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In the graveyard scene in 2x21 of the The Vampire Diaries, John Gilbert’s letter/voiceover to Elena was saying: “Whether you’re reading this as a human or a vampire, I love you all the same.”, and the camera was focusing on Damon and Elena sharing a look.
Elena will be a vampire in season 4, and Stefan will have problems with these changes as Julie Plec said.
Damon? He will love her all the same.
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I was always under the impression that Elena’s love for Stefan happened too soon. It almost felt like he compelled her to fall in love with him. I was joking when I said that, but, as we see in the season3 finale, it was Damon. He compelled her to find what she wanted from life, from a relationship, from love. Yes, I believe what she feels for Stefan is genuine, I am not saying she loves him because of a compulsion, but my suspicion behind Stefan/Elena was right in a way. While I will always say that Stefan’s approach with Elena was all kind of wrong, what caught my attention was Elena and how she looked at him, as if he was some kind of god. I don’t believe in love at first sight, I don’t think S/E can fit into this category, he definitely had time to watch her from afar, for months. But now, I am having second thoughts, because it was infatuation at first sight, for Elena and we know why. Stefan represented everything she needed after her parents died. Something new, not tied to her old life. Someone who didn’t know the old Elena. A fresh start. Now, I think we should just deal with this and move on. Elena chose Stefan. But did she, really? I’ll get to that right behind the cut.
So I watched Elena’s “it just consumes me” scene and Damon and Elena’s phone call scene for I don’t know how many times, I realized something. At first I thought it was only Elena’s need for safety that made her choose Stefan but I realized on watching the phone call scene that Elena made her choice without defining her feelings for Damon.
I love him, Damon. He came into my life at a time when I needed him and I fell for him instantly. No matter what I feel for you, I never unfell for him
A lot of people were annoyed that by this because it implied that she didn’t love him or even if she did, she didn’t admit to him while he was possibly dying. But think about it. When Stefan asked her to look him in the eye and tell him that she didn’t have feelings for Damon, she said “I don’t know what I feel” and when Damon asked her if she has feelings for him, we got another “I don’t know” and at that time I thought she was just afraid to admit to herself but looking back she honestly didn’t understand what her feelings meant because they are so different from what she has experienced or been told of what love is. She was certain that she was in love with Stefan but uncertain about what she felt for Damon so she chose Stefan thinking that maybe she loves him more(She’s wrong though because when a love consumes you is compared to one that doesn’t, shows that your feelings are more intense in the case of the love that consumes you). She even says in her conversation with Matt
After the accident, I kind of felt like I didn’t know how to live anymore. Like I didn’t want to. But then being with Stefan, somehow I figured it out. And that’s what love should be. You should love the person that makes you happy to be alive.
Like I’ve said before the very fact that she uses “should” implies that she is saying what ideally love should be but she isn’t satisfied with it. She should love Stefan because he came into her life at a time when she needed him and she does but something doesn’t feel right. Matt asks what’s the problem then.
The problem is Damon. When I’m with him, it just consumes me.
Now what she feels for Damon doesn’t fit her definition of love because they disagree on matters a lot as they both cling to their individuality and fight a lot because of it and when she is around him all her emotions get intensified and she doesn’t necessarily think from her head but rather on impulse. She doesn’t understand this side of her when she is around him and thus she cannot understand what she feels for him. So she thinks that how can what she feels for Damon be love? But it is and it is of the strongest kind. She said in 2x20, she doesn’t know what love is even though she knows she loves Stefan. She only knows one type of love but her heart desires another kind all together.
It’s not that Damon wasn’t enough for her as a human and now he’ll be. As a human or a vampire, Elena at this point wasn’t ready for Damon because she never actually sat down and defined her feelings. Matt did tell her that it was love but it didn’t help that he might still be holding a torch for her and the conversation between Caroline and Elena about Damon and Elena’s make-out happened off screen and again Caroline being biased may not helped in her realizing that she loves him either. Elena doesn’t have the best people around her to figure out this so she just needs time to be able to do it on her own. She needs to figure out what she wants and not just right now but think about always too and when she does she’ll know that it’s been Damon for her all along.
People feel her remembering their actual first meeting isn’t going to change much because she wasn’t in love with him at that point. I think what is important about that scene wasn’t that they met first but what he said to her about what she wants
You want a love that consumes you, and passion, adventure and even a little bit of danger
This is going to make Elena reflect on her life and ask herself what is it that she truly wants out of life. If what she feels for Stefan is enough then why can she only think about right now? Elena isn’t ready for Damon yet. Not until she starts thinking about her future and it’s actually good that she chose Stefan because she never “unfell” for him so she needed to choose him to see that they don’t work anymore. Elena needed to become a vampire to be reminded of what Damon told her so that she could rethink her life and what kind of love does she want which she otherwise would have taken longer to realize and when she does she’ll know where to find it. I’m not saying that she’ll figure this out soon but she will at some point because that is what her journey is.
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Can you imagine the amount of awesome, sharp, delicious, smart-mouthed snark that would come out of a Damon Salvatore & Jeremy Gilbert bro-ship on The Vampire Diaries?
Because I can, and it looks pretty amazing from where I stand.
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