#just thought it was about zombies

[djarinslover]

Ya know I knew something would happen to Henry and Sam but I really wasn’t expecting Sam to get infected and Henry to kill himself. That fucking hurt, seeing how devastated and in shock Henry was. And seeing the friendship between Ellie and Sam grow hurt. I have some words, HBO

[kkoct-ik]

part one of my big requests bundle! and a cobbed together bonus panel. as a treat

[applepixls]

in episode 5 etho tells grian and cleo hes "A bit physically disabled today" because of his weeping angel task and later when he's trying to succeed he says "i might need some assistance-" and grian asks "do you want me to help?"

i dont know much but i know chronic disabilities exist and can be more debilitating on some days than others and that help from friends is pretty cool

basically these two interactions put the idea of an ethoslab with some kind of chronic disability into my head and hope the world will do with that what it will :]

Happy Disability Pride Month everyone!

[canisalbus]

AU where there is some sort of zombie-like (maybe something like a rabid vampirism?)

Where one of the boys is bit/infected and desperately wants the other to join them, while also wanting to resist?

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[gloomieartnfixation]

So like, am I gonna see any more people *Like That™️* whenever I make queer Richtofen posts? To everyone they've bothered I'm sorry, I actually don't know how to turn comments off-

Instead, have Eddie smiling ❤️

[petitesmafia]

once again thinking ab the regular civilians of bsd yokohama. i'd be so conflicted living in the city like imagine seeing a huge whale in the sky so you’re like "YES the world is finally ending so i don't need to go to work tomorrow bless up 🙏" and then shit gets resolved the following day smfh

you planned to sleep in the next day only for your boss to call you like "where are you? it's 8AM. if you don't show up i'm docking your pay" and you’re like wtf. is the world not on fire. thanks a lot armed detective agency and port mafia always gotta be fixing shit so fast??

or imagine getting blipped during dead apple and you’re like "tbh whatever at least i don't need to pay bills anymore 🙏" but then you return less than 48 hours later (and find your entire condo destroyed bc a strange individual named Nakahara Chuuya decided to rip it from the ground with his bare hands and shove it down a dragon’s throat. like thanks my guy couldn’t you have done this two days ago before my rent was due)

[bfdifan26]

demonstrating true self indulgence

[forcedhesitation]

dead by daylight-- the game where you can play as steve harrington from stranger things, and can get sent to partake in a match of murder hide and seek at midwich elementary from silent hill, where you can then use a lute to perform bardic inspiration from dungeons and dragons to give a bonus to your teammates, except for the one who is being chased by nemesis from resident evil 3.

[matchbet-allofthetime]

I need so badly to make an MK au where Lord Raiden was a teen in the sixties and Lord Fujin was a teen in the late sixties/early-mid seventies

And they just encompass their decades as people

And Liu Kang would be so reminiscent of the 80s glam rock and hair bands and all

And then you'd have Kung Lao, who, even though him and Liu are similar ages, he'd be like a solid mix of 80s/90s

[bonefall]

where’s that little horror piece about kits never growing up in Starclan? because I remember it so vividly but I can’t find it.

The one about Bright Stream?

Weird that it's so hard to find! It's probably because it's got such heavy tags lmao.

I really mean it though like, canon's permakitten system and the idea that Bright Stream is up there, forever taking care of fetus children who were filled by sudden knowledge and yet never grow past that point absolutely horrifies me. Jesus Christ. I don't know how anyone reads that final scene in Path of Stars and isn't filled with itching, white-hot existential dread, man.

Sometimes you just gotta write horror about it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kizzys]

Something about how Joel needs to know a specific purpose to work towards for him to go on... Not that others don't, of course they do, it's the most human thing, but how its just a lot more specific with Joel...

When Sarah was alive, she was his purpose. To raise her, to give her a life, to keep her safe... and after she passed, he didn't have that purpose anymore, so he tried to do what he did the very next day...

We see this with Tess too, and I think another post already pointed this out, how she is very much the leader between the two of them. Tess guided him, she gave him goals to carry through, she gave him purpose. Even when they meet Ellie, he only takes her along because Tess decided to. Hell, he was ready to abandon Ellie after finding out she was infected but didn't because Tess said not to.

We have seen the kind of tunnel vision of greif and rage he goes through when he loses his purpose, we have seen it with Sarah, we have seen it with Ellie, but we do not see it with Tess. This was one of the most important relationships in his life through 20 years of the apocalypse, and sure he mourns her but he's never blinded by it. Why?

Because just before her death, Tess gives him a new purpose, to keep Ellie safe. And that's exactly what he does. Only that, over the course of the episodes, the purpose that came out of obligation turns into genuine parental love.

That's also one of the reasons Joel's search for Ellie this episode is so interestingly shot. I mean, in the last episode when Joel was torturing those two men, everything was loud and crystal clear, every scream, every breath, every movement of the knife. Because Joel woke up and his kid is missing, all her things are missing, and at this point he has no idea where she is or if she's even alive. And so that scene is neither from Joel's pov nor of those two men. The audience is literally a third observer watching this guy torture the fuck out of two others. The scene from the last episode is the complete opposite. Especially for what is one of the most violent scenes in the show, I mean Joel kills a building full of people in cold blood. But we hear no sound, everything is muted, most of the camera's attention is either on Joel or his boots, not the bloodshed in front of him. This is the one scene we get to see that is completely from Joel's point of view, from the moment he takes the gun in the staircase till he reaches the operating room, we see that blinded tunnel vision that Joel has. He has one purpose - to find Ellie. Anything else doesn't matter, and so he doesn't even register all the things he's doing, all the people he's killing.

And then he sees Ellie, and the audio returns to normal, the camera pans out. When he shoots the surgeon, it is loud, it is clear. It is personal. And he could have killed the nurses, dragged Ellie away from the bed himself and be done with it. But no, he asks the nurses to remove all the wires off of her, and to bandage up her arm, and he puts her in the car before he kills Marlene, not after. Because he completed his purpose of finding Ellie. His new purpose now is to keep her safe from anything that could hurt her, whether its seeing someone die or a single drop of blood on her arm.

Joel's arc, from the first episode till the last, is having his purpose as a father break apart and then having it glued back together, piece by piece, all by the drive he has to protect his little girl

And god help any motherfucker who stands in his way

[schwazombie]

I enjoy thinking about KidLaw in my ModAU where Kidd has absolutely no filter whatsoever in general but also around Law in particular and will say the most ??? things just in passing. They're lying in bed watching TV on a laptop and Kidd will out of nowhere be like, man I wish I had a knot :( and Law is just like ?????? but gets no further explanation on what the hell is going on in Kidd's head as they watch reruns of Hogan's Heroes.

[daisywords]

one of the pitfalls for me of writing in first person present tense (beloved!) is that I forget that I can just timeskip

[langernameohnebedeutung]

Thinking about that scene again where we find out that Clive secretly cooks Cajun food for Ravi and Liv and then passes it off as something he bought at a take-out joint: When Ravi accidentally takes a bite from Liv's, he can barely stand to put it in his mouth and immediately has to drink water. And I just wonder whether Clive watched her eat once and decided he could deal up the heat however, or whether he slowly experimented with more and more spice to see what works for her.

[nimmo-tube-cheese]

I sat down and explained the entirety both Meridell and Darigan plots to my brother and when I was done he just stared at me like this

Up until now he thought Neopets was just playing Flash games and making your pets eat boogers and poop.

[dazzelmethat]

Long time no Bud. Wow the last time I made her a ref was 2018. I experimented some with her pallet. Unsure if I like the profile head but oh well, open mouthed anime inspired profile faces are notoriously hard for a reason.

Sigh. What am I going to do with her.. my writing conundrum workshopping in tags. My tag rant mentions plot related suicide and ableism (in relation to the zombie trope).