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#JRoth I will never forgive you
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Some noteworthy quotes from the few episodes Josephine had taken over Clarkes body:
“You don’t get it. If Bellamy knows that Clarke is dead then all of this is for nothing. You may as well just kill us all now” - Murphy to Josephine
“The people you care about are in trouble. I guess you just care about her more” - Josephine to Bellamy
“I’m not losing her again” - Bellamy to Octavia
“Clarke I need you” - Bellamy to Clarke
“I’m not letting you go. You’re a fighter, now get up and fight” - Bellamy to Clarke
And I’m supposed to think they’re platonic????
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slytherinbarnes · 1 year
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Hey Maggie. I'm re-reading the seventh season of Sub Rosa and I got to the infamous part where JRoth gave up on doing something that made sense (thanks so much for fixing this, by the way). And I remembered you wrote that one of your ideas for season seven was for La Lune to go to Etherea. And I was thinking, do you think, in this context, Clarke would have the courage to shoot? Even if it was her sister there?
2/2: And if she did, would Bellamy forgive her? Since we know Bell holds a lot more grudges when it's someone he loves who gets hurt. Even more so if we realize that if Clarke shoots they will spend a lot of time thinking she killed La Lune. (2/2)
ooooo, I love this question!!!! okay, so Clarke would definitely not be able to shoot la lune!!! if I went with la lune on etherea and wanted to keep the idea of her getting shot and seeming dead, it would definitely have to be one of the others to shoot her. like, Murphy or Raven or Echo!!! bc there's no way Clarke or Bell could do it.
but if Clarke did do it, Bell would probably never forgive her. I don't think he'd forgive her even when la lune would show up again alive. la lune forgave Clarke bc that's her shining star and twin. she knows that Clarke did what she had to, and in the end, Bellamy lived and she could see past that. I think Bellamy holds his grudges like you said (look at how long he was mad at Octavia!!) and he would probably NEVER forgive Clarke bc he just doesn't have that relationship with her like la lune had, and that relationship is really what resulted in that forgiveness!
thank you so much for this ask!!!
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maybankssurftrip · 3 years
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hii can you rank your favourite slow burns pls?
YESS!!! gladly!
1. JJ & Kiara (obvs. lmao)
2. Stiles & Lydia (they had my heart since ep.1)
3. Bellamy & Clarke (though technically that's a no burn and I will never forgive jroth for it)
4. Anne & Gilbert (my childhood book otp)
5. Joey & Pacey (pretty much only watched the show for them)
6. Cordelia & Angel (never expected them to even end up together but hey... angel happened)
7. Spike & Buffy (shipped them since S2 omg)
8. Jess & Rory (idk does that count as a slow burn?? well they put me through enough trauma so)
9. Dan & Blair (is this an unpopular opinion?? idk but I always loved their dynamic from day one)
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bellamyblake · 3 years
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it just hit me that the way bellamy looks at clarke after he got shock lashed is the same as the look he has when he got bet up by octavia in the cave
Yes, that's true, there are many similarities between scenes with Clarke and scenes with O/ctavia. I think that's why by the end when he tried to talk to them they put them all three together but no one tried to hear him out despite everything they've been through.
I think with O he has the same look of disbelief as with Clarke though he let her do this to him-I think he can't believe she actually did it even if he let her, that she lost herself to that point and then that she said that her brother is dead to her. But he also hates himself so much in this moment so he doesn't consider what happened to him wrong which is one of the worst things that ever happened on the show and one of the few I wished had been more discussed instead of just having her say in s7 oh well he let me beat him up. So she knew it was wrong? That it was her anger? But she never apologized and he did, he tried, he never stopped trying to mend what happened and to explain and he was right in the cave back even in s3 when he told her i tried to come to you, you denied me.
I think a lot of the problems between him and O and him and clarke come from the lack of trust.
The moment o comes on the ground she doesn't trust him as she did before. that actually comes before that when he promised her everything will be fine if they go to the dance but it wasn't, he failed and she was locked up. So it's a trust issue that starts there with them and I think haunts them to the end. Bellamy tries to repent for his first sins and his first mistake-his mom dying and O being caught aka not protecting his sister his entire fucking storyline and it was never truly resolved or fixed in a proper, healthy way. Not for him anyway.
With Clarke I think that when she doubts herself, she doubts Bellamy too, she projects herself onto the decisions they have to make together and she forgets that this is not WHY they are a team.
They are a team specifically because they do NOT think the same way and that is how they make the better, more rational and good for their people decisions.
But in season 4 she's lost in more ways than one and I think it's one of the saddest seasons for her apart from season 6, so I understand and I can ....perhaps see where she's coming from and why she thought this was necessary but this time his look of disbelief comes from a place he defiitely did NOT expect and it hurts him so much worse.
He can take his sister hurting him. He'll let her.
But with Clarke and that is yes because he loves her (fuck you jroth it's true), in THAT way, not the sibling, but the romantic way, he lets his guard down, he becomes blind for it and it hurts him a lot worse when she does something like that.
But he still forgives her. He simply can't do anything else.
Boy's too much in love.
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historyofshipping · 4 years
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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
OK
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
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the thing is: we did see that bellarke was written romantic until a certain point but it was getting clearer that jason was using it to further his agenda and that he was very much bored with it in s5 already, his multiple "platonic soulmates" mantras, focusing on prequelizing the show & all. after bob's tweet in august 2019 it became clear the story was overturned and was gonna suck. nothing in s7 ever worked towards bellarke, all who expected the worst were just pointing out the obvious.
S7 was worse for Bellarke than even us pessimists could've predicted, but there were many, many clues that this wasn't going to end well for us that you continually mocked people for pointing out. Things like Clarke's mindspace being dominated by Lxa years later, Bcho being so half-assed yet STILL carrying on for THREE seasons, JRoth refusing to let B/C have a real detente in S5. You weren't the only one "looking at the text". So were we. And we came WAY closer to getting the ending right.
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Disagreeing with you is not MOCKING. I had a different interpretation. And I did not want to include extra-narrative information in it.
jason was using it to further his agenda and that he was very much bored with it in s5 already, his multiple "platonic soulmates" mantras, focusing on prequelizing the show & all. after bob's tweet in august 2019 it became clear the story was overturned and was gonna suck.
^^^ that is ALL gossip, external commentary, and supposition.
Bellarke was written as romantic ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE END OF SEASON 6. Starting in season 7 it no longer was.
I didn’t MOCK people. I said “you think what you want, I’m going to ignore you and go be by myself and do what I want.” and YOU sent anons to me tellling me I was wrong.  Chances are, you ALSO sent tweets and comments to JR, and if he was as vindictive as you say he was, which it turns out HE IS, then that was a VERY FUCKING STUPID THING TO DO, because then he got vindictive against US Bellarke fans for DEMANDING that he do what we want and he erased it all in season 7.
So, I kind of fucking blame YOU and all your buddies for being fandom assholes, instead of either dropping the show because you were so sure it wasn’t going where you wanted it to and JR was an asshole, or just giving it a chance and seeing what happened. 
Because that shit we got? That was vindictive and YOU made JR the enemy of Bellarke and of the Bellarke fandom and I frankly will not forgive you for that. Or him. But you too.
This isn’t mocking.
This is blaming. 
I blame you.
YOu and all the bitches like you attacking staff and writers and actors? Look what you fucking did. 
And I don’t believe that it wasn’t you, because you’re sending anons to me. And I saw the comment after comment after comment on his twitter, and I KNOW people who wrote terrible things to him because those are people I’ve shared a fandom with. And I’ve unfollowed so many of you because you made fandom a war of US vs Them, and you were never satisfied with vanquishing one enemy you always had to find another. 
You were a self fulfilling prophecy. 
Do you ever think about your own role in things and how what you do affects other people?
I ON PURPOSE tried to shrink my internet bubble and stay away from negativity and antagonism so I could simply ENJOY my favorite show. I unfollowed people and blocked them and left fandom twitter, but nothing I did could get me away from you and why?
Because I had the nerve to enjoy a show that you were certain was evil. Like, why couldn’t you just leave us alone to enjoy our evil fucking show? but no.
You have to send anons and nasty comments. 
I am very sorry to those of you who never did this, but I hate fandom. Fandom, you included, was cruel. You thought you had a right to attack people who didn’t do or say or act how you wanted them to. And that includes JR. 
He’s an asshole. 
But the story was Bellarke and I wasn’t wrong about that. And the existence of L in the mindspace in a season that was ABOUT Bellamy saving Clarke and choosing her over Echo is NOT evidence that he wasn’t going there. Bellamy saving Clarke because he loved her was evidence that he was.
And everything CHANGED in season 7. Season 7 did NOT follow the narrative. SO therefore all the evidence before was tossed out.
Why did he toss it out? That’s the question? What made him go back from the story he was telling, turn his hero into the badguy, erase his secondary hero, and kill the heart of the show, leaving it without it’s narrative backbone?
It seems to be external elements. Bob wanting time off. JR being vindictive. The fandom attacking him constantly. Desire for his prequel to get more attention. Maybe more, I don’t know. But it stopped following the story. 
The story said something else before. Then it stopped saying that. It happens. 
But did this fandom EVER have to be a war? 
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Fic Updates & Postings
Here is a running list of fic updates and new projects that I have planned. They will (hopefully) be posted in this order, unless something goes awry. You’ll find information about when I will most likely be posting and which things are taking priority for me at the moment. Sending all the love and good thoughts to you 💖💜💙
Let Me Out (WIP): chp 1 *NEW* (t100fic4blm) 
Expected pub. date: Dec. 3rd 
Bellamy isn't crazy.
He gets sent Arkadia Wellness Center, an alternative to most treatment programs, anyway. He knows it's going to be a failure, like all the others. He's willing to go though, for his mom and sister, even if it's useless. Except he doesn't count on one thing. He doesn't count on Clarke Griffin.
Clarke's never gonna get the hell out of here.
She's been in and out of Arkadia Wellness for over two years. Just when her mom thinks she's better, she lands right back where she started. If only her mom would understand she doesn't want fixing. Then Bellamy arrives, and for the first time in her life, she wants to run toward something, instead away.
Of course, love, and life, is never that easy.
my sky’s not blue, it’s violent rain (WIP): chp 2
Expected pub. date: Dec.9th. Clarke and Bellamy grow closer despite their less than friendly start. However, Bellamy’s secret and job to steal the company’s secrets comes to light at the worst possible time. 
ADVENT CALENDAR FIC (for thebellarkescord) (oneshot)
Expected pub. date: secret shhhhhh Advent fic for thebellarkescord 
I Got You Babe (WIP): chp 1 *NEW* (t100fic4blm)
Expected pub. date: Dec. 15th
Reports are coming in that The Primes have struck again, leaving yet another vault empty and a security team utterly confused as to how it happened. More to come in the latest development on the now ten year spree of robberies in Arkadia. Will The Primes ever be caught? Or will their reign continue for yet another year?
John Murphy and Bellamy Blake, private investigators from New York, and self-proclaimed badasses, figure the case of The Primes will lead to a key to the city or another award to put on their shelves. They count on their tact ability to root out criminals and best kept secrets.
What that they don't count on is Emori Woodhouse and Clarke Griffin, tenacious investigative journalists who've been working the case since The Primes first job. They're not about to just let a couple of outsiders handle things, given their own personal ties to it.
A disastrous first meeting sparks a game of wit and skill with a side of immature shenanigans. Then, the stakes are raised, and it's not just money on the line, but lives of innocents. They're forced to put aside their differences if they're going to even have a chance at solving this damn case. Once and for all.
Comeback Kids (WIP): chp 1 *NEW* (t100fic4blm)
Expected pub. date: Dec. 22nd
Bellamy dies, and Clarke isn't sure how she's meant to make it in a world without her soulmate. Just as she and his best friend, Murphy, lose their grip on Bellamy, he starts appearing to them. They see it as the most precious gift. Clarke thinks there's no life for her without Bellamy, but Murphy's intent on showing her that it's still worth living, even amongst the pain. He helps Clarke heal and have hope once more, all while talking to his dead friend, convincing him that they'll survive. Though he knows neither one of them will ever be whole again, he thinks things might be okay, one day.
If only he and Clarke didn't fall in love, like proper idiots.
The Greatest (WIP): chp 1 *NEW* (t100fic4blm) 
Expected pub. date: Dec. 29th
Bellamy Blake is a rising star with a drive that keeps him always looking toward the future. Clarke Griffin’s just another groupie, following bands and losing herself in the moment. When they collide? Well, it’s gonna be a song everyone wants to know the lyrics of, or at least, be around for the wreckage.
AKA Groupie!Clarke and Musician!Bellamy set against the backdrop of the pop punk scene in the late 90s/early 00s. 
Come Up for Air (WIP): chp 1 *NEW* (t100fic4blm)
Expected pub. date: Dec. 31st
Sanctum is supposed to be a fresh start. For everyone. Moving on from past heartache and betrayal is easier said than done though. Bellamy and Clarke find that letting go is harder than either one of them imagined. Their relationship is fractured and painful to even look at, with so much hurt on both sides. On their journey back to one another, their most fearsome enemy yet turns out to be forgiveness, and learning how to give that to one another once more. 
Basically, a s6 AU in which Bellamy doesn’t forgive Clarke right away, and all the consequences of it. 
WRECK JROTH FIC COLLAB (oneshot)
Expected pub. date: April 6th
The delinquents have a treaty with the grounders when the Ark comes down. 
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I woke up mad and have been mad all day so let’s discuss the disrespectful absurdity that was Bellamy’s death on the 100 some more. 
JRoth’s tweet really pissed me off a lot. Ultimately, he’s not wrong when he says the 100 has always been a dark show about hard choices and what people would do to survive. It’s just that I don’t think any of that played into Bellamy’s death at all. I’ve been thinking about all of the other major character deaths across the seasons and how, even the ones I hated and have massive issues with, still somehow seem more respectful to the characters than what he did to Bellamy. Keep reading for the rant:
Season 1 - Wells (and to an extent Charlotte)
Wells - Wells is a bit of a tricky one since it happened so fast and I know there are people still upset about it. But it set the tone for the show, the tone that JRoth is so proud of and referencing for Bellamy’s death. But I think you can get away with a shock value death in season one to kick things off. They also set up the situation fairly well, playing up just how harsh things are on the ark, that most of their parents had been floated. I can understand how Charlotte, who is just a child, reached that conclusion, especially with Bellamy’s maybe misguided advice (although that’s clearly not what he meant). I also don’t know that there was really a place for another presumably male lead in season one alongside Bellamy and Finn. So I get it. But also, Wells still had a chance to repair things with Clarke before he was killed. She discovered the truth and knew that he lied to protect her. He didn’t die with her hating him. It was a truncated arc, but it was something. 
Charlotte - And arguably, Charlotte’s death kind of needed to happen. There wasn’t really any way for her to continue on with them after what she’d done and at least it was her choice, however tragic it all was. 
Season 2 - Finn and Maya
Finn - As with Wells, Finn’s death is something I think you can get away with and can be viewed as edgy in an early season. It’s upping the stakes and reminding you that this is a show that will put these characters in impossible situations. And they still had a male lead left in Bellamy, plus Murphy and Jasper and even a character like Miller were rising in the ranks and there to fill in the gaps. Plus a whole host of new characters. Killing Finn was a gutsy move but one I could respect. They took him down a dark path and instead of absolving him for it because he was a main character, they made him pay for it. But unlike Bellamy, Finn realized what he did was wrong. He couldn’t live with the guilt. He couldn’t live with the way Clarke was looking at him. He knew the truce with the Grounders was important and he knew he was the key. He made the choice to give himself up. He had agency. He got to have one last escape attempt with his friends, say his goodbyes to everyone. And even still, they let him die with some amount of dignity rather than being tortured to death. And Clarke killing him worked in a way her killing Bellamy doesn’t. What he did was directly tied to her. Only she could forgive him in those final moments. There were multiple episodes of build up to this death, it was the story of the whole episode it happened in. It was expected but also a bold move for the show. 
Maya - This was a death about hard choices and survival. The audience had grown to like Maya throughout the season, seeing her stand up for what was right and going against her own people. She didn’t deserve the end she got. But Clarke and Bellamy and Monty were put in an impossible situation and it was either the lives of all their friends and family or death in a very inhumane way because the mountain never would have stopped. And the way it was set up, with us and them watching Raven and Abby being drilled into, the choice was painful but clear. And it had been building to this moment for an entire season. 
Season 3 - Lexa and Lincoln
Lexa - Lexa had arguably one of the most controversial deaths on the show. And I know there were behind the scenes reasons for it with the actress having another show to film. I don’t know how much availability she would have had. I don’t know how necessary it was to remove her from the narrative. I don’t want to get into it I will just assume for these purposes, that she had to be killed off. And I’ve always said with respect to Lexa, that I didn’t mind that they killed her off, it was how they did it. But compared to Bellamy’s death, even her controversial one feels less disrespectful to the character. It may be worse due to lesbian death tropes and that’s a larger issue, but in terms of the show story, I don’t think it was as bad. First of all, she was only a character for a season and a half. Second, her death directly affected the plot that had been hinted at all season and carried out in a major way through the rest of it. Now I hate that she died immediately after having sex by a stray bullet from a guy who should not have been holding a gun in the first place. I hate it. I would have much rather she went down fighting or stepping in front of a bullet for Clarke or something. But at least she got to finally resolve things with Clarke. They reconciled. They said they loved each other. She knew was was going to die at the end and she got to have her final moments with Clarke. Clarke got to do the whole may we meet again speech. Despite the issues, it was a beautiful moment. 
Lincoln - This death has always been the one that pissed me off the most. Again I know there were behind the scenes issues and he also had another show. Again I don’t know how much filming availability he would have or how necessary his death was. Again, let’s assume it was because people can’t just go off somewhere else for a new start on this show. But I still always hated how he went out, being executed in the mud. He should have gone down fighting at the very least. However, even more at the very least, because that’s what we’re getting into here, Lincoln did die because he was defending his people. That’s the bare minimum here but at least he had that. He was true to himself. I hated that he didn’t really get a final moment with Octavia, but hey, at least she was present. Extremely low bar but still, better than Bellamy’s death from a writing perspective. 
Season 4 - Jasper (Roan, Illian, Luna)
Jasper - Jasper’s is a sad tale. He spent two seasons basically completely depressed after the events of season two. There really wasn’t anywhere else to take his character at that point, so I understood and was ready for him to go. It made sense as an end for his character and he got to go out on his own terms and not take the spot in the bunker of someone who truly wanted to live. He got to have his final moments with Monty. It was a good end for him. 
Roan, Illian and Luna - I wouldn’t call them major characters per say, perhaps Roan and Luna but we got to know all of them fairly well. They were expendable characters for the most part but they at least got to die fighting for their people and that’s a respectable way to go out. 
Season 5 - Jaha, Monty and Harper
Jaha - Jaha was a character who did go down a sort of cult path. It probably would have been easy to kill him off in season 3 as a result of that. And if it had been a high stakes, last resort, have to kill Jaha to get to ALIE to save everyone, I could have respected that. But they didn’t. They let him survive that. They let him see the error of his ways. He spent season four determined to save his people from what he helped to unleash. He didn’t do it in the right way but even then, finally, in season 5, he was redeemed a bit, helping to maintain the peace in the bunker and helping Octavia gain control. And he had Octavia and Marcus and Abby there at his end. It was fitting. He got to say his goodbyes. 
Monty and Harper - I was very sad to say goodbye to them but they went out on their own terms. They got probably the happiest ending out of anyone on this show. They got to live their lives how they chose and be together and having a son. And they did all of that while finding a way to give their friends, their family, their people a fresh start. And they got to say goodbye, albeit through video, but it was touching and lovely. 
Season 6 - Shaw, Kane and Abby
Shaw - Shaw was another one that was killed off because he had another show, which is fine. It sucked for Raven and it was sad the character only got one season. Although considering the seasons that followed, I think he should count himself lucky really. But again, he died helping out his friends and Raven. It was a sacrifice and he knew what he was doing. 
Kane - Again, another person who had other commitments. And they did some weird body swap stuff to extend his time a little longer. But I loved that they had actual Kane there at the end anyway to say goodbye to Abby even if it wasn’t really him that she was seeing. It was a nice touch, and a better way to say goodbye to the character. He also chose to let go. It was on his terms and he got his goodbye with Abby. And there were good parallels to floating both men she loved. 
Abby - I’m not fond of the way they killed off Abby since she was basically dead once they took over her body. So that was unfortunate. But at least prior to the body swapping, she did have that last scene with Clarke where they kind of reconciled. And if I recall, she had some last moments with Jackson and Raven too. And those matter. 
Season 7 - Diyoza and Bellamy
Diyoza - By season seven, I’m honestly kind of over major character deaths. I don’t really want them. I just want to see these characters that I love survive all of the trauma of the show and find peace, but I understand that I’m never going to get that. It’s fine. I was sad to see Diyoza go, but her sacrificing herself for her daughter, for the people who became her family, kind of “for all mankind” to use a phrase I hate now, was a fitting way for her to go out since she was introduced to us as a terrorist. And she got to say her goodbyes. This is clearly an important theme for me. 
Bellamy - And then we circle back to my rage. Bellamy kind of took the path of Finn in a way, or perhaps his season 3 arc, which he didn’t really pay for so much. Not the way Finn did anyway because all of a sudden Blood must not have Blood. Plus, Pike was the rightful scapegoat for all of that. But this season saw Bellamy get caught up in yet another man’s bullshit idea of what was right. That was frustrating enough, but I guess it was somewhat in character. It’s just all the more frustrating because the Second Dawn/Shepherd nonsense is just that, nonsense. His sudden anti grounder status in season 3 were motivations that made at least some sense. He’d been fighting them since day one basically. They betrayed them at Mount Weather, which meant they had to kill everyone there, which meant he lost Clarke. And then Echo’s betrayal killed his three episode girlfriend, Gina. Plus Pike was a man he’d respected on the arc. The motivations always felt fairly thin to me since Gina was so minor, but overall, they make sense. 
This season has been all over the place. The storylines have been mostly nonsensical. The nature of the different timelines meant that there were many episodes where we had to backtrack to fill in gaps, which meant the story was basically at a standstill for the whole middle of the season. We have zero sympathy for Bill and his cult followers. They’re not interesting. The Mount Weather people were brutal and doing terrible things, but I understood their need to survive. These Second Dawn people don’t have that same motivation. They’re fine. And so much of it is driven by the flame, which Bill wants for selfish reasons along with the stupid key code. He wants to know if there’s any of his daughter in there, which goes against all his teachings and what he’s trying to suck Bellamy into. And all of that is really just to set up a spinoff no one is going to want to watch at this point anyway after all of this. It’s kind of insulting. 
And we see all of this Bellamy development in one episode late in the season and then he just betrays all his friends and family. He only shows the slightest hint of questioning. He just flat out tells Echo she doesn’t matter more than the cult. He doesn’t even have a scene with just his sister. He gets one good scene with Clarke but then is like “eh torture her it’s fine”. And then we get to this episode, where he barely interacts with his friends that he’s with. They spend most of the episode rolling their eyes at him and mocking his clothing choices. They set up the stupid sketchbook in a rushed little scene with Madi and Clarke just so in the last thirty seconds Sheidheda, who my god should be dead now (Indra I’m looking at you), can say “hey check out that book”. And Bellamy picks up this book that we’ve seen like once or twice earlier in the season that was fairly inconsequential then. We don’t even fully understand what’s in it that’s so crucial that Bellamy can’t show Bill. And that’s what Clark shoots him for? Really? And shoots to kill? Which was highly unnecessary to get her hands on that book. And then she didn’t even take the stupid book in the first place. 
So Bellamy Blake, main male lead of the series, hero and leader to his people, gets murdered by his closest most trusted friend, his person, without getting to realize that the cult stuff was bullshit, without getting any chance to redeem himself, for a book that really doesn’t even seem to matter. And he dies alone. None of his family or friends are around. No one is reciting the may we meet again speech. He never got a final scene to reconcile with his sister. He never had any real final moments with anyone else. He just disappeared in the first five minutes of the premier, showed up eleven episodes later, a brainwashed cult follower and that’s how he died. That’s frankly bullshit. And a massive disservice to his character, to Clarke’s character, to the show. And the fact that they barely had Clarke try and shake him out of his brainwashing. The fact that his friends just mocked him instead of trying to help him. It’s just not what this show was built on. It’s not. It’s one absurdity after another. It’s insulting. 
And the fact that every other character I’ve listed here at least got something, some kind of minor positive to their passing but Bellamy got none of those things?! Not fighting for a cause or a people the audience is rooting for or siding with. And no final goodbyes with the people he loves. Even Clarke only did her crying once she went through the stupid portal. I’m just mad. I should feel devastated by his death, but at least feel like he died for something. He died for nothing and that’s the saddest part of it all.  
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I cam bring myself to watch the episode :(
I feel you anon, I haven’t watched it either. I haven’t watched the last few episodes actually, I’ve been kind of saving them up to binge depending on how the season ends. Will I watch any of these episodes now? Probably not. For me, the show ended in S6 and beyond that JRoth (and all these weird new writers) is just writing bad fanfiction.
Actually, you know what? I think for me, the show ended at the end of S4.
‘Never mind, I see you now.’
If it helps, I can promise you that I’ll be finishing my fics and I guarantee you happy endings for all of them. Bellarke is ours now, and JRoth can’t ruin it anymore. At its heart, Bellarke has always been about forgiveness, trying to do better, and hope, and hope doesn’t die.
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verbam · 5 years
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Old Eternity Blues
WOW BIG SURPRISE I CAVED AND WATCHED THIS SEASON. You can in part blame @starboybellamy for her sneaky, slow process of drawing me back in. I would say “obviously they’ll give us Projection!Bellamy before it’s all over” but you never fucking know with jroth so ~~~
Old Eternity Blues
She knew he’d turn up, sooner or later. Thank god it isn’t with Josephine watching, that’s the only comfort. One moment she’s in her mind space, and the next there’s springy moss beneath her feet and the trill of bird call around her.
He steps out of the Dropship, and he is at once that boy with something to prove that she met so so long ago; her best friend who knew her better than anyone else, and the man she’s had to reckon her Bellamy with, older and more careful but still hers. He is all of those things at once, but he’s wearing that stupid Azgeda getup, the one he nearly got himself killed in while trying to save her from Roan.
She knew she’d call him- or this projection of him- eventually, but it still hurts.
Bellamy looks around at the Dropship Camp, empty except for them, silent except for the twittering woods, filled with birds and two headed deer and people trying to kill them.
“Man, we were just kids here,” he says.
“And how many lifetimes ago was that?” Clarke asks as cooly as she can, although her heart is beating in her throat.
“I’ve lost count,” he says, and gives her wry smile. “I still dream about this place sometimes.”
She winces and looks down at her hands. “I do. I don’t know if you do.”
“What, suddenly you can’t take me at my word?”
“Not when your word is just what I want you to say,” Clarke says carefully. There are so many things her mind could make Bellamy say: kind, cruel, neutral, and all of them would hurt because this isn’t actually him.
“Well, you and I, we usually end up being on the same page. Most of the time.”
“Most of the time,” Clarke agrees. “We always did make a good team.”
Bellamy chuckles, flashes her a wry smile, but he looks up at the canopy of trees and closes his eyes as a breeze whispers past them. Clarke’s chest aches with sight.
“You coming back to us?”
“I’m trying to. I sent you a signal, hope you got it. Not that you got any of my other messages.”
“Maybe I’ll pick up on this one.”
“I hope so.”
They’re quiet for a moment, and he drops down next to her on the log on which she’s sitting. She knows this spot- they used to sit here and share a cup of moonshine between them. Never enough to get buzzed and put the camp at risk, but enough to unwind, enough to work on trusting each other. She gets a distant note of how he used to smell: sweaty and unwashed like the rest of them, but his musk had a certain comfort to it. The ache in her chest grows and Bellamy glances at her. If he’s her, he must feel it too.
“Why don’t you just tell me?”
“Because… because you’re with Echo now. You’re happy. And even if you weren’t, you don’t trust me anymore. You don’t think you know me anymore. And you might say things like-”
“Funny way to show love,” Bellamy helpfully says. “Leaving me to die.”
“And-”
“Your love kills people. Why would I want you to love me?”
“Exactly,” Clarke manages, choking back how much it hurts to hear in Bellamy’s voice.
He’s quiet again next to her, fiddling with a stick between his fingers. His hands always had to be busy. He’s become so still now, this grown up Bellamy. She misses his frenetic energy- it always helped her know what he was thinking.
“I could say all that,” Bellamy agrees. “But it doesn’t sound much like me.”
“You’ve said worse.”
“Yeah, maybe,” he chuckles, and scrubs a hand through his hair like he’s embarrassed. “I did and said a lot of dumb shit. But I think I probably know better now.”
“You literally just made my daughter the Commander,” Clarke observes dryly.
He grimaces. “Bad move on my part. I mean, it saved our asses, but I know it came at a cost.” He glances side long at her. “You ever think that if you could forgive me for that, I could probably forgive you for leaving me in Polis?”
“I don’t know,” Clarke whispers, turning to look at him. “Bellamy, I don’t even know if I know you anymore.”
He nods, face twitching the way she remembers it did when he was feeling shitty or down on himself. The ache in her chest grows. “I miss you,” she chokes. “You came back and I still miss you so fucking much. And I’m terrified I’m going to make it through this, that I’m going to survive, and you’ll blame me for that too. Everyone seems to just want me dead.”
“No,” Bellamy says, reaching out to touch her knee. “Clarke, why am I here?”
“I don’t know,” she whispers.
“You think maybe it’s because you need reminding that people can love you, not in spite of everything we’ve done, but maybe in part because of it?”
“You don’t love me,” she whispers.
“I know I loved you when we were here,” he says with a shrug looking around them. He knows because she knows, but it still makes her stomach flutter to hear him say it.
“I know. I did too, I just wasn’t ready-”
“Because you thought everyone you love dies, I know. But I made it. Madi’s made it. Your mom too. You gotta let that myth go, Clarke. Otherwise, why are you fighting so hard to come back? Is it just to survive?”
“Fuck,” she says, burying her face in her hands. “Don’t throw that at me now.”
Bellamy’s hand lands warm and large on her back and he rubs it gently up and down her spine. She can’t help but lean into the touch. He hasn’t touched her like this in so long, not really.
“Why are you being so nice to me?” she finally asks. “I thought you of all my projections would be the worst.”
She looks up to find him watching her, his brows creased faintly. That old, concerned look used to make her feel… if not safe, then not alone. “Oh,” she says quietly. “That’s why.”
She leans into her side, lets herself because it’s not really him, and she can do this without guilt or fear that he’ll push her away. Bellamy wraps one arm around her back and holds on to her knee with his other hand.
“Will you stay? Until I either wake up or I’m… I’m gone?
“Yeah. ‘Course,” Bellamy says.
His is the last face she sees before her mind flickers to darkness.
When she opens her eyes, shivering at the assault of sensation of reinhabiting her body, the first face she sees is his.
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It’s come to my attention that people genuinely think Bellarke were platonic…did we watch the same show???
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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. 
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Clarke vs. Spacekru
In which I (begrudgingly) emphasize two points that justify some of Spacekru’s attitude toward Clarke, if only because leaving it completely UNjustified hinders my enjoyment of the show.
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1) Spacekru doesn’t remember what it’s like to fight for survival.
They’ve spent 6 years in relative comfort. They’ve readjusted their priorities: family over everything else. They don’t remember what it’s like to have to choose survival over humanity, not really.
Clarke, on the other hand, has never left survival mode. She spent months walking a barren wasteland, one step ahead of starvation, before finding the valley. How much time did she spend alone before she found Madi? How much time until Madi trusted her?
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Bellamy and Clarke have always been the parents of the group, but Bellamy’s experience over the past 6 years was astronomically (space pun!) different than Clarke’s. On the Ring, Bellamy had Monty to feed them and Raven to make sure the station functioned—all he had to do was make sure they all didn’t kill each other.
Clarke, on the other hand, had to make sure she and Madi survived with little to no help (Madi might be badass now, but it’s pretty clear in Season 5 that Clarke is the one keeping them alive). I don’t think Bellamy realizes this difference until he hears about the radio calls. All he’s heard from Clarke was “It was fine, I had Madi”, without really comprehending that “having Madi” doesn’t mean she wasn’t one step away from losing it ALL THE TIME.
2) Spacekru’s had time to forgive.
Spacekru has six years of memories that have overwritten whatever they did to each other on the ground. Bellamy forgave Echo, for God’s sake. Murphy’s definitely forgiven Bellamy. Spacekru had a chance to face all the things they did to each other and move past them.
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But Clarke? They never had to face what they did to Clarke and vice versa. They never moved past it. Because you can’t blame someone who died to save you…until that person is back. Their attitude is one of “But you didn’t really die for us, did you? And while we learned why everything we did was wrong, you obviously haven’t learned anything in the past 6 years.”
Is that childish and narrowminded? Yes. Does it completely discount the fact that they had it relatively easy in space while Clarke was living alone on a dead planet? Absolutely.
But does it also kinda make sense? I think it does, at least in the way that ANY human behavior makes sense.
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Now, do I think jroth is counting on fans (such as myself) being invested enough in this gray, gray show that they’ll analyze anything until it makes sense? Yes, and honestly that’s pissing me off. This is a little bit “Whoa, Bellamy went crazy” in S3 (which I’ve definitely also justified in the past).
So, I will end this post with a SINCERE plea to the writers to write in some of this unconscious character motivation for once, so I can stop laying awake at night analyzing The 100.
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I love your thoughts on stuff especially when you post funny things or metas. I was wondering if you had any toughts on Bellamy's love choices apart from Clarke?
aw, thank you, that’s so sweet! i think im horrible at meta, my brain just won’t order my thoughts the right way.
it’s funny you’re asking me that cause the other day when i was rewatching the scene with mel, bellamy, murphy, finn, monroe and sterling i remembered kimsh*um saying how mel was supposed to be a love interest for bellamy but the actress wasn’t available if i remember correctly.
and that made me think about his love interestest apart from clarke and gina who we saw briefly.
now i think gina would’ve been great to see in terms of bellamy because they met i believe, in our headcanon land, while he was trying to kind of drown his sorrows in the arkadia bar where we see her serving later on briefly, again in season 3 and though i know it wasn’t a deep relationship, it wasn’t a bad one.
 it was one produced out of the circumstances that probably (though we know nothing about her) they both felt like shit but kind of found something within each other that they liked/perhaps enjoyed. maybe gina was a good listener, maybe she let him pour his heart out about all of the mount weather horrors.
maybe, and i am reaching here, but she was the only one who knew about all of it-his torture coming in the mountain, his responsibility for his people and the guilt for those they killed inside. maybe bellamy even shared some stuff of his childhood with her because gina seems like the kind of person who is a good and understanding listener and she wouldn’t offer judgement but she’d get him, you know?
i think that’s why i loved gina out of them all (apart from clarke, like we’re putting bellarke aside in this whole debate) because she was a good kind yet smart and persistent person-a nice match for a hurt, confused guilt-ridden bellamy who felt all alone after season 2 and who had all this anger and helplessness inside him. we can see her worry about his leg after he went out to look for clarke and she worries sending him out there beyond arkadian walls-
basically something i’ve always wished for, for bellamy-someone to give a crap for him ( i exclude e/xho s7 narrative cause it makes zero sense and we didn’t see it in any depth)
so apart from gina we have what? e/cho right? and what makes it interesting for me here when our favorite racist kimsh*m talked about mel possibly being a love interest for bell is that i feel like they wanted to instill this...idea for a bellamy love interest where he falls in love for someone that he ultimately-
saves.
maybe that is also the case with clarke too but it was never explored as we know because they refused to for a variety of reasons, the last one being out of spite, the previous being c/lexa-we’re speaking honestly here and that’s how it was.
so they wanted bellamy to fall for someone he *saves*
which i don’t think is a good like treatment of his character at all. i believe jroth in his stupid brain makes sense from the fact that because bellamy always took care of octavia, his entire life, those were the circumstaces he grew up in, then it’s only logically (and psychologically, yes it is), that he falls for someone that he *saves*, like he saved his sister and raised her from a baby to a grown adult.
so mel was someone he saved and she would’ve been a nice fill was she of age (not sure she was) and was the actress available.
but then came ta/sya and her nepotism, aka her being on the show cause she has connections to jroth and since bellamy so perfectly saved her from the cages in season 2 suddenly mel was easily replaced with-
e/cho. 
of course they played around it for a bit and i assume they didn’t do it before season 5 for two big reasons-
one was that bob who frankly was absolutely right in that, didn’t want a love interest in season 1, didn’t want bellarke to happen in season 1 and thank god IT didn’t cause it would’ve been absolultely nothing left of it by season 3, and the other was 
e/chos betrayal which needed time to simmer into a forgivness and what better way than trapping them on a ring in space for 6 years, right? who would you pair him with other than-oh well it could’ve been raven which frankly, much better choice or it could be e/cho which again-
first to spite the fandom (and i believe we played a big role in jason choosing her and not raven because he saw how panicked we were in season 4 about it especially after 4x13 all everyone talked about was how yep it’d be becco in season 5 and he just said ha-ILL SPITE YOU YOU STUPID FANGIRLS you don’t want it-HA BUT YOU GOT IT and I am sure to this day had we talked more about not wanting bellamy and raven the more we would’ve gotten that instead of becco)
and second cause again of nepotism-here’s this actress who can absolutely not act and has zero chemistry with the main lead-yep, only seems logical we put her as his love interest.
and mind you I wanna reiterate here that bob has chemistry with everyone else including male actors like richard and chuku way more than he ever did with ta/sya so jroth’s logic here that oh yeah beliza were always kind of maybe in love that’s why that worked-LACKS and is beyond offensive
so yes, i believe the idea was always to portray his love interest as a continuation of the cirmustances of his childhood-so he falls in love with someone who he saves like he saved his sister, that being mel (that fell through) and eggo and...ultimately also clarke though with her is much more complicated but think about that
how many more times had he saved her than she him? right?
when is he the saved one?
if we count season 2 when clarke supposedly lets the bomb drop on TonDC to save him though again-grey area, she mostly listens to L/exa who doesn’t want her people to turn on her and then you have season 7 when again Eggo supposedly goes on this journey for him and ends up killing people but not because OF bellamy but because she simply has been hiding the beast inside her for six years and she cannot keep it at bay anymore.
so apart from gina and ...well debatable here but clarke too, he’s never had a love interest that he didn’t save. also we don’t know how exactly he did come by to know gina-did he know her from before? did he maybe save her too? did he just randomly started talking to her?
so that is it on this particular subject and whilst it may be psychologically correct if there is such a term i find it too weak of an excuse for a character like bellamy because when he loves he loves dearly and it is clear that yes he carries the big baggage that is octavia but i dont believe that should attach to his love life and his romance. 
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- [ ] Hi, I'm already apologizing for my bad English, but I hope you can still understand my idea. So, I just remembered something, went looking for it and found two different interviews about the end of Season 5, I think, where Jason talks about how Bellamy and Clarke have always been the center of the series and how their relationship is super important to the show. 1/3
- [ ] He also talks about how when they are on the same side, with the same goal, things work well and how when they are on opposite sides things can go wrong and there are always problems (just like in season 5). I mean, if Jason himself basically said "Bellamy and Clarke don't work and can't help their people when they're on different sides", it wouldn't make sense if he just died or was "brainwashed" until the end. 2/3
- [ ] It would be really stupid if they destroyed the most beautiful relationship on the show. Of course he can still die, but I think that only after both “saved” their people, after the “last war" and after Clarke forgave him and he forgave himself. They have to end in the same page and have some closure, whether is romantic or not, otherwise what was the point of “the heart and the head” “together” and everything else? At least I hope so.3/3
- [ ] ok, continuing the message about Jason’s interview, just one more thing: This really gave me a lot of hope especially as there are a lot of people on Twitter going crazy about how Jason turned Bellamy into a bad guy and he will die without "getting back to normal" or that he will die because he won't be able to forgive himself for hurting clarke. There’s also a theory about how Clarke will have to kill him just like the end of got.
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Your English is fine! Absolutely no worries. 
I agree with everything you said about Bellarke being the center of the show. And canonically, yes, things work when B & C are on the same side. Everything goes to shit when they’re opposed to each other. They are the head and the heart - the very nature of humanity - and they need to be in harmony to have things go right. 
Now as always: twitter is a cesspool and JRoth is an asshat who should never be listened to. He is a troll and loves to rile people up. 
Twitter freaks out over everything. 
As I’ve said before, something like this needed to happen so that Clarke could rescue Bell. S6 & S7 are mirrors of each other and I said from the beginning that we were going to “lose” Bell in some way, just as we lost Clarke last season. 
S6/7 is one epic Bellarke love story where they’ll save each other despite time, distance, and life/death separating them. 
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alrightsnaps · 5 years
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raven reyes?
• favourite thing about her
The fact that she is the definition of the word survivor, refusing to give up in the face of the most painful and hopeless circumstances and always fighting for life.
And of course her genius that has saved everyone's asses time and time again, for which my baby never gets the credit she deserves.
• least favourite thing about her
Her terrifying capacity for forgiveness, that has led to her holding on to people that have only ever caused her damage– her mother and Abby featuring on top of that list, as well as Clarke.
Unfortunately, the writers never gave a fuck about Raven, so instead of giving her a storyline in which she manages to overcome her trauma, they have her six seasons into the show still doing the bidding of a woman that has consistently manipulated and abused her out of guilt for her alcoholic and emotionally abusive mother's death.
(I just need my girl to have access to therapy and stay away from the Griffin women. Is that too much to ask?)
• favourite line
I was going to go with the iconic “We all have battle scars. Suck it up and build a brace for yours.” quote but I just have to choose my beautiful Braven “Always” because my girl singlehandedly cleansed this word from years of Snape related cringe when she delivered that line in the s04 finale.
• brOTP
Raven and... pretty much any delinquent, minus Clarke and Octavia. But also her non deliquent Spacekru sisters, Emori and Echo!
• OTP
This goes without saying– Bellamy and Raven.
The leading couple we deserved all along, that would make this show fucking iconic under a different showrunner and network! Just thinking about all the wasted potential Braven’s had makes me want to hit someone; preferably JRoth.
(Honorable mention to Sea Mechanic though, because I'm still not over the fact that it never became canon when Clexa was celebrated as some great sapphic rep or something.)
• nOTP
Raven x Clarke, Raven x Abby, Raven x Octavia, Raven x Roan. Keep toxic women and random old dudes away from my daughter please.
• random headcanon
Raven and Bellamy getting together during their time in the Ark, after tiptoeing around their feelings for a while. Spending five years full of emotional heart-to-hearts and loving caresses and inside jokes and fucking great sex. Discovering Sanctum along with with their beautiful daughter, a spitting image of her father, all wild curls and freckles, and her mother's brilliant mind and sass.
Just... Raven Reyes being emotionally stable and happy by her soulmate’s side.
• unpopular opinion
I don't know if it's exactly an unpopular opinion, but it bothers me how much this fandom glosses over Raven's relationship with Finn and his importance in her life. Yeah, the guy treated her like shit and I hated him for that (and far from rooted for her to forgive him or something), but none of that erases his importance in Raven's life.
For years he was the only family she ever knew and he even sacrificed his life for her (because had the 100 not been sent to the ground he would probably have been floated).
I hate the fact that the show didn't even include a scene where Raven confronts Clarke for getting together with the woman responsible for his murder (as well as her own torture). Instead it wasn't even adressed and Raven just bowed her head and followed Clarke's orders in the next apocalyptic crisis.
• song I associate with her
Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.
(The “You have suffered enough and warred with yourself / It's time that you won” lines kill me every time.)
• favourite picture of her
It's impossible to pick a favourite, but here's a picture of my space daughter's smile shining brighter than the sun.
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