damon choose to go after caroline over bonnie because he’s a coward and he wanted a sex toy. bonnie is a witch, she can’t be compell. his explanations are bullshit. there thousand guy like him going after insecure or disable women and taking advantage of them. like his relationship with andy wasn’t useful but he liked to take away her free will.

Look I’m not denying Damon is a sexual predator, but narratively it makes absolutely no sense. Rapist don’t make sense but stories do. Him being a rapist makes no sense because it served no purpose to the plot or the character motives the writers established. And because his behavior is never framed correctly doesn’t even serve as an allusion to sexual assault–it’s just there and it’s random. Meaning it’s gratuitous.

Him not being able to compel Bonnie doesn’t really even factor in because that’s not his only form of manipulation. As I said in the “Damon has always been Random” post he had an in with Bonnie through Emily that due to the fact that they did nothing with it is also random.

You can explain it with the logic of real life but it doesn’t apply because the logic of real life aren’t applied in the series. In its current form just contributes to rape culture due to the way it’s ignored and framed as though it’s alright–that’s pretty much the only way it applies to real life logic.

We can discern certain things about his personality due what we see the same way we discern certain things about but Bonnie but the fact of the fact of the matter neither of these characters are well developed. Bonnie due to the lack of development and what is shown, Damon due to inconsistency.

Also they kept making him worse and worse and kept trying to frame it as “redemption” but the fact of the matter is what we see is the only characterization we have to go. Like trying to say Elena is compassionate doesn’t really work due to her never really showing these traits. So yes he is those things, but he’s also a bunch of others that you can’t make heads or tails of so the only consistent thing is abuser and rapist.

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It still irritates me that that they killed Enzo.  Say what you want about the pairing of Bonnie and Enzo but she was happy and after everything that the writers have TVD did to her, she deserved a happy ending.  Of course, they just couldn’t resist pulling out the Bonnie gets screwed card one more time.

At least she lived?  I mean that is the standard the show reduced her fans to.  I was honestly expecting her to die so at least I can say she survived that show. 

But her ending is still complete horseshit.

Don’t get me wrong I hated Benzo and how OOC it made Bonnie, and hell even Enzo, but I was no fan of them killing him off. It was a mistake of a ship, but putting her through pain to literally just put her “back in her place” just pissed me off more than Benzo ever did. And what I kinda hate most of all is that Bonnie didn’t start being Bonnie again until after he died, like for her to be herself and not Elena 2.0 she has to lose her loves one and be in pain, but I guess that is how Plec saw Bonnie.

But one thing Enzo’s death did confirm for me. Benzo was never for Bonnie fans, it wasn’t to placate us, and we kinda should have known because when does Plec do anything for us? It was for entitled Delena fans who were worried that Bamon was going to close their endgame because it’s thrown away flippantly the moment Delena becomes feasable again, hell the entire relationship was flippant and not in a good sense, but that’s because it wasn’t there to be satisfying for us. Benzo may feel like half-assed Bamon, but it shares more in common with Delena and that’s not a coincidence.

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Bonnie’s Alternate Wardrobe: Season 1

The New Year

I predict this year is going to be kick ass.

Imagine if Bonnie was allowed to look this fly and didn’t have to wait 7 seasons for it. 😒

Yep for the next 5 days I will being doing these posts about the AU where Bonnie gets to not only dress dope, but what clothing phase she’d be in since they didn’t even let her clothes say anything about her.

And like the real travesty is that in the books Bonnie M. actually liked fashion a lot, so that they stripped Bonnie of even these little girly quirks to make her deus ex magical negress makes me so angry. She had little to no “personality” to express outside of adjectives used to describe dogs like ugh.

And like the real travesty is that in the books Bonnie M. actually liked fashion a lot…

That’s one of the many things that the writers chose to give to Caroline. I understand meshing characters together especially if they’re excluding characters from the books, but Caroline is actually a character in the book and if there’s anyone’s personality that they were going to mesh a personality with hers it should have been Meredith. But as such they give Bonnie’s stuff from the book to Caroline and have been doing it from episode one with things like Damon.  

I mentioned in a post that Damon’s actions in season 1 were random and quite counter-intuitive to his agenda when he even approaches Caroline. But it’s even worse when you consider the fact that first person Damon kisses when he gets to town in the books is Bonnie. She’s the one he uses as his in and though I don’t quite like the idea of Bonnie being used (although I doubt she’d be abused the same way as Caroline due to witches not being able to be compelled) it makes more sense for Bonnie to be the one he first approaches like in the books. But the writers very adamant about keeping Bonnie in her place and like always her screen time, her development, her book traits are given to Caroline.    

It really was counter intuitive. Even without that gross ass Daroline SL in s1, considering that Damon ALREADY had an in with Bonnie by virtue of his promise to Emily, he didn’t even have to act like a complete trash bag to worm his way in. He could have popped up all flirty and bug-eyed and like “I just want to protect you” from the jump and it would have made more sense. And it was an SL easy to play the dark way to establish Damon as a villain. Preying on Caroline was just a bad move done in completely poor tastes and catered to rape culture.

The way they interpreted the book characters was just…so trash. Bonnie’s significant story lines got divested to everyone else, then when Meredith does pop up she’s 1) way older and 2) not at all like the books and then 3) disappears back into the abyss of ghosts of Alaric’s past gfs. Klaus’s character was neutered for the worst. So I’m really not surprised by the same being done to Bon in a racist and dehumanizing way.

And the thing that drives me insane even more is that they already establish Damon as the big bad villain with Vicki. She gets randomly attacked by him multiple times and he attacks her in a way the vampires are supposed to be dangerous. Everything he does to Caroline is unnecessary and drives me insane every time he gives the excuse of “it’s what vampires do” when justifying what he did to Caroline. Vampires need blood to survive so drinking from Caroline I get, raping her…vampire doesn’t explain that and I’m very sure that’s not the kind of scary they were going for.

And all of this is really sad when you consider this all happens in the KW years of the show, the often reveired years, but the show was always bad with it’s plot just not horrendous.