genuinely i think it's important for adults, especially in the plague times, to play pretend in our day-to-day lives. when i rub my back down with tiger balm so i can sleep without pain, i imagine i am a valiant knight tending to an old injury i received from a dragon. when i go to the store to pick up eggs and milk, i am a lone cowboy riding into town on a mission. when i turn my collar up against the wind i am a femme fatale who's killed 4 husbands and is scoping out a 5th. when i stomp around in the snow i am a doomed polar explorer. if being a little bit silly about my walk to the pharmacy helps me remember that life can be full of joy and whimsy, then so be it.
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Daryl and his Kingdom girl.
He doesn't know her that well, but he’s seen her often enough around the Kingdom. Whether she’s in the gardens tending to the crops, ensuring everything with the cattle is in order, or simply walking through the bustling streets, her presence is something he finds impossible to ignore. That smile of hers—bright, unbothered, always there—is something he finds deeply irritating. In fact, everything about her grates on him: her laughter, which echoes like a bell, the way her hair slips free from her ponytail and falls delicately across her face as she works, even the way she seems so effortlessly at ease with everything around her.
The first time he hears Ezekiel call her "princess," he nearly laughs out loud, thinking how well the title fits her. But when she scoffs and rolls her eyes at the moniker, as if it’s the most absurd thing she’s ever heard, a fresh wave of irritation surges through him. The way she dismisses the title bothers him even more than the title itself.
After the accident on the bridge, when he decided to distance himself from everything, she was the last person he wanted to encounter. Yet, even in his self-imposed exile, he couldn’t escape her. The first time he saw her outside the safety of the Kingdom, his immediate reaction was confusion—what was she doing out here? He found himself following her, not out of concern, he doesn't care about her at all, but because she was close to Carol and Ezekiel. If nothing else, he reasoned, he could make sure she didn’t get herself killed.
But when he sees her hunting, a strange feeling knots in his stomach. There’s something unsettling about how capable she is, how she moves through the forest with the same ease and grace that he does. Damn it, he thinks. Now, every time they cross paths while hunting, she greets him with that same annoying smile that makes his blood boil. And yet, no matter how much it bothers him, he finds himself nodding back in acknowledgement, as if compelled by some unspoken rule.
He can still remember the first time they actually spoke. He had been tracking a deer for nearly two days, but just as he fired his crossbow, he noticed another arrow strike the deer almost simultaneously. His frustration surged as he rushed forward, only to see her emerging from the trees, heading towards the same prey.
"My arrow hit first," she declared, her voice steady as she approached the deer, now lying on the ground with two arrows embedded in its chest.
He rolled his eyes and scoffed at her audacity. "Ya wish," he retorted with a mocking tone, unwilling to concede even an inch to her.
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so i was packing for yoga tomorrow and just got to thinking about how absolutely bent out of shape seeing the reader practice yoga gets rick.
you’re just following the vinyasa flow rosita is demonstrating for you and a few of the other yogis in alexandria when he happens to pass by on a neighborhood patrol. the constable means to keep up his pace but the chaturanga sequence you’re playing out grabs his attention.
rick should be moseying on down to deanna’s office but instead he’s taking in the view. lowering your body to the ground, you lean forward, planting your palms before extending into cobra. the pose is typically more appreciated from the front but from behind, rick can’t complain. he wouldn’t hate being pressed up against you like that right now.
it’s selfish and irrational but he almost wants to walk right up to your mat and drag you home. his brown slacks grow tighter with every thought he’s mentally silencing. thoughts of you going through a chaturanga on the mattress.
he wants to see your forehead glistening from sweat, not just from a yoga flow. after a long day of protecting and guiding his new community with a gentle hand, rick would give nothing more than to feel your plush cunt sinking down onto him while you tense all of those same muscles you are now - and more.
hips shot to the sky, you’ve never looked better in a downward dog position.
it’s at the point where rick’s almost drooling that carol’s coming up behind him and snapping him out of his filthy thoughts with a playful swat to the shoulder, warning him. “don’t you have somewhere to be, officer?”
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I've changed my mind, I don't actually want Debut TV announced even though it's always been the re-record I'm looking forward to the most. I actually don't even want Rep TV to come out, because the very next thing will be people speculating about debut. I don't want the tiktok swifties to ever even perceive Debut. they do not deserve it.
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i feel like oikawa is kinda clumsy actually................... like you go on a date with him and he almost trips over his own feet when he's walking over to greet you (it's not his fault you look so pretty????)
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