femmefacetious

She/Her | grown-ass adult ✨existential dread ✨ https://archiveofourown.org/users/femmefacetious TLOU * Prospect * X-Files * Rogue One Andor * True Detective * etc

[femmefacetious]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“Dude.” His thoughts cut off at the gasp that escaped her throat. “That is the biggest fucking tree I have ever seen in my life. In my life, man.” And she dropped her pack and took of running towards what was, indeed, the biggest fucking tree Joel had ever seen in his life. 

[thirdity]

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[kosmogrl]

[lauronk]

Favorite Joel & Ellie fics?

oh boy oh boy. this feels like being asked my favorite child

i went rooting through my bookmarks and pulled some classics for you and man did this send me down a re-read rabbithole lol

💜 - one-shot / 🤍 - in progress multi-chap / 💙 - complete multi-chap

💙- brokenhearted, running wild by @two-birds-alone-together

💙- i'll follow you into the dark by @femmefacetious

🤍- stubborn love & 💙- rooftop rendevous by @renegadeknight

💜- all this starless night by @barlowstreet

💜- my cow, your cow, our cow by @ciaconnaa

💙- the garden set us free & 💜- like a rock by @stillboldlygoing

💙- where you last placed your heart by itainthardtrying

💙- sheep ranch on the moon by tomeoftheforgotten

💜- bait and switch by @penandinkprincess

💙- intention by sporadicallyceaseless

💜- i hope that we make you proud ('cause this town's just an ocean now) by @cardigains

i hope these offerings appease you friend! if not, i am working on catching up on reading some fic and getting a more up-to-date rec post together soonish

[femmefacetious]

@lauronk screaming crying throwing up that I’m on the same list as these amazing fics and rec’d by bus fic author herself 😭

[multifandomevi]

[iinsawdious]

they should invent a way for online friends to come over and hang out that doesn't involve money or travelling

[march-flowerr]

for the fic game - #2, please, and what part of it did you either not originally plan to add, or which part evolved sort of on its own in a way that surprised you?

hey dad <3

You got revery alone will do!

Ugh what a dream this fic was to writeeee. Everything just... flowed. And it was really fun, because it was the first time I wrote an "action" ish type of scene, and I was terrified, and it worked out soooo well. I think THAT was the scene that surprised me the most - I went back and forth on whether I wanted to include the whole infected chase scene at all because it sort of interfered with the more peaceful, fever dream sequence of the rest of the fic, but once I started it, and finished it, I was soooo fucking surprised to find that the fic didn't work without it. It ended up being a catalyst between Joel and Ellie and all the things they were building towards but not saying, and it's one of my favorite scenes to look back on.

Snip from the scene mentioned below:

The retort of a rifle rips through the air. Ellie feels a hot splash against the back of her head; she thrusts the dead weight of the Infected off of her, clambers to her feet. The other Infected are closing in, screaming and reaching, and Joel’s hanging half out of the hatch at the top of the ladder, rifle wedged against his shoulder. He sights down the barrel, fires again. The head of an approaching Infected pops like a wet, ripe cherry.

“Ellie !” He screams, and Ellie backpedals, leaps again. This time, her fingers close around the bottom rung of the ladder and she hauls herself up, muscles screaming, and takes the second rung, then the third. The soles of her sneakers scramble for purchase  -

Another rifle retort, then another. Something catches a hold of her flailing foot and yanks; she plunges down, smashing her chin on the rung below her. Blood spurts, hot and metallic, across her tongue. Another rifle shot, this one so close she can feel the burn of the bullet as it passes by, but the hands on her foot don’t let go.

“Ellie!” Joel roars. “Fucking kick it!”

thanks for playing bb!

links:

revery alone will do

ask game

[socialistexan]

[freakoutgirl]

the internet seems like a distant dream

[freakoutgirl]

whatever we are on rn is not the internet. It's ads

[honeyfaer]

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

[honeyfaer]

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

[somefunnygirl]

my princess 🥹

[future-crab]

Sometimes I get the "I can fix him" urge for a fictional character but like not in a sexy way. I can fix him with the power of friendship. I look at him the way a 12 yr old horse girl looks at an abused stallion that has injured its last 3 riders but she knows that it will sense her good vibes and she'll be the first person to show it kindness. That man is a skittish horse to me.

[lauronk]

january fic advent-ture (5)

💜 - one-shot / 🤍 - in progress multi-chap / 💙 - complete multi-chap

🤍In The Pines by @femmefacetious

the dinosaur queen herself returns with another long camping trip, and THIS TIME it's modern and they're on the PCT and ellie is stealing his food, it's PERFECT

[femmefacetious]

AN HONOR <3 <3 <3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[samcrosfaith]

Felt this in my soul 😩

[thememedaddy]

[femmefacetious]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

“How long are we walking?”

“About five hours.”

She nodded, all business, nervous energy waiting for direction. A ghost of a smile flashed across her face and he started to hate himself a little bit for letting her trust him.

 “We can manage that.” 

[femmefacetious]

Sneak Peek Sunday

Thanks for the tag @becomethesun !! 😘

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