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[troped-fanfic-challenge]

It’s Groundhog Day! It’s Groundhog Day! Over the last few years hosting this awesome fanfic event, we’ve aquired quite a few cyclical, repetitive, time loopy fics that have rocked our world! In honor of this very weird holiday (who decided a groundhog was in charge of the seasonal alert system?), we’ve compiled a list of every Time Loop TROPED fic we’ve ever received! So sit back, relax, and get ready to read this awesome trope again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again….

how I learned to stop worrying and love the apocalypse by @kindclaws

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated M | 16.4k | Major Character Death

Bellamy helps her climb up the last stretch of the dropship’s height. From here they can see the crater they left on the surrounding forest. The nearest trees are all blown back, their roots half-exposed in a surge of soil, their trunks blackened with soot. Looking at the graveyard of bones makes Clarke sick to her stomach so she looks up instead towards a brutal horizon. Praimfaya glows orange in the distance.

“Is this what you saw, the first time you died?” Bellamy asks. He looks kind of pale, but that might just be the light refracting against the visor of his radiation suit.

“Yeah,” Clarke says, as casually as she can manage. It’s a lie. It looked a lot worse from the radio dish platform, because it was closer and more terrifying and she’d just watched her closest friends explode in the sky. But it seems kinder not to say all that. At least Bellamy will deteriorate faster than her, if this Nightblood stuff works. She doesn’t want to die first and leave him alone. She’s been the one who lives longest and it wasn’t worth it.

(Actual wc is 8227 - chapter 1 and 2 are the same story in second person and third person pov respectively)

The Nurse at Fort Vaux by @the-most-beautiful-broom

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated T | 11.2k | Violence, Major Character Death

Bellamy and Clarke were not meant to be–the war to end all wars made sure of that. Bellamy went to the front, and Clarke joined the Nurse’s Corps, but it seems that fate has brought them back together again (and again and again and again).

Break Some Bread for All My Sins by @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated T | 9.5k

Clarke’s been a hitwoman for a while now, so tonight shouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary. Find her mark, complete the job. But things go awry when her old partner and boyfriend, Bellamy Blake, intervenes. Everything falls apart, and then she wakes up and it happens all over again. Each repeated day forces her to confront parts of herself she’s pushed away and somehow Bellamy is at the center of all it. But how much can she handle over and over again before she breaks?

Nothing Gold Can Stay by @thelittlefanpire

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated M | 9.6k

Bellamy and Clarke are exes trapped in a time loop where one of them goes on different dates at a speakeasy over and over while the other watches helpless to change anything.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by @spacekrulesbians

The 100 | Becho | Rated T | 8.4k

It’s Purge Night and Echo gets stuck in more ways than one. Over, and over, and over again.

Do You Feel the Way We’re Falling out of Touch? by @eyessharpweaponsshot

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated M | 13.3k

Clarke and Bellamy are over and he has moved on, it’s just something Clarke has to accept. They have a job to do and that’s what is important now. They spend the entire day at odd’s with one another, being distant and lying about their true feelings. When they’re stuck in a time loop because of their inability to be honest, though, it’s time to start admitting some things - and it turns out to be a little harder than expected.

love doesn’t come easy, especially when you’re loving me by @sprngwillcomeagain

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated T | 9.5k

Clarke Griffin, a medic from the tribe of Arkadia was on the run after the fall out of Mount Weather.

After word spread of her title of Wanheda, the blame of the lives lost in the battle had been sprung on her.

She doesn’t expect to run into Bellamy Blake, a warrior from Azgeda — who happens to be her ex lover. He learns of her issues and vows to help her stay safe. It makes sense, that she would be repeating the same day over and over again to make up for the time they spent apart.

The cross I bear (that you gave to me) by @sparklyfairymira

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated M | 7.1k

Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake were partners and lovers - until they weren’t. Five years later Clarke is back in town and needs help on a case. How can Bellamy tell her no? Things don’t go as planned, especially when Bellamy somehow keeps reliving the same day over and over again.

Rewrite the Stars by @pawprinterfanfic

The 100 | Bellarke | Rated M | 13.8k

After months of being broken up, Clarke and Bellamy have been reassigned to finish one of their old cases. Things are hard enough with having her ex as her partner again, but the fact she’s still totally into him makes things more complicated.

Did she mention the fact that she is also reliving the same day over and over?

Things are about to get messy.

Okay, Campers, Rise and Shine! by nik_knows_nothing

Julie and the Phantoms | Juke | Rated T | 15k

When Reggie launches a particularly ill-advised prank war at HGC Ranch, Luke’s fully prepared to take it in stride.

When the days start looping, though, he begins to suspect that this might all be a little bit above his head.

In other words, he’s at least 78% sure that the time loop isn’t a direct result of Reggie’s pranks.

Maybe 77%.

Oh, well.

At least he’s not in it alone.

(The Groundhog Day meets Gravity Falls meets Summer Camp meets The Author’s Own Distaste For Prank Wars AU that no one asked for. Ever. At all.)

Starting To Forget (Just What Summer Ever Meant To You) by bi_magic

Julie and the Phantoms | Flynn x Carrie | Not Rated | 8k

Last summer didn’t end on a positive note for Carrie Wilson - she and her girlfriend broke up on the last night of camp, and she’s been miserable since. But it seems that the universe is intent on having her fix that this summer. Even if that means she has to live through the same day over and over and over again until she does.

Creative B.S. Was No More, Was No Less (Look Around, You’re Gonna Miss What You Found) by @americanhoney913

Julie and the Phantoms | Alex x Luke, Flynn x Reggie | Rated T | 12.5k

Alex and Luke go undercover on a mission to a summer camp in order to find a talisman that could endanger the camp and all the kids. While there, they bond with the kids and make peace with the fact that they broke up.

While Alex and Luke are away, Flynn accidentally fucks with time.

bitch but like romantically by @epicmusicplays

Julie and the Phantoms | Flynn x Carrie | Rated T | 8.3k

The dining hall’s exactly the same as it has been for two mornings now, and Flynn doesn’t hesitate to poke Willie twice on the nose and whisper “pancake” on her way past their seat. His eyes widen and he whips his head around to follow them, excitement glimmering in their eyes. “Really?” they blurt. Flynn rolls her eyes and nods.

~ or: flynn gets stuck in a time loop.

down by the bay by @sunsetcurbed

Julie and the Phantoms | Willex | Rated T | 12.9k

Over time, Camp Phantom has simply become known as a selective summer camp: one that took only the kids that Caleb saw promise in. And Caleb wasn’t exactly lying. He really did take only the ones he saw promise in, he simply looked for different traits than others might.

For example, say, hypothetically, a boy who could see the future. Or, hypothetically, a girl who could interact with ghosts. Or, hypothetically, a boy who could summon objects to him with a simple thought. Or, and this is completely hypothetical mind you, a boy who could manipulate time.

Those might be some traits that Caleb saw promise in. Just, like, as examples.

Time will tell (But only if you do it right) by @malecacidd

Julie and the Phantoms | Flynn x Carrie | Rated T | 7.7k

Carrie had been acting a little off for a week or so, but Flynn was pretty much known for seeing something in nothing, and that was probably what they were doing then. If something was going on, Carrie would tell her eventually.

OR

Who knew all it took was a little bit of miscommunication to mess up time itself?

and so it begins by @comeonpeters

Julie and the Phantoms | Bobby x Reggie | Rated T | 11k

It’s the first day of their second week at Camp Carolling (they’re spending an entire month, and they’re getting paid to be there!) when Reggie gets a little lost in the woods. During this misadventure into the woods, he finds an egg shaped rock, an inhabited cabin that may or may not be riddled with signs, and something that might be magic. He probably doesn’t get paid enough to discover magic.

or, when they were thirteen years old, four boys met at camp carolling and eventually became a band that almost became something legendary. now, all four boys are coming back as counselors, three boys in one band and one boy in his own solo act.

so begins the reunion, though it doesn’t go how any of them imagine.

Porcupine Day by @wr0temyway0ut 

Julie and the Phantoms | Bobby x Ray x Rose | Rated T | 5.2k

It’s been fifteen years since Trevor broke up with Ray and Rose and they’re… not fine, but managing. But when Trevor to adds insult to injury and buys the camp across the lake from the one they once owned together, the two camps become locked in a bitter rivalry. With neither side willing to set aside their pride and work out their issues, the universe decides to settle their fates itself.

Day After Day (After Day After Day) by @hufflebibin

Julie and the Phantoms | Willex | Rated T | 7.1k

When Alex met Willie just after their senior year of high school, they spent a wonderful three months dating before their relationship ended in a blaze of glory. Now, four years later, they meet again as counselors at a summer camp. The only problem? Alex keeps reliving their first day together. The day that Luke had declared “Prank Day.”

This is not how Alex pictured his summer going.

clocks move faster (it’s all we’re after) by @willexxmercer

Julie and the Phantoms | Juke | Rated G | 7k

Julie likes it when her friends are happy, so when she realizes she’s stuck in a time loop, she uses her knowledge to make sure everything works out for everyone… except she conveniently forgets to factor herself (and Luke) into the mix.

Touch of Magic by @williexmercer

Julie and the Phantoms | Alex x Luke | Not Rated | 3.4k

When everything stands in Luke and Alex’s way of getting to be with the people they love, they have to repeat the day over and over until they can get the happily ever after that they want.

the play’s the thing (that goes wrong) by @madeline-kahn

Julie and the Phantoms | Willex | Rated T | 7.2k

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day for Macbeth, but not so for Alex and the production of Hamlet that he is directing and starring in. And while he’s stuck repeating the day of the performance over and over, mishaps of all kinds befall the cast.

anything, anything (for another run with you) by @catoptrific

Julie and the Phantoms | Willex | Rated T | 8k

The moment Alex steps foot in Camp Greenwood, he knows that this summer is a bad idea.

He knows it as soon as he sees tan skin, long hair, and a tie-dyed crop top at the check-in table.

Willie.

Or; the camp counselor/exes/prank war/time loop fic of your dreams!

there’s a glorious sunrise, dappled with the flickers of light by @tonightthestarsalign

Julie and the Phantoms | Juke | Rated T | 10.2k

ex-best friends Luke and Julie, working as camp counselors at rivaling camps, find themselves stuck in a time loop

the daughter of apollo by @the-most-beautiful-broom

Julie and the Phantoms | Juke | Rated T | 12.7k

Luke looks away from the fire, the amber reflection of it dancing in his eyes, and he looks at her for a long minute. “I just wanted you to know,” Julie says. The haze grows, the sleep comes, and Julie knows how she’ll wake in the morning. But she knows that the daughter of Apollo and the son of Aphrodite have born enough alone, and in this moment of ash and haze and orange and smoke, this moment that’s neither regret nor mystery, they do not have to shoulder it alone.

Or; the JATP x Camp Half Blood AU that nobody asked for

maybe the world isn’t ending (maybe it’s been postponed) by @tmp-jatp

Julie and the Phantoms | Juke | Rated G | 12k

Alex runs his fingers through Willie’s hair. “I think it’s best to just leave them to their own prank war at this point. Let’s not forget that time Julie put hot sauce in the coffee pot and my mouth was on fire for an entire hour.”

“You’re exaggerating, Alex-”

“I most certainly am not,” Alex cuts Reggie off.

“Or how about the time Luke tried to put glitter in Julie’s bed,” Carrie joins in, “but got my bed instead? I can appreciate some glitter, but even I know when enough is enough.”

“Suffice it to say,” Willie finishes after they’ve passed around a dozen or so more memories of pranks from the summer, “we’re all done being your collateral damage. Whatever Julie has planned for you tomorrow, Luke, you’re on your own.”

-

It’s the last day of camp and Julie has one more prank planned for Luke. He just doesn’t know what it is.

Here We Go Again by @kybee1497

Julie and the Phantoms | Juke | Rated T | 12.3k

Julie blinked as she stared at the place Euterpe had disappeared. What did that even mean? What journey? Old places and lost faces? What was she talking about? But before she could dwell on the questions swirling around in her mind, the sky full of stars began to move, shifting in place and descending until they were all around her. Julie felt her feet leave the ground as she rose up and up. One star in particular was burning brighter than the others, growing bigger in front of her.

It grew and grew, until the light was blinding and Julie had to throw a hand up against the harsh light. She closed her eyes as the light surrounded her and then she was falling. Falling down, down, down.

and i’ll die by your side if you want me to by @dylanobrienisbatman

The 100 | Memori | Rated T | 10.4k

Murphy got tapped to come work for a special project after he was arrested for stealing a military vehicle right off of the base (long story). Turns out the special project… involved time travel… so theres that. About 6 months after he signed on, it all went horribly sideways, and now they were chasing their friends across history, trying to stop them from making a horrible mistake.

Thats how they end up in the middle of World War I France on Christmas day in 1914. Thats how she dies.

And then… somehow… the day begins again. Can he figure out a way to stop The Blake Siblings from wrecking history forever and also save the girl?

It’s Alright, It’s Okay by @sailawaymayday

The 100 | Clurpy + Spacekru | Rated M | 10.1k

Clarke makes it onto the Ring with the rest of Spacekru. What happens when New Years Eve keeps repeating itself? And what does Murphy have to do with it?

put your faith in the devil and the deep blue sea by @probably-voldemort

The 100 | Clurphy | Rated M | 18k

Twenty years ago, when the clocks changed from 11:59pm on December 31st, 1999, to 12:00am on January 1st, 2000, the world ended, exactly as the doomsdayers had predicted. Now, there are only a few livable months left on Earth, and the privileged are evacuating for a life in space, abandoning the planet.

But not everyone has given up.

Clarke was only three when the world ended, and she’s spent most of her life in her mother’s lab. Now, as the last space ships are preparing to leave, her mother’s machine is finally ready, and Clarke and her mother are heading back in time to try to stop the apocalypse from happening in the first place.

An attack on the lab leads to Clarke heading back to 1995 on her own, and the past isn’t quite how Clarke’s vague memories from the beginning of her life paint it. Clarke soon discovers that not only did the machine do more than just send her back in time, but she wasn’t, in fact, sent back alone.

Will she be able to stop the apocalypse before the clock strikes midnight? Or are some parts of history unchangeable?

a bandit like me by @oretsov

Shadow and Bone | Malina | Rated T | 9.6k

Mal meets Alina on the job.

As it turns out, dancing is a dangerous game.

Time Turns Flames To Embers by @loveislarryislove

A Series of Unfortunate Events | Gen Fic | Rated T | 2.7k

September 30th, 7:48am

Woke up to the sound of Violet working on her latest invention. I asked her what it is, but she wouldn’t say a thing – just that it’s important. Whatever it is, it’s enormous, taking up nearly the entire room – a great contraption of tubes and gears and beakers and crystals. Just looking at it makes me feel dizzy.

I think I’ll spend the day in the library; perhaps that will be far enough away that the clanging and banging will be somewhat muffled. Something tells me that it won’t be, though.

whiskey in a teacup by @probably-voldemort

The 100 | Clurphy | Rated T | 6.9k

Murphy was going to die. Any day now it was going to happen. He hadn't really come to terms with dying in a creepy lighthouse basement. He's always thought he'd have a more exciting death. But he had an unlimited amount of whiskey and a stomach that hadn't tasted even a crumb in days, so it wasn't like he was really sober enough to put too much thought into how he was going to die.

And then he starts hallucinating Clarke, who is convinced she's the one hallucinating him, and suddenly dying drunk in a lighthouse bunker isn't as boring a way to go as it had once seemed.

Make a Lot of Money and Feel Dead Inside by @kinetic-elaboration

The 100 | Octaven | Rated M | 10.7k WIP

For many years, before being bought by adventurer, survivalist, and author Octavia Blake, the house at the edge of town sat empty…

On Halloween, eight old friends gather in a Victorian manor house for their annual reunion. As the night wears on and a heavy storm breaks, stories are shared, accusations are made, spirits are contacted, and secrets come to light. Before the clock strikes midnight, one of them will be dead.

The other seven will be left to wonder: who among them is the killer?

And then Halloween will begin again. And again and again, until the mystery is solved and the murder averted at last.

#troped: recs #trope: time loop #trope: groundhog day #troped: multifandom #troped: t100 #troped: jatp #troped: shadow and bone #fic recs

[she-who-the-river-could-not-hold]

fic writer interview

I was tagged by @easilydistractedbyfanfic - thank you!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

I’m at 64 right now!! Which is both very cool and also depressing in its own way lol. Once I get through my prompts, I think I’ll be at 72. I have a few more ideas but wow, so many. 

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

Currently 675,425! which feels pretty crazy to think about.

3. How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

Total I think is six. Back in the day: Harry Potter, W.I.T.C.H., Young Dracula. More recently: The 100, Stranger Things, Six of Crows. 

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1. Stardust, In You and In Me – Bellarke, college AU + soulmarks 2. I Heard You – Mileven, college AU + meet cute 3. Traces of You – Bellarke, royalty + arranged marriage 4. In the Gravity of You – Bellarke, fake dating + sci fi vibes 5. Prisoner's Dilemma – Bellarke, S5 canon compliant kiss (my first Bellarke fic!)

5. Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

Yes I do!! I try to at least, I don't get enough to feel fine leaving them be haha. I'm a bit behind at the moment but I do try to always make time to go and respond to them! It means a lot to me that people could have a response to something I write and I want to make sure that I acknowledge the extra step they take by commenting!

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

Easily the road gets tough – it’s a Harper x Monty, apocalypse AU and it deals with her S5 arc where she struggles to find a reason to keep going. She doesn’t die in the fic... but yeah. Secondary is Imitation which is an AU of the The Thing, written for Troped: Horror. It’s vaguely Memori but one of the tropes is Final Girl so it’s not a happy ending obviously.

7. Do you write crossovers? If so, what is the craziest one you’ve written?

Not anymore, but one of my first fics on ffn.net was a Harry Potter and Young Dracula crossover! Never went anyway but a delightful attempt by younger me.

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I haven’t! I’ve had a few “this was interesting” comments that definitely feel off haha, but no outright hate. To be fair I don’t receive a lot of comments in general but definitely no hate! Which I’m very thankful for.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

Occasionally. It’s not my favorite thing to write so it’s usually somewhat vague, kind of standard. I think I’ve written more sex dreams than actual smut! If anything I’d like to eventually explore more k!nk type smut since I think you can do cool character work with it. 

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of!

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don't know, not officially if anyone has at least! I'd be incredibly flattered.

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I haven’t! Though I have co-written a story that looking back was essentially fanfic. In sixth grade one of my friends and I wrote a book together and it was pretty much our take on the Peter and the Starcatcher books. But in fanfic specifically I haven’t and I’m not sure it’s something I’d be inclined to do! 

13. What’s your all-time favourite ship?

I can’t choose!! To write, probably Bellarke. But Mulder x Scully is a top tier one that I just don’t think I’ll ever write. Kanej now has me by the throat but I’m weirdly anxious about writing them. 

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

I had an X-Files, Stranger Things AU that I’m sad I abandoned. I’m worried about at least half of my WIPs tbh haha. But we’ll see. One of them is going to involve a lot of work and it didn’t get any sort of response from people, which obviously doesn’t mean everything, but that’s definitely one that I’m nervous about having the motivation which makes me sad. It’s one of my faves. 

15. What are your writing strengths?

To be a complete broken record, I’m mainly just good at world building. To me I write to create movies in a written format. I think also since my inspiration tends to come from movies, I like to think I have creative ideas for stories. Since I don’t really seek out standard tropes anymore, I don’t really relay them too much in my fics which I think is a nice change of pace if someone is looking for it! 

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

I really feel like my dialogue is clunky. I just don’t think I have a good ear for it and I struggle with making characters sound like themselves in AUs. It might not be as noticeable as it feels but I always dread it. I also think I often have ideas that are too big for what I’m capable of pulling off and I’m always worried that the “big” moments won’t come across.

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

For me so far, the only other language that comes up is the "Grounder" language and I avoid it at all costs. I think otherwise just try your best to make it feel authentic! I’ve never tried or considered it so I’m not sure I have many other thoughts.

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

I believe it was Harry Potter! Back on mugglenet I think was where I first shared them. I don’t even remember what I wrote tbh, I just remember the terrifying approval process.

19. What’s your favourite fic you’ve written?

Probably my Bellarke, Midsommar fic though if I had to choose. It’s come so naturally to me and it’s the most confident I’ve been writing something. I really enjoy the themes and plot points I’ve been able to explore. It’s just a bonus that people like it, it’s really become a special fic for me since I first came up with it.

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Tagging: @kindclaws, @thelittlefanpire, @hopskipaway, @burninghoneyatdusk, @kinetic-elaboration, and anyone else who wants to join in! 

#kathryn writes #get to know me

[bellarkebigbang]

Hello, lovelies!! We apologize for the momentary state of limbo the future of the celebration was in, but we are so thrilled to announce that Bellarke Big Bang 2021 will be taking place! Your main mods will be me (Ryn — feel free to contact me over @detectivebellamyblake) and Madison (@stealing-jasons-job). 

For those who may not know, Bellarke Big Bang is a celebration in which fic writers are matched with artists to create fantastic works. First, the fic writers will come up with their idea and then the artists will select which fic they want to create for. This event was previously held by the amazing Chloe. She has been kind enough to grant us permission to continue her amazing work, and we are so grateful to her and everything she did in the previous two years.

In order to grant enough time for all people who to participate to do so, sign-ups will begin November 15th, 2020, and end January 1st, 2021. A google form will be shared when signs up begin that will include all the information we need as well as give you an idea of what participating entails.

This year, the discord group will be mandatory in order to keep everything organized and ensure proper communication with and between participants. We will have writing sprints, betas, cheerleaders, and so much more in this group. Don't be scared if you haven't used it before! There will surely be many first-timers, and your mods will be more than happy to help you figure everything out and become a pro in no time. Of course, we are understanding of unique circumstances, and if there is a valid reason you cannot join, we will be sure to work something out. 

We cannot wait to see the incredible works that will come from this year. Feel free to send along any questions to either this account or my main. Please signal boost and get excited!

Tagging under the cut!

@pawprinterfanfic, @eyessharpweaponshot, @queenemori, @goddess-clarke, @clarkeindra, @sparklyfairymira, @carrieeve, @underbellamy, @mobi-on-a-mission, @thecspenciskillingme, @burninghoneyatdusk, @t100fic-for-blm, @writetheniteaway, @useyourtelescope, @bookwormforalways, @poppykru, @hostagetakerandhistraitor, @nvermindiseeyou, @the1oo, @aainiouu, @broashwhat, @icantloseyou-too, @jeresablake, @elora-lane, @communicationnskills, @kindclaws, @nakey-cats-take-bathsss, @thelegendofclarke, @talistheintrovert, @johnmurphysass, @captainwilldameron

#the 100 #bellarke #bellarke big bang 2021 #bellamy x clarke #bellamy blake #clarke griffin #bellarke big bang #bbb: update #bbb: admin

[carrieeve]

Happy finale night, fam!

We've been through a lot together, you and I. I never in my wildest dreams expected that we'd end up here, like this, but it is what it is. I wish I could say that I hate this show but I don't, I can't. For over six years, it, the characters, the fanfiction had seen me through the worst, most difficult moments of my life and you, the fandom, the wonderful people I've met thanks to the show, are a great reason why I managed to get through it. You and our ship have given me a place where I could open up and enjoy myself, surrounded by people who understood me. Regardless of what happened this season, whatever might still happen in the finale, they can't take that away. 

Just as they can't take away the six beautiful seasons and the relationship between Clarke and Bellamy. In a few hours, we'll all be free and so will they. And they'll be ours forever. 

I worried about this show ending, over the last few months. I have a tendency to overreact and to get a little too attached, so I worried that this end would be hard for me. I thought I would want to just leave it all behind, that I'd lose the inspiration to write. In a way, I guess it's not such a bad thing that I've given up on canon weeks ago. And in a way, by destroying his own story like this, Jason helped me to realise that this simply will not be the case. I'm nowhere near done.

I'm so grateful for this fandom, for all the wonderful years we've had together and for all the things coming for us still. This isn't a goodbye, this is a new chapter.

Oh! And thank you for voting for my fics in @bellarkeficawards! I'm absolutely floored and amazed that you like my stories so much.

I was tagged tonight by @talistheintrovert @together-is-my-favourite-place @peterstarkss @eyessharpweaponshot @nvermindiseeyou @infp-with-all-the-feelings @poppykru @wankadi @justalittlebluetiefling @gansxythethird @bookwormforalways @natassakar @pendragaryen @smokyy-mountain-rain @goddess-clarke @bellamyblake @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold @broashwhat ❤❤❤

Tagging @changingthefairy-tale @chase-the-windandtouch-the-sky @burninghoneyatdusk @bellamynochillblake @useyourtelescope @icantloseyou-too @nakey-cats-take-bathsss @aspeckof-stardust @star-sky-earth @clarkgriffon @sometimesrosy @jeanie205 @travllingbunny @cosasrandomdemivida @katersann @kombellarke @irisouy @hostagetakerandhistraitor @kizo2703 @julibernardo @otp-armada @thetravelerbewithyou @historyofbellarke @asroarke @marauders-groupie @craniumhurricane @johnmurphysass @niylah @pawprinterfanfic @kindclaws @fen-ha-fuck-you ❤❤❤

How is that it?! Tumblr won't let me tag more (and also ate my notifications, so I might've missed someone) but just know that I love you all. I'm abysmally bad at human contact but even if we haven't spoken, just having you there was enough. That meant everything. Thank you for six wonderful years.

#the 100 #bellarke #bellarke fam selfie night #bfsn #carrieeve #the 100 series finale

[bellarkeficawards]

Best Alternate Universe Fic (More than 10,000 Words) - Nominations

Sanctuary by RogueTwelve

Homesick (It's a Bittersweet Feeling) by burninghoneyatdusk @burninghoneyatdusk

Waste It on Me by eyessharpweaponshot @eyessharpweaponshot

luminous beings by kindclaws @kindclaws

I'll Find You in the Morning Sun by Cominguproses13x @cominguproses13x

The Naked Truth by mad_magic @kombellarke

Paint me in Trust by Pawprinter @pawprinterfanfic

the earth is trembling on some new beginning by kindclaws @kindclaws

stole my mind and found my dreams by millipop @millipop

comes and goes (in waves) by selflessbellamy @selflessbellamy

And Maybe I'll Grow Into You by jekisawrites @thefangirlingbarista

i would give my life just to hold your hand (i'm your number one fan) by safeandsound13 @captaindaddykru

Sugar by asroarke @asroarke

Through Chaos As It Swirls by HeartofGlassMindofStone

too good to be all mine by safeandsound13 @captaindaddykru

a castle in the clouds by Pawprinter @pawprinterfanfic

Stay Here Tonight by Dayo488 @dayo488

Instant Family by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

Wrapped Up in You by bellarkeness @johnmurphysass

Rare and Beautiful by marauders_groupie @marauders-groupie

don't wanna sleep tonight by safeandsound13 @captaindaddykru

Connecting on the Wraparound by WelpThisIsHappening @welllpthisishappening

Almost Paradise (We're Knocking on Heaven's Door) by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

Moved By You by Dayo488 @dayo488

I've Learned in Love and Death We Don't Decide by grumpybell @grumpybell  

The (single) Parent Trap by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

you wrap your heart in gold (you tell me it’s treasure) by lightyears @bisexualbellamyblake

Soul Fate Determination by LaughingSenselessly @wellsjahasghost

it's a small world by virgohotspot

Everything's Made to be Broken by MoonShoesReyes @moonshoesreyes

drinking whiskey after dark by blaketrash @gansxythethird

The Graduation Pact by burninghoneyatdusk @burninghoneyatdusk

A Change of Heart by mylifeiskara @queenemori

veni, vidi, Vinci by carrieevew @carrieeve

Princess by marauders_groupie @marauders-groupie

A Twist of Fate by mylifeiskara @queenemori

It Had To Be You by useyourtelescope @useyourtelescope

Red Sky At Night by Arianne_Isobel @excuseyouclarke

#nominations

[heartbellamy]

TAKE BACK THE 100 — DAY NINE fandom appreciation 💕

there’s simply too many amazingly talented and awesome people so this is going under the cut! look below to see all the cool, creative people we have around! i recommend leaving them a little support for all their hard work!

WRITERS

@stealing-jasons-job​, personal rec: finding reasons not to leave,  already gushed about this one before but i honestly just love everything about it so just go read & enjoy! (also first fic i read after the episode that shall not be named and it honestly healed my bruised heart)

@she-who-the-river-could-not-hold​, personal rec: in the gravity of you, bc i just think about this one and its world a lot

@hiddenpolkadots, personal rec: your eyes outshine the town, they do & as moonlight through the pines, bc i’ve read both several times and will continue to do so

@bookwormforalways, personal rec: don’t talk to strangers, bc i’m a sucker for cuteness

@kindclaws, personal rec: only poetry could even begin, bc it’s got all your modern fluff needs, good mom clarke, meddling kid, bartender bellamy, bellamy in a laurel crown?? i mean come on, what more could you want?

@carrieeve​, personal rec: hello, beautiful, the perfect mix of romance and humor and wholesome family content, can you tell i have a type yet? anyway i loved it

@marauders-groupie​, personal rec: a long and happy life, more small town country vibes because why not?

ARTISTS & EDITORS

@blakecholls‘s gifsets, all of them, every single one

@clarkegriffinblake‘s many bellarke gifsets (check out the current top bellarke scenes series!)

@underbellamy‘s many beautiful and creative au edits

@bellamysgriffin’s consistently beautiful gifsets (a ‘they were written as romantic’ quote gifset? iconic)

@izloveshorses's absolutely stunning works of art

@lizzybizzyo‘s work, because that red thread of fate series was so outstandingly beautiful and stays with me to this day

@allysketches‘s incorrect bellarke quotes art lives in my mind rent free, legendary

@poppykru​‘s art that makes me feel soft and warm on the inside

@silvernyxa​‘s art, literally adore their art so much!!! lifted me up during that last season that’s for sure!

apologies for this being a little bellarke-centric, (but i mean, come on, look at my user, what did you expect?) but i want to thank every single person who has contributed to making wonderful things for this fandom, from the art to the fic to the metas to the wild crack posts, it was a wild ride but it was the talent and passion and creativity of this fandom that has made the ride worthwhile. i can’t wait to see what else you all have in store in the future. (p.s. if any of y’all ever want a little  cheerleader to hype you up for your future projects just say the word,  i’m your girl!) 💚

#takebackthe100 #bellarke fic rec #the 100 fic rec #thre 100 #the 100 fandom #the100edit #fandom

[dylanobrienisbatman]

Six sentence Sunday!!

Challenge: post six(ish) sentences from a WIP (or add six sentences to a WIP if you prefer). 

Okay so @the-most-beautiful-broom tagged me and let me just say now that I’ve actually been writing I’m stoked to do this!!! I think im going to add 6 sentences from my JatP fic im writing and maybe also my zaven smut fic just because ;)

JatP Soulmate Fic! (i technically did 7 so you would know who i was talking about)

After Rose had died, Victoria had inserted herself right into their little bubble, trying her best to fill the void Julie’s mom had left behind. She cooked constantly, signed up to be Team Mom for Carlos's t-ball club, and had become almost overbearing with Julie about school. It was her way of caring, and her way of staying busy so she wouldn’t have to think too much about her sister. Julie loved her, and she knew they’d never have made it without her after everything happened, but sometimes she could be too much, and today felt like one of those days. 

She plopped down at the piano, her hands coming to rest on the lid, and stared at the sheet music in her moms curling script. She thought about lifting the lid and letting her fingers fall across the keys, but she just sat there, staring at the piano. Eventually she just stood up and laid on the couch instead, pulling out her book and reading until her dad called her in for dinner.

I have been having a lot of fun writing this fic actually! Its been really fun to play with canon elements while also making the story my own within this AU i’ve been building. It feels really nicely in the middle of canon and AU! These characters are really fun to write as well, because they are both well developed and fully characterized while also being general enough that I can work with them in a way I really like!

Zaven Smut Fic!

“Come here,” She commanded, and he walked right into her space. His fingers reached up to trace lines into her arms, and she shivered at the touch. She let herself melt into it a little, until his lips came to brush against her jaw and she smiled to herself. She’d gotten distracted, but she had other plans for how this night was going to go. She turned her head a little to almost meet his lips. 

“Don’t touch.” She whispered against him before pulling back just out of his reach.

So this is based on a scene from the show Industry on HBO between two characters Yasmin and Robert. It is... a very... good scene. Yeah. Anyway, I thought it would be a really fun smut concept to explore, and I’m so far really liking it. I just about got to the smut heavy bit before I stopped, so I’m excited to finish it up at some point! (also if you wanna watch that scene its well worth it. The show is pretty good too.)

I also have my holiday fic for @chopped100challenge in the works but since its supposed to be anonymous I’ll just have to leave that one out :)

Tagging: @thelittlefanpire @probably-voldemort @hopskipaway @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold @kinetic-elaboration @kindclaws @spacekrulesbians @kuklash @justbecauseyoubelievesomething and anyone else who wants too!

#tag games #six sentence challenge

[griffinnblake]

A couple of you have asked for it, and Part II of my Bellarke fanfic rec is finally here! 

This is suuuuuuper late considering I promised it a while ago, but I blame moving to a new house, teaching a new course, and getting sick at least twice in one month. What can ya do? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

These fics are in no particular order because one) I don’t have any particular favorites and two) I ain’t got time for that.  I hope y’all enjoy! 

P.S. If y’all missed the first part of my fanfic rec, you can find it here!

P.P.S. This is my disclaimer that I obviously haven’t included all the Bellarke fics out there. If you have a favorite that I did not include, I probably haven’t read it yet, in which case, please share!

a castle in the clouds by @pawprinterfanfic Star Wars AU. Bellamy is Han. Clarke is Leia. Oh and did I mention that there’s some fake dating? That doesn’t normally do it for me, but I can make an exception this time. *kisses fingertips*

We’ll Paint the Town Blue by @animmortalist

Clarke wants to ruin her reputation in this College AU and who better to do it than resident heartbreaker Bellamy Blake? They enter a friends with benefits/Bonnie and Clyde arrangement (it works I swear), but oops, they like like each other.

(clumsy) ‘cause I’m fallin’ in love by skai_heda

Sometimes you just need a cute little S1 AU where Bellamy faints and Clarke gives him a hard time for it. Oh, and feelings. 

small dot among infinite stars by @kindclaws

This is a really interesting take on how one change can drastically affect future events. It’s a S2+ AU where Dante shoots Cage and Clarke doesn’t irradiate Mount Weather, but the end of the world still comes.

someone let the poets out by @kindclaws (WIP)

This one’s hella meta and I love it. Even though it’s based on the GoT cast, I could totally see it also applying to the 100 cast given how S7 may or may not go. Fingers crossed for a decent ending. Anyway, Bellarke and co. are the stars of a popular show in its final season, and they are horrified by what Jaha comes up with story-wise. (Think those final GoT table reads. C’mon, we’ve all seen the footage of Conleth tossing his script aside when Varys is killed off). So they decide to recreate their own low-budget version of the final season. And Bellamy may or not be having a crisis regarding his feelings for a certain blonde co-star. OH! And how could I forget the social media tie-ins? Brilliant. Definitely read this one on a desktop to get the full experience.

how I learned to stop worrying and love the apocalypse by @kindclaws 

Another kindclaws fic. I’m sorry but the writing is just so good. I can’t help but include them. This one’s a Praimfaya AU fic and also an exes fic and also a time loop fic and also an angst fic and I love it so much. I personally recommend the 2nd person POV version (chapter 1), but if 3rd person is more your jam, then just read chapter 2!

An Evening I Will Not Forget by @octannibal-blake

Bellamy is a soldier who has a “one night stand” with Clarke the night before he’s deployed, but these losers can’t have a one night stand to save their lives, so of course there’s emotion involved. I’m a sucker for military AUs, so of course I liked this one.

i would give my life just to hold your hand (i’m your number one fan) by @captaindaddykru

Bellamy’s an actor. Clarke’s a singer. He likes some of her photos on Twitter. She slides into his DMs. It’s the start of a beautiful friendship love story. These idiots I swear. I’m actually surprised this is the first safeandsound13 fic I’ve listed on here considering the first part of my other fic rec was basically a love letter to her Hunger Games AU series. That, and I’m subscribed to her as an author. Seriously. Go read everything she writes.

so i sing a song of love by @hiddenpolkadots

Clarke gets pregnant and Bellamy’s the father, but they’re not together. Oops. They figure it out.

It’s All Coming Back by @johnmurphysass

Clarke receives an invitation to Octavia’s wedding, but the problem is that she hasn’t seen Bellamy or Octavia in over 5 years. And Clarke and Bellamy are both hiding secrets. Y’all. This one was emotional af. But so good. I will say, heed Tricia’s author tags and warnings.  Just in case.

a beam in darkness: let it grow. by starsonfire

I’m not sure if this user has a tumblr, so I just linked their ao3 profile. This is a S6 Finale AU where Clarke gives up and Bellamy helps her. Again, heed the warnings just in case. But it’s really good.

like you mean it (like it’s splitting you in two) by @talistheintrovert

Talis lets them sleep. She lets tHEM SLEEP. That’s all you need to know. 

as moonlight through the pines by @hiddenpolkadots

Clarke and Bellamy get matching tattoos while drunk and now all the Grounders think they’re married. Heh. Sign me up.

guess it’s never really over by @captaindaddykru

Bellarke + exes + Bellarke kid + Bellarke trying for another kid + angst + fluff = Bingo for Lindsay. Looking back at it, I think it was written for Bellarke Bingo. An ACTUAL bingo fic. So basically this just means you really need to read it. 

All tomorrow’s parties. by @robotmango

This is a really cool take on a Praimfaya AU. Bellamy is for intents and purposes the Time Traveler’s Husband. I LOVED this one.

Kiss It Better by delinquents

This is a really cute S1 AU with forehead kisses. Forehead kisses! It’s the only work by the author, but I hope they write more.

speedin’ into a new sunrise by @carrieeve

Clarke participates in a night of speed dating and ends up reuniting with an old college friend slash huge what if. It’s super cute and fluffy and totally the type of fic needed to break up an angst session. I love angst like nobody’s business, but sometimes you just need something happy.

everything will bring a chain of love by @lost-n-stereo

Another cute fic but this time with Bellarke as parents! These are short little fills combined into a one shot, and they’re just perfect. I love it.

A Safe Place to Land by @octannibal-blake

Bellarke as parents but the Angst™ version. Basically Marper dies and Bellarke take care of Jordan. It’s sad but so good, I promise.

Still Yours by @arysafics

Bellamy and Clarke agree to be friends after they break up. Angst ensues. Being friends with your ex is hard y’all. I promise it has a happy ending. 

when it all comes together by soundtracktomysoul

Jasper wants Bellarke together and creates a group chat that includes all the delinquents. Plotting and shenanigans ensue. This one was super fun, and in going back to it, I discovered that this author also has a Bellarke Rock Band AU. Haven’t read it yet but definitely going to check it out!

gone til november, on my city come december by @jamesstruttingpotter

Bellarke are cops and Bellamy goes undercover. Angst. Pining. Gah, I love it.

we’re never done with killing time by @bestivals

The angst. The angst. This is a post-s5 AU fic where they’re onboard the Eligius ship but didn’t go into cryo. Bellamy and Clarke have a series of 48 conversations and we get what they were supposed to do which is TALK.

I think I’m going to call it for now. I hope you enjoy all these wonderful fanfics! And if you have additional favorites, please share!

#bellarke fanfiction #bellarke #bellamy blake #clarke griffin #fic recs #fanfic #mine #thanks to my sister for the gif!

[captaindaddykru]

everything is icy and blue (and you would be there too)

When Eligius XV-b gets stranded on a on a faraway planet made of snow on the corner of the middle of nowhere, Captain Blake does definitely not think a snowball fight is the logical next step. His crew has other plans.

A fic written for Sara @kindclaws for @bellarke-secretsanta. I really hope you like it. Read on AO3 or under the cut. Happy holidays!

The blare of an alarm makes him surge awake seconds after he’s finally fallen into a slumber, pressing the palms of his hands to his eyes briefly to repress the urge to scratch them out. Clarke barely stirs beside him. An orange light flashes through the room with an exponentially high speed so Bellamy quickly scrambles forward to the touchscreen comm system next to his baydoor. “Shaw?”

“Cap. We got a situation,” it’s Raven instead, even though he explicitly told her she needed some sleep after that scare they had — he checks his watch — all of thirty-six minutes ago. “That meteor storm we passed through — me and St. John used the force of gravitational acceleration instead of relying on regular DAM, but the engine must’ve idled for too long and now the fuel isn’t vaporizing in the carburettor. I’ve tried throttling it but it looks like the alternator gave out after that hit we took —”

Bellamy racks his brain, trying to keep up with her, but he’s barely slept and he’s definitely no engineer. His voice is rough with sleep as he barks, cutting her off mid-sentence, “Translation?”

“Boom!” She snaps through the comm system, her voice slightly distorted as the overhead lights start to flicker, power surging on and off in flashes, the ship hovering to the right for a second before the backup generator kicks in. “It means fucking boom if we don’t land somewhere, fast.”

That’s about the short version of how they end up on a giant snowball, eTNO Unidentified Planet 99, on the outer rim of the Polis System, hacking up smoke. The longer version includes a tense improvised six minute autorotative descent, an impossibly rocky emergency landing with multiple on-board explosions included, sweat rolling down his back, Jasper deeming the planet ‘ O-LAF ’ at the most inappropriate of times, and a lot of yelling.

Like eardrum splitting yelling. He’s still panting, yanking off his helmet and tossing it aside so he can take a real breath. He looks around the room, everybody seems relatively fine. A few are groaning or trying to slow their breathing, re-collecting their bearings but he thinks they’ll live.

“Emergency lockdown, all systems out of order. Please follow protocol Evacuation Procedure.” ALIE’s — their ship’s interactive AI’s consciousness — voice keeps booming over the overhead announcement speakers, stuck on repeat. “Emerge-Emergency lockdown. Downlock Emerge. Gencydown Lock. Lock. Lock. Emergency. Order out.”

“Short-circuit during landing must’ve fried the girl,” Shaw yells over the loud alarm blaring, unfastening his seatbelts to walk over to a nearby control board. He starts typing furiously, ALIE continues to have a public break down. “Protocol. Fol-low-low. Proto. Low. Col. L-l-l-ol. Lol. Lol. Lol. Lol. Lol.”

“Glad someone’s enjoying themselves,” Murphy grumbles, rolling his neck in circles with a pained look on his face.

Shaw presses a big red button in the middle of the control panel and her voice distorts before it shuts off completely. In addition, the alarms finally shut up, only the flashing orange light streaking across their ship in pulses. He smirks, a little prideful, hands on his hips as he admires the looks of relief on everybody’s face.

“Thank God,” Raven breathes, wiping some sweat off her forehead with the back of her wrist as she slumps back into her seat. One of her co-pilots, Emori reaches out her first for a congratulatory bump, because a successful landing doesn’t mean it’s not a bumpy ride.

“So, O-LAF?” Jasper cuts in, a plethora of voices breaking out to tell him to shut the fuck up in various degrees of annoyed, raging from ‘ bothered ’ to ‘ ready to put him on an ejection seat and say bye-bye ’.

Bellamy rolls his eyes, deciding to let someone else take it this time as he shifts his head to the side, eyes zeroing in on Clarke. She’s struggling with the buckle of her seatbelt, her hands trembling and a crease in between her brows.

“Damnit,” he hears her mutter under his breath as he comes close enough, patting Miller on the shoulder on his way there. It’s a small gesture of ‘ glad you’re still alive ’ that they all have down by now. Even if they’re just on a scientifically based exploratory mission, trouble still runs into them on the regular.

Bellamy crouches down in front of her, stilling her hands with his. He looks up at her, searching her face for any signs of distress, but bar from the small cut on her forehead, she seems unharmed. “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine,” she mumbles, the frustration she was holding in her shoulders deflating at the sight of him as she lets out a shaky exhale.

He doesn’t dare look at her straight the eye as he raises his eyebrows, busying himself by checking out the cut on her forehead and brushing away a few strands of her hair, but he can’t keep the skepticism out of his voice. “And—”

The laceration is shallow, just a scratch. She grits her teeth, the tone of her voice making his eyes snap back up to hers. They’re a dark, geomagnetic lunar radiation storm kind of blue, swirling with heat. “ Fine . Bellamy.”

“Okay,” he concedes, even if he’s not fully satisfied with her answer. It’s why he can’t shut up immediately. “It’s just that I’m not used to seeing you affected so much. This landing was a breeze compared to when we were part of that fighting unit—”

“Bellamy,” she seethes, cupping his chin, fingers digging into his cheeks even if there’s a small amount of amusement layered in her gaze now. “ Fine .”

He clamps his mouth shut, giving her a small nod. He trusts her more than himself, so if she says she’s fine, he’ll just have to believe she is. Finally, he reaches for her seatbelt, unbuckling it skillfully.

Bellamy smirks, but she cuts in before he can let it get too smug. “Don’t.”

He helps pull her up from her seat with both hands, and they return to the rest of the group to find them fully immersed in a speculatory discussion about the planet they just crashed, covered in a blanket of white snow. Or at least, they hope it’s snow. You never know.

“Is it breathable?” Harper wonders, hands on her hips as she stares at the dwindling snowflakes outside through their front windshield. There’s a look of awe on her face, and Bellamy knows she’s from a small system of star planets on the left-border of the solar Sanctum region. She must’ve never seen anything like it before.

“I’m not sure,” Raven grunts, eyes fixated on the control board in front of her, even as it malfunctions, a blue hue from the screen covering her face. The taps of her fingers get rougher and rougher with each press until he’s not fully convinced it couldn’t just be classified as punching, “ALIE didn’t complete her planetary readings before she shut down.”

“If it is I would like to collect some samples,” Monty pipes in, to which Jasper elbows him, overexagerratingly subtle, snorting, “Yeah, yeah, and with that he means he would like to go outside and make a snow angel.”

“Shut up. It’s for science,” he counters, eyes narrowed into sliths as he rubs his sore side. Some would say it was a bet taking two unexperienced scientists fresh from college onto his crew, but he’d argue and say they keep morale high, just as import.

“You’re a botanist,” Jasper deadpans, look on his face sobering. “The whole thing is covered in snow as far as we can see.”

Before the other wonder twin can form a response their main pilot roars, “God!”, slamming her first into the panel.

“Hey. Hey.” Shaw grabs Raven’s hand with his, tugging her a step back from the command panel until she’s tucked under his arm. “Easy on the Genius-on-Genius violence.”

“Okay,” Emori says it like a conclusion, swerving the seat closer to the panel and plopping down on it. Her metal prosthesis makes a clicking noise as it moves over the touchscreen to type.  “I think if we can get ALIE back up, we’ll need about 30 minutes to find out.”

“While we wait, I would like to bring O-LAF back up for discus—”

Shaw just manages to hold Raven back, her fist already raised in the air.

“Alright,” Bellamy shouts authoritatively, slipping his fingers from Clarke’s to hold up his hands in a steadying manner. “While Emori works on getting ALIE back, how about we assess the damage to the rest of the ship? Keep busy?” His eyes flicker over to Jasper, half-hiding behind Monty while Raven still glowers at him with venom. “Maybe it’s best if we all split up, yeah? Cover more ground.”

Everybody goes off in pairs, and he stays behind to check up with Emori before going to find Clarke. It doesn’t take long to discover her in front of the bay window on the bridge by herself, fingers wrapped around the railing in front of it as she stares outside.

Even after all these years, the fights, the victories and the losses, the scars and the scares, the hard decisions and the easier ones — she still manages to take his breath away.

It’s hard to imagine that up until a few short years ago they despised each other. Bellamy, a second captain to a battle fleet, and Clarke, designated field medic, always finding something to disagree on. It was fun , fighting with her, anything not to be thinking about how, during those days, they lost pieces of who they were mission by mission, chipping away at them with each impossible decision and lost comrade. Then she almost died, and then she almost died again , and then he figured that if she liked him saving her life so much, maybe they shouldn’t be wasting any more time. Together, they put in their transfer requests the day after they got married.

Bellamy can’t say he doesn’t miss the action, but, despite them being ten times smaller, interstellar explorer missions that are someday going to change science and then life as they know it — pretty awesome, too, if you ask him. Besides, he was promoted to captain and has his own ship now, gets to pick his own crew, and it means everything — everything — knowing she’s not constantly out there risking her life anymore. All that really matters is that she’s safe.

He clears his throat in an effort not to scare her, coming up beside her. “Hey.”

“Hi,” she says, and it takes another second for her to tear her gaze off the snowstorm outside, blinking up at him with a soft smile on her face before leaning her cheek against his shoulder.

Bellamy muffles a gruff chuckle. “You tired?”

She rubs her face against him, maybe to wake herself up more, her eyes droopy nonetheless. “A little.”

He wraps his arm around her shoulder so she can lean more of her weight on his chest, rubbing her bicep slowly. “I really hoped we’d make it back in time.”

In time for the holidays. Meizenbranahoud , which roughly translates to a beautiful new world. It’s not an exact science, since time doesn’t work the same everywhere in the universe, but roughly every six-hundred Earth days they celebrate the beginning of a new period of time. After the war it was a way for them to remember their fallen, celebrate their heroes and keep hope alive that change would come. It’s symbolic for leaving the past behind and starting over new, better people. A time everyone typically shares with family and friends.. And of course, the perfect excuse to get drunk and eat until they’re about to burst for most.

“Yeah,” Clarke mumbles, stifling a yawn, “Would’ve been nice to see mom and Octavia.”

He doesn’t want to talk about Octavia and feel a weird kind of sad but happy right now, so instead he focuses his gaze on the world outside. “Pretty,” he says, absently, glancing down at her.

She hums in agreement, fingers clutching his shirt lightly. “We haven’t seen snow in a while.”

Their last planet was a sandy desert, the one before that made out of glass. There was one that was just an ocean, and last year they went to a moon with two suns. It had a lot of forests, but no snow.

They should probably join their friends into figuring out exactly what level of screwed they are, that is if they ever want to get out of here, but Bellamy trusts his technical crew to get them home, no matter what. Over the years, they’ve learned to take in the view. The planet seems to be overcast by dreamlike blue-ish aurorae, and there’s a gleam in the thick layer of snow covering the ground like it’s made out of tiny little diamonds.  

There’s an excited yelp far down the hall from them, then his favorite co-pilots voice echoes through the corridors, “Everyone to the control room please. Emori is a genius. I repeat Emori is a genius and you all suck.”

Clarke makes an amused sound in the back of her throat as she pulls away to look at him, and he bites back a smile, nudging his head towards the general area of the control room.

Once they wander in, others trickling in at their own pace, ALIE’s familiar robotic voice is already blasting through the ship again. “Eligius XV-b approved for re-entry. All systems active. Clear for Touchdown Procedure. Initiating Touchdown Procedure. All shields are disengaged. Standby for airlocks depressurizing. ”

“I fixed her,” Emori beams at them over her shoulder from over by the panel, her long brown hair held down by a scarf falling down her back, still working furiously. Graphics show up on the holographic screen behind it, showcasing the atmospheric composition of the planet, the availability of energy sources, weather conditions and predictions, and most importantly, the level of breathable oxygen in the air.

“And in under twenty minutes?” Raven squeezes her shoulder in respect, sinking down in the seat beside her with her lips pursed and her eyebrows raised. “I’m impressed.”

“You know what they say,” Murphy smirks, arms crossed over his chest as he slithers up in front of the information screen. In a team full of scientist, engineers, pilots, medics and people with a military background — he is definitely the odd one out. He’s mostly just here because Emori said she wouldn’t come without him, but he’s picked up some useful skills over the missions they’ve spent together. He’s a great cook, very creative with the little rations they have which mostly consist out of algae. “The student becomes the master.”

“Airlocks depressurizing in three, two, seven, zero, shield, thirty, st-standby, standby—” Emori slams her metal hand down on a button in the middle of the panel, cutting her off abruptly. There’s a sheepish look on her face. “ Okay , she’s not fully recovered yet, but I know a thing or two about rehabilitation.”

“Ha,” Raven counters, dryly. Smug smirk on her face. “Plenty to learn.”

“So how soon can we get out of here?” Bellamy is still wishful-thinking that they might make it back in time to see his sister before she embarks on her next solar system tour. He barely sees her nowadays, and the holidays are the only time of the year she won’t make up excuses not to come home and he won’t have to feel selfish for asking her to. There’s so much to see , she’d tell him, eager enthusiasm evident in her green eyes even through a hologram, and I want to see it all .

Their engineer slash pilot is studying a diagram on the holographic screen in front of her, turning the image with her hands. It must be ALIE’s analysis of the engine. “We should be able to fix the alternator within the next ten minutes, actually.”

“What?” Jasper exclaims, suddenly interested in the conversation. He’s actually disappointed, it’s all over his face.

“It’s make or break it, really,” Emori adds, dimple forming in her forehead, suddenly sobered from her previous enthusiasm. “I’ve been trying to reach the base, but ALIE’s reach is limited now her brain got fried.”  

“So if Raven can’t fix the alternator, we’re screwed?” Clarke concludes, her eyebrows wrinkled together. He keeps telling her that she has Resting Frown Face, always worried about something. This time, he has to agree with her.

He’s already pushing himself up from the panel he was leaning against, opening his mouth to jump in and really just get deeply into the fact about how they have to get home, but Raven is already scoffing, obviously deeply offended. “Of course I can fix the alternator.”

“I know you can fix anything,” Clarke muses, sending her a grin with just the barest gleam of her teeth before she presses, validly so, “But what if there’s nothing left to fix?”

She might be a genius, but she’s not a God. She can’t make an alternator appear out of thin air. What if it’s damaged beyond repair? The engineer just rolls her eyes, shrugging her sleek ponytail off her shoulder as she holds up two hands, emphasising, “Ten minutes.”

Clarke nods minutely, worries eased and apparently giving in. They’ve learned to trust Raven can practically make wine out of water and save all of their asses with that same wine. She’s never one to hold back on the truth and she wouldn’t say she could fix it if she couldn’t. He does, too, trust her, just — not his own luck, and it has him on edge.

“I’ll still need those samples,” Monty innocently announces, hands clasped behind his back as he turns to their captain with a hopeful look on his face.

With a sigh and his hands on his hips, he turns to their other pilot, examining more of ALIEs screening results. “Emori, how’s it looking?”

She tilts her head slightly, and it’s almost like there’s a flash of disappointment across her eyes before she reveals, “No sign of hostile life-forms.”

Bellamy clenches his jaw, thinking it over. Ten minutes. They’re here anyway. Might as well collect some specimen just in case they discover the cure to cytostatics-resistant hyperradiated cancer or something. “Fine,” he grits, reluctantly. “Just the samples and then we’re out of here.”

“I’ll come to guard,” Miller announces, patting the blazer pistol in his thigh holster. “In case ALIE’s raving and there’s feral polar bears or something.”

“Or something,” Bellamy says, skeptically, eye-roll implied. He knows him, and he knows he’s trying very hard to keep the enthusiasm out of his voice. He knows because Miller rarely gets enthusiastic about anything , considering he’s too cool for that.

Harper puts her arm around Miller’s shoulder, squeezing and swaying them from side to side for a brief second. “I’m coming too.”

“I have some ideas for a flag—” Jasper starts, holding up a finger, and Bellamy physically cannot listen to him speculate about O-LAF and in what way he’s going to stake claim to the icy land surrounding them.

“You can all go, I don’t care,” he cuts him off with an authoritative tone to his voice, even if it’s too worn down by exhaustion to really pack a punch. “Just be back within the next ten minutes.”

There’s a few soft cheers and a few louder ones, and he swears to God, sometimes he feels like the only responsible adult amongst them. He shakes his head, shifting his head to look at Clark. “Can you believe these idiots?” He lets out an exasperated huff of air at the look on her face, her rounded eyes and pink lips rolled together. “You want to go too, don’t you?”

“Come on,” she teases, all innocence now gone from her face as she tugs on the hem of his shirt. “It’s snow. You used to know how to have fun.”

His face remains blank. If that’s her only argument, it’s not very convincing. “Low blow, Griffin.”

“Funny coming from you, considering it’s all you ever you to tell me.” She steps back from him, raising her eyebrows as she imitates him, an over exaggeratedly deep tone to her voice, “ You’re no fun, Clarke. You always have to be so serious, princess. Clarke, you never —”

“Are you through?” His eyebrows shoot up, unimpressed look on his face. Of course he’ll come with her. Like he’d let her go by herself. She should know this by now. “Hurry up before I change my mind.”

Clarke — “ Doc !” — catches the jacket Harper throws her as she passes the control room on her way to the entrance hatch, and starts to put the blue, glimmering garment on. “You can change your mind all you want, I’m going outside.”

“Of course you are,” he sighs, scrubbing his face tiredly with one of his palms. It’s not like he’s scared of cold, or snow, or even an abominable snowman. Besides, Clarke can take care of herself. Sometimes she’s better at taking care of herself than him. It’s just that ever since — he’s just stupidly, erratically scared . Not of anything in particular, just something. Imminent doom lingering in the back of his mind every time they’re in separate rooms.

See, he doesn’t care if he makes a mistake and he screws up his own life. And at least Clarke is an independent adult who makes her own decisions and could survive it if he messes up. He just cannot live with the fact it might be his fault if something happens to him, her or to be further specified in the future.

It’s a little — just a tiny bit — pathetic, which is the only reason why he hasn’t talked to her about it. Even though he’s pretty sure she’s got him all figured out.

“It’ll be fine,” Clarke reminds him, sliding her hands up his chest to rest on his shoulders. Her fingers dig in lightly, a laugh in her voice. “It’s just a little snow.”

He exhales loudly, taking the knitted cap she’s pulling from one of her pockets and pulling it over her hair himself. He smooths it out with both hands, letting them slide down to palm her cheeks. The corners of his mouth turn up weakly. “You heard them, their might be polar bears.”

Her fingers wrap around his wrists, cynical tone to her voice. “I’m sure you’ll protect us.”

One of his hands drops down, resting over her lower belly. There’s not much to feel yet, especially not covered by the thick layers of synthetic insulation, just a small bump that really only the two of them know is there.

“Stop being so dramatic,” Clarke groans, pulling his other hand off her face to connect their fingers. She nudges her head. “Come on, let’s find you a jacket.”

Begrudgingly, he follows her toward the equipment room, and it’s a mere thirty seconds before she’s dragging him down the steep ramp leading outside, loud crispy sounds under his boots every time they slam down into the ground. The air is frosty, raw to his skin, and the snow is up to his ankles.

To his credit, Monty is actually squatted down a few hundred metres ahead, shovelling snow into  differently colored lab tubes while Miller holds them in his arms dutifully, not even blinking each time he adds another one on top of the pile. But, up ahead, Jasper is using one of their kitchen trays to sled down a small hill while Harper just watches; arms crossed over her chest, hip slightly jutted out, shaking her head, and refusing to flinch when he nearly flies off it. Off to their left, Shaw and Emori construct a snowman with their mitten-covered hands. They  instructed Murphy to go find ‘ something ’ that could resemble a nose, but as far as they can see there’s just snow, not a plant or rock in sight. He almost feels sorry for the guy.

Clarke holds out her hands, trying to catch the snowflakes. When it doesn’t prove a very effective strategy, she crouches down, dipping her hands into the snow only to let it filter through her fingers and back onto the ground. Her nose is a little red and the smile on her face is definitely worth it, he decides.

Monty holds open a cooler bag so Miller can drop all the tubes in it, zipping it up as they cross the distance to the two of them. He shoulders it higher, nodding at his captain. “I got what I needed.”

“Great,” Bellamy concludes, self-righteous tone to his voice. They all saw the snow, he got to see Clarke’s smile, they’re all settled. “Then we can leave.”

“Just five more minutes,” Emori pipes up, reaching up to flick a snowflake out of her eyelashes. “We’re almost —”

Jasper slides past her, crashing right through her snowman. He rises to his feet slowly, wiping the snow off his ass before taking off his goggles to assess the damage with an “ oops ”.

“Done,” Shaw fills in, deadpanning as they both stare at their now flat creation, the female pilot’s hand still frozen in the air with a clump of snow in it. As if on cue, Murphy finally returns with a a small branch he got from God knows where, proceeds to see what’s left of the snowman, and tosses it onto the ground with overbearing frustration.

“Urgh!” Emori cups her hands together around a heap of snow, forming a small ball which she aims at Jasper’s neck. It explodes onto his chest, seeping into the inside of his coat. Instead of being angry, he laughs, loudly, shaking out his torso by plucky his jacket off his body.

For some reason, Bellamy knows exactly where this is leading even before he opens his mouth, throwing in a pre-emptive eye roll just because. “Snowball fight!” Jasper announces predictably, dunking a handful of snow on top of Harper.

The blonde shudders at the slush running down the back of her neck. “Oh, it’s on .”

No, he thinks, absolutely not. Bellamy just wants to go inside and get away from here. He’s being paranoid, he knows he is. Of course Raven is going to fix their ship. They won’t be stranded here forever. Yet his skin crawls with the possibility of it. It doesn’t look like there’s many sources of food anywhere near them, and they don’t even know if the water is drinkable. How would they survive? He doesn’t much care about himself, but what about Clarke and his friends and the baby? He knows he’s spiraling, and he can’t stop it. He’s on edge, and he knows it turns him into an insufferable asshole, and yet he can’t stop that either. He’s so self-reflective, if only he could do anything to fix it.

So he stands there, arms crossed over his chest, seething as he watches the scene unfold in front of him. “Oh fuck yes,” Miller pulling his arm back behind his head to aim his next hit at Murphy, snowflakes covering his beanie and stuck in his eyebrows. “Been waiting for this for months. ”

It’s just beyond him how they don’t seem to get it. Bellamy grumbles, “We’re stuck on a planet in the middle of nowhere with no ways of contacting our base and you guys want to screw around and play with sno—” As if on cue, a snowball hits him straight in the face cutting him off.

Jasper has the nerve to look sheepish, sending him a cheeky grin as Bellamy wipes the leftover snow off his face. Okay, he takes a calming breath, rolling his shoulders to get rid of the chill running down his back, o-fucking-kay. His wife, of all people, is laughing the loudest out of everyone. So he makes sure that, after he dunks Jasper headfirst into a bank of snow, he marches up to her, threateningly.

He narrows his eyes. “I thought you were tired.”

“That was before I just saw the look on your face,” she answers matter-of-factly, not an ounce of the fear of retaliation on her face. “ Now I want to severely beat you in a snowball fight.”

He’s glad she thinks it’s funny, because he’s all out of laughs. He’s only half-teasing when he says, “What happened to you?” He’s not kidding when he says she used to be the serious one — always working or worrying about something. He used to have to tell her to dial it down a notch, and now she’s practically jumping at the chance to screw around. He just hopes it’s not the Great Shape-Shifter Fiasco of 2151 all over again.

“I’m happy, Bellamy!” She bursts out, laughing lowly under her breath, absolutely baffled by his insistence of being so gloomy. “For the first time in a long while, we have it good . Our job is to travel the universe, surrounded by our friends and I can finally keep my breakfasts down again. Look at this place!” She makes a show of checking out their surrounding, an excited urgency to her tone. She deflates a little at the absolutely terrified look on his face, softening her voice impossibly as she takes a step closer to him. The snow is thicker there than expected, and he has to reach out to grab her elbows to steady her. “We’re doing good .”

She’s right, and it sucks but maybe he should stop holding his breath waiting for the other shoe to drop. He tilts his head, and she leans up for a quick kiss, arms around his middle. Delicately, she presses, nothing but adoration on her face, “ Please have some faith.”

Bellamy’s already given in, but he can’t help but pretend he hasn’t. “I really don’t know what happened to my wife.”

“This insufferable, incredibly arrogant ass kept telling me that as long as we were breathing there was hope,” she counters dryly, squeezing his waist once more as she blinks up at him, challenge in her eyes. Her smug grin grows and grows at the look on his face. “Guess it kind of stuck.”

She has him right where she wants him now. He can’t stand her. He sighs, signaling over the others with a wave of his arm. Instead of outright saying he wants to have a snowball fight, he takes the easy way out. “Let’s split into two teams.”

“I call dibs on team captain!” Raven yells over from by the hatch, hands cupped around her mouth as she hobbles down the ramp. It must mean she fixed the alternator, which means they’ll get home no matter what. Happy holidays. “My picks are Clarke, Emori, Harper, Shaw, and Miller.”

Great. Him, the uncoordinated wonder twins and somebody who looks like a walking corpse. “That’s not even a fair divide.”

“I wasn’t aware we had rules,” Raven snarks back loudly, pompous look on her face. Shaw is waiting for her at the end of the hatch, offering her a piggyback ride over the unsteady land to the rest of them. (One of their missions. An avalanche of asteroids. Her leg never recovered.)

“Yeah, I thought status quo around here was whatever the hell we want?” Clarke adds, saccharine sweet, and God , does he want to wipe that smirk off her face.  

“We’ll never win like this!” Jasper protests from by his pile of ready-to-go snowballs, practically stomping his foot.

“Not with that attitude you won’t no,” Clarke retaliates, moving an icy globe from one hand to another, as if casually showing off her skills.

As soon as Raven hops off Shaw’s back, he starts, “Ready, set… Three, two…”

“Seven!” Harper shouts, throwing the first snowball to their side with a delirious kind of evil laughter. Bellamy dodges it just in time, hurrying to make his own.  Maybe he’ll have to sacrifice one half of Dude, Where’s My Spaceship? , but there’s no way his team isn’t taking this one home.

By all means, Bellamy had a family. Him and his sister, they took on the whole world together. But part of the deal was that, eventually, she would grow up and use all the tools he gave her to be her own person. She would always be his family, always have a place with him, but they’re not as close anymore as they used to be. It used to hurt, but now he knows it’s the natural way of life and he’s made his peace with it. Family is not something you get to pick.

Along came Clarke, and it took them a while, but now they’re a unit, and someday very soon there’ll be even more proof of that out there in the universe. He never chose her, not consciously, she was just very hard to deny. So stubborn, that woman.

And these people, his friends, they’re not the family he chose either. Life brought them together and they kind of just crept up on him, one by one. Even Murphy. It’s a family he found, or found him, and one he’s going to keep around.

Like this new holiday tradition, for example. It's kind of fun. A snowball fight around Meizenbranahoud? Seems like something he can manage. Maybe without all the life-endangering crashing and AI-failing next time around, but hell, maybe it was half of the fun anyway.

#bellarke #the 100 #bellamy x clarke #bellarke fic #my fic #safeandsound13

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Fluff Under 8,000 Words - Semi Finalists

Sweetheart by @asroarke

“Bell!” he hears Octavia’s voice call out, and he jerks his head in that direction. And there his mother and sister are, tearing up with huge smiles on their faces. When he looks beside them, he notices that Clarke isn’t standing with them. His stomach drops.

The sound of footsteps running toward him are the only warning he has before Clarke jumps into his arms. Before he can even register that it’s her, Clarke is peppering kisses all over his cheeks and chin. “Clarke, I—” The rest of his words are lost as she presses her lips hard against his.

The soldier coming home fic no one asked for where they're eager to make up for lost time.

like you mean it (like it's splitting you in two) by @talistheintrovert

Clarke is tired. Bellamy is tired.

They decide they're tired of being tired alone.

It's time to get some rest.

Insert Titanic Quote Here by @octannibal-blake

Bellamy volunteers to be the nude model for Clarke's figure drawing class. Which is problematic because a) he's her best friend and she'll have to look at him naked for an hour and b) she's actually stupidly in love with him.

Obvious Magic by @eyessharpweaponshot

The Yule Ball is something that Bellamy Blake thought he would never get to experience. Christmas Day at Hogwarts is amazing enough without such a prestigious event. And as if the day needed any more magic, Bellamy realises that he's in love with Clarke Griffin.

Two 'friends' constantly at one another's throats, bickering about everything and anything, suddenly falling in love? Now that really is magic.

Carve Your Name Into My Bed Post by elle_stone

She feels like she's holding a great secret, thumping in her chest along with the beating of her heart: this secret of the way he looks at her, and the heat that rises, a pink blush across her skin. The heat of the room, stuffy and thick. The dim-lit background of the room like blurs and shadows, and the surround-sound of the upbeat melody of the music, so loud it could almost drown out the thrum of the secret, of her heart, of her lungs. The way he meets her eye, messages sent without words.

Fight Fire With, uh, Coffee? By kindclaws

Blake's Brews, 4.7/5 stars, 59 reviews.

04/12 Anonymous: The coffee here is really good!!! My barista spontaneously lit on fire after I paid but the coffee more than made up for it. 4.5 out of 5 would come again.

04/23 Roma F: The owner seems like a grump but he's actually really kind and has an excellent memory for supernatural dietary restrictions. I'm part fae and he always makes my brew with iron-free implements. Plus all the baristas are cute just sayin' ;)

05/17 Anonymous: I don't even like coffee but I come by regularly because I think two of the baristas are falling in love and I shit you not it's the cutest thing ever

06/08 John M: good pastries. my gf dragged me here to look at the flirting baristas. Mr Blake if you're reading this pls make a move, I have money on you realizing you're in love by the end of the month.

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AUTHOR REVEAL of the Chopped: Choose Your Own Adventure Fics!

We hope you all had fun Guessing the Authors, now here they are! Did you guess any correctly?

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all dead hearts to you (Rated T) [Clarke/Raven] by @kindclaws

Theme: Canon Divergent || Tropes: 1. Ark AU, 2. Character swap, 3. One character kisses the other, and the person who gets kissed is shocked still, and 4. One character is asleep (can be cute sleep, can be drooling mouth breathing sleep, you pick) and the other is just watching them totally in love

When the countdown ticks over into the last minute, Raven forces herself to begin imagining a world without Bellamy. It’s not easy to shove aside her initial impulses to bargain with the universe, with her own rationality. Maybe her predictions are too pessimistic. Maybe they have an extra handful of minutes before the death wave reaches them and steals away their escape route. Maybe he is right outside, and he will come around the corner any second now - but she hasn’t kept her friends alive until now by being an optimist. They don’t have the luxury of hope.

The rocket takes off without Bellamy. Raven and Clarke pick up the pieces.

Don't Wanna Fly If You're Still On The Ground (Rated G) [Clarke & Wells] by @loveislarryislove

Theme: Canonverse || Tropes: 1. 4+1, 2. Character not looking for love, 3. Mistaken for a couple, and 4. Protectiveness

Clarke has always been the one person who really got Wells. She understands the pressures of his position in a way no one else ever has. She knows what it is to be a leader, to bear responsibility. She's one of a kind. Wells can't imagine a life without her.

She feels the same way, but differently. Sometimes that's hard, but Wells wouldn't trade it for the world.

Four times Wells almost said "I love you" to Clarke... and the one time she said it first.

The Roach (Rated G) [Emori/Murphy] by @the-most-beautiful-broom

Theme: Modern || Tropes: 1. Coffee Shop AU, 2. Mythical Creature, 3. A Dichotomy, 4. One character gives the other a gift

Since her brother's disappearance, Emori has dedicated her life to tracking down children taken by the Fae. But one day, she realizes that she might be leading the Fae directly to the barista who--though he brews a mean cup of coffee--is less than capable of defense against kindly neighbors.

dreams are just what you make them (Rated T) [Jasper/Maya] by @justbecauseyoubelievesomething

Theme: Horror || Tropes: 1. Ark AU, 2. Childhood friends to lovers, 3. One character is asleep and the other is just watching them totally in love, 4. Based on a song - Who’s With Us by Current Swell

He’s been friends with Maya for almost as long as he was friends with Monty. They grew up playing the kinds of make believe games that Ark kids needed to survive a reality of darkness and cold, grey walls. And when they got older, and Jasper’s reality started to blur and buckle, Maya was still there. Always patient. Always kind. His other friends meant well, but even Monty had other distractions in his life. Maya would drop everything and help him through an episode. It was just who she was.

Thanks for playing (Rated M) [Lexa & Luna] by @dylanobrienisbatman

Theme: Post Apocalyptic || Tropes: 1. Fairy Tale AU, 2. Road Trip, 3. Characters reuniting with someone they thought was dead, and 4. Characters hugging each other after one or both of them have been through hell

Six years ago, the world ended. A violent, deadly viral plague decimated the world, with no way to stop it. Society had crumbled, and the new world order was one of chaos and fear.

Lexa and Luna are sent out on a mission, but everything is not as it seems. Will they succeed, or will the chaos claim them?

it is new moon and twilight (Rated T) [Bellamy/Raven] by @kinetic-elaboration

Theme: Angst || Tropes: 1. Exes, 2. reunion, 3. character a catches character b crying, and 4. surprise kiss

Long separation means little, once he’s walked through the door. Two years gone, slightly more, since they saw each other in person; still they fall easily into old, soft habits again. He knows himself well with her. Only Murphy’s absence remains a jagged pit between them, a pain that spikes sometimes as a physical hurt, other times as a foggy confusion, the sense of something not quite seen out of the corner of his eye.

Bellamy, Murphy, and Raven were best friends once. Then boundaries started to blur.

Now, three months after Murphy’s death, Bellamy comes to visit Raven, his widow, at her home in the mountains on the precipice of spring.

Sail Away With Someone’s Daughter (Rated T) [Clarke/Murphy] by @kinetic-elaboration

Theme: Young Adult || Tropes: 1. Based on a song, 2. Band AU, 3. Friends with Benefits, and 4. Hiding in an enclosed space

If Abby Griffin knew that this arrangement was her daughter’s idea, she’d have a heart attack.

Which is fine, as far as Murphy is concerned.

Oh Sister My Sister (Rated T) [Bellamy & Octavia] by @teeandsnowflakes

Theme: Comedy || Tropes: 1. One is Law Enforcement, the Other is a Criminal/Suspect, 2. A terribly loud crash and one character yelling 'I'm OK", 3. Characters are not together but are mistaken for a couple, and 4. Trapped in or hiding in an enclosed space!

After years of estrangement, Octavia waltzes back into Bellamy’s life and helps him take down one of the biggest drug rings in New York, all while making all his friends think they’re in a relationship. Lovely.

our words are not yet written (Rated T) [Bellamy/Clarke] by @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold

Theme: Dystopia || Tropes: 1. Bed Sharing, 2. Hurt/Comfort, 3. Interrupted Kiss, and 4. Road Trip AU

After the rise of religious zealot, Chancellor Russell Lightbourne, life changes for the worst. The hinges of society begin to collapse and as riots fill the streets, it’s impossible to stay neutral. Bellamy Blake is more than willing to throw himself into the thick of it, but when his sister disappears he has no choice but to go after her. With a target on his back though, he also knows that he needs help.

In this new society, if you need to get around undetected, there’s one person you contact: The Princess. Bellamy does just that, putting himself on a road trip across a divided country with an unexpected ally. Clarke Griffin might have a past that would have put them at odds with each other, but now they’re the only hope that they each have to get through this together.

and then the earth spun (Rated M) [Octavia/Lincoln] by @thelittlefanpire

Theme: Holiday || Tropes: 1. Post-Apocalyptic AU, 2. Magic AU, 3. Zombie AU, and 4. Trapped in or hiding in an enclosed space

Octavia Blake thought the end of her world started when the earth went dark, but it really didn’t begin again until the zombies walked in.

It would almost be poetic, if it wasn’t so damn sad. (Rated T) [Raven/Wells] by @dylanobrienisbatman

Theme: Dystopia || Tropes: 1. Hunger Games AU, 2. Enemies to Friends to Lovers, 3. Butterflies, and 4. First Kiss

When Raven was chosen as tribute for District Three, she hadn’t expected to find love.

When Raven was chosen as tribute for District Three, she had also planned to win.

integrity, faith, and crocodile tears (trust me, darling) (Rated T) [Clarke/Murphy] by @probably-voldemort

Theme: Post Apocalyptic || Tropes: 1. Zombie AU, 2. Parallel Universe, 3. Character Reuniting With Someone They Thought Was Dead, and 4. Watching Someone Sleep While Being Super In Love With Them

Clarke was never supposed to end up in a different world with a different apocalypse.

Zombies were never supposed to be a thing outside the old movies they’d had on the Ark.

And Murphy was never supposed to be looking at her like that.

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[goddess-aelin]

So since 500 is a pretty big number and I never EVER thought that I’d have this many followers, I decided to do something a little different. I’ve been in the fandom since season 2 and I’ve read SO MANY fics over the years. So i decided to compile a giant list of my absolute favorites. Then I compiled that list and realized how long it was so now I’m splitting it up! Here are all of my favorite modernverse/farmer Bellamy/Hogwarts AU fics.  (Obviously I have my weird kinks) These are in no particular order and I don’t have an AO3 so I know that I left so many good ones out because I’m going off of ones that stick in my head.  

- A Song to Keep Us Warm  by kindclaws........N/R

   This is an absolutely beautiful fic. Dancer!Bellarke is definitely HOT.  Clarke and Bellamy are co-dance-instructors. Bellamy helps her find her passion again.

-The Girl Next Door by funfanfin.....M

   OH MY GOD. THIS FIC. just wow. I don’t even know what to say. Bellarke as neighbors. Angst, fluff, and of course, happy endings. 

-Turn the Tide on My Losing Side by Lalalli.....T

   Fun Bellarke + Jaha facebook shenanigans. Such a fun and lighthearted fic. “I want to touch your abs.” Iconic, honestly.

-Ice by rabiscar....T

Is it really a fic rec by me if there isn’t a hockey/ice skater AU? Hockey player Bellamy is hot and I absolutely love the dynamic between Bellarke in this fic. Not only does it have hockey, it also has bed sharing, enemies to friends to lovers, and so much teamwork, which is Bellarkes brand tbh.

-Potions et Patroni by @chants-de-lune...T

A Harry Potter AU where Bellarke are professors at Hogwarts. Also doubles as a soulmate AU. Meg does such an amazing job of bringing the show characterization to these characters in a completely different setting. I absolutely love this and am a huge sucker for Harry Potter AU’s. 

-What’s a Little Quaffle Between Friends? by @talistheintrovert...G

Another Harry Potter AU. Talis is a genius and had all the chapter titles be Harry Potter puns. Bellamy is constantly getting hurt and Clarke is always there to patch him up. So much light fluffiness but also so much angst! One of my fave fics! She also wrote a smutty follow-up to this, Finders Keepers. 

Talis also has so many other fics that are amazing and I’d so like to recommend them all here but this would be miles long. Definitely check out all of her others!!! 

-Weave Me a Myrtle Crown by AJRedfern....E

So this fic is on almost every fic rec list I’ve come across and its not finished but its literally that good. Mixes mythology, reincarnation, and firefighter Bellamy/EMT Clarke. The characters are so well written and there is seriously so much angst that it makes me want to cry whenever I re-read it. 

-The Odds are Good by tacosandflowers...E

Modernverse with so much angst that it hurts. This fic taught me everything I need to know about kayaking and waterfalls and now every time I go kayaking, I think about this fic. This fic is B E A U T I F U L.  The amount of love that Bellarke has for each other in this fic is only paralleled by show Bellarke. This author also wrote a follow up, New Expectations, which is a baby fic set in the same universe.

-Willing to Wait For It by LayALioness....T

FARMER BELLAMY. I’m not quite sure why i have a Thing^TM for farmer Bellamy but I sure as hell DO. Clarke is a vet that helps take care of Bellamy’s farm animals. She needs someone to come with her to her high school reunion. Features two idiots in love who don’t know how to talk about their feelings for each other.

-Without Giving Anything Away by chash...E

Another farmer Bellamy fic! Octavia leaves home but doesn’t want Bellamy to be alone, so naturally he puts an ad out for a wife. Clarke comes knocking. Not one, but TWO Bellarke weddings! 

-Of Coffee and Magic by @chase-the-windandtouch-the-sky ...T

Clarke owns a coffee shop with a twist. She puts magic into people’s drinks to take their pain away. The only downside is that she gets to feel their pain, taking “I bear it so they don’t have to” to a whole new level. So naturally, she thinks that Bellamy only likes her because of her magic. So fluffy it kills me. 

-Win a Date With Bellamy Blake...Bittyab18...M

So I honestly haven’t read a lot of the new chapters on this one but this is the first Bellarke fic I ever read, so it has a special place in my heart. Exactly what it sounds like is what happens. Clarke wins a date with movie star, Bellamy Blake, who she knew from high school. Of course, they become friends and then hide their feelings for each other.

-Did Venus Blow Your Mind (Was it Everything You Wanted?) by @selflessbellamy ...M

Clarke signs up for a body paint contest and Bellamy is her canvas. Is it weird that body painting is a kink? Because I definitely have it.  

-Jumping to Conclusions is Sacrificing Yourself to Embarassment by tempestaurora...T

Such a fun, lighthearted fic. Bellamy and Clarke take the same elevator everyday. She thinks he doesn’t speak English so naturally she talks about how hot he is to Raven right in front of his face.

-Take My Hand by winterwaters...E

A So You Think You Can Dance AU where Bellamy and Clarke aren’t too fond of each other. But, of course, the power of dance brings them together.

-Vienna Waits for You by panem_et_circenses....M

This is one of those fics that I could just read again and again. It has such a weird and unexpected mixing of tropes but the way that the writer put them all together works so well. Bellarke in college, Bellamy as an underground boxer, artist Clarke, nude model Bellamy, fake dating, Finn as his natural douchey self, and some Wicken, Linctavia, and Monty/Miller!

-To My Favorite Scar (To All of the Stars) by @prosciuttoe...T

So this is more of a college AU than it is a Foxhole Court AU but it has some of the delinquents as Exy players, which is a made up sport from the previously listed title. I read this so long ago and I still to this day remember how much I love it. Bellamy is the captain, Clarke transfers from another team, who she now shares a rivalry with. A relationship filled with animosity quickly turns into a loving friendship (and more, wink wink)

-I’ll be Home for Christmas (if Only in My Dreams) by @head-and-heart...T

An AU loosely based on Eliza’s movie, Christmas Inheritance. Bellamy is a grumpy hotel owner and Clarke is running away from her life in the city. Angst but so FLUFFY.

**definitely check out all of these wonderful writers’ fics! They’re all AMAZING!

Thank you to everyone for following me and helping me out with finding fics! Here’s to the 600 follower canonverse/fantasy AU list I already have compiled 🥂

#bellarke #bellamy blake #clarke griffin #bellarke fanfiction #fic recs #the 100

[she-who-the-river-could-not-hold]

Share Your Self Care

Tagged by @kindclaws and @aspeckof-stardust!! Thank you, this one is so lovely!! 

🌿 Favourite comfort food: grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough bread, it just HITS DIFFERENTLY

🌼 Favourite alcohol (or hot drink!): My boyfriend and I have been really getting into the history of tiki drinks and learning how to make our own! Which has timed itself well with everything going on lol. You can’t go wrong with a Painkiller but I also really like the Sunakora. Otherwise it’s one of his margaritas (better than any bar) or a good glass of wine.

🌷 Favourite relaxing activity: well now it’s playing Animal Crossing aslkfjsd

🌸 Favourite fluffy/feel-good fic: Oh gosh that’s hard. I don’t really read a lot of those?? At least none that immediately come to mind haha. I have a tag for fics for the 100 and a tag for Stranger Things fics so maybe I’ve reblogged some fluffy ones before!

🌻 Favourite calming scent: l can’t CHOOSE I’m buried in candles. Top ones are lavender, woodsy nature like scents, and maybe something vaguely tropical.

🌺 Favourite relaxing (or uplifting) song: ehhh I don’t really listen to uplifting music per se? I really love listening to lo fi while I work it puts me at ease so I’ll say that as a whole genre for this

🌵 Favourite white noise: Currently using a combo of rain and fire crackling to fall asleep to! That or ocean waves. 

🍄 Favourite book to get lost in: I don’t really get lost in books anymore, though as a kid it would have been Harry Potter. I collect coffee table books so probably just deep diving into this and having a visual overdose on beautiful art or imagery.

💐 Favourite chill-out TV show: If I’m home, it’s Gilmore Girls with my mom. On my own it’s usually rewatching Face Off or (this isn’t a show) pulling up Sims building/lets play videos on YouTube. Those are really nice to just have on in the background.

🌹 The best advice you’ve ever had: For self care? That you have value in this world that isn’t attached to your work or job. That you as a person matter and you can’t do the world, or even yourself, any good if you don’t look after yourself. Take care of your circle and that includes yourself. If you focus on what’s in your control, you’ll be able to take better care of yourself and the people in your life. Not a “if you can’t love yourself” type of thing, but that if you get to the point of inaction, it produces the same result as not caring. So care for yourself so that you are able to care for others, and then let it be a ripple effect. 

Tagging: @maplestreet, @formerlyjannafaye, @thelittlefanpire, @pawprinterfanfic, @the-most-beautiful-broom, and @probably-voldemort! And anyone else that wants to share, feel free to tag me!

#get to know me

[probably-voldemort]

I was tagged by @braveprincess (and I think someone else??? but now i can’t find the tag in my notifications so if you also tagged me in this i’m sorry)

10 people is a lot so we’re just gonna go through my BFSN tag list: @pawprinterfanfic @blvke-bellamy @the-griffin-green-blakes @thelittlefanpire @talistheintrovert @eyessharpweaponshot @clarkesbells99 @johnmurphysass @kindclaws @sarahin

The Instructions:

Pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions.

Don’t cheat.

Tag 10 people.

The Shows:

The Good Place

Jane the Virgin

iZombie

Grey’s Anatomy

The 100

The Questions

1. Who is your favourite character in 2?

Definitely not Petra in the earlier seasons but overall definitely Petra

2. Who is your least favourite character in 1?

Ooo this one is tough cause I really like all the Good Place characters.  Probably the demon who’s name I forget who’s played by Dax Shepard?  He was just an all around dick but like he was still funny to watch

3. What is your favorite episode of 4?

The musical episode.  Classic.

4. What is your favorite season of 5?

That’s also really tough omg.  Maybe season one?  I really like the whole Dropship dynamics of the delinquents and wish we got more of that

5. Who is your favorite couple in 3?

Ravi and Peyton.  Dale and Clive come in a close second, though

6. Who is your favorite couple in 2?

Jane and Rafael

7. What is your favorite episode of 1?

I like all the episodes this is hardddddd.  Maybe the season one finale though just because the big twist was genuinely something I hadn’t seen coming and it was a good and shocking twist.  Idk though cause all the episodes are so good

8. What is your favorite episode of 5?

The one where Bellamy gives Clarke CPR, for obvious reasons

9. What is your favorite season of 2?

Oh I have no idea.  I couldn’t tell you what happens in each season of his show.  Maybe the first though.  Just classic ridiculousness and plot twists and fun

10. How long have you watched 1?

Me and my brother watched it from the beginning

11. How did you become interested in 3?

I was bored.  It was on Netflix.  Binged the first like two seasons in like two days and was hooked

12. Who is your favorite actor in 4?

I don’t really follow any of the actors from Grey’s??????  Like at all??????  I’ve seen a couple interviews with the lady who plays Bailey though and she seems cool

13. Which do you prefer, 1, 2, or 5?

These questions are so harddddddd.  I gotta go with the 100 though

14. Which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3?

Episode count wise, Jane.  But only because it has like 25 more episodes than iZombie.  Actual show run wise, iZombie, because I haven’t watched the series finale of Jane yet.

15. If you could be anyone from 4, who would you be?

Everyone on Grey’s has way too much drama and tragedy in their lives for me to really want to be any of them tbh.  But maybe lilke pre-cancer Izzy Stevens?  She was cool until she went kinda crazy and ran away but like early seasons Izzy

16. Would a crossover between 3 and 4 work?

I mean, yeah actually.  iZombie and Grey’s both take place in Seattle.  Theoretically Grey-Sloan Memorial would’ve been within the bounds when the wall around New Seattle went up.  Hospital and cop show have a lot of room for cross overs.  Some of our Grey’s favs could’ve become zombies.  It’d be a weird twist for Grey’s, but it could work.  And now I kinda want a zombie outbreak on Grey’s Anatomy lol

17. Pair two characters in 1 who would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple.

Dude okay I ship like everyone in this show.  But I feel like Eleanor and Janet could be good together

18. Overall, which show has the better storyline, 3 or 5?

I gotta go with iZombie, just because it’s completely finished and everything wrapped up pretty nicely.  Hoping for a good ending for the 100 too!

19. Which has the better theme music, 2 or 4?

Considering Jane the Virgin doesn’t have a theme song, I gotta go with Grey’s

[bellarkeficawards]

Best Modern AU - Nominations

Perfect Match by grjffinsblake @grjffinsblake

Sanctuary by RogueTwelve

A Greater Pursuit by Malliday

Homesick (It's a Bittersweet Feeling) by burninghoneyatdusk @burninghoneyatdusk

Waste It on Me by eyessharpweaponshot @eyessharpweaponshot

Pieces of Us by daenoora @daenoora

All Because of You by burninghoneyatdusk @burninghoneyatdusk

If the Right One Came Along by useyourtelescope @useyourtelescope

comes and goes (in waves) by selflessbellamy @selflessbellamy

And Maybe I'll Grow Into You by jekisawrites @thefangirlingbarista

hold on, i still want you (come back, i still need you) by Pawprinter @pawprinterfanfic

someone let the poets out by kindclaws @kindclaws

Sugar by asroarke @asroarke

we don't know where we're going, but we know where we belong by mylifeiskara @queenemori

White Flag Wars by norvina

Finding North by mad_magic @kombellarke

The Choices We Make by changingthefairy_tale @changingthefairy-tale

Growing Up Together by depressionkitty

I Wasn't Looking For Anything (But I Found You Anyway) by QueenoftheWallflowers @queen-of-the-wallflowers15

A heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved by nothingbutsandanddust @nothing-but-sand-and-dust

Instant Family by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

Mischievous Mistletoe by bellarkeness @johnmurphysass

and i'm trying to keep from going under by twilightstargazer @hiddenpolkadots

Listen to silence by bellofthetolppl @skybellamy

Connecting on the Wraparound by WelpThisIsHappening @welllpthisishappening

The Write Choice by bookwormforalways @bookwormforalways

I've Learned in Love and Death We Don't Decide by grumpybell @grumpybell 

In slow motion by flonkertons @bestivals

Soul Fate Determination by LaughingSenselessly @wellsjahasghost

sparks fly whenever you smile by safeandsound13 @captaindaddykru

Everything's Made to be Broken by MoonShoesReyes @moonshoesreyes

Rock Bottom by animmortalist @animmortalist

the sea is a good place (to think of the future) by animmortalist @animmortalist

Pretty Moths and Butterflies by Misschatelle

the worst thing you ever heard by animmortalist @animmortalist

Save the last dance (for me) by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

Because of Bellamy by softdelena

Say you'll remember me by Nakeycatstakebaths @nakey-cats-take-bathsss

yours to keep, yours to lose by arysa13 @arysafics

I Found Peace in Your Violence by eyessharpweaponshot @eyessharpweaponshot

Princess by marauders_groupie @marauders-groupie

The Dying of the Light by starsonfire @saintbellamys

A Twist of Fate by mylifeiskara @queenemori

love's got a enemy (it's bleeding inside of me) by danahscott @bellamysgriffin

#nominations

[thelittlefanpire]

Chopped Round 2: Angst Author Reveal:

Rewrite The Stars (Rated M) @pawprinterfanfic

After months of being broken up, Clarke and Bellamy have been reassigned to finish one of their old cases. Things are hard enough with having her ex as her partner again, but the fact she’s still totally into him makes things more complicated.

Did she mention the fact that she is also reliving the same day over and over?

Things are about to get messy.

The cross I bear (that you gave me) (Rated M) @justwalkedaway

Clarke Griffin and Bellamy Blake were partners and lovers - until they weren’t. Five years later Clarke is back in town and needs help on a case. How can Bellamy tell her no? Things don’t go as planned, especially when Bellamy somehow keeps reliving the same day over and over again.

love doesn’t come easy, especially when you’re loving me (Rated T) @knockingonbellarkesdoor

Clarke Griffin, a medic from the tribe of Arkadia was on the run after the fall out of Mount Weather.

After word spread of her title of Wanheda, the blame of the lives lost in the battle had been sprung on her.

She doesn’t expect to run into Bellamy Blake, a warrior from Azgeda — someone who she was very familiar with. He learns of her issues and vows to help her stay safe from his people. They hadn’t seen eachother in months, not since their relationship ended. After realizing that she was experiencing the same day over and over again, Clarke knows that she has to learn and fight for what she wants. It doesn’t take long to figure out that what she’s always wanted was right in front of her.

Do You Feel The Way We’re Falling Out Of Touch? (Rated M) @eyessharpweaponshot

Clarke and Bellamy are over and he has moved on, it’s just something Clarke has to accept.

They have a job to do and that’s what is important now. They spend the entire day at odd’s with one another, being distant and lying about their true feelings.

When they’re stuck in a time loop because of their inability to be honest though, it’s time to start admitting some things - and it turns out to be a little harder than expected.

Nothing Gold Can Stay (Rated M) @thelittlefanpire

Bellamy and Clarke are exes trapped in a time loop where one of them goes on different dates at a speakeasy over and over while the other watches helpless to change anything.

The Nurse at Fort Vaux (Rated T) @the-most-beautiful-broom

Bellamy and Clarke were not meant to be–the war to end all wars made sure of that. Bellamy went to the front, and Clarke joined the Nurse’s Corps, but it seems that fate has brought them back together again (and again and again and again).

how I learned to stop worrying and love the apocalypse (Rated M) @kindclaws

The morning after she dies in Praimfaya 2, Clarke wakes up. And then she does it again, and again, and again.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Rated T) @princessechoblake

It’s Purge Night and Echo gets stuck in more ways than one. Over, and over, and over again.

Break Some Bread for All My Sins (Rated T) @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold

Clarke’s been a hitwoman for a while now, so tonight shouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary. Find her mark, complete the job. But things go awry when her old partner and boyfriend, Bellamy Blake, intervenes. Everything falls apart, and then she wakes up and it happens all over again. Each repeated day forces her to confront parts of herself she’s pushed away and somehow Bellamy is at the center of all it. But how much can she handle over and over again before she breaks?

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The Winners for this Round were just announced! Thanks again to everyone who participated! Could you guess your favorite writer’s story? The Tropes were certainly a challenge, but everyone did a great job with them! @dylanobrienisbatman

#chopped: the 100 fanfic challenge #chopped: the 100 fanfic edition #chopped angst fics #round 2: angst #author reveal #tag us in your tumblr posts of your fics/moodboards