Tag: clexakru

okbjgm:

thedoctor-smith:

okbjgm:

no writer’s office is complete without a reverse diving bell built to trap a flying zombie pike.

Is that…Twiki on the floor?

nope – that’s johnny sokko’s flying robot and his evil twin cleopat of melcon.

Tarnation – and I was going to make some ‘bidi bidi bidi’ joke to link to your auction for Isla – but it’s been RUINED.

So…joke aside, here’s the auction link again folks – please bid and help support this little girl and her family.  If you want to make a direct donation, visit here.  

And thanks to Javi and all those who are donating items to help! 

commanderlexaofthegrounders:

lexaisourhero:

We need more heroes like Lexa.

March 3rd is the day to join us on twitter tweeting “LEXA IS OUR HERO” starting at 12PM – LA! See our tumblr on desktop for more info. 

A reminder of what we are going to do on Friday. It is very important to have everyone’s support this day. We need a big WW trend kru and it won’t happen if we don’t work together.

Let’s show the haters that we are still here, that we can make noise, that we matter. That we won’t ever forget and much less forgive that asshat for what he did on March 3rd. Tell the world why Lexa is so important and why what happened that night is something no one should ever forget.

They are already hoping we fail, they are mocking us, dismissing the importance of Lexa and our fight. We cannot let that happen, so please be ready to trend and if you can’t be sure to use TweetDeck to schedule your tweets.. Remember that our Aussie kru will be trending March 4th.

We can do this Clexakru. Our fight is not over!

Reminder! 

I took data mining last semester, and with what I learnt, I was able to create a program that tracks our vote rate vs theirs. We lost 150,000 votes yesterday. As in they were taken away from us, not them out voting us. We are starting to lose votes again. This is why they were so easily able to gain 15% yesterday. It was a combination of them voting, and someone taking votes away from us in little increments randomly. We would lose chunks ranging from 8000 to 24000 votes off our total.

geryonwoods:

That is utter fucking bullshit. RadioTimes is taking votes away from the minorities. Ain’t that funny. We should let them know we know. Keep receipts.

KEEP VOTING

If this is true, just illustrates why we shouldn’t (or any other fandom) participate in these polls: we know the e-online polls were just click bait (major click bait) and Radio Times is no different.  They don’t create these polls because they love the fans and the ships or anything else. They do it for the money.  

Spreading that word might be more useful and help focus people on worthier things (I believe ideas like Clexa Con or the like have the potential to do more good over the long term).  

enduring fandoms

@hedaswarrior shared this today and I’m reposting with a little commentary:

This is a great video and a great reminder (to me, anyway) that Clexakru is, in almost every way possible, Xena Fandom 2.0.   If you were around in the day, you know we really weren’t any different: loyalty, art, memes, fiction, etc.  We loved our girls.  We were one of the first major fandoms to utilise the internet to the fullest (for the time) with message boards and sites like Whoosh! preceding the modern Wiki pages.  Xena and Gabrielle were (and still are) the only shared lead queer women to have their own genre series.   We live in a white/straight/male dominated world that will never give us a gay Superman or a lesbian Wonder Woman.  But we had Xena.  Six (mostly) glorious years of near-sapphic insanity that has influenced just about ever other campy cinematic romp that has come after.  

Clexa is about as close to another Xena/Gabrielle that we’ve ever had.  14 years after Xena’s demise, we were given another blonde/brunette pairing with swords and leather and the building of a new mythology (that so many Clexakru insist Clarke and Lexa are soulmates could be thanks to the original soulmate pairing of Xena and Gabrielle).   It would have been lovely to have six years of it and it shows how little content creators have truly learned from the likes of shows like Xena that a poorly considered ‘plot’ was placed before an important and progressive relationship.  

I do have a feeling this fandom will keep Clexa going as long as they can and I’m impressed at the creation of the first Clexa convention, Clexa Con, something quite similar to the Xena conventions that have been going on for some 20 years.  Sadly, the last ‘official’ Xena convention was in 2015, but Xenites are now holding ‘retreats’ – surely a hopeful sign of undying loyalty to a global community borne out of love for a fictional pairing.  Like Clexakru raising money for The Trevor Project and raising awareness over the treatment of minorities in media, Xenites have also done their part over the years, raising millions for charities.  If you are feeling down and looking for a little hope, look no further than a Xenite.  

In twenty years, a new fandom will likely look to you for the same.  Cheers.