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fear is the mind-killer.

[joelsfavouritegirl]

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[joelsfavouritegirl]

sit me down next to charles smith and you won't hear a peep i promise. uh huh whatever you say beautiful, i'm not disagreeing with anyone as majestic as him

[joelsfavouritegirl]

spring cleaning (drabble)

in which: you mutter about dusting the house with joel and enjoy a slow saturday morning in bed

tags: fluff, happy/soft!joel, my horrendous attempt at being poetic

an: haha this has been sitting in my notes since idk...... 2024..... i wanted to post smth because i'm trying to make myself more productive, pretend like this isn't absolute shit ok, mwah♡ this is also exclusively game joel!!! so if you imagine anything but that glorious clump of pixels please click off my account, ty byeee

word count: 1,200+ words

your favorite days are saturdays.

saturdays mean that you get to stay in bed; no getting up at ungodly hours to head out into the freezing wyoming cold, to scout the surrounding areas of town, to deal with infected and raiders and the bullshit that plagues your nightmares - because maria is kind enough to let you off during the weekend.

saturdays mean sleeping in bed ‘til noon, tangling beneath the covers as snow gently falls on the asphalt and dirt streets outside, a promise of the even chillier weather to come. they mean being able to stay up as late as you possibly can, let ellie sit you down for a movie night, let joel show you just how much he’d missed you during his patrol the day before.

this saturday is no different.

you’re sprawled out in bed, revelling in the warm feel of the covers and mattress because (as cruel and screwed up as life is) the feeling of softness and physical comfort is far too addictive not to succumb to. laziness thrums so strongly in your veins that you don’t even want to roll over from your current position. why would you when you’ve got all the time in the world?

you’re just about to drift off once again, eyes shut and resting, limbs splayed a little strangely beneath the thick blanket, when you hear only what can be the bear of a man you share this very bed with reacting to the dust motes hovering in the air. the sound is muffled through the bathroom door; if ellie were here, she’d complain how the monkeys in colorado can hear him.

you want no part of whatever dreams which involve monkeys in colorado. girl’s got some strange visions, that’s for sure.

your eyes open at the sound. there’s that split second when your body tenses, muscles contracting, a light flicking on in your head with the whirring question of “do i need to fight? do i need to run?” it’s unfortunate, but it’s normal. to be honest, you’d rather flinch and be safe than be slow and stupid and (by now) dead. instincts keep you alive.

at least the survival ones do. the instinct to dust every surface in the house is… weaker for you. for joel, too. precision lies in shots and bullets and arrows, not in cleaning.

your lashes lower again once the sound passes and the split-second fight-or-flight instinct settles, but you don’t close them fully. instead your gaze trails along the grooves of the ceiling, registering the small cracks and slits in the wood you’re so familiar with. your hand stretches out a little towards joel’s side and is met with the slowly-fading warmth of a body that was once there. he left the covers messy, probably didn’t care to tug them back once he got up, and you’re left with little gaps which allow too much cool air into the habitat you’ve made yourself. you remedy it with a push of your wrist, a tug of your hand, and the blanket settles once again, stopping the airflow and allowing warmth to build up again.

you close your eyes.

the bathroom door clicks open, the sound of joel’s silent footsteps filling your ears. you can feel him without seeing; his broad form lowering slightly over the bed, calloused fingertips taking hold of the edge of the covers as he tugs them up again.

the airflow resumes, and you huff out a little breath, willing him to settle quicker.

he, ever the observant bastard, hears your small sound, and glances at you out of the corner of his eye.

“you alright?” he drawls, voice ever so slightly heavier with that roughness of not having fully woken up just yet, and your skin suddenly feels a little warmer. you forget about the blanket problem for a moment.

“mm-hmm,” you reply with a hum. your wrist drags against the covers until you inevitably lift it, making space for him once again.

“nearly made me jump with that sneezing of yours.”

now he’s the one who huffs at you, and you can almost see the little curve at the corner of his mouth which knows how to make you melt.

“sorry, your highness,” the bed gives a small squeak as he sits down, sliding into the warmth he had the nerve to leave earlier. “‘meant no offense.” you can’t help but let your own lips curl a little, too. half because sarcasm is joel miller’s middle name and you find it charming, and half because he doesn’t delay slinging a heavy arm around your back. just like that, you’re being tugged into his chest, your limbs arranging themselves around his, your chest meeting his own. you don’t care to open your eyes, and instead settle your forehead beneath his collarbone, the warm cotton of his sleep shirt tickling your nose.

“go back to sleep,” you hear his low grumble above your head, the coarse hairs of his beard gently settling into your hair as he breathes out.

life is strange. you’ve seen this man take down bloaters twice the size of himself. now, in a minute, you’ll shove your hand beneath his shirt, and he’ll no doubt grumble about your hands being cold while covering them with his own, keeping you there until either ellie starts banging on your door, or you decide that you want to see and touch more of him without the barrier of clothes between you.

you wouldn’t trade it for anything, of course.

“can’t,” you murmur against his chest, hitching a leg up and letting it drape over his hip. his hand helps you, calloused fingertips sliding from the underside of your knee to the hem of your shorts before he allows it to settle. “what if you sneeze on me?”

he huffs. all this man does is huff. you like hearing him huff, and you like the inhale of oxygen that comes after the huff even more. it means that he’s alive; still breathing, still kicking.

“if i sneeze on you it just means that you did a shitty job dustin’ yesterday.”

rude. but true. it makes you chuckle under your breath.

you pinch his side for the comment, and he grunts, instinctively catching your wrist and pressing it into his chest. you don’t resist.

“mean little thing.”

“only when you insult my cleaning capabilities.”

“ain’t no capabilites there to insult, sweets.” you scoff, pressing your forehead further into his warmth, and your wrist follows the gentle rumble of his chest as he chuckles.

“my dusting is fantastic,” you murmur. “it’s you who doesn’t know how to sweep.”

that’s the deal; roles change every week. yesterday was his turn with the broom, and yours with the duster. neither of you were very successful, it seems.

he shifts slightly against the pillow, making your head dip for a moment. “suppose we’ll have t’do it all over again.”

you will. eventually. maybe today if you feel gracious. maybe tomorrow. maybe you’ll just blackmail ellie into doing it for you, then scold when she does an even worse job than you, then make her watch and learn. you’ll see.

“later,” you say. “when spring comes.”

he chuckles again, and your lips curl at the sound.

“it’s january, angel.”

“close enough.”

send asks, requests, anything atp, i need to be bullied into writing hehe, kiss kiss

[kosmogrl]

if nobody got me I know listening to music and creating fake scenarios got me

[ellipsus-writes]

If you haven't heard, the em dash has been getting a lot of attention lately…

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

[joelsfavouritegirl]

did you hear? it's national joel miller day

happy 44th birthday to my favourite dinosaur of all time. you'd think a triceratops would take first place, but no, that's reserved for the person who hasn't become a fossil (yet).

cannot describe how much i adore this game and it's characters. i fuck around a lot with headcanons and imagining this and that, but, at the end of the day, joel miller is a beautifully (and tragically) written character who's managed to change my life through a screen. i'll never be able to thank the creators of tlou enough for it.

i love this old man. hope he's smuggling something in/out of boston right now.

[joelsfavouritegirl]

what do you think joel’s response would be if you asked him “babe would you still love me if i was a worm?” lol

he’d sigh, close his eyes, and mumble out something like ‘i knew this was comin’’

[joelsfavouritegirl]

domestic young!joel headcanons (i wanna be his housewife)

. for joel, if the domesticity isn’t there, he might not wanna be in the relationship and i’m not kidding

. why do i think that? for one, he’s definitely the type of guy to have grown up in your average family-type-shit household; dad wakes the kids up, mom makes breakfast, everyone sits together at the table and eats and chats. i like imagining that joel and tommy actually have a really good relationship with their parents (fully functional family, wow). the second reason is because i think joel just wants to be with someone. i don’t mean be in the dating sense, but just coexist with someone. somewhere where he’s able to say ‘yeah, that’s my girl, and i go home to her every day/night, and we live/cook/clean together. i do shit around the house, she does shit around the house, and we’re damn happy the way it is’.

. so here’s the shit i think joel would adore doing with you (or js watching you do them, or doing them for you)<3

. cooking (i have to get this one out of the way first bc you alr know what i’m boutta say); this man can. not. cook. no matter how capable he is in other fields, cooking is NOT one of them. he’ll try his very best, and he’ll prepare something if you’re too busy to do it, but you shouldn’t expect to be eating a fully edible meal once he’s done. baby boy will burn/spill anything you give him, and he feels bad every time. so, in order to prevent getting poisoned or having to clean up a huge mess every time, he’ll usually leave the cooking to you (or you’ll just order takeout, depends on the day)

. he does however love watching you cook. type of man to lean against the counter, arms crossed as he just watches his girl focus. whether you’re making something complicated from scratch or a simple grilled cheese sandwich, he’s thanking you for it and kissing you on the cheek, offering to clean up the dishes later on so you don’t have to do it

. the only way he’ll (somewhat) succesfully make something is if he’s doing it with you. baking is probably the thing you’ll do most together; pancakes, muffins, brownies whatever it is, he won’t mind making it with you. sure, he’ll be more of a distraction than help but if that’s not the greenest flag i’ve ever seen then idk what is

. another chore i think he’d love is changing the bed. idk why, it’s a very simple and small thing, but he knows how to make it fun. he gets a kick out of it when he sees you struggling to put the sheets on the mattress, cursing and grumbling to yourself. he’ll tease you, poke and prod at your side before pulling the thing down, then smothering you with kisses (which will probably lead to other things, and sometimes you need to switch the brand new sheets with other ones because this man is messy during sex and we love that here)

. another thing he loves? doing the laundry. why? because it’s easy to bend you over (just being honest)

. apart from cooking, i think he knows his way around the work around the house. his mama was a stubborn woman, and she’d be damned if she didn’t teach her boys how to take care of their own homes (which she (relatively) succeeded in doing)

. after you guys move in together (or you just start spending more time at each others places) he starts liking chores a lot more because he gets to do them with you<3

disappeared for 3 months and i’m sawry🫠 classes have been kicking my ass and i’m trying to get my shit together b4 i christmas hits. woke up and decided to write smth cuz i haven’t posted in a while, i apologise for the quality not being fantastic<33

[joelsfavouritegirl]

wanna be locked at with pre-outbreak joel and have him fuck me for daysss 🤤 can you imagine him blushing every time you tell him his dick is so big lol he’s so cute

ohmygod yes i love this im melting

he’s definitely the more dominant one, let’s b real. manhandles you and practically throws you around as much as he wants and growls into your ear about how good your being and how tight your pretty little cunt is🥰

so when you turn the compliments on him it definitely takes him by surprise the first few times. like what do you mean you love his cock and how big it is and how good it feels?? it’s got him coming a little faster and blushing a little more

he gets used to it and urges you on after a while, grinning into your ear as he makes you fall apart underneath him

“yeah? you like that, baby? my cock feels good? use your words f’me, c’mon sweets.”

[joelsfavouritegirl]

this post makes me go absolutely feral

https://x.com/wintrwinchestr/status/1716532751006937422

The second pic isn't him but with the lighting and everything it damn near could be, i feel like it's exactly what he'd look like (he'd definitely have more body hair tho based on his post-outbreak appearance 🤭)

so i’d like to be taken away now ty🫠

THIS MAN. I SWEAR THIS MAN, HE’S SO FUCKING FINE AND WHAT I’D GIVE TO GET HIS DICK IN MY MOUTH

and you damn well know he loves when you run your fingers through his happy trail while you’re sucking him off. man lives for that shit, it makes him fucking crumble

[joelsfavouritegirl]

Do you have pre-outbreak or no outbreak fic recommendations? Its also so hard finding ones with game joel unfortunately. I'm not going to lie, even though most of the fics are written for show joel, I still read them imagining game joel lol, it can be hard though because they always mention his brown eyes and scruffy beard, and that he speaks spanish LMAO but im sorry i love my pixelated man with hazel eyes and a scar across his nose and his full ass beard ❤️

IKKK IT KILLS ME EVERY TIME😭😭 unfortunately i don’t think i know any pre-outbreak joel fics BUT @joelsbeard HAS SOME KILLER HCS I’M DROOLING

i know some post-outbreak!joel fics that are (in my eyes) actual pieces of delicious literature. if your curious, you can check @soullumii, her shit’s amazing and she has one no-outbreak!joel thing (carnival lights)

pls send the recs if u do have them😭😭 i’ll try to find some more but it’s difficult when most if them are of show joel, and then i try and imagine game joel but it doesn’t fucking work😭😭 this is what life in the trenches looks like, i’m holding onto every scrap of pixel joel i find

[joelsfavouritegirl]

please I'm begging, could you give us pre-outbreak (i guess most of your account is pre-outbreak) joel body and 🍆 HC's? hehe be as unrealistic as you want, we're talking about a pixilated man and maybe I'm projecting but i just KNOW this man's dick is big

AAAA YESS I LOVE THIS SO MUCHH, i agree with you 💯 but you'll see what i mean in a minuteeee. hope i wasn't too unrealistic😭😭 BUT IT'S JOEL MILLER SO WHY ARE WE EVEN HERE

anyways i hope this was close enough to what you were looking for, TYSM FOR THE REQUEST🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

pre-outbreak!joel body headcanons bcs this man was crafted by the gods himself<33 (18+)

. so fuckin broad like have you seen that man????? js imagine him working on something in his garage, shirt off because the summer is cruel (CRUUEL SUMMER WITH YOU) in texas, his back muscles and shoulders and arms flexing as his hands do the job

. also have you seen his arms. large and strong and so fucking big (just like his dick but we’ll get to that), you have to control yourself when you stare at him because his biceps look so fucking delicious when he wears those t-shirts

. also his hands, they make you wanna become a puddle whenever he rests one on your thigh or back (or ass or boobs or anywhere really). also the fact that he can play guitar makes him….. agile with his fingers (he can get you off in a few minutes)

. man’s got some hair on his chest i’ll give him that, pre-outbreak it was definitely dark brown, later on it probably greyed but still. i’d say that one of his favorite things is when you scrape your nails along his chest, your fingers combing through his prominent happy trail before you y’know

. pre-outbreak he probably didn’t have very prominent muscles on his chest and stomach (but have you seen his pecs in the prologue ohmylorddd), i’d even call pre-outbreak!joel just a little chubby. he’s a lot softer and milder before the outbreak than he is after but he’s still hot as fuck, i’d give anything to lie against him

. also this man is a walking talking radiator, he’s so fuckin hot (in both ways) that you have move to the other side of the bed during summer (which doesn’t last long bcs he’s crawling right back to you and smothering you with his tight grip as he dozes back off to sleep)

. ok now we can talk about his dick; it’s big. have you seen the way that man walks? yeah he walks like it’s big bcs it is. around 17cm (6.6 inches) when he’s hard and a little curved to the left and can we talk about girth bcs this man has it. the first time you fucked it took you a while to get used to him, you probably still do (but dw he'll just praise you and talk you through it and call you his good girl like he always does)

this man is hot and i’d love to suck him off for good morning and good night<33

[joelsfavouritegirl]

Can you tell us about your headcanon about joel being a ladies man? My headcanons are different from yours and I wanna know your thought process plsplsplsplsssss

hiiiii, first off tysm for the submission!! love all the asks i’m getting these days, ya’ll r makin my days brighter n shit😭😭🫶🏼🫶🏼 i’d love to see some of your headcanons if you’re willing to share em!!!

anyways here u go, hope i’m not offending anyone😭😭 this is js the way that i see pre-outbreak!joel, it’s ofc cool if you see him some other way!!

pre-outbreak!joel and why i think he is (was) one fine hunk of a ladies’ man<333

first off i’ve always thought of joel as a rly charming boy. he was the typa kid your aunt’s or grandma would fawn over at the family gathering, how handsome he is, how sweet he is, how he’s sure to be a real heartbreaker (must’ve pissed tommy off sm, i can imagine the look on his face)

however i don’t think that joel was a heartbreaker (like EVER), he talks a big game and shit but underneath the teasing exterior he’s secretly glancing at his crush every now and then watching to see if she’s watching (boy was smitten)

after sarah came along and after his wife left he probably had a few years of nothing but baby clothes and trying to juggle parenthood with bills and the fun shit. if i had to guess man probably didn’t have a good fuck in three-four years ngl

as sarah got older i’d say that’s when he started mingling more (said this already but it was with GREAT help from tommy that he managed to finally go out to a bar and have some fun)

i feel like he’d just have that charm y’know? handsome and sweet, not pushing any boundaries yet sending subtle hints when he sees that he can (+THAT ACCENTTTTT). yeah it probably took him a couple times to figure out how and what to do, but i picture young joel as a very socially intelligent person (is that weird??? just me??) so i feel like it wouldn’t have been too difficult for him to get a girl’s number every once in a while

but i don’t think he took it farther than that. maybe he had a few flings but nothing serious, would always have to let the poor woman down after he sees that he can’t take it anymore (wait did i say that he wasn’t a heartbreaker before) it wasn’t because he had nothing better to do, instead he had too much; his little baby girl whom he didn’t want to hurt, a stressful job (plus he probably thought he wasn’t really good enough for any of em)

conclusion: joel’s a good communicator and respects boundaries and could’ve gotten hella more pussy if he wanted to😙😙

[joelsfavouritegirl]

What do you think about pre outbreak or even post outbreak joel being with a plus size reader? Oh my goddddd thinking about him makes me go insane

jahajwbshebsujw if you check out the midnight thoughts i posted a while ago you’ll get your answer😩 no cause i fully and firmly believe that weight don’t mean shit to him (pre and post-outbreak), belly rolls??? bro everyone’s got em, they make it more comfortable when he lies his head against your stomach. thick thighs?? i even say that joel prefers girls with thick thighs, he’s way too obsessed with just kneading that soft part of you in his hands, doesn’t even have to be sexual he js appreciates all of you the way you are<333

to answer your question; joel likes girls however big or small they may come🫶🏼🫶🏼 ty for the submission!!!

[joelsfavouritegirl]

i feel like pre-outbreak joel would smell so good 😍🤤 he’d probably smell like deodorant, detergent, and sweat lol i’d totally stick my face into his neck.

Also much as i love reading about post outbreak grumpy joel 🥰 i think my favorite genre would be just slice of life fics with him pre-outbreak or even no outbreak. Like idk i think it heals something in me when i see reader x joel fics where they’re just madly in love and finally has someone to help him out with taking care of sarah and stuff. Like i love reading stuff where reader just takes care of joel 😭 i feel bad for him i wanna spoil that man and be a total housewife for him and just cook and clean for him and take care of sarah so he doesn’t have to worry about it 😭 have you seen the pills on his nightstand? homie has like anxiety and stomach ulcers 😭 poor babyyy

no bcs truth has been spoken🗣️🗣️🗣️ saying this again, i’m such a whore for literally anything to do with pre-outbreak!joel like have you seen that man?? bb was stressed all the fuckin way and he didn’t deserve any of it. literally broke my heart when i first found out about all the pills littering his night table like😭😭 sweets was going through some shit

but no i agree with u all the way, every ounce of feminism leaves my body the moment i see that man. he wants his whole house cleaned? gladly anytime babe (but in reality he’d probably never want you doing too much work, would always volunteer and power through it but god sometimes it’s hard so you end up doing it for him and reassuring him how it’s not a problem)

desperately need more pre-outbreak!joel fics. DOMESTIC JOELLLLLL🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤

and oh em gee yes i 💯 agree that he’d smell rly niceeee, that detergent that you bought once and you haven’t stopped using since he said he liked it once (and you like the way it makes his clothes smell), and maybe even some cologne if he’s going out somewhere???? god i love this man<333 TYSM FOR THE SUBMISSIONNN O LOVE TALKING ABOUY THIS SHIT WITH YA’LL🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

[joelsfavouritegirl]

May i request some... dirty hc's 🙈

Also, there is not enough fic about pixel joel :( When did you start getting into tlou?

oh em gee yes absolutely!!! i’ve been thinking about writing some nsfw hcs but js haven’t done it yet😭😭 also i’m so happy that people are actually sending requests, please do i’ll be happy to write whatever ya’ll want

and i completely agree that pixel joel has been neglected since the show came out:(( i randomly started playing pt1 during the summer of 2022, completely fell in love with it and have been a fan ever since<33

i hope i did some justice with this, not sure how it turned out but fingers crossed yk, ty again for the request<333 ok enough rambling

here are some more pre-outbreak!joel headcanons (but this time they’re 18+)

. ladies man through and fucking through, i’ll die on this hill if need be

. let’s be honest when ya’ll started dating you most probably ended up at one of each other’s houses after the third/fourth date. joel was dropping you off, being all gentlemanly and sweet as he is and what harm could a little kiss do right? one thing leads to another and he’s got you against the wall of the entrance hallway, hands lifting up your sundress as his fingers steadily pump in and out of your cunt (along with his tongue that slides across your swollen clit) and by the end of the night you’re both sweaty and panting on your bed when he slips out of you, pressing more sweet kisses to your lips

. i’d say young joel is kinkier and probably has a higher sex drive than post-outbreak!joel. just say the word and he’s down, whether it’s a quickie or if he can take his time with you, unless he’s tired after a long day at work which is when you’ll end up in between his legs on the floor in front of the couch sucking him off until he’s coming down your throat and grunting how you look “fuckin’ gorgeous with my cock in your mouth, baby” and “atta girl, just like that”

. doesn’t understand guys who don’t like eating pussy. what the fuck do you mean you don’t like eating your girl out??? joel would die a happy fuckin man in between your legs if he could, man can go to town for as long as you need (or as long as he wants to). loves seeing how you squirm and the little sounds you make when he’s making you feel good. he’ll have made you come three times when he looks up at you as you whine about how it’s too much. “c’mon sweets, you can give me one more, i know you can, hm?” he hums against your clit, his fingers knuckles deep inside your cunt as he curls them at that spot that makes you moan and tug on his hair. he just smiles, flattening his palm against your stomach to stop you from moving too much, “that’s my girl”

. loves seeing you suck him off. y’know what gets him coming in a few minutes? seeing your pretty lips wrapped around his cock, your hands pumping the parts of him your mouth can’t reach and those goddamned doe eyes you give him as you blink through your eyelashes. it makes him lose the little self-respect he has and whimper as he’s coming down your throat

. apart from eating you out this man lives for thigh riding. loves holding your hips or waist as you rut against his jean-clad thigh, your head leaning into the crook of his neck as you whimper how you’re about to come. after you calm down he’ll usually curl one large hand around your hip and the squeeze the flesh of your thigh with the other, rocking you against his leg again and pressing sweet kisses to the side of your head. “that’s my good girl. made a fucking mess all over my pants. you wanna go again, pretty thing?”

i need to be sedated (or fucked by this man) thank u good night<33

[joelsfavouritegirl]

god i fucking love game joel that pixelated man is so fucking hot

right????? like it must've been unbearable for him in jackson cause of all the women SWARMING him