Jinxter

[wayhaughtshipper]

Dominique during the first five minutes of The Carmilla Movie (x)

[forloversxonly]

screwing with the clueless, NAILED IT

[swanqueenproof]

The Final Proof

*A lot of people have come up with this theory, but it’s so perfect I had to write it down.

They say you learn the most from your mistakes. Mine came as I was watching “Murder Most Foul” and Charming said this:

I hadn’t really been paying enough attention to realize that he was talking about the sleeping curse that the Evil Queen had placed on him and Snow, so my mind immediately went to: What other curse needs to be broken? Luckily for me there is another curse that needs to be broken. Many of you know this, but it’s the curse that is keeping everyone in Storybrooke.

What we don’t realize is which part of the curse is still active. It’s not the dark aspects of the Dark Curse - that was broken by Emma as was prophesied/dictated by Rumpelstiltskin. No, it’s the other part that the pesky imp created that is trapping everyone here still.

The Savior curse. Think about it. The only reason Emma Swan is the Savior is because Rumplestiltskin made it so. In theory, Emma was no longer supposed to be the Savior after she broke the Dark Curse. Everyone was supposed to go back to where they were from, but that didn’t happen. Which means what? That portion of the curse, that tiny little drop, is a curse all in itself, and it too needs to be broken. When it is, Emma’s fate as the Savior will be broken; she will live.

Now you ask: But Emma was given the Shears of Destiny or whatever to cut herself from her fate and no longer be the Savior and she didn’t take it!

Well, we know how Rumple’s curse works right? A pair of pretty scissors wouldn’t break this curse because only one person has that power: Emma herself.

We’ve come full circle. Once upon a time Adam and Eddy pitched the idea that the curse would take seven years to fully break. Now we’ve reached that point. Once Emma breaks the Savior curse, Rumple’s spell that he placed on her life will break. Her Hero’s Journey will be complete, and she will return to her life in the real world, where no one needs her to protect them.

(I’ll come back to this in a minute)

So we know what needs to happen. Here I take it a step further and answer:

How?

It turns out that we have that answer too:

Ah yes. True Love. Here’s where I know I’ll lose half of you because “Once Upon a Time is obsessed with Captain Swan. Why can’t you see that, you’re blinding yourself, stop perpetuating nonsense, wake up blah blah blah blah.”

Well, I’m going to counter that with: Why is Emma still the Savior then? If Once Upon a Captain Swan is genuinely the entire point of this show, why is Emma still fated to die?

Answer: You can’t break a curse where you’re the Savior of the fairytale characters with one of the said fairytale characters.

Here you respond again with: “Well, Smartypants, you call yourself a Swan Queen shipper, but you’ve just contradicted yourself. You think the Evil Queen can break the curse with Emma? She’s a fairytale character too!”

Well, reader, you are very clever indeed. But shall I provide you with my next exhibit:

While it was super fun to watch, Split Queen was not just done for the optics. It was a setup for endgame. The Evil Queen may be a fairytale character, but Mayor Regina Mills (like Emma and Henry) is a completely original creation of our world. Which means, like Emma, the daughter of Prince Charming and Snow White, she can live a completely normal life outside of the Enchanted Forest.

I was trying to figure out the purpose behind bringing Wish Robin Hood back, and this line really explains it:

The writers are priming us for a much bigger version of this concept. Robin is the first test of the portal system. Will it allow someone who isn’t supposed to be “real” stay in the “real world”? We know Storybrooke, by our standards, isn’t a real place, it’s a refuge for fairytale characters from many realms, so it makes sense that he passes the test in this case, but what about Regina? Will she, a person who isn’t supposed to be real, be allowed to live somewhere like Boston or New York if Storybrooke doesn’t exist. This first trial proves that yes, she will be able to because something about her is connected to our world (that thing is literally the writers themselves). They have Regina grapple with this issue- Why was wish Robin able to come here?- because she’s next, and she needs to know that she’ll be okay when she tries to stay in this world.

If Regina remains unconnected to the Evil Queen, she should be able to help Emma break the curse and remain in this reality. Will it really be True Love’s Kiss that frees Emma from the Savior Curse and sends everyone to where they belong?

I would hope.

I also hope that I’ll find $2000 on the street tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean it’ll happen.

But it’s certainly the most reasonable solution since literally every curse is broken with True Love’s Kiss…

Have you ever wondered why there’s never been a True Love’s Kiss with Emma & her parents or Emma with Hook? Perhaps part of that is because True Love’s Kiss can only work with people who are from the same reality. Since Regina had True Love’s Kiss with Henry, that means she’s a part of his reality. Part of her belongs in our world. Emma has never shared True Love’s Kiss with Hook because he isn’t a part of her reality. He’s still a fairytale character. They can get married, she can choose that life, but that means she will remain tied to her fate as the Savior. She will always be connected to the Fairytale world. She will eventually die for them.

But if somehow, Regina Mills is Emma’s true True Love; if two “real people” who were created in this world- Emma Swan the bail bonds person, and Regina Mills the Mayor- shared True Love’s Kiss (not saying they’ll make it gay like they should) then the entire curse could be broken.

I just don’t see any other way they could go with this. The show has always foreshadowed that Storybrooke isn’t supposed to last.

We know there’s going to be a “reset” for the show…

And we know that Regina is no longer connected to the Evil Queen. Everything is setting up for the fairytale characters to return to their world.

But what happens next?

A good story always comes full circle, but the hero returns home with more knowledge and is in a better place. Odysseus goes on a crazy journey with a bunch of messed up shit but eventually makes it back home. Dorothy wishes she could experience life over the rainbow, but when she does, she learns that there’s no place like home. Harry Potter steps onto Platform 9 ¾ for the first time alone, and in the last book he steps on with a family. So if in the Pilot we see Emma in her lonely Boston apartment, wishing on a star to no longer be alone, it only makes sense that the last time we see her, she’s in her Boston apartment but she isn’t alone- she has a family.

We know Henry will be a part of that family, but it’s safe to assume that Regina will be there too, because of this promise:

Unfortunately all magic comes with a price, and my prediction is that price will be that everyone forgets that any of this ever happened.

I’m grounding this theory in the fact that the last time there was a reset, that happened to half of the parties involved: Emma and Henry 

In that scenario, the Dark Curse was destroyed. The Dark Curse’s purpose was to create Storybrooke, so once it was gone, Emma and Henry forgot that Storybrooke ever existed… But everyone in the Enchanted Forest still remembered Emma and Henry because the Savior Curse still existed- they all remembered the Savior. They were able to go back and get her and recreate the bridge between our worlds because Emma was still the Savior. Once the Savior Curse is gone, everything will be wiped out. Everyone will forget that the Savior existed, and why she existed. All the fairytale characters will return to their world where their stories will play out, and all the characters from our world will begin to lead a normal life.

That life for Emma and Regina could very well be together. It’s not guaranteed, but it would certainly explain why the writers have made an effort to keep Emma and Regina apart in Storybrooke while maintaining a certain amount of tension between them- because their story isn’t meant to play out in Storybrooke. It would also explain why it’s not a topic of conversation for any of the writers or actors- it’s a major plot point,  and talking about it would be a spoiler. Lastly, Adam Horowitz said himself that they weren’t queerbaiting:

If they’re planning on having Regina be a part of Emma’s new life free from the Savior curse, then technically this isn’t a lie.

But could they make it so that Emma and Regina’s relationship is merely as platonic co-parents in the real world? Of course. But at the end of the day we would still be right: Swan Queen would still technically be endgame, and it’s still a hell of a lot better than Captain Swan.

[heatherannehogan]

the lesbophobia thing

Lesbophobia is real. It’s the prejudice, bigotry, and oppression that exists at the intersection of homophobia and misogyny. Let me say it again: Lesbophobia is real. Hate for lesbians is real.

However, it is essential to acknowledge and understand that the term lesbophobia has been co-opted by a loud and growing contingent of LGBTQ women in communities that share troubling ties and ideology with factions that exist inside the alt-right movement — worse, the dangerous dogma that’s attaching itself to word the lesbophobia has found a new home at AfterEllen.

I first encountered the word lesbophobia in response to the post I wrote called Queer Women Take Over The 2016 Emmys. Her Story got a revolutionary nod for Outstanding Short Form. Kate McKinnon took home a trophy for Saturday Night Live. Sarah Paulson won for The People vs. O.J. Simpson. And Jill Soloway scored another victory for Transparent. On social media there was a small outcry that I hadn’t chosen the headline “Lesbians Take Over the 2016 Emmys,” despite the fact that Kate McKinnon was the only winner who explicitly identifies as a lesbian. (In fact, Sarah Paulson is on record saying, “I refuse to give any kind of label just to satisfy what people need.”) The reasons the handful of dissenters gave for my decision to call the Emmys queer was that I am a lesbophobe, an espouser and executor of lesbophobia.

To be very honest with you, I shrugged it off. The most unwinnable battle we have at Autostraddle is labeling LGBTQ people in a way that satisfies everyone. It’s such a constant struggle, we laid out an explanation about labels in our official comment policy. Recently on a Pop Culture Fix, I wrote about the new queer characters coming to The Good Wife spin-off. One of them will be a lesbian, according to the show’s writers; the other’s sexuality has not been labeled. So, I said, “The Good Wife spin-off will prominently feature two lesbian, bisexual, gay, homosexual, or otherwise queer-identified women.” Just to cover all my bases because it was almost Christmas and I was tired and I didn’t want to have to argue about labels. And yet, the cries of lesbophobia came in again. I got a couple of emails, a dozen or so tweets. Essentially: “Lesbian is not a dirty word! Saying queer is lesbophobic!”

So, on December 26, I tweeted something I think is a true, fair, and accurate analogy:

Yelling “lesbophobia!” when someone says “queer” is like yelling “war on Christmas!” when someone says “happy holidays.” Come on, y'all.

A couple of days later, AfterEllen’s official Twitter tweeted at me and said: “@theheatherhogan oh, agreed. It’s like yelling “biphobia!” and “transphobia!” when someone says lesbian.“

To which beloved Autostraddle cartoonist Dickens replied:

“AfterEllen is three weeks shy of transforming their website into an online support group for victims of wyt lesbian genocide. This is honestly the most ridiculously entitled white lesbian coated petrified bullshit I have seen in a long time. And if you don’t think white supremacy has reached out its dirty little fingers and touched a few groups of marginalized white folks, well. Keep an eye on their feed here and there. Keep an eye on their former writers. They aren’t just trying to Make Lesbianism Great Again… They are asserting their strength. They are erasing the visibility of the defectors. They are sliding their salty little asses into spaces and feeds where they must know they are clearly not wanted or cared for. I was never a fan of AE but this new image they’re building for themselves is a little too Nazi-adjacent for my galaxy Blaaaack aaaass.”

Dickens was, of course, correct. And her point was proven once again the very next day when an article blasted out to the 125,000 followers of AfterEllen’s official, verified Twitter account cried: “Lesbian Spaces Are Still Needed, No Matter What the Queer Movement Says”. It suggests that trans women and bisexual women’s desire to be included in queer women’s spaces is to blame for the decline of lesbian-specific spaces, which lesbians need to stay safe from trans and bisexual women.

That kind of rallying cry feels very much like the “Save Our White Neighborhoods” rallying cry of the alt-right, so I went on a deeper dive to try to find the origins of what I called “the lesbophobia movement” on Twitter. And what I found was more horrifying than I ever imagined.

A few weeks ago AfterEllen — which everyone presumed dead after the company that owns it effectively fired everyone, including longtime editor in chief Trish Bendix — announced it had acquired a new editor named Memoree Joelle. In October, Joelle, tweeted a Change.org petition that she’d signed called Take the L Out of LGBT. The petition is a direct response to a previously failed petition that called for GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, HuffPo Voices, The Advocate, etc. to Drop The T from LGBT. The most popular supporter of the petition is a guy you might know called Milo Yiannopoulos. He signed it, tweeted about it, and dedicated 3,000 words to it in a post on Breitbart. Thanks to Milo’s urging, Matthew Hopkins, one of the main perpetrators of Gamergate, wrote a post called “Why #GamerGate Should Help the ‘Drop the T’ Campaign” on his personal blog. Hopkins called it “one of the most politically important campaigns of our generation.”

In addition to signing and tweeting about the petition, Joelle commented her approval. When former AfterEllen writer Elaine Atwell brought Joelle’s support of the petition to light, Joelle’s comments disappeared from the petition, and so did Elaine’s byline from the hundreds of articles she wrote over the last five years at AfterEllen.

The comments on the Change.org petition mention lesbophobia multiple times and equate it with trans activism, as do the subreddits that discussed Joelle’s contribution to the petition. “Part of lesbophobia is hating us for our same-sex attraction, but another very big part of it is hating us for our rejection of men,” one user wrote on /r/GenderCritical/. (Trans women are almost always referred to as men on this particular subreddit.) Another Redditor on /r/actuallesbians decried the “male entitlement and lesbophobia” of protesting the petition. “The moment we talk about your rape culture or your male violence we’re ‘transphobic’ or ‘biphobic.’” (The men in this comment are actually trans women and “rape culture” refers to the constantly espoused idea in TERF communities that trans women are male predators.) The lesbophobia tag on the blog GenderTrender is a deeply disturbing trip down an anti-trans rabbit hole. The lesbophobia tag on the website 4th Wave Now is horrifying; it equates allowing trans kids/teens to come out and live openly as their true gender with child abuse, ideas that are — again — shared with Breitbart and Milo Yiannopoulos. Reddit and Tumblr are absolutely flush with lesbians using the word “lesbophobia” to back up the ideas presented in these “Drop the T”/“The L Is Leaving” petitions.

These spaces that use the word “lesbophobia” to attack trans and bi women or people who use the word queer share more than than an ideology with Breitbart. You’ll find them saying things like “trans women want to colonize the lesbian community.” You’ll find them using the phrase “SJW” (meaning Social Justice Warrior), a pejorative term coined by the Men’s Rights Activist movement. And you’ll find a lot of talk about how the correct “biology” is the thing that allows people access to the protections of the majority. And lots and lots and lots and lots of just truly sickening propaganda leveled at trans and bi women. It’s very much about creating an in-group and scapegoating an out-group through tried and true tactics that have been — I’m sorry — utilized by Fox News and the alt-right for years.

I wrote about these things on Twitter, and you can read Dickens further unpacking them here and here. (You should read that last thread before you jump in here and call her “my black friend.”)

Look, we didn’t just wake up one day with an openly racist, openly sexist, openly xenophobic, openly ableist, openly anti-semitic president in the White House, appointing the leader of the most dangerous white supremacist website in history to his top advisor position. We watched blatant and unabashed white supremacist language and ideas slowly take over the movement from the inside. We watched the most powerful scapegoat the most vulnerable. We watched Fox News make heroes out of the white men who murdered unarmed black children and terrify people with their whole War on Christmas bullshit and equate all Muslims with terrorists. A Nazi didn’t walk into the West Wing and have a seat; the slow creep of white supremacy laid the path for him.

Vox did a fascinating interview with former conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes earlier this year. He quit over Trump. But the whole interview is him agonizing about how, to him, the GOP had always been about fiscal conservatism and states rights and he believed in that ideological purity so deeply that he fooled himself into believing that’s what the GOP was about to everybody, despite the fact that he saw the white supremacy and fascism slowly gaining power and momentum until it took over.

To realize, first of all, that you’re part of a movement that was not the movement you thought it was, that you’re aligned with people that you didn’t really understand you’re aligned with, and to realize that everything that you thought about the conservative intellectual infrastructure was really piecrust thin. You thought you had this big principled movement and then suddenly along comes Donald Trump and you realize that it was just was just the pastry on top. So I think disorienting is a great term. Disillusioning is not too strong either.

To me, what we’re talking about with lesbophobia is a similar thing. Is lesbophobia a term some lesbians have rallied around to protest the prejudice and bigotry that exist at the intersection of homophobia and misogyny? Yes, of course. Absolutely. HOWEVER. I had to go searching for people using the word lesbophobia like that because my entire experience with the way the word kept popping up in my timeline and in my comments and in the comments sections of other websites was to decry the use of the word queer and to espouse anti-trans and anti-bi ideology. And that includes every single person who landed in my mentions on Twitter when I started talking about this. I did not click on a single profile without finding anti-trans, anti-bi language; or ask a single person if they believe trans women are women and have them say yes.

If you are a woman who is using the word lesbophobia to NOT do those things, and you’re more angry at me for pointing out that it’s happening than you are at anti-trans/anti-bi people who have hijacked its meaning, I … I truly don’t understand. What’s happening at AfterEllen is terrifying me. Maybe the website is technically dead, but it still has clout and power and it’s using it to push some really dangerous ideas about lesbian exclusivity, and those ideas are shared by a very loud group of people who use the word “lesbophobia” on their blogs, social media, Reddit, etc. to vilify the people (like me) who stand against them.

I don’t want to cause anyone pain. I don’t want to make anyone feel unsafe or unloved or unaccepted. I DO NOT BELIEVE LESBIANS ARE NAZIS. I AM A LESBIAN. If you truly think that’s what I was saying when I unpacked these ideas on Twitter, I’m sorry. It was not my intention.

I do think, however, that it’s imperative for you to open your eyes to how the word lesbophobia is being used to persecute and oppress trans and bi women in very vocal and influential spaces that have direct ties in ideology and language with the alt-right.

[wolfie-bee]

Letter to Swen

Dear fellow swan queen shippers, 

I’m fairly new to the fandom but in the time I’ve spent shipping with you I have seen our hope for canon swan queen ebb and flow in magnificent tidal waves and then dwindle and fade only to flare again when we get so much as a simple line shared between Emma and Regina.

It’s quite fascinating.

We’ve got one of the most beautiful ships in existence.

It’s difficult shipping these two with the constant barrage of ignorance thrown our way but swan queen’s interactions (no matter how minuscule) seem to hold a well of emotions and words left unsaid.

And that is where we came in.

We bring them to life through beautiful fan art, fan fictions, fan videos and well thought out metas that are so brilliant in their complexity that they manage to explain the writers’ incompetence.

This fandom is full of strong, resilient, powerful people who took a show like once upon a time and saw the potential for one of the greatest love stories to ever be told.

Validation would be icing on this already perfect cake but this fandom can and has existed independent of and regardless of what the writers say.

It’s such a beacon of hope, it’s a part of us, of people who are different and can actually see themselves in both Emma Swan and Regina Mills individually and the beauty that they are when they’re paired together.

They keep claiming swan queen was and still is unintentional so let’s never stop claiming it for our own, for ourselves.

Let us be loud and bold with our opinions even down to the last minute of this show.

Let’s claim our happy ending with this ship regardless of how things end.

Because the show may end and fade away but swan queen will always be something powerful that has inspired so many of us in our daily lives.

Keep on shippin’!

Viva La Swan Queen

[mulderitsme]

#when Lana finally sees the gay

[lexa-kom-skaikru]

Do you know what I most love about Swan Queen fics?

Is that all of them still have this season 1  and 2 vibe to them with all the character being well written and IN character.

These people write the show better and for free while the writers of Ouat are paid to do a stinking job at it.

[winonasforever]

oncers on tumblr: *sinning peacefully* this is great, it’s like our own little private party, it’s not like twitter where the cast might see us-

rebecca mader:

[bexmader]

Oops😜💚

[smashing-yng-man]

[cherylblossom]

[scarimor-deactivated20180521]

Lana has never got over TV banning her favourite Evil Queen Dress

[dianarox22]

WHICH DRESS DID THEY BAN? The one from the pilot?

[swanqueenisendgameyo]

This one

[ashermajestywishes]

That is a work of art.

[pinkrabbitpro]

Yes, it is. Getting that kind of fit with such a textured fabric is a pain in the ass, particularly the fit around the breasts and hips, then the tuck and flare into that skirt. The draping and cutting is just amazing.

[ashermajestywishes]

I wonder if it’s corseted on the inside to maintain the shape. Either way, everything about that dress is gorgeous. It screams labor of love between the artists making it and the model wearing it. 

[pinkrabbitpro]

There’s definitely an understructure there, but I would bet it’s more along the lines of some carefully constructed padding/fabric stiffeners. Obviously the shoulders are built out, I suspect the hips are as well, and very probably the underbust to get the fabric to appear to conform so perfectly to her breasts/ribcage. Added to which, in my experience the kinds of sheer used in the center panel really don’t hold up to the kind of pressure used in corsets. Plus, depending on the fabric, texture cloth doesn’t always play well with boning (you can get weird lines/pull marks).

And yes, it’s a very gorgeous piece, but then, much of Lana’s wardrobe is impressive, and the woman knows how to work the different silhouettes they give her. I literally cannot think of another character in film/TV who’s had so many different silhouettes/shapes, from the Evil Queen who’s all hips and boobs (short of a big, animated, neon sign that says, “BEWBS!” pointing at her chest, it couldn’t get more dramatic), to S1 Mayor Mills who’s gets some decolletage, but is much sleaker and sharper edged to current Regina who’s more fashionable with a line that’s softer, but also broader, and more like the queen in the way she commands space, though they give her a lot of layers and shadows. It’s really interesting because they have to do it all within the practical requirements of not freezing her to death in the really cold climate. lol.

The irony is they’re doing it with a relatively small woman whose measurements aren’t particularly dramatic, though she does have the single most perfect bust shape coming off the sternum I’ve seen. Perfect, even with just the right fall. It’s no wonder they use it to control where we look so often.

And now that I’ve said more than I intended, I’ll slip back into my cave. heh…pardon the ex frock tart geekout.

[knockfivetimes]

Straight Person: I like to watch tv shows to get away from reality :))))))

TV shows:

(article source)

[autostraddle]

All 65 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died | Autostraddle

65 women who've suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

[diudiudiu]

When the fandom made Elyza Lex

never change, y’all.

[mindythedyke-deactivated2021112]

It’s NOT just a tv show

When a tv show or movie bring good things to the people and makes they be better: Wow, look at that, it’s revolutionary! you see? we can change the world with culture! When a tv show or movie spread misogyny, racism or homophobia: You don’t like it? GO WATCH SOMETHING ELSE! God! it’s just a tv show! stop being so loud.

Tv shows and movies are part of culture. And culture affect lives. deeply.

[fratboykate]

Why we matter

Someone just sent me this amazing post from a PR expert on a Reddit in the The1OO subreddit. I’m sharing it so we can also get their insight here. If you didn’t trust me or thought I was exaggerating about the importance of making this happen tonight and how we can make things change, then trust an expert who seems pretty unbiased:

As a PR professional, I will say something that may not be well-recieved here, but it is categorically true: Jason Rothenberg’s handling of the fallout after Lexa’s death has been atrocious. I say that as a PR manager who has coached hundreds of small businesses.

Watching Jason this past week has been professional torture.

He has literally done nothing right when it comes to handling a PR crisis, so either he has some HORRIBLE advice on his side of the fence, or he is ignoring the counsel he is getting and sticking to his mental high ground.

I love The 100 and hope for success, but Jason is digging his own grave at this point–and this would be the case if he was dealing with ANY upset demographic.

If Jason was Coca-Cola and 10% of buyers reported getting urine in their cans of Coke after a certain shipment and all Coca-Cola did was post rave reviews about their new recipe, then COCA-COLA WOULD HAVE A PR PROBLEM that would systemically grow for as long as it remained unaddressed.

Jason, categorically, has a big-ass problem, which he is choosing to avoid and dismiss. This is something you CAN’T do when you are in his position over a product (The 100).

And while the disenfranchised group has become overly aggressive at times and crossed lines, I think their core movement is sound.

Their message is: It’s 2016 and we will no longer support shows that turn them into a trope for the sake of plot. They deserve better.

Sure, lesbian characters are killed off all the time on TV, but for some reason, Lexa was the tipping point for a lot of lesbians. The show rode Lexa hard, gave her more screen time than casted regulars, promoted her and the sapphic relationship with Clarke hard, and engaged Lexa’s fanbase to recruit and trend for the show.

How can these people NOT feel used? They categorically were, by definition. In PR, they’re called a “street team”–which is a group of passionate volunteers who work out of love for the project and really get no other payoff, other than the occasional thanks, shout out, or access to the product.

Jason had two active street teams in Clexa and Bellarke shippers. He encouraged them both to trend for him even as he disavowed shipping.

In short, Jason played a dangerous PR game and he lost. Hard core.

Ask any PR professional anywhere about how he’s acted this past week and watch their blood pressure rise. It’s textbook bad.

Conversely, Alycia was a class act in putting her limited tweets out there after the episode aired, and the episode writer has spent every moment since the episode started airing listening and responding.

Here we are a week later, and Javi has largely re-earned the trust of LGBT individuals in becoming the showrunner for Xena, while Jason is sitting where he’s sitting.

The way I see it, Jason is eating his own karma with this revolt. Handling this well was an option and he didn’t choose it.

So I choose to be academic about what happens next.

Can these kids–because these are quite literally teenagers, college students, and twenty-somethings that are mostly in revolt–take down a show in order to send a message to the ENTIRE entertainment community that they are done being nothing more than stepping stones in storytelling?

That would be amazing and historic if they pulled that off. The odds are decidedly against them, but if they’re loud enough the CW will have to consider two options:

Cancel The 100.

Remove Jason as showrunner based on his poor judgment in both creating and handling this situation. (On a business level, it simply cannot be repeated in other creative decisions and responses.)

Again, that’s just me talking from my head and not my heart. The 100 is my favorite show on TV, but…as showrunners have been saying all week: “It’s only a show.”

What’s happening on Tumblr and in the lives of a marginalized community is real, and should I really value the future of a show over social progress in the real world?

I don’t know that I can. So I’ll watch if the show continues on, but I will applaud the LGBT community if they ultimately unite enough to be heard and responded to.

Get other fandoms involved. Get the community involved. We can show them queerbaiting is over as of today.

The tweet for tonight: “LGBT fans deserve better. Lexa deserved better. Our community deserved better @TheCW @TheCW_PR #CWcancelThe1OO”

[lexamatters]

Last night, “LGBT fans deserve better” trended for 7 hours, worldwide, in the US, UK, Brazil, France and several other countries. We reached #4 spot Worldwide and 274k tweets by the end of the night.

It was an effort started by Clexa fandom that many others joined in  - fans who like us, feel it’s time for a change and want to speak up for positive representation in the media. And yes, it was also a form of protest that coincided with the airing of episode 308 of The1OO - not an attack, just a community standing up for ourselves. And we did:

The Leskru WW fundraiser raised over $15k in just one day, and over $30k total for the Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is the only national organization providing suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in crisis. The Trevor Project serves more than 100,000 LGBTQ youth every year.

Jason Rothenberg’s only response to this massive and overwhelmingly positive movement was a tweet calling out “bullies, cowards and trolls” (Retweet has since been deleted).

No, Jason. You lose. You lost our support, our respect and you lost a funny, smart, engaged, creative fandom that helped promote the show for a year.

[helebette]

What Clexa fans have accomplished in push-back against JRoth’s fridging of a lesbian character is amazing. Please do not listen to people who tell you to play nicer or be conciliatory. Wishing for something to change won’t make it change. Pushing will. SWEN could learn from this. Don’t interfere and don’t tell people to ‘calm down.’ This fandom is accomplishing something massive. 

see the patterns. don’t fall for the damage control tactics. don’t listen to the moronic writer who pushed JRoth’s ‘vision’ through only to beg us to watch his Xena reboot. Unless they show that they’re going to do better–that’s when support is warranted.