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(op turned off rbs but there’s a lot of things wrong with this)

a woman IS more than reproductive organs, women can be anything, do anything, dress any way, act any way, so on and so forth. HOWEVER the only requirement is that she be of the female sex, ie have female reproductive organs.

this does not mean ALL a woman is is her female sex, only that to be a woman she MUST be the female sex

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Something I really love about The Last Of Us are these subtle little moments that showcase the real intelligence required for survival.

Bill wearing his hat in the dark during that shootout to keep the rainwater out of his eyes.

Bill didn't get shot because he was standing out in the open. The flamethrowers would have been too bright for the gunmen to see him. He was shot because he gave away his position when he yelled.

Joel seeing the bleach on top of the refrigerator, which is what made him think to look in the fridge for battery components.

Tess's skill with social engineering warranting an entire post of its own.

Ellie noticing Joel's hearing being shot on his right.

Honestly basically everything Bill did.

Like, they earned it, and you can see it in so many little moments.

Then you have Frank, who fell in a hole, and won the apocalypse. And I respect this dichotomy SO MUCH.

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"faster infected" this "mouth tendrils" that NO. the scariest thing that hbo added to tlou was the 1968 talk show where the guy talks about how global warming could encourage fungi to evolve and be able to infect humans. is that scientifically sound? i have no idea but it scares the shit out of me because it feels like it could be

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my mind is full of things but mostly love. it’s the way Joel loved Tess by trusting her judgment—every single time he trusted her judgment. i need you to calm down, Joel. i need you to trust me, Joel. i need you to leave me here to die and save who you can save, Joel. he called her mine and that was enough for her. it’s the way Frank and Bill ate strawberries at dusk as the sunlight warmed their faces and laughed, even though the world had ended. when Bill said there’s nothing here for me without you. it’s the way Joel told Ellie to put on her seatbelt, and then did it for her when she didn’t know what he meant. you ask a lot of questions, he says, but he lets her ask them because she needs to. sometimes love is just meeting people where they are, somewhere in the in-between.

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"Your watch is broken."

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My emotions while watching TLOU tv show:

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Me, watching Sarah die:

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I love the way this show goes about explaining how the infected are all connected to each other, how the fungus can rally dozens of them at once and lead them to prey, how it's not just affecting the world above but also below - there's strands and threads that run for miles and... you just get this feeling that the Earth is being choked to death. And it makes for such tremendous and terrifying horror because how do you fight nature when it turns rotten and diseased? The scientists were right. The doctors were right - you can't.

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A show that actually makes reference to people having to deal with periods in the apocalypse my beloved

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I have never cried that fucking hard over a show in years.

I fully FULLY support the divergence of this episode, it was a phenomenal example of adapting source material in a way that feels like “oh yeah this is what actually happened they just didn’t have time in the game for all of this holy shit”.

They expanded on the frankly easy to ignore implications of the game and showed us that life can still be even in the midst of fear and uncertainty and apathy and FUCKING EVERYTHING, they showed us goodness and survival out of love because THAT is what The Last Of Us is about.

Death is horrific and sudden and will rob you blind with nothing to salvage; but it isn’t always that. Death is also kind, even forgiving. “Satisfying”, in the words of Bill. Frank wasn’t brutalized this time around, Bill wasn’t left alone to his prior demons. We got to see a side of this universe that hasn’t been portrayed thus far and it wasn’t twenty years of violent tragedy.

It was twenty years of two men enduring and surviving together in a world that had gone to shit, but they still took the leap and held hands while they fell. Everything else, the journey to the bottom, came after and it came painlessly.

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all those emotions aside - something i liked about episode 3 was the emphasis on surviving vs living.

you have people like bill who are survivalists. he's resourceful, stubborn, and self-sufficient - bill knows how to survive, he spent his whole life pre-outbreak preparing to survive. he's not a people person, he doesn't like relying on other people, and he can survive just fine by himself.

then he meets frank - and frank is the kind of person who knows how to live. frank eats meals like he's at a fancy restaurant, and spends just five more minutes in the shower, and sings songs out of key on bill's dusty old piano. he repaints the walls, and waters the flowers, and grows strawberries in the garden just so he can watch bill hide his giggle behind his hands when he tastes them. he uses bill's radio to make friends, and throw little garden parties, and he makes a code out of nostalgic old songs.

the reason bill and frank lived as long and as happily as they did, despite the outbreak and the solitude and frank's health - it's because they had that balance. yes, survival is important - you can't survive an apocalypse without bill's resourcefulness, or joel's construction knowledge, or tess and frank's networking - but surviving isn't living. bill lived and died happy because he let frank in past his (incredibly literal) defenses, because he let him paint portraits and grow flowers and hold him at night.

i saw a youtube comment earlier that i think got it right; in the game, bill was an example of who joel would become if he kept shutting people out, if he didn't allow himself to live. in the show, bill is an example of what joel could have, if he just let himself live and love, if he realised that all his walls and defenses mean nothing if he never has anybody to share it with.

for bill, that person was a husband. for joel, it just might be a daughter.

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Joel (Pedro Pascal) stepping on that glass at the worst possible moment was so Joel (me playing the game as Joel)

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me at literally every tense moment of HBO!TLOU:

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THE LAST OF US - BILL & FRANK

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The show is so realistic cause look how much ammo they wasted on two clickers, they’re just like us.

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*hitting you with a stick* no benoit blanc movies should not interact. they should not lead up to something. you need to detox from the marvel/sherlock bbc poisoning. they should be completely independent movies (maybe w some cameos/little references for fun) and go on for as long as there are stories rian johnson wants to tell in this universe. i do not want an overarching plot i do not want a team up i dont want a benoit-focused prequel i want some good old fashioned episodic murder mysteries that have nothing to do with each other!!!!!!!!!!! also rian johnson has literally said he's not gonna do a prequel and he wants the movies to all stand on their own

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Always loved Pacific Rim so I had to do another diorama!

Teeny Tiny Hong Kong Street

Happy Tuesday.