Sure, Whatever You Say

Just a place to dump my

[keyofjetwolf]

HI THERE WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FEELINGS

HOW ABOUT HOW GABRIELLE SAYS THIS WITH SUCH SINCERITY HOW SHE’S ALREADY PROMISING TO NEVER LEAVE XENA’S SIDE BECAUSE THAT’S HOW CERTAIN SHE IS THAT XENA IS A CHAMPION AND FORCE FOR GOOD

HOW ABOUT THE LOOK IN XENA’S EYES AS SHE TURNS AND YOU CAN FUCKING FEEL HOW DESPERATELY SHE WANTS TO BELIEVE THAT GABRIELLE BELIEVES IN HER HOW MUCH SHE WANTS AND NEEDS THE LOVE AND COMPANIONSHIP THAT GABRIELLE’S OFFERING DESPITE ALL HER GRUMPINESS AND BLUSTER

HOW ABOUT THE LITTLE SMILE GABRIELLE GIVES XENA THAT SAYS SHE MEANS IT

HOW ABOUT THE LOOK XENA GIVES HER AT THE END THAT SAYS HOW MUCH SHE ALREADY LOVES GABRIELLE AND IT’S BEEN TEN MINUTES

[madegeeky]

Xena needs so fucking badly for someone to believe that she can be good because she sure as fuck doesn’t believe it and Gabrielle is exactly who she needs and I love the fact that Gabrielle has known Xena for a total for five fucking minutes and she’s already basically ride or die. 

Xena meanwhile is that meme: “I’ve only known Gabrielle for five minutes but IF ANYTHING HAPPENED TO HER I WOULD KILL EVERYONE ELSE IN THIS ROOM AND THEN MYSELF.” 

[kalliopephoenix]

Xena: Warrior Princess 4x3 | A Family Affair

[xenainnuendoisland]

A bit of an underrated moment, which makes sense if you know the context. But what I like about this moment is how “off” it feels. Like you’re left feeling like “that’s it?” and the scene comes across as shallow. Despite Xena’s clear emotion, there’s a lack of warmth and feeling here. 

And for a brief moment, you might wonder if Lucy and Renée were phoning it in. But then the reveal happens and this scene makes more sense. You realize that Lucy and Renée actually managed to create a different dynamic here. This scene compared with the actual reunion scene is like night and day. And yet its the same actors. But not the same characters which makes all the difference.

Xena and Gabrielle would have a reunion that’s filled with love, but this is not Gabrielle. 

[xenainnuendoisland]

[xenainnuendoisland]

Do you ever just cry because of Gabrielle’s character arc? She started out so naïve and wide-eyed, saying that she wanted to grow up to be just like Xena. And while her admiration for Xena never diminished her understanding of what it meant to be Xena - to be a warrior like her. 

The more Gabrielle traveled, the more she saw, the more she fought, the more she realized that Xena’s heroism was not without a price. Fighting changed things, killing changed everything, and living on the battlefront sometimes necessitated terrible impossible choices. 

After a while the prospect of giving up so many of her original ideals scared Gabrielle, so she ran away. Tried to give up the fighting and killing. Tried to walk a path of love and peace. But then there was always Xena.

Xena who Gabrielle couldn’t forsake even if she wanted to forsake the path that following Xena had set her on. Gabrielle couldn’t leave Xena’s side, even though she knew that anyone who traveled with Xena had to fight. It came down to another impossible choice, so Gabrielle chose Xena and never looked back. 

It was following that path, which Gabrielle called friendship, that led to the fulfillment of Gabrielle’s original wish - that she grow up to be just like Xena. To be a warrior like her. Year after year, season after season, Gabrielle gave up more and more and increasingly became a warrior. 

That’s why the end of the show is so haunting - Gabrielle gets exactly what she wanted from the start, but ultimately it isn’t what she wants anymore at all. She is as capable as Xena, as skilled and even as ruthless and unflinching as her. 

And, yet, all she could want in the world is to go back to being that naïve and wide-eyed little girl that Xena found in Potiedaea. The one Xena fell in love with all those years ago. It’s a shocking reversal and one that is so carefully wrought over so many years. 

(original tags via youstartedoutrandom)

[deirdressart]

<3 good night

[incorrect-xena-quotes]

Ares: I wonder how I am introduced in myths?

Gabrielle: “And then there was this asshole”

[cylonalyna]

It’s true.

[lucyllawless]

#you know the phrase “marry someone you want to annoy forever” #that’s xena

[regicidal-defenestration]

Much of Xena can be boiled down to "if you want to date me you may have to defeat my seven evil exes"

[pussyhoundspock]

it's crazy how many gaycoded things gabrielle has said not even half way through the pilot. like okay lesbian clark kent whatever you say ...

[gabyluvsxena]

and it wasn't even intentionally written that way yet!

[pussyhoundspock]

slutshaming xena for her murders is lowk crazy work

[k-wame]

she’ll make your puny dc & marvel gods eat their own shit brov

[girl4music]

Someone asked who would win in a fight between Xena and Buffy and honestly I just had to laugh. 🤭

[yinza]

It occurred to me that I'd never actually drawn these two together, so I decided fixing that would be a good way to end Pride Month.

[Image Description: Digital artwork of Xena and Gabrielle, shown from the waist up. Xena wears her standard armor, while Gabrielle has her short hair and red-and-brown outfit from Season 5. Xena is dipping Gabrielle in a kiss, and Gabrielle has one hand cupping the back of Xena's head while the other is flung across her shoulders. /end ID]

[flipomatic]

[warrior-princess-freak]

[fazedlight-deactivated20251111]

Gabrielle has seen hatred - shaken by seeing it wear her own face - and doesn't know how to end the cycle of violence.

Xena doesn't know how the cycle ends. But she knows Gabrielle keeps away her own darkness.

[friendlyfreakazoid]

This show is fr gonna be the death of me bruh how can some shit like this just happen with no warning 😭😭😭😭

[myguiltypleasureiolausnerdy]

[regicidal-defenestration]

The man-eating crabs are my new favourite Xena side characters. They move and act a lot like regular crabs except the editing is working overtime to try and convince you that they're about to eat this woman alive