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  1. Rec 94

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    It started as a way for Ellie to shove off some creeps hitting on her and it kinda... snowballed from there.

    A pretend dating becomes real dating love story.

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    25 May 2024

  2. Rec *

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    Ellie presses her cheek into his palm. “When your hands are on me, I feel safe,” she says softly, each exhale tickling his wrist.

    “What are you asking me?” Joel breathes in a voice just as soft. He thinks–and perversely part of him hopes–he already knows. Her face falls and he's not surprised. It's exactly what she doesn't want: talking. But this is the sort of thing he needs clarification on.

    She scoots to the edge of the table, widening her legs so he can slot in between them and brings the hand resting on her cheek down to her knee. "Joel," her lips are flush against his ear when she whispers, “I'm asking you to touch me."

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    After a bad break-up, Ellie turns to the one person she swore she'd never speak to again. The one who broke her heart before Cat ever had the chance. The only one capable of piecing it back together.

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    26 May 2024

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    The building is overgrown the way most are now, wildlife seeping into structures that used to be solid and whole and clean. But it’s the sign right inside the broken door that catches her eyes more, a stand, filled with old, thin pages stapled together.

    “Giants of the Past,” she reads, sucking in a little breath and then scans the space, catching sight of bones that look like the dinosaur on the cover of the thin book. “Joel! Is this a museum?”

    “Nah, it’s a chicken coop.”

    She shoves at him with a laugh. “Fuck off.”

    He grins, tugging at her shorts. “C’mon. More to see, kiddo.”


    Or, the pure smut version of the museum flashback in TLOU2. You do not need to have played the game to understand the scene, it's just Joel and Ellie on her birthday post the first game/first season. The scene it's inspired by is linked in the notes!

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    27 May 2024

  4. Rec 97

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    The fucking problem here is that she's thinking way too straight about fucking, which is just not a thing Ellie does.

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    27 May 2024

  5. Rec 34

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    Joel and Ellie, on the road and in Jackson, and their angsty problematic pairing. Joel struggles with fatherhood, Ellie struggles with hormones, Ellie tries to control her own life. Problematic smut and Sodom and Gomorrah.

    Companion series by Rocksteady: Ways and Means.

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    01 Jun 2024