[aaronstveit]

you know what!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don’t care anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i enjoy things and i am going to enjoy things and i don’t care if other people don’t enjoy the things that i do!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i do not have to defend myself about every single thing i have ever liked!!!!!!!!!!!! i do not have to preface every opinion with “i know it’s garbage” for it to be valid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i like things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i like liking things!!!!!!!!!!!!! and i don’t care what other people think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kayascodelorio]

SCHOOL SPIRITS (2023-) S02E02―Field of Screams

[flashbacksechoes]

MADDIE NEARS and WALLY CLARK school spirits s01e07

[trashcora]

THE LAST OF US (2023) — 1.08 “When We Are In Need”

[detailspecialist]

#try not to say daughter challenge

ELLIE WILLIAMS in “LEFT BEHIND”

[kitconnor]

ellie + her reactions to life out of fedra and pre-pandemic stuff

[taiturner]

Let’s see what I go tell the others now.

[vamprozy]

I think there’s something so deeply and intimately and morbidly true about The Last of Us’s primary thesis which is that humanity’s fatal flaw, in that very Shakespearian way, is that we are destined to care too much about one another so much so that we discard the collective entirely. like we have such a capacity to love the human race and humanity as a whole, to grow our communities and govern cities how we know best and foster such connection with the masses which we are part of, but it’s overtaken by our capacity to love even just a single other person. like one human can come into your life that creates such an intrinsic and passionate love in you— or maybe two people or a family’s worth or any small number— and you suddenly would burn entire villages down just to keep them safe.

joel doesn’t blink twice murdering to find ellie. he doesn’t look back when he decides to do what he does at the hospital later on. he has no remorse about any of it it, because this one girl has grown to mean more to him than any possible greater good could ever mean. and it’s reciprocal. ellie would— and does— do anything she can to help him, save him, protect him, and, eventually, to avenge him. because that’s what you do when you love someone. not when you love people. when you love someone.

and it’s selfish, in a way??? because we love these people and would do so much for them because they mean more to us than other strangers do. it’s exactly like an iteration of the trolley problem, actually. one track has your daughter on it and one track has fifty people. don’t even try telling me you wouldn’t go onto track B if it meant saving your daughter and her puppy dog eyes from the whimpering and pain and fear. The Last of Us says yes, you would. I would. we all would. and like yeah that is our greatest weakness, that we have such a unique ability to love a handful of people so deeply that our compassion towards community and strangers and the bigger collective starts to slip from view. but goddamn what a fucking great fatal flaw it is to have. we are all going to die and the world will burn because we loved another person too much.

[trashcora]

i am begging joel miller to torture me

[consultingfujoshi]

craig mazin proving to all of us once again that he knows exactly when and where changes need to be made from the game to the show and exactly what he's saying when he makes those changes with ellie being allowed to brutalise david without joel stopping her are you listening to me!!!! it's about giving ellie far more agency and independence than her game counterpart, it's about allowing her to be the protagonist on her own terms, it's about joel once again failing her and showing up too late to save her and finding her stumbling about in the snow and all he can do is hold her and tell her it's okay, it's about setting up the kind of person ellie becomes when joel isn't there to hold her back it's about showing the extent of the brutality she is capable of when given the right motivation, and most importantly it's about ellie finally getting the outlet to release every bit of rage and anger and fear and sorrow she's had building up her entire life and violently reclaiming her own life on her own terms! and it's about giving bella ramsey his emmy moment!!! are you fucking listening to me!!!!!!

[marriagesuggestions]

my favorite dreams are the ones you’re in

[books-books-smolderinglooks]

“We can’t choose who we’re born as, but we can choose how we want to live..” 💜🧡

[marriagesuggestions]

I want to understand everything about you and your existence

[thehopefulquotes]

“Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you.”

— Unknown

[marriagesuggestions]

I love the fact that I’m sleepy with you because you’re my safe place

[citylightsthings]

We got to see how different Bill is from Frank. Yes, Frank is nicer than Bill. But Bill is also mechanically a genius. He rebuilt the whole town to work with wired fences, electricity, traps. He is practical. Frank is so artistic: painting, rebuilding shops, a lover of music and piano. There was just enough put into the show that characterized and differentiated them. But not too much that the story would’ve felt forced, or overtly stereotypically romantic. We got to see how they showed love for each other; Bill cooked, built a literal stronghold to protect Frank from outsiders and infected. Bill’s goal was to KEEP FRANK ALIVE and loved inwardly. Frank grew strawberries and created artwork, wanted to rebuild the bare bones of a town into something flourishing with life and friends. Frank wanted to nurture and love outwardly. Ultimately, it was a testament of the fact that the work, energy, time, efforts you put into loving a person is worth the pain of losing them. Which is why Bill’s greatest fear was dying and leaving Frank alone.

It was a perfect amount of romance, beats, action, connection to Joel and Tess. It revealed the truth of love. There are arguments, but they resolved them in a healthy manner. Like the scene when Frank busts out of the house and Bill takes a deep breath and recollects himself. This is television PEOPLE!!!

[avasillva]

joel: dad mode™ on

ELLIE WILLIAMS & JOEL MILLER THE LAST OF US | S01E03: Long Long Time

bonus: joel still refusing to give ellie a gun