( very few jokes are going to land in such a way that'd ever make clarke giggle or crack into side-splitting laughter. but her pulse-less sense of humor doesn't mean she can't aggressively relate to generalizations like that, especially as the unofficial (but kind of official) mother of her friend group. time outs. time outs for everyone would have been hugely effective and probably prevented a lot of suffering, and yet here they are...

but curse her ancestors? )

...No. I could barely tell what to expect between one day and the next on Earth, and I can't imagine it was all that different for them. All of that started long before most of the branches in my family tree would have been grown, and even then — it wasn't specifically my great-great-great grandparents who destroyed the world. It was every single human on the planet, spanning generations. Either through inaction, ignorance, honest mistakes, or blatantly aggressive decisions.

I don't think I could curse humanity without including myself in that. It's not like I had any luck preventing the second Death Wave either.