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alannacouture · 1 month

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The 100: Creating Strong Female Role Models Since 2014

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soul-wanderer · 4 months

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it's mildly funny how we got seven seasons of cockroach talk about/from Murphy, who then had to go to hell and back every.single.season to survive

all while we also had Niylah, who simply stayed as low-key as possible for the entirety of the show and did no wild shit whatsoever and still managed to survive (and while it's absolutely irrelevant to the plot, it is kinda funny that these two are siblings irl)

and I mean, Murphy, man, seriously, you really took the hard road to survival for someone who originally wanted to put as little effort into this as possible while sis was living her best life (given the overall circumstances) right next to you

#The 100 #John Murphy #Niylah

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okmcintyre · 9 months

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#the 100 #niylah #she had a minor roll #but was at least in a few seasons!#pollskt #which one for her? 🤔

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winthorntales · 1 year

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Femslash Friday: Couples That Never Were But Should Have Been Vol. 4

Mother Sappho can sure be cruel.

In the tv series The 100, we have a lady-lovin’ side character with an interesting background who is criminally underdeveloped and killed off too soon.

With the limited time we are graced with her presence, this side character is somewhat reduced to the role of the evasive love interest of a protagonist who spent half of their initial time together grieving her dead boyfriend. A dead boyfriend, mind you, who was gruesomely deaded on the lezzie side character's orders! I mean, Holy Jacob Black, does it get any worse than that?

Yes.

To top it all off, the attempted romance ends cheaply tragically before it even truly kicked off, casting this shadow of shallow placation over the whole tchotchke affair.

*begrudged index finger clap for on-screen same-sex love tho*

And then… *lights cigarette pinched between teeth*

Then there’s the staple character with several seasons’ worth of engaging, divisive, heart wrenching internal and interpersonal development, who is as intolerably sexy as she is strong, caring, and deeply flawed. The sugar, spice, and everything damaged that draws this angst-addicted, lovelorn moth (me, hullo) to the flames of everlasting love.

And this character, of course, is straight. No bi-no buts-no bends straight.

Octavia Blake, played by the magnetic Brunette Goddess Marie Avgeropoulos, is the sapphic sister we deserved but never had a chance in hell of getting.

She was a phantom on The Ark (illegal child hidden under the floor never to be seen or acknowledged by the world in which she lived), turned ace survivor in the new world, turned assassin, turned trauma-plagued warrior queen, and I lived for every gutting second.

She loved Lincoln with such fiery depth that her heart sank into some dark waters when he was torn from her. She never lost it completely (her heart), but trying times, like the increasingly intense circumstances of everyone's survival, didn't help her recover it any faster.

But new love could have. New love with someone worthy of it as a person and deserving of a greater story as a character.

The only thing that would’ve salvaged The 100 as a whole, to my viewing pleasure, was a slowbloom-to-true love romance between Octavia as Blodreina, the tormented Dark Queen of Wonkru, and her Right Hand Healer - the only woman who was still willing and able to see the heart of a tortured hero behind her blood-stained crown.

The potential of a perfectly squeetastic a.k.a. overtly romantic relationship between Octavia and Niylah sat in the room like an elephant in a tutu every time they were on screen together.

We’ve got Protector x Nurturer roles, Seme x Uke dynamics, reasoned heart-wrenching angst, and earned trust. Throw in some hurt/comfort scenarios with a little mortal danger or sexual intimidation directed at Niylah by the enemy, and Octavia losing her shit on the asshole who dared threaten/hurt her lover, and I would’ve given up all my earthly possessions to board this ship.

If Niylah had become Octavia’s second chance at true love in a hopeless place, I would be singing The 100’s praises ‘til the end of time as having one of the best sapphic love stories to grace the small screen. But she didn’t. Because she couldn’t. So, I don’t. But I can dream.