#bellamy vs. lexa – @selfihateyouithink on Tumblr

the contrast. what gets me is that the last person clarke expects to betray her does it. and the last person clarke expects to see reason, considering 300 of Lexa’s warriors were massacred, surprises her. when a door closes, a window opens for new hope. and clarke finds that in lexa. this is when she starts to trust lexa. this is when she fully realises they’re on equal grounds. they both want peace. whereas bell wants revenge and will divert away from clarke due to difference in philosophies.

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Anonymous asked:

While I agree with your meta that people should shut up about Lexa making the wrong choice and being a bitch bla bla bla (I mean come on the choice was totally understandable, her people are her priority after all) I don't agree with the "Especially not if the ship you're trying to defeat is queer" you're making it sound an awful lot like people are not allowed to criticize queer ships, which is unfair to everyone.

Oh, sweet anon, you should have checked my blog before sending this. Because I have no problem with you personally, but you’re making me laugh with this. (P.S. False equivalencies help no one. Criticize to undermine het ships before you ever criticize to undermine queer ships, to help make up the deficit that homophobia causes. K? K.)

“People are not allowed to criticize queer ships” is not a thing that I believe, nor a thing that I have ever claimed to believe, nor a thing that I act in accordance with. Not ever. I am the ship critique queen, whether OTP or not; have you noticed there’s no Lexa/Clarke on my blog apart from what I posted last night? That’s because I’m waiting for them to give me a reason in text to believe definitely that I can support this ship. I would never be like “OH MY GOD NEVER CRITICIZE QUEER, ALWAYS HET”. That’s not me at all.

“People are not allowed to unfairly vilify queer characters to prop up a het ship that has no basis in canon thus far from the side of the other queer girl who kissed said vilified queer character last week.” is a thing I will always say, and act in accordance with. Because Lexa made a choice that’s very believable and very justifiable for her character, while still in the process of growing as a character, and “Bellamy’s the only one Clarke can count on” is (hetero)sexist bullshit that ignores that Bellamy was exactly in this place last season and weaponizes a morally grey straight boy against a morally grey lesbian, like that shit’s never been done before and exists in a vacuum. It doesn’t. Learn it.

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Anonymous asked:

'instead of being sexist and homophobic as fuck' umm just because someone doesn't treat lexa and bellamy the same doesn't mean they're being sexist and/or homophobic. I like the idea of Clarke and Bellamy together just like I also liked the idea of Clarke and Lexa. I hate what Lexa did and I think it has ruined Clexa in an irreparable way but that in no way makes me 'sexist' or 'homophobic' it just means I think what Lexa did was wrong and I don't see a future for Clexa after it.

“umm just because someone doesn’t treat lexa and bellamy the same doesn’t mean they’re being sexist and/or homophobic.” Yeah it does.

I don’t have to humor the rest of this, really, because you lost me the moment you decided that weighing these characters differently has nothing to do with their marginalized identities. Yeah. It does. Everything after that is “this is the reason why I’m treating her differently” and I don’t care to read that. [shrugs]

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In the end there’s only one co leader clarke can count on. And that is Bellamy Blake.

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Ah, yes, Bellamy was so reliable last season, in his first season--like Lexa's is now, before he was accepted by The 100 and the Ark people. So reliable, saying things like "I'll cut off her hand if I have to" about forcing Clarke to join his cause of convincing the Ark they were dead, arranging an attack on Wells for the same thing, sacrificing 300 people and their fucking only means of communication at the time so that he could avoid any recompense for shooting Jaha, hanging someone from a fucking tree because they kissed his sister, etc.

So fucking reliable as a leader. Not at all out for himself and loyal only to those who would obey him, or who were down to help his survival, or whom he considered his own (like Octavia).

Oh wait, no, he wasn't. But you held on and let him grow, until he got to a situation that allows him to be reliable as a viable choice to survive.

Don't pretend one ruthless Slytherin survivalist badass is better than the other to prop up your ship, especially not if the ship you're trying to defeat is queer.

Give Lexa the same treatment as you gave Bellamy, hold on for her to grow and get into a situation where she can be reliable and viably survive, instead of being sexist and homophobic as fuck.

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