elliebeanwilliams

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Well, I am the romantic type.

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baker city, from ellie's journal 🍎

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sow without reaping tutorial

can i sow without reaping

why am i reaping what i sow reddit

is it normal to reap what you sow

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Ellie Williams in The Last of Us Part II 11/??

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Joel Miller 39/??

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ELLIE IN EVERY SCENE 53/?

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emily wilson translation of the iliad // aiskhylos tr. by anne carson // petrichara on tumblr // junehart on tumblr // right now, gracie abrams // unknown // mary oliver // how do i say goodbye, dean lewis // eden robinson // anna kamienska

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 A piece I did for The Last of Us Fanzine in 2021!

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i found this in my drafts and idk when i was making these or what i was doing with them but they're yours now i guess

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this is why i think it's so enriching to experience the game. this is written into the DNA of the gameplay -- the world, as you explore it, shows you story after story of people who did exactly this. tried, and failed. the details of the ruined landscapes and houses you pick through (think the university in part i, the pharmacist in the mall in left behind, etc) reward you, in a way, for looking for pieces of the world as it was, for caring enough to explore and pay attention. the pick-ups are heartbreaking and detailed additions to the story arc that tell you -- and, i think, inform the way ellie/joel/abby, later handle what the find. it tells you a lot about them. it's one of my favorite things about the last of us as a video game franchise! so, highly recommend people watch playthroughs/play it themselves if they're able and curious about this part of the worldbuilding.

some of the most heartbreaking parts of the entire game can be found in the environmental storytelling.

I don’t think we truly acknowledge how terrifying the first few years of the outbreak would have been, like aside from the fear of infection.

Like we see and know the characters 20 years in. Where people have learned and adapted to survive, are now safe in sheltered zones etc.

But before all that? The walls around QZs would’ve taken years to build. Safe zones would’ve been established but I don’t think they would’ve actually been safe without serious boundaries like the walls. Then even aside from that. Imagine how many people would’ve died from things like starvation, dehydration, exposure. Literally watching your supplies dwindle down because no one’s working in factories anymore, no one’s popping off to their job in Tesco’s yk.

Or the people who died needlessly as people got more desperate, killing others to take their food because they had none left themselves.

People on vital medications that were no longer accessible? People with disability issues that couldn’t run? Couldn’t defend themselves?

This whole word is just so unbelievably sad even just a scratch below the surface of the canon story were given. And it’s so interesting to think about

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the emotional damage from this alone

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ELLIE IN EVERY SCENE 51/?

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my girl ellie 💖

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