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They're so damn cute!!

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okay so we know that, to some extent, Joel, at least a little bit, is a note writer. We see in game on the fridge that he wrote a note to Sarah. I’m going to be home late tonight. Go ahead and order food. See you in the morning. Dad

Joel has definitely left notes for Ellie around the house to some degree

Now MAYBE this is super cringey, but I was just envisioning a moment of him writing a note for her, for whatever reason, and the J in his name is kind of wonky looking because, out of habit, he started to write Dad and wrote the vertical line and started on the downward curve of the D before realizing and freezing briefly as he stared at half of the letter. He corrected, elongating the vertical line into the curve of the J and and topping the letter off with the horizontal line across the top

It’s messy and looks rushed and reminds Joel of all the times before when he didn’t have to think about what to write at the bottom of those notes. Dad. It’s always just been Dad.

But now its not. Not anymore. He’s every description of the word. Protector, leader, comforter. He’s honest, dependable, loving

The desire to be called Dad again makes his heart burn, but a part of him believes he failed at deserving that role over twenty years ago.

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shoutout to the little moments in which ellie looks out for/takes care of joel back, even if she has to force him to accept it or be a little sneaky about it

-steals a rabbit for them so he won’t have to hunt

-is ready to take second watch when he falls asleep. such a perfect mirror of him standing guard in the woods in ep4, because even though she’s not worried about the whole river of death thing, he is, so she’ll stay up to make sure they’re safe

-directs him through their escape from the university while he’s in shock and losing blood

-grabs his flashlight from the truck during the shootout

-stops reading the letter when tess’s name comes up and worriedly tries to bring her up again later

-already knows he’s gonna be less than pleased about only being able to make it up 33 floors before he even says anything and insists that it’s good enough

-gets him an extra cushion when she’s setting up their beds because he’s taller

-declares that he will be taking a shower at bill and frank’s, reminiscent of sarah forcing him to drink orange juice, joel is a man doomed to being pestered into taking care of himself by teen girls

-proudly presents him with the hank williams tape because he liked the linda ronstadt one

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I absolutely love that you include Rose and Nine in your art as well as Rose and 10. Rose/Doctor is such a wonderful ship!

Best ‘ship’ in the Universe!!!

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edition 2005.

i knoooooow Rose collects all the alien vogue and cosmopolitan (guess WHO'S buying)

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I love Susan being called Susan because it’s basically her renegade name, but unlike every other renegade it speaks of utter normality on her adopted planet. And she continues to use it, even when she returns to the Time Lords for the war. Obviously from a Doylist perspective this is because that’s the only name the character is known by, but in universe it’s an interesting choice. The Doctor, the Master are such grand names, and universally applicable, but Susan is so specific to an ordinary life on this one little planet that worked as a better home for her than Gallifrey, and I think that’s sweet

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if you think about it they are literally just a grumpy biker dude and the little weird cat he picked up randomly on the sidewalk asjdhkjl

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Saw this pic of Pedro and the fox plushie and I just had to draw Din and Grogu real quick 🥺

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fighting with hair

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#ciri trusting in geralt

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Rockabye | Clean Bandit

No one's ever gonna hurt you, love I'm gonna give you all of my love Nobody matters like you

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PIECE BY PIECE | Kelly Clarkson

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m.j.

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ok but lambert and ciri having a one on one sparring session one day (normally geralt would be there to oversee, but today he and a few of the others got roped into helping vesemir with some chores inside the keep) and because lambert is lambert, and without anyone currently around to put him in check, he inevitably starts being a dick in some way or another. maybe he's actively teasing/heckling her, maybe he's just pushing her a little (or a lot) too hard, either way it is RELENTLESS, and ciri is dangerously close to being 100% FED UP

and lambert, seeing this but not REALLY seeing this, decides to make things that much worse and tells her, in his most mocking tone, to

"Go cry to daddy about it"

and this? THIS makes ciri's mouth, which surely had been about to release some form of scathing insult, snap shut and her face which was already flushed with frustration and exhaustion, go almost comically red with anger and, let's face it, embarrassment

because if there's one thing ciri HATES, if there's one thing she will not stand for, it's being treated like a baby

lambert, believing he has successfully put an end to the blondes ''whining'' opens his mouth to direct the girl back into her fighting stance to continue sparring, when suddenly who should make an appearance on the training grounds but the white haired devil himself?

"What's going on here?"

the familiar deep timber of geralt's voice is tinged with worry and suspicion as he approaches the two. though he had only just missed their earlier exchange, he could scent the bitter irritation radiating off ciri from a mile away. it was what prompted him to come check on them in the first place, and the unshed tears he sees glistening in her usually lively green eyes and the slight tremble of her lips as she presses them into a firm line in an unsuccessful attempt at disguising the show of emotion, makes him glad he did

though ciri would normally be loathe to admit this in the company of others, just geralt's mere presence and concerned gaze is enough to drain some of the tension from her body, and so in that moment before geralt can turn his questioning look to his younger brother, she makes a split second decision. she thinks to herself, fuck it, fuck THIS, FUCK YOU

and with way more force than is necessary, throws her wooden practice sword to the snow covered ground, and in a move which gives the older witcher a sense of deja vu, opens her arms wide to wrap tightly around his middle as she comes crashing into him with all her might

and just like that first day in the woods, he does not hesitate to return the girls embrace in full, in fact the stray tears he can now feel soaking into his shirt as she nuzzles into his chest only makes him hold her tighter

and lambert? well lambert only has about half a second to realize what a massive mistake he's made before he's got over 6 feet of angry protective witcher dad staring him down in a glare that rivals even that of vesemir (which is really saying something) and letting out a low growl that makes the red head shrink back and lower his gaze to the ground like a properly scolded pup

and if it weren't for the fact that said angry witcher was currently preoccupied swaying back and forth where he stood with his own pup held securely in his arms and whispering soft words of comfort into the girl's messy curls in an attempt to calm her shakey breaths (and FUCK. Oh fuck, oh gods he really fucked up this time) he knows his ass would most certainly be grass by now

fuck.

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In this household we love one (1) pocketsized princess and her funcle.

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https://x.com/keiidakamya/status/1841299989185679520

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happy halloween 🎃