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wlw positivity commentathon

Mar 04, 2016 12:40

As many of you probably already know, last night another canon lesbian was shot and killed minutes after a love scene with the woman of her affection. Understandably, many fans (and non-fans) of The 100 are hurt and betrayed by yet another tv lesbian being killed on-screen ( Read more... )

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kwritten March 4 2016, 20:45:04 UTC

RIP all the dead lesbians

anger/venting/mourning please go here

upupa_epops March 4 2016, 21:01:46 UTC

I AM SO FUCKING FURIOUS. And I didn't even care about Lexa, but I do care about how much damage they did to their teenage fanbase especially. I'm out for blood at this point, except with a headache from hell, and I just want to rip JRat a new one.

clockwork_hart1 March 4 2016, 21:56:25 UTC

honestly? im feeling the exact same; lexa's fanbase was like 80% young teenage girls most of whom were seeing wlw onscreen for the first time in a vaguely (using the term liberally here given the ~other issues the show has in droves) positive light. I'm constantly sickened by the lack of fucks given about how traumatic it is to see the first character you identify with brutally killed.

I'm not sure I've ever been this mad at a single piece of media before.

upupa_epops March 4 2016, 22:35:15 UTC

The 100 has heaps of problems, agreed, and I've been disillusioned about it for a long while, but this feels like very deliberate, malicious violence. It's not necessarily worse than killing off Anya and Wells for shock value, but it definitely affects me personally more, because half my day was spent checking up on teenage wlw in fandom. I'm tired, I'm worried, and I'm not sure how to talk to those girls without sounding Very Old and Patronizing, but holy shit, some of them are half my age, and I KNOW that it'll get better for them. I know that real life, despite its shortcomings, is less violent than mainstream fiction we're fed. Almost all wlw I know grew out of this youthful despair, and live happily. But the message from media is the exact opposite, and I have no clue how to explain this discrepancy to someone who's upset. :(

centrumlumina March 4 2016, 21:26:27 UTC

Fuck them. We can do their jobs better than they can. We can write better wlw stories and we will write better stories, and we will keep doing it until long after everyone who hates us is dead.

upupa_epops March 4 2016, 21:47:49 UTC

I've been telling something similar to people all day today, and yet it inexplicably made me feel so much better to see someone say it to me. Thanks, much needed :*.

kwritten March 5 2016, 02:51:16 UTC

♥

brithistorian March 4 2016, 21:47:04 UTC

I've never watched The 100, but all the Clexa love I was seeing over on Tumblr was making me want to. I could tell that something special was going on and a lot of people were really excited about it, and now the showrunners have destroyed it. To hell with them.

clockwork_hart1 March 4 2016, 21:51:05 UTC

I was talking to someone the other day about how for some kids the 100 is gonna be their buffy and that's why the racism is SUCH a problem bc of how aggressively lacking buffy was on diversity and i woke up today to find that they used the literal exact same strategy for fridging lexa as they did for tara??

IM INCENSED. I CANNOT VERBALISE IT. I CANNOT FORM APPROPRIATE THOUGHT.

cassiehayes March 4 2016, 23:49:34 UTC

i've been going through being sad and numb and furious about it all day but i think the one thing that i keep coming back to is how the showrunners just kept patting themselves on the back in countless interviews for being an example of queer representation and doing what no other show is doing etc etc and the whole damn time they knew exactly what they were going to pull. it's so gross.

clockwork_hart1 March 4 2016, 23:58:49 UTC

THIS!! i read so many interviews today with jroth saying how he was so glad to be really ~doing things for the lgbt+ community?

all he did was sink to new levels of homophobia and break a bunch of wlw's hearts. i'm so hurt. i'm so so hurt.

bluesargently March 5 2016, 00:49:19 UTC

I think the thing that really pisses me off here is that because they knew it would "end like this" they could've done a hell of a better job with this if they really had to kill her off/write her out.

Lexa deserved better and I hate how that the moment we get something so positive for wlw in this show it just. stops.

beer_good_foamy March 5 2016, 10:30:09 UTC

IKR? Killing her off is one thing, but this was so contrived. They really bent over backwards to make sure they not only killed her but reduced her - killing her in the most clichéd way possible, and then, as a kicker, literally cutting her corpse open to turn her to a McGuffin in the supremely boring AI storyline.

Fuck'em. I haven't been this done with a TV show in a long time.

punch_kicker15 March 5 2016, 02:31:51 UTC

I haven't watched the 100, but having gone through it with too many other shows, I support all The 100 fans who are furious about this. Enough of this crap already.

kitty_ryan March 5 2016, 10:17:52 UTC

I wrote this vent for tumblr, but the thoughts and words keep repeating.

There are stories that make my hackles rise even as I swallow them whole. Premonition became echo: a feeling of no, don’t do it, you won’t get the taste out for days.

well of loneliness. the children’s hour. bloomington. blue is the warmest colour. lost and delirious. Skin’s Naomi Campell. The L Word’s Dana Fairbanks. Delphine-fucking-CromierDead women. Lonely women. Enraged and straightened and lost women. Rueful women who look back wistfully to a time when they loved and a time when their heart was broken. Trans and cis and queer and, except for the rare and lovely exception, dead or grieving in the name of plot ( ... )

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