WE'RE ALL MAD HERE

Feelin' bottled up like bottle service broads How long can he hold his breath Before his death? - Daughter, Beyoncé

Kol is such a baby in this scene and I love him for it. Clearly, Klaus can't resist how adorable he is either.

Another reason to resent Julie, because imagine if The Originals was actually about the family becoming whole again...

Reblog if this was the last Klaroline scene you’ve seen on the series finale of The Originals

It's always risky killing off a character but if you have to, you must have them HAUNT the narrative. Let their death and absence be constantly felt at some level.

“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

The Laws of Being a Vampire

#me

Alice in Wonderland (1951) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske.

Shout out to everyone who is just so tired So so exhausted So very very tired so very fatigued so sleepy and tired So

Jules Laforgue, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "Lament to Our Lady of the Evenings,"

Jules Laforgue, from Modern Poets of France: An Anthology; "Legend,"

maybe i was born to read fanfic and obsess over fictional men idk

He looks at her reflection. She doesn't pay him any mind; just keeps playing on her phone. "What's sad?" he repeats.

"This. Faking the hero shit." Her voice is so unaffected, it's starting to remind him of his own. "And the worst is that I know you could be more than that. You could so easily be a hero. The love of the people would be real. The headlines wouldn't be written by Ashley. I'd have fallen in love with you twice over. But you just… don't." Her words are little dreams, and when she stops speaking, he watches them tumble off the table edge and shatter.

He finds himself staring at the ground for quite some time, looking for shards. He blinks himself awake. "It's too late now," he mumbles.

enlightenment & rebirth by @bisexualhomelander. happy birthday!

oomf’s posts about the humanity switch are making me think about how poorly defined the humanity switch in tvdu is. like i already knew this but it just gets me every time

in dialogue, some of the characters talk about damon’s humanity showing or coming back around seasons 2-3, suggesting that when he arrived at mystic falls in season 1, he didn’t have his humanity.

oomf is talking about how damon didn’t even bother erasing vicki’s memory and was acting recklessly in a way that vampires sometimes would without humanity. the issue, then, is how vague the switch is and how with some vampires it really is like a switch and some it’s more fluid than that? like in season 3 there are many episodes where stefan’s humanity is sort’ve trickling back, but it never snaps into place, it’s gradual. same thing with damon’s when he starts falling for elena. then again you could also argue his humanity was on the entire time because he was doing everything out of love for katherine and he was actively upset/hurt when she wasn’t in the tomb. OR you could say it was the ‘dimmer switch’ like stefan had and he felt some things, like how stefan still protected damon with his off.

and at one point i remember one of the characters, maybe rose, says that the switch is all a lie to make themselves feel better about being monsters. but then it’s repeatedly posited that they actually do not feel things (to a supernaturally caused extent) most of the time when it’s off. it takes extreme events to get their humanity to show again

𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚛 𝙼𝚛. 𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚗: 𝚆𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚊𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎 𝚂𝚊𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚒𝚗 𝚍𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚝 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚠𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚍 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚣𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚠𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚗 𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚠𝚎 𝚊𝚛𝚎. 𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚞𝚜 𝚊𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚞𝚜 - 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚜, 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚎𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚞𝚜 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚗…𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚎…𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚎𝚝 𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚎…𝚊 𝚙𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜…𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚌𝚛𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕. 𝙳𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗? 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜, 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝙲𝚕𝚞𝚋. Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson and Anthony Michael Hall in the Universal Pictures/John Hughes comedy-drama The Breakfast Club, 1985.

for a fortnight there, we were forever...