“ goodnight pun pun.”

“ yea but .. you cheated.* “You do what you need to do to get it done.” - “wow ! You actually listen!” - she:her

[objectivelyinsane]

I don’t use tumblr very often but I thought I’d stop by to promote my ellabs fic, as suggested by a friend. It’s post-canon and a slow burn, so if that sounds enticing please check it out :) next chapter coming out today

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

[skiesdarken]

delicious

[astrojo3l]

i don’t know what i would do with out tlou

[jerryandersonsdaughterinlaw]

owen and jerry DO NOT LOOK ALIKE and i’m so tired of seeing you guys say it 😭 can we please be fr

they’re both just white men with receding hairlines 💔 the model viewer lighting makes it look like there are some surface level similarities but if you actually look at their features every single one is different. they both have relatively softer appearances and brown hair but jerry’s is light brown, owen’s is darker. jerry’s face is longer, owen’s is broader and flatter. jerry’s eyes are dark brown and almond shaped, owen’s are rounder and hazel. jerry has a much bigger and thicker nose, owen’s is small and pointed. even their lips are different.

this argument is stupid and honestly deeply reductive. the whole “abby has daddy issues” or “owen looks like her dad” thing says way more about the people making that claim than it does about abby. there’s no way you’re a fan of her and actually believe that. jerry and owen don’t look alike enough in any meaningful way to say she was “dating her dad.” they’re just two white guys with similar hair color and soft features. that’s it. that doesn’t equal freud. weird comments like that are just a weak attempt to discredit her pain and reduce her to a punchline, avoiding engaging with her actual story and relationships. because for some people, that’s harder to swallow than a bad joke about “daddy issues.”

[skiesdarken]

AND Jerry is based off of his face model😭🫩 ??????¿¿¿

[tenpintsof-sundrop]

Last night I literally got tearful thinking about Abby and the zebra again.

(And no, I have not been watching TLOU Season 2, I have been forcefully subjected to some BS regarding the show on apps where I can't tag block. But it has got me thinking about the stuff that I fell in love with about the game and how they are inevitably going to assassinate it during the second half of the adaptation.)

As someone with chronic pain caused by a rare disease, the first time I experienced the zebra scene, I ended up sobbing so hard that I was breathless and I had to pause the game and walk away and come back to it. It's one of the most breath-takingly perfect scenes ever, and I think a lot of people don't even understand it.

Most people who have a rare disease refer to themselves as 'zebras'. This is because, in medical school, doctors are taught "when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras". This basically means that they are taught to look for the most obvious and common answer to diagnose a patient, and this means that people with rarer diseases get overlooked and go undiagnosed because we are the uncommon answer that doctors are told not to look for.

And in TLOU2, they end up literally spelling out this metaphor for us to see, in a scene that I believe is meant to show that Jerry Anderson is a good doctor and a good person. This scene was so painfully intentional, and most people don't even know what it means.

They show us hoofprints in the mud, they let us hear sounds of trotting, and because we have already seen so many horses in this world, we have to assume that the animal Jerry is trying to rescue - is a horse. It is the most obvious assumption. Because it's been so long since the first game, we forget about the giraffes from the zoo, and we don't think that there would be more wild animals roaming around in the city.

And then, you see the zebra - and it's beautiful. It's shocking. And it literally brings the metaphor to life. It is the most uncommon creature you would think would never leave those hoofprints, and Jerry is being a kind, compassionate doctor in trying to save it.

And it's fully my belief that someone with a rare disease who knows about this metaphor wrote this into the script, because it does not feel like a coincidence that they have a doctor character saving a zebra after showing the audience its hoofprints and clearly expecting us to believe that it's a horse.

Anyway - I cry whenever I think about this moment in the game, and it's just one of the many reasons I fell in love with Abby and her story. (Because it gives you the sense that her father was truly a good person.)

(And I'm willing to bet in the adaptation, they're going to make her father seem like as much of an evil asshole as possible so that the audience can justify Joel killing him way more.)

[taylorrrbig]

grown men playing around.....

Stills ^_^ bc i took so much time on them

[rabirayrana]

Y’know maybe I’m misunderstanding the lore but if Naughty Dog had cut out one of the Owen/Abby dates and replaced it with a scene from Abby’s dad’s perspective soon after outbreak day, being forced to close down the hospital entirely with dozens of coworkers and patients still inside as the fungus became more and more out of control, it would’ve provided both some foreshadowing for the Rat King bossfight and some more visceral background for the Fireflies’ desperation for a vaccine at all costs

[skiesdarken]

me and my 2 other fans liking Marlene/jerry.💔

[mrderofcr0ws]

“i hate abby anderson”

when she was someone else’s ellie.

when she is someone else’s joel.

[smolsawyer]

Ellie/Abby parallels in The Last Of Us Part II

[reikayr]

The Last of Us part 2 AU

Abby and Lev decided to explore the country by themselves and enjoy the view

I never did a art so big omg, i feel greatful that i can do something like this now. Hours and hours of my life studing are comming for this.

[cumin233]

[oldinterneticons]

[villanelleskiss]

the way ellie believes abby [redacted] joel bc she was the cure for humanity and he didn’t let it happen and she has no idea that it’s bc joel [redacted] abby’s father

[martyfive]

i miss them every day

[waterfront-aquarium]

thinking about how, amidst training and hunting tirelessly to finally face her dad’s murderer, abby slowly moulded herself into someone her dad would’ve hated— someone entirely unrecognisable.

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