because they all love and hate each other to varying degrees like patrick loves tennis and tashi and art but art the most and art loves tennis and patrick but he loves tashi the most and tashi loves tennis the most but none of them can have the thing they want most so they use one another to get closer to it and in the aftermath end up resenting each other for what could have been

bugs when you lift up their rock

obsessed with this letterboxd review for CHALLENGERS (2024) by rocky/WAYSTIAR

Cause girls your age know better 🤝I’ll get older but your lovers stay my age

a conversation they would 100% have

i know that the discourse is primarily about whether or not joel made the right call. and that's, of course, a very compelling question. the horror and uncertainty and love in that question make it such a beautiful and profound example of negative capability (at least when you don't immediately jump to and defend and answer).

however, there's another question that only asking the above overlooks. were the fireflies right? i'm going to argue that the answer is no. clearly, this was a group of people who wanted to save the world in anyway they could. but they are also largely a group of people who grew up before the world ended, and so they could only conceive of solutions that they thought could recreate what they lost. marleen says that ellie will still be in danger because the world is still broken; she says it like making a cure will somehow unbreak the world. but the whole series we've seen that the uninfected people were far more frightening than the infected ones. a cure wouldn't suddenly turn the raiders and the slavers and the people like david into good people. it wouldn't give you a fighting edge over them.

ellie was born after the end; the world as it is in the series is her world. for better or worse, it isn't right to sacrifice her in the hopes that you can regain what can never really be gotten back. what the fireflies should have been trying to work out was how to build something better in the world that existed; how to create solutions that look forward and not backward. the people in jackson built something good, even with the issues they still face. bill and frank built something good by opting out of all the miserable systems of power and control around them. if the only change you ever try to make is to return things to some status quo, then you won't really accomplish change.

my seventeenth birthday is in a few weeks…and I’m actually kind of sad…i really like being sixteen

but if your sixteen you cant be the dancing queen

thank u little bread stick that made me feel better 

this is the best thing to happen to one of my text posts

….i just turned 25…hi….life is beautiful………and i’m still dancing

this episode was a kind reminder that The Last of Us is a story about the living. action packed episodes with cool looking zombies are amazing but at the end of the day it's all about hope and human connections. It's about two people finding each other and falling in love while the entire world is falling apart. it's about having something or someone worth fighting for.

"It was a small gesture, should not have made me feel so elated. The trees around us would claim so. Even the rain which has seen so much of us, our vulnerability, our compassion, our hatred. It must've thought so too. But when I asked you if you were scared of being seen, without hesitation you put your head on me. And that was all it took. That was enough to answer all my questions."