Riding the Hedge

Bish where the rest of it????!

not me being impactful??😭😭

LMAO

so happy you enjoyed! that fic needs all the love and more.

The parameters for a good fic (Klonnie or otherwise) within the realm of fan fictions to me, is keeping in mind the characters themselves, they’re history, they’re motivations, the little quirks that make them themselves and expanding on it.

Often times especially with canon divergences or au’s in general, the only similarity to the original material is the name and physicality. It can be difficult to find authors who write characters in a way that serves the characters themselves and the authors own vision for their story.

For Klonnie, specifically I often find that Bonnie in particular isn’t written in line, like the things she’ll say dont fall in line with her character or her interactions with Klaus or any other character doesn’t make sense. Often with fics involving a mistreated/unpopular character, they’re treated as a self-insert rather than written accurately.

The best fanfics to me are the ones where i can literally hear/see the character doing/saying whatever in my head.

I can literally see Bonnie steeling herself against Bob, I can see her acting awkwardly to waking up in bed to Klaus, I can see her showing Marcel in excruciating detail why he doesn’t want to fuck with her

I can see Caroline holding Bonnie tight and hear her telling Bon how fucked it was for Elena to take precedence for so long

I can see Klaus being conflicted over Marcel and Bonnie’s initial meeting, I can see his face when he realises he doesn’t want friendship with Bonnie, I can hear him saying ‘why would i want to make life easier for anyone not named Bonnie Bennett’

Szajnie is a prolific klonnie writer, im currently rereading the edge of night

I highly recommend! its a canon divergence from s7/3 onwards and it eats like it eats bad!

If u love the idea of Bonnie in Nola, then baybee… get into it

the summoned witch by the same author is also really good. its not as klonnie heavy but erm.. excellent food if i say so myself ( edit : it is in fact Klonnie heavy)

Klaus realising how boring, predictable and idiotic he had been moving in his years since breaking the curse

Klaus realising ignoring his wolf side and delaying in knowing what it means to be a wolf stifled him in proportion

Klaus realising how beyond he actually is in trying to have dominion over New Orleans as if he’s not the Hybrid like THEE HYBRID

like beyond Klonnie, his growth as a character in within himself is something so special to me

Klonnie are still the only ship that I’m ever interested in writing for wait that’s not true, I do have a BuckySarah that I do need to finish for @elsac2 because there was always so much potential with them on the show and the ways their growth could have run parallel to one another. It’s part of the reason why in the Klonnie fics I’ve written, there’s always these moments of realization they have with themselves while engaging with one another. They hold mirrors up to each other that are just so fun to write.

I’m gonna stop now so I don’t start rambling since I do enjoy chatting about Klonnie and what could have been lol

What do I actually see??

Immature booktok girlies losing their shit over the death of their Nazi boyfriend.

There's one particular blog - in its name and absurdity of its increasingly deranged posts - that's fucking WILD.

Listen, there are shows where you can indulge into ship wars. Like bridgerton. Or I don't know, thousand other romcoms, or even other genres that make space for that kinda dynamics.

The Handmaid's Tale isn't that kinda show. Romance is the LAST thing that anyone has in mind. It's THE HANDMAID'S TALE. HANDMAID. Yeah? That's the focus. June is the focus. The WOMEN are the focus. Fighting patriarchy and misogyny and fascism is the focus.

NOT which man the main female character ends up with. Yeah? It's not about that. Please go back to your dark romances if that's what you're looking for.

Don't come here and talk about how the death of your favourite brooding hot Nazi is an affront to humanity. It isn't.

People like you are.

…into the light.

Whatever Francesca gets as a widow will be determined by whomever becomes the next Earl of Kilmartin. John died with no male heirs and if there are no male relatives then the Crown can seize everything and give it to someone else.

So explain to me again how Michael being genderbent would make more sense for Francesca when her widowhood puts her in one of the most vulnerable positions in the ton?