Hi I read you think Lexa won’t be mentioned again and you wrote about not supporting the campaign to get hr backon the show. if you a fan why don’t you want to see her again??

I didn’t support the ‘campaign’ for her return because I’m not one to ask my abuser for anything. I don’t want to see anything I love in the hands of my abuser. I know my abuser will not respect the things I love and will merely use them to mess with me further. If Lexa is mentioned in the show, it will be merely to namedrop, not to rebuild, to, perhaps, torture Clarke even more, not rebuild.

I am a fan of Lexa which is exactly why I don’t want to *see* her on this show anymore.

The only caveat I could bring is, if the CW had been smart, they would have replaced Jroth as showrunner and if that new showrunner had shown empathy and understanding towards the audience, and a willingness to rebuild the show in a different direction, to fix the too-many-to-name plot holes and inconsistencies, and show respect for the damage done – I could have been behind any support for the respectful return of her character.

As it is, The CW/Jroth have shown they basically want the ‘conversation’ around Lexa to disappear. It was pointed out some time ago ADC has been prevented from attending any 1oo-related event (may very well have been pushed away from attending DDC) – as she is Lexa’s ‘face’ – and very popular, and her attendance automatically brings up the ‘discourse’ that they do not want. They’ll capitalise on the character’s popularity and make a small mint through Funko, but they’re not interested in apologising or behaving the way a responsible adult would, after having harmed so many young people.

If you’re a fan of Lexa, recognise neither Rothenberg nor his studio respect you. They want you to go away.

Lexa belongs with her fans now. I’m happy that she stays there.

important announcement

raedmagdon:

geralehane:

from now on, every wednesday, at 9 est, i shall release a fuckton of clexa content. i shall continue to do so for as long as the godawful season is airing, and i shall continue to do so well beyond that. my blog is a safe, clexa-filled space for everyone who was affected by 307, for everyone whose stomach coils when they see those sponsored trends, for everyone who feels like they are falling back into despair that hasn’t quite let me go, still.

i remember how much i dreaded thursdays last year. i remember how awful it felt to have my safe space – tumblr – ripped away from me because of all the negativity. i remember beating my panic attack record last march, and april, and may, and june, and – you get the idea. i don’t want that to happen again, not to me and not to you.

on my blog, there will be no mentions of s4. no opinions, no speculations, nothing. on my blog, the show was cancelled in s3. i’m not gona condemn you if you still watch the show – that’s entirely up to you. this is not the “don’t come to my blog if you still watch it” message. i am simply attempting to provide safe space to those who need it.

if you don’t have any means to block content related to the loo, if you are afraid that despite blocks some pieces of info will still make it on your dash, if you’re afraid of checking out today’s trends because seeing the loo up there might send you into a panic attack – for the time being, my blog can become your dash. i can only hope that it will somehow lessen this newly resufraced pain.

to all fandom creators, be it writers, artists, gif/manip/clipmakers – by reblogging this, you can indicate to your followers that you’re going to do the same and that your blog is a safe space, too.

I’m with you babe. Expect safe Clexa content from me on Wednesdays as well.

This is a lovely idea. I still interact with people hurt and needing validation and support and I hope they follow what you’re doing.

I think this is especially kind as so many are dealing now with a new form of anxiety via the real world and sharing things that give you comfort is really important now.

ok so hi i don’t know if you remember when you wrote this but you said something about eliza last summer placating the fans like instead of being a clexa stan or something. after seen the unity days stuff today i think i agree with that but did you mean she’s not a stan?

I do remember. Personally, I don’t ‘get’ stanning. It does suggest to me a little more than just being a casual fan of something (and I know it doesn’t apply to everyone who refers to themselves as ‘stans’), maybe, for some, to the point of it being a little unhealthy. Obsessive, perhaps.

One of the most heartbreaking points about the Lexa issue is so many fans who felt invalidated by it. I think Miss Taylor recognised that and sought to comfort. I don’t think that makes her a ‘stan.’ I’m not really interested in the UD con since it is a promotional event, and I think anything the actors say should be taken with a pinch of salt. Clexa fans who are looking for validation or something to hang on to – I wish there was some way to help them let go (not of what they love, just the pain the show has given them).

was fanfic any different in the Olden Days

jenroses:

gryvon:

kaesaria:

glorious-spoon:

themarysue:

devildoll:

wtfzurtopic:

saathi1013:

some-stars:

actualvampireang:

OH BOY AND HOW. So I am not So Much Of An Old that I was around when print zines were the thing. I got into fanfic-type fandom through the internet. But here are some changes from the late 90s to today:

– In slash fandom, there were a lot fewer main characters written as expressly queer. There was a lot of (in retrospect) very teeth grindingly annoying “We’re not gay we just love each other” type romances.

– Fic was mostly distributed via mailing lists (email), not by web archives, although some mailing lists also would web archive their stuff. People tended to be more monofannish because you would just participate in the list — people are more multifannish now because we follow specific people through their blogs and get introduced to their other interests, but this didn’t happen as much back in the day. People were definitely still multifannish, though. I’ve always fandom hopped.

– The aesthetic was very different. A lot of older fanfic reads in ways that were more influenced by profic romance novels, whereas modern fanfic has sort of its own, more realist style. (TBH there are also a lot more realistic/pomo style romance novels these days as well.) The stuff from the early 2000s, in comparison to 90s and earlier fic, and in comparison to modern fic, tended to be more experimental stylistically. Overall, fic tended to be longer, but also more uniformly long. There weren’t really many of those 200k monsters either.

– Not a lot of postmodern type fic conceits (i.e. stuff like the one where steve and bucky watch all the movies made about captain america while steve was in the ice, or SGA fic told through excerpts from academic papers, etc.) Early 2000s fandom went through this weird magical realism phase, also.

– In our headers, we used to measure story length in file-size, not in word length. I think this change came about in the early 2000s.

– Real Person Fic was like, not even discussed. It had its own mailing list where we kept basically all of it, and you didn’t mention it in polite company. Then suddenly in 2000-2001 all these legitimate people got into NSync fic. But before that, it was pretty taboo in a lot of fannish circles.

re: point one, there was also an enormous amount of time spent on characters agonizing over being attracted to other men. like, i was reading something a while back that was actually written in 2003 but by someone who’d been in fandom for a long time and obviously hadn’t changed their aesthetic much, and the first time the pairing started making out, one of the guys suddenly had to stop—and i thought it was gonna be like, traumatic memories, or just general intimacy issues, or whatever. but it was because it was ~all too new~ and he had to take a few more days to adjust to the whole gay thing.

oh and then along the same lines you had guys running out to try and have sex with women and fail, or have sex with women but find it so unsatisfying, before ultimately admitting that they wanted this particular dick. also, considering the prevalence of WNGWJLEO, it was oddly mandatory to point out at great length how much each character never really loved his previous female partners.

basically fandom now, at least the well-written part of it, is a million times less homophobic and biphobic and, believe it or not, misogynist. obviously there were always exceptions, especially with the really good writers, and especially as you move into the late nineties. but as a rule, so much improvement.

oh, and every love confession required a full name. Firstname Middlename Lastname, I love you. where does that even come from, seriously?

i will give them this—there was a lot less badfic that was technically bad, like, unreadable and full of errors. shit got edited back in the day. someone was gonna pay money to print five hundred copies of that and they did not want your terrible spelling to fuck it up.

oh, and not related to anything else, but: usenet! usenet was a super important venue for many fandoms. this actually continued well into the 2000s for certain fandom circles—not slash-focused media fandom in general, but there was a lot of overlap. i was reading alt.tv.angel during season two, and there were fic writers i recognized posting there. and of course earlier on, the alt.startrek.creative.* groups were central.

Random things I want to add based on my admittedly-hazy memory:

– elaborate ascii headers/footers/dividers on fic, which were mostly txt files (or bare-bones text-only pages to save archive space) I think?

– faking ages to get access to the adult stuff (which could get complicated depending on what country you were from and what country the admin(s) were from). This sometimes involved emailing an age statement to the owner of a mailing list and them deciding whether or not to trust you (or how much they actually gave a fuck) before giving you the password to an archive or authenticating your whatever to access the whosit, I wasn’t entirely sure how it worked. Because I was fifteen at the time. Of course.

– There were people who were very adamantly ‘gay stuff is okay in fanfic but immoral IRL.’ Don’t ask me how that worked out logically, but it was a thing.

– DO NOT FORGET THE BEFORE-TIMES when there was no google and there were scattered archives everywhere, from ‘archive of [specific mailing list]’ to authors’ personal archives to pairing- or fandom-specific archives and the way you found a lot of them was like hoping aol or yahoo search would turn up something new? But on the other hand you had a fair number of folks who were twitchy about having webcrawlies being able to find their porn because fanfic was already kind of side-eyed and porny stuff even moreso.

– there were archivists who actively trawled mailing lists and authors archives and such to compile their own interest-specific archives, sometimes asking the authors if they could host a fic… and sometimes NOT asking. Cue: wank.

– OR you navigated WEBRINGS (which are like tumblr ‘networks’ I think? I don’t grok tumblr networks but ya’ll have fun with them, I’ll be over here in my rocking chair mmk) where there was essentially a master list of websites catering to a specific interest, sometimes with details but sometimes it was just a name and a link so you had no idea what you were clicking on half the time, you just knew it fell under category [thing the webring was about].

(…tbh, this was probably how I found out about slash, because of some X-Files or Pretender or maybe early SG1 webring, I don’t even know. I just saw “[fandomname] slash archive” and was desperate for new fic in [fandom] and hey presto “boys?? kissing?? GIRLS? KISSING?!! YOU CAN DO THAT? Ship things that don’t match what canon would expect you to ship?? oops now I have an exponentially greater amount of ships than I did before”)(given that description, it was probably stargate because there was a LOT of pretty to go around okay)

– let me TELL you about the recurring firestorm of wank that would rush through every goddamned fandom for at least a 5- to 10-year period there where someone would be like “all same-gender shippy stuff needs an NC-17 warning because that stuff is not okay for kids” and other folks would be like “can we not equate handholding to explicit PIV intercourse solely based on the genders of the participants” and holy jesus it was the EXACT same ugly nausea-inducing merry-go-round in at least six of my fandoms, which is why I am zero percent impressed with ‘family’ networks caving to that bullpockey because My People already hashed that out, get with the times, thanks.

– fanfic archives without search functions, where everything was just listed by date posted and sorted by pairing IF YOU WERE LUCKY. One sentence summaries with no tags, no warnings, sometimes no ratings. Sometimes no lengths (see above regarding length measured by filesize). Because everything was coded in early html and some folks just didn’t want to (or knew how to) code all that. This is why I give money to ao3, people. I REMEMBER THE BEFORETIMES.

– oh, and finding That Reccer whose tastes ran similar to your own and posted like 10+ recs a week? Like Santa and Baby Jesus came down from on high and showered glitter all over you before kissing you gently on the forehead and then disappearing in a double rainbow. (You think recs help you filter wheat from chaff NOW, it was all the moreso when you had to do all this hunting just to find stuff TO sort though)

– yes this was also before lj and wordpress and basically any kind of rich text editor-enabled blogging platform. Hand-coded html pages hosted on geocities with terrible font color choices and pixellated blinky tiled gif backgrounds, aw yus.

>midlevel-bofq jazzhands<

Accessibility stuff like the broad, daily use of trigger-warnings or tags of ANY KIND is a relatively new fandom behavior. Like 5-6 years ago, people were still having wars about if trigger warnings were ruining free speech or not (hint: they weren’t).

DISCLAIMERS

Your super elaborate headers usually stated that you did not own anything having to do with your canon and that you made no money off your fan fiction etc etc.

(I still own about dozen Yahoo mailing lists, one of which is fourteen years old and still gets a dozen or so posts a year—a sharp drop from its heyday but the corpse is still twitching so I keep the lights on over there.)

Know your history.

Oh god, this brings back memories. Badly coded geocities memories, aka, ‘is this fic REALLY GOOD and worth reading even though it’s light blue text on a pink background with sparkly line breaks?’

Omg I remember WEBRINGS!!!

It was a dark time. Let the struggle not be forgot.

I came into it about… 3rd season X-files? Ish? alt.tv.x-files.* and there are people on my tumblr that I know from there.

TWENTY YEARS AGO. Jesus.

At that point… badfic was something people sometimes wrote on purpose for lols. Setting your text file line breaks so they wouldn’t be nonsense short line/long lines was a Thing. We listed things in text file size because we were on like 14k modems (or slower) and file length MATTERS.

Slash was naughty and usually badly written by mostly straight women and I was NOT a fan. It kept getting progressively better though. In the X-files it usually involved a lot of noncon power shit because the main slash pairs were Mulder/Krycek (canonical enemies) and Mulder/Skinner (employee/boss).

I took a long break from fanfic when I moved from advertising to graphic design because my job was using up all my create-ions. so that was 1998. When I came back to it was in 2007-8 ish when I was crashing hard from several early prediagnosis bouts of the chronic illness that would eventually disable me, with I-don’t-remember-which-first, JAG, Stargate and finally finishing my magnum opus for the X-files when the new movie came out and I rewatched the series.

I ended up doing a writing binge every other summer or so for a while, and my own writing shifted from pretty much entirely het/gen to DECIDEDLY more poly/queer when I found Doctor Who in 2010.

Then there was a bout with Castle which fizzled mid-fic, unfortunately, and then not much more between 2011 and 2015. I had a kid. I was busy. I had a massive project on the back burner and thought I’d never write fanfic again.

Then Merlin, and a month later, Check Please, and never again would heterosexuality be seen in my writing, apparently, much. And all of that, every bit of it has affected how the original stuff I’m working on is playing out. Most of the main characters are lesbian, bi, poly, and/or nonbinary. Most of them aren’t white.

The quality of fanfic has been incredibly variable for as long as I’ve been reading it. Much is unreadably weak. But the good stuff? The good stuff is better than most traditionally published fiction. I don’t apologize anymore for fanfic.

EVEN the weak stuff…. is incredibly good practice for young authors. Because writing is a learned art, and requires practice.

griesly:

cracktheglasses:

hils79:

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pagerunner-j:

demonicae:

tiger-in-the-flightdeck:

racethewind10:

emma-regina4ever:

beckpoppins:

adiwriting:

fandomlife-universe:

So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.

Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.

Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.

Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.

Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.

how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.

What happened with her lawyers.

History became legend. Legend became myth…. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.

I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again.
The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.

One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… ~~(that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)~~

I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)

The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.

But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.

The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)

And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ ~~(Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)~~

Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…

Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.

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Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers.

Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.

I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.

I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!

Fandom history is important.

Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories!

Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse – dared to write about their characters. Even people who weren’t creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.

It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started ~~shoving their work in people’s faces~~ speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasn’t cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here.

This is why the Xena folks were awesome – they really helped pave the way for fandom as it is enjoyed today. They not only didn’t sue or mess with people for creating fan fiction and fan art – they engaged with those fans online and eventually hired a popular fan fiction writer (Melissa Good) to write a couple of episodes in the last season. They saw their fans as The Greater Good and stood by them. All show runners today could take a lesson from their playbook.

yesbothways:

marite-82:

wicked-chocolatine:

6×18

Awwwwwwww

I love this freaking ship.

Anyone remember The Kittenboard? I think it’s still out there and a nice reference for anyone wanting to know what it was like when Tara was killed off. The parallels between JW and his team and how they behaved and their follow-up post-Tara’s death with Lexa’s death some 14 years later, is a little unnerving. It’s also home to a lot of great fan fiction. It was a really important space at the time.

I really like your Lexa insights but I think the whole conversation about her is kind of over the top from some people like looking too deep for shit that isn’t there. I think that’s just SOP for fans right?

Here’s the thing: Lexa, as a character, only featured in a dozen or so episodes, was mostly underwritten and killed off too quickly and written out in a cliched manner that was a terrible shock to an audience that had been systematically led to believe the opposite would happen. For months prior to this, fans had been carefully building their own universe around her, Clarke and t1oo, enriching that world, those characters and themselves with serious character and world-building, exploring the inner lives and outer turmoil, the potential alternatives – they saw more in her/them than the show’s entire writing team did and they have done it so well, that their work eclipses anything the show could ever offer.

When fans conversate about Lexa and all related matters, they are not ‘over the top’ or ‘looking too deep for shit that isn’t there,’ they are re-imagining a whole world and giving it more life than its creators did. It’s important to them because she is/was a beacon of incredibly rare representation that was badly misused and the fans have reclaimed her. That is something to be joyous about, really, not cynical. What the show tore down and took away, the fans have loving rebuilt and kept alive.

TO THE CLEXA FANDOM: I´M SORRY

andymissesheda:

Ok, this is
going to be a long post so bare with me.

I started
watching the show January this year. I know I know, that was pretty late. I’ve
heard of it a few times but nothing brought my attention to it. Not until I saw
a tumblr post about Lexa. Now let me
tell you something about myself: I’m a 29 years old, straight girl. For my
entire life I’ve always watched TV shows/movies with strong badass/kickass
female characters because well…they are awesome and I kind wish I was one of
them lol: Buffy, Faith, Sidney Bristow, Nikita, Xena, Veronica Mars, Kahlan
Amnell, Hermione, Katniss Everdeen and the
list goes on and on. So I was looking up stuff about Supergirl and found a Lexa
post. And I mean badass/war paint looking Lexa. Youtube and tumblr search here
I come… in a week time I knew all about the show and watched all of her scenes
(I’m gonna be honest that I pretty much ignored the rest, I read about it all
and watched a few scenes but, for me, the whole grounders storyline was much
more interesting than the sky crew). Because of that, by association, I got to
know Clarke pretty well too (every scene with Lexa she is in it). All of that
happened in the week before they were shooting the finale. Now, I’m a horrible
social media user, but I’m very very good at being a lurking anon on twitter
and tumblr for news in general and everything entertainment related. In that
week I looked at every Lexa tumblr blogs and twitter accounts possible and,
again by association, started to read all about Clexa. And every single Jroth
and writers tweet about them too (I get angry just remembering that and writing
this sentence). I watched the trailers/previews for season 3 with glimpses of
her fighting and all. Needless to say I fell in love with Lexa. Who didn’t? She
is the definition of complex character, badass female and A+ acting. Perfect
package. The fact that she was a lesbian, and would possible be involved with
Clarke, didn’t bother me at all. They had amazing chemistry and I was rotting
for them. And that was a surprise for me not because they are a LGBT couple,
but because I usually don’t care much about romantic ships at all. I’m not a romantic
person and I think half the couples on TV/movies are completely unnecessary.
News flash TV/movie writers: not every straight girl out there wants to see a
relationship in every fucking tv show/movie. Seriously…it’s gets boring
sometimes…so drop down a notch a little bit ok?!

Anyways getting
off the point here… I was a Lexa stan that became a Clexa shipper, and that
happened really fast. Everybody was talking about Lexa dying and I was worried
about it too, but the Vancouver finale shooting happened, Jason and the writers
kept twetting for us to have faith, hope and to trust them…and I did…every
single one of us did. They basically promoted the entire season 3 on them: invited
the fans to watch the finale with Clexa, every single promo and sneak peek had
them, Lexa even got a character poster (the only guest star to have one). And well…we all know what happened. Entering
social media that night was simply devastating… I’ve never seen so much pain in
it. Every single person on the fandom was so broken. And we were such a happy
fandom: that was candle whore Lexa, confused Lexa, raccoon Lexa, pick-up lines
Lexa, decalexas, all those amazing art works…

I’m not gonna
lie and pretend to say that I know how you all felt. I don’t. I’m not part of
the LGBT community. I can imagine, but I didn’t live though it like you guys. I
didn’t sleep that night, I lost weight for 2 months straight because I didn’t have
an appetite, I felt like crying all the time, I couldn’t watch any Lexa scenes
without crying for months (up till today I still cry watching her and Clarke
right when she is dying). It truly felt like I lost someone. It’s weird. I
don’t know why I felt like that and I talked with others straight Clexa fans
that felt the same way and don’t know why either. We just came to the
conclusion that she was really special.

I got even
deeper into the fandom after that day. I learned about the BYG trope and all
yours struggles with proper representation on media. I learned a lot and I
decided to be a part of that fight with you (even if on anon because I didn’t
have a tumblr/twitter). Every since Lexa´s death I´ve been following dozens and
dozens of twitter and tumblr accounts from Clexa´s shippers. And there is
something very important I have to say to you: I´M SORRY!

I´m sorry that
every single day it feels like a fucking battle because of haters, antis,
homophobes/lesbophobes/biphobics on both social media and real life for you
guys. I´m sorry that those people don´t understand or don´t try to (and in most
cases simply ignore) all the struggles you deal with. I´m sorry those people
are not smart enough to understand that it goes way beyond Lexa´s death or a ship.
I´m sorry that people within your own community act like assholes when their
jobs or clicks for their sites comes first to the issue at hand (like the whole
hypable article and it´s gay co-founder attitude on twitter or affterellen
inicial response for the backlash). I´m sorry that those people try to diminish
your fight by calling it “petty” or it comes from “angry teenagers” or a “loud minority”
or “psychos” or “weirdos”. I´m sorry that those people are so blind that they
actually misjudge you when they don´t actually follow all the discourse that
happened (specially on twitter) or see all the problematic tweets that were
deleted that started it all. I´m sorry that the hate Blarkes feel for
Clexa/Lexa is so fucking big that they do everything in their power to spread
lies about the fandom and invalidate all of your fight and accomplishments. I´m
sorry that those people like to use the word “toxic”, “rushed”, “OOC”, “manipulative”,
“racist” to describe a beautiful f/f relationship and a lesbian character but
don´t have a problem with those things when it´s in regards for the m/f ship
and male character they like. I´m sorry that that same fandom try to paint you
as “bullies” when they are the ones that have been public call out by Eliza,
Bob, Bob´s girlfriend and Adina for their disgusting behavior. I´m sorry that people are so transparent on
their homophobia that they only started hating on Lexa after her fist kiss with
Clarke in 2×14. I´m sorry that other fandoms that attack you are simply jealous
of all the things you achieved and media attention you get. If it pisses me off
to see/read all of this things, I can´t even imagine how you guys feel.

But know this:
for every hater out there, they are several articles from actually relevant and
important media outlets, not only in the U.S but worldwide, that supports you
and see the issues that you do. Every revolution in the world history came with
a lot of people trying to destroy it. It´s up to you to not let them win.

Are there bad
apples in the Clexa fandom? Of course there are. I would be surprised if a
fandom as big as this one didn´t have any. But every time I see one, I also see
several Clexas reporting the account and calling them out.

We are a family,
and you guys are part of an even bigger family that needs each other so much:
the LGBT community. What was built (and still is) goes way beyond Clexa and
Lexa, you are fighting for a better future not only for your community but for
the whole world too, because a world where people respect each other and
homophobia becomes an unknown concept is a better world for EVERYONE. The fight
for better representation must keep going because media shapes the way people
think, act and dictates what’s “normal” and what’s not. It sucks and it’s ridiculous, but that’s how
it works. And the moment people start seeing on TV LGBT relationships and
individuals as “normal” is the moment homophobia won’t be a big issue and
people will stop being assholes about that.

I know you guys
are tired. But what you guys are doing it’s a HUGE step. Look at all the news
and articles about it. Look at me: a straight girl supporting you. It is making
a difference and little by little it will grow.

I know a part of
the fandom moved to other fandoms and maybe it seems like people are moving on.
That’s ok…you can move on from Lexa’s death (I’m trying too). We keep her and
Clexa alive in our amazing fanfics, fan arts and all the beautiful things the
fandom created and still is creating. But you can not move on from the
movement. Keep bringing awareness to the trope, to the usually horrible
representation on media and to the issues you face in real life that can be
changed, in some way or form, by the movement.

Remember
Clexakru: Lexa is a legend, Clexa was beautiful and your fight is far from
over!! I´m with you, there are many other like me that are with you! Keep
fighting!!

silvermoonlight-gj:

infectedscrew:

I hate when comicbook fans gate-keep by running you through a fact-check quiz. Even if you’ve ready every comic you’re going to be wrong. Why? Because comics can’t even keep their shit together. Bruce’s parents were either killed outside of Mask of Zorro or an opera, their killer is either unknown or Joe Chill, he started as Batman at either 21, 26, 28 or 32. Barry has died six separate times and during several of his absences both Bart and Wally have been the Flash at the same time. Steve has given up Captain America due to anything from a minor cold, dying, wanting to retire and straight up disappearing. God forbid you ask how Tony got his heart.

The only thing we know for certain is that Uncle Ben died and it is always, always, always Superman’s fault that Lex no longer has hair

Can we also add anime and manga fan gate keepers to this as well…because in some shows (Not all) its really bad.

‘Gate keepers are just fans who think they not only know better, but invented the whole thing they’re fans of in the first place.’

With all the love in my heart, I hope young fans are aware that the people they are fans of do not live in their universe. They do not scroll through SM daily looking at images of themselves, reading fan fiction about their characters or creating artwork about those characters. Once they’ve played something, they usually move on to the next gig. It’s a survival skill.

Lucy Lawless has been filmed doing commentaries for Xena and, even a year after the show ended (after six years) couldn’t remember much of it. She said once it was her personality type: she lives in the moment, doesn’t look back, doesn’t spend any time looking ahead.

Perhaps those you are fans of are similar and while they probably do appreciate you very much, they have job(s) to do and moving on is what the business is all about. Being famous can be overwhelming, especially for the very young – we’ve seen frightening examples of how young lives can go wrong – and doing what several dozen people want you to do at any minute of the day must require a great deal of focus and a certain amount of self-sacrifice.

Actors, in particular, are not alone when they are a success: they are often the tent pole for a small army of agents, managers, assistants, even production teams. When a lot of hope and grooming is put into you, the expectations are so high and how do you deliver without losing yourself completely?

The rewards can be great, but the sacrifices to get there can be even greater.

Add in the complications and dramas of private life, well, I’m grateful I never pursued such a course in my life and stuck with being behind the scenes. It’s less grand, but it’s quite a bit safer.

They have a lot coming at them at almost every moment. Don’t be too surprised if they stumble a bit. You would too.