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My massive Bellarke is epic and here’s proof from s5-7 rant.

Ok guys I cannot stress enough that I am drunk, this is long, it has strong language, and it’s a trip. I am putting it almost all under a cut because it is 20 f*ing pages on word.

For reference: this was on a discord chat and I am removing all names and a few other things but there will be absolutely no editing. Anything in straight text is me, anything in italics is someone else (there’s several different someone elses so people are separated by line breaks). On my page I think it appears as everything grey is someone else, everything black is me. I’m going to put the beginning on here and rest under the cut. If you’re still going through with this, I suggest some popcorn.

Guys... I'm trying to stay optimistic but I'm really worried that jroth is gonna make bellarke canon in a really disappointing way. Like for me infidelity is a huge no in ships and I hate that becho has gone on so long that there doesn't seem to be a lot of room left in the canon timeline for a becho breakup/end that doesn't ruin the start of Bellarke for me

WAIT I GOT YOU I CAN CALM YOU I THINK BUT FIRST I NEED TO EAT MY BREADSTICKS

Every moment Echo is on the screen I want to claw my eyes out because she's so boring please jroth let it fucking end, but the feminist in me doesn't want her to die or be disrespected just because she's a callous asshole who doesn't deserve him yknow

Eat your breadsticks babe I've been living with my dread for 2 seasons I can hang on a little longer I just wish the entire becho relationship had never happened it's a blight and it's gone on so long adenfkidsngksdgnksdgn

Kate will say it better than I will, but don't lose hope! Becho hasn't really been together on screen for very long. It's only been like a few weeks to a month since the beginning of S5. They've stretched it out over two seasons, but in canon not much time has passed. And most of that time had Bellamy either sacrificing almost 300 lives to save Clarke, poisoning his sister to save Clarke, or fucking off into the wilderness with Josephine to save Clarke. They've just straight up not had enough time for Bellamy to be like, "Hey Echo, I know I said things wouldn't change but that was before my wife was actually alive, so bye." Though to wishing Becho had just never happened. We got one good angst scene with Clarke seeing them kiss. But otherwise, I could have very much done without their whole relationship.

they gave me 2 dozen breadsticks. i ordered 6

You've been blessed by the breadstick goddess.

oh sorry i was misinformed. i only have 22. apparently one bag only had 4 OK SO BELLARKE BITCHES AM I GOING TO ANNOYINGLY DO THIS IN CAPS SO BUCKLE TF UP

I mean, I love the idea that they only got together in the sixth year on the ring when Bellamy totally lost hope but is that canon? I thought we had a 3 year range

ALL RIGHT

We ignore canon in this channel. lol They've been together for 3 months.

SO LET'S START AT THE BEGINNING OF BECHO ok caps off. i even annoyed myself

I'm so here for this.

https://tenor.com/view/murder-she-wrote-angela-lansbury-jessica-eats-popcorn-interested-gif-4594942

Damn, I was ready for caps.

OK WE'RE BACK TO CAPS

https://giphy.com/gifs/popcorn-go-on-keep-going-Zd1BUb0qs6nwjeMUBu

OK SO WE HAVE BECHO'S FIRST SCENE TOGETHER ANYONE REMEMBER WHAT BELLAMY SAID? ANYONE? THIS REQUIRES AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

"Hey work with me so I can break everyone out of this mountain"? or something?

OH DAMN I MEANT WHEN THEY WERE CANONICALLY TOGETHER XP

"I'm a goddamn delight who's trying to save your life you ungrateful walnut so maybe don't spit in my face" is what I would have written

LMFAO OJN THE RING WHAT'S THE FIRST THING WE HEAR FROM THEM? THE FIRST IMPORTANT THING? ANYONE?

Unfortunately that scene was physically repulsive for me so I don't remember much except for "nothing will change on the ground and my sister totally didn't mean to murder you"

AHA! THERE YA GO NOTHING WILL CHANGE ON TEH GROUND BECAUSE WHAT IS HE EXPECTING ON THE GROUND? NOTHING TO CHANGE BECAUSE THE ONLY THING THAT COULD CHANGE IS -----

>"I'm a goddamn delight who's trying to save your life you ungrateful walnut so maybe don't spit in my face" is what I would have written I SPIT OUT MY DRINK I CANNOT

ANYONE? YUP

I'm behind. lol

CLARKE

AND THEN WE GOT TO THE GROUND, WHAT HAPPENED?

BEING ALIVE

His sister having more taste in his romantic partners than him?

WHAT WAS THE LITERAL ONE THING THAT COULD HAPPEN THAT WOULD CHANGE BELLAMY'S MIND DING DING DING CLARKE IS ALIVE

10 points to

AND WHAT DOES OUR BABY BOY DO?

SACRIFICE 300 PEEPS FOR HIS WIFE

Clarke with a gun AND a kid AND a rover AND bedtime storytelling practice like what more could he want that's all the things he loves

A LITTLE AHEAD BUT BANG

BABY BOY FOLLOWS CLARKS DAUGHTER FIRST, LEAVING ECHO IN THE LITERAL DUST (that's what he does before sacrificing lives)

WE WENT FROM "I WILL NOT TOUCH THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO DO BETTER." TO "I WILL SLAUGHTER 283 PEOPLE WITHOUT RAISING AN EYEBROW" BECAUSE RANDOM CHILD SHOWS UP AND SAYS "CLARKE'S IN TROUBLE" RANDOM CHILD WHO HAS JUST KILLED A BUNCH OF HARDENED CRIMINALS

He had the dad mug tho, he had to help her

HE SAW HIMSELF IN HER HE KNEW

HIS SOUL KNEW

SO WE'RE THERE NOW BUT THEN BANG, WE'RE ON THE GROUND AND OH FUCK I FORGOT I HAD A GIRLFRIEND BUT BELLAMY IS LOYAL SO HE SURE AF ISN'T DOING ANYTHING UNTIL HE'S DONE WITH ECHO BUT

He's had 2 seasons!!!!!

CLARKE BASICALLY ACTS LIKE SHE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT THE SEPARATION THOU SHALT NOT POKE HOLES IN MY SHIT UNTIL I AM DONE

>He's had 2 seasons!!!!! But only like a few weeks in time.

BECAUSE THESE TWO FUCK HEADS CANNOT HAVE A CONVERSATION

Forgive me!

SO WE HAVE A GRAND TOTAL OF FEWER THAN 3 WEEKS THAT THEY'RE ON THE GROUND AND THEN IN THAT TIME WE HAD.... one sec pPLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO REVIEW THE TIMELINE https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/620425806742749184/season-5-7x03-so-far-timeline FOR SEASON 5 ALL RIGHT SO WE HAVE THEM TOGETHER FOR LESS THAN A WEEK BEFORE BELLAMY'S LIKE (FROM CLARKE'S PERSPECTIVE) "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR KID, I HAVE TO SAVE MY FAMILY" SO THEN WE HAVE THEM SPEND THE NEXT 10 DAYS APART BECAUSE SHE LEFT HIM AFTER SLAPPING HIM AND SHE THOUGHT HE DIED BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING MORONS WHO CAN'T HAVE A CONVERSATION (YOU WILL NOTICE A RECURRING THEME) AND THEN, ECHO HAS LEARNED THAT NOT ONLY HAS CLARKE CARED ABOUT BELLAMY ALL THIS TIME BUT THAT SHE'S ONCE AGAIN READY TO PUT THE FATE OF HUAMNITIY ON THE LINE TO SAVE HIM "GO SAVE HIM. EVEN TAKE MURDER!DAUGHTER WITH YOU" BUT BELLAMY STILL DOESN'T KNOW THIS SO ANYWAY WE HAVE ANGST!BELLAMY GET PARENT TRAPPED BY MURDER!DAUGHTER are y'all still with me? AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY AFTER MURDER!DAUGHTER'S INTERVENTION?

BELLARKE FORGIVENESS ™

YAS NOT ONLY THAT BUT SOFT!BELLARKE RETURNS WITH A VENGEANCE [side note: you can pry this theory from my cold dead hands but there was 100% a canon bellarke scene between forgiveness and 125 year wake up just in case they ended at season 5.]

[I need them to publish that scene when this is all over]

ALL RIGHT SO FUCKING MARPER - WHO SPENT A TOTAL OF LIKE 4 MONTHS WITH CLARKE BUT 6 YEARS WITH THEIR FAMILY- DECIDED TO WAKE UP BELLARKE TO TALK TO AND GIVE GUARDIANSHIP TO AND WHY DID THEY DO THAT?

THEY BEEN KNEW

I'LL ACCEPT IT

OK SO WE GET THIS PROMISING FUTURE TOGETHER ON THIS NEW PLANET RIGHT?

WRONG MURDER POLLEN

OK BUT TECHNICALLY BECHO IS STILL TOGETHER. NO PROBLEM - WE NEED TO FIGURE OUR SHIT OUT AND THEN WE'LL HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO HAVE PEACE AND GET TOGETHER OK SO I'M JUST GOING TO START SAYING "CHORUS" WHEN I MEAN "BECAUSE THESE TWO DUMBASSES CAN'T TALK TO EACH OTHER" IS CHORUS THE RIGHT WORD? OR IS IT REFRAIN? WHATEVER ONE REPEATS - THAT ONE ALL RIGHT SO WE HAVE THEM GOING INTO THE VILLAGE AND EVERY TIME THERE IS DANGER, BELLAMY GOES IMMEDIATELY TO CLARKE WHEN IT'S PEACEFUL, OPE IT'S BACK TO ECHO

(like the husband he is)

I HAVE A WHOLE META ABOUT THAT IF YOU WANT IT BUT SO THEN THE FIRST TIME - LITERALLY THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE MARPER VIDEO - THAT THEY'RE ALONE, IT'S BECAUSE BELLAMY HAS SOUGHT HER OUT AND WHY DID BELLAMY SEEK HER OUT? Y'ALL I'M ONLY AT 6X01. I HAVE SO MUCH AMMUNITION BUT SOMEONE IS WELCOME TO SCREEN SHOT THIS SO THAT THE NEXT TIEM WE HAVE DOUBTS, I DON'T HAVE TO TYPE IT ALL OUT SO WHY DID BELLAMY SEEK HER OUT?

>Y'ALL I'M ONLY AT 6X01. I HAVE SO MUCH AMMUNITION @kate (historyofbellarke) "Give a position show me where the ammunition is" from My Shot just popped into my head lololol

WHY DID BELLAMY LEAVE HIS CANONICAL GIRLFRIEND TO GO SEEK OUT CLARKE?

BECAUSE HE LOVES HER AND ALSO BECAUSE THERE WAS DANGER

OK BUT WHY SPECIFICALLY NOOO WHEN CLARKE WAS IN THE SCHOOL

AND THE LAST TIME SHE WASN'T IN HIS SIGHT SHE ALMOST DIED

OK THAT TOO

Okay I'm lost at this point then.

LOL

Phone a friend.

Bc she sucks and Clarke's the best?

I'LL LET ---- CHIME IN LMFAO I LOVE YOU GUYS KNOW IT'S TO TELL HER THAT HE KNOWS ABOUT THE CALLS

OH THAT SCENE

HE KNOWS THAT SHE CALLED HIM EVERY DAY FOR 2,199 DAYS HE SOUGHT HER OUT, BY HERSELF, TO TELL HER THIS

YES YES

BUT BECAUSE CHORUS

WE'RE BACK THESE FUCK HEADS CAN'T HAVE A CONVERSATION

SHE GOT NERVOUS AND DUCKED OUT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN LESS THAN 3 WEEKS SINCE HE CAME BACK AND SHE'S OVERWHELMED BECAUSE HOLY FUCK WHAT A 3 WEEK PERIOD THAT WAS (REFER BACK TO TIMELINE AS NEEDED) ALL RIGHTY SO THEN AFTER THAT THEY FIND OUT ABOUT THE RED SUN WHICH BY THE WAY IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS BECAUSE HE CALLS OVER ECHO JUST TO PROMPTLY IGNORE HER COMPLETELY [AND BECAUSE IT'S ME, I HAVE A GIFSET FOR THAT] SORRY I GOT DISTRACTED

NO WE'RE HERE FOR THE GIFSET

I'M LOOKING OK IT'S PART OF THIS SO YOU GET A 2 FOR 1 https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/184827185143/bellarke-danger-vs-becho-safety OK NOW I FORGOT WERE I LEFT OFF OH YEAH IGNORING ECHO ALL RIGHT SO THEN WE HAVE EVERYTHING GO TO SHIT AND OF COURSE, BELLARKE LOCK THEMSELVES TOGETHER AND WE HAVE THE ANGST THE ANGST BUT THEY HAVE EACH OTHER'S KEYS

WHICH IS A MARRIED MOVE IF I EVER HEARD ONE

BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE KEY TO MY HEART, WHEREVER YOU ARE, I'LL KEEP YOU

That's a very comprehensive gifset

IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT SONG THEN I FEEL OLD SO YOU HAVE THEM UNLOCKING EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY ARE

I might drift in and out of conversation, partner wants attention but I wanna finish reading this asdfgh

AND HE'S LIKE "NAH ECHO, WIFEY AND I GOT THIS. WE GOTTA TAKE CARE OF OUR KIDS." TELL THEM TO WAIT THEIR TURN SO THEY'RE GOING LITERALLY PSYCHOTIC BUT THAT'S COOL. I TRUST THE OTHER ONE ENOUGH TO NOT KILL ME BUT OH WAIT - WHAT IS BELLAMY'S PSYCHOSIS ?

Not needing Clarke anymore...?

YUP WHICH MEAN S

He needed her and knew it at some point

YUP ALSO I FOUND THAT GIFSET THAT I IDD TO THAT SONG https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/184725894498/this-song-popped-into-my-head-and-i-had-to OK SO SKIPPING AHEAD, HIS BIGGEST SECRET IS THAT HE DOES STILL NEED HER OK EVEN I'M STARTED TO GET BORED SO I'LL GIVE BULLET POINTS FROM HERE ON OUT SO WE HAVE HIM NEEDING HER HIM CALLING HER THE LEADER EVEN THOUGH SHE HASN'T BEEN FOR LIKE 6 YEARS AND WE HAVE HIM PINING OVER HER AT THE DANCE FLOOR AND PICKING A FIGHT WITH ECHO OH YEAH AND WE SEE ALL THE BECHO CRACKS HERE

This has been a v good rundown, I won't lie.

LOL

ONWARD I'M BACK ON TRACK

WE HAVE JUXTAPOSED: ECHO NOT KNOWING WHAT TO SAY WITH REGARDS TO OBUT CLARKE KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT TO SAY EVEN AFTER 6 YEARS

BECAUSE WIFEY

https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/618426948212965376/historyofbellarke-4-times-someone-knew-the-right

Really you'd think the spy would know what someone wants to hear smh

NAH BECAUSE SHE HAS NO EMOTIONAL EMPATHY. WE'LL GET TO THAT EVENTUALLY

She's also kinda a shit spy. Like when has she ever done actual spying.

Y'ALL I HAVE A GIF FOR EVERYTHING. I'M THE LIZ WARREN OF BELLARKE GIFS GIFSETS AT LEAST

You don't need empathy to fake it, Madison's right she's just such a bad spy :joy:

I'VE GOT NOTHING ON ---- FOR JUST GIFS LOLi

I say this as someone who was 10/10 a spy in a past life at least according to my recurring dreams about it1

OK SO THEN WE ALSO HAVE BELLAMY SIDING WITH CLARKE AT EVERY TURN, OVER ECHO'S EXPLICIT OBJECTIONS AND WE HAVE HER NOTICINGGGGGG WE'RE HERE FOR THIS CONTENT

https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/185265380768/6x04-bec-scene-follow-up-with-6x05 JUST ONE EXAMPLE

HATE TO SEE IT

SO WE HAVE BELLAMY CLEARLY SHOWING THAT HE'S HER LEADER - WHETHER HE MEANS TO BE OR NOT - WHICH COMES IN IN 7X01

Total aside but now I want a modern au where Bellamy doesn't know how to break up with Echo so he tries to ghost her while everyone around him is pulling their hair out

OH SHIT ONE SECOND I HAVE TO DO DUOLINGO SO I DON'T LOSE MY STREAK BRB

>Total aside but now I want a modern au where Bellamy doesn't know how to break up with Echo so he tries to ghost her while everyone around him is pulling their hair out ---- I love this, actually. WE SHALL HOLD YOUR SPOT

No one in this goddamn canon knows how to have an actual breakup conversation they only know how to die

CORRECT CHORUS

BECAUSE THESE TWO DUMBASSES CAN'T TALK TO EACH OTHER

Ironically Raven and Finn are the only ones who have had a half-normal breakup.

Will be back, partner is dramatically exclaiming that I don't love him anymore bc I won't go give him a goddamn hug bc the meta's too good

BOOM OK I'M BACK

SIDE NOTE BEFORE WE'RE BACK

GO ON

What language are you learning on Duolingo?

relearning spanish and then german german for work, spanish because i used to be fluent and i'm so bad now xp

This entire convo is a chaotic mess

We are a chaotic mess.

WELCOME TO THE HELLMOUTH, ----

Our ship is a chaotic mess.

It all tracks, honestly.

WE WOULD'VE ALL BEEN SO MUCH BETTER OFF IF JASPER HAD DESTROYED THE CHIP OOK SO MOVING ON NOW I FORGOT WHERE I LEFT OFF OH YEAH LEADER PERF SO OH YEAH I FORGOT TO ADD - 6 & 7 ARE ONE SINGULAR SEASON SO

This convo should totally be convered into a Masterclass session at the end. YES

WE'VE GOT A RUNNING THREAD OF ECHO BEING A FOLLOWER OF BELLAMY AND HER KNOWING IT

6/7 ARE ONE SEASON WE'RE HERE WE'RE LIVING

BUT BACK TO S6 SO WE HAVE BELLAMY BEING THE FIRST TO REALIZE THAT CLARKE WANS'T CLARKE AND WE HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL MOMENT

I’m here and all of this is glorious

OH YEAH THERE'S ALSO THIS BUT I DIGRESS https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/618548726524510208/historyofbellarke-5x09-6x04-6x05 THE FIRST ONE HERE - https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/616075629201408000/just-some-clips-ofabout-bellamy-where-either HE'S WILLING TO RISK EVERYTHING EBCAUSE CLARKE MIGHT BE AT RISK EVEN THOUGH THEY LITERALLY HAVE NO WHERE ELSE TO GO OH YEAH FUCKING MURPHY - I'LL GET BACK TO HIM ALL RIGHT SO THEN WE HAVE BELLAMY FIGURING IT OUT AND THE HORROR BLOOMING IN HIS SOUL AND THEN WE HAVE HIM LITERALLY WITH A ROOM DESTROYED EVERN THOUGH HE IS CHAINED UP LIKE SERIOUSLY HOW DID HE MANAGE THAT AND THEN TRY TO KILL RUSSELL THE SECOND HE COULD BECAUSE HE HURT CLARKE EVEN THOUGH, AGAIN, THAT'S THE ONLY WAY HE AND HIS PEOPLE COULD SURIVVE BUT WITHOUT CLARKE, HE'S NOT ALIVE. HE ONLY SURVIVES AND HOW DO WE KNOW THIS? BECAUSE HE FUCKING SAYS IT (implicitly)

I just came into this. I have nothing to add I just want to say I’m living for it

:heart:

Agreed, this conversation is giving meaning to my insomnia :joy:

https://historyofbellarke.tumblr.com/post/618973621000585216/just-a-reminder-that-bellamy-canonically-only

WHOLE F*ING THING ON SURVIVING VS LIVING AND THEN ONCE HE DECIDES THEY'RE GOING TO LIVE (AND LET RUSSELL LIVE) BECAUSE IT'S WHAT CLARKE WOULD'VE WANTED, HE SAYS "WE SURVIVE" LOOKING LIKE THE SADDEST FUCKING PUPPY IN EXISTENCE AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE FACT THAT WE HAD A WHOLE DAMN EPISODE OF A 13 EPISODE SEASON DEVOTED TO BELLAMY SUFFERING BECAUSE HIS WIFE DIED AGAIN 3 WEEKS AFTER SHE WAS RESURRECTED SUBTLE, JASON. SUBTLE. OK NOW BACK TO MY BELOVED COCKROACH MURPHY AND BELLAMY ARE ARGUABLY THE TWO CLOSEST NON-ROMANTIC (:upside_down:) PEOPLE ON THE SHIP THE RING RIGHT? OK WE'RE GOING WITH IT ANYWAY

Hmmm yes(I agreee) but also Clarke and Murphy have that understanding that transcends words?

THEY ARE THE CLOSEST ROMANCE WITHSTANDING ON THE SHIP

AND MURPHY, MY BELOVED MURPHY, HAS BEEN THERE FROM "I'LL CHOP HER HAND OFF" TO "OH FUCK OH FUCK OH FUCK CLARKE IS UNCONSCIOUS AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO" TO "YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE HERE SAVING SOMEONE THEY CARE ABOUT"

BECAUSE BELLAMY DOES NOT EVEN KNOW ECHO'S ACTUAL NAME AND THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT CLOSE

LOL SO MURPHY AFTER 6 YEARS IS TRYING TO GET BELLAMY TO DO SOMETHING HE WANTS (WE'RE BACK IN SEASON 5 NOW, SORRY) AND HOW DOES HE DO THAT?

AND INVOLKES MOM'S NAME

BLESSED BE "WELL IF CLARKE WAS HERE" BELLAMY ESPLODES OK SO NOW WE HAVE MURPHY AGAIN WHO KNOWSSSS AND WHAT DOES HE SAY TO JOSIE? ABOUT BELLAMY

If Clarke is dead Bellamy will kill us all HE KNOWS

BAM ALSO, REFER BACK TO PREVIOUS GIFSET, SAME MURPHY "OH YEAH I'LL TRY TO HELP ECHO TOO" BECAUSE MURPHY KNOWSSSS OOK THAT'S ALL FOR MURPHY NOW SO WE HAVE BELLAMY "WE'RE GOING TO SURVIVE BECAUSE I CAN'T LIVE WITHJOUT CLARKE BUT I'M GOING TO ONCE AGAIN HONOR HER FUCKING MEMORY" UNTILLLLLL WHAT HAPPENS

lol @ Murphy having to remind Bell his gf exists hahahah UNTIL HIS SOUL REALIZES CLARKE IS ALIVE

BUT HOW DOES HE REALIZE THAT

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME HE KNEW IT WAS MORSE CODE BECAUSE OF EARTH SKILLS NO

HE KNEW IT WAS MORSE CODE BECAUSE HIS SOUL FUCKING KNEW HIS WIFE WAS ALIVE

Yesss

PLATONIC SOULMATE MY ASS JASON

Morse code is life

[okay rant over, continue Kate]

MILLER'S FACE WAS LIKE "YOU FUCKING WHAT MAN?"

(side note- i am getting alive in morse code on my wrist when covid clears) OK SO WE'RE BACK SO WE HAVE JOSIE TAPPING HER FINGERS

Oh I love that I have friend who has that tattoo

YES TAP TAP MILLER GOING WTF BELL GOING ALL GIDDY PUPPY WITH A BONE

WHICH MEANS BELLAMY HAD TO HAVE GONE BACK TO HIS FAMILY AND SAY "OK WE'RE GOING TO RESCUE MY DEAD WIFE. SHE'S ALIVE. IKNOW BECAUSE JOSIE WAS TAPPING HER FINGERS." AND THE FAMILY HAD TO GO "YEAH OK THAT MAKES SENSE."

AND NO ONE QUESTIONED IT BECAUSE THEY BEEN KNEW

Yessss

SO WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO? LIKE IT WAS EVEN A QUESTION. THEY'RE RESCUING CLARKE AND BY THEY'RE I MEAN HE BECAUSE HE DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THEM AT THE MOMENT SO HE'S LIKE "READY OR NOT, I'M RESCUING MY WIFE. BYEEEEE" AND JORDAN'S LIKE "WHAT ABOUT PRIYA?" AND EVERYONE'S LIKE ".... SORRY BRO. CLARKE. YOU WANTED HEART BELLAMY. YOU GOT HIM." SO HE GOES, LEAVING HIS FAMILY BEHIND WITH A BUNCH OF PSYCHOPATHIC MURDERERS WHO KNOW THAT BELLAMY IS GOING TO KILL THEIR DAUGHTER BUT HE'S JUST LIKE... BYE AND HE KNOWS, AND WE KNOW THAT HE KNOWS, BECAUSE JOSIE TAUNTS HIM ABOUT IT THE WHOLE TIME BECAUSE JOSIE IS THE AUDIENCE BASICALLY

JOSIE IS US BUT SLIGHTLY MORE PSYCHOTIC

ALL RIGHT SO SKIPPING AHEAD, SKIPPING AHEAD, YOU HAVE JOSIE'S WHOLE RUN DOWN OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP

TOGETHER

AND HIS VERY LONG PAUSE FOLLOWED BY "I WON'T LET YOU DIE"

EXHAUSTING

INSTEAD OF I FUCKING LOVE YOU BECAUSE CHORUS SO WE GET CLARKE BACK THROUGH SHEER FORCE OF BELLAMY'S WILL

>AND HIS VERY LONG PAUSE FOLLOWED BY "I WON'T LET YOU DIE" @kate (historyofbellarke) "I LOVE YOU, BITCH. I AIN'T EVER GONNA STOP LOVING YOU, BITCH."

"I'LL SHAVE THE BEARD" SO WE HAVE CLARKE WHO GAVE UP LIVING BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT BELLAMY GAVE UP (REMEMBER, JOSIE SHOWING HER THE MEMORY OF BELLAMY SAYING WE'LL TAKE THE DEAL) AND THEN CLARKE COMING BACK TO LIFE BECAUSE BELLAMY WOULDN'T GIVE UP AND THEN WE HAVE OCTAVIA, MY BROTHER POISONED ME FOR HIS WIFE AND I STILL RAISED MY NIECE ON STORIES OF EPIC BELLARKE, BLAKE IN THE BACKGROUND BEING ALL OF US

>SO WE HAVE CLARKE WHO GAVE UP LIVING BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT BELLAMY GAVE UP (REMEMBER, JOSIE SHOWING HER THE MEMORY OF BELLAMY SAYING WE'LL TAKE THE DEAL) @kate (historyofbellarke) OMG I HAVE A SPEC ABOUT THIS I HAVE A SPEC ABOUT THIS BUT IMMA WAIT TIL WE'RE DONE TO POP INTO SPEC TO TALK IT OUT OKAY CONTINUE

i'm going to keep going, but have i done a pretty good job of convincing anyone who was wavering? because remember this is all canon. i have done absolutely no spec-ing at all.

I'm very hype rn. Ngl.

lol

Could flip a tire for Bellarke rn kind of hype

OK SO NOW CLARKE IS ALIVE BUT OH FUCK, THE REST OF THE FAMILY IS IN TROUBLE WE LITERALLY HAD MURPHY, MY BLESSED MURPHY, SHOW UP TO GO "YO. YOUR GIRLFRIEND." AND BELLAMY GO https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/591463308117278720/716493560610029708/tumblr_pv4mkld49N1xsmktho1_500.gif SO OF COURSE, IT'S NOT TIME TO TALK BECAUSE CHORUS

DUMBASSES NO TALKIE

SO WE GET EVERYONE FIXED. A BUNCH OF UNNECESSARY PLOT SHIT HAPPENS. AND THEN BELLAMY LITERALLY PUSHES HIS GIRLFRIEND OUT OF THE WAY TO GO AND DO A DRAMATIC SUNSET REUNION WITH HIS WIFE AND THEN PLOT SHIT PLOT SHIT PLOT SHIT WE'RE IN S7 AM I MISSING S6 STUFF? PROBABLY BUT Y'ALL IT'S LITERALLY BEEN 4 WEEKS IN CANON AT THIS POINT AND I MISSED A LOT OF SHIT. SO Y'KNOW. OUR BABIES ARE TIRED N AND NOW WE'RE ALL GOOD RIGHT? JUST GONNA GO HAVE A QUICK MEETING WITH GABRIEL AND THEN GO BACK TO MY WIFE SO WE CAN TALK OVER SOME TEA THEN BAM, O GETS STABBED AND THEN WE HAVE . 4 EPISODES THAT HAPPEN OVER 2 DAYS BEFORE CLARKE'S LIKE "WELP. I'M THROWING MYSELF HEAD FIRST INTO A WORM HOLE TO GO GET MY HUSBAND AND HIS STUPID GIRLFRIEND." AND YOU HAVE EVERYONE ELSE GOING "I'M SORRY, DID YOU THINK ANYTHING ELSE WAS GOING TO HAPPEN?" AND FOLLOWING AND THE S6/7 WRITERS MOSTLY JUST CHOSE TO IGNORE THAT S4/5 WRITERS GAVE CLARKE A DAUGHTER BECAUSE, WELL, I DON'T BLAME THEM EVEN THOUGH I LOVE MADI SHE'S AN UNNECESSARY COMPLICATION SO HAND WAVING SHE'S FINE SO NOW WE'RE UP TO PRESENT

Fully convinced Madi was there to ensure Clarke didn't go fully insane on Earth and provide motive for that bitch slap scene from S5.

brb spilled beer

Oh, and to parent trip Bell/Clarke.

>brb spilled beer @kate (historyofbellarke) makes sense after the tea you're spilling on this channel

Someone really oughta document this convo for a later date. lol We will need to reference it before end of the season, bet. lol

blesss i do not deserve my partner he told me to go sit down and is cleaning it also i went to finish the last of the unspilled stuff and promptly spilled it down my chest so ALL RIGHT WHERE WERE WE OH YEAH AND BELLAMY FORGAVE HER BECAUSE MADI WAS LIKE "YO YOU'RE A PARENT TOO AND REMMEBER SHE STOOD BY YOU WHEN YOU PUT OCTAVIA ABOVE LITERALLY EVERYTHING" AND BELLAMY WAS LIKE "OH... SHIT." AND THEN SHE WAS LIKE "SHE CALLE DYOU EVERY DAY YOU DUMBFUCK" AND YOU HAVE THE PATENTED "OMG, DOES CLARKE HAVE FEELINGS FO RME TOO???" JAW DROP BUT NOW BACK TO PRESENT

(Now if someone will just fucking tell her that he did the equivalent grant gestureTM of the radio calls except w/ poison)

i didn't even include the fact that he fucking poisoned O, that diyoza referred to her as his girlfriend, etc etc etc OH AND AS TO WHY HBECHO ISN'T GOING TO BE A HTING ANYMORE BESIDES EVERYTHING I'VE SAID

FINN COLLINS THAT'S WHY

BASUCALLY YES

FINN COLLINS EXCEPT AT LEAST CLARKE KNEW HIS REAL NAME

THEY DID A LITERAL EXACT PARALLEL BETWEEN BELLAMY AND ECHO SPFEIHOi4ur YES LIKE IT'S LIKE THE WRITERS FOUND BESTOFBECHO AND WENT "FUCK, ARE WE NOT BEING OBVIOUS ENOUGH? TIME TO CALL IN ZACH MCGOWAN" ( THEY FUCKING GOT ZACH ON A PLANE FROM LA TO VANCOUVER TO JUST SAY "YOU DON'T LOVE HIM" LIKE I DON'T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE HOW INVOLVED OF A PROCESS IT IS TO GET AN ACTOR THERE - ESPECIALLY IN CANADA WHERE YOU HAVE TO BALANCE NON-CANADIAN WITH CANADIAN ACTORS OR YOU CAN'T SHOOT IN CANADA SO THIS AMERICAN HAD TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT FOR THE WHOLE SEASON FOR A 2 MINUTE APPERANCE BUT THE WRITERS WERE LIKE "YO HUGE NEON SIGN RIGHT HERE" AND THEN SHE CONTINUED ALL SEASON IN THAT VEIN UNTIL 7X05 WHEN SHE BROKEEEEE OVER HIS "DEATH"

BECAUSE HER SOUL DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS ALIVE LIKE BELL DID CLARKE

AND DID THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING BELLAMY DID WHEN HE FOUND OUT CLARKE WAS ALIVE

And also as mentioned, she's a shit spy.

BECAUSE THE WRITERS ARE LIKE "CAN WE MAKE IT MORE OBVIOUS? I'M NOT SURE HOW!" so now we're at present day and here's a bit of crack spec-ing

THANKS FOR THIS LONG ASS META !!

YOU ARE WELCOME once again if i put that amount of effort into my dissertation, i'd be a phd with a published book or 3

This was a joy to read An utter joy This reaffirmed all my beliefs and got rid of all doubts I had

https://tenor.com/view/about-to-ugly-cry-ugly-cry-emotional-sensitive-crying-gif-8033343 i aim to please so now we have that O/B scene so we as the audience know something is off. bellamy was dragged sobbing and unconscious by his captors to suddenly being awake, fine, and killing a bunch of trained soldiers and holding someone hostage with his left hand. so then you have O, noticing something isn't quite right, casually bringing up clarke's name clarke. fucking. griffin. who bellamy had JUST brought back from the dead after learning she was alive and he's just... calm? about O possibly doing something with these psychos that's related to clarke? HE JUST POISONED HIS SISTER LIKE A WEEK AGO TO SAVE CLARKE'S LIFE i cannot stress this enough. bellamy fucking blake would not just go "huh?" when O, his sister that he's barely tolerating, goes "i'll tell you, you psychotic cultists, everything about my sister-in-law" and that's it. that's where i'm at s6 was about bellamy literally pulling clarke back from death s7 will be about clarke literally crossing time and space to get back to bellamy THIS IS AN EPIC FUCKING LOVE STORY AND ANYONE WHO THINKS OTHERWISE IS WRONG AND NOW I'M GOING TO TAKEA . SHOWER BECAUSE I SPILLED BEER ON MYSELF BUT I WILL BE BACK also i didn't think iw as drunk but then i reread that and started crying so it's definitely shower time

#bellarke #bellarke meta #the 100 #anti bech #anti ech #blarke wine club #long post

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ageofevermore · 4 years

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Lost You For Nothing

⊹ Summery: and maybe we were never meant to love beneath any set of stars

⊹ Words: 1.2k

⊹ this contains season 7 spoilers, as well as mentions of previous character deaths.

⊹ just doing my part in ignoring and not acknowledging the ending jroth gave bellamy, and instead writing my own.

⊹ tagging some t100 mutuals bc we deserved somebody fighting for bellamy @r0s3mm @stilinskiswritings @mischiefandi

She had loved him since the first time their eyes locked across the Sky Box. He was a guard, and unsurprisingly enough she was a prisoner. Her crime was involuntary, yet she wasn’t lucky enough to be the chosen twin. She figured it was due to her health conditions; a working class family barely had enough to support a healthy child, let alone one whose lungs were weak and susceptible to detrimental illness. She never cared much about her biological connections though, finding a family in her rotating guards and doctors.

When she and ninety nine other prisoners were sent to the ground and the only person she knew was her former guard, her allegiance to Abigail Griffin’s daughter was severed. She had promised to protect the princess, but she could do that better from afar. For her entire life she had only known change, people were in and out so constantly she wondered if it had to do with her quirks of independence. Growing up in isolation stunted personal development, though she had clearly found enough of herself to turn people away.

When she had finally let Bellamy in closer, she was handed a stick of meat and a wink. She had toted around a bulky silver bracelet until spitefully tearing it from her person in the face of Clarke, weakly shoving Wells aside when he lunged at her emotionally. She wasn’t unaffected by the throw away life she lived, but she couldn’t bring herself to care so deeply like Wells. She was born a default, just another statistic from the moment she opened her eyes. Sacrificial responsibilities were forced upon her from the minute she was given up.

She had found her brother a week later after Octavia had aggravatedly yelled for Murphy throughout the camp and had gotten a response from both throw away teens. The softer of the two had frowned at the sight of another answering to her name before her heart stilled and she looked between her rival and her friend.

When Mount Weather had attacked she had fought beside the former guard with glassy eyes and a conflicted approach, she found herself strung up by the ankles and drained of everything her body had to offer. She was manipulated and humiliated, treated as though she was beneath standard human respects. It was Bellamy who found her next to nude, pale and a pile of bones, fingertips tickling the concrete.

John had broken her to pieces when he left with Jaha. She had watched everyone she loved fall apart, and even worse watched Clarke lose somebody she loved. When the sky had fallen for the second time and Bellamy had ejected himself from the atmosphere, he had given her no choice but to be by his side. Her brother had found infinite love within a grounder's eyes, while she was spiraling deeper and deeper into love with Bellamy.

When they found another planet capable of sustaining human life forms, she had mourned the loss of not only a hundred years, but the death and love of two close friends. She had taken Jordan under her wing without prompt, simultaneously looking out for Madi. She had never seen herself as being maternal, but she had seen too many hearts turn cold without guidance; Finn, Charlotte, fucking Pike. She had higher hopes and expectations for generations to come.

When John almost died and Abby actually did, that’s when Brinley understood that there was no possibility of saving humanity. They couldn’t even save themselves. Life beyond the ark had led to mass destruction by a failure to be taught compassion and understanding, rather rank and diversity. What she hadn’t been prepared for, was having no chance to say goodbye to the man she never got to kiss;

“What the hell do you mean, Clarke?” Brinley snapped, stepping towards the blonde with a fire in her eyes. Octavia had her arms draped around the offender's neck, Echo close to joining the embrace with a peaceful understanding in her irises.

“Brinley--” Murphy watched his sister inch dangerously close to the blonde drenched in blood. The blood of everyone in Mount Weather, the blood of Maya and Gina, Charlotte and Wells, Lexa. Clarke was covered in the blood of everyone she tried to help, and now Bellamy was upon the endless list.

“No. Clarke, what the hell do you mean? What the hell do you mean? He, what did you do? Clarke, what the hell did you do? What the hell did you do?” She fell to her knees, sinking into the gentle softness of rediscovered nature. Bellamy should have been beside her, reveling in what Earth had begun in their absence. “What did you do? Say it! Say what you did Clarke, say it!”

“I killed him.” The blonde’s voice trembled as she pulled away from Echo and watched the younger brunette wither on the forest floor, stained with tears and a lifetime of loss.

Her mind wandered to Bellamy’s reaction tactics, and the way she knew he would have rushed to her side and pressed her forehead into his neck until her heart calmed down. He would have blocked out the noise and grounded her in an intimate moment of kindness and acceptance. Bellamy would have forgiven Clarke, but Brinley never could.

“Where’s the book?” Brinley snapped, somehow finding her bearing enough to support herself on two feet, rather than all fours. Her knees were damp with dirt, and her palms were scratched up, but as she wiped the tears from her cheeks and paths of blood and brown stained her, she couldn’t care less. “Where’s the book, Clarke!”

“Sanctum.”

Brinley’s eyes pinched tightly as another aching sobs slipped through the confines of her chest. “Was Lincoln not enough for you?” She cried, eyes hard and teary as she advanced towards the warrior. “Was Lincoln and Finn and Lexa not enough for you? Are you so desperate to dismantle any ounce of love you come across? Should John be worried? Are you gonna kill Emori next? Huh, Clarke?” Brinely grabs at the gun in Clarke’s hands, sobbing when the cold metal freezes her burning touch, though recklessly she aims it at her brother's girlfriend.

“Brinley, calm down.” Octavia warned warily, eyes on the black gun that was shakily pointed towards a distressed Emori. The girls had become like sisters, though siblingship clearly meant nothing to the last living Blake.

Brinely shrieked animalistically, eyes wild with a fire. “Calm down? She killed your brother, Octavia! She killed your brother! He’s dead. Bellamy’s dead. Kane and Abby and Aurora and Bellamy. They’re all dead. You don’t have anybody left!”

“He was dead a long time ago.” Echo tried to interject, watching over the teetering Murphy who couldn’t seem to process the information she was being fed.

“He was dead when he joined Pike, and when he lost Gina, and months before that when he hung John! When he got Lincoln killed he was just about as good as dead as he was on Bardo and you still tried to fucking save him! You justify when people are worth saving, Clarke. You think you’re god, Clarke. You’re not! You kill people. You killed him! You killed him long before we even stepped foot on Sanctum. You killed us all.”

#bellamy blake #bellamy blake x oc #clarke griffin #octavia blake #echo kom azgeda #echo kom spacekru #wanheda #blodreina #lincoln kom trikru #linctavia #jasper jordan #monty green #the 100 #the 100 fanfic #john murphy #murphy x emori #emori the 100 #emori #madi griffin

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blodreina-noumou · 4 years

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Hi! I hope you can help me understand ^^ what's all the drama with Bob Morley and the showrunner? I saw rumors and stuff but I'm not really sure I get the situation. Thanks!!

Oh goodness, okay. I’ll do my best to recap, but finding sources is gonna be impossible because it’s pretty much all rumors.

If anyone wants to jump in and fill in the gaps, please feel free!

Sometime last year, Bob Morley left a convention early. I don’t know why - I know he’s had some personal health issues (a knee injury, mental health struggles, etc,) and I think the con became overwhelming for him. Richard Harmon stepped in to fill the remainder of his slots.

Rumors started up that JRoth and Bob feuded over his early departure from the convention - that JRoth found it unprofessional and ripped Bob a new one. Bob lashed back. That’s allegedly where the bad blood starts. It has supposedly continued up ‘til now.

Before all of this happened, Bob Morley and Eliza Taylor got married. It was a big deal within the fandom, because many people made the connection that Bob and Eliza fell in love while portraying Bellamy and Clarke. For many, it was affirmation that there is a romantic connection between the two characters, that perhaps, it might even indicate that Bellamy and Clarke are endgame and will become canon.

Then, Bob tweeted this:

Many in the fandom suspected that this (very vague) tweet was in reference to the Bellamy/Clarke dynamic in The 100. It fits the timeline (the show had been in development for about six years at this point,) and JRoth has often poked at B/C shippers by saying they “misinterpret” the Bellarke dynamic as romantic.

From this point forward, Bob’s twitter becomes, almost exclusively, about his struggles with depression, and about connecting others in the same boat with resources. He mostly uses the platform to raise awareness about this, and other issues important to him, like the Australian bushfires from last December.

The next time we get anything like a subtweet about the show, it’s this:

Many fans saw this as Bob (1) asserting that he is, in fact, the lead of the show, despite potential pushback from JRoth and (2) he’s a unique lead on The CW, making him even more valuable. Fans begin to speculate that JRoth is no longer treating Bob as the lead, and has sidelined his storyline. (This is also around the time that the scripts for s7 were being written, hence people making the connection to BTS drama.)

The next big hint we get is in the promos. Bellamy is featured in the trailer even less than characters like Echo and Murphy, who were normally considered supporting characters, at least compared to him. Bellamy doesn’t even get a line in the trailer. Bellamy is missing from the poster. Bellamy isn’t featured in ANY of the countdown shots (maybe they’re reserving him for the Show Day picture, that remains to be seen.)

Edit: There was a huge cast and crew shot for the Show Day picture, and Bob was not in it.

Actors do get residuals from their likenesses being used in promo materials. So cutting Bob out of the promo material would be an effective and easy: “fuck you, you get less money” from JRoth.

Furthermore, both Bob and Eliza have been very, very quiet on social media about the end of the series. Given that this is the end of a seven-season show where they were both the leads, this is suspicious. Their silence indicates that they do not agree with the end of the show, they no longer feel an attachment to it, and they don’t care to do promotion for free. It implies that they’ve gone sour on the whole experience, and want to put it behind them. There are rumors that Eliza had a miscarriage (she might have said as much, Idk) sometime last year, and that Bob’s depression got a lot worse because of it. That alone could be enough to warrant some silence on social media, which is notoriously negative.

This is all heavy speculation. Maybe absolutely none of this is happening - maybe JRoth was super understanding to Bob when he left the con; maybe Bob’s tweets had nothing to do with Bellarke, or with his dissatisfaction behind-the-scenes; maybe the lack of Bellamy in the promo is a super intentional way to build buzz around the final season. After all, if he’d been in the promo, people would just see it and move on, like we usually do. Not including him has gotten a lot more people to talk about what might be going on with Bellamy. And maybe the only reason Bob and Eliza have been quiet about the show is because they’ve got some serious stuff going on in their personal lives, and can’t spare the energy to do the promo for free.

But... if you add it all up, and it starts to look quite a lot like Bob pissed off his showrunner, and JRoth severely cut his role down in the final season because of it.

I might be missing some things, but that’s the gist, as I remember it. It’s been going on for so long now, I almost forgot that there was a time when Bob and JRoth didn’t appear to hate each other, lmao. If anyone reading this has anything to add, feel free!

I hope this made things a lil clearer, sorry it’s so long!

#gossip #the 100 speculation #asks #nomattertheoceans #the 100 s7 #bob morley #jason rothenberg

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sammansonn · 4 years

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my thoughts on the 100 series finale

okay so just before this episode i watched last weeks episode because i really just Didn’t wanna watch it jroth really had me Dreading having to watch the show

i want to make it clear that i hate jroth and he managed to fuck up Everything in these last few episodes

but, and i don’t know if it was my Lowwwww expectations of this episode or what, i didn’t Hate it

i have So many issues with it and i didn’t Like it, but i Kinda get it

so first off hate that they killed madi that was fucked up and stupid like why did jroth say “everyone clarke loves has to die otherwise she’s not Really traumatized” like fuck him

honestly i think my biggest issue these past few episodes is that jroth just rewrote clarke’s character, like she obviously would never have killed bellamy but she also would Not have been as selfish as she’s been these last couple episodes

clarke griffin is my favorite character of all time (i mean now its a bit difficult separating this fucked version jroth randomly made from the real one in my heart) and so much of this just Wasn’t her

idk like Obviously she’d be focused on madi and Only madi but i just feel like the way she treated everyone else just Wasn’t her

okay so before i watched the episodes i actually knew a lot of what happened because i said “fuck it i’ll spoil myself i don’t give a shit” and while looking at things i was like “what the fuck is the point of the show if the human race doesn’t even technically survive???” but i actually kinda get the point now that i’ve seen it

like although i still do Not like the transcendence plot (honestly wtf jroth) i think the show has tried to convey this idea of violence being the death of humanity, and this episode (especially octavia’s speech) did cement that in a way

oh that reminds me i also hate that raven is the one who beat the test while clarke was just off alone with madi not caring about Anyone else

like i know obviously she’s gonna be Fucked up, but first off she is the main character like the fact that octavia and raven were the actual ones who fixed everything just kinda didn’t vibe with me right (although i love octavia and raven obviously), and second off again she wouldn’t just give up that easily on the test nor would she just abandon everyone else

and when i say this i mean Our clarke, the Real clarke, wouldn’t do that, this clarke that jroth made was born when she killed bellamy, because all of these things that are totally out of clarke’s character make sense when you look at the fact that she killed bellamy, and because Our clarke would Not kill bellamy she also wouldn’t do all this bullshit jroth is pulling

some quick side notes

loved murphy and emori so glad they got the happy ending they Deserve honestly my fav canon couple i the show

also love octavia and levitt they looked so cute at the end

jordan and hope doesn’t make sense honestly it was super forced and hope is Clearly a lesbian and her and echo are in Love (hecho rights)

loved indra killing sheidheda what a good time

so about the actual ending on the beach, i actually liked that singular part of it if everything else before it was fixed (that way madi and bellamy could Also be there, and also they should be able to reproduce honestly that part is weird)

i felt like clarke accepting that she was the one human who couldn’t ascend went back to her selfless nature that jroth was ignoring for some reason (i think she should have killed cadogan but then tried to save the human race and basically had raven’s test too ya know, and then maybe the judge could’ve been like “either you all die, or everyone transcends but you” and clarke could’ve agreed i think that would’v been good)

i also liked that her fam came back for her, like it finally shows them appreciating clarke and giving back what she’s given them throughout the show (although again i think madi should’ve come back too but thats fine)

again, im not saying i Like the transcendence, i think it would’ve been better for humanity to actually be able to survive on its own in peace without promise of becoming balls of light but i liked the beach scene ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

also wanted to talk about the fact that lexa was the judge because i have seen some thoughts on it

so first off i am a bellarke shipper who Also loved clexa and love lexa in general and i was Very happy to see that she was back

something i think is interesting that the judge said the person is not Necessarily the one the person loves most but their greatest Teacher, and i Do feel like clarke learned so much not necessarily by lexa but through her?

personally tho if i was gonna pick a person for clarke i might have gone her dad or maybe wells because rip wells (or obviously bellamy but ya know)

anyway i was so happy to see lexa and clarke looked so happy even for a second which was so good

but despite all this i do want to recognize that bringing back lexa was a Complete manipulation move by jroth because he’s just trying to bring back some of his alienated fanbase

but even though its So manipulative we can still appreciate lovely lexa obviously

okay those are my thoughts idk i’m less upset about it than i thought i’d be but i think that’s peace 1. my expectations were in the literal gutters and 2. i did still like all the other characters and felt that they did good ya know, like its really the ooc clarke that is my main issue (and jroth’s just shit writing in general)

also wanted to say that the cast was honestly amazing tho like they did gr8 and i just wish they had a better writer than jroth

i also hope one day we’ll find out if there really was a fight between bob and jroth and thats why everything got so fucked because apparently he was mad at bob and eliza?? like idk if he’s That petty but.....

anyway have i mentioned fuck jroth

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ok but literally what the fuck was s5? i have spent so much time trying to defend clarke and bellamy from people who hate one and prop up the other, but honestly, they were BOTH fucking IDIOTS in s5. they both had ooc moments. like,,,, i can kinda appreciate what the writers were trying to do a lot of the time, but it was not executed well. like AT ALL.

yes, mothers are irrational sometimes about their kids’ safety, but what they are not (normally) is dumb, and i’m sorry, but clarke was dumb as fuck for like half of the season and her motivations were ALL over the place. bellamy is her best friend. she radioed him every day for over six years and ONLY him. she would NEVER just leave him to die like that. NEVER. no matter what he has done, she has always forgiven him. no matter what. that’s what made bellarke bellarke. her unwavering faith in him (and his in her). and yet, he does one (1) thing she disagrees with and she doesn’t even try and hear him out??? she thinks running is the best solution?? that she and madi won’t get hunted down and killed eventually??? that maybe she should not at least consider for one second that maybe staying and fighting while she has people to protect her and madi by their sides would be a smart move??? the answer to all of these is a fucking no. she doesn’t think, and that’s the problem. clarke is the HEAD. idc that she’s supposed to be the “heart” now. people don’t just change like that. it doesn’t matter than it’s been six years, you can’t just change THAT much. okay, i’m not gonna say it’s impossible, but if they wanted us to believe that clarke had changed, why did we not get to SEE that development? she’s supposed to be the heart as a parallel to how bellamy was the heart and how he handled his relationship with octavia back in s1, but we didn’t get to see HOW SHE GOT THERE. we got half an episode. that’s it. and it’s NOT enough!!! it’s fucking not. if you’re gonna have clarke griffin radio bellamy blake every single day for six years, never losing her faith in him for even a day--not even after over a year had passed since he was supposed to have been home already--then you’re gonna have to show me more of the trauma she endured. you’re gonna have to show me more of her relationship to madi--the one that has become more important than any other relationship. because how else do you explain her acting irrationally and leaving bellamy to die like that? it makes ZERO sense. we did not see enough of her development for that. you cannot have four seasons of clarke growing to care about bellamy in the most beautiful development i have ever seen and then just erase it all in one (1) episode, not to mention the fact that clarke REFUSES to destroy the chip!!! so,, this was something she left her best friend in the entire world for and yet she can’t destroy it because it contains the memories of her dead lover who she only spent less than a few weeks with in canon--a week in s2 and a week in s3? are you kidding??? that is not how you pay tribute to a dead character. you don’t fuck over the LIVING female lead and have her motivations make no sense at all to pay tribute to a DEAD guest character. and then they had the audacity to have clarke shock madi?????? everything she did was supposed to be for madi--to protect her--and now the writers had the audacity to have her abuse her??? are you fucking kidding me??? and please show me the parallel scene of bellamy physically harming octavia. because you know, clarke’s supposed to be him now, i guess. oh, wait?? it doesn’t exist!!! BELLAMY never physically harmed octavia so CLARKE also never should have physically harmed madi. i just...bellamy and madi are supposed to be the two most important people in her life and yet she slaps one of them and leaves him to die and then wrestles the other one to the ground and shocks her????? and she never even apologized for slapping bellamy or shocking madi?!?! add that to the fact that clarke hardly showed ANY emotion at all during the entire time she thought bellamy was dead to the point where we didn’t even know that she thought he was dead until she found out he wasn’t!!!!! we’ve already seen how clarke handles thinking she could be the reason that bellamy blake is dead and that was in s2 and she was literally a fucking control freak about his safety 24/7, and you’re telling me that same woman hardly felt anything at all until she found out he was still alive!?!? IDK WHO THAT WOMAN WAS THAT DID THOSE THINGS BUT IT WAS NOT CLARKE GRIFFIN !!!!

and bellamy??? trying to use a child because he thought it was the best way to save everyone? i’m sorry but in what fucking world--i repeat, in WHAT FUCKING WORLD--would bellamy blake, mother father of all children who have ever existed, think that the best way to save everyone would be to use a child as a pawn in a power struggle??? i don’t care that madi agreed. OF COURSE she agreed. she was told clarke would die if she didn’t ascend!! and this is the same child that joined a cult in order to save her mother. so like???? of course she was gonna agree to ascend?? and then i get that bellamy is mad that clarke left him (and slapped him--i was mad too!!), but you’re telling me that bellamy never even felt bad at all or even apologized for how things went down? madi told him clarke would never forgive him for this and he knew that and you could tell he hated that it had come to that, but then later at the end of the season and into s6, he never apologizes for that??? for breaking her trust?? bellamy blake NOT apologizing for causing a loved one harm?? again, IN WHAT FUCKING WORLD?!? and then there’s the fact that he was willing to take the rover and run to save raven, e.cho, murphy and emori but the second clarke suggests that plan because she doesn’t want madi to ascend, suddenly bellamy is all nope nope nope, we can’t do that! like....WHAT. literally what. the. fuck. it makes no sense!! and i swear to god, half the time, it felt like bellamy was just going through the motions with everything. it just didn’t seem like him. it didn’t matter that he was still doing things for clarke, like in 5x03. it didn’t matter because there was still something OFF. even the stuff with octavia i don’t think was handled well at all and i hate octavia!!!! me, a known octavia hater, a known advocate for wanting bellamy to tell his sister off, wasn’t happy with him doing just that???? and it’s because it didn’t feel like it was bellamy doing it!!!! i wanted to see the bellamy i knew and loved in s4. i wanted to see THAT bellamy telling her off. not this emotionally-repressed shell of a character that used to be him. which brings me to another thing: it’s not that who bellamy was after those six years was not realistic. it’s that we didn’t get to see him develop during those six years. there were ZERO flashbacks. Z E R O. for the male lead there were zero flashbacks to explain the man he became and we were just supposed to accept that he’s the kinda guy who jokes about his sister’s almost death now??? the kinda guy who would ever cross the line into dating territory with the girl that is quite literally the root cause of his trauma??? that he would trust her--the girl who got his girlfriend killed--just because “it’s been six years!!!” and “people change???” and you know, we just have to accept ALL of that. no explanation but bellamy running around polis in 5x06 with the sole purpose of being a mouth piece for the writers???? IDK WHO THAT MAN WAS BUT IT WAS NOT BELLAMY BLAKE !!!

jfc, s5 was seriously the WORST season of this show. HANDS DOWN. literally what the fuck was that??? bellamy and clarke, i’m so sorry, you didn’t deserve that complete and utter bullshit. both of them were ooc as fuck and they didn’t make sense half the time. i felt connected to clarke in s5a, but then 5x09 came around and she just fucking lost me!! and bellamy didn’t seem like himself the ENTIRE season. it wasn’t until s6 for me that he finally came back from the war. speaking of s6, oh my fucking god. the bellarke of it all was amazing. i loved josephine as a villain. but that was pretty much it!!! everything else was terrible. i hate that clarke was treated like complete and utter shit by the biggest hypocrites and then was forced to forgive them instantly by the writers. why is clarke not allowed to be mad?!?!?! i certainly still am!! and on another note, why did leaving bellamy in s5 have to be her biggest regret??? why couldn’t it have been leaving him in s2?? we went all the way back to s1 with things she regrets and yet we couldn’t go back to her leaving him at the end of s2???

honestly, i don’t understand why so much of this had to happen. you could literally remove s5 from the timeline of the show and just change a few things and it wouldn’t change anything!!! s5 was basically jroth acting like octavia had never mistreated bellamy before and needed to give him a reason to finally cut her out his life for a little bit. it was jroth acting like clarke had never regretted leaving bellamy before and needed her to leave him so that she could feel like shit about it and give her “friends” a reason to hate her. it was jroth acting like we couldn’t have had bellamy risk everyone for clarke and clarke only in the season directly after he’s forced to leave her to die. it was jroth acting like we couldn’t have had clarke and bellamy talk about her radioing him the season directly after the episode we found she radioed him for 2,199 days. it was jroth acting like s1-4, for the most part, just didn’t exist. it felt like we were watching the pilot of a new tv show. because clearly we weren’t supposed to care about anything that had happened in s1-4! certainly not the relationships that we had grown to love! and here’s the best part!!! we were supposed to forget all about s1-4 in s5, but ONLY in s5. and then we were supposed to remember it all again in s6 so that it made sense when clarke was the only one who had to be called out for nearly every wrong thing she ever did in those seasons. only...it still doesn’t make sense!!! because contrary to what raven reyes believes, other characters on this show have done horrible things, said they were sorry, and then done them again!!!!!!!! it’s like the main fucking theme of the show if you haven’t noticed, jason!!!

okay, i’m done. and wow, it feels good to finally let that out, especially the part about s5 bellamy and clarke both being morons lmfao. because they were!! they are my favorite characters and the only reason i still watch, but even i have to admit they were not themselves.

#bellamy blake #clarke griffin #madi #anti raven reyes #bellarke #i love soulmates #the 100

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ramblesofadreamerofthestars · 4 years

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Why Come Up With New Plots When You Can Reuses Ones From The Earlier Series - The 100 7.03

An essay by JRoth and the rest of the 100 writers

Spoilers from the most recent episode and as always, long post ahead

(Me rolling up literally a week late with the new episode?? It more likely then you think.)

Ah, glad I can check off “Raven has to deal with some kind of radiation problem” from my 100 bingo card. Seriously though, is anyone not tired of them constantly being in danger of a nuclear meltdown. We’ve been there, done that and I’m ok with moving on to different dangers, really it’s ok, I won’t forget the dangers of nuclear radiation I promise. I’m obviously mostly kidding but it’s still a little tedious for the problem to Once Again be radiation though I am hopeful that this was a one time problem.

I understand what they were trying to do with Raven’s character obviously, finally having her have to make that decision between saving peoples lives or sacrificing them for be greater good, and I’m Extremely interested to see where that leads her character to go from her. @the writers I‘m literally begging you, P l e a s e let her and Clarke have a proper conversation where Raven apologizes for how she’s treated Clarke and Clarke gives her the understanding and love that Raven is going to need after this. They’re two incredibly badass women and can you imagine how powerful it would be If wonders of wonders, they were working together? What an incredible idea.

Speaking of Clarke, I don’t...hate? Her and Gaia bonding like a lot of people seem to? I don’t really understand it, and I would be much happier to see her having these conversations with another delinquent but everyone was apparently Super Busy this episode so I guess??? It makes sense that these two might connect over Madi and Gaia trying to figure out who she is without the flame but idk it’s just kind of...out of no where?? And a little boring?

I miss Octavia and Bellamy and the Anomaly plotline. That’s it’s that’s all I want to say I miss them and I’m excited for Clarke and the rest of the delinquents to finally catch up (this isn’t complaining boohoo why hadn’t Clarke asked where Bellamy is it’s unrealistic, because it Makes Sense with how much time had passed for her to not really be concerned, because she has Faith In Him and also it’s been like, two and half days but I digress)

Miller and Jackson having lines!! Miller and Jackson being in scenes without the others!!! It’s too little too late but at least it’s something. Although them only screentime for their characters to fight is....hmmm. Not a fan??? And like, Jackson suddenly having a crisis of morality out of...nowhere??? It feels very contrived so I’m split between enjoying them getting screentime and character development and then...suspicious of where that character development is going.

Not a lot of thoughts for this episode it was just very,,,boring??? I’m already so sick of the Sanctum plotlines like I could not care less about them. You have introduced Time Travel and Fucked Up Dimensions and you want me to care about the godsdamn motherfucking flame A g a i n??? Pass. Very excited for this weeks episode, finally Clarke and delinquents are going to learn about the other’s disappearance and more about the anomaly and I For one am Very Excited about a break from the fucking Sanctum Plotline for an anomaly episode so fingers crossed it’s good

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travllingbunny · 5 years

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The 100 Final Season Speculations

I was tagged by @nightbleeder and @kizo2703

Thank you both!

From the OP by @nightbleeder : It’s been a long road, but the last season of The 100 is currently in production! Since Jason & The CW announced that Season 7 would be the show’s last, I thought it would be cool to make a post where each of us gets to share our speculations for the show’s final plot. Then, a year from now, we can look back and see how accurate we were!

Pick one or more characters you think will survive: Jordan, because, by this very existence, he represents hope and Marper's legacy, and it would be a huge failure on Clarke and Bellamy's part to not take care of him, as Marper told them too, so killing him off would just feel like nihilistic grimdark crap. Madi for a similar reason, and probably Hope, because they’re really not subtle with the symbolism of her name. They will have all the “new generation” characters survive. Also Niylah, Miller and Jackson will all survive, because there is really nothing to be gained by killing them off, and the show wants to avoid being called out on the Bury Your Gays trope again.

The rest I’m not sure about. I could only see Raven dying if she gets a really good, big storyline for a change, but I’m inclined to think she won’t, and that her story is about finding happiness, foreshadowed by Shaw’s words “Tell Raven she deserves happiness. She thinks she doesn’t, but she does.”

Pick one or more characters you think will die: Russell is 100% dying (there's no way a Prime, the Prime leader in fact, is going to survive to the end. You can't close off the story of the Primes and bodysnatching without his death. And that means definitely destroying all the mind drives and killing him off.)

Gabriel, probably - he's lived for 260 years and he will do something good to fix everything and sacrifice himself, after he has learned the mystery of the Anomaly.

Charmaine Diyoza, unfortunately, has a high chance of dying, because the show loves to kill off the parents.

I’m not sure about the rest. At least one of the main characters will probably die, and my money would be on Murphy, who was high on my death list in season 6, because so much of his story has been about his fear of death and desperate wish for immortality, and because he was considered a cockroach who just cares about his own survival for so long - so it would be a fitting and ironic ending if he sacrifices himself. He wouldn't do it for the 'greater good', but he probably would for his friends and definitely for Emori.

You’ll notice I haven’t mentioned Clarke, Bellamy or Octavia, because they’re my biggest question marks. But the one thing I’m sure is that Clarke and Bellamy will either die together in some great epic "Together" moment, or they survive and get a happy ending together, even if it's an off-screen/epilogue happy ending. They aren’t going to kill off just one of them. (Especially since either would be really repetitive: killing just Bellamy would feel like we're doing the old "kill the people Clarke loves so she can suffer" thing that's been done to death on this show and would feel lazy. And we've already seen Clarke sacrifice herself and "die" and Bellamy mourn her, twice, except she didn't really die either time.)

Pick one deceased character you think might make a cameo: If I had to pick just one, Abby, in a fantasy sequence/hallucination by Clarke and/or Raven. But, since it’s the last season, I wouldn’t be surprised if we get a lot of dead character cameos, depending on the actors’ availability and willingness to return, and some more reused footage flashback appearances of those whose actors won’t return.

Do you expect any romantic changes to happen this season? Definitely: Bellamy and Echo to finally amicably break up, which I expect to happen in a low-key manner (much like their relationship has been.. I wouldn’t even be surprised if it happens off-screen between episodes and they just reference it);

and Bellamy and Clarke to finally have a love confession and/or kiss and/or get together - I just hope it won’t happen at the last moment, in the last episode, before they die, but I wouldn’t put that past the show.

I don’t expect any changes to Memori or Mackson (except maybe one or both of Memori dying, which is possible). The rest is up in the air - whether Octavia, Raven or any other character will get another romance. They surely could, the show often develops romances over the course of one season or less.

Where will the final scene take place?: It would be nice if it takes place on the Earth, which is livable again.

What will the final line be?: “We have survived... Now... we live”.

Who will say it?: It would be most fitting if it’s Clarke. (If she survives, obviously.) Or maybe Bellamy in reply to Clarke (same caveat).

If they both die (and of course their last words in that case would be “Together”), then... I'm not sure, but probably one of the “new generation” characters.

What’s one thing you hope happens?: Clarke and Bellamy getting to be happy together at least for some time, any amount of time.

Do you expect a happy ending?: I expect a sort of a happy ending ("our version of happy ending” as JRoth put it), in any case. This, at the very least, means a happy/hopeful ending for the humanity. It would be fitting if it included going back to Earth and making it livable again, but I must say I don’t think it’s absolutely necessary, they could still make a community on Alpha as well. Now. which characters will get a happy ending, that’s trickier, but at least some of them will. It won’t be a nihilistic “everything sucks” or “rocks fall, everyone dies” ending.

List your favorite character, season and episode up to this point:

Character: Clarke and Bellamy (I can’t choose)

Season: Season 6 (followed by: season 2, season 4)

Episode: Blood Must Have Blood Part 2 reigned supreme for most of the show, but now maybe Nevermind, and What You Take With You, and Matroyoshka. Honorable mentions: the last three episodes of season 4 (The Other Side, The Chosen, Praimfaya) and the season 5 finale Damocles, both parts.

Tagging: @jeanie205 @theatre-steph @immortalpramheda @wankadi @wolfheartgirl @platonic-oxymoron @lee-em-dee @lesbellamy @justbecauseyoubelievesomething @still-watching @katersann @clarke-the-ferrari @persepholily @carrieeve and anyone else who wants to do this.

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wankadi · 5 years

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Hi! I'm here to ask: how did you like the finale of this season? I'm really surprised because nearly everyone says it was the worst finale of the 100. I on the other hand really enjoyed it. Sure, there are a lot of questions after the whole anomaly thing and the cliffhanger but because of that I'm more interested in what happens in the next season. Thanks for answering 💚

Hello, love!❤️

I will put it like that: it was A LOT.

This finale wasn’t like any other finale.

Sometimes we had s1/s4 finales with one big shook moment (mount weather/eligius) and other times were more calm and low-key building up s2/s3/s5 (ALIE, end of the world in “6 months/another planet and end of the book one).

Now, we had a finale that was a bunch of different multiple confusing cliffhangers we have to dig out, too. There was this calm reunion and then bigger anomaly event shook moment, but as we think of the whole thing, there are more Easter eggs than ever.

I am less than an hour after watching it (busy + no internet + eu time zone) and so right now I still feel very confused and it’s not necessarily in a bad way. I feel very overwhelmed because I was very not prepared for out of sci-fi moments like the one with Octavia. Anomaly itself was crazy enough.

We got left in a very stressful, yet confusing and mind blowing spot. For people not so invested in the show it might have been not understandable AT ALL, and I can totally understand it, too.

The thing is, I feel like the more I think about each scenes, the more questions I have on my mind. The more worries. So that’s a big shout out to JRoth for this aspect.

Personally, I am very glad we get to have Gabriel for the last season and we also weren’t left with separated bellarke. We’ve been taken care of a bit.

I am legit scared for our boy Jordan, not only because of the creepy dude who made him go nuts, but also because of his creating trauma after Delilah/Priya. I lowkey think he felt something for both. And now he’s in hell of a trouble.

Also I do not know how to feel about Octavia/gabtavia at the moment. I felt very betrayed by Octavia. She seemed to lie but also chose the red box. It doesn’t add up for me and I would die for some meta about it. She needed Gabriel to open the anomaly for those inside. There is ANOTHER MAN, maybe even older than the Old Man.

What I should point out because I’m very bitter about it (that’s nothing really and not about the finale finale) but the moment when Clarke is so ready to die for her daughter and JUST lost her mother, it all felt like a strong family moment. And L.xa mention completely ruined that for me. I felt this in a very mother-daughter way and this single sentence was totally out of the blue. Madi could as well stay quiet. If not for it, it would be even MORE AMAZING scene of the remaining Griffins.

Also loved the Raven/Clarke moment as I wrote in one text post and hoped to be like this.

Don’t get me started on Sheidheda. This boy is going places. (Probably Russell since they spared the character).

Overall: I need time to process what I’ve just seen.

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Well season finales usually have some emotional moments but I don't know... maybe that line was taken from a hallucination? and then they deadass added it to bait. It would be a dirty move even for them but we'll see.

I don’t know because as some people stated, the line isn’t an accusation against Clarke. It’s more… confusion. It’s as much showing how she cares about him (calling him every day for 2199 days) and how much he feels she doesn’t (leaving him to die in the pits). For example the Blodreina projection was accusing Clarke of “giving up” on Octavia (and Bellamy) totally. It was not something that seemed conflicted about Clarke’s actions and feelings, it was full on something accusing her and hating her. All of Clarke’s thoughts, guilt and self-hatred coming from the mouth of someone she thinks hates her. I mean, we complain about a Bellarke talk missing so far, but I’d also say a Clarke/Octavia talk has been missing ever since ep11. They’ve just reunited after the whole Blodreina vs Wanheda thing, and it needed a convo to deal with it and… kinda bury the hatchet. The fact that it didn’t happen make their relationship lack of something. The point of showing Octavia in Clarke’s mindspace was to highlight her guilt regarding Octavia. But… then they didn’t address it when new!Octavia and Clarke came face to face? *sigh*I mean, are we supposed to be surprised? This show is always alwayyyys about the plot before the characters. It’s plot driven (and I hate it because so many times the characters would need to talk about things, but they don’t!). That’s why I do believe Bellarke will happen, because they’re the characters/relationship that consistently EXISTS with the plot. It is the relationship that evolves and breathes with the story as it goes- as Jroth said, “the spine” of the show. The season where all of this lacked was s5 and yet again, you could argue that it existed, just not in the way we wanted it to exist. And maybe it was natural for Clarke and Bellamy not to work in sync after six years of being apart- the problem is that it would have been more obvious/more understandable if the timejump had been more significant (again, FLASHBACKS, they coulda stole the Arrow formula and gave us glimpses of the past six years during the entire season). I will forever say that, given what they did with it, the end of s4/the time jump and s5 didn’t need to exist. You could erase them of the show, it wouldn’t change a thing. S5 didn’t move anything forward, it wasn’t new, it wasn’t original. Even the Eligius crew that could have changed the dynamic of the group today well… it didn’t, because Diyoza wasn’t part of the group during the season and now she’s dead apparently and we have no explanation and no real “justification” for that either (hence why people think she’ll come back and she’d better otherwise it would be a shitty end to an awesome character tbh). And Shaw died too. So, Eligius didn’t change shit, all the serial killers are in cryo and god knows when they’ll talk about this elephant in the room, ya kno. I think I lost myself. But to me s6 just confirmed how unnecessary and useless s5 was. If I were Jroth I woulda put everyone on a spaceship at the end of s4 and made them leave Earth at that moment. And then maybe have Monty and Harper sacrifice themselves to give birth to Jordan and help the ship go to Eligius. It’s like Jroth found an awesome - better than the 6 years time jump - idea (a new planet), one year too late, so he re-made the whole space thing just to put it in his show, like lmao. Anyway, back to Bellarke-There is a formula with them too. S6 was kinda different because they weren’t physically separated and we did see the lengths Bellamy was willing to go to save Clarke. But again, I have to agree with everyone saying that it was not enough. For all we know, Clarke could HEAR what Bellamy was doing/sharing with Josephine during ep9 and 10. So huh, why wasn’t this addressed? I get the “oh but they have to survive first!” thing, but-… that’s how you pull a cheap trick to delay something that is glaringly obvious. You don’t make Bellamy BEG for Clarke to survive, say he NEEDS her and that he’s NOT gonna let her go, and just be like “oh well they’ll talk about this once they saved their friends”. It’s the same bullshit they’ve been pulling since s4. Like okay before that, the delay was natural. She was with Finn, they were separated by MW, then they reunited but Clarke had just lost Finn and felt too guilty to “settle”. Then there was Lxa and Clarke’s grief. But-… even at the end of s4 it didn’t make sense to address what was already HUGE (excuse me, the List???). But then they separated them for 6 years. And s5 Bellarke had their issues that they didn’t talk about until 6x01 (and idk if anyone thinks this is over, because it SHOULDN’T). How is that normal? Years in the making things (Clarke calling Bellamy every day - EVERY; DAY - for six years) that weren’t addressed because “oh but the plot!” (and a shitty plot on top of that, s5 really sucked tbh). Thing is, if they ever address it, it’ll mend Bellarke so much that there is no escape to canon. So they FORCE them not to address it. And sometimes it’s so obvious that it’s embarrassing. Bellamy not addressing the fact that he put the Flame in Madi’s head? Not natural. Bellamy not responding to Clarke’s apologies on 6x04? Not natural. Bellarke not talking about how Clarke felt when SOMEONE at least was fighting for her when she, herself, in her own mindspace, was so sure that everyone had given up on her? Not natural. I mean, there are a lot of stuff that aren’t addressed as a whole. “For Monty” and all is nice, but the fact that Spa/cekru never explicitely talked about losing TWO members of their “family” is what makes this dynamic even LESS believable. The fact that Abby didn’t notice that her daughter was dead and that her reaction was not explored until right before her death is very telling too. And will Clarke even be ALLOWED to grieve for her mother? Her LAST parent, who got snatched by the same people who tried to kill HER and are torturing her daughter? Every time I think it gets better, it doesn’t, because ultimately, the plot ALWAYS takes over. They keep making Bellarke’s actions for each other more and more significant. But they never make the characters talk about it properly, so it’s just stalling at this point. Just like Bleggo and how INCONSISTENT it is (helloooo same than Bellarke, will they EVER address the lies that lie as a foundation of this relationship???? How DIFFERENT their philosophies are? Why put it in the show if you’re not gonna address it ffs??) is lazy stalling too. “Oh but look Bellamy has a girlfriend even tho we haven’t given them any scene together since ep4!!!” UGH. It’s just ridiculous, I’m gonna be honest, it’s frustrating how it’s handled. I love Bellarke when it’s intense, but the way the writers constantly drop the ball when it gets just THERE, is too obvious. And it’s so lazily done. And it’s just to have the show going. And I mean, even if Bellarke is meant to be an ENDGAME couple, at some point, it won’t even make sense if that happens, because HOW LONG can they circle around this until it doesn’t mean anything anymore? How long can they do that until it’s just a tired receipe that won’t work at all anymore? It’s been three seasons already, three seasons of back and forth. To me, yeah, it really started going to this “exclusive Bellarke” place from s4 and going, and it’s already a lot. When I say I NEED BELLARKE TO TALK, it’s not “yeh you called me for six years every day let’s just joke about it lel”, it’s TALK. But as I said at the end of s5, talking would mean canon. There is no way around it. If Bellarke were to explore everything they do for each other and WHY, they’d be canon in the same breath. So the writers force them apart, over and over again. We’ll see in the finale, really. I can’t fathom a finale where the two leads don’t interact. And really, if they pull some space separation bullshit again at the end of the season, I might really drop the show. Because 1) it would be three seasons in a row where they do this and… no 2) it would be LAZY like they don’t have other ideas?? 3) I hate it. To me it’s contrary to the idea of the show. They’re NOT supposed to go to space, they’re supposed to find a place on the ground to settle. I was already super mad at the end of s4 where it happened. I was ANGRY that they left Earth at the end of s5. If they do it again with Sanctum/Alpha I might just-… what would be the point of the show anymore, huh? I really hope this quote “you called me every day” and all, was NOT added as bait. Because they’ve never done this and it would be really, a dirty move. They KNOW the radio calls talk (+ left to die in the fighting pits, coming from Bellamy) are two IMMENSELY important talks Bellamy and Clarke need to have. If they just teased it to bait us, then yes, it’s more than dirty, it’s shitty and I don’t want to relay on/trust the kind of people who would do that.

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murphystartedthefire · 6 years

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On Family, Spacekru, and The End of The Blakes

Okay, some meta just poured out of me, because I just think people who whine and whine about Bellamy calling spacekru his family (a lot) are missing the most key thing about it, which has nothing to do with Clarke and everything to do with his separation from Octavia.

When we first see Bellamy in 5x01 he is *completely focused* on getting back to Earth, and it’s explicitly because he wants to get back to his sister. The whole first scene on the Ring he’s tense about how long they’ve been stuck up there. People baited themselves into a frenzy about the ‘Bellamy longingly looking out the window’ thing but in the end it was really about Octavia. When he’s reassuring Echo later, his one moment of fear creeps in when he says “if she’s okay and alive...” There’s all this dramatic irony about the fact he still believes Clarke is dead; Octavia is the one he assumes is in danger from Eligius ‘til he finds out otherwise.

It’s a huge deal for him to have gone that long without being able to protect her or know that she’s safe. She’s still frozen in his mind like that, and the only two options seem to be that the worst has happened and she’s dead, or she’s alive and everything else will work itself out once they’re back together. The third option, which he has no way of predicting and becomes the whole thing of the season, is that she’s survived and become someone he doesn’t recognize.

(And to a less dramatic but very real extent -- he’s become someone she wouldn’t recognize either, in a way he didn’t see because he didn’t feel himself change that much. Not just the initial conflict of ‘someone who’s dating her former enemy’. Someone who would turn on her. Someone who isn’t willing to sacrifice for her anymore.)

And I guess what I’m trying to get at is this -- since the beginning of the show (and, y’know, her life) Octavia has been the most important person to Bellamy and the center of his world, to a degree that was often and increasingly unhealthy on both sides. And for me, almost shockingly, finally dissolving that was the arc that season 5 pulled of the best.

His loss of connection to her wasn’t about Echo (as a bunch of people feared but actually became a non-issue almost immediately since - credit where it’s due - Octavia *was* willing to use Echo as a spy and let her prove herself, and she didn’t shoot her along with the defectors). It wasn’t entirely about spacekru, though it didn’t *help* that she called half of them acceptable losses and was gonna sic the worms on them. It really was mostly about the choices she was making and the creepy dictator she was being. The fact she blamed him for saving them and then actively threatened his life, like, a day into him being there. The fact she was determined to fight an unnecessary war when he was Really Fucking Tired and would not mind just keeping everybody alive. That she was ready to force him and Indra and Gaia to fight to the death, that she burned down Monty’s farm and their chance at salvation out of spite. All that happened before he semi-disowned her.

AND a big part of the break was about Clarke too -- I mean, that’s canon, I don’t think Bellarke fans are ~crazy for reading it that way or anything. It was the direct catalyst to him poisoning her. He was willing to betray Octavia’s trust in him and risk her life to save Clarke’s.

But it wasn’t Clarke who was immediately there to back him up and be his substitute person/family after doing that -- that would come way later in the (uh, pretty rushed?) conclusion and probably next season. Their priorities were still at odds with each other and crashed right into a second betrayal situation, yada yada.

To actually cut ties with Octavia -- in a way that eventually might mend but is *never* gonna be a “she is his driving motivation and the most important person in the world” relationship again -- what Bellamy ultimately needed was that time/distance to see her with different eyes, and he also needed to have another support system to attach to. Losing her, physically or emotionally, in the earlier seasons would have broken him, and for better or worse (better IMO) it *doesn’t* now.

He had this whole other tight-knit group of people he is protective of and who support him in return. (Remember when Monty rushed into the fighting pits with his little world-saving plant? Remember when Echo, Murphy, and Emori were the cavalry that came for him in the valley when ~Wonkru~ was nowhere to be found? Raven didn’t stay on Eligius and then spend the whole season stuck behind enemy lines for y’all to say nobody else cares about Space Family as much as Bellamy does. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER DEAL WITH IT and while his Best Dad/Big Brother side is on full display, it’s not just another situation where they’re a responsibility on his shoulders; it’s always gone in the other direction too.)

And that’s how you get Bellamy Blake to a place when he can tell Octavia to fuck herself and still be whole. People who hate Octavia have spent, like, three seasons wanting that but now they’re mad it wasn’t the way they wanted it to happen (even though a significant part of it was exactly how they wanted it to happen, but don’t get me started). People who don’t hate Octavia, I’m not trying to minimize how rocky all this was or paint her as evil, but I would argue it leaves the door open for them to make amends and end up in a healthier place.

My biggest frustration with the Blakes from pretty much that Yikes Beating onward was how lopsided their relationship was. It always came back to Bellamy seeking forgiveness from her, because his love (despite some of the paternalism and fuckups) was a given in the other direction, unconditional, no matter what she did. I think there is truth to something JRoth said about Bellamy being more of a parent to her than a brother, and ultimately that’s a dynamic that had to stop. (One can probably debate how *extremely* it had to be ended. Like, I for one was totally down with him saying he wanted her to die, I think that was pretty proportional to the extremeness of her Bloodreina-ness, but YMMV.)

But basically it needed to change, and a cool way of doing that was having him come through a situation where for *six years*, longer than he’s been without Octavia since she was BORN, he was focused on these other six people instead and came to think of them as an adopted family -- the only one most of them had. It’s arguably the first time since his formative, messy childhood that he wasn’t essentially living his life For Her anymore. (Even if she weighed on his mind a lot, there was nothing he could do about it.) And now, because ‘family’ no longer just meant this one blood-related person he needed and was defined by, whose health and safety his happiness relied on... he was less inclined when he came back to Unconditionally love and accept the awful and destructive person she was being, which was like all her worst impulses turned up to 11,000. And I’m glad that he wasn’t obligated to (I don’t think it would’ve been good for either of them). I don’t think without spacekru that would’ve been really possible.

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1 When thinking of the word daddy I've always thought of a women? if i ever thought of a man as a daddy ive never sexualized it or ?? but i can now see the daddy kink and its effect. Ive read the g!p fic analysis and i didnt know a lot about the stuff ive read. The clexa fandom is the first fandom ive been in and its where ive first seen anything about g!p or about a/b/o? or even the word dubcon. Dont know if im naive or just didnt think about looking more into it and what it all really means.

(2/5) and not going to lie here i have read a few g!p and the a/b/o stories and ive read another post where you also have a lot of questions how in these fics writers "g!p fics get our bodies wrong" (not sure what how to title the post) and reading through it theyre many questions that are sometimes to never mentioned in them and it just sounds more or a interesting read if stories did mentioned those things and were written well and right about trans/intersex women?

(3/5) i dont know where i went with all this but it was a well interesting read that i dont not understand all of it just yet but will continue to reread and look more into it :)

(4/5) lastly i didnt mean to disrecpect you if i did it was unintentionally. sorry. i saw a post where somewhere around the lines you said it hurts to write clexa because of how horribly written lexa is as a trans/intersex women or in g!p fics and all and fetished and pain. i was deeply hurt by it all when she died and knowing this side in fics it adds to the hurt and how some people dont talk about it more or writers not listening due to wanting popularity

(5/5) wanted to add that even in ouat there was the same issues? in fics so it looks like and now in clexa fics involving all this. even though its been more then an year since lexas death lots of people were hurt in many different ways so many things happened after some for the better and some things thats are still arent talked about and not only effects this fandom but others. sorry just have many thoughts on it that slowly ill become more aware of. dont need to answer this just needed to say more

Like, I know the whole “She calls me daddy too” meme floats around wlw fandom and all, but that sort of thing literally did start in hetero fandom. I’ll definitely take your word that that’s what you think when you see/read/hear it, but 99+% of the time, that’s not going to be the case, and it’s not going to chance that ‘daddy’ is an explicitly primarily male-coded word. it will always be associated with maleness before anything. When cis women have it applied to them, that primary meaning gets to fall away temporarily because their womanhood, their validity, cannot be questioned. By design of cissexism, it cannot be questioned without undermining the sex and gender binaries and the power cis people wield.

So cis women get access to the term temporarily, in a non-serious non-threatening manner. But it’s still one of the most male-coded words, it’s infused with maleness, and attributing to a trans woman is the exact same as calling her a man, a male person, because we don’t have cis privilege.

As for if you’re naive, honestly, there’s always a variety of reasons why folks don’t know this stuff, why they don’t pick up on this stuff. Whether it’s age, or lack of prior education, lack of exposure to trans women, naivete, etc., most people are unaware. So don’t feel guilty on that front. Everyone has to learn sometime...when the opportunity rolls around doesn’t matter so much as what folks do with the opportunity. A lot of people choose not to think too hard about it, not to concern themselves. It’s a good thing to learn, and it’s good that you’re thinking about it now.

Yeah, the big jot-note list of questions points out the flaws in the g!p/abo stories. Like, it’d be nice if authors actually did write more representative stuff...it wouldn’t actually be difficult, and it’d make for better, more engaging stories, and it’d help fandom be less exclusionary and hostile for us. There’s such a wealth of possibilities when writing trans woman characters, or intersex women, but all so many writers and readers care about are these fetishistic fantasies that get them off. There’s a considerable lack of care and concern about us as real, complex human beings.

And there’s no disrespect. I can see Clexa stuff on tumblr, see fanart of Clarke and Lexa, it doesn’t usually bother me unless it’s fetishistic stuff (but i’ve blocked the artists of those so they don’t show up on my dash). Sometimes if I think only about Lexa, yeah, things can get soured, but so long as it’s canon material or art that looks canon-aligned, I’m generally good. Sad, given what JRoth and the show’s writers did, but I can handle sadness a lot better than dysphoria.

My issue is that I need to essentially get into the heads of my characters when i write, and whenever I try to get into Lexa’s, I can’t help but think about all the stories and depictions of her that are transmisogynistic and hurtful and fetishistic. I can’t block those memories and thoughts out when I’m trying to mentally collect everything I know about her as a character to decide how she’d behave or react in character in my stories, what she’d say, what she’d do, etc. There’s such a drastic split in who’s been used as a vehicle for trans fetishization that it’s essentially left barely any harmful material on Clarke’s end, which is why it’s so easy for me to write Clanya. So I can’t write Lexa as a character, because the process disgusts and upsets me, and I can’t watch the show because it makes me sad, and I can’t engage in fandoma and other people’s fanworks all that much because so many people are unsafe. So her character’s just altogether been tainted for me.

And it sucks, because like you said, so many people rushed to fandom as a balm to their pain from the loss of Lexa and the betrayal from the show. And it just hurt that so many could do that, knowing how it felt to be hurt and betrayed by writers that created cheap harmful content instead of good representative content, only to turn around and create mountains of cheap harmful content that sent trans women out of the fandom in droves, without much of anywhere to go, no big social network to bond together with and help each other with the pain and loss. All those people who would loudly yell “Support your sisters, not just your Cis-ters”, and then push us out of fandom without a care in the world to the hurt they caused us.

Yeah, these tropes have been around a while. A/B/O is relatively newish, having cropped up in the past decade, but it’s just a big mash-up of common tropes like g!p, mpreg, werewolf, bestiality, dubcon, sex pollen, BDSM, etc. So they’ve definitely been in and around OUAT across its tenure, I did a minor survey on that fandom’s use of g!p and its own magical variant, magic!cock. it’s been in Glee. In X-Files. In Xena. Lower volume, but there are g!p works out there in just about everything. Easy to ignore if they’re rare, outliers.

In recent years, though, with greater exposure to trans women in media, there’s been a boom in mainstream trans-women porn. And, mirroring that growth in that male-driven market, there’s been a big boom in g!p fiction. It used to be small and largely avoidable, and now it’s everywhere and growing in popularity still. The 100 is just a fandom where it’s been the most saturated in femslash. There were more g!p works in Glee’s fandom, but Glee’s femslash fanfiction count dwarfs Clexa and other femslash fanfiction in The 100 fandom.

But the big boom of popularity in The 100 wasn’t just self-contained. All the ones who took to the trope, those who felt compelled to write about it, they’re carrying that desire to the new fandoms they’re in. WLW fandom does migrate, it’s a big running joke, so when we migrate, these patterns continue.

And while, yeah, a lot’s happened, and not a lot of people like to talk about what’s wrong in fandom, most folks try to avoid conflict. But stuff like this is important. It needs to be talked about, because people need to be aware, they need to learn, they need to see what’s happened/happening because of trans fetishization. Most don’t want to, but they need to know. They need to think about this and understand.

Anywho, it’s cool. I’m half asleep and rambling, and just happy to know that of the 14 messages that found there way into my inbox last night, a few of them were positive and good stuff. I like when people learn, when they want to learn. it’s a good, healthy thing. I’m glad I managed to help you understand the situation better. Feel free to hit me up again if you have any questions in the future :) I hope you have a good day!

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alwaysaprille · 7 years

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But you are useing Jroths quote as a reason to hate on Clarke and by extension l.xa. You use and minimize Clarke's worth and agency by saying that makes her a love interest. She can cheer for her crush/gf without being just a love interest. And if u want to be "well Jroth said and I'm just repeating it" then cool. It's not like you haven't called him on his shit before. I guess it's just not worth it for some characters. Especially when he can be used to discredit things and people.

This is going to be super long and I am on mobile, so I can’t put in a read more, prepare yourselves.

Omfg, what do you want me to say, Nonny?

That I love Clarke and L/xa because they’re such great wlw representation when they’re both huge white saviors and one of them even wears fucking brownface to compliment it?

Like...I’ve said a million times over that Cl/xa is valid, real and important. I’ve said they loved each other (Clarke still loves L/xa). I’ve said they were soulmates (you can cruise my blog for this one.) I’ve never once “hated” on your goddamn ship.

Never once. The only time I talk about your ship is when I get anon messages about it, or someone in your fandom is being racist. That’s literally it. I am a ship and let ship kind of person. I don’t care what you ship. I don’t care about any ships that aren’t mine. I’ve never seen Cl/xa as competition for Bellarke. I’ve never gone out of my way to shit on Cl/xa.

Like??????

I use and minimize her “worth and agency”? How? Sometimes, in a character’s growth arc, they do take a backseat. They do become less active in their own story It’s a very common trope in fiction, especially in a hero’s arc (which Clarke has been on since the Pilot episode.)

In order to have true agency, a character must be able to make purposeful choices, not only that, but those choices must be aligned with their personality within the confines of the story (i.e.-not headcanons.) The 100 has set Clarke up to be a headstrong, manipulative, take-no-prisoners-do whatever I need to do to save my people-type of character. After 2x16 she actively backs away from that role and it’s completely understandable.

Clarke has been actively making decisions since literally the Pilot episode, she’s had no breaks. Every single episode up until 3x04 Clarke (most often along with Bellamy) has had to make a life or death decision for herself or her people. In the Season 2 finale, she runs away from her people, but her decision to bear the burden of Wanheda alone, to hide from her people, still acts a very real decision to protect her people (specifically Bellamy and Monty).

It is not until 3x04 where things begin to change and we see Clarke actively surrender the agency she’d already lost. Clarke had no real choices in 3x04, she had exhausted all of her options: asking L/xa to stop the fight to the death, asking Roan to kill his mother, attempting to kill Nia herself, asking L/xa once more to stop the fight.

At the time that the fight to the death occurred, Clarke had no agency in what could have been a very crucial turn for the safety of her people. Everything (her safety, her people’s safety, everything) depended on L/xa’s ability to defeat Roan.

Once L/xa defeated Roan, there was a weight lifted from Clarke’s shoulders. For once, she didn’t have to make the decision that saved or doomed her people. For once, someone else made the decision completely independent of her (which speaks to Clarke’s mindset-and a large part of the reason why some of the audience actually believes Clarke does make all the decisions by herself-when in fact every large decision she’s made has been a team effort, but I digress) and it worked in her favor! This is part of the reason why Clarke so easily lapses into comfort with L/xa. When she is in Polis, when she is with L/xa, she can relax, she can be unencumbered by the burdens of decision making (because, again, one of Clarke’s biggest pit falls is the inability to recognize that she isn’t the only one making decisions and the only affected by making those decisions-hence the showdown in Hakeldama with Bellamy).

Heroic characters have to be put in situations beyond their control at some point in their story. It’s what ups the emotional ante when things go south. When L/xa died, not only did Clarke lose her love, she also lost her “shield”. “I don’t want the next Commander, I want you,” isn’t just a romantic line from a teenager whose heart is breaking as she watches her love die, it’s a true statement.

Clarke can’t trust the next Commander, she doesn’t know if the next Commander will be willing to pick up “Blood Must Not Have Blood.” She doesn’t even know who the next Commander is!!

Y’all keep trying to pick at Bellarke fans who comment on Clarke’s loss of agency in 3A, because you think that we’re saying that Cl/xa was bad because Clarke gave up her agency.

Understand: in the literary trope of character agency, good things can happen and still cause a character to lose their agency!!!

Let’s really break this down, because I know the above was’t enough to actually explain my point:

When a character has agency she is active more than she is reactive. She pushes on the plot more than the plot pushes on her. Even better, the plot exists as a direct result of her actions.

What about anything that happened in 3A existed as a direct result of Clarke’s actions?

We begin the season with Clarke “feral” and in the woods, hiding from her people and the Grounder’s alike. She is hiding from her people because her actions in Mt. Weather broke her, she is hiding from the Grounder’s because her actions in Mt. Weather have made her legendary.

Who was directly responsible for Clarke committing the genocide that broke her and made her legendary?L/xa.

So Season 3 literally starts with the plot being driven by the fallout of L/xa’s decision to abandon Clarke at Mt. Weather.

In 3x02, Clarke is kidnapped and brought to Polis, for several reasons, one of which is that L/xa fears for her safety because she knows Grounders are out to kill Clarke and gain the power of Wanheda. Clarke’s presence in Polis moves the plot.

Who was directly responsible for Clarke’s presence in Polis?

L/xa-who ordered Roan to kidnap Clarke on the promise of his freedom. Again, the plot is still being driven by L/xa.

In 3x03, L/xa explains her plan to initiate the Sky People as the 13th Clan. The Ice Nation blows up Mt. Weather again, Clarke bows before L/xa to symbolically submit (or give up her power-which can easily be a substitute word for agency!!!) as Wanheda to the Commander.

Why does L/xa want the Sky People as a clan? Why does the Ice Nation blow up Mt. Weather?

L/xa needed the 13th Clan, specifically Clarke, because it allowed her to overrule the unanimous vote by the other 12 Clans to remove her from the Commandership and allowed her to instead respond to the Fight to the Death challenge, something she was obviously sure of winning. The Ice Nation attacks the Mt because they do not trust L/xa and feel her actions at Mt. Weather have shown her to be weak-this action-incidentally is a large part of the reason the massacre at Hakeldama occurs-another major plot point for the Season).

I’ve already discussed 3x04 above.

In 3x05 L/xa and Clarke happen upon the massacred army. This is actually the first episode that we see Clarke demonstrate some agency (I say some-because it is reactionary) in during the course of the Season. It is Clarke’s persuasion of L/xa to move towards, “Blood must Not Have Blood” that cements the 12 Clans desire to see L/xa removed from her position as Commander. However, the 12 Clans had already decided that L/xa was unfit based on her actions in 2x15 and so Clarke’s actions here really didn’t change the plot significantly. L/xa was doomed from the moment she chose to walk away from the Mt. in Season 2.

In 3x06, Clarke is again reactionary (which is not a sign of true agency). She makes no moves towards addressing the very real issues she saw in Arkadia when she was there in 3x05. Instead, she is sketching L/xa in the Commander’s suite-ignoring her reality, until Roan literally has it delivered to her feet. Even still, Clarke’s decision (to allow Emerson to live) was influenced by L/xa’s words (”So Blood Must Not Have Blood only applies when it is my people who bleed?”) and needed L/xa’s authority behind it for the sentence to carry any weight. It is L/xa who banishes Emerson officially, not Clarke. At any moment, L/xa could have decided to have Emerson killed and Clarke could have done nothing about it. L/xa had a choice. Clarke did not.

I’m going to skip 3x07, because...I just don’t want to get into that and Clarke wasn’t in 3x08, but in 3x09 Clarke finally gets her agency back. She is a character who is actively making decisions that move the plot.

Clarke makes a decision to not leave Polis immediately. Clarke makes a decision to steal the Flame.

Those ^^^ actions have a direct affect on the plot.

Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, Titus kills himself, to stop Ontari from using him to get it back. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, Roan now has to go off and hunt for it-which leads directly to their attempt to infiltrate Polis in 3x15. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, Murphy is made the Flamekeeper and is therefore able to gain knowledge of how the Flame works-knowledge he later uses to implant the Flame into Clarke. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, she is able to use it to kill Emerson (something she would not have been able to do, if she’d left Polis immediately as Murphy wanted). Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, she is able to get it to Raven and Sinclair who decipher the phrase needed to activate the Flame. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, she must find a way to get it to Luna. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, ALIE-who had correctly deciphered that the Flame was in Polis, is unable to get her hands on the chip immediately. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, ALIE invades Luna’s oil rig, resulting in Jasper taking the chip, Luna killing and Clarke losing her only possible nightblood ally. Because Clarke has the Flame she is able to use it in the finale to enter the CoL and save the day.

This is agency. This is what it looks like when a character’s actions move the plot forward. Clarke’s actions at the end of 3x07, literally push the entire narrative forward. Prior to 3x07, every character was reacting to L/xa’s actions-even the characters in Arkadia-who were reacting to the Grounder’s abandoning them at Mt. Weather, the Grounder’s blowing up Mt. Weather, the Grounders not allowing them to use Mt. Weather, the kill order on Lincoln-all a response to L/xa’s orders. Stop mistaking us deciphering and discussing literary terminology as code for “We hate Cl/xa!”

Unfortunately, it just so happens that those of us who do delve a bit deeper into the show’s literary devices are Bellarke shippers.

BTW, I love how this ask ignores the fact that I’ve discussed Bellamy’s loss of agency in 3A at length, as well as his loss of agency to Clarke in Season 2B at length. So like....do you think I’m trying to discredit my own ship and my very favorite character....or??????

#the REACH #Anonymous

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eclectic-aussie · 4 years

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Just...why?!

Ok, did that really just happen? Did JRoth just completely annihilate 7 years of relationship and character development in 2 episodes? I mean can he really be that epically stupid?! This isn’t even from a Bellarker point of view, but someone who generally enjoys the show; what is the point of the last 6 seasons if you’re completely going to demolish the character of the two leads in a single scene? I mean it makes no sense narratively, and even less sense when you remember that JRoth is hoping that the final season will bring in enough interest to launch the prequel. What fans would want to follow one of his stories again after he’s shown such continual disregard for both the fans and the story he’s supposedly telling? And in such a brutal fashion no less; having one of the leads gun down the other over a book she then leaves behind. A crack shot who once shot Lincoln through the shoulder to kill the man with a knife to his throat went straight for the kill shot for the man she loves because...? And yes, Clarke loves Bellamy, whether you believe it’s platonic or romantically it’s nowhere near up for debate. I mean she’s been compartmentalised because her almost dying, her daughter almost dying and her mother being murdered and then having to float her mothers body-snatcher herself, but NO WAY IN HELL WOULD CLARK ‘I CHOOSE BELLAMY BLAKE OVER THE REST OF HUMANITY’ GRIFFIN WOULD EVER SHOOT DOWN BELLAMY ‘I’LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING CLARKE GRIFFIN BACK’ BLAKE IN COLD BLOOD!!

So either JRoth is just that malignant a ‘creator’ that he’d either intentionally or unintentionally (if he really didn’t think through the impact it would have on the fanbase/story even after the end of GoT) detonated the story and main characters and their relationship which he’s always said are the heart of the show which would massively risk the future project that was favourably received episodes ago...or he’s a massive asshole who doesn’t know the difference between 'trolling’ his audience with fake deaths to get a reaction and setting fire to any believability that even if Bellamy isn’t dead (and it would a real moronic move if he was) that he’d be able to forgive Clarke for shooting him and everyone turning on him (now he kinda knows how Clarke feels, just saying) or that it’s something Clarke could ever forgive herself for. In the 3 remaining episodes....?! I mean it was already going to be hard enough getting everything else more or less wrapped up in the time left, but this?!

So yeah, I think JRoth is ‘trolling’ his entire fandom and hoping that their disbelief in Bellamy being dead or completely gone forever to bring in better numbers for the last few episodes (which makes...sense?) with no real regard to continuity of character or how OOC he had to make his mains, though I see either blanket forgiveness (which I genuinely HATE in this show and I know it’s tied to Clarke’s compassionate side but it sucks she has to forgive everyone who treats her like crap like it’s nothing (looking at you Raven and Echo) because it’s never really applied to Bellarke; they forgive each other because they can see how much the impossible decisions weigh on each other. It’s always been forgiveness based on compassion and understanding IMO) or it being a plan the pair cooked up since arriving back on Sanctum somehow...maybe Clarke convincing Bellamy that she could never agree to someone like Cadogan making life and death decisions for the human race, but maybe acknowledging that transcendence could be real but setting up the opportunity to show Bellamy who Cadogan really is by leaving behind the journal (?) because she knows it’s a test not a war. That is genuinely one of the only ways I can see them even slightly salvaging the decimation the writer of this episode and JRoth did to my two favourite characters and one of my OTP’s.

When will showrunners learn that a satisfying ending to a story they created on screen for us isn’t a ‘cliché’ and is so much more important than being ‘edgy’ for the sake of it and demolishing the narrative and characters they’ve constructed over how many YEARS in the process?!

I shudder to think what Kass Morgan thinks about the damage the asshole has wrought.

So in conclusion; JRoth is a malignant troll who has waaay overused the ‘psych this beloved character isn’t really dead’ trope too often and it’s just sad. Bellamy isn’t really dead because that’s just moronic storytelling and pretty much spitting in the fandoms face for shock value (remember the part where JRoth is a malignant troll?) and even if they do manage to bring back Bellamy, get him and Clarke in the same place and somehow bridge to massive gap that started in season 5, was starting to be repaired in season 6 just for it to be blown into a Grand Canyon size gorge in 2 whole episodes...how will they manage to conclude the story with Bellamy and Clarke ‘together’? It’s been sprinkled in hint form since season 1 (from my point of view since that’s the only point of view I can speak for. You disagree? Good for you, I don’t care.) and more and more heavily every season since until we got last season, and yet they just set the entire relationship on fire and obliterate it just like that? Does JRoth even give the slightest of damns about this show anymore or has it just gotten to the point where he just wants to see how much of it he can destroy before he moves on to the prequel? Honestly, even if he somehow manages to salvage this before the last episode (which he’s directing...yeah *sob*) I honestly don’t think I’d ever watch something he’s a part of again, for no other reason than he just seems to get sick enjoyment out of traumatising his fanbase (if you’re not traumatised after that final scene...what the hell is wrong with you?!) and just pretty much treating their love/enjoyment of the story as if it’s nothing for the...lols? No matter how good the prequel episode was, it’s not enough to make me put up with JRoths bullshit ever again.

#the 100 #the 100 spoilers #what the actual fuck has JRoth done now!!#This is why we can't have badass characters in a wonderful slowburn mutually pining and loving relationship!#Bellamy Blake #Clarke Griffin #Bellamy Blake deserves better than this shit #Clarke Griffin deserves better than this shit #It's 'Jake' Skywalker all over again #When will these idiots LEARN!!!#STOP RUINING MY FAVOURITE FRANCHISES WITH YOUR STUPID 'EDGY' CRAP YOU ASSHOLES!!!#JRoth is an asshole #anti JRoth #'Edgy' isn't synonymous with being better and isn't inherently good or satisfying especially when you have to trash characters to get there

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