#blodkru

[blodkru]

AND ANOTHER THING

The 100 should have ended after season 5. You can't change my mind.

"End of Book One" AND THEN THE REST OF IT SUCKED ASS.

[isweartobreathe]

BFSN

So I think this is the final BFSN now that The 100 is over? 

Idk but I was tagged by @immortalpramheda (thank you!) for this so thought I would share some thoughts I have on the season finale under the cut (so read at your own risk if you don’t want this show spoiled!) 

Thanks to these people for giving my dash some amazing t100 content, and I hope it sticks around a little while 

@katersann @together-is-my-favourite-place @blodkru 

I’ve seen a lot of negativity/hate towards the show for seasons 6 and 7, and rightly so I guess. Maybe more so towards season 7 (because it is not how A N Y O N E saw it going).

So all the negativity towards the show, I completely understand. 

The preceding seasons were all about (in relation to Bellarke) the heart and the head, and saving the human race, and saving “our people” (all depending on who you actually were defined who “your” people were, and I guess we were part of the delinquents fam so they were our people). And I get that. I do. I really do.

Up until the end of season 6, I thought Bellarke would be endgame, or at least that he wouldn’t fucking D I E, at the hands of Clarke no less. And that they would finally get peace, WHILST saving the human race and their humanity. 

And I still think, if we go back to the end of season 5, that’s where it all SHOULD have been going. The way it ended I feel is an injustice to what Monty asked for - to do better. 

If I think about how this show SHOULD have gone, it would have gone back to Sanctum, Bellamy would have saved Clarke from Josephine, it would have been the end of the Primes (because that’s not how it should have been anyway, literally just looked like the privileged maintaining their lives whilst killing their followers in the process), Madi would have lost the Flame, Sheidheda would never have come back through Russell, Skaikru/Wonkru would have lived as happily and as peacefully as possible with the people of Sanctum on Sanctum, Hope would have grown up as she should have on Sanctum and not through some crazy time warp on Penance/Skyring, and it would have all just been one big, peaceful, happy family.

But instead we got whatever the fuck seasons 6 and 7 were. I mean to be fair, season 6 made a lot more sense than 7 did (and there were no ridiculous deaths either, unless you really wanted Abby and Kane around still but honestly they were past their use-by date at that point so I was glad they died in one way or another.) 

I can completely understand the anger and frustration of everyone who watched the season 7 finale, and ultimately the end of the show.

But if you judge it on what was actually shown, it wasn’t half bad. 

I mean, Bellamy still shouldn’t have fucking died at the hands of Clarke (who didn’t even go back for Madi’s sketchbook like his death meant nothing oh my god) but the rest of it...I didn’t mind it if I take a step back for a minute and see what we were given appreciate that as best as possible.

But what I really wanted to say in all this, was that Clarke (I think it was Clarke, I can’t remember in amongst all my crying) said something along the lines of “I don’t deserve to live, is that it?” and in my super depressed state (that I wasn’t even fucking sure I was in) something in me snapped. It’s like she spoke my thoughts that I’ve been trying so damn hard to block out or ignore. And I cried. I cried so hard. I couldn’t stop crying. I’m still struggling to not cry some more. 

I got to a point where 5min after the line was even said, I kept crying again and again and I couldn’t tell if I was still crying because of that line triggering me or if it was from the show itself. Because by that point, Clarke was alone. She told Madi to go and transcend despite her fighting to stay. Clarke was alone, and then Picasso (bless her soul) came running to her, and they went to Earth. And then Picasso ran off, and Clarke thought she was all alone again. And then judgey Lexa came and showed her everyone who decided to return. 

And then Lexa said they can’t procreate and so once they all die, there are no more humans. 

And that is an entirely fucked up ending.

I wish that’s not how it ended and I would very much like someone to do some super budget re-make of the final 2 seasons and make it B E T T E R.

[blodreina-noumou]

Me again. Was there ever a moment where you thought "y'know maybe Octavia isn't that good of a character?" I've had plenty of people ask me especially after she burned the greenery down so I'm curious what you think.

Hmmm...I guess it depends on which definition of “good” we’re going with. Are we talking about her being a good person, or a compelling character? Because I do think there’s a difference, and I think that difference is part of what allowed me to ride out the low points of Octavia’s story arc - the burning of the hydrofarm being, perhaps, the lowest.

Octavia has definitely struggled with being a good person, but I think all of the other characters have, too. What separates Octavia from a characters like Bellamy or Clarke is her willingness and insistence in being a weapon, in directly getting her hands dirty. Because of that, I think the blood on her hands is a bit brighter, even though she has a pretty similar body count to her brother and to Clarke. Her “crimes” are harder to ignore.

But at the same time, Octavia has never killed for pleasure or purely for personal gain. She’s killed out of self-defense, as a soldier in war, as an assassin, and as a tyrant forcing survival cannibalism - all definitely fucked-up reasons to kill, but very similar to the reasons everyone else has killed, too. She’s certainly not bad in the way McCreary was, despite the way some in fandom like to view her.

So do I think Octavia is a good person? Yes, and no, much in the way I view pretty much every other character on this show. We’re talking about mass murderers and colonizers and warlords, after all. “Good” is very relative.

But I find her struggle very compelling to watch. If she was always making the right decisions, if she was perfect and never made any mistakes, she wouldn’t be nearly as interesting. Watching her fall and then rise again is part of what makes her one of the better characters on this show, imo.

I feel sad for her when she makes mistakes, when she loses herself. I don’t think the worst things she’s done - mercilessly beating up a bound Bellamy, burning down the hydrofarm, and shooting the non-compliant people in the bunker - are good choices, and it hurts to see her do those things. But even as it hurts, I can’t look away.

Ultimately, this is a show full of gray characters. What draws us to one or the other is really hard to say, and I think it’s totally different for everyone. I can’t really explain, for example, why I love Octavia but find myself frustrated by Clarke. So I do understand why some people just can’t get behind Octavia, and don’t like her.

But I don’t think that makes her a bad person, or any worse than the other mains. They’ve all got a metric ton of blood on their hands, and some of them haven’t even had to do the work to earn redemption the way she has. 

That alone makes her a good character to me, even if her moral compass has been wonky at times.

[clarkgriffon]

The Blakes // Hades and Medusa AU for @blodkru

[butterflymorbid]

My son, I have nothing I can give. But this chance you may live.

I pray we’ll meet again.

If He will deliver us!

-Deliver Us, The Prince of Egypt.

May We Meet Again.

[blodkru]

Y'know what it's been almost 6 years and I am STILL mad about the show's ending. Look me in the fcking eyes and tell me the show runners and writers did the best they could! You can't!

[blodkru]

Clarke is Eurydice and Bellamy is Orpheus send tweet

[blodkru]

Can't believe I have to say this but it's showing one my dash so here we go.

Racism, homophobia, and biphobia have no place in this or any fandom.

I don't care about the Arryn/Bob situation because I have other things to worry about right now. I don't care who you side with or who you believe as long as you aren't attacking anyone IRL or online.

I have seen some racist ass comments towards Bob. If you are using this situation to justify or make racist comments about Filipinos, get out. Just log out and find something else for you to do. Literally go dig a hole and sit in it until you realize how fucked that is. I don't care that you hate him or are feeling what you feel, you do not get to do that. With the things that are going on in the world right not (US especially) the last thing we need is you making racist comments and content.

There are people who are once again attacking Eliza for being straight and in a hetero relationship and saying she deserves all this hate and again the miscarriage. Disgusting. Even it Eliza was bisexual, bi people can be in opposite-sex relationships. Why is that so hard to get? And guess who is bi? Arryn. The person who some of you are claiming you loved from the start but I know for a damn fact you hated on her for nothing before.

And no this isn't because I ship anyone or "you're just mad canon doesn't fit into your hetero normative bullshit".

I AM LITERALLY BISEXUAL AND QUEER. I want more LGBT+ characters and representation but targeting an actor for not being what you want them to be is not how to do it.

I'm just so angry at how ugly some people can get.