EVERYONE COME AND LOOK AT THIS

EVERYONE COME AND LOOK AT THIS 😭

Bby Tommy WIP

I can not wait for the next chapter of As Long As You Follow!!! I keep wanting to ask if you plan out your fanfics ahead of time because they have so much happening in them? Do you plot things out chapter by chapter?

Hi, anon. Thanks! I'm pretty loosey goosey about storyboarding, and I should probably be...better, about that, because then maybe my fics wouldn't be so bloated. I always know general points I want to hit, and how I want to pace things, but I don't often plot it out chapter-by-chapter. (I mean, clearly; ALaYF was supposed to be ten chapters, and it'll end up being seventeen when all is said and done.) I do track things as I go, however. I keep notes of dates and my fics' general timelines so I can reference them later, and not contradict myself, which has been very helpful.

screaming into megaphone

GIVE US A TOMMY PHOTO, YOU COWARDS

People are so cruel about Bella's appearance, and for what reason? Because they look like...a normal human being?

Ngl, I see how transparent so many people are when they complain about HBO Ellie - they hide behind weak little statements like "well, she just had more of a shitty attitude than the game" (she was more believable as a child raised without any semblance of love and care by a fascist government than she was in the game, you mean?) but really it usually comes down to Bella's looks, and I'm sick of it.

I have played the games (recently, admittedly, though I'd seen walkthroughs and was aware of the game and characters before the show just because I spend time in Internet video game communities) and Ellie in the first game is not a very believable character, for the most part. She existed as a reason to burden and eventually soften Joel, and I never felt like I really got a sense of her as a person until it came time to play her in the David scenes (though they did a great job with Left Behind, and I very much enjoyed playing her then).

Bella brought so much emotion and rage and humor and nuance to Ellie, and though when I write my versions of her I tend to mix aspects of both of them, I'm so thankful for what Bella has been able to bring to the character, and consider the HBO version of Ellie to be the superior one. You don't have to agree with that, it's a very subjective opinion, but it's how I feel about it. Does Bella look like Ellie? Not particularly. Do they kill it in the role? Absolutely. That should be enough, honestly.

But then I hop on Tumblr and see posts like the one above, and it just makes me frustrated that people can be so casually cruel about the appearance of another human being. This isn't middle school, let's grow up a little.

https://twitter.com/spacecobra9/status/1790003381215343091?s=46

is that our “Ellie”?

Okay, I did not expect this, lmao. Who did this??!

(it's so mean, but I laughed... I'm going to hell)

Fanfic Work in Progress Guessing Game

I was tagged by @march-flowerr!

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in.

There is this thing that happens when I get tagged on these, in which everyone I know has already been tagged because my mutuals community is very small, so instead, if you see this, consider yourself tagged, haha.