Hope does is continue that legacy so, yes, full disrespect for a character born out of disrespect.

russianspacegeckosexparty:

scorpio-karma:

This is what the prison worlds were intended for when the Bennetts created them but just like with the merging ceremony the Geminis found a way to bastardize it. It’s different with the Parker-Bennett kids, namely the Bennett part that needs to get it’s origins back since they’ve almost been completely wiped out.

There’s a door in the Parker-Bennett house, which leads to a customizable artificial world. The passage of time can be manipulated so a year inside is an hour outside but you don’t really age. Young witches and warlocks emerging stronger and wiser.