#re; carol peletier

[gonzo-rella]

//This post is asking for the advice/input of black readers on writing an inclusive description of the reader character's hair.

So, re: my Carol Peletier x reader fic request I got sent, in which she cuts the readers hair for them since it's the apocalypse and they've just let it grow out for a while, I'm wondering how I might make the fic inclusive of black readers. Correct me if need be and forgive me if any of this comes off as ignorant, but I'm aware that black hair, in terms of texture, how you manage it etc., is typically different to a lot of white people's hair. I've seen some black readers express that they feel alienated by hair descriptions in fics because they've clearly only been written with a white, long-haired woman in mind. I want to make my writing as inclusive as possible, so I'm wondering, on this very hair-centric fic, how could I make this fic more inclusive.

So, black readers, if you're willing, would you please give me some advice on how to write inclusive and/or neutral descriptions of hair?

[shieldrevive]

FROM: @peletier RE: “ it’s alright, they’re gone now… are you alright? hey, look at me; are you hurt at all? “ STATUS: accepting

it hadn't happened in a while. the nightmares had stopped. the ghosts had stopped. steve had been able to move through the day without the effects of war following him around. losing bucky when the outbreak first happened kicked some of it back up. finding carol and others helped him work through most of it.

at least, that's what rogers had thought.

the horde came out of nowhere they'd been on a walk. supply run? it's hard to remember through the tightness in his chest. one of the walkers stared him down and steve would've bet money it was bucky. memories and guilt came flooding back until something inside him snapped. steve couldn't remember throwing the hatchet around or pushing through with his makeshift shield. a primal need to protect carol rose up from the depths and swallowed him whole.

he couldn't lose her. he couldn't lose anyone else.

admittedly, steve felt a little crazed snapping his head around to make sure she was okay. problem was, he didn't see her right away. there was screaming. so much screaming. the blonde couldn't tell if it was someone else or if it was a ghost of yesterday.

warm hands bring him back. " yeah, " the breath pushes out of his lungs. his own hands come up, cupping carol's face. he needs to touch her to not only make sure this is real but to confirm for himself that she's okay. " yeah. are you okay? we should...we should head back. "

[doginthecorner]

Daryl: I always knew this was how I was gonna go out!

Carol: In a wine fire surrounded by racoons?!

[soldierpoetking]

i’m a Serious RP Blog (TM) 

[doginthecorner]

@wexarethewalkingxdead

“Maybe someday. Yeah. We still have things to do here.”

[doginthecorner]

When you grab my hand I can't move, no I can't feel You course through my veins like a flood in the streets You're waking me up like a bolt of lightning How can you love me so fierce and so sweet?

Oooo in the drought of my soul Oooo I'm losing control Oh how you know how to kiss like the rain But you stole my heart like a hurricane Yeah, you stole my heart like a hurricane Yea yea yea

@careol @wexarethewalkingxdead @unheald

[soldierpoetking]

Goodnight, goodnight It's time now to sleep The moon's watching over You and your dreams Goodnight, goodnight My sweet little one Tomorrow your eyes They'll light up the sun But goodnight, goodnight Sweet dreams for now Drift off to sleep On your pillow of clouds Goodnight, goodnight My sweet little friend Tomorrow's adventures They will soon begin Tomorrow's adventures Will soon begin

@melwriiites

[doginthecorner]

We move like the wind in Chicago Fall like the rain in Seattle We found our hearts in San Fransisco And El Paso's warm but we stay cool like Alaska

We've got American love

I can't forget you You're written on my heart Like the sheets that we stained With wine from the liquor mart The shadows of the birds Chased me to your street They must have known That we were meant to be

With you I'm wild and free

@careol @wexarethewalkingxdead @unheald

[little-squishy-fox]

Hang on….ya’ll are telling me NEGAN’s last name is fucking Smith??

[soldierpoetking]

Carol and Ezekiel for the kid meme

Name: Sarah Peletier

Gender: female

General Appearance: She’s almost the image of her father, big dark eyes, lots of dark hair, and his bright wide smile when ever she gets happy. Her hair is curly and usually braided against her head or worn natural. 

Personality: She takes after her mother, she’s quiet and observant, she can put up a facade for whoever she needs to be. But she can also be playful and outgoing when she’s comfortable. She adores her older brother and is known to drive him a little bit crazy trying to follow him everywhere

Special Talents: She’s a performer like Ezekiel and Henry. She has a particular knack for remembering poetry.

Who they like better: Neither of them really, they’re both pretty equal in her mind. 

Who they take after more: Definitely Carol. 

Personal Head canon: Ezekiel is the one who does her hair, he has experience with textured hair and he loves bonding with his little girl over her hair. 

Face Claim: Amandla Stenberg

[fcundwings-archive2]

tags + final misc i hope

❛ the hour of death cannot be forecast ! —— [ re / arabella morales. ] ❛ she was all rose & honey ! —— [ re / isabella ortega. ] ❛ some people are born with tragedy in their blood ! —— [ re / shay strickland. ]   ❛ don’t let the weight of the world destroy you ! —— [ re / romana harris. ]  ❛ the rainbow goddess ! —— [ re / ixchel ortiz. ] ❛ the devil protects her sisters ! —— [ re / ravenna astrape. ]  ❛ you fight it， you don’t give up， & then one day， you just change ! —— [ re / carol peletier. ]  ❛ it doesn’t heal， not today ! —— [ re / colleen trager. ]  ❛ blood doesn’t make a family， loyalty does ! —— [ pastrepentance & haloaflame & unholymayhem / queencfwolves. ]  ❛ i will love & protect you with my life ! —— [ gangsterzen / queencfwolves. ]

[doginthecorner]

@wexarethewalkingxdead @unheald​ @careol​

Caryl Screenshot Redraw #4!! 🙌 More like #4 and #5 but idgaf.

Behold! The sensual head massa- errr I mean the famous haircut scene!! Yes, that's the one!

[doginthecorner]

💞

SEND A 💞 AND MY MUSE WILL SAY SOMETHING ABOUT ONE OF THEIR ROMANTIC INTERESTS.

"she uh, she snuck up on me. Didn' really expect it I guess. Never really felt like this fer no one before an' I wish I'd realized what these feelin's meant before it was too late."

@wexarethewalkingxdead

[sparksflamesembersashes]

Another thing about the Caryl situ.... What if, in fact, Melissa just got fed up with Caryl? What if Carol Peletier is Melissa McBride's "Misery"? Maybe the character she'd created had become the only thing she was judged by, and she just got tired of it. Not to mention, Melissa seems like a kind hearted and gentle soul IRL, and all the abuse, vitriol, and anger on the Twitter hellscape and elsewhere may have taken a psychological toll on her. Maybe the viciousness (mostly from antis, but not all) had been ripping her up inside for years and she just wanted to walk away from it. Maybe to her, Caryl is the monster they created and she just wanted it dead. You can't blame her. It's no wonder she all but left the social media platform years ago. She obviously hasn't cared to engage with fans on that level for a long time, and having read some of the hateful things people say to or about her or her character, I get it. She's only human, after all. And people get SO emotional about their ships! The pressure must have been insurmountable at times. Maybe she had to walk just to preserve her own sanity. We don't know, and we'll probably never know, because Melissa's personal life and her personal decisions are none of our business, and she is an intensely private person. Can you imagine how she feels if, in fact, this was entirely HER decision and HER choice, and we're all making it sound like she got screwed over by the network and her co-star? How absolutely mortifying would that be? I'm just saying what if... I am inclined to think she got shoved aside, but we just don't know. And if we're wrong, we're not helping her in rising up and protesting the cancellation of the spin-off... we're just prolonging her agony. No one wants to let people down, and the pain and sorrow from the fandom could be crushing her.

As for Norman, yes, he is an entitled male celebrity and he's had that status for a long time. But listen, the guy is engaged, he has a toddler with his fiancee (who is also a hot property in her own right), and who among us wouldn't throw almost everything else to the four winds to spend more time with the people we love and cherish the most? One thing the COVID pandemic has left in its aftermath is a new appreciation for the stuff that's most important in the world. Norman had mentioned in an interview that he'd been working almost constantly for 10 years, and when everybody went into lockdown, I think he discovered the meaning of true family time. Not to mention the risk of death can lead you to re-evaluate your life in general. So if he jettisoned everything to spend more time with Diane and his daughter, I can be pissed at him for doing it, but I can't really judge him over it. I don't have that kind of love in my life, but I imagine if I did, I'd do just about anything to hold onto it as long as possible. Are we really gonna gut the man over choosing his real life family over a fictitious one? I want to (you have no idea), but I won't. Because I get it.

So I'm just sad and grieving, and at first I wanted to protest and deny this new reality, and now I'm just accepting it. Because we will never know why it happened and maybe we shouldn't. And we don't truly know if anyone was cheated out of anything (except us Caryl shippers, of course). At the end of the day, Melissa and Norman are individual human beings with their own lives, and expecting them to bend to the will of a segment of their fans (no matter how large) to compromise their own life goals (and maybe their mental health) in order to maintain fictional characters we've invested way too much of our own time in is, IMO, unrealistic, and more than a little selfish. Maybe that's not the reality, but maybe it is. You know the saying, truth is stranger than fiction. We don't know all the truths here, only bits and pieces that we'll still speculate on for months to come.

I am a Caryl shipper. God help me. And if you accuse me of not shipping Carol, or not stanning Melissa, I will fight your ass to my last breath. But enough is enough. The shit I've seen on Twitter gets worse every day, and people behave so badly when they can hide behind a pseudonym on social media. There's no way to know if I'm hurting or helping by participating. Absent further factual enlightenment, I'm taking the path of least resistance and having a seat on the sidelines. The truth always eventually comes out, but I'm not going to feed any more fires until I know what the truth actually is. And that could take a while... if it happens at all.

I have given so much of my heart and my love to Caryl, and it's been more beautiful and rewarding at times than I could have imagined, but now I'm going to focus that love and my heart on real people, in the real world. Maybe that's exactly what Melissa and Norman have chosen to do. We just don't know. Caryl on, but keep it in perspective. Life is shorter than you think. Make it count.

[doginthecorner]

@wexarethewalkingxdead​ @careol​ @unheald​

Caryl + Tumblr

[arabian-bloodstream]

Why in Angela Kang I Trust

Maybe because I've been bruised and battered by showrunners and exec producers when it comes to couples and have also been rewarded (very, very, VERY rarely -- OK, like once), that is why I'm feeling positive about Caryl with regards to the spoilers.

Lemme give a bit of my history.  I've had sooooo many couples, it's not even funny. I'm beyond a couple-girl.  I've been involved in Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, The Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars, The 100, Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandoms (and many more). Yeah, so I've been through some ups and downs in the fandoms themselves and with the end result of the product/my couple preference.

Two of the things that these fandoms taught me were (a) critical analysis of the product taking *everything* into account and not just my couple, and (b) how to deal with spoilers to keep myself sane.

NOTE: This is how I deal. I'm not telling anyone else how to feel or deal. This is my bag and what works for me and why I'm personally totally, 100% positive about Caryl despite the recent spoilers.

In one of my fandoms, I was heartbroken by how an episode played out. It made no sense to me. I had analyzed everything, paid attention to all the road signs... how could I have been so wrong? How could she choose the other guy??! It took a few weeks, but I re-thought everything and realized that I had been so focused on analyzing MY couple that I had ignored the OTHER couple. I had ignored the other aspects of the show and that other aspect mattered. It was like a bomb went off in my head. Suddenly something so obvious was now so clear to me.  

From that moment on when I analyzed the show, I analyzed every character, every aspect of it and I gotta tell you all I just about nailed every character plot point. Not the twists/turns, but the emotional, character beats? I was right as rain on those. Because here's the obvious thing, no showrunner/headwriter is ever going to write for ONE character, ONE couple. They are going to write for every single character, every single couple.  And if they are good writers they aren't going to take fanfic-like shortcuts to get them where we would like them to be, they are going to dig deep and explore who they are as characters to bring them organically to where they belong.

So... The Walking Dead. Angela Kang. Daryl Dixon. Carol Peletier. Caryl. (FINALLY! Ya'll say.) Angela Kang is a GOOD showrunner/headwriter. She brought TWD back from the disaster that Scott Gimple had made of the show. Seriously, I think 3-4 seasons went by and only 2 months had passed in that time. It was mostly a slow-moving morass of nothing happening with most characters doing nothing, barely connecting. Blech! It was mostly just not good. She whipped this show into shape.

Kang also took a long look at Carol, Daryl and Caryl and realized that in order to get them where they needed to be... which was TOGETHER ROMANTICALLY, they needed a helluva lot of work because Gimple had done ABSOLUTE SHIT with them for about 4 years. They had barely a handful of scenes over that time period, had been mostly separated and both characters had been decimated in completely different ways.

Carol's grief, guilt and horrendous actions had been completely and utterly sublimated. She told no one (including Daryl) about what happened with all of the children she had lost by her hand or through she felt because of her.  So what did Kang do? She used the relationship that Gimple had begun with Ezekiel to create this fairytale fantasy that Carol could escape to since she couldn't be with her Alexandria family anymore because of that grief and guilt. She gave her that respite and escape until she was ready to live with the reality of all she'd done.

And then she opened the door to that grief and guilt with Henry's death, destroying that fairytale/fantasy so that she could finally begin to heal. And that is what we are finally getting now, a healing Carol. She's not whole yet, but she's stronger and she is healing. She's no longer hiding in some fantasy, she's no longer drowning in grief. And she's with her family again. She's come home.

I'm sure just as Kang looked at Carol, she also looked at Daryl and saw how Gimple had turned him into a monosyllablic follower. So, through the last two seasons, she's been building him up as the leader who's stepping up and also... HE SPEAKS! That's really the big thing, but it's such, such a big thing.

Finally, Caryl. To begin with, Kang's first episode made it perfectly obvious that it was a Zeke/Carol/Daryl triangle. However, because it's been sooooooooooooo long and the Caryl crowd has been battered for so long and the ABC crowd is so loud and even the media doesn't immediately jump to it despite the popularity of Caryl the obviousness of it just wasn't obvious. But the way Zeke proposed to Carol to which she did not say yes, his undying declaration of love to which she did not respond in kind to the way she curled up (yes, curled up!) against Daryl to tell him about said proposal and his response, clearly not happy about it, but willing to give her the go-ahead if she was happy was so obvious. I mean, DUDE! Yeah, that was textbook triangle material with the guy proposing being the clear loser in the equation in the long run. And that was Angela Kang's first episode as showrunner!

Everything that followed--the secret visits to him, her cutting his hair, her trust in him and vice-versa--to her leaving Zeke behind in Hilltop and going with Daryl to Alexandria, yeah, all of that was clearly going to be how that "triangle" ended based on that first episode.  But so many Caryl fans were heartbroken, upset, furious about the Carol/Zeke spoilers. Of course, they were. We had no idea what Kang had in store. We'd been burned and battered and used and ignored by TWD, AMC, Gimple, et al. How could we possibly know that Kang had a plan all along and that the Carol/Zeke relationship was about paying time and attention to Carol's character and establishing a subtle triangle with Daryl in which he would emerge the victor?

But that's exactly what Angela Kang did. And then in season 10 she made it clear numerous times that it--only her second as showrunner--would feature the relationship of Carol and Daryl at the heart of it. So I have a few points I want to make regarding the upcoming spoilers taking ALL of the above that I've written into account:

1. Spoilers are tricky things. You simply can not know what is what until you actually watch the episode and even see the full arc play out. When you have a good showrunner/headwriter who has a plan and knows the path planned for the characters--one who has proven they know what they're doing--wait until you see what they are actually doing before assuming the roof is falling in. At least that's my philosophy.

2. I mentioned how the obviousness of the triangle aspect set-up in Kang's first episode as showrunner was so missed and a part of that is because of the fact that there is too much ambiguity in how Caryl and Daryl see one another. Is it friendship? Is it a mother/son (pfft! So fucking ridiculous!) relationship? Is it a sibling-like relationship? Or is it romantic/sexual? (YES, IT IS!) This very well may be what answers that question. (It’s the last one. It’s definitely the last one.)

3. 10x18 is STILL a part of season 10. According to Angela Kang, the heart of season 10 is the relationship of Carol and Daryl.

Finally, there are two characters left from the first season of this ten (of eleven) season show. Carol and Daryl. There is going to be a spin-off featuring Carol and Daryl. A character that Daryl has some sort of history with when he thought he lost Carol when she was married to someone else (after he had lost Rick) is NOT going to suddenly, randomly become the ONE to come between Carol and Daryl.

It doesn’t matter that this character is coming back in the final season. Sorry, not sorry, but it just does not. Carol and Daryl are the ONE for each other. This character is just another Ezekiel, a part of their story. Angela Kang has been organically, effortlessly rebuilding Carol and Daryl, and Caryl back up from the neglect and abuse that they suffered (especially Carol and Caryl) under Scott Gimple.

This is why I trust in Angela Kang.