Ship Happens

Multi-ship, mostly crime, mostly British. AO3: irisreticulata9

[acwisse15]

[katebeckets]

how to say “I love you” in x-files [12/?] ⤷ 3.16 — “Apocrypha”

[leonardbetts]

THE X-FILES — 6x08 “The Rain King”

[catsrwitches]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[sophsun1]

The X-Files – 3.15: Piper Maru

[dartmoorpixie]

[free-my-girl-tourney]

Fandom Misogyny Victim Tournament

Round One, Bracket 4

Alex Drake (Ashes to Ashes) vs. Echo (The 100)

Alex Drake

Echo

Voting ended onJun 26

Propaganda below the cut:

Alex Drake:

Hated for replacing Sam Tyler, seen as "annoying" and "a bitch" for behaviours the male characters get loved for.

I LOVE HERRRR, she's doomed, and complicated, and messy, and flawed. She's truly the character or all time.

Echo:

stares into the camera with dead and tired eyes. where to fucking start!! the main reason people hate her is because she gets in the way of a straight ship :) yup :) that’s mostly it!!! but you would not BELIEVE the level of hatred people had for her. well actually you would believe it because this is such a common phenomenon but whatever. she was a relatively minor character in the earlier seasons (and only introduced in s2) and only got promoted to canon girlfriend of some guy (this is hashtag not about him!!) in s5, at which point everyone collectively decided to despise her. they cite the “reasons” for their dislike (actually these reason are more often brought up to justify why she shouldn’t be with the aforementioned guy. so they’re not even hating her in her own right!!) as: way back in the beginning of s3, she blew up a building and indirectly killed the girlfriend of the guy she would later be put with. um. however! this girlfriend was introduced very quickly and as A Girlfriend (tm), and was very clearly written to get killed off to make this guy sad. which is also misogynistic. so i don’t really gaf that she killed that woman. she vaguely betrayed the main group of characters in late s2? it’s been forever so i don’t exactly remember everything well, but the larger faction she was a part of were the ones who did the betraying, not her specifically. and also she was trapped underground getting her blood harvested for that entire season and the aforementioned betrayal was done to get her and many many many others out of the blood harvesting thing. so yeah i don’t hold that against her!! she stabbed the sister of the guy she would go on to date (in either s4 or s3 i don’t remember) and everyone thought the sister died. which understandably really upset that guy. but the two groups were i believe at war at the time!!! and it’s hot when women stab each other idc there’s also the general sentiment of her being too underwritten. which is fair tbh she is not written That well, but come on. this is the 100. literally what do you expect. and she could be so so interesting!!! sigh. apart from all of the bullshit hating, there was frequently hate in her main tag AND she was always made into an awful bitch in fics for the sake of having her bf dump her and get with the girl the fandom wanted him to. like omg it was awful.

is she underwritten? yes. is there so much potential there if you actually try to look for it? also yes!!!!! and to address something. i don’t think she should be w that guy because he doesn’t deserve her. and the way she was written in that relationship was kind of :/ anyways. we’re going to go way back. as children, echo and her friend ash were both training to be spies/assassins/warriors for the queen of azgeda. as a test, she told echo to kill ash. echo fails, and ash kills her instead. the queen, upset that the wrong girl died (ash was less skilled than echo, less desired), had ash assume echo’s name and identity. see. like. this could be so so good. imagine you’re a little girl, training as hard as you can for the queen’s approval. you know you’re not as good as your friend, no matter how hard you try. you try regardless. then, your disposability is confirmed when the queen asks your friend to kill you to prove herself. you are supposed to die, you are supposed to be a lesson in violence, you are supposed to be the first body in a pile of many. and when you win, when you survive, when you finally surpass your friend and prove that you’re better (though that’s not what you’re thinking at the time. you just want to live.) the queen does not give her approval. you didn’t do what you were supposed to. you didn’t lie down and die. so you grow up into a ruthless woman wearing someone else’s name. you are skilled, and you follow orders. but you’re only here because you did Not do what you were supposed to do all of those years ago. you work for her approval, you work to be Good, but you’ll never get any of what you want because your very existence is proof that you don’t do what you’re supposed to. hell world forever.

[partywithponies]

PLEEEASSSEEEEE VOTE FOR MY GIRL ALEX DRAKE

KEELEY HAWES GOT VIOLENT HATE JUST FOR PLAYING HER

HERE'S MY OWN FANVID AS PROPAGANDA:

[romelzacarnes]

RUPERT CAMPBELL-BLACK & TAGGIE O'HARA - 2x05

[sophsun1]

The X-Files – 6.15: Arcadia

[cowgirlarchive]

“i do not gaze at scully” bull fucking shit

[dartmoorpixie]

[h0lywaters]

“agent scully is already in love” okay and breaking news water is wet

[and-the-rest-of-the-universe]

@edierone’s golden addition to this post

[evuwus]

The one time Scully saw the aliens but Mulder didn't (she got infected with the weird :0)

[finch-co-uk]

IN MY HEAD x THE X FILES ! ☆

[redxluna]

A love declaration that'll get me every damn time.

[spltlvlhous]