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hot girl evening

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dropping my teen pines twins designs <3

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There's also just years and years of slow burn but that didn't fit

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oh theyre so awkward its pathetic i love it

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I am addicted to drawing her. Also drawing dipcifica makes me Feel 12 years old again

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Cringe but free

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some gravity falls highschool twins headcanons 😮 i kept dipper midwest emo hope thats okay

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just me & my dog and an impossible view 🚀

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sobbing and crying at the woman who stole a meth addicted kitten from her dealer and then she and the kitten got clean together

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pov ellie and joel stumble across a chuck e cheese and he has to explain the concept of animatronic rock bands to her

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WOOOHOOOO A WIP!!!!

a new installation of the bug rewrites all of tlou canon just bc i fuckin wanna series! im excited abt this one bc its different from anything i’ve ever written before<3

new updates coming hopefully later this week!! plus check out the spotify playlist i’m working on for this fic - song of the hour is adam’s ribs by jensen mcrae bc it fucked me UP!!!

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i love the idea of both ellie and tommy being able to bring out the kid in joel. he's been a shell of an old man for decades and he's forgotten how to have fun—then comes this little girl who gives him a reminder of what life is worth living for and tommy rounds the corner and, together, they give joel a little color in his otherwise monochromatic way of living.

ellie is having joel ease into fatherhood again, like he's slipping on pair of old boots. they're a little tight bc joel isn't the same anymore, but the feeling of having something so familiar, so well known, is comforting.

tommy reverts back to being the little brother™️ of the two, cracking jokes at joel's expense, trying to get a rise outta him only to have joel attack and, before either of them know, they're wrestling in the grass of tommy's front yard. maria's yelling at them to not trample her flowers. ellie's cheering for both of them—tommy more so than joel bc joel's losing. horribly.

and they're both laughing. joel has tommy in a headlock, tommy's biting at joel's arm to let him go, they're two grown men well into their late fifties and early forties who still have that childish spark of brotherly love. they wrestle, they insult each other, frick, they even play stupid as all hell pranks on each other (curtsy of ellie and her troublesome streak of starting shit).

over the past 20 and something years, joel's forgotten how to embrace the parts that used to make him a whole person. being a brother. being a parent. he locked those pieces of himself into a bullet proof safe and threw that safe into a lake, never to be seen again.

only, tommy and ellie seems to have went fishing and hooked up those parts of joel that he forgot existed. they did it with ease, and together, so joel can't really be mad at them for it.

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ELLIE & JOEL HEADCANONS

I am so incredibly obsessed and I have so many thoughts about these two so I present to you: 1k words of headcanons.

Ellie will fall asleep on Joel at random times like a cat so that he’s stuck in whatever uncomfortable position he’s in until she wakes up. Once she fell asleep on two feet while leaning against Joel, and he had to catch her before she fell. 

Along with that, she also falls asleep in the weirdest places and positions. He’s almost tripped over her just…walking around the house because she’s sprawled out on the floor. He once found her in a cabinet after panicking and searching for half an hour trying to find her. 

At night, however, she cannot sleep, and when she’s having a bad night and can’t fall asleep again they’ll do something to keep her mind off of nightmares. Joel will tell her a story, play the guitar for her, take her in a little midnight walk, cuddle with her, watch a movie with her, play some kind of board game with her, etc. etc. 

When he has a nightmare he tries not to wake her, but sometimes he can’t help himself and has to open the door and check to make sure she’s still alive, even though it makes him feel guilty for interrupting her sleep. She’s always okay with it and takes her comforting job very seriously, and it normally ends in cuddles to 1) help Ellie fall asleep again and 2) help Joel with his whole nightmare thing. 

They have like…father and daughter super senses. Like Ellie will fall off of a rock and scrape her hand halfway across Jackson and Joel will drop everything he’s doing and go to her even without knowing why, or Ellie will need to find Joel for something and will pick him out of a crowd immediately and it scares people. 

They always tell each other where they’re going to be if they seperate. No exceptions. Even if it’s just down the road or a house or two away, they always know.

Holding hands. They do it all the time. When Ellie is having a Bad Day or having a Bad Moment, Joel will hold her hand to make her feel comforted if they’re out in public. When she’s wandering off and he wants her to stay close he just grabs onto that hand and keeps holding it. When she’s tired she’ll grab his hand and he’ll rub a finger over her knuckles, and she’ll lean her head on his shoulder and she’ll fall asleep. When they’re in the dining hall sitting down beside each other she’ll hold his hand under the table just because she can and because she wants attention, even when Joel is talking to Tommy and not her. She gets very fidgety and sometimes picks at her skin, and Joel will hold her hand to make sure she doesn’t hurt herself. Ellie can sense whenever Joel is anxious or panicking, and one day she notices he’s not doing too good and since he always holds her hand in public when she’s having a Bad Moment, she slips her hand into his to help him, and it actually works, so it becomes a thing she does for him to silently help him like he silently helps her. 

Sometimes they communicate through puns, since they’re emotionally repressed and all. One time Ellie and Joel were exploring some kind of souvenir store and Ellie picked up a koala plushie and said, “I love spending koala-ty time with you.” Joel almost cries (the pun was a 2/10 at best, though). 

They have so many inside jokes it’s crazy. Sometimes somebody will say something completely innocently and both of them will just burst into laughter. Nobody ever figures out why.

PLAY WRESTLING. Ellie one hundred percent is one of those kids that just jumps onto people and only knows horseplay, and Joel always shoves her back when she shoves him. He’s always careful not to hurt her and he never goes on top of her or anything that might seem like that to her, but she is not as careful. He once got a black eye from her accidentally kicking him in the face, and she still feels bad about it to this day.

Joel can recite dinosaur and space facts off the top of his head solely because Ellie talks about it so much and he listens to anything she has to say. Half of it doesn’t make sense to him, but he’s happy to listen. He’s also got all of her favorite puns memorized. 

Ellie will mentally tuck away any weird little Texan sayings Joel absent-mindedly says so that she can find the right moment to say them herself. It’s always funny to see the confused look on people’s faces when she, a 14 year old girl from Boston, whips out the “it’s as hot as the hinges of hell out here!”  

Ellie’s alarm is Joel waking up. When she actually gets sleep, she’ll sleep in until her mind subconsciously recognizes Joel’s footsteps and she wakes up, too. One time Joel was so exhausted he slept past his  normal waking time and both of them slept in until midday. Tommy thought they were both dead and practically broke down the door trying to get in to see if they were rotting corpses. 

Ellie eats like a feral wild animal and Joel gets so worried that she’s going to choke that he just starts cutting her food up for her before every meal. Ellie pretends to be annoyed by it but actually appreciates how it shows he cares. 

Ellie doesn’t even care about being embarrassed about affection from Joel in public. In fact, she enjoys it, and she loves getting her forehead kisses and a “baby girl” from Joel in front of Tommy so he knows his place. 

His personal space is her personal space. Honestly this is just canon. He’s always tripping over her feet when she walks beside him, she clings onto his shirt or hand whenever she can, if she’s taken more than five feet away from him against her will she will definitely go feral QZ child on everyone until she’s back beside him. He definitely panics whenever she’s not near him either, and once he almost tore down a building because he couldn’t find her immediately. 

When they settled into Jackson at first, somebody definitely found out Ellie was an orphan and mentioned finding Ellie a “good family in Jackson for her,” clearly not realizing that Joel is indeed the father. Whoever it was definitely didn’t suggest it again after they both had their own reactions to it, none positive. Nobody tries to seperate them again. 

The residents of Jackson 100% call Ellie “Ellie Miller” because they don’t know her real last name, and Ellie and Joel go with it. She’s referred to as “Joel’s daughter” and him “Ellie’s dad” all of the time, but they don’t correct them, because…it’s not technically a lie…and soon they start saying it about themselves to others, too. Joel refers to Ellie as “my daughter/kid” and Ellie refers to him as “my dad.” They lie and say it’s because it’s easier than explaining, but we all know the real truth. 

Ellie gets so incredibly frustrated while learning the guitar and Joel is so incredibly patient, and though Ellie almost smashes the thing during her lessons, she becomes good at playing the guitar as she gets older and Joel is so proud. Also Ellie uses her new guitar skills to get bitches. (“Oh, you like music? Well, I can play a pretty gnarly twinkle twinkle little star on the guitar, if I do say so myself…”)

Joel brags about Ellie all the time. Like he’ll butt into conversations he’s not even in just to talk about her. “Oh, your son’s going out on his first hunting trip? Yeah, that’s good for him, my daughter took down a whole grown deer all by herself when she was just fourteen.” “Oh, your kid’s good at math? That’s nice, my kid can recite every space book in the library by memory.” He’s that annoying parent and I’m not afraid to admit it. 

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There are some more but Tumblr has a word limit apparently…so…if y’all want some more HCs just tell me & who knows I might post more

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sarah miller the type of girl to eat cotton candy ice cream with chocolate toppings. clocked

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my love series update coming soon , sometime this week!!!

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rip ellie williams you would’ve loved being a he/him butch lesbian

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does anyone have fic recs/a masterlist of ellie calling joel dad/her dad in Any capacity

like first time she says it, uses joel/dad interchangeably, internal monologue about him being her dad, anything . i just love that shit