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every bird, gone unheard by BarlowGirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
22 May 2026
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“She’s cold, Joel.” It’s the first thing Tess says about the kid that isn’t practical, isn’t about the job. It’s quiet, too quiet for the kid to hear since she’s wandered a bit away and found herself a spot to sit down, out of the rain still dripping from the roof. “She’s just a fucking little girl and she’s cold.”
He stops trying to argue they should keep moving.
Or: Joel doesn't like Ellie being cold.
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24 Jun 2026
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beneath the weeping tree by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Oct 2025
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She leans into the pain, gasping, till it centers her, till her mind clears, till the ghosts of her childhood - as brief and tempestuous as it was - are shuttered away.
Still though, their words echo dimly in the far corners of her mind. This is what happens when you get close to people, they say. This is what happens when you let your guard down.
She shudders, pushes off of the wall. The thermos tumbles from its perch and falls the long way to the ground, banging tinnily against a rock or a tree root or something. Ellie curses and wipes her hair out of her eyes, leans over to see where it landed-
-and freezes, her breath suddenly cold in her chest.
At the edge of the woods, cloaked in the sage lace dripping from the boughs of the sheltering cottonwoods, something is watching her, its eyes gleaming luridly in the electric light of the coming storm.
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There is something in the woods outside of Jackson.
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for the prompt "non-human whumper"
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- Part 1 of Whumptober 2025
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06 Apr 2026
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starved in desert wild by marchflower for lkay09
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
11 Oct 2024
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It reminds her of that winter on the road, after Silver Lake, when they were both so beaten down that they could barely hunt or walk or scavenge for weeks. They’d sat holed up in that old gas station and ate cold beans and frozen berries and once or twice, some squirrels, some little rabbits. The meat was always stringy and tough; Ellie remembers the way it’d felt going down, greasy and slick, the way it pooled like rancid oil in her stomach. Some nights she’d have to sit propped up all night against Joel’s shoulder and breathe with her mouth open to keep from puking. She never, not once since they’d come back to Jackson, thought that she’d ever feel like that here.
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After the horde settles in around Jackson, the town faces dire consequences as their food supply starts to run out.
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Fulfills the prompt: Starvation
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- Part 5 of Whumptober 2024
- Part 2 of little girl found
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06 Apr 2026
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“We don’t –” Joel cuts himself off, presses the heels of his hands to his eyes, and Tommy freezes. There’s more coming out of his brother’s mouth now, something about selling the house and a college fund for the baby and Mae’s bonus but –
All Tommy can see is the dark green watch band wrapped around his brother’s wrist, and it punches the air from his lungs.
“Why are you wearin’ that?” He asks, his voice too loud in his ears, the words reverberating off the cabinets around them. “The watch, his watch, why the fuck are you wearin’ that?”
(tommy, and joel's watch, over the years)
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12 Mar 2026
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Okay. Okay okay okay, no need to panic.
He was 99% sure he was awake. Maybe… 92% sure that he wasn’t hallucinating…
So that meant… It really was yesterday. Or today again. Whatever, it wasn’t tomorrow, today.Lucifer wept, this was confusing.
He was being stupid. He had a whole library of books, he could figure this out. Right?
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The Stolas-Centric–Time Loop-Groundhog-Day-of-Apology-Tour fic literally no one asked for.
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28 Feb 2026