#michon

[undersomeonenew]

Michon photographed by Timothy Patrick / Under Someone New, 2018.

[20elements]

Amicia Michella - Palette Penguin

[startingbook]

Pierre Michon

Par quel livre de Pierre Michon commencer ?

Vies minuscules. Gallimard. 1984.

Chez Pierre Michon, toutes les vies sont d’égale dignité.

“La semaine, hiver comme été, le temps était pour eux deux ce qu'il est quand il n'y a plus de femme : chaotique, indéterminé, enfantin sans la grâce ni l'ébriété de l'enfance.”

[nat111love]

THE ONES WHO LIVE ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 1 ↳ Years

[glassboner]

Cat pic dump

The boy Mouche

[omanxl1]

Johnny M - Perception | 2022 Deep Progressive House Set

Johnny M – Perception | 2022 Deep Progressive House Set

 Digital Crate Digging Continues as we come through on this Thankful Thursday, so called because it’s a blessing to be here!  The saga / struggle continues aka life goes on as the toil and strife goes on, as we continue to take it there! We’ve always took it there, reminding myself on some Throwback Thursday type of business; reflecting on past episodes! We’ve always took it there! where?…

[celtic-crossbow]

Carol, about Daryl and Y/N: My god, would you two just get a room already?

Y/N: Huh?

Carol: You’re gushing. He’s blushing. So seriously, when's the wedding?

Daryl, turning even redder: ...

Michonne: I ship it!

Rick: Ssh, stay out of it. I have to go outside the walls with him tomorrow.

[olplus]

Clément Michon, le "couteau suisse" de l’OL (O&L : https://olplus.fr/MY1kM)

[onlyifyoubadd]

its the fact that after rick said this they were literally only apart for 30 seconds hahaha! they left the tent and met up with each other immediately! they are never leaving each other's side again 🥹🥰

[westidia]

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

LAWD I CANT DO IT I NEED ANOTHER SEASON I NEED TO SEE MORE OF TJEM😭😭😭😭😭

FUCK I WISH CARL WAS HERE (fuck them bumb ass producers who kicked him off 😭😭)

sorry for all the f bombs 🧍🏽‍♀️

rj is the cutest 🥹

[undersomeonenew]

Michon photographed by Timothy Patrick / Under Someone New, 2018.

[20elements]

King Dedede is Cia's Smash Main so I'll have him sing this light parody of Bowser's "Peaches".

[sylvies-chen]

this one gets me 😭

[nat111love]

THE ONES WHO LIVE ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 2 ↳ Gone

[lisaphantasia]

"What if I lose you and I can't figure out how to die again?"

Episode 4 fucked me up. I was speachless through the whole of Rick's breakdown. Hand on my heart I think Rick and Michonne might be one of the most beautiful stories of a relationship in media.

Sometimes I feel like I have to look away because it feels like I'm intruding watching a real love story between two people and that is so much credit to Andy and Danai.

Who would have thought one of the most beautiful portrayals of romance involves fucking up zombies on the side

[herebutnothere]

When Rick returns to the CRM and receives the Echelon Briefing, he’s presented with a fork in the road that has two clear options: 

Path A: Save the people he loves by going along with mass murder. 

Path B: Save the people he loves by going home. 

We all know how that ends (with a table slide 🥵), but as I was (re)watching, I couldn’t help but wonder—What would have happened if Michonne hadn't found him? What would have happened if Commando Rick was the one hearing the briefing? What would have happened if the E1 version of Rick had to choose?

On its face, what General Beale offers is the solution to Rick’s biggest problems and the salve to his deepest wounds. When Beale callously, manipulatively, rudely says that even Rick’s best efforts (chomp, chomp) weren’t enough to save Carl in the end, he offers the secret army within the CRM as a way to do what Rick couldn’t and can’t—keep people safe.

But…

But. 

“The Ones Who Live” is an epic love story. In virtually every single interview they’ve done leading up to the show and every single interview they’ve done since it aired, Danai, Andrew, and Scott have been very clear about the story they wanted to tell. This quote from Danai stands out to me in particular: 

“When love is the driving force, when it is the propelling thing, when it is making the plot move, what does that look like?”

In other words, what does it look like when love is both the reason for and the result of our actions and decisions?

Throughout TOWL, we get to explore all types of love: romantic (e.g., Rick and Michonne), platonic (e.g., Michonne and Nat), familial (e.g., the Grimes), community (e.g., the caravan), self-love (e.g., Michonne’s articulation of how she views herself for leaving her Shoto and Little Brave Man to find Rick), as well as all the types of love that Ancient Greek philosophers talked about. 

We also get to explore the bastardization of love. We get to see its abuse, its disregard, its minimization, and the consequences therein—

When Beale rejected love, he sacrificed his community. 

When Thorne lost faith in love, she devoted herself to Beale’s fascist mission. 

When Okafor abandoned love, he killed his wife.

Even when Beale is showing Rick a version of paradise where the people he cares about are safe, he starts to say “a lov-” and cuts himself off with “I don’t give a damn.” For him, a love or lover is inconsequential. This thing that ties us together, that makes us us is something trivial that can be cast aside for the bigger picture…

And while we don’t see the other briefings, we do know that Beale’s done 2,533 of them, so—assuming they all accepted—that means there are 2,531 other people besides Okafor and Thorne who have rejected, minimized, destroyed, forgotten, been hurt by, fear, lost, and/or given up on love, too.

So back to Rick, the fork in the road, and my hypothetical question: 

I think that, if Michonne hadn’t had found Rick, if he was still deep in the trenches of the CRM and Okafor’s mission, if he was still walking around dead inside, I think he would have rejected Beale’s offer. Not because he didn’t want to be reunited with his family, but because he wouldn’t have wanted to be reunited with his family like that. 

He wouldn’t have wanted to be with Michonne with his disregard for humanity standing between them.

He wouldn’t have wanted to hold Judith—that sweet precious baby he left behind—and taint her innocence with his sins. 

Because as Michonne told him, “That’s not how you love.”

(And, needless to say, in this hypothetical scenario of Michonne not finding Rick pre-briefing, he wouldn’t know about RJ so he wouldn’t have been accounted for in this decision-making process.)

If there was no reunion and Rick was left to make this decision without the buoyancy of Michonne and all that she reminded him of, if all he had was the memory of the love and life he left behind, the paths in front of Commando Rick would be bleak af:  

Path A1: Go along with the mission to murder millions and be reunited with his family. (Essentially becoming everything he stood against pre-ZA and pre-CRM and never truly being with them again.)

Path A2: Pretend to go along with the mission, but actually try to sabotage it. (Although he might feel trapped because the briefing was the same day as or just before the Portland attack and he might not be able to undo it all on his own in time.)

Path B: Try to escape. Again. (But likely not succeed.) 

Path C: End his life. (And at least die knowing that Michonne and Judith might be able to get away and continue living.)

Which path do you think he would take? 😔

This is why I internally chuckle and roll my eyes at the critiques that TOWL focused too much on love. The way the finale—and the show as a whole—unfolded was the only option. Everything about Rick and Michonne and who they are in this particular world led to this moment. Everything they'd been through for nearly a decade (nearly eight of which he was held captive) came together.

An epic love story indeed. 

The failure to see that and the desire to disregard the power of love—the power of Richonne’s love—simply means you weren’t having the experience you claim you want to have. Go back and watch from the beginning, babe. Pull up E1 and hit “play.” I promise you’ll like it so much better when you allow yourself to believe.