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I miss your writing love.
Friend, I miss it too! ššš
I am actively writing a Richonne one-shot. (And not my dissertation, ha!)
This was such a kind message. Thank you! Stay on my ass, all of you. ššš
Thinking about which phsyical version of Rick I liked best/picture in most fics that I read. In my fic, he's definitely TOWL Rick but he's not my favourite - perhaps top 3!
I think my winner is season 6 Rick (obvious Richonne bias) š„°
Least favourite is bare-faced season 5B Rick. He was too insufferable here and he almost lost me completely... Maybe too white-picket fence, 2,5 kids for me (derogatory version) š
Honourable mention to this guy:
Michonne always looks stunning to me but I'll probably do my top 3 looks for her š
Iāve been summoned.
Best: Farmer Rick
Heās almost always who Iām writing about. What an era.
Next: Rugged Rick
Not to be mistaken with Feral Rick. This is who I wrote about in Cowboy, Sheriff, and Lawyer. This tan is something serious. Amen. God bless.
Next: Shaved Rick
A reluctant third place. He lost a lot of my trust and never regained some of it, to be quite honest. But this was a fucking look and it was WASTED. This should have been when the romantic tension between he and Michonne became explicit, though not yet realized.
Final: Iām Bout to Fuck My Best Friendā¦I Did It Rick
Last but never least. He had a certain quality to him here.
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"One that doesn't have to prove it. To myself or... Anyone."
Julie Andrews as Count Victor Grazinsky in Victor/Victoria, the broadway musical (1995)
Rewatching TOWL and all I need is for Okafor to come here so that I can... [redacted]
Yāall gonā fight me if I said he and Michonne would have had crazy chemistry? And subsequently that would have turned the Richonne chemistry up to 1,000?
Calling all Richonne fic writers
What do we think about this?
It's making me think about my longfic WIP. Now I'm wondering if I've revealed too much? š¬
What do you guys think about dual POV and the art of yearning in fic in particular Richonne fic?
Fun question.
Iāve seen both dual and single POV done well and poorly. I donāt have a preference.
As a reader, the tension for me often comes from the characters being indiscernible to each other or something being in the way of their coming together.
I donāt necessarily need one or both of their feelings to be obscured to me as a reader via single POV. If Iām reading romance, I presume they share the same desire.
On the other hand, dual POVs are fun to highlight what could be different formations of feeling. Maybe that shows up as seemingly greater intensity or greater courage to dive in for one half of the couple. It can be fun to see how theyāre both reckoning with the feelings, especially if itās distinct!
My greater issue in both books and fanfiction is that the menās POVs leave much to be desired. Itās alienating.
I dislike a lot of things about menās interiority in dual POVs: their reasoning; the construction of their yearning (desire without depth); misogyny; immaturity. It leaves me cold and uninterested in their personhood and thus the couplesā consummation.
In fanfiction, this may also contribute to a sense that the MMC (male main character) is out of character or unrecognizable. Sometimes thatās fun! Oftentimes, itās not.
Iāve quit many a fic simply because I dislike Rickās inner voice and, quite frankly, dislike him.
Re: your fic - soldier on! Single vs dual POV is, ultimately, a non-issue as a whole.
Help, I Accidentally Started Caring About All These Broken People (and Also Michonne Is So Fine)!!!
I FINALLY MET MICHONNE! and she is everything I expected her to be and like⦠10 TIMES BETTER THAN THAT. I LIVE!!! ššš¤š¤š¤
BODY COFFEE CAUSE TEA ISNāT STRONG ENOUGH!!!! I have no other choice but to stan. Seriously contemplating changing my username to "Michonne's abs" or "Michonne's-bootlicker" or something because I am unwell.
Also⦠not me catching Rick checking out Michonne in literally every scene theyāre in together š, he's just like me FR šš
Live pic of me and Rick catching each other staring at Michonneās ass every time she walks into frame:
I am SO violently jealous of the Richonne shippers who were here from DAY āØONEāØ. Like yāall saw the vision so early, did you astral project into the writersā room?? Are you psychic?? PLEASE drop the lottery numbers. PLEASE. Iām BEGGING. š
You clocked the soulmate energy and the big "fuck me" eyes Rick was giving Michonne from their first meeting, the sexual tension, the chemistry long before the rest of the fandom even noticed, and you held your ground against the racist, toxic cesspool that was 2012 stan culture. Yāall were in the trenches, fighting for your lives, and still came out on top.
COME GET YOUR BADDIE CHAINS šš¤š¤š¤ IKTR!!!
Honestly, I wish I had been there with you. I wouldāve been in every TWD YouTube comment section, subreddit, and Facebook group, guns blazing like:
āRICHONNE IN FIVE OR I BURN THIS WHOLE FRANCHISE TO THE GROUND.ā
And when they finally got together?? I KNOW some of yāall levitated. I KNOW you ascended. The spiritual VINDICATION you mustāve felt?? The SMUGNESS??? Went to bed that day like
AND AM I THE ONLY ONE who clocked Rickās tiny little flicker of disappointment when Merle was all, āMichonne and Andrea was all cuddled up during the winteršā and lowkey hinted there was something there?? And then like TWO episodes later, Michonne casually drops the āI talk to my dead boyfriend sometimesā line and Rick lights up like a damn Christmas tree šš Like sir⦠was that RELIEF I detected?? Was he thinking, āoh wait... I might actually have a shotā??? Bc SAME, hot boy Rick, same!!! I see you!!! I am onto you, cowboy!!! š«µš¾š¤
Anyway, Michonne is bi in this house. Thatās a personal headcanon argue with yo mama!
Now SPEAKING of chances⦠Andrea. Girl. You had like. So many. TOO MANY. And what did you do?? You had a whole opportunity to send the Governor to hell's ashy gates, and you FUMBLED. For WHAT?? Just for him to absolutely humiliate you during the negotiation talks later like it was his full-time job?? I got violent secondhand embarrassment from that whole scene. Like girl... GRIMY, EYEPATCHED, CULT LEADER vs. MICHONNE??? HOT GIRL SURVIVOR WHO KEPT YOU ALIVE IN THE WILDERNESS FOR 8 MONTHS STRAIGHT???
I'm sorry but if a stunning sword-wielding woman took care of me while I was fever-dreaming in the woods for nearly a year, the moment I recovered Iād be like, āYes maāam š© what do you need? Firewood? Fresh water? A new life in the woods where we live off berries and trauma bonding? Say less, Iām on it.ā Like literally Iād be her emotional support simp.
Some of yāall donāt know how to recognize divine favor when itās handed to you on a plate and thatās why Andrea got what she got. š¤·āāļø
Also, me realizing a ton of TikTok sounds come from TWD and Iāve just been unknowingly quoting them for years??? Every time I hear one, Iām like:
And then I rewatch the scene like 50 times just to laugh again šš
Anyways...Now for the trauma portion of this postā¦
Ok down to business, Iāve finished Season 3 and Iām five episodes from the end of Season 4 and I have a lot of things to say about some people so, buckle up and as usual ā ļøspoilers ahead ā ļø:
First of all, I Canāt Stand Behind Carolās Choice During the Flu Outbreak
I've been turning this over in my head since it happened, and here it is: Carol was wrong. Killing Karen and David wasnāt brave. It wasnāt tactical. It wasnāt necessary. It was fear disguised as leadership. And ultimately, it was pointless.
Why? because the virus still spread, people still died and the group was only saved because of Hershelās compassion, Daryl, Tyresse and Michonneās courage, and the strength of the sick fighting to live. (Notice how I didn't mention Bob? yeah fuck him)
Karen and David were already quarantined. Hershel later used that same strategy, but with empathy. He risked his life to comfort the infected, not kill them. And it worked.
Carol didnāt even try. She didnāt warn them. Didnāt comfort them. Didnāt talk to Rick. She just⦠decided their lives werenāt worth the risk. Thatās cold-blooded.
And the question I keep asking myself: If it had been Carl or Daryl who got sick⦠would she have done the same thing? I THINK NOT! She didnāt see Karen and David as her people.
But Hershel did...And that's the problem.
Hershel pookie bear šš, He was the heart of the prison group. While others were spiraling, shutting down, or making fear-based decisions (looking at you Carol), Hershel walked straight into the fire.
He chose to enter the infected cell block, not because anyone made him, but because no one else would.
He didnāt kill the sick to stop the spread and He didnāt run from them. He sat with them, held their hands and prayed over them, He tried to heal them, even knowing he could die.
āYou step outside; you risk your life. You take a drink of water; you risk your life. And now you breathe, and you risk your life. Every moment now... you donāt have a choice. The only thing you can choose is what you're risking it for.ā
That quote hit me like a train. Because Hershel didnāt just say that he lived it. Carol acted in secret, Hershel led by example, Carol chose fear, Hershel chose compassion. Thats why his death hit me hard
He was good, in a world that desperately needed good people.
And I think the Governor's scene added the missing piece that tied it all together:
The moment where the Governor captures Michonne and Hershel, and Hershel, in pure Hershel fashion, tries to appeal to his humanity:
āIf you understand what itās like to have a daughter⦠then how can you threaten to kill someone elseās?ā
And the Governor just⦠looks at him and says:
āBecause they are not mine.ā
And in that moment, I swear, everything from Seasons 1ā4 snapped into focus.
Thatās the whole thesis of the show so far.
Because thatās the answer we keep getting to the moral questions Dale, Hershel, and even I have been asking since day one: In a world where the outside threat are the walkers/zombies, why do humans fight among each other? Why donāt we help each other survive? Why do people steal, kill, betray, or destroy instead of cooperating?
The answer is always the same:
āBecause they are not mine.ā
Not my family. Not my responsibility. Not my people.
That mindset, the tribalism, the conditional empathy, the āus vs. themā logic, thatās the real apocalypse. Not the walkers, not the virus.
Itās the loss of humanity. Thatās why Carol and Shane felt so comfortable killing Karen, David, and Otis, because they didnāt see them as their people. Their lives were treated as expendable.
Dale warned us. Hershel lived it. Rick is struggling with it. And men like the Governor, carol and Shane? Theyāve fully embraced it.
Secondly, the mirroring between Michonne and Carl
The destruction of the prison scatters the group, and emotionally, it breaks them too. In Season 4, Episode 9 (āAfterā), we follow two characters in parallel: Michonne and Carl. Each is isolated, traumatized, and trying to figure out who they are without the group, but they move in opposite emotional directions.
When Michonne cuts the arms and jaws off two walkers and ties them up, sheās going back to what kept her alive before she met the prison group: camouflage, silence and detachment. The world has fallen apart again, and her response is to revert: to survive alone.
But somethingās different this time, the walker herd becomes a mirror.
As she walks among them, the camera slows down. Sheās not just hiding, sheās studying them. Observing. Is she one of them now? They're dead. Silent. Numb. And so is she, emotionally.
Sheās lost her found family. Sheās alone again. Sheās not living, just drifting.
And worst of all? It feels too comfortable. The flashback confirms what I suspected, her first walker āpetsā were her boyfriend and his friend. What starts as a peaceful domestic scene slowly decays into horror: theyāre armed, unstable, and already becoming monsters in her memory.
Itās her mind processing grief, guilt, and trauma. She turned people she loved into tools for survival. Now sheās doing it again.
When she snaps and kills the walkers, even the ones she chained up itās more than a survival choice.
Itās symbolic. Itās a rejection.
āIām done walking with the dead. I want to find the living again.ā
Sheās choosing life over numbness. Choosing emotion over detachment. This to me is an episode were a lot of characters come to realize a lot of important things. I find it so fitting that her scene parallels Carl's:
All through season 3 and even season 4, Carl has been battling with what doing the "right thing" meant.
After the prison falls, heās furious. Not just because of the death of Judith or Hershel (RIP) but because heās finally seeing his fatherās limits.
He berates Rick, āI donāt need you anymore.ā Tries to survive alone, kills walkers and then self-soothes by eating pudding... after nearly dyeing, twice.
Heās trying to prove heās an adult, but when Rick appears to be turning into a walker, Carl canāt pull the trigger.
Thatās the breaking point: He realizes he canāt be cold and detached like Shane. He does need his father. He wants to survive, but not at the cost of his humanity.
Hereās the genius of this episode:
Michonne is opening back up. Sheās saying, āI want to feel again.ā
Carl is shutting down. Heās saying, āFeelings are dangerous.ā
Theyāre on the same emotional path but headed in opposite directions. And thatās what makes their reunion at the end so powerful.
Itās not just āYay, we found each other š.ā Itās: āWe need each other to stay human š„¹š„¹.ā
Carlās emotional arc echoes Shaneās influence. He believes if Rick had just killed the Governor when he had the chance, none of this wouldāve happened. Itās a black-and-white view; the kind Shane would have approved of:
āMercy is weakness. Morality gets people killed.ā
But the show keeps challenging that idea. Yes, Rick showed mercy, but was that wrong? Or was it a refusal to abandon civilization completely?
Carl isnāt ready to grapple with moral nuance, not really. Heās still a kid, after all. A kid who deeply loves and respects his father, but is being forced to confront death, violence, and impossible choices at an age when he should be learning algebra and playing videogames, not battlefield ethics.
Most of the talking points he clings to in Seasons 3 and 4 are just words he parrots from Rick and Shane. Carl wants so badly to prove heās mature, that heās strong enough to carry the same burden Rick does. But the truth is⦠he canāt. Not yet.
āShouldāve shot himā isnāt a thoughtful moral stance, itās emotional shorthand. A way to avoid the complicated grief of what might have been. That kind of black-and-white thinking is exactly what a grieving child would cling to, because it feels safer than facing the gray.
Iām honestly so curious to see how the other character arcs unfold, and whether more of them mirror or invert each other the way Michonne and Carlās do.
I obviously have other thoughts about other people, but this is getting too long so I will end with Rick.
Thatās a whole other beast I havenāt even begun to fully unpack. But itās clear heās going through a metamorphosis. You can feel it building all season, from officer friendly to farmer Rick to⦠whatever comes next.
When he wakes up from this "deep slumber"⦠I wonder what kind of man heāll be. One thingās for sure though, he and Michonne are still gonna be hot as hell. ššš¤š¤š¤
And that's on Michonne
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Hi! Sorry in advance if you have already gotten this question. I was watching at some recent reactions on Youtube to Rick & Michonne getting together and while some were happy and called it, there were a few others that are confused/not happy etc. What do you think about specific reactions that say either "they're trauma bonded" or it wasn't necessary to put them together?
Hi! š I love when reactors pick up on Richonne pre-canon and celebrate when Rick and Michonne make it official in 6x10. Regarding others' less supportive views on Richonne being a couple, I just feel that all their reasons are easily disproven. And what Iāve always felt is that what bothers certain people about Richonne is not that they donāt work as a couple, but that they do.
Rick and Michonne have a dynamic that some didnāt think should or could ever be as passionate, healthy, genuine, and devoted as it is. And yet Richonne is all of that and more. And Richonneās relationship is all these things organically, because it was born from the natural connection and chemistry between the characters and actors. It may never be admitted, but thatās what I think deep down makes some people uncomfortable - knowing this relationship authentically flourishes in a way they had always believed shouldnāt be possible between characters like Rick and Michonne. And racism is so often at the root.
People are entitled to not really care for TV characters or pairings. But I feel like the disdain for Richonne that Iāve seen over the years goes beyond that. And I notice so few people ever just come right out and own that they dislike Rick and Michonne together for no justifiable reason, or for a very skin-deep reason. Instead, they have all these unfounded reasons why they think thereās an issue with the couple. And I wrote out my thoughts on some of those reasons/reactions below:Ā
Any underrated early Richonne angst fics you'd recommend? Slow burns and will they won't they? In the mood to suffer.
Hello anon,
We tried to find some fics for you - although these may not beĀ āunderratedā per se, they are definitely some good angst fics we recommend to all Richonne lovers:
I Want You Back by Chezza3009
Loss and Gain by Lyra Verse
L4yers of War by fithola
Not Mine- Richonne Short Story by IsisNicole
Inconvenience by elsac2
The criminology behind a scandal by elsac2
Love, M by twhorus
The Palette & After by WontLastTwoDays
No Ordinary Love by Fik Freak
Haunted by twriter12
Latch On by shipnation
Lemonade by cakebythepound
Your Good Fortune by crypticnotions
Sous Couverture by Siancore
Kismet - A Richonne Novel by meanprincess
For more #angst fic, please check our tag by clicking through the link. If you think we are missing out any stories, please drop an ask in our askbox! Happy reading!
Hi! Sorry in advance if you have already gotten this question. I was watching at some recent reactions on Youtube to Rick & Michonne getting together and while some were happy and called it, there were a few others that are confused/not happy etc. What do you think about specific reactions that say either "they're trauma bonded" or it wasn't necessary to put them together?
Hi! š I love when reactors pick up on Richonne pre-canon and celebrate when Rick and Michonne make it official in 6x10. Regarding others' less supportive views on Richonne being a couple, I just feel that all their reasons are easily disproven. And what Iāve always felt is that what bothers certain people about Richonne is not that they donāt work as a couple, but that they do.
Rick and Michonne have a dynamic that some didnāt think should or could ever be as passionate, healthy, genuine, and devoted as it is. And yet Richonne is all of that and more. And Richonneās relationship is all these things organically, because it was born from the natural connection and chemistry between the characters and actors. It may never be admitted, but thatās what I think deep down makes some people uncomfortable - knowing this relationship authentically flourishes in a way they had always believed shouldnāt be possible between characters like Rick and Michonne. And racism is so often at the root.
People are entitled to not really care for TV characters or pairings. But I feel like the disdain for Richonne that Iāve seen over the years goes beyond that. And I notice so few people ever just come right out and own that they dislike Rick and Michonne together for no justifiable reason, or for a very skin-deep reason. Instead, they have all these unfounded reasons why they think thereās an issue with the couple. And I wrote out my thoughts on some of those reasons/reactions below:Ā
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I enjoyed Romulus, I was super disappointed by Alien Earth, so I watched Alien again š¤