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You know the more and more i think about it, the more get pissed off I get because, accident or not, he is abusing and torturing Maya Henry, even in death. He’s gotten the ultimate one-up on her because, now, people are harassing her comments telling her his death is his fault when it’s no one’s fault but his own.

I just hope Maya Henry is being surrounded with so much love and support right now. None of this is her fault.

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Remember Khaliifah Marcellus Williams! A black Muslim man falsely accused. Remember that he's innocent. Remember that the governor of Missouri, mike Parson who had the opportunity to save this man's life, decided not to. Remember all but three supreme court justices decided his life wasn't worth saving either. Remember his face. Remember his Last words. And remember how fucked up this country is

Rest in peace Marcellus

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Went down the nostalgia train last night, and “chemicals react” by aly and aj is a sydcarmy song😁

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ULTIMATE SHIPS CHALLENGE - Non-Endgame Ships [1/5] ↳ For our first real date, it's a start. (insp)

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👀 just wondering if you’re writing anything these days!

1. Hi, hello, thank you for the ask @anxietycroissant! ❤️

2. I am...or I am trying! I am about 16,000 words into what is probably going to be a pretty long fic. It's an unexpected pregnancy/speed-run-the-relationship Sydcarmy and I am happy to be writing it because it's what my brain wants to read but it alternately falls out of my head and gives me great angst. I had been pretty blocked for more than a week but 3000 words fell out of my head like nothing last night which was a nice surprise.

Excerpt (Syd and Carmy are at IKEA):

“Sammy, right? Weren't you Carmy's sous?”

Sydney looks up to see Claire standing before her. “Claire. Hi. It's Sydney, actually,” she says and rises. Claire's eyes fall to Syd’s abdomen. “And I'm his CDC now.”

“Oh, that's so cute!” Claire says, her eyes falling to Syd’s belly. “You finally got over your weird obsession with Carmy and moved on,” Claire says. “Congratulations!”

“Weird obsession?” Syd asks. She feels pinned again like she did the first night she met Claire during the reno, glared at for reasons Syd at least thinks she understands now. Jealousy, and this time, lingering anger at her breakup with Carmy, which Claire lobs at Sydney like a knife.

Syd struggles to respond. “Sorry...are you like here to look at a couch? Or like, eat some meatballs? Sorry.”

“How do you feel about a lingonberry juice box?” Carmy asks Syd as he returns, focused, unaware, unwrapping and inserting the straw as he moves to hand it to her. “Got some water too,” he says, finally engaging with the scene in front of him.

“Carm, hi,” Claire says, features pinching. Syd takes a sip from the straw.

“Uhh, hey, Claire,” Carmy returns. He slips his arm around Syd, possessive fingers digging into her hip. A united front.

“Just one…” Claire begins. “Did this, uh, overla…how far along are you?”

“Due at the end of February,” Syd says.

Claire calculates, glares at Carmy. “You didn't waste any time.”

Carmy shrugs.

“Well, this is just so fucking precious,” Claire says through clenched teeth. “I guess when you said you didn't have space for fun or enjoyment in your life, you really just meant you don't have space for me. Cool. Cool. That's just…I’ll see you around, Bear. Good luck with whatever.” She slings her bag over her shoulder and stalks off back towards the escalators.

“Uhh,” Syd says, before taking a last drink from her juice box. The lingonberry juice is good, a little tart cutting through the sweetness. The box scrunches and crunches in her hand and makes the sound that juice boxes do when they are finished. “Sorry, that was loud. And just like…sorry that, uh, this happened.”

(2.5 - I could probably use an alpha reader if any of my Sydcarmy mutuals wants to take a look and tell me if it's bad or that I'm crazy because it could very well be!)

3. I'm also working on a soul mark/soul scar Sydcarmy. It's probably about 3k words so far but I put it to the side because I realized I had a huge plot hole and haven't quite figured out how to come back from it yet.

Excerpt:

Sydney gets really good at applying foundation to her arms, pressing it in with setting powder to help keep it waterproof just in case. The number of tattoos gracing her arms has been growing exponentially over the last few months. There's a pyrex measuring cup holding the whole world, a couple of angels, a fish. S-O-U on the fingers of her hand. She's a senior in high school on track to graduate with honors and the body art would be a distraction, a mark against her. An indication that she's not serious enough to do anything other than make terrible decisions or jeopardize her future; a constant, tangible reminder that she doesn't have the grace about things like this than people whose skin is lighter than hers. She wishes she didn't care. But she does, so she covers them up every day in a routine that feels like it has become her religion. She wears button-down shirts with long sleeves secured at her wrists most days, even when the heat and humidity in Chicago are oppressive. Counts the seconds until she can go to the CIA where maybe the sight of Schrödinger’s tattoos (simultaneously hers and not hers) won't hold her back.

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Oh, absolutely! She’s an elementary school teacher. Maybe kindergarten or first grade? I can see that.

And this is one of their sons:

Scott and Kira were EVERYTHING and I will not elaborate

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List of fundraisers for direct contacts from Ghazzah & Sudan

This is a list dedicated to compiling people I have direct contact with in Ghazzah & Sudan. All of these fundraisers have been personally verified from start to finish by me. You are free to share these with anyone you know. This is part of the following masterpost series. Feel free to consult all other links in the main navigation masterpost.

The ground invasions of Rafah and El Fashir worsen everyday. Please understand the urgency of this campaign.

Version date: May 22nd 2024.

Fadi & Shahed: 5,885 USD out of 62.5k

Sana'a & Sujood: 15,049 £ out of 50k

Mahmoud Qassas: 12,466$ out of 200k

Ezzideen Shehab: 11,075€ out of 32.5k.

Hussam Aburamadan: 17,657€ out of 148k.

Hamdi Hijazi: COMPLETE.

Suheir Hojok: 17,557 AUD out of 70k.

Madleen Abu Jayyab: 33,808$ out of 70k.

Hani Al-Hajjar: 2,536€ out of 50k.

Little Yusuf: 664€ out of 85k.

Nael Helles: 255$ out of 50k.

Alia's family: 516€ out of 30k.

Hala's family: 350 CAD out of 50k.

Mohammed Al Shaer: 150£ out of 50k

Mona Abu Hamda: COMPLETE. All further donations will help them in their new life in Egypt.

Sahar El Tibi: 15€ out of 30k.

Youssef Munir: 596£ out of 50k.

Muhammad Munir: 1,528£ out of 45k.

Amal & Ruba A.S.: 0€ out of 50k.

Awad's family: 10€ out of 25k.

Mahmoud Al Tibi: 1,512€ out of 60k.

Abdullah Haniyah: 175 USD out of 47k.

Alaa Jawad: 47$ out of 15k.

Ghada Banaat: 360€ out of 50k.

Fadia's family: 30 CAD out of 100k.

Eman Abdulrahman: 16,125$ out of 43k.

Mohammed's family: 0€ out of 30k.

Fatma Abughali: 85€ out of 27k.

Fahed Shehab: 0€ out of 50k.

Alaa Al Khateeb: 807£ out of 6k.

Mohammed Bardaweel: 50€ out of 37k.

Ahmad Shaaban: 0£ out of 40k.

Mohammad's family: 3.2k$ out of 14k.

Rana Abu Ghaben: 505$ out of 100k.

Ahmed Al Ostaz: 70€ out of 70k.

Tahani Shorbaje: 1,269$ out of 50k.

Omar's family: 45€ out of 20k.

Renad Majed Salim: 595£ out of 25k.

Ahmed Al Zaeem: 272$ out of 50k.

Hamza Hilles: 161€ out of 30k.

Bilaal Salah: 4,068€ out of 70k.

Mohamed Rafiq Abdo: 4,085$ out of 100k (22.5k needed for evacuation)

Amjad Almoghrabi: 225€ out of 25k.

Nadaa's family: 0$ out of 15k.

Mahmoud Balousha: 1,758€ out of 50k.

Amjad Sido: 80€ out of 30k.

Marah Salim: 735€ out of 55k.

Fatin Abu Hamda: 95$ out of 18k.

Sulaiman Thaher: 15$ out of 27.5k.

Anonymous individual: 25$ out of 50k.

Sharif family: 4k$ out of 150k.

Shymaa's family: 1.6k$ out of 50k.

Mahmoud Mousa: 121€ out of 10k.

Nedal's family: 10€ out of 33k.

Fadi Ayyad: 360$ out of 35k.

Mohamed Hamad: 1,985£ out of 50k.

Tahseen Tawfiq: 3,056€ out of 60k.

Ahmed Shaaban: 2,419€ out of 20k.

Basel Abu Ghaben: 0$ out of 105k.

Mahmoud Hamam: 2,742$ out of 10k.

Iman Eyad: 376£ out of 60k.

Maysara Shaqura: 28,491€ out of 45k. (Evacuated but needs treatment NOW)

Mahmoud Khalaf: 260€ out of 30k.

Bassam Shaqqoura: 80€ out of 35k.

Nasser Shoshaa: 0€ out of 30k.

Rania 'Ibra': 0£ out of 35k.

Sujoud's children: 0 out of 45k $.

Asmaa Bahloul (CW: photo of a shaheed, killed by the occupation): 0 out of 20k €.

Abeer Ibrahim (CW: photo of a shaheed): 350$ out of 70k.

Ahmed Abu Ghaly: 1,495€ out of 40k.

Dina Maliha: 6,247€ out of 32k.

Ahmed Abu Shammala: 0€ out of 100k.

Islam Dahleez: 3,209$ out of 20k.

Maha Ibrahim: 78$ out of 100.7k.

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Every 10 Minutes!!!!!!

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Wanted to clarify something about this post, I am not trying to adultify percy/annabeth and/or infantilize rick/michonne. Rick and Michonne’s relationship is more mature purely in the fact that they are adults, and this is without mentioning the intricacies of their relationship and is something touched on in the original post. I know this. I simply made the initial post to point out how similar the bare bones of each ship’s dynamics are.

Richonners: Do not take the post as me trying to push shipping children onto you just because I made comparisons. As I stated in the initial post, rick and michonne is a parent ship to percy and annabeth in my eyes, meaning I believe percy and annabeth could be rick and michonne if they met as children, that is all!

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I’ll always appreciate TOWL for allowing Michonne to express her anger, hurt and pain to Rick. I feel like if this storyline had taken place on the twd, they would have glossed over the pain and trauma she experienced throughout her journey and only prioritised Rick’s.

A lot of people seem to forget that Michonne is also human, and she does hurt like everyone else. Just because she is able to hold it in better doesn’t mean we should ignore her trauma.

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And if I said richonne and percabeth are tethered?

Walk with me, walk with me:

1. The tropes! Reluctant allies to best friends to lovers. Rick and Michonne have an extra step in there—co-parenting—but other than that, both ships follow this exact path.

2. Scary, brooding guy that everyone is intimidated by that turns into butter and melts whenever the girl so much as looks his way.

3. Whipped guy that does whatever the girl says.

4. Guy that is action first, think later versus his girlfriend/wife who is think first, act later—for the most part. Rick and Michonne alternate this behavior sometimes, and I think Percy and Annabeth do sometimes as well from my limited memory of those books.

5. Both couples are relationships that are built on the utmost trust and respect, where each side has seen the other’s absolute worst but chose to love them because of/with those moments anyways. Both ships are partners in life but also work/leadership.

6. On a purely superficial level, they’re both swirls now.

All this to say, even though richonne is technically younger as an existing relationship, they are percabeth’s parent ship and I think more people should recognize that.

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Any personal headcanons on Rick and Michonne as a couple? Like their favorite things about the other, what they argue about, love languages ect. lol they’ve set up camp in my brain and I just want more of them 🙇🏻‍♀️

this is so funny because i've been thinking about their love languages ever since danai did that interview with YNB after 1x04! yvette said rick's is words of affirmation and michonne's is acts of services, and I definitely agree but I also think they display pretty much all of them, and quite a bit? rick is obviously into giving gifts and loves quality time (family fun day, begging her to spend just a few more days on the road in 7x12) and to say they both love physical touch is an understatement. this gorgeous gifset highlights it all beautifully.

anyway, some headcanons~

I really don't think they argue about much? they are very in sync most of the time. historically their big arguments are about how to handle major threats (negan, the crm, rick's PTSD) and since nothing bad is ever happening to them ever again because I said so there's no need to fight about those things anymore

michonne's favorite things about rick are how affectionate he is with his family, his strength, his accent, and his hair

rick's favorite thing about michonne is everything

i actually think they talk about books a lot. they're both nerdy as hell in different ways and love that about each other

michonne likes to cook and is very experimental while rick likes to bake (mostly secret family pie recipes) and they love feeding each other and their kids

michonne absentmindedly sings and does little dances when she's doing things around the house and rick stops whatever he's doing to lean against the wall and watch her and smile

that scene we saw in 9x01 where they cuddle up in bed and unpack their day was a ritual they started way back at the prison, even though back then it was obviously platonic (we do actually see them talking when everyone else is asleep several times throughout twd). they would linger and chat before heading to their respective cells at night. in the six years michonne spent without rick, she continued the tradition herself, talking to him out loud alone in their bedroom

rick DEFINITELY teases michonne about being oblivious to his feelings for her before The Couch

michonne hits back by teasing him about Whatever the Fuck He Was Doing With Jessie 💀

you didn't ask for grimes family headcanons but:

after they got home, michonne has a moment like that scene at the end of kill bill vol 2 and has a near silent hysterical laugh-cry of relief by herself in the bathroom before calmly walking back out to join her family. only rick notices

rick on the other hand is afraid to let any of them out of his sight. he spends the first six months he's back home being a total insomniac watching the three of them sleep because he's afraid if he closes his eyes he'll wake up alone back at the CRM

antony azor who plays rj is apparently very shy and reserved but opened up unexpectedly with andrew lincoln and so obviously this is also exactly what happened with rick and rj. father and son bonded INSTANTLY

his first night back, judith asks rick to finish reading the wizard of oz to her because he never got a chance to. it takes a good five minutes for him to compose himself but she does finally get the full story from her dad

rick and michonne do have an actual wedding ceremony, but it's just for them, judith and rj.

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baby sydcarmy being three apples tall 💗🌸✨🦋

how they look in the flashbacks for teenage dream

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Do they have canon nicknames for each other?

Yes. Michonne has called Rick "baby" twice. Once during their sex scene and the other during their getaway from the collapsing building. Rick, however, doesn't have any nicknames or pet names for Michonne. He does say her name a LOT though which makes me think he just really loves her name.

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Ugh the comparisons are so annoying. You’ll still find people insisting Shane was just ahead of Rick in terms of adapting to a brutal world. When it’s clear the ZA broke Shane, he never really measured his choices and didn’t wanted to help anyone at all. He was a coward and acted first as a coping mechanism not because he was an efficient leader.

say that anon! it's honestly not only annoying but a little troubling to me when people compare rick to shane or worse, n*gan because what do you mean shane was right and rick needed to be more like him? what do you mean if we watched the show from negan's pov we'd be on his side and see rick as the villain? no the fuck he wasn't and no the fuck i would not!

the show establishes very early that yes, violence is necessary. and since that's the case, to differentiate between the rick/the people we're supposed to love and the actual villains we have to look at their motivation. rick has been incredibly violent, but his motivation is always to protect, not only his immediately family, but anyone who becomes part of his community. the group flocked to rick instead of shane from the very beginning because he cared about everybody's welfare, unlike shane whose motivations were ultimately selfish. i always think about his last scene with rick, how shane says he's better for lori and carl, like he wants to possess what is rick's - hence why he sexually assaults lori in the CDC. he didn't love her, he felt he was owed her. the way shane so quickly and easily abandoned all sense of right and wrong and adjusted to brutality was a red flag, not something to emulate. to reiterate the parallel they drew between shane and beale in the towl finale, shane was willing to sacrifice other people (his own people!) for his own survival. we should see this as a bad thing. by contrast we know, empirically, that rick would sooner sacrifice himself than anyone he considered himself responsible for (see: the bridge). the argument that rick needed to learn to be more like shane just doesn't track for me: we saw in nebraska when he killed those two men in the bar without blinking that he was perfectly capable of doing what needed to be done. we saw it when he was the one to step up and kill sophia when she came out of the barn while shane just looked at his feet. if anything, killing shane taught rick just how far rick was willing to go. as he said in his dream sequence in 9x05, it had to be him. he had to stay alive to keep protecting the people he loved no matter what, even if it meant killing his best friend. that's his motivation.

as for n*egan. well. i can't believe in the year 2024 people are still not understanding that rick fucking grimes would never have subordinates, let alone force them to refer to themselves by using his own name. he'd never kill a child to prove a point and force submission, and would never, ever force women to become his wives and have sex with him whenever he wants via coercion because rick grimes would never sexually assault someone. do you honestly think daryl, glenn, maggie, carol, hershel, anyone in team family would have stayed with rick if he was capable of any of that? do you think michonne would have let him within fifty feet of her, let alone put an entire baby in her if that was the type of person he was? the same michonne who arguably has the best instincts of anyone on the show? who sniffed out the governer's bullshit immediately? no. when shown an alternate reality where she became a savior instead of part of team family, michonne called it hell. she only feels safe when she's with rick.

n*gan's whole thing reeks of egotism and a need for power - seeing his people as cogs in a machine meant to be put to work and terrorized and abused only to be told it's all for their own benefit. the saviors are a cult, whereas rick genuinely sees and treats his people as his family. rick's people not only love him, they're not afraid of him. they know that when he does go too far they are safe to tell him so, and that he will listen (even if it takes him a minute). rick admits he deserved it when michonne knocked him out at alexandria, and being a farmer at the prison was basically the apocalyptic equivalent of wearing the grippy socks and he did it without complaint. he lets himself be guided. as hershel said, he gets to come back, and he always does, because for rick ego and power have nothing to do with why he does the things he does. he doesn't enjoy it - it traumatizes him and he has to recover from it. this is not a person on a power trip who needs to be eliminated, but a person who is respected and as a result cared for because he does what needs to be done - things other people might not be capable of doing - but for the right reasons.

all of this is why the towl finale had to happen that way btw. not just because it was set up from the very first episode from a writing/narrative standpoint (and i'll let the much more qualified @starfruit-green speak on the socio-political aspects) but because there's no way rick and michonne grimes would ever hear the words coming out of beale's mouth and not immediately lunge. that finale painstakingly spelled out, slowly while using small words so people could understand, that rick and michonne's sword, their violence, is the necessary kind that protects, that eliminates the real threat. beale, shane, n*gan? they are the threat.

anyway. thank you to @starfruit-green and @redding for the encouragement <3