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otpsource’s 3 year anniversary ❀ day 7: free choice

carol and daryl holding hands ♡

#caryl #them <3

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otpsource’s 3 year anniversary ❀ day 3: favorite season

season 5

#s5 caryl my beloved <3 #can you believe no sanctuary AND consumed #were not only in the same season #but within the same six episodes?? #5a was so good to them #if only that energy had been maintained

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otpsource's 3 year anniversary ❀ day 1: choice of otp

carol peletier & daryl dixon (the walking dead)

#them!!! #they’re literally everything tbh #caryl

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The best hetero ships are like she's a badass bitch who needs no man, but she's got one anyway, boy's emotionally repressed but worships the ground she walks on, battle couple TM, tending to each other's wounds, taking care of each other in their most vulnerable states

#god the way that this is literally caryl #no one is doing it like them tbh

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Do you guys ever see writers mischaracterize their own characters so badly that you don’t even associate what was written with the character and can only see it as a faulty writing problem? I’ll hear people complain about a character and then explain why by citing that time they did [x] thing and I’m like “oh you guys. you guys actually accept that as canon? I thought we all just agreed that it was SO out of character that it never happened. oh so that was just me? ohhhh.”

#kind of like when they send their character #to ‘reset’ themselves on a french adventure #complete with sexy nightclubs and suspenders #in the middle of the actual apocalypse #i’m ready to ignore that shit so hard #just like most of daryl’s s11 characterization

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i like the concept of soulmates—not a “you’re destined to meet me, and love me” kind of soulmate, but a “i’d pick you, every time.” kind of soulmate. a “no matter what happens, and what has happened, i want to go through it with you.” kind of soulmate. a “i love you by choice, and you’re a blessing, and i’m going to continue thinking about you this way not because i have to but because i want to.” kind of soulmate. a “you help me rest easy when everything is difficult” kind of soulmate. a “in every possible outcome, i want you there, to share it with me.” kind of soulmate.

#the way that this is literally just caryl #they’ll always choose each other!! #they’ll always be each other’s safe place!! #they’ll always be each other’s home!! #and they’ll always find their way back to each other!! #and they’ll always love each other no matter what!! #also: daily reminder that they’re canon soulmates #and i’ll never shut up about it

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#caryl #you cannot tell me they wouldn't burn the world down for each other

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- How you feel?

- Not great. But I’m fine, like you promised.

#caryl #aunt!carol and uncle!daryl will never fail to make me Feel Things #also #this is literally just a married couple #worrying about and lovingly taking care of their injured niece

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It’s hard to find someone like that. Who you’d do anything for.

#caryl #this episode!! #literally the only good ep in a mostly craptastic season #but my god was it *chef’s kiss* #also the Looks™ between them this ep #absolutely incredible #and absolutely my cause of death

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sorry i got cranky because people misinterpreted the narrative. it will happen again [hasn’t even stopped being cranky from before]

#oh a big mood

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5x06 // 10x09

#caryl #but no you don’t understand #he doesn’t just know her #he remembers something she said #to someone else #before they were even anything resembling friends #over a DECADE ago #like??? #if that isn’t love idk what is

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Listen..... idk what it is about the absolute yearning that comes from stories where both people are into each other but they are not aware of the other's feelings but they still look at the relationship they have atm and go "being this close is enough. I'm glad with just this" but i go feral each time

#ninety percent of what i write is mutual pining #and i never ever get tired of it #also perfect example of why #best friends to lovers is the superior ship dynamic

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to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking. 

#exactly this!! #no disrespect to people that self-insert #but could never be me #esp bc a lot of the time #characters have to be inherently OOC in self-insert fic #bc it's canon that they're in love with their canon love interest!! #and i'm all about characters being IN character go figure #but also like #keep me as far away as possible #fiction is basically a fantasy world #and the fantasy is that i do not exist lmao

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“i liked it before it was cool” well i liked it AFTER it was cool when everyone abandoned it

#lmao #this is always me but…. #case in point: #me only liking twd after i thought it was long since dead and buried #y’all i thought it’d ended ages ago #i was shocked to find out it was still airing

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y’all love the morally gray, snarky, grief stricken characters until it’s a woman. i’ve seen so much discourse regarding female characters who display the exact same character traits as male leads and are criticized for it while the men are praised. let women be cruel and vindictive. let them deal with their grief and trauma in destructive ways. let them be real. give them the same treatment you would give to your favorite male love interest.

#exactly this! #the way that some people view carol i swear #esp in s10 #like her son was legit just murdered!! #she saw his head on a pike!! #after everything else she'd lost!! #you can't tell me that if rick or daryl #had done everything she'd done in s10 #everyone wouldn't be bending over backwards to justify their actions #meanwhile carol gets vilified for it #but are we surprised #no #the sexism is real y'all

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#i mean… #caryl

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give me two characters who are each other’s home. two characters who feel completely safe, warm and protected in each other’s presence, and who are completely respected by the other. two people who, on some level or another, were missing that little extra spark they needed to feel fully confident and accepted as their whole selves until the other came along. they don’t “fix each other” or “make each other better”–they give the other the support they need to build on what was already inside them. sure they might kiss, or make goo-goo eyes, but they can also just…talk, and make each other laugh and smile, because for once they feel comfortable enough in themselves and with each other to be vulnerable in that way. two complete people who finally find someone to share all of themselves with. and no matter what they do or how far they go, they’ll always have each other to come back home to. 

#ahem!! #caryl #also the 'they'll always have each other to come back home to'?? #ouch