I Was Watching TLOU HBO Video Essays Again (its Normal Behavior, Ok?! NORMAL!!!) And I Saw Someone Say

I was watching TLOU HBO video essays again (it’s normal behavior, ok?! NORMAL!!!) and I saw someone say that Bella Ramsey’s performance was “flat” at times, but I completely disagree. I thought that their performance was never less than truly incredible. They portrayed such deep emotion without being melodramatic, they developed Ellie through the story in a truly masterful way, they perfectly showed us such real, human reactions and responses to all the situations Ellie was put in, and the way they played off their co-stars was really fantastic.

Not every scene they were in was hugely emotional, and the ones that were hit HARD. There were plenty of normal conversations, but those were acted to perfection too. Those normal scenes made TLOU so amazing.

IDK why I’m posting this, I guess just another Bella Ramsey appreciation post on my blog lol. Anyway, I truly, deeply loved their performance SO much, it was so amazing. The cast of TLOU is truly in another planet.

Quick side note: pls don’t DM me about why I’m wrong. It’s not really gonna do anything, and it just sours both our moods. You don’t have to agree with me, I get that it’s subjective, just don’t private message me listing all the reasons you disagree, yeah? Cheers👍 (I’m not British I just like the word ‘Cheers’)

One of these is a fun-loving kid who got saddled with a grumpy old guy on a dangerous journey and helps him learn how to love again and goes through immense trauma because of a guy they meet who’s abusive to his followers and seems nice enough at first but is NOT… the other is from a fricken’ zombie tv show

Joel and Ellie

Quite tired and smelly

Joel is not doing welly

Ellie needs to fill his belly

rode off on Callus, then she felly

woke up with a cannibal locked in a celly

Killed a man and ran through a deli

David sucks, his brain are now jellie

Joel is being a nervous Nellie

gets there too late after she’s been through helly

He calls her baby girl as I cry at my telly

“The best Pedro Pascal dad character is the Madolorian”

“The best Pedro Pascal dad character is Joel Miller”

Shut up, we all know the REAL best Pedro Pascal dad character.

Do you enjoy writing? Of course you do, it’s frickin’ dope! But, writing can be difficult sometimes, which is why I bring you the best strategy for creating stories, characters, and worlds: WLAS

What is WLAS? Write Like A Sadist! Make the experience as torturous as possible for both your characters, AND your readers! Push the limits! Make people wonder if you’re a genuine psychopath! Make your friends cry! You can do it all with ‘Write Like a Sadist’!

(Side effects may include but are not limited to: guilt, deterioration of mental health, loss of appetite, your SO leaving you because ‘this has gone too far, I can’t even look at you anymore! You spend all day cooped up inside, laughing maniacally, I can’t stand another second! This is an addiction! Get help, Paige, please! What happened to you?’ Proceeded by hysterical sobbing.)

So try out ‘Write Like a Sadist’ today, and remember… character development can go fuck itself, shock value is the best thing to incorporate into a story!

In TLOU HBO there are two episodes that take place outside of the main timeline of the show, and both are absolutely fantastic queer love stories, but they are also completely different types of love stories.

Long, Long Time is a story about growing old together. It’s about loving someone so deeply and unbreakably that they become your purpose. It’s a two decade spanning story about time and spending your life with someone you love.

Left Behind is a story about young love. It’s about the awkward giddiness of having a crush at fourteen. It’s about the butterflies in your stomach and young, naive hope. It spans one night, probably less than four hours, that ended way too soon.

Bill and Frank’s death wasn’t the tragic end of a play, but Riley and Ellie were all poetic and decided to lose their minds together.