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I just watched episode 13 and I am sorry but WHAT. THE. FUCK. WAS. THAT?????

She kills Bellamy and doesn't even get the damn book??? She kills Bellamy for a book?!? That she doesn't even get?!?!!??

I was hoping that maybe he was still bluffing somehow or that he was going to come back to his senses omfg what the fuck did I just watch...

Also side note: but the way Clarke goes absolutely bananas whenever anything involves Madie is so annoying... He was passing the book to someoenelse, she could have shot that guy first, then shoot Bellamy in a leg or something and gotten the damn thing... No she went straight for the kill and didn't even get the book.. Like wtf.

Also I have been waiting to rant about this but what in the actual fuck was Bellamy on. Like even if he wanted to belive all the "beings of light" stuff, it doesn't really make much sense that he was following the Shepherd so much. Like at the end of the day, the Shepher is supposed to be special cause he saw thw being of light or whatever the fuck. Okay great, but Bellamy saw them too. So shouldn't he question why these being of light appeared to him to, and then srart questioning if maybe it's really not a special thing to see them, they are just in that cave.

Plus Bellamy saw first hand in the previous seasons that whenever people start talking of Gods or the damn fucking City of Light, there's usually something else at play.

Wouldn't it have made more sense for him to belive the crap for a bit cause trauma or whatever and then snap out and be like "oh wait that stuff was probably just more alien ai tech or something".

Like genuinely what is the difference between Cadogan and Jaha. Jaha was always talking about the promised land too and like fair enough that Bellamy never ate the ai but still, you saw what a delulu fanatic looks like please bffr....

And even for the others to just immediately turn on Bellamy, as if they didn't already witness people going absolutely cucu for some false god, immaginary city or ascensio days... Like clearly the guy needs help the same way Raven and the others did.

But not let's just fatally wound the guy.

I swear I don't understand why she couldn't just shoot him in the legs. And why the fuck did they do this to his character 😫

I just watched episode 13 and I am sorry but WHAT. THE. FUCK. WAS. THAT?????

She kills Bellamy and doesn't even get the damn book??? She kills Bellamy for a book?!? That she doesn't even get?!?!!??

I was hoping that maybe he was still bluffing somehow or that he was going to come back to his senses omfg what the fuck did I just watch...

Also side note: but the way Clarke goes absolutely bananas whenever anything involves Madie is so annoying... He was passing the book to someoenelse, she could have shot that guy first, then shoot Bellamy in a leg or something and gotten the damn thing... No she went straight for the kill and didn't even get the book.. Like wtf.

Also I have been waiting to rant about this but what in the actual fuck was Bellamy on. Like even if he wanted to belive all the "beings of light" stuff, it doesn't really make much sense that he was following the Shepherd so much. Like at the end of the day, the Shepher is supposed to be special cause he saw thw being of light or whatever the fuck. Okay great, but Bellamy saw them too. So shouldn't he question why these being of light appeared to him to, and then srart questioning if maybe it's really not a special thing to see them, they are just in that cave.

Plus Bellamy saw first hand in the previous seasons that whenever people start talking of Gods or the damn fucking City of Light, there's usually something else at play.

Wouldn't it have made more sense for him to belive the crap for a bit cause trauma or whatever and then snap out and be like "oh wait that stuff was probably just more alien ai tech or something".

Like genuinely what is the difference between Cadogan and Jaha. Jaha was always talking about the promised land too and like fair enough that Bellamy never ate the ai but still, you saw what a delulu fanatic looks like please bffr....

And even for the others to just immediately turn on Bellamy, as if they didn't already witness people going absolutely cucu for some false god, immaginary city or ascensio days... Like clearly the guy needs help the same way Raven and the others did.

But not let's just fatally wound the guy.

I swear I don't understand why she couldn't just shoot him in the legs. And why the fuck did they do this to his character 😫

it's YA drama. it's futuristic sci-fi. it's deeply political. it's medieval fantasy. it's gritty post-apocalyptic survival. AI tries to take over the world. there's time travel. there's reincarnation. there's aliens.

it says "humans are a plague" but also "maybe the real victory was the friends we made along the way". it says "humanity inevitably errs on the side of violence of destruction" but also "my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together".

it's a dumpster fire. it's a work of art.

Well, we can stop people (and AI) from doing this by adding a skin to our fics!

I just did it with all my fics and it works.

How to do it, step by step⬇️

1) Log in. Click 'Skins' in the menu, at the left. Then click 'My Work Skins' and after doing this, click 'Create Work Skins' at the top right.

2) Write a title for your skin (anything you want, it doesn't matter). Then in the large text box, write this:

#workskin * {

user-select: none !important;

-webkit-user-select: none;

-moz-user-select: none;

-ms-user-select: none;

}

This is what you should see:

3) Click 'Submit'. Your skin has been created, and now you have to add it to all your works.

4) Click 'Works'. Then click 'Edit Works' at the top right.

5) Click 'All' to select all your works. Scroll down and click 'Edit'.

6) Scroll down until you see 'Select Work Skin' and select the one you just created.

7) Click 'Update All Works'.

Now, people can't select the text of your fics and copy it😊

I had a big fanfic in a previous fandom where one of the big reveals was the involvement of a kind of infamous villain, whose presence was built up to and foreshadowed through the whole fic until his reveal without ever mentioning his name, so that the name drop would be a gut punch. It worked especially well because of who the villain was and his presence in that fandom space specifically (it's very complicated) and if it was an original story this reveal wouldn't work at all the way it was written in the fic. Because if you don't have a predisposition to think about that character and his relationship to the hero in a very specific way, then just seeing their name won't do much to you; the reveal and the recontextualisation it pushes upon you hinges on your previous knowledge of the source material.

I think it's an interesting tool fanfic authors are given. One of my favorite fanfic of all time is partially a re-imagining of its source material's canon, and something it does is introduce antagonists much earlier in the story or deepen npcs' stories. It then works to evoke a tragic irony that again wouldn't work if you didn't know the source material, and it's something the author obviously has a lot of fun with.