#i dont even like twd

[spill-to-t]

"Rick cries so much" "Daryl cries too much" "Maggie cries too much"...

Imagine one day this whole world changes and you see your loved ones dying in front of you. You see your best friend, husband/wife, child, brother/sister dying in front of you. You feel responsible because you weren't there or didn't act the right way. Imagine you feel guilty for so many bad happenings. Imagine that you are just confused and overwhelmed sometimes. I really don't understand why you would say this? Doesn't matter which character, they all lost not only one person, some of them lost their whole family. This show is about the fucking death and it's a fucking drama show. WHAT THE HELL DID YOU EXPECT? How can you be annoyed by people crying when they just lost someone? What else should they do? Have a little dance?

I don't get it

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

I mean I'm glad people are generally changing their attitude about Lori but y'all aint there yet. ''Yes she was bad but Shane was worse and they were both to blame blablabla" Nah actually Lori didn't do anything wrong at all by having sex with Shane. End of the world, dead husband, no home no food no promise of tomorrow goddamn it if she's gonna let the world take anything else My Girl is Getting Laid.

[youmakethelight]

Okay, but I'm casting my mind back to try to imagine how I would have felt about tboc daryl before season 10 got me so stupid about this show, when I used to be a casual viewer. And I still think I'd have just thought daryl lost his mind tbh.

This is just me going off on tangents about the show now, don't mind me.

He felt a bit off in season 1, I can't lie. The costume change would have thrown me even if I wasn't as attached, because I'm probs just the type of neurodivergent that struggles with too much change at once, and him being away from TF, in Europe, and looking so different, then calling Laurent useless, then the ways he looked at Isabelle at the end of 1x06 - that was all just too different to the Daryl I knew idk. But I stuck with it.

But having his first on-screen kiss be so entirely unpredictable for what I thought I knew of his character felt gratuitous*. And then it's like suddenly I'm being railroaded into following him on this rolleroaster that I don't understand. One minute he's longing for home, the next he's playing baseball and "just having fun". Then home has found him, but now he's invested in this kid I still haven't learnt to feel invested in yet. And he's never even talking about anything to do with home anymore, even after Carol is there? It's suddenly all just about Laurent, and part of the problem for me is there wasn't enough balance to convince me of the story.

And I think this was most of my difficulty with enjoying TOWL, too. (Don't come for me please for talking about my personal experience of watching TOWL.) I watched TOWL first out of all the spinoffs, and I remember this one part where I think Michonne and Rick were in a kitchen or something and Rick felt so different to me and it made me sad, and then she called it out. And he said something like that it's been so long, he's lost who he used to be or something like that. I can't remember exactly, but it made me sad. And I think, for me, I didn't get enough glimpses of the Rick I recognised within the short 6 episodes that I never felt satisfied or happy with it. And maybe I needed more TF references or something??? I didn't even feel enough concern for Judith or RJ from him - maybe I'm misremembering, but I think your memory of the feeling something gave you is important. I get that the leadership want these spinoffs to be accessible to people who didn't watch the flagship show, but I think that's a big part of where it's losing the magic for me.

The thing that was better for me about DD season 1 is that it was all about getting home, and his determination felt relentless throughout the first 5 and a half episodes before it suddenly got weird with Isabelle acting like they've been a family for 19 years. Like, before that, I felt connected to his mission.** But then in season 2, it's almost completely gone, and Carol feels like the only part I can still connect with. Like, I know Rick didn't mention Daryl either I think, but I wish both of them had talked about each other. Idk, it just would have felt more like it's giving me something I can connect with? Rather than just throwing the characters into entirely new situations and also deliberately making them feel a bit out of character?

That whole part in TOWL where Michonne feels surprised to find Rick a bit changed is so similar to what they seemed to want to do with Daryl and Carol, and I don't really get why they did it to either of them. It's more believable with Rick than Daryl bc 1. He isn't Daryl and definitely adapts more to new environments, and 2. It had been many, many, many years, not like a month. But idk, I still wasn't keen, but at least they gave it a redemption arc or whatever you'd call it. With daryl it's still just like - ???? And for what reason??? I don't know. I just don't find it compelling idk idk idk.

*Even in season 9, when we met Connie, I felt a bit like 'oh are they gonna force a ship here bc they have them spending time together 🤨 (rather than just letting connie want to help for her own character reasons rather than making it about daryl and shipping), but if it's gonna be someone who isn't carol, I think I'm okay with connie', like bc we actually had reasons to like her and there was chemistry with Daryl. So why neither Connie nor Carol, but Isabelle? The show just never got me invested in darabelle in any way.

I already liked connie before they had her going on missions with daryl, so I actually cared about her a lot. I loved seeing her on those missions bc I was excited for her to have more screen time and I found her character empowering. So, I didn't want to see her reduced to just being Daryl's love interest, and tbh, I don't think they handled it well, bc they still reduced her to being Daryl's accessory, rather than giving her her own character depth. But I *still* would have been more on board with pairing up Daryl with Connie than Isabelle. Tbh, by the time that Carol was broken up with zeke, and they had the conversation about running away together, I didn't think of Daryl and Connie as making sense to pair anymore... But I also didn't see much point in the Leah romance either, so whatever, I guess this show just has a pattern of pairing up Daryl with random women he doesn't have chemistry with, instead of the ones he does?

**I always remember that Zabel pitched the idea for the show as "what if, in trying to get home, you find something else?", and the thing is, in order to get me to be convinced that Daryl "found something else", I'd have needed A LOT stronger of a pull for the French story. There was nothing there that hooked me to becoming convinced of Daryl finding something while trying to get home. Just having him voice the words "I found something", having Laurent the prophet say "you miss her too, I can tell", putting his crossbow next to Isabelle's hospital bed, and having him look at her for an extended time after she recovers, doesn't suddenly convince me of that idea. Idk. I'm not in the TV industry, so I don't know how that magic gets done - like when season 10 slowly turned Lydia into one of my favourite characters after she was introduced as an antagonist. But I have enough brain cells to see (from the moment they nonsensically forced them to share a bed??) that they were trying to convince us Daryl found "something" in France, and tbh, if I can see the strain in their efforts to make it happen, it's probably not working. And even NR couldn't answer why Isabelle when asked at NYCC. He was literally like, "idk they have similar pasts?? Idk???". Like, girl, if you don't know, why should your audience?

[freebooter4ever]

i actually feel like im in borderline hockey team limbo right now bc if the rangers are stupid enough to break up mika and kreids that might break my heart enough that i stop watching for a while ;_;

[valentineveils]

im not gonna lie i think some of u need to play more games w bad writing . like . solely i think the reason why im so good w veilguard is cus ive endured "bad writing" sooooo many times before . y'all shouldve seen how telltales twd went in future seasons . that was . Something . very Something . why'd they rely on a damn 12 year old for their problems .

[springcatalyst]

daryl is so asexual that even people who dont know what asexuality is KNOW hes asexual

[twd-obsessed-bitch]

I LOVE THEM!! I MISS THEM!! I MAY NEED TO START A REWATCH!!

Andy's smile, them being so close to eachother, the fact that neither of them look like they've aged A FUCKING DAY since 2016!!! god I love them!!

[eccentricallygothic]

no but baby judy is so frickin cute she gives me baby fever 😭

[unculturedswine69]

WAIT HELP I READ TOO FAST 😭😭

omg but who are your favs in the twdg games... 😳😳😳

OH HFHGFHJ ITS FINE I DO THAT ALL THE TIME TOO BUT YEAH AS YOU KNOW I LOVE THE GAMES AND SHOW AND ALSO THE COMIC!! BUT FOR THE GAMES UHMMM..omg this is SUCH a tough question honestly?? like, i feel very complicated about basically every character in this series so its hard to just pick one fave....

hmm i will say tho i have ALWAYS loved Lee and Clementine (obviously,who doesnt hehe) i just love them sm 😭the first game just makes me so emotional FRFR in the first game i also loved Ben,Chuck, Omid and Christa and Molly!! id also include Kenny but...i have a sorta love/hate relationship with that guy 😭😭😭😭hes such a good character tho!! in general i think the first game was just so good😌😌

for the other games im less familiar with them since ive only played the other seasons once each so my memory is probably a little off,but i remember really liking Sarah ,Nick,Luke and Jane from the 2nd season,but again i think some of these characters are like. love/hate with me currently,i think s2 is so turbulent that its kinda hard to pick faves really (for me atleast) with the 3rd season i remember LOVING that Tripp guy and also Javier,but its been years since i last played the game so i probably have a bunch of different opinions on everything now😭😭in general i just dont remember too much from that game,i definitely have to replay it eventually..for s4 tho?? hmm honestly,i think i loved like,90% of the cast in that LMAO but i think i liked uhhm AJ the most.and also i think his name was Asim (or aasim) and Ruby,i liked them alot i think,and louis and violet too 😌😌😌also the dog?? does the dog count??? in general i just thought the characters were pretty interesting in that game,but again i think ima just have to replay all of these again to see how i REALLY feel

ANYWAYS THANKS FOR THE QUESTION AURA!!! i would LOVE to know your faves too😈😈😈😈😈😈

[heartfeltcherie]

i swear 2 god if we have to start writing that steve harrington is still alive in our fics when in canon he’s actually offed, it will be my last straw

[plut00nline]

My perfect twd ship is Tara dates Rosita, rosita dates Abraham, Abraham dates Eugene and Sasha and Sasha also dates Rosita

[baekuras]

also totally not watching the first episode of black sails right now because it’s relaxing to not start in the god damned mess this show turns into (in a really good sense of complex characters and story lines to follow fully embracing the muddled greyness of humanity and not even having an ending that people can agree on whether it’s a good one for the characters or not) really makes me notice

i need to compile like general favourite moments

and also all the ones i watch from a comedy point of view no matter how dark or dire the show in question can get

because i noticed i do that a lot and it’s fun

[shortfuses]

screaming crying throwing up over twd

[springcatalyst]

Comfort characters.... 2!

Rules: list 5 comfort characters and tag at least 5 people. Thank u @hamburgerslippers for tagging me u are a bestie as always

There's something wrong with me

Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead) of fucking COURSE. nobody get him like i do

Ronan Lynch (The Raven Cycle). my perfect fucked up little magic man. AND hes birds

Sheik (Ocarina of Time). idk. yaknow

Kang Sae-Byeok (Squid Game) LISTEN LISTEN OK. dont lookat me

Jim Jimenez (Our Flag Means Death). i had to think hard for a 5th one but yea. i like them,, the fuckign. pirate..

HONORARY MENTION

LUCIE JURIN (martyrs 2008). listen. ok. watching her go on a killing spree and then get chased by a metaphors demon did things to my brain. i love her in a normal way

[psych0ruinz]

i know i can start a fic with smut but i dont like to do so!!!! i need plot in my smut!!! i need stuff to happen for naughty stuff to happen!!!

[specialneedz]

I LOOOVEE CARL AND MICHONNE SO MUUUUUUUUCCCCCHHHH