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BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH (and Jude Law) during the Tokio Comic Con' s open ceremony | December 6, 2024.

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JOEL & ELLIE TEXT POSTS

bc I love them that’s all :(

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joel + the face

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i was trying to collect more shitty ms paint doodles we all use and vibe with and then i realize i also have ms paint and can just MAKE some 

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Me after episode 5 of The Last of Us

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the reunion of the Miller brothers

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THE LAST OF US - #It’s just deer meat

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Ellie with Joel’s rifle

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I think there’s something so deeply and intimately and morbidly true about The Last of Us’s primary thesis which is that humanity’s fatal flaw, in that very Shakespearian way, is that we are destined to care too much about one another so much so that we discard the collective entirely. like we have such a capacity to love the human race and humanity as a whole, to grow our communities and govern cities how we know best and foster such connection with the masses which we are part of, but it’s overtaken by our capacity to love even just a single other person. like one human can come into your life that creates such an intrinsic and passionate love in you— or maybe two people or a family’s worth or any small number— and you suddenly would burn entire villages down just to keep them safe.

joel doesn’t blink twice murdering to find ellie. he doesn’t look back when he decides to do what he does at the hospital later on. he has no remorse about any of it it, because this one girl has grown to mean more to him than any possible greater good could ever mean. and it’s reciprocal. ellie would— and does— do anything she can to help him, save him, protect him, and, eventually, to avenge him. because that’s what you do when you love someone. not when you love people. when you love someone.

and it’s selfish, in a way??? because we love these people and would do so much for them because they mean more to us than other strangers do. it’s exactly like an iteration of the trolley problem, actually. one track has your daughter on it and one track has fifty people. don’t even try telling me you wouldn’t go onto track B if it meant saving your daughter and her puppy dog eyes from the whimpering and pain and fear. The Last of Us says yes, you would. I would. we all would. and like yeah that is our greatest weakness, that we have such a unique ability to love a handful of people so deeply that our compassion towards community and strangers and the bigger collective starts to slip from view. but goddamn what a fucking great fatal flaw it is to have. we are all going to die and the world will burn because we loved another person too much.

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#character development

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*dora the explorer voice* seat belts! so we can be safe!

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WHO DID THIS 😭

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Craig and Neil were absolutely insane for having Joel, having just learned his bother is going to be a father, leave and see an adult woman in the crowd who looks just like his daughter, and for a moment seeing how she could have grown up, and then seeing that woman go up to her own daughter, because if Sarah had lived she would have been in her mid 30s, and Joel could have been a grandfather.

and for a moment, just a moment, you can see the look on Joel’s face where he forgets its not Sarah