Before all this damage is done?
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vergoldungOH MY GOD YOU GUYS OH MY GOD.
THIS. VIDEO.
Just.
HOW.
HOW DOES IT EXIST IN MY LIFE?
WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?
I am a teary mess of gross ~feelings. JUST. CANNOT. DEAL. AM ON THE FLOOR. SOBBING LIKE A CHILD.
MY FLAWLESS FLAWLESS BABES.
MY CREYYYYS.
GOD. THEY ARE FUCKING UNREAL IN THEIR UNFAIR PRETTINESS AND GLORIOUS ANGSTINESS AND GUILTINESS AND GODDAMN WRONGNESS. THIS COULD NOT BE ANY MORE PERFECT.
AND I AM UNWORTHY OF SUCH BEAUTY. BECAUSE HELP ME. THEIR FUCKING FACES. I CANNOT. REALLY. I HAVE NOTHING LEFT IN ME RIGHT NOW. EVERYTHING IS TEARS AND BLOOD.
FUCK FUCK FUCK. SO MANY SHIPPY FEELINGS RN.
Alaric/Elena? The ship that angsts because it exists. And still manages to be the most undramaticly functional combination ever... Because fuck them, they are the worst of all.
Ugh, so angry at Ric for being dead. WHY ARE YOU DEAD RIC? HOW VERY STUPID OF YOU. Worst. Guardian. Ever.
Seriously tho, I ship this so hard it's my #1 TVD ship. I kid you not. (Will mourn it forever.)
Random fact : they are featured in the top-ten-ships-ever post I started forver ago. Obviously it's still unfinished and I might never actually hit the 'post' button. But. I am having overhelming Elaric(?) feels tonight, so flail is happening tonight.
Ahem. Hear my woe.
This is not a shipper's manifesto. I think. (It's not.)
So, Elena and Alaric. (My babes.) It speaks volumes that out of the infinite shipping allegiance that I have in TVD fandom, this is the one ship that made the top-ten-ships list. I am completely and utterly defenseless when it comes to these two. I really love both characters and ship them pretty much with all living things. But together. Ugh. I cannot.
To be honest, this pairing is the absolute worst. They manage to be the worst kind of incest without being actually related. (He's fills the profile for parental figure so many times it's hard to keep track. Dates aunt? Check. Married biological mother? Check. (Ahem, he knows her own mother better than she ever will.) Becomes some kind of legal guardian? Check.) Once you get into it, they hold more angst than a sane person can bear.
And at the same time, they are the most functional shit that ever was? When they are both irreparably damaged and so fucked-up by life that they can't help but strive for all things dysfunctional (baaaabes). The understanding that they have of each other is stunning. They don't only perceive and decode the darker parts of themselves. They are also very sensitive to the good traits, the simple qualities, the heroic urges, the pathetic needs, the childish dreams, the human hopes and desillusions...
They are both human. (Okay, they were when I first wrote this. Don't gloat. Don't fucking dare.) They suffer from it. They cherish it. They are family, the screwed-up kind, but family nonetheless. And for both of them, family trumps all. It's as simple as that. (This gives me INTENSE feelings. Because family > all things indeed.)
But mostly, they bring out the good in each other. Both have this terrifying dark side they're dealing with, but both are also extremely kind-natured and generous. But at the same time, there is Alaric and his cynical self-awareness that flat out refuses the lies of Epic Love. This ship is so beautifully non-epic that it inspires me a love of the most violent kind.
They are the ultimate domestic ship. And it's a thing of beauty really.
Not that they can't have ~epic adventures and be fucking damn ~heroes. Because of course they can/do. But they are just not an Epic Ever After. There are no grand gestures. No dramatic speeches. Over-the-top-ness is avoided at all costs. It's all about honesty and the little things. It's about staying grounded and making small steps towards recovery, nevermind how low you fell. It's about fighting for the people you love.
So yeah, as much as I cherish the crack aspect of this ship and I am forever in love with the dark and fucked-up parts of it (which feed my soul tbqh) ; I truly believe in the functionality of this ship. These fucked-up kids actually function and ughhh my heart, my heaaart.
Also. They are hot. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They just are. (This is important y'all! You know it is.)
FAZIT : I WILL NEVER BE OVER THEM. NEVAAAR.
ETA : TWO DAYS AND UNTIL I GET ALARIC/ELENA DETENTION!PORN. EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUUUUL. NOTHING HURTS. *feels drunk*
/This has been a post. Ahem.
THIS. VIDEO.
Just.
HOW.
HOW DOES IT EXIST IN MY LIFE?
WHAT HAVE I DONE TO DESERVE THIS?
I am a teary mess of gross ~feelings. JUST. CANNOT. DEAL. AM ON THE FLOOR. SOBBING LIKE A CHILD.
MY FLAWLESS FLAWLESS BABES.
MY CREYYYYS.
GOD. THEY ARE FUCKING UNREAL IN THEIR UNFAIR PRETTINESS AND GLORIOUS ANGSTINESS AND GUILTINESS AND GODDAMN WRONGNESS. THIS COULD NOT BE ANY MORE PERFECT.
AND I AM UNWORTHY OF SUCH BEAUTY. BECAUSE HELP ME. THEIR FUCKING FACES. I CANNOT. REALLY. I HAVE NOTHING LEFT IN ME RIGHT NOW. EVERYTHING IS TEARS AND BLOOD.
FUCK FUCK FUCK. SO MANY SHIPPY FEELINGS RN.
Alaric/Elena? The ship that angsts because it exists. And still manages to be the most undramaticly functional combination ever... Because fuck them, they are the worst of all.
Ugh, so angry at Ric for being dead. WHY ARE YOU DEAD RIC? HOW VERY STUPID OF YOU. Worst. Guardian. Ever.
Seriously tho, I ship this so hard it's my #1 TVD ship. I kid you not. (Will mourn it forever.)
Random fact : they are featured in the top-ten-ships-ever post I started forver ago. Obviously it's still unfinished and I might never actually hit the 'post' button. But. I am having overhelming Elaric(?) feels tonight, so flail is happening tonight.
Ahem. Hear my woe.
This is not a shipper's manifesto. I think. (It's not.)
So, Elena and Alaric. (My babes.) It speaks volumes that out of the infinite shipping allegiance that I have in TVD fandom, this is the one ship that made the top-ten-ships list. I am completely and utterly defenseless when it comes to these two. I really love both characters and ship them pretty much with all living things. But together. Ugh. I cannot.
To be honest, this pairing is the absolute worst. They manage to be the worst kind of incest without being actually related. (He's fills the profile for parental figure so many times it's hard to keep track. Dates aunt? Check. Married biological mother? Check. (Ahem, he knows her own mother better than she ever will.) Becomes some kind of legal guardian? Check.) Once you get into it, they hold more angst than a sane person can bear.
And at the same time, they are the most functional shit that ever was? When they are both irreparably damaged and so fucked-up by life that they can't help but strive for all things dysfunctional (baaaabes). The understanding that they have of each other is stunning. They don't only perceive and decode the darker parts of themselves. They are also very sensitive to the good traits, the simple qualities, the heroic urges, the pathetic needs, the childish dreams, the human hopes and desillusions...
They are both human. (Okay, they were when I first wrote this. Don't gloat. Don't fucking dare.) They suffer from it. They cherish it. They are family, the screwed-up kind, but family nonetheless. And for both of them, family trumps all. It's as simple as that. (This gives me INTENSE feelings. Because family > all things indeed.)
But mostly, they bring out the good in each other. Both have this terrifying dark side they're dealing with, but both are also extremely kind-natured and generous. But at the same time, there is Alaric and his cynical self-awareness that flat out refuses the lies of Epic Love. This ship is so beautifully non-epic that it inspires me a love of the most violent kind.
They are the ultimate domestic ship. And it's a thing of beauty really.
Not that they can't have ~epic adventures and be fucking damn ~heroes. Because of course they can/do. But they are just not an Epic Ever After. There are no grand gestures. No dramatic speeches. Over-the-top-ness is avoided at all costs. It's all about honesty and the little things. It's about staying grounded and making small steps towards recovery, nevermind how low you fell. It's about fighting for the people you love.
So yeah, as much as I cherish the crack aspect of this ship and I am forever in love with the dark and fucked-up parts of it (which feed my soul tbqh) ; I truly believe in the functionality of this ship. These fucked-up kids actually function and ughhh my heart, my heaaart.
Also. They are hot. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. They just are. (This is important y'all! You know it is.)
FAZIT : I WILL NEVER BE OVER THEM. NEVAAAR.
ETA : TWO DAYS AND UNTIL I GET ALARIC/ELENA DETENTION!PORN. EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUUUUL. NOTHING HURTS. *feels drunk*
/This has been a post. Ahem.
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Date: 2012-10-22 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-22 02:47 pm (UTC)Yeah, I can definitely see it. I think I first noticed a certain vibe back in Season 1 and yeah, in a very fucked up way it makes sense. And hey... we're talking TVD here - of all the fucked up things that happened on this show, this is pretty tame... despite the incestuous vibe to it. But to me, it's not as bad as, say, Buffy/Giles. Because Giles pretty much *was* Buffy's dad. The dynamics on TVD are different.
Still, my no. 1 ship will always be Damon/Alaric :)
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Date: 2012-10-23 10:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-23 10:53 pm (UTC)I ship Damon/Ric pretty hardcore as well and they were actually a pairing shipped it on/during the show also (which I never really could with A/E because of the time-line pace etc). Alaric/Elena basically started out as something I crack!shipped. And one day it had morphed into OTP of all TVD OTPs? I don't even know. They just fit together so well. They're fucked up the right amount, if you know what I mean? Like, I don't think Elena could do ~normal anymore (even if she'd like to sometimes) and Ric huh, way too far gone for normal anyway. But both of them would ground each other and be able to find a neat balance between supernatural and humanity together, I think. /ugh feels again
Agreed on Buffy/Giles. Their vibe is very different to me, way too filial.
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Date: 2012-10-24 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-25 10:22 am (UTC)