14 Bookmarks by Darker_Things
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COMPLETE - She went to the West to marry her childhood sweetheart but finds her life totally turned upside down when she catches the obsessive gaze of a charming, but deadly, outlaw.
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30 Jun 2025
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please don't go by Toointojoelmiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
26 Mar 2024
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"“It’s ok, baby girl,” he says in a breath as he shuts his eyes, trying to keep himself upright against a surge of heartache. He hears the words as if someone else has said them, like they didn’t leave his lips – but immediately feels the truth in it. The wall he’s tried to keep up between Ellie and Sarah, the nothing-but-bullshit line he’s drawn to try to somehow separate what they are to him is gone. There’s no more pretending. She’s his to take care of – that’s how she ended up here shaking and bleeding, after all, isn’t it?"
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Joel & Ellie straight up not having a good time. Picks up after Joel finds Ellie in Silver Lake. Another after David comfort fic for those of us who love ep 8 aftermath angst. Me trying to answer my burning questions - what happened next, and how did they survive??content warnings - David got farther than a wandering hand - s/a + violence + generally disturbing stuff
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27 Mar 2024
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Ad victor spolia by purriteen
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
10 Mar 2024
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Set roughly five years after the 10th hunger games, the newly 'elected’ president Coriolanus Snow sets his sights on the one girl he knows could never betray him like Lucy Gray did.
His little sister.
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17 Mar 2024
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The Stars Incline Us by Merakiae
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Mar 2026
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astra inclinant, sed non obligant (the stars incline us, they do not bind us)
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Of all the fights Joel has dragged his brother into, none of them have ever been worthy of Tommy’s loyalty, until this one.
“You don’t know what she’s been through, Tommy. She’s just a kid. She needs—“
To be held.
To know that she deserves to live.
To know that she’s setting the world right just by existing, just by breathing.
Tommy finds the words he can’t. “She needs people to love her, a safe place to grow up and do some healin’. I reckon you, me, and Maria can give her that.”
Or: the Part II where Ellie gets her chance at saving the world (or at least her little corner of it) and finds out just how loved she is along the way.
No AI was used in the writing of this fic.
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18 Jan 2024
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amidst the chaos by two_birds_alone_together
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
18 Feb 2024
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Joel and Ellie learn to navigate becoming a family, past trauma, current threats, and look to the future -- together.
The sequel to a safe place to land will be updated weekly.
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18 Jan 2024
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the transit of venus by marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
19 Nov 2023
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She thinks that this is what love entails, warm houses and long hugs and baby fingers tangled in her hair and back rubs and hot tea at midnight - but sometimes it just feels like she’s walking that cliff’s edge, waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting for the expectations to shift, knowing she can’t meet them. She’s never been loved before and she doesn’t know that when it stops being easy, stops being new- is it still there?
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In Jackson, Ellie goes to pieces. Her family fits her back together again.
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08 Nov 2023
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Do you believe in the afterlife? In that dark abyss beyond the veil? Do you believe what you're seeing is real, or is it simply a figment of your imagination? There are things that go bump in the night, as the teenagers of Hawkins know all too well. However, the terrors of Upside Down aren't the only monsters lurking in about in the world, and for Maxine Mayfield, those monsters appear all too human.
Struggling for answers while having her world turned upside down, Max's life takes a drastic spiral not only after the Independence Day fire but also after she unwillingly admits to the world that her brother isn't completely gone. At least, that's what she believes.
Or does she?
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- Part 2 of Something's Wrong With Max
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07 Oct 2023
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A look at a relationship between Joel and Sunshine, from the innocence of their meeting, to the brutal spiraling down of their relationship with the world burning around them.
Dark!Joel Miller
Dark!Tommy Miller
Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
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20 Jul 2023
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Two Goldfish in a Tank by BlueJayPixie
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Apr 2023
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At 13, Ellie can choose to stay in the FEDRA pipeline and officially be on the way to being a soldier, or she can try and survive in the QZ as a regular civilian. Riley fled in the night a few weeks ago, so Ellie’s got nothing tying her to FEDRA except the certainty of her next meal- and she’s young and foolish enough to risk that for the sake of some kind of freedom.
Joel does not intend to adopt a random runt who keeps showing up on the same shit jobs, but sometimes shit happens. (and then his kid goes missing, and Joel loses his fucking mind.)
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12 Jun 2023
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Kinktober 2020
Prompt: SomnophiliaJohn Wick becomes enamored with a woman he sees on the subway and decides that she will be his.
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10 Apr 2023
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He got Sarah killed. He didn’t trust himself to keep Ellie safe. She deserved someone who would keep her safe. Joel wasn’t that. He thought that she’d be safer without him, and he didn’t realize how wrong he was.
TLDR// Joel is Ellie’s father, but he gives her away. When, by mere coincidence, he is tasked with smuggling a girl, it happens to be the baby that he gave away fourteen years ago. The entirety of part one still happens, but their relationship is clearly defined for them, and Ellie has to work on forgiving him.
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28 Mar 2023
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housed in your warmth, thus transformed by Vulpecula_et_Anser
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Mar 2023
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A groaning exhale from the backseat has Ellie perking up, and she nearly drives into a fallen tree when she whips around to look. Whoops.
So she watches Joel from the rearview instead, hungrily drinking in the sight of his growing wakefulness between glances at the road.
“What…” Joel grumbles, hand going to his head. Then he freezes before shooting up, eyes wild. He’s so big he almost hits his head on the roof of the car, and his legs—which are folded up against the door—kick wildly while he tries to right himself.
“It’s okay!” Ellie cries, aiming for reassuring but landing somewhere closer to hysterical. “It’s okay, you’re with me.”
For a brief, insane moment, Ellie wishes fiercely she had a pet name for him, something she could call him when he needed comforting. Nothing makes Ellie feel more cared for and safe than baby girl in Joel's southern drawl.
Old man doesn’t have quite the same ambience.
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The aftermath of Ellie's rampage through the hospital.
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- Part 2 of the shrike to your thorn
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25 Mar 2023
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Of Love & Obligation by MissyMegs
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
28 May 2023
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“We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.” - Michael Bassey Johnson
At the end of the day, Joel doesn’t remember. He looks at the photo in Marlene’s hand and there’s a tug of recognition, a hook behind his naval that tells him, yes—he’s seen this woman before. But he doesn’t recall the feel of her weight beneath his, the curve of her hips, sinking himself into that warm body, so no—he can’t say for sure.
Fifteen years is a long time.
But then he sees the girl— Ellie, and he knows it’s true.
Where Marlene tracks Joel down to tell him he has a kid, then asks him to bring that kid across the country. How will Joel and Ellie cope when their roles are already clearly defined for them?
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16 Mar 2023
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Abigail Hobbs hopes to begin a new, normal life at college, but when Dr. Lecter and his aide, Mr. Graham, take a particular interest in her well-being, she finds herself in an exceptionally abnormal family.
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19 Jan 2021