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  1. Public Bookmark 67

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    Him and Tommy, they’ve done this thing before- this thing where they’re the best goddamn parent/uncle tag-team around. They pick up the slack for each other, and Joel will never be anything but grateful for another adult hanging around that’ll treat Ellie the way she ought to be treated.

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    Four times that Joel and Tommy are the world's greatest co-parent/uncle-ing duo...and one time they co-fuck up.

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    24 Jun 2025

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    HOLY SHIT I CAN'T I LOVE THEM

  2. Public Bookmark 45

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    Post 2x02

    Joel blacks out in the lodge and wakes up standing on the staircase of his old house in Texas. He and Ellie get the chance to say what they need to say.

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    23 Jun 2025

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    💔🩹️❤
    One of the best things I've ever read in my whole life and I mean that

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    He finds a chunk of ice beside the lake and wraps it in a piece of flannel that he tears off of his shirt. It’s a dumb idea; he knows he’ll regret it, but if he doesn’t do something for Ellie’s pain he doesn’t think he’ll be able to live with himself any longer. So he presses it into her fingers, directs her hands to hold it against the angry bump on her head, and tries to pretend that means anything after what he’s failed to protect her from.

    She’s so quiet. So passive. Joel almost feels like he shouldn’t be seeing it. Like she wouldn’t want him to be, if she wasn’t lost wherever she is, far from reality.

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    23 Jun 2025

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    AUGHAUAGHAGH THE BEST READ ON THAT SCENE I´VE SEEN I CAN´T TAKE IT ANYMORE WHY CAN´T SHE JUST BE HAPPY- 。⁠:゚⁠(≧ロ≦)゚⁠:⁠。

  4. Public Bookmark 43

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    "I cut off my fingers."

    Joel wills himself to look at her hand before reacting; her finger, while bloody and needing stitches, is very much still on her hand. “No, baby, you didn’t cut off your fingers."

    “I did, I did” she chants lightly. “I did. I cut off fingers. It's what I do. Ears, too. Like Monet. No? Van Gogh.” She looks at Jesse: expression blank, shaking shoulders, mouth in a soft frown. “The nose got real crooked. His eyes were closed, but they probably popped like raspberries.” Jesse’s face goes pale and he looks Joel’s way, silently begging for help. “No, wait. Grapes. Right? Do they pop like grapes, Joel?”

    “Baby," his voice breaks as he watches her tremble and bleed. "Look at me, huh?” He shakes her a little, not having the heart to pinch her arm to try and bring her back. “Right at me. We’re gonna fix you up. Trust me.”

    For a moment she stops shaking, eyes on him. Searching his face for a lie. Almost expecting it.

    But he knows he only has himself to blame.

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    Ellie, Joel, and the weight of their lies as they settle into Jackson.

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    18 May 2025

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    AUGHHHH 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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    "A witch popped out of a rabbit hole in Central Park," Tony says. "Sorceress. Evil person. She was making inanimate objects come to life, there’s still trash cans running around Central Park, throwing beer cans at citizens, probably, Rhodey is wrangling them. Because with that suit of his, the hope is the trash cans might be persuaded to think of him as their supreme leader, or perhaps mother duck.”
    Her impatience is making a rapid comeback. “Stick to the medically relevant information, please.”
    “Kid says he was hit by a truth spell.”
    “Yes,” Peter says. “I was hit by a truth spell.”

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    09 Mar 2025

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    AUGH THIS ONE'S SO SWEET I CAN'T 😭 💖💖💖