When Joel and Ellie return to Jackson Tommy finds himself reconnecting with his brother again. A large part of him thought he never would, after so much of Joel died with Sarah. But this potty mouthed QZ kid has brought his brother back to him.
They quickly grow close again, bickering, joking, small pranks. Joel becomes a huge source of reassurance when Tommy panics about if he is able to be a good father, and how to care for a baby.
This day starts out just like any other, but Maria has decided Tommy needs to get out of the house and away from her for awhile. His constant doting is appreciated but it is getting stifling so she recruits Joel into taking Tommy out on a hunt with him and Ellie.
The hunt goes well. Tommy finds himself relaxing, all three of them are joking and having a good time.
Until a stray runner comes flying out of the bushes, attracted to their laughter.
The fight is quick and nothing serious but Joel took a bit of a tumble with the thing after pushing Tommy out of the way and ends up with a nice cut on his head and of course blood everywhere as head wounds always bleed like crazy.
Unfortunately this new cut is right on his scar from a certain “flinch moment” all those years ago and when Tommy turns to look at his brother after getting up from where he was pushed he sees the blood at that location and...
He looses his mind. Suddenly it’s the day after outbreak day again, the day after he was too slow to stop a man from killing his niece. The day he was too slow again and Joel ends up bleeding from a failed attempt.
Tommy freaks out, tries to apply pressure to the wound, starts begging his brother to stay with him, apologizing for not being fast enough, crying and hyperventilating.
Joel is completely overwhelmed with his brother’s panic, he was so shut down back then that he really doesn’t remember what happened after and if Tommy freaked out like this then.
Joel works to calm and comfort Tommy. Grabs him and hugs him tight. Tries to soothe him with quiet words and hushes. It takes awhile, a long while before Tommy finally calms. Even longer before he can let Joel go. They head back to Jackson hunt abandoned and Joel lets Tommy take him to the clinic. Seeing the wound treated and knowing it’s not anything severe finally settles Tommy down completely.
Maria is not impressed when they get home though. What the heck happened out there?
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So im going to see mother mother in concert tomorrow. I haven't listened to their newest album that much tho, so I'm changing that today. And in listening to it, I'm going "wow, I'm actually digging this. Why haven't I listened to it much?"
Then I remember it came out on February 16th. Literally the day before my dad died, on the 17th lol
So perhaps I was avoiding listening to the album titled Grief Chapter during my own grief chapter. Ya kno.
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Tiber had some really nice dog interactions this morning!
we met another whippet and I let him off lead in the public park for the first time!
Tiber was going absolutely berserk about having a friendly sighthound running circles around him and play bowing. I didn’t have his harness on him this morning, only his collar, and I couldn’t get him to calm down all the way and was worried he’d choke himself. he’s been getting to a good place with his recall lately and we’ve been discussing trying him off lead in the smaller quieter park anyway, and the other whippet seemed really well trained and responsive to her owner so I figured if I let him off he’d want to stick close to play with her.
he did really well! got some nice zoomies out and was really good about coming back to me. I usually ask him to tap his nose on my hand for recall and he was a little too distracted to follow through completely with that, but he was very very good about running by me to check in and reorienting towards me when called. I think we have a little more work to do, but I’m very proud of him!
I kept it short and got him back on leash once they were done running their circles.
a little later on our walk we ran into a very old lurcher. they both wanted to greet each other very badly, and Tiber was being very polite about it, so I walked him over. she was 14! he was very gentle with her, but was also play bouncing a lot lol just giving her some extra space when he did so. she bounced around back at him a little, but I think she was too old and wobbly to really go for it. but it was very cute watching them bounce at each other. her owners were very sweet and we chatted a bit and that was very nice.
and then we had a nice passing by greeting with a little daschund on the way home. as always with daschunds he was entirely enamored with her. they had a little cute happy sniff session.
those were the big exciting ones today, but he’s been doing better about dogs on our walks in general lately too! I’m very proud of him. I am thinking tho that I want to try to find some more opportunities to give him outlets for his dog friend excitement.
the other day, he was very good about waiting for the ok to go greet a little terrier-thing while we asked his owner if they could say hi. and he was being so self-disciplined but ALSO soooo excited. he literally plonked his ass down and just sat there vibrating in place until he could go up.
it was very funny and cute to witness and he’s being so good and trying so hard. but I’m worried he’s getting amped up too much trying to hold back and worried about him going over threshold? Idk I gotta see if I can find any info on excited reactivity I guess.
here he is passed out on the couch after exciting walk^^
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lobanovskyi fucked sheva?
Absolutely not!
But Sheva is just so fucked up, he can't act normal in front of authority figures/father figures. His massive daddy issues just act up 😂. And Lobanovskyi was both like a father and a respected (feared) authority figure 😭.
Maybe he's not even aware he's flirting. Maybe others just think he's weird and giggly and that's a part of Sheva 😂. Maybe others are uncomfortable, especially if he's their player and they're in management, but they never bring it up.
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do yoj ever think about how telemachus spent 20 years missing his father and then he braves the world and finds someone who can tell him about his dad but he cant listen for long because... because he gets sleepy.... and then for the first time in his life someone tells him a bedside story.. 🤧
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if I had a nickel for everytime a famous Christian animator had to make the decision to let go of their dream to do God's calling, only to come back to it stronger than before, I'd have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice
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