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Clear. 🤩 One of The Walking Dead's best episodes for many reasons, but especially for the beautiful seeds it planted between Rick and Michonne. The fence is where their lives became interlocked, and Clear is the start of where their hearts became interlocked. And in this scene right here, Richonne became absolutely inevitable...
This whole episode is something special, and I love Rick and Michonne's every interaction, with an honorable mention to their “the mat said welcome” scene. 😋 From the moment they met, these two had some romantic tension brewing, and it nearly boils over in this scene that just had to make the top 20.
Rick has brought Carl on his first run and decided to bring Michonne along to help and to see what she’s about. It'll forever be telling to me that Rick felt comfortable enough to have Michonne on this run alone with him and his kid.
Despite some arguing that Rick was strictly skeptical of Michonne during this era of their relationship, I think the fact that he brought her out here to his former neighborhood and then, even more, let Michonne go out unsupervised on a crib run with Carl showed that there was some level of trust here that I don't think Rick would give to just anybody. Like while Rick initially tried to fight how drawn he was to Michonne in season 3, his behavior with her still painted a clear picture that to him...
And Michonne shows both Rick and Carl just how special she is and proves that she’s the real deal in all aspects throughout the episode. Especially in this scene here.
So what I love about this scene is that in a moment where Rick is feeling visibly frustrated and disappointed, Michonne’s regal calm spirit practically tames his defensive energy. He asks if she has a problem with the new approach they have to take, despite her showing no signs of having an issue. And Rick asking this will just always make me amused because no one got him hot and bothered quite like Michonne just existing.
Like she was silent for a literal second, but that was enough to evoke a reaction from him. And Andy, to me, found the perfect way to ask where it was defensive without sounding overtly challenging or particularly offputting.
And then Danai just makes all the right choices in this scene cuz Michonne knows that she doesn’t need to match that testy energy. Instead, she turns slowly and looks right at Rick and sets the tone by gently saying, “No Rick, I don’t have a problem.” 👏🏽👑
Something about even just her saying his name has some weight to it. And I love that this is the approach she takes. This is genuinely me every time I hear Michonne perfectly deliver that line...
Michonne had been a bit quieter and apart from the group prior, and this line is her elegant offering to let Rick know she isn’t his opponent and wants to help - that she isn’t a problem and doesn’t have a problem, not with his approach, or just doesn’t have a problem in general that he has to worry about.
And then to make that verbal offering of her alliance even more physical, Michonne hands Rick the lone bullet she picked up. Rick takes it and the way they focus on their hands again feels like it’s an important exchange. It’s like their first peace offering. And it’s one of the first of many things Michonne and Rick will hand each other, including a very special pack of mints that parallels this scene a bit. 😊
I love that Carl is visible in this scene and noting this exchange between his dad and the woman who will become his mom and his best friend. Carl knew something was up here and that something was different about this. He was still skeptical of Michonne at this point, but I think it was at this moment he began to tell that Michonne has some sort of unique impact on his dad.
This scene is also special because this is Rick in the freshest stage of being a single dad. He has to raise his son, who went through the trauma of having to put down his mom, and he also has a newborn to take care of, who he knows is actually Lori and Shane’s baby. And he has to deal with all this madness with the Governor. The weight of the world was on Rick's shoulders, and you see him really frustrated that the lack of guns at the station is yet another L. But Michonne is just so calm about it which is the energy he truly needs in his life.
She just asked if there’s a new solution cuz she only envisions winning. Even just when hearing Rick earlier explain how he was the police in this small town and there are other places to check and all that you can tell that he’s used to being second-guessed and challenged by people, and having to prove himself...But Michonne isn’t other people. She gets him, and she’s not rattled by their situation, so he doesn’t have to prove himself.
I also love how, even as they speak, it’s tense but not harsh. There’s just always this passion pulsating between them, even as strangers.
There’s so much power in the fact that Michonne wasn’t hostile back, but rather calm, collected, and compassionate. The way she looks at him here just says she sees Rick in a deeper way than most. Even that early in their relationship, she understood him.
So even with Rick bugging out, it doesn’t intimidate her or put her off, Michonne gets it and she handles it beautifully. If Rick and Carl didn’t know they were rocking with a queen before then, they knew now.
And y’all, I know Rick knew they were with someone special because of his reaction after this exchange.
Rick’s reaction to Michonne after she hands him the bullet and looks right in his eyes with that soft knowing expression before walking away is the cherry on top of this golden scene because homeboy looks like he’s been fully enchanted. Like Rick's whole energy is giving...
Rick pockets the bullet and takes a whole moment to collect himself after the way Michonne looked at him. His look up to the sky was a 'dang, can Lori see me falling for another woman in just a few short days?' look. #DirectMindQuote 😂
Rick and Michonne felt a spark right then and there. I know it. And no characters would have an exchange like this unless it was a seed toward something romantic growing.
Even deeper than that, I love that this moment was an insight into so much of what makes Rick and Michonne's relationship special. They can speak to each other and reach each other in any state. They can be a calming presence. They can enchant each other. They are so clearly the exact type of person the other needs in their life. They have such a unique and positive influence on each other, and this was the beginning of many moments that show that.
I love that it was this moment that had even Danai wondering if Rick and Michonne were endgame and that it was then confirmed that for Gimple, Richonne really was in the works during this episode. I mean after an exchange like this, the road to Rick and Michonne falling in love was pretty much guaranteed.
So I love seeing Rick and Michonne in this early stage, especially knowing they will go on to become beloved family to each other in the fullest sense. #Husband&Wife 😌
I Wanna Know - Where Would This Scene Land On Your Top 30 Richonne List?
Welcome to A Gathering of the Greatest Gumshoes! During this month-long event, I’ll be counting my Top 31 Favorite Fictional Detectives, from movies, television, literature, video games, and more!
Today, the countdown enters the Top 20!
SLEUTH-OF-THE-DAY’S QUOTE: “Kill me if you can!”
Number 20 is…L, from Death Note.
So far, all of the detectives on this list have been protagonist figures. Not all of them have been the MAIN protagonists (although the grand majority have been), but the focus in every situation up till now has been on the detectives trying to solve the cases. This, of course, is not always the case: not every protagonist is a hero, not every antagonist is a villain, and there are two sides to every story. While antagonistic detectives are somewhat rare, they do exist, and in various forms. Most I didn’t feel deserved placement on this countdown, however, due to one or more of the rules I established at the start. This character, however, is an exception.
“Death Note” is a highly-acclaimed anime and manga franchise, which sort of toes the line between crime/mystery drama and supernatural horror. The plot focuses on a Villain Protagonist: Light Yagami, a.k.a. Kira. Light is a precocious young man with a lot of high ideals: he sees the world as a corrupt place, and wishes there was a way to right the wrongs and bring true justice to the people. This desire gets twisted and warped when he comes into possession of the titular Death Note: a notebook with a very dark and dangerous magical ability. Whenever someone’s name is written in the Death Note…they die. And the person who writes the name down can even choose how and when they die, if they so wish. Light realizes the book has the power to grant him the justice he craves so much; consumed by the Death Note’s power, he goes mad and becomes the serial killer “Kira,” using its power to destroy anybody he deems unfit of living in the world he wants to create…or just anybody who gets in his way.
Light does not go unchallenged in the series, and this is where our contender for today comes into play: a mysterious private investigator known simply as “L.” This young fellow is a foil to Light, in a lot of ways: Light is seemingly normal, well-spoken, clean-cut, and conventionally attractive. L, in contrast, is a reclusive little hobgoblin obsessed with computers and candy. What both share is the fact they are each geniuses, both wiser and more clever than their youthful years would indicate. L becomes determined to solve the case of Kira, and it’s his actions and choices that create much of the conflict Light must face on his self-righteous and deadly quest.
Much of the show revolves around the concept of a single word I’ve used here already: “justice.” All of the major characters have their own philosophies and outlooks on what “true justice” really is. Light believes justice is as simple as punishing the guilty; as he is corrupted by the power the Death Note brings to him, he comes to think that the only way one can achieve true justice is to eliminate all of one’s enemies, so that those you care about can be rewarded and saved. L believes much the same, but he sees it from a different point of view: he believes Kira should be punished for his crimes, because that is what “true justice” is, regardless of his motivations. However, L is not a pure and simple hero in this story; he does things that are legally and ethically questionable in his pursuit of putting Kira behind bars. His ideal of justice is set up by the precedent that murder is wrong, and therefore catching murderers is just; how one actually goes about doing that is not something he really cares about on the whole.
Another thing that makes L interesting is his relationship with Light: while the two are dead serious about destroying one another, each comes to see the other as probably the closest thing either has ever had to a real, true friend. Indeed, there are, one could argue, subtle implications of romance between the pair. This makes what happens to L later in the manga and the anime even more tragic, because – SPOILER ALERT – in both, L does not survive the entire series. However, even after he dies, he’s far from done with Light Yagami, as things L did before his destruction ultimately do lead to Kira’s downfall. In the words of a different story, “Neither can live while the other survives.” Their twin paths ultimately result in mutual destruction, which is wonderfully poetic. I would argue the musical of Death Note (yes, there IS a musical, and it’s actually pretty good) does this even better than either the anime OR the manga…but that’s another story for another time.
Tomorrow, the countdown continues with Number 19!
CLUE: “Everyone has thought about killing someone, one way or another.”
Hiiii so for the SamBucky drabble challenge could I have a mix of 15 and 20 please?
Oooh, nice choices! Thank you so much for the request and I hope you enjoy the drabble!
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"Bucky! Be careful! You almost hit Vernon," said Sam, Bucky… confused.
“You know this Serpent Society crony?” asked Bucky, still throwing knives at the man dressed like a snake mascot (looking more like a lizard, if Bucky was being honest).
“No, my name’s Hubert!” said the crony, pinned to the wall now by half a dozen knives, Bucky basically playing with his food at this point, Hubert awkwardly waving as best as he could from the position.
“What? No. Vernon. Over there,” said Sam, Bucky desperately looking around for who “Vernon” might be, only to find… a bird next to the lackey?
“That’s Vernon? The bird?” asked Bucky, raising an eyebrow, throwing a knife near the beast of a pink bird, only for the bird to flinch.
“He’s a Roseate Spoonbill and his name is Vernon,” said Sam all grumbly (and cute), walking over to the bird - Vernon.
Bucky couldn’t stop watching the two of them, this weird interaction that came out of literally nowhere. Sam was making a series of clicking and honking and almost oinking sounds at Vernon, moving his body along with his vibranium Captain America wings.
And Vernon made noises and gestures back at Sam, the two giving off the vibes of two old ladies discussing gossip while the person they were talking about was in the room.
“Wait, are you two talking about me?” asked Bucky, absently throwing more knives to pin the Serpent Society henchman down even more securely, doing tricks as he tossed them, trying not to think about the nerves bubbling up, wondering when his boyfriend developed the ability of avian telepathy in his spare time, Sam and Vernon eyeing Bucky with judgmental looks before going back to their conversation, “What are you talking about? Sam, you’re telling him good things about me, right? Right?”
Vernon and Sam did a little dance and a lot of cawing that felt like Vernon giving Sam his sympathy for being stuck with Bucky before flying out into the sunset.
“Wow, I didn’t know Captain America could talk to birds!” said Hubert, looking like he would have clapped at the bird show if he could put his hands together.
“I’m a man of mystery,” said Sam, winking more at Bucky than Hubert, which was somehow still very sexy despite the man torturing Bucky with knowledge Bucky must know.
“Wait, what was that? What did he say?” asked Bucky, feeling the peak of his insecurities boiling to the top and overflowing a bit into his voice, hand flipping a knife just to have something to do that wasn’t thinking about what the bird and Sam were discussing about him just moments ago.
“It’s nothing,” said Sam, pressing his button to alert the authorities of an arrest, getting ready to fly off, “He just told me to tell you ‘You know what you did’.”
“What did I do?” asked Bucky, watching Sam just smirk, flying away from Bucky and the conversation, Bucky just watching him go, “What did I do, Sam?”
[Image ID: A digital illustration, made in MS Paint, of Rick from the Rick and Morty comics. He is turned around partially to look at the viewer with a glare. A speech bubble shows him saying, "What did you say?" The background is black with a large streak of bright yellow, indicating tension. End ID]
I've been tuned into this season of Married at First Sight. I could give a whole speech on who I like and don't like but that's a whole different discussion. I want to focus on Karen, 30 and Myles, 26. They knew when they paired them together the age would be a problem but man are they trying my patience.
Before the wedding Karen said she wasn't a risk taker so this was outside of her wheelhouse but you signed up and went through all the interviews to get there. You were chosen now it's time to start the journey and I get fear and apprehension but you'll never know what love and lessons can be waiting on you.
The night before the wedding she got his name and found him on Instagram and was questioning if she wanted to marry him because he wasn't what she considered her "type" but it didn't seem physically driven, it was because he talked about his feelings and that wasn't what she considered to be masculine.
That irritated me because a man can be every bit of a man and still be emotionally mature. That's what I want in a man. Tell me about how your upbringing shaped you. Tell me about your growth in life and if you required therapy. Tell me about how you've always wanted a strong passionate love.
Communicate. Open up. Be emotional.
This is not to say I want a man crying every minute but if you need to break down I will not think you are less than a man because of that. I don't want anger to be the only emotion you feel comfortable sharing with me.
When I'm hurting, I want you there for me and able to help me instead of running away from the amount of emotion I show (which isn't alot).
I'm a tough woman and want a tough man that makes me feel safe and cared for but I'll be damned if we can't talk about emotions because that isn't "manly".
I'll take that emotionally mature man over a shell of a man any day.
...he asked her straight out if a emotionally mature man can be masculine and she said yes so I'm not sure if the process is helping her or if she said it to save face or not hurt his feelings. I guess I'll have to keep watching to see how this goes.
#project hail mary
#heated rivalry
#photography
