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mutual on twitter just finished reading chot and it's bringing everything back 😭 mostly the rage like fuck that book for real

#GODDD FUCK THAT BOOK FUCK IT SO BAD #i refuse to get back into these books theyll piss me off too much but good lord. if chot has no haters im dead #and if the carstairs siblings have no fans im dead 🫶 #tlh

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#both and it is still a bit we do regularly

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why would they cut a scene of okafor and rick at the hospital after rick cut his hand off? was rick delirious and talking about his family??? did okafor just watch him go in and out of consciousness? was it supposed to parallel him waking up from the coma in s1ep1??? they need to drop ALL the deleted scenes immediately for all the episodes

#GOD i need this scene so bad its serious. #also craig tate looks sooooo good here #towl

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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.

#say that omg 😭😭 #& the way he was in absolute shambles bent over hands on his knees after she walked away without saying a word. YEAH YOU EARNED THAT RICHARD #towl

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thought about maggierick and hurt my own feelings

#not even main tagging this im just in pain #misc posts

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are you KIDDING me there's a deleted scene of rick and okafor in ep 1 right after rick cuts his hand off.

#AMC YOU ARE NOT SHITTTT GIVE US THE DELETED SCENES NOW #first the picnic now this. a DAMN shame #towl #misc posts

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Rick Grimes Best Of (7/?)

#all i do is suffer. #twd #rick & carl

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#jesus christ i cannot handle this scene im so serious. dead on the floor every time it shows back up on my dash god why #twd #rick & carl

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shld be doing homework instead im feeling insane about grimes family reunion again i need to be hit over the head with a large cartoon mallet

#at this current moment im losing my shit over rick n jude. the way shes smiling when she turns to him and how her face just CRUMPLES. #shes crying before she hugs him im so. GOD and how his hand doesnt even settle fully on her head for a few seconds bc rick cant believe it #like he left a toddler behind. an actual baby. and here said baby is a preteen with a sword & his gun raised on stories about him #and shes virtually a stranger. i will die #she smiles when he talks she wont forget his voice anymore. he pets her hair over n over like hes trying to convince himself shes real. #SHE NEVER WANTED HIM TO FEEL ALONEEEEEE. this girl raised on stories and surrounded by the ghost of a man whose face she cant remember #grows up thinking about him all the time. missing someone she has been without for longer than she had him and hoping thst wherever he is #he ISNT LONELY. IM KILLING MYSELF #and the way she just falls into his chest again Im fucking fine. its fine #i think i need to be tazed #towl #the ones who live #rick & judith #rick grimes #judith grimes

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#Still here btw.

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It is good for the soul to microdose being a hater....so long as one remembers to always macrodose minding ones own business....

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have had the time of my fucking LIFE today talking abt my PTT (pearl thorne thoughts) forgot how much i love grossly misinterpreted side characters and interacting w ppl about shit i enjoy!!!

#🫶🫶🫶 #misc posts

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I don’t get why people hated Thorne the way they did like she made me so sad lol People will laugh how she was clearly more invested in a genuine friendship with Rick while he was ready to kill her but that’s tragic af? That the only purpose she has is to be another cog in a facist regime because she has NOTHING no hope of escape, and her only connection isn’t reciprocated to the same degree. Idk I just wish she could’ve lived man 😭

SAY THATTTTT. literally she had nothing! no hope no love nothing outside of the crm which she fully devoted herself to post okafors death because she couldn't function or live without something to believe in. like she Had to give herself over to it and it Had to be right because what else was there for her???

and her and rick make me so sad god. because she so obviously does care about him (but never more than the cause bc who is she without a purpose?) and—can and will die on this hill btw—rick cares abt her!! he could have easily done what he did with esteban at first and w like literally everyone else and shut himself off and refused to connect but they knew each other! they drank and trained and played poker and fought together! but the virtually dead version of rick he had to become over the years (the only version pearl knows and the one she is confident she knows well) starts to disappear the second he reunites w michonne like it never stood a chance. and the version of rick she "meets" in ep 6 after realizing pretty much the only person left that she cares about lied to her and betrayed the crm, with hope and the woman he loves and a reason for him to keep going and fight, is one she can't quite wrap her head around. and the fact that she yells at michonne and asks how she found him, says that "in a dead world love is dead"......ouch!!!! like she's too far gone but she's Not almost. it's too painful for her to think that her giving up on her love and giving in to the crm was the wrong choice, that it was all for nothing and that things could have gone differently for her if she hadn't lost hope. Ugh pearl thorne imy i sorry twdu hates sexy people

i loveeee talking about her sm it was so aggravating when so many ppl were like making fun of her and not at All looking at what her character meant and why she did the things she did!!! and i am so so happy other ppl feel like you do abt her thank you for the ask and giving me an excuse to talk a lot come back any time 🫶

#towl #the ones who live #pearl thorne #rick grimes #asks

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thinking abt doomed friendships*.........pearlrick i care you

#*yes i know they hardly knew anything abt each other after like eight years and their circumstances were never going to allow them to really #permanently connect and form a genuine lasting friendship. Let me have this #alsoooo its completely reasonable to assume that (since they were not the share all abt my past and loved ones type) that they gleaned info #abt the other by observing them and then literally never speaking about it ever like come on they spent eight years as pretty much #the others only “close” relationship and neither of them r stupid #this close to writing a lil fic of them over the years plus tweaking thornes death a little bc the whole poetic change of heart on deathbed #thing has Thoroughly gotten old for me sorry #ive gone on a tangent in my tags again oh dear #towl #the ones who live #rick grimes #pearl thorne #if i get flamed. yk what im not deleting this

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tsc was a comedy actually, look:

aka Jean Moreau being salty for 350 pages

(I have so many of these, I'm 100% gonna make a part 2)

#IMAGINE GETTING CHANGED SO WE CAN PRACTICE #hey wonderful aftg mutuals should i read this. #tsc spoilers

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#history. to me #twd #carl grimes