"Maybe I let him bite me."

[resnullius_bells]

(CW for rape mention, just in case.)

-Caroline’s scenes with Damon are chilling to the bone and one of the best horror elements of the show, and I think the subplot opens a dialogue that merits its own post… but for now I'll just say I’ve completely lost interest in it as a ship. It always ties back to Elena, Delena, and Stelena, and I like my badwrong monster ships to be about the girl in it and not another one xD (same issue I had with Josie/Vardemus-Clarke ultimately being about Hope). Anyway, my favorite scene is the sequence in the Salvatore house.

-Her friends’ and Stefan’s attitudes to it add to the horror in a very true-to-life way. For all that Stefan talked about how humans aren’t playthings and he shouldn’t treat Caroline like one, his plan against Damon required exactly that. Elena went gung-ho against Damon after seeing the bites and saw how bad Caroline was after his attack, yet jumped straight to dismissal and victim policing her the very next day. Bonnie’s caught up with her own thing and let’s out that judgey “why would you do that?” when Caroline tries to open up about it and says she might have “let” Damon bite her.

-The bitchier Caroline gets, the more I like her. I love how she shares that control freak/organizer side with Lizzie (otoh, the way she's processing her rape and abuse is 100% Josie -deny-repress-internalize-deny-repress-internalize). Speaking of which, I want to know more about Liz. I love that she knows about the vampires, and the whole concept of the council.

-Katherine finally appeared! And the way it happened was pulled straight out of Carmilla (the book) LMAO. Less sapphic, sadly, but I still like her. And I liked her scenes with Stefan, especially the “my brother plays rough”, “somehow I think you play rougher”, or the parallels it creates between him and Caroline.

-I officially dislike Matt. Blaming Vicki because Tyler and Jeremy decided to start a dick measuring contest (I still uncomfortably relate to her BTW). He has this paternalistic vibe I find very punch-able.

-I liked Jenna’s asshole ex Logan :/ Despite being a douche, he was still a better choice for her, since at least he had the courtesy of being the dead one in the relationship xD. And IDK, I like their whole thing, the banter was fun.