daylightring:

basically i just want damon and elena to fucking TALK

their whole communication has been shot to hell and although yes, they both probably need to time to heal from all of this shit, nothing will change if they just keep ignoring things and never talk??? julie please i just need a scene where damon and elena have an honest to goodness conversation about where they stand.

“Klaus isn’t ruled by love the way that Damon, even in his darkest moments, is ruled by love. Love is Damon’s achilles heel. For Klaus, his achilles heel is his fury, his rage at having been unloved or not properly loved,” Julie says. “Every time he gets a moment where we can see his vulnerability, the very act of him feeling vulnerable triggers that rage. His response, his fight-or-flight response, is to get angry and to act out and to be hostile and manipulative and evil. With one comes the other.” —

Julie Plec in season 3 which still holds true.

Klaus and Damon are not the same and the creator says so.

Yes, Damon acts out as well but his “rage” isn’t directed at those who can’t love him, even if sometimes he does end up hurting them, but it is never intentional and he isn’t being manipulative in that moment as Plec says Klaus is.

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“I think the takeaway, ultimately, is that Elena believes it so fundamentally that in that moment, it’s enough for Damon to let himself believe too. Yes, of course, the question is still gonna exist and always gonna exist. This isn’t necessarily the end-all, be-all now that that word [“love”] has been spoken. The doubt is still gonna be there. And it’s gonna continue to eat at Damon for the next few episodes. Elena’s gonna continue to have to fight for it in how much she believes it. But in this moment, it’s these two people who have been trying so hard to do the right thing and stay away from each other, and after two really long horrible days, they just need to touch base with each other. Just letting himself allow it to be real for one small moment is enough for Damon. And by the way, that song [Snow Patrol’s “New York,” playing during the phone call], that was the song that we wanted to use during the Damon-Elena kiss in episode 10 last year, and we lost it a week before we were going to air it. So I had that song in my back pocket for a year waiting for the right moment to use it again.” — Julie Plec x (via ninadobsession)