WE ARE ( NOT ) THE WALKING DEAD !

it all kind of runs together at this point, hard to narrow it down. it's one solid block of bad all boiling down to one thing. the worst thing I ever did... live. When so many others who should have didn't. rick grimes from the walking dead. comic based, private and selective, written by p. low activity !

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rip ri.ck gr.imes, i’m glad ki.rkman didn’t give up to easy plot armour surviving

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‘ i’m sorry i woke you. ’

𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐒𝐔𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓  𝐈𝐒  𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐇 on his eyes, makes it difficult at first to keep them, hand in front of them to shield them and make the sudden awakening more bearable. His injured leg hurts, but his back and neck aren’t in better shape — what else did he expect, sleeping on the ground, guarded only by the gravestone of the woman he loved? Judging by the quiet around and the height of the sun, it was early still. It was better that way, he didn’t want the whole community to know he slept on Andrea’s grave.    « Don’t worry, I should have been already up anyway. »    He got up, not without some difficulties for his aching body.    « Is there something you need? »

*the road starters | accepting | @gvnsmith

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after reflecting a bit about it, i’d be satisfied if that was r.ick’s end in the comics. that whole issue felt like a “goodbye”, the ending of not just an arc but a story. the speech he gives, of embracing life and no longer being forced into just surviving and fighting for it while losing humanity, it really got me. the call back to the line at the prison, we are the walking dead vs the we are NOT the walking dead, also really got me. if this is the end for r.ick gr.imes, then i’ll be sad but i’ll also welcome it, until the end a shining beacon in a world of darkness, to call back to andrea’s words.

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...............................................................that new issue..........................................................help

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❝ protect what matters with everything you have, or you’ll have nothing, and deserve it. ❞

« 𝐈𝐒  𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒  𝐇𝐎𝐖  𝐘𝐎𝐔  𝐒𝐔𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃, for so long out there? »    Besides the point of knowing her story for a matter of safety ( they’re strangers and he’s letting them in ; he has to be sure it won’t come to bite his ass later on ) he’s truly curious about this new group. People have come and gone, since the end of the conflict with the saviors — not many have intrigued the leader as much as Magna and her group, though. Surviving out there for so long, Rick’s not sure he could have managed.

dragon age | accepting | @miiikos

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𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐀‌ | 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐎 𝐓𝐈𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐒

❛  𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐄𝐎𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐎  ❜  ----  stomach shrinks and twists,   a tight knot is soon formed around vocal cords     ❛      too many to count      ❜      

        she continues,   hazels once and again finding Rick’s features,  although she makes sure she’s not caught in the process.      ❛      i don’t want to go through that again,   i’m not sure if i could handle it,   at least not in the way you and your friends do it    ❜  

☣.•°*  THLEADR ┆ “ sc

𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆  𝐇𝐄  𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐒 all too well, that feeling of losing too many people ; worse, not managing to protect the people he was supposed to keep safe. A position Rick’s been in too many times.    « I can’t promise it’ll never happen again. »    He says, full honesty — no need to lie, for lies never work in situations like these.    « But if you help us — maybe you can help others not to go through that pain. »

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𝐆𝐕𝐍𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐇‌ | 𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐓𝐎

     alexandria is quiet for now, but the gunsmith knows better than to let that be a comfort. it’s a gift as well as a curse. a gift in that she can think in peace, a curse in that —— if there was someone lurking, she didn’t know. eyes shut for a moment, breathing stalled as she clips in a piece to the weapon she worked on. alex is tired, beyond exhausted and yet she persists. it’s not a good thing to be up this late, but she can’t pull herself away. the silence is broken by distinct footsteps, they’re familiar and carry weight. she tries not to laugh but she doesn’t face them, she can see the figure reflected in the metal.  ❛  ——— rick,  ❜  she smirks a bit, head shaking slightly,  ❛  shouldn’t  you  be  asleep ?  ❜  //  @thleadr: sc.

𝐒𝐋𝐄𝐄𝐏  𝐃𝐎𝐄𝐒𝐍'𝐓  𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄  𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐘  𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 ; long gone are the days he would come home, tired from work, and sleep through the night with his wife beside him and the worries of any other man in his mind. Those worries — bills, work, money — it all seems stupid now, through the lenses of the years and the events since he woke up in that hospital. Now his worries are about keeping that place safe, the people safe, against outside threats. 

( Only one thing hasn’t changed, that he still feels tired. )

« I could ask you the same thing. »    Half a smile on the man’s face, caught by the girl before he could say anything or introduce himself — arms folded on his chest as he leans against the door.    « What are you working on? »

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𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐅𝐆𝐇𝐓‌ | 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐇 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐘

      when   a   person      has  spent   so  much  time   on  their  own,   as   happy   as  she  possibly  is,   there  is   complete  apprehension .   appreciation  to  be   let  in,   feet  in  place  even  as  his  hand  lifts  to  take  hold  of  the  fence,   she  finds  herself  stuck  in  place  before  her  head  is  shaking .   ❛   no–   ❜   and  to  somehow   prove  that,   hannah’s  fingers  pull  the  sleeves  of  her  arms  off and  put   unblemished  skin   on  display   ( not  that   that   would  prove   much ) .   ❛   i’ve  just–   i’ve  been  alone  for  a   while .   ❜   sentence   unnecessary,   finally  she  finds  one  foot  taking  a  step  forward,   eyes  meeting  those  of  the  stranger  before  her  filled  with  nothing  but  a   plea  for  help .   not   usually   one  to   beg,   hannah  has  to   stop  herself   from  getting  down  on  her  knees .     ❛   i  only  have  a   knife,   you  can   have  it .   and  my  bag,   anything  else  you  want  to   look  over,   it’s  yours .   my  name  is   hannah .   ❜

𝐀𝐍  𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐓  𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀 ; eyes check the bare skin of her arms, but even before that he has made his decision. The world outside is no place to wander alone, no matter what. For a moment he looks back to the prison’s courtyard, where only Maggie and Glenn stand, too far to read the expressions on their faces to know what they think ( or even understood ) of the situation. It’s upon himself, then, to decide. He moves to the side, opening up the gate enough to let the stranger’s figure slide inside. There is time, inside, to discuss more. Her story, her path to that point — but it’s not safe to do so out in the open and risk to attract the attention of the dead and the living alike.     « Come in, we can further discuss matters inside. We also have food and water, in case you’re hungry. »    He steps behind to let her come in, ready to close up behind her.    « I’m Rick. »

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dragon age starters

feel most free to change pronouns ,  etc .

❝ it doesn’t matter that they won’t remember me. what matters is i helped. ❞ ❝ bad things should happen to bad people. ❞ ❝ i’m here to set things right. also ? to look dashing. that part’s less difficult. ❞ ❝ planning has never been my strong suit . now, killing…killing & love-making. those i am better at. ❞ ❝ oh ! we could get matching outfits ! ❞ ❝ i’m not saying i should be your first pick for a dance partner at the ball , but in the deep roads , i’m your man / woman. ❞ ❝ draw your weapon & say that again ! ❞ ❝ we’re here to kill them all, yes ? for sport ? ❞ ❝ you tend to get up to interesting things. you meet interesting people & then you kill them. ❞ ❝ i never worry, darling. a leash can be pulled from either end. ❞ ❝ it’s like you need permission to be alive. ❞ ❝ has anyone told you what marvelous eyes you possess, my dear ? ❞ ❝ have you ever licked a lamp post in winter ? ❞ ❝ i’ll try not to hit anyone. ❞ ❝ there you are. everyone’s been looking for you. ❞ ❝ the last man standing gets final say on who is right or wrong. ❞ ❝ i like my hair the way it is, thank you. ❞ ❝ do you think about how to kill everyone you meet ? ❞ ❝ are you… sassing me, ____? ❞ ❝ yes, but she/you seems more… “ooh, pretty colors !” than “muahaha ! i am princess stabbity ! stab, kill, kill ! ❞ ❝ congratulations ! you have found a wastebin . ❞ ❝ what are you going to do with that sword ? ❞ ❝ not listening ! la la-la la la ! ❞ ❝ i saw you looking at the girl/boy in town earlier . ❞ ❝ anyone wishing to accuse me of weakness is welcome to try. ❞ ❝ …did you cut your own hair ? ❞ ❝ ”one by one they follow, drowning in the sea”. the rest of the poem is sad.. ❞ ❝ you aren’t all stone, ____. there is a person inside of you. ❞ ❝ we crush the heads of rude women when we feel like it. just so you know. ❞ ❝ protect what matters with everything you have, or you’ll have nothing, and deserve it. ❞ ❝ i want you to know that what we had was real. ❞ ❝ in the end you are always alone with your actions. ❞ ❝ somebody’s been drinking. ❞ ❝ let’s show them our hearts, and then show them theirs.. ❞ ❝ do you feel that ? my magic-sensing nose is tingling. ❞ ❝ well, shit. ❞ ❝ you worry me, you know that ? ❞ ❝ i’m cold. & it’s indoors. this is so wrong. ❞ ❝ i saw what you were doing back there. ❞ ❝ we will never speak of this again. ❞ ❝ you’re a big softie ! ❞  ❝ i’ve got just the thing to cure that pout. ❞ ❝ eight, nine, now you die. ❞ ❝ daughters never grow up. they remain six years old with pigtails & skinned knees forever. ❞ ❝ i don’t need my pants, anyway. ❞ ❝ smiles. we must be careful how we present ourselves. ❞ ❝ be careful what you wish for. power is treacherous. i have seen many people–great leaders–consumed by it. ❞ ❝ don’t touch me ! stay away ! ❞ ❝ i think of him/you/her as much as he/you/she thinks at all. ❞ ❝ i knew nothing of friendship before we met. ❞ ❝ you can approve or not approve as you wish, but this is one thing you cannot influence and mold to your liking. ❞ ❝ there you go, breaking my heart. ❞  ❝ does anyone else feel the verge to vomit? ❞ ❝ i…love you. just… wanted to tell you that. ❞ ❝ let those who would destroy us step into the light. ❞ ❝ it’s dangerous when too many men in the same armor think they’re right. ❞ ❝ if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. maybe even throw in a heroic death. ❞ ❝ i do quite like watching you leave. ❞ ❝ send him a fruit basket. everyone loves those. ❞ ❝ did i stutter ? ❞ ❝ are you kidding ? i’m surprised you didn’t kill anyone just coming over here. ❞ ❝ the world may want my time, but you have my heart ❞ ❝ have you ever heard the saying ‘let sleeping abominations lie’?  now would be the time to consider it. ❞ ❝ that sounded much better in my head . ❞ ❝ i have an excellent sense of dramatic timing. & good hair.  ❞ ❝ the air hurts. i have to stop. ❞ ❝ challenge someone to arm-wrestle me. ❞ ❝ so, you’re not like a lot of other girls/boys. ❞ ❝ not long ago this was impossible to imagine. you, the man i love, victory close at hand. ❞ ❝ how do you do that ? make everything better with a smile ? ❞ ❝ it gets no easier. your struggles have only just begun. ❞ ❝ there comes a time when you must stop running, when you turn & face the tiger.  ❞ ❝ it’s family, you protect. doesn’t matter who it is, blood or not. ❞ ❝ perhaps we should carve our names into the giant tree ? ❞ ❝ hey ! that’s mine ! ❞ ❝ our mistakes make us who we are. ❞ ❝ fear makes men more dangerous than magic ever could. ❞ ❝ don’t let anyone tell you when to move on. take their hand & say, “my choice". ❞ ❝ words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find. ❞ ❝ shitballs. fuck. shit. crap. ❞ ❝ living a lie … it festers inside you, like poison. ❞

[dailytwdcomics]

“Aftermath”

Carl fights for the Commonwealth… but against WHO?

[clayelenas]

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a rick mood

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                                  𝐈'𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄, 𝒀𝑬𝑺. ©

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𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐕𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐍‌ | 𝐍𝐄𝐆𝐀𝐍

𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 . ◟ 𝐓𝐇𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐑

        ❝  𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊    𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓!    𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄    𝐘𝐎𝐔   𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄,  ❞  negan  presses  himself  against  the  metal  bars  to  his  cell,  face  settling  in-between  two  of  them.  they’re  cold  to  the  touch  with  the  approaching  night,  but  the  male  doesn’t  seem  to  care,  expression  staying  unreadable.

        ❝  i’d  say  i’ve  been  quite  good.  watching  my  language.  making  sure  i  eat  all  my  greens.  so,  what  i’m  asking,  is  if  you,  or,  one  of  the  lovely  ladies  of  alexandria,  could  cut  this  mop  off  of  my  head.  and  the  beard  could  use  a  trim  too,  if  you’re  feeling  generous.  ❞

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂  𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃  𝐈𝐒  𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘  𝐎𝐍  𝐓𝐇𝐄  𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐄 ; just a light push and he’d be out in the light, the other in the darkness behind bars. As it should be, as it’s been since the end of that stupid conflict. And yet.

Steps are descended once again, the noise of steps accompanied only by the thud sound of his cane as he walks. Thud, thud, thud. Deliberately slow. He stops only when he’s standing once again in front of the man, on the other side of the bars of his cell. « And let you be anywhere near a pair of scissors? As if I don’t know what you are capable of? You must be crazy. »

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𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐎𝐍 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐊 ( @northeir ) | 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓

𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒  𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄  𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒  𝐎𝐍𝐄 always got him, in the end. 

( Perhaps he saw his own son in this boy, both the child before and the one that was shaped by this world, the one who put a bullet in a man’s body with tears running down his cheeks and the one who had nearly as much blood on his hands as his father did. Who knew. Curse this world and all that came with it ).

Bloody hand holding the steering wheel but there’s no motion to turn the key and start the engine — and yet he should hurry, the night is upon them, Alexandria is still far. A different reaction is what he expected ; a naive belief that what the boy witnessed moments before was the worst he had to see — shame and sorrow alike taking hold of him, a boy alone in this world must have endured even worse. How naive of him to think otherwise. Hope otherwise.

« There’s a community, not far from here, I can take you there — if you want, you’d be welcome. »     Somewhat he doubts he’s going to get an answer — yet he’s adamant not to start the engine until the boy tells him. A boy and a dog alone in the woods, like something straight out of a story — a dog who protected him, until Rick jumped out of the truck, now sitting at it’s owner’s feet, head on the child’s legs.    « You’d both be welcome. »

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✧  DARK  TOWER  SENTENCE  STARTERS.

❛ A coward judges all he sees by what he is. ❜ 

❛ For love’s ever been the more destructive weapon, sure. ❜ 

❛ I thought you were going to say “Fear, itself.” ❜ 

❛ You’ll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell. ❜ 

❛ They tell tales because they’re afraid of life. ❜ 

❛ What, do tall people burn slower? ❜ 

❛ Why must you hurt me, when I love you so? ❜ 

❛ If torture were to stop now, I might still recover. ❜ 

❛ Even if the torture stops, I’ll die. ❜ 

❛ For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask. ❜ 

❛ I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. ❜

❛ Go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut. ❜ 

❛ All right, we’re back together again. What the hell do we do next? ❜ 

❛ We’ve got miles to go yet.  ❜  

❛ I know that. It’s on your face, son. Like a scar. ❜ 

❛ I thought it was part of the furniture! ❜ 

❛ Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up first. ❜ 

❛ I don’t like people. They fuck me up. ❜   

❛ Anyone who doesn’t think the imagination can kill is a fool. ❜ 

❛ I’m sorry, but it was there when I moved in. ❜ 

❛ How could you let such a business go on for so many years? ❜ 

❛ I believe this is redemption. ❜   

❛ Ending is just another word for goodbye. ❜ 

❛ Why will you cut me, and disfigure my face, and fill me with woe? ❜ 

❛ There’s little in life that’s so disheartening as constant cold. ❜ 

❛ Will you say goodbye? ❜ 

❛ There were no words in it, nor could there have been. ❜ 

❛ Our greatest moments of triumph are always inarticulate. ❜ 

❛ I pull it along with me everywhere I go. ❜ 

❛ Some moments are beyond imagination. ❜ 

❛ Roll me in sugar and call me a fuckin jelly-doughnut! ❜ 

❛ Birth is nothing but death begun. ❜ 

❛ This time you’ll sing until the song is done, write until the tale is done. ❜ 

❛ Gone. Like a candle-flame. To whatever worlds there are. ❜ 

❛ I didn’t know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture. ❜ 

❛ Didn’t you see the elephant in the living room? ❜ 

❛ You see? Size defeats us. ❜ 

❛ In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn’t it? ❜ 

❛ They were close to the end of the beginning … ❜ 

❛ Not as friends, but as equals? ❜ 

❛ Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. ❜ 

❛ The best part, though, was hearing my father’s/mother’s voice. ❜ 

❛ They would go down fighting, but they were going to die there. ❜ 

❛ You can always throw your knife at it. ❜ 

❛ In this universe there might grow roses which sing. ❜ 

❛ I kill with my heart, motherfucker. ❜ 

❛ If you want to run and play, come along the beam today. ❜ 

❛ Save your hate for those who deserve it more. ❜ 

❛ Time is a thief of memory. ❜ 

❛ I don’t think I could ever come back from all this. ❜ 

❛ My Heart Pumps Purple Piss for You.❜ 

❛ Liars see their own kind everywhere. ❜ 

❛ What heart I have is yours. ❜ 

❛ I’m afraid to go to sleep. ❜ 

❛ I’m afraid my dead friends will come and seeing them will kill me. ❜ 

❛ This is dying - I know because I’ve done it before. ❜ 

❛ You’ll live in exile and die as you lived. ❜ 

❛ May you live long, but not in good health. ❜   

❛ Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies? ❜ 

[the-walking-dead-art]

What lies ahead