Citations:Bethyl

English citations of Bethyl

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) the ship of characters Beth Greene and Daryl Dixon from the television series The Walking Dead"

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• 2014, Lanford Beard, "'Walking Dead': Watch Norman Reedus's EW Pop Culture Personality Test", Entertainment Weekly, 28 March 2014:

  As Bethyl shippers know, Daryl and his traveling companion Beth (Emily Kinney, who also took her own Pop Culture Personality Test back in February) were suddenly split up in episode 13 when Beth was abducted by unseen assailants.

• 2014, Megan Lieu, "Reaction to the Walking Dead Season 4", The Vanguard (Bentley University), 3 April 2014, page 9:

  Also in the flashbacks, the "Bethyl" fans (those who want Beth and Daryl to be together) became disappointed when the realization^[sic] that Beth, played by Emily Kinney, would only be in the flashbacks and not in the present.

• 2014, Laurel Kraus, "Captivation with Imagination", The Flash (Fraser High School, Fraser, Missouri), May 2014, page 13:

  For example, the ship name for the characters Beth and Daryl from The Walking Dead is Bethyl.

• 2014, Lindsay Putnam, "Who will be the next to die on ‘The Walking Dead’?", New York Post, 17 November 2014:

  For fans of the “Bethyl” romance, this would also allow Daryl to carry on a relationship with Beth free of the guilt of hurting Carol’s feelings.

• 2014, Amanda Michelle Steiner, "The Walking Dead: Creator Robert Kirkman Finally Reveals Daryl's Sexuality", People, 1 December 2014:

  While there are many die-hard Caryl and Bethyl shippers who have argued for Daryl’s heterosexuality, others have maintained that Daryl is gay.

• 2016, Kathleen Smith, The Fangirl Life: A Guide to All the Feels and Learning How to Deal, unnumbered page:

  And before you know it, you've exploded vicious rhetoric on some poor Bethyl shipper on Tumblr who never saw it coming.

• 2018, Tosha R. Taylor, "Digital space and 'Walking Dead' fandom's Team Delusional", Transformative Works and Cultures, Volume 27 (2018):

  The same multimodality is applied to discussions and fan interactions. In a post dated April 28, 2016, a TD member reblogged a post addressing Beth's age, a contentious topic in Walking Dead fandom because of the popularity of the Bethyl ship and Beth's early establishment as a teenager (note 4).