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theres people on here fighting battles i cant even imagine

"tumblr's the only social media without algorithms!" "you can still be anonymous on tumblr!" "tumblr's so nice because you don't have to show your face!" WRONG tumblr is special because you can have 3000 followers and still get an average of seven likes a post. i'm doing stand up comedy at a packed venue and one person is laughing

crying because we’re actually going to get abby and lev on our screens eventually 😭😭😭

My partners friend went missing if you all could signal boost this!

not writing, not not writing, but a secret third thing

tumblr: constantly be aware of your own privilege. constantly be aware of your capacity of be evil. hey i know you really like that new piece of media but make sure you're aware of all of the problematic elements all the time. hey i noticed you reblogged a post from a designated Bad Person so please make sure you do a thorough background check on everyone you reblog from to make sure they're not bad, otherwise people might get the wrong idea about you. always be aware of everything bad that's happening in the world all the time because silence is violence. i see you not reblogging this post btw. activist burnout is a privilege so be aware of that. xyz people are required to reblog this post. if you're not constantly fighting against designated Bad People you are inherently complicit and therefore a Bad Person.

people with ocd:

bro, the me inside your head is kind to you, right? haha? 🤨

Ellie + Abby as textposts

my shaylas..🥹

Ellie Letting Abby & Lev Go Makes Sense.

People who complain about the ending of TLOU2 being about Ellie forgiving Joel's killer are kind of missing the point in my opinion. I think there's a fair argument that Ellie doesn't actually forgive Abby, nor is the ending about the triumph of forgiveness. It's more so about Ellie honoring Joel's memory by not taking away a parental figure (Abby) from a lonely kid (Lev).

Joel fought for Ellie's survival to Salt Lake City in part 1, and then fought like hell to save her at the end of the game even though it would potentially cost the vaccine. This is also what sealed his fate. Debate about rather or not this was the right thing to do aside, he saved Ellie's life.

So, when she's helpless to return the favor, especially after they've made plans to try to patch things up, she gets caught up in avenging her perceived failure. She is fixated on the part of Joel that was fearless and did things like torture and kill people. The Joel before their falling out. These memories and thoughts help motivate her to carry out the revenge plot.

It's only when she remembers her final memory of Joel - the caring parental figure who prioritized and jeopardized everything just to save a kid he'd grown attached to, that she realizes that Joel probably wouldn't want this. Lev is a kid who, like Ellie, lost everything - mother, sister/best friend, and community. No matter how oppressive Seraphite culture or F.E.D.R.A QZs are, that was all Lev and Ellie knew, and it hurt to essentially be ran out even if it was ultimately for the best. Abby is like Joel - dangerous, lethal, hardened, and fiercely protective. When the first thing Abby does after being freed from her restraints by Ellie is to save Lev and cradle him, that's when it starts to click for Ellie, that much like how Joel's chosen purpose became to protect Ellie, Abby's chosen purpose is to protect Lev.

It's also why Ellie threatening Lev's life in order to get Abby to fight her is also symbolic. On this trip Ellie has become extremely detached from who she was before Joel's death. Lev in this context represents the Ellie we knew before all of this happened, so Ellie threatening Lev, an innocent child that has nothing to do with Abby and Ellie's fight and was even the reason why Abby let Dina live earlier in the game, symbolizes the risk of her going beyond the point of no return: that she will loose herself. Become unrecognizable. She's not just holding a knife to Lev, but to her old self.

But, when she recollects that final memory of Joel, that was so full of warmth, how he said he would save her all over again if given another chance even though he knew they would still eventually fallout, because he cares about her and wants her to be able to live her life on her terms, she remembers that Abby is doing that for Lev, and that just like herself, Lev deserves someone who will fight for him.

And that honors Joel memory more than killing Abby would have.

tlou spoilers but I’m praying they casted lev correctly and do his and abby’s side of the story well bc abby giving up basically everything to protect a trans kid of colour in this current environment is going to hit even harder

You’re My People

I wrote a short little Abby and Lev thing post-canon of both games that kind of explores Abby as a character and the similarities between her and Joel and their approach to parenting / protecting their children. You can find it here on AO3 or read below the cut!

The nightmares that woke Abby up in the night often differed slightly from each other.

Sometimes she’d be her younger self, walking in there and finding what Joel Miller had done to him, her father’s brains splattered on the floor.

Other times she’d be her older self watching her younger one going in there, not listening to her when she warned her what she was going to find in there and crying quietly as she heard her own screams.

Recently though, her nightmares had been about Lev, about the same fate meeting him that had met everybody else Abby had ever loved. It’s one of those dreams that has woken her up in the early hours this morning and left her unable to get back to sleep so, rather than continuing to try, she’d decided to get up and sit by the window in the abandoned old apartment they’d managed to find and recover in on their journey to the fireflies.

She looked over at him, watching his chest rise and fall in the even breaths of sleep, and knew she’d do all in her power to keep him safe and alive for as long as there was breath in her lungs. She wondered, perhaps, if that was the same thing that Joel Miller had felt and that had been what had caused him to kill her father, kill all of the fireflies, to save one child.

She hadn’t understood it at the time because the kid he’d saved wasn’t even his by blood and her sacrifice could have meant a cure for everybody. But, as she glanced over at Lev again, she found herself understanding Joel now for the first time.

Lev wasn’t hers by blood either but she imagined what she felt for him must be what most parents feel for their children. She’d give up anything for him and that would include a cure too, she thinks, and she can’t help but wonder when she started thinking this way. She remembered encouraging her father with what he was doing, telling her she’d want to make that sacrifice if she was immune.

But Lev was different.

Perhaps in part, it was due to him being the only thing she had left now. But still she’d given up everything for him even before that was the case and gone against the Wolves to protect a Seraphite. Was she as terrible as Joel was for feeling this way? She’d realised fairly quickly that him being dead hadn’t made her feel any better but did she deserve to suffer the same way she’d felt he did, had ensured he did?

She heard Lev stir, a slight whimper coming out of him indicated his own nightmares, and she moved to sit with him on the bed, gently easing him into her lap.

“Shh,” she soothed gently, pressing her lips to his dark hair. “I’m here. It’s alright, bud, we’re okay.”

He relaxed after a moment and settled in her arms and she stayed there just holding him close. And with the weight of him in her arms, she found she didn’t care anymore whether it made her like Joel or not. She’d do whatever it took to keep him safe from any other harm because to her, nothing and no one else mattered anymore as much as him.

why is it whenever I point out that abby and lev are a parallel to joel and ellie I get gamer bros trying to argue with me and accuse me of not knowing the game as if them being parallels isn’t the most obvious thing about abby and lev if you play even the slightest bit of attention lmao

like we all know you don’t give af about abby but if you’re going to comment and accuse someone else who does actually care about her of not paying attention or whatever, at least have paid attention yourself lmfao

Ben switching seats so yasammy doesn't have to sit next to each other and holding them both im gonna cry

Yasammy: "We're gonna have a slowburn relationship that'll be SO GOOD, when we say 'I love you', it'll be beautiful."

Brookenji: "Ha, but we're gonna snipe you both, we're gonna go on actual dates and have awkward flirting before you, even with a three-season head start! We'll say how much we love--"

Benrius, for no reason, before Season 3 is even over:

meowwwwwwww

FAN ITALIANI DI JWCT!!!!

As a Benrius shipper, Ben should break up with his girlfriend.

She should be with me

LOOK AT THIS GORGEOUS, BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT LOVELY GIRL

Please

She is Italian

I'm italian

Leave that twink and please give me Change beautiful girl

girls don't want much, they just want their favorite mlm ships to be canon

🦖 silly people being silly

THIS IS SO CANON I GOT UP AND CLAPPED!

Darius hcs? 👀

Can't tell you how happy I am this was the first one I got. ALRIGHT, DARIUS TIME!

- he is trans+het ! Also autistic obviously.

- he's actually had a crush on Brooklynn forever, like since the beginning of camp days, but he never really realized, what with all the panic and the dinosaur attacks and all.

- he was Not like a lot of other kids in his town growing up and didn't have a lot of friends. I think he's really into "lame" music, and talks about dinosaurs at every opportunity, and when he's not yapping about dinosaurs he probably had his head in a video game or the latest paleontology article. His parents Did Not worry about him. But I also don't really see it bothering him, I think it wasn't until he met the camp fam that he became a "my friends are my power" kinda guy.

- were it not for the ethical complications and state of it all, he would Soo want a dinosaur for a pet. He would never say this out loud though. Probably settles for like a tortoise or a bearded dragon later in life.

- likes herbivores more than carnivores. not because of the trauma he just thinks they're more cool.

- daydreams about meeting folks like Alan Grant but if he ever did the bomb would go off (infodumping).

Trying to learn alightmotion and decided to butcher my favorite part of rinyo’s at the mercy of emptiness animatic for it. First is the original

Yippie ki-yay,, I am the biggest dark matter fan

The greatest hater in ninjago history VS The greatest hater of today

So ninjas try to save the day → gain a royal white haired enemy with one sided beef (spoiler alert it will not be one sided for too long)

Yeah okay, maybe they should stop doing their jobs idk :/ /j

dragons rising textposts!! (33/??)

Wedding Day

hello yaoi

could u even imagine the grief dark cacao went through as a father? aqqqjwqq

Redraw!

January 23, 2025

Old piece 👇

July 28, 2024

promessi sposi Innominato/Borromeo 1913

Look how vintage they are!

I enjoy a lot these so here are a bit of pics from the 1913 mute film ver.

There is another one too but i cannot find it. *goes to cry in the innominato castle*

good update