#bellarke stan

[willstardis]

If you claim to love a ship then unironically and actively drags one of the parts involved and also thinks one character deserves much better than the other you’re a total loser.

#that’s why your ship will never be famous #reylo #wangxian #tenrose #(this one’s for exposure. we all know that *ahem* ninerose stans are the weird ones when it comes to rose) #ineffable husbands #byler #thasmin #captain swan #aziracrow #victuuri #clarke griffin #bellarke #tenth doctor #rose tyler #bellamy blake #will byers #mike wheeler #twevleclara #clara oswald #doctor who #star wars #crowley #aziraphale #stranger things

[the100isracist]

Idk if yall are still active but I just eagerly quit this show around early season two. I was kinda hate watching the whole way, but I started googling spoilers when I saw how fucked they were being to Lincoln and Raven (and more, but they’re my faves). Do you have any show recs that are similar with the shows “building a new civilization after tragedy” (minus the colonization and racism etc)

hey!

i actually binged the entire show recently and i can confidently say it was not as groundbreaking or cool as the showrunner believed. the first 2 seasons were incredible but it just devolved into a mess and the ending was so dark and horrifying. also the fandom was completely unhinged and did not need to act the way they did 😭

onto your question: yes!!!! battlestar galactica is what inspired me to watch the 100 in the first place. it very much shares the themes of mass tragedy, civilizational warfare, living in space, seeking a new home, and humanity fighting for survival without losing its soul. start with the 2003 miniseries (a three hour pilot) tho or it might be confusing. it also has diversity without the weird racist tones of the 100's diversity, although the cast is a lot whiter. the 100 has also obviously borrowed a lot of concepts and terms from it but i don't want to spoil you. all in all, it is one of the best shows i have ever watched and it delivers until its very last second.

lost in space is also quite cool. and i have heard good things about the expanse! another show that shares some themes (without the space element) is the society - very fascinating

#i have also changed my mind on a few things rewatching as a full blown adult without any fandom influences #octavia - not abusive until her annoying blodreina shit but she was traumatized whatever #clarke - yes manipulative but she really believed she was doing it for everyones good and was the first to let herself suffer for others #no one was perfect ever #everyone fucked up hard and the fandom's insistence on making everything black and white was so toxic #it was just more complex than teen stans could stomach #for example. bellamy killing the sleeping army was wrong. but for clexas to extrapolate that grounders = natives and skypeople = colonizers #girls what??? lol #and similarly the insistence that bellamy is a white man so could feel better hating him?? soooo ridiculous #similarly.... bellarkes did set themselves up for disappointment when they chose not to believe the showrunner about it being platonic 24/7 #and lexa was really never bad like even when she left their asses to die i get why... people were just mad about clexa #all this to say everyone would be better off if they watched it with a more rational neutral detached lens and didnt make it about idpol #this includes me lol #the racism was real the homophobia was real and the fans amplified both to insane degrees #the end!

[frecklesandfanfics]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41344227/chapters/103671987

Octavia leans over the counter with her eyes sparkling: “My brother thinks you’re cute,” she sing-songs.

Clarke stammers: “Wh-what?” as she pulls a shot of espresso. Her heart does a little flutter, a two-step.

“He asked me literally five jillion questions about you last night.”

Jasper glances at Octavia over Clarke’s head. “Do you know the meaning of the word literally?”

Octavia pelts him with a wadded-up napkin. “Do you know the meaning of a private conversation?”

#light my fire #bellarke #bellamy blake #fanfic #clarke fucking griffin #octavia blake #firefighter Bellamy blake #barista Clarke griffin #Octavia blake the number one bellarke Stan #coffee shop au #meet cute #background Jasper Harper and Murphy #awkward flirting #ch 1 of 2 #jackie writes!

[izloveshorses]

clarke really said i'm the only one allowed to be annoyed with bellamy actually, if anyone touches him i will run u over with my car, btw

#bellarke #the 100 #clarke griffin #iz watches t100 #number one bel stan <33

[kimikofrenchie]

was there ever as funny a result of the ship war to fandom injoke pipeline as bellamy bradbury blake

#bellamy blake #bellamy bradbury blake #the 100 #bellarke #bc it WAS a ship thing #s3 bellamy stans were in the trenches #my text #don’t know if this was just my corner of tloo fandom but man that was gold

[kayrma]

clexapro: for post-bury your gays depression

#dw i'm still a bellarke stan #but this was too funny to not post #clexa #bury your gays #karla speaks

[a-strange-inkling]

Omg I saw you’re Bellarke reblog and I stan you and your page even more now knowing you ship them we were so robbed…

lol we’re really here for the dark curly haired men and their short blonde girls

Aw! ❤️

I know! I honestly can’t even talk about how bitter I am about the ending of that show, I can’t even rewatch it! I have to mind my blood pressure lol but Roth is an absolute sadist! The slowest slow burn of slow burns just to end it like that.

Yes! We do be shipping chaotic dark haired men with their short blonde baddies (and it always ends tragically 😭)

#bellarke #to this day #to this day! #it’s one thing not to give us a happy ending #but i will NEVER forgive them for what they did to bellamy #the character assasination was unreal

[handlewithcharacter]

I was reading your tags for Kara/Lena and Drarry and got so curious about the supergirl fandom what happened??? Was the supergirl actress homophobic?? The one who was in glee and that’s why she wasn’t?!?

OH MY GOD OKAY I AM SO SORRY FOR WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN

The place? San Diego Comic Con. The year? 2017. Everything seems normal. Casts of shows are doing interviews, cracking jokes, it's a good time. And then the Supergirl cast are interview by MTV. And Jeremy Jordan sings a little musical recap of the previous season, in which he jokes that Kara and Lena are just friends. Well, I say joked...he very enthusiastically insists they're just friends. It is, shall we say, tactless. The cast seems surprised but are all laughing to various extents. Later on in the interview they're asked about shipping, and Jeremy Jordan says he's probably going to get some hate for his having "debunked Supercorp." Melissa Benoist tells him that he's "very brave."

Thus ends the part of this story that physically takes place at Comic Con 2017, but the real drama is just getting started.

(the page break is here for dramatic effect, but also because this somehow got very long)

You have to understand, anon, this is in between the second and third seasons of Supergirl. Karamel (Kara and Mon-El) were season 2's highly divisive power couple and the Karamel stans were making it everyone's business to know they had come out of the season on top. And you'd think they'd be in the midst of a great ship war with Karolsen (Kara and James) who decided to just be friends at the start of the season, but nope! No, their big enemy was the Supercorp fans. It was heated. It was tense. There was a block list that got circulated.

I'd say the Supergirl ship wars were the worst I'd ever encountered, but I would go on to join the Timeless fandom, and learned the very hard lesson of why small fandoms and ship wars should not mix. That being said, I'd put the Supercorp/Karamel drama as worse than the Clexa/Bellarke drama, if that helps put things into context for you at all.

So, suffice it to say, the internet was in upheaval over this.

Since I was firmly on the Supercorp side of the Supercorp/Karamel divide at the time, I can't say with much certainty how Karamel shippers reacted, though I assume they were pleased with themselves. But Supercorp fans were not okay. See, anon, I don't know when you started your journey into fandom, but in case it was after this, 2017 was a much different time. Lesbian ships weren't really shipped with the intention of them becoming canon since it was only recently that lesbian ships had started becoming canon, and wlw fandom spaces were all still reeling from the Great Lesbian Purge of 2016, in which roughly 40% of the canon queer women on television were killed off during the television season. (To this day I will watch shows and a queer woman will unexpectedly die for seemingly only shock value, and I'll be horrified, until I see the date the episode aired. Spring of 2016? Yeah, that tracks. Deep sigh. Lost another one to the Bury Your Gays.) Lesbian ships did not have the strength in canon that straight ships had, or the mainstream nerd appeal that gay male ships had. Not only did you have to contend with bitter ship wars, you had to contend with everyone telling you that you shouldn't be shipping the ship in the first place, that having a vested interest in a ship that would never happen was a lost cause and a question of sanity. To be a fan of a wlw ship was to be shut down at every single turn when you weren't even asking to go down the road and were just looking to see a potential view.

(Supercorp was far from the only ship to ever have to put up with this. If you take a look at fandom history, you'll see this countless times. Heck, the Xena fans who wanted Xena to end up with Ares were very determined that the lesbians would not overtake their show.)

But for some people, Supercorp was their first wlw ship. Their first queer community. Their first validation that it wasn't wrong to look at the main character of an incredibly popular show and wonder what it would be like if she kissed her same-gender best friend. I sincerely hope, anon, that whatever flavor you may favor, you have found that kind of validation in your media. It's liberating.

And now here you had Jeremy Jordan and Melissa Benoist "debunking" the myth that Kara and Lena could ever have feelings for each other. In all ways except physical, it was like the Supercorp fandom had just participated in the ice bucket challenge. And, whether it was as part of the Supergirl fandom or elsewhere, the Supercorp fans had already been through hell. It got ugly. Then there were memes. Then there was a lot of hate tweeting. Then there were people yelling about the hate tweeting. Mostly everyone was just a weird mix of angry and sad. These were two actors, two of the leads on this show, engaging in this behavior. It was a gut punch when everyone was already down.

Friday night, Jeremy Jordan releases an apology. It's not really an apology. It's an "I'm sorry you're upset" with a lot of condemnation and self defense. It has the general vibes that we'd describe in 2023 as "it's not that deep," but instead of addressing it to the fans, he condescendingly addresses it "Hey Kids."

Yeah, he'd spend the weekend regretting that.

Sunday, Jeremy Jordan would put out another apology. It was a sincere one this time, admitting he messed up and didn't truly understand the implications of what he was saying or the deep roots of homophobia in fandom culture. Most people accepted this - he was an idiot who made a mistake. Time would tell if he made it again. (Spoiler alert: he did not.) Some people, however, are still mad.

And then there was Melissa Benoist. Mind you, I don't think she personally acknowledged any of this at all. But her publicist sent out a statement (according to the fact checking I'm doing as I write this, it was in a private email to a fan, who then posted the response to tumblr) that Melissa was a proven ambassador of LGBT acceptance, as shown by her work on Glee. Uh, yeah. So that became a meme.

This, more or less, is where our story ends, unless you count a since-deleted Blind Item put out by TVLine that may or may not have been about the cast of Supergirl (but was heavily speculated to be about the cast of Supergirl) in which someone overheard two actors fighting before an interview the following day about one of their behavior, that ended when the other said "I just can't talk about this right now." (I am so bummed I cannot link this article, anon, you have no idea.) (The leading theory was that Katie McGrath, who of course came to Supergirl already having amassed a sizable queer following from her role in Merlin and also possibly her role in Dracula, gave Mr. Jordan a piece of her mind about what was and wasn't acceptable to say to a queer fan.)

And that's my tale. In addition to the season they were promoting, the cast of Supergirl would go on to do four more seasons and manage to get out of the Arrowverse without overstaying their welcome or being cancelled unceremoniously. And they moved on. Jeremy Jordan went back to New York, where he returned to Broadway and Off-Broadway and he's soon to be Off-Off-Broadway in the premiere of The Great Gatsby: the Musical. He also along the way ended up playing one of Hallmark's very first gay main characters. Katie McGrath went on to be a bisexual character on an Irish show, do the audiobook narration for a lesbian period romance novel, and is a masked evil lady in the new John Wick tv show. And Melissa Benoist went on to do a lot of incredible things in her personal life that don't necessarily belong in this little essay I've written here.

Genuinely, I wish everyone in that cast all the best.

Anon, I am so sorry this got as long as it did. I hope this answered your question!

#tl;dr it was a bunch of silly drama #and no one is actually homophobic #also me saying melissa did incredible stuff in her personal life isn't tongue in cheek or anything #I just didn't want to muddle those accomplishments by making them some kind of redeeming end to this story #because it's not relevant #and also her story doesn't need redeeming #this was wild drama but it was also just a moment #so please do not take away from this that i think any of them are bad people or anything to that effect #can't believe i can spend two hours fiercely dedicated to writing this but not any of the actual essays i have to write #would you believe i actually took out a whole little tangent? #it was about agents of sheild and skimmons #god i have to wake up in like four hours #asks

[slowburnsucker]

Anyone else still pinching themselves?? Like I always hoped this would be Jiara’s season but like never did I expect it to be to this extent. I’m just so shook by the sheer amount of content we’ve already gotten and all the stuff we haven’t even seen yet! Idk sometimes I just have to remind myself it’s actually happening and it’s not just stuff we’ve all made up based on one blurry bts shot haha -thoughts from a traumatized Bellarke stan

#jiara #like we actually won #my brain can’t comprehend #obx3 #jj x kiara #outer banks

[bettykissme]

I was watching a video of someone reacting to lexa's death for the first time and the comments as always are full of queer people remembering how they felt when they saw it and like two bellarke shippers who are there to??? Make a point of how their ship is better I guess???? Although their argument of at least Bellamy isn't dead does not work anymore (so sad for you guys) but the thing is that somehow SUPERCORP??????? got brought up as the most toxic ship ever when a bellarke fan felt attacked because a Clexa shipper replied to them saying that bellarkes were annoying (true) and toxic (I don't agree with this one tbf)

Like I get it supercorp is a popular non Canon ship so bellarkes relate to us but why the fuck would you just bring supercorp up when it had nothing to do with the usual bellarke vs clexa fight????? Like what is this even

Anyways stay mad I guess??????????

I'm not saying some shippers can't be toxic but that is in every fandom

And yes supercorps are annoying but at least we aren't straight can't say the same thing for bellarkes so that's double homicide

anyways stan dansen and memori for a peaceful existence you will go to heaven 100%

#like what did they think they were doing #what was the point????? #free attack on supercorp for breakfast I guess #bellarke #clexa #supercorp #kara danvers #lena luthor #clarke griffin #bellamy blake #lexa kom trikru

[commanderlexaofthegrounders]

Someone on Reddit made an excellent point about Bellarke and I WISH someone would throw it in the Greasies faces during one of their ridiculous ramblings about how meant to be they were: nothing was actually stopping them from being together after Lexa was killed. If they were so meant to be, why did Clarke hook up with Niylah on and off? Why did she sleep with that dude she danced with when Bellbitch was right there being a dick to Echo? Why was Bellamy with Echo? Explain it to me, super-stans.

Well, I believe Blorkes watched a different kind of show with their blarke goggles so they totes forgot that Bellshit and Echo were really a thing. A solid ship until Bellfuck got shot by her bestie Clarke. Never mind their delusions.

#ask me #anon

[clarkegriffins]

AGREED!!!!! <3 if he ever actually paid attention to his own writing he'd know there's ZERO chance clarke would ever kill bellamy!! it doesn't matter if he wasn't on the same side as her or she was protecting madi it wouldn't happen in a million years!! she couldn't shoot him in S4 it made zero sense that she could kill him!! the fact is he's spiteful and doesn't know anything about writing a good tv show!! he told them to play bellarke romantically and said they were supposed to be endgame then does a 180!! no wonder bob and eliza are still ANGRY ugh sorry I just saw your reply and had to say this lol <3

i’m always here for people shitting on the numbers finale, the thing about clarke, even as her BIGGEST apologist, is not even about bellarke not happening, i think jroth/writers never knew how to write her completely, since season 1, my girl suffered bc of bad writing since the beginning, like lets start with Wells, her childhood best friend, who in the books are kind of one of the most important people in her life (besides bellamy) he died and she mourned his death FOR ONLY ONE EPISODE, and never talked about him again, HER CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND, and then there’s finn, she fell in love with him and had to give him a merciful death to protect him from the grounders, she had trauma for a few eps, at least on that jroth was consistent just for a bit, and then she never mentioned him/or this trauma again, and then there’s lexa.......... i’m not clexa’s biggest stan but we saw that she really loved/cared about her, i’ll never say otherwise, and she ofc rightfully mourned her after she died, but then they dragged this mourning out for SEASONS bc of fanservice, and i’m sorry but for me that’s inconsistent and annoying as fuck, since she mourned a whole day for her CHILDHOOD BEST FRIEND, but here we go, then there’s bellamy........... we saw many times how clarke would rather the human race to go extinct before killing bellamy, she would rather let her mother die before killing/hurting bellamy, doesn’t matter if u saw them as romantic or platonic, one thing we agree is that she could NEVER kill him, like never... he was one of the most important people in clarke’s life and then she kills him bc of nonsense???? a book????? that she didn’t even get??????? if u squint REALLYYYYYYYYYYYYY hard lets say it was to save madi, and then she cries for a minute and then she doesn’t care anymore........even tho all the seasons before s7 told us many times how bellamy’s death would break clarke..... and then there’s madi............... oh god, madi died clarke cried, and then after a little while she was fine and just crying about how she just didn’t want to be alone and boom the alien dressed as lexa (seriously WTF) took her to her “”””friends”””” and shes all happy happy, like fuck her dead best friend, fuck her own daughter, shes all happy happy bc shes not alone alone.............. clarke is a great character and had many amazing and well written scenes, she’s a really good main character who sacrificed much for her friends/family/people, but i would be lying if i said that sometimes the writers were lazy with her writing....she deserved better. 

#replies #i'm sorry if there's any typos i'm sleepy

[moonylantsovs]

Lmao mia i just saw your tags in response to my post and like. 100% accurate tbh. Clexa was truly a fantastic relationship but the stans were awful and at some point it kinda just ruins the appeal of the pairing itself making it a #the shippers not the ship notp, you know? So much aggression and toxicity.... and like their entitlement/policing as well, refusing to consider other characters might offer good rep. *sigh*

so true. in this fandom I feel like I can't say I love a ship without someone either insulting me or saying "same and don't you just hate *blank*". like, just no...

tbh the shippers ruined bellarke for me too with the constant echo slander

#mutuals

[missmitchieg]

I said years ago I was never going to post about The 100 again, but here I am thinking about 7x13 and woo, am I glad I was never a Bellarke stan because I couldn't imagine loving them and then having to sit through a scene of Clarke shooting Bellamy dead.

#god that would be like being a Karamel shipper watching them break up #*shudders* #random thoughts

[ao3feed-the100]

light my fire

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/UaimBX6

by jackiefreckles

After a fire at her coffee shop, Clarke offers the firefighters free coffee for life.

Bellamy is the only one who takes her up on it.

Words: 5498, Chapters: 1/2, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Coffee Shop AUs

Fandoms: The 100 (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Bellamy Blake, Clarke Griffin, Octavia Blake, background jasper jordan, background john murphy - Character, background harper mcintyre, Background & Cameo Characters

Relationships: Bellamy Blake/Clarke Griffin, Minor or Background Relationship(s)

Additional Tags: Mostly Fluff, Bellarke, Coffee Shop Meetcute, Modern AU, And Then There Was Only One Bed, octavia the number one Bellarke stan, fluff with a tiny bit of angst, Happy Ending, found family of sorts, Murphy is a Chef, Firefighter Bellamy Blake, Barista Clarke Griffin, POV Clarke Griffin, Board Games, Camping, hitting as many tropes as i can manage, Awkward Flirting

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/UaimBX6

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #the 100 #the 100 fic

[puthyflapps]

I was looking through the profiles of some of the people defending depp and why am i not surprised they are bellarke/beliza stan accounts? This case must've hit close to home cause they've been repeating the same talking points they've been using since 2020 "Don't believe all women" 💀 Also looking through their accounts they're apparently trying to fancast eliza and henry cavill together for a book adaptation by constantly tagging the author and studio pls

There’s some buzzfeed article where this lady is describing who she’d pick to play the characters in some upcoming movie that’s being adapted from a book. The first two people on her list were the greasies and as if that wasn’t already a big indication of mental illness, when you read her explanations it gives greasy worshipper vibes 1000%

They really let anyone write articles nowadays smh 🤦🏻‍♀️

#ask #even in the description of why she’d pick them she can’t help but bring up blarke #get over it #he ded and she shot him 🫶🏻