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08 Jan 2026
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With Hoseok in preheat, Yoongi truly feels like his soul is being chipped away, bit by bit, with every passing second.
The one where they're underground rappers, and Hoseok is an omega who uses his pheromones to encaptivate the crowd.
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- Part 17 of Smutshots for Hoseokkie
- Part 13 of AiSeeHope's Omegaverse
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08 Jan 2026
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not even a house full of people drunk and stumbling can stop a jealous jeongguk from fucking his claim into jimin.
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08 Jan 2026
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regeneration by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Mar 2023
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“Brains are like bones,” he says when he’s sure he can be calm, and she pulls back at that, face scrunched in judgment.
“Jesus, man, it sounds like you’re the one who needs to take a biology class.”
“Hold the sass,” he chides mildly, and she rolls her eyes but settles against him again. “A broken bone hurts like a bitch,” he says, “and for a while it doesn’t work like it should. Sometimes it feels like it might never hold you up again.”
She’s quiet, but it’s an attentive sort of silence, not like her blessedly increasingly rare moments of catatonia.
“But it heals, baby girl,” he tells her, adjusting her until he can get his arms around her, blanket bundle and all. He rests his chin on the top of her head and brings one hand up to squeeze the back of her neck gently, trying to coax the tense muscles loose. “Sometimes it still aches on rainy days-”
“Okay, Edgar Allen Joel.”
“-but you take those days, and you breathe through them, and eventually, they end.”
(the events of episode 8 have left their scars on Ellie) (luckily she has a Joel)
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02 Jan 2026
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He doesn’t notice that one of her shoes is untied until a lace gets caught in a notch of a log as they pass, sending her down hard.
The momentum of her fall sends him thudding against a tree, and his eyes slam shut as he grits his teeth against the white hot pain that flares in his side.
When he opens his eyes, she’s facedown in the snow, still and silent, hands still at her sides making it clear that she didn’t even try to catch herself.
It speaks of so much trauma, so much unresponsiveness, that he feels tears sting his eyes at the sheer scale of what’s happened to her, of how small and useless he is to fix any of it, of how much he’s let her be hurt by his own failure to protect her.
But there’s no time for his own self-loathing.
She needs him, insufficient as he is.
(a fic covering joel taking care of ellie after episode 8)
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01 Jan 2026
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no man's land by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Mar 2023
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To her own credit, she gives it her best shot when the agents–FEDRA, she notes grimly, though their uniforms are battered and faded in a way that suggests they’re not exactly the cream of the crop–spill out and surround her. She’s nothing against the guns pointed at her, but she knows she damn fucking well won’t go down without a fight. She kicks and scratches and claws with everything she’s got, but she’s one skinny, unarmed 15 year old against a group of trained adults, and in no time, they have her facedown on the ground, one of them kneeling on her back so that she can’t move and can barely breathe.
“Get-the fuck-off me!” She wheezes, trying futilely to get loose, giving it all she has to buck the guard off. Her mouth is slick with the coppery taste of blood from where she’s bitten more than one person, and she spits as she struggles, trying to get it out of her mouth.
There’s a sharp prick of pain in her neck, and the world slowly dissolves into darkness.
(looking to compete with the Fireflies, FEDRA sends agents to capture Ellie to make their own cure) (and this time, Joel isn't right there to protect her)
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- Part 1 of no man's land
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01 Jan 2026
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tricks and treats by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Mar 2023
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He makes his way into the store, light filtering in through dusty windows. None of their inventory will be of any use to him, he knows, but it’s possible that someone somewhere along the line left something that could come in handy. Nothing turns up, but the more he looks through the cheap costumes and bright masks, the more an idea occurs to him.
It looks like just the sort of thing Ellie would have a field day with, he thinks with a small smile as he flicks a witch hat out of his way. It’s been too long since he’s seen her smile, really smile, and he can already imagine her delight in getting to pick through so many artifacts from the old world.
She’s going to love it.
(looking to cheer Ellie up after everything she's gone through in winter, Joel surprises her with a Halloween store) (it doesn't go well)
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01 Jan 2026
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“Oh c’mon,” she’d wheedled two weeks ago, “I’m not a baby, Joel. Plenty of the other 16 year olds go out without their parents.”
It hits him in a cold wave of terror now. There are other 16 year olds who go out without their parents, yeah.
There are also 16 year olds who don’t come back to their parents when they do.
He’s at the gate faster than he’d ever thought possible, and he’s nearly frantic as he scans faces, looking for Ellie’s cowboy hat. She’s taken to accessorizing it recently, and he’s searching desperately for a glance of a bright blue jay feather tucked into a brim because “it’s a blue jay kinda day, Joel.” He pulls himself up as tall as he can get, scanning faces for the third, fourth, fifth time.
No hat.
No blue jay feather.
No Ellie.
(Ellie gets badly hurt on a patrol, and Joel relives some horrible memories)
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31 Dec 2025
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collateral damage by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Feb 2023
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“Her name was Rose,” she says tonelessly. “Her sister’s in my group at school.”
He closes his eyes as he leans against the corner of the wall behind her. He opens them and reaches for her hair, smoothing it back from her face in slow strokes. She leans back into the touch.
“We’ll have that delivery next spring,” he reminds her softly. It’s a promise he’ll be bringing backup for to ensure they keep their word when it’s time to collect. There won’t be enough for everyone yet, but it’ll still go a long way in keeping Jackson safe.
It just doesn’t help them now.
(after a death during a patrol, Ellie struggles with guilt she shouldn't have to shoulder) (Joel helps)
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31 Dec 2025
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palliative by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
09 Aug 2023
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Ellie reminds him, so much, of his great aunt Tina's cat, a smush-faced Persian who had a gold-edged dish and her own special pillow on the couch not to be touched under pain of hissing. Same preference for a single person, same intensely observant eyes, same tendency to both appear and disappear into thin air.
Same apparent judgemental mistrust of him.
"She shy?" He asks Joel one day about four weeks after their return to Jackson, after catching a single glance of an eye looking at him through a cracked door before disappearing.
"Who?" Joel asks, handing over a glass of ice for the whiskey he'd brought. "Ellie?"
No, the poltergeist haunting your house to stare at me and then vanish, he thinks but doesn't say.
(ellie and tommy get off to a rough start)
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30 Dec 2025
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So busy trying to eat her snack and not her gloss, she doesn’t actually look up until “dressing for revenge,” a little curious about why it’s prompting so many “wooo!”s.
One look at Taylor gliding a hand down her bejeweled onesie has her choking on the pretzel, inhaling cinnamon sugar.
It takes Sarah pounding her on her back to save her from becoming an Auntie Anne’s casualty, and even then, she has to look away from the stage to catch her breath, her entire face prickling with heat. Jesus, who the fuck approved this choreo? She thought Taylor Swift was supposed to be about dumbass exes and being girly and shit.
She peeks up under her lashes just in time to see some wildly compelling manspreading.
This time she chokes on air.
(modern era/no apocalypse ellie goes with sarah to a taylor swift concert and has A Gay Panic)
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- Part 1 of the miller bunch
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30 Dec 2025
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no substitutions by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Aug 2023
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He finds Ellie right at the gate, back pressed to it and gun held out.
The sight of her makes him falter for just a moment. There’s no other word for her but wrecked. She’s far too thin, her cheekbones and the single collarbone he can see from where her shirt has slipped a bit under the strap of her backpack sharp, and there are dark circles under her eyes. She’s wearing a flannel that has to be Joel’s, though it’s rolled up to her elbows. On one forearm is a thick wad of dirty-looking bandaging.
On both arms are dark, splotchy bruises.
“-down. We’re not trying to hurt you,” George says. He’s a grandfatherly man, kind, even-tempered. He’s gotten tapped in to solve disputes and settle conflict more than once.
He is also, at a glance, winding Ellie up like a spring.
(on the way back from salt lake, joel and ellie get separated) (ellie makes it to jackson alone before joel, and tommy has a rough start with uncle round 2: electric boogaloo)
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30 Dec 2025
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He frowns and picks the picture up, angling it to better see it in the light of the fluorescents of the hallway shining in. He looks over to Ellie’s sleeping face, smooth now in a brief reprieve from nightmares. He looks back to the picture. Back to Ellie. Back to the picture.
It’s…it’s her. It has to be. Same nose, same eyes, same ears. The baby has the soft roundness of a young infant that makes it hard to tell jaw shape or cheekbones, but there’s no denying it.
He’s holding a picture of an infant Ellie.
(the fireflies steal ellie's fedra file) (in the hospital, joel finds it)
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29 Dec 2025
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10,000 hours by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Jul 2023
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By week five, she’s recovered and trusted enough to start taking short walks on her own, though she doesn’t miss how Joel almost always “happens” to be on the porch when she gets back, always giving her a quick once-over as if she’s gotten into something dangerous in the ten minutes she walked around without him. She rolls her eyes at it and grumbles to keep up appearances, but she can’t help liking it, just a little bit. She went three days of being so sick that she was unable to leave her bed in FEDRA when she was nine without anyone noticing. Now she thinks she’d be lucky to get a sneeze under the radar. It’s a lot, kind of, having someone so attentive.
…but it’s also pretty fucking nice.
Less nice is trying to find her feet in this new life, which requires all sorts of things she never knew she didn’t know.
Such as cracking an egg, apparently.
(settling in jackson means facing a few challenges)
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29 Dec 2025
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“We’ll get your hair last, alright?” He says, not stopping the soothing motions as he works his way down her neck, pulling down the neck of her shirt enough to get at the splatter over her collarbones and at the hollow of her throat. “It’ll need to be washed, so I’ve got more snow melting right now.”
She’s never been very vain about her hair, but a minder when she was about 7 had run her hands over it and told her how beautiful it is, and she’d always kept it some degree of long since then, holding onto that little snapshot of someone liking something about her. It’s stupid, to still remember a passing comment from someone who might as well be a stranger at this point, but no matter what else anyone told her after that, she’d clung to that memory.
Someone once thought her hair was beautiful.
With the memory of hungry hands still sullying her like an oil stain, greasy and all-consuming, she wants at least one beautiful thing.
(how ellie claws back a little control via her hair)
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29 Dec 2025
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urgent care by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
14 Jun 2023
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“Maybe we should see if a doctor can stop by,” he says at the same time she says “No no no no.”
He sighs and sits beside her carefully. He rests a hand on the back of her head, and despite herself, it’s soothing.
“Just to make sure nothing’s wrong,” he says in a calm, reasonable tone that doesn’t do anything but wind her up. “We can-”
“It’s a period,” she says flatly. “It’s just a bad one.”
“Ell-”
“Do you have a uterus?” She demands. “No? Shut the fuck up then.”
It’s way more aggressive than she’d usually get with him, but there’s no goddamn way she’s going to the clinic, especially just to have a doctor laugh at her for being freaked out by a period.
It took her weeks to get out of the hospital in Salt Lake, and that was for the sake of creating the cure they brought back with them.
Hopping right back into another one? And for some stupid period cramps?
No fucking way.
(the "ellie gets appendicitis" fic that no one asked for)
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28 Dec 2025
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She thinks it’s a joke at first when she finds out that Joel’s a patroller, too. She’s a veteran, so it was a simple thing for her to be assigned to the work as well, but the idea of gentle, loving Joel with a gun in hand, fighting and killing, is almost laughably absurd.
She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who spends hours on the porch with his daughter patiently teaching her guitar and think “yes, he’s good in a fight.” She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who regularly scoops up his fussy nephew and soothes him with an experienced parent’s deftness and think “yes, he’ll absolutely kill without hesitation.” She doesn’t know how anyone could look at the man who lets his teenager manhandle him to steal his food right off his plate because it makes her laugh and think “yes, he’s ruthless enough to take out a threat.”
She doesn’t know how anyone could look at Joel Miller and think he’d be a good patroller, and day by day, she worries about it more and more.
(a newcomer to jackson meets joel and thinks he's FAR too soft to be a patroller) (ft. outside pov of joel being a somft girldad) (and somft, period)
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27 Dec 2025
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When a woman he only distantly knows named Helen takes him aside after lunch one day with a “I’ve been meaning to talk to you about Ellie,” he thinks he’s about to hear about his kid accidentally starting a fire in chemistry or somehow knocking down a wall, and he prepares himself for it. She’s a good kid–hell, other parents have expressed envy that their kids don’t listen as well–but she has a mischievous streak a mile wild, and teenagers aren’t exactly known for their excellent impulse control or decision making skills.
Then what comes out of Helen’s mouth is, “Have you thought about if she might do better with a family?”
And he doesn’t think there was possibly a way he could have prepared himself for that.
(in jackson, someone tries to suggest that ellie should be given to them instead) (it goes about as horribly as it possibly could have)
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27 Dec 2025
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On the sixth snatched lunch, he decides to wait and watch. It’s childish, but they’d finally had help in so work had gone quickly enough that he could work on making cuts for the cabinet framing.
And it just so happens to offer the perfect viewpoint to watch his lunch bag on the passenger side of his truck without being immediately visible.
He waits in the hours before lunch ready for a fight, ready to storm out and confront his little shit of a little brother. He knows it’s Tommy. He knows it.
And then a little head with a brown ponytail sticks out of a bush, and he starts to wonder what he knows after all.
The girl looks around furtively, darts forward, jumps up to get her arm over the open window, makes a basket of her shirt, shakes out the contents, tosses the bag back in, and darts off, disappearing into the bushes once more.
All while he stands on the sidelines, saw still in hand.
(non-apocalypse au in which ellie and joel meet bc she keeps sneaking onto his jobsite to steal his lunch)
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26 Dec 2025
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lessons in wayfinding by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
30 May 2023
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It’s after Joel swears (lies) that he told the truth that it dawns on her. He’s so fucking cagey about what they said about her immunity. He hasn’t told her any details about it at all. Not the slightest thing.
He knows how much she’s wondered about her immunity, about why she is the way she is.
If he knew the answer, he would give it to her. She knows that. There’s no way he would be that cruel to her, no way he just wouldn’t tell her, wouldn’t give her an answer even if it wouldn’t help anyone else. It would help her, to know the why of how she’s different from everyone else. And if there’s one thing she can trust Joel to do, it’s help her.
If Joel won’t tell her anything about her immunity, there’s only one reason she can come up with as to why.
She’s not immune after all.
(after the hospital, ellie comes to the only logical conclusion she can draw) (and then she decides she has to do something about it)
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26 Dec 2025