#{FUCK JROTH}

[lady-blodreina]

I am become Death, Destroyer of Worlds

Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake, The 100 1x10- I am become death

[shayera-the-magpie]

A piece of score that never should have existed.

[cforbes]

uhhh it’s been 5 years and turns out im still not over clarke killing bellamy. I’m so angry to this day. the most batshit insane writing choice ever made

[yiangchen]

is it just me or are bellarke scenes somehow even more romantic in retrospect???

[graendoll]

I hope showrunners of shows that write endings that betray their characters live sad little lives and never find fulfillment in their art and die bitter and regretful of their choices.

[anditwentlikethis]

Clarke killed Bellamy for a book that she ended up not getting, to protect Madi that ended up dying anyways, and then it turns out Bellamy was right all along. So Bellamy literally died for nothing

[sunflowers-n-sage]

lincoln’s death will always destroy me

[batcows]

hot take of the night: the 100 should be an anime

[ishallgivehimupforever]

Here We go again Bellarke warriors, if you can hear me, it's been about 1680 days since I stopped caring (or so I thought)

I hadn't been to tumblr in years, before I decided to give the 100 a rewatch in June of this year, as I had given up somewhere around the start of season 5 (I remember hating the LONG ass timeskip teased at the end of S4, I guess some other media must have swallowed me during hiatus, and when I tried to give that season a chance I vividly remember 1) I couldn't see shit on my screen 2) I hated what the timeskip did to the established relationships) and so I dropped it for good, looking back I almost can't believe I could just...not finish it like that because let me tell you I did NOT fuck about Clarke and Bellamy, and Raven, and Monty, and probably some other characters back in 2015-2016. I think I maybe did not appreciate season 4 enough at the time it was airing (because I think binge-watching is very flattering for that season, watching it live I remember it was frustrating to watch the characters go on side quests in 4A) but now knowing what the character arcs are and where it was going makes it my second-favorite season. BUT, I digress, wow. This is meant to be a rambling, incohisive love letter to the compelling relationship between Bellamy and Clarke. I warn you, they truly do not fucking leave you as it turns out. I would go to the trenches for them back in my fandom days in 2015-17, and I realised, after binge-waching the show over 4 sleepless nights (seasons 1-6, which are the only seasons in existence, obviously)that I STILL just FUCKING CARE SO MUCH. I NEVER CARED ABOUT FICTIONAL CHARACTERS SO MUCH AS CARE FOR THESE TWO SEPARATELY, AND AS SOULMATES. Because let me tell you, Clarke and Bellamy, they fucking love each. Like actual, happens-only-in-romances LOVE. It is frankly INSANE how JRoth, K*m Shum and other managed to gaslight me over some of the bellarke scenes in S2-S3 as to make me think it's in my (and thousand's of fans') head WHEN IT IS SO FUCKING OBVIOUS FROM SCORE, EDITING CHOICES, LONGING LOOK SHOTS, HANDS SHOTS, LINES, AND FINALLY, ACTING AND DIRECTION THAT THESE TWO ARE LOVERS.

I have never, ever, before or since, followed two characters who were so compatible, so equal, so trusting in each other, so open with one another, so mindful of the other's emotions and needs, so so so made for each other, that it is no surprise to me that they are top 10 F/M pairing on AO3. Because Bellamy and Clarke would fall in love in every imaginable scenario, in every universe, across time. I am not usually that cheesy or cringy, but it is true. I could not put my finger on why they are my absolute favorite to read fanfic for and then it occurred to me. That as long as the hands of fate put these two in proximity of each other, it;s a done deal. That chemistry transcends the limits of a single tv show. The depth with how Clarke and Bellamy love each other honestly makes me pause for breath sometimes. It is not just the iconic, famous bellarke scenes, but also the quiet moments.

Like in 6x05 or 6x06 (cant remember) when Clarke's body was stolen by Josephine after her one-night stand with Cillian. (stay with me) Bellamy, unaware that Clarke isn't herself at that point, comes over to chat, he's clearly at least a bit jealous over her sleeping with Cillian, and yet he says "happiness looks good on you" with that wide, earnest smile. And just wow. How must he love her, to be so utterly happy for her own happiness that has in that instance nothing to do with him. so selfless. well, selfless is basically Bellamy's middle name.

Or how in season 4, after a lot of the characters and at times the narrative wanted to push this idea on Clarke that she is the sole leader of her people, gets right back on track to her co-leader dynamic with Bellamy, constantly checking with him, considering his input, and respecting choices that she herself would maybe not make (releasing the ensalved arkadians and grounders vs ensuring they get a machine necessary to generate water) but always understanding that these choices agree with his core values, and she loves him for it.

This post is way too long. I love Bellamy. I love Clarke. People often use the 'MY PARENTS" about ships on twitter, and you know what, in my case that's kinda true with bellarke. I met these characters when I was 15. I am 25 now, and with an adult perspective to my surprise I found their relationship even more profound then I remembered, and I was insanse about them already. They are truly THE power couple of all time. I miss the 100, If you wanna ramble about it together, feel welcome to send me ask, I'd love to have an excuse to share some of my (sometimes unpopular) opinions lol.

[float-me-now]

Oh my gosh, louder for the people in the back.

I love Sheidheda, and I hate how they've just used him as a mere plot device when he'd been so hyped up as a character and he could have been so much more than what we saw.

They had JR Bourne, a spectacular actor, playing him in season 7 and they did nothing to make the character more nuanced and meaningful except briefly mentioning that his mother abandoned him as a kid.

This show started with teens being victims of violence and growing and learning how to thrive so making this theme resurface, with Sheidheda and Octavia (who were both very wronged as kids and were deep in the cycle of violence themselves) possibly breaking the cycle would have been a magnificent way of wrapping things up.

Sheidheda Should Have Been A Teenager

Okay, so hear me out, cause I really feel like this would have made his storyline more interesting, more nuanced, and more thematically resonant. 

We first hear about Sheidheda from Gaia (a flame-keeper) as the “dark commander” who killed three of his flame-keepers before being killed by his fourth. And that’s really all the evidence Gaia gives for why this commander was evil. But from what we see of the flame-keepers… they do not have the nightblood novitiates or the commanders interests at heart and are in fact a danger to them. From what we see in season 3, for example, the nightblood novitiates seem to only have Titus and Lexa as guardians/teachers/adult figures in their lives- and Titus (and Lexa but we’re talking about flame-keepers), besides essentially raising these children for the slaughter, was emotionally distant/unequipped to raise a bunch of kids (”love is weakness”) and played favorites- in which kid he wanted to live and kill all the others (as Luna says about Lexa being Titus’ favorite and what Lexa says about Aden being commander after her (in front of the other kids, even) supports this as just a thing that the people surrounding the nightblood kids did). And then Titus kills Lexa (unintentionally, but still he killed her while he was trying to control and manipulate her). And I feel like it’s worth noting that the whole system revolves around child commanders that aren’t expected to last long, with other (younger and more pliable children) in the wings should the they die- this is the perfect system for allowing (head?) flame-keepers to discretely (or not so discretely, see Sheidheda) do away with commanders that they deem too troublesome- that don’t follow their advice or, like Lexa, try to change traditions. And then the flame-keepers are still alive and institutionally powerful enough to control the narrative of the dead commander’s legacy.

So it’s easy to Sheidheda as having been made a commander as a child (say the same age as Madi, even), who’s just been forced to kill the children he grew up with to survive. And now, he’s friendless, surrounded by people watching with hawk eyes for weakness, with only a flame-keeper as an ally. A flame-keeper who’s emotionally distant (probably neglectful), who probably views Sheidheda as replaceable, maybe even would have preferred another child as commander and now resents Sheidheda for it. (And with how much power the flame-keepers have, especially over the nightblood children; well who would have stopped the flame-keeper if they were outright abusive). It’s to see how Sheidheda would see violence as the only way to survive (that is after all how he’s commander and his classmates are dead) and resents his flame-keeper or feel like his flame-keeper is a danger to him. So he kills his flame-keeper. And the next flame-keeper distrusts Sheidheda and Sheidheda distrusts the flame-keeper and eventually murders this flame-keeper, too. And so on, until the fourth flame-keeper murders Sheidheda, at say, age sixteen, confirming to Sheidheda that flame-keepers are dangerous, out to get him, and that he was right to kill the first three.  

So, what? Am I saying that Shiedheda should have been the good guy, an unfairly maligned commander? Not really. I still think Sheidheda should be a ruthless, merciless, violent commander who, paraphrasing from Luna, was taught by the flame-keepers to revel in his anger and violence. I am saying it would be more interesting if he was painted (at least somewhat) sympathetic villain, as a teenager who embodies of the cycle of violence. 

I also think it would be interesting if he genuinely had what he thought were Madi’s best interests at heart.

Maybe he sees himself in Madi (a child commander of a society that uses and discards nightblood children) or maybe he sees the nighblood children he grew up with before he was forced to kill them. 

And this could have easily fit with his actions for most of season 6. He repeatedly tells Madi to kill Gaia, because from his experience with flame-keepers, they’re dangerous so you’d better kill them before they kill you. And hell, Sheidheda is not exactly wrong about Gaia, either. Yes in the end she decides to sacrifice the flame to save Madi, but before that she stated- multiple times- that she would murder Madi before allowing Sheidheda control of Wonkru.

Sheidheda’s plans for murdering all the primes? Well, Madi clearly wants revenge for them murdering Clarke and they’ll be a threat to Madi if they find out she’s a nightblood. Better to kill them all now.

Telling her to kill Jackson while he’s forcibly taking her bone marrow is pretty self-explanatory (especially when you consider he didn’t seem like he was going to do anything when Russell ordered them to take enough doses that would kill her).

Even threatening to “kill this child” if Raven doesn’t stop trying to delete his code fits with this if you view it as self preservation (he’s looking out for Madi but he’s not willing to die for her) and/or a bluff because he thinks he’s the only one looking out for Madi and he thinks she’ll die without him (he’s projecting his experiences of being a child commander onto her).

And can you imagine the reveal, if for episodes we’d been hearing about this scary, evil commander and oh no, he’s starting to control Madi and telling her to murder Gaia, and then we go into Madi’s mindscape and holy shit Sheidheda’s sixteen.

And thematically, we could get into the cycle of violence. How when children are taught they have to kill to survive, that violence and anger are strength, they will kill and keep killing. How this system of child commanders and child soldiers hurts children, and is bad all around. How in order to “do better”, you have to stop this cycle of violence (and you can’t keep using fucking child soldiers, yes I’m talking about Madi). And- especially if you keep some of the season 7 “Sheidheda in Russell’s body” plot- the question of “how do you stop the cycle of violence when those still caught in the cycle are determined to still commit violence?” is much more present than what we actually got in season 7. 

[lady-blodreina]

If I'm on that list, you're on that list.

Bellamy Blake and Clarke Griffin, The 100 4x03- The Four Horsemen

[unsaidace]

I didn't even watch The 100, but I knew all about Lexa's death because it was talked about all over social media, including here on tumblr. Like...people were rightfully hurt and pissed about one of the only queer female characters on tv being taken from them.

That’s what I’m saying; Lexa’s death was horrendously handled, it was classic Bury Your Gays fuckery, and then JRoth comes out with “I didn’t realise it would affect fans like this”, as if that’s any excuse. Recommending a show that actually fell into harmful LGBTQ tropes and practices as an alternative to 9-1-1’s “queerbaiting” (even though the show isn’t actually queerbaiting, certain fans are just shipbaiting themselves) is utterly fucking ridiculous.

Plus, as someone mentioned in the replies on my post about PinkNews recommending it as an alternative to 9-1-1, the way the showrunner treated his POC cast and characters was fucking abhorrent; one cast member in particular, Ricky Whittle, left the show after his character, Lincoln, was killed off (largely due to conflicts with Jason Rothenberg, The 100’s showrunner), and later spoke out about how toxic it was to work on that show and how he felt bullied by JRoth (all of this on top of having his role significantly reduced towards the end of his time with the show).

Nobody in their right mind should be recommending The 100 as a show to watch in 2025, that show was a fucking disaster, both onscreen and behind the scenes. There’s a reason JRoth hasn’t done anything of note since then.

[yiangchen]

you know, i would kill for the og s7 script to be leaked...i've said before that i would never rewatch the show because the ending is just so unsatisfying and ooc for so many characters, but...if i could rewatch almost all of it and stop at whatever point in s7 that it changed and then just read the og script? i'd rewatch in a heartbeat!

[kizo2703]

Jroth made S7 as it is just to punish Bob and Eliza (for some fucking reason?) [and us, Bellarkes!] and without them, there is no T100 narrative and the show, pure and simple. Just his crackfic.

I forgot the nazi analogy then going back on their word about it season 7 gods

I mean....

What the hell was that? "Imagine if you were one of the Mountain [Nazi Analogy] people and Clarke and Bellamy destroyed your whole world-- THAT WOULD MAKE CLARKE THE BAD GUY AND NOT WORTHY OF HEAVEN." Brilliant, old man. Just brilliant.

Yes, let's look at the story from the POV of the vampires who hung grounders upside down to drain them of their blood and then turned them into zombies to terrify everyone else, and never forget that they used their own people for experiments and refused to use volunteers or even anesthesia when they forcibly stole bone marrow from the Arkers for what reason?? Funsies?

These are the good guys? The ones who, if they could live above ground would have wiped out the grounders and taken the rest as slaves. THOSE are the ones you're being sympathetic with all of a sudden?

I have honestly lost faith in tv and movies. They really don't care about story, they just care about money.

Of course some writers and creators do, yes. But you absolutely cannot count on any of them or trust the story they're telling, because they can and will twist the story to fit some outside need, whether that's erasing an interracial romance (Star Wars, Super Girl, Sleepy Hollow) or shutting a show down early because it's not idk whatever reason they make up, or totally misunderstanding the source material and disrespecting the fans (GOT) you just can't trust em. Maybe that's why I've stuck to reading books lately?

[fictionkinfessions]

I never do these but this sounded fun so I’m gonna go for it, fuck it we ball, etc etc

Canon Death Counts:

Clarke Griffin- If memory serves that number was looking pretty damn close to batting 1,000. They uh… They didn’t call me Wanheda, the Commander of Death, for no reason. Some of those deaths were more of a mercy thing but it’s still a death nonetheless and should be counted as such. And for the record? No spoilers for a show that ended in fucking 2020 (didn’t realize it’d been that long, oh god no) but one particular bit of season 7 I’m not counting in that number because that specific death Simply Did Not Happen and the show writer’s days are Numbered. When I catch you JRoth, JRoth when I catch you-

Buffy Summers- Considering my Powers-That-Be given purpose on this Earth was to kill vampires, gonna say that number is safely Up There, from what I can gather, canonically it’s about 300 but as I said, considering my Job Title I’m fairly sure that number was about as high if not higher than the Clarke numbers. The world may never know but goddammit if Buffy Summers didn’t get the job done.

Natalia Romanova (Black Widow)- Similarly and well there might be trend here but we don’t have time to unpack all of that, I had a much more mild dose of super serum per comics canon and aged fairly slowly so I had a plethora of time to rack up some Numbers, and that’s probably the highest death count, looking into it and from my own memories that number is probably upwards of 1,000-2,000. When you’re raised to be a weapon on mass destruction pointed at a threat and told “Go my shithound, hunt down my adversaries,” you do what you gotta do to survive and complete a missions perimeters and sometimes that’ll put some significant red in your ledger.

Whelp. Those numbers are higher than I expected and that was a Pandora’s Box I definitely should have left closed on all accounts but all’s fair in love and ask games, I think Shakespeare said that.

-🛰️🦋

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[dragynkeep]

don't mind me just imagining a world where jroth and kim shumway were banned from twitter and social media as a whole for the duration of the t100 apart from five minutes a month

part of me wants to remember what made the fandom so toxic and how much it came from those to wankers to basically highlight how not to interact with a fan base but I also don't want to get annoyed and frustrated (which is sure to happen as most i remember is jason/ kim says shit= fandom bullying got a jolt and huge upkick/ daddy basically remembering specific interactions? would be helpful but also scared and nervous)

them & that layne loser who was so determined to have her opinion be canon?? like the shit that came especially around the lexa death / s3 era was just horrendous on all sides & the showrunners did nothing but make it worse.

then when it got exposed that they were being abusive on set & their racism / sexism soon followed, then they finally shut the fuck up. interesting!