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[jeffreydmfan]

Damn, this man is fire❤️

[brutalgamer]

SDCC '24: Fresh sneak peeks emerge from today's The Walking Dead: Dead City panel

Fresh from Comic Con International, check out the latest glimpses of The Walking Dead: Dead City, season 2.

[youmakethelight]

I'm back in my pissed-off-about-the-title era, as if I ever left. The more promo I see, the more I have to see 'hashtag DARYL DIXON'. It's a fucking slap in the face every time.

It enables microaggressions and overt misogyny across the fandom and more broadly, as well as in how Melissa McBride is treated (e.g. second billing, being listed as '2. Carol' while her co-star gets '1. Daryl Dixon' by default).

Getting the 'DARYL DIXON' title greenlit early on was the biggest middle finger Norman Reedus and the male EPs could give to us and to melissa. I literally hear Negan saying "I just slid my dick down your throat and you THANKED me for it."

It validates people who want to push women, especially grey-haired women, to the sidelines. It elevates daryl as a typical 'leading man', who does 'leading man things' (excuse me while I throw up), which is so far from the outsider underdog autism-coded sensitive character who meant so much to so many people. It enables and rewards powerful middle-aged white men for publishing their problematic fantasies that centre middle-aged white men.

Sorry to make a 'mountain out of a molehill' bc yes there are much bigger and more pressing things happening in the world, but it still matters, and we can care about both. Tolerating problematic storytelling and marketing in our 'escapism' media, especially during a time of terrifying political development in the real world we live in, matters.

I've had people tell me to shut up bc it's "just a TV show" and it's "escapism" so it's not that deep. It's only escapism if it allows you to escape from the realities of real life. If women or anyone else hurt by the narrative have to tolerate microaggressions with their escapism, we're heading backwards. It's only really escapism for people who are uplifted by the narrative. And holy fuck, what a problematic narrative. And that's the baseline for our escapist media? The media that is supposed to be where we can go to escape the problems in real life? Where we can ignore real-life problems and create whatever world we want instead? Sorry, that's depressing for a LOT of us, not enjoyable escapism.

There's so much more to this issue. I could write a fucking thesis. But I'm actually fucking sick and tired of being hit back with fan-splaining from people I've never even spoken to before whenever I talk about this.

The truth is, no matter how much you might not believe it, the network absolutely can change the title if they want to. There are numerous ways they could do this by launching a rebrand. It's not fucking illegal lol. If they really want to uplift Carol and a more inclusive marketing message, they absolutely have the power to do whatever the fuck they want, and yes, that includes changing the title. Again, there are several creative options available to them.

The ONLY questions mystifying the decision are:

1. What is happening behind the scenes that they need to account for?

2. How much money would they have to spend?

3. How much money do they stand to make?

We are not, by any means, "stuck with" the Daryl Dixon title that more than half the target audience hate.

[hutchersonsgurl]

Devil Wears Prada Negan Smith part 2

Paring Wife Reader and Negan Smith

Warnings 18+ MDNI Negan graphic violence smut graphic language

Word count:

Synopsis you are the wife of Negan Smith the two of you split before the month before the end of the world and now you and your son run into him again

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It's been two hours since your ex-husband walked back into your life. It's as awkward as it can be for you as you are in your house with Carl and Negan and your son Mason waiting for Rick, your boyfriend, to come back from his supply run. You are keeping an eye on your ex-husband as he comes down the stairs with his freshly shaven face. You can feel the tension in the room. Nobody knows what to do. Carl follows behind, keeping his nerve. Meanwhile, you are completely freaking out inside because you figured that he was dead. He seems so different now, like he's tapped into whole he really is. He's nothing like the man you remember. It took you awhile that he's wearing the same leather jacket he spent all that money on before the two of you split. You reach down into your boot, making sure that the knife that you always have on you is still there. You sit down with Mason at the island in the kitchen as Negan and Carl cook spaghetti.

"You know, it feels like the word never went to shit right now sitting here with my wife and two kids," Negan says with a smile.

"Ex-wife," you respond.

Negan looks at you with a smirk.

"Now, Darlin, we never actually divorced; the world ended before we could finish," he says.

"Well, as far as I'm concerned, we are divorced," you say, leaning back and crossing your arms.

"Well sh*t, I didn't know I wasn't your husband anymore," he sneered.

Simon walks into the kitchen and stands in the corner. "Does he know about your other wives?" he asks.

You look over at Simon and then at Negan and roll your eyes. "It does not surprise me," you respond.

Negan finishes cooking, and then the four of you eat in awkward silence.

Negan finishes and walks outside to play pool when Spencer walks over to him.

"You want to play?" Negan asks

"Sure," Spencer says.

Everyone gathers around to watch what's going on. You have Carl and Mason behind you.

"I get what you're trying to do here; what are you trying to build? I'm not saying I agree with your methods, but I get it. You're building a network and making people contribute for the greater good. It makes sense, but you should know Rick Grimes has a history of not working well with others. Spencer says that Negan is playing pool.

"Is that so? Negan asks

Spencer walks over to Negan. Rick wasn't the only leader my mom was; she was doing a really good job at it. She died not long after Rick showed up. Same with my brother and same with my dad," he says.

"Everything was peachy here for what years? and then Rick shows up and suddenly your an orphen," Negan asks as he is about to drink some whiskey.

"That is the saddest story I have ever heard," he continued.

"Good thing for you, he ain't in charge anymore," he says.

You, along with everyone else, are watching, hoping this doesn't go bad.

Spencer lines up his shot and looks up at Negan. "It doesn't matter if his ego is out of control; he'll find a way to screw it up to try to do things his way to take over," he says.

"That's what he did with my mom," he says as he hits the ball as Negan is drinking and watching.

"What are you exactly proposing to be done about that?" negan asks

I am my mother's son; I can be the leader she was. That's what this place needs, and that's what you need," he says.

"We're supposed to put you in charge; that's what you're saying." Negan responds

"It would be much better off," Spencer says with a smirk.

"You know I'm thinking, Spencer. I'm thinking about how Rick threatened to kill me and how clearly he hates my guts while he is out there right now gathering shit for me to make sure I don't hurt any of the fine people that live here," he says.

"He is swolling his hate and getting shit done; it takes guts," Negan says as he lines up a shot once again and takes a shot.

"And then there's you," he continues.

"The guy who waits for Rick to leave so he can talk to me to get me to do his dirty work so he can take Rick's place Negan says he is walking up to Spencer.

"So I gotta ask, if you want to take over, why not just kill Rick yourself? and just take over," he says.

"No, no, I didn't," Spencer tries to say as Negan cuts him off.

"You know what I'm thinking because I have a guess." Negan says he is getting closer to him.

"It's because you have no guts," he whispers, and then he stabs Spencer in the guts.

You let out a scream and keep trying to push the boys back; everyone else is in shock.

as Spencer falls down and over

"How embarrassing they are," Negan says with his signature smirk.

"They were inside you the whole damn time; you did have guts," he shouts.

"I've never been so wrong in my whole life," he shouts.

You stare down at Spencer as he takes his last breaths as Negan walks back down to the pool table, reaches for your back pocket, pulls out your gun, and aims it at Negan.

He turns back around and stares at you. "Wow, easy there, Darlin, not in front of the kids," he says.

You pull the trigger, and it misses him.

"Wow, see there, that's just not right. he says

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sorry this took so long

part 3

NOT EDITED

[my-mt-heart]

First of all, thank you for being always so insightful and open to discussion with anyone! You're one of the few I genuinely rely on when I need to talk and share ideas/doubts. I was thinking about the whole marketing discourse. Let's be clear, amc sucks at that, it did with all the spin-offs (which I only recently found out are more than 20???) and surprisingly with the three main ones as well because everything they did wasn't certainly enough compared to other networks. Amc has always done the bare minimum and every info about the richonne/negan&maggie spinoffs that reached me was mostly because of their fans. Yes they got promos and interviews (I think Dead City/Lauren&JDM even did more interviews than Andrew & Danai) but from my point of view their fandoms did most of the job. I don't even follow any of them but I used to have my twitter timeline full of their posts every single day, at any time. I remember they used to bomb any inch of their spaces with videos, speculations, headcanons, fanarts, endless convos and all that, which I think contributed to attract a lot of curiosity out of their fandom and it worked!!! I kept seeing so many tweets full of replies and theories and hype that I had to go on a mute spree because I couldn't take it anymore. Now my point is... why don't we do the same thing?? We as a fandom can do a lot to create hype and the target people (those who have stopped watching the show after negan showed up or so) would follow us because enthusiasm is what attracts the old fans who gave up. That's the real deal! We are!! TWD main accs would ultimately follow the flow, but we really... REALLY need to start it. Dead City next seasons (that'll air in 2025) is already being promoted and the fans are already talking about it, richonne fans are still being loud and lit like if their show were still on.... why can't we do the same? We constantly complain about Amc not being there for us but the first ones that should are... US. We need to be present and make noise and above all enthusiast!

You don't need to convince me that rallying works. Melissa wouldn't have had the option to come back if it weren't for all the noise her fans made. No one she worked with was offering her the support she deserved, so we had to do it.

With TBOC's promotion, it's a catch 22. Caryl definitely sells. Their fans can definitely build hype, and AMC can definitely save their money, but it's still their responsibility to release content that'll kick the target audience into high gear so that they stay motivated to post, speculate, make posters, and all the things, which would then reel in the Carylers who left at one point or another, which would then get the attention of the GA, and so on and so forth.

What they're doing instead is splintering what should be a reliable viewership. Norman's buzz words, reposts of fanart, and photos of Melissa/Carol just existing are hyping some of us while others are scratching their heads at why Carol is reduced to a subtitle, why the teasers are shipbaiting Daryl with a nun, and why two. fucking. years later we're still hearing about showrunners getting fired and Melissa being left out of S1 because she wasn't important enough. I would love to be enthusiastic enough to do the heavy-lifting, but if that's what's being asked of me, why do I need to get punched in the face first? How do I go about promoting a Daryl and Carol show if I can't even tell if that's what I'm really getting? Why aren't they leaning into what all Carylers love about their relationship? Why aren't they capitalizing on Caryl's/McReedus' chemistry? And if all of that is what half of Carylers who have stayed this long are feeling as well, the chances of getting lost Carylers to come back are slim, the GA/new viewers won't see the buzz, and supplementing with viewers who hate Cary/Carol won't work either because they aren't going to be in it for the long haul.

So again, if AMC wants my help, then I want them to motivate me. Tribeca will be...interesting? Because on one hand, the McReedus panel could be very reassuring, but 201 spoilers that will inevitably leak could be polarizing again depending on what Zabel and Nicotero did with it, and if that happens, well, I wish AMC luck trying to promote the rest of the season.

Thanks for reaching out. Sorry this probably isn't the answer you were looking for.

[aqxatofana]

{ aldis hodge, cismale, he/him } Is that MAVERICK O'CONNELL I heard the FOURTY FIVE year old works as a PRISON WARDEN. Which makes sense, seeing how they are POLITICAL but can also be AGGRESSIVE. Do they know whats going on in the city? I heard they are CLEAN.

Basics.

Navy seal for over a decade over time he began to realize how much he hated that so many people got away with all the nasty ass shit they got up to and eventually decided he wanted to be more than just a soldier returned to civilian life with a PHD in psychiatry - heavy focus on reoffending criminals but obviously considering the kind of guy he is, sitting around talking about it wasnt really ever going to cut it so he used his education and network to plant himself into the system as a prison guard and within two years was made warden. has since been given the task of reform across the board and his latest choice was LA. THIS IS JUST SMALL INTRO - I WILL FILL MORE OF THIS IN AS I FLESH OUT HIS BACKSTORY MORE.

Reflection.

face claim: aldis hodge hair color: brunette eye color: brown height: 6'1 scars: a prominent scar through his right eyebrow that just misses his eye tattoos: none

Personality.

positive traits: political, organized, articulate, creative negative traits:  aggressive, unyielding, dominant, argumentative character inspo: negan (the walking dead), elliot stabler (svu), sawyer (lost), eddie halstead (the gentlemen)

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Negan se reúne con Lucille en el nuevo tráiler de la segunda temporada de 'The Walking Dead: Dead City'

Negan se reúne con Lucille en el nuevo tráiler de la segunda temporada de 'The Walking Dead: Dead City'

A principios de este mes, tan pronto como AMC Networks reveló su programación completa para sus paneles en la SDCC, los fanáticos de la franquicia The Walking Dead sabían que les esperaba una sorpresa. Sin embargo, para un spin-off específico de la franquicia, hubo mucho que analizar cuando finalmente llegó el momento de desarrollar el panel. Durante el panel The Walking Dead: Dead City, los…

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Behind-the-Scenes Look at Season Two Of THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY!

AMC Networks has released a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Season Two of THE WALKING DEAD: DEAD CITY! The hit series in the Walking Dead Universe stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan as the fan-favorite characters Negan and Maggie. Get more details on the other side. From The Press Release NEW YORK – May 23, 2024 – AMC Networks released a behind-the-scenes look at production on…

[ripcrispyblonde]

@unclenegan asked: this is do or die. from the you're the only person i can turn to prompts !!

❝ isn't all of it? ❞ jessica hasn't talked to a winchester since dean had let her know that sam had overpowered lucifer and was locked in the cage with the two archangels and their half brother. now, she was hunting mostly solo... but had a seemingly growing collection of others to lean on. being intertwined into the hunting community, negan smith and the saviors were an unavoidable subject of discussion. infamy for brutality was quite the feat within a group of people that lived to murder monsters. she had tried to steer clear of them for self preservation.

however, when she stumbled upon a network of monsters within new orleans trafficking teenagers for profit and torturous things she couldn't stomach to think about she felt she only had one place to turn. while she had a network behind her, it would take all of them and then some to take down an operation so large and there would undoubtedly be a death toll on their side. she couldn't bear bringing any of them in on something that's so likely to bring upon their deaths. the saviors though? their tough reputation might lead to a better outcome with minimal civilian casualty.

color her surprised when her name when she approached one of their outposts got her a meeting with the big boss and he turned out to be none other than sam's uncle. it's strange, looking into his eyes. carbon copies of the ones in the picture of john she had spent hours staring at and speculating about what was in sam's past that kept him from being open about it at all -- how he could believe that his own father wouldn't be proud of all of his accomplishments. while they were genetically the same, the darkness within them was undeniable... a stark contrast against the picture of his twin brother back when he was happy and unperturbed by the notion of monsters himself.

curt attitude aside, it is undeniable that the blonde is intimidated by present company. she can almost feel her heartbeat in her throat, but in the year and change that she's been alive again -- she's mastered choking that all down and putting on a mask of false bravado. fake it until you make it -- the jury's still out on if that mantra works on this side of things or gets you killed. ❝ i know the stakes. that's why i brought this to your attention. the saviors might be the only way to get this shut down... but you wouldn't know about it without me and i need to see it through. ❞

maybe it was her moment of hubris or still not finding any direction in losing sam for the second time since she'd been brought back -- or a combination of the two -- but she's not about to back down.

[proxylynn]

https://www.tumblr.com/proxylynn/744939794375819264/idk-if-you-like-negan-from-the-walking-dead-or?source=share

What!? The walking dead and supernatural are really good shows, I know the walking dead is on Netflix and I think supernatural is on HBO or some other network but if you don't have either you can use this site. https://movie-web.app/ it's a hundred percent safe and check out r/piracy on Reddit if you wanna check out other sites to pirate shows and movies!

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[Nah, I'm good. The shows never caught my attention and I don't think that has changed over the years. They're probably good shows, but if tasting a dish doesn't make me want to eat it when fresh, it's not going to be a meal I want later on if ya get my meaning.]

[stunt-lads]

Daryl is like an abused dog who is codependent on his abusive master.

He doesn't know anything but aggression and violence, lashing out and causing problems because that's what his master wants. What nets him the most positive interactions.

But when that influence, that master, is gone, he doesn't know what to do. So he withdraws, he snaps, bares his teeth at the people who are only trying to help. And everyone keeps their distance from him, afraid of being bitten.

Until a new master steps up to encourage better behavior, rewards him with positive reinforcement and trust, respects his boundaries, and sees him as an inherently good dog. And that angry dog turns into a loyal guardian, willing to go to the ends of the earth to keep his new master safe.

But what if that dog had run off and became truly feral before finding a new master? Before a "savior" came in and taught him loyalty and violence working in tandem, killing before he's killed and doing it all in the name of the person who rescued him.

It would be so easy for him to fall back into the original mindset of "this violence nets me a positive interaction" and to crave that codependency he lost after losing the first master, the only one he ever knew.

Basically, I'm saying Daryl would have been more loyal than Simon ever could have been if he had been unlucky enough to meet Negan rather than have Rick and co. as his support network.

Early series Daryl would have trauma bonded with S7 Negan after losing Merle on that roof and in this essay I will

[my-mt-heart]

Hi MT. Now that Dead City is over, I'm asking myself, why another season? It made perfectly clear what quite a lot people thought before the first episode even aired. Maggie is useless as a character. The same storyline over and over again. Nothing new, nothing surprising, it's giving nothing. Negan is an intriguing character but even he can't carry the whole show especially with the same storyline warmed up again while another one (his wife and child got practically kicked out) was chosen to be more or less ignored. Lauren said the original plan was different, that might have worked with an assemble cast (continuing the OG show). But even with the millions they spend, that spin off will be forgotten.

Whatever let them believe DD as a solo would even be working, why didn't they just throw Negan in the Caryl mix? The dynamic Carol/Negan, Negan/Daryl, Carol/Daryl/Negan is just explosive. We all saw how good this could've worked at Paleyfest. Melissa and JDM were on fire while Norman channeled for whatever reason his inner Daryl. The storyline, the subtext, the dialogues would've been pure gold and entertainment as its best.

They wouldn't have needed New York or France, just the backland of GA and some good writers. I just don't understand how they could let such opportunities slip through their fingers and robbed us fans of such an iconic spin off. (Yeah I know we don't know why someone got chosen over someone else and why there is France and not here filming whatever). But it would've been the best business and entertainment decision.

Would you have liked to watch it? Do you think it would've potential? I could write many fanfics just with the three because there is so much to explore between them. Could've been amazing.

Just never want to see JDM close to Melissa again. Too much has happened, the network and actors failed on every decent human behavior and professionalism.

I’m not watching any TWDU shows right now, so I can only go off of what I read. I gather the real issue with DC isn’t that Maggie’s “useless.” The men in charge just don’t care about her. Hershel’s basically a stand-in for tptb, telling the audience they should resent her. If I was a diehard Maggie fan, I’d be devastated by that. S1 sounds like a setup for the real story they want to tell which is basically Negan: King of New York. How anyone’s projecting S2 will improve the atrocious ratings, I don’t know.

There was potential for a Negan and Carol arc in S11 when Carol was feeling like an outcast, but they chose not to give her any arc at all. And because of that, I’m far more concerned about the lost potential between Daryl and Carol than any other dynamics. I want *their* spinoff to explore the rest of *their* story without distractions. Negan’s quite a big one. And, to be transparent, I’m not a fan of JDM right now. He can stick to his own show.