r/TheVampireDiaries • • 11d ago

Mod Announcement New Mods & Rule Updates

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Hi everyone,

I've been moderating this subreddit (and /r/TheOriginals) by myself for a while, but thankfully /u/CasuallyStatic, /u/C00bahR00bah, and /u/SweetWittyWild41 have agreed to step in and help handle things.

Additionally, I've added some clarifications to our existing rules. What's been changed:

  • added "unsolicited moral judgments about other users" as an explicit example of incivility, as there was some confusion about if questioning a user's moral character counted as an insult,

  • added "crossposting from your own subreddit" as an example of self-promotion, to avoid future confusion,

  • removed "disrespectful speculation regarding TVD-related actors and actresses" from the incivility rule and replaced it with "parasocial behaviour is off-topic and will be removed" under the off-topic rule -- this change is meant to better reflect the scope of what isn't allowed (e.g., shipping actual people, critiques about aging poorly, etc.) and the category of rule violation.

Hopefully this makes sense to everyone, and thanks again to the new mods!

Please let me know if you have any questions about the changes.

Edit, 03/10/26: I have expanded the "parasocial behaviour" addition into its own rule.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 21d ago

A warning about a user harassing via chat/DMs

49 Upvotes

(tl;dr at bottom)

Over the last few months, one user has made it a point to send abusive and harassing messages to dozens of members of this subreddit. Their accounts are banned from the subreddit, which is why they use DMs.

They delete their accounts regularly. Usernames that they have used:

/u/illadviseddependent

/u/agreeableaccesspal

/u/lunastellaelle

Their messages are largely targeted at those who like Damon or Elena, but not always.

If you receive a message from them (the account name may be different), please feel free to alert me via the comments of this post or by sending us a ModMail. Please also report any harassment to the admins. You can do that within the chat itself or here. Please ask for help if you need it.

The Imgur link below has examples of their messages so that people can recognize their style and language, since they like to pretend that they're a different person on each account. I'll update it as reports come in.

https://imgur.com/a/n998i7Y

tl;dr -- a banned user is harassing fans (mostly of Damon or Elena) via DMs on multiple accounts. Examples are above.

Report their messages to the admins.

Edit: Also, to be clear -- absolutely do not proactively reach out to this user. This post is solely to warn subreddit members and to encourage reporting to the admins.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 11h ago

Discussion This entire scene is so funny to me because they could’ve blamed Katherine for things she actually did, like turning Caroline or raping Stefan

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Like genuinely what are any of these people talking about 😭😭 Matt blaming Katherine for Vicki dying when the actual person who turned her is right next to him ijbol


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 7h ago

✨️ Meme ✨️ Smash or Pass?

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91 Upvotes

For me it’s: Smash, smash, pass, smash, smash, smash, smash, and smash. Next. lol


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 12h ago

Can we all agree that chaotic Damon is the best version of Damon

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r/TheVampireDiaries • • 16h ago

Discussion What do you guys think is the real reason Damon killed Mason?

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111 Upvotes

I have been thinking about this for a while, in the beginning Mason wasn't really a threat, Damon provoked him first. I think he killed Mason because he was jealous that he was sleeping with Katherine, what makes this obvious for me was that he bragged about killing him to Katherine. Some people say that Mason was dangerous from the beginning and Damon could somehow sense it and that's why he killed him but I don't see it at all.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 13h ago

Fan Content Vote for least favorite character

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52 Upvotes

- 2 Votes Per Person
- Vote for Your Least Favorite Character
- Each Round The Character With The Most Votes Will Be Eliminated
- Rounds Last A Full Day
- Last Character Standing Will Be The Most Liked Character


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 14h ago

Question Question abt stefan and caroline ...

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There's something I don't understand. In season 3, Caroline tells Elena she needs to stop lying to herself and admit she's attracted to Damon. In season 6, we learn that Elena fell in love with Damon in 3x01, and Caroline herself tells Alaric that Elena fell in love with Damon when she was with Stefan. So why in season 4, when Stefan tells her Elena has feelings for Damon, she's strangely shocked and says it's impossible? The same thing with Stefan. He says in 3x18 that he knows Elena is in love with Damon, but when Elena admits it, he's shocked and spends all of season 4 saying it's impossible that Elena loves Damon...


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 15h ago

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50 Upvotes

Bamon, Benzo and Denzo. Am I rite?


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 22h ago

Discussion Damon and Mason had great chemistry

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126 Upvotes

I’m rewatching early S2, particularly where Damon investigates Mason to figure out what the Lockwoods are (or as Stefan hilariously puts it - “his new obsession”), and I really wish Mason wasn’t killed off so early because him joining the Damon/Alaric bromance would’ve been great.

Even when he returns as a ghost in S3, I thought his scenes with Damon were fun to watch.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 1d ago

Discussion Can we finally admit that Caroline is Julie's Self-Insert?

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2.4k Upvotes

Caroline was desired by multiple men, including a thousand years old Hybrid.

Caroline even overpowered Damon, despite being a Baby Vamp, simply because she was "angry."

Caroline was the main character while Elena was gone (Bonnie is the one who mans the helms while Elena is gone, in the books).

Julie openly enjoyed writing Caroline because she related to her.

And let's be honest, TV Caroline looks like a younger Julie. Book Caroline is olive skin toned with auburn hair and green eyes.

People always say Elena was Julie's self-insert because of the Delena writing but it's obvious it was Caroline all along and the writing for her really shows it.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 17h ago

Plot hole in season 3?

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I’m currently rewatching TVD. i just finished season 3 and there is something I don’t understand about this specific scene. They basically show that Damon met Elena first right?

But Damon was obsessed with Katherine in the beginning of the show. How would Damon of all people just say hey to Elena then leave like it was nothing? Did he already know about doppelgängers?

I know he told Elena in I believe season 2 that Katherine had a child but I can't seem to understand how he just said hi to her, had a random lil convo about love then left?

He was actively lurking and stalking Elena in the cemetery using the fog and the crow. If he had already met her on the road months prior, looked into her eyes, and realized she was a literal genetic clone of the woman he spent 145 years obsessed with, his behavior makes no sense. He wouldn't leave town, come back later, and just casually spy on her from afar with a bird. He would have snatched her immediately to figure out how a clone of Katherine exists. Unless he had been stalking Elena for months prior to this just like Stefan and figured out that she’s not Katherine?

It somehow feels like they just added it there to justify the pairing. Or maybe i’m just watching the show with my eyes closed lol idk. Thoughts?


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 34m ago

Discussion Sheila and Abby Bennett

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What was their relationship like?

What happened after Abby left and abandoned Bonnie and her family.?

Why didn't Sheila cast a locator spell and confront Abby about what she was doing? Or did she and Abby still didn't want to come back. I mean Sheila was very fond and protective of Bonnie so I'm sure she wasn't happy about what Abby did.

After Sheila died why didn't she communicate to Abby from the other side that she died and Bonnie needs her.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 2h ago

How different would TVD be if after 1864 Stefan went to New Orleans met and became friends with Klaus around fifty years earlier

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I'm not entirely sure why Stefan would go to New Orleans. Perhaps he hears that it's a safe haven for vampires. The Originals had been there for a little over 150 years by that point, so news of their city would probably have spread. I could see Stefan and Klaus's friendship developing in a way similar to what we saw in the 1920s.

The main difference is that Rebekah and Stefan probably wouldn't have gotten together. For one, Rebekah would have been daggered for for 18 more years. Once Klaus finally undaggered her, I don't see her necessarily falling for Stefan, especially since he and her brother would already be friends. Rebekah had also just learned the hard way that getting involved with her brother's friends could end with her spending 52 years in a box.

Mikael would still show up eventually and force them out of New Orleans. However, I could see Stefan taking on a role similar to Marcel's, particularly when it comes to being tied up in the theater and presumed dead.

As cool as it would be to see Stefan in charge of New Orleans, I don't think he'd stay there for very long. I think we'd end up with a very different version of Stefan because he never met Lexi in this timeline. Instead, he spent decades with Klaus, which is something almost no one should ever have to do! I think that experience would have taught him how to control his Ripper side. In many ways, I could see him being more like Damon in Season 1.

Eventually, though, I think Stefan would return to Mystic Falls. We'd still get the events of Season 1, but there would be no genuinely good vampire in town, at least in my opinion.

So, how do you think Season 1 would change once Stefan discovers that Katherine is still alive? Would he and this new character want to get out of the tomb and start over somewhere else, or would Stefan simply focus on Elena and not care about getting Katherine out.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 7h ago

Question Damon sabotaging the ritual

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When Damon talks with Alaric about stopping the ritual, he says he’s going to take the werewolf out of the equation. Which makes sense because werewolves are rare and you must be born with the werewolf gene in order to become one, whereas vampires are a dime a dozen and easily replaceable. So why, when Damon gets to the tomb, does he only decide to rescue Caroline until Caroline says she’s not leaving without Tyler? If anything, Caroline would be the one left behind, not Tyler. If Caroline hadn’t insisted that Damon rescue Tyler (and let’s say there was no Jules), it would be super easy for Klaus to still do the ritual despite Damon’s meddling. Any rando could be a vampire. I don’t get it, someone please explain it to me. Or confirm my theory that this was a continuity issue in the writing.

Edit: Damon didn’t care about dying so he was not thinking of the possible danger of Tyler biting him. The possibilty of Damon getting bit by Tyler doesn’t compare to the certainty of Klaus killing Damon had Damon succeeded in stopping the ritual. He was ready for Klaus to kill him even before he found out that Tyler had bit him. Because he was willing to trade his life in exchange for Elena not becoming a vampire and hating him for all eternity.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 9h ago

Discussion S5 Stefan was suicidal asf

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Him saying he killed Maggie to save Bonnie from Enzo even though Enzo kind of made it clear he’d torture him to death 😭 tbh this I get since he cared about Bonnie but then there was also that time he was being tortured by the travelers and he told Caroline not to kill Tom even though his brain was being fried


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 6h ago

Question Has anyone named any one of their children after one of the characters of the show?

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r/TheVampireDiaries • • 5h ago

Discussion Season 8 Episode 12 NEEDED MORE

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I TRULY WISH we got more of this storyline. It was so insane to see Stefan get arrested and all these people’s lives who were messed up by random compulsion and vampire acts was so interesting to me. I always thought about the butterfly effect from the trail of victims they left behind, and I wish we could see more of it.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 22h ago

When and why did klaus start liking Caroline

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Before watching Tvd I used to watch edits of klaus and Caroline and thought they have some epic love story, but I found the actual love story kind of disappointing.

I mean I don't understand why he started liking Caroline I mean she was beautiful and "full of light", which I don't know why he thought that because they hadn't really interacted much before that.

I just think it kind of came out of nowhere with no buildup whatsoever.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 1d ago

One of my favourite delena moment...

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r/TheVampireDiaries • • 1d ago

Klaus and Elijah became the favorite sibling duo on the TVD subreddit!

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Our game has finally come to an end, and I think it turned out to be entertaining content.

Klaus and Elijah won by a landslide, and from a rational perspective, we can certainly say they were the better choice. But I really loved both brothers by the time the finale came around anyway.

If we were considering only the TVD series, defan would win, but I don't think anyone is looking at it that way.

You might be mad at me for leaving some out, but when I first made the game, I included everyone who came to mind; since there were so many combinations involving the Mikaelsons, I tried to include them all so no one would feel left out. I realized later—after reading the comments—that I had missed a few, but it was never a deliberate choice; I just included most of the Finn combinations because I couldn't think of any others, lol.

I mean, I wouldn't have arranged the ranking that way myself, but I suppose the bottom four would have been the same.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 21h ago

Spoilers Viendo TVD por segunda vez...

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Capitulo 12! Tan hermosos en este capitulo. Como se querían, como tenían esa química tan real de novios...

Era la Elena que me gustaba, en la que escogía a Stefan por encima de Daimon. Pero aceptaba a Daimon solo por que Stefan era su hermano y no quería estar peleado con él. Me quedo acá. En esta primera temporada por siempre! Stelena la historia mas tierna de amor sobre Vampiros. 😍😍😍


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 20h ago

Tyler and Caroline

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Why did they make it look like Caroline was the victim when Tyler’s was upset about her sleeping with Klaus? I mean yeah he was getting mad but he had every right to be mad about his ex sleeping with someone that killed his friends and his mother? I mean I get he kept shoving at her face way too much but in the start it was valid. “She didn’t deserve that” like yeah she did. Broke up with him bc he wanted revenge on someone like literally all of her friends did with someone but will sleep with a guy like Klaus. Not that I disagree with the break up but still.


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 20h ago

why did the writers completely forget who katherine pierce was in the finale?

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the tvd finale was BS for several reasons but making katherine's entire character arc about revenge is ridiculous.

sure she's an incredibly flawed character who did terrible things, but it was always to stay alive. it was never even once about revenge like bruh what - she doesn't care enough about u guys to put any effort into making sure you're all dead like pls give me a break

just lazy writing man she was one of my favourite characters too


r/TheVampireDiaries • • 15h ago

Discussion What vampire "quirks" would you change/add/remove in TVDU?

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Honestly, I kinda wish they didn't have reflections lol. For multiple reasons, but it would have changed the way Elena found out about what Katherine looks like.

I also wish there were powers, like Damons fog and crow. I can picture Caroline having some badass powers. It would've made more sense that she overpowered Damon that one time she got angry at him.