How NOT to write a Vampire Diaries Fanfiction (including TO & Legacies)

lets talk about soulmates

warning: a lot of making fun of soulmate fics will happen, if you can't handle it so be it

you know what i love?

whenever i find a fic to read and it's slowly matching almost all my boxes: more than twenty chapters? check. actual description? check. cover that doesnt look half assed? check. POC lead?!?! CHECK.

and then i actually go to read the description or i read the rest of it in the book and then i get to the part where it's revealed this character is mated with Klaus or Stefan or Damon or Kai or Elijah or Kol or whoever the writer is secretly getting off on at the moment

yeah

i just love those moments

im lying, it's the fire that lights the gasoline of my rage

today, we're going to be talking about soulmates:

— how they can be interesting in a story

— how they can ruin your story (especially if you're just starting)

— why we like them

— why we don't

— and my overall opinion bc why not

i always like to start off a bit positive so let's talk about all the fun parts of the soulmate trope before i demolish it into tiny pieces

books can be like food

they could be desserts, dinner, breakfast, lunch, whatever you want it to be

for this exercise let's compare books to cookies

i like cookies

now, when you want a cookie you have two options:

you can make it

or you can buy it

soulmate fics can be a guilty pleasure for me sometimes, there's something fun about how there's this one person made for you (and vice versa) and so you know there won't be any drama about cheating and crap, and you know they (most likely) will never break up because they always find their way back to each other.