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In a Sea of Strangers, You’ve Longed to Know Me – Chapter 3 – The One with the Graduation [Archive of Our Own]

lolana07:

Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: The 100 (TV)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Clarke Griffin/Lexa, Clarke Griffin & Lexa
Characters: Clarke Griffin, Raven Reyes, Lexa (The 100), Anya (The 100), Octavia Blake, Bellamy Blake, Lincoln (The 100), Indra (The 100), John Murphy (The 100), Emori (The 100), Harper (The 100)
Additional Tags: This is going to be a sloooow burn, ye be warned!, with a dash of angst thrown in there for good measure, okay maybe a little bit more than a dash.., again ye be warned :), Clarke’s POV
Summary:

The one where Clarke is a marine biologist and Lexa owns a boat charter business in a beach town.

Or my excuse to nerd out over marine bio and boats with our fave leading ladies!

In a Sea of Strangers, You’ve Longed to Know Me – Chapter 3 – The One with the Graduation [Archive of Our Own]

thedoctor-smith:

Found myself angry today at the umpteenth reblog of a post that basically reduced the good and honourable deeds of the Clexa fandom into egotistical bragging rights over the number of notes they have on their posts vs. BeIIarke fans. The post(s) was a pile-on of bludgeoning a blarke in question with so many ‘Look! We’ve got more than you! You could never! Neener Neener Neener’ moments it was absurd and ugly, from the beginning.  

They reduced the good and honourable deeds of the Clexa fandom into weapons for a shipping war.  Into ego-driven bragging.  Into a shallow pursuit of putting one over on a fandom so hated that the poison is clearly running both ways.  

Let’s get this clear: the Clexa fandom has NOTHING to prove to anyone, ever. 

If you’re going to take the bait over everyone who says ‘we’re better than you’ or ‘our ship is better than your ship’ or whatever BS someone pulled, if you think everything this fandom did in the name of better representation and charity is just so a handful can have a field day using it to bash and smash other human beings (no matter who they are or what they do) in a juvenile display of Social Superiority – you’ve lost the thread.  If this is just about numbers, you need to recognise that no matter how many ‘notes’ or ‘views’ or ‘likes’ you have, this does not equate to ‘we’re better than you.’  If it did, various Youtubers wouldn’t be reviled human beings.  More equals better is a fallacy.  A humiliating one, at that.  

It’s also beyond the point. 

The good and noble deeds of the Clexa fandom – shifting an entire industry toward better representation, raising money for a school and other charities – were not done in order to bludgeon others with the data. They were and are done, hopefully, in selfless service to others, to improve our world and our community. No one has any right to use those good things for their own personal vendetta.  

The show is coming back, the cons are on and dragging is going to happen. We can have fun with that without turning it into bloody target practice.  Stop caring what any blarke thinks. If they are trying to reach into your space – block them. Don’t engage, block them. Ignore. Rise above.  

I was told once that the best revenge is to live well.  We have nothing to prove.  NOTHING.  

Because if we’re not building up, making things better for ourselves, our community, for others – what are we doing?  

Found myself angry today at the umpteenth reblog of a post that basically reduced the good and honourable deeds of the Clexa fandom into egotistical bragging rights over the number of notes they have on their posts vs. BeIIarke fans. The post(s) was a pile-on of bludgeoning a blarke in question with so many ‘Look! We’ve got more than you! You could never! Neener Neener Neener’ moments it was absurd and ugly, from the beginning.  

They reduced the good and honourable deeds of the Clexa fandom into weapons for a shipping war.  Into ego-driven bragging.  Into a shallow pursuit of putting one over on a fandom so hated that the poison is clearly running both ways.  

Let’s get this clear: the Clexa fandom has NOTHING to prove to anyone, ever. 

If you’re going to take the bait over everyone who says ‘we’re better than you’ or ‘our ship is better than your ship’ or whatever BS someone pulled, if you think everything this fandom did in the name of better representation and charity is just so a handful can have a field day using it to bash and smash other human beings (no matter who they are or what they do) in a juvenile display of Social Superiority – you’ve lost the thread.  If this is just about numbers, you need to recognise that no matter how many ‘notes’ or ‘views’ or ‘likes’ you have, this does not equate to ‘we’re better than you.’  If it did, various Youtubers wouldn’t be reviled human beings.  More equals better is a fallacy.  A humiliating one, at that.  

It’s also beyond the point. 

The good and noble deeds of the Clexa fandom – shifting an entire industry toward better representation, raising money for a school and other charities – were not done in order to bludgeon others with the data. They were and are done, hopefully, in selfless service to others, to improve our world and our community. No one has any right to use those good things for their own personal vendetta.  

The show is coming back, the cons are on and dragging is going to happen. We can have fun with that without turning it into bloody target practice.  Stop caring what any blarke thinks. If they are trying to reach into your space – block them. Don’t engage, block them. Ignore. Rise above.  

I was told once that the best revenge is to live well.  We have nothing to prove.  NOTHING.  

Because if we’re not building up, making things better for ourselves, our community, for others – what are we doing?  

If the show had a bit more honesty about it, we would have had a scene where Lexa, wanting to teach her Nightbloods a little history, takes the children, and Clarke out for a ride.

They reach the bombed out remains of another city, one much larger than whatever Polis might have been.  We can see the range of devastation. They can sit on a hill and look down upon it. 

Lexa tells the children how it used to be a great city, full of people, how the land they live on was once part of a great nation that stretched from one ocean to another.  But. The people who built that nation weren’t honest. They were greedy and arrogant.  They’d stolen the land from others, the ones who came before them. She tells them how the people were subjugated, murdered, pushed out of their land, their way of life, their homes and left to all but die out. 

When Aden asks ‘why,’ she explains, looking directly at Clarke, at how the invaders had superior weapons, how they thought the natives were savage and inferior. They thought nothing of taking what they had, destroying their way of life, because the invaders saw themselves as superior, of more value.  

But even if the natives were savages, if you can even believe that word, they were not without value. They were not inferior.  They deserved to live and to grow and to thrive. They weren’t monsters. And they did their best to protect one another and what they had made and were proud of.  

‘But the invaders stole it all from them?’

‘Yes, they did.’  

Clarke says nothing the entire journey. 

What TV Can Learn From ‘The 100’ Mess

Two years ago, journalist Mo Ryan gave voice and validation to an abused and heartbroken fandom.  

The response of the showrunner has, outside of a few unenlightening interviews, has been disappointing. Rothenberg live-tweeted the March 10 episode of the show as if thinkpieces and damning critiques were not still being churned out. In the limited array of interviews he did in conjunction with the March 3 episode, he has given little indication that he understands the depth of the sense of betrayal or the multitude of reasonable objections to the death story line. Since March 3, it has fallen to co-executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who wrote the episode, to engage with fans in any significant and meaningful way, but his compassionate and committed response has only highlighted Rothenberg’s abdication of responsibility.

What TV Can Learn From ‘The 100’ Mess

A Place To Be Born – Moodboard

thedoctor-smith:

Moodboard inspired by @liminalsmith’s post-apocalyptic tale A Place To Be Born.

“Are you laughing at me?” Clarke asks, full of mock offence. “I…oh my God. You are laughing at me. You are quite strange, Lexa Woods.”

“Likewise, Clarke.” Lexa shakes her head, stares out the window, then back at Clarke. Her voice is soft when she asks, “What are you so eager to sell your soul for?”

Clarke grips the wheel, bites the inside of her lip till she tastes blood. “You can’t sell something you don’t have.”

Grand Slam Thank You, Ma’am (2/4)

femininenachos:

No one took much notice of Lexa Woods as a scrawny little upstart, but flash forward a few years and she’s got a real shot at a Wimbledon Title. But when a recurring injury flares up before the Championships begin, she’s forced to seek treatment. What she wasn’t counting on when she walked into the clinic that day was for a sassy blonde physio to turn her carefully ordered world upside down…

AKA Tennis!AU.

[Read on AO3]

weasal:

kassieskai:

Been showing Lexa more of my old movies, as watching her squirm in her seat is so fucking hot!

This one had a pretty high budget, and we shot it over a weekend in the Nevada desert. I got spat on by a camel during a scene where I’m 69ing Raven and it kinda put me off my stride – you could say I got the hump (well actually I did get humped a bunch of times by Octavia and Raven!) I don’t recommend fucking on the desert though you guys, that stuff gets in places you don’t want it to be. The crew nicknamed me Sandy Crack for weeks afterwards.

My buddies at @niylahsniknaks will be selling postcards of my back catalogue at @clexacon, so be sure to pay them a visit and tell them Kassie sent you 😘

I’d like to see Kassie’s back catalogue….

One day, in her dotage, a confused someone is going to interview Eliza Taylor about her past life as a porn star. I doubt I’ll be around to see it and that makes me a little cross. 

If I’ve made it to San Junipero, could someone plug in for five minutes and give me the scoop? It’ll be the best story.  

Bless these legends.  Hope you have a big time in Vegas.