#niylah

[alannacouture]

The 100: Creating Strong Female Role Models Since 2014

[soul-wanderer]

it's mildly funny how we got seven seasons of cockroach talk about/from Murphy, who then had to go to hell and back every.single.season to survive

all while we also had Niylah, who simply stayed as low-key as possible for the entirety of the show and did no wild shit whatsoever and still managed to survive (and while it's absolutely irrelevant to the plot, it is kinda funny that these two are siblings irl)

and I mean, Murphy, man, seriously, you really took the hard road to survival for someone who originally wanted to put as little effort into this as possible while sis was living her best life (given the overall circumstances) right next to you

[popchoc]

WITH YOU I'M BORN AGAIN - A Clexa Fic

A new planet brings new enemies, but help is just around the corner. "I told you I'll always be with you."

A The 100  / FTWD / TWD crossover, following two long lost lovers - together with their friends and foes - in their search for freedom.

Day 108: Clarke

“The question is, does any of this matter?” I wonder out loud. Moving back to the seating area, I sit down next to Madi. The others follow, except for Raven. “Did we find some relevant, maybe even important clue here, or is this just…”

“…some fun fact?” Niylah suggests.

“Well, yeah.”

“I guess that depends on what we’re trying to find,” she smiles.

Octavia sits forward, elbows on her knees. “I thought we were done searching. We wanted a place to live. We found it.”

“I’m good,” Murphy nods in agreement, “Got my girl, got a roof above my head…”

“Peace, safety,” Echo speaks up next, “I guess it’s all relative here, but yeah, I’m good too.”

I look next to me. “How about you, Madi?” I ask, laying my hand on her shoulder. "What do you need?"

She looks up at me, a clear answer in mind.

“Family. And friends." Then, grinning more widely. "Maybe a little less school.”

We all laugh. And as we do, my eyes find Lexa’s. They’re shining with joy, with a happiness that’s so rarely granted to her. “Freedom,” she softly answers my unasked question, almost like a whisper, “And you.”

It’s one of those moments when my heart flutters, my chest swells and I could honestly cry just by looking at her. God, how I love this girl!

It's also one of those moments when we're clearly not very subtle.

“Can someone please get these two a room?” Murphy sighs, followed by the most dramatic eye-roll.

Before I can shoot him a look though, Raven draws our attention back to her.“

Answers,” she simply states, “I want answers. And a cure.”

And just like that she brings us back to reality.

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[okmcintyre]

[winthorntales]

Femslash Friday: Couples That Never Were But Should Have Been Vol. 4

Mother Sappho can sure be cruel.

In the tv series The 100, we have a lady-lovin’ side character with an interesting background who is criminally underdeveloped and killed off too soon.

With the limited time we are graced with her presence, this side character is somewhat reduced to the role of the evasive love interest of a protagonist who spent half of their initial time together grieving her dead boyfriend. A dead boyfriend, mind you, who was gruesomely deaded on the lezzie side character's orders! I mean, Holy Jacob Black, does it get any worse than that?

Yes.

To top it all off, the attempted romance ends cheaply tragically before it even truly kicked off, casting this shadow of shallow placation over the whole tchotchke affair.

*begrudged index finger clap for on-screen same-sex love tho*

And then… *lights cigarette pinched between teeth*

Then there’s the staple character with several seasons’ worth of engaging, divisive, heart wrenching internal and interpersonal development, who is as intolerably sexy as she is strong, caring, and deeply flawed. The sugar, spice, and everything damaged that draws this angst-addicted, lovelorn moth (me, hullo) to the flames of everlasting love.

And this character, of course, is straight. No bi-no buts-no bends straight.

Octavia Blake, played by the magnetic Brunette Goddess Marie Avgeropoulos, is the sapphic sister we deserved but never had a chance in hell of getting.

She was a phantom on The Ark (illegal child hidden under the floor never to be seen or acknowledged by the world in which she lived), turned ace survivor in the new world, turned assassin, turned trauma-plagued warrior queen, and I lived for every gutting second.

She loved Lincoln with such fiery depth that her heart sank into some dark waters when he was torn from her. She never lost it completely (her heart), but trying times, like the increasingly intense circumstances of everyone's survival, didn't help her recover it any faster.

But new love could have. New love with someone worthy of it as a person and deserving of a greater story as a character.

The only thing that would’ve salvaged The 100 as a whole, to my viewing pleasure, was a slowbloom-to-true love romance between Octavia as Blodreina, the tormented Dark Queen of Wonkru, and her Right Hand Healer - the only woman who was still willing and able to see the heart of a tortured hero behind her blood-stained crown.

The potential of a perfectly squeetastic a.k.a. overtly romantic relationship between Octavia and Niylah sat in the room like an elephant in a tutu every time they were on screen together.

We’ve got Protector x Nurturer roles, Seme x Uke dynamics, reasoned heart-wrenching angst, and earned trust. Throw in some hurt/comfort scenarios with a little mortal danger or sexual intimidation directed at Niylah by the enemy, and Octavia losing her shit on the asshole who dared threaten/hurt her lover, and I would’ve given up all my earthly possessions to board this ship.

If Niylah had become Octavia’s second chance at true love in a hopeless place, I would be singing The 100’s praises ‘til the end of time as having one of the best sapphic love stories to grace the small screen. But she didn’t. Because she couldn’t. So, I don’t. But I can dream.

[travisdermotts]

YA'LL-

[baubeautyandthegeek]

Mechanical Love - Raven Reyes/Niylah

A/N: Day 7 for @domaystic

After returning to humanity along with Clarke it had been clear to Niylah that their time together was long over, Raven, finally coming to terms with the fact she and Abby would never really get past being just friends, had been the person she most came to get to know, intrigued by the girls affinity with mechanics.     Raven, always a mechanic, proves adept at making life a little easier for them all and finds that she enjoys having Niylah help her with working on things, the woman’s steady calm making her all the more attracted to her.     Love slowly blossoms between them, the two working side by side with one another and finding that they enjoy being together even when they work.  

[stormkpr]

[marinalor]

I just finished the 100 a minute ago

someone help me I'm dying

[bellamyblake]

[alannacouture]

Warrior Women of The 100 🙇‍♀️

[soul-wanderer]

there's something to be said about Octavia's and Niylah's relationship, but I need someone more eloquent to put it into words for me

[butmakeitgayblog]

"Canon Clarke (I have theories)" may I ask 👀

Ok hear me out! I'm gonna try and explain this as best I can 😅

I believe that Clarke was extremely vocal in bed. If we look at the facts, Clarke has a big mouth and talks a lot. A lot. Often robustly, generally at inopportune times, and almost always out of turn. Girl just barely gave the tiniest of fucks at any given point in time. She did not shy away from saying exactly what she felt at any given time.

It's literally why we love her 🥺

And going off that you're not gonna tell me that didn't translate to the bedroom. How am I, a virgo lesbian with impeccable taste, meant to believe that that woman wasn't just as demonstrative in bed as she was outside of it? Just as vocal?

If you take into account the fact that after 307 everyone and their goddamn brother seemed to be aware of Clarke and Lexa's relationship, the logical question comes: How did they find out? How did literally everyone suddenly know about them without a doubt, to the point they felt comfortable speaking intimately about Lexa to Clarke? Yes Lexa wasn't subtle about her affections, but Clarke before them sleeping together was still very standoffish in her anger.

So what changed?

My theory: word of mouth.

I absolutely theorize that the guards/occupants of the surrounding tower floors quite literally heard Heda kom Body Glitter and Wanheda blowing each other's backs out, and then immediately started gossiping about it. Given the fact that their public interactions up until that point had been cloaked in so much pomp and ceremony, broken up with these strange, sporadic private moments of Clarke spending hours alone in the silence of Lexa's room as Lexa read and slept, to finally hear the sounds of them going full sapphic pauna on each other would've absolutely been something that any warrior would've gone on break and been like "biiiiiitch do you know what I just heard???" about immediately 🤷‍♀️

"Well what makes you think it was Clarke who was loud? Clarke was the one who fucked Lexa into a nap 🤨" you may ask.

To which I say: shut up and you're wrong.

Because, again, look at the facts. Lexa's love language was not only acts, but also she liiived for encouraging Clarke. Lexa was always Clarke biggest cheerleader. Her most ardent and vocal supporter. She was always the one stepping up and telling Clarke that she was capable and strong and everything else Clarke needed to hear in moments when she felt vulnerable. Do you honestly believe, after months of pining, when Lexa finally got the chance to make love to the woman who had stolen her heart and then spit in her face, that she wouldn't want to hear every single last sound of Clarke's pleasure? That she didn't encourage Clarke to completely lose herself in the pleasure of it? Do you honestly believe that when she rolled over and kissed Clarke, when she straddled her and made her writhe beneath her, when she licked through her folds and fucked her in her plush bed of furs, that she didn't ask Clarke if it felt good? If she liked this or that? That she didn't quietly beg into Clarke's ear for her to moan for her? Do you honestly believe that Lexa didn't pay attention to every twitch of Clarke's lips and gasp of her breath and use all those signals to make Clarke completely lose control? And that Clarke didn't give Lexa exactly what she wanted to hear? Willingly? Robustly? That she didn't want Lexa to hear exactly how much she made her feel? As far as either of them knew, this may be the only time they got to experience this intimacy together before their people pulled them apart. Do you really believe they didn't do exactly what they wanted to the fullest extent in those few hours they lay hidden from the world???

Clarke may not have been ready to tell Lexa that she loved her because of the anger and betrayal that lingered between them, but you're not going to ever make me believe that when she made love with Lexa she didn't do everything she could to show it

[doortotomorrow]

SHIPS IN THE SPOTLIGHT : clexa edition lexa haunting clarke's narrative

[rhcenyra]

– but old flames can't hold a candle to you. no one can light up the night like you do. flickering embers of love, I've known one or two...but old flames can't hold a candle to you