so i see a lot of elena gilbert hate for some reasons such as the following:
1. she was selfish
2. she played the salvatores
3. she was a crybaby
to address the first reason, her ‘selfishness,’ a lot of people seem to forget that in season 2 she was perfectly ready to give herself over to klaus so that her loved ones could stay alive. not to mention stabbing herself so she could dagger elijah and put the people she loved out of danger. a lot of people also bring up the cure ordeal to point out that she was selfish, even though when she found out that there was only one cure she immediately said that it would not be fair for her to have it.
for the second reason, elena was a child when the show started. she was literally 17. the salvatore’s held her to an impossibly high standard and would punish her when she acted out of line. also, they were definitely the ones who toyed with her because everytime she would reject one of them or be mean to them or something like that, they would have sex with someone else. (damon in season 3 after ‘dangerous liasons’ and stefan in season 4 after elena broke it off with him.) also, stefan stalked her for a whole summer and then decided to approach her, all the while failing to tell her that she looked exactly like his ex. damon would lash out when she rejected him like in season 2 when he snapped jeremy’s neck and in season 5 when he killed aaron.
a lot of people call her a crybaby and seem to forget that when the show started, she lost her two parents. she was also left with survivor’s guilt because she was the only one who lives. also finding out that she was adopted, and then her real parents dying. not to mention jenna dying, jeremy dying for a time, alaric dying, also for some time. even though jeremy and alaric came back she was still traumatized by both of those deaths. also bonnie, her best friend, dying and her guilt for not knowing it. even through all of this she got up every day and still decided to fight, which makes her a pretty strong person, as alaric once said.
It was late in the afternoon when you came back to the Mikaelson mansion today. You usually never get home later than seven, but today your boss had asked you to stay for extra hours and you accepted. You wondered what Elijah had indulged in while you were absent today. Did Niklaus cause trouble again, or maybe it was Damon and Stephen’s time to do something to annoy your original.
You had no way of knowing, but when you opened the front door and came in to hear piano notes in the air, your mind stopped and you breathed shakily. It was honestly quite hard to recall the last time you heard the piano playing in the mansion…Elijah had stopped for almost three years by now and you had to admit missing it quite badly.
To avoid startling him and disrupting his playing, you entered the room as quietly as possible. Slowly, you made your way to the living room and stopped just inside the doorframe. There, you saw his handsome and perfect self seated at the Steinway piano, seemingly unaware of your arrival.
A sweet and happy smile crept on your pinkish lips at the scene, it felt just right to see him like this again and you let your head lay gently against the wooden frame of the large door, just enjoying the view.
Initially, your partner was experimenting with different notes without a clear direction. It was captivating to witness their process of attempting to produce a unified and melodious sound. Despite your curiosity about the final outcome, you refrained from interrupting and potentially hindering their creative process. Instead, you peacefully watched and admired him as he worked. After some time had passed, you came to the realization that your decision had been a wise one, since Elijah start playing the piece he had crafted during your observation for the first time in your presence.
With his eyes closed, he appeared to be playing solely based on the emotions conveyed through his fingertips. The composition he had created was nothing short of a masterpiece - a work of art that left you speechless, with your hand covering your mouth to suppress any sounds that might escape. As you watched Elijah play, a wave of intense emotion washed over you, causing tears to stream down your face. His melodies were so powerful that you found yourself at a loss for words or coherent thoughts. But at that moment, you realized that it didn’t matter - what was important was the profound emotional response his music had evoked within you.
You harbor a deep and profound love for your vampire, you love and cherish every single aspect of his being. Elijah was simply the focal point of your universe and you felt an incredible sense of satisfaction being his significant other. As he remains lost in his musical world, you surreptitiously dab away your tears, unable to contain your emotions, and then slowly made your way to him, compelled by an irresistible urge to be closer.
You placed a soft and gentle hand on your husband’s shoulder from behind, coming within a centimeter of his body. He tensed up immediately and stopped playing, clearly taken aback by your surprise touch. A small giggle escaped your lips before you kissed his neck tenderly to reassure him.
“It’s ok, it’s just me Lijah.”
Upon hearing your voice, Elijah visibly relaxed, his tense posture softening. The gentle kisses you planted on his neck had a soothing effect on his body, and he slowly pivoted in his piano chair to face you. A sweet smile graced his lips, and his eyes sparkled with adoration and desire as he gazed upon you.
“Well hello sweetheart, what a pleasure to see you finally home.”
Elijah spoke with his deep, masculine voice that had the power to make you feel weak in the knees. As he conversed with you, he brought you closer to him and settled you onto his lap, enveloping your waist in his firm embrace.
As he spoke and brought you closer, your face got flustered and you gently touched his cheek with your hand to caress it. A tender and charming smile spread across your face as you gazed at him with great love and loyalty. Elijah was just so extremely attractive and you couldn’t resist the urge to kiss him when he looked at you with such intensity. So this is exactly what you did, bringing your lips to his softly to give him a sweet and delicate kiss. The both of you moaned at the contact and he pressed you even more to him feeling the heaviness of your absence all day.
When you both separated from each other after a good reminder of what you both missed so much today, Elijah smirked happily and started playing with your hair, his eyes looking deeply into yours.
“Well, I certainly missed that during the day my perfect princess. ”
He said, causing you to chuckle happily, feeling a sense of warmth and pure love knowing that he missed you too. It was just so comforting to know that you weren’t alone in this situation.
As you still lay gently on his lap, you decided that since he was playing with your hair, you’d do too. So you moved the hand of yours that was previously on his cheek to his perfectly styled brown hair and stroke your fingers in them, feeling happy and playful to make them a little less perfect.
“I missed it quite badly too Eli. Yet, I’ll have to admit that hearing you play piano is something that I missed even more.”
You gently conveyed your message to him with a cute smile, followed by a quick kiss on his lips.
Your vampire partner on his side, chuckles lovingly at you, finding your words and ministration terribly sweet and adorable.
“Oh, you do my perfect little princess, well to be totally honest darling, I’ve dedicated this one for you.”
Elijah said with a bright and handsome smile that brought a blush back on your cheeks right away. He kissed both of your cheeks affectionately then before placing a gentle kiss on your forehead.
“I thought about you and your beautiful smiles and shining eyes when you look at me. The way that you speak my name and tell me how much you love me my darling. The melody came without an effort. How could it not when I have a muse like you.”
Elijah finished with a lovesick expression on and a sweet passionate smile. It was so deep and so intense to hear him say this to you. It felt good and your heart was bursting within your chest. Honestly words were missing you to express how much you loved him and felt good right now. The only thing that actually seemed to be in your mind and that you manage to say to him was a request to heart your song again.
“Can you play it again for me Lijah?”
Your voice was soft and delicate and it sounded almost like a plea when you asked him to play your song again. Your eyes were sparkling like little comets in the sky and you looked deeply into Elijah’s hazelnut pupil.
Your husband’s hand came to your cheek gently after your request, a huge satisfied and pleased smile on his lips as he heard you. How could he resist any request you had really? You were his pretty little angel and the most important thing in his life, he would do anything from you.
Without a second tough, Elijah gently turned back to face the piano with you still in his arms. After that, he kissed your neck gently and let his head fall on your shoulder to see the piano adequately. When he was finally placed and settled, his fingers grazed on the notes and he started playing your song again. The only difference however this time, was that he seemingly included details and side part that wasn’t there the first time around. The music sounded like the most beautiful of symphony, like a coral of angels. You were absolutely sure that it was the most beautiful thing you’ve ever heard in your entire life.
You closed your eyes and just let yourself be overwhelm by the emotions and feelings it makes you feel. Your heart was beating strongly and your eyes were shedding happy tears again your back pressing on Elijah’s chest even more.
After a little while, his fingers on the notes stopped playing and you felt your heart cry a bit at the loss of music again. Yet, you moved your small and delicate fingers in his as he brought them back around you and tighten them around his. You faced each other again now that he wasn’t playing anymore and a deep and powerful love showed in your eyes for him. You laid your forehead fall on his gently, a gentle sigh of pure bliss and happiness leaving your lips.
I love you Elijah Mikaelson…
Elijah smiled affectionately back at you and kissed both your cheek, then he proceed to do the same with your lips.
And I love you my perfect princess.
The pair of you stayed against each other like this for a while, just basking in the love and incommensurable joy you felt with bleach other close. Then, with a soft and gentle voice you asked him something while caressing his cheek again.
Would you teach me to play one day?
Elijah looked at you surprise at first by your demand but quickly, the surprise change to a joy and happiness that brought butterflies in your stomach. God he looked so handsome. His smile was the prettiest thing in the whole world.
Of course I will my love, whatever you want. We have all eternity.
And he was right…you both had eternity to love and cherish each other, what you had right now was only the start of a long and perfect millennia together.
At first Netflix said, come write for us. We’ll save your cancelled shows and write about whatever niche story you want. Our algorithm says people will watch it!
Then a few years later they said, regardless of our promises or contract obligations we are cancelling shows after two seasons without telling anyone. Turns out no matter how loved a show is, we get less subscriptions after the second season.
How many subscriptions did we bring you? Netflix won’t say.
So writers started writing two season shows. Just give us two seasons, Netflix. Like you promised.
Then Netflix said, oops sorry! Turns out your show didn’t premiere at #1 and the views in the first day weren’t what we wanted so we’re cancelling your second season.
What were the numbers? How many people watched our show? Netflix doesn’t say.
Then, they did something extra special. They started taking shows and splitting their first season into two halves. Inside Job was not two seasons. It was one season split in half.
Oops! Sorry! The second half of your first season didn’t do as well as the first half, so now your show is cancelled!
Why? How many people? How much money? These companies are making cash hand over fist and they refuse to tell people the truth: people loved your show. Loved it. But some corpo exec wanted an infinite money making machine. Do you know how long shows are in production for before you watch them? Years. Like, 5+, even 10+ years. And Netflix gives it less than a week before they decide whether you’re getting cancelled.
summary: the progression of you and elijah’s relationship.
warnings: fluff, some violence, lmk if there’s more
notes: so we’re going to pretend that elena didn’t plot with esther at the ball. hope you enjoy!
you step into the grill, biology textbook in hand. your older brother tyler had dropped you off here at your request. you needed to catch up with your school, and you needed peace to do it. the events of the past month had made your head spin, with the mikaelson ball and the recent full moon, time had been short for schoolwork. unlike tyler, you were a mortal werewolf, and you still had a future to work for.
Twitter is dying, so I’m posting this here: One of the oddest things about the sex scene discourse is that it seems to have sprung up fully formed from almost nothing. Right now mainstream films very rarely feature heterosexual sex scenes - even implied ones - to the extent that when my podcast partner and I recorded an episode about sex scenes in films we struggled to come up with contemporary examples. The examples we did come up with were almost exclusively queer (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) or TV (A League of Their Own, Game of Thrones).
So the moral panic around sex scenes, especially in fandom spaces, seems to be more about people not likely the existence of fan fiction or fandom discourse about people fucking. A lot of this also seems to be about expressing thirst about actors or pairings. And given that this side of fandom is almost exclusively driven by women and queer people, this seems to be a desire to silence those people.
Which, needless to say, is pretty goddamn troubling.
Elijah: Y/N, I need- Y/N: *hands him his journal* Elijah: Also can you give- Y/N: *hands him his coffee* Elijah: Marry me? Y/N: Took care of that too. We’ve been married for three years.
Chapters:
12/55
Fandom:
The Originals (TV)
Rating:
Not Rated
Warnings:
No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships:
Elijah Mikaelson/Original Female Character(s)
Characters:
Elijah Mikaelson, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags:
Edited Version, My Stupid Heart, The Originals - Freeform, Not From This World
Summary:
Ella wakes up in New Orleans, in a cemetery, not just any cemetery, it’s the New Orleans cemetery from the series The Originals, soon she realizes that she ended up in the series, the witches want sacrifice her to finally bring the Mikaelsons to their knees. But she seems to have a special bond with Elijah Mikaelson, who persists in her defensiveness to learn more about the woman who appears to have his name on her left wrist. (Remastered version of My Stupid Heart)
on a serious note regarding the wga strike and (as of 1:50 AM PST 7/13) upcoming sag-aftra strike, dsa-la has a fundraiser called The Snacklist which provides snacks and water on the picket lines here in LA. right now the funds they have will not last through the end of the summer, especially given the current and upcoming heatwaves necessitating more supplies. if you have a couple of dollars to spare it’s a great way to directly support the writers (and potentially the actors) during this difficult time!
happy first sag-aftra strike in 60 years to all who celebrate.
if you are an enjoyer of media (which i will guess based on your presence on tumblr that you are) please consider donating to the snacklist (linked above) or to any of the following mutual aid funds that directly support striking actors/writers, IATSE and teamster union members who are also out of work and by and large refusing to cross the picket lines, and nonunion PAs and assistants (like yours truly) who are directly impacted by the work stoppage. everyone in this industry works unbelievably hard to bring you the shows, movies, webseries, and variety programs that you enjoy and every worker deserves a fair contract. any support you can give is extremely meaningful.
The Entertainment Community Fund provides emergency financial assistance to anyone in the entertainment industry who is unable to pay their immediate basic living expenses such as housing, food, bills, and healthcare.
The Union Solidarity Coalition has been formed by members of the wga, sag, and the dga to help cover the cost of healthcare for IATSE and teamsters who will not get enough work hours to qualify for their coverage this year due to their refusal to cross a picket line.
The Hollywood Support Staff Relief Fund (also run by the Entertainment Community Fund but separate from the above link which supports all film and tv workers) offers assistance to tv and film support staff and assistants who are not protected by a union and have been displaced from low or entry level positions.
Drive 4 Solidarity is an IATSE organized event in August raising funds for all union and guild members. Tickets are available for those in socal but donations are being taken as well.
“writers deserve attention more than actors” literally only 2% of actors can pay the bills with acting. For every megastar on screen there are a dozen other people in the shot who are SAG. Acting gets so glamorized but there are SO MANY people in SAG who NEED residuals to live on. Background Party Girl #4 needs her check too!!!! There are people who play recurring characters on syndicated shows who cant afford health insurance!!! Ke Huy Quan gave an oscar winning performance and LOST HIS HEALTH INSURANCE the next year.
