joelsowlmug

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HI i think i sent you an ask like this a few years ago lol but i just wanted to let you know that your fics are game joel fans literal saving grace. those tags on ao3/tumblr etc are RUINED post tv show and i fear we’ll never get anything so well written and true to joel like we did in the peak tlou days, yours being the best by a long shot. i’ve read promiseland/apocalypse/vanishing grace soo much over the years, this shit is canon to me!!!! (much more than any hbo show lmao)

anyway i just wanted to say you’re so fucking talented & that there are tons of us who revisit your stuff! thank you!!

oh wow, this was very nice to read. I'm glad people are still out there enjoying the fics, sometimes I think about re-reading them myself...and sometimes I want to write more, lol. I did start a fresh playthrough of tlou2 yesterday (I think for the first time since the show premiered because I wanted to give them a chance to make me like what they do with the story but this season has proven to me that they don't actually give a fuck about telling the story from the game so ehhhh)

kept this message open for a few days so I could keep reading it to feel nice things (the world is a shitshow). I think that might have happened with your last message too and I never actually responded because it's still sitting in my inbox (if that was you omg I am sorry I just like to read nice things sometimes haha)

thank you for your messages, they mean a lot!!! <3 <3 <3

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The Last Of Us Part II is a beautifully constructed work designed to make the player confront and experience a lot powerful and ugly emotions. The HBO adaptation does a similar thing, making you feel similar feelings of resentment & anger by being an absolute dogass adaptation that has none of the tone, structure, style, subtlety, or character choices of the original, and knowing that multiple people in your life are experiencing the story for the first time via this neutered, toothless, YA-fiction level adaptation, which will become the "default" version of it in the wider cultural sphere in the years to come.

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so excited for this show to end so I never have to think about it again

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Amy mention in tlouhbo lmao

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missing game joel hours

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and what if I come back to tlou obsession to cope with the state of the world right now? what then????

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merry christmas

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I got this wonderful commission of Tommy and Maria dancing by the amazing @kenobiwanx, and I am just blown away by how perfect it is!

I love Tommy & Maria, and the more fan art I can put out into TLOU community for them, the happier I'll be.

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j oel

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Hehehehe

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doodling. finding strings more like best chapter of part 2. cries blood

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halloween horror nights having tlou themed stuff this year is proof that the universe loves me thank you very much

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I always come back to your fica cause there so good and lowkey I hate the fact that every time I look at Joel readers it’s filled with Pedro’s version and not the game version.

the way every space I used to frequent to engage in fandom is constantly filled with (almost) only the show version feels more like a death than joel's actual death in the game. I am kinda stepping away for a bit in the hopes that it might eventually go back to how it was but it kinda feels like that's years away (if it happens at all) and I hate it.

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currently screwing around with the pc port...

bonus zen joel