So I Just Rewatched Episode 5 Of The Last Of Us Why Did I Do That Too Myself

So I just rewatched episode 5 of the last of us why did I do that too myself 🥺

the way Joel was shaking while trying to shoot all the infected and keep them away from Ellie 😭😭😭 my man was really having another war flashback

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Titans (TV 2018) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dick Grayson/Koriand'r Characters: Dick Grayson, Koriand'r (DCU), Raven Additional Tags: Meet-Cute, Alternate Universe - Coffee Shops & Cafés, Siblings, Dick Grayson and Donna Troy are Siblings, Adopted Children Summary:

Dick finally gets the courage to ask his neighbor out on a date in the most unexpected way. Happy Valentines day 😁.

#fuck you pornbots #just fucking die already #tumblr do something about these pornbots

Shouting this at all the tumblr porn bots that have been following me

Do not come on my posts with “Black Women Are Superhuman Beings Who Can Handle Anything” takes. That’s a dangerous and reductive rhetoric rife with misogynoir. No, black women cannot take more negative and harmful attacks than other women can. Black women are not primed to withstand more attacks and harassment than women of other races. Stop. That is horrifying. Black women deserve grace, compassion, and a soft place to rest, not constant burdens.

Pedro describing Joel in an interview as a “caretaker” instead of just calling him a protector is such an important distinction, because when you think of a protector, you think of someone who is strong and hardened; but when you think of a caretaker, you think of someone gentle and nurturing. While Joel is definitely a fierce protector, he also has this softness within him, this primal instinct to take care of people—and it never left him, no matter how hard he tried to bury it with Sarah. We see this in him from the very first episode, and we have continued to see it all the way through until the most recent.

Episode 1: He tends to Tess’s cuts and bruises on her face, grabbing a cloth and alcohol and tenderly dabbing it on her cheek. (Been a while since I watched the episode, so I’ve probably missed some other examples).

Episode 2: He gets out his tape and starts wrapping it around Tess’s sprained ankle on the roof—she doesn’t even need to ask him, he just does it. He even throws Ellie a bandage to wrap around the clicker bite on her arm.

Episode 3: He covers Ellie with his jacket (off-screen) sometime throughout the night, and gives her the rest of his food, despite being in the middle of giving her the silent treatment after what happened to Tess. He even wraps a seatbelt around her in the car! Like a parent strapping their kid in

Episode 4: He notices Ellie is getting tired on the road, and decides to pull over for the night. He cooks her Chef Boyardee ravioli for dinner. He immediately checks her over for injuries and asks if she’s hurt after they crash. He tries to COMFORT her and even APOLOGISES to her for putting her in the position to shoot someone to save him.

Episode 5: He gives Sam some of his food. He invites the brothers to come with them to Wyoming, not just because he knows they wouldn’t survive out there on their own, but also for Ellie because he can see how close she is with Sam and he wants her to have a friend. He asks Ellie if she’s okay after an infected Sam attacked her, AND HE WOULD HAVE PULLED HER INTO HIS ARMS AND COMFORTED HER if Henry didn’t point the gun at him.

Joel is absolutely a caretaker at his very core, and I love that Pedro used that word to describe him. I just think it’s such an insightful detail of the character, one that transcends Joel beyond just being a stereotypically macho man*, and instead makes him more of an actual father.

*I am not at all saying that Game Joel is stereotypical, because he absolutely shows his gentle side sometimes! But I just think it’s a trait that is more intrinsic within TV Joel.