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blueberry alley by marchflower for femmefacetious
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Jul 2026
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Ellie slides into her place and picks up her spoon. “What’s this?”
“Porotos granados,” Tommy replies. He sits beside her, squeezing her shoulder as he passes. “Our mama used to make it. She was from-”
“Santiago,” Ellie volunteers. Tommy chuckles.
“Si, Santiago,” he agrees. He says it with a little lilt that’s so different from his normal drawl that it makes Ellie giggle. It’s still weird to her, how sometimes Tommy and Joel switch so easily from one dialect or language to the next. She doesn’t even mind when they talk Spanish around her to keep her from knowing their business. She likes the rapid fire cadence of their words, the way the vowels sound like sugar melting over hot coals on their tongues, the way Joel sucks his teeth and hisses, how Tommy’s voice goes higher when he’s joking. It’s weird sometimes to look around at all the ways her family doesn’t match each other and yet love each other so much. It shouldn’t make sense - they shouldn’t make sense - and still, they do.
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Ellie's first year in Jackson, told through dinners and lunches and midnight snacks and egg sandwiches.
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Food as a form of love.
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03 Aug 2026
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Ellie’s not afraid of Joel.
She’s seen Joel do a lot of things that should scare her. Back in Pittsburgh, a hunter tried to choke her and she watched Joel beat his face into nothing. She’s watched him take people apart with nothing but his fists. She knows that should scare her.
It doesn’t, though. She thinks at this point she couldn’t be afraid of him if she tried.
She doesn’t like the idea that she can hurt him.
Or: Ellie accidentally hurts Joel.
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28 Jul 2026
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Joel’s used to not getting enough to eat, with rations being the way they are. And he’s sometimes… not great… at remembering to eat, anyways. But Ellie’s just a kid. The schools have to be making sure they have enough food, right?
So why hasn’t she complained about being hungry?
Or: Joel makes sure Ellie gets enough to eat and also he loves her.
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27 Jul 2026
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this is me trying (at least i'm trying) by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
17 May 2024
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It wouldn’t be so bad if she was alone in Jackson like she was in Boston. She’d figure out where she fit and she wouldn’t really care if people liked her. She’s done it before when they made her switch schools.
But she’s not. She’s here with Joel, and she doesn’t want him to be embarrassed by her. She doesn’t want him to regret this. To regret her.
OR: Ellie adjusts to living in Jackson.
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25 Jul 2026
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no returns for broken or damaged items by renegade_knight for ciaconnaa
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
23 Dec 2024
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Life before Ellie was lost before she realized it was something she could lose.
It was fine though – it would be fine. In the meantime, Sarah adjusted. Ellie borrowed her new boygenius shirt last week and it came back with a big jelly stain on it. That was easy enough, no more letting Ellie borrow her clothes. Ellie also liked to dogear book pages and write in them – in pen. So Sarah adjusted and stopped lending Ellie her books. Ellie took too long in the bathroom, listened to her music too loud, and she was always running late, so Sarah adjusted and adjusted and adjusted.
It was a lot but it was good that Ellie was here now instead of stuck with another family that didn’t really care about her. It was a big adjustment but nothing Sarah couldn’t handle.
Until she found her guitar.
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or Ellie’s been living with Sarah and Joel for a few months now and everyone is starting to feel the squish of their tiny apartment. after a not so minor implosion, Ellie decides to fix it herself
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12 Jul 2026