make me your aphrodite
A post full of randomness basically.
+Somebody should totally make me a Steroline video to Leighton Meester’s new song Heartstrings. Partly because I’m newly obsessed with it and partly because its perfect for the beginning of S5 and where their relationship is right now.
( Collapse )
I’ve been loving all the Stefan/Caroline scenes this season. Ship it don’t ship it, its wonderful. It’s all about their relationship, Caroline verbalizing everything so you know her part, whether she's verbalizing it to Stefan or not, and Stefan saying things to the audience that Caroline can’t hear, with his eyes and body. And even if its in front of Caroline, she can't see or hear it. And its horribly beautiful and I love it.
AND I LOVE ALL OF IT. I love Caroline resenting him for just leaving. I love him not being able to listen to her phone calls, out of everyone she is the only one he doesn't answer. I love her calling him a dick and walking out on him, because well, he was being one. I love her trying to get him to stay, opening up and asking him to stay, and him walking away. (A theme in her life.) And I love him dumping Ivy on her, leaving, and then returning, and her telling him she wishes he would just leave. And then this latest episode, where he doesn't seem to get it at all, doesn't apologize at all and Caroline leaves him there all alone, when he's finally gotten what he's wanted and tells him she doesn't want to be friends anymore.
ITS ALL ANGST. ITS ALL HORRIBLE AND WONDERFUL AND PERFECT AND I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
Its all just such a wonderful progress for their relationship, Caroline growing less reliant on Stefan, seeing that he’s not always the hero, he’s sometimes the dick Salvatore too. (There is no good Salvatore Brother, its the secret no one's willing to admit.) All of these things needed for her to truly see him if a relationship is ever going to happen. And I’d like a slow burn please. :D (Though I also want to see their faces smooshed together, so show, don't let me down.)
But back to the song. Not all the lyrics fit but there’s lines like Now you're feeling all alone, I bet you're sorry now but that’s what you wanted. and You only did this to yourself. and finally, I was fighting, for you. Now I'm fine without you.
Seriously how perfect would that video be? I’d even take art or anything. It would just be perfect.
But then, I like a good angsty video...
+I have a lot of Arrow feelings. Mostly Thea and Felicity related (especially after the last episode). But I don't know how to voice them. Someone come talk to me.
+I'm rewatching S5 of Buffy at the moment. And I spent like half of last night bawling. Its probably my favorite season (though I'm glad the show doesn't end that season for many reasons), but yeah, it makes me cry. Dawn and Buffy and Joyce. I CRY.
+And a meme, because I love memes and sometimes they encourage my muse.sometimes they don't.
Give me a character and I will tell you:
How I feel about this character:
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
My unpopular opinion about this character:
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
My het ship:
My fem/slash ship:
My OTP:
My OT3:
My cross over ship:
A headcanon fact:
My gender bend:
(Fandoms mostly in my profile page. Otherwise you can just shout out characters until we get one that we both know. :D)
+Somebody should totally make me a Steroline video to Leighton Meester’s new song Heartstrings. Partly because I’m newly obsessed with it and partly because its perfect for the beginning of S5 and where their relationship is right now.
( Collapse )
I’ve been loving all the Stefan/Caroline scenes this season. Ship it don’t ship it, its wonderful. It’s all about their relationship, Caroline verbalizing everything so you know her part, whether she's verbalizing it to Stefan or not, and Stefan saying things to the audience that Caroline can’t hear, with his eyes and body. And even if its in front of Caroline, she can't see or hear it. And its horribly beautiful and I love it.
AND I LOVE ALL OF IT. I love Caroline resenting him for just leaving. I love him not being able to listen to her phone calls, out of everyone she is the only one he doesn't answer. I love her calling him a dick and walking out on him, because well, he was being one. I love her trying to get him to stay, opening up and asking him to stay, and him walking away. (A theme in her life.) And I love him dumping Ivy on her, leaving, and then returning, and her telling him she wishes he would just leave. And then this latest episode, where he doesn't seem to get it at all, doesn't apologize at all and Caroline leaves him there all alone, when he's finally gotten what he's wanted and tells him she doesn't want to be friends anymore.
ITS ALL ANGST. ITS ALL HORRIBLE AND WONDERFUL AND PERFECT AND I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT.
Its all just such a wonderful progress for their relationship, Caroline growing less reliant on Stefan, seeing that he’s not always the hero, he’s sometimes the dick Salvatore too. (There is no good Salvatore Brother, its the secret no one's willing to admit.) All of these things needed for her to truly see him if a relationship is ever going to happen. And I’d like a slow burn please. :D (Though I also want to see their faces smooshed together, so show, don't let me down.)
But back to the song. Not all the lyrics fit but there’s lines like Now you're feeling all alone, I bet you're sorry now but that’s what you wanted. and You only did this to yourself. and finally, I was fighting, for you. Now I'm fine without you.
Seriously how perfect would that video be? I’d even take art or anything. It would just be perfect.
But then, I like a good angsty video...
+I have a lot of Arrow feelings. Mostly Thea and Felicity related (especially after the last episode). But I don't know how to voice them. Someone come talk to me.
+I'm rewatching S5 of Buffy at the moment. And I spent like half of last night bawling. Its probably my favorite season (though I'm glad the show doesn't end that season for many reasons), but yeah, it makes me cry. Dawn and Buffy and Joyce. I CRY.
+And a meme, because I love memes and sometimes they encourage my muse.
Give me a character and I will tell you:
How I feel about this character:
All the people I ship romantically with this character:
My non-romantic OTP for this character:
My unpopular opinion about this character:
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:
My het ship:
My fem/slash ship:
My OTP:
My OT3:
My cross over ship:
A headcanon fact:
My gender bend:
(Fandoms mostly in my profile page. Otherwise you can just shout out characters until we get one that we both know. :D)
no subject
I would talk to you about Arrow, but I don't watch it. Sorry.
Okay, I'm sure somebody else already gave you her for one of these at some point but I realized that I know she's one of your favorites but I actually don't really know your answers to these (at least not for certain, I can only guess at some. :)
Winifred 'Fred' Burkle. :)
ETA: And of course I can't really help with that vid either because I don't possess TVD season 5, but if you have a song (one that you possess and could send me as mp3 if needed) that you want Chlex to be vidded to you can give me that because I wanna try vidding a pairing from the same show for once. (though this one would be a challenge for me too because I'm not that familiar with all of Lex's scenes)
no subject
And then Stefan, well he is being a dick. But his loss of Damon is fueling so much of it. And you get that when you see the whole story, when you see that his "new life" includes lettng guys at bars beat him up because he thinks he deserves it. But Caroline doesn't know all that, she doesn't know about the guilt or him feeling lost, because he's not telling her. All she sees is another person who chose to walk out of her life. And like you said, even when you understand the bad behavior, it doesn't excuse the bad behavior.
And yes, I want this to lead to more. I want this to be the beginning of something more. Its Caroline fully seeing Stefan (because they kept the two away in S3 so she saw less of crazy ripper stefan/stefan going to far and honestly we don't even know how much she knows about what in S3 because the show never told us.) I want it to be them seeing each other for who they are, the real thems completly, and realizing that they love the whole person not just the parts that they've seen. (Like I said, a nice slow burn that ends up with lots of moments of their faces smooshed together.)
I know you would. :D
I LOVE that your considering doing a Chlex vid, because YAY! But off hand, I have nothng. Maybe if I think on it? But I'm totally here if you need help wth Lex scenes if you decide to do the vid. My memory might be a little fuzzy but I think I should be helpful there.
no subject
no subject
And like you said, Caroline is understanding (sometimes too much so) and I think if he would explain/remember that he hurt her, she would understand. She lost Bonnie too, she's lost other people and she wouldn't know how it felt to lose people that have been part of her life for so long, but Caroline would understand to the best of her ability.
no subject
How I feel about this character: Well, you already know, she’s my favorite Angel character. (Though Cordie is right up there next to her.) I love how multifaceted she is, how she’s so many different things, things that don’t seem like they should make up the same person, but they do and they do so convincingly. She’s both victim and victor. Victim and murderer even. She’s caring and compassionate, but at the same time filled with a vicious need for revenge for those who those who have wronged her. But she also feels the consequences of those actions; they don’t just roll off her shoulders. She’s a survivor, someone who fights for her own survival first and then on top of that, goes back and saves her friends. I think a lot of her character is summed up when we’re first meeting her, and she saves Wesley and Gunn from full-on-demon Angel; the wild and crazy majestic girl who trusted the man who saved her, who she had just met, enough to lead him away and did it with blood on her hands.
All the people I ship romantically with this character: Yeah…Fred is one of the characters I ship a lot with, though I do have an OTP for her. Unlike other characters, like Cordie for example. :D So….Wesley, Gunn, Spike, Angel, Willow (they totally had a moment), and sometimes Faith.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Lorne; I love their relationship and that despite being treated so horribly by other types of demons like him, she accepts him as his own individual. How they banter and tease and make each other laugh and how even when she was her like sixteen year old self and she kind of thought he was Satan she still trusted him. After her death, how badly he takes it, how it changes him, is always so heartbreaking to me. I always think that in the end, she’s why he walked away from the group, because she was one of the most important people to him, and nothing he did or could do, saved her. He didn’t know that she was going to die or be taken over, couldn’t read it, couldn’t do anything to stop it. And I think it broke him a little. This took a sad turn. I apologize.
My unpopular opinion about this character: I think that I like her at all is kind of unpopular, LOL. Or at least that she’s my favorite. But umm…I’d say, that imo she’s not weak, frail little Fred always in need of saving, like some of the fandom seems to like to think of her. She is certainly not the fighter that most of the team is, but she’s not trained to be. But even from the beginning, she wasn’t weak. She had killed/was willing to kill demons in Pylea and when she returned to the world she knew, she saved herself in “Billy” on her own, against people she cared about, and she built the “not a toaster” gadget to help protect herself/for battle scenarios. And she did this all very early on in her introduction to the series. Yes, she needed help sometimes. But she was also strong and used what were her strengths and her own survival skills to protect herself.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: This is kind of a twofold answer, because its either that she never would have died (despite my love of Illyria) or that season six had been allowed to happen and we could have explored that idea of Fred still be trapped in there/the separation of the two entities like I’ve read about their plans. Also, I would have liked a stronger/more shown friendship between her and Cordelia in S3. (S4 wouldn’t have allowed for it, obviously.) They showed their friendship at times, but we never really saw how they got there, but also I think it would have been interesting to see their different personalities interact.
no subject
My fem/slash ship: Fred/Willow; they only had the one crossover episode, but they were so cute together and their geekiness would be adorable, but also they would both have that darker edge that they would understand in each other.
My OTP: Fred/Wesley. They’re my ship, though I often think people read them wrong. I like the darker aspects of their relationship, like how she went to him to kill her professor or how she went to him in the hospital, still caring about him, but telling him never to come back for his own good and that everything he had done was for nothing, it was all a lie. These are the scenes that got me invested in them. Not fluffy scenes.
My OT3: I guess…Wesley/Fred/Gunn. It would solve the triangle problem and they could all just love each other instead of being angry at each other.
My cross over ship: Hmmm…Fred/Nick from Grimm or Fred/Sam from SPN. IDK, I feel like ultimately she would always be with someone who was fighting the good fight against the supernatural and yet, could also understand that not everything supernatural was bad.
I talk too much
My gender bend: I assume this means who’d I’d cast if she was male? Okay, so I thought a lot about this and honestly, I’m still not sure. But, I’m going with Paul Wesley (ignoring age/timing) because I think he could pull off the highs and lows, the victim and victor, and the insanity/need for vengeance. And just the normal
womanman pulled into the world of the strange. Alll the things that make Fred Fred.as far as I know this has nothing to do with all the Stefan/Steroline talk.no subject
no subject
All the people I ship romantically with this character: I think Xander and Doyle’s relationship with her were important for character development (but I wasn’t really a fan of Xander and her) but it really comes down it will always be Cordelia/Angel for me. (Though occasionally in S2 I ship her a little with Gunn, but not in a sad it never happened way, more they had chemistry way.)
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Hmmm…Wesley? I always enjoyed their relationship and how different they are, but how they understood each other, and trusted each other, and they both believed in this mission they were on. And despite my love of Angel/Cordelia, I think while he gave Cordelia a chance, it was Wesley who first saw her for who she was/who she could be in S2 when she continued on with what she was doing, when he saw the toll the visions had on her, that she had grown. And that meant a lot.
My unpopular opinion about this character: Umm…I guess that I don’t think S4 destroyed her character. I mean, people have every right to dislike a season or what they’re doing with a character, but I don’t think it destroyed her character. It became clear that it was someone else taking over her body, it was never her, it was never Cordelia.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: That she hadn’t died. I like S4 and am fine with her being the big bad, or used as the big bad, but why they had to kill her afterwards seemed unnecessary. As amazing as “You’re Welcome” is and it’s a good ending, getting her back to her roots/who she was, it never makes sense to me why she couldn’t have woken up and just been a part of the team again.
no subject
no subject
My fem/slash ship: Cordelia/Buffy; which I guess means I should have added her to the list…but I have a big thing for parallels and understanding. And I don’t think either one of them ever really realized how much alike the two were, but they were in a lot of ways (and of course very different in a lot of ways too), and I think they would have understood each other in a way that no one else could have.
My OTP: Cordelia/Angel; I go for the doomed ships. Obviously.
My OT3: I don’t think I have one…maybe if I think on it??
My cross over ship: Hmmm, for all my love of crossovers, I admit, I haven’t really thought about this much. I think it might be interesting to see her and early days SV!Clark. She would push him and yet also help him save the day and she would force him to get a better wardrobe and it would become kind of adorable.
A headcanon fact: The first part of season four was the real Cordelia, that they did wake up Jasmine with her spell and she began taking over her body, but she struggled and didn’t understand afterwards, a part of her still fighting. It was after the beast had risen that Jasmine fully took over.
My gender bend: Again, I’m going with who I would cast if they were male? I’m thinking Jensen Ackles. I think he could have played preppy/football captain in high school, turned harder (though not as hard as Dean) as things like visions and death happened around him.
no subject
no subject
How I feel about this character: I like the duality of Rory. I like that she was a hard worker and that she pushed herself to be number one. But that she crumbled when she wasn't. That the world broke her at times in the simplist ways, by just not telling her that she was good enough, by making her feel like she wasn't. That's something I can relate too. I think sometimes the world/her home town was too kind to her and therefore she wasn't fully prepared for what was to come, and interesting to watch. To watch her go between driven and knowing and completely lost and not knowing.
All the people I ship romantically with this character: S1 Dean, Jess, Marty (kind of) and Logan. I'm kind of canon with Rory.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Rory and Lane. I have a lot of Lane love, so bias, but I love their friendship and how different they were and their paths on lives, how differently they were raised, but they are alike. And they do love each other and they have fun together.
My unpopular opinion about this character: Hmmm...I don't really know what's popular and what's not? I think there were times she was clearly in the wrong and I thought there should have been more follow through. But I'm kind of used to tv shows not doing the whole long follow through in the first place. I guess, I feel like she had the right to resent Christopher and his involvement in hers and to an extent Loreilai's life. Not because she was necessarily always right, but because there were obvious issues there and she was human and feelings aren't always built out of rationility, but wel, what your feeling.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: That her and Dean's last breakup had been more mutial instead of one-sided. It was obvious it wasn't going to work, but it always felt...unfinished because he just left. He didn't even say the words. So idk, even if it was just one-sided, I wish that it was more...explained I guess.
My het ship: Again, I'm going with second fav for this and the femslash ship, because of the OTP slot. So Rory/Logan. I know he wasn't a favorite amongst a lot of people, but I like what their relationship grew into and how they pushed each other. Though obviously not always in the best ways.
My fem/slash ship: Rory/Paris makes the most sense. I mean she'd never find someone as driven as her or as devoted to getting her her dream job, as Paris is, but Paris also wouldn't let herself fall into the background or think less of herself, as needed.
My OTP: Rory/Jess. They were riddled with problems, but for me their the kind of ship that grows into itself. Who they were at the end of the series was closer to who they needed to be to ever be healthily together. But I also think that he understood her the best of any of her boyfriends and that she understood him and fought to understand him, something that I don't think he had much of in his life.
My OT3: I...don't think I have one.
My crossover ship: Does it count if its not a ship? Just curiousity of how Rory would fare in the magical world/HP fandom. I think it would be interesting.
A headcanon fact: She loves her dad, she does. But once she was an adult, even a teenager, she started resenting him too. For all the years he wasn't there and all the things he missed. (This is kind of canon, but in my headcanon it doesn't go away. It remains there, even when she thinks she's moved past it.)
My gender bend: Again, I'm going with male counter parts...You'd have to probably change ages/think older Rory. But Zachary Levi, I think he could do the smart determined thing, but also have the baby-face/charm that Rory shows around town.
no subject
While I am a Olicity girl, I have mixed feelings this season on it. The first episode was honestly TOO MUCH to me. Felt like they were trying to cram an entire relationship into 1 episode and then pulling the plug. That said, I love how Felicity handled it. I get tired of watching the "waiting girl" on the sidelines (*sigh for Chloe*). So I'm glad she told him now or never, and seems to have stuck by that. As for Thea, loving her this season. The whining - gone! Spoiled little girl too interested in her boyfriend - gone! Hello, strong young woman!
no subject
I think the first episode was just trying to be big and also included/excluded those five months of semi-peace (Arrow world peace) that we didn' get to see. So it was very high to low. But I'm like you, I LOVE how Felicity is handling it all. How you could see that she knew it was going to end, and even after the kiss that obviously that meant somethiing, she was still strong enough to say that it was over and walk away. And like you said, she has stuck to that, even when she felt like he might be reaching out to her, she knew it wasn't going to end with happily ever after--so she doesn't even try or move. And I love that.
I'm SO hoping that Thea/Roy is over. I was never really a fan of the ship and felt like it swalllowed a lot of her own possible storyline. So I'm glad she has her own now, one that puts her into it all even if they don't all realize it, and I'm hoping her and Roy/Thea stays platonic and they move on to more brother/sister relationship between her and Oliver. I'd find it much more interesting.
And I feel like my talk about Felicity will lead to a lot rambling, so that will be a seperate comment.
no subject
I actually was pretty ok with Thea/Roy. I thought she was too wrapped up in trying to reform "the bad boy" but who hasn't fallen into that trap? That said, I would be curious to see strong Thea and Arsenal Roy interact knowing each other's secrets. They have both come so far. Though I'm not sure if I want to see it platonic or romantic. It would depend on how they react, I think.
As for Laurel, hated her from episode one. So my dislike of her predates Felicity. REALLY hated the little love triangle they tried to do (Tommy-Laurel-Oliver) in season one and glad they have since mostly abandoned Laurel/Oliver romance. Though I have to admit, last 2 episodes I have hated Laurel less. Still don't like her, but it is less virulent. My biggest issue with her is how weak she is and how unwilling to admit her mistakes. She may say "sorry" but never admits fault - this past week's episode is a perfect example. She called in the riot squad and inflamed the situation and never even admitted it was bad call. Just screamed sorry, let's move on. WTF? And last season when she got trapped in the debris and had to use the bow and explosive arrow, she whined about how she couldn't pull the bow before she even tried!!
no subject
How I feel about this character: I love Felicity. I love that she stands up for herself against Oliver, even from the beginning and she refuses to take his crap. I love how caring she is and how she cares about people she’s never met or barely knows. One of my favorite parts of her joining Team Arrow is that she did it to find Walter because “he was nice to me”, that that was her reason. She and Walter didn’t have a deep connection like he did with Thea, he was just a nice person who believed in her and she wanted to do the same for him. I love that she’s stubborn and human and that she fails sometimes or falls apart, because she’s not trained for this or she’s just…her.
All the people I ship romantically with this character: I sometimes overly ship certain characters. Felicity s one of them. Oliver, John, Tommy, Sarah, and I feel like I might be leaving someone out.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: I love her relationship with Captain Lance. Their interactions are so cute.
My unpopular opinion about this character: That you can like her and Laurel both, without it being some kind of issue. Felicity is one of my favorites and Laurel’s a little lower on the totem pole for me, but I like them both and hate that they get pitted against each other.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I’d like to see more of Felicity at work. I love that she has the big office and a position she deserves for her smarts (though Ray Palmer could have gone about it better getting her). I want more literally the boss of her department Felicity. Luckily this is a thing that might happen.
My het ship: Second place ship, I guess; Diggle/Felicity. I know they’re really hasn’t been anything more than friendship, even a hint of it on the show, but still. I dig it. I love how protective they are of each other, how they understand one another, how their supportive of one another, and how they both give each other those knowing looks about Oliver that sometimes make me giggle. :D
My fem/slash ship: Felicity/Sarah. They were so cute together and they just worked.
My OTP: Felicity/Oliver. I fell for a canon ship? Who knew?
My OT3: Built in OT3: Oliver/Felicity/Diggle
My cross over ship: Oh. I Surprisingly don’t have one. Though I’d love to see her and other hackers from other shows, like Birkoff from Nikita or Root from Person of Interest.
A headcanon fact: She’s searched for her father before, tried to find him, tried to find out why he left. But there’s no traces of him after he left them and she couldn’t find anything. And she doesn’t know if that makes her hate him or if it scares her. All she really knows is that with all her knowledge she doesn’t know how to find him.
My gender bend: I honestly have no idea for this. I feel like I could come up with female actresses to play the part, but EB made the role so her own, that I’m having trouble coming up with a guy to play it. That and blonde.
no subject
no subject
no subject
no subject
How I feel about this character: I love Spike, I think he's an interesting character. I just got done rewatching S5 and its such an interesting season for him, to see all the different transitions he goes through. Not just his love for Buffy, but how he changes into someone reliable, who cares about other people, who grows to care about Dawn and Joyce (he didn't leave a card, he just wanted to show his respect to the lady) and how he went from being obsessed to knowing he didn't have a chance, but still loving Buffy anyways. I love his "I'm a monster, but you treat me like a man speech'. I also love his darker side, that he is a villain, that he has been since he was turned. I love that after he got his soul back, he was changed, but he was still him. His overall personality didn't change. And yet, he was still capable of inspirational speeches and defending the people who needed it.
All the people I ship romantically with this character: Buffy, Drusila, Fred, and sometimes Willow.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: Angel. I know they hate each other half the time, but they're also family and they know each other better than anyone else, that's what makes them hate each other so much. Also Dawn, but they'd have to go back and fix things post S6.
My unpopular opinion about this character: I...don't know if I have one.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: I would have liked to see his and Dawn's relationship/frindship repaired. Its understandable why she hated him on her sisters behalf, but they were friends once, he was the first friend she made on her own, and they had a relationship. She trusted him an he cared about him. I wish there had been time/they had dealt with that in S7 after he had gotten his soul back.
My het ship: Tie between him and Dru and all that history and him and Fred and everything that could have been.
My fem/slash ship: Spike/Angel/us. I can't say I really ship ship it, but its pretty much canon and it makes sense to me. (Far more than other ships I've seen for him.)
My OTP: Buffy/Spike.
My OT3: Ummm...I don't know if I have one for him either. I don't see him as really the sharing type, evidenced by how he reacted to Dru and Angelus.
My crossover ship: Spike/Katherine. I think they'd meet up when him and Dru were on the offs reek havoc and then both go their seperate ways. And it would be fabulous.
A headcanon fact:
My gender bend: I'm still going with the who I'd cast as the opposite sex for the role, because I assume that's what it means...Cassidy Freeman. She's gorgous (and I think she's naturally a blonde), but she's also strong and looks like she could be dangerous just by the way she moves or acts. She's also sexy and can pull off that whole danger vibe needed for Spike, but also a more sensative side that comes out sometimes, especially with Buffy.
no subject
or: Katherine Petrova