0 Loving Vampire Diaries: Why History, Slavery and Race in Fandom Matters Posted by The Sable Fan Gyrl on December 5, 2011 at 9:34am Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Emily (Bianca Lawson) in CW's Vampire DiariesI spent a good chunk of my Thanksgiving break falling into the CW’s Vampire Diaries (thank you @Netflix). In the process I turned Little Sis, T the Great and Nuñez Mom into fangirls and addicts. I didn’t mean to get sucked in. I cut my tween Sable Fan Gyrl teeth on the original Vampire Diaries trilogy (plus one post mortem) by L. J. Smith. And when the CW series started, I was determined not to watch because it couldn’t possibly be as amazing as the books were. I was convinced the casting was all wrong and a little pissed the disgusting success of Meyer’s Twilight was the only reason anyone even seemed interested in L. J. Smith fandom.I was stupid, ignorant and wrong all at once....Read the rest.... E-mail me when people leave their comments – Follow
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