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Got my second (!) card for Bad Things Happen Bingo! Please feel free to submit a request/idea for any of the prompts. (If you have a burning need to submit for a prompt that's already been requested, feel free.)
Please send your The Last of Us / The Last of Us Part II ideas or requests in an ask! I will do my best to use them, but also... I can't do a story justice if the idea doesn't spark joy.
Posted fics under the cut. All links are to ao3 unless otherwise noted.
the problem with watching buffy the vampire slayer for the first time when you're 13 is that it will fundamentally reshape your brain chemistry to the point where literally all fiction becomes buffy the vampire slayer in different fonts. "watch another show!" you might say, and believe me i have! i promise i've watched many other shows since i was 13. but the problem is that all those other shows as well as films, books, podcasts etc. are simply deviations of buffy the vampire slayer to me. it's the holy text, the primary source. everything else is just commentary.
it's me, except i'm 10, and i've just watched the x-files for the first time (2x25).
(27 years later i discovered the last of us. i've successfully answered "what's your favorite show" with:
The Last of Files
The X of Us
The Last of X
The X of Last
The X-Files
The Last of Us
The X-Files. No, The Last of Us. No, The X-Files. No, The Last of Us.
My brain isn't well.
I do not write to be the greatest writer out there. I write because...
I LIKE it
someone else might LIKE it
it is FUN to do
I get those THOUGHTS out of my head
it's fun to look BACK on
have I mentioned it's FUN?
it's CATHARTIC
it's nice to see what I CAN DO
And also because I just like it.
snippie saturday
maybe I'll be able to post the whole chapter soon. who knows? not me.
np tags: @bumblepony, @renegadeknight, @barlowstreet, @captainredspade
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So Ellie grabs her jacket, flips off Bethany’s have fun thanking your crusty old boyfriend, and dashes across the lawn. Even though Marlene released her knife a few days ago, she checks — again — that it’s safely in her back pocket. Not that she needs it at Joel’s, but after a week of feeling naked without it, she refuses to leave it behind.
She bounces up the steps and presses the doorbell. One whole second later, she jabs it three times in a row, bouncing on her toes as she waits for Joel to open the door. His face goes from surprised, to confused, to something she can’t name, and finally settles on confusion. “What’re you doin’ here?”
“Happy Thanksgiving! I brought pie,” she grins, holding it up. “Well, part of a pie. We ate all the ice cream, so you’re shit outta luck if you want them together.”
“Don’t tell me you stole—”
“Wow,” she interrupts, drawing out the word. “Do you think all orphans are thieves? Like, we’re all sneaking into houses, stealing some poor family's half-eaten pie? I’m not Oliver Twist or whatever.” She ducks under his arm and heads to the kitchen. “This one’s really good if you heat it up. Do you like heated-up pie? I think hot fruit is weird, but I like it in pie.”
A plastic bin sits open on the kitchen table, the light purple color entirely out of place in Joel’s nice-but-boringly-neutral kitchen. She sets the pie on the counter and crosses the room, frowning at one of those handprint turkeys little kids make. The paint is cracking and one of the googly eyes is missing, like it’s old. She turns it over to find neat block letters.
Happy Thanksgiving, Daddy!
Sarah, Age 3
Oh.
STAR TREK IV The Voyage Home
fox mulder the man that you are
Armageddon is one of the few DVDs I didn’t sell because Ben Affleck on the commentary track is relentless. Below is the clip of the commentary from where this tidbit of trivia came from. Please take a moment to witness the magic.
this is so fucking funny
“aim the drill at the ground and turn it on”
No one gets game Tommy Miller like I get game Tommy Miller.
Today in WHY
Warning: whiny rant ahead.
Spoiler alert: it's fine and I didn't lose a word.
I write in Scrivener. I've never had a problem with it, other than the occasional day I sleep-write and forget to sync my phone prior to opening Scrivener on my laptop. Everything goes through Dropbox. I love it.
Today, I open a redwood among mere sprouts so I can finish ch. 11 and get going on editing it into something coherent.
I get a conflict pop-up.
That's fine. I left myself a bunch of janky talk-to-text notes at the bottom of scene 11-2 while I was driving but didn't sync it to Dropbox. I triple-checked my phone and tell my laptop to go ahead and refresh the file. (I KNOW it was synced because I make sure the underlying text files have the correct date/time.)
Easy peasy. File reloaded.
Immediate conflict popup. I told it to sync.
File reloaded.
Conflict popup. I told it to sync.
File reloaded.
Conflict popup. I told it to sync.
File reloaded.
Conflict popup. I told it to sync.
FILE RELOADED.
(At that point, Mr. Two-Birds was staring at me like I was about to go nuclear because someone was going to cut out my not-daughter's brain.)
I got it to work finally but like...
Ok, look.
a redwood among mere sprouts isn't a bazillion words long, right? We're nearing the end here. The whole thing is largely drafted and weighing in at ~65k. Maybe there's another 10k to add... but honestly, it's looking like 5k or less.
Wait. Let me rephrase. The whole thing that will be posted is ~65k as drafted.
That doesn't include the 24k I'd previously written and removed during regular editing.
It also doesn't include the 260k I cut because the concepts didn't serve this specific narrative. But honestly? A bunch of them are fire. One of them is already 24k (I love it, and I don't remember seeing the concept on Ao3, which is hella exciting.)
Anyway, it's all fine, I didn't lose a word, but Jentucky Fried CHICKEN did I not need that bullshit today.
don't look at the created dates. they're inexcusable. i finished all 431k+ of bookshop in less than a year. I've written two master's-level theses in the humanities, both of which were over 75k and both of which took less than an academic year to complete from concept through successful defense. (individually, i mean. i'm not psychotic enough to undertake two theses at the same time.) (okay i am, but i saved the true psychosis for law school, as any self-respecting attorney would.)
this story wants to kill me
You’ve heard of the Roaring 20s........
now get ready for the Screaming 20s - coming to a decade near you in 2020
is it too early or can we start screaming now
in retrospect perhaps we should have started sooner
this post is the equivalent of a newspaper from the day of the outbreak being blown past by the wind after you wake up in a post apocalyptic world
Fairfax County, VA “Kill Switch”
Snippie Sunday
i promise that ch. 11 of a redwood among mere sprouts is in progress, but i couldn't get this idea out of my head.
coming eventually:
“What—”
“No idea,” Astrid interrupts. “We spotted a car, got ourselves ahead of it. Tommy intercepted, took one look at the driver, and sent me off to keep watch. Didn’t even speak with her. Said she isn’t a threat, she was probably followed, and she’s looking for you.”
Joel blinks. Tommy knows this person and deems her not a threat. Who the hell has he met that Joel knows? The list isn’t long, not anymore. The crew from Boston are dead or scattered. Tess is gone. No one has moved out of Jackson since he settled down six months ago. Anyone else would want to put a bullet in his head. He’s never engaged with the few isolated but friendly-enough groups that trade with Jackson.
Even more baffling is the car. There aren’t many in working order these days, even in Jackson. The ones that are typically belong to FEDRA. But FEDRA doesn’t follow a threat — they take it out, even at the expense of a vehicle. So, not FEDRA, but a group large enough to have multiple working vehicles, one desperate enough to —
Desperate. Like Marlene. Like the Fireflies.
“Show me,” Joel demands, digging his heels into Old Beardy’s side. His grip on the reins tightens until leather cuts into his palm as they start toward Wilson. “The driver. What does she look like?”
“Tommy got between us before I could get a good look. Small, though. Hair down. Looked like a kid, honestly.”
I’m kinda glad we got to do this together, even though I know it wasn’t what you wanted. It didn’t suck.
She’s supposed to be safe.
Even though Marlene had beaten them there, he lingered at that university for two days, just to be sure they had the facilities — and ability — to make that vaccine. They stood side-by-side, asking questions of the scientists about what they could accomplish, and how. She learned more about her mother from Marlene than she’d ever known. The smile on her face was wide, and genuine, and so excited that he gave her a small one in return.
She thanked him. She walked him to the car. And as soon as he opened the driver’s door, she hugged him.
Thanks for keeping me safe. That’s the last thing she’d said to him, mumbled into his shoulder. When she stepped back, he squeezed her shoulder, told her to take care of herself, and pointed the car north.
She stood at the gate, waving until he was out of sight.
He knows, because he couldn’t stop looking in the rearview mirror.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
*crawls out of scrivener covered in blood and sawdust* this story is my vietnam
WIP Wednesday
Wrapping up the next chappy of ellie in a tree, so obviously I'm sharing a snip from the third installment of explain the infinite (entitled the one i will still call yours).
@messitydepressity , thank you for the tag!!
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The quiet is turning awkward for them both; she can feel Joel tensing even though he hasn’t moved. She should say something, but what? I don’t know if we’d have this if Tess hadn’t died? That sounds like she’s jealous of a dead woman, and she’s not. She just… there’s no imagining a life where she doesn’t have a Joel.
A heart-stopping shriek from the kitchen cuts her musing short and sends them both about ten feet in the air. Joel shoves her behind him, pressing her into the cushion and scrambling for a pistol that isn’t there, before she’s registered the source.
“Dinner,” she breathes, wiggling out of her Joel prison. He’s wearing his danger face now, even though they’re home and there isn’t any danger. “I don’t remember the timer being that loud. It’s worse than a hungry Benji.”
Joel blinks a few times, overprotective-danger face settling into his usual asshole face, with a side of confusion. “That’s the point, kid.”
“It’s my first time shitting my pants thanks to a plastic pepper,” she complains, glancing into her glass. Somehow, she didn’t spill a drop. “Gimme a break.”
Joel shifts, immediately winces, and reaches for his knee. Shit, that's right — she could hear it earlier, when he first got home. It's worse than usual today.
“I got it, marshmallow man,” she teases, patting his shoulder. “Can’t have you breaking a hip.”
“Funny,” Joel grumbles, settling back into the couch. “Careful; it’ll be hot.”
“Wait, what? An oven makes things hot?” She rolls her eyes for good measure and makes a show of stepping over his legs. When she accidentally catches Joel’s calf, he just sighs. “God, I have so much to learn here in Jackson. What’s next? The refrigerator makes things cold?”
Her next step is interrupted by Joel’s toe catching the back of her shoe so she steps right out of it. “Asshole!”
“Little shit,” he retorts, kicking her sneaker across the room and jerking his chin toward the kitchen. He sounds normal again. Good. They’ve shared a lot of emotions or whatever. The chance to decompress is more than welcome. “Throw that bread in the oven while you’re dishin’ up dinner.”
np tags: @lauronk , @bumblepony , @chronicallyonlinewriter
God, can you imagine someone from Finland (or wherever) heading to a Midwestern state fair and eating every variety of fried thing imaginable?
I can, and arguably I must.
I always think that sport events, especially international ones, are primarily about fun and cultural exchange and hanging out together; it gets lost sometimes when people pay too much attention to keeping scores, but joy and building bridges should be more important. So glad this seems to be happening right now!
the reality of being a writer
