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edourado · 3 years

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Another tag game. Featuring the things that consumes us all: ships 🛳

Hell yeah. Thanks dear @portia77 ❤️

1.First ship you remember: Way to make me remember I’m old btw. But I think that the first fictional couple that ever got me thinking was Wendy and Peter Pan, when I was an itty bitty girl;

2.Your newest ship: Oof. I had to think about this one. Fleabag and the Priest??? Why am I shipping a priest? Because of Andrew Scott, that’s why. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s writing helps A LOT;

3. Favourite ship ever: Kastle. The sheer volume of writing I dedicated for them speaks for itself;

4.Favourite m/f ship: Kastle and Kalagang;

5.Favourite m/m ship: It’s between Lito and Hernando, from Sense8 and Omar and Ander from Elite;

6.Favourite f/f ship: Nomi Marks and Amanita Caplan ALL DAY EVERYDAY;

7.Most fluffy ship: Huh. Maybe Tim and Mary, from About Time? Perfect example that you do not need conflict to have a GOOD ship;

8.Most angsty ship: DEFINITELY KASTLE ARE YOU KIDDING;

9. Most smutty ship: The whole of the Sense8 cluster;

10. Ship that you would never have wanted in canon but like in fanworks: Hmm. I don’t know. I think I can only indulge in fandom shipping if I can see it in canon;

11.Character that you can only imagine in one ship: I’m almost afraid to type this, but Ross and Rachel. None of that Joey nonsense. None of that. Please don’t hurt me;

12.Most shippable character: Even though I walked away from TVD a long time ago, and even though im still firm on Klaroline, miss Caroline Forbes. Girl has chemistry with everything and everyone;

13.Character that you can’t imagine in any ship: …Groot?;

14.Favourite poly ship: I had a strong Kastledevil phase. Also, again, the Sense8 cluster;

15.Characters that you kinda ship but prefer as brotp: Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes;

16.Characters that you ship and can’t imagine to be friends: Karen Page and Frank Castle. Have you seen the looks? Have you seen the TENSION? Have you seen the dedication and devotion? The ANGST?! The sweetness? I’ve gotten carried away;

17.Favourite ship for hurt-comfort: I don’t know if I have one for that. Most of my ships have an angsty angle, but idk if any of them qualify as strictly hurt-comfort. Maybe Outlaw Queen;

18.Ship that you never expected to ship: Natasha and Banner, from the Avangers?! I know y’all love to hate on them but I was ON BOARD;

19.Ship that you liked but don’t anymore: Bella and Edward. My Twilight phase lasted until that last book, and then I started thinking about it. But, to be fair, even then I leaned towards Team Jacob;

20.Ship that one day you were thinking of and thought “wait, when did I start shipping it?”: Klaroline. I was never about the villains, but one day I was fawning about the word “love” and “I fancy you”s. Also Nina and Matthias from Shadow and Bone;

21.Ship that you immediately fell in love with after one scene despite not considering it before: Richonne. ONE LOOK through the prison gates and I was like “OH!”,

22.Poly ship that you ship despite not shipping some of the characters in it outside of poly ship: One more time, say it with me: Sense8 cluster. Tbh it’s less about shipping and more about chemistry and trust and the occasional orgy, ok?;

23.Biggest notp: Snape and Hermione???? Like ????no????;

24.Favourite crossover ship: Oh, I know I know! Elsa Queen of Arendelle and Jack Frost. Can you imagine? (Even though she’s definitely a lesbian);

25.Ship that you have a kinda love/hate relationship with: Matt Murdock and Karen Page, aka Karedevil. All Matt’s fault. Also Frank for showing up and sweeping me and Karen off our feet.

Ha! I love this. Tagging @ejunkiet @carry-the-sky @ninzied @devilbunnyking and whoever wants to join.

#tag time #ships abound

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twdmusicboxmystery · 5 years

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How the Carzekiel Breakup is Actually a Good Thing for TD

Sorry, once again. I said I’d do details today but I’m pushing that by one more day. Why? In small part because the fandom is freaking out about the Carol/Daryl/Carzekiel situation (like 25%) and in larger part (like 75%) because I didn’t have time to write my details post. This one was already written. ;D

So as far as this subject goes, everyone take a deep breath, calm down, and stop listening to the shippers.

In terms of the jealousy question...

Realistically I do think there's some jealousy going on here. But NOT romantic jealousy. This is not a we’re-both-in-love-with-Carol-so-let’s-fight-over-her kind of jealousy. Not at all.

So what is it?

It's obvious that Carol is leaning on Daryl a lot in the wake of Henry's death. She really shouldn't be doing that. She ought to lean on Ezekiel, both because he's her husband and also because Henry was their son. Zeke is grieving too. So, I think Zeke is jealous of Daryl, but not because he thinks Carol is in love with Daryl or vice versa, but because he wants Carol to lean on him and share her grief with him, rather than Daryl.

It’s one of those things that doesn't have a right or easy answer. I can’t judge Carol for this. She's dealing with her grief any way she can, and the death of the child is unimaginable. Not to mention, Daryl was there for her when Sophia died, and has always been there for her in the past, so she's really just gravitating towards something she knows from experience will help.

And that in itself is pretty messed up. I mean, how many times has Carol gone through this? How many kids has she lost? So, I have a hard time being mad at her for leaning on Daryl rather than Ezekiel.

But I understand Ezekiel’s point of view as well. Of course he wants Carol to lean on him. Of course he doesn't want to lose her. And Daryl, even as just a platonic friend, is standing in the way of that.

Annnnd…we know Daryl is her best friend and always has been. If she were leaning on Zeke in this time of grief, he would support that and even think it was the healthiest thing she could do. But on the other hand, if she's in pain and wants him around to help her, you know he's going to be there for her. She was there for him even when he didn't want her to be in 5x10 after Beth.

In fact, he pretty much said this in the episode. When Zeke asked him to step aside, his question was what Carol wanted.

I also want throw this out there, and it will probably get me some hate, but it's the truth. The writers have told us many times that Daryl and Carol have a mother/son relationship. Certain shippers will deny that the high heaven, but it has been mentioned many times. The two instances that jump to mind are in Consumed when Carol says, "You used to be a boy. Now your man." That something a mother says to a son. A woman doesn’t say that to an equal or lover. That would be kinda gross and creepy.

Then, after the cabin scene in 7x10, (another time the shippers claimed Caryl would happen, but it didn't) Norman said that Daryl looked at her like "Mommy, why did you leave me?" And the shippers got really mad and railed against Norman for saying that because they knew it showed the mother/son relationship. Now they do everything they can to discredit it, but that doesn't take away what Norman said. Bottom line, Norman would know, and he wouldn’t say it without the express consent of the writers.

The reason I'm pointing this out is that Carol just lost her son, Henry. Gravitating toward someone else she also has a mother/son relationship with is…actually kind of understandable.

So, everybody's doing the best they can, and reacting from a place of good intentions, but grief is messy. Carol ought to rely on Ezekiel rather than Daryl, because that would be the logical thing to do. But how often do people actually handle grief that logically?

The answer is never.

Where are they going with this? Predictions:

Okay, this part is more of a prediction than anything else. Carzekiel breaking up serves three purposes that me and my theorist peeps can tell.

1)A nod to the comic books. Creds to @bluesandbeth for this because, not only is this a great insight but it she told me some things that I didn't know about the comic book arc involving Ezekiel.

What I did know:

1. It's Michonne who is Ezekiel’s lover in the comic books, not Carol. Which means any nod to the comic book arc will happen with Carol, rather than Michonne.

2. Ezekiels is dies and is piked by the Whisperers in the comic books. Michonne, out of grief, leaves TF for about two years.

What I didn't know:

Apparently, sometime before Ezekiel dies, Michonne breaks up with him. She had two daughters in CBs, both of whom died, and she was grief stricken about their deaths. She didn't think she was worthy of Ezekiel's love. So, she broke up with him. Sound familiar?

So sequence goes like this: Michonne breaks up with Ezekiel, then sometime after that Ezekiel is killed by the Whisperers. Michonne is grief-stricken not only because of his death, but because she never went back to see him and tell him that she still loved him and she was sorry she left. So that leaves her grief very unresolved.

Guys, this is where they're going with Carol. Carol has lost two children now that mirror Michonne’s daughters in the CB. But I actually think they split this arc in half for Carol. Remember Lizzie and Mika?

Back in S4, Carol lost two girls she'd been caring for in a really terrible way. (I’ve said this before but go back and watch the convo she has with Tyreese after Mica dies but before she kills Lizzie. It’s obvious that, while she’s talking about Lizzie, she’s applying what she’s saying to herself as well.) At that point, she specifically said she was not worthy to be with TF and kept trying to leave. Daryl is the one who stopped her in S5. She didn't end up leaving until S6, and her leaving specifically led to her finding Ezekiel, which is the relationship that healed her.

So, we've already been told that Ezekiel's “death" is coming up. I’ve said it will be a death fake out (more about that in a minute, and how this kind of shows that that's the case) but the point is that Carol breaking up with Ezekiel mirrors the comic book arc of Michonne breaking up with Ezekiel and then it will lead to his death (or “death”) which will give Carol a lot of grief because she never went back and told Zeke how much she loved him and was sorry she left.

So, actually her breaking with Zeke is very important to what's coming next in her arc. At no point does a random hookup with Daryl enter the equation.

Now, this by itself doesn't prove Ezekiel will have a death fake out rather than a real death, but check this out:

I said in THIS POST that the women Beth mentions in her line, (Michonne, Carol, Maggie, and Beth herself) will all be one half of a couple that has a death fake out arc.

I've realize now that in each one, there is a short separation of the couple before the death fake out and the one left behind feels really guilty about something. Let's take a look:

Glaggie. Glenn's death fake out happened in S6. Maggie and Glenn were separated for a short time because he was helping with Operation Lead the Walkers Away and then he suddenly disappeared. We saw Maggie’s guilt when she talked to Aaron in the tunnel. She says she wished she had gone with Glenn and maybe she could have helped him. Now she doesn't get to know what will happen or whether what she did was right or wrong. She had severe guilt that she probably would've dealt with the rest of her life if Glenn had died in that incident.

But, lo and behold, Glenn was alive and made it back safely to live another…er, season before his actual death. But I think Maggie was able to be a strong leader at Hilltop and deal with his death in such a healthy way (given the circumstances) because she did get to see him again, she did get to tell him how much she loved him, and she knew that he died knowing that.

(A shorter way of saying this is that the show doesn’t leave loose ends, especially between true love characters. There has to be closure before death, and obviously with Beth and Daryl…)

Bethyl. I doubt I need to recount this for you, but they were separated for short time because she was taken to Grady. Before her death fake out happened, Daryl did see her again, but he never got to talk to her or embrace her or tell her how he felt about her. And of course we’ve seen for many seasons the guilt he has over not being able to save her.

(We could even parallel what happened there with Glaggie, because remember that when Glenn first got back to Alexandria in 6x09, he almost died. He was surrounded by walkers and Maggie screamed because she thought he would die. It's very much what happened with Beth and Daryl, except that Daryl doesn't know Beth lived, where Maggie saw that Glenn did.)

Richonne. They had a relatively small separation. I think she saw him the day before, but he was out working on the bridge rather than being in Alexandria with her. She did see him for a brief moment on the bridge—just like Glaggie and Bethyl—before it exploded and his death fake out began, but was unable to hug him or talk to him or tell him she loved him one last time. Especially through her conversations with Daryl this season, we seen Michonne’s regrets and guilt over this.

Now we have Carzekiel. I’m telling you guys, this is where they're going with it. They’ll be separated because Carol leaves him and then when he dies (“dies”), she’ll have great guilt. Based on how closely paralleled these are (and, you know, the Sirius/serious piggyback symbols we’ve seen around Carzekiel) it will be a death fake out. I just don't know how long it will last. So in a way, this breakup supports my Carzekiel/Death Fake out theory. And if Richonne, Glaggie and Carzekiel all have death fake outs, then per Beth’s line in Still, her death is a fake out too.

Parallels with Season 5:

This came to me partly from Ezekiel asking Daryl to leave and partly from something the ingenious @thegloriouscollectorlady said. So, creds to her.

I had the thought that Daryl and Carol being together again in the same community might be a parallel to S5 when the two of them ran off to Atlanta together to find Beth. That was really the extent of it for me. Just a possible parallel to S5, and for any more details, I’d have to wait and see how things play out.

But @thegloriouscollectorlady went into more detail about that, and when we learned about Daryl and Zeke’s conversation, it all came together for me. Plus there’s the fact that Daryl talks to Carol about taking Lydia off on their own and protect her himself. Carol says no. All these things play into what I’m about to suggest.

What I'm seeing is a role reversal for Daryl and Carol. In S5, Carol tried to run off on her own and Daryl stopped her. Now Daryl is trying to off in his own (albeit with Lydia) and Carol stops him. That made me realize that this is a huge, huge parallel—way more than I originally realized—to S5.

Carol leaving Ezekiel and going where Daryl is sort of parallels the two of them being together (along with the others) in Father Gabriel’s church in S5. In fact, go back farther than that. Rick kicked Carol out of the prison in S4. So she was apart from them for a while. Similarly, she’s been apart from the others for a time, living with Ezekile at the Kingdom. Her going to live with Daryl parallels her reuniting with TF after Terminus in S5. Then she and Daryl head off to Atlanta together to look for Beth.

I think at some point next season, Daryl will actually try to leave with Lydia and Carol will either stop him or go after him, just as he did with her in 5x02. Carol and Daryl taking off together in 5x02 led to them figuring out where Beth was, and Carol being captured by the Grady people. I think the same will happen here. I think this is a parallel to S5 that will lead to Beth.

What’s all that got to do with Ezekiel? Couple of things.

1. We actually saw a lot of foreshadows of Carol and Ezekiel/the kingdom in Consumed. (Tiger on her bunk; the fact that she was there for the beginning of this fake out arc, which might because she’ll have one of her own, left behind and losing the one she loves, just like Daryl. I’m also thinking about the mother/child walkers they saw there. That symbolism proved that Carol’s entire arc—like, throughout the whole series—is about lost children. It foreshadowed her losing children as well, which happened both before she met Ezekiel (Sam) and after (Henry).) So this sequence may lead not only to Beth but to Ezekiel's death fake out as well.

2. Logistically, Ezekiel and Carol have to be apart for this to happen. If she is living in one community, and Daryl and another, she won’t know that Daryl is trying to leave with Lydia and so won’t be able to follow him or stop him. If she, Daryl and Ezekiel are all in the same community, Ezekiel would either try to stop her from going or go with her. That would get in the way of his death fake out arc. Not to mention, he’d kind of been the way in the middle of this Daryl/Carol/finding Beth arc. The writers had to come up with a way to separate Carol and Ezekiel for short time to make all this happen.

If you need proof of how things that happened in S4 parallel future events on the show, read @thegloriouscollectorlady’s 4 Arcs for 4 Communities post. Pretty much everything she said in that has come true, which proves the writers set things up exactly this way.

Also check out THIS POST I wrote before 9x07 aired. Most of what I said there came true too.

Do you understand why Carol leaving Ezekiel for Daryl doesn’t bother me? It’s part of her larger arc and will lead to what comes next, but what come next isn’t romance for Carol and Daryl now any more than it was in S5.

So yeah. That’s pretty much what I wanted to say today. Hope that helps everyone feel a little better about all the Carol/Daryl/Zeke stuff. Just ignore the shippers and try to have a good hiatus.

I promise, promise, PROMISE my next post will be the details post. Promise…promise.

#beth greene #beth greene lives #beth is alive #beth is coming #td theory #td theories #team delusion #team defiance #beth is almost here #bethyl

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winterscorp · 6 years

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Saturday FF Funday

Anyone watch THAT show the other day and heard the Famous Rick Grimes utter the words “family FUNDAY” and think: Rick Grimes is on Tumblr AND he’s THE ultimate Richonner???

Just me?

Fine.

Well anyway since as far I’m concerned my version VENGEANCE is how things went down and Family Funday was the series finale of THAT show (gosh that was great how it ended on a high with all the hope and RESPECT due to Queen, Wife and MOTHER Michonne and of course the Famous Rick Grimes wasn’t it) I thought I’d give @sophiasown her wish for an awesome

FF Funday: Family Funday Edition

As always feel free to add on, have fun but most of all have a laugh. Especially if unlike me you’re continuing watching THAT other show...

“We’re The Ones who live... to picnic” Michonne Grimes said that-Fight Me

Tagging @yellehughes @thematsaidwelcome79 @isisnicole @can08writer @blackgirlfairy @fikfreak @nwfan @comewithnattah @tigerwalk3 @lola-fairweather @chellepo

I bring you:

FF Funday: Family Funday in the ZA

Judith: Mommy’s carrying me like I didn’t run a war from my high chair. This funday is the least they could do for me winning this damn war.

Rick: ok so if we walk for another 10 minutes. Sit on a blanket for about 25... then walk back that’s a good half hour of fun day for Judybear and then the rest of the day is for Papa Bear and Mama Bear fun.

Michonne: he stay walking behind me like I don’t know he’s counting the minutes til we can start our own fun day and watching my ass. I love that man.

Carol: Did you really think they was gonna invite you to funday??? You’re lucky I’m here with you eating this dry ass possum tail.

Durl: yeah mumble grumble... but ... I brought extra squirrel

Rick: ha... and then he said... I brought extra squirrels

Ezekiel: Hey Baby you ready to go meet Rick and Michonne for Family Funda... oooh. Hey Dirt Squirrel ... erm this is awkward... me & Shiva’ll be outside waiting for you Carol.

Daryl: Wait... The Kang was invited???

Jesus: Can’t stop to talk D. I’m late for Family Fun D... erm... feeding Baby Herschel.

Carl: I hope mom and Dad packed extra deer burgers for today.

Michonne: I’m not even acting like I’m not walking around with Baby Grimes all up in my Queen uterus right now.

#saturday ff funday funnies #richonne #michonne #rick grimes #richonne fanfiction

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wheredandylionscometogrow · 7 years

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Madrid Panel Breakdown

Someone asked for it. So here’s a minute-to-minute breakdown mainly focused on Andy’s actions during the Madrid panel. Watch along using this vid if you’d like.

15:15 Andy comes out hyping the crowd up. Which is a little different than his usual brisk walk in and finger point to the crowd. Then he immediately gets on the ground and autographs a shirt.

16:25 Andy is upside down on the damn ground taking a selfie. He was moving so fast trying to get as many people as he could he looked like he was on crack lmao.

17:03 Andy checked on his mic by tapping his head. (By this point, I’m like Andy is turnt idgaf what anyone says)

20:12 Andy puts the drawing of Norman on his face

23:00 The waitress begins setting out drinks. Andy’s is a dark color (possibly tea or Coke)

23:52 The interviewer asked “What drew you to the series?” Andy answered: “(blah, blah, blah) . . . and I was unemployed.” Andrew, I need you not to throw shade for one day sir. Just one day. I think he was tipsy because he was more loose lipped that usual.

25:04 Interviewer: “What word could be used to describe Daryl?” In the sexiest voice I done ever heard in my life, and I don’t even know what fucking accent it was Andy said, “Sexy.”

27:34 Dirty Dad Joke. “Everything’s longer in Spanish.”

30:38 Sidenote: JDM taking off his jacket and the crowd going wild was hilarious. Norman was blushing a little bit. He gets second-hand embarrassment so easily lol.

33:10 I think Andy was being impatient and felt removed from the fans especially with the stage being far back and the barrier of having a translator so he asks to go into the crowd to ask questions.

34:17 The way Andy stood waiting for that girl’s question had me dead. Poor baby was so nervous. The translator hesitated to translate her question but he said into Andy’s ear. “Are there any affairs going on in the program amongst the cast?” Andy was so quick with it. He said, “Only me and Norman,” then he got tf outta there!

35:18 Another sidenote: Andy’s profile looked breath-taking.

37:35 I don’t know what was being said once Andy got back on stage but he and Norman had a little inside joke going on. I personally think it may have been about the affair question specifically because Greg was eavesdropping, then he started tapping his knee and downed his drink. (BTW I think he, JDM, and Norman were drinking beer)

40:38 Andy looked so damn proud to read that Richonne poem. Norman has this look on his face like ‘OMG’ and Greg readjusts in his chair lmao

41:58 Andy was cracking up reading the vanilla & chocolate hot fudge part. And then his little booty shake. I can’t!

44:00 Interviewer: “Would Rick be able to get over the death of Michonne?” Andy: “He’s met his match with Michonne. I think this is the one. This is the greatest love story of his life.” Andy looked so serious and reminiscent, I just melted hearing him say that. But then he had to fuck it up with, “But he probably thought that about Jessie and he chops her hand off.” Which there you knew he was playing cause he smirked when he said it. Norman asks, “Lori?” Andy, “Who’s that?” and then he dies laughing. Andy is shady af. He’s like I’m thinking about Michonne and only Michonne right now smh.

45:38 Andy about Lori. “I was very moved knowing she died giving birth to Shane’s child.” The Lori shade continued. Like Rick, I think Andy loved Lori’s character for what she meant to Rick but I do feel like he took her betrayal a little personal. Like the baby being Shane’s smudged Lori’s record for him and he could never look at her the same.

52:38 Interviewer: “Since Rick’s getting laid, he’s getting a bit clean too.” Andy IMMEDIATELY had a response but the translator cut him off. You could see the wheels turning in Andy’s head like ‘mm mm, probably shouldn’t say that. You’ll get in trouble.’ But he suffers from a rare disease called Loose Lips Lincoln and he said, “I was going to something really crude.” Norman with a mischievous grin asks, “What?” Andy with the smile of the devil himself, “She licks me clean.” Greg’s mouth opened so damn wide. Greg immediately reached for his fucking drink. DEAD.

57:40 Greg talks about wanting to make sure the chemistry between Rick and Michonne was 100% believable. Therefore Greg talked about why it was important to have the banter between their characters.

1:00:11 Andy was so serious about his little poll of who would take over if Andy left. He was gunning for wifey. And then Norman’s, “It’ll be me and Michonne hand in hand walking down the road when you are gone.” You could tell he was purposely teasing Andy.

1:02:53 Andy and JDM’s little hug and pat on the butt was cute. I hate Negan but I actually really like when Andy and JDM interact as themselves, and not their characters, a lot.

#madrid panel

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ash-lee-can · 7 years

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Along The Road (Chapter 6)

Previous Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Pairings: Richonne, Shane/Andrea

Rating: PG-13

A/N: I know some people don’t read on fanfiction.net, so here’s the latest chapter on here...

This fic is not Beta'd therefore all mistakes are mine...

Chapter 6

The air was freezing, but they could only feel it on their faces as they were all heavily clothed everywhere else. Their footsteps gave a soft crunch as Michonne and her friends stepped on fresh fallen snow in the backyard of Shane and Andrea's home. It was the same backyard that she, Rick and Shane goofed around in for years in their teens, back when Shane's parents owned it. The backyard felt like it was only type of backyard of that size you'd see in the South without costing you a fortune. Just simply the norm.

It was a bizarre feeling seeing her old friends again. The first was Glenn, pregnant Maggie, who was waddling through due to her sizable belly, and their son Hershel, also known as JR, coming up to the front steps. She thought back to when Glenn was just that young, cute, awkward pizza boy who was always the one to deliver the food when she and Andrea, who were grown, practicing lawyers, having their Girls Night In with the young, fiesty, college girl, Maggie. Watching how they interacted now, she would have thought that they were that old couple with a life time of forever love you'd see in the commercials. They reminded her of her grandparents.

There was a woman named Carol with her college freshman daughter, Sophia. Michonne met her when she defended her in a case against the murder of her husband. It was a case of self defense against the abusive bastard and Michonne was determined to make sure she got off. Rick had called her up as soon as the woman was arrested at the scene. Michonne had already defended Shane, who was beating him for using "excessive force" towards that same man the year before when they had answered a 911 call and had to break up a "domestic dispute" against the two. The whole town knew the what was happening, but most of them stood by, not wanting to interfere in someone's marriage which resulted in bloodshed. Rick, secretly, asked for her help. Michonne was not about to let that woman rot for that monster's deserving demise. The woman and her daughter had no family therefore Rick and Shane decided to make them her family, her daughter even becoming Carl's best friend. She had become a woman of strength that had risen from her struggle and pain, providing for the life that both she and her daughter deserved.

There was Sasha and Tyrese. The latter was a former professional football player for the Miami Dolphins. He moved from retirement central to Atlanta after he was forced to retire himself after a bad injury in his five year career. With his younger sister planning to move to Atlanta, big brother decided to tag along. Andrea bonded with Sasha with their secret love for The Spice Girls, while Shane became fascinated becoming friends with a NFL player into becoming genuine friends. Michonne met them at a funeral a few years ago and got to know them both at the wake. Although Tyrese was the famous NFL player, Sasha was a hero back where they were from saving a supposedly doomed orphanage in a fire. Michonne determined that Tyrese was the protective teddybear and that Sasha was the headstrong woman of determination.

Aaron and his boyfriend, Eric, showed up. Andrea and Michonne met Aaron after the Westboro Baptist Church got off from criminal charged when they bombed his well community center, when they learned of his sexuality in Atlanta years ago. The duo were outraged by the outcome after following the high profiled case, contacted him, offered their services to him, and convinced him to sue for defamation, which would help financially with the damages. The duo won of course and stayed friends with him ever since. Andrea continues to work as his main lawyer since Michonne moved to France.

She didn't know Tara and Rosita before today. Andrea told her that Tara had lost her dad, sister and niece to a very messy, tragic car accident in Atlanta. Tara, who was fresh out of the police, was on duty to the messy pile up on the highway when she discovered her family's demise and left for a smaller town as a deputy. It amazed Michonne how someone who'd experience such tragedy could still live the life as a goofball. The King's County Police Department took the young one under their wings and made her family. Her girlfriend Rosita was a mechanic, who Tara first met when she took her sister's car to get fixed one day as a way to heal her grieving. They hit it off immediately, turning from fast best friends into something more.

She looked over to loner redneck Daryl Dixon. She was still amazed that they'd became friend considering that the family he'd come from. She'd never forget the way his older brother would assault her with racial remarks. Daryl was always stuck right behind him, always reading to jump in and fight by his brother's side, despite never engaging in the verbal combat, at least not towards her in particular for whatever reason, even though she was sure had with others. When Merle got locked up, again, Rick helped him come into his own. Sure Daryl would never become a cop considering his family's history with them, but there was something he could do. He found a way to better himself and his situation. By the time the old man, who owned the autoshop he and Merle worked in for years passed away, he'd saved up enough money to purchase the business. It was the same autoshop Rosita worked at. When she saw him again years back, she almost couldn't believe that he was the same. He had his brother's temper every now and again, and every now and again would find himself into trouble for getting ahead of himself and stubborness, but he seemed genuine when it came to wanting helping people and overall in a better place compared to where he used to be when they were kids.

Then there was the Grimes family. Michonne's mind went back to that morning, when she ended up to being treated to alone with adorable, scruffy bearded Rick Grimes...

Early That Morning

The aroma of Southern cooking invaded her nostrils as she once again woke in the semi-familiar surroundings. With the smell of such deliciousness, and the Christmas Eve feast she had the night before, she just knew that she was going put on a few pound just from stay there.

She glanced at her side in the bed and saw her son, Andre, still sleeping soundly with his light snores. She slowly climbed out of bed and headed for the bedroom door. She didn't know what to expect when she stepped into the living, but the sight taken her aback.

On the pullout couch Carl hanging on off one side of the the pullout bed, face down, most likely drooling, still wearing his boots and on top of the comforter that was there. He had gone out to hang, most likely party, with friends after dinner and must had come back late while everyone was still sleeping. She remembered the days where after going out late at night to party with with Shane and Rick in their younger days and sneaking back into her grandparents house before dawn so they wouldn't know she was out all night drinking cheap beer and dancing the night away.

Next to him was little Judith cuddled up into her big brother, almost using him as some form of a blanket, despite the comforter that she was under. Carl's arm was wrapped around her adorableness in a natural instinctive protective way. Maybe he was a security blanket? Maybe she was just reading too much into it? Either way, her heart warmed at and made her give a soft smile at the sight. She didn't imagine having any more children, but if she did, she can imagine her son doing the same to his younger sibling.

Then there was Rick, laying on the other side of the bed, just snoring. It wasn't obnoxious sounding, but it was definitely louder than what her son was doing in the guest room. She chuckled at how cute it was. She used to hate when Mike would snore in her ear and but for some reason the snoring sound in the room wasn't bothering her.

Still slightly tired, and not wanting to disturb the sleeping family, she headed for the kitchen to see if she find some caffeine. Hopefully there was some herbal tea she liked and not just coffee. Also it was too early in the day for delicious hot chocolate.

She walked into the cozy kitchen to various pots simmering and the oven baking. There wasn't anyone in sight overseeing the cooking, which unnerved her, until she spotted the note on the refrigerator.

'Shane said I forgot to pick up some stuff,

so we need to find a store that's open so

we can get it real quick. We'll be back

hopefully soon.

-Andrea

P.S. Check on the damn food!

-Shane'

She could imagine the debate between the two of them at like three in the morning about the food. Andrea , honestly, wasn't much of a cook. It was decent, but very basic. Shane was someone who took much pride in his cooking. He used say that his older brother Negan would tell him that, "A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, but a way into a woman's panties is the high skill level of working a skillet!" As a shirt chaser, it was a skill that Shane took seriously and tried to master as much as he possibly could, starting from Michonne's own grandmother. When they dated in their early teens, he tried to win her grandmother over by taking cooking lessons from her at the Dinner Bell diner. He took pride in his over 25 years of culinary work. And there wasn't a woman who didn't appreciate his efforts, then he wouldn't even bother and further.

The aroma of the delicious food over came her. There was no way she wasn't going to take a peek. She lifted a lid on one pot, a steam of Southern ecstacy invaded her lungs and pores. She saw a pot of cooking collard green with ham hocks just simmering away and her mouth began to water. She slowly lowered her hand in the pot of a taste-

"Checking the food right?"

She clamped the lip back onto the pot as the unexpected voice startled her. She glances behind her to see Rick standing on the other end of the kitchen, freshly woken with his messy loose curls and scruffy beard, wearing a t-shirt and sweatpants, along with an unexpected imprint against the pants she wasn't expecting to see at that very moment.

She looked up to realize that he giving her a playful smirk. She had only looked down below for a half a second but, did he notice? After a couple a seconds of slight panic, she realized that he amusement was from her food thieving. Not perving eyes.

She nervously smiled back to cover her unexpected nerves. "Well, figured I'd take a peek since Shane and Andy left out."

Rick scratched the back of his curls, still waking up. "Let me guess. Andrea forgot something, again?"

"Seems like."

They stared at each other in silence, both unsure what to say next. Then Michonne remembered the reason she came in the kitchen in the first place.

"Hey, you wouldn't happen to know if they have any tea?"

Rick perked up and walked over to her. "Yeah. Let me grab that for you." He squeezed through between her and the wall, holding onto her side for a second, to reach the top in the cabinet above one the counter she was next to. She jolted a little bit when his front accidentally brushed against her backside. This was not how she was planning on spending her morning.

"Andrea hides it up here when Shane pranked her once by pretending to throw it out once." He pulled down a gallon sized ziplock bag with various types of packaged tea bags and K-Cups and handed over to her. "So you got your green, black, white, chamomile and some other teas I can't remember." Michonne raised an eyebrow at his knowledge of various teas other than diabetically sweet. "Andrea threw away Shane's coffee once and ranted to us about our horrible coffee habits. The prank was in retaliation."

She laughed at the thought. It still amazed her how the two stayed together. Both of them were pretty stubborn people and yet they still worked. "Thanks."

She looked into the bag, spotting the white tea she was hoping for grabbed a coffee mug. She glanced over to Rick, who was pouring himself a cup of leftover coffee that Shane had in the coffee pot. "I guess the 'coffee is bad' rant didn't take huh."

He looked back at her and blushed beneath his thick beard before turning back to his drink. "Old habits die hard I guess."

"Maybe I can do a much better job of convincing you than Andrea could?" Wait! What? She didn't mean for it to come off a flirtatious as she did. Simple friendly banter. Or maybe it was just in her head?

Rick turned around again with his mug in hand. He kept his head down, not looking her in the eye, but she could tell his whole face was a little red now. "We'll see." He headed out of the kitchen, maybe a little quicker than he probably should have.

Michonne groaned to herself in embarrassment. Maybe some nice hot tea will help her get her head straight this morning. Andrea might have been right though. She needed to get laid.

Present Time

Michonne came out of the morning memory as a quick gush of wind pushed against her face a little. She looked ahead and saw the other game players standing around further into the yard, getting ready to pick teams. She looked back onto the back porch to see Andrea, Maggie, Carol, Sophia and Eric sitting down, watching Andrea, Judith and JR play around, ready for the game to start. She hustled to catch up with the rest of them so they could pick teams.

"Alright." Shane, tossing the football to himself in the air, while he addressed everyone. "Rick and I are captains, as usual. Last year's loser go first."

Tyrese, counting everyone, in his head notices something was off. "We don't have an even number though."

Shane smirks a little. "Don't worry. My extra man should be here any moment." Michonne could tell he had something up his thermal sleeves. "Pick first Rick." He tossed the ball to the other captain for his first pick.

Rick caught it easily and carefully scanned the group, looking for the first choice he already decided on.

"Oh fuck you, Grimes!" Shane threw his gloved hands in the air. Rick laughed at the outburst, to everyone's else's confusion. He knew Shane was going to pick Michonne first, but being last year's loser had it's benefits. "It's fine. You two were always against me anyways." As he looked around for his next pick. Just as he was about to call Sasha's name-

"You damn shitheads just couldn't wait for me, could ya?" A loud, male voice carried through the yard as he swaggered through the snow towards him. He was tall and handsome for sure. Michonne almost didn't recognize him, but as he gotten closer, his swagger, voice and that shit eating grin that formed behind that, she recognized that it was Shane's older brother. "Little Ricky's and his toy soldiers are in to get one hell of a Christmas."

A/N: I was originally going to make this chapter and next chapter one long as chapter, but I decided to end it on. I'll try and get the next one up as soon as I can. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I'd like to thank you all for the reviews. If there appears to be any mistakes, let me know so I can can fix them :)...

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♥️Reveling in Richonne - TOWL

#25: The Irresistible (1.03)

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Now this moment features another top-ranked Richonne kiss and the word of the day when talking about this Richonne scene behind a tree is 'CHEMISTRY' ❤️‍🔥...

We get to see Michonne inside a helicopter for the first time which is cool as she flies with Rick, Pearl, and others to the Cascadia base. Pearl, who just seems fully bought into the CRM ways, is trying to make Michonne feel like she should be so honored to be a part of this since she’s only a consignee.

Rick is sitting quietly in the helicopter and I’m sure he feels like he’s just been having some terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days every day that Michonne has been mad at him. Even tho first and foremost she’s mad at the situation they’re both in. But him a little too lol.

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Michonne again being an A with perceptive questions says, “There’s nothing out here. What’s it protecting?” And Pearl answers, “The security of the Civic Republic, expanded resources, intel operations along the West Coast, the future.”

Then when they arrive at their destination, Michonne is slaying in the CRM soldier uniform. 🔥 Like she serves in every outfit. 👏🏽

Pearl passionately goes over the mission with Rick by her side and again I love Michonne’s stance in this - she looks like she’s the one they should be taking orders from. 😋

Rick looks over at Pearl and Michonne looks directly at Rick. I love how she’s not even trying to be super subtle staring at him like 🤨.

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Michonne was giving full wife stare-downs and clearly had lots of thoughts going through her head as she expressively blinked and looked away.

As she says later, she saw Rick here standing at attention as a soldier to this army and she knows this isn’t him and that he’s imprisoned here.

I also notice Rick doesn’t really look at Michonne in this scene and it’s probably a smart move. Because if he had looked at her those fellow soldiers would be like - now why is Grimes looking at Consignee Bethune like he wants to consume her more than the delts do?? 🤔

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Pearl is trying her best to seem like an alpha leader but she's dtm and not really selling it. She talks about the importance of what they’re about to do and the stakes saying that if they’re unsuccessful the plan gets set back and then she yells, “Do we allow the plan to get set back!?”

Rick and the soldiers respond, “No ma’am” and Michonne has me cracking up at her response to Rick saying “no ma’am.” 😂 She’s looking directly at Rick like now I know you lying lol.

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But honestly, while I know there was some interpreting this as her getting the ick from Rick, I think this look has a lot more to do with her disdain toward the CRM. I feel like she’s thinking something along the lines of 'CRM, you did a real number on my baby and I promise you I’m going to undo it.'

And again similar to Rick in previous scenes, Michonne is not subtle with these stares at him lol. But I love it. She’s looking at him like 'Mr. RJ’s Dad if we don’t get up out of here by tomorrow it’s gonna be an issue because I’ve had it with this place and I’m ready for us to go home yesterday.' #DirectQuoteFromHerMind. 😌

And I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that Rick looks fine yet again in this scene lol. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Rick asks, “Who has the ball, ma’am?” and Pearl says with overconfidence, “I do.” And again Michonne’s whole stance and look is serving, honey. Goddess through and through. 👑

Pearl goes on to address Michonne, and Thorne's energy is just giving forced. She wants Michonne to be intimidated so bad but it ain’t happening. And Michonne is ready to match Pearl’s energy right down to their facial expressions.

Pearl tells Michonne to stay in formation and handle cleanup and no-kills off the line. Michonne just nods and Pearl tells Michonne not to panic if she gets lost because she can just hit the PRB and a helicopter will come get her. And even before seeing the upcoming scene, I was like why do I have a feeling Michonne will be the only one not panicking on this excursion lol. 🙂

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So then they cut to them in the middle of the walker takedown and Michonne is about to walk forward and help (and it low-key feels like she starts walking forward cuz Rick is ahead and those magnets are always going to be pulling her in his direction. 🧲). But Pearl tells Michonne to stay back for no-kills.

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I was like Pearl, this is basically like you’re keeping an all-star on the bench by keeping Michonne back. Like Michonne and Rick could probably handle all of this just the two of them. But Pearl is adamant and about as stubborn as that R-DIM that won’t budge.

Speaking of - Pearl is struggling to get this R-DIM moving, y’all. I honestly could not take much more secondhand embarrassment for the lady. 🫣 Rick tries to offer a solution but Pearl turns it down and says they should’ve given the last spot to a soldier instead of Michonne. Wrong again, Pearl.

So Michonne watches, looking all determined, and she knows she can handle this so like a true Get Things Done Grimes she gets it done. 👌🏽

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Michonne starts pushing the R-DIM forward and Pearl tells her to stand down almost strictly because I’m sure she’s going to be embarrassed if Michonne pulls this off. But Michonne is already off to the races as she pushes the R-DIM.

And Michonne seems to feel like she’s back in her element doing this. See, It's not the R-DIM, It's not the Pearl, It's just that Chonne's that girl. 🎶💁🏽‍♀️

Then when it gets a bit harder to push she looks over and sees Rick by her side coming to help and y’all they’re just the best. 🥹

I love that Rick sees her doing this and joins and says, “Let’s go,” helping her rather than reprimanding her. He knows she’s breaking protocol but when it comes to following Pearl’s orders or following Michonne’s lead, well, his wife is his choice every time.

And seeing Richonne back in action taking down walkers was a lovely sight. It was giving TWD 7.09 when they were in cars mowing down that horde of walkers in sync.

All these years later and they are still that well-oiled machine even during a rough spot in the relationship. And if Michonne felt like she was in her element before, they both really feel in their element taking this on together. It’s the way it should be. 😌

So they get the R-DIM to where it needs to be and Rick turns it on. he tells Michonne, “Come on” as Rick reaches for her hand so they can run for safety. I love that he wants to hold her hand as he leads them somewhere safe and that she does take his hand. 🥰

I feel like amid their fight, they both were longing for some indicator that they’re still in this together and this handhold felt like that. Of course, Richonne + hands are always a great moment. 😌

And then next, TOWL gives us my favorite moment in episode 3.

The R-DIM alarm rings and then Rick and Michonne make it to what many have rightfully deemed the boneless tree. 😋 And I love the little detail of Rick making sure Michonne was able to take cover behind the tree before him. And that they hold hands the whole way. Just the cutest. 🥰

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The R-DIM sets off an explosion and Michonne and Rick immediately take cover in each other's arms and again I’m beyond here for it. I love that they both just instinctually grab each other. No matter how upset they are, they’ll always love and protect each other.

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So they have this moment all up close and personal and because it is a scientific fact that these two are magnets & that adrenaline rushes are always particularly arousing for them, there was no way Rick and Michonne were going to be that much in each other's personal space and not do what they do next.

Like you think those magnets within them care that there are CRM soldiers nearby? No.🤭🧲

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So still holding onto each other, they have this moment of looking intimately into each other's eyes, once again communicating without words, and y’all the best way to describe the way they look at each other is ‘longing’ - like that deep longing for each other in every way was written loud and clear on both their faces.

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Rick looks at her, then right at her lips, then back in her eyes and within a second he leans in and they’re right back to making out. I’m too here for it and I love this kiss. ❤️‍🔥 This was definitely their hungriest kiss thus far.

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I love how Rick sorta lifts up from the ground like he’s floating on air when he first kisses her. He really does kiss her like he’s still living in a dream.

I love how passionate they always are when they kiss. Even with Rick feeling like he needs to send her away, he cannot resist showing how he really feels as they kiss - and what he really feels is that he wants to be with her entirely and in every way.

I feel like they both needed this moment of reconnection so much after being at odds. This kiss communicated clearly that before they’re mad, they’re madly in love.

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And then the second half of this kiss is when I was looking at Richonne like...oh y’all would go all the way right now if you could. 👀

Like I think one of the only things that stopped them from having this escalate was just the fact that those CRM uniforms are so layered lol. Because it wasn’t the fact that CRM soldiers were within walking distance. Richonne didn’t give a damn about that. I’m telling you it was just the layers of clothing and gear holding them back. 😂

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But being for real, these two really are wild because they weren’t even trying to align with the bark of that boneless tree to at least shield themselves a little better during this kiss. But hey, when they’re in their Richonne bubble like this, everything else goes out the window, so it makes sense.

But yeah the second half of that steamy kiss had them hot and bothered the way they were both moaning in sync and grabbing each other as close as they could. When Michonne pulled his hair Rick looked like he was about ready to get on top of her right then and there.

(Side note: What’s cute too is I noticed in their season 6 canon kiss that the first time Michonne ever puts her hands in Rick’s curls she’s almost hesitant to do it at first and then she just goes for it. And now it’s her favorite thing. 😊)

It’s been years and years since either of them has been physically intimate and this kiss right here lets you know they’re both very eager for opening that door up with each other again. Like it needs to happen expeditiously at this point cuz they’re ready.

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I love that something that’s always been true is Rick and Michonne are irresistible to each other. And truly no one does ravenous passion like Richonne. ❤️‍🔥

So I just adore this kiss for being a passionate moment of the two making their desire and love for each other so evident after not really talking much this ep. I almost forgot that in this episode Michonne hadn’t actually uttered a word to Rick until this scene. And her first words to him are perfectly delivered. 🤩

As they manage to pull away from the kiss, still completely unconcerned about being caught, they have this great passionate moment where they just stare right into each other's eyes and it truly feels like Rick is being hypnotized by Michonne as she smiles at him. #Enchanted😍

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I love the way Michonne smiles right after the kiss and I really love that Rick is always so helplessly mesmerized by her. He knows he’s going to have to push her away soon but at this moment he can’t even peel his eyes away. Because I really think in moments when he gets lost in her that's when he finds himself. 👌🏽

And (jumping a bit ahead) that’s why it’s crazy he'll even attempt to claim that everything they had is broken because anytime they get close enough, it sure does look like everything they have is perfectly intact.

Like these two stayed operating like a madly in love married couple even during the near eight years apart from each other. Even during that time, they were still more loyally married than some married couples who see each other every day.

And Michonne knows from that kiss that her Rick is still in there. The man who kissed her is the Rick who wants with everything in him to break out of this place and go home with her.

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So she smiles and all encouragingly and seductively whispers, “Come on.” So good and perfectly delivered. 👏🏽😊 And yet again we see the utterly enchanting effect Michonne has on Rick as he looks at her.

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Rick seems dizzy and breathless from this whole exchange as he faintly says, “They’ll find us. They will.” It’s clear he’s still so overcome with fear and a lot of that is because he knows how hopeful he used to be about breaking free from this place but every time he tried to escape they found him.

Like this isn’t the guy from the TWD series finale who got caught by the CRM and smiled. This is the guy whose been so beaten down by this place that he believes there’s nowhere he can run anymore. 😥

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Michonne is still hopeful tho as she reassures him, “We’ll make it so they can’t.” It's super sweet to see them holding each other close and swaying in sync while they talk. And I love that Michonne believes in them so much that she’s like even if we don’t have all the answers yet, you and I are capable of figuring it out along the way home.

Plus, if Michonne thinks they can escape and not get caught then that's good enough reason to believe they can because she’s always right. It's just gospel. 💁🏽‍♀️ The way I see it, the only way the CRM would find them is if they keep having these loud moanversations near the public lol, otherwise the two of them can pull off any escape plan they make together. 😋

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But Rick is not willing to risk it and try to break away right now so he hesitantly says, “Not like this.” I know one of his least favorite things is having to turn down Michonne’s request and as he looks at her you can see it in his whole demeanor that he hates having to essentially tell her no.

Even the way he says it, it’s him trying to say no without having to outright say it, suggesting maybe there’s another way to escape just 'not like this,' even tho deep down he believes there's no way out for him.

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Michonne is super saddened by this. She knows this fear-based response isn’t like her Rick.

And then I love that they do their signature forehead touch, even tho it’s a sad one. 🥲 This moment further emphasized that even when feeling defeated and disappointed, they still want to be connected.

And y’all, to me Rick and Michonne doing this forehead touch out in the open was actually more wild than the kiss lol.🤭

Because if they were caught kissing they'd still have some major explaining to do but they could maybe play it off like they just really have the hots for each other after meeting in those woods. But this forehead touch says no these two have history and have a deeply committed relationship rooted in serious love.

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So if Richonne had been caught like this their jig would have been up cuz they would have had those CRM soldiers looking over like...

I always feel so sad when I see Michonne looking in Rick’s eyes during this moment and searching for her Rick who seems to fade in and out ever since she’s reunited with him. Like the back and forth between Sergeant Major Grimes and the fleeting moments with her Rick has got to be hard on her.

But I love the way she lightly nudges his nose cuz again it’s just giving magnets and idk that intimate movement just always feels like such a soulmates thing to me. 🥹 Like she's trying to reach the Rick that's buried inside cuz she knows he's in there somewhere.

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Rick looks at Michonne and from his expression, it's clear that while it deeply saddens him, he will put himself through the pain of parting from her if it means getting her back home safely to their daughter.

I think too in this moment as they lean their heads together Michonne is realizing just how much she’s going to have to fight to get them both home on her own since Rick isn’t ready to take the risk and break out yet.

Similar to what Rick had been doing up to this point, Michonne is now gonna have to take matters into her own hands for the sake of her family...and oh, she’ll do exactly that in these final moments of episode 3. 😅

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But as far as this enthralling scene 'behind' the tree, this was another one of those scenes where they were knocking the epic love story they promised out of the park. 🙌🏽 Their chemistry is truly elite. 😍 And I adore this kiss and this romantic moment that was just brimming with emotion and irresistible passion between Richonne.

Throughout this episode, Michonne had been trying to keep her crazy at bay but now as the episode concludes and Rick proceeds to pull a crazy card of his own, she's gonna have to unleash that unhinged side of herself. And the final moments of episode 3 remind us exactly why they say Richonne has some 'crazy love.' 😝👌🏽

#richonne #towl #reveling in richonne #1.03 #RIR (25)#the ones who live #twd towl #michonne grimes #rick grimes #rick x michonne #twol #michonne #rick and michonne #twd: the ones who live #twd #richonnefandom

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richonne4life · 8 months

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45 days until Richonne returns!! ⏳

"It's been so long."

"My wife is my choice. My daughter is my choice. My life is my choice."

"Believe a little bit longer."

"We can make this whole damn world ours if we want to."

💕 The Ones Who Live premieres 2/25/2024 on AMC/AMC+ 💕

#Michonne Grimes #Rick “My Wife is My Choice” Grimes #richonne #michonne #rick grimes #danai gurira #andrew lincoln #the ones who live #towl #twd #twd family #the walking dead #twd towl

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notabadday · 7 years

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A Richonne Ranking: 40 Moments [25] Smile – Rock in the Road, 7x09

Any scene that undermines the misguided notion that romance will weaken these characters is one that I will treasure. It feels like a direct rebuke from the creatives of the show to the most basic of haters. Weak? Pfft. My guys just wiped out a fucking herd in one fell swoop. Not only do Rick and Michonne take the meat of the action in this scene, what follows is grounding, intimate and gentle. It's both sides of this world in one sequence.

Surely everyone must realize by now, after seven seasons spent establishing this fundamental concept, that the deep love – familial and/or romantic – between the members of the core group is their driving force for survival. Survival and living. Really and truly living.

Greg Nicotero: I pitched it to Scott. I said, “Let's have them hot-wire the cars. As long as we can separate Carl and Tara from Rick and Michonne, it gives us a great opportunity to have Rick and Michonne do something together.”

Andy: What I loved about that whole thing is that obviously Rick's getting his mojo back, but I loved the way we shot it and I loved the cars that we used. It felt like we were in some 1970s lone, low fi American indie movie. It was a pretty wild day. It was amazing.

#the walking dead #rick grimes #michonne #richonne #andrew lincoln #danai gurria #greg nicotero #my edit #richonne 40 #i get really excited about richonne getting big set pieces because it means i can talk about them at work

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richonnejustdesserts · 7 years

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Yuletide Medicine (25 Days Of Richonne Tumblr Exclusive) by @blacklitchick

The joy of the Holiday is lost on both Rick and Michonne until the right medicine transforms their Christmas Eve.

It had seemed like the altruistic thing to do when Rick volunteered to take his aunt’s shift as a Salvation Army bell ringer after she came down with the flu. Most didn’t want the Christmas Eve shift, but the magic of the holiday season was lost on Rick that year. His kids would be two states away from him when they opened presents on Christmas morning. He figured it was better to do some good instead of moping around his empty house. But after two hours of ringing that annoying bell in icy temperatures, he was over it. The multiple looks of annoyance and aggravation he received as last-minute shoppers rushed past him and his frozen fingers made him want to pack it in early. The three dollars he collected after being on duty for two hours didn’t seem worth the hassle.

He tossed the bell and red apron into the bucket before reaching up to pull the Santa hat off his head. A split second before his hand touched his head he heard a small gasp and scream. His reflexes kicked in as he saw a body fall towards him from his peripheral vision. The new weight in his arms wasn’t as much of a shock to his system as the most beautiful yet haunting pair of brown eyes he’d ever seen, staring up at him.

It took it her being in waves: her dark skin, the long locs cascading down her shoulders from under a white knit cap, the matching white peacoat, the way her mouth slightly opened as she took in quick breaths that floated up into the air like smoke. The seconds ticked away as their eyes bored into each other’s and people continued to rush around them.

The small pellets of precipitation that began hitting his face jerked Rick out of their intense trance. His voice was soft yet rough as he opened his mouth. “You OK?”

The woman still stared up at him. A look of he couldn’t decipher crossed over her features before she shook herself and cleared her throat. “Umm..yes…I think so. I tripped over something on the sidewalk. Th…thanks…” The soft yet warm timbre of her voice trembled. She closed her eyes to regain her composure. When she opened them again she smiled up at Rick. Her whole face lit up. He took in a sharp breath as she looked even more beautiful than he first thought.

“Thank you,” she began again, “for catching me. Falling onto an icy sidewalk wouldn’t have been fun.”

Rick smiled back at her. “No. I don’t imagine it would have.”

The conversation trailed off as they caught each other’s eyes again. His gaze traveled to her perfectly shaped lips and back up again. Only a man roughly pushing into him while trying to get into the store they stood in front of broke the spell. Rick grabbed onto the woman tighter so she wouldn’t slip from his grasp.

“It would probably be a good time to let me up,” the woman said as her hands clutched onto his forearms.

“Oh, right. Sorry.” Rick mentally chided himself for being so enamored with a stranger as he helped the woman to her feet. When she tried take a step she started to fall again before Rick caught her. “Steady now,” he said.

“Ouch…shit…my ankle.” Her voice was tinged with shock and pain.

Rick could see her right ankle had already started to swell in her suede heeled boots. “Looks like the fall was nastier than we thought.” He gestured across the street. “There’s an Urgent Care in the hospital over there. Let me take you to get checked out.”

The woman pulled away from him while almost falling again. She steadier herself by grabbing onto the red bucket. Tears frame her lashes as she shook her head vehemently. “No. I’m fine. I mean I don’t know you. I just need to get home and wrap and soak my ankle.” She tried to take another step, but couldn’t put any weight down on the ankle. She cried out in pain as the tears broke away from her lashes and ran down her face.

Rick grabbed onto one of her shoulders. “Oh, hey, hey. Shh, shh. Don’t cry. It’ll be OK. It’s probably only a simple sprain.”

The woman shook her head again. “I know but…,” she sighed, “I’m supposed to be on stage tomorrow dancing the lead in The Nutcracker. But now,” she gestured towards her ankle,” it’s probably not going to happen. Would have been the only highlight of my Christmas.”

Rick took in her graceful body. It made sense she was a dancer. Even her fall was elegant. “You never know until you have it checked out. You may be good to go for tomorrow’s performance. We’re go over to the Urgent Care and it’ll be fine.” He reached into his back pocket to pull out his wallet. “Here’s my ID and badge. I’m a Sheriff’s Deputy. Rick Grimes. You can trust me.”

The woman stared at his ID then looked closely back at him. “You work for Sheriff’s department?” Rick nodded. “So does my sister. She’s a deputy too. Do you know Sasha Williams?”

He crossed his arms and tilted his head as he put the pieces together. “Sasha’s your sister? She’s one of my good friends in the department.” He smiled. “It all makes sense now. That means you’re Michonne Williams. Her ballet dancin’ sister she’s always braggin’ about and praisin’.”

Michonne smiled showed her slight embarrassment. She knew how sister could go on and on with the praise. “That would be me.”

“Now you really have to let me help you. If I have to tell Sasha I left her injured sister in the cold on Christmas Eve she might punch me in the jaw.”

Michonne laughed. “Yeah she just might.” She sighed and wiped at her eyes. “OK. Take me over to the Urgent Care.”

Rick nodded. “OK.” He wrapped his arms around her waist and helped her limp slowly across the street.

****

Almost two hours later, Michonne maneuvered herself back into the waiting area on a pair of crutches. She was surprised to see Rick still sitting in the same spot she left him when the CNA wheeled her back to the exam rooms. He quickly stood when her saw her.

“You’re still here,” she said.

“Of course. I wasn’t gonna leave without knowing you were all right.”

She smiled. “Thanks, Rick. You’re quite the gentlemen. I called Sasha when I was back there and she confirmed that I was in very good hands.”

He smiled back. “Good. So what’s the verdict?”

Michonne eased her body down in a waiting room chair and Rick sat beside her. “It’s not broken, thank God. It’s a sprain like you said, but a pretty bad one. I won’t be doing any dancing tomorrow.”

“I’m sorry to hear that.”

“Me too. I guess that’s why I started crying out there. I’m not quite feeling the magic this year. Only thing I had was dancing.“ She tossed her locs behind her shoulder and shook her head. “This is the first Holiday season since my marriage ended. I had our son, Andre, for Thanksgiving so my ex gets him for Christmas this year. First time I won’t see my Peanut’s face when he opens his gifts. I was looking forward to tomorrow’s performance because I knew it would feel good to bring some joy to the people in the audience even if I wasn’t feeling much myself. Now I won’t even have that, you know.”

Rick patted the knee on her non-injured leg. “I get it. My ex-wife has the kids this year. That’s why I was out here in the cold ranging that damn bell. Tryin’ to do some good while feeling low.”

Michonne put her hand over his. “Looks like we understand each other Deputy Grimes.”

“Looks like we do.”

Their eyes met again in what was beginning to become a habit for them.

Michonne broke the trance first this time as she focused her eyes down to her ankle. “I was out there rushing to find him a gift before him and his Dad leave for Savannah tonight. UPS lost the gifts I ordered for him. I wanted him to have at least one present to open from me in the morning.” She looked at her watch. “They leave in about an hour. I probably won’t make it in time.” She looked back into Rick’s eyes. “He may not think about me at all tomorrow.”

Rick stared back. “Well, we can’t have that. I happen to know that this hospital has a pretty nice gift shop. I’m sure we can find somethang for him there.”

She knitted her brow. “You think?”

“I know.”

“Do you know what ten-year old boys like for gifts?”

“Being that my son was a ten-year old only two years ago, I think I can make an educated guess.”

Michonne smiled at him. “Well, OK then.”

He smiled back. “OK.”

***

A half-hour later they sat in front of the large window in the hospital cafeteria, watching the snow that had been threatening to fall all day blanket the streets. Michonne’s foot was propped on a chair as they sipped hot chocolate.

“I know I keep thanking you, but Andre really is going to love this virtual reality game you picked out. He’s still so young, but already a technology wiz. This is right up his alley.” Michonne patted the wrapped box in her lap. It was just their luck the gift shop was offering free gift wrapping with all toy purchases.

Rick nodded at her with his lips slightly upturned in a smile. He basked in her appreciation. “I was happy to do it. I’m also happy you ex agreed to stop by here on their way out of town so you can give your son the present.”

“Yeah. Me too. Mike’s a wonderful man. A great father. And wasn’t a bad husband. We just weren’t meant to go the long haul in marriage.”

“Same with my ex-wife. I used to see divorce as a failure, but it doesn’t negate all the good the relationship brought to you. And it doesn’t mean you won’t ever find that type of happiness again. Or even somethang better.”

Michonne sipped her hot chocolate and nodded at him with a slight smile on her face. “Sometimes an ending is a beginning in disguise.” She pointed across the street. “Looks like your Salvation Army bucket is filling up with snow. Should you go rescue it?”

Rick shook his head. “Nah. My shift was a bust. I’ll just make a donation in my aunt’s name, and never volunteer again.”

“I have to admit though,” she said as she turned her attention to the top of his head, “the Santa hat looks better on you than it does Kris Kringle.”

He snatched it off with an embarrassed grin. “I didn’t realize I still had that on.”

Michonne laughed and looked back to the wintery scene outside the window. “You know they say if you witness the first snow of Christmas Eve all your wishes for the new year will true.”

Rick raised an eyebrow at her. “Really?”

She smirked at him. “No. I just made that up.”

Rick laughed. “Not a bad sentiment though. I have a few wishes I wouldn’t mind comin’ true.” He held the Styrofoam of hot chocolate in both hands as he looked down as his worn cowboy boots then back up at Michonne’s smiling face again. “You know there’s this restaurant about ten miles from here that makes a great pot roast every Christmas. It’s ‘bout the only place that’s open around here on the holiday.”

“Really?”

“Yep.”

“I won’t be dancing so my Christmas plans are non-existent at the moment. Since Sasha is working tomorrow, and our family is in Texas, I was thinking about hibernating in my apartment, eating frozen pizza and binging on 90s romcoms. But now that pot roast is an option I may have to reconsider.”

“It’s the best in town. Great apple pie too. The place has a jukebox that plays old Christmas songs. It’s the right medicine to get over the yuletide blues.” He winked at her.

Michonne laughed. She held up her cup of hot chocolate to “clink” it with his in a toast. “Maybe this Christmas won’t be so bad after all.”

Rick’s smiled big and bright enough to rival any holiday decoration. “I know it’s looking up for me.”

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Hiya Richonners! What ever will we do during this hiatus? No Richonne for six months on our televisions? Read and write fanfiction and re-watch Richonne-centric episodes of The Walking Dead of course. And you can learn more about your favorite authors here as well. Take some time to get to know Vegasloversteel!

Richonnefics (RF): Hiya @vegasloversteel! Thanks for allowing us to interview you. What’s your favorite thing about the Richonne fandom? Least favorite thing?

Vegasloversteel (VLS): My favorite thing about the Richonne fandom is the fact that 95% of the people are nice, welcoming and accepting. I have made some people that are true friends, that I talk to everyday whether it is about Richonne or not. Richonne was just the catalyst for me. I’ve had a rough few months which has delayed my writing. I don’t know what I would have done without people like @sugarysweetzee, @severelybabykryptonite, @thebaetide and others.

My least favorite thing? Hmmm…maybe the constant need that what we are shown isn’t enough? Like everyone loved ‘Say Yes’ but people still needed more. Don’t get me wrong, I would have LOVED to see the deleted sex scene but hopefully it will come.

RF: I’ve met some pretty amazing people in this fandom, people I really consider friends so I totally agree with you about the welcoming and accepting facet of the Richonne fandom. Is there a subject you cannot bring yourself to write about and why?

VLS: I can’t bring myself to write about rape or abuse because luckily I haven’t been through either so I can’t do the material justice. What I mean is, I don’t have the knowledge or basis to write that type of trauma or pain that I’m sure is associated with those acts. I think sometimes in order to justify a ship or a person’s behavior, people write about things and don’t give them the care they deserve, and some people even romanticize them.

RF: What other artistic pursuits do you indulge in apart from writing?

VLS: I draw and I dance. Writing has always been my thing though. I wrote my first multi chapter story when I was in the 3rd grade on a rainy day. I showed it to my teacher for her opinion and ended up getting extra credit!

RF: Nice! Have you tried your hand at any Richonne fanart? When is the best time of day for you to write?

VLS: The best time of the day for me to write is usually at night. I’m truly a night owl so after thinking all day, it comes together then.

RF: Night Owl’s Unite! LOL! Though I really need to change that habit and start going to be earlier. Waking up is always such an ordeal. What did you find most useful in learning to write?

VLS: What did I find most useful? Learning to use descriptions, adjectives and adverbs to set the scene. When I write, I visualize EVERYTHING. I see the scene in my head as though it is a movie. The colors, the outfit, even the furniture placement at times. So I use these tools so that the reader sees them that way too.

RF: I’ve had a lot of writers explain that there is always a visualization of scenes before pen gets put to paper. Where do you get most of your ideas?

VLS: Honestly, music inspires me heavily. ‘My Boo’ and 'When I See You’ popped into my head while driving home from work listening to Spotify. Other times I’ll just be doing a re-watch and something will hit me. I remember re-watching 'After’ and seeing Andre with Michonne. I seriously thought, 'What if Andre was Rick’s? But he didn’t know it?’ I began 'Found’ about two hours later. Something with my one shot ‘The One You Lost’; When Rick gave Michonne that cat and said that it struck me. Doing the re-watch later that night, I got the headcanon. I then messaged my sounding boards and asked what they thought of it even though I JUST got around to writing it! Lol.

RF: There’s nothing like a good playlist to inspire you. Do you write everyday or just when the writing bug strikes?

VLS: I write when it strikes me. I have a TON of stories I have started but want to finish the ones I have out. I usually get struck late at night after work when I have a big glass of wine and am either listening to music or watching tv to relax.

RF: What do you think makes a good story?

VLS: A good story to me is one that is planned out, where the author has thought about the beginning, middle and end. Chapter 1-3, 20-25 and 40-45. They have an end game and it shows in the consistency of the story. Yeah things might get tweaked or added but for the most part it is planned out well. That and descriptions! Lol. Not of everything but the important parts. Like I said, I am very visual. @herewaskendra draws me in every time just by her descriptions

RF: What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

VLS: I have no quirks. Seriously. Well… does Chardonnay count?

RF: If a ZA were to occur, do you think you would survive? Explain why or why not.

VLS: I would DEFINITELY survive. I am a GREAT judge of character so I wouldn’t be hoodwinked by people like The Governor, Scavengers or Terminites. I am in great physical shape and was a girl scout. One thing that could hurt me? I am allergic to EVERYTHING so when the ZA started, I would have to raid all the pharmacies for Claritin and Benadryl! Lol. Now that would affect my reaction time. First thing I would do? Find a weapon like a Katana that wouldn’t need ammo and get a water purifier of some sort. Second thing? Find my own Rick Grimes! Lol.

RF: Thank you so much vegasloversteel for your time and answering these questions about your writing process. It was a pleasure getting to know you and I’m sure the readers out there will eat this up. If you would like to follow vegasloversteel on tumblr, click on her name and FOLLOW and you can find her Richonne fanfiction here on ff.net.

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