God I love this blog sm. I love meeting other Joel lovers

<3 <3 <3

glad it brings delight, your blog is a pure gift bud

Like Real People Do Chapter 5 is Up!

Soooooo I’m vaguely back from the dead and was inspired by some lovely folks to pick this bad boy back up. I have fragments for at least five more chapters, but Chapter 5 can be found right here! 

If you’ve prompted me, I reallllllly hope I can get to your stuff! It is no slight against you if I don’t, life is just bananas busy and I write in snatches of time when I have them <3

Thank you to everyone who’s been reading and prompting!

I’m replaying Part I and the fact that Joel’s exact wind chime ends up in Jackson kills me. Because we know Joel doesn’t go back to Austin. Tommy does. He took a photo of his brother and his niece with him, not expecting to ever see his brother again. Which means he took the wind chimes with him too. He went home after fighting with Joel and, despite all the anger and animosity between them in the fight, took things he knew meant the world to his brother. Sure, there is a slim chance Joel could have made himself a new wind chime, but without reference, even from memory it’s difficult to replicate something so accurately after twenty some odd years. The wind chimes could have been something Joel made himself or a gift from Sarah and Tommy. Whatever it meant to Joel, it meant enough for Tommy to travel with. To bring his brother home to Jackson with him. To keep his big brother alive in some way.

Shy anon again - I ran out of room I’m so sorry for spamming a part 2. Uh... and then? They’re like OH we’ve wasted SO MUCH TIME and proceed to have an initially very shy and sweet make out sesh which leads to an absolutely raucous, desperate clingy bang out? If there is any chance (so embarrassing) of having this reader be English (somehow - maybe they were on holiday during the breakout)/blonde that would be amazing, but pls ignore if not appealing. Anyway ilu and your stuff is just sublime.

*slams this in the hopper*

it will be done, buddy, it will be done!

Hi! Shy anon here. I’ve never prompted anyone for anything like this, but I’ve read everything you’ve written over the past couple of weeks and it’s all just so good I had to shoot my shot. Please feel free to put this in the bin, but could I prompt a Joel/reader where they’ve been quietly crushing on each other for a long while but are both convinced they are absolutely not the other’s cup of tea? And when someone accidentally blabs to one of them that the other likes them they’re like OH we’ve

OH NO!

I am so sorry for the delay on this bud. I am so flattered you like the idiot's sandboxing I've been doing!

I have terrible/awesome news, this is 100% my OC fic with him, and I can totes spin up a nice x reader along them lines :)

(if you're into that kinda thing)

Prompt Fulfillment Updates~

Hello! I absolutely needed to make this post sooner, but here we are. I tend to write in fits and starts because my health is aligned to cycles of “okay” to “desperately not okay” ~every 6 months. It makes me inconsistent about a lot of things. Anyway, I’m better for now.

That said! I owe some kinky prompts! And I am writing them! Scrivener is open!

The five I’m working on currently:

-Chair sex, one Joel/OC-centered chapter of which I posted as a sneak peek.

-Birthday (oh god let Joel have one September 26th that doesn’t suck)

-Loud. That’s it, just, really loud.

-Handcuffs (this one is turning into something more meditative than planned, stay tuned)

-And ofc, the Joel x Molly x ??? one. That one’s up first.

I remain open to promptin’, kinky or otherwise. I just really love this universe and these characters; and I LOVE that there are even more people writing for this fandom than before.

:,,,))) i was too hype when i saw it this morning because i absolutely love pedro and the last of us BUT THEN WAS REMINDED LMAO

so uh, excuse me while i prepare for a few months for the emotional rollercoaster this show is gonna be

there we go this one is better than the (no shade, but huh wuh?) chris pine tommy fancast~

My Casting Choices for Tess, Tommy Miller and Maria Miller in The Last of Us

For disclaimer, I don't own The Last of Us and its characters.

The actresses and actors I cast for this fancast (c) Themselves

Tess

Lauren Cohan

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Hayley Atwell

Olivia Wilde

Felicity Jones

Tommy Miller

Charlie Hunnam

Oscar Isaac

Diego Luna

Maria Miller

Emily Vancamp

Teresa Palmer

My attempt at drawing what I think Pedro Pascal would look like as Joel from “The Last of Us” 🙈

Oh Tommy was traumatized? Mr. "nothing-but-nightmares-from-those-years?" Yeah? Just him? All Joel's fault? HMMMMM. I've always been super suspicious of that line of interpretation of their relationship.

Yeah, it's a brick first and then about five minutes later Tommy kills the soldier who shoots Sarah without a BLINK. Headshot, done. I'm sure Sarah getting killed hurt him, of course, but that was a gut reaction to "someone is probably going to shoot my brother now."

Maybe Tommy has nightmares of what Joel did to survive because he knows how easy it is for him personally to do the same/more. Joel, at the beginning of the Outbreak at least, was not the one that capability came easier to. He just got hollowed out enough by Sarah to persist like a traumatized ghost for ~20 years; Tommy still had a little life in 'im and felt beholden to his morals in a way Joel went "lol, nah." Basically he still had the capacity for horror in him, Joel's is full-ass gone in 2013, let alone 2033.

I'd shiv someone to learn why Tommy "never wanted to see [Joel's] fuckin' face again." Like what possibly crossed a rubicon in their relationship, that far in?

Anyway, everyone go read Dirt by Astern. Gorgeous interpretation of these two breaking tf down.

this is not usually a tlou fandom blog but i have thots. i’m watching a playthrough of the first game again and the way joel looks at tommy the moment after the first time he sees him kill an infected.. having just shot his neighbor too, and then witnessing his brother kill someone for the first time, and he barely has a second to process at all bc his daughter is still trapped in the wrecked car. and tommy used a brick, which feels so much more personal than a bullet. but joel takes a moment to give him a scared? awed? look. it’s the fucked-up recognition of “i know how that feels but also i don’t,” and the knowledge that tommy did it without hesitation to save his life. idk i think it puts into perspective the strength of their relationship throughout the rest of the games; the outbreak was hell and they survived it together bc they were both capable of killing. and they were able to recognize that in each other and accept it as a necessary skill. if that’s not brotherly bonding what is

concept art of pedro pascal as joel in the last of us

instagram / twitter

I feel like there needs to be an author alignment chart

Chaotic Evil is writing on your phone in the dark with no glasses on (me)

started a new playthrough of last of us with my bisexual joel goggles on

any artists wanna help us out with like, a theoretical joel manbun? no reason. no specific reason pertaining to my type(s)

The Itty Bitty Ponytail Club. No Joels Allowed.

November Hiatus Apology/I Promise I’m Getting to Your Prompts!

This may fully be shouting into a void, but hey! I’m sorry I disappeared! 

Some really nice people prompted me! I have a bunch of little Scrivener drafts going for your prompts, but I kind of blinked and November whooshed past me. 

DM me for a fine list of excuses, character flaws, and poor choices, but, most importantly, I do commit to finishing those prompts, so hang with me! I keep adding little bits here and there and getting sidetracked by my Joel/oc fic so, here we are. I may not be prolific, but I *can* linger in one headspace for apparently...a whole quarantine. 

Outstanding prompts, because it’s kinktober year round for me baybee:

-Joel/two women (this is close to done!)

-Escalating chair sex (also close to done!) 

-Handcuffs, edging, spit kink (this anon is great; this is ehhh 1/3 done because it deserves real thought)

-Birthday (I am sorry to report this one has been hard for me to figure out but I’m on it) 

-Loud sex/knowing someone can hear/dirty (Working on it! Most are Joel/readers but anon, if you see this and have specific druthers, I’m flexible)

A glimpse into my Scrivener, True Chaotic Evil: 

See you soon, y’all~