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True Fax #1: I have only ever liked Jeremy with Anna. The actors have amazing chemistry -- it's the only time I've ever not felt like Jeremy should have been written as gay since he normally has all the chemistry with the guys -- I think they're visually appealing, and I just really love Anna and want her to be happy no matter what. So when she was all alone, and then there was Pearl I started sobbing like a four year-old who found out 5 years too soon that Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth fairy are all lies.

True Fax #2: Sheila Bennett was killed 1.5 seasons too early. Jasmine Guy is beautiful and talented and she's lately had financial problems yet another reason why Sheila was killed off too soon. We left Pearl and Anna and turned around to Bonnie and Sheila and suddenly my sobbing turned up another 20 degrees and all I could think about was how much Bonnie needs someone in her life to help her out seeing as how other than Alaric and Caroline she's the only person in Mystic Falls with any sense.

True Fax#3: Damon is my favorite vampire on the show and the only time I love it more than when he's saving everyone including people he doesn't recognize as anything other than food, is when he's being tortured. I especially loved that he thought Ripper!Stefan was playing games with him!!!

True Fax#4: After Sheila's untimely death, Mason Lockwood's untimely death is the one I hated most. Why? Because the narrative moved too quickly for me to write an epic [read 6000 words, my writing epic is short, but my reading epic can be over 300k, just saying] Mason and Damon and Alaric threesome filled with bourbon, self-loathing, torture, and more sex than you shake a cave loaded with anti-vampire devices at. I had actually forgotten how hard Mason eye-fucks Damon until last night, and lo I miss it verily. What? It's Ren Faire season, didn't you know?

True Fax #5: If Mrs. Mayor Lockwood doesn't suddenly decide that Caroline is the A#1 best person in the world after saving her ass from the pissed of Tomb Vampire Ghosts, I will switch out all her vervain with wolfsbane and laugh when she gets her ass compelled by some random vampire that Damon eventually rips the heart out of.

True Fax #6: Is it really helping Stefan to be better when you're really just torturing him? Doesn't an addict have to make the decision to clean up on his own? It's no damn wonder Stefan was always falling off the wagon.

True Fax#7: Lex Luthor is on his way to Mystic Falls. He's going to Co-op the Lockwood Caves and MAKE THEM HIS OWN MWA HA HA HA HA

I read an AWESOME Stefan character study last night i am the conscience clear by

softly_me that just *nails* Stefan's characterization in a way that no one else has explored [to my knowledge] and Yes, THIS, and it fits so perfectly with last night. Stefan lives/dies as a reaction to the world around him. He lets other people make the rules and he follows them because he doesn't have a moral compass of his own because he lives/breathes/dies: rationalization

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I am probably the only person who's going to think this, but I think Bonnie is being too hard on Jeremy. He loved Anna, he lost her too soon, and he had more time with her than Matt had with Vickie, who was also trying to kill people when he let her go. That matters. It matters that they're all children and I'm trying to hold onto that but mostly? I think Bonnie is being incredibly unfair and self-righteous when she has nothing to compare it to, emotionally. Not even her grandmother, who god, yes, was killed WAY too soon.

Otherwise, I completely agree with everything. I was glad to see Lexi again. I get why she was killed but man, I loved her interactions with Stefan and she had real chemistry with him that was fun to watch.

Jeremy should indeed be gay. Damon and Alaric need to start fucking, stat (btw, recs? of really any pairing or rating?) I find Stefanus to be quite boring, personally, but I can see the potential they're trying to tap. Elena attempting to be a grownup was interesting. And once again, what this show does so well, is the plot moved. In what's basically a nothing episode we have this new potential way of harming Klaus, and we've made progress in Stefanus ~~re-souling~~ turning his humanity back on. This remains something I really admire about this show. No one has things move as fucking fast as them -- even if sometimes, in the cases you mentioned, they move too fast.

I really love this show. And I possibly need icons. Hm.

P.S. There are stories where someone makes Damon their utter bitch, right? Somewhere?

OMG, I LOVED Damon and Mason so much last night. I would have totally ended up shipping them HARD if he'd stayed alive.

And as someone with an ED, this whole "addict" thing drives me nuts anyways. You can't really be addicted to something you need to live. What he has is more like an ED than alcoholism or drug addiction.

Verily, I appreciate these.

Also, question: Did you keep watching The Secret Circle? Did it get any better?

yes! to all of these, especially True Fax#4. i mean really where are all the GOOD slash fic writers? i YIMmed that almost exact threesome comment to a friend during the eppy last night. i NEED that fic, like NOW!.

in response to various comments above:

it does seem the fandom is youngish. doesn't make for really good fic writing, though there are some (which you have listed) that do a fairly good job in this fandom.

fwiw, i do read just about every fic posted in the newsletter (though mostly the PG-13 and above ratings/slashy/threesomes/incests. there haven't been nearly enough dark ones for my liking. i really detest the happy endings and the schmoopy slashfics where the one guy is really written as a needy girl with a penis.

i want a LOT more Ripper!Stefan. i do not want him "fixed" any time soon. if they fix him too soon, i and all the fans (at least i would hope they feel the same) would be totally cheated out of a great storyline. how long did they keep Angelus. ( hmmm i guess it was only half a season not counting him coming back on Angel for a few eppys. LOL! i liked Angelus' badassery sometimes more than Angel. YMMV)

Revenge FTW! my favorite new show this season.

Secret Circle. *sigh* the ONLY reason i am still watching is for Dekker and Harold. i keep hoping, maybe, they will get around to really amping it up ala tVD but who knows. it is odd but on tVD they don't make me think "teens" whereas on SC, they seem more like middle schoolers instead of teenagers. fwiw, i think that Dekker and the lead blond seem to have a lot of chemistry but they are never allowed to show it for more than like two seconds.

yeah, that Damon dude. he had me at "hello, brother" :D

I had actually forgotten how hard Mason eye-fucks Damon until last night,

Like a piledriver.

I wandered over from the link in your newsletter.

I have only ever liked Jeremy with Anna. The actors have amazing chemistry -- it's the only time I've ever not felt like Jeremy should have been written as gay since he normally has all the chemistry with the guys

THIS. If Anna's out of the picture, Elena and Caroline better get their men locked down. That boy sizzles when he has scenes with Damon and Tyler.

And Mason gives Damon a run for his money when it comes to eye-fucking skillz. RIP Mason.

I finally watched this ep Monday night and OMG, you really need to write that Damon/Mason/Alaric threesome. Who cares if he's dead? Pfft. Whatever. WRITE!

Damon and Alaric at the end made me so giddy. Damon's "apology" was brilliant and Alaric calling him on recycling his words to Mason was fabulous. Those two just make me smile every time I think about them.

In related news... I dropped out of the mpreg bigbang yesterday. Then I wrote 559 hilarious words of it last night. *headdesk* I'm going to go see if I can cancel my quitting.