❰ damon hasn't tried to hide his species since the first month he was on the station, so that gildor doesn't already know he's a vampire — well. it's kind of funny, honestly. why does he think lakshmi hates him and elena so much? ❱

Th ringing the bell shit started off because sometimes, people would be buried prematurely. Not often, but enough so that when it seemed like it might be in question, the dead were buried with bells attached to strings over their graves. The string to the bell went into the coffin, and if the prematurely buried rang it, you knew you done fucked up.

Nowadays it's just an excuse to have picnics in cemeteries and ring bells for dead loved ones.

❰ #thesouth. damon listens to gildor's story, his eyebrow climbing up his forehead as he does — what a stupid ritual, what a stupid belief — and then he gets to the punchline and damon can't help it, he huffs out a laugh. ❱

That was a stupid story.

❰ but he doesn't sound too bothered by it. ❱