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Umm...
So...♾️♾️♾️
I just realised that the last episode of The Ones Who Live will air on RESURRECTION Sunday 🧐😵✝️
That is not a coincidence!
They could have picked any day to release the last episode, but chose that day!
The end (episode 6) of Rick's story beginning again (TOWL season 1 ) is on the same day that Christ's resurrection is being remembered...
The beginning is the end ♾️
When Rick is revealed at the beginning of the season, he is called Christ...
Christ, is that him? Michonne nods yes...
Is it a play on words? Yes.
But it's also an eclipsed/hidden but very deliberate way to mark Rick as Christ.
The last episode will air on Resurrection Sunday. Fulfilling the beginning and end.
Beth and Rick's stories are intertwined often reversed, so this is intriguing to me!
I'm truly starting to think that this is the year we get Beth. Too many things are lining up including the fact that Beth (in real time) has been gone 10 years, while Rick (in show time) has been missing 10 years.
10.10 get well soon.
Do I think we will see Beth or a clue to Beth in episode 6 of TOWL?
Maybe...it's actually very possible due to resurrection Sunday.
Maybe we get a hidden coda, like Morgan, but this time the mask stays on.
Who knows... I'm excited to see, but what I'm more interested in is this beginning end pattern because what comes next (after TOWL ends) in TWD universe will be another resurrection.
Enter The Book of Carol.
I pine for Summer ☀️
The last episode (episode 6) of TOWL, airing on RESURRECTION SUNDAY, is called The Last Time...
Emily released a song called Last Chance not long after she finished on (ended) TWD.
Many who heard the song Last Chance thought it sounded like Emily was writing it about Daryl and Beth, and she was.
Emily's very first album (first = beginning) was released just after she left (ended) The Walking Dead, and Last Chance (which really indicates both Beginning and end) was a single on it. So, could the episode "The Last Time" be the signal for Beth's return or beginning?
It's all starting to line up.
The album, the song "Last Chance," is off, is called This Is War.
In the comics, Andrea wakes from a gun shot to the head during the war with the Governor.
The bullet just gazes her but knocks her unconscious. I am convinced Emily was referencing this war in the title of her album.
No doubt, the end of season 1 of Rick and Michonne's story will also lead to a declaration of This Is War with the CRM. I guess we will wait and see for that one, but we know war is building.
Now Rick wasn't the only one marked as Christ, in fact he was the second or "last" one marked as Christ in TOWL Gone.
The first one to be marked as Christ is...
The sister that was left behind aka a representation of Beth.
Beth was marked as Christ here first (at the beginning of Gone) in the timeline, while Rick was marked as Christ last (near the end of Gone).
We see Rick on-screen before he gets marked as Christ, but Beth gets marked as Christ before we see her.
The time to finally see her again has to be close. Very close.
I also want to add one other extremely unusual thing I discovered, and it's in relation to the X eclipse that is coming up a week and one day after resurrection Sunday on April 8th.
For those who don't know, there will be a solar eclipse on April 8th in the US, and it's been nicknamed the X eclipse, because the path that the eclipse will take, makes an X in conjunction with the path of the last solar eclipse of 2017.
How is this related to Beth and Daryl?
Well, remember the episode "Find Me" with Leah?
And the solar eclipse they look at together, while Leah all but repeats Beth's line of "Don't you think that's beautiful?"
The eclipse in "Find Me" is the twin eclipse related to the upcoming eclipse the week after resurrection Sunday.
Leah was a shadow of Beth, I would now even be bold enough to say she was a blocked or eclipsed version of Beth.
Eclipse means an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
In other words, the light or reality is hidden from view.
Well... I spent some time figuring out the timeline of this moment where we see the solar eclipse with Leah and Daryl.
And I'm not kidding you. They are looking at a solar eclipse in 2017.
Most commentators on TWD timeline place Rick's disappearance and being taken by the CRM at the 2013 mark.
The episode "Find Me" actually gives us a good calendar to work by in finding out how much time passes from when Rick goes missing up until this eclipse that Daryl and Leah look at.
First, we see Carol say to Daryl...
It's been 2 years of Daryl looking for Rick.
OK, so Rick went missing at the 2013 mark, and now it's 2015 (two years later)
We then see additional time jumps marked, adding up to 2.5 years...
Placing us in 2017!
Leah and Daryl's story was a shadow of finding Beth.
I've talked a bit about how 10's and X's are symbols of Beth's return, so this is an interesting, albeit odd addition to the X symbolism.
10.10 get well soon flipped ♾️ is 01.01
X is 10 in Roman numerals, obviously, and we are also coming up to the ten year mark from when Beth "dies."
The current walking dead timeline for Daryl Dixon season 1 places us somewhere in 2023, so a question I have is...will we, at some stage in the future, see Daryl and Beth looking at the X eclipse of 2024 in a fulfillment of the 2017 eclipse...
Emily also wore this hat and posted a caption with it, "Don't F with me today Zombies".
She posted this back when filming was taking place for season 5, but we never saw the footage reported on from that time.
The crown on the hat is made up of X's that make diamonds, and it combined makes the upside-down pyramids, all of which are related to Beth and Sirius returning.
Make of that what you will.
I'm working on a future post to lay out how both Consumed and Find me are road maps to her return.
Both those episodes focused heavily on Daryl and Carol off together.
She is coming soon... Beth means house of, and she's marked as Christ.
House of Christ.
I love this! I never even thought to use the solar eclipse as a marker for time. I remember having tons of old conversations with @twdmusicboxmystery @wdway and @frangipanilove about how Leah is an “eclipsed” or veiled version of Beth, and her name itself is a part of this. So we are all picking up on such similar imagery here.
To this end, I want to take a quick detour through the Biblical allegory of Leah, Rachel, and Jacob, and how I believe they're related to Beth's return, and also how they're related to the theory above.
I found the Beth Greene sweater on Poshmark and ordered it. I don’t do cosplay or anything like that. It’s just because I’m like this, and also I miss her
I got the sweater today, and I did not expect to have such an emotional reaction. It was wrapped up in pink tissue paper with yellow thread and cute, colorful stickers all over. Felt like Beth sent it to me herself sk;flkdsja;lfkj;dslkjf
slut for them
I found the Beth Greene sweater on Poshmark and ordered it. I don’t do cosplay or anything like that. It’s just because I’m like this, and also I miss her
THE WALKING DEAD
— 4.12 | “Still”
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live S01E02 - Gone
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Thank you for the tags @pipergirl17 and @mistressheroine ❤️
I have made a surprising amount of progress on the next chapter of afterglow.
A(n emotional) snippet:
Daryl felt quietly saddened as he looked at the guitar, though it was beautiful and he wished he could appreciate it how she wanted him to. But as it stood, he gave it back, and after she set it down, he took her wrist into his hand and turned it over, so that he could see the scar. The pictures, from the medical papers in the folder from Rick, they had been haunting him to some degree. This was better than what he'd seen. It was healed. But you could still see it there, the ridges, pale pink and shiny. She seemed embarrassed by it at first, but she didn't wrestle away from him. She let him look. He felt the guilt pressing behind his eyes but he would not break down in front of her. It was his fault.
"I'm sorry, Greene," he said, though his voice broke, he was steady. "You wanted to stay with me. I should have kept you with me."
Basically just like a lot of emotions in this one.
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afterglow: chapter 7
the walking dead | bethyl | mature
Beth writes a letter. Daryl arrives at the Civic Republic.
*Yes, there will be at least one more chapter of this story. We are nearing the end, but the end is long. I keep adding chapters and I don't feel bad about it.
*You can find my updated playlist for "afterglow" on spotify, which includes each song from Lizzy Dixon's set list so far.
afterglow: chapter 7
the walking dead | bethyl | mature
Beth writes a letter. Daryl arrives at the Civic Republic.
*Yes, there will be at least one more chapter of this story. We are nearing the end, but the end is long. I keep adding chapters and I don't feel bad about it.
*You can find my updated playlist for "afterglow" on spotify, which includes each song from Lizzy Dixon's set list so far.
afterglow: chapter 7
the walking dead | bethyl | mature
Beth writes a letter. Daryl arrives at the Civic Republic.
*Yes, there will be at least one more chapter of this story. We are nearing the end, but the end is long. I keep adding chapters and I don't feel bad about it.
*You can find my updated playlist for "afterglow" on spotify, which includes each song from Lizzy Dixon's set list so far.
WIP Whenever
Thank you for the tags, @thevikingwoman and @mistressheroine (probably a while ago, I'm sorry lol)
I have a finished draft of Chapter 7 for afterglow. It has taken a long time, but for good reason. I will polish it up and post it on Friday. ❤️
Here is a sneak peak:
Daryl continued to feel strange. Like his hands were too big for his body. All day, he'd been lightheaded, in nicotine withdrawal, and on the edge of hurling his guts out. Blinking, sweating, talking to Lieutenant Field. He put his hands on a chopper, then an old Nighthawk, testing the leather through muscle memory. Daryl had no clue where he was. He must have looked like a mad man, a crazy person. This was not what he had expected. He wasn't sure what he expected, honestly. It's not exactly like the place he came from was crackerjack shit, but it wasn't this. He'd never even been to a place like this when it was the old world. Something so organized, shiny, and expensive. He picked the Nighthawk, because it was closest in body and sensibility to the bike he lost back in Maine.
Lieutenant Field complimented his choice. "Very subtle," he said.
"What's that supposed to mean."
"I just think it means you know bikes. It won't call too much attention your way. Maybe that's what you want."
"I don't need attention," said Daryl, patting down his pockets, irritable. "What I need's a cigarette."
Field reached into his back pocket then, without a word, handed Daryl a pack of Morleys. "Here. Take as many as you want."
"You sure?"
"Don't smoke in here," said James. "These people can be weird about nicotine. But yeah, of course."
"Thanks, man," said Daryl. He pocketed two of the cigarettes, gave him the pack. "Ran out back in Maine."
"Is that where you're from?"
"No."
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RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ᨖ
afterglow: masterpost
the walking dead | bethyl | mature
Listless and bitter after ten unbidden years in the Civic Republic, Beth Greene has cultivated a respectable life. By day, she works at a preschool, and by night, she plays her guitar, singing at the bars and night clubs of the Civic Republic underground, using the stage name Lizzy Dixon. Beth has never talked about her old life, or the people in it. But one day, when she's incarcerated for a crime she did not commit, Beth meets a mysterious ally who, per an unknown agenda, reunites her with Rick Grimes.
Chapter 1: I'm From Nowhere (12/8/23)
Chapter 2: Acid Tongue (12/15/23)
Chapter 6: The Voyager (2/2/24)
*Updates on Wednesdays and/or Fridays
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From Chapter 7 of afterglow:
As they got off the helipad, which was on what appeared to be some sort of giant concrete runway surrounded by feral fields of walkers, garbage, and barbwire, he, himself was also zip-tied and escorted by two massive soldiers, one of whom was armed with a bazooka—all of this he'd been warned would happen, but it was unnatural. They took his crossbow, and he didn't like being tied up or shoved around by pod people. Rick just kept talking to him, telling him to wait, telling him it was temporary. Daryl could feel the pulse in his neck and his wrists and his heartbeat was screaming at a hundred miles per hour. He felt hypertensive. He felt fried and exhausted, and he was also afraid, but that part, he hid well. The helicopter was loud until the engines heaved down and into silence and there was tinnitus in his ears. He could see the city, Philadelphia, about a mile out, behind hills and trees, like a sneaking wonder metropolis, one which he had never seen or visited before.
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