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acenancy · 3 years

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Writing Tag Game

Tagged by @sabrinachill. Thank you, my friend! <3

20 questions, writer’s edition.

How many works do you have on AO3?

19 works

What’s your total AO3 word count?

62,952 words

How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

5 fandoms

Nancy Drew

The 100

American Gods

Harry Potter

Teen Wolf

What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Where the Lightning Strikes The 100, Bellarke

A Blush of Love The 100, Bellarke

Missing You is a Slow Burn The 100, Bellarke

i waited for your heart to melt American Gods, Mad Wife

Like Petrol Soaked Paper and Fireworks (She Burns) The 100, Bellarke

Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes, I’ve been making a point of responding this year. It’s so kind of people to go out of their way and leave a comment on my work, big or small, and I want them to know how much I appreciate it. I don’t always respond right away but it’s only because I want to be able to match your energy when I do. Same goes for commenting on other writer’s fics!

What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

HM. Angstiest? Probably Chapter 5 of Missing You is a Slow Burn, though Chapter 4 personally hits harder.

What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

Perhaps I Think It’s About Old Friends.

Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you’ve written?

I only wrote one once bahahha and it was short and sweet. My lil Jily meets Stydia trash fire, Wizards of Beacon Hills High.

Have you ever received hate on a fic?

Unfortunately. Which...why? It’s not like fanfic writers are getting paid. We don’t owe you anything. It’s a hobby. You don’t shit on people’s hobbies.

Only feel free to critique my work if I’m seeing royalties, baby!

So never.

Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I’ve tried. I’ve failed. End of story bahaha. I’d love to give it another shot one day.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Can’t say I have.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

What’s your all time favorite ship?

FFFF. I feel bad not saying Bellarke since I loved them so passionately for so long but...my heart forever belongs to Jily. When all is said and done, I always return to them like home.

What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I currently do not have any WIPs that I do not intend to finish. double vision ALMOST got left in the dust, though. The plot got ahead of me for bimbo brain reasons.

What are your writing strengths?

Ah, I dunno. If I choose even one thing then I know tomorrow I’ll suck at that one thing specifically.

What are your writing weaknesses?

Again, I’m going to follow Mattie’s lead and not specify anything I find weak about my writing. She made a good point in her post bahahah

However, generally speaking, it takes me a lot longer to string a sentence together than it did when I was younger. It turns out my mom was right, and drugs really do fry your brain! I’m dumb now.

What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I TRY TO AVOID IT. Out of respect. I don’t want to butcher any language but the English one.

What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Harry Potter, Marauders Era. All of that work is now gone with the wind...

What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

The fics I wrote for Mad Wife are my favorite, especially i waited for your heart to melt. Sweeney and Laura’s nasty little relationship tapped into something raw and mean inside of me, so writing for them felt almost cathartic. Plus, their banter was the most fun to play with.

Tagging: @gernades @dogwithabirdatyour-door @acesdrew @flythesail @polkadotk804 @platanchorsociety @nancy-drew @stonerbughead @wildlittledaisies @acesnancy

If you’ve already been tagged or if you hate these things, my apologies!

#me #writing #tag game

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t100fic-for-blm · 3 years

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For Black History Month we're highlighting our talented black creators. This is the wonderful Kara @queenemori. Enjoy part 2/3 of our interview with her about her creations, her creative process and fandom.

Check out Kara’s AO3!

What are your favorite tropes to write about?

I really enjoy fake dating, and soulmate AUs. And obviously kid fics.

What is a fic of yours everyone should read?

We Don’t Need To Say It ! It’s my Memori actor AU, but I think it has something for everyone. A little bit of side Bellarke (including their wedding); Raven being a great friend to both Murphy and Emori; Echo being a great friend to Emori; even snarky Josephine. Also a fake sci-fi television show that I created to be like something that would air on the CW.

What is a fic you wish would receive a little more love?

Somewhere We Belong which is my Memori Anastasia AU! I posted it fairly recently, but I had an absolute blast writing it, since Anastasia is one of my favorite movies from childhood.

What’s the best comment or review of your work that you’ve received?

I got this comment on a particularly angsty chapter of We Don’t Need To Say It and it actually made me cry it was so nice:

This was the most heartbreaking chapter of FanFiction I’ve read in over 20 years of fic reading. I’ve had to read the chapter three times before I could formulate an articulate response. That bit where you wrote that her heart broke, I could feel mine breaking as well. Again, literal physical reaction while reading this. I felt every heartbreak I myself have been through, that’s how real it was. I knew something wasn’t going to go right at this party, but I never imagined it being that. I’m still just floored. I haven’t even been able to really move forward in the story because I’m not quite done processing this chapter. Excellent excellent job.

What are your favorite lines that you’ve written?

I will highlight some fics that are not exclusively Memori now since I write a bunch of things lol.

Murphy talking to Clarke in my Definitely, Maybe AU fic, Piece Me Back Together:

Okay first off, if anything I’m holding you back. I can’t believe that someone who’s training to be a doctor is even giving me the time of day. I basically went to college to debate which characters in classic literature are secretly gay.

From my Murven childhood friends fic, you’re the last best thing i’ve got going:

Of course, there are moments where Murphy aches for them to be able to get back to when they were slightly more than friends. They had been on the brink of something that Murphy could almost taste, something he thinks could have been great if they had given it a chance. He’s much more of a romantic than Raven is. He’s considered bringing it up a few times, wanting to at least talk about it, since they never got the chance to when everything happened with Raven’s mom. But just as the words have been on the tip of his tongue he chickens out, thinking better of messing with the good place they’ve gotten to. Through all of this Murphy has realized that his friendship with Raven is something he doesn’t want to lose, and so he’s content to just be friends.

From my Bellarke soulmate AU, A Twist of Fate:

Clarke piqued his interest last night after she mentioned that fate brought them together. Normally Bellamy thinks fate can go fuck off, but he wasn’t lying when he told her he believed in it last night, as much as it probably sounded like a corny line. It was wild that they kept running into each other at every bar they went to. How else could he describe that? He should have listened to his first instinct and gotten her number anyway, even though that wasn’t what people normally did. Then he wouldn’t be sitting here and wallowing over a girl he’s never going to see again.

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#black history month #bhm #blm #t100fic4blm #t100fic4bhm #queenemori #black writers #black creators #black excellence #T100 #the 100 #the 100 fandom

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troped-fanfic-challenge · 3 years

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Voting for TROPED Choice: Western is officially OPEN!

It’s time to elect a new sheriff in town—uh, we mean, vote on the best fics of TROPED Western!

Voting is as usual. Remember to rank fics based on the USE of the tropes and theme and to rank ALL fics in each question, so we can avoid any technical difficulties! Your #1 spot should be the best answer and your last spot the least likely answer for the question. Please try and read all the fics so you can vote fairly! Reminder, you must include a Tumblr or AO3 username/URL, and you may only vote once, we will NOT count multiple votes by the same person.

Voting will be open for 48 hours, until February 7th at 11:59pm EST! You can vote here!:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HBMGN66

For this event, Tropesters had to create a story with the Western theme of their choice and include four tropes of their choice with at least one trope from the Western section! Thanks to all our AMAZING writers, these fics were as Wild as the West and we are so glad you decided to share them with us!!

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It’s The Chance Of A Lifetime (In A Lifetime Of Chance) (Rated T) [Emori x Gustus]

Summary: Emori gets in trouble with the law, and is given the choice of jail or time working at a dude ranch. She’s never even touched a horse before, but anything beats jail, right? And what happens when ranch life might just be the best things that’s ever happened to her?

if the morning light sets in, we’ve cheated fate again (Rated T) [Bellarke]

Summary: The wild west is unforgiving. Bellamy Blake and his sister are on the run with a bounty on their heads, and that’s just the beginning. They stumble upon a town that’s on the verge of ruin, plagued by a mysterious illness and only populated by other teenagers. With help from both Blake siblings, the town’s leader is hopeful that they can help discover the root of what’s going. And maybe Clarke Griffin will in turn help Bellamy discover more about himself along the way.

What better way to raise hell (Rated NR) [Clarke x Josephine]

Summary: After a tragic end to their high life of scamming and robbery, Clarke makes a drastic move to keep Josephine alive. Now they’re moving to a ghost town, the only place that’s safe for them, and where Josie will fit in.

It was supposed to be a quiet life, somewhere to see their days out together. But Clarke’s not made for a quiet life, she buys the old Saloon and brings a dead town back to life. But her wild days soon come and catch up with her - and desperate times mean desperate measures.

Mountain Lion Mean (Rated M) [Gen Fic]

Summary: Marcus Kane’s body shows up again six months after his disappearance, in the master bedroom of the Kane ranch house, holding a new will in one of its skeletal hands. Arkadia hasn’t seen this much excitement since his stepdaughter was investigated for his murder—the inquiry was dropped, of course, because the body was never found. Now the house, the land, the accounts, the bank stocks, and a previously unknown stockpile of cash in the backyard all belong to Clarke Griffin and her husband.

Funny how no one knew Clarke was married.

And now it looks like the bank won’t foreclose on the Blake Family ranch after all.

you will be the light (Rated T) [Harper x Murphy]

Summary: On his way to Sanctum to start a new life (and flee from his past), Murphy comes across the nearly abandoned Arkadia, a town still clinging to the old ways of life and dealing with a nameless outlaw threatening their continued survival. All he needs is some water and a new horse… so why does he end up helping them?

A highwayman comes riding— riding—riding— (Rated M) [Gabriel x Josephine]

Summary: While on a school trip to a museum set on the grounds of an old, historic ranch, Madi learns the true tragedy of Josie Lightbourne and her bandit lover Gabriel.

Kissin’ ‘Tav Blake (Rated T) [Linctavia]

Summary: Jordan Jasper Green is a kid that is cursed with bad luck. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-horse-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has followed generations of Greens ever since.

Eden Lake is a town that had been cursed with a drought for over a century. A curse that began the day Lincoln, the onion man, was killed.

This is the story of how these curses came to be and intertwined to change the lives of their curse-bearers forever.

For It’s Your Misfortune (Ain’t None of My Own) (Rated T) [Memori]

Summary: Emori feels Wells stand up straighter, and Gaia sits up from her crouch on the steps.

“Head down, Doc,” Emori says.

There’s a step on the boardwalk, then another.

“Give us a prayer, Gaia,” Wells says.

Another explosion, and more shots in the distance, and the steady steps on the boardwalk.

“Judge between us and our enemies,” Gai’s voice floats down from the stairs. “Stir up thine own strength along us, give not this battle to the strong, but those who ask thy defense. Grant a full reward as it is due.”

“Amen to that,” Murphy mumbles.

“Amen,” Gaia says.

“Emori, darling,” a light voice drawls, “I’m back.”

forever in a moment (Rated T) [Bellamy x Harper]

Summary: A time machine mishap leaves Harper and Bellamy stranded in the 1800s.

From fake pasts to a fake marriage, they’re prepared to do everything they needed in order to make it in the past.

But how can they tell where the make believe ends and reality begins?

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Honorable Mention of this submission to TROPED’s Non-Anon Collection! It won’t be counted in the voting, but we’d love for you to read it:

And You Know That Wyoming'll Be Your New Home (Rated T) [Memori]

Summary: The man who calls himself Murphy rides west from Sangeda on a borrowed horse.

Maybe he'll be back one day.

Probably he won't be.

He rides west, and they're hot on his trail, and the ghost riding behind him laughs and tells him he's being an idiot.

Please try to read as many fics as you can, leave some kudos/comments for the authors, and don’t forget to vote! If you missed the initial deadline you can still submit your Western fics to our Non-Anon Collection at any time!

#TROPED Choice: Western #TROPED Choice 4.0 #TROPED: voting

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sometimesrosy · 4 years

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Happy final Bellarke Fam Selfie Night.

Two pics, one from this summer and one from right around when I started watching the 100. Oddly, since then my hair has been super long and super short but I’m back to the same cut more or less. funny that.

But here’s the end of the show and I have to say I am glad for it. I am ready to be done, and that was so before the last season messed with the story I’d been following and loving for 5 years.

I don’t know what’s coming, but I’m having a hard time reconciling what we’ve seen so far with Clarke and Bellamy’s development that was just dropped. So, still I’m going to wait to analyze until I get the whole thing, but it’s looking to me that JR just dropped the backbone central story of Clarke and Bellamy’s heroic development because Bob needed time off. Or whatever happened between them. IDK. Either way, he’s got the main plot story still going, but the character journeys have failed.

What a disappointment.

Luckily, it’s just a tv show and y’all have lives outside of the show, I want to remind you that this is not the end of your ability to find stories you love and resonate with. There will be others. Remember also that Hollywood is fickle and this won’t be the last time your favorite show betrayed the story for some other reason, glam, a trick ending, money, they’re bored of the show, they’re vengeful, someone leaves whatever. It happens all the time. That’s one of the reasons you should never put your mental health or identity into tv shows. They aren’t yours, they belong to hollywood and hollywood is a bitch. You shouldn’t expect the tv shows or movies to care for you, because they are a business and they’re in it to make money.

Me, I don’t get any money out of this. And I don’t regret the time and energy I put into the show. I believe my analysis was correct, that WAS the story he was telling. Then he changed it because he’s a dick. If it hadn’t been changed, Clarke’s character wouldn’t have altered, and her journey would have made more sense. And we’ve got PLENTY of evidence that things like “Together” and “be the good guys,” WERE the way the story was going. “So much for together,” was NOT resolution for that story line. Anyway. Bad job. JR failed.

I am still going to be here, probably, but not as much. I’m thinking of combining my side blogs all back into this one. I made sideblogs because I felt bad doing so much fandom stuff when people wanted writing or whatever. So I’d like to do my writing and art stuff here, as well as all the other things, scifi content, not just fandom. Not sure how much I want to continue with fandom. I like just being a casual fan.

well this is a lot. I should do my tags but I don’t remember who to tag and I’m so bad at remembering people’s urls. so i’d rather post it than spend two hours trying to find tags.

If you’ve been following me all this time then I’m tagging you. If we’ve ever talked, then i’m tagging you. All my mutuals, I’m tagging you. But stalkers? no. no tag. go away. lol

oh speaking of. I guess I’ll put my anon back on for the show and give it a test to see how well people behave. i didn’t want anons while I was still upset over bellamy’s end. and i didn’t know what was happening either. now i have a better handle and we’ll see how it ends. i don’t think my expectations are high. What a shame. It could have been so good.

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lady-blodreina · 2 months

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We need each other, Bellamy... The only way we're going to pull this off is together

Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake, The 100 3x13: Join or Die

#the 100 #bellarke #bellamy and clarke #clarke and bellamy #bellamy x clarke #clarke x bellamy #bellarkeedit #the100edit #clarke griffin #bellamy blake #the 100 season 3 #together #friends to lovers #hug #bellarke hug #fuck jroth #bellarke belongs together

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lovergurrl411 · 2 years

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[On Earth--3years after praimfaya]

Madi: what do you remember about Bellamy?

Clarke: I remember everything. His laugh, his smile, his smell. God, how I hated him at first.

Madi: But you don't hate him now. You call him everyday even though he never responds.

Clarke: *shrugs* love is a journey.

[100+ years later]

Bellamy: I won't let you die.

Josephine: *rolls eyes* what is with you two? From the memories I've seen you didn't even like eachother. How the heck did you go from that to this?

Bellamy: *shrug* Love's a journey.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years

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Best Modern AU - Nominations

Perfect Match by grjffinsblake @grjffinsblake

Sanctuary by RogueTwelve

A Greater Pursuit by Malliday

Homesick (It's a Bittersweet Feeling) by burninghoneyatdusk @burninghoneyatdusk

Waste It on Me by eyessharpweaponshot @eyessharpweaponshot

Pieces of Us by daenoora @daenoora

All Because of You by burninghoneyatdusk @burninghoneyatdusk

If the Right One Came Along by useyourtelescope @useyourtelescope

comes and goes (in waves) by selflessbellamy @selflessbellamy

And Maybe I'll Grow Into You by jekisawrites @thefangirlingbarista

hold on, i still want you (come back, i still need you) by Pawprinter @pawprinterfanfic

someone let the poets out by kindclaws @kindclaws

Sugar by asroarke @asroarke

we don't know where we're going, but we know where we belong by mylifeiskara @queenemori

White Flag Wars by norvina

Finding North by mad_magic @kombellarke

The Choices We Make by changingthefairy_tale @changingthefairy-tale

Growing Up Together by depressionkitty

I Wasn't Looking For Anything (But I Found You Anyway) by QueenoftheWallflowers @queen-of-the-wallflowers15

A heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved by nothingbutsandanddust @nothing-but-sand-and-dust

Instant Family by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

Mischievous Mistletoe by bellarkeness @johnmurphysass

and i'm trying to keep from going under by twilightstargazer @hiddenpolkadots

Listen to silence by bellofthetolppl @skybellamy

Connecting on the Wraparound by WelpThisIsHappening @welllpthisishappening

The Write Choice by bookwormforalways @bookwormforalways

I've Learned in Love and Death We Don't Decide by grumpybell @grumpybell

In slow motion by flonkertons @bestivals

Soul Fate Determination by LaughingSenselessly @wellsjahasghost

sparks fly whenever you smile by safeandsound13 @captaindaddykru

Everything's Made to be Broken by MoonShoesReyes @moonshoesreyes

Rock Bottom by animmortalist @animmortalist

the sea is a good place (to think of the future) by animmortalist @animmortalist

Pretty Moths and Butterflies by Misschatelle

the worst thing you ever heard by animmortalist @animmortalist

Save the last dance (for me) by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

Because of Bellamy by softdelena

Say you'll remember me by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

yours to keep, yours to lose by arysa13 @arysafics

I Found Peace in Your Violence by eyessharpweaponshot @eyessharpweaponshot

Princess by marauders_groupie @marauders-groupie

The Dying of the Light by starsonfire @saintbellamys

A Twist of Fate by mylifeiskara @queenemori

love's got a enemy (it's bleeding inside of me) by danahscott @bellamysgriffin

#nominations

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margoshansons · 4 years

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hey princess: b.blake x c.griffin

Bellarke Oneshot

Summary: A missing scene from the finale with a certain curly haired leader

Notes: God that finale sure was something. I was missing Bellamy so i wrote this to cope. Full disclosure, I didn’t even really watch these last couple episodes so much as skim through them, so please forgive me if my lore is lacking, also this is not edited. And FUCK JROTH.

The first person she saw was Raven. With her curled ponytail and red jacket she was impossible to miss, especially when she came barreling toward her at lightning speed, wide smile on her face.

Murphy collided with her next, the two of them hugging her as tightly as they could. Clarke didn’t wanna let go. She wanted to sink into their arms until everything they’d ever done was washed away. She wanted to stay by their side until the world ended.

Safety felt like their arms wrapped around her shoulders.

Safety felt like her family.

But it didn’t feel like home. Nothing felt like home anymore. Not since….

No.

She wouldn’t think about that. She couldn’t think about that.

Her sins had haunted her for far too long, she refused to carry them with her anymore. If she did she was only surviving, justifying herself for the rest of her life. He had been right. Her sins were too heavy to float away and disappear into nothing. But it was choosing to love, choosing to live in spite of what she’s done.

Transcendence is a choice, Lexa had said. And they chose her.

Years of bearing it so they didn’t have to and they chose her.

Enduring death, the loss of those she loves, and choosing them over herself every time. And they finally chose her back.

Chattering erupted around her and Clarke was soon bombarded with hugs, Picasso licking her fingertips as she scrubbed his fur, the ever present reminder of Madi causing her heart to constrict.

Her child was safe. Her child was okay.

She’d risked everything to ensure Madi lived a peaceful life, and she’d chosen transcendence. She’d chosen peace.

Clarke wasn’t going to pretend that it didn’t hurt. That Madi had chosen not to return. But she understood it. She had seen too much war to choose anything except peace.

Madi deserved a life free of the horrors she’d endured. Even if it was a life without her in it.

Picasso’s bark pulled her back to reality and Clarke turned to see where the golden retriever was facing. Her eyebrows knit themselves together as she turned to face the same direction. It was toward the treeline. Where beach and woods met and the sun shone down on both of them.

“What is it boy?” Clarke knelt down and scruffed his fur again but Picasso’s gaze remained firmly on the trees, barking once more.

His fur left her hands and Picasso disappeared amongst the trees. Clarke raced after him.

“Picasso!” She shouted, not wanting to lose the last reminder of her child she had left, “Picasso come here!”

Her boots crushed the dirt and leaves underneath her feet, trying to ignore the flashbacks of the last time she ran through the trees, of all the times she’d ran.

“Picasso!”

She skidded to a stop in the middle of a clearing, the forest aglow once again. But unlike when she first landed on Earth, the luminescent forest was the last thing she was paying attention to. Because Picasso had found something she’d thought was long gone.

Dark hair buried itself into golden fur, a deep voice she’d dreamt about every night ringing through the forest.

“Hey buddy,” it called, scratching the golden retriever’s head, “It’s good to see you too.”

Clarke’s heart overpowered her senses, the thudding all she heard for miles. Her stomach dropped, nerves knotting themselves in her throat, weighing her down in place. It wasn’t possible. He’d chosen transcendence, he’d died on the ground at Sanctum.

How could he be here?

“Bellamy?” Her breath caught in her throat and blue eyes met brown.

He stood up and rubbed the back of his neck, long dark curls exactly how she remembered them, just barely dusting the tips of his eyebrows as a relieved smile crossed his face.

“Hey princess.”

The weight left her and she propelled herself forward, unable to stop her feet from closing the distance between them. He was here. He was alive and he was here. He was alive and he had chosen her.

Bellamy Blake had chosen Clarke Griffin.

Oxygen was nothing compared to Bellamy’s arms wrapped around her again. Breathing was secondary when she could feel her heart beating in time with his, her chin snuggled into his shoulder like it belonged there.

His arms squeezed her waist tightly, pulling her close just like he had all those years ago when she’d left Mount Weather. Just like they had when he’d returned from space. Just like they had after floating the Primes.

Comfort washed over her and the tension inside her disappeared, the knots in her stomach unraveling as she melted into his embrace, no other words needing to be spoken between them.

She was finally safe.

She was finally home.

#the 100 oneshot #the 100 fanfiction #bellarke oneshot #bellarke fanfiction #bellarke fanfic #bellamy blake #clarke griffin #bellarke #the 100 #season 7 #7x16 #bellamy blake fanfiction #clarke griffin fanfiction #my fics

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mylifeiskara · 3 years

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First Lines

I was tagged by @unremarkablegirl and this looks super fun!

Rules: List the first line of your last 20 stories (if you have less, list them all.) See if you can find any patterns and choose your favorite opening line. Tag your favorite authors.

I’ve listed things from the order of my most recent works on AO3.

I’ll Let My Guard Down (But Only With You) | Memori, Rated T | The 100

Emori sips on her firewhiskey, taking in the raucous energy of the Slytherin common room.

Stuck On You | Memori/Nemori/Harphy, Rated M | The 100

Murphy fidgets in his seat, his leg shaking under the table.

One and Done | Nemori, Rated E | The 100

Emori doesn’t think she’ll ever get used to the reverent stares she gets all throughout Sanctum since everyone thinks she’s Kaylee.

Start The New Year Off Right | Clurphy/Jobriel, Rated T | The 100

Clarke stares at herself in the mirror, a sense of anticipation bubbling in her stomach.

Best Kept Secret | Polin, Rated T | Bridgerton

Penelope loves a lazy weekend morning.

Miss Griffin | Bellarke, Rated T | The 100

In all her twenty-one years of life, Clarke Griffin had wanted for nothing.

Lonely Hearts Book Club | Nemori, Rated G | The 100

Emori perks up at the chime of her phone as she receives an email.

Our Favorite Surprise | Memori, Rated G | The 100

The last twenty-six hours have been a whirlwind for Emori.

Piece Me Back Together | Memori/Murven/Clurphy, Rated T | The 100

John Murphy hadn’t planned on starting his life over.

Cold-Blooded | Bellarke/Clurphy, Rated T | The 100

Clarke Griffin didn’t expect to like Arkadia, Washington.

Somewhere We Belong | Memori, Rated T | The 100

Not so long ago, the kingdoms of Sangedakru and Trikru were joined by marriage and they lived in harmony.

‘tis the season (to light up the neighborhood) | Bellarke/Murven, Rated G | The 100

Raven loves to work, but she can still just as easily appreciate a lazy weekend afternoon.

Of Parenting and Accidental TikTok Fame | Clurphy, Rated G | The 100

Upon first glance, most people would not peg John Murphy for a sentimental man.

all i want for christmas is you (and my six closest friends) | Bellarke, Rated T | The 100

Bellamy pulls into Murphy and Emori’s driveway, a wave of excitement hitting him, not for the first time this evening.

Dream A Little Dream of Me | Clurphy, Rated T | The 100

Clarke wandered through the desert, all hope seemingly lost.

We Don’t Need To Say It | Memori, Rated M | The 100

It all starts when Bellamy and Clarke get engaged.

danger has a hold on me (but i’m safe in your arms) | Memori, Rated E | The 100

Emori was used to danger.

you’re the last best thing i’ve got going | Murven, Rated T | The 100

Murphy sits against his bedroom door, his head leaned back against the wood.

When You Move, I’m Moved | Memori, Rated T | The 100

Emori bounces up and down on the side of the room as she watches the group ahead of her perform the combination across the floor.

In Dads We Trust | Bellarke/Memori, Rated G | The 100

Bellamy frowns.

I feel like a pattern in my opening sentences based on these is that I tend to start with some sort of action or observation. Also apparently, I use a lot of very straightforward sentences. I think my favorite of these is probably from Miss Griffin. I just wanted to emulate the first line of Emma, and I think this was my little way of doing that.

#tag games #fanfic stuff #i laughed when i saw one of my first sentences was just bellamy frowns

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‘Until We Meet Again: The 100′s Final Season--Wasted Potential or A Fit Ending?’

Editor’s Note: Spoilers for the last season of The 100 as well as past seasons.

I was surprised.

In the closing hours of the sixth season of The 100, the CW announced that it would be getting a seventh season. They also announced that it would be the final season.

What? FINAL season? Really?

The fifth season was a great season for the show with the six-year time jump, ending in another time jump that spanned 125 years and a new planet. The sixth season was an intriguing new world and storyline. It had been a while since it went hardcore sci-fi…A.L.I.E. in the divisive third season…the sixth season did it with ripe possibilities, plot twists, and…as was usual for this show…actual death. Labeled Book 2, I had been curious to see where the creator Jason Rothenberg and the writers would take us given Book 1 took 5 seasons.

But now? Would main characters Clarke and Bellamy (aka Bellarke) end the show together? Would humanity learn any better given they have survived at least TWO apocalypses? Would Octavia (my favorite character who had gone from the girl under the floor to Grounder to Skairippa to lethal Red Queen) get a happy ending?

With 16 episodes announced, there was plenty of time. Plenty of time to close out the story. My co-worker who was a big fan of course was worried. She grew moreso the closer it got to the time when the CW usually promoted. And…NOTHING.

A sign of things to come…or just paranoia?

What’s the Endgame?: The 100’s Serpentine Final Season Plot

I’ll say this much. I was intrigued.

At the end of last season, our main characters revealed to the people of the new planet Sanctum that the leaders they worshipped as gods were not. They used technology to transfer their consciousness into ‘willing’ people. After being that way for centuries, how would these people go on when their belief system had been revealed to be false? Some people were angry at being deceived. Others felt mad at Clarke and friends for revealing the truth, destroying their system of living.

Meanwhile we had Clarke and the others still dealing with the truce between them and the Eligius prisoners that were part of their crew now. Their leader Diyoza was missing, leaving the Eligius adrift. And due to the end of Season Six, Clarke’s own crew were on a slippery slope, thinking her ‘daughter’ Madi was still the Commander.

Four different factions. So many possibilities. They were possibilities that the writers appeared to want to touch on. And there was the question of…could they all get along? Be greater and better than the sum of their parts? Or was the last of humanity doomed to be in constant conflict?

Then there was the disappearance of Bellamy…

Ah! Bellamy. After being a co-leader with Clarke basically for most of the seasons, Bellamy found himself at the center of a new mystery. Moments after his sister Octavia disappeared into mist after being stabbed by new character Hope, Bellamy was full of questions about what had just happened. What he got was knocked out, dragged across the ground by people unseen, and then vanished into the Anomaly, a circle of light that was a mystery left over from last season.

What followed was several different stories. There was Echo, Bellamy’s girlfriend, on the hunt for the vanished Bellamy. There was the mystery of what happened to Octavia. There’s Clarke and Friends chasing after her as well as getting to the bottom of the Bellamy mystery. Meanwhile, there was Madi left behind, dealing with her duty versus a desire for a normal life. There also was the growing tension between the Eligius prisoners and the natives of the new world.

Because that was not enough, there were curveballs. Oh…that crazy Commander from the Flame, the symbol of the tribes united under Clarke? He possessed one of the last False Gods on this world. You had one of Clarke’s group Starscream-que Murphy and his lover Emori…also pretending to be Gods themselves due to a plot thread from last season. Diyoza and Octavia’s whereabouts revealed the origins of new character Hope…and a whole other world Bardo. And behind Bardo…was a loose plot thread that was seeded all the way back in Season Four. Oh, and did we mention there was a lot of time jumping, one prequel tale (aka a backdoor pilot), and world travelling a la SLIDERS.

It was not unusual for The 100 to throw so many ideas at the audience. But so many ideas…INCLUDING THE KITCHEN SINK? In the FINAL season?

Yes, a few of the ideas were intriguing. On their own. But all of them…together?

I could not begin to describe how many times I felt like I needed a cheat sheet to keep up with everything. And even then…there would be weeks where the viewers never saw a set of characters or a plotline. There was one case when one character was gone for weeks aka a long stretch of episodes. Worse given how important that character was to several characters, no one noticed they were missing.

Or the time jumping. There would be a plotline with a plot twist. Then the show would jump back three months. Then it would move a few weeks ahead to show another angle. Or when it decided to explain the whereabouts of Bellamy, it chose an episode where time passed and then it jumped ahead to the present, picking up a storyline from another episode. It was the very definition of whiplash.

At the start of the season, the writers pondered an interesting question. Was the last of humanity doomed to constant conflict…or could they be better than that? While the Bardo plot thread tapped into that theme, the show became style over substance. And that style…was smoke and mirrors. I thought that theme was being tackled with the four factions on Sanctum. Now? The writers gave up on it. Sadly.

By the time the writers revealed the whereabouts of Bellamy, most of the season was over. Worry kicked in. Was there still time to resolve the characters’ stories…or would it be…a rushed ending?

Speaking of which…

The Girl Under the Floor: The 100 and Natural Ends

Clarke. Octavia. Indra. Echo. Madi. Miller. The names go on and on.

Throughout six seasons, viewers have gone through the highs and lows with these characters. Viewers saw Clarke kill her first love Finn. Viewers saw Indra take Octavia under her wing, giving her a mother figure that she missed in her own life. Viewers saw Madi lose her mind. The Conclave. Praimfaya. Mount Weather. A.L.I.E. Characters had been known to go through it on this show. Things happened. People changed.

So near the end of The 100’s run, viewers wanted to know…how would their favorites end up?

What they got…AGAIN…was smoke and mirrors.

The writers appeared to be more focused on new characters than the characters that viewers had gotten to know over six seasons. In some cases, like Bardo native Levitt, it worked because he became involved with a character viewers cared about. In this case Octavia. Others like that Diyoza-lite chick had no connection to the faves, other than being annoying no matter how sympathetic she was written. Or worse, they were like Hope. A rapidly aged child of Diyoza, Hope was more whining annoying brat than a fighter like viewers expected her mother to be. Given more time, she might have become likable, but…there was no time.

And speaking of time…what of the old timers? The characters the audience cared about. So many characters have come and gone. Finn. Lincoln. Lexa. Jaha. Jasper. Clarke’s own mother Abby. Only a handful of the original 100 were left along with well developed supporting characters. With this being the last season, were they coming to a natural end?

Octavia was being dealt with efficiently as the writers highlighted the fact that she was on a path to redemption after two seasons of darkness and introspective healing. But what about Clarke…THE MAIN CHARACTER? After doing what she had to do for her people, what would her happy ending be…at peace with Madi, finding a new love, and/or finding a way for all humanity to live peacefully in such a way that the sacrifices were worth it? Or what of Indra…what end does she deserve as a warrior? What of Madi…would she choose a normal teenager’s life or the life of being a commander of her warrior people?

Off the top of my head, there were two characters who had quite a nice end. First there was Octavia. After the horrors she committed as The Red Queen and trying to make amends, she discovered redemption through the eyes of others who saw her through a different and fresh set of eyes. First, Hope who looked up to her as a mother figure. Then through the eyes of a complete stranger in Levitt who found her inspiring. She found the one thing that she had been looking for throughout the whole series: belonging and acceptance.

The other character was Murphy. The cockroach. From the ‘Starscream’ of the group to showing some sense of right and wrong. And along with Emori, they were the ultimate scheme team. Slowly, but surely there was love. Posing as false gods presented a new challenge for them…what happens when a scheme team is given actual responsibilities for people. And through this challenge, the viewers learned exactly how much Murphy had grown through the series as well as explored layers to Emori that we did not even know she had.

That was not the fate for all the characters we knew and loved.

Madi started off alone in the series, discovering love through her motherly bond with Clarke. And the constant debate of teenage life vs leader life has been a constant with her a la BUFFY lite. She was finally given a taste of what it was like to be a teen…then the plot arc of the Bardo people ended that. Abruptly, I might add. In fact, her fate felt like shock value for value sake given some of the other stories for characters.

Gaia appeared posed to be a long overdue love interest for Clarke. Not to mention that the writers were exploring more of her relationship with her mother Indra. Instead, she became the character who vanished for the majority of the episodes. Worse, NO ONE noticed she was gone.

There were several more instances of this (can we talk about the fact that while Raven got moments, she did not really have ANY endgame developments?), it was the main narrative characters who appeared to get the worst of this.

And nowhere was that clearer than with Bellamy Clarke.

Bait and Switch, or the Strange Case of Bellamy Clarke

I had always heard that you could tell how a TV show felt about a character/actor by how they were written out of a show. A recent example that came to mind was Charisma Carpenter’s character Cordelia Chase during Season 4 of ANGEL by way of a coma when all fans knew she was the heart and soul of that show.

Another example was the character of Professor Maxmillian Arturo (played with wit, humor, and intelligence by John Rhys-Davies) on the sci-fi show SLIDERS. Not only was he stabbed with a syringe that rendered him dumb, but he was shot and his body left on a planet that exploded. All IN THE SAME EPISODE. Yeah, no love lost between the actor and the people in charge during that show’s third season.

Which brings us to Bellamy Clarke…

Bellamy Clarke had been with The 100 since the beginning. A reckless bad boy except for when it came to his sister Octavia, Bellamy went from that to being a frenemy to other main character Clarke to being a good friend and co-leader (birthing the ship name Bellarke) to a capable leader in his own right. Along the way, he made so many mistakes. Bellamy clashed often with others. But he grew. And the time jump saw him get a capable girlfriend in Echo. His bigger drama would always be with his sister Octavia as they clashed as only siblings could clash, but there was always love there. So it made sense that he would want to know the mystery of Hope and how it tied into his sister turning into mist and vanishing.

But…he vanished himself. For the first half of the season, the mystery of his kidnapping was a plot. And then…during a shootout involving Octavia, Bellamy appeared to be blown up in an explosion. Granted, The 100 did not shy away from killing off a main character (Lincoln, Lexa), but it was so jarring to see it happen.

Just as bad as seeing Bellamy later…as a disciple of the Big Bad on Bardo. After a bottle episode involving a man vs nature theme (a theme I do not like and did not like in this case). And time jumping. AGAIN. Can we say whiplash?

And then…Bellamy was SHOT. BY CLARKE. Body…left…bleeding…on…the floor.

Can we say DOUBLE whiplash?

I was aware thanks to the co-worker who got me into The 100 that there was some off-camera drama going on. And because of that, the actor had asked for some personal leave time. So his filming was very, very limited. HOWEVER, I know enough after years of watching tv shows (the situation with the two actresses on THE GOOD WIFE for example) AND soaps to know two things. One…if a writer had an actor for a limited time, you wrote a complete arc. You also filmed as much as possible. And if you needed said actor back at the end of a show and was not sure if they would be available…go ahead and film a scene to insert in the last episode. It was what the fans that have followed a show for years deserves. PERIOD.

Two…the fate of Bellamy could have been written better than that. In fact, the writers were better off having Bellamy die in the Bardo explosion while trying to save his sister. That at least was true to his character and his complete arc on the show. If they had to do the disciple arc at all, there had to be some conflict over his loyalty to Clarke or his loyalty to Bardo. Allow the other characters to be conflicted, something the writers normally did not shy away from. Show, don’t tell the struggle. If Clarke had to shoot Bellamy, it had to make sense.

From what was shown, there was plenty of time for Clarke to get the book of Madi’s memories. There was time to just simply knock Bellamy out. And if Bellamy had to be shot, there was time to write in the fate of his body. To fans’ knowledge, Bellamy’s body was still laying there on the floor, bleeding out. To add insult to injury, FakeRussell…who was in the same scene…was in the next episode with no Bellamy mentions.

So let’s review. Bellamy was blown up in one episode. Bellamy was left on a world to fight nature on another. Bellamy was turned into a brainless disciple on another episode. Finally, Bellamy was shot dead by his best friend (who happened to be his wife IRL. How meta.).

Shows what the writers and creator feel about the actor, don’t you think?

May We Meet Again…?

Regardless of the management of the character of Bellamy, The 100 had another main character to deal with. Clarke Griffin had been the main protagonist since Episode 1. She had lost her first love, lost a great love, and made quite a lot of serious choices for someone so young. And given that the theme of the last season was about humanity and its way of living, it was a sure thing that Clarke would have to make another major decision. But…would Clarke get a happy ending?

Well…this show would not be this show…and Clarke would not be Clarke if she wasn’t put through it. My problem was that up until the end, Clarke was basically a cameo in her own show. That itself was an oddity given that she was the one focused on the hunt for Bellamy.

There was potential. From what to do about Madi to how she was coping with her mother’s death to some vibes between her and Gaia, Clarke had several things spinning in her orbit coming into the last season. And what was surprising was NONE of it was touched on.

And then…Bellamy was shot by her and Madi turned up brain dead in the service of the Bardo arc.

In the end, Clarke was with her friends. And she was happy. But…she was not with her daughter though Madi did wind up in a better place. She was not with anyone though a cameo from the actress who played Lexa in the early seasons was nice. And her mother’s death was not touched on…though that actress also made a cameo in the last episode.

Does Clarke deserve a happy ending? Debatably yes. But this season a happy ending did not at all feel earned. And it would be one thing if there was another season. However, this was the LAST season. Worse, was the central theme of this last season…a main theme of the show itself…answered? Did humanity learn to be better, or would they stay in constant conflict?

In the end…humanity DID learn to be better. Interestingly it took Octavia and Raven going to bat for humanity to make that happen. And that was after Clarke had again failed after making a near fatal decision for the rest of the group. After watching Clarke grow into a capable leader, I was saddened to see that in the end she felt like a footnote. As did Bellamy.

Well…I guess I could look on the bright side…Octavia got a happy ending. And a complete arc. So did Murphy. Raven proved she was also an important character akin to the many times that Bonnie Bennett had to save all the characters on THE VAMPIRE DIARIES constantly, usually at great sacrifice to herself. But Clarke and Bellamy…the actual main characters…well…

For a show to be told they got 16 episodes to wrap up plots that had been going on and characters that have been developed over 7 years, I would say it went out with a whimper. Given other shows with notice like HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER and THE MAGICIANS went out with just about everything wrapped up fittingly and just about all characters serviced almost correctly if not outright perfectly, The 100’s last season looked like patchwork in comparison. Like the writers threw everything at the wall to see what would stick. Or worse…they got so distracted by what was shiny and new, they forgot about the characters that viewers cared about.

In the end, I guess the last season was like a sandcastle. It looked nice, but once the waves come in, it went away. So much potential…washed back into nothing.

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