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The Michonne Effect

Can’t think

Can’t dream

Can’t live

To be found against all odds

To see and touch her again

To be woken up from a nightmare

To be met in the middle

Together again

To be brought back

Love takes its roots

Michonne really is the one.

A human, hero, woman, warrior, lover, leader, mother, spy, wife and so much more...

Rick Grimes is the luckiest man ever, and he knows it now.

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❤️‍🔥 First Richonne fanfic in progress ❤️‍🔥

For those wondering where I've been. Who knows?

I never know... Teaser at the end of the post. ⤵️

I'm beyond 13k words now, at least 2 chapters left. I hope it'll be good for you as it was for me. This might be the most beautiful and weirdest thing I've written.

Especially because I mostly write essays, and I've never dared venturing into fiction, but also because I did my best as a non native English speaker, went over my fears, and dove into the poetry that Richonne and the fandom have offered to me.

I owe a lot to Richonne fanfic writers, readers and commenters, I hope this will be my way to thank you all. @lamorenareina ❤️‍🔥

Teaser

✨ See you around family ✨

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✨️New Richonne fanfic ✨️

Here they are! The first 9000+ words of my first fic ever ✍️🏽🔥🍾

❤️‍🔥 When In Alexandria ❤️‍🔥

If you'd be kind enough to check out the first 4 chapters ⤵️

I hope you're ready for the ride 🌛🌬🍃 🌊 🔥💖🌜

Thank you so much @lamorenareina for everything 🙏🏽

And everyone who supported me these past weeks 💫

Reviews are more than welcome 🤲🏽

As we say in French, "Chose promise, chose due." 😇

If you're all about Richonne, make sure to check my lil' edits on youtube too 😊

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****Meet the Grimes****

A second chance & heartbreak

A new life on the road

A united front

A well deserved reunion

What a family ❤️‍🔥

The Last Grimes

Some context before a rant:

I can’t believe some people still exclude Michonne and RJ from the Grimes family. I saw an old post with Judith tagged as #TheLastGrimes, and a recent one claiming Michonne wasn’t Judy’s mother? I beg your pardon? (yes, it was on twitter).

Since the early days on the mothership, TWDU fandom has been so oblivious to racist bias and tropes, to the point of marginalizing Michonne fucking Grimes from her own family, the hero, supermom and wife, who *actually* raised "the last Grimes" mind you!

We really don’t respect Black women, their labour, their love and loyalty, neither irl nor in fiction.

This shows up everyday in very real ways in our lives. Whether for Black girls, gals, wives, girlfriends, single mothers, baby mamas, widows and their children. Whether they gave birth to their children or not, whether they’re mixed or not, Black motherhood is systematically denigrated. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone who doesn’t see how disastrous these optics are to engage with this.

The disrespect of Black women, the erasure of mixed children, claiming ownership of kids one didn’t raise, minimizing the bonds of a new family... See, I don’t fuck with that bs and it will be read as anti-Blackness and misogynoir on my part. People can argue with a wall.

The Grimes all chose each other, went to hell, and only some came back. A lot of us wanted nothing more than to see them reunited and finally at peace, and we did. Such canon is too much for some. Not for me. It was well-earned, by the characters as well as by the audience, and so refreshing in such cynical times. On one hand, I wish I could see more of them, on the other, I’d rather not have anyone mess it up (shout out to our TOWL S2 truthers out there though ^^).

I honestly pity those who’ve imprisoned themselves in blood lineages and narrow 'legitimate' families, unable to grasp the gifts of community and found family in a freaking post apo zombie show. That must honestly be depressing in deed...

Whether we are called dramatic or aggressive, Richonners will keep calling this out, especially Black women who don’t even need to do anything to deserve those exhausted epithets in everyday life. We see the double standards, we see the fans defending their buddies’ racist takes, we see the apparently infinite plausible deniability and benefit of the doubt afforded to some, never to others. It's not bright, it's not new, and we know the game.

No wonder this fandom can feel so segregated sometimes.

Anyway, if you’d like for me to expand on this lmk, I’ll always have more to share. Thanks for reading.

Happy Shipping

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Mother Michonne

Andre

Carl

Judith

RJ

The Grimes

How Richonne Was Born

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✨Fanfic update ✨

"When In Alexandria"

I can't wait to share this first part of my fic with you.

I'm still insecure because I'm not a native English speaker, but hopefully some readers will forgive the literary faux-pas and make a good meal out of it.

Maybe even come back for more... Who knows?

Edit:

Here it is! ⤵️ 👀

See you soon and as always

❤️‍🔥Happy Shipping ❤️‍🔥

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How Richonne Was Born - Dandy Chemistry (short)

This is an excerpt from the next installment of 'How Richonne Was Born #2' quickly addressing the allegations of a supposed lack of chemistry between characters Michonne/Rick and actors Danai Gurira/Andrew Lincoln on #TWDU.

Check out videos on youtube, follow up on twitter and tumblr

Happy shipping!

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Another edit for our enjoyment ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥HERE

Happy shipping!

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I could write pages and pages about Richonne, Michonne, The Walking Dead, and I did! So for my infatuated comrades, hungry for more overanalyzing of the best, the worst and the petty of #TheWalkingDead #TheOnesWhoLive, welcome to my dedicated therapeutic #Richonne tumblr and youtube channel.

Will include more and longer edits, and hopefully in the near future, quite pertinent commentary and anaysis. The result of a passionate, desperate hyperfixation on genre media and storytelling, and of an enthusiastic, unbridled special interest in politics.

See you around and happy shipping!

#BlerdThangs

#ItsNotMeItsTheAdhdOrIsIt

#SelfindulgentAutizzy

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The Ones Who Love Live On - teaser

Are you up for it?

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I've been cooking, I've been cooking...

Let me share the cover art and a few stills from the next installment of my Richonne videos.

How Richonne Was Born #2 - Dandy On Set and Off

I've also been writing my first fanfic (Richonne of course)! I'll share it here before venturing to ff or ao3 because I'm brand new to this and that is a lot. I've put 7000 words down in two days but as usual, the rewrite hurts like a *****.

We'll see...

Finally, I'm still researching my bigger (essay/podcast) project #TheOnesWhoLoveLiveOn inspired by Danai Gurira, Michonne Grimes and bell hooks' work about belonging & the labor of love. This is my biggest endeavour to date and will hopefully include political and cultural commentary, from TWD/TOWL to tv/movie/genres from a Black feminist /Afrofem perspective.

You can find me on youtube, twitter or here as moonsoul or restes de lune. I had forgotten that tumblr was so much more pleasant and appropriate to follow up on and share projects. I really hope they all make it to the end, I feel empowered and motivated but my fellow adhders know that consistency and hyperfocus rarely go along hand in hand.

Thank you so much for your support, it means a lot to feel less alone. I wouldn't be making any of this if it weren't for the inspired (and yes, sometimes unhinged and worse) fandoms. I hadn't written or edited anything in forever and it's the screeners, the richonners, fanfics writers, and the overwhelming enthusiasm that brought me back to the fold and to my geeky antics.

Keep an eye out on my youtube for the next edit

How Richonne Was Born #2 - Dandy On Set and Off

Happy shipping

ps: sorry for the mistakes, English is not my first language.

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a Bad case of Richonnite

I've got so much in the drafts still, it's ridiculous 🫠

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*A Richonne Content Rant*

> Comin' Soon on Restes de Lune ?

Hi TWD fam, Richonners, gals, guys and theys

I've been editing like crazy but the youtube algorithm won't let me post my 20min edit of HRWB #3 - Next World Lovin' (A day in the life of Rick Grimes) without butchering my work. Looks like I won't be able to finish this series with a bang like I hoped.

So here's a load of stills to give you an idea since for now, all my hours on it just went down the drain. I still want to share something though, as I know others are just like me :) Maybe I'll share snippets, bits by bits... :(

Here's the first part

Idk, looks sexy and funny to me! ^^

I still don't understand why so many channels can host whole scenes of the show online, HD scene packs and longer edits and seem unbothered (good for them!) but I can't ?

Whyyy Ô Whyyy ?

My Richonne rabbit hole originally started with an Ultimate Edit From the prison to Alexandria. It was right after watching The Ones Who Live as it was released and I needed to go back and re-experience Richonne all over again. Unfortunately, it was too long of an edit and my hardware could not keep up...

That's when I took on smaller endeavours, exploring the origins of Richonne further from behind the scenes. I love listening to Danai talking about her work. So many actors tend to respond quite superficially to questions about their characters, Danai has such a profound understanding of Michonne, it shows both on and off screen and I'm here for all of it.

Then, I've explored more behind the scenes with Andrew and Danai's chemistry, and how it showed and still shows up on screen years later, and have many of us hooked, locked in a love chokehold everytime we see Rick and Michonne gazing into each others' eyes. That's how HRWB #2 came to become Dandy On Set and Off.

Yes, I'm fluffy like that and have no shame about it :)

Anyway...

I'll still try to edit further HRWB#3 and share it with you what I can, but I need to cut back my Richonne hours and find new ways to engage with the fandom if I can't find a better solution.

My series How Richonne Was Born was supposedly a lighter prelude to the deeper and more interesting work I want to share (see The Ones Who Love Live On teaser). Might take a while though, as I work too slow for the algo, so don't hesitate to sub to check me out here, on youtube and twitter to follow the work.

And yes, I'm gonna get even fluffier with these ones, and a lot more political too. Fingers crossed!

I still plan to share everything I wrote (essays and fanfic), it will only take yet a lot more time and creativity. Maybe I should just forget video and do a podcast? Just brainstorming in the tumblr open...

If you're into any of it let me know, feedbacks and advice are welcome! I may have started this on a whim but I found people along the way, and it's always easier when we're not alone and have support, right?

My posts about

"The Last Grimes"

The Michonne effect

Mother Michonne

**** See You around and Happy Shipping ****

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6 - Richonne Core / the End

Back to part 1

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Richonne Core

Who's gonna show some love to my latest edit? It's feeling a bit lonely and forgotten at the moment (damn youtube algo)

Enjoy and Happy shipping