Here I Am To Statementize And Question You.

Here I am to statementize and question you.

My statement is: you have some very creative fics and you're fun to be in a discord server with.

My question is: would you ever do a super fluffy, no angst, it's a wonderful no Outbreak World, fic for Ellie and Joel?

Thank you so much for your question and statementization!

Statement: Awww thank you so much😭❤️

Question: Hmmm, I might actually! It would be really fun to step outside my comfort zone and write something not depressing lol

*chanting* GHOSTS GHOSTS GHOSTS

It’s… well, believe it or not it’s sorta angsty, actually. Basically the synopsis is that back in Jackson, Ellie starts to see hallucinations of the people who she’s killed, directly or indirectly (that she blames herself for).

i just rewatched the first twenty or so minute of tlou a couple days ago and something hit me. when the soldier finds joel and sarah, the first thing joel says is “my daughter’s hurt. her ankle.” he doesn’t say she twisted her ankle or broke it or that they had a car accident. no. he says she’s hurt. right after the soldier shot the infected running after them.

joel’s words are the ones the soldier repeats to his superior. the ones that leads whoever it is to give the order to shoot them both. so i guess what i’m saying is that in a way—

If I had a nickel for every time there was an honestly really good darkly comedic show starring a young, naive woman who learns about the darkness of the world but doesn’t let it change her, her loser boyfriend who’s desperate to feel some control in the world, which also featured a manipulative, chaotic, charming, awesome man with an accent and featured a scene where someone reluctantly cuts a dead guys body part off, that’s really a satire about corporate greed by fucking AMAZON, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Nooooo this is so sad😭 rip Tess you would’ve loved Jackson

TESS & ELLIE | 1.01 “When You’re Lost in the Darkness”

Something that ticks me off is people comparing TLOU the game with TLOU HBO and saying it didn’t have as much emotional impact as the game, or that it didn’t “recapture the magic”.

Like… yeah of course it didn’t have as much impact for YOU. You played the game first, and saw it for the first time in the game. With TLOU HBO you saw it again, of course it’s gonna have less of an emotional impact on you when you don’t already know the scene.

Some people went into TLOU HBO expecting to feel exactly what they felt when they played the game, but that’s impossible. The show will never be able to “recapture the magic” for you, because you know the scene and what they’ll say. You already know the emotional beats and the plot.

That’s why ep 3 hit people who played the games and people who didn’t so hard, not just because it was an amazing story, but because you didn’t know what would happen. You didn’t already know the scenes or what they’d say, because of course it “doesn’t have the magic” when you already know exactly what comes next unlike when you played the games.

I watched TLOU HBO first, and all of the emotional beats struck their mark perfectly and hit me like a damn semi-truck.

“You’e not my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad”, “I swear”, “I got you baby girl”, they all wrecked me like they wrecked you when you played the game.

Of course the scene is gonna hit harder when you’re experiencing it for the first time, rather than the scenes being “worse” in the show.