When you're lost in the darkness…

Hey Joel want to hear a joke?

Happy Last of Us Day! 🌿

September 26th

I will never get over how weird it feels to have tragic and emotional chapters of your life where you just also still go to work, and the grocery store, and see funny videos online all while feeling such paralyzing fear and heartache

life just goes on no matter what

don’t think i can call it a hyperfixation anymore fam im afraid im just long term insane about this piece of media

𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝔀𝓮𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝔂 𝓹𝓾𝓻𝓹𝓸𝓼𝓮 🍓

𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝟐𝟗, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑…

bill and frank, may their souls rest in peace <3

~ 29th august 2023~

august 29, 2023

“August 29, 2023

If you find this, please do not come into the bedroom. We left a window open so the house wouldn’t smell, but it will probably be a sight.

I’m guessing you found this, Joel, because anyone else would’ve been electrocuted or blown up by one of my traps heh heh heh.

Take anything you need. The bunker code is the same as the gate code but in reverse, do not make a mistake or you will also get blown to shit. I am not joking. Don’t fuck that up heh heh heh.

Anyway, I never liked you, but still, it’s like we’re friends. Almost. And i respect you. So I’m gonna tell you something because you’re probably the only person who’ll understand. I used to hate the world and I was happy when everyone died. But i was wrong, because there was one person worth saving. That’s what I did, I saved him, then I protected him. That’s why men like you and me are here. We have a job to do, and god help any motherfuckers who stand in our way.

I leave you all of my weapons and equipment. Use them to keep Tess safe, until such time as you and she decide you’ve had enough. At that point, I recommend pairing 40 Vicodins with a nice Brunello.

Bill.”

I think Fate’s generalized reputation among the unaware as being “hypersexualized weeb shit” really rubs a lot of fans the wrong way, myself included. Fate is more than just anime boobs and showing skin. The characterization is amazing, the stories are phenomenal and entertaining, and the lore is epic. Your mileage may vary as far as fanservice tolerance goes, but besides that—Fate is more than just some fanservice franchise.

Many characters are designed to be sexy, and the degrees to which they succeed at that vary widely. If that takes away from your ability to enjoy it, that’s totally fair. But to assume that having sexualized characters must be an indication that there’s nothing else of substance here is just inaccurate. I’m certain that the fanservice element is what attracts a lot of attention (and pushes a lot of potential fans away tbf), but what gets people to stick around isn’t the fanservice, but the stories and character focus. Those things are what makes you a fan of it.

Scenery in The Last of Us 11/??

So. This part of the script.

600 hours is 25 days exactly.

We see the radio turn on as they leave the QZ, and know Bill and Frank died on August 29th (a Tuesday, for reference). If we presume that Bill reset the countdown before their final dinner, that would mean Joel and Ellie left the QZ on the 23rd of September.

According to the timeline that the show presents, it takes three days to get to KC, arriving on outbreak day.

Which means.

When Joel woke up early the next morning to see Ellie with a gun to her head.

It was September 27th.

Alternatively.

And this is the timeline I will be using for the extended version of Ask A Million Times (but remember, it takes them two days longer to get to KC in that)

Say Bill always reset the countdown on Mondays, just to keep track of it.

If he’d just reset it on the 28th, what difference would a day make. Its not like they’ll need to be saved when/if Joel comes to check.

And with everything pushed back a day, that would move the 27th to the day Henry and Sam died.

The literal worst day of his life. Twice.

I'm always saying shit like "been in a weird place recently" despite never really being in a normal place to begin with

This is terrible but today when I was playing volleyball outside with some friends one of their children (18 months) was sort of ambling around on his stumpy little toddler legs and so we were all trying to be careful and like not spike the ball onto the baby but then he wandered over to his father, who picked him up bc dad reflexes, and then the ball got passed over to the dad and he sort of had a no thoughts moment and instinctively used his child to smack the volleyball over to the next person. Like he just swung the kid and used his legs like a baseball bat. I'm never going to forget his face of premature regret mid baby-manuever right when he realized what he was doing AND the instant he realized his wife saw it happen. Anyway the baby was fine he didn't make contact with the ball all that hard and he was just mad his dad wouldn't use him as a club again but I had to sit down because I laughed so hard I cried.

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