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spacedlexi · 10 months

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At first I was mixed about Lily's return but the more I think about the more it feels right.

Lily is cursed.

She is the woman in the comics that kills Lorie and her baby at the prison before snapping and killing the Governor.

She always follows people that in some twisted way remind her of her dad and in the end helps bring the end of whatever group she is apart of.

The Delta lost so many in Lily's attempt to get the kids all because of one she knew from so long ago. One from the first group she destroyed.

im gonna be honest when i say i ... really never understood all the hang ups people had about lily returning to fill the villain role for s4

like lily returning in s4 makes more sense to me than kenny returning in s2 im gonna be real with you all. lily was at worst left on the side of the road and at best had her own rv at least she wasnt left for dead in a walker infested alleyway. personally i was hoping for a christa return (because i dont want to admit she really died 💀 no body=no death) but lily made enough sense to me and i was excited by her reveal

clem knew lily at the beginning of the outbreak. before 8 years of it turned them into different people. clem isnt the scared little girl she used to be. shes grown up into an extremely capable fighter. and while lily at the beginning of the outbreak seemed like a tired woman trying to keep it together, but also felt the need to take charge and didnt like being questioned (who also cared too much about her awful father but we get more insight into that in s4), by s4 shes lost any shred of kindness she mightve had left. she was military before the outbreak and now given a position of power rules through fear and an iron fist (just like her father). but there are moments between her and clem where we can see just a Glimpse of that old lily ("we were family once..."). but all of that goes away once she realizes that clem is a genuine threat now. and lily recognizes that clem would be a perfect soldier if she can just break her the way she herself was broken so long ago. and if she cant break clem then she'll break aj instead

and then we have the lee element. lily is the Only other person left from that first group at the motel (she did not destroy that group btw ben did like cmon now and ben Keeps destroying it after lily isnt even around anymore). and while shes wrong to say she knew lee better than clem ever did, lee and lily (and kenny) were group leaders together while clem was eating her apple and coloring with chalk. like the adults were speaking. and depending on how you played s1 lee could have a decent relationship with lily. lily being able to sow those seeds of doubt in s4 clems head is just fun mind games

they have History. clem still wears the hair ties lily gave her all the way back in s1. she helped take care of clem for a time. looked out for her. and in a different universe clem Easily couldve ended up standing in minnies shoes instead

also in regards to the delta we Know they dont really want to be kidnapping kids to fight in a war that would probably kill most of them in the first 5 minutes. if they had the adults to be fighting instead they would be. it just shows us how dire the deltas situation really is. they were just expecting to find a bunch of kids for easy picking but clem turned them all into skilled enough fighters to successfully kill a few of them and raid their boat. clem is a big enough win that it doesnt even matter how skilled the rest of the kids are. plus lily was just leading the excursion. we dont know how high up the ladder she really was and how much power she really held. maybe she had something to prove back at the delta (my one real gripe is that we didnt get to actually See the delta. in my perfect world there were 5 episodes and ep 4 was about the delta 😔)

both lily and clem are just trying to save their communities. the difference is lily wants to uphold the status quo of fear and force and war, and clem is trying to build a safe community thats different from the many shes seen. she and the rest of the kids just want to carve out their own little safe haven in this dangerous and unforgiving world. they make a place truly worth fighting for

clem getting some form of closure with lily i feel might get to help her close the book so to speak on her history up until this point. clem has been fighting for so long... but she has a new home now. a new community. she can Chill a little bit. shes gonna grow into such an incredible leader 😭 (not that she isnt already 😭)

#also ive heard conflicting info about whether lily is her own character separate from the comics or not #i dont think ive ever seen an official source just fan speculation?#i never watched the show past s2 so i cant speak on that either 💀#oof i love to ramble huh #'i hate writing essays' says the person always writing essays about her fave media #opossum-knight #replies with lexi #twdg #long post

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greenthey · 29 days

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I was told some grandmothers wanted to apologize. (Cartomancy journal)

I ask them to Unmake the lessons they fed my family line.

I can already tell it's in a similar vein. 🙄

Martha the Elder: Unmake Entertainment. I have been the wrong kind of entertainer my whole life. Entertaining others' emotions & "needs." I see Martha whispering in her husband's ear, trying to be light and funny so he wouldn't rage. My whole life has been soothing beasts, imaginary & real. I accidentally put on a play while I was trying to keep the people laughing. I thought they would see past the stage makeup, but they didn't.

(Fear and Loathing by Marina on shuffle)

Unmake, unmake.

Leona: Unmake Hospitality. This woman devoted a different day of the week to each chore. She held the purse tight because her husband was irresponsible with money. Impulsive-- his spirit reminds me of my brother 💖 He left his first family to kiss her under the apple tree. I wonder if their love spilled away with the washing.

Laundry took her a whole day, without modern conveniences. She was a taskmaster of herself, and she thought it was for others. But did anyone appreciate it? Her husband wanted joy. He wanted to bet on the ponies.

She gave too much of herself. I see her standing on spotless floorboards, hands on her hips, like "what next, what next?"

What about what you wanted, lady?

What did you want?

Hazy images of weaving, crafting. I'm sure she sewed but it was for duty, not for fun. 😔

She didn't have any form of expression.

Unmake, unmake

You don't exist for other people

Unmake, unmake

You are not a dancing monkey

Unmake, unmake

You are not Mommy making the bed

Unmake, unmake

You are not a robot

You are not an object

You deserved to have pleasure

And to be the one entertained

And to be the one taken care of

And so it is, so mote it be

Let every tangled thread be free

Racing against a gummie to write this lol.

How the loose threads want to be woven. All these cards came out at once and made sense so I kept them 😌

Arcana. Secretsssssss. What grows in the void.

Attention. Lol I need to play the trumpet again. I need to demand attention in the fun way, not as a nothing/service worker, but as the Talent.

Backstory. I wanna do more past life regressions and see if I have a past life who has handled something like this. (I mean, I already know several have, but badly 🙄) Men ain't shit. Maybe I need to let go of the guilt I carry for these cheatin' leavin' times. I am not them.

Body. Ok I'll dance, jfc. Owning my body is an important part of my remaking. It has been shamed many times by many people. I thought it had to be folded into a neat tool. I don't know how to be made of meat. Dancing 🙄

Bohemian. Opium den when? Jk sounds dangerous..? But I do need to copy the entire guidebook entry, I love this character, she has 1920s transatlantic accent.

"Ordinary? asks the Bohemian, sniffing the air. That's not for me. There's no worse offense. Delectably louche, she flows fabulously through her color-outside-the-lines life. She prefers the gaiety and tragedy of artists, actors, and musicians and surrounds herself with cats and lovers, fragrant smoke and full-length gilded mirrors. What tethers others to reality, marriage, children, house, and carpool she uses as a sash for her satin kimono. Pshaw! The Bohemian isn't hardwired for caregiving in the traditional sense. Lunches might not be packed; but there's always Coltrane coming from the speakers. She never means to hurt anyone who falls in love with her vagabond ways. An avowed aesthete, she sees and values the beauty in everything but guards against anything that endangers her soul's freedom to fly and express. Having to maintain any kind of conventional structure that doesn't resonate with the mood of the moment is tedious, unreasonable, and unbearably cruel.

"When the free-spirited Bohemian swans into your reading, she blows open the louvered doors of perception and asks that you take a walk on the wild side. Loosen your grip on tradition, the main- stream-anything that binds & clips your wings and take some more time to smell the roses, datura, bread, the laundry.... Alternatively, if this resonates as a pattern of problematic relationships stemming from a commitment-phobia, you may want to ask yourself whether or not the connections you're forming and attracting are stable. And if not, why not?"

Remake, remake

Let only knots that wish, to take

#oracle cards #the beloved dead oracle #tarot journal #op #ancestor work #martha the elder #leona #she says “la forza”#self altar

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