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don't let it burn, don't let it fade - DIRECTORS CUT by salemisntdead
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
13 Jan 2026
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The directors cut for my rarepair for the ages Maria/Anna fic
aka, a repost if my tlou fic, but with all my commentary and writing notes mashed in
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- Part 3 of salem's directors cuts
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- English
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- 1,270
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The art of waking up together. by salemisntdead
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo
03 Nov 2025
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5 times Nina and Matthias had to get up in the morning + 1 time they could just lay together.
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don't let it burn, don't let it fade by salemisntdead
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
02 Nov 2025
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Home, this small town filled with too big now impossible dreams. This small town with its big walls meant safety, a calm before a storm of the tangible reminders of why it fell apart, of why Anna wasnt here anymore, of what Maria tried and failed to blame. The walls were a tangible stopper on the flow of anger and resentment that tried to fill her as she remembered what she could have saved. There was a leak somewhere, letting out careful streams akin to the mycelium that now crawled across the country.
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or, Rarepair for the ages Maria/Anna precanon but post outbreak angst <3- Language:
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You said my heart has changed and my soul has changed, that my life has changed, that this town had changed (you had not) by salemisntdead
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
03 Oct 2025
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What did it say that he didn't even know how old he was anymore, didn't know what years spanned between muddy graves, and broken bones, and burnt skin, and pain, so much pain.
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or, i tried my hand at whumptober for the first time, and accidentally wrote a prequel to the mental breakdown that was my jason todd week day 6 fic.
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Whumptober 2025
No. 24: “I must confess that I feel like a monster.”
Came Back Wrong | Painful Transformation | AmnesiaSeries
- Part 1 of Jason Todd, Dying, and Rebirth
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wanderer come home (you’re not too far) by salemisntdead
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
31 Jul 2025
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His vision faded and somewhere in the distance, he could hear sirens approaching the wreckage he laid in.
This was it. Maybe. Probably.
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or, Jason gets his throat slit, goes through some last minute catholic trauma thought spiral, and maybe dies. sponsored by my catholic education
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Summer Jason Todd Week 2025 Day 4: "No one's coming." | The Batarang Incident | LossSeries
- Part 9 of Jason Todd Week 2025
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salem's directors cuts by salemisntdead
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 Jan 2026
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there ain't nothing left for you here now by salemisntdead
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
19 Nov 2024
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series for my will solace character/grief study fic, starting with "I'll keep playing that god damn song (if it keeps you alive)"
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series title from Smoke & Embers by Waylon Wyatt and Willow Avalon- Words:
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Schrödinger's capes au, also known as my nurse jason au
neither capes nor no capes, mostly bc I never actually decided either way lol
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my works for the 2025 Jason Todd Week <3
have fun :)literally al of these could be continued at some point but for now they are as they are
also blanket rule for my works is if you notice a tense change, no you didn't)
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Jason Todd, Dying, and Rebirth by salemisntdead
Fandom: Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
03 Oct 2025
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aka, a post UTRH trauma fic and its accidental prequel
ordered in chronological order in this series, but both can be read as standalone, and in fact were intended to be standalone until i started seeing the connection points between one fic and the other
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i have emotional motion sickness (somebody roll the windows down) by thelanguageoflovers
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Mar 2023
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“Happy birthday, baby girl,” Joel whispers, ignoring the click of his knees as he crouches next to Ellie’s bed. It’s still dark out, so he’s half expecting her to roll over and go back to sleep.
Instead, in a shock he should have seen coming, Ellie punches him in the face before she even opens her eyes. “Oh my god, Joel! What the fuck are you doing?” She pauses, seeming to realize that she just hit him. “Oh, shit. I’m so sorry.”
Joel laughs, running a thumb over his cheek and checking it for blood. “That’s alright, kid, I shouldn't've startled you like that.”
Something flickers in Ellie’s eyes, then. That same, unnameable thing he saw on her face when they were fighting in Jackson. But back in Jackson, she didn’t even try to cover the way tears welled in her eyes. Now, though, she blinks, and it’s gone.
OR: Ellie just doesn't think she was meant to be a daughter.
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Bookmarked by salemisntdead
18 Jan 2026
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give me back my girlhood (it was mine first) by thelanguageoflovers
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
08 Mar 2023
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Something about the diligent, thorough swivel of her head as they walk makes his stitches ache. This little girl - his little girl - 14 years old and barely looking it, knows how to hold a gun, knows how to stitch up a wound, knows the very extent of what people are capable of.
She’s so much older than she was this morning.
OR: Ellie's going to be okay.
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Bookmarked by salemisntdead
17 Jan 2026
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twenty years by hereforthehurts
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
08 Mar 2023
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This girl isn’t Sarah. He’d made that loud and clear to himself; to her.
“You holler if you need me, okay?” He murmurs instead, keeping his hands on his side as Ellie gives him another tired nod. “Alright. Good night, kiddo.” He gives her a small rub on the arm before leaving the room. Not more than that. He doesn’t let himself.
He doesn’t think Ellie would let him, either.
or; ellie gets terribly sick, and joel has not been a father in twenty years.
Bookmarked by salemisntdead
16 Jan 2026
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moral philosophy at the end of the world by heroesfading
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Good Place (TV)
16 Mar 2023
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Chidi and Eleanor are Joel and Ellie's neighbors, and when Chidi meets the real life application of the Trolley Problem his head just might explode if he doesn't throw up first. / Only a few steps away from crack!fic if you squint.
Bookmarked by salemisntdead
16 Jan 2026
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‘Til our Fingers Decompose (Keep my Hand in Yours) by Baymax_13
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
04 Jul 2023
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The next thing he sees and knows isn’t a dream is Ellie’s little hand reaching over his heart and balling up his shirt in her fist. Her head lays on his shoulder and her ear presses against his chest. He feels her small exhales and they bring fresh, unbidden tears to his eyes. She doesn’t notice his half-lidded gaze, but he sees just fine as she brings the hand still clutched around his flannel up to her nose and presses it to her face like it’s the only thing keeping her from floating away.
Almost on muscle memory alone, Joel aims to press a kiss to her hair where it’s up to his own nose, but he can’t quite get it right. Still, his cheek ends up against the soft tendrils of Ellie’s brown strands and he thinks it’s enough. He hopes it gives her some meager comfort.
It’s all he has to offer.
(Inspired by the famous picture of Ellie sleeping all curled up on the forest floor during episode 2 - essentially an exploration of how Ellie becomes more than cargo to Joel through Ellie's very cute sleeping habits)
Bookmarked by salemisntdead
14 Jan 2026