#{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.

[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!

[laufire]

I've mentioned something on this line but really, the pilot (and I'm predicting it'll be the case for season 1 in general) really makes me feel that if jroth had focused from the word go into where his heart clearly was, aka the blake siblings, and had built the show around that, the 100 might've been good good. alas, I care more about echo or murphy or emori's narratives than about the blake siblings, so I don't mind the trade off.

[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

[delicatebluebirdruins]

if i had a penny everytime i watched a character get kidnapped for the purpose of being a vessal for the bad guys dead child consciousness. i’d have two pennies its not a lot I know but still

[kizo2703]

Well, we can safely say this was the last time we saw the "real" Clarke... Cause in the 7x03, she's a completely different character. 🥺

6.01 “Sanctum” // 7.01 “From The Ashes”

[sunflowers-n-sage]

lincoln’s death will always destroy me

[batcows]

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

[lady-blodreina]

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

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

[braveclxrke]

You know, I haven't said this in years, but it's still as true as the first time I said it

fuck jeff davis

yes this is about what he did to stydia in the tw movie, yes i will stay bitter what of it

[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.

[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?

[yiangchen]

you know what?? not only did t100 s7 not give me bellarke but it also had octavia finally develop into a good person and admit that beating bellamy was fucked up only for her to only ever say this to echo of all people (lmfao what) and apologize to bellamy in a letter he never receives because he fucking dies????? jroth really took bellarke and the blakes away from me...that's so messed up, man. truly.

[sixstepsaway]

I've had a bee in my bonnet for a while now over the concept of representation.

Every now and again, I hear someone complain that x person on x show is "bad rep", maybe because they're a promiscuous bisexual or a flamboyant gay or whatever, and I find myself wrinkling my nose because I don't really...agree, and quite often those characters are simply good characters, so I don't... see why this sparkling concept of Representation™ matters in this context?

And, like, don't get me wrong - representation matters. Having representation on mass media matters so much, and having good rep matters too.

But I think I've narrowed down my issue with the concept being applied so broadly.

Before I get to that, let me dig into how I feel about 'bury your gays' in mass media. Many will not agree, which is fine, but my idea of 'bury your gays' is that if your show has one lesbian and you kill her, you fucking suck. If your movie has one gay man and you kill him, you fucking suck (and so on and so forth). If your show has a bunch of lesbians and one of them dies, that isn't bury your gays.

Similarly, in my opinion, if your show is something like Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, where characters die all the time, killing a (or even the) gay character isn't really bury your gays. It's a little iffy if you introduce a replacement gay character in the same episode you kill the current one, but generally speaking killing gay characters in a show full of death is just... it makes sense? I don't really want all gay characters to have magical plot armor for the rest of time because Bury Your Gays sucks as a trope.

Which brings us back to representation.

A few years ago, The 100 season 3 was filming, and the head writer Jason Rothenberg made a huge deal about Lexa, the lesbian Commander of the Grounder Coalition. He'd share bts shots of her actress, he'd talk about his pride in having her as representation, he'd get people to follow him on twitter to 'earn' more bts shots, outtakes, bloopers, whatever, and then he killed her off 7 episodes into a 13 episode season.

And it was shitty. It was shitty because he built this self-aggrandizing, masturbatory back-patting club around himself and then killed her off and thought it was funny. It was shitty because at that time she was the only lesbian character in the show (we had Clarke, who was bisexual, but bisexuality and lesbianism are not the same), and it was shitty because it made no sense (but that's an essay for a different post, frankly).

Lexa was representation because JRoth wanted her to be representation. He made a huge deal about her being representation and so she was.

Other shows, or books or movies or whatever else, do this too, talking about how their characters are representation in interviews or on Twitter, but often they don't. Their characters are just... their characters.

Sometimes, people write characters because they want to write that character, because the tropes and traits involved in that character are true to the character being written, not because they're Good Bisexual Representation or whatever.

I think when there isn't an explicit goal to create representation, it's rather unfair to get angry at writers for writing 'bad representation' or just sub-par representation when the goal is simply to write an authentic character, rather than a specific sexuality to be held up on a display and presented for the world to see.

Not to mention that every time I see someone say, "This character is bad rep because they're xyz trope!" I see someone else say, "Yeah... so am I... this character represented me so well..."

No group is a monolith! You will never represent an entire group in one character, not ever.

But I think the itch for me has always been, and continues to be, the idea of yelling at someone for poor representation without ever knowing if that's what they were trying to achieve.

I don't think Laenor in Fire & Blood was meant as Good Gay Representation, I think he was just right for the story, and the fact GRRM repeatedly includes queer people in his medieval fantasy as just a part of the world to me means so much more than him trying to shoehorn in a perfect example of representation. Similarly, I definitely don't think Aneela and Kendry in Killjoys were meant as Good Lesbian Representation (far from it considering they both spent many seasons as villains), they were just good characters and having those two be who hooked up instead of Aneela and Johnny (a somewhat obvious direction for the show to go, if you ask me, had the show been more traditional with its tropes) or Kendry and idk Pree for the sake of horrifying example.

Trying to write perfect representation always ends in shallow, two-dimensional characters who inevitably let someone down, and slandering people who write three-dimensional characters for those characters being imperfect is cruel and unjustified and I think that is what's been bothering me every time I see conversations about representation.

Not all characters are representation. Sometimes they're just characters.