#mostly elijah soz but they are my parents so

[jennifersminds]

Hey! I was just wondering, do you know of any good and well written fic about Elena? With any ship? I personally think adlyb in ao3 is the best. Especially her Fairytale Ending fic. It's hard to find writers who can write her in character.

omg yes! i agree adlyb is amazing, my personal fav is the stars were brightly shining but that’s cause im kinda a wimp when it comes with like super dark relationship fics- like i feel elena was abused enough in canon i don’t really wanna read ab it ya’know? that’s not to say they’re not great fics, just not for me. anyway some of my fav elena fics are

I have fault lines in my bones by buries

elejah fic- super good, i really think it gets into Elena’s feeling on the sacrifice in a way that hasn’t been explored too much. Elena’s written beautifully a v in character imo. writer is @finnicks and i hope they don’t mind me posting ab this fic again im just totally obsessed tbh. rated E

this fic is a follow up to

i don’t have time to die

and

time is eternity

okay now this one’s a bit out there but works really well to my memory, idk if you ever watched pretty little liars but it’s an elena/alison dilurentus fic and it>> like you’ve always been lonely

basically elena goes on a road trip after the sacrifice and meets alison along the way

begin again by ElijahsElena is also great - elejah

who moves first by mournfulmournful - elejah

blame it on the stardust by allwritenow

eventually elejah but isn’t quite up to that now, amazing character study fic tho. basically elena is born remembering all her prev doppelgängers lives so she’s prepared when the salvatore bros come to town. the benelena in this fic is just 👌🏻

ash by @elena-mikaelson - elejah

i love a sirebond fic, like ones that deal with the intricacies and issues of consent that the show just looked right in the face and refused to recognition. 10/10

okay so there’s definitely more but this was all i could come up with now, if anyone has other suggestions pls feel free to add on. hope you enjoy these fics anon.

[banrions]

BRING ON THE RAGE THAT IS THE ORIGINALS SEASON 5 IN THIS GODFORSAKEN REWATCH, I GUESS

i want someone to write me an au of this season with all of my very specific needs and those needs are mostly: BE NICER TO HAYLEY, YOU SHITTY, SHITTY WRITERS

CAROLINE, MY LOVE. 

okay, i don’t remember why the fuck she does it, but hope kidnapping hayley or whatever is such fucking bullshit. 

bc she wants to see klaus. bc he is BEING A DICK AND WON’T JUST PICK UP THE PHONE. HAYLEY DIES BC THIS IS ALL SOME GODDAMN BULLSHIT. 

freya and klaus huggginnggg. GOSH. freya answering her brother’s “the years have been kind to you” with the words, “well you know, sunblock, the love of a good woman, and literal witchcraft” as the answer is amazingggggggg

THE FREYA AND VINCENT FRIENDSHIP IS POSSIBLY THE BEST THING ABT SEASON 5 FOR ME, I THINK

marcel wandering around calling himself the king of the city is my least fav marcel, honestly. 

i have.... rlly run up my quota of being able to stand elijah, so this elijah-centric ep is a REAL FUCKING DRAG, but damn if i don’t love seen jamie murray The Ageless Most Delightful Bitch Around again. but i haaaaate this arc so much and i don’t wanna relive it again. 

freya checking up on hope and just seeing right through her lies is... TEH BESTTTT i hate so much abt what these last seasons chose to be with the overarching plot stuff, but i wish SO BADLY that we had gotten more domestic family stuff with both little hope and big hope. 

WE'VE REACHED IT FOLKS. 5X06 THE WORST EP IN EXISTENCE 

HAYLEY IS SUCH A GOOD MOM. FUCK EVERYONE WHO MADE THE DECISION TO WRITE THE FINAL SEASON THIS WAY. 

the fact that they take her werewolf side away from her before they kill her just.... cements how absolutely shitty this whole thing is. her werewolf side meant so much to her. 

THE FACT THAT ELENA AND STEFAN RAN FOR LIKE FIVE FUCKING MINUTES THROUGH MYSTIC FALLS TO GET TO THE GRILL IN WHATEVER SEASON WHEN THEY’RE DAYLIGHT RINGS STOPPED WORKING ALSO CEMENTS HOW MUCH BULLSHIT IT IS THAT SHE BURNS SO DAMN FAST. 

phoebe’s acting in the moment is... so good. and so much better than this bullshit show deserves. 

I HATE THIS

IT’S SO SHITTY

IT’S SO SO SO SO STUPID

THEY COULD HAVE DONE SO MANY OTHER THINGS AND THEY CHOSE TO DO THIS???

THERE WERE SO MANY WAYS TO DO LEGACIES THAT DIDN’T INVOLVE KILLING HOPE’S PARENTS. THAT DIDN’T INVOLVE KILLING HAYLEY. fuck them so hard for doing this. 

ugh, i barely want to keep watching. YET AGAIN.

but the look of freya, curled up into herself looking so small, waiting for hope to wake up. sitting there in her grief bc she loved hayley too. waiting to have to be the person to tell her that her mother died. FUCK

all the freya and hope bonding stuff post hayley’s death is like.... the only good thing abt the rest of this season. 

also the freya and keelin stuff:)

AND THE FREYA AND HAYLEY FEELINGS FROM HER FUNERAL SPEECH. FUCK ME I’M SO MAD AND SAD AND I NEED ALL THE FIC

i have a lot of feelings abt freya trusting hope to make her own decisions abt what is best for her. treating her like a person with thoughts and feelings and choices the same way hayley always did.

FREYA’S PROPOSAL IS SO SO GOOD. i love her. i love keelin. I LOVE THEM. THEY DESERVE ALL THE HAPPINESS FREYA’S SHITTY BROTHERS DON’T GET TO TAKE FROM HER ANYMORE. 

ivy didn’t deserve to die. yet another shitty death/decision this final season. 

the thing that pisses me off is that i LIKE seeing hope and klaus bond, but it very much feels like at the expense of giving us hayley and hope, which it also felt like in s4, a little bit, only now it’s worse bc they KILLED HAYLEY IN ORDER TO DO IT. 

soz josh i just.... never cared abt you enough for your death to be emotional. but good job buddy, rip.

elijah telling freya he can’t walk her down the aisle. FUCK YOU, YOU WALNUT. YOU BROUGHT ALL THIS SHIT FEELINGS UPON YOURSELF, BE NICE TO YOUR SISTER WHO PUT HER WHOLE LIFE ON HOLD AND WAS HAYLEY’S PARTNER FOR SEVEN GODDAMN YEARS. 

freya panicking and blowing up her relationship before the wedding is CLASSIC MIKAELSON BUT ALSO TERRIBLE, but thank FUCK they give us rebekah and sister moments to deal with their damage and shitty trauma their parents gave them from it.

 I LOVE FREYA AND KEELIN SO MUUUUCCCCHHHHH

OH NO IT’S THE HAYLEY AND HOPE AFTERLIFE REUNION SCENE AND NOW I’M GONNA DIE OF FEELINGS 

THE GASP THAT HAYLEY LETS OUT WHEN SHE SEES HOPE

THE WAY THEY BOTH CLING TO EACH OTHER

HOPE DOESN’T WANT TO LEAVE HER ALONEEEEE

HAYLEY IS WITH THE WOLVES AND HER PARENTS AND JACKSON AND SHE’S OKAY SHE’S NOT ALONE SHE’S GONNA BE OK (she’s not. it’s bullshit that she’s dead but ATLEAST they gave her this)

THE WAY HAYLEY HAS TO SHAKE THE TEARS OUT OF HER EYES AFTER SHE FORCES HERSELF TO PULL AWAY FROM THE LAST HUG SHE’S GONNA GET FROM HER DAUGHTER IN YEARS 

THE WAY HAYLEY SAYS, “SUCK IT UP, BC I FORGIVE YOU, SO YOU HAVE TO FORGIVE YOURSELF. YOU HAVE TO LIVE A FULL, BRILLIANT LIFE AND COME BACK AND TELL ME ALL ABT IT”

I WANT TO DIE, YALL. 

landon is still artisanal mayonnaise but he makes hope smile, so, fine.

 I KNOW IT’S THE FINALE AND THEY’RE PLAYING WITH MY EMOTIONS AND IT’S FUCKING RUDE BUT I’M DELIGHTED TO SEE CAMI AGAIN SO FUCK YOU SHOW

the family dinner shot for klaus’ funeral is.... lovely and painful and i just wish hayley had also been there. she could have been alive for legacies to work. i do get that klaus, narratively, probably needed to die. he grew, he changed, not all the way, but he did change. this is a good death as far as narrative and arc and shit goes. it’s earned. klaus and elijah lived a thousand years. it’s okay. it’s sad, bc hope is losing family, but it’s ok. killing hayley wasn’t.  

VINCENT AND FREYA AND KEELIN MAKING THEIR OWN FAMILY STILL KILLS ME I NEED ALL THE FIC OF THIS AND BIG COUSIN HOPE

rebekah getting to choose. to have the choice. to be a human. to have a family (tho, babe, adoption was always an option, just saying) to marry the love of her life. to GET TO CHOOSE WHAT SHE WANTS is so so important to me. 

honestly, klaus and elijah dying together gets me. it’s earned. it’s emotional, it’s a good end to their story. they could have just done this and kept hayley alive. bc it’s a good ending in so many other ways.

it’s been a glorious ride niklaus, 

i mean

fuck

i am actually crying rn.  

ugh. there was so much that was infuriating abt this final season. but there was possibility there and i’m just sad they squandered it. i’m sad they did hayley so fucking dirty. i’m sad they were creative enough to think they could do legacies without killing both hope’s parents to do it

what a bummer

but, i had a good time overall in this rewatch. onto legacies i guess.