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#thanks for the ride everyone!

sch-uwu-lchen

im sorry and ur welcome

#:)

beeandcat

I can’t believe I spend so much time on this bad joke…

shebemyne-deactivated20220613

have a nice day, gorgeous people :)

elliesjournals

Reposted from Instagram: https://instagram.com/nevtrlstudio

#dinellie #jesse

acecroft

THE LAST OF US, 2013 🦒

koozacat

I only need one gf but if God decides to give me three, who am I to say no to god? 🙏🙏

#:)

primaryass

i'm sorry but this was SO funny

ellie - i got the impression that you didn't really like her.

shannon - i don't.

dina - i don't care about her one way or the other.

shannon - liar.

#dina #god shes so cute fjfhskf

watery-sun

i love a lot of things about tlou2 but the fact that a white character brutalizes a Black character will always make me feel gross. and not in a “the narrative is productively challenging the viewer by making them uncomfortable” way, in a “these optics are unnecessarily vile and contribute to a longstanding pattern of anti-Blackness in media” kind of way. the game was in dev’t for like 5 years and a scene like this didn’t end up on the cutting room floor? this game handles a queer romance so delicately but lets something like this get through? jfc

hatosaur

100%. a lot of people like to excuse it as “a lot of ppl die in the game, it’s a survival game! just because a black person dies in a game, it’s suddenly racist???” and brush it off, but there’s really no ignoring what that is and what it does. it may not have been because of racism in-game, but gdi making the player assume the role of a white person and force you to brutalize a black person is so fucking awful and ignorant. ESPECIALLY if the player is black!

like it was a choice to make nora black, to make nora the one ellie chases relentlessly through the hospital, to make nora the one ellie horrifically and traumatically tortures. i was so completely uncomfortable during this part.

don’t even get me started on the fact that every single (named/major) black character in the entire series dies.

silentsockfeet

god yeah i talk about this so much but i think it’s so telling that one of the biggest legitimate criticisms of tlou1 was it’s treatment of black characters, in that every single one of them (marlene, sam & henry, riley) all get killed off to further the white characters’ story. and it was something i’d hoped they’d fix with pt2 but instead they just increased the variety of races of side characters?? but they still pretty much all get killed off, with the exception of lev and dina. and more importantly they get killed off by the white characters in brutal ways

nora is an exceptionally interesting case bc she’s the only one that gets explicitly tortured on screen. and like, there was no reason that nora needed to be black. but somehow that was a choice that was made and kept, and whether it was purposeful or not still leads to huge implications in terms of power and race in the game and ultimately upholds white supremacist ideals

and the fact that no black character makes it out alive is the very reason that the whole “it’s the post apocalypse, everyone dies” argument is invalid, and inherently racist. the only thing that would make this argument valid is if the objectivity of violence is portrayed in game, but it’s not. nearly every white character lives while black (and poc as a whole) die at more disproportionate rates

anyways yeah i could go on but general summation: kind of shocked that very little thought was put into this in the seven years tlou2 was developed, especially after getting criticized for this with pt1

#tlou critical

retaj-queenblog

I don't wanna lose you..

ELLIE & DINA

The Last Of Us Part 2

#fuuuuuuuuuuu #dinellie #art

anabimelo

This cast

#wow 🥺#art

souncivilized17

ALL THE PROMISES AT SUNDOWN

I MEANT THEM LIKE THE REST

#FUCK

oredcchi

Made this after knowing that Ellie can finally swim in TLOU2 HAHAHA– also decided to make a lighthearted comic because I know this game will destroy every fiber of my being

#we were robbed

greeds

strong stoic man with sad past: *adopts child*

me every single time:

westiec

It's about choosing to break the cycle of abuse and doing your best to ensure the next generation doesn't have to endure what you did. And that's fucking heroic work.

greeds