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[simpingcowboy]

TLOU Episode 6 Notes

No spoilers but I do explicitly mention appearances of characters

Overall note for this episode, we are zOOMIN through the timeline!!! They said we got get this thing moving fr

Loved the opening couple lmao! There are so many incredible actors in this I love it. ALSO INDIGENOUS REPPP 🪶🪶🪶🪶

We got lots of beautiful wide AND close shots for this episode. Some of the stills are just breathtaking omgggg

Some new innovations for discerning infected/healthy that I found really interesting. I like seeing the ways people work with what they've got

Oof a bit of that shakey camera work too gurl- this episode is visually stunning

Ellie is this show's much needed comedic relief clown. Bella Ramsey is just so good at being a weird teenage girl!

Again the set design for alot of these places is just incredible

I feel like there's foreshadowing happening and I live in fear for certain characters

Tommy's actor Gabriel Luna was really good. He definitely lives up to what we've been told of him so far lol

The dynamic between Tommy and Joel kinda got me on edge but I think that's the point

The absolute fucking audacity of Tommy and his wife had me ready to throw hands

PEDRO PASCAL KILLED THIS EPISODE!!!!!!! DEAR GOD!!!! Man was acTING!!! It was absolutely heartwrenching. Why am I crying over a 56 year old man? Idk. But I'm here and I am. He gave a brilliant deliverance of that monologue. Just crushed it.

We got alot of complexities to Joel that were more hidden away til now. I look forward to reading those a bit better

A tiny bit of Spanish that I'm gonna run with. The Millers at least kinda in part speak Spanish. I don't think it's gOOD but they can.

The music for this episode was really good. I loved that spooky little sequence near the end.

That ending???????? I- it was aBRUPT.

My reminder to everyone to please learn some basic first aid. It's very very important and you could save people or yourself. I'm begging 😭

[luvrxbunny]

mini blurbs ─ ★ joel miller x f! reader

a/n: so many joel thoughts! how could i ever take the time to make a blurb for each of them!!? 😱

wc: 1k

warnings: 18+ MNDI, a few handjobs, some piv

-> you waking joel up with a handjob, it’s early so he’s sensitive, emotionally and physically, moaning and squirming. he keeps looking at you with this insanely fond look, something about it makes him look so soft. he also won’t shut up about how he feels. and he says it with so much force, willing you to believe him. “i love you, baby” “l-look at me? i love you so fuckin’ much.” “y’makin’ me feel so good. y’feel like heaven, my fuckin’ angel.”

-> joel fucking you relentlessly, and brutally because he needs it. you’re a good girl, you take it ofc. he’s grunting and groaning gruffly, barely talking aside to say “take it” or the occasional “just like that” but once he cums he’s instantly back to his usual, soft and loving self. “are you okay, baby?” “m’sorry, was i too rough?” “took it like such a good girl though, so perfect f’me”

-> you being unable to jerk joel off while he’s standing because his knees buckle and he can’t help folding in on himself or leaning into you, causing him to slip from your grasp and the same goes for going down on him— when although even when he’s seated he either cages your body in his completely, hunched over your head like he’s worshipping your mouth, or he’s spread out over the bed like he’s the god. (he is)

-> joel needing you from the second he comes home but still trying to make small talk. like he walks in and you hear him take a sharp breath once he lays eyes on you. his fists ball up and he’s so tense you can almost see him shaking as he takes a deep breath. you see movement around his crotch before he’s turning around to put his things away. “so h-how was your day? good, i’m hopin’. ” you entrain him even though you know he’s just trying not to seem desperate. “yea it was good, babe” he smiles. “are— are you tired..? or anythin’?” you make it a point to look in his eyes with a smirk. “never too tired for my favorite guy”

-> joel awkwardly thanking you after the post sex glow has worn off. he’s given you aftercare, cleaned you up and all that. as you guys are cuddling he starts to feel like he needs to do more so he just “thank you, baby. that— that was incredible. i— thank you.” you start giggling at him and he knows he’s being awkward so he gets all red and blushy, hiding his face in the back of your neck while telling you to shut up

-> just all the faces he would make while trying to hold his moans in. like when you guys first start getting sexual he’s still nervous so he tries to keep quiet. his brows furrowed, or tilted up. his eyes shut, rolled back, or fluttering while they try their best to stay on you. his lips bitten, pursed or sucked in. i think his hands would be everywhere too, covering his mouth, stroking over his beard, covering his eyes, running through his hair.

-> joel grunting, whining, and moaning lewdly above you as he fucks into you with the same neediness he’s been giving for the past 35 mins. falling into your neck and muttering “mm not yet. not yet. fuck” until you pull him away and question what he’s saying. maybe he has wetness on his lashes, from overstimulation, pleasure, or love “i don’t—“ he breathes out a sharp, shaky breath. “don’t wanna cum yet.” he lets out a shaky, broken breath. “you’re so good.”

-> the first time you get joel off in public he thinks you’re just trying to tease him but he’s too sensitive to handle it. so he warns you, “you—“ a shaky breath in and out as his hand comes up to cover his mouth. “you’re gonna make me cum” a smile spreads over your face but you keep looking forward, as his breathing speeds rapidly. you can see him glancing over at you every few seconds. “you— baby.” a whine almost slips out. “i’m- you’re gonna make me— i’m— fuck. i’m- i’m gonna c- holy fuck. please.” he whines and you hear his breathing become erratic.

-> the confused look on his face when you make him cum much much harder than he expected. i imagine you’re jerking him off, he’s sitting against the headboard with his arm around you. he warns you that he’s going to cum, his hips start bucking and his lip gets bitten by his teeth. he’s spilling over your fist in no time but once he expects his orgasm to stop, it just builds up to a new level of pleasure. his mouth drops open and his brows furrow. his eyes cast downward, watching your hand move over him and the way he’s coating you. then his gaze shifts to you and his expression looks like you’ve offended him before melting into one that makes you think he’s going to cry. that’s what let’s you know you’ve done a good job.

-> he begins to be able to tell when you’re gonna make him cum really hard and he starts to have a tell tale saying that alerts you. you’re not even sure if he realizes that he says it every time. his eyes shut and he runs his hand through his hair. he starts to shake his head lightly like he’s realized what’s going to happen and his hand slides down to your thigh, gripping the fabric of your pants before rubbing his hand over it, trying to soothe himself. “i’m—“ his head keeps moving back and forth as speaks. “it’s gonna get everywhere.” he groans under his breath, the sounds leaning a bit farther on the whiny side before he attempts to speak again. his hips shuffle upwards, sinking himself further into the chair while bucking himself into your fist. he gazes up at you with sex hazed eyes and confesses “m’gonna cum everywhere” before biting his lip harshly and burying his face in your neck, where his groans vibrate against your skin.

-> joel not being able to look at you while you guys are having sex. he’s so much more sensitive than you that every little thing pushes him closer to the edge, so it he wants to last long enough for you to cum on him, there ends up being a point where he has to fuck into you with his eyes cast to the side or shut tightly. he’ll be looking down at where the two of you meet before deciding he wants to see his pretty girl again. once he reaches you face there’s a shock of pleasure in his stomach before flowing down to his cock. he grips your jaw and forces you to face the opposite direction he turns his head, like he can’t even have you looking at him when he’s like this. he groans into his shoulder like he’s angry and mutters “too fuckin’ pretty. this shit ain’t fuckin’ fair.”

-> when he’s close, instead of telling you to stop, slow down, or distracting you with kisses, he tells you to “be gentle” he says it repeatedly, with hisses and whines in between. the closer he gets he starts to just “gentle, gentle, gent- oh sweetheart—”

-> he gets turned on by how turned on you get when he tells you that he’s close. he sees that light spark in your eyes when he tells you that he’s gonna cum and it makes him pulse even more intensely. like he could be on the outskirts of his orgasm but once he sees your reaction to his confession he’s got two seconds, tops, before he’s spilling all over you.

-> once you guys start getting sexual, it’s very easy to tell what he does or doesn’t like, what turns him on and what doesn’t. because he breaks out in goosebumps every time you give him even a bit of arousal. you could cook him a meal and when you come back he’ll have goosebumps spread all across his arms, all the way up to his biceps, even some across his neck. he tries to play it off as if you can’t see the way he’s fattening up in his jeans.

-> (for poc) joel loves the contrast of your skin to his cum. the first time he cums on you he has to have a serious pro and con session as to whether he likes cumming in you or on you more. he’s embarrassingly hard within the next minute after he cums on you. he’s just staring at it, maybe smearing it around a bit before jerking off right above you. he probably hasn’t even explained himself to you. he’s just been in a trance since his ropes landed on you.

-> you’re the first time he hears the phrase “cum for me.” and he loses his mind. it’s the loudest you’ve ever heard him and he cums so hard some lands on his chin. he spends the next few minutes shaking from the force of his orgasm and trying his hardest to regulate his breathing.

OKAY IM DONE!!!! pls show this some love guys!! it’s so long i feel like it should go in my main masterlist 💀

[citrussnap]

GUESS WHAT I JUST WATCHED

ALSO HEY DID YOU KNOW I LOVE GRUMPY DAD CHARACTERS AND THEIR WEIRD KIDS THEY ADOPTED 😎👍

[sheryl-lee]

idk if this makes sense. but i kind of love that the last of us makes me cry and viscerally FEEL true emotions on a weekly basis. like i cant remember the last tv show i watched that had me consistently bawling my eyes out and so immersed in a show because of the characters, the story, the incredibly strong writing, etc. and it doesn't feel manipulative. it just feels profound and beautiful and poetic but also tragic and... human.

[tvmusiclife]

The Last of Us HBO finally getting to the Sam & Henry story arc

[apolloskazoo]

THE LAST OF US (mostly joel and ellie) TEXT POSTS

[guiltypleasure-art]

summer with his lil bestie

[itsladyliv]

joel: hey what if we forget this whole damn thing and just go back to tommy's? ellie: ... ellie: that’s actually a good idea! let’s go joel: 😌🥰❤️  ellie: 🥰😄❣️

[satansknitwear]

Sweet treats 💖💖

~ Treat me nice ~

[simpingcowboy]

JOEL MILLER NEVER LEARNED FIRST AID

[orangechickenpillow]

I would just like to take a moment to remind everyone that this is hbo's Sam

This little tiny adorable child. This little man. Look at him. Look at him knowing what's going to happen and tell me there's a god

[toomanywordsnllines]

I think she should kill more people <3

[eerna]

I think Bella Ramsey is my fav adaptation casting ever. She's so good I am so shook

[apolloskazoo]

okay but ellie meeting a flat earther in jackson and just absolutely annihilating them. they say “well, actually, the earth has to be flat because—” and ellie is immediately going on a detailed, passive-aggressive (and factual) tangent on how the earth physically cannot be flat and how they are a fool for thinking so. it gets to the point where a crowd actually gathers to listen as the flat earther makes weak points and ellie just lists off fact after fact after fact and completely destroys them and every word that comes out of their mouth. and you better believe that joel is sitting off to the side going “hell yeah kid you show ‘em” as his daughter ends some rando in the town they just moved into

[stonelions]

having finished the show, my ultimate (and most generous) take on TLOU HBO, the take that encompasses all my other takes, is that TLOU (the version co-created by the now uncredited Bruce Straley) is a surprisingly complicated interactive narrative, one that unfortunately doesn't lend itself well to the time constraints of a 9 episode television season.

this is exacerbated by the show being a highly unfaithful adaptation which not only adds unnecessary new plotlines, but fails to compensate for massive, retconning alterations to the characters and major story beats, an offense that's compounded by two showrunners hellbent on hammering out any ambiguity with shoddy exposition in place of worldbuilding, and conflating melodrama with moral complexity.

it would be a monumental task for any writer to maintain even part of the emotional impact achieved by the immersive, participatory experience of playing the video game, and instead of trying to do that, Druckmann decided to seal off every space that might allow interpretation outside his own authorial intent. and that's... just kind of a lousy thing to do to your audience.