#i want post s4 fic to keep me afloat

[the-paris-of-people]

Okay so my revised answer to this post, is that I would much rather have a benvi endgame. If they don’t end up together I am going to be SO MAD! Like I have never loved a fictional couple as much as I do them.

ME TOOO!!! They are my favorite fictional couple of all time and after watching s3, the show is really building them to end up together WHILE Devi continues on her self-love journey (which I absolutely adore) and since now I'm like 99% sure there's a benvi endgame, I would be distraught if we didn't get one, whereas I lived through a jafael endgame (BLETCH) and just didn't watch the show. Also, Kay I am calling it rn that they are going to release the show in June (earlier end of summer) because I realized other shows like You have release dates ready for March.

[verfound]

WIPWednesday: 6/23/21: the Pick Fic 👀

So back in October, I was doing OC-tober for Dingo, and Day 12 (Drip) was a Lukanette proposal chapter. It was one that I felt got kinda rushed? There was more I wanted to do with it than just the twenty or so minutes I was limiting myself to for those prompts did.

Which is how the Pick Fic was born. It's five chapters, starting with Luka and Marinette meeting at the Music Festival and showing how the Jagged pick (the one he originally gives her, as this was started before Truth and we're completely ignoring S4 for this) follows them through their relationship (culminating in Luka using it to propose). Aaaand I'm working on ch5 now, which I'm hoping to wrap up in the next day or so, which means maaaaybe by Sunday or next Wednesday I'll be ready to start posting? I'm gonna say next week just to be safe. That's my goal, and right now it feels pretty reasonable. Life I will Tyler Slap you if you change this on me.

So here's a little bit from Ch1 of the Pick Fic...

The annual Music Festival in Paris was a pretty big deal, and this year was promising to be bigger than most. All of Paris was going out for it: even big names like Jagged Stone, XY, and Clara Nightingale were putting on shows at venues across the city. Tons of smaller venues were also booked, and even private homes were turning into concert halls for the occasion. The Liberty, home of one Anarka Couffaine, was no exception.

The houseboat was no stranger to music. Anarka had spent quite a few years when she was younger touring and recording, and while she now preferred to spend her days teaching and working odd jobs around the city her music had done well enough for the royalties to keep them afloat, even eighteen years later. The boat was littered with musical instruments, sound equipment, stage gear…among plenty of regular old litter, too, as Anarka preferred the lived-in look. It never surprised anyone when, every year without fail, the Music Festival found the Liberty blaring music from professional-grade speakers towering over the foredeck – when one of its occupants was home to blast said music and not playing one of the numerous gigs around the city instead. Music was in Anarka’s blood, and so it was in her children’s blood, and so it was in their home.

(…it was also in their father’s blood, though they had never known him and all she’d ever said regarding the matter was that he was a useless lagabout from the road. That was fine, and they had never needed him, anyway. Anarka Couffaine was more than enough parent for her bairns.)

This year’s Festival would be special, though. Every year – every Festival – was special, but this year would be even more so. Anarka always found somewhere to help out, even if she wasn’t actually playing. Luka was the same, though for the past six years or so he’d been playing various street corners with his best friend. But this year would be Juleka’s first year actively playing the Festival, and she’d be playing in a band.

A new band. Her band.

Well. Her and her friends. And her stupid brother, because he was actually kind of cool and had agreed to play with them (and he could really shred a guitar, which was an asset in any band). But still her band.

They were all a little excited.

(…everyone except Luka’s best friend, who’d been pouting since the band had first formed shortly after the start of the school year. He’d already found another group to play with, but he was deeply offended that Luka would dare play in a band whose drummer wasn’t him.)

Kitty Section would probably never make any great waves in the music industry, but that wasn’t their point. They were a first band – they were Juleka’s first band – and that was good enough. They were just a group of kids making noise on a boat, and Anarka couldn’t be more proud.

And, truth be told, Luka was kind of excited, too. Kitty Section was good, if a little eclectic, and he liked Juleka’s (and now his) friends. He was proud of the music they were making. They’d been practicing together for a few months now, and the Festival was set to be their big debut. Juleka had even invited her class to check them out, which was awesome. He was so proud of his little sister, and he was so glad to see her finally coming out of her shell. The Festival had to go well, for her. And he knew it would. He firmly believed that.

Kitty Section was good.

They were ready.

The hours leading up to the big show were a flurry of activity, chaotic as anything on the Liberty ever was Ivan showed up early, and Rose had spent the night to help Juleka get an early start on decorating. Luka helped Ivan move some of the heavier equipment and arrange the stage, but then Ivan was leaving to pick up his girlfriend and Juleka’s other friends were starting to arrive, and Luka disappeared below deck to give them their space. Her friend Nino was helping rig up their sound system, and his girlfriend was…intense. She took over the decorating of the ship as soon as she arrived, and Luka had just wanted to get out of her way. More people were set to arrive any moment – Nino’s best friend and Alya’s best friend, too – and it was all getting a little…much. Crowded.

Luka wasn’t nervous about the gig, but he’d always been keenly in tune with the emotions of others. If he was going to play his best, and he refused to play anything less than his best for Juleka, he needed to get away from the buzzing above deck to find his center. They still had a few hours before the show, and someone would get him before the final rehearsal. He had more than enough time to clear his head.

But somewhere amidst the chaos he’d lost track of time. He was on his bed, cross-legged with a spare pick pinched between his fingers, when he sensed her. He’d heard the unfamiliar footsteps approaching and the flailing when she’d noticed him, and he took an extra moment to just…observe. Shaky breathing joined a racing, unsettled heart, nerves and something deeper – more pained. Something…

…and then he smiled, and he opened his eyes, and he was lost.

[thelittlefanpire]

bellarke fam, may we meet again.

I’ve been thinking about this post for a few weeks now, I’ve looked over my list of fandom friends and fandom greats, all the people who have enhanced my shipping experience, and I just want to say thank you. Not to a terrible showrunner, or writers who seriously let me down with wasted potential, but to the ones who truly loved Bellarke.

Bob & Eliza, with all their faults, pulled me in with their chemistry and talents. And I’m so grateful that they brought these characters and the most epic ship to life before my eyes.

I started watching this show after I saw random gifs on tumblr and a Netflix suggestion that wouldn’t go away, when my son was a few months old and I was in a pretty dark place. I binged before S4, spent the summer getting lost in fic, and officially joined the fandom in S5. I slowly began to find my voice again with these space babies and I’m so proud of all I’ve accomplished in this fandom. The 100 has kept me afloat in the deep waters and been a light on the dark days. I will miss it so much.

But mainly I want to say thank you to all of you. thank you for your metas, your gifsets, your videos, your fanart, your reviews, your liveblogs, your playlists, and your fanfics...you have made this fandom so special for me to be a part of.

Chopped has about 8+ more events planned so we hope you’ll continue to write with us. @chopped100challenge

I have like 50+ fics I still want to write so I, and this blog, will be here for awhile. I can’t wait to see what the rest of you go on to do. You will be great!

so one last tag:

@the-most-beautiful-broom - Christina, you sweet beautiful soul. ilysm. | @dylanobrienisbatman - Bails, we truly created magic together and I am so glad to call you friend | @chants-de-lune @baellamy @youleftme-clarke @asroarke @octannibal-blake @captainmmarvel - the discord delinquents, thank you for including me when I first joined this fandom. your love and support meant the world to me. | @pawprinterfanfic - Essie, I want to steal your word count power. Keep writing, you’re amazing. | @probably-voldemort Kee, you’re like tumblr famous and I think you’re one of the best storytellers ever. | @sometimesrosy - I really wanted you to be right about this journey. | @johnmurphysass Tricia, you are the sweetest. | @chase-the-windandtouch-the-sky - thank you for always loving Wells with me. | @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold - your talent is astounding | @kinetic-elaboration - you’re my absolute favorite writer in the whole damn fandom. | @hiddenpolkadots - thanks for being such a babe | @captaindaddykru - you kept me laughing through it all | @marauders-groupie @kindclaws - it was a pleasure reading your works. it was always better than canon | @tabatharich @sly2o @grumpybell @galaxyblake @thetravelerbewithyou @twd-is-life-98 @grifffinclarke @peterstarkss @clarkegriffintitties @daeneryskairipa @charmanderdiyoza @talistheintrovert @widonotts @llysandra @morleybobs @mamabearsdontthink @selflessbellamy @hopewolves @andthelightbulbclicks @el-corazon-y-la-cabeza @catastrophic-chloe @lovethyblakes @ellaalyse @eyessharpweaponshot @clarke-kom-eden @viviansternwood @thefangirlingbarista @justbecauseyoubelievesomething @goddess-clarke @harpermiller — you all are part of the most talented fandom I have ever seen. Thanks for including me. and to all the other bellarke fans that I couldn’t tag (because tumblr only lets me do 50...) share a selfie and let’s love on each other today.

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Blaine anderson is not whiny dang it! If Blaine is whiny then I am. But were not. We both have depression and need reassurance from our partners.

Hi there! Please don’t think I’m offended, I’m not, and I think I should have worded my post better earlier. I’m not trying to hate on Blaine at all, and I should have probably mentioned that in my post!

I personally didn’t think that Blaine was that whiny. Blaine was one of my top two characters on the show, tied with Kurt, and it’s because of Kurt and Blaine that I started watching the show. I put on an episode of the show one Saturday morning because there was backlash about this supposedly “wrong” “sinful” gay kiss, and I wanted to know what was making these people so het up (because it seemed so absurd to me that people were that offended over a gay couple kissing on a TV show). The episode I put on was coincidentally Original Song itself (perfect timing really) and I saw the kiss and just thought “...that was so cute and chaste, why the hell are people offended?!”. And then I kind of just kept watching because I really loved this gay couple - I had no idea who the other characters were, I would literally just put it on and wait for the Kurt and Blaine bits. I watched 2x16-2x22 BEFORE Season 1 or the start of Season 2 just because I loved the Klaine relationship!

(Also, side note, I did also know that Darren Criss was on Glee because I was a Potter fan, and I had seen AVPM, and literally ALL of the comment section was like “omg and now Darren is on Glee!!”. So there was that)

What I meant was that I know a lot of fans (both at the time and even today) hated Blaine and thought of him as whiny and clingy. I was trying to rationalize why he behaved like he did at certain moments because I have depression and anxiety too. As someone who’s battled depression since I was 13 (my anxiety wasn’t diagnosed until a couple of years ago), it was painfully obvious to be that Blaine suffered from mental health problems too, and I was annoyed that the writers on Glee brushed over it. I think people call him whiny because the writers never went into depth when it came to Blaine’s feelings or mental health.

I totally agree with you, so please don’t think I’m trying to bash Blaine! Blaine is one of my absolute favourite characters, and I love him so much - my problem wasn’t with Blaine as a character or with Darren as an actor, just with the way the writers went about writing him. I think it’s no secret that the writers on the later seasons of Glee were not the best, and I just felt like they could have maybe focused more on the fact Blaine clearly had depression/anxiety than they did. I know Glee had a lot of characters, and hardly any of them had properly developed storylines because they were rushed (eg. Marley’s eating disorder, Ryder and Kitty admitting to being assaulted as children, etc.)

So to me, Blaine didn’t seem whiny so much as lonely but I feel like a lot of people thought he was whiny, and I do sort of see where they’re coming from even if I personally don’t agree with them. I mentioned on a post on my old blog that, in my opinion, because of Blaine’s experiences in life - being gay bashed as a teen, his dad not being particularly supportive, always feeling second best to his star brother - he sees Kurt as being the best thing that happened to him, which is why he’s so scared of Kurt leaving him. I’m just headcanon-ing/theorizing here but I feel like to Blaine, Kurt is his home, his constant, the one thing keeping him afloat when things are bad; he can’t go to his parents or his brother, the New Directions are more Kurt’s friends than his in S3, and so he clings to Kurt as being the positive in his life.

Like I said, Blaine clearly has a lot of insecurities and I completely relate, hence why I agree with you. I cling to the only good stuff in my life when I’m having a bad time with my mental health, and it seems like Blaine does the exact same thing with Kurt. I think Kurt makes him feel wanted, like he’s not useless - he loves Kurt so much, which is beautiful, and Kurt is his light. Kurt makes him feel safe and loved and warm, and so I completely understand Blaine’s behavior.

So yeah, I’m doing a crap job at explaining it but I hope maybe I’ve cleared it up a little? Like I said, I absolutely do not hate Blaine, he’s one of my favourite two characters, and Klaine remains one of my absolute favourite couples to this day. Even through all the hard times, I continued to watch the show for Klaine, both as individuals and as a couple; I would get up at early times to watch the new Glee episodes of S4 before I had to go to school (I had to do it online since England didn’t show them until months later - and I was NOT waiting!). I remember when 4x14 came out, I was mad texting my best friend of the time because I was overexcited about them hooking up 😂 (the amount of texts I sent her about “Klaine sex” was only rivaled by her thirsty tweets over Finchel/Finn) I even stayed awake to watch certain episodes of S6 on a stream just so I could experience the Klaine elevator kiss and the Klaine wedding! I was in tears when they finally got married, like I was so emotional over it!

I was also a Klaine fanfic writer during this time (I was about 13-15/16 when I wrote the bulk of it) and it was probably the time I improved my writing the most; I wrote 150 chapters of a story about Klaine having children, plus I started a follow up (the majority of which is sadly still living inside my head instead of being written), and there were other various Klaine fics too. I’m pretty sure Klaine were the only Glee couple I wrote fics about - obviously there were side pairings of Finchel and Burt/Carole etc., but the main pair was only ever Kurt and Blaine.

It always makes me sad to see Klaine hate, and it always has to be honest 😔 obviously we can’t all ship the same stuff, and I’m not saying everyone has to ship it, but the overwhelming hate was astounding, especially the amount directed at Blaine/Darren specifically. I understand how frustrating it is to see people say negative shit about Blaine, so don’t worry!