This Is Genuinely Incredible

This is genuinely incredible🔥

this must’ve took forever, but it’s really well done.

luv edits.

This this this x1000

-> prev tags

I think some of ya’ll are forgetting how baby you looked at 18

💙favorite line game💜

Thanks for the tag @wreckedtodeathandback!

Rules: send me an ask to ask what my favorite line was from any of my fics! If they are multi-chapter, you can ask for fave lines from individual chapters.

+ copy paste & make a new post to play along +

No pressure tags: @lauronk @becomethesun @logan178 @bumblepony @wordspinning @freetobeyouandmichi-me @captainredspade @mildredellie

Completely agree with all of these⬆️⬆️⬆️

TO BE VERY CLEAR::

You are allowed to be unhappy with casting choices. You are allowed to be vocal about it. You are allowed to be upset with script writing, or the direction a piece of media moves in, or their wardrobe choices or what the fuck ever. You are allowed to have conversations about that with friends and fans. You are allowed to curate your space here on this platform however you choose to. And guess what?

Most of us don’t care.

Opinions are like assholes - everyone has one. We’re allowed to disagree. We’re allowed to dislike each other’s takes on characters or scenes or hair style. That’s the beauty of fandom : it’s for everyone. And everyone gets something different out of it, and that’s okay.

You know what’s not okay? Actively posting cruel images of a real live PERSON in the hopes of getting a few chuckles. Actively participating in the ongoing bullying of a person who has done nothing but pour their heart and soul into a project that they love, that has given so much back to us. Actively mock their physical appearance. Offer no absolution or even acknowledge the damage your actions might have done. Refuse to see the point others are trying to make when taken to task for the shitty thing you did.

I’m not trying to stand on a soapbox here, because I’m not a perfect person. But I’m very aware that in spaces like Tumblr and AO3, I have a following of people who are shaping their image of me through my words and my posts. Why would I not want that image to be one of kindness and not cruelty? Why would I not want the things I do to edify and uplift others? Why would you choose to generate a following and then lead them in a tag-a-long chase of cruelty and mean spirited joking? It costs nothing - absolutely NOTHING - to be kind.

Guys - we have a responsibility as human beings to not be shitheads. It’s 2024. Mean girl energy is not in anymore. Grow up.

Something the Last of Us s1 did that I hope s2 and onward continue with is that every death matters. Every death affects the characters, the viewers, and the story, even if just a bit. And not just the main one’s, like Tess or Riley, but the small characters too. The one’s who are only in it for one scene.

I think it’s interesting how for me at least, when I hear a video game is getting adapted, I automatically think of the set-pieces and combat and how it’ll get adapted, but with TLOU HBO, the new medium actually allowed for them to scale down the violence, rather than up. (Except for the infected sequence in episode five, but that’s a whole other post about why that one worked so well).

After every death you see the characters faces. You see how it affected them more than you’d be able to with a video game (no hate to video games, they need more enemies to remain something you can play and it wouldn’t be realistic for a cutscene to happen every time you killed something).

I think it’s a testament to how well done TLOU HBO was, and how both versions played to their respective strengths as a medium. The game needed enemies and things to do so it didn’t become a long cutscene, but the show was able to scale down the violence and really make every death matter with dialogue and shots and closeups that just wouldn’t be realistic for a game, but works so well for a show.

Tommy: No no no, it doesn’t look stupid. I think it looks great🫂

Joel: It does… that’s the problem😭

really joel is growing out the long hair in season 2 to try and get ellie to talk to him via making fun of him

desperate times mean desperate measures