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“Why” tags are going here because Tumblr’s a baby who can’t handle all these words at once. :P

Why:

#but i spent my whole life absolutely CONVINCED that wings belonged on my body. it just... tok me a good long while to figure out Why.

#Oh THAT'S why everyone's freaking out over that post.

#at first I was like ''Wow this is Srentha to the core!'' And then I read ''why this unreasonable answer at the sight

#honestly this is why i'm basically addicted to empty-mind meditation?

#??? why do people do these awful things to Good People though

#i don't know how or why and i don't remember ever having Learned about That Letter? but my mind automatically knew it was 'hath' somehow

#Of course that DOES beg the question of why a LORd of CHAOS doesn't... you know. CHANGE it? ??

#first of all: REM WHY ARE YOU COMING to OHIO of all places???

#okay but. randy how did they MEET what's the STORY why are they HATING on TEXAS

#or like. a Sarcastic Joke because cyborg was once like ''why aren't you miss mary sunshine''?

#''What are you DOING. You RUN. ALWAYS RUN.'' and i was like. ''why bother getting into adventures if you're gonna RUN though..''

#I don't know why but I always score better on Customer Service Questionaires when I choose responses like ''I'm sorry

#i've never seen that still before and I CAN;T FATHOM WHY because that is FANTASTIC!

#I don't know why but ''novice suddenly ends up with super incredibly powerful abilities'' is one of my FAVORITE TROPES!

#I have no idea how/why but these just gave me Massive Leyla and Srentha Feels.

#my usual turnaround time for Dreams to Real Life is about two weeks. not sure why but it happens to like 7 people in my immediate family

#Especially with the bells. I don't know why but bells always remind me of that place. ~<3

#Nobody intrinsically knows how to solve problems that hurt another person. That's why COMMUNICATION is so important!

#also: Good Post re: Why Danny is So Actually-Great

#why does everyone spell ''bear with me' like that?

#i know right? Why did I never think of that??

#why do i love this so much

#that's basically why Evanescence became my favorite band. it's not all romo-/sexually-centric

#i've always read it the same way and didn't notice Why Everyone Stopped Liking Her but that also brought that particular Change to light...

#groans eternally in Tumblr's direction. why even bother with all these updates.

#Oh THAT'S why Eda could do glyphs! /joke

#thaaaat's probably why Fancie Word Choice has always been a strength in my writing.... {lD;;;;;

#velvet and sheer... why have I never seen that combination before? It's GLORIOUS

#That's probably why he's so good at spontaneous Travelling too. Lots of practice when trying to find her... /owo

#This is why House and Senate votes count though! The President may have a lot of control over the military but a strong H+S

#I know MC Escher was a master of this (whatever This is) and that's why he's one of my favorite artists.

#okay but I'm intensely curious why he didn't have a plan to take HIMSELF out and thought he'd have to rely on THEM dsfndsgmfhdgj

#I wonder why he'd need to attack/defend while shifted? Can he also use such magic when he's not shifted?

#but I think that variety is why her every new album is so refreshingly Different. Her singing ALONE improves so MUCH with every album!

#the only difference is that I imagined the fire came with smoke and that's why her gasp was so strangled and she grabbed her throa

#honestly this is why i'm basically addicted to empty-mind meditation?

#i'm cleaning my room and i misplaced it. badfnmkngjf;lk this is why i hate cleaning

#but scenes like this are why i love DC's latest gen of animated movies

#that Friends As Family theme was super important to why i love the 80's comics too..........

#this is why i read fanfic

#i think she feels slighted in some way but i can't pinpoint Exactly Why let alone HOW.

#and it's like.. Halfo f why lapis's characterization is so Shaky for me? Because the girl barely talks??? And she has like 7 Speech Modes

#^^^^ GUYS THIS WAS ALERINA. This is the environment Dove was raised in! This is why losing her mother tore her apart! ^^^^^

#This is so so SO important and delves deeply into why language is so important for learners and general humanity alike. ~<333

#that's why my tag for Old People Stories isn't specific to any generation. it's just Shitty Adults Being Shitty

#I write primarily about OCs and I know that's why my readership is so low. I write stories for a Dead Fandom that has declined sharply.

#you know? so that's why my Affirmations Tag is like 60% Steven UniversE Content at this point. 8F It's Helping Me Learn!

#It's a CIRCADIAN THING not an INSOMNIA THING. I don't know why my doctors don't believe it's NOT the same as INSOMNIA

#oh is THAT why my love language is ''all of them''?

#and i hardcore headcanon ry ouwearing glasses when he gets older. so why not?

#i Suck at the aCTUAL DRAWING art but i'm i na bit of a fallow period with the org and personal life. so why not?

#i'm already planning an aviary for the doves. so why not? (they'd be Very Separate from teh raven though. for obvious reasons)

#let's add to the Emotional Whiplash of Today pile. sure! why not!!

#but i got the dvd and i have vlc so why not use them i guess? i already had it in the drive for the extras and this way there's .....

#She can hop dimensions so why on Earth-- ALL the Earths-- hasn't she Been Relevant to ANY multi-timeline crisis yet???

#yes of fucking COURSE Dove and the rest are in Team Transition too!! Why on Earth-- on ANY earth! wouldn't I transition them too?!

#so why on earth did danny chase get shafted so hard?????

#about WHY or if she's GONNA be OKAY or HOW or--

#So gentle and soft and concerned and really quite quiet and subtle... which might be why others didn't pick up on the Love Vibe

#but the last one I reblogged didn't have that specified! 8O i don't know why one of my special interests is Unusual Instruments

#why WOULDN'T you snog a snitch if it could bring your dead loved ones back though? Why on Earth WOULDN'T you???

#but it's about ''they're very different. but they're friends!'' It just never talks about why or how that's important.

#(i think that's her full name for some reason but i don't know why or when i heard/saw it. somebody please correct me if i'm wrong!)

#I must be an Asker. I've never understood why people are so convinced they Can't Say No if someone asks?

#i also think PTSD makes you react to fear Differently from Pure Adrenaline Responses... but i can't unravel Why right now

#And also at the time I couldn't fathom why someone would think she was autistic. because i didn't know myself

#god this foreshadowing was just. so sincere and heart-rending and when this episode came out I *DID* wonder why she'd say that...

#I'm STILL trying to figure out why Srentha thought Dove was confessing that she has heartworm. (i know she Does Not in fact

#at first I was like ''Wow this is Srentha to the core!'' And then I read ''why this unreasonable answer at the sight

#i can't figure out why though

#If my Harmony Core theory is correct: it would explain why they're playing their music So Hard.

#the fact that my first reaction was ''why though'' is..... concerning?

#raven's like How? Why The HELL. and dove doesn't have a good answer besides ''it felt like i needed it.''

#fun fact: i misread this as ''zatana zatara / MICHIGAN '' and i was like... ''why the fUCK--''

#i don't know why there's all this fanart of

#and also sugar skulls are delightful but you should really know what they MEAN and REPRESENT and WHY they're sweet and flamboyant

#if someone is passionate; angry; or distressed over a topic: She doesn't always understand WHY until they EXPLAIN it. If they do at all.)

#oh hey why was THAT line never a meme

#this is why we need

#but that doesn't make it any less FRUSTRATING because I've been wORKING THROUGH the pptsd and why won't it STOP?

#(because that's why we have to pay for everything from movies to individual channels now. let's be real)

#i've never understood why winter and fall were the only ~fashionable~ seasons for wearing black.

#I mean to be FAIR some of the government DID mobilize and that's why we got the Stimulus Bill.

#But DC... this bullshit is why we can't have nice things

#and as soon as I looked it up: y first thought was ''Oh is that why we call them Abner?'' My second was ''Is that what *I* am?''

#also if you're as powerful as zee it probably comes second-nature so why WOULDN'T you throw it around to stop an argument?

#okay but if SPINEL doesn't know then how/why would BLUE know

#what? no i didn't just stare at this for a solid two minutes and read it over five times. no.. why would I do that?

#that's because it's not ''cool'' to hate on it so why would it be ''cool'' to like it ironically?

#why WOULDN'T you snog a snitch if it could bring your dead loved ones back though? Why on Earth WOULDN'T you???

#but it's not like a ragey angry thing. it's like........ war of attrition? why yes i think i WILL sign the 47th petition for the same thing

#over and over again and rewound and replayed until i got the whole spell written down. why YES I'm a little hyperfixated! why do you ask!!!

#tag game #rhs blog

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alwaysaprille · 7 years

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But you are useing Jroths quote as a reason to hate on Clarke and by extension l.xa. You use and minimize Clarke's worth and agency by saying that makes her a love interest. She can cheer for her crush/gf without being just a love interest. And if u want to be "well Jroth said and I'm just repeating it" then cool. It's not like you haven't called him on his shit before. I guess it's just not worth it for some characters. Especially when he can be used to discredit things and people.

This is going to be super long and I am on mobile, so I can’t put in a read more, prepare yourselves.

Omfg, what do you want me to say, Nonny?

That I love Clarke and L/xa because they’re such great wlw representation when they’re both huge white saviors and one of them even wears fucking brownface to compliment it?

Like...I’ve said a million times over that Cl/xa is valid, real and important. I’ve said they loved each other (Clarke still loves L/xa). I’ve said they were soulmates (you can cruise my blog for this one.) I’ve never once “hated” on your goddamn ship.

Never once. The only time I talk about your ship is when I get anon messages about it, or someone in your fandom is being racist. That’s literally it. I am a ship and let ship kind of person. I don’t care what you ship. I don’t care about any ships that aren’t mine. I’ve never seen Cl/xa as competition for Bellarke. I’ve never gone out of my way to shit on Cl/xa.

Like??????

I use and minimize her “worth and agency”? How? Sometimes, in a character’s growth arc, they do take a backseat. They do become less active in their own story It’s a very common trope in fiction, especially in a hero’s arc (which Clarke has been on since the Pilot episode.)

In order to have true agency, a character must be able to make purposeful choices, not only that, but those choices must be aligned with their personality within the confines of the story (i.e.-not headcanons.) The 100 has set Clarke up to be a headstrong, manipulative, take-no-prisoners-do whatever I need to do to save my people-type of character. After 2x16 she actively backs away from that role and it’s completely understandable.

Clarke has been actively making decisions since literally the Pilot episode, she’s had no breaks. Every single episode up until 3x04 Clarke (most often along with Bellamy) has had to make a life or death decision for herself or her people. In the Season 2 finale, she runs away from her people, but her decision to bear the burden of Wanheda alone, to hide from her people, still acts a very real decision to protect her people (specifically Bellamy and Monty).

It is not until 3x04 where things begin to change and we see Clarke actively surrender the agency she’d already lost. Clarke had no real choices in 3x04, she had exhausted all of her options: asking L/xa to stop the fight to the death, asking Roan to kill his mother, attempting to kill Nia herself, asking L/xa once more to stop the fight.

At the time that the fight to the death occurred, Clarke had no agency in what could have been a very crucial turn for the safety of her people. Everything (her safety, her people’s safety, everything) depended on L/xa’s ability to defeat Roan.

Once L/xa defeated Roan, there was a weight lifted from Clarke’s shoulders. For once, she didn’t have to make the decision that saved or doomed her people. For once, someone else made the decision completely independent of her (which speaks to Clarke’s mindset-and a large part of the reason why some of the audience actually believes Clarke does make all the decisions by herself-when in fact every large decision she’s made has been a team effort, but I digress) and it worked in her favor! This is part of the reason why Clarke so easily lapses into comfort with L/xa. When she is in Polis, when she is with L/xa, she can relax, she can be unencumbered by the burdens of decision making (because, again, one of Clarke’s biggest pit falls is the inability to recognize that she isn’t the only one making decisions and the only affected by making those decisions-hence the showdown in Hakeldama with Bellamy).

Heroic characters have to be put in situations beyond their control at some point in their story. It’s what ups the emotional ante when things go south. When L/xa died, not only did Clarke lose her love, she also lost her “shield”. “I don’t want the next Commander, I want you,” isn’t just a romantic line from a teenager whose heart is breaking as she watches her love die, it’s a true statement.

Clarke can’t trust the next Commander, she doesn’t know if the next Commander will be willing to pick up “Blood Must Not Have Blood.” She doesn’t even know who the next Commander is!!

Y’all keep trying to pick at Bellarke fans who comment on Clarke’s loss of agency in 3A, because you think that we’re saying that Cl/xa was bad because Clarke gave up her agency.

Understand: in the literary trope of character agency, good things can happen and still cause a character to lose their agency!!!

Let’s really break this down, because I know the above was’t enough to actually explain my point:

When a character has agency she is active more than she is reactive. She pushes on the plot more than the plot pushes on her. Even better, the plot exists as a direct result of her actions.

What about anything that happened in 3A existed as a direct result of Clarke’s actions?

We begin the season with Clarke “feral” and in the woods, hiding from her people and the Grounder’s alike. She is hiding from her people because her actions in Mt. Weather broke her, she is hiding from the Grounder’s because her actions in Mt. Weather have made her legendary.

Who was directly responsible for Clarke committing the genocide that broke her and made her legendary?L/xa.

So Season 3 literally starts with the plot being driven by the fallout of L/xa’s decision to abandon Clarke at Mt. Weather.

In 3x02, Clarke is kidnapped and brought to Polis, for several reasons, one of which is that L/xa fears for her safety because she knows Grounders are out to kill Clarke and gain the power of Wanheda. Clarke’s presence in Polis moves the plot.

Who was directly responsible for Clarke’s presence in Polis?

L/xa-who ordered Roan to kidnap Clarke on the promise of his freedom. Again, the plot is still being driven by L/xa.

In 3x03, L/xa explains her plan to initiate the Sky People as the 13th Clan. The Ice Nation blows up Mt. Weather again, Clarke bows before L/xa to symbolically submit (or give up her power-which can easily be a substitute word for agency!!!) as Wanheda to the Commander.

Why does L/xa want the Sky People as a clan? Why does the Ice Nation blow up Mt. Weather?

L/xa needed the 13th Clan, specifically Clarke, because it allowed her to overrule the unanimous vote by the other 12 Clans to remove her from the Commandership and allowed her to instead respond to the Fight to the Death challenge, something she was obviously sure of winning. The Ice Nation attacks the Mt because they do not trust L/xa and feel her actions at Mt. Weather have shown her to be weak-this action-incidentally is a large part of the reason the massacre at Hakeldama occurs-another major plot point for the Season).

I’ve already discussed 3x04 above.

In 3x05 L/xa and Clarke happen upon the massacred army. This is actually the first episode that we see Clarke demonstrate some agency (I say some-because it is reactionary) in during the course of the Season. It is Clarke’s persuasion of L/xa to move towards, “Blood must Not Have Blood” that cements the 12 Clans desire to see L/xa removed from her position as Commander. However, the 12 Clans had already decided that L/xa was unfit based on her actions in 2x15 and so Clarke’s actions here really didn’t change the plot significantly. L/xa was doomed from the moment she chose to walk away from the Mt. in Season 2.

In 3x06, Clarke is again reactionary (which is not a sign of true agency). She makes no moves towards addressing the very real issues she saw in Arkadia when she was there in 3x05. Instead, she is sketching L/xa in the Commander’s suite-ignoring her reality, until Roan literally has it delivered to her feet. Even still, Clarke’s decision (to allow Emerson to live) was influenced by L/xa’s words (”So Blood Must Not Have Blood only applies when it is my people who bleed?”) and needed L/xa’s authority behind it for the sentence to carry any weight. It is L/xa who banishes Emerson officially, not Clarke. At any moment, L/xa could have decided to have Emerson killed and Clarke could have done nothing about it. L/xa had a choice. Clarke did not.

I’m going to skip 3x07, because...I just don’t want to get into that and Clarke wasn’t in 3x08, but in 3x09 Clarke finally gets her agency back. She is a character who is actively making decisions that move the plot.

Clarke makes a decision to not leave Polis immediately. Clarke makes a decision to steal the Flame.

Those ^^^ actions have a direct affect on the plot.

Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, Titus kills himself, to stop Ontari from using him to get it back. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, Roan now has to go off and hunt for it-which leads directly to their attempt to infiltrate Polis in 3x15. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, Murphy is made the Flamekeeper and is therefore able to gain knowledge of how the Flame works-knowledge he later uses to implant the Flame into Clarke. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, she is able to use it to kill Emerson (something she would not have been able to do, if she’d left Polis immediately as Murphy wanted). Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, she is able to get it to Raven and Sinclair who decipher the phrase needed to activate the Flame. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, she must find a way to get it to Luna. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, ALIE-who had correctly deciphered that the Flame was in Polis, is unable to get her hands on the chip immediately. Because Clarke has stolen the Flame, ALIE invades Luna’s oil rig, resulting in Jasper taking the chip, Luna killing and Clarke losing her only possible nightblood ally. Because Clarke has the Flame she is able to use it in the finale to enter the CoL and save the day.

This is agency. This is what it looks like when a character’s actions move the plot forward. Clarke’s actions at the end of 3x07, literally push the entire narrative forward. Prior to 3x07, every character was reacting to L/xa’s actions-even the characters in Arkadia-who were reacting to the Grounder’s abandoning them at Mt. Weather, the Grounder’s blowing up Mt. Weather, the Grounders not allowing them to use Mt. Weather, the kill order on Lincoln-all a response to L/xa’s orders. Stop mistaking us deciphering and discussing literary terminology as code for “We hate Cl/xa!”

Unfortunately, it just so happens that those of us who do delve a bit deeper into the show’s literary devices are Bellarke shippers.

BTW, I love how this ask ignores the fact that I’ve discussed Bellamy’s loss of agency in 3A at length, as well as his loss of agency to Clarke in Season 2B at length. So like....do you think I’m trying to discredit my own ship and my very favorite character....or??????

#the REACH #Anonymous

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