alwaysaprille:

I don’t know why the Cl/xa fandom thinks that the Bellarke fandom doesn’t support the good things ya’ll do. We do. I supported the Trevor Project before L/xa’s death and donated specifically to the fundraiser set up after her death, I reblogged the link to the fundraiser so others could donate and tried to raise awareness the best way I could. 

I like the idea of the billboards for sure, but I think it’s unfair to only tackle The 100, this season alone at least three other shows that I personally watch have killed off numerous LGBTQA characters and there’s been nothing:

1. Camilla from Empire killed her wife so she could date a man half her age and was then forced to commit suicide at gunpoint. Empire is also just extremely problematic in it’s handling of the LGBTQA community as whole. 

2. Bethany Mayfair who was the director of an FBI field office (a strong Black woman) had one lover fake her suicide, the other be murdered just because she went on one date with her and was then murdered herself after being framed for the murder of her lover. They literally killed 2 lesbians in 2 episodes. 

3. Denise from TWD was killed for literally no reason. Like…her death moved the plot not at all, nothing happened that made it redeemable, she just died. 

This is not a problem that exists only in the realm of The 100, it exists on every network. If you really want to affect change you need to tackle every network, not just the one that killed off the conventionally attractive white lesbian because it served the plot and her actress had another, better job commitment..

When you say raising awareness of disgusting tropes, I struggle to understand what other tropes you mean, outside of the “”Bury Your Gays” trope, because as much as you all claimed to be fighting for all minorities, it was often conversation about L/xa that overtook any and all other discussion. 

When Lincoln died, chained and on his knees in the mud, shot by another black man, that conversation somehow made its way back to L/xa. 

When the Linctavia fandom tried to create a trend for him, that was overtaken by L/xa and “Code 307″,

When ya’ll started the “Minorities Deserve Better Trend”, it was literally overrun by posts about lesbians and L/xa.

Now, I want to clarify something here: There is nothing wrong with tackling one issue at a time, I support and applaud that notion, because as a POC I am often asked to hold the weight of other causes that are important to me (the fight for LGBTQA equality for example) as well as the weight of a cause laid on me by no choice of my own and that I can not hide when I feel scared (my skin color). It’s hard to fight for every cause at once, and that’s why it should not be done. 

The problem is that ya’ll use all minorities as a boost for your L/xa/lesbian discussion. This makes the rest of us (disabled people, POC, bisexuals, etc, etc), nothing more than a stepping stone in the discussion. Something you include in your conversation to get more people interested, and then conveniently discard once you’ve gotten attention, and while it may be nothing new, it’s still wrong. 

It;s not “ a few admittedly problematic shippers”, when the notes on those problematic posts are reaching into the high hundreds and thousands. It’s a decent amount of your fandom, and that needs to be addressed. 

The vitrol spewed by the fandom, the desire to remove the show (and therefore representation for gay people, bi people, biracial people, South East Asian people, Latin people, black people disabled people, interracial relationships, people of color in positions of power, women in leadership positions), the hate thrown at the cast and crew any time they dare to offer an opinion that is not in line with “Screw The 100″, the desire to “free the cast” even though they are literally telling you all that they need this job to pay their bills, the racism tossed at Bob Morley, Chris Larkin and Sachin Sachel, all of those are things that make it hard to focus on the admittedly good things that your fandom has done. 

This has nothing to do with “this not being my hill to die on” and everything to do with the way the fandom has behaved. Like children who have had their favorite toy taken away. You are lashing out at any and everybody, and you don’t care that you are driving away people who were in your corner, all because we don’t share all of your opinions. 

P.S. Think about other ways the money spent on those billboards could have been used that would have been directly beneficial to actual LGBTQA teens.