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Ellie’s been eyeing the blueberry bush by the street down the road for days now.
There’s probably hundreds of freshly ripe berries adorning the branches, growing more and more plentiful by the day. Yet, the bush is never tended to and the blueberries never eaten. At this rate, they’re all going to rot and fall off. Ellie can’t just let that happen.
Not when she hasn’t eaten in two days.
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or: Ellie steals blueberries from the man down the street and ends up finding much more than what she came searching for.
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give me a minute (to hold my girl) by spritejac
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
22 Mar 2026
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Tommy will get to hold his kid until he grows too big, and then set him down one day and not realize it was the last until way down the road. And even then, he’ll have the opportunity to still gather his son in his arms because Joel will make sure of it.
The same way that he’ll make sure that Ellie will always get a hug before leaving the house or a kiss on her temple before bed.
It’s then that Joel feels a gear stop turning in his head, thoughts redirected to a place that halts him in his tracks.
Who held Ellie when she was a baby?
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Joel has a crisis when he realizes that Ellie was never properly cared for as a child.
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Joel who just wants to hold his girl.
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of holiday parties, dresses, & inadequacy by spritejac
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Dec 2025
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It isn't uncommon for Joel to come home bearing gifts. He's always finding little trinkets on patrol that he thinks Ellie would like, or trading within Jackson's community when something that would suit her catches his eye. Ellie received items ranging anywhere from wall decor to DVDs to new bedding. She cherishes everything brought to her. The sentiment that Joel thinks about her so often lives strongly in her mind, and she loves how well he seems to know her even after such limited time.
So when Joel comes home and presents a velvety red dress adorned with a large white bow, Ellie can’t help but falter a bit.
"I was thinkin' about the holiday party comin' up and I know you were sayin' how you don't have anything to wear…”
Joel strokes a hand down the soft fabric of the gown, and there's a reminiscent glint in his eyes.
"Sarah used to have a dress just like this. I figured you could have one too."*
Ellie forcing herself to wear a dress that Joel gave her so that he can have a good holiday with a fond reminder of his deceased daughter.Or:
Ellie not understanding that she's in addition to, not in replacement of.
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don't you call her baby (we're not talking lately) by spritejac
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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“Sure thing, kiddo.”
The words freeze Ellie in place, hand suspended where it was reaching for her fork as time seems to stop around her.Kiddo.
Since when the fuck is Dina “kiddo”?
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Ellie not knowing how to confront Joel about Salt Lake and learning that maybe she is, in fact, replaceable.
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Jealous Ellie and Joel who takes in every teenage girl.
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Back to Friends by beachlasgna, spritejac
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
10 Oct 2025
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“I’m not gay, by the way.”
Jayce knows what he is. He knows what he likes. He knows what he dislikes, too. He has to get that out, though. Clear the air. Set the record straight. Rule out any misconceptions.
His eyes fly open when he doesn’t hear a response. If it were anyone else, he’d imagine they would have stood up and walked out of there without a second thought. Would have probably laughed in his face before they left, too. Maybe Viktor is different. Maybe he just really wants to suck his dick.
That’s just cocky, Jayce. Twenty in the Douche Bag jar, per Caitlyn’s rules.
But his declaration seems to get a rise out of Viktor because he looks up to him from down on his knees with a humorous glint in his eyes. A cheap chuckle comes from below.
“This is… this is just me broadening my horizons, you know,” Jayce adds, just to be safe. “Drunken fun is all.”
“Broadening your horizons,” Viktor says flatly. “Whatever you say, birthday boy.”
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A story in which Jayce discovers that getting your dick sucked by a hot stranger at the club and falling in love with him does, in fact, make you gay. OR; Jayce experiences a bisexual crisis at the age of twenty-five.
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He only realizes he’s doing it when it’s too late to stop.
He’s standing in the drink aisle of the grocery store, checking the expiration dates on the cans of Coke, mentally cross-checking them with Boston’s away game schedule, and the reality hits him like someone shook one of those cans and popped it open. A snap. A fizz. A mess.
Shane is making space for Ilya.
(or, lessons in budget-friendly shopping, home decor, and resisting the urge to neatly combine all your situationship’s shit into a drawer in your bedroom because you might be falling in love with him: a seven-ish step guide by shane hollander, who is so, so fucked)
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Shane Hollander's PDA Agenda by virtual_typewriter
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
18 Mar 2026
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It happens in an instant.
Over Ilya’s shoulder, Shane sees the doctor and Wiebe give each other a look, and in a sudden bout of impatient anxiety, Shane ends up saying the words that come to ruin everything.
“Don’t touch me.”
The effect is instantaneous. Ilya’s hands fly to his sides, and Shane gets a front row seat as Ilya’s heart breaks before his very eyes. Eyes dimming and lips trembling in slow, painful technicolor.
It causes Shane’s heart to break, too, and he vows, immediately, never to see such a look cross his husband’s face again.
OR Shane embarks on a mission to heal his husband’s heart, one PDA at a time.
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25 May 2026
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carry your world (and all your hurt) by motionsickness
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
25 Apr 2023
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When Sarah was four years old, she went through a phase of begging him to look under her bed every night. There were monsters, she'd tell him, and he was the only one who could frighten them away.
The monster Ellie's afraid of isn't under her bed and he doesn't know how to make this one go away.
(ellie's first winter living in jackson is hard.)
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15 May 2026
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every bird, gone unheard by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 May 2026
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“She’s cold, Joel.” It’s the first thing Tess says about the kid that isn’t practical, isn’t about the job. It’s quiet, too quiet for the kid to hear since she’s wandered a bit away and found herself a spot to sit down, out of the rain still dripping from the roof. “She’s just a fucking little girl and she’s cold.”
He stops trying to argue they should keep moving.
Or: Joel doesn't like Ellie being cold.
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25 Apr 2026
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everything i do, i learned from you by flannelfeelings
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 May 2023
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“Careful out there today kid,” he’d said seriously, “patrol yesterday came back pretty roughed up. I guess there’s been more hordes moving in from the city.”
She’d laughed, shoving him playfully with a, “c’mon old man! If I was as scared of infected as you are, I’d never leave the house!”
The look on his face had made her stop laughing, mostly because she knows why Joel is so afraid of infected. It’s not for his own safety.
“I’ll be safe. I promise.”
That seemed to put him at ease. Too bad she’s a huge fucking liar.
(Ellie risks her life on patrol to save a stranded kid)
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14 Mar 2026