#joels hw

[buckypascal]

Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller - The Last Of Us 1.01 (Part 1)

[two-scintillating-sinners]

Now, Voyager (1942), dir. Irving Rapper // Hail, Ceaser! (2016), dir. Joel & Ethan Coen

[fandom-blackhole]

hi :3 your jackson song as a joel fic is still rent free in my head. could you share your idea? or is it still under wraps?

mwah mwah!! 😘

You know what? You asked for this, you made me think of this fic idea again, so you're getting the full fic rn. I hope you enjoy it lmao <3 <3

Pairing: Joel Miller x Reader (gender/race neutral) Summary: Three times Reader sings Jackson by Johnny Cash and annoys Joel, and the one time Joel actually joins in. this is a 3+1 bc i couldn't decide which scene I had imagined for this to write so I went with all of the above (I heavily suggest listening to the song at least once, it's a great tune and will get stuck in your head lol) Warnings: contains spoilers for the show and game (bc as usual I am mixing the two together, mentions of violence and guns, really just reader being annoying to Joel, me shitting on KC (im from KS so im allowed), UNEDITED (bc i am being a bit lazy sorry) WC: 4.5k (how do all of my fics get away from me like this smh)

1

It had been a long few hours. Emotions were a little high and tension was a bit thick. Neither you nor Joel had been expecting what you found when you finally got to Bill and Frank’s small town. You’d expected a smile and hug from Frank and grumpy complaining from Bill over bringing an outsider, let alone a kid to his town. You’d expected to see Frank take to Ellie and want to show her around, clean her up and feed her like he loved to do. You’d expected to find two of the few you allowed yourself to call friends. Instead you found quiet emptiness, dead flowers, and a note that had your heart breaking for the second time in so many days. Tess' death still heavy on your heart, now had the company of losing Bill and Frank.

So when the first notes softly floated from the speakers of the truck Bill left Joel, you had to do a double take, a grin quickly lighting up your face as you jumped forward in your seat and turned up the radio. The words you knew by heart, the song one of your mother’s favorites, so at the exact time Joel turned to you in question, you grinned widely at him and sang along, “We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout.”

With a huff Joel whispered to himself an exasperated, “Christ,” but you carried on.

“We’ve been talkin’ ‘bout Jackson, ever since the fire went out.”

You could hear Ellie behind you laughing to herself as Joel shook his head. You didn’t let up, though, you kept singing and pulling laughs from Ellie, making sure to put emphasis on the way you sang every time Jackson was mentioned. You made sure to put on a show as the song switched back and forth between the duet, deepening your voice and acting all suave while Johnny Cash sang and all smooth and flirty during June Carter’s parts.

By the time the song was over, you were a bit breathless from your antics and Ellie was doubled over in the back seat of the truck laughing at you and clapping for you. Joel, though, simply reached over and turned the radio back down til the next song was just barely heard over Ellie's wheezing and the sound of the truck’s engine. 

Turning to Joel with a giant grin, you see him simply shaking his head. So you tilted your head at him, as he glanced at you out of the corner of his eye. 

“Well? What did you think of my once in a lifetime performance,” you asked with a teasing grin.

Joel simply huffed, “It was, uh, somethin’.”

With faux pride you close your eyes with a nod and confidently say, “Thank you, I worked very hard on that you know. Gonna be singing on the big stage one day.”

That drew a chuckle out of Joel as he grinned and said, “I look forward to seein’ it.”

2

Kansas City looked a bit worse for wear than you had expected. Though you probably should have really expected this, the rumors that floated around about the city were not favorable. Of all of the cities and FEDRA run quarantine zones it was well known that Kansas City was one of the worst and you better off trying to survive on your own rather try and find refuge within the city. Honestly though it's not too surprising the quarantine zone ended up the way it did, the city was situated in the ass crack of Missouri and Kansas afterall. 

You were however caught off guard when you found that the Kansas City FEDRA had finally toppled and the city had been taken over by a group of hunters who were more than happy to use what the soldiers had left behind after their deaths. The hunter were still crafty with their environment, you had to give them that. 

The crash had left all three of you disoriented. You had not expected the bus that they had let loose on the truck and you highly doubted Joel had expected it either. When the truck crashed into the convenience store you were thrown forward, smashing you head into the dash so hard spots formed in your eyes and you could feel a piece of glass dig into the skin right above your left eye. 

After that things kind of passed in a blur for you. You knew there was a fight and you knew that you had shot at a few guys, though you kind of doubted that you actually managed to hit either with how disoriented you were. Once it was safe for the moment, Joel raced to check on you and Ellie, shoving your bags into your arms. Ellie as it turned out was no worse for wear because she’d been ducked down in the backseat out of sight of the hunters, and your only injuries were from the crash, a small gash on your forehead and a mild concussion from Joel’s estimate.

The three of you didn’t really have time to waste on first aid at that moment, so you’d simply pressed a bandana you had to you head and motioned to a large building a little ways away, whispering, “That’s probably our safest bet right now, we’ll get me fixed up once we know we are all safe.”

Joel had only hesitated for a second before agreeing. He led you and Ellie carefully to the building, safely making sure the three of you stayed out of sight. Once inside, you found that the building was an old hotel, and a nice one at that.

You quietly whistled and said, “This place is nice, could only dream of coming to a place like this before the outbreak.”

Joel just grunted as he looked around for useful things, finding a safe as he replayed, “Isn’t exactly nice anymore.”

You leaned against the counter beside where he was crouched trying to crack the safe and watched as Ellie looked around the lobby with an interest only a child could have. Sighing you shrugged and glanced over your shoulder as you heard the door creak open and replied, “I don’t know. If the outbreak did anything it did bring a certain beauty to the world. There’s something poetically beautiful in the sight of nature reclaiming what once belonged to it.”

Walking around the counter, Joel stood in front of you with a brow raised and shook his head, “Maybe that concussion is worse than I thought if you’re gettin’ all philosophical on me.”

With a huffed laugh you  rolled your eyes and just nodded to the stairs, “Come on.”

Your progression upward went smoothly until the fourth floor where per your group’s usual luck you found the stairs blocked with all kinds of debris. You never thought you would miss stairs, but as you picked your way through the floor scouting for a way up you wished that just once the three of you would pick a building that had a simple straightforward way to the top. 

You were pulled from your melancholic thoughts by Ellie’s raised voice, “Found a way up!”

You were a little thankful to be pulled away from your thoughts, the action slowly making the ever present headache since the crash throb. Quickly as possible you made your way across the hallway to the room Ellie had been looking through and smiled when you found a concert room with a stage and a beautiful grand piano. You made your way to the stage, noticing the way up Ellie found was on the corner of the stage where the above balcony’s railing had fallen. Gently you ran your fingers over the piano, a little sad to see such a magnificent creation in such disrepair. Looking up to Ellie who stood on the other side you made your way around and hip bumped her. 

“You know how to play?”

Ellie laughed and turned to you with a look that screamed she was judging you as she replied, “You really think they’d teach us to play piano in FEDRA school? Let alone find one that actually works,” she shook her head and slowly made her way to the edge of the stage, jumping down. “What about you? You play?”

You hummed and ran your fingers over the keys, cringing at the awful out of tune melody that played. You were stopped from answering though as your fingers fell upon an old rusted microphone. Picking it up you smiled and looked up right as Joel walked into the room. Instantly you laughed, and your grin spread as your eyes met Joel's stoic hazel.

Gently you twirled to the center of the stage, a little dizzy from the sudden movements, but didn’t let it deter you. Looking up at your crowd you heard Joel ask Ellie, “What on Earth are they doing?”

You saw Ellie answer with a shrug and that's when you started to sing the opening notes of the song you had been annoying Joel with for weeks. Ellie laughed and Joel tried protesting but you just carried on. You let yourself get carried away singing the lyrics and making a fool of yourself on stage with your poor excuse of dancing. 

It didn’t take Joel long to make his way to the stage, to stop you or figure out how to reach the balcony on the second floor you weren’t sure, but if you had to put money on it you’d guess both. The second he was within reach you grabbed his hand and pulled him towards you as you sang, “Go play your hand, you big talkin’ man. Make a big fool of yourself.”

Rolling his eyes Joel pulled away and you let him go only a second later as you spun yourself again the dizziness became too much and you found yourself stumbling with a gasp. Thankfully Joel had been close enough and had caught you before you fell and hit your head again on the stage.

He led you over to the piano bench and sat you down, taking the microphone from you as he said, “Sit and rest, before you hurt yourself more. Not exactly smart jumping and twirling around with a fresh concussion, nor making a bunch of noise when we are supposed to be keeping a low profile so we aren’t found by those hunters.”

With a sigh you just pouted, over not being able to finish your song but you listened to him and sat there and watched as Joel and Ellie pushed the grand piano over to the wall and watched as Ellie used it to jump up to the next floor. Joel followed but turned to you after getting onto the piano, motioning like he was going to help you up, which he did and then helped boost you to the next floor even if you didn’t need it, getting the feeling he was coddling you now.

Once he was up next to you again, you turned to him with a faux pout, “You said you looked forward to seeing me perform on a stage.”

With a huff, Joel gave you a look that said he was already tired of this situation and only replied, “Do it again when you aren’t a danger to yourself or the rest of us.”

3

Joel was infallible. At least you had always thought he was. He was the best survivor you knew, there was no question as to why he had gotten this far into the apocalypse, he just knew how to take care of himself and protect those around him. You had seen him get scrapes and bruises from fights and a couple of grazes from near misses from bullets. Never could you imagine that the man you held on such a high pedestal could fall as heavily as he had. You never thought you’d have to watch the man you’d found yourself caring for whole heartedly almost bleed out before your eyes. 

But here you are, watching him shiver from the cold and no doubt from the pain wracking his body. Watching him sleep in fits and gazing into glazed eyes when he was barely awake. It was hard to watch, but you tried to be strong for Ellie’s sake. You sometimes would catch her staring at Joel’s fitful body, worry echoing on her face before she threw up a wall on her emotions. You didn’t want to admit it, but of the two she was more helpful. She’d been more successful with finding food and hunting than you have been. Ellie is also the one that had managed to find and bring back the full stocked and sterile first aid kit that you’d used to suture and clean Joel’s wound with, even if the supplies hadn’t done too much for his weakening state. You had found that your main use was only keeping the three of you on track to Salt Lake City and acting as a nurse to Joel, getting him to drink water or broth without drowning him, something Ellie found she didn’t really have the patience or the bedside manner to do. 

Still you hid your worries, and shared optimistic thoughts with Ellie during the day even if you didn’t truly believe them yourself.You like to believe you’re helping Ellie by doing this, but in truth you think she’s doing the same for you, just putting on a brave face to make you feel better. 

Each night the two of you would take turns taking watch, Ellie always going first, insisting you get rest and not truly trusting you to wake her for the second watch- which was fair because the one time she had agreed to let you take first watch you hadn’t had the heart to wake the exhausted girl to which she’d given you the silent treatment for the next day. 

It was only during your watches, once you knew for sure Ellie was asleep, her breaths evening out and her body relaxing, that you allowed your mask to slip, to let your worries out. Each night that passed you swore Joel got paler, that he looked closer to death’s door. You hate watching him wither away like this, hate seeing the strongest person you know, your rock in this world, fall and not be able to help him even though your heart screams at you. You have found yourself sobbing helplessly into your hand in attempts to stay quiet a few times, the hurt and worry building up inside you until it exploded. You hated that you felt weak, but truely what could you do when your strength lay slowly dying on a nasty old twin sized mattress? 

Tonight though the tears don’t come. Instead you find yourself feeling empty in your grief as you sit beside Joel’s head gently combing your fingers through his hair in a soothing motion. You weren’t sure if it was meant to sooth Joel or yourself, but either way the action seemed to be grounding you and it could be your imagination but it seemed that Joel’s face seemed somewhat more relaxed so you didn’t stop. 

You aren’t sure when, but you caught yourself humming at some point and you couldn’t help but smile and jokingly think to yourself, ‘if anything is going to get a reaction out of him, it’ll be hearing me annoy him with this song again.’

You let yourself hum it a few times, making sure to stay quiet, not wanting to wake Ellie who’d become somewhat of a light sleeper, but eventually you had to laugh and whisper, “Yeah, go to Jackson, and go comb your hair,” as you ran your fingers through Joel’s hair. 

You let yourself sing a few more lines, not really paying attention to anything but where your fingers continued their path through his hair, so you were surprised when you felt your free hand, which you had just had laying on Joel’s chest, be enclosed in a rougher calloused hand. Pausing your singing you looked down in surprise and found Joel’s lips turned upward just slightly, and his hand enveloping your own in a loose hold. 

With a watery smile, knowing that just moving his hand had to have had taken a lot of energy from him, so you clutched it tighter in your hold as you turned back to running your fingers through his hair as you whispered to him, “Yeah, you go to Jackson, you big talkin’ man. And I’ll be waitin’ in Jackson,” before trailing back off into a hum. 

4

It was over, all of it was finally over. The fireflies were gone, something you would never have to worry about again. Joel was strong again, Ellie was safe, and all three of you were all back in Jackson settling down and making a home for yourselves with Tommy and Maria and all of the townsfolk. And you couldn’t be happier. Everything in life just felt right for the first time since the outbreak. It was odd in a way, but it was so freeing that you didn’t care. You never could have let yourself dream about a life like this, of having a family like this that you could allow yourself to care for. You didn’t think something like this would ever be allowed to live, to thrive in a world so torn apart by a deadly infection and the worst of humanity. But you found it, and you let yourself bask in it. You let yourself be happy.

When the three of you all arrived back in Jackson it had taken a while for each of you to all settle in and relax. It was so foreign after spending months fighting and protecting each other's backs from every danger imaginable. Ellie had taken about a month to situate herself in the town, finding it a bit easier with teens her age being so interested in being her friend and getting to know her as the new kid in town. She settled into the garage and made it her own. Watching her have her own space was a little hard after having her in your sights 24/7 for so long, but you knew she needed it, that she deserved it after everything she went through. You and Joel stayed in the house together, both unwilling to be to far from the teen after everything that went down in Salt Lake City at the hospital and finding the bond between the two of you keeping you together. You each had your own rooms though Joel’s only got used every once in a while, many nights bringing him to your room when your nightmares wake him up. His own nightmares occasionally brought him to you as well, as he found comfort in not being alone, in waking up to find you laying there with soft breaths next to him.

Joel took about a little over a month to settle into the community but once Tommy got him in on the patrol board, he immediately found his place. Letting Joel have some control over where and how the patrols went allowed him to feel a sense of peace. It played into his strong suit of needing to know that the people he cared about were safe and taken care of. Seeing Joel let himself relax and fill the role really warmed your heart, happy to know Joel was finally at peace after so many years of functioning just in fight-or-flight mode. 

You, though, took the longest to find your place in Jackson. You didn’t slack, you jumped from job to job filling any empty position in any area that they would let you, but the truth was you didn’t have a strength or a useful skill that could be applied somewhere within the town. You could hunt, but you were not the best at it. You were decent at growing things but the greenhouse didn’t really need anymore volunteers. And while you did love children you neither had the patience or the knowledge to be teaching. So as time passed and Joel and Ellie found their rhythms in the town you found yourself feeling like you were floundering a bit, drowning in a pool of water where your feet should be touching the ground. It wasn’t until you were doing a patrol with Joel a few months after settling back in Jackson that he brought up that the doctor in town was looking to train a new nurse. He had brought it up nonchalantly, but you could tell by the way he glanced out of the corner of his eye that he had a reason behind bringing it up. Later you managed to weasel it out of him, to which he simply replied, “I may not have been all there, but I remember how well you played nurse for me. I think you’d be good at it.”

He had been right of course, you had taken to the position like a duck to water and within no time you found yourself finding your own path in Jackson, letting yourself finally fall into content happiness that Joel and Ellie had also found. In no time at all the three of you all found yourself falling into a routine, each of you revolving around the other two and finding ways to still stay close and not get too busy to not be able to know what the others were up to. Your favorite day in the routine was every three days you’d all have a family meal, Tommy and Maria joining the three of you every other meal.

It was on one of those nights that Joel had come home late from his patrol. You had already started making dinner and had simply shooed him upstairs to take a shower while you finished cooking, knowing that it was only a matter of time before Ellie burst in the back door groaning about being starving. 

You weren’t sure how long Joel took to get cleaned up, you had zoned out into your thoughts shortly after hearing the shower turn on, but after what you knew only had to have been a handful of minutes you heard him coming back downstairs, and when he came into the kitchen you simply motioned to the table, asking if he’d set it for you as you had dinner already almost finished. 

You however didn’t expect to hear Joel turn on your little portable CD player on the counter and skip through the songs as he said, “Found you something’ while on patrol today.”

You hummed in question, curiosity over taking you as you glanced over your shoulder at him before turning back to stirring what you were cooking. Only a few seconds later you paused as the all to familiar notes floated around the kitchen and a soft smile found its way onto your face. Gently you started swaying as you cooked, but almost as soon as you had started you found a pair of arms wrapped around your middle as Joel pulled you away from the stove, as his deep accented voice sang, “We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout. We’ve been talkin’ ‘bout Jackson ever since the fire went out. I’m goin’ to Jackson, I’m gonna mess around. Yeah I’m goin’ to Jackson, look out Jackson town.”

Laughing joyfully you join in right as June Carter does and turn to face Joel sticking your spoon in his face as you back up towards the stove to turn it down as you sang, “Well, go on down to Jackson. Go ahead and wreck your health. Go play your hand, you big talkin’ man, Make a big fool of yourself. Yeah, go to Jackson, go comb your hair.”

With a grin Joel grabs the spoon from your hand, laying it on the spoon rest, before grabbing your hand as he picked up his part of the duet once more, “Honey, I’m gonna snowball Jackson, see if I care. When I breese into that city, people gonna stoop and bow. All them women gonna make me teach ‘em what they don’t know how. I’m going to Jackson. You turn ‘n’ loosen my coat, ‘cause I’m goin’ to Jackson.”

Swaying in Joel’s arms as he sang was perfect and you wished more than anything that you could pause time right there and just enjoy this for all eternity. As his part finished once more, Joel twirled you, which you used to sway away from him as you came in singing, “”Goodbye,” that’s all she wrote. But they’ll laugh at you in Jackson and I’ll be dancin’ on a Pony Keg. They’ll lead you ‘round town like the scalded hound, with your tail hooked between your legs. Yeah, go to Jackson, you big talkin’ man. And I’ll be waitin’ in Jackson behind my Jaypan fan.”

You managed to stay out of Joel’s reach until the end laughing as the two of you joined together twirling and dancing around as you sang together.

“Well, now, we got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout. We’ve been talkin’ ‘bout Jackson ever since the fire went out. I’m goin’ to Jackson and that’s a fact. Yeah, we’re going to Jackson, ain’t never comin’ back.”

Joel’s grin was bigger than you’ve ever seen, your happiness radiating off eachother as he swung you out and brought you back in as the two of you finished the song together, eyes never leaving the other’s, “Well, we go married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout. Honey, we’ve been talkin’ ‘bout Jackson ever since the fire went out.”

At the very end Joel surprised you by dipping you low, which pulled a loud gasping laugh from you before he pressed a small kiss to your lips before pulling you back up. You couldn’t wipe the grin off of your face once you were back on your feet, not even when two sets of claps came from the doorway along with a quick retching noise. Whipping your head around you felt yourself heat up in embarrassment to see Tommy and Maria standing there grinning at the two of you while Ellie wrinkled her nose and called the two of you gross.

  “Hope the two of you didn’t burn our dinner while you were too busy being all lovey dovey,” Ellie griped while plopping down into her seat at the table.

“As a matter of fact I turned the stove off at the beginning of the song, so don’t worry, your food will be just fine,” you replied carrying the pot to the table as Joel passed around plates and silverware, taking it from you once you reached the table with a soft loving smile which you returned, making Ellie groan about losing her appetite even though she was smiling. All the while Tommy and Maria simply enjoyed the entertainment, though Maria did lean over and whisper, “Why can’t you be romantic, like that?”

To which Tommy grinned and simply replied while filling her glass with water, “You want me to try?”

With a sigh, Maria met his gaze and said, “No, I’m not sure I can hand whatever you think would be romantic.”

[the-doll-house-gallery]

Ok but like- What if ƎNA AU???

I had A LOT of fun drawing these lil dudes and I'm planning on drawing the Allies next. Is there anyone y'all wanna seen drawn as an ƎNA?

[ahumandotcom]

I think that the official video for the song 'I go to extremes' is one of the most 90's music video that you can show someone and ask them when that videoclip was released and they would anwser 100% correct each time.

[mariatesstruther]

Ellie and Sarah: audhd and adhd solitarity

no exactly matt u and me are like 🤝🏾🫰🏾🤝🏾 on this, they def give me combined adhd + autism and inattentive adhd vibes. i also personally like to imagine both of them having hyperlexia + dyscalculia bc i imagine tommy and joel having hypercalculia (+ dyslexia for tommy)

ellie and sarah are just super readers that can’t do math for shit, meanwhile tommy is a math wiz who hasn’t voluntarily read a book since senior year. joel is a decent reader and enjoys a good book once in a while, but he LOVES math. he’s always liked it, but ever since sarah and ellie starting coming to him and asking him to get into “miller math genius mode” to help them out, it’s become his absolute favorite thing

[council-of-beetroot]

I'm in a Valentine's day mood and a polpru mood. here! have a dumb little doodle while I work on the two essays that are getting in the way of my thinking about Hetalia time and my fic.

[trees-to-meet-you]

THEY JUST EVISCERATED JOEL ADOSHFISDJAKESNKDWHAESFKJWG

[life-winners-liveblog]

OHHH BOY.

Hi Grian. Wait hw can't hear us. Uh...........

Run, I'd say?,, no wait that's suspicious.

Just. Uh,,,,,,, welp you're fucked, good like guys!

LimL!Jimmy: Grian!

LimL!Grian: What happened!? You were talking about voices and then ran away! Do you know how worried we were!??

LimL!Jimmy: I'm sorry G, I was just-

LimL!Grian: And you said you were going to the flower husbands when you left but then, surprise surprise, we asked them and they said you didn't! Where were you!?

LimL!Jimmy: I was doing...very important things.

LimL!Grian: I need to call Joel and tell him before he actually starts torturing people for information.

LimL!Jimmy: Before he what!??

LimL!Grian: Don't question it, It's the only way to remain sane in this group I swear.

[ethoslove]

jimmy has definitely written a smallishbeans x reader fic where boat boys are the established relationship that he and bdubs have to break up so hw can date joel. who said that

[gothcsz]

hiiiiiiiiiieeeee i love allllll of ur javis and was wondering which one of yours is your fave and which why? TY for giving us so. much. 🥹

ps do you think you’d write any other pp characters like not just like a feature in unscripted desire but a fic fully dedicated to another character

🩷

hey diva (gn) 🖤 thank youuuuuuu so much omg i'm crying, i study the fuck out of that man 😵‍💫 happy to hear that me doing my hw is paying off somehow lol!! no but thank you for reading my fics 🥹

also, hands down, thoroughfare!javi is my fave to write 🤠 my brooding, crime solving, sexy cowboyyy i feel like his characterization is the closest to 'canon' out of all my javi's (fantasize!javi is also up there) and i just love his entire character arc in relation to that fic's narrative. came in a slut loser, fell in love, relapsed by thinking with his dick, then started to turn his life around all in the name of love 🖤 ughhh i could sit here and talk about him for days. he's literally my husband!

hmmm i've thought about it but i be in my head so much, the fear of not doing them justice or being as familiarized with them/the projects they come from as i am with javi/narcos really hinders me but i should branch out one day.... streets have already suggested i write for dieter so we'll see lol is there anyone specific you'd want to see something from? i've written for joel once also and that was enough for me, i fear

[didasgomas]

In Mortality - Holy War characters

Story time! Basically, I had an "invented" tmc au called Holy War, which was basically the idea of "what if Adam and Six sort of switched in various ways and a bunch of made up bitches are also in there?", that I never wrote down publicly because I wanted to fully flesh it out before I did that, but then the allegations and the drama and the problems happened, so like many others, I decided to not delete what I already had and instead rebrand it.

(My other former au, who is going to be called BirdsHeart once it comes out a separate story)

It took an awful long time to decide on the beat way to rebrand it, because I have a problem that most of the imaginary content I make up sort of "needs" to be based off of something already existing, or else, if it's fully originally created from the depths of my brain, I'll hate it and cringe and never actually use it.

So what was my solution? I grabbed two thirds of Holy War and slapped it in the past of my already existing In Mortality au for CDTA, and even though that was 3 months ago, I'm only talking about it now because it took a long while to figure out how to make everything work.

And I know I could have simply jumped to the point without going into that much detail, @missr3n3 was chill when I asked her about it, but still, I thought to compensante you guys in some form for the lack of previous context, hence the explanation above

Anyway, rebranded characters and info! 1990s-2000s -> 1780s-1800s Counties, Wisconsin -> Crystal County, Upper Peninsula of Michigan (Crystal = Iron county) Adam Murray -> Asher Appleford (he's a psycho, don't go near him)(Alice) "Lynn" Murray -> Alice "Linn" Sheppard (unaware mom) Adam's dad -> Abel Appleford (as psycho as his son) Jude Murray -> Jude (he's a loser) Jonah Marshall / Stanley -> Joanna Jonathan Rosethorne (trans friend!) Mervin Marshall -> Mason Rosethorne "Jimberly" Marshall -> Katherine Smith Rosethorne Evelyn Miller -> Eva Rosell-Wellson (Asher's 7th wife) Dave Lee -> Davidson "David" Swan (Hourglass bastard eldest son) Mark Heathcliff -> Marcus "Mark" Hourglass Sarah Heathcliff -> Sarrah Hourglass (tuff girlie) Cesar Torres -> [No one, he doesn't exist here] Ruth Weaver -> [Also doesn't exist] Thatcher Davis -> Tayler Dahvees (has a daughter and is Marcus' father-in-law) Mentality of Six - Originally called Four -> Aila (was previously just her fake human alias) Name of Six - Trevor Murray -> Trevor Atskin (he's a poltergeister who goes by "Seth") (Note: The character(s) with Six's appearance are not part of this au and have been saved to be used in a different one) [These two are just technically, because they were supposed to be Adam's weird twin creations to help him in the unleashing of the Apocalypse]

Joel Hayes -> Dashiell Sheppard Appleford Chloe -> Esthel Sheppard Appleford

[Additional characters for logic's sake and for funzies]

Madelyn ??? (Adam's grandma) -> Madelyn Atskin Owen Murray (Adam's grandpa) -> Owen Cheape

(Madelyn and Owen were originally the bio parents of Trevor and the adoptive parents of Airen Murray, Adam's dad in HW, and are now descendants of Susanna who are the bio parents of Trevor and his little brother Angelo, and the temporary caregivers of "Airen", who is Alice's husband as Abel doesn't want marriage)

"Steven Murray(?)" -> Steven Sheppard

(Originally just Adam's illegitimate cousin who was killed by him when trying to help one of his girlfriends run away, Steven is the bastard son of Alice's older sister, Maria Sheppard, and Jude. He has a wife, Lionel Pelmear, and they are the parents of Esthel and Dashiell who are later adopted by Asher and Eva following Steven's mysterious death and Lionel being sent to a far away convent as she had apparently "gone crazy")

"Paul Marshall(?)" -> Paul Rosethorne

(Jonathan's middle brother, followed by a younger brother named Michael, who dies tragically at only 13 while camping out with friends in the woods) Junia / "Five" -> Junia

(An orphan runaway accused "witch" who is the reason "Airen" (real name Iebc-ora) got from his 'mother' Aila to the Atskin family, instead of to the intended target, George Sheppard, Maria and Alice's older brother, though all of that was a huge unintended mess, and Junia is now dead and a poltergeister because of it)

(the dad) Norman Heathcliff -> Norman Christian David Hourglass

[Stillborn 3rd son] Morgan Heathcliff -> Morgan Hourglass

Juliana "Juno" Heathcliff -> Juliana "Juno" Fox Hourglass

[Davidson's mom] Catherine "Kate" Lee -> Catherine "Kate" Swan

(Tayler's kid and Marcus' wife) Julie Davis -> Julie Dahvees

(Julie's unmarried mom) Wendy Adams -> Abigail Wentz

[Marcus' divorced Catholic mother] - Elizabeth Anne "Nancy" Elizinsnaya (she is half Polish)

[Sarrah's and Morgan's dead mom] - Emma Underwood

[Juliana's dead mother] - Lucy Fox

[Norman's 4th wife] - Hannah Felwick

[Bisexual Sarrah's husbando] - Anthony Milton

I think this is enough info for now, once we get to the Holy War fic of In Mortality (yes the fic will have the same name cause I'm lazy, but it does have some meaning if I apply it correctly) obviously there's gonna be a whole lot more information

But if you guys want to ask some questions about these fuckers (affectionate), I don't mind!

[idolswrestlingadventure]

Royal Rumble (1998)

Here we are, brand new year and what will become a recurring set of events to play through the year. Until we get the one per month era of modern times. More wrestling, in your face! But first, historical context, what happened in 1988? Personally, I was 4 years old, so not a lot for me to recall aside from trains and mushy food.

The 1988 Winter Olympics were held in Alberta, Canada.

The 1988 Summer Olympics were held in Seoul, South Korea.

The Soviet Union begins to collapse with the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian movements.

First McDonalds opens up in Yugoslavia.

The space shuttle Discovery launches, the first after the challenger disaster.

Netherlands wins the Euro’s 88 hosted in Germany.

The first WORM virus is distributed by the internet.

George HW Bush is elected President of America.

Notable Births: Skrillex, Jessie J, Jesse Plemons, Haley Joel Osment, Vanessa Kirby, Lizzo, Ana de Armas, Adele, Awkwafina, Conor McGregor, Tyson Fury, Melissa Benoist, Alicia Vikander, ASAP Rocky, Emma Stone, Zoe Kravitz and current member of Damage Control, Dakota Kai

Notable Movies: Die Hard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Coming To America, Rambo III, Rain Man, A Fish Called Wanda

Notable TV Shows Launched: Roseanne, Red Dwarf, The Wonder Years, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Rab C. Nesbitt, Who’s Line Is It Anyway, Family Fued, Wheel Of Fortune, Stoppit and Tidyup, Home and Away

Well, we’ve got 5 PPVs for 1988 starting with this Royal Rumble, so let’s get going! 

This episode of Magnum P.I. is a bit different than usual...

Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat V “Ravishing” Rick Rude - A comment given to me by a friend is that modern PPVs tend to be two contestants who swap between aggressor and victim every 5 minutes, and this match seemed to be some of this at the start. Ricky absolutely had the upper hand for the majority of the match and glad to see the tradition of cheating whilst the referee is knocked out never goes out of style. Good match, Ricky continuing to be one of my favourites from this era -Tier 3-

Friends, Romans, Countrymen...shut the fuck up

Now for some reason, we get a benchlift record attempt by Pino Bravo. Who, for some reason, and I can’t work out if this is a bit or not, constantly keeps shouting at the crowd to be quiet. His weirdly French manager also insists upon this, often going into fits of verbal dementia at what is happening whilst Jesse Ventura insists the record attempt is valid, almost too much. It’s weird how much screen time this is getting, but if it’s about macho steroid injected men doing manly things, then I suppose it fits the bill. Just very, very strange to watch.

Somewhere the creator of the Human Centipede is looking on...

The Jumping Bomb Angels V The Glamour Girls - Jimmy Hart is back, I kinda am tired of seeing him everywhere. His only gimmick is being incredibly annoying and giving the crowd something to cheer for when he’s knocked out. Luckily however this match is actually pretty good. The Bomb Angels showing some amazing agility and bringing a lot of energy that The Glamour Girls seem to miss. The Bomb Angels grab the win in a surprisingly good womens match for the era! -Tier 2-

The look the couple across the bar give you...

Side note: Jesse and Vince McMahon are being weird commentating on this match, they argue all the time and it doesn’t sound like a bit, either that or I’m getting worked somehow. Just sounds like Vince is being petty with Jesse’s usual bullshit. Bring back Gorilla Monsoon…

"One million dollars or I'll host Deal Or No Deal"

Storyline Update: The Million Dollar Man offers…a million dollars for Hogan’s belt. When Hogan refuses to surrender it, he decides to offer it to Andre The Giant to take the belt from Hogan. We don’t see the match on this occasion, but we do see the contract signing. Where a nervous Hogan gets a table thrown at him by a weirdly irate Andre. Seeing as Hogan stays the champion for a billion years, I don’t think anything gets resolved here.

Turns out squeezing the turnbuckle meant something else here...

The Royal Rumble 1988 - So at first I thought, hey Royal Rumble sounds fun. No holds barred ensemble of the greatest wrestlers in WWF at the time, all in the ring with fun knockouts. But sadly it’s just a cluster-fuck of men pretending to struggle with a set of ropes. A few fun moments and appearances from notable faces, but overall a middling event with “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan taking the win -Tier 7-

Another side note: Jesse Ventura still being the strangest commentators ever, talking about how Vince is a pussy and would rather be reading Poetry and drinking Wine than watching wrestling…

Putting their heads together literally...

The Islanders V The Young Stallions - Never mind the Stallions, check out the Islanders! There’s some WWF history right there. Father of Tonga Loa and Tama Tonga, Sam Fatu being Rikishi’s brother and Jacob Fatu’s father. The Samoan heritage runs strong in wrestling! The Stallions showing their supreme art of steroid use and I’m pretty sure neither of them can lower their arms to their sides. This was a pretty standard match, nothing exciting sadly, even the crowd seemed somewhat checked out. -Tier 6-

Notable Dialogue:

Vince: "Did you his [a samoan] toes, looks like he could hang upside down on the ropes" 

Jesse: "That's a bit racist Vince"

Verdict: 5 Samoan Forefathers Out Of 10

[paintedscales]

Day Eightstinien

War of Hearts by RUELLE (Joel Sunny dramatic violin cover)

I... decided to slap together a video that pays homage to what I could of Estinien's journey from ARR to near the very end of HW patch content. I don't really edit together a lot of videos lately. But I hope it's enjoyable at the least!

[avese23]

//toh spoilers

CRYING

Literally grew up with Luz what the fuck

Everyone looks so gay

Darius dad figure confirmed!!

Omg Darius and the Blight dad 😳

How do they keep delivering

Blue bird <3

I need all the fanfiction please and thank you

OHMYGOD

and the morals!!!!

The collector was never a new big bad

And that sequence where the collector keeps trying to win at games and gets frustrated and you can tell the issue is that it’s a fight and they’re getting frustrated

And the conflict resolution

Cuz they’re just a kid

A really fucked up godly child

But just a kid

The pacing is so good on that end even with limitations

Kind of wanna cosplay them cuz the makeup look

Kings dad 😭😭😭

The journey of Luz’s magic omgg

Luz gets to keep both parts of her family 🫂

AMITYS HAIR WTF 😳

I want Gus’s hair highkey

I stole Sonja’s haircut and everytime I get braids I get closer to saying fuck it and starting dreads dear lord

They get to stomp on Belos hell to the yes

Skulls are so cool

Ooo I want to paint king

Bruh king as a teenager is giving Chameleon vibes

Awkward middle stage

But wholesome

FINALLY Raine gets to be happy

I was scared they were gonna die

They go through so much dear lord

Them and Hunter through the ringer dear lord

Dana why

They did a good main character revival plot

I know it’s a trope but it’s a good one

Cuz it’s about how they change!! Their arc!

It’s not about being a plot device it’s a character device

I have a friend who likes the trope a lot and we were talking about it before this episode came out so it felt special

Bruh the conversation about Belos between Luz and the titan

Reminded me of the conversation in TLOU where Ellie asks a question and Joel is like “no, {adult wisdom about trauma}” no spoilies, it’s near the end, you know the one 🦒.

Anywho I like those kinds of moments because it shows how young the protagonist is but doesn’t take agency away and it feels very genuine

Also bruh the symbolism of Luz and Belos as the two main humans in this story. But Luz came to the Isles as an immigrant and Belos as a colonizer. And Luz learning over the course of the show that that makes them very different things and not to feel shame in association to him. They are not the same. Stomp on that skull!

Bruh the Titan gave off Technodad vibes. Can’t proper explain it but he did 🫶🏽

So much exciting happened but again what got me was the ending. Like the end credits voice over with music shit. And right before that. Just. She’s going to wizard university. She’s grown up srygghjggh

We fucking came of age together what the fuck I’m not okay

@decentturtles help 😭

How can I do environmental science hw in this economy

Edit: and the way the show makes dance fighting delightful! Casting as a team is joyous even in danger

It’s like that here and it was like that for Grom 🫶🏽

[floralcrematorium]

Alfred F. Jones || HWS America

Character Playlist | 34 songs | 2hr, 7 min

• Ophelia - The Lumineers • Hero - Chad Kroeger, Josey Scott • w.a.m.s. - Fall Out Boy • Hero - Skillet • Help Is On The Way - The Rise Against • Cut The Cord - Shinedown • Blood // Water - grandson • 20 Dollar Nose Bleed - Fall Out Boy • West Coast Smoker - Fall Out Boy • Ignorance - Paramore • Don't Believe A Word - Third Eye Blind • The Foundations of Decay - My Chemical Romance • Headstrong - Trapt • DEVIL - Shinedown • you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish • Problems - Mother Mother • Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra • Fourth of July - Fall Out Boy • Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People • Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz • Money, Money, Money - ABBA • Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde • American Boy - Estelle, Kanye West • Cupid's Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes • Ain't It Fun - Paramore • All Star - Smash Mouth • Hullabaloo - Rare Americans • Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet • 9 to 5 - Dolly Parton • Gives You Hell - The All-American Rejects • We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel • We Didn't Start The Fire - Fall Out Boy • Alpha Dog - Fall Out Boy • Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper - Raimby, Sir Paladin Patty

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