How To Bait Yourselves: A Guide By Blorkes
blorkes really see 2 characters in the same frame and go “omg Clarke is carrying her gf Josephine’s books to class #otp they’re SO in love”
and then are SHOCKED when what they saw in gifs isn’t actually what’s going on in the show (almost like you need to watch things in their original context for them to make sense 🤡).
My personal fav example of this is blorkes thinking Bellamy holding Clarke over the spike pit in s1 shows how much “he’s obviously in love with her” - when in reality he was contemplating letting her die right then and there so he could get her wristband off. And then Finn and Wells immediately run up behind him to pull her up because BELLAMY WAS GOING TO MURDER HER YOU IDIOTS SKSKSKSK)
More under the cut because I feel like I finally understand what went wrong with the blorke fandom. (All fandoms are the same and time is a flat circle)
Don’t you just love how people think that by watching random gifs they can understand the various relationship dynamics of a show? Nevermind that it completely disregards what’s actually happening on the show and conveniently strips characters of their motivations and complexity - but they shared eye contact!! Endgame!!1 🙄
Taking random gifs and screenshots out of context and presenting them as “truth” ignores storylines, various competing and/or similar character dynamics, and what’s being presented in a larger context (all of which you would get from actually watching the show and would contradict or disprove what the gif/screenshot is trying to show). By isolating scenes so that they are divorced from their original context, they become entirely devoid of meaning. And Bellarke shippers are guilty of doing this to every single shared moment between Bellamy and Clarke.
In doing so, bellarke shippers can conveniently project whatever meaning and feelings they want onto a “scene” because now Bellamy and Clarke have been isolated from every other character (including Bellamy’s long-time girlfriend - who he is in a happy, loving, and committed relationship with) as well their own personal, individual character motivations; the scene has been distilled down to two characters glancing at each other with all of the actual context and narrative importance stripped away.
(And then they have the nerve to claim they were “baited” 🙄🙄🙄)
Like idk how to tell yall that Bellamy hugs everyone from skaikru, Clarke isn’t special. She only runs to hug him in s2 because she thought she killed him when she closed the dropship door on him, leaving him and everyone else outside the door to be BBQ’ed. Raven waited outside Clarke’s tent all night to make sure she was okay and that’s 9986798964 times more romantic than a hug. Clarke then hugs his sister immediately after too so *eyeroll* yea so romantic. And their hug in s4 in the lab (after Clarke fires a gun at Bellamy’s head in the previous ep... god forbid Bellamy have any self-worth or be allowed to stand up for himself...) is only because the radio to the bunker dies and Clarke doesn’t get a chance to say goodbye to her mom - they both just realized that they wouldn’t be able to speak to their family for YEARS so they hug in grief over their shared loss (similarly, Clarke hugs Bellamy at the end of s6 too because she just lost her mom for real that time). Bellamy and Clarke hug each other once a season lol like normal friends would. Do blorkes just not have friends? Clarke also hugs Monty just as much as she hugs Bellamy (and she’s pointed to Monty’s forehead too)... I wonder why those moments between Clarke and Monty are ignored yet those same moments between B&C are irrefutable proof that they’re romantic?
What it really comes down to is intentionally, blatantly misreading the show - because they absolutely have selective memory and hypocritical arguments where canon events are concerned. Basically the blorke mindset can aptly be summed up as “If not romantic, why man and woman?”
Maybe if yall didn’t invalidate the real romantic couples on the show (clexa and becho - die mad about it) you wouldn’t have been so blind-sided when *not shockingly* Bellamy and Clarke didn’t get together or become “endgame”. Those 2 characters were never in love with each other or being set up as a romance. It’s fine to ship them, you can ship whatever you want, but you can’t go around baselessly claiming that they were a slow-burn-canon-endgame romance while in the same breath completely disregarding, misconstruing and invalidating the actual romantic relationships. Simply put, if you can’t acknowledge the reality of the show, nothing you say can be true.
You can’t selectively infer meaning through gifs and ignore the actual show... This way of viewing a piece of media by cherry-picking moments out of context is definitely a symptom of the whole reaction video community that’s become popular in fandom (especially around CW shows). But specific scenes and competing dynamics are purposefully omitted and ignored if they don’t match the narrative the reactors are trying to spin. Instead they just pretend like half the show doesn’t exist...and in the end they only end up playing themselves and their followers.
Sidenote: can we talk about the idiocy of emphasizing shipping as THE sole reason for watching a show while simultaneously being completely uninterested in (or unwilling to buy into) the plot - which dictates why we even get to watch these characters on our screens in the first place. The 100 is a post-apocalyptical sci-fi show; genre matters!!! And the amount of shippers/reactors who stick with a show they claim to hate is truly baffling...why are you making yourself miserable? Just stop watching if the show isn’t giving you what you want... you have no right to get mad at the show/showrunner/writers for not doing what you personally want to happen 🙄. Newsflash: the plot will always be more important than who’s dating who on a sci-fi show... the plot/premise of the show is why the network decided to pick it up in the first place. It’s quite literally the reason the show exists (and why the network decided to invest in it). Within the world of the show too, the plot will always dictate everything that happens - who goes where, who’s working with who, what challenges the characters will face, etc. You can watch a show for whatever reason you want, but you can’t get mad at a cow for not giving you orange juice. You were never promised orange juice - nor should you have expected it!
The show never baited you (at least no more than it “baited” OctaviaxJasper shippers - who actually had Jasper express romantic interest in Octavia on screen and shared a kiss with her, which never went anywhere, or JasperxRaven shippers since Jasper whispered “I was great in chemistry” in Raven’s ear and that went nowhere, or RavenxKayleePrime shippers - since Diyoza had that one line telling Raven “let’s go meet your new wife” - or RavenxBellamy fans who got a sex scene and then no mention of anything for 2 whole seasons only for ALIE!Raven to bring it up as an offhand comment to insult Bellamy and then it’s never addressed or spoken about again, or even ClarkexMurphy shippers - who had Josephine flirt with Murphy and call him cute while in Clarke’s body...) - if you want to blame someone for feeling baited and used, blame your delusional fandom who refused to accept reality for years and knowingly strung you along, giving you false hope when there was none and turning on anyone who dared to express doubt. This level of mass delusion reminds me so much of TJLC (The John Lock Conspiracy - here’s a great video explaining the whole thing) and it is in large part due to the irresponsible behavior of popular, big-name fandom members and the complete dismissal of canon and direct words from the creator.
Choosing to ignore the actual show in favor of fringe fandom conspiracies and out-of-context screencaps is how you get the extreme delusion rampant in the blorke fandom.
Like, Becho happening in s5 was not being setup or used as an obstacle to make blarke happen. Nothing in the text of the show supports that. Did you notice how Bellamy was never even conflicted between the two girls? Or that he never even thought about NOT being with Echo? That man was ready to abandon his sister, who he just reunited with after 6 years (and Clarke!), to go defect and be with Echo. He was happily in love with Echo - and Clarke didn’t give two shits about their relationship. Clarke also had to constantly be reminded by Madi that she should care about Bellamy’s life so.... Becho being used to further Bellarke WHERE??
Becho was, in fact, the payoff from the entire story and relationship that has been building between Bellamy and Echo for multiple SEASONS since they first met in Mount Weather and stared longingly at each other through the cages in s2. And in case you weren’t paying attention, Echo has always been a character who’s been deeply connected to both Blake siblings (Echo led both Bellamy AND Octavia out of Mount Weather in 3x03, and then in s4 she fought with Octavia on the cliff and had to deliver the news to Bellamy that his sister was “dead”, and then Echo worked with Bellamy in the gorge to stop Riley from killing Roan, and then in the conclave Echo was trying to snipe Octavia and killed Illian (who was personally connected to Octavia) and then when Echo got caught by Roan and banished, Octavia was right there to witness the whole thing, and once Skaikru took the bunker Echo was the one who found out and threatened to tell but then made a deal with Octavia to keep quiet, and then once the bunker is opened Octavia doesn’t let Echo in and casts her out, which Bellamy is there to see, and then later when Echo is going to kill herself Bellamy comes in and saves her. Echo has always been involved with both Bellamy and Octavia and that continues to be her trajectory throughout the show - but blorkes black out every time she’s on screen so it’s no wonder they have no idea what’s actually going on with her character).
Anyway, there was also no love triangle between Bellamy/Clarke/Echo in s5 (or ever lol). Blorkes really think they can take a scene ALL about Octavia’s reaction to Becho and twist it to be about Clarke and her imaginary ~jealousy~ just because her and Madi were in the same shot as Becho. Clarke glances at them to take in the new info and then goes right back to smiling at Madi (Jealousy WHERE?? If they used just an ounce of critical thinking they would notice that putting both pairs together in a single shot like this is to establish who the new familial groups are - 2 vs 2 - Clarke and her most important person vs Bellamy and his most important person)
Meanwhile we cut to Octavia’s face and the music dramatically changes as she glares right at Bellamy and Echo, then the camera cuts back to Becho’s faces as they look back at Octavia. That scene, taken for what it is, is not about Clarke’s nonexistent ~jealousy~ or her being “framed” as part of some nonexistent love triangle - it’s about Octavia and her feelings towards Echo being with her brother. (which, ya know, is basically a major plot thread in s5 do you guys even watch the show? Clarke’s glance at Bellamy and Echo never leads to ANYTHING so clearly it doesn’t mean what you think it means lol. And let’s not ignore the fact that in 5x01 Echo explicitly expresses doubt and apprehension about Octavia accepting her and the fact that she’s still banished to Bellamy, and here we have that plot line progressing and playing out on screen - Octavia is clearly not happy about them being together and now their relationship might be in jeopardy (not because of Clarke - who is a nonfactor - but because of Octavia who has a very strained relationship with Echo).
And because blorkes loves to twist that “nothing will change on the ground” line to be about blorke - even though it’s clearly not because at that point everyone on the ring thinks Clarke’s been dead for 6 years so there’s absolutely no way anybody is talking about her or referencing her in that scene - let’s also remember that that scene ends by Bellamy saying “Octavia will be the least of our worries” and then cutting right to Octavia and her fighting pits as she watches from her bloody throne. That’s called dramatic irony where the audience knows something the characters don’t. In this case it’s that actually Octavia seems to have changed very much and might very well be a big problem - both for their little group’s survival and for Bellamy and Echo’s relationship. Again, it’s not about Clarke. At all.
If Clarke (and Madi) standing behind Becho means bellarke fans were baited, then I was baited with my Miller/Clarke/Bellamy love triangle
and my Bellamy/Octavia/Clarke love triangle
and this Abby/Kane/Diyoza love triangle
and this Indra/Bellamy/Clarke triangle
(lol the director of 5x05 really likes his triangle shots). Nice try blorkes but you can’t just pick and choose scenes out of context to mean whatever you want them to mean, and then claim you were baited when you’ve been doing this to yourselves the whole time.
You can’t think blorke is happening if you actually payed attention to clexa and becho and were honest about what those relationships meant to the characters (and overall story). You invalidated and misconstrued Clexa’s relationship so hard that you thought Eliza speaking positively of it at a con was “validating antis” (in what world are Clexa shippers antis??? That was a real, canon, romantic relationship where Clarke was in love...the fuck?). Sorry you chose to believe your little echo chamber online over what the canon of the show is.
The “Radio Calls” is another huge example of this - yall took a story device meant to convey exposition to the audience to inform about Clarke and what she’s been doing during the 6 year time jump to (incorrectly) mean she was writing Love Letters to Bellamy, when it’s stated in the show (multiple times btw - once in s5 and again in s6 in case you missed it the first time) that she was talking on the radio to keep herself sane (wow so romantic... *eyeroll*). Let’s not forget that Clarke addresses Monty by name (”no offense, Monty”) and herself (“positive thoughts, Clarke”) during what we hear of the calls - it’s literally just used to give exposition in a clever way that wouldn’t just be Clarke talking to herself.
People were so deluded with the radio calls that they legit thought when Clarke was in MCAP they would be ~revealed~ as if they were love confessions instead of Clarke keeping a verbal log of her day-to-day activities???? Did they really think that hearing about how Clarke ate radioactive fish in the valley was going to snap Bellamy out of his cult behavior. NEVERMIND THAT BELLAMY HAD ALREADY BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE RADIO CALLS TWICE NOW AND THEY DONT MEAN ANYTHING TO HIM (because, again, they’re not about him. They’re about Clarke).
Now let’s take a quick look at this “article” published in 2020 by a big name Blorke who writes incredibly biased and extremely anti-Echo “reviews” of the show.
“sometimes it is about an example of a domestic couple: Clarke looking out for Bellamy while he has fun in a cobweb“. what the fuck does having fun in a cobweb even mean??? How is this a real article published by anyone? HOW??? You know you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel when you think a 2 second background shot of them walking is an example of your endgame ship being a “domestic couple” in the 7th and final season of the show. You really had nothing better than THAT? (I personally think it’s wayyyyyy more domestic when Murphy spoon-feeds Clarke some of his home-cooked food in Becca’s mansion in the same season but what do I know 🤪 I’d be seriously remiss not to mention Murphy’s flirty little “Yeah, I know what you're thinking, Clarke. Why are all the good ones taken, right? ”, explicitly bringing up the idea of them together romantically to Clarke and insinuating that if he wasn’t already taken, Clurphy might be a thing... again blorkes, where did you ever get a scene even remotely CLOSE to this????)
And even using that cobweb “scene” so clearly out of context as it is - it doesn’t even show what the author claims 🤣🤣🤣 Let’s all take a moment to acknowledge that in the gif expertly selected to showcase this “intimate moment“ of Clarke looking out for Bellamy, Bellamy is in front of Clarke and has already walked through that cobweb and Clarke is obviously moving it out of the way for herself (meaning Bellamy decidedly did not move it away for Clarke to walk through as she’s following behind him lmao). This is exactly what I’m talking about. And after Bellamy had fun in the cobweb, Clarke walked her gf Josie to her first period class as only a domestic couple could, carrying her books like the devoted gf she is <3
GOD bellarke shippers are delusional. I just - I don’t even care if this offends anyone. I’m sick of their nonsense clogging up every tag and polluting people’s enjoyment of the show. Their lack of critical thinking is mind-numbing and they deserve to be called out and clowned on for all eternity.
Anyway, Montarke endgame
(and technically speaking, given the definition of the word, you were never “baited” because everyone always told you for years it was never happening)
