rick to michonne in season 7: “you can lose me, i can lose you.”
rick to michonne after almost dying several times and being separated for years from her: “but then i started dreaming of you. and there you were. you and i fell in love in different ways, and it kept me going. and then you were gone too. i couldn’t see your face anymore, just like i couldn’t see carl’s. i can’t live without you. without you, i die. and i figured out how to do that. i know how to be dead and live now. you can’t just come back here and make me come alive again if-i don’t know if i won’t lose you again. what if i lose you and i can’t figure out how to die all over again? i can’t. i need to get ahead of it, michonne. i can’t. i can’t. when i- when i saw you i got so scared and i…i needed to get ahead of it. i had to, at least if i think you will live on longer than me without knowing if you do, i can just believe that it’s true. knowing. seeing that loss? i can’t. i won’t survive that, michonne. i just won’t.”
boy, did this one take a while!! whenever i got very stuck on a part, i made myself close the file and go do another study to get over the wall, so this was done on and off over a few weeks. the timelapse for this one is long, and inelegant, but if i just showed you the stuff that came together in a 'pretty' way i'd be doing the both of us a disservice
there's a part very near the end of the timelapse where it looks like nothing is happening. it is, it's just very zoomed in. i hand drew the marquis outlines on the shards
Part two of ao3 fanfic lines that go extremely (emotionally devastatingly) hard !
Part one (although quite a mess) was pretty popular and I have tons of these in my gallery so please enjoy -
no. 1 - the best mcu spiderman fic I have ever read (seriously it's amazing) called The Third Option by Uncertainty_Principle
no. 2 - a merthur classical music au called Pianos are made for Falling by Fishwrites
no. 3 - another beautifully written merthur fic called the time is drawing near now (yours to claim it all) by ariadne_odair
no. 4 - a short and sweet Hornblower fic called I Will Not Sleep by speakmefair
no. 5 - another Hornblower fic (they're all so poetically written ??) called No Quarter Given by Paraxdisepink
no. 6 - a s3 au of the walking dead (part 3 of a series) called If You Love Something by CrossBowDontMiss
no. 7 - a beautiful klance fic called never saw you coming by dimpleforyourthoughts (one of my faves!)
no. 8 - a nightwing centered batfam fic called your continental divides by isawet and reisling (made me tear up ngl)
no. 9 & 10 - once again the amazing ongoing atla rewrite/au following zuko - The Art Of Burning by hella1975
please tag the authors tumblrs if they have one!!
(and of course I'm not forgetting that one stucky line - we deserve a soft epilogue, my love - that line is forever in my head even though I've never read the fic 😭)