Now That This Has Become A Topic Of Discussion (again) Theres Something I Gotta Say

Now that this has become a topic of discussion (again) there’s something I gotta say…

Honestly? I have some problems with Ellie’s part 2 design. Not because it’s a bad design, but because of a completely different reason:

Ellie in TLOU part 2 is nineteen years old. After the time-skip she’s 21-22.

Ellie in Part 2 is a Hollywood teenager. Plain and simple. And I know people are going to hate on this because they love Ellie’s character design, and it’s not that I think it’s bad, I just think it’s important to acknowledge that it isn’t realistic.

I’ve seen so many ways people have tried to justify it, saying things like “well stress and lack-of-food make people look older”. Yeah, they do. What they don’t do is turn people into models. Stress doesn’t give them perfect cheek-bones and plush lips—it gives them wrinkles. A couple scars doesn’t make someone look realistic—especially when they’re precisely placed as to keep the sex-appeal at a maximum. Ellie in TLOU part 2 was absolutely designed to be attractive and appealing to people. The design wasn’t made to be realistic, the design was made to be marketable.

It’s absolutely fine to love the character design, what’s not fine is to expect people to look like it and be mad that they don’t.

Bella Ramsey looks like a real nineteen-year-old. Bella Ramsey looks like a human. Bella Ramsey didn’t have their appearance designed pixel-by-pixel and shown to focus groups and adjusted so they could look good to as large a range of people as possible.

People look like people. Get over it.

6,12,19

Thanks for the ask, Anon!

6: most used word in current draft

For scars:

I don’t how how I’ve managed this but… ‘back’ is my most used word I gues??? Somehow??? (I’m pretty sure it doesn’t include ‘and’ and ‘the’ and stuff like that tho…

12: trope you’re really into

One I absolutely adore is parallel endings. It’s just my favorite way to end a story. Parallel endings (at least that’s what I call them, idk the official term) is when the end of your story is a direct parallel/call back to the beginning, maybe by using some phrase or situation, but now everything’s different. I just love that stuff.

19: most interesting thing you’ve researched for a story

Oh wow, I have no idea. I will say that I found this picture I took that I sent to some of my writer friends that’s gotta be up there

(Also… flights?? Flights???)

15 & 16 for the writer asks!

LAUREN!! Thanks for the ask friendo!

15: favorite place to write

Honestly I’m a boring introvert. My bed lol. I just lay in my bed and write disturbing things because what else can I do with my life?

16: favorite weather to write

Rain rain rain. Rain > literally everything else

(Maybe 15 is 16 and 16 is 15 idk lol)

dude when are you releasing the next ch of aobg ?

Sorry sorry! I’ve been super busy recently but it’s in progress and hopefully will be out soon😭😭

Have a snip to tide you over:

An open note to readers of fanfic

Sometimes I stare at the computer screen when the words don’t want to come and I think, “Fuck, who am I kidding? This is terrible writing, and this story is shit, and no one cares, anyway.”  And I close the window and go do something else.

But every now and then I get an amazing, heartfelt, beautiful comment from someone who loved something I wrote, and it reminds me that, at least for that one person, I did write something worthwhile. And so I open the window again and I write one sentence, and then another, and then I start to find my way again.

So on behalf of all fanfic writers everywhere, I want to say thank you, thank you so much, to all of the readers who take the time to leave a comment and tell us that something we wrote mattered to you, that it brightened your day or made you laugh or cry or get horny or whatever.

Please don’t think we’re ever bothered by your comment, or that we don’t want to hear it, or that what you have to say isn’t important enough. It means so, so much. And on some days, it’s what keeps us going.

painting of bella ramsey as ellie. they were incredible.