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spending all of five minutes. with a nineteen year old child. who has just been pretty much ALONE in a hospital. for three months. after watching her dad be murdered. and saying she’s a HOPELESS CASE?!?!?.!! if I was tommy I would have DECKED her.

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Don't talk to me like I didn't know him. He was my brother. THE LAST OF US — 2.03 “The Path”

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Ellie & Joel + No Complaints by Noah Kahan

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I Love the Way They’re Writing Abby Already!!

I’m sure plenty of gamers are mad, but as someone who hasn’t played game two and has only skimmed the surface in terms of watching stuff from it, I absolutely LOVE how they’re writing Abby.

My Little Thought Tree on YouTube talked about how trauma affected both the development of Ellie and Abby, and he made some genuinely fantastic points, but possibly my favorite was just how fucked-up Abby feels.

I haven’t played the games, but it seems like in them she was this no-nonsense, professional, military, highly-trained strategist yadda yadda who gets the job done with no fuss, but in the show she feels so much less put together and I absolutely love it. She isn’t stone-faced or efficient, instead she’s bitter and obsessive and deeply hurt.

Her talking to Joel before he dies isn’t a “villain monologue” like people are saying. She’s trying to make him feel guilt, to see how much he hurt her. She wanted him remorseful when she killed him, because that justifies it even more. If he feels as awful as she does, it means she’s right.

But he doesn’t. She wanted to make him suffer, but she only does so physically. He doesn’t give her the satisfaction of regret or the validation that she’s right. She wants to put her suffering onto him, and she wants him to take it. To say that she’s right, to apologize, not because she actually wants a sorry, but because that means that her rage is good and righteous like she pretends it is. But he doesn’t take her suffering, he throws it back at her and what she thought would heal her leads her to just internalize it more.

And this sort of all-consuming obsession is reinforced by the “handsome” comments. My good friend, the incredible @archetyped2 pointed out that it’s not about the fact that Joel’s handsome, not really, it’s that someone described her father’s killer as handsome. She internalized it, fixating on the “positive” thing that was brought up, and she goes on to try and destroy it. She can’t stand the thought of anything about him being “good” (obvi handsome doesn’t mean good but y’know it’s generally considered a positive trait) and she’s deeply bitter about it. She’s not attracted to Joel, far from it, but the thought of the exterior of this man she despises not matching what she’s deemed as the “evil, ugly interior” is infuriating to her. She hates it, and that’s why she brings it up.

As pissed as I am at Abby (and I’m positively fuming lol), the writers did such a good job of giving her layers and deeply complex psychology and that’s why I love this show. More than anything it’s really about getting into the character’s heads, and they do a truly fantastic job of it.

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Benjamin and Uncle Joel 🥺🥺💕 This was my second time in ArtRage and still kinda trying to find my footing, but I had a lot of fun with the color blending. I’ve been trying to narrow my color palettes to three hues max, and vary the saturation and intensity, and I think it’s helping me keep everything a little bit more coherent.

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I was moseying around online and I saw that Bella Ramsey announced they'd been diagnosed with autism after filming season one of TLOU. And as an autistic person, I can't express what it means to me to see somebody like myself in one of the biggest shows on TV. Season 1 of The Last of Us will always be a special show to me, one of my favourites, but it's become even more special to me now, knowing that Ellie is played by an autistic person.

I wish it didn't stick out in my memory, but I recall as a child being scolded by teachers that I was too stiff or robotic or expressionless whenever I had to do something performance/public-speaking related and it ultimately made me shy away from auditioning for the school plays because I felt I wasn't talented enough or particularly wanted, even though a part of me would've had great fun doing it. So it makes me so happy that other young autistic people who want to become actors or work in the creative industry someday will have a wonderful role model like Bella, someone they can point to when people try to present autism as a barrier to the performing arts or try to fence us into some stupid, stereotypical "too unfeeling to emote" category. I'm so proud of Bella right now, I want to cry 🥹

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spin this wheel of fanfic tags. this will be the theme of your day tomorrow.

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the last of us + memes 6/?

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4, 27, 35!

You rock!

4. What's a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

i have a whole note on my phone dedicated to words i like/want to use but i'm a big fan of the word coruscation right now (definition — a gleam or flash of light; a sudden or striking display of brilliance)

27. Who is the most stressful character you've ever written?

i tried to write from maria's pov and it was a lot more difficult than joel or ellie's, probably because there's so much less information about her compared to them. i think everyone's kinda got their own idea of what her personality is like beyond what we've actually seen of her, so a lot of the time i was trying to write was spent worrying about what other people would think of my characterization

35. What's your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

i answered here !

and you rock !!!

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22 and 35 for the questions! 💙

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

i feel like my writing is both organized and also a total mess—i usually use the apple notes app to jot down ideas whenever i have them, and then use Notion to brainstorm/organize because i can put things in separate folders and pages and stuff

then i use google docs to do the actual writing. one thing that's been super helpful for me since i write things out of order is to change to text color every time i change scenes or stop/start writing. though this can look a little messy, it visually breaks it up, which makes it a lot easier to focus on than a wall of plain black text

35. What's your favorite writing rule to smash to smithereens?

one of my old english teachers told me that you should "always use the simplest word possible," something i still totally disagree with. i ♡ vocabulary

but honestly, i don't believe you need to stick to any rules in writing. like any other art, i think you should write however you want, whether that's by not using quotation marks, by writing in an unexpected or unconventional structure, etc.

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Weird Questions for Writers (because writers are weird)

1. What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

2. If you had to give up your keyboard and write your stories exclusively by hand, could you do it? If you already write everything by hand, a) are you a wizard and b) pen or pencil?

3. What is your writing ritual and why is it cursed?

4. What’s a word that makes you go absolutely feral?

5. Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

6. What is your darkest fear about writing?

7. What is your deepest joy about writing?

8. If you had to write an entire story without either action or dialogue, which would you choose and how would it go?

9. Do you believe in ghosts? This isn’t about writing I just wanna know

10. Has a piece of writing ever “haunted” you? Has your own writing haunted you? What does that mean to you?

11. Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

12. If a genie offered you three writing wishes, what would they be? Btw if you wish for more wishes the genie turns all your current WIPs into Lorem Ipsum, I don’t make the rules

13. What is a subject matter that is incredibly difficult for you write about? What is easy?

14. Do you lend your books to people? Are people scared to borrow books from you? Do you know exactly where all your “lost” books are and which specific friend from school you haven’t seen in twelve years still possesses them? Will you ever get them back?

15. Do you write in the margins of your books? Dog-ear your pages? Read in the bath? Why or why not? Do you judge people who do these things? Can we still be friends?

16. What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

17. Talk to me about the minutiae of your current WIP. Tell me about the lore, the history, the detail, the things that won’t make it in the text.

18. Choose a passage from your writing. Tell me about the backstory of this moment. How you came up with it, how it changed from start to end. Spicy addition: Questioner provides the passage.

19. Tell me a story about your writing journey. When did you start? Why did you start? Were there bumps along the way? Where are you now and where are you going?

20. If a witch offered you the choice between eternal happiness with your one true love and the ability to finally finish, perfect, and publish your dearest, darlingest, most precious WIP in exactly the way you've always imagined it — which would you choose? You can’t have both sorry, life’s a bitch

21. Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

22. How organized are you with your writing? Describe to me your organization method, if it exists. What tools do you use? Notebooks? Binders? Apps? The Cloud?

23. Describe the physical environment in which you write. Be as detailed as possible. Tell me what’s around you as you work. Paint me a picture.

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

25. What is a weird, hyper-specific detail you know about one of your characters that is completely irrelevant to the story?

26. How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

27. Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

28. Who is the most delightful character you’ve ever written? Why?

29. Where do you draw your inspiration? What do you do when the inspiration well runs dry?

30. Talk to me about the role dreams play in your writing life. Have you ever used material from your dreams in your writing? Have you ever written in a dream? Did you remember it when you woke up?

31. Write a short love letter to your readers.

32. What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

33. Do you practice any other art besides writing? Does that art ever tie into your writing, or is it entirely separate?

34. Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

35. What’s your favorite writing rule to smash into smithereens?

36. They say to Write What You Know. Setting aside for a moment the fact that this is terrible advice...what do you Know?

37. If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

38. What is something about your writing process YOU think is Really Weird? If you are comfortable, please share. If you’re not comfortable, what do you think cats say about us?

39. What keeps you writing when you feel like giving up?

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

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“your body, my choice” i will blow a hole through you with my shotgun

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the united states of america would rather light itself on fire than elect a woman as president

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https://x.com/keiidakamya/status/1841299989185679520

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“you’re cargo” he says, as he proceeds to care deeply and risk his life again and again to keep her safe