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The 100 should have ended after season 5. You can't change my mind.

So I think this is the final BFSN now that The 100 is over? 

Idk but I was tagged by @immortalpramheda (thank you!) for this so thought I would share some thoughts I have on the season finale under the cut (so read at your own risk if you don’t want this show spoiled!) 

Thanks to these people for giving my dash some amazing t100 content, and I hope it sticks around a little while 

@katersann @together-is-my-favourite-place @blodkru 

Hmmm...I guess it depends on which definition of “good” we’re going with. Are we talking about her being a good person, or a compelling character? Because I do think there’s a difference, and I think that difference is part of what allowed me to ride out the low points of Octavia’s story arc - the burning of the hydrofarm being, perhaps, the lowest.

Octavia has definitely struggled with being a good person, but I think all of the other characters have, too. What separates Octavia from a characters like Bellamy or Clarke is her willingness and insistence in being a weapon, in directly getting her hands dirty. Because of that, I think the blood on her hands is a bit brighter, even though she has a pretty similar body count to her brother and to Clarke. Her “crimes” are harder to ignore.

But at the same time, Octavia has never killed for pleasure or purely for personal gain. She’s killed out of self-defense, as a soldier in war, as an assassin, and as a tyrant forcing survival cannibalism - all definitely fucked-up reasons to kill, but very similar to the reasons everyone else has killed, too. She’s certainly not bad in the way McCreary was, despite the way some in fandom like to view her.

So do I think Octavia is a good person? Yes, and no, much in the way I view pretty much every other character on this show. We’re talking about mass murderers and colonizers and warlords, after all. “Good” is very relative.

But I find her struggle very compelling to watch. If she was always making the right decisions, if she was perfect and never made any mistakes, she wouldn’t be nearly as interesting. Watching her fall and then rise again is part of what makes her one of the better characters on this show, imo.

I feel sad for her when she makes mistakes, when she loses herself. I don’t think the worst things she’s done - mercilessly beating up a bound Bellamy, burning down the hydrofarm, and shooting the non-compliant people in the bunker - are good choices, and it hurts to see her do those things. But even as it hurts, I can’t look away.

Ultimately, this is a show full of gray characters. What draws us to one or the other is really hard to say, and I think it’s totally different for everyone. I can’t really explain, for example, why I love Octavia but find myself frustrated by Clarke. So I do understand why some people just can’t get behind Octavia, and don’t like her.

But I don’t think that makes her a bad person, or any worse than the other mains. They’ve all got a metric ton of blood on their hands, and some of them haven’t even had to do the work to earn redemption the way she has. 

My son, I have nothing I can give. But this chance you may live.

I pray we’ll meet again.

If He will deliver us!

-Deliver Us, The Prince of Egypt.

Racism, homophobia, and biphobia have no place in this or any fandom.

I don't care about the Arryn/Bob situation because I have other things to worry about right now. I don't care who you side with or who you believe as long as you aren't attacking anyone IRL or online.

I have seen some racist ass comments towards Bob. If you are using this situation to justify or make racist comments about Filipinos, get out. Just log out and find something else for you to do. Literally go dig a hole and sit in it until you realize how fucked that is. I don't care that you hate him or are feeling what you feel, you do not get to do that. With the things that are going on in the world right not (US especially) the last thing we need is you making racist comments and content.

There are people who are once again attacking Eliza for being straight and in a hetero relationship and saying she deserves all this hate and again the miscarriage. Disgusting. Even it Eliza was bisexual, bi people can be in opposite-sex relationships. Why is that so hard to get? And guess who is bi? Arryn. The person who some of you are claiming you loved from the start but I know for a damn fact you hated on her for nothing before.

And no this isn't because I ship anyone or "you're just mad canon doesn't fit into your hetero normative bullshit".

I AM LITERALLY BISEXUAL AND QUEER. I want more LGBT+ characters and representation but targeting an actor for not being what you want them to be is not how to do it.