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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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A Richonner's experience (among others)

That's what happened to me last winter:

I watched The Ones Who Live when it first aired. 🤩

I went back to The Walking Dead to binge it all again and fell for it, again, because I've always been a horror fan & a zombie buff. 💀

Also, Danai Gurira's acting and writing ?!!!

I found Richonners online to share my excitement because OMG how could I have missed so much the couple first times I've watched the show? 😵‍💫

I started binge reading fanfics for the first time ever to mitigate the TOWL withdrawls, but it wasn't enough.

I launched a Richonne youtube channel and a tumblr. 📺

I overdosed on yearning and needed to put it into words. ✍️🏽

I started writing a NSFW Richonne fic to cope with the depth of their love & awesomeness, because it was too fucking much for my horny little heart.

And voilà!

When In Alexandria ❤️‍🔥

A TOWL-inspired very smutty poetic fic set in Alexandria (s5e12) nsfw

If you relate to the original post or to this one, you might like it 🤗 I'm currently working on the next chapters.

Welcome to all the new Richonners to the ship with the best captains, thank you to all the trailblazers from before they went canon like OP.

Thanks to Dandy and Gimple for making it happen.

Happy Shipping

Throwback to when I was certain Richonne was a thing.

You know what I love about this scene here? Besides, Michonne is thinking of Rick and Carl on the road.

It's clear that although Rick and Carl said last season, Michonne was one of them. She's still not ready to go all in...and Rick is patient. Let her go for 30 days on the road, and he's stayed quiet. But now that she's in front of him, he will take a chance. He puts on the charm when he's practically asking her to stay, letting her know he wants and needs her here.

Then it's clear as Daryl looks at Rick when he says that it's Rick that's been worried, that he's voiced his concerns to her brother-in-law, who's just as concerned with Michonne running off and keeping her distance from their family.

Oh, and she's still somewhere else. Rick is frustrated. I had never looked at his face before, but he was frustrated that Michonne was already thinking about leaving. It's been 30 days, and she has one foot out the door.

We see her soon-to-be son expressing that he missed her while she was away and just as frustrated as his dad that not only has she been on the road and it's dangerous, but Michonne has yet to spend time with them.

Michonne- she's doing the usual of their routine over the summer, promising that though she's away, she'll always come back home.

It's confirmed with no dialogue that Rick is worried and talks to Daryl about Michonne. Daryl gives him a reassuring pat, saying, "I'll talk to her. I got this."

Daryl confronts her a few episodes when they're on the run, telling Michonne she's been running off (I think these are the words Rick has used with Daryl- she's running off, keeping her distance)

Michonne is taking breaks. (Who could blame her with the PTSD of losing her son, partner, and friend). But what Michonne is doing, according to her, is finding the governor to end things and avenge Andrea's death. Though true, Rick also knows she's not quite ready to be fully a part of the family, at home, with Carl, and with Rick.

Oh, and we know that Rick has been waiting for her to stop taking breaks.

When everything is broken, their home is gone, and Michonne is enlightened that Rick and Carl are her family. She says this:

She's ready to go all in emotionally to their family and build a home, a foundation with Rick.

Lastly, my favorite! Rick, though beaten, is clearly happy and hopeful that Michonne will be there.

It's how I knew they would be family.

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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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Richonne fanfic update

✨️ New Year, (A lot of) New Chapters ✨️

So yeah, I've been sitting on many chapters for my "When In Alexandria" fic, trying to polish them since I've had amazing reviews on the first part last season, and I think it'll be time to share the second part very soon, as an offering to my Richonne shippers out there.

If I had to describe the fic When In Alexandria to new readers, I'd say it's a TOWL-inspired horny poetic fic set in Alexandria. ☝🏽🤓

Check it out here:

📖 on Ao3

📖 on Fanfic.net

For visual references ⤵️ 😌

This is still my first fic and wow, writing is so hard.

Keeping up with it is even harder.

Editing is the worst.

But it's all worth it.

In any case, writing isn't for the faint of heart.

But everything one learns on the way can also be impressive, and transformative.

This is definitely personal, vulnerable work, the fear of being judged, evaluated, shamed...

But whatever happen, it was made with love (and more).

Random Bonus Rant

It's only a fic, *yes and* it also is grueling work. To imagine, to write, but also to visit stories within the frame of Western imagination.

Some scenarii we can't escape, and it is what it is, but some others are dangerously reductive, flattening and threatening when we care about life, love and justice.

I'm not writing in my own language partly because of it (it's another story).

I believe fandoms can be amazing, I truly do. But I can't help but interrogate Black women's place in them, whether as real fans or as fictional characters. I've been late to it, because the level of violence and misogynoir in most media and fandom (every, dare I say) is baffling.

We join fandoms to share, imagine and have fun, and since they're not born in a vacuum (insert we live in a society meme here) so of course, it stings. We know this. But it doesn't diminishes the hurt. This bs world has the tendency to recycle said bs, to build and and poison our imagination.

Fic allows me to try something else.

Whatever they do, Black women, storytellers, and the characters looking like them, they always find themselves with the shorter end of the stick. Objectification, hurt, trauma, dehumanization and death are supposed to remain rites of passages, real and fictional, and the more Black women bear, the more...

What?

Nothing.

There is no prize to be won.

There is neither justice, nor meritocracy, or else many a Black woman would be happy billionaires, rather than El*n Fucking M*sk.

Also, fuck billionaires.

Anyway, to cut the adhd rant short:

I love The Walking Dead, and I enjoy critiquing the show just as much.

I love Michonne, and I love Rick.

I looove Michonne, and I looove Richonne.

I hope it shows. If not, maybe next chapter?

❤️‍🔥Happy Shipping❤️‍🔥

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TOWL magic in Alexandria ❤️‍🔥

I love listening to Danai Gurira talk about Michonne and Rick’s characters & relationship. After watching The Ones Who Live, I got to this interview about episode 4 "What We", and I believe it planted the seed of an idea for my first fanfic When In Alexandria.

Their story is so compelling, and as she explains so well, this episode had to have them talking, finally. So much has happened.

Things between them couldn't stay inferred anymore, and they had to express themselves to find each other again. Danai the playright was about to show us how it's done, and Oh boy, she did !

Danai was so specific and detailed in her writing, and it shows, it can be felt thanks to their incredible acting performances. The theatre quality of writing of also makes up for a perfect bottled emotional episode that I can't get enough of.

So I started writing, and it took me a couple of chapters before understanding that what I was trying to do, was to bring some of that DG magic to The Walking Dead Alexandrian arc when, after a very difficult time on the road, they find themselves struggling to adjust to the new community.

I wanted to experiment with what could have happened, specifically with Rick and Michonne, if they actually took the time to talk to each other. What would they say, what would they learn, what would be revealed by the change of environment...?

It's also born out of frustration about the way Michonne’s character has been handled at that point of the story in the show, like so many Black women characters who are obvious love interests for the main protagonist, but neither the writers nor the fandom (bros and other racists) can deal with their white hero being in love with such a sensible and badass woman who happens to be Black.

Even if the actors couldn’t be more obvious in their performances, Andrew Lincoln being the incredible ship captain that he was, we barely get to access Michonne's layers once they get to Alexandria. She's on the sideline, so the Jessie mess can happen, and it's really not gracefully done in my opinion.

I love the fact that Michonne remains quite mysterious, to us and to Rick, and I wanted to try and find a way to make Richonne happen as soon as the group get there, because it made sense to me and to a lot of us I believe.

I am no Danai Gurira of course, and it's my first attempt at fiction, but I put all my heart in it, and I'm now approaching 20 chapters, a few dozen thousand words and having a blast.

So if you’re still in TOWL withdrawls, if you like The Walking Dead, and you enjoy Rick and Michonne the way I do, maybe you'll enjoy the first 13 chapters too. NSFW.

Happy Shipping

Danai and Evette talking about episode 4

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Reviews on a first Richonne fic

Please keep up with the heartfelt & hilarious reviews on my lastest chapter(s)!

Sounds like I got some of you fanning yourselves 🥵

I'm quite proud of this first fic 😇 and I owe a lot to more seasoned ff writers, and of course to Dandy's talent, to the original characters and material.

I mean look at them 👀 Before:

And after:

I'm definitely not done with them, I hope you'll keep enjoying this TOWL-inspired horny poetic Richonne fic set in Alexandria!

Here is the lastest update 🔄

Happy Shipping ❤️‍🔥

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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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❤️‍🔥 Richonne fic Update ❤️‍🔥

When In Alexandria New Chapter : Humble Beginnings

📖 on Ao3

📖 on Fanfiction.net

Officially, no matter what you hear or read about this one and the following chapters, I happen to have written in a fugue state.

Enjoy. 😌🫠🙃

🌛Happy Shipping🌜

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Mother Michonne

Andre

Carl

Judith

RJ

The Grimes

How Richonne Was Born

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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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✨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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Richonne fic update soon

When In Alexandria part 2 (teaser)

What it is: a canon divergent Richonne smutty fic set in Alexandria, largely inspired by The Ones Who Live, especially by Danai Gurira's work on "What We", but maybe not in the way you think...

If you're not up to date with the first 4 chapters, check them out

When In Alexandria part 1 on Archive Of Our Own🖱

and on

And I can't wait to share the next chapters. Basically, it's a lot of

With a drop of

A pinch of

And of course, let's not forget the

I've been at it like this

The 2nd part is almost done

And soon, VOILÀ!

🌛❤️‍🔥🌜

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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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Richonne fic Massive Update

🌛When In Alexandria 🌜

A TOWL-inspired canon-divergent horny poetic fic set in Alexandria about how this

turned into this, and more (NSFW)

Here are 9 more chapters for the weekend!

📖 on Ao3

📖 on Fanfic.net

Reviews are more than welcome (my 1st fic)

It took me time to learn to write for myself and not let an imagined audience dictate what I write.

BUT since fic is quite new to me, and now that I'm done with the last corrections, I confess.

I kinda hope this is gonna make readers go :

After all, we're talking about Richonne here...

Enjoy and

❤️‍🔥Happy Shipping❤️‍🔥