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[bidaryl]

My life is m y choice. You don't get to choose for me!

RICK GRIMES The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live

#😩 #rick grimes #twdtowl

[bidaryl]

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.

#literally the amount of times i was like. rick what the actual FUCK. #michonne x rick

[bidaryl]

THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE | 1.04 — "What We" Directed by Michael Slovis Written by Danai Gurira

#god this episode? life changing #michonne x rick #towl 1.04 #twdtowl

[bidaryl]

The Walking Dead 5.12 — Remember

#'you look ridiculous!!!!!!!!' #carol x daryl #5.12

[bidaryl]

THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY (2023-) S01E03 ✩ People Are a Resource

#thats the gym teacher in him coming out. #twddc #negan

[bidaryl]

#i think i grabbed my sisters leg like. is he gonna do it? is he gonna fuck him up? #and then he did #rick grimes #towl 1.01 #twdtowl

[bidaryl]

THE WALKING DEAD (2010-2022) 8.05 ✩ The Big Scary U

#okay for some reason that first gif with negan in just a white shirt and walking out to lean against the door frame? VERY savior carl au #eugene x negan #8.05

[bidaryl]

𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐲'𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐋 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐞

#LOVE him. #andrew lincoln

[bidaryl]

Okay I haven't watched twd but!!! I do know the characters so if you'd like please tell me about the trans Carl fic!!!

oh oh !!! i have already started publishing that one !!!

it's just easier to link it like this hehehe but basically its just carl growing up trans in the apocalypse, and his journey to self-discovery but also i love cegan so i added that in there

#oh? #sonny tag <3

[bidaryl]

👀👀 abortion fic 👀👀

carl is trans. its the apocalypse. he knows the most likely way for him to get access to abortion is through negan, so he agrees to start working for negan / become a savior in exchange for an abortion. that's about all i have planned so far. that fic isn't as developed as i'd like. i literally just started it on a whim 2 days ago bc i was bored and needed to flex the writing muscles.

#hell Yeah #sonny tag <3

[bidaryl]

Oh you have to tell me about psycho Carl

oh psycho carl is one of my faves, i really need to get back to it but i hit a writer's block in it smh, but its basically like. carl has been Off since the moment he started developing a personality. like. as a child he pushed a kid off the slide in the playground and lied about why he did it. he kills a dog at like. 10??? years old i think. i don't remember. but it's basically just how he kinda starts to thrive when the apocalypse happens, and it's also rick just trying his damn hardest to raise him into something better, someone kind, empathetic, but then negan falls into the mix after the line up and yeah. obviously they're a match made in hell. so !!! (but this carl isn't like. wholly emotionless either, he does have a sense of loyalty, and he does love his family in his own way, but others, he might not care for that much).

#amazing. love it here #sonny tag <3

[bidaryl]

HI HELLO HI TELL ME ABOUT YOUR MPREG FIC PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE <3

asjfhaksfksf its, well, carl. he and negan are involved before the apocalypse. then it happens. carl figures out he's pregnant while they're all in the quarry. he reunites with negan during the line up, and he tells negan he has a son. dunno what happens after that but. i really need to figure out what to do with that fic in general. oh and btw, negan was the leader of a gang before, so that's an added element in there.

#fucking inspiring hell YEAH #sonny tag <3

[bidaryl]

THE WALKING DEAD: THE ONES WHO LIVE 1.01 | Years

#🥹 #michonne x rick #towl 1.01 #twd: towl

[bidaryl]

whatshisface: i can see u leading this shitshow in 10 years king

rick: aha joining the fight on crm. on the side of taking down the crm. thanku for this opportunity

#cut a bitch! #towl spoilers

[bidaryl]

The Walking Dead 4.08 — Too Far Gone

#fuck OFF #rick grimes #hershel greene #the governor #4.08

[bidaryl]

The Walking Dead 4.12 — Still

#🥹 #beth x daryl #4.12

[bidaryl]

#🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 #michonne x rick