"The key thing was of course, the fact that Rick has PTSD and that's very much what's driving a lot of his behavior and being in a place of that level of vulnerability, back with the love of his life in that way.
It's also the thing he fears, the loss of her. It manifests itself in a way that is visceral and leads to the lovemaking not just being about love, but the revealing of pain and trauma and fear. That informs Michonne, that she can't just blast him into making sense. There's something deeper going on here that he can't verbalize. She has to help him get through in a different way. So she gets to see him, as well, as he reveals what's really in there, the wound. That's going to happen most likely in that most vulnerable space." — Danai Gurira
"Yeah, I think it is about pain. As Danai just said, it's about him wanting her and then fearing what he's about to unlock again. He gets to sort of articulate it in the scene further in the episode, when he gets to say that, 'I can't do this again. I haven't got the capacity to do this again. I've worked out how to die and live again.' So it is an absolutely necessary scene that allows Michonne to realize that there's something really broken here, more broken than she's ever anticipated. [...]
So the scene was about a real intimacy, a sort of frightening intimacy. This is a part of his personality he has shut down. It's almost like he's trying to stop himself from feeling this love again. She sees that and she just says, 'Just trust. We're back. We're the same...' I find it very moving. I think it's a very, very moving scene, because it's about them connecting in a way that he's had to deny for seven years. He's denied that connection for the sake of living on in this half life for the CRM" — Andrew Lincoln
Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira Discuss Episode 4 of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live
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" Take heart, victory will be ours. "
Day 3 of @essthereal's 850+ editing event . . . a character with your MBTI type OR a character that shares your birthday
f2u with credit! :D
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🕊 “ .. spread a little happiness .. “
have an Aziraphale with a dog because we all still need to heal from s2
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Trying to get into the headspace to write about sucking dick
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These two gifs have been living rent free in my head for the past day ...
Gifs were being weird so I'm not sure if they'll tag correctly but shout-out to @a7estrellas and @arcanefox207
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Gordon: …I’ll worry about it later. Right now I need to get back to that typewriter… feels like I’ve been working on this stupid list for over a month.
Ricky: I guess you could say this is getting a… Callback~?
Gordon: …
Ricky: Ah~? Ah~? Get it? Cause of the phone we found in-
Gordon: I get the stupid joke, you raggedy sock.
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