The Last of Us 1x02 “Infected” || The Last of Us 1x09 “Look for the Light”
Do I watch vods of The Last of Us Part 2 having only watched the show and vods of the first game?
I really want to keep watching the story and don’t want to wait until the next season but I can’t play the game due to not having a play station and only having a laptop that I don’t think will handle it to play the game on pc (when it comes out that is). I’m gonna try play pt 1 as my brother has the game on ps5 but I don’t live with him so it won’t be easy to finish.
I know this won’t give me the full emotional satisfaction as watching pt 1 play throughs didn’t at all compared to the show, but I’ll have to wait so long otherwise 😅
Anyone got any advice?
Can we just appreciate the parallel of Joel beating that guard vs Ellie stabbing David?
She was fascinated watching Joel beat this man, blinded by rage and arguably being completely out of control just wanting to protect. Then we see her, also blinded by rage and being completely out of control as she just keeps going until she’s left with horror and fear.
No one stopped her like Joel was stopped, he didn’t get to release all the anger through the violence like Ellie did. But Ellie doesn’t have a “violent heart” like David said, she’s left exhausted and terrified, she didn’t enjoy it like maybe she thought she would after seeing Joel do the same. She’s horrified by what she had to do, and she then gets the comfort she needs. A beautiful juxtaposition honestly
The absolute horror I felt at David having been a teacher before running this town then seeing him hitting the little girl, him saying that he’s always had a violent heart and that he always loved the fight
It’s not the first time he’s done this post apocalypse and definitely not pre. he was a fucking teacher
i still remember clearly one of my first interactions at pride with a 40-something member of the lgbt community. I asked him if I could take a picture of him with the bear flag (because I was really happy to see it irl for the first time!) and he asked, “are you feeling like a she-bear a little bit?”
and being gay almost exclusively online back then aside from maybe two friends, I was shocked by that question. me? a 19 years old kid who thought themselves to be cis and bi? I was basically the polar opposite of what a bear is.
but now, six years later, I see it. I’m fat, I’m hairy, I’m shamelessly a dyke, I’m masc. yes I’m butch, but fuck it, I’m also a she-bear. that guy was right. I hope he’s doing alright and he knows he’s changed my view on labels forever.
since this keeps getting notes (which I didn’t expect since I’m a small blog), I’d like to also point out 1) my original tags:
and 2) the fact that this post was made to show you that, if someone that’s over twice my age will call me a bear without batting an eye when I wasn’t, I’m not, and I never looked like a gay man, then maybe 11 different microlabels to describe your own unique gender and sexuality experience aren’t as necessary as you think.
love how broad lgbt identities are. don’t limit yourself to microlabels to build your sense of self. cherish all interactions with older members.
again, there IS a problem of straight actors playing all the gay roles, but the answer isn’t as easy as “straight people shouldn’t play gay people” because a) it’s acting and there’s nothing intrinsically physical about gayness and b) it’s bad to insist that actors make their sexuality public information
Discourse over impossible age gaps is so fucking funny.
What do you think shipping an immortal adult with a mortal adult is gonna do? How do you think people can romanticize relationships that cannot in any way actually exist?? You think seeing a ship between a vampire and a human is gonna make someone go out and fuck their local 1000 year old???
“This ship is bad because one character is an immortal who’s thousands of years old and the other is an immortal who’s only hundreds of years old!!” how do you live like this
I love the “this vampire looks 20 but is actually 300 so dating a 20 year old is Problematic, they should date an 80 year old so the age gap is *checks notes* only 220 years rather than 280, that’s much less predatory” thing
children lying on the floor in public areas have such a powerful aura, and i don’t mean like mid-tantrum or something i mean like one time i saw this toddler lying blank-faced, starfish-style in the entrance of a sunglass hut and she still haunts me to this day
once at a theme park i got concerned cause this small child was lying right smack in the middle of the walkway but then i heard his mother saying “i’m sorry…i’m so sorry…he’s pretending to be a melted snowman”
and i just thought yes…….buddy………….you get it little dude
