I NEEEED To Know What Happens Next, Please Do A Part 2 To What Follows, I Am Foaming At The Mouth!

I NEEEED to know what happens next, please do a part 2 to What Follows, I am foaming at the mouth!

so happy you liked it!! joel is so grumpy, accidental boyfriend to me (in my dilf era and there is no shame in that)

i'm working on a part 2 and maybe some other fics with him :)) (down so bad i briefly considered writing actual smut,, blaming that on period brain,, not saying i won't but definitely not saying i will 😭)

Your scream fics are really good! I’ve been looking for other like yours. Would you have any recommendations ?

omg i think about everything @mehbzz has written all the time,, the way like 99% (if not all??) of their scream fics connect,, there's so much like "lore"/depth to the relationship dynamics bc of that

they have a masterlist on their page so i'd just dive in and enjoy,, i reread every time i have a bad day and have a vivid memory of discovering the "just us" series when i was going through a hard time and it was the ideal distraction,

they are an 18+ blog with smut and some other stuff so just make sure to check trigger warnings

@polyghostfacehours is also very lovely!! great characterization "tension broken, quiet found" is an amazing series to check out,, just again,, smut and be sure to check trigger warnings

anyways these are off the top of my head as i'm feeling pretty burned out, but i really wanted to answer this before i forgot,, hope you enjoy and that i didn't recommend blogs/things you've already read 😭

purpose was so good!! i love your writing ahh you write these characters so well 😭

ahh thank you love!

omg y’all what if i write a joel fic where it’s set during/maybe right after the bill and frank episode and it’s just joel reflecting on what the reader means to him bc they’re kind of in a pretending not to be pining but it’s so obvious phase

and then the reader mentions how nice it seems to just have your purpose be someone and living a life the way bill and frank did and joel agrees but it’s a lot deeper than the reader realizes

also could see ellie being in the back the entire time absolutely going through it with how oblivious everyone but her seems to be 😭

Hey! I noticed your scream fics aren’t on your masterlist. Is there a reason for that?

hey!! absolutely no particular reason,, i just started writing for scream more recently and haven't updated my masterlist in an embarrassingly long time

they will be up there at some point tho!!

in honor of the new episode and the fact that i’m writing a part 2 for this and the fact that some new tlou ppl have been on my blog,, thought i’d reblog this one

i’m not one to be like ‘oh my writing is so good’ but idk,, i like the vibes in this one and i’m proud of the fact that i got it to come across in a way that fit my intended vibe to me at least?? idk if that makes sense

ik it’s pretty common to reblog your own work but i always feel awkward about it 😭 so if you’re like ‘that’s weird, don’t’ but say it in a nice way i won’t be doing it too much, i promise 

What Follows

a/n can (likely) see myself making a part 2 of this, it’s like 4:30 AM and i cannot make that decision rn,, so if you think that’s a good idea or are interest,, lmk, public opinion could make or break my decision once i’m better rested

Summary: If you had to think about the coincidences that brought you to this, you’d realize that it was inevitable. Domino pieces falling into place. Or, to put it simply, it’s the end of the world and yet your biggest concern is your teeny tiny…terrible, life ruining crush. 

*cough* sharing bed trope, and some other stuff 

also i’ve never played the game i’ve only watched the show but i have some context of the game (i’ve watched some videos),, but timeline wise,, location wise, it’s pretty general as i’m just going with what fits for my intended story line like i do with most fics :)) it’s mainly set in a sort of safe house 

warnings: potential timeline errors, mentions of age gap that’s pretty vague, allusions to anxiety and canon angsty-ness

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Memories of before are tricky. Most of them hybrids, odd mix-matches of true experiences and snippets of other things. Stories from an uneasy rotation of people, bits and pieces from books and magazines and other odds and ends. A collage that makes up an easily swayed perception of the world before. 

But you know this one is real. You know it is because it’s so mundane there’s no way someone gave it to you. It’s a quick glimpse, a brief flicker of you in a pair of roller skates with those thick, plastic stoppers attached to the front. The memory isn’t of what they felt like, or how many laps you did up and down your block. All you remember is the stinging. The soft skin of your knee scraped raw by the sidewalk. The particularness of that kind of pain. 

That’s what the realization feels like. Knowing that there’s a chance that you might feel something for Joel outside of general gratitude for the unofficial way Ellie and him took you in is speeding down a street just to collapse with no warning against unforgiving concrete.

His fingers brush around broken skin with a delicateness that turns you rigid. These are the same hands that beat a man within an inch of his life the first time he met you. It’s a juxtaposition that twists your nerves tight around your stomach.

It’s quiet now. More so than usual because Ellie’s asleep. If you had to come to your realization at all, you should have done it during the day. With Joel at a safe distance and Ellie awake to distract from the fact that you’ve been staring at his hand in total silence for minutes now. A violently out of character mistake, which is why you’re not surprised when his voice breaks the nothingness with a question: “You alright?” 

You sit up a little straighter. “Yeah.” It comes out flat and distant. “Yeah,” you affirm, a little more here, “Just thinking.” 

Ugh. Not nearly deflective or subtle enough. It’s the kind of cop out answer that worked in the beginning, before there was any form of attachment. Back then, you thought you’d only be around them for a few days. Until the swelling in your ankle went down enough to let you walk efficiently again. It was the least they could do then, after you jumped in to save Ellie when Joel and her were briefly separated. 

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