[vampirevelvet]

✦ fics I've written and posted on ao3 ✦

offering (Rickyl) | featuring confessions, uncomfortable feelings talk, and a happy ending 10 on the richter scale (Rickyl) | a look into Daryl's head around season 2, dealing with something he'd rather not be dealing with one end, one beginning | an exploration of the Dixon brothers pre-show aftermath (Rickyl) | some hurt/comfort after Daryl escapes the Sanctuary

✦ relevant tags ✦

my art ✦ kid daryl ✦ the dixon brothers ✦ rickyl ✦ twd analysis posts

[dixonricks]

daryl dixon spinoff season 3 episode 5

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[jumpscart]

Sometimes you will be a lesbian to your parents and a straight man to your partners parents and a gay man to your partner and a woman to your grandparents and out to your friends and stealth to your classmates and a nice young lady to the cashier at the coffee shop and then people on your computer will ask you to choose which of these identities you ACTUALLY are and which you are Appropriating The Oppression Of because don’t you know they contradict each other. You can only be one thing solidly forever

[vampirevelvet]

My boyfriend's new pookie wookie meow meow from the worst show we've ever watched

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:)

[vampirevelvet]

This Valentine's Day, believe in yourself. You too can find beautiful gay love on tumblr.com if you make your favorite character a homosexual and then post obsessively about them.

[dixonricks]

you're my brother

[vampirevelvet]

Hey guys. Remember Rickyl?

[vampirevelvet]

Doodling my boy and putting him in show accurate outfits. Keeping him blond though #darylwasblondandiwillneverletthatgo

[etiennelux]

i love when sibling characters are fucked up from the same event but in opposite ways

[deadmanrisenn]

Rick finding it cute & endearing that daryl puts on this tough guy persona but gets extremely flustered at even the slightest romantic or sexual gesture.. thus purposely doing it more.. Waow

[catwithpartyhat]

Rickyl really said “You are my brother, because I don’t know any other language for tenderness”

[dixonricks]

contributing to this that i also think rick knows that brotherhood is the highest level of affection that daryl can comprehend and feel comfortable with at the same time, and so rick’s safest version of “i love you” that he can truly say to daryl without losing him momentarily to his own inner turmoil is “you are my brother”. rick watched daryl walk away from him for someone who treated him horribly for the sole reason that he was labeled “brother” to him, and then he watched him come back to him, his dearest and most well-fought friend, knowing said brother wasn’t the one who had any say in that call. rick has seen what “brother” means to daryl, what he’s willing to sacrifice in the name of it, and what he isn’t willing to lose in this new life that he shares with rick and those he loves of his own volition.

rick knows that daryl believes that brother is the highest honor that he can bestow on others, and rick knows just as much that daryl knows exactly what he meant when he gave it to daryl himself.

[catwithpartyhat]

Rickyl really said “You are my brother, because I don’t know any other language for tenderness”

[trashyayo]

Children's Letters to God

[vampirevelvet]

I don't like the "Go, don't look back" flashback in the spinoff. It's too black and white. Merle heroically holding their father off while Daryl escapes... it's not unrealistic, but it's not how I imagined their dynamic in their childhood. Give me Merle who fails. Not out of malice or incompetence, just because he is also a child and scared.

Sometimes living in an abusive household as siblings means appeasing the abuser over and over again and failing your sibling in the process. Being unfair to them. "Stop crying, I hear dad coming." "Go with him on that hunting trip, it won't be as bad as you think and you know you can't just say no to him." "You're right, but don't talk back to him like that." You don't remove them from situations, even though you know you should and would in an ideal world, because in this one you can't. The fallout would be so big that you wouldn't know how to deal with it. You want to shield both of you, so instead of saving them, you teach them how to live with it.

And I think that is so important with both the psychology behind Merle abandoning Daryl and how we see Daryl behave as an adult. Because despite his tendency to lash out and behave violently, Daryl is someone who endures. Daryl is loyal to a fault. He's the executioner. He'll ignore his own wants and needs to get shit done for people. Sometimes, especially if it's with Merle, he doesn't even recognize mistreatment.

Over and over again we see both of the Dixon brothers having a philosophy of "That's just how shit is." and that's what it is and where it could come from. Living with it. Always having to have lived with it.

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Living with a teenager is going great so far