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IT'S THE SECOND ONE! It's the second one, thank you! Hahaha. @march-flowerr there we go.

You’ve said before that your vision of Joel Miller for Interstellar Overdrive is heavily grounded in Pedro’s portrayal of Javier Peña in Narcos. Are there any specific images/moments from Narcos that you referred to for any moments in your fic? Just curious because the delulu has gotten to the point where I can’t tell the two apart anymore 🤣🫠

Mwah! Hello, thanks for your ask!

70s Joel is absolutely Peña coded. There's a lot of moments I've borrowed to inspire the plot but here's a few I can think of off the top of my head:

This is the jacket he loaned Tess and that she slept in, amongst other things...

This is Joel in the all-night bar right after he ended things with his boss:

This is how he carries his weapon when he's not in office mode:

This is office mode and the weapons are in a double holster under the jacket. Office mode comes with whisky tumbler accessory included:

Tess likes to have him lie around on the office couch for awhile after they're done and she goes back to work:

Just in case the previous gif won't load...

Ray and Joel:

His entire wardrobe:

The tie Tess bought him in chapter 28 is the blue one with the gold stripes buuuut I can't find the gif.

Okay yeah thank you ... I could do this all day. 😂

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You’ve said before that your vision of Joel Miller for Interstellar Overdrive is heavily grounded in Pedro’s portrayal of Javier Peña in Narcos. Are there any specific images/moments from Narcos that you referred to for any moments in your fic? Just curious because the delulu has gotten to the point where I can’t tell the two apart anymore 🤣🫠

Mwah! Hello, thanks for your ask!

70s Joel is absolutely Peña coded. There's a lot of moments I've borrowed to inspire the plot but here's a few I can think of off the top of my head:

This is the jacket he loaned Tess and that she slept in, amongst other things...

This is Joel in the all-night bar right after he ended things with his boss:

This is how he carries his weapon when he's not in office mode:

This is office mode and the weapons are in a double holster under the jacket. Office mode comes with whisky tumbler accessory included:

Tess likes to have him lie around on the office couch for awhile after they're done and she goes back to work:

Just in case the previous gif won't load...

Ray and Joel:

His entire wardrobe:

The tie Tess bought him in chapter 28 is the blue one with the gold stripes buuuut I can't find the gif.

Okay yeah thank you ... I could do this all day. 😂

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I’m (perhaps a little morbidly) curious… how far ahead have you thought for Driftverse? Have you ever thought about what happens at the very end of your Tess/Joel storyline? Do they grow old in Jackson? Who goes first? Does the other follow Bill/Frank style? Also, any headcannons for the future of your other characters?

Hello, anon!

I have actually thought pretty far ahead, but I don't know how much of that I will actually write. Driftersverse does have an ending, so I won't give it away here ... yet. :p I can confirm that Tess and Joel are together, though.

The OCs and other canons have their endings mostly worked out in my head but ... I might keep that under my hat for now in the hope that I can write it eventually.

Thank you for your ask!

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@swiftiscruff: FRIENDSHIP EXCHANGE -> Javi Peña in green for @dustydaddyyy

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In The Legend of Charro, if Tess had gone through and sent Ellie to Black Creek. What would have Joel done? Drop everything and go find Tess? Will he have figured out that Isobel kept Tess’s letter from him?

Oooh, this is a good ask, anon! I hadn't really thought about how that possibility might've worked out, so I'm going to freestyle it. So here's another Legend of Charro entry for the multiverse.

I think Ellie was probably about 18 months when Tess considered giving her up to Joel. (I think???) If she had gone through with the plan, Sarah would have been a wee babe in arms when the intermediaries delivered Ellie to Joel's door.

Tess would have paid those people not to tell Joel anything about her situation or where she was, but Joel would have paid them more to tell him everything they knew - and they would've had just enough information to scare the shit out of him. She was young, poor, desperate, alone.

This puts Joel in a situation. He has all these responsibilities to the town, to his own tiny daughter, and to his wife. Isobel doesn't want Ellie in the house and Joel has some sympathy for that when Sarah is so small, so Tommy and Maria take her. Joel is there all the time, spreading himself so thin between two households and two children and sheriff duties. But Isobel is acting stranger and stranger, and Joel begins to grow suspicious. When he puts a few innocent questions to her the whole lie completely unravels. He learns about the letter Tess wrote.

While all this is going on, the Judge starts sending more people back to Black Creek because they've heard a rumour about Ellie. Everyone denies that she's Tess's but that story is falling apart, too. The people who delivered Ellie wind up dead a few towns over, and in their separate worlds both Tess and Joel begin to feel the squeeze.

Black Creek comes under threat when Marlene comes to try and take Ellie, believing that removing her will exact the kind of pressure they need to draw Tess back out of hiding. This results in a big shoot-out, a lot of people are killed, but the townspeople ultimately win. Joel brings Ellie into his own household to be raised as his.

He can't go looking for Tess himself. He's being watched constantly, his letters monitored. But he does rely on Bill and Frank, and they quietly investigate, searching for Tess. Isobel and Sarah still die as they do in Legend of Charro canon.

Tess still turns to banditry but without Ellie to protect, she has less to fight for. She has only herself and she really doesn't care so much whether she lives or dies - she doesn't have that hope keeping her going like she does in the OG story to protect her daughter. She is eventually killed in a botched stagecoach robbery when Ellie is about seven or eight. Charro dies alongside her.

Word eventually filters back to Joel, and it completely destroys him.

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“I was going to be his friend, and I was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.”

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“Because the Runaways are touring in August and we wanna go see them. I will do anything. I will fucking do anything. I need this. We need this.”

“No,” said Joel.

“Oh come on, man! What the fuck’s your problem!”

“You’re too young. And you can keep that language away from the table.”

“I’m fifteen,” Riley spoke up, her voice taking on a knowing, responsible edge. “I have been to lots of concerts, Mr M. I’ll be looking out for Ellie.”

“Those concerts are insane,” Joel shook his head, reaching for another cigarette. “I’ve seen them on TV. People throwin’ themselves all over, singers pissin’ on the audience. No.”

Ellie leaned across the table, hands spread to appeal to Tess. “The tickets go on sale in the morning and if we don’t get them I will die. I will die, Tess. I’ve saved enough and everything."

"So keep on saving."

"You know what, fuck you man, I’m not even asking you!”

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Hellooooo Miss Australia! I hope life's treating you well 🫡🫶🏼 are you gonna watch tlou s2? And what are you most looking forward to, if yes? What are ur very important thoughts as one of the head leaders of the Tess Lives Movement

Hello lovely! Thank you for asking. 💛

I respect TLOU2 but I don't like it. I don't like the story ... At all. 😂 But I will watch it.

I am most looking forward to Joel's soliloquy where he talks about how much he loved Tess and how he sometimes wakes up in the night thinking he can hear her breathing beside him

Wait

I am most looking forward to the flashback of Tess and Joel passionately macking in the middle of

Wait

Okay seriously, I'm most looking forward to Gabe and Rutina getting more screentime and some meaty material and for Bella to absolutely KILL it this season.

I'm also looking forward to the part where Tess shows up again.

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So what did happen to Lachie's family?

Aw, thanks for a Lachie question!

Lachie lost everyone. 🙃

Almost all his family lived in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, and the infection tore through there in the early days. Lachie was in Death Valley during outbreak day and the world was completely gone by the time his tour group emerged. His family were dead by the time he even knew there was a problem.

He never finds out what happened to any of them, but eventually, as the world slowly starts connecting up again, he receives word about what happened to Australia, New Zealand and many Pacific nations. That gives him peace.

I have a whole hc about what happened in that part of the world but that's a whole other ask. 😂

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just reread cloud nine from cloud nine and it gets me every time, youre a complete genius, like its literally perfect

Thank you so much! That was one of my favourite stories to write in the collection. It was fun to experiment with the characters in a very different setting and genre. 🩵 I'd like to do more one shots like it.

Cloud Nine

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strange way of life (2023)

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THE LAST OF US (2023) 1.01

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Not me getting included in this list. O_O;

Seriously thank you, @ameerawrites - not just for reading my fic, but for being so supportive of so many fic writers out there. You are always so encouraging and leave thoughtful comments, and I love hearing your thoughts. Truly, you are a gift to this fandom. And then on top of that you have to be a really nice person, too?? GO FIGURE. :p <3

Let's also not forget that you are a wonderful writer, too! One of Ameera's stories is an easter egg in IO and it was so hard choosing just one, but in the end it was THIS ONE, because it's so much fun and one of my favourites of yours. <3

Friends, we have been blessed today with so many wonderful fic updates…so get reading!!!!!

(Also, if you’re reading any of these fics and have thoughts feel free to scream with me in the replies 😁)

When the Time is Wrong, We Make It Right by @bumblepony: A time travel fic in which our lovely characters get a do over, I am all about happy endings and it’s an everybody lives fic (so far) which makes me so happy

As Long As You Follow by @chronicallyonlinewriter: An incredible canon-verse Joel/OC love story (I know people get squirrely about OCs because we all want Pedro to ourselves but I would die for Benny), the follow up to Go Your Own Way

on the road again (there i go) by @lauronk: The final chapter of a modern AU where Joel and Ellie meeting riding on buses across the US, everything you want in a found family fic. Just be prepared to cry sometimes, or a lot of times

Interstellar Overdrive by @hypnotisedfireflies: A 70s AU with Tess as a mob boss and Joel as her enforcer, what more could you want? Maria working for Tess and Joel bringing in Tommy to work for him? Anna and Ellie living under the protection of Tess? It’s all here!

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Interstellar Overdrive c30

No previews of the 70s AU this time because it's a spoilery chapter, but lots of fluff.

It's on A03!

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#the ultimate betrayal