The Kids In The Walking Dead Are Literally So Much More Interesting To Me Than The Adults. (And I’m

Juno’s champion

The sibling shenanigans we could have had

nobody asked, but here are my current top three favourite Carl Grimes fanfics on ao3! (All multi-chap and unfinished)

FIRST PLACE

From Whence we Came by AtlasNerd

this is honestly my favourite fic of all time. I go back and reread it at least once a month. I don’t even care that it’s most likely abandoned because it is just that good. It is THE saviour Carl fic and will probably always be my number one.

SECOND PLACE

What remains by noorvex

this is currently the one I’m most invested in because it’s updating very frequently. The jump in quality from the first chapters to the most recent ones is astounding, and the story is sooo good. Basically a fix-it starting at Carl’s supposed death. Reminds me of From Whence we Came in all the best ways.

THIRD PLACE

Faded Dreams (Shine Brightly Now) by EmlynC

time travel fix-it where Carl gets sent back to the very beginning. Character development for everyone is on point, and the story takes a lot of what-ifs from the earlier seasons and makes them real. Even though this one doesn’t update as much anymore, I still jump for joy whenever I get the notification.

anyways, love love love all of these and can’t recommend them enough <3

Carphia my loves. forever mad at the show for killing both of them off, so this is like season 3 if they both lived. Also Sophia is absolutely destroying Carl at checkers.

A piece inspired by chapter 2 of margotwrotethis’s wonderful story Cold Feet on ao3. Going through serious csm brainrot rn and akiangel has me by the throat

Link to the story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/42387498/chapters/106445217

viva la vida by coldplay is sooo Negan (specifically his prison era).

like, hello? “I used to rule the world” ???

“I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes” (quite literally the lineup and how he treated the communities, I fear)

“Revolutionaries wait For my head on a silver plate” (Literally Rick, Maggie and all them)

“I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning, I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own” (him in the prison at Alexandria guys)

guys do you see the vision

the tears that are streaming down my face rn

I feel so bad for her :(

quick sketches of Carl from my favourite fanfic, From Whence We Came by AtlasNerd on ao3!

Carl in the later chapters has me wrecked and sobbing on the floor

Jason getting glasses is actually so symbolic of his duality imo. You know how there are idioms that go 'look behind one's lens" ?? That applies perfectly to Jason.

He also had a coin for a weapon, maybe representing that he has "two sides of the same coin" ??

Jason is absolutely terrifying if he's driven over the edge, something that doesn't happen often (thank you Rick for showing us how much you hate making jason interesting or powerful) like when his fingers started sparking after he realised Piper and the others were on the argo ii when some kind of creatures starts attacking the ship, when Caligula broke Piper's jaw ultimately setting Jason off, or when he and Percy chose to unleash their full potential of storms in MOA together.

He can be legitimately SO cold, ruthless and indifferent if he wants to, till the point where it shocks his friends, like how he didn't trust Nico and didnt feel keen on saving him, saying in an abnormally casual way that it was perfectly okay to leave him to die at Rome in FRONT of the said boy's sister, causing Hazel to start being really scared and paranoid to be alone with Jason (I know this is widely used a reason to hate him in the fandom, but I find his nonchalant coldness towards the Nico situation extremely realistic considering how he was brought up in Camp Jupiter. Camp Jupiter is always attack and not defend, and they're ruthless in nature, so much so till the point where that amount of cruelty is considered very normal, and even a desirable quality for a perfect roman. Hazel obviously wasn't exposed to this as she was only in CJ for a very short period of time, so she took it as a shock. And considering that Jupiter is Jason's dad, you can't expect any sort trait of Jupiter to NOT seep onto his son right? Thalia can be extremely ruthless and merciless too, like when she had no hesitation in wanting to go against Luke in TLO even after Percy showed Luke sympathy after he saw Luke's younger memories) and notice how coldly Jason talked to his enemies (sciron for example).

His eyes are even considered ’cold and calculating’ and even Annabeth, the number one intimidator, felt personally intimidated and said that Jason made her extremely nervous and uncomfortable simply with the way he was looking at her like he knew too much information/was hiding many things. Annabeth knew that Jason was smart in a very dangerous way and that he could use information against her, that's coming from the daughter of Athena herself so you could imagine how genuinely threatening jason could look.

But he could be the sweetest guy ever?? Jason goes up to Nico's cabin bc he wanted to give him a hug and constantly kept reassuring Nico that he wanted to be his friend even after Nico's indifference in HOH. He took Piper on a secret get away date on his cabins rooftop, breaking the rules to make her happy, genuinely thinks that he would turn into a tree like his sister had because he thought it was customary for all Zeus kids, so much so that it made Annabeth laugh, etc.

guys I think my drawing would improve by a 100342457776665billion percent if I had an apple pencil. My finger just isn’t cutting it anymore