#elli’s random thoughts

[booksandpaperss]

you know when you read one of the most well written well characterized fics of a character and you’re like “FUCK YES THIS AUTHOR UNDERSTANDS” and then in the notes or in a comment reply they’re like “I hope this wasn’t too ooc I can’t tell 😭” or “I’m glad this wasn’t super ooc I was rlly nervous!” like girl this may as well have been a transcript directly from that character’s head what are you TALKING about

also this isn’t author hate obv I luv you guys I just think it’s funny how this happens a lot. fic writers youre amazing <33

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 168

So. Apparently halfas are like phoenixes or something, which Danny would’ve really liked to know. 

See, usually with ghosts if they’re forced to retreat to their cores they reform as was, but apparently, since they’re still partially living, schrodinger's people and all that, halfas have to regrow their body from scratch. At least that’s what he’s understanding from Frostbite. 

But how come he has to deal with it? It’s Dan’s fault for trying to pull such a stunt! Oh, it’s either him or Vlad? Well fuck, he might have calmed down and is going to therapy in both the living realm and the Zone, but he’s waaay not equipped to raise a child except for like, monetarily wise. 

Well dammit, how long will this core incubation thing last, he has his new job in… let him check which offer he accepted again… He has his new job in Coast City that he needs to finish packing for and then all the rest of the stuff to do. 

What do you mean it’ll take months?! He doesn’t have months?! Urgh, fine. At least being a mortician isn’t that exciting, nor dangerous. Just hand him Dan’s core and he’ll figure things out for the living side of things. He’s sure Tucker and Sam wouldn’t be against helping, if only to try and claim favorite aunt or uncle spots. 

[enbesbians]

thinking about guitarist! ellie and drummer! abby in the middle of their set, playing their cooldown song— hair stuck to their foreheads and the sides of their faces as they let the soundwaves invade their eardrums as their ear pieces dangle against their collarbones, watching the sea of fans sway and move to the speed of the music.

this instrumental is from one of my favorite songs and it has been for such a long time but as i daydreamed as it played, i thought how amazing it would be if they played this specific part if they were to be in a band together. i just like living in my own fantasy.

i don’t know if tumblr will mess the sound quality but…

[sapphic-woes]

Random but I feel like Ellie has a lotta small moments of random top energy she isn't aware of.

Like. Just you trying to pick up a crate or smth and Ellie comes over to help. But when she does you can clearly feel that she's carrying most, if not all of the weight and at best you're just there to help keep her steady. You're blushing, surprised cuz she's way stronger than she looks and she just has that dumb, lopsided smile like "I'm not moving too fast right?"

Just. Completely unaware that you could let go and she'd hardly notice;; bonus points of your fingers brush against each other as you work together, and maybe she feels it tremble and she assumes it's cuz your arms are tired so she. Shifts even more of the weight to her and is like "Better?" All happy she can help not knowing you're becoming even more of a mess;;;

[actual-changeling]

Joel makes breakfast for Ellie pretty much every morning BUT I need y'all to think about Ellie making breakfast for him instead.

She figures out how to use the coffee machine by watching him, and it's not like it is very complex in the first place, and while the coffee filters through she toasts some bread or even makes pancakes or porridge for him (do americans do porridge idk in my head they do, at least in the apocalypse it's some good fucking breakfast but i digress).

Usually, Joel is up before her or they wake up at the same time, but sometimes he wasn't doing well the evening before/is having a tough few days, and she pretty much commands him to sleep in, so he does.

Once it's closer to noon than morning, she makes breakfast and takes two plates and a cup of coffee into his bedroom (a balancing act she gets good at very quickly). They sit up against the wall or the headboard and have breakfast in bed, sometimes in quiet, sometimes they talk about any nightmares or shit on their mind, sometimes they talk about random stuff/interests, for as long as they feel like.

Joel comes to expect it a little bit, but every single time Ellie does that for him, he still gets all teary-eyed and soft because he just loves her so damn much and so does she.

[tomtefairytaleblog]

Once you know that Marissa Meyer based The Lunar Chronicles (and specifically Cinder, the first book) on an old Sailor Moon fanfic she wrote, the inspiration can be fairly obvious (most obvious being the missing princess from the moon and the threat of war between Earth and the Moon). That being said, there’s enough of Meyer’s own inspiration/ideas in there to help make it stand out (the futuristic setting, for one thing).

But it did make me think: Bill Ellis (who I mentioned on here before) wrote an essay about Princess Tutu where he said that Cinderella--the fairy tale Cinder retells--is an archetypal precedent to magical girl transformations. Cinderella and Sailor Moon have premises unique to themselves, but then I thought about the basics of both stories: both Cinderella and Usagi start out as girls who are at a low point of their life (Cinderella is mistreated by her stepfamily, while Usagi is chronically late for school and failing tests--one is arguably worse than the other, sure, but the point is, neither of them is doing great in their own way). Then both of them encounter magic (fairy godmother, talking space cat, etc.) that gives them, as Ellis puts it, the skills they need to accomplish whatever they need to do (go to the ball, fight evil). For an added bonus, no one at the ball ever recognizes Cinderella, similar to how no one ever puts it together that Usagi is Sailor Moon, despite her never covering her face (though she did have a mask in the early chapters of the manga). Also, there’s a prince in both stories.

With that in mind, it’s not hard to see how it was easy for Meyer to take inspiration from Sailor Moon in her Cinderella retelling. (Interestingly enough, the original fanfic was a Puss in Boots AU, because as Meyer pointed out, both Puss in Boots and Sailor Moon have talking cats.)

[puhpandas]

Just re-reading ggy and I completely forgot Tony basically called Gregory’s haircut mid 💀 he’s broke and trans Tony leave him alone 😭

tony will say Gregory's haircut is ugly then call him cute in the same sentence

[starlessskies94]

Been thinking about what things would've been like if when Joel met Ellie, instead of a fourteen year old, what if she'd been an infant that was immune from birth?

How would that have changed the story?

How would Joel have acted having to look after a toddler in the harsh world outside of Boston QZ?

Would he have changed his mind about taking Ellie to the Fireflies and decide to just raise her as his own? Because if she was no older than two he couldn't exactly ask her opinion on things like he did in Salt Lake City. So would he have just taken her to Jackson and stayed there, hoping that the Fireflies would just assume he died trying to get Ellie to them??

Anyone have any other thoughts on this?

[petite-phthora]

Thank you...

[DP x DC fic]

[Love at first... murder? - part 10]

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Part 1

Ao3

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Private chat nicknames:

ImBaby= Danielle/Dani/Ellie

MiddleChild= Danny

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Danny rubs his eyes and stares at the laptop in front of him as he’s trying to focus. He’s currently at a table he claimed in his school’s library, and he’s been staring at his screen for a solid 25 minutes by now.

He currently has a free period, just before his last class of the day, so he decided to try and get some homework done now since he has less time after school today.

Because of his date.

He’s going on a date!

Due to the excitement, Danny can’t quite stop himself from grinning like a loon. To be perfectly honest, he hasn’t been able to stop grinning and blushing even since Red Hood had sent that last message.

It’s a date.

Red Hood had confirmed it’s a date!

The buzzing of his phone as he receives a message draws his attention away from his schoolwork even though it wasn’t on that anyway but on a certain kind and handsome vigilante.

Danny picks the device up and takes a look. Seeing Ellie had messaged him, he raises an eyebrow. Assuming it to be another one picture of her standing on some monument in human form in spaces humans without powers shouldn’t be able to get to, like a horse on a roof, he opens the chat.

Though…

That’s not a selfie on top of El Ángel de la Independencia in Mexico, he muses as he reads the text with a slightly confused frown.

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Private chat

~ ImBaby changed their name to SirEllieOfTheInfiniteRealms ~

~ SirEllieOfTheInfiniteRealms changed the name of MiddleChild to HisMajesty ~

SirEllieOfTheInfiniteRealms: once nightfall has cometh upon us, and the world has been plunged into darkness, though blood may be shed, be assured brother o mine, thine honor shall be guarded. i have formulated various challenges most onerous to confirmeth whether the helmed knight in red is righteous enough to court thee. for now, i will have to wish thee adieu, brother mine, as I will need to maketh some preparations for these mentioned challenges before I can enact them. as for the outcome of the trials i have set, i shall visit thee within the following fortnight bearing the news. until such time, i giveth thou farewell. ancients be with ye.  o7

HisMajesty: ???

HisMajesty: have you swallowed an encyclopedia again? 🤨

HisMajesty: didn’t know it would actually work with teaching you new words 🤔

HisMajesty: would’ve been good to know when I still had Lancer’s English classes 😔😔

HisMajesty: what does even this mean? 🤔🤔

HisMajesty: what are you planning??

HisMajesty: Ellie?

HisMajesty: no seriously, like

HisMajesty: have you been hanging out with CW lately?? 👀👀

HisMajesty: cause this is exactly the sort of cryptic shit I’d expect coming from him 😕😒

HisMajesty: not you

HisMajesty: …usually 😔

HisMajesty: unless he told you to tell me this??? 🤨 🤨

HisMajesty: but then again, he prefers to use his sticky notes to leave me cryptic messages..

HisMajesty: Ellie? 😟

HisMajesty: what are you doing????

HisMajesty: where even are you right now?? 🤔

HisMajesty: last I heard you were in Mexico 🇲🇽

HisMajesty: are you still there?

HisMajesty: Ellie

HisMajesty: please answer me 🙏🙏

HisMajesty: Ellieeeeee ☹️

HisMajesty: Elle

HisMajesty: Els

HisMajesty: Ella

HisMajesty: Elski

HisMajesty: Elleroonie

HisMajesty: Ellexandro

HisMajesty: Eljamin

HisMajesty: Ellodore

HisMajesty: 🥺

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Danny stops messaging her when he realizes she’s not going to read any of his texts any time soon. He lets out a weary sigh.

What has she gotten herself into this time?

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Red Hood came to pick Danny up at his apartment at 12.50. He rang the doorbell this time. Before Danny can do so much as greet him, Red Hood hands him a box. Danny looks at it confused before moving his gaze onto Red Hood with the same expression.

“Here, for you” He grunts.

Danny looks back down at the box and under the stare of the helmed vigilante, that Danny can’t quite see due to the helmet. Danny takes it and opens it gingerly. Inside are what seem to be some kind of chocolate squares.

“It’s chocolate fudge. Homemade. Wasn’t quite sure what you would like…” Red Hood explains.

Danny looks back up and beams at him, cheeks turning slightly pink.

“Oh no, this is great! Thanks!”

He tries one out, under the watchful eye of Red Hood and Oh Ancients, they are delicious. Which Danny then also proceeds to verbalize.

“Oh my Ancients, these are amazing. Thank you so much!”

Danny gives him a quick hug, even lifting him slightly off the ground which does things to Red Hood (not that Danny noticed), as Red Hood lets out a soft “No problem” before letting go as he remembers something

“Oh wait! Before we go, I also have something for you as well!” Danny blurts out, quickly darting back into his apartment to get something, putting the box of chocolate fudge down on his counter.

He guesses Red Hood hadn’t quite expected that, as he was still frozen into place when Danny came back with his own gift for his date.

Danny hands over a small inconspicuous white box. Red Hood takes it and opens it before carefully taking out the sleek silver watch and turning it over.

As he’s looking it over, Danny starts talking again.

“Okay, okay, so I’ll explain what it does in a minute. First off though, put it on!” He says, jittery from nerves and excitement

He really hopes Red Hood will like it.

Red Hood silently does as he says and puts on the watch.

“Now turn to the wall and press that button right there!” Danny continues, pointing out a small button on the side of the watch.

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What Jason had expected to happen when he pressed the button on the watch, was for it to light up or turn on or something, maybe play a little tune or a nice message.

What Jason hadn’t expected to happen, was for a toxic green laser to shoot out of the watch and blast the wall in front of him, leaving behind a black scorch mark.

Stunned, Jason drops his gaze back onto the, now slightly smoking, ‘watch’ before turning his wide-eyed gaze back onto Danny. Danny, who seems to be practically vibrating in excitement and is eagerly awaiting his reaction.

“Do you like it? It’s the Fenton Watch Ray! I modeled it after the Fenton Wrist Ray, but I decided to make the design more sleek and inconspicuous. When pressing the button, it’ll release a highly pressurized ectoplasmic energy blast.

“You see, it takes in ambient ectoplasm from the surrounding area as fuel! So it won’t run out of energy and you don’t need to charge it! The ectoplasm it’s infused with also makes it more resistant, so it’s harder to break and you’ll be able to take it out on patrol with you if you need it!

“Don’t worry though! While it may look a little dangerous, it’s actually quite harmless to living humans! The most it’ll do is knock them down, or even out on some occasions. And there’s no lasting after-effects!

“Oh! And this button,” Danny pauses as he points out a button on the other side of the watch, “shows you the time!”

Danny pushes the button and, sure enough, the screen of the ‘watch’ lights up, showing it is currently 12.56 pm.

During the entire rant, Jason just stares at Danny through his helmet in stunned silence. He didn’t quite understand everything that was just word-vomited at him, but he got the general gist of it.

‘Marry me,’ is what he wants to say.

“Thank you” is what he says instead, in the softest tone known to man with blushing cheeks and a lovesick smile on his face.

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Taglist:

@i-always-say-yea   @uraniumwizard    @why-must-i-be-like-this   @griffinthing

[hannahpony]

I've tried to make a perspective drawing of TCW!Ellie that, in theory, I wanted it to be very intimidating. I don't know what you think.

I thought of doing this drawing or a Mandela Catalogue style drawing (because that's intimidating), although I don't know if the latter would fit well with the THSC theme.

Also, I like to think this Ellie would be more violent, severe, imposing and dominant.

[booksandpaperss]

writing foreshadowing is so fun like I’m in on an inside joke with myself

[supersgirls]

The Last of Us Part II photography, 4/?

[foreverinmyguiltypleasures]

why did no one tell me that the monsters TLOU looked like LITERAL FUCKING mushrooms 🤡

[apolloskazoo]

feeling compelled to write a fic where jackson starts bringing back sports and joel manages to convince ellie to join a team. ellie is amazing at all things competitive and physical so she absolutely knocks it out of the park every game and joel becomes jackson’s resident soccer mom, forcing tommy and maria to go to every single game and being The Most Supportive parent there. one time it starts pouring rain mid-game and all of the adults leave except for joel, who just sits in the rain and cheers ellie on. ellie 100% goes too far and accidentally injures kids on opposing teams when she pushes them out of the way too hard but joel does not care. when she gets in trouble for it he tells her everyone’s just jealous that their kids are weak and can’t take a little shove. needless to say they both get a little competitive but ellie’s finally experiencing a Before the outbreak activity and is living a normal childhood, so nobody gets in their way (also everyone is scared of them)

the only thing stopping me is the fact i have 0 knowledge on all things sports related

[angryandanonymous]

Idk but, I can really see Tom Ellis as Tony Stark 616/ults. Tall build, muscular, dark hair, beard/stubble. Using Lucifer as a reference, the suits he wears. His eyes are the wrong colour but I'm just pretending it's the lighting. Eh, I can see it. Biased because I decided to finish watching Lucifer? Perhaps. But here are some pictures that I think might help back up my claim.

I mean angsty businessman Tony anyone? Sometimes seen around the mansion usually looking busy/depressed/tired ⬆️

Ults? Or 616 drinking arcs? ⬇️

Deliciously tropey Stony fic? ⬆️

These images aren't mine I got them from the Tom Ellis tag on tumblr.

Edit:

Adding these that I found - not my posts but screenshots of others.

Coffee plus robes.

Red robe and looking angsty (also great ep of Lucifer imo) plus cute bangs 🥰

616/ults tony stark fancast...if he grew the beard out a bit more and wore blue contacts.

[tlouramblings]

The Truth Flashback Part 2

A rant/break down about this flashback scene from the the second game.

Part 1

Joel saying this just fuels Ellies anger even more. Every time she tried to talk about it he shut her down.

I wonder where she left the note. Did she leave it in her garage for him to find? Did she leave it at his house? It really paves the way to see how much of a head start she wanted.

Again, her anger is fueled because she couldn't take his lies anymore. She doesn't want him to hug her or even try to comfort her.

His face when she gives him the ultimatum. He knew he would have to tell her one day but deep down he was hoping he'd never have to.

He nods for a couple of seconds, accepting that his actions have caught up to him and now he has to face the consequences.

Then he shakes his head a little bit, he knows that once he tells her they will never be the same. She will hate him for taking her choice away from her. She will be to blinded by her anger to realize the Fireflies took away her choice first.

Maybe for a split second he thinks about lying to her again. Bending the truth so he doesn’t have to tell her the full story. But hearing her threaten to leave stops him.

Hearing her say she would rather take her chances out there in the cruel world that already caused her so much pain, because she can't handle the lies anymore makes him finally admit to it.

He finally chooses honesty.

He can’t risk her seeing through another lie and leaving.

He pauses for a second and looks up to Ellie. He wants to see if she has any reaction, any fear to his words that might make her justify what he says next.

He’s vague. He knows she already has an immense amount of survivors guilt, so he spares her the gory details in hopes of her not questioning further.

But she also knows what he’s capable of, it doesn’t take long for her imagination to fill in the blanks.