coolpartytimefan

[coolpartytimefan]

I didn't really like the helmet grab by Michonne in towl. I didn't think it was necessary for them to make her do that even though I know they were trying to show how angry she was. Am I overthinking this?

forgive me but I actually think you're not thinking enough. You're not thinking about what's happened from michonne's perspective. even if you were, you're not extending her any empathy because writing off her as just "angry" does not cut it here

....Michonne had to carry on believing rick was dead for FIVE YEARS, raising their kids despite that grief and then when she was given the smallest hope he was alive she gave up another 2 years with her kids, risking her life in the wastelands, surviving chlorine poisoning, and enduring more fucking trauma with nothing keeping her going but the fact that she loved him and would not give up looking...... AND THEN she finds him against all those odds and rick had the CAUCACITY to try and trick her into ABANDONING HIM and insinuate that she DOESN'T TRULY LOVE HIM UNLESS SHE DOES??? of fucking COURSE she rips that dumb fucking helmet off his head!! she wants him to say that nonsense to her FACE, hear how insane it sounds, and be greeted with the only appropriate response to an assertion so ludicrous: silence.

When my dad and I watched that episode we both agreed rick actually got off easy for trying to pull that shit after what michonne had been through. My dad even left the room when rick was bragging about his stoopid plan to trick michonne into leaving to jadis because my dad is very sensitive to second hand embarrassment and rick was so fucking idiotic for trying to do that to michonne and thinking it would work.

ALSO.....something that I've ranted about before is this idea of an empathy gap between how people see white characters and characters of colour (ESPECIALLY Black characters) because such is the racism of the world that people simply don't empathise or even sympathise with characters of colour because they've been conditioned not to. Years of racist media conditions you to empathise with white characters almost instinctively even when they're wrong. In this case, rick was wrong. Totally wrong, despite his intentions. He was dishonest, condescending, and inconsiderate. Michonne had every right to be angry and every right to show him how angry she was. The fact that you're uncomfortable with that maybe means you haven't really paid mind to what michonne has been through and maybe you haven't done that because she's a Black woman. Personally, I loved that scene so much and I also love all the scenes in ep4 where she's pissed off because michonne isn't just rick's love interest she's a protagonist in her own right and she's NEVER not once accepted less, even from him.

anyway, hope you don't think I'm being mean! I've just seen weird discourse about that scene that is so unnecessary. It simply wouldn't be a thing if people actually cared about michonne as a character, rather than just as one half of a ship.

#rick and michonne #no anon that aint it as michonne had every right to react any damn way she pleased #towl #reblog

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#Danai Gurira #towl cast #reblog

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WALLPAPERS OF "THE ONES WHO LIVE " ❤️🔥❤️

#rick and michonne #towl posters #reblog

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“luck’s holding up. but what if i can’t wait that long?”

#rick and michonne #towl deleted script #reblog

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Richonne + Hand Kisses

in THE WALKING DEAD & THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE

#rick and michonne #twd/towl #reblog

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first glimpse of michonne in rick's dreams

#michonne #towl headers #reblog

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#towl #towl emmy quest #here's to winning an emmy 🙏🏿 #danai gurira #andrew lincoln

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Rick and Michonne hug their kids - TOWL s1.6

Michonne: Hi,.....hi. How are you doing? Why are you so big? Judith: I knew it dad. I knew you were still out there dad. RJ: You're the brave man? Rick: I am.........but maybe you can call me dad.

#rick and michonne #towl #self reblog

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Love in the midst of adversity

#rick and michonne #twd/towl #reblog

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THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE (2024)

#rick and michonne #towl #reblog

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THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE (2024) Costume Appreciation, Part I Costume design by Eulyn Hufkie

#towl #towl constumes #reblog

[coolpartytimefan]

Why did you save him?

#rick and michonne #towl #reblog

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Judith - is she - is she alive?             She's okay.

RICK GRIMES AND JUDITH GRIMES | a chronology

#rick grimes #judith grimes #ugly crying😭😭 #twd/towl #reblog

[coolpartytimefan]

What folks who complained about the romance in TOWL cannot seem to grasp about Rick.

What Shane failed to understand.

And Beale.

And Pearl.

And fuckin shitface Negan.

And those ungrateful Saviors.

And even Okafor.

Is that LOVE and EMPATHY do not make Rick weak. They are precisely what makes him stronger than Shane, and Negan, and Beale, and Pearl, and anyone else who believes that him being a sensitive caring person is something that weakens him. Horse shit. No. The whole premise of the ENTIRE show (TWD) is:

Who survives?

The most cruel?

Or the ones who remember their humanity (which very much includes love) at the end of the day?

Who survives?

Rick and Michonne.

Love is not fuckin easy. It’s hard as all hell to love human beings. We’re flawed egotistical mush, it’s not easy to choose love. It’s muuuuch easier to give in to our base instincts, otherwise there wouldn’t be so many cruel horrible murdering jackasses roaming around post apocalypse. Choosing love in a word like that is the hardest thing. That IS strength beyond measure. GTFOH.

#rick and michonne #say it louder for the people in the back #reblog

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My sister just recently let my 14 year old nephew begin to watch zombie genre media and he’s devouring The Walking Dead. He’s been in our family chat giving live updates and reactions as he watched TWD all week during term break. He’s reached Season 3 and absolutely LOVES Michonne — thinks she’s the best character on the show (rightfully so).

He got to that scene after Woodbury where Rick is all, “We patch you up and you are gone” to Michonne and then posts this in the group chat:

No no no Rick! Just no! You’re gonna marry her. She’s not going anywhere!

This kid has never been in fandom and didn’t know what shipping was. I had to explain it and he was like, “Yep. I ship them.”

He’s gonna lose it when he sees what’s coming:

#rick and michonne #aww so cute🥰🥰🥰 #reblog

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When I thought...I can't lose you !

#rick and michonne #twd #reblog

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the way they look into each other's eyes is something special

#rick and michonne #towl #towlfanart #reblog