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Books I Read In 2022 (and by read I mean actually liked)

Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 5 by Kiiro Yumi

I keep telling you. This is what I want to do!

Rowing the Rarepair Rowboat: Bonnie Bennett x Liv Parker x Tyler Lockwood (The Vampire Diaries)

Requested by @childofsquidward

Movement catches the corner of Bonnie’s eye. When she looks over at Liv, she holds a finger to her lips, then throws another scrunched up ball of paper at Tyler, asleep at the bottom of the bed. It hits him on the shoulder but he doesn’t stir.

Bonnie notices there are two other balled up bits of paper beside him. She rolls her eyes and nudges Liv to tell her to quit it. Of course, she doesn’t listen.

This one hits him on the chin, nearly going in his open mouth. Liv quickly covers her mouth as she snickers, and Bonnie shakes her head, smiling against her better judgment.

She tries to focus on her paper but when she catches Liv going to do it again, she reaches over to stop her, taking the paper away from her.

“We’re doing all of the work here,” Liv says in protest, motioning to Tyler’s still soundly asleep form. “It’s not fair that he just gets to take a nap while we’re stuck writing these stupid papers. He’s probably going to try and copy off us and claim our hard work as his own.”

“No, he won’t,” Bonnie says, hesitating for a moment before putting the little ball of paper in the waste basket beside her. “Because we won’t let him. Besides, Alaric would know, and then he would be in trouble.”

Liv rolls her eyes now, but she looks over at Tyler with a slightly softer expression.

“Full moon’s in two days.” She turns to Bonnie, a twitch of concern between her brows. “Do you think it’s bothering him?”

Bonnie shrugs, then properly takes in Tyler’s appearance; while peaceful for the most part in his sleeping state, there are circles under his eyes, and there’s a strange sunkenness to his features that isn’t usually there, making his skin sort of sallow.

“Yeah. I think so,” she finally says. “It’s probably why he’s so tired as well.”

Liv hums quietly in thought. With a smooth wave of her hand, a quilt is dragged out from beneath the bed. It rests over Tyler, wrapping him up. To both their surprise, he curls into it and pulls it closer in his sleep.

“We should probably let him sleep then,” Liv says.

Smiling, Bonnie nods. “I agree. Do you wanna go get some coffee? We’ve been writing for at least two hours, I think we’ve earned a break.”

“God, I thought you’d never ask.”

Liv hops up off the bed — Tyler once again doesn’t even stir — and grabs her campus hoodie, already slipping on her shoes as Bonnie follows. Before they leave, she gently smooths her hand over Tyler’s forehead and presses a light kiss to his temple, and Liv does the same.

You know when one day you’re like hahaha this dude hates me and then the next day you’re creating a tidal wave to drown a gigantic monster named Grunsy or something (looks like Gorilla Grodd’s distant cousin or something ngl) and help momentarily defeat ISA together and you fistbump over like five robot dudes you swore were live humans but actually were not WITHOUT screwing up the timeline? 

I think the Snow pack stuff should’ve been part of an earlier episode. It’d been so long since we saw Thomas Snow, I think everyone moved on to focusing on other storylines. I know the plot between Iris and Nora needed to be second so that it wouldn’t move too far ahead and disrupt that arc from taking the rest of the season, but there could’ve been something else that served for the A plot.

Thawne is on death row dying, dying in 10 mins. Why would he be plotting to make Nora RF instead of saving his life?