#tbh joel is such a fanfic material

[lucy-sky]

"You don't get a minute of sleep tonight. My advice, don't expect to sleep. That way if you do, it's a nice surprise."

Civil War (2024), dir. Alex Garland

[minispidey]

DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS, WORRY ABOUT THE JOEL X ELLIE STUFF YOU LIKE...

Joel x Reader: Public Service Announcement

At the risk of ME being the one in the wrong here and subsequently receiving backlash, I'm still going to stick my neck out and give a warning to anyone who is ONLY interested in reading Joel/Reader and NOT Joel ultimately ending up with anyone else.

DO NOT READ Guilty Pleasure by @for-a-longlongtime which is also on AO3 here.

This fic is being falsely advertised as dbf!Joel Miller x Reader and no amount of "plot twist" justifies being conned into wasting an hour and a half of your life reading something that doesn't interest you.

Not cool.

ETA: I knew I'd get backlash but if I help just one person, I'm happy with that.

[joelsbeard]

crying at the thought of joel not just calling ellie baby and babygirl, but my love 🥺 lil mushy dad.

Tlou fanfic has truly messed with my head bc now my standard for ellie and joel is just so much cuddling and affection and fluff which is so far from the source material lmao IDC its what we deserve!! its what THEY deserve!! Tbh if ellie never got mad at joel and they just lived happily in jackson I definitely think within a couple years they'd be pretty affectionate, ofc not her calling him dad or anything super crazy but like you saw how when he went after her when she went back to Salt Lake City he gave her a kiss on the forehead when he hugged her 🥺 (lowkey still debating this bc it happened so quick, and i can't even tell if his mouth moved but it sounds like he gave her a kiss and it wouldn't be far fetched??)

[gwendolynalbrecht]

A none fan Re-Write Idea for TLOS2 (please dont kill me)

Okay... this will be long and first things first: Im not a fan. Or an angry guy. I know the very basics of the first game and as someone who enjoyed zombies (yes yes they are infected hush hush) and gaming quite a bit I stumbled over the leaks and rumors and the absolute horrible way Naughty Dog is acting. Towards their paying, loyal, fanbase... and customers most importanlty. So I gave the plot a look. Listening to the honest player reviews and yes I fully understand the anger and the disappointment really. SPOILERS Now imagine your favorite show. You favorite character, husbando, waifu son or daughter who cares, and in the long awaited next episode, the wait was long, your fanfavorite beloved character gets killed in the least caring manner possible and overly brutal to boot wouldnt you be just the smallest bit sad or mad too? Especially if they were dumped down to even die? To a point where they are out of character? We all would be come on. And its kinda sad too, we dont get many good dad characters in general.  Anyway I looked the plot over and I think we can all agree that its boring and predictable at best and utter dogshit (how fitting) at worst. And I had a bit of a thought on how the revenge idea could still work even with a bit of focus on gender and sexuality with the girls in focus still.  This is based on a YouTubers idea too, I couldnt find him again but I still wanted to mention it. So from what I know Ellie? Has a girlfriend, which is cute they seem adorkable from the material I viewed but lets get mean. What if, keeping all the (misleading) trailers in mind, the girlfriend is the one killed. Yes I know. We dont want to end our queer peeps all the time but Ellie still counts and she is one badass after all. But we are in the endtimes, mankinds numbers have dwindled, tribes exist again, it wouldnt be farfetched to find one if not more groups of fanatical people who are anti same-sex relationships because those couples cant reproduce and “safe” the speices. And Ellie and her girlfriend (so sorry I dont remember her name and I just want to smack my idea in your faces while its fresh) in the beginning and set up hours run into one, we are introduced the the nutters, the poor girl dies and our revenge plot is on the go. Ellie tries to sneak away later and like in the trailer EndtimeDad Joel? Tells her he will go with her, like the good bloody dad he is/was and we get into the game.  Now here is one of my huge ideas for Abby. We can keep most of her backstory really, her dad dying due to Joel and all. BUT and thats a big big juicy BUT Abby is NOT the one who kills Joel. In fact they never meet. Follow me here alright? This is anti revenge right? In a bleak, everyone may die universe. So what if Joel dies, protecting Ellie during the hunt / research part of the game. He is gone and out of the way, him dying for Ellie would probably make his death more impactful than the cheap provided shock value they provided and we still get the dead dad. Ellie now alone with no one else by her side has nothing else to keep driving her forward but her revenge.  And back to Abby, Im not to sure how to properly get her gameplay in, she would still be hunting Joel so she would of course be unaware of his death. And perhaps the girls cross paths much sooner in that near cult like groups outpost (maybe they have more settlements) Abby stumbles into them and her buff appearance have her mistaken as trans and she gets captured, her captors refusing to listen to reason, showing just how insane these lunatics are at that point. And they decide to maybe kill her or fore her to breed something horrible, we dont have to shy back from that after all.  At that place I would let the girls meet actually. Ellie finding that place on her hunt for that killer of her GF and she frees Abby and some other captives maybe, they escape together with one of them maybe getting injured, they stick together for a bit and bond vengance and the search for a murder being something they have in common but it ultimately comes out that Ellie knew and was close to Joel which creates a huge rift, but also at that point Abby learns the man she has hunted is already dead. (which tbh would be half expected I mean the world isnt that easy to survive in) and we are first hit with the over all theme of the game of revenge being meaningless in the end. As Abby has to face the fact that the man had died, like anyone else. She know finds herself empty and lost, very angry too the girls fighting for sure and Ellie is presented with the lie from the first games ending. Either way she still has her goal and while we get to see her struggle with that information she will move on and the girls split up with Abby now having no meaning or goal and we might delve into some serious dark places with her mentally but she stumbles into a side plot and finds other purpose. This is were my idea slowly loses detail since I obviously dont know how to fully hammer home a good “revenge is futile” ending for Ellie, maybe its still similar to the one we got, with her giving up but perhaps she found someone else who opened her eyes as sappy and clichee as it would be, someone she might met when staking out an outpost or something DISCLAIMERS: No no Im not a salty fanbrat I promise, I feel like the game had some massive potential and just wanted to share a creative little spark I got from it.  !!! I dont think I can make or write a better story than the game developers !!! Im not saying this would have turned out better !!! THIS IS JUST FOR FUNZIES!!! Why not share your own ideas, Im sure we got some FanFic authors around here and some AU fun stories sound like a good little creative exercise, you could take any show, book, game that might have disappointed you and give it your own spin, no harm done after all. This was litereally just something that popped to my mind with the plot points I gathered 

[scuttleboat]

Do you ship jonerys? The incest thing doesn't bother me too much tbh, but they seem so boring and predictable as a couple. It felt inevitable that they were gonna hook up, but it doesn't feel like they'd ever last. They're too different imo. And the love scene didn't really help their case. It lasted all of 15 seconds (vs missandei/greyworm's long ass scene) and had shitty lighting. And Jon's intentions seem v unclear tbh. He's acting dodgy and reserved, vs dany who's kind of opened up to him.

I’m kinda… ‘eh?’ on Jon shipping? In concept, I like both jonerys and jonsa. Tbh I know more jonsa shippers so my inclination might be slightly that direction…I think in terms of relationship styles, that appeals to me more in this story. But I haven’t read fic for either pairing. I’ve reblogged gifsets for both I think.

For me, GoT isn’t one of my shipping fandoms. I broadly like or have opinions on different pairings, but it’s not a /fandom/ fandom for me. Meaning I’m not inclined towards an OTP or towards fanfic. I think I read maybe 3 Arya/Gendry fics in the last 6 years. But I still get into screen pairings as a viewer. I like watching Sansa/Jon and Sansa/Tyrion. I like Jaime/Cersei and Jaime/Brienne. I really want Arya and Gendry to reunite. I liked Shae and Tyrion before they ruined it with shitty writing. Jon and Daenerys are two gorgeous people and I started this season being pumped to see them together, to see if it sparked my interest.

Answer: still ‘ehh’. I think it started off being written in a way that I had trouble connecting with, which I admit disappointed me. I feel like the version we got for the start of s7 was the most… uninteresting version of this pairing. It’s literally just them standing beside each other and that’s it. With some actor pairings, that’s all you need (Joel McHale and Allison Brie for example.) With Jon and Dany, we needed a bit more. I just needed SOMETHING extra to make it come alive. What if they’d met as children somehow? What if they’d been writing letters for the last two seasons planning an alliance? What if they’d met on the battlefield? What if he’d saved her life during their first conversation? I JUST NEED SOMETHING MORE.

That being said, I did like it more the second half. I thought the scene in the boat where he committed to her was wonderfully performed, and I totally bought it. I also think their sex scene was hot, and well placed in the episode. Moon of the north, wowsa. The actors have chemistry when they’re given the right material; I think it’s only that early in the season that material wasn’t interesting enough.

Right now, I kind of want them to be happy together because I like both characters and I would enjoy it if they triumphed together in the face of a cruel and caustic world. I think they’re both good people who try their best to protect others, and it makes sense to me that they’d be attracted to someone who embodies similar hopes and values. And they’re hot.

So… I guess in the show, I do ship them. They’re happening, anyway, and I’d rather they find happiness and peace and partnership than not find it. I’ll probably reblog stuff. But they’re not my one true pairing.

I don’t know about him being suspicious, I think Dany just seems more open because she’s actually a more open and emotional character than he is. Jon is a brooding taciturn bore sometimes. He’s very much a stoic archetype, albeit he’s been getting better since he died.

(Note: this also runs into the issue where I spent most of the books and show being indifferent to Jon and finding his story the most frustrating and boring on the show. When he died in the books I was so happy to be done with the fucking wall. Since the show brought him back I *have* been enjoying him a lot more. Probably because he’s seeing new people and doing new things, finally. And I’m broadly invested in all the characters, cuz I’m a fan. But you’ll never find me raising my voice about what female character can love Jon better. I, like, don’t care. The show doesn’t care. Jon doesn’t even care.))

Dany… I think she’d be fine without him, but I also think she’s lonely and craves love, that just seems like part of her character. So finding a decent man who is a) close to her political level, b) has integrity, c) that she’s attracted to, and d.) will stand up for her and keep his promises… Dany’s gonna be into that. Tho I think she’d also benefit from having a female lover, especially if that takes the pressure off her to keep romance and politics separate.