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old habits and new tricks by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Mar 2023
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“-and do not let her talk you into trying to go after that bear,” Joel says with a shake of his head. “Ever since she heard some people talking about taking care of it since it’s started going for the sheep, she’s got it into her head that she wants to be a bear hunter now.”
“I dunno,” Tommy says, straightfaced, “she might be a natural at it.”
The look Joel gives him is not dissimilar to the one he got whenever his big brother picked him up drunk from parties in highschool.
“Alright,” he says, hands up in surrender, “no bear baiting with your kid. Got it. We’ll start with mountain lions or something, work her up to it.”
“Tommy,” Joel says, a clear warning.
(when joel has to go on a week-long patrol, tommy is left to look after ellie) (ft uncle and niece bonding)
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29 Oct 2026
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Somewhere along the way, his girl’s gotten to believing that she’s a superhero. He doesn’t disagree, not necessarily, but he still sees the parts of her that are less man of steel and more little girl that grew up lonely and leans in to praise like a plant growing towards the sun. He sees it. Tommy and Maria see it. And evidently, Marshall fucking Green saw it.
Or, everyone has blind spots. Someone tries to exploit one of Ellie’s and its handled accordingly.
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29 Oct 2026
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Ellie knows before she’s even told that the woman is a former FEDRA officer. There’s a way she carries herself that raises Ellie’s hackles at once, makes her stand up straighter, makes her hyper-aware of the dirt on her shoes and the way her ponytail is slipping out, both infractions that would be punishable under FEDRA regulations.
In an instant, Ellie knows they’re destined to hate each other.
(a former fedra teacher arrives in jackson) (it goes badly)
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29 Oct 2026
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cyclical by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
15 Apr 2023
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It’s a bit like trying on an old jacket, settling into Jackson. The general shape of it is familiar, even comforting in its own way, but there’s an adjustment period, a little breaking-in until everything fits like it should.
Well, it’s like an old jacket for him. The way Ellie looks sometimes, completely bewildered and turning to him for reassurance or clarification, he thinks it’s a bit more like trying on a Halloween costume for her.
Tommy and Maria had brought them their meals at first, and he’d at least been gratified to get some real food into her. After Silver Lake, she’d been off all meat for a long while, and in the hospital, exhaustion and pain had stolen what little appetite she’d managed to recover by that point. There’d been a little adjustment period here in Jackson, when they fell back on their routine of him taking bites of meat first to reassure her they were safe, but she’s slowly begun building back some flesh on her skinny little self, and it’s like he can feel a bit of his own restlessness settle with each plate of cheesy potatoes she downs with relish.
(settling into jackson goes well, giving joel and ellie their first taste of peace)
(and then someone sees ellie's bite scars)
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29 Oct 2026
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nomenclature by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
03 Jun 2023
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She thinks, sometimes, about just asking him. She and Joel talk about pretty much anything between them. Hell, he even talked her down through the bathroom door when she got her first period after arriving back in Jackson and was convinced she was dying because there was so much blood. A man who can talk about uterine lining and cycles and heavy flows without being a little bitch about it is a man who can talk about almost anything.
And yet, every single time she starts to open her mouth, she just hears his voice from the one time he did tell her exactly what they are.
Or well, what they aren’t.
You aren’t my daughter, and I sure as hell ain’t your dad.
In the end, well.
It doesn’t get much simpler than that.
(after settling in jackson, ellie doesn't know what she and joel are) (ft. short ellie, protective joel, and feels)
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29 Oct 2026
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She didn’t used to hate school. She didn’t love it, but she likes reading, and science is objectively cool.
But now, each time she sits in class, all she can think about is David saying, “I was a teacher, taught kids about your age,” and then she can’t help but stare at the teachers and think, “Are you a monster, too?” Every smile, every encouragement, every smiley face on her quizzes, all of them just make her think of sitting across a fire from someone trying to make her laugh, knowing already that it was only an attempt to make her drop her guard enough to-
She doesn’t trust teachers, is the key point.
(ellie has a rocky start settling into jackson) (now if she'd only learn to ask for help)
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29 Oct 2026
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“Oh,” Ellie says when they hear a shuffling in the hall, and from the sound of it he knows she’s had an idea.
Before he can ask, before he can do a single thing, she yanks his arm through the fence, shoves his sleeve back, and sinks her teeth deep into the skin just above his elbow.
He curses and reflexively jerks back, but her grip on his arm is strong, and she just sinks her teeth deeper before she lets go. He pulls his arm back and is looking at her, wondering if she’s lost her damn mind from the stress of this horror show, when the door opens and three men, including David, walk through.
The sight of blood on her mouth makes the men pause.
But only for a second.
(post episode 8 with a little twist that joel is with ellie in the cages)
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29 Oct 2026
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Being the key to saving humanity is much less glamorous than someone might expect. There’s a lot more bleeding and puking and sweating than she thinks is fair, strictly speaking, and she makes the fun discovery that she loses her shit in an MRI machine when it reminds her of being trapped in a cage, and she has a panic attack so bad Joel almost breaks the machine getting her out.
(She gets sedated before MRIs after that, so she wakes up nauseous and grumpy, but beggars can’t be choosers, and MRI flight risks can’t be vocal about their side effects.)
“Say the word,” Joel always says, when he’s rubbing her back or holding her hair out of the way or letting her clutch his hand while they do a spinal tap, “and we’re out of here.”
“We’re so close,” she always tells him. “They’ll figure it out soon.”
And she believes it, mostly.
Primarily because she has to, if she’s going to keep going.
(the fireflies don't try to kill her, but ellie still has a Very Bad Time in the hospital)
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28 Oct 2026
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Before the events of Part II, characters are teleported to an empty room to watch Ellie and Joel's story in The Last of Us in hopes of changing the future.
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Completed.
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- Part 1 of Watching The Last of Us
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28 Oct 2026
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shifting paradigms by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Apr 2023
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She has mixed emotions when word makes its way to them that Joel Miller has returned to Jackson.
Tommy perks up at once, so clearly happy about it that she smiles completely reflexively just to see it. It’s a different side to him, him with Joel, a man who still worships his older brother to some degree.
No matter how little his older brother might deserve it.
To his credit, Tommy doesn’t ditch her, even if walking beside him feels like leash training a new puppy, the way he pulls forward and then catches himself, returning to her side. This late in her pregnancy, she’s almost at the waddling stage, and there’s only so fast she can get.
As they walk, she prepares herself for a silent stand-off with Joel. They’ll need to get some things straight if he is indeed here to stay the way she knows Tommy hopes he is.
(how joel and maria reach an understanding ft. devoted dad!joel)
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28 Oct 2026
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Five times someone called Joel Ellie's dad + one time they didn't.
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28 Oct 2026
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resonance by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Apr 2023
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When Joel calls his name and comes jogging towards him in Jackson, pulling him into a hug as fierce, as joyful as the ones he got when he was back on leave during his army days, he thinks, Is that all it took? I just needed to leave him alone to let him heal? I could’ve just fucking ditched him and then gone back? It’s a painful thought, that his own attempt at support just hindered Joel’s healing, but it’s a giddy one, too, the idea of his brother back with him.
Then he sees Joel catch a kid who almost falls off of her horse when she dismounts, the motion as easy and thoughtless as if he were-
Oh, he thinks, when he sees the way the girl looks at Joel, all sass and no regard, clearly not afraid of him in the slightest, the way she uses his personal space as her own without a second thought. Oh, you paternal fucker.
(tommy loses the person his brother was on the night of the outbreak) (it takes 20 years and a mouthy little punk to get him back) (ft. miller brother feels, ellie being feral, ellie thinking she and tommy are mortal enemies, and star wars)
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28 Oct 2026
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cramps and closets by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Mar 2023
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It wouldn’t be such a problem if she didn’t have such a massive crush on Dina, a crush that sometimes feels like it might be going somewhere when their eyes meet or Dina does stuff like reaching out to fix her ponytail for her, which sends little sparks of electricity throughout her entire body. They even linked pinkies during the last movie night, when Joel had opted out to go play poker with Tommy at the bar so she hadn’t been sitting next to him for once.
She wants to tell him so badly, wants to include him in this part of her life. She knows from other kids that they don’t usually tell their parents who they like, at least not until they’re dating or something, but Joel’s the person she wants to tell everything to. He’s always her first stop after a successful hunt or a good grade on a test or the highest score at archery practice. She wants to tell him about Dina, wants to be able to bring Dina around him. She likes being at home more than she likes most things, and she wants to be able to have Dina over in the place that she likes the most. She wants to pull Dina into game night with them and Tommy and Maria, wants to slowly knit her into their little family.
(Ellie comes out to Joel)
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28 Oct 2026
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cresting the horizon by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Mar 2023
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“Explain,” Ellie echoes, and he feels her hands fist in the fabric of his shirt when she sways too far to the right. His impulse is to reach back to steady her, but this isn’t the moment. Instead he leans back just a bit, and she takes the gesture for what it is, leaning forward a bit more to steady herself against him.
“We didn’t know it was Joel with you,” Marlene says, in that same calm tone. “As soon as we figured it out, we brought him here to recover.”
“And tried to drug me,” Ellie spits like an angry cat.
“You were panicking,” Marlene says. She moves forward a half-step. “We just-”
“Back,” he orders, and after a jerk of the rifle, she does. He doesn’t know what’s going on, not yet, but he knows that Ellie is upset and Marlene has had something to do with it.
And what else does he need to know, really?
(i looked at episode 9 and went 'nah') (alternate ending in which they stay and let the fireflies find a cure)
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28 Oct 2026
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Ellie can't stop thinking about Bill and Frank.
“Aren’t people from Texas supposed to, like… not approve of that?”
Joel looked at her, rolling his eyes. “There were gay people in Texas, Ellie.”
Gay. Ellie took the word in, and tucked it close behind her heart.
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27 Oct 2026
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spare the rod by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 May 2023
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“I was just…I was wondering what you do. You know. For like…punishment.” She interrupts him. She needs to get the answer already, needs to know what to expect before she drives herself crazy with anticipation.
“Well I was more into grounding than goddamn child abuse.”
“Grounding like…” Her face scrunches in confusion as she dares to look at him. The word is foreign and the best guess she has doesn’t seem right, but she also doesn’t know what else it could be. “Like being…in the ground?”
Joel stares at her for a long, long moment before he speaks.
“Jesus fucking Christ.”
(after they settle into jackson, ellie realizes she doesn't know how joel will punish her if she messes up) (it quickly becomes a problem she needs to solve)
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27 Oct 2026
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sanguine by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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He knows from the moment he sees Joel helping the girl down from the horse she’s on that something’s up. There’s an ease to the movement that says he almost certainly helped her up on the horse as well, and the way she moves with absolute trust that he won’t let her fall says there’s a bond there that’s had time to develop.
The girl sticks close to Joel’s side, eyes wary, as he guides her back over.
“This is Ellie,” Joel says before turning to her. “This is my brother, T-”
“Tommy, yeah. I heard. Not all of us have shit ears, grandpa.”
He blinks at the comment, but Joel doesn’t seem offended, even as he rolls his eyes.
This is his second hint.
(Ellie and Joel from Tommy's POV, ft. some jelly Ellie, Ellie whump, and family bonding)
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27 Oct 2026
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Pica Coloratura by Valerie_Vancollie
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Norse Religion & Lore, Marvel
23 Oct 2026
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After Frigga warns Loki and Thor that people behave differently around them because they're royalty, Loki decides to find out what happens when nobody knows he's watching.
His solution?
Become a magpie.
Now he has a new form, a new perspective, and a whole new way to cause mischief and chaos...
- Standalone prequel to Ásgarðrian Galdr!
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25 Oct 2026
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“Lieutenant?” Connor asks. His voice, at least, sounds closer to normal. Subdued, sure, but nothing like I’m okay or I felt it die.
“You look like shit,” Hank repeats. Because it’s easier than trying to address the obvious trauma the deviant-hunting android beside him is trying to process.
Connor is traumatized by the death of Simon at the Tower. And, Hank? Hank has a long-overdue epiphany.
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24 Oct 2026
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An error message, angry red and insistent, fills Connor’s field of vision.
He blinks, but diagnostics reveal no malfunction. And yet, the error message persists.
It buzzes like an old neon sign, refusing to be ignored.
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24 Oct 2026