one of my pride and joys 🙏🎾

yeah like he’s definitely a bad guy, but I genuinely thought he was characterized as a shit father figure too. extremely controlling, protective in a way that actually risked ellie’s life because of a need to infantilize her, total inability to be there for her emotionally after the david trauma

like, *maybe* if you’re a TV-watcher only—but he’s a real bastard to ellie throughout a LOT of the first game, right? and definitely implied to have been physically abusive toward tommy…am I misremembering?

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thank you! the fantastic writer of that article (@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social ) is unsurprisingly one of the very best editors I ever got to work with too 🙏

felt like I spent the entire game mourning her, not joel 😔

the whole thing is just the most emotionally convoluted experience imaginable! like why does the narrative have to twist this way and that just to ensure I dislike or misunderstand every single character? for what? nothing compelling to be gained from it. just forced brutality.

oh I couldn’t sympathize with that impulse more! unfortunately, it was mostly the madness crowd that found this article back then, so i’m very glad it can finally find the right readers 🙏 not all TLOU2 haters are trash 😭✊ there are dozens of us with legitimate critiques

oh my gosh I blush THANK YOU 😭🙏🫶

thank you for reading 🥺 when I wrote it, only angry reddit gamers seemed to notice lmao

when the show introduced the seraphites via ANOTHER daddy-daughter duo who die at the cost of violent revenge i lost it like does literally any other human relationship get to matter in this allegedly sprawling emotionally complex world orrrrrr ???

yes THANK YOU! like this is still a whole problem and no one ever seems to talk about it!! mashable.com/article/last...

nothing but respect for MY commissioner and chair of the fec 🫡🫡 thank you for standing up for the people.

you are so incredibly vital and I can’t wait to keep watching you slay the greatest beasts of our time!! 🫶🫡

and who can they fucking turn to for help when this country is rounding up legal immigrants and citizens and sending them to concentration camps? how close do these disasters need to get to us before we all wake up and realize none of us are safe when our leadership considers life this disposable?