@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.