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THE LAST OF US - BILL & FRANK

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#making silly faces is reserved only for his daughters

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THE LAST OF US - #It’s just deer meat

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THE LAST OF US + the collective emotional trauma it causes <3

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“Joel took away Ellie’s choice and consent”

- SO DID MARLENE BY NOT TELLING HER SHE WOULD HAVE TO DIE FOR THE CURE AND JUST ASSUMING SHE WOULD BE OKAY WITH IT -

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There’s absolutely no way that people who blame Joel are actually parents. I would do anything for my child. Joel did EXACTLY what was necessary to save HIS CHILD. Real life parents support Joel Miller.

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one of my softer hc’s about the last of us is that during the long months of literally walking across the country, ellie would ask joel to tell her a story and he’s just plagiarize popular movies he used to watch with sarah

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the last of us on hbo: here’s your first two episodes, full of the TERROR of humanity!! infected!! corrupt government!! marshal law!! senseless killing!!

us: ah

the last of us on hbo: and now for your third episode. the gut wrenching love story between two men who found each other at the end of the world and became so entangled in one another that when time finally wore them away, they left together. also on the nature of daylight plays over their last day together

us:

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if you loved episode 3 of tlou you really should listen to the official podcast with troy baker, craig mazin and neil druckmann because there’s SO much! here’s some of my favorite things said on the podcast:

- joel stacking rocks was to show that he missed and mourned tess. in that moment he was saying “i’m sorry, i blew it, i lost you.”

- in the beginning of the episode ellie told joel tess’ death wasn’t her fault but deep down she does feel like it was her fault.

- ellie admires joel because he protected her multiple times and as a child she has a desire for a parental figure to protect her.

- frank realized bill was gay pretty much as soon as he got out of the hole and saw how bill was looking at him. bill’s taking in how handsome frank is and “frank’s brain is incredibly attuned to that.” that’s why frank was smiling.

- frank realized bill was gay fast, but he realized he wanted bill when bill was playing the piano and singing linda ronstadt.

- it took them a while to find long long time by linda ronstadt but they always intended the song for bill to sing to be about a long love that was forever unrequited. “it was very important that the lyrics were someone saying ‘everyone tells me that it’s okay, that love will find me […],’ no it doesn’t, no it’s not, and the person that i long for from afar - i’m gonna love them basically forever in the most unrequited manner.”

- it was important that frank immediately knew bill’s sexuality because frank SAW bill, because bill had completely buried his sexuality but frank saw through him.

- frank originally was trying to see what he could get out of bill (like a free lunch) but the more time they spent together, the more he went “oh, this is a beautiful person.”

- “there is two ways of loving things. frank wants to love outwards - he is sun, he is light. he wants to make things beautiful around him, he wants to care for bill, he wants to revitalize the streets so it’s not just this mausoleum bill lives in, and he wants to have friends. he wants to share what they have. and bill wants to put an electrified fence around them that is guarded by an additional layer of flame-throwing gas pipes and no one can show up ever because he must protect frank from the world… and as it turns out, both of those loved are required but one of those loves is likely to give you in trouble more than the other.”

- when frank put his finger on the furniture piece and saw how dusty it was, he realized what his purpose could be in bill’s life. bill can protect them, but frank can nurture their home.

- when bill apologizes to frank for growing old fast, it’s because he’s afraid of frank being left alone. “look at this beautiful man and the beautiful things that he does, and what is bill’s contribution? bill doesn’t grow strawberries. bill’s contribution is to keep frank alive. but bill is already afraid that he’s going to fail and that is a fear that joel has because he has that fear through experience [of losing his daughter.]“

- bill and joel understand each other and that they’re purpose is to protect others. they don’t care about their own lives.

- on their last day together, bill decided very early that he was going to die as well.

- the gun that ellie takes belonged to frank.

- that letter bill wrote reminded joel that he failed to protect both sarah and tess. the letter underscores for him that no matter how hard he tries, he can’t protect the people that he cares about. but now he has ellie to protect.

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"I'm old. I'm satisfied."

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Thai Buddhist monk: I …..will…..keep….. praying…. 

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the thing I really appreciate about cherry magic is how much it shows that our assumptions of people and their intents are often wildly different from what they actually are. 

like kurosawa coming across as this perfectly put together, calm person who is great at his job and always there to help people with whatever they need, who actually also panics and gets insecure and makes mistakes at his job.

and fujisaki, who comes across as this always happy, always smiling, family-oriented person, who turns out to have no interest in relationships and is pretending to be happy because she’s “used to not being normal anyway”. 

but also important: adachi has incredibly low self esteem and thinks no one likes him or would ever be interested in him romantically, but now he’s finding out that, actually, he’s really appreciated at his work, people like him, people worry about him, and there are people that are in love with him. he’s not as alone and unappreciated as he thought he was

it’s such a good reminder that actually, people are complex, and our impressions of other people - and of ourselves - are, more often than not, wrong. 

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You can watch it at https://irozuku.org/fansub/tag/cherry-magic/#google_vignette

Do yourselves a favor and watch Cherry Magic!!

Edit: please click on each pic for better quality Edit: It’s available in Crunchyroll too!