#but i do not trust anyone who believes bellarke is only platonic

[thoughts-of-the-unheard]

my endgame parings for the 100

sorry, au where i write the 100 show and bellamy ends up with clarke because i watched the show, monty ends up with harper and doesnt die because she isn't low hanging fruit and they love each other, raven ends up with shaw because if nothing else, this girl deserves at least a modicum of happiness and nothing actually happened to wick theyre best friends and things just didnt work out, jasper ends up with shae because i dont hate him and he's been through enough, murphy ends up with emori because duh, miller ends up with jackson because theyre great together and bryan was bad, lexa does not die but falls in line behind clarke ends up befriending luna because of how clarke has changed her and if they end up together thats great but they dont have to, i wished roan lived but i understand why he didn't but lets say he also falls in line behind clarke because i feel like he could but i have no love interests for him so he could be with anyone, actually if niylah is bi i could see them getting along, if shes strictly lesbian, i could also see her with luna, hell poly group of lexa, luna, roan, and niylah where all the girls are dating luna and lexa and roan are also dating niylah but separately, octavia ends up with levitt or no one i will die on this hill because lincoln was meant for her and she is forever changed by him so if she wants levitt then levitt it is because he is the only thing about season seven i will allow, i really like her and ilian together but i guess his death was unavoidable, i still like octavia and diyoza coparenting hope because even though i wish she had a better name they are still great coparents, also abby and kane are a duh and jaha dies because i hate him, speaking of people who i hate, echo, i have no reason to change the script other than hating her but like, i do so if she dies thats great but i guess she could end up with one of diyozas men or some miscellanous grounder idc, indra and gaia having each other for the rest of their lives is fine ig bc i have no love interests for them and i feel like gaia is ace but i have no love interests for indra and i think if she loved gaias father she could love again after all the fighting is done and that she deserves someone to be with if thats what she wants

[arionawrites]

okay so this is going to get long probably but

i’m fairly content with season seven of the 100. however, before anyone jumps down my throat (i’ve never been active in the 100 fandom for a reason lol) let me clarify: i am the kind of person that can still enjoy something while acknowledging the fact that it’s not good. i believe it’s a product of having a shitty life and not wanting to be burdened by the disappointment of being genuinely angry or upset because of a show or a movie. so, outside of the genuinely fucked up shit (like racism or homophobia or any form of bigotry or any other obviosly not okay shit like that), i tend to acknowledge what wasn’t good but choose to enjoy the media anyway.

i did the same thing with avengers: endgame, and they killed off my favorite character of all time that has been a comfort to me for about 12 years i think. fair to say i’m a pro at this by now.

but, back to the point—i am content with the last season. i see it’s flaws and i can understand why people are so angry about it, but i’m fine.

i have some questions, though.

where does it make sense?

like. they saw these books, right? they made a show based off of these books. then they go on to act as if the books aren’t canon even though the books are quite literally the source material?

bellarke is canon. like. u dont have to like bellarke, that’s totally fine, but it’s canon. in the books, bellamy and clarke get married. jroth acting like bellarke is such a crazy concept that could never happen is actually insane.

that being said, they chose not to have that relationship be more than platonic in the show, which is fine. different forms of canon can have different things happen and that’s not an issue in my eyes at all. my confusion comes in the fact that clarke is the main character, the MAIN character, and they chose to pair her with lexa, which i LOVE—i adore clexa so god damn much, i can’t put it into words—and then killed lexa off, though her death was actually integral to the plot and held meaning and wasn’t just a bury youe gays scenario so, saddening, yes, but i understood why it happened.

that’s my thing. even the bad choices, i can usually still see the reasoning behind it.

but why blatantly ignore the canon from the book that is bellarke in order to establish a super compelling and incredible relationship like clexa, only to then kill lexa off, later kill of bellamy in a super anticlimactic and very sudden way—that, while i can see the reasoning behind clarke wanting to stop bellamy and feeling the need to do whatever it takes, i can NOT see the reasoning in actually killing him off so abruptly and with almost no follow up on it despite him being the second main character since episode one—before bringing lexa back but have it not really be lexa, and then end the show without either ships happening and with clarke, the MAIN CHARACTER, having no one?

don’t get me wrong, i genuinely love the message that family is all you need and that they are family and they do love clarke, but clarke is still going to be lonely. she doesn’t have the love of her life/best friend (lexa and/or bellamy). she doesn’t have her daughter. she doesn’t have her mom. she isn’t alone, but this ending feels... anticlimactic, almost? or like it’s missing something that it should have had.

i guess my main thing is that they chose not to have bellarke, which is canon and in the source material, in order to have clexa, who i love and would be more than happy to have, except clarke ends up having neither in the end?

a person doesn’t need a romantic relationship to be whole. clarke doesn’t need a partner to be considered complete. and if that was the message they wanted to go for by having her so alone on that front, then that’d be fine—if they made the message more clear. but they didn’t. i’m pretty sure the only reason i’m reaching for that message is because i WANT it to be there, i WANT there to be a reason for it, because, really, when it comes to endings, especially for things that are well known and well loved by so many, i feel like everything should have a meaning, even if that meaning is just “there is no meaning at all” and it shouldn’t feel so impossible to dig for that meaning like it is for me right now. without that meaning being so clear, it feels disappointing on all fronts—clexa had a moment of shimmering hope with lexa being brought back for the finale, only for that hope to lead nowhere. bellarke is canon in the books and had six seasons of incredible development and trust building and all of it was torn down so quickly. and there’s no blatantly clear message about not needing a relationship and being your own person or anything like that. it makes everything feel kind of useless. like there was so much love and hype and joy put into both of these ships and they both lost.

so, where does it make sense? where does this choice make sense? is it in the hard to grasp meaning that might not even be there? is it in the focus on the “friends are family” feels that felt slightly forced in the end? where?

i guess it doesn’t matter because i’m gonna be writing a fix it fic anyway. and some clurphy shit because i think i just ship clarke with anyone who would actually treat her properly.

[sometimesrosy]

I think people need to ask themselves: Would the 610 'Bellamy brings Clarke back from the dead' scene play out the same if it was Octavia instead of Clarke? OR would it play out the same if it were Emori/Murphy or Gabriel/Josephine? (And that's not even to mention that it ACTUALLY DID parallel the C/L scene as well as the time Octavia/Clarke/Abby brought Lincoln back from Reaper-dom.)

I think that’s a good way to get a non-biased perspective on a scene or storyline.

If you take that story, removed bellarke and put some OTHER relationship in there doing the same thing, what would you feel? 

If you put Octavia in there, it would be fucking creepy. The intensity. The devotion. The Blake’s have an intense relationship but it doesn’t go THERE. To keep it from being creepy the whole thing would have to shift. 

Let’s put it this way. If that was ECHO being saved, I would back off and say the bellarke love story was NOT being told anymore. MAYBE if Echo had been bodysnatched I could take his reaction as guilt, not *true love*, but when we got to that shield and Bellamy chose Echo, instead of Clarke, who stayed behind to keep their people safe (a dynamic that HAS been part of the bellarke dynamic, and reminiscent of Clarke leaving Bellamy at Camp Jaha) it would then feel as if he were CHOSING Echo over Clarke. Trust in Clarke, yes. Partnership with Clarke, yes. FAMILY with Clarke, yes. But a desperate passion for Echo. Add onto it Josephine’s pointed jabs at how he cared about Echo more than the rest of his people and her deep dives into their complex relationship. 

See. All that stuff COULD fit the B/E relationship. Yes. I would have to admit that Bellarke wasn’t happening because the on screen story was now B/E. A pledge not to let her die? A promise not to leave him? This is not platonic partners, this is not a relationship that was convenient, this is not king/spy. This is equal devotion. THEN you get to the bringing her back from the dead scene?

It’s all over. I’d give up on Bellarke. If Bellamy was there, with Echo, and b/e was being compared to josephine/gabriel... i have to let you go/i can’t let you go. If Bellamy was THAT desperate to bring Echo back, refusing to believe, believing he knows Echo better than death, he can get through to her where science can’t, because he NEEDS her, because they are the head and the heart (or no for them it would be the cages, right? so they’d have to change that metaphor to letting her out of the cage, but that’s not as appropriate as head/heart considering Clarke’s head stopped telling her heart to beat and Bellamy WAS her heart [jesus h jehosophat how can anyone think bellarke is dead]) and then having him beat desperately on her chest and give her mouth to mouth. Shouting she’s a fighter (which could work with Echo) and having her wake up *this* close to his lips and then fall into his arms, with Octavia smiling benevolently on.

Game over. No other ship can compare.

THIS is the storyline that ALL the OTPs want. Go ahead put them all in there. Linctavia. Good. Memori. Good. Clxa. Good. Kabby. Good. Marper. Good. Mackson. Good. Bellina. Good. Freaking Flarke. That could have been their story. Anyone you want to ship wants to be in that storyline.

Because it is fairy tale sci fi romance. 

Shoot. Is it Rapunzel saving Eugene? 

Any shipper of another ship who minimizes that scene and storyline is just sour grapes and bitter and jealous.

Any bellarker who thinks it means nothing has been gaslighted and no longer can see canon, because they don’t trust their own eyes and ears, but only the manipulators telling them for years they were delusional.

I told you all I wasn’t delusional back then. I wasn’t. It’s called literary analysis and it is NOT some esoteric secret delusional magic cult belief. Everyone studies it. We ALL take classes in language arts. I taught language arts. 

Their claims of delusion never worked on me because I trust my education and experience more than a handful of obsessive, anonymous fangirls. 

No one has to have the same interpretation as I do, but i’ve been showing you how to interpret fiction... or really any text. We can analyze the media, or politics, or culture or fandom with the same skills. Evidence based critical thinking is a real thing, not a delusion.

But like I said, if you’re worried your biases are taking over, which is always something we should check for, put different characters in that scene and think about the impact of it. I said before, go ahead, put Bellamy and Murphy in that scene. 

Darling I’d be telling Clarke to turn to Raven for comfort and to sooth her heartbreak and don’t you think I wouldn’t. Because if that were Murphy Bellamy risked everything for, he would be in love with him. 

[stealing-jasons-job]

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I was tagged by the magical @burninghoneyatdusk​, thanks love! 🥰

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3 SHIPS: 

1. Bellarke (The 100) — Like this was even a question. Enemies to lovers, partners badasses who are only soft for each other? Yes, please. lol I’ve still got my clown makeup on and my “in the prequel we trust” mantra on repeat for a happy ending from JRoth. (And we ride at dawn if he doesn’t make it happen.)

(As a side note: Platonic my ass @ that face ^^^) 

2. Ressler and Keen (The Blacklist) — I recently binged all six seasons that are on Netflix, and I’m obsessed with Ressler and Keen. They had a little bit of the enemies to friends to ??? like Bellarke, and they are now partners and super close. I’m hoping they end up together by the end. 

3. Upstead — @shaeheda​ got me addicted to Chicago PD, and I am now complete trash for Jay Halstead and Hailey Upton. 💕

LAST SONG: 

I made a Pandemic Jams playlist that I’ve had on a constant loop the past month or so, but I’ve definitely had If I’m Being Honest by Anna Clendening on repeat this morning. I’m a slut for angst in all forms, so most of my music is in line with that theme. lol 

LAST MOVIE: 

365 Days — I went on a (socially distant) beach trip with a few friends a couple of weekends ago, and I was outvoted on which movie we wanted to watch. It was... just a horrible movie. lol There are like two scenes that were hot, but even those were very overshadowed by the horrible plot and the fact that the creators of the movie obviously do not know what consent means. 0/10 do not recommend. 

CURRENTLY READING: 

I have like 10 books on my shelf I need to read, but I’m currently bouncing between four different reads. I get into different genre moods, so I typically always have a few different books I cycle through at once. 

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams — I’m reading this for my book club at work. It’s so good so far, so highly recommend. It’s about a British-Jamaican woman coming to terms with her identity and learning how to be unapologetically herself in a world that tries to force her into a certain category. 

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer Eberhardt — Slowly making my way through this book about racial prejudice and how to combat the inherent biases we are raised believing. 

You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle — This is my “fun and flirty” read for when I need a mental break from everything. This engaged couple has been going through the motions for over a year, but the one who breaks the engagement has to pay for the down payments. So they start trying to make each other miserable to get the other to do it. Of course, them being more themselves and pranking the other will lead to them falling in love. lol 

Circe by Madeline Miller — Because everyone needs a little fantasy in their life, right? I love mythology and mythology retellings, so this is perfect. I’m still very early into it, but it’s magical (no pun intended) so far. 

CURRENTLY CONSUMING: 

Cold Brew + Caramel Almond Milk Creamer 🥤 — This is my go-to caffeine drink at home, and I typically sip on it throughout my morning meetings. 

FOOD I’M CRAVING: 

Filipino Beef and Rice — I’ve been craving Filipino food in general lately, but all of my favorite dishes are family-style. Since I haven’t been cooking for groups lately, I’ve been hesitant to make anything. I legitimately almost asked my sister to ship me some frozen egg rolls the last time the family back home got together. 

Tag 9 people anyone you want to know better or want to catch up with: 

@historyofbellarke | @nakey-cats-take-bathsss | @fightformidnightx | @ff-kitsune | @fen-ha-fuck-you | @captain-effy | @bellamyfknblake | @ruggedmurphy | @slyth-princess | @wankadi | @reylarke-club | @wellsjahasghost | @biconicclarkeyg | @junebugninja | @shaeheda | @wolfheartgirl

+ Anyone else who wants to participate! 

[viviansternwood]

I LOVED the bellarke timeline, do you think you could do the same with murven ? xx

Omg, I love this question and it also kind of terrifies me. 

If you don’t know what timeline nonny is talking about, it’s this post. I can’t promise I’d be as good as Rosy because come on, but I’ll give this my best try.

I actually had to do some research for this because I don’t remember things that well, and rewatch all Murven scenes (thanks, youtube). But here it goes.

Season 1:

There were no interactions between Raven and Murphy in season 1 as far as I’m aware (correct me if I’m wrong), up until the moment he shoots her, thinking he’s shooting Octavia.

(More under the cut.)

Season 2:

When Murphy finds Raven dying in the dropship, she quite obviously hates his guts. It’s a good thing there was no ammo in her rifle because she would’ve shot him at that point. As he comes in, she stiffens because she thinks he’s going to do something to her, but visibly relaxes when he just sits down. He says, “Yeah, I would’ve shot me too,” which to me means he understands she hates him, isn’t surprised by it - in fact, I think he expected it because, after what he did, who wouldn’t hate him? - and he isn’t very bothered, since to him, it’s just another person on the long list of those who despise him;

I think it impresses Murphy when Raven says, “Speak for yourself” because she refuses to give up, and that’s something he can understand - that’s what he always does, keep fighting, at all cost. He smiles like maybe it makes him respect her in some way;

When he tells her he’s there because he doesn’t want to die alone, I think Raven softens up a little. She hates him as passionately as before, but loneliness and the feeling of being abandoned is something she can understand. She was quite literally abandoned by her people and especially by Finn (physically and emotionally, when he fell for Clarke) - she doesn’t know that they were taken, but to her then it must’ve felt like she was abandoned. In some way, they understand each other;

Murphy apologises for shooting her, but it doesn’t seem to be in earnest, just like something he knows he’s supposed to say, like it’s something he just wants to move past. He doesn’t empathise with her pain yet because he doesn’t know her, to him she was collateral damage in the whole argument with Bellamy. He probably wishes he didn’t shoot her but he doesn’t particularly beat himself up about it, at least not yet, because he doesn’t know her. We humans tend to empathise more with people whose story we know, whose personal struggles we’re aware of. To Murphy, Raven is just a stranger at that point, someone who just happened to get caught in the crossfire, quite literally;

Raven is the only person we’ve seen Murphy tell what happened to his parents (at least on screen), and that moment was crucial to their relationship, in my opinion. She doesn’t ask because she’s particularly interested in him as a person, but because she feels completely powerless and hates him with her whole soul and wants to hurt him in some way at least. That’s confirmed when she responds with, “Boo hoo,” to his confession, but her eyes soften. She must realise that there’s more to him than meets the eye, that just like her he hasn’t had an easy life at all, and - again, because she knows some of his story - she starts to empathise. She doesn’t forgive him, not anywhere near it, but she understands why he’s angry at the whole world. Because she is too. They all have their cross to bear, and by recognising that he has one as well, some of that anger she feels towards him slips away;

Murphy answers her question honestly not because she’s someone whose opinion he cares about, but because she’s in a pretty vulnerable position herself and so she can’t really do anything to him, but also because it’s probably the first time anyone actually asked him. He knows she doesn’t actually care about him or what happened to him, but maybe he wants to get it off his chest. Considering the sort of life he’s had, he probably never had the chance before;

Murphy is genuinely surprised when Raven doesn’t tell Kane and Abby who shot her, he definitely expected her to do it. But for some reason, Raven doesn’t, maybe because she understands his issues a little better or because she knows the law enforcement the Ark had - i.e. punishing first, and asking questions never - or maybe she acknowledges that the bullet wasn’t meant for her and Murphy never really had anything against her;

When Finn is wanted by the Grounders, she’s willing to sacrifice Murphy to save him, which, if you ask me, is a very Raven thing to do. She tortured Lincoln, literally shocked him, in season 1 because she was desperate at the prospect of losing Finn. He’s all she has, she’d give anyone up to save him. Which is why I don’t think Murphy holds it against her. I mean, he calls her a “sick bitch”, but he never brings that incident again, I don’t think. Because he understands the sort of love she has for Finn.

Season 3:

No interactions at all. Don’t know how we all survived.

Season 4:

By season 4, Raven clearly still resents Murphy, but to me it seemed like it was more because of him being useless to the group, and showing up only at moments when he couldn’t possibly survive on his own anymore. To me it didn’t seem particularly personal, just the sort of resentment she’d have for anyone in the same situation;

In Becca’s lab, Murphy thought that Raven still hadn’t forgiven him, he didn’t even expect her to (as he told Luna), and when she started beating him and insulting him, he wasn’t even surprised, he was just patiently listening to what she had to say, as if he always thought she would say those things to him and was just waiting for it to happen. He was hurt by those words, but didn’t dispute anything because in his eyes they were true. He didn’t resent her for saying any of that, he was more concerned with Raven’s well-being when she had that panic attack;

After the incident it was clear Raven felt guilty and thought he didn’t deserve that, but she didn’t want to apologise because they weren’t close enough for her to have the right to be concerned with his feelings. She just swallowed her guilt and got on with the things she needed to do;

Just like Luna, I don’t think it was Raven talking when she was beating and insulting Murphy. I think it was her vulnerability and the feeling of being powerless and inability to control her own mind and her health and just pretty much anything. And to me it seems like there’s nothing Raven hates more than feelings powerless. And had Murphy not shot her, maybe she would’ve never taken ALIE’s chip, and wouldn’t have had the issues she had with her brain. So anger and pain and sickness overpowered her rationality and she found the first available person to take it out on. And Murphy let her because in his mind, he deserved it;

Raven’s surprised when Murphy’s suggestions about a controlled crash landing and switching to manual proved useful. In a moment when she felt completely powerless and useless, Murphy believing in her without a shadow of doubt, 100%, was like a breath of fresh air (“So screw the computer. Fly it yourself,” i.e. I trust you and believe in you, and no computer can do the things you can do. Basically admitting she’s invaluable). She thanks him and from the way she looks at him differently, maybe she realises he’s not just a cockroach. Maybe he can be useful too;

When Raven calls his name and before she says “Thanks”, it seems like he was expecting her to say something mean to him again, and he seemed surprised that she thanked him. It seemed like maybe he didn’t actually think he deserved her thanks;

And then there’s the “goodbye” scene. The time when Murphy sincerely apologises for shooting Raven back in season 1. Not because she’s going to die or because he needs something from her or there’s no one else to talk to, it’s because he wants her to know that he’s sorry. That he’s been haunted by what he did to her and he can’t forgive himself. Raven is surprised by him bringing it up because her saying “Do you know what it feels like to be in pain every day?” wasn’t a blow at him, it was a justification to her decision to stay behind and die. In her eyes, he’s been forgiven a long time ago, it surprises her that he’s still hung up on it. She doesn’t resent him for it anymore, and she wants him to survive and be well;

She even cries in front of Murphy, she doesn’t put up the whole facade like she did in season 2 when they had another difficult conversation, she’s not afraid of being vulnerable in front of him. She knows he’d understand. She trusts him to;

Murphy agrees to leave her behind because he wants to do one thing for her that she believes would be the best. If it was Bellamy and Clarke and Clarke decided to stay behind to die, he’d probably throw her over his shoulder and carry her if he needed to, he wouldn’t let her die. But this is Murphy, who believes in free will more than anything just because the option of deciding for himself had been taken from him so often. So he leaves her behind, probably feeling terrible about it and hating himself for shooting her even more because, had he not, she might not have taken the chip and would have wanted to live and keep fighting;

I definitely think it’s a relief for him that she decided to choose life. He’s happy she did.

Season 5:

Over six years they spent in space together they’ve become a family. I don’t think either one is in love with the other, Murphy is mostly concerned with Emori and his relationship with her up until the point of staying behind with Raven. It surprised Raven that he stayed behind, but she sees irony in them possibly dying together, and she definitely appreciates his sacrifice. It makes her love him even more - platonically for now, but love nevertheless;

They’re definitely attracted to each other, and feel very uncomfortable about it;

Murphy admitting that he stayed behind because he wanted to share some of her burden made Raven look at him differently. She loved and appreciated him before and enjoyed spending time with him despite his snarky remarks and pretty much being useless because he’s not an engineer, but when she realises that he wants to make a contribution not because he cares about being useful to the group or because he feels bad for doing nothing over six years to help them come down to the ground, but because it’s for her, to make her life and conscience easier, to share her burden, it changes the way she thinks of him. She now values him as a partner, not just someone she has to look after, but someone who can have her back. Someone she can rely on;

Murphy saves her life by thinking quickly and doing something she wouldn’t have thought to do. Once again, she realises how useful he can really be. She respects him even more.

That’s it for now, I think. I hope at least some of this makes sense and/or is relevant. Here’s to more Murven scenes for us to interpret, to stress over and overreact to.

[dylanobrienisbatman]

When do you think Blarke started falling in love?

Um this is the best anon i’ve ever gotten, i hope you’re prepared for me to go FULL meta. Here, have a novel. Thanks for this because i always wanna talk about this. 

For Bellamy i think it was pretty simple, tbh. I think Bellamy fell in love with Clarke pretty early in season 1, but didn’t realise it until season 2. I think he had the feelings and didn’t know what they were, but then when she hugged him in season 2, and then she left at the end of season 2, he knew, which i think was super clear by his response to seeing her again and finding her in 3x02. His crazed reaction to loosing her, his clear anger and betrayal at her choosing not to come home with him later in the season, his anger at her and his vocalisation of that later really shows it, to me, that he loves her at this point, and is not sure how to handle it. I feel like after that it only continues to grow, showing in his anger and resentment towards her for leaving him, and choosing the grounders over him, etc. The moment on the beach, in s3, when they have that conversation, when he tells her he was so angry at her, its like this weight off his shoulders, of being like “i’ve been so angry with you, but you’re here, and were together, and were doing this together, and I’m healing from this now”. 

With Clarke its harder for me to tell. I think she started moving towards loving him in season 1, but she didn’t quite get there then. She definitely cared for him deeply, and had strong emotional responses to the idea of loosing him, but maybe not love. In season 2, she realised just how much he mattered to her when she found him again (the hug in 2x05 was a big turning point for both of them i think. For Clarke it was her immediate, unfiltered emotional response to seeing him safe and alive again, and for him it was realising that she cared for him as much as he cared for her, which allowed him to let his feelings really take root. Bellamy has a problem with not feeling worthy of love, as we’ve seen.). I think her meeting Lexa kind of threw her for a loop, and sort of made her feelings for Bellamy more complicated, but I think she fully loved him in 2x09, when she took Lexa’s advice and decided that showing love, and being in love, was weakness, and told Bellamy that her being unwilling to risk his life was her being weak. I feel like a lot of people like to say that she could have meant platonic love, which is probably true, until you look at the context of that situation. The conversation she had with Lexa was clearly about romantic love. Lexa was telling her about Costia, and how “she was hers” and because of that she had been killed, how loving Costia had made her vulnerable, and Clarke took that, and translated it to her own life, and decided that her unwillingness to sacrifice BELLAMY was weakness. She had also been unwilling to let him go to Mt. Weather because she ‘couldn’t loose him too’,  directly relating him to Finn, and loosing someone she loved romantically (im a slut for blarke parallels to canon romances lol i could write a book on that alone). And then, after she sends him away, she immediately regrets it, and worries about him, literally bothering Raven every second when Bellamy is late, scolding him when he calls in late, because she realises that sending him away as a way to show strength was wrong, and that her feelings for him are real. She is distraught at the idea of loosing him. In season 3, she is so caught up with her new feelings for Lexa, and then her feelings of grief over Lexa, that she sort of pushes her feelings for Bellamy down, but even in season 3 we see that she trusts him, cares for him, and everyone around her sees it. 

I think season 4 was the first time we saw them both at the same place in their feelings, but with this awkward and uncomfortable sense of not being sure how to deal with them. Bellamy still felt a bit betrayed, a bit angry, at the beginning, and Clarke was clearly still grieving, but they were together again, trusting each other, and letting themselves sort of start to feel it all for real, and thats what we got throughout season 4. Clarkes INSISTENCE that Bellamy be inside the Ark when the wave came. Clarke putting Bellamy’s name on the list, even when he didn’t want her too, because she couldn’t imagine a world where Bellamy didn’t get to survive. Bellamy forcibly writing her name on the list because if he was going to live, she sure as shit was too. Clarke giving up 50 spots in the Ark for Bellamy because she couldn’t imagine not having him. Clarke making sure Bellamy was in the bunker when they stole it back, leaving Kane and Octavia and ALL the grounders outside, but sending someone to get HIM. Clarke refusing to shoot him, even when he threatened the survival of ALL of humanity, and letting him open the door to let his sister in, because even when she had killed before, so many times, she couldn’t kill him, she couldn’t pull the trigger and shoot him even when it was probably the RIGHT choice with the information they had. And dont even get me started on the “you’re so special” “you have such a big heart” etc conversations, i was DYING. Season 4 showed us that they were in love, even if they didn’t tell us. They didn’t behave this way about anyone else, they don’t do these things for anyone else. Bellamy refused to believe anything would happen to her, and she refused to believe anything would happen to him, even when the world was ending and there were no guarantees. He left her behind, and he blames himself, and lived FOR HER, every single day, because she died for them and he couldn’t let that be in vain. 

We see it now in season 5, fully fledged. Clarke called BELLAMY every single day for 2,199 days. She didn’t speak to everyone on the ring, she spoke to him, which we see because she tells him to tell other people things. She asks about something Monty is doing, instead of saying “hey monty, do you have the algae farm up?”, she tells him to tell raven to aim for the only spot of green, instead of saying “hey raven, aim for the only spot of green.” She used HIM as her way of surviving. When Madi finds the group, she recognises BELLAMY instantly, even after 6 years, with different hair and a beard in the dark, because Clarke drew him and talked about him and raised this kid on stories of him. She knew so much about him that she trusted him without question to save Clarke, who is basically her parent, or at least her only “family”. And then he stands there, in front of a crowd of armed, violent criminals, armed with nothing but pure drama and a coffee mug, and bargains for her life with the lives of 283 other people, and looking her in the eye to make sure she knows she is important to him. She matters, after all this time, after (he probably thinks) she probably feels like he forgot about her, he didn’t, he never could, and he would do anything to save her. Bellamy is Clarke’s anchor, and Clarke is Bellamy’s reason for living. If thats not love, then fuck me i dont even know what love is. 

Bellarke have been falling in love since season 1, and theyre finally there, and im fucking thrilled about it. 

WOw im so sorry. this is so much. good lord. 

[platonic-bellarke]

Do all of the number asks

Wow ok 1: Full nameSarah Abigail Large 2: Age163: 3 FearsDrowning, being considered an annoying friend, being ignored 4: 3 things I loveMusic Frank iero Art5: 4 turns onTattoos Dark hair (on guys on girls anything)Blue eyes Being able to listen to me rant and talk about things I love 6: 4 turns offRepublicans Homophobic people Ignoring me Hypocrisy 7: My best friendShe goes to my school 8: Sexual orientationBisexual9: My best first dateI have never dated anyone lmao10: How tall am I5’4 and a half11: What do I missMy Chemical Romance and my best friend in elementary school and middle school 12: What time was I bornI think around 12:35 in the afternoon 13: Favourite colorAnything blue tbh (pretty much cool colors)14: Do I have a crushYes, I actually have 2 lmao here’s this girl and my school and this guy at this other school 15: Favourite quote“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a better person” or “All your quirks, all your problems-even your depressions and your failures-it what makes you, you” both by Gerard Way (or just “keep running” from danger days) 16: Favourite placeMy bed with my dog and cat listening to music 17: Favourite foodI love banana and grapes 18: Do I use sarcasmOccasionally 19: What am I listening to right nowThe white album by Weezer (specially the song L.A. girlz)20: First thing I notice in new personEither hair and facial features or, if I talk to them, their personality 21: Shoe sizeLike 8-9 (in US women’s)22: Eye colorLike blue, green, grayish 23: Hair colorbrown with some natural blonde highlights 24: Favourite style of clothingI love flannels and black jeans and beanies and hoodies (idk just like that aesthetic)25: Ever done a prank call?Yep27: Meaning behind my URLThe joke of bellarke being platonic and “platonic bellarke” being an oxymoron 28: Favourite moviePretty much any marvel movie (mcu) especially winter soldier or Ragnarok 29: Favourite songFamous last words, mama, the ghost of you, bulletproof heart, literally any thing by My Chemical Romance A Rush of Blood to the Head and Clocks by Coldplay Knights of Cydonia by Muse Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day Say it ain’t so and My Name is Jonas by Weezer Ode to sleep by Twenty One Pilots (I couldn’t narrow it down to one sorry)30: Favourite bandMy Chemical Romance (coldplay and Muse and close seconds)31: How I feel right nowAnxious (over nothing) tired, a little sad32: Someone I loveFrank iero, my best friend, my family 33: My current relationship statusSingle (hmu)34: My relationship with my parentsReally good 35: Favourite holidayHALLOWEEN 36: Tattoos and piercing i haveNone :(37: Tattoos and piercing i wantI want my ears and nose pierced. I want a My Chemical Romance, Coldplay, and muse tattoo (and many more)38: The reason I joined TumblrI made my first account in 2013 because my friends had tumblr and I want to blog about bands and tv shows. I made this one in 2016 because I want my tv shows and movie posts to be separated from my band blog. My band blog is less active now and has less followers lmao39: Do I and my last ex hate each other?Don’t have an ex. Never dated anyone 40: Do I ever get “good morning” or “good night ” texts?Nope :/41: Have I ever kissed the last person you texted?No42: When did I last hold hands?My sister will grab my hands randomly haha43: How long does it take me to get ready in the morning?For school like 10 minutes but like if I’m going out and actually care about my appearance like an hour to an hour and a half 44: Have You shaved your legs in the past three days?Nope45: Where am I right now?The bath46: If I were drunk & can’t stand, who’s taking care of me?I have never drank (and tbh don’t plan on it) but probably my friends (?)47: Do I like my music loud or at a reasonable level?In my headphones: loud. In a public area: reasonable bc I don’t want to bother anyone 48: Do I live with my Mom and Dad?Yep I’m only 1649: Am I excited for anything?YES I AM MEETING AND SEEING AWOLNATION, JUDAH AND THE LION, AND DAN AND PHIL 50: Do I have someone of the opposite sex I can tell everything to?nope. I have 0 guys friends bc I go to an all girls school 51: How often do I wear a fake smile?Lmao when ever I talk to someone who talks for too long or when I’m talking to teachers 52: When was the last time I hugged someone?Like 2 weeks ago not sure 53: What if the last person I kissed was kissing someone else right in front of me?I never kissed anyone lmao54: Is there anyone I trust even though I should not?Haha yep55: What is something I disliked about today?My body 56: If I could meet anyone on this earth, who would it be?Frank iero (or Gerard Way or Chris Martin) 57: What do I think about most?How much i hate my body and how much I miss my Chemical Romance 58: What’s my strangest talent?I don’t really have any talents (I can whistle really well) 59: Do I have any strange phobias?Ladybugs60: Do I prefer to be behind the camera or in front of it?Either (I want to become a film maker or an actor so)61: What was the last lie I told?Told my friend I was busy the other day when really I just wanted to be alone and watch Lucifer and runaways 62: Do I perfer talking on the phone or video chatting online?Depends on the person but usually phone 63: Do I believe in ghosts? How about aliens?No for ghost yes for aliens 64: Do I believe in magic?Nope65: Do I believe in luck?Nope66: What’s the weather like right now?Super cold but I like lt (like 33 degrees and sunny) (0 degrees if your a Celsius person)67: What was the last book I’ve read?I am reading the umbrella academy comic by Gerard Way currently but for a book... I don’t really like to read books (for school I just read summary’s lmao) so the last full book I read was probably the hobbit in middle school (I love that book)68: Do I like the smell of gasoline?Yes 69: Do I have any nicknames?Abea, Dabby, anby70: What was the worst injury I’ve ever had?I got a cut on the top of the head when I was little and my dad had to stick it back 71: Do I spend money or save it?I try to save it but it usually doesn’t happen 72: Can I touch my nose with a tounge?No 73: Is there anything pink in 10 feets from me?Yes, a shampoo bottle 74: Favourite animal?CATS75: What was I doing last night at 12 AM?Watching Stephen Colbert 76: What do I think is Satan’s last name is?Either trump or Morningstar (I have been watching too much Lucifer Help)77: What’s a song that always makes me happy when I hear it?Vampire money, famous last words by My Chemical Romance Mr. Brightside by the Killers 78: How can you win my heart?Liking the same music or shows and movies as me/Being able to listen to me rant about things I either love or hate 79: What would I want to be written on my tombstone?Idk something meaningful not sure yet 80: What is my favorite word?Idk I like the word nonchalant81: My top 5 blogs on tumblrI refuse to narrow it down to 5 82: If the whole world were listening to me right now, what would I say?Listen to conventional weapons by My Chemical Romance 83: Do I have any relatives in jail?Nope84: I accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what’s even cooler is that they endow me with the super-power of my choice! What is that power?Either teleportation/Shrink and grow at will/or change my appearance and look like whoever I want 85: What would be a question I’d be afraid to tell the truth on?Why I am sad86: What is my current desktop picture?I have like 10 back grounds but my main ones are my meet and greet with 30STM, a pic of frank iero I took at his show, and a pic of Matt Bellamy I took at a muse show 87: Had sex?No but I would like to 88: Bought condoms?Nope89: Gotten pregnant?Nope and hopefully I never will90: Failed a class?Nope91: Kissed a boy?Nope, but I would like to 92: Kissed a girl?No, but I would like to93: Have I ever kissed somebody in the rain?Nope94: Had job?Nope95: Left the house without my wallet?Yep96: Bullied someone on the internet?No97: Had sex in public?Nope98: Played on a sports team?Yep, I swam and played soccer when I was younger 99: Smoked weed?Nope but I would like to100: Did drugs?No101: Smoked cigarettes?No and I don’t want to102: Drank alcohol?Yes, my parents will let me try their drinks. I have never liked them 103: Am I a vegetarian/vegan?I don’t eat any meat besides occasionally chicken 104: Been overweight?Yep105: Been underweight?Nope106: Been to a wedding?Yep107: Been on the computer for 5 hours straight?Yep108: Watched TV for 5 hours straight?Yep 109: Been outside my home country?Yep110: Gotten my heart broken?Kinda, one of my friends told me some pretty awful shit that made me hate myself and convince my self I have no friends so I hate her now and we used to be very close but whatever 111: Been to a professional sports game?Yep112: Broken a bone?I broke my finger once113: Cut myself?No but I have tried 114: Been to prom?No but I will this year !115: Been in airplane?Yep (was actually on one yesterday haha)116: Fly by helicopter?Nope117: What concerts have I been to?Boi so many. I have been to over 15Including Fall Out Boy Three Times Panic! At the Disco 3 times Twenty one pilots 3 timesWeezer 3 times (a 4th this summer)PVRIS 3 timesMuse30 Seconds to Mars Coldplay Frank iero and the Patience Bastille twice Judah and the lionBlink-182Green DayMaroon 5 118: Had a crush on someone of the same sex?Yep, I currently do119: Learned another language?Nope 120: Wore make up?Yes, I love makeup 121: Lost my virginity before I was 18?Nope, I’m only 16 though 122: Had oral sex?Nope123: Dyed my hair?Yep124: Voted in a presidential election?Nope125: Rode in an ambulance?Nope126: Had a surgery?I got my wisdom teeth removed does that count (?)127: Met someone famous?Yep, 30stm(Jared Leto), Tyler Joseph of twenty one pilots, panic! At the Disco, misha and Jared and Jensen from Supernatural, and Victoria justice 128: Stalked someone on a social network?Yep129: Peed outside?Yep130: Been fishing?Yes I hated it 131: Helped with charity?Yep 132: Been rejected by a crush?I have never asked anyone out 133: Broken a mirror?Nope 134: What do I want for birthday?Concert tickets, a s.o.135: How many kids do I want and what will be their names?I never want kids omfg 136: Was I named after anyone?I don’t think so 137: Do I like my handwriting?Hahah no 138: What was my favourite toy as a child?I loved Thomas the train shit139: Favourite Tv Show?Either the 100, sherlock, or Gotham 140: Where do I want to live when older?I would like to live in Europe for some time in my life but I’ll probably stay in Tennessee for most of my life but I would love to travel everywhere 141: Play any musical instrument?No but I am trying to learn bass 142: One of my scars, how did I get it?There’s a scar on my knee from when i was climbing rocks to get to a rope swing and I scraped my leg on a rock 143: Favourite pizza toping?Extra cheesy haha (also cold pizza is better)144: Am I afraid of the dark?No I love the dark145: Am I afraid of heights?No I LOVE heights omg 146: Have I ever got caught sneaking out or doing anything bad?No bc I don’t really like doing bad things 147: Have I ever tried my hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end?Yep haha148: What I’m really bad atTalking about my feelings 149: What my greatest achievments arePassing some hard classes, swimming a 50 freestyle in under 30 Seconds 150: The meanest thing somebody has ever said to meOh boy that “friend” to me that:-no one cares about me-I have no close friends -I’m selfish -I take what I want from others -I pride myself on being nice 151: What I’d do if I won in a lotteryUse most of it to have a safe future but some for concert tickets and band stuff 152: What do I like about myselfTbh nothing, maybe the fact that I am ok at makeup (?)153: My closest Tumblr friendDon’t really have any close Tumblr friends. MESSAGE ME IF YOU WANT TO 154: Something I fantasise abouta My Chemical Romance reunion, what it would be like to be in a relationship 155: Any question you’d like??

[ragnarssons]

Do you think they will put more obstacles for bellarke in s5? (besides the time jump). I'm here for a good developed relationship but when the obstacles are obviously forced to keep characters away from each other I start to feel annoyed, specially because most of the times are physical separations or another love interest. I guess the time jump will change things, and maybe now they can keep the platonic thing away but after s3 I felt like there were no reasons not to put them together.

Okay but as I said, I don’t see what they’ve been through so far as obstacles? I do think it was important for young, caring, naive, priviledged Clarke to have that big slap of reality in the face when they came down on Earth and she discovered that not all noble pretty boys are noble and pretty. Then she has Lxa, which is symbolic of strenght and power and the ultimate “control” (over her emotions “love is weakness” and over her people - whom she protected this way). It’s all part of the big journey they both have, separatly and together. Bellamy had to learn a lot of things too; he went from manipulative and skeemy, hiding his feelings/real intentions to a very heart-raw character. Bellamy was all lies on s1 before Clarke managed to reach him, you can see his brain working everytime someone says something “if your wristband doesn’t work, the Ark won’t come down” and boom, Bellamy created this kind of anarchy, using influensive minds and young people to do what he wants. Obviously it was never coming from a bad place; he’s learnt the hard way that he’s the only one caring for his sister, the only on “wanting” to protect her on the Ark, so that’s what he did, at the expanse of some people. Ie, for example, the whole culling on the Ark because he threw the radio in the water.

I said it already, Finn, Lxa, Gina, Niylah they were all part of the characters’ growth. Both Bellamy and Clarke made mistakes “through” the people they love (we can also include Octavia probably even tho it’s not a romantic love interest, it was still 99% of the reason why he was doing some things on s1/s2) Niylah isn’t an obstacle as in “she could have had that with Bellamy!” um no she couldn’t. To me, it was obvious that s4 wouldn’t be canon that easily; end of s3 was about them rebuilding their trust before anything (that ending precisely on ep16 with Bellamy FINALLY telling Clarke “I believe you” because they had come full-circle through their journey this season and Clarke got Bellamy’s trust back - and yes, even tho Bellamy was the one who “screwed up” on s3 - at the eyes of a lot of people, in terms of Bellarke, it was Clarke who was working to “win Bellamy over” again - as proved by ep305). Niylah was important to Clarke’s journey this season- it was frustrating on the moments, but now that we have the whole picture, it was important in terms of grief, self-acceptance, life, comfort, and it DIDN’T take anything away from her relationship with Bellamy. Again, as I said, it doesn’t matter, through s1, 2, 3, or 4 even tho they’re “platonic”, even tho they’re not canon yet, even tho the writing builds other stories (with Finn, Lxa, Niylah, Gina), the most epic/truthful/raw scenes these characters had where WITH EACH OTHER. It just proves that NO RELATIONSHIP they were ever in, was an obstacle to how they feel towards each other and how they “work” together, and reach each other.

That’s why Bellarke is already more epic than any canon relationship they were in, or any relationship on this show. After four seasons now, NO ONE can deny the fact that if Bellarke aren’t canon yet, it’s because the writers put THAT MUCH energy and time and details to build them up. Everything they “do wrong” with their other relationships, they fix it with each other. Every mistake they do, they fix it together or because of the “forgiveness” of the other. Now that I think about it, I was NEVER bothered by… for example, CL in regards of Bellarke, I said it over and over again my problem was what it did to Clarke and the “bad sides” it woke up in her. Still, her relationship with Bellamy hadn’t change ONE BIT, she still needed him, wanted him in her life, she still sought his forgiveness before anyone else’s. So that is what is making them THAT STRONG, and ironically it’s also what is making people able to say “they’re not romantic, they’re PLATONIC”. Because the “platonic” basis of their relationship is THAT stable. Yes, they could stay like that, they could just have that and it would be more important than any of the other relationships of this show. But it’s also clear that it’s not the writers’ intend; their story is still not over, meaning Bellarke isn’t over, they won’t stop there, they can have more than that. So that’s why… I don’t think Blecho will happen? Because I don’t think Bellamy’s journey NEEDS that, while we can easily say that if all the previous love stories served a purpose in characters’ growth, then Blecho if it happens for example would too. Maybe a real just heart progression, Bellamy KNOWING and ACCEPTING that it’s Clarke he wants and DARING to go there? Who knows; but like the others, it would still serve BELLAMY first, and his growth that, ultimately, always drives him back to Clarke, just like it always drove Clarke back to Bellamy (just look at anything regarding their previous stories; it started with Finn, “betraying” Clarke with Raven, leading to Clarke relying on Bellamy more than on Finn. The “desire” to find Finn and the others back, brings Clarke back to Bellamy first - ep205; when Finn dies, she can’t lose Bellamy too, that death bringing her back to Bellamy once again - “love is weakness”/“I was being weak” being yet ANOTHER indication of that. When Bellamy was with Gina, he left Arkadia (and her) to get Clarke, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES and that even lead Gina to die. When Clarke ended up in Polis, BELLAMY is the one who rushed into the room to try and get her back to him. As soon as she came back to Arkadia, her first instinct was to go back to Bellamy - ep305; and then when Lxa died, she ended up ONCE MORE facing Bellamy; it’s even more obvious on s4. Everytime she left her “love bed” with Niylah it was to HERSELF, go to Bellamy and now that she physically CAN’T go back to him, she’s reaching to him, she’s calling him every day and it’s him who keeps her centered because she’s ALWAYS coming back to him - FUCKING TRUE NORTH, epic, maaaan). So yeh, they’ll probably give them more obstacles; I don’t think they would need that to be Blecho or another relationship: they have themselves and who they’ve become to accept and overcome to come back together again. It’s already plenty of work I’d say. But who knows. Still, Blarke is the Shit™; and you know, just as much as I have this idea in my head that everyone who is NOT the true “heir” to the throne and is seeking it will die on Game of Thrones, it’s almost look like the same; every one of Bellamy/Clarke love stories that isn’t THE ONE they’d put first, is meant to die. Idk.

[blyedeeks]

Please help me stop imagining a reunion where Bellamy thinks he has moved on because he thought she was dead all those years. I need your positivity.

Alright, here I come!

I don’t think you’ll like my answer right away, but i need you to hear it (and everyone reading this) but please don’t quit until the end okay? pinky promise?

Yes, there’s a high possibility Bellamy will end up getting together with someone else on the ark during those 6 years, IMO. I don’t know who if Raven or Echo, the interviews make me think Echo but episode makes me think Raven is possible.

BUT, that’s not all “random” there’s a reason I think that and hopefully I can explain in a good way.

So let’s start by the beginning.

1- The writers wanted a time jump.

All this time i’ve been thinking why so many plots are happening and now everything is clear. They wanted to “reboot” the story. Clarke is a grounder, the delinquents are skyppl,the criminals are the delinquents and so it goes. Their entire goal was to get to this time jump. And this was unrelated to bellarke or any other ship, this is what they needed for the plot.

2- Having decided on a time jump......... Bellamy and Clarke could not be together on it.

And this is the best news any of us could ever wish for. This is why when i first heard script spoilers of their possible separation + time jump I was like...... yeah of course. Yes.... they have to do it.

If Bellamy and Clarke’s relationship wasn’t important/ vital (and/or on its finale stage) the writers wouldn’t mind making us miss 6 years worth of development out of them.

Cause that’s what the time jump is for whoever was stuck together for it. We are simply not going to see how all of these relationships will develop on our screens, we’ll get to season 5 and all the changes would have been done. 

Now picture if Bellamy and Clarke had been together 6 years on the ark.... all alone.. i mean, are we really thinking they wouldn’t go full romance there or-? Even worse, what if “they didn’t” and then season 5 began and we find out bellamy and clarke had been stuck together for flipping 6 years and they still didn’t go nonplatonic????

That’ s DEATH my friend. Both options are death. Shipping something for so long, watching it develop in front of your eyes just to miss the most romantic part of it would be beyond terrible.... finding out they did nothing about their feelings - and beginning to doubt they ever exist - is even worse.

So, given the fact that they needed and wanted a time jump, a bellarke separation was inevitable.

You can see that all the “super key” relationships on the show were apart on this time jump btw? Clarke - Abby, Bellamy - Octavia and Bellamy - Clarke.

This is not to say all other relationships aren’t imporant, HECK STOP, it’s just that for those relationships that get more focus, but MAINLY Bellarke - AS ADMITED BY JASON ROTHENBERG HIMSELF as the most important relationship of the show - here :x and x; - The story depends on Bellarke, one thing doesn’t go without the other. On some level, it’s always about them. So when the story pauses, so do they, cause the writers will show to us where they are going every freaking step of the way- didn’t they do it after season 1? after season 2?? even more now! They won’t let us miss 6 years of their relationships, no way. 

Unless their relationship has already developed to its full potential...........

which now you’re asking me what I mean cause Clarke is calling Bellamy for 6 years on a row now and Bellamy main drive to fight for their lives was not letting her die in vain-

yeah, yeah I’m talking about romance.

Cause there is NO WHERE ELSE this story can possibly go. I mean, how the heck will they make Bellamy and Clarke CLOSER still under the platonic realms? Cause lemme tell you, seems pretty impossible to me.

So, again, to me, the separation is a sign this shiz ain’t platonic, they know it, or they’d just let them be together on earth as the “new grounders” and then, since they ain’t romantic, we wouldn’t miss much in 6 years? They’d still be co-leaders, best friends, who die and kill for each other, trust each other with their lives and broken pieces, are each others’ rocks, weaknesses, sanity -all that jazz.

(feel me?) Bellarke is coming)

3- We are watching a drama

And this is where the bad news come. The thing about good story telling is that... writers want to make people watch. And that doesn’t always mean they’ll pull us in by our “good” feelings. Sometimes they want the angst, sometimes they want the anger. They just want us here, feeling like we NEED to see what happens

(well...don’t we right now? So good job the 100 writers)

That being said, i think there are.... 3 ways in which this story can go. 

1- Bellamy for real believes Clarke is dead, he mourns for a long time and then people convince him to live again. And then he does. 

But then he finds out she’s alive and it’s chaos for his new relationship. Cause, lemme say it again, no matter where they stand, Bellamy and Clarke are the mains and so is their relationship. Wherever they go, their interactions are the most important ones. That being said, imagine Bellamy trying to have a relationship with someone but then something happens with Clarke and he worries, or he gets into a real intense argument with Clarke and feels are exposed, or everything they do really brings them back to who they were and this new person is there to watch.

You don’t need to imagine THAT hard, just remember how Finn and Clarke’s relationship started being....a bit more tense after Clarke started getting closer to Bellamy (1x09 hello). Imagine that upped by a million cause that was then and this is now, where Clarke risks the human race for Bellamy and Bellamy risks losing life and limb to save her.

2- Bellamy thinks Clarke is dead but something inside him tells him she’s not so he holds on to that.

I actually see it happening too. Cause I think it’s a very natural reaction? Like he would only believe it if he was down on earth and saw it.

There’s not much to comment there, they’d see each other and the story would go from there. No need to worry about relationships (but i feel like for sure the writers would imply something almost happened with Bellamy and  ~anyone ~cause again, it’s a CW show....any show really, it’s 6 YEARS)

3- Bellamy, believing or not Clarke is dead, doesn’t actually gets into a relationship with anyone but he’s ALMOST AT IT- and then he finds out Clarke is alive.

That’s a way to avoid... idk love triangle tropes i don’t like (and the writers say they don’t either). He’d find Clarke back and well....sooner or later the other person involved would end up telling Bellamy he had always loved clarke or some less cheesy version of that.

And finally, most love stories that involve time gaps at least at some point (e.g: the notebook, veronica mars, dawson’s creek, once upon a time on several occasions haha) DO involve one of the sides - or both - “falling” (ahem being ahem) with someone else. Mostly because it creates angst, it feels more real (can’t argue there?) and ultimately it shows some connections are stronger than others and the two characters that were originally separated really were meant to be, and their” love overcomes” and all that shiz.

So if you’re worried Bellamy will move on, be worried it will mostly piss us off, but not about Bellarke (i don’t see a reason for that with the PLOT info we have at the moment - in my opinion), cause they are the “epic love story” (*fightmee*) being separated here, so the story is about them.

here is a text post that isn’t exactly about that but amazing to cheer anyone up about the time jump:http://bellamyblakesprotectionsquad2k17.tumblr.com/post/161043775714/because-i-know-some-of-yall-will-need-hope-right

HOPE I HELPED!!! REALLY

[kaylee-kom-wonkru]

Do I think Bellarke will ever happen?

Will Bellarke happen or not? I think that’s the question on every shippers mind. Some of the fandom love to bash Jason, other writers, Eliza and Bob. I personally don’t believe attacking anyone is the solution.

That being said, you CAN be disappointed with Jason and his choices. I think if I watched the episodes one at a time, week to week, I would be slightly disappointed to (just from the sheer anticipation for a Bellarke scene and then it not happen). Having watched the whole series 5x on Netflix and analyzing every single Bellarke scene, I (personally) want to thank Jason and the actors. Bellarke’s relationship is beautiful, as it has been portrayed on the show. It’s so intrinsic, they way they implicitly trust and depend on each other over everyone else. Bellamy, in many emotional ways, is closer to Clarke than he is his own sister, and Clarke seems to trust and depend on Bellamy even more than she does her mom. Clarke chose to radio Bellamy for 2,199 days. Not her friend Raven who she sacrificed her spot in the bunker to save, not Monty who she endured so many terrors (including Mt Weather with). She chose to radio Bellamy over everyone in the Bunker. Sure they were buried and the radio died. But it could have been Becca’s radio that died. Clarke could have chosen to radio Octavia everyday or even her MOM who is trapped underneath the rubble. But no, Clarke chose to talk to Bellamy EVERY DAY FOR SIX YEARS.

There’s also the use of “you” singling Bellamy out against the others. You could have come down, so why haven’t you. This is similar to how Bellamy says “I left her behind and we all die anyways.” This small statement is huge (not to mention it made me cry).

I’ve literally shipped hundreds of couples, watched a hundred shows, and THIS slow burn couple has quickly become my favorite. I feel like these two have only grown closer, in a natural way, as long as they continue to build and eventually enter a relationship before the end of the series, I’ll be a happy fan! But even if these two remain “platonic” friends, I’m grateful for the crazy, beautiful relationship that is Bellarke.

[scodelariokaya]

Do you think Clarke had already subconsciously fallen for Bellamy when she was with Finn and Lexa? It seems like both Finn and Lexa had questioned her about this in an indirect manner.

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer:

The attraction has been there since season 1. That’s for sure. I mean look at her face. They were openly flirting in this scene.

And Finn saw that too.

I think she started having feelings (in a romantic sense of the word) for Bellamy in season 2. She asked specifically if Finn and Bellamy made it. Twice. She put Bellamy on the same level as her love interest. (Did she ask for Monroe? Sterling? Octavia? No.)

She ran through the camp just to get to him and the hug… even Bellamy himself was shocked. Octavia noticed (”There’s something I thought I’d never see.” + her facial expression was also very telling). Damn just rewatch it. Pay a special attention to Clarke’s facial expressions. Compare Bellarke hug to Clarke/Octavia hug - there’s a massive difference.

Clarke still felt guilty for closing the door on Bellamy and Finn. That’s very evident in that scene by the fire in 2x05.  Bellamy offered the understanding to her. “It had to be done.” He made it very clear that he’s not holding it against her, that he understands why she did it. He reassured her she’d done the right thing. And that’s something Clarke needed at that moment.She was kinda on her own in the Mountain. She was suspicious and trying to get out while the others were trying to convince her they’re finally safe. Then she espaced with the knowledge she left them all behind in MW (which is not what happened but I’m pretty sure Clarke thought something like this). And then she reunited with Bellamy and suddenly she was not alone. She got her partner back. 

And then in 2x05-2x08, they were back in their co-leaders mode. They were so in sync…. Since this episode (meaning 2x05) Bellamy is the person she trusts the most. The person who understands the burden of being a leader and carries it with her. She started falling for Bellamy in these episodes. She still had feelings for Finn but she was not exactly “with Finn”. And tbh she wasn’t really with Finn since the moment Raven’d landed on the Earth.

The narrative backs me up in 2x09. Clarke just killed Finn and one of the first things she said to Bellamy in this episode is “I can’t lose you too.” Again, Bellamy is put at the same level as the person she’d said “I love you” to just a few hours ago.L ater in the episode L/xa (sorry guys but thi will show up in the tag anyway since the anon used the correct name) and Clarke had a conversation about leadership and L/xa confided to Clarke a story of her lost lov. Clarke needed to stop the pain. She wanted (and needed) to become a strong stoic leader and make sure she will never have to feel this way again so she built the walls around her heart and emotionally shut herself off. “Love is weakness.” And what is the first thing Clarke did? She sent Bellamy away with the words “I was being weak. It’s worth the risk.” This is Clarke trying to be like L/xa - strong leader devoid of emotions. And what is Clarke’s last line in this episode? “Love is weakness.” Hmmm interesting. So yeah I think she started realizing her feelings for Bellamy in 2x09 and that’s one of the reasons she sent him away. 

She realized her mistake pretty fast because basically all episodes of 2b are Clarke being constantly worried about Bellamy (2x11 is the perfect example but it’s literally in every single episode). Yet she never stopped believing in him. She never doubted him. She always believed he would succeed in his mission.

Even L/xa saw it and called Clarke out on her feelings for Bellamy. “You care about him.” “I care about all of them.” “Yet you worry about him more.” FUCK EVEN L/XA SAW IT.

“…besides, we lost contact with Bellamy.” she’s blinking the tears back again.

And their reunion in the tunnels in 2x16? Clarke is speechless, she’s just staring at Bellamy in wonder, blinking the tears back. She’s absolutely stunned, she can finally breathe again, the relief is written all over her face.

Moving on…. she didn’t tell anyone else but Bellamy that she’s leaving (maybe expect for Monty). She didn’t even tell her mother. Anyways, did she kiss Monty goodbye? No, she didn’t.

Now for the second part of your question. I’d like to start by saying that Clarke probably spent plenty of time thinking about the delinquents and Bellamy in particular during those 3 months between s2 and s3. Now I’m talking about platonic Bellarke. She thought of him as her partner, friend, co-leader. She thought of him as a person who pulled that lever with her.

And then she finally saw him again when he came to rescue her. He caressed her face and hair and she’s absolutely stunned. She just stared at him with wide eyes. She begged for his life, her voice breaking. She would do absolutely anything - even sacrificing her own life - for him (don’t forget that she didn’t know Roan is taking her to Polis, she thought he’s taking her to Nia who wants to kill her). This scene kills me every damn time because it’s the least platonic shit I’ve ever seen. And Roan noticed (and as the season went on, he kept on noticing).

Then everything changed because Roan brought her to Polis and Clarke was forced to play the role of Wanheda, She became a political figure. War was about to happen and Skaikru was in danger. She didn’t trust L/xa at all (for a good reason because obviously L/xa betrayed them before) so she had to stay to make sure L would keep her word AND SHE WASN’T READY TO COME BACK. NOT YET. That’s why she decided to stay in Polis in 3x03. If you watch the final Bellarke scene closely, you can see that the conversation with Bellamy wasn’t easy for her. When he walked away, she had to take a moment to blink back the tears and take a deep breath before she was ready to turn around and be wanheda again.

Ever since 3x04, she was falling for L/xa. But at the same time, she never stopped having feelings for Bellamy. It IS possible to love two people at the same time. However, I believe Clarke didn’t realize the true nature of her feelings for Bellamy.

One of my favourite scenes ever is definitely their argument in 3x05. I analyzed it in details so you can check that out. Clarke was stunned. She was absolutely crushed. But that scene also kinda woke her up. She was on her own for 3 months, she was isolated from her people in Polis (which is the main reason I’m always saying she was a terrible ambassador) and this argument finally showed her the reality and the consequences of what’s been going on in Arkadia in her absence. She realized she’s not the only one who’s been hurting. She saw how broken Bellamy was. And her being Clarke, she believed her they could fix it all. Together. But she said a few words that triggered Bellamy and he did what he did (again, I talked about it in detail a few months ago).

After the debacle in Arkadia, she focused on playing the role on wanheda again in order to keep her people safe. She was getting closer and closer with L/xa and eventually she fell for her…. and we all know how that played out. After Jake, Wells and Finn, she lost another person she loved. At that time, that was all she could think abou. Everything happened so fast and then there was the flame, Titus, Murphy… she didn’t have time to think about anything, let alone her feelings. She was overwhelmed. Her feelings for Bellamy were still buried inside of her, without her realizing it.

The Bellarke reunion in 3x11 is interesting for many reasons. Clarke’s expression can be interpreted in many ways but I think she’s mostly shocked she sees Bellamy, relieved he’s alive and relatively well (she had to blink to make sure he’s really standing there in front of her) but she was also scared. She didn’t know where they stood because the last time they saw each other he handcuffed her and she tazed him.

3b was about finding their way back to each other and Bellamy realizing his feelings for Clarke. Yes, I think that at this point Bellamy is aware of his feelings for Clarke. Clarke on the other hand is not but the feelings are definitely there and have been since season 2. Those feelings never disappeared and I hope we’ll get to see Clarke bringing these feeling back on the surface and becoming aware of them.

[multifandomaddictedfangirl]

Here’s my thougths on episode 4x03 (The 100)

Okay so it’s the second time I’m doing this kind of post (the first time was with Supernatural) and I’m sorry, I know it’s a bit personal and not everybody can relate with it… But I NEED to write down my thoughts. Actually I won’t be able to sleep until I’ll say what I have to say. Sorry about this VERY long post, though. It’s just that I have SO MANY feels from this episode…

Okay, I wanted to start by talking about the Bellarke scenes, because GOD IT WAS HUGE and it was just perfect… But then I decided to start with all the non-Bellarke moments because the episode itself was really important and I NEED to talk about it too! :)

FIRST OF ALL, THE WOMEN IN THAT EPISODE! Is it just me or where they actually wonderful? Clarke, Abby, Raven, Octavia, Indra, Luna, Emori, Indra’s daughter… They were all so good! It’s one of the reasons I love this show so much: the women are just amazing.

First, RAVEN! Guys, she nailed it! Thanks God, she’s in charge. Thanks God she’s here. Thanks God she even exists! In this episode, we got to see her taking important but terribly hard decisions about rationing. We got to see how difficult it was for her. And let’s just be clear on something: she shouldn’t have to do this. But she did and I think she really tried to do her best. She was so strong and I love her!

Then, I wanna talk about Abby! I really missed Abby being a doctor (instead of the chancellor). It was really nice to see her trying to cure the Grounder, to help them survive, to look for a way to save them… It felt just like the old caring Abby. It felt like Abby from season 1!

However, I’m seriously scared about OCTAVIA. She’s slowly becoming this cold-blooded killer and I’m not sure about how I feel about this. I know Lincoln’s death affected her very deeply and her natural answer to this is violence. But now, she’s clearly taking pleasure in fighting, hurting and killing people… And I don’t know, it’s kinda sick. I don’t want that for her, even though I still love Octavia.

BUT CLARKE. OMG CLARKE. She was perfect. Really, how can people not talk about her? ? ? Once again, she had to make a terrible and impossible choice. HOW WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DECIDE WHO GETS TO LIVE AND DIE? Like, yeah, no pressure!

LUNA’S BACK! Honestly, I was so glad to see her! She really gave me hope! The minute I saw her, I was like “She came back for a reason, I bet she’s the key to everything” and well, here we are XD Also, I loved the scene where she sang the lullaby for the little girl, so sweet :’)

INDRA’S DAUGHTER WAS SUCH A BADASS! Like mother, like daughter I guess.

Emori being jealous of Ontari was just priceless! But seriously, she was right to question him about Ontari. Murphy can’t avoid the subject forever. I think they’ll eventually have to talk about this more seriously if they want to keep going with their relationship (and I hope they will).

BIG PLOT TWIT : They actually found out they only had two months (instead of six) before the radiations start to kill them all. Yeah, because you know, it wasn’t hard enough. Six months was way too easy.

Jaha coming up with a plan was just so ironic. I was 100% sure it was going to fail. I wanted to have hope but in the same time I was like “It’s way too easy”. I mean, it’s The 100. The expectations are quite low. 

“Do you think I deserve this for refusing the flame?” “No one deserves to suffer”. I always love to see the evolution of Bellamy since the whole “whatever the hell we want” scene. We’re talking about the guy who was ready to cut Clarke’s hands to get what he wanted…

ALSO, CAN WE TALK ABOUT MURPHY? Let me be clear on something: I love Murphy. I used to hate him in season 1 because, well, he was a jerk. But I really loved his character development and I loved how they showed us he had empathy for others, deep down. Tbh, first, I loved the whole medicine scene. I really appreciated when Abby and Jackson referred to John’s father. I thought it was a really good idea and everything felt perfect!

But I feel like they’ve ruined everything with the end of the ep!

Basically, we understand it was just a manipulative strategy in order to look good enough to be on the list… Okay. I know the world is ending. I know he wants to save his ass, which is understandable. I know he also did to protect Emori. I KNOW ALL OF THIS.

BUT MURPHY CAN ALSO BE NICE AND KIND FOR NO REASON. STOP MAKING HIM LOOK LIKE A SELFISH BASTARD WHO ONLY CARES ABOUT HIS OWN INTEREST. MURPHY ISN’T LIKE THAT ANYMORE. HE CAN BE GOOD. HE CAN HELP PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. MURPHY IS A GOOD MAN. STOP MAKING HIM LOOK LIKE A JERK.

“From the ashes we will rise” I REALLY HOPE THEY WILL!

OKAY. Now I wanna talk about all the Bellarke moments cause it was the main reason I couldn’t function after the end of the episode. It was just so obvious. Who can possibly deny it, now? Like seriously, IT WAS EVERYWHERE. I don’t even know where to start, tbh...

“I won’t be inside” “YES YOU WILL” About two minutes after the beginning of the episode, we already have a HUGE LINE! Basically, Clarke just said she was ready to write Bellamy’s name NO MATTER WHAT. This is so important because she can’t even imagine a world without him. Like she hasn’t even started to think about the list, but she already KNOWS Bellamy will be on it ANYWAY.

Btw, I love how Bellamy just agreed with Clarke any time she suggested something. Like “Clarke wants to do that? Okay. I’m in.” x)

I really enjoyed seeing Bellamy and Clarke working together, going on missions, trying to figure out a way to save everyone again… It kinda made me think about season 1 when they were still trying to handle everything at the camp. Well, Beyond the shipping thing, I’ve always thought they made a really good team (and they still do).

I just love how they couldn’t stop flirting with each other throughout the episode. Like the world is literally ending, everybody’s gonna die in two months, but they don’t care x) niiiiiiiice guys x)

DID YOU GUYS NOTICE THE LITTLE SMILE THEY’VE EXCHANGED IN THE FOREST? Clarke said something, they both turned their head to face each other and they genuinely smiled… It was so damn cute! 

“She’s lucky to have you. You keep her centered.” “You got it backwards.” EXCUSE ME? DID BELLAMY JUST ADMIT HE WAS LUCKY TO HAVE CLARKE? Did he actually just say SHE was making HIM a better leader, and therefore a better person? Guys, if that’s not love, then I don’t know what Is, frankly.

OKAY BUT LET’S TALK ABOUT THE REAL BIG SHIT :

THE LIST SCENE.

THE LIST SCENE!

THE LIST SCENE, GUYS!

I can’t even-

FIRST OF ALL, BELLAMY SLEEPING IN THE SAME ROOM AS CLARKE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? HOW IS THIS EVEN REAL ? ? ? I CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE THIS IS CANON! It just sounds like a fanfic or something. I can’t believe they made it canon that Bellamy sometimes sleeps in Clarke’s desk. Bellamy didn’t even mind sleeping in front of Clarke. He didn’t care about looking vulnerable in front of her because he just trusts her so much. Seriously, guys, their love is just unquestionable now. Who’s gonna deny it, really? 

CLARKE WATCHING BELLAMY SLEEPING ? ? ? ? ? HOW IS THAT EVEN CONSIDERED AS A PLATONIC MOVE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? HOW ? I DON’T GET IT, LIKE THIS WHOLE SCENE JUST SCREAMED “LOVE” TO ME. Frankly, it made me think about a scene in season 1 (or 2, idk) when Bellamy was watching Clarke sleeping next to a bonfire, in the forest (it was so cute btw :3).

OKAY ABOUT CLARKE WRITING BELLAMY’S NAME… It’s so important, guys. The thing is… Clarke already wrote 98 names. We don’t get to actually see the names, but I’m guessing she must have made rational choices. I’m assuming she picked people, not because SHE loved them and wanted them to live, but because these people could actually be useful and necessary to survive in the future. I’m guessing she didn’t just save her friends and family. I’m guessing she tried to be impartial and neutral. At least, I think she did. 

Knowing Clarke, she probably did.

But then, she saw there was only two names left. She looked at Bellamy and she ADDED his name. IT WAS EVERYTHING BUT A RATIONAL CHOICE. It was 100% personal and emotional. It was Clarke listening to her heart like “Screw it, I’m saving the man I love. YES, for once in my life, I’m gonna be selfish and I don’t care because I love him and I can’t handle the idea of him being dead.”

Don’t get me wrong : Of course, Bellamy would be useful in the future too. But at that exact moment, it’s not why she wrote his name. She did it because she loved him. GUYS, IT’S NOT NOTHING. Deciding who was on that list meant deciding who could live or not. It was a tough choice. Saving Bellamy meant that somebody else couldn’t take his place. BASICALLY CLARKE AGREED TO SACRIFICE ANYONE ELSE’S LIFE IN ORDER TO SAVE HIM. THAT IS HUGE.

And then, she realizes there was only one name left. And she wanted to write her name so that Bellamy and her could survive together. But in the same time, she knew she couldn’t be selfish twice. Like she already made a personal choice by saving Bellamy. She couldn’t do it again. She couldn’t save herself. THAT’S WHY SHE STARTED CRYING.

BELLAMY ACTUALLY WAKING UP BECAUSE HE HEARD CLARKE CRYING ? ? ? WHAT NOW ? ? ? DID THIS GUY HAVE AN ALARM IN HIS HEAD OR SOMETHING? Can you imagine it though? “Wake up now, your soulmate needs you” XD

Did you guys notice he didn’t even look at the list; he didn’t even ask what was wrong. He just stood up and immediately understood what was happening. Because Bellamy knows Clarke. He just understands her. He doesn’t need her to say anything. 

“If I’m on that list, you’re on that list.” WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT ? ? WHAT ? DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT ? ? ? ? DID BELLAMY JUST SAY HE COULDN’T LIVE WITHOUT CLARKE ? GUYS, IT WAS HUGE. Probably the best Bellarke line! Bellamy just couldn’t even consider a world without Clarke. He didn’t want to even imagine surviving without her.

“Write it down or I will.” I love the fact that it wasn’t just words. He really wanted her to write her name on the list and he was ready to do it if she couldn’t. AND HE DID. Also, I can’t get over the fact that Bellamy wrote Clarke’s name IN ALL CAPS #i’m dead

The hand nuzzle was the cutest thing ever #loved it

And of course, Clarke looking at Bellamy as he walked away was just so romantic. Like I don’t know how people can just ignore the love between these two. Her eyes just yelled “Stay with me”. I still don’t understand how people can’t ship it. I’m literally dead by the feels!

OKAY. I think I’m done, now. Again I’m so sorry, it was such a LONG post but I had a lot to say. It was a really good episode! But yeah, I’m sorry about that giant post x) Congratulations if you read the whole post! XD

[sometimesrosy]

Lol love your new(?) heading. I’ll be over for a lemonade in 5! 😜 And thank you for your post re fandom and striving for a healthy balance/mindset. I escaped the toxicity and reading your inspiring words is really heartwarming and encouraging to a fellow The 100 and Bellarke lover. 💜

I thought the “get off my lawn” wasn’t welcoming, so I invited everyone to have a lemonade on my porch while i keep my anons open for a little while. I didn’t however continue the run on I was gonna use where if the invitees get rude i will kick them off my lawn again. I should perhaps return to the “sometimes salty” heading. Sometimesrosy, sometimes salty. Sometimes kicking the kids off my lawn, sometimes inviting them in for lemonade. lol.

That post about fandom and fiction and life balance? That was because of one of my anons this morning, because I could see the anxiety rising over ONE unconfirmed, fourth hand passing comment from Bob. 

Y’all need to be more centered than that.

It’s a STORY. It’s a show. It’s already filmed. There’s a narrative and character development and themes and conflict and resolution. There are actually RULES to storytelling. I know it feels like The 100 just comes out of nowhere to make us suffer, but it really doesn’t.

And I’ve been breaking this show down for three years now so I’ve identified a lot of the structure and themes and conventions and archetypes and narrative structures that it is using. 

They don’t STOP using those things because Bob said something vague and Blorke antis don’t like Bellarke shippers to have hope, because if they’ve lost faith they think everyone should suffer with them. 

If you understand the rules of the story, and you trust the writers to continue to follow their own rules (because it is true not all writers do follow their own rules) then you can make sense of what is happening in a show that is very emotional for you and whose outcome makes you anxious.

My first analysis of story and structure and themes came after 3.05 when I told everyone that we didn’t have to worry about CL because Bellarke was endgame and was the center of the story. They were the head and the heart and that means they MUST end together, because the head and heart function as ONE. Those are actual rules. HOWEVER, as time went on I kept an eye on if they were the rules for THIS show, if I was CORRECT in my theory, and not only was I right, but the symbolism deepened and was reinforced again and again.

This story is about Bellarke. It is their story. They are soulmates. They are an epic romance that does not happen quickly, but one whose ENTIRE JOURNEY is geared to bring them together. 

The truth is that if the story HAD stopped in s3 4 or 5, we would not have gotten to the romance. But, and this is something that fandom doesn’t believe in or trust, Jason Rothenberg is SO COMMITTED to the epic love story that is Bellarke, that he has invested SIX YEARS in slowly building a love that expresses the incredible depth of their bond. BEYOND SPACE, TIME, AND DEATH THEY WILL BE REUNITED.

That is ACTUALLY the literal story of Bellarke. She was dead. He was in space, and they were separate by first 6 years, then 125 years. Death. Space. Time. 

When you understand this, then a romantic obstacle, other love interest, terrible fight, separation, and supposed death will not shake your faith in Bellarke.

OH but Rowena, how do you know they’ll ever be romantic? what if they’re just “Platonic.”

Too late bunny rabbits. Platonic Bellarke has left the building a LONG time ago. It is now a romantic story with admitted romantic love, and 2199 radio calls, and dead loves coming back from the grave to bring Bellarke together. A love triangle is proof that Bellarke will be romantic, because you can’t have a love triangle without there being romantic interest between both sides of the triangle. Now you could have Clarke pining and it not being returned, but we’ve got canon evidence that Bellamy returns it. That is, therefore, a canon romance. The kiss will be culmination of a long development and I can’t wait.  Listen. It’s been 131 years.

Anyone who sees Clarke looking up into space wanting Bellamy to come home and sees Bellamy looking down on Eden wanting to go home and DOESN’T recognize a romantic trope needs to turn in their shipper badge. You have failed.

Anyway, that last post was about stepping back from any show that makes you upset, or any fandom that makes something you love into something painful. THIS post is about not needing to be upset about Bellarke because if you pay attention to the story, and follow the rules of storytelling, which I PROMISE are not delusional, there’s an academic discipline or two that does nothing but study these rules and analyze how stories work, then you will know that Bellarke is the central relationship, they are soulmates, the love story is A-MAZ-ING. And it’s happening. 

There’s no need for shipwars. I told you the story was Bellarke back in 3.05. Bellarke is STILL the story. Going strong. 

[sometimesrosy]

What he means when he said non-romantic because that it is not what we see ,every person who sees bellarke in the show knows they are romantic, those looks are not precisley non-romantic, and the way they love each other 2.199 calls, becoming the man who he is because of her, i am just a casual fan, but every person i know that watch the 100 is like where bellamy and clarke will get together? I do not know what he is doing, but is not fooling anyone when you witness this every episode.

This question is a lot harder to answer than it looks. Because I can’t tell you what JR means, I can only analyze the situation, which is not just about what he SAID, but also what his agenda is, the medium he is speaking in, how the fandom interprets it, what happened in canon, his marketing strategy, the politics of fandom and the media and hollywood. And none of what I interpret about this is a fact, except for the canon, the show that we see on screen. I am not in JR’s head, and even if he answers directly, there is no guarantee that what he says is genuine or straightforward. He has been proven to be tricky and ambiguous in his interviews and social media ABOUT The 100. He is simply not going to tell us, and in order to avoid telling us, he tells us things that are inconclusive.

What JR says in the media, social or otherwise, is commentary and interpretation, not canon. The way I look at it is the way I look at ALL non-canon information and interpretations. His statements are a way to LOOK at the canon that we see on screen, and can give us a good lens with which to interpret the show. But canon is ONLY what we see on screen. Not even the scripts count as canon, because we do not know how they have been changed to get to the screen, and they do not take into account the actors, directors, cinematographers, costume and makeup people, editors and composers who’s work went into telling the story in the script. Scripts and writer/actor commentary can help us with how we look at the canon, but is only for interpretation. WHY? Because 20 or 100 years from now, the show The 100 will probably still be here to be seen, but none of the commentary, politics, fanon, or fandom interpretation will be a part of it. Just like we’re reading Shakespeare plays, and not what Shakespeare himself said about them, nor any of the fans who loved Hamlet, nor the Queen’s opinion on Gertrude or whether she thinks Hamphelia is true love or Hamatio is her OTP. 

Canon is ONLY the show. Anything else you take into account is, honestly, moving into cultural criticism and sociology and psychology etc. Which, yeah, you can DEFINITELY explore, but it’s not about the story of The 100 anymore. 

SO.

When you are looking at what JR says about Bellarke, first you have to consider his INTENTIONS. He has stated, with 100% clarity, that he is not going to spoil the story. He WILL NOT TELL YOU WHETHER OR NOT BELLARKE IS GOING TO BE ROMANTIC. He refuses. None of them are allowed to speak about it. Whether or not that’s a bad policy is not the point. He won’t tell us.

So I have to ask myself, then what does he mean when he says Bellarke is “non-romantic partners and soulmates.”

 JR (and the cast) talks about the characters and show ONLY at the point of what we have ALREADY SEEN on screen. They do not project or speculate, or tell us about storylines that we haven’t seen yet (unless they are approved by spoiler police as part of the marketing strategy.) So when JR talks about Bellarke, it is either what has already happened, what the characters themselves have already been shown to feel, or marketing strategy.

The marketing strategy is a game. It is NOT to be trusted. It is NOT about understanding the story. It is about getting an audience. The story and the marketing strategy are two separate things. I do not trust JR’s marketing strategy, but I do trust his story. When JR is marketing, he says things that are intentionally vague and ambiguous so that the fans can read into it whatever they want. So when I listen to him, I ALWAYS compare his words to what I see on screen, and if the canon and his words contradict themselves, then I the CANON is the authority, and JR is playing word games. In my three years of analyzing his tweets, I have seen him do this over and over. He does not LIE to us. He tells us something ambiguous that we can take to confirm our desires, and then doesn’t clarify. He manipulates the words.

His declaring them soulmates is new. He only started saying that when he was writing s5, after s4 was over. Whether he uses the qualifier “non-romantic” or not. Which he has done twice. First it was “non-romantic soulmates” and now it is “non-romantic partners and soulmates.” He did not use the word “platonic,” although fandom keeps saying he did. 

 Within the show, “non-romantic,” “platonic,” and “soulmates” are not ever  used. The word “love,” however, was used. And that is the first time their relationship has EVER been defined as love. And implied to be romantic love, at that, with the comparison to Bellamy’s girlfriend being made. Bellamy loves Clarke, and this is now canon. That makes it ROMANTIC. Whether confessed to her or not, Bellamy’s interest is romantic. Therefore the relationship is not platonic. Whether it will be endgame OR NOT. Their relationship has romantic elements. They have declared a Love Triangle between Echo-Bellamy-Clarke. And that makes it, by definition, romantic. Whether he eventually chooses Clarke or chooses Echo. It is a romantic situation.

Clarke is declared to “care” for Bellamy. This is the word that has been used since season 2. “you care for him,” “i always cared,” “do you know how MUCH she cares for you?” And the 2199 calls were used as proof for just how much. I do not think it is a coincidence that it is only after we saw the 2199 calls that JR started calling them soulmates. Because this story is a classic romantic soulmate story. if people don’t want to believe that clarke loves Bellamy, they can ignore it, but that’s pretty bad analysis to ignore the evidence of how much she loves him, when trying to figure out how much she loves him. We see her SHOWING how she loves him more than we see her saying it. THIS story element is reinforced by JR calling them soulmates and the unknown question of romance within it does affirm the “non-romantic” statement. But…the scene where Clarke is shocked and horrified by her “non romantic” soulmate kissing someone else, put the question of “non-romantic” to the lie.

The canon shows a great deal of romantic development for Bellarke, if not in declaration (which it has, as shown above) then in film making and narrative techniques. All the people who have been watching and reading love stories all their lives can see, straight up, that Bellarke is being told as a love story and a romance. Even people who don’t like Bellarke see it. This means that, in canon, Bellarke is a romantic story. The list of evidence is too long for this post, you can search my #bellarke development tag. But it is DEFINITELY there. In canon. On screen. We’ve all seen.

Calling Bellarke “non-romantic” seems to contradict what we see in the canon. So it is either a lie, or it’s a vague statement that does not contradict the romantic portrayal of Bellarke on screen. JR’s past tweets have NOT been lies, but sometimes they are ambiguous and misleading and if you define the words used properly, are actually true. You have to consider the tweet from HIS perspective, not the fandom perspective. The fandom interpreted it as platonic. But he DIDN’T say platonic, although platonic is a TYPE of non-romantic relationship. But to say the clearly romantic development was platonic would be a lie. So THAT IS NOT HIS MEANING. 

So we MUST examine “non-romantic.” 

Okay.

I told you this was a harder question than it looked. SO. 

Non-romantic.

Doesn’t mean platonic

Is a statement only about what has happened on screen until this point.

Does actually describe their partnership, which, outside of feelings they have not shared with each other, is not related to romance.

The comment was, before the season “non-romantic soulmates” and after the season “non-romantic PARTNERS and soulmates.” I might be splitting hairs, but that might ALSO be an upgrade as the soulmate part has been separated from the non-romantic part, while keeping their partnership, in canon, non-romantic. This part COULD be seen as the soulmate being also romantic in nature while the partnership is still non-romantic.

Bellamy now has a romantic partner and a non-romantic partner. THAT… is a story. He now has TWO relationships that will be and already are compared to each other. The comparison has not been defined yet. It seems like it is ABOUT to be. Also, the romantic partner is not the soulmate. 

ALSO, JR said “as of yet” about a million times.

So if I put all of this thinking together, here’s what I think he was saying. 

As of yet, at this moment in the story, Bellarke have not admitted or pursued their romantic feelings, so their relationship is a soulmate relationship that is yet to be explored and their partnership remains non-romantic. Which will incidentally be a problem next season when Bellamy must deal with both his non-romantic partnership who is his soulmate and his romantic partnership who is not his soulmate. This is a current storyline that is actively developing but as of yet, it is non-romantic as far as the characters can tell, because they do not realize the other returns their feelings and/or there is a real canon romantic relationship that serves as an obstacle to the realization of their feelings. I will not tell you how it turn out because that would be spoiling, but if you follow the story, you can see how it’s set up. 

that took a long time. I don’t know if i got everything.But i’m gonna post it anyway.

[sometimesrosy]

Alright I need to ask cause I'm in the positive boat. If you had to bet which episode clarke and bellamy FINALLY share their first kiss in this season what would it be? lol

I think mid season will be the time when we’ll see a physical manifestation of their feelings for each other. This could be anything from a continuation of our hand holding metaphor (laced fingers?)  to some version of a hug/non lip to lip kiss, to getting stuck in an enclosed space all up in each other’s business and clear sexual tension, to any version of kiss on the lips, to full on sex. I DON’T KNOW. There’s an argument to be made for any of it. And depending on your definition of kiss, the chance of a kiss happening goes up higher or lower. Anywhere from 25%-75% by midseason. Talk to me after I see the first 4 eps for more definite guess.  Which one is the one Antonio Negret is doing? I tell you, Antonio Negret directing makes sex more likely. He did a fantastic job with Olicity. And what is that? 8?

I think as season B goes on, whatever happened physically in midseason between them, will add to the emotional stakes and drama and angst of the action heavy season B. If there isn’t a kiss midseason, I see it as nearly definite by the finale. 99% The absolute LEAST amount of Bellarke I see happening is lots of sexual and romantic tension for the whole season ending in a full canon confession in the verrry end, with something like “I won’t lose you again.” linked hands. raising hands to lips and kissing them. “together.” But I think it just as likely that they have a full on sex scene mid season. So those are my two extremes of bellarke canon. Full on sex then angst then together commitment at the end. Romantic pining, sexual longing, and angst for the whole season leading to a gentle confession and physical expression of love. Which way will they go? IDK. Most likely somewhere in the middle. Also I think they did the pining/gentle confession last season so I think they won’t do it again, which makes early sex then angst more likely.

Before listening to all this fandom drama, I was really positive about Bellarke happening in season 5. It’s remarkable how fears and anxieties can just rise up like a tide and sweep you away. But most of them don’t have a basis in reality, I think, and some of them actually take what I consider to be near confirmation that Bellarke is happening to mean that they are saying Bellarke will never happen and we are being baited. And I don’t really understand that kind of circular logic. But it’s shouted with such passion and carried up so widely by the fandom that is more focused on a kiss proving canon than on the story being carefully crafted, that it makes me hesitant to make my predictions. I even came across someone who implied my meta was bullshit and has been twitter ranting about how we’re being baited. It turns out that when someone challenges my meta, I don’t rant, I go deep and explain my evidence on my own time, so this is apparently what I’m going to do.

I think this is the season. Not for established Bellarke relationship, that’s next season, but for them finally addressing their feelings for each other as more than just platonic partners. They showed it last season, with plausible deniability not just for narrative sake (mutual pining) but also for fandom politics sake (too soon! be respectful.) 

Wow. OKAY. So there’s my guess. If you want to know WHY I am predicting this, then you get to read after the jump. Because the thing is, I’m basing my prediction on narrative structure, romantic tropes, storytelling techniques, and ALSO what JR, Bob, Eliza, and reviewers have said about the new season. As well as the ep 1 spoilers (so don’t read on if you don’t want to know.) BTW. LONG because I have a lot.

Bear with me, I’m putting the new details together with my old speculation based on season 4 and development from all 4 seasons. This is to show you WHY I think what I do and that it’s not really about shipping for me, but about crafting a story. 

I’m a writer, and when I write romance into a story, I need to make sure there is enough conflict and uncertainty to make it interesting. It is built into romantic plots. However, my romances happen within one book, not 5 seasons, and fair warning, because romance is not the point of my books, they are not the finale, climax or reward. They generally happen sometime in the middle and then we see an uncertainty, fear, angst and a narrative conflict that might separate the love, leading into the plot climax/conclusion. Because I write sci fi, not romance. The goal is a non romantic one, and the romance is about character development and motivation. So love is HOW they reach the goal, not the goal itself. Which, I think, is the way this show is treated. But, this is my interpretation, and you should know that going in, it comes from someone who is also writing science fiction this way. It’s a writer’s perspective. I am trying to figure out how JR is telling HIS story.

In SDCC JR declared that Bellarke was the central relationship and it has always, in some way, been about their relationship. Listen. This means he has ALWAYS been telling the story of Bellarke. I can confirm, as can the rest of the Bellarke meta community as we’ve been analyzing it the whole time. This is important. This means that not only are we looking at Bellarke in the current season, but looking at the WHOLE show and how it’s developed. Because he did it DELIBERATELY. HIs Bellarke story has taken all four, now five seasons. (huh. he admitted it. it was the plan. it’s not a bait. it’s not fanservice. it’s the STORY.)

So when I look at the WHOLE story, this is what it looks like to me.

Season1: Trust. Get her whatever she needs. I trust him.

Season 2: Devotion. He’d do anything for her, it just makes sense. Bellamy is the key.

Season 3: Commitment. Together (drink poison) I trust you. I believe you. Holding hands.

Season 4: Romantic Love: If I’m on that list you’re on that list. She centers you. You’ve got that backwards. She’ll see how special you are. Sacrifices humanity for him. I got you for that. 6 years of pining.

Season 5:  ???? what could it be? we’ve had The 100 tell a love story by defining the elements of love, so what’s next? The next level I think is Physical Attraction.

In Conageddon, Bob and Eliza said that Bellarke had it rough. That they come back together immediately, trust is in their dna, that they are confused about who they are to each other, about their platonic relationship (if they are confused about the platonic nature of their relationship that means something isn’t platonic or it wouldn’t be confusing,) that it’s an intense relationship (upping the level of emotion,) that it’s turbulent, up and down, and first they love each other, then they hate each other, then they love each other then the verry end…we get something that is described variously as great, sweet, *silence with a smirk* and will make Bellarkers happy.  All of that description sounds to me like a description of sexual tension, except for the ending which sounds to me like canon confession of love or commitment. Or showing them TOGETHER in the transcending romance kind of MARRIED way. Not dating. Committed. Soul mates. Beyond time and space kind of thing. (but possibly not physical at all.)

Some people take the B/E concerns to be proof that there is no Bellarke happening but I take it to mean that there is. Because I’m looking at character and relationship and narrative development over the seasons (as JR said that was the story.) And B/E was always a possibility to push the story from platonic to romantic by adding conflict, jealousy, a choice, and contrast. IT’S A NARRATIVE TOOL TO MAKE THE STORY HAPPEN. We get an article saying there is no love triangle and fandom takes that to mean there is no Bellarke. And the article itself was covered with photos of Bellarke. idk. that’s a funny takeaway. When to me, it was saying the B/E issue would be resolved early in the season. 

The most relevant detail to timing of romantic development, however, is the issue of pacing. Which is a new revelation for us.

Episodes 1-4 happen within hours, apparently. The spoilers from the first episode must happen right before spacekru discovers The Eligius. Whatever happens in ep1 between BE will be brushed aside for the need to do something to GET BACK DOWN TO EARTH. And JR said that when Bellamy finds out that Clarke is alive EVERYTHING CHANGES. Now HOW exactly do you think it changes? What could the changes mean? Why is a way down to earth not more of a change for Bellamy/spacekru than finding out Clarke is alive? Because that’s pretty life changing, yeah? What’s the element that Clarke’s existence could change more than going home? Loyalties. Family. Love. ??? Their bond snaps back into place. Does it override other bonds? Which bonds are in question here in the first 2 eps? Who is unsure of her place in the family? I guess we’ll have to see, but do we or do we not have a question of B/E over B/C?  Could it be POSSIBLE that one of the things that change when B finds out C is not dead is B/E? Hmmm? When B/C was what kept B/E from happening in the first place? Hmmm? Like. Is this not simple math? someone do the math.  I know there’s an equation there. (why do I, miss mama don’t do math, keep putting math into my analysis?)

Anyway, back to the speed. If it’s really moving that fast, though, then there won’t be time for anyone to really PROCESS what Clarke being alive means. Bellamy won’t have time to understand it or make rational decisions about who comes first. Except we know he’s changed his MO, so maybe we’ll see him fighting his own head vs heart thing going on with no time to sort it out. INTERESTING. Clarke won’t have time to settle back in to the family or adjust to not being one of them. Echo won’t have time to make peace with Clarke’s possible usurpation of her place with the family. OR maybe it won’t be an issue at all. Clarke and Bellamy will just naturally slot back into place as partners, since there’s no time for thought… which would leave Echo feeling out of place. Well, we do know that Eliza and Bob did say trust was in their DNA, and they did say that Echo was struggling with her place in the family. So that seems likely.

What does this mean to romantic BELLARKE? It lowers the chance of them addressing their feelings head on. Because they have no time to process or talk. But it raises the chance of them DOING stuff without conscious thought, touching, non verbal communication. Hard to tell until we see them interact, but if you move things fast, and there’s no time to address things, and they are intense and confusing and there is “love and hate” then we’re going to see things boil over without being logical. The emotions that I see as repressed here are going to be their feelings for each other. Love and desire. 

Sorry y’all. I know how many of you think it’s hopeless and have lost faith, but what I see is a really great CANON SUBPLOT of romance trying to break through the danger and action and adventure and survival and fast pace of The 100. It won’t be subjective. It won’t be all told in fades and music, it will be part of the story, and addressed directly. I can’t guess the details, but I can tell you the Bellarke story this season will be canon romance. (Please just remember that it is not a ROMANCE GENRE STORY so it will not be the majority of the plot,  but buried within the scifi survival story.)

I’m apologizing for being pro canon bellarke. Can you believe this fandom? They ship a thing by ranting about how it’s not going to happen. I do believe they are not allowed on my ship at all. Go sink your own, you blorkes.

[sometimesrosy]

I have to side-eye anyone who still believes nothing physically explicit (like a kiss) will happen this season between Bellarke. Like....what are they gonna do all season? Just stare at each other longingly with no payoff? That'd frustrate the hell out of me if this were the case.

I mean, they started building it last season as early as 3.01. They pushed it to the forefront in 3.05, and it was too much, too soon and they were still too divided and ran off to their opposite corners, and told their other stories. But by Nevermore, they started building it again. And this time no one pulled away, but they went slower and took baby steps and ended up brushing lower a lip and holding hands and standing side by side, together. Platonic, right? Lol.

So we start this season and only two episodes in, they are attached at the hip and in every close shot together. Like, how are you getting both of their beautiful faces in that same tight shot? They are RIGHT on top of each other. 

People.

People.

People.

Right from the season premiere, they have been within kissing distance. That is NOT the way you treat your platonic friends. 

Clarke and Bellamy’s relationship has been growing and developing in leaps and bounds every single season. And sometimes it takes a back seat to the action and the apocalypse and that is good, but all it takes is a few scenes by themselves, and make swift advancements in intimacy, trust, caring, devotion.

So here they are, together, physically, emotionally and as leaders, and if they take ONE more step closer to each other they are literally going to be kissing. 

I mean, come on now. Look at them. They start out a season like that, where can they possibly go? I think something canon is going to happen in 4.03. I can’t guarantee all the Bellarke development will go forward after that, but 4.03 is going to push it into canon romance. It will probably recede after that. 

They definitely are teasing us with Bellarke romance, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t going to give us something. This is part of telling a story, building up tension and making us want something, but holding off until it’s time. 

This show is full of fast paced action and tension, while Bellarke has been slow burn, romantically, their relationship as people has continued to intensify and feed into the story and there have been major, emotional beats between them even while they were “platonic.” This is not going to stop now that they are in romantic territory. 

You guys are just stuck in being denied Bellarke all these years. But they said they weren’t telling that story yet. They were telling others. And those stories moved fast enough. Even when they weren’t romantic. The other stories are done. Now they are “together.” THEY ARE TELLING ROMANTIC BELLARKE NOW. 

This is it.