Episode 4.5 - LJ Smith: The Vampire Diaries: Blood Will Tell

As promised, here's our chat about the terrible short story BLOOD WILL TELL by LJ Smith. This is a slight alternative to part of the ending, but not an actual full alt ending. It's like an AU insert. Some of the happenings in this story will definitely double down on our readings of how bad feeding must be in previous stories *cough Damon-Feeding-On-Stefan cough* *Damon-feeding-on-unwilling-girls-ever cough cough*

(30m. Content Warning: Vulgar language, shipping boys, sad cookie eating, and drinking alcohol from the hosts; Feeding as metaphor for sex, coerced consent, homophobia, bisexual erasure, sexualization of teenagers, pedophilic language, blood, mental health stigmatization, sex-shaming, "women's virtue" bullshit, justification of an abuser, turning friends over for abuse, infantalization of a high schooler, guilt tripping, and basically just porn-without-plot author fanwanking from the short story.)

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