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[leianaberrie]

New Year Resolutions

I'm fairly confident enough to put this up now...

Finish:

January - Yibbum (Jan 16th) / Take What You Want and Pay For It

February - I’ll Wed You In The Golden Summertime / Taking Me Over Completely

March - There by the grace of god 

Write 12 Chapters of Long Shadows: The plan is to churn a new chapter every month. Caveat is that it might still be in 'first draft' stage but at least it's a start! I think I need more than 12 chapters to finish this so

[merlotbooks]

Cassandra Clare never "promised" anything.

An author is allowed to go in a different direction with a book she hadn't even started writing yet when she first started talking about it.

Cassandra Clare is a non-autistic author writing from the POV of an autistic character. She has said before that she doesn't even want to release snippets from Ty's POV without having them reviewed by sensitivity readers (which many of you seem to have forgotten in your constant demands for Ty snippets). I think it makes sense for her to decide not to make him a main POV in the book (if that's even the reason. It may very well not be).

He'll still be a main character.

Keep in mind that this is only the first book. Remember in TID when Jem didn't have a POV up until a certain point because he had secrets that the reader wasn't supposed to know yet?

Stop treating authors like your own personal vending machines. It's her book to write, you're just reading it.

[leianaberrie]

who wants to join me on a new adventure?

If I decide to file off the serial numbers in some of my fanfiction, take full creative ownership of them (which means retroactively fixing a lot of the issues that simply do not work in the original story), would anyone be interested in following this journey?

[smartestpersonintheroom]

I realized I was talking to a wall when the same person that's arguing that readers have the same right as a paying consumers to negatively criticize free fanfiction accused ME of not seeing the relationship between writers and readers as a community.

It kind of blows my mind how this is even something that needs to be explained? That being part of a community means being gracious and appreciative of people who contribute to the common wealth of the community. And just because I personally don't like A thing, doesn't mean that I can't appreciate that someone took the time and effort to make A thing and that there are other people in the community who even like A thing, and I shouldn't prevent those other people from enjoying and/or receiving more of A thing?

But please tell us all how entitled readers spewing negativity is more beneficial to the fandom community.

[lengthofropes]

[allatariel]

#even Anakin is tired of being called ‘problematic’

@the-far-bright-center, this is the best tag ever, thank you for this.

[leianaberrie]

Had Kevin been around when the Parkers/Gemini got introduced I have no doubt he would’ve done a better job with their fucked up family and coven and they’d probably would’ve been as popular as The Originals. But that other anon is right, despite not getting explored properly the Parkers were still more relevant than the Heretics. Who were failed attempts at the Mikaelson’s.

Someome correct me if I'm wrong but I read somewhere that he had a hand in shaping the start of season 6?

[leianaberrie]

In your opinion, which TVD characters that don't deserve a redemption arc?

Damon, Damon, and before I forget, Damon.

[leianaberrie]

Kat Graham and Penelope Mitchell were at a panel together talking about how Kat pitched for BonLiv to happen. And of course TPTB say no. Ugh! This is my “old man shaking my fist at the clouds” moment. Because what you mean we could’ve had Liv and Kai thirsting after Bonnie and some sorta Bonkai/Bonliv triangle? All the sassy Liv and Kai bickering over Bonnie we missed out on.

Here’s the link at the 25:47 timestamp.

https://youtu.be/p55m_2UJWdg?si=DQFlRlVpKpW_jtZv

Wow. Julie just shut Kat down on everything, didn't she?

And Liv crushing on Bonnie would have even explained all that disproportionate antagonism and made far more sense than whatever was going on with Jeremy. (Which, by the way, was completely forgotten in season 6 when Bonnie wasn't around to be hurt by it.)

Also that panel looks lit! It has Persia White and Trevino! What other juicy deets came out?

[leianaberrie]

Plec: brings back Alaric - after he had a satisfying send off- for no reason other than to keep her friend employed.

Also Plec: I think Bonnie - the character that has great chemistry with everyone and unexplored witch lore - should’ve died.

Her racist ass disgust me.

It was the utter obliviousness that astounded me. She couldn't even see the double standards.

[leianaberrie]

Did they ever mention before s6 damon stefan dad being abusive because i don't remember anything said about it

It was a retcon. A stupid retcon, as that, since apparently "killing a turkey for Thanksgiving" is abuse.

[leianaberrie]

Lmao I never even knew the school was on an old Salvatore property. I checked out after they killed Kai. I guess the name makes sense then. They still ignore Bonnie.

Yeah, the school is supposed to be the Salvatore boarding house in TVD. LOL, I don't blame you. You really didn't miss anything.

[leianaberrie]

I don't get why they even bothered with anything to do with the Gemini after they destroyed them the heretics had no purpose to even be there salvatore drama took over completely it made the heretics looked stupid

Julie wanted to rip off Game of Thrones and kill every storyline that made Bonnie even slightly relevant.

[leianaberrie]

The Gemini coven was so messed up I wish they did more with them the twins being siphoners with everyone still alive could have been wild Joshua parker really would lose his mind over it

Joshua would have been consulting the gods to see if his family was cursed. :D Mmm... that makes me wonder how the rest of the Gemini would react to 2 generations of siphons coming from the same family. Going by the heretics, the odds of siphons happening were about the same for every family, but what were the odds of them repeatedly happening in the same family?

[leianaberrie]

Tyler was shafted by the narrative and the characters. What type of storylines would you have liked to see Tyler have? Like if Mason was bought back instead of Alaric how would you have written Tyler’s arc with Liv?

Tyler was a natural leader, so I would have loved to see his mundane life reflect this. If the show fast-forwarded past the college years, I would have loved to see him running a million-dollar business and living in Washington or New York. One of his company's charities is halfway homes for troubled youths who - we'll find out eventually - are young werewolves who triggered their curses too early and got cast out or worse. I really won't want him to be a small town boy, whose life still revolves around Mystic Falls, but I don't mind him showing up there occasionally.

If Mason was brought back, that would be the kick in the seat of his pants for Tyler to eventually leave. Switch schools from Whitmore (why would a trust fund kid even go there?) to somewhere more prestigious. Maybe instead of Alaric, it would be Mason hooking up with Jo and getting involved in the Gemini business - and honestly? That won't have been bad, at all.

re: Parkwood. I would really have wanted them to explore how Tyler - the guy who's ready to save everyone, not just people he's in love with - handled a relationship with Liv - the girl who's ready to kill everyone - even an entire coven of mostly innocent people - to save or avenge her tribe (her brother and then Tyler).

[leianaberrie]

Maybe im mean for finding satisfaction that the parkers are the most talked about besides the originals and i know it eats julie up lmao but i don't care the bonnie Fandom is always winning

The Parkers were there for barely 1 season altogether, and they ate every wannabe villain that Julie introduced after the Kevin years. The most successful run of the show since the Mikaelsons and Julie had nothing to do with it.

[leianaberrie]

Oh I definitely agree there weren’t in perpetual fight mode. I always head canon that there were a few “normal” moments where they all got a long and did family activities that didn’t involve magic/calling Kai an abomination. One I like to think of often is that, Kai was praised for cooking. And Joshua also loved food and the art of cooking so it was the one thing they bonded over. Also Jo and Kai were teens in the late 80’s so I imagine they did whatever “mundane” teens did back then for fun too. Even if it wasn’t frequent.

Yes, I loved that little back story of Joshua teaching Kai how to cook. If I remember, Kai said his father taught him how to eyeball measurements, instead of using instruments which I found interesting. Was this just Joshua's own cooking quirk or did this give us a clue into how he related to magic? (Be more instinctive, less methodical?)

I think there was always tension, underneath everything, and that tension built every year. But it didn't build in a steady constant incline, more like ebbing and flowing, and ramping up on the average.

[leianaberrie]

Why is the school named after the Salvatores? Wouldn’t “Bennett” make the most sense? Salvatores weren’t witches nor did they do anything for witches and other supernaturals. Bennetts are the reason for almost every thing in the TVDu. And Bonnie is the one who defeated Hells Fire. Stefan just killed Katherine and sacrificed himself for his brother. But Bonnie actually saved everyone. So a Bennett school would make the most sense. But then that would require, Julie, the staff and the network to not be racist.

I definitely agree that Bonnie and her family deserved their "Buffy gets the Class Protector umbrella" moment. Especially after 8 seasons of the show treating her and Black witches as disposable weapons. I don't particularly feel that the school should have been named for the Bennetts, though. It was called Salvatore because it was the Salvatore old house which Damon donated, so that just felt logical. If, for example, the school had been set up in the Lockwoods's estate, then it would make sense to name it after Tyler's family, etc.