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  1. Rec *

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    Riley gets bit in the mall, but Ellie doesn't.

    Joel takes her anyway.

    There’s no grand purpose for her existence, nothing to make her worth saving.

    Joel loves her anyway.

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    18 Jan 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Socks 🧦 this fic was awesome

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    The midwest is boring. At this point, the crops are harvested and the fields are literally just dirt, so she spends all her time looking for those sweet cows. But she can’t seem to find any, despite there being nothing but pastures. There are, however, plenty of churches. Ellie ends up marrying her cows twice as often as Joel. After the fourth or fifth time, when the cows are up in the hundreds and she’s had to break out a notebook just to do math and keep track, Joel starts playing dirty.

    She barely sees a steeple, a little building behind an old abandoned school when she says, “Marry my - hey!” She doesn’t finish. Instead, she falls into a fit of laughter as she tries to squirm away from the hand he’s pressed firmly over her eyes so she can’t see to play.

    “Ain’t no church,” he says, deadpan. He keeps his hand over her eyes. “Oh, hey look. My cow.”

    “Joel!”

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    Ellie and Joel take a massive roadtrip to Wyoming for the impromptu wedding of his estranged brother. There's stories, adventures, and a massive car game about claiming cows along the way.

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    17 Jan 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Please just read this it's perfect

  3. Rec 12

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    All at once, Ellie feels 8, and 10, and 12, and 14 again. She feels all the fragments of herself morph into one, she sheds the tears she never let herself shed. She says the words, the mumbled eulogies she never got to speak aloud. She lays to rest the bodies of the people who she loves most. And it still doesn’t feel like enough.

    But she doesn’t know what will be.

    And that only makes her cry more.

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    After the loss of someone in the Jackson community, Ellie is thrust into facing the grief, guilt and pain that has been following her around her whole life. Luckily this time around, she doesn’t have to do it alone.

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    17 Jan 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    A great fic about grief and moving on ❤️

  4. Rec 50

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    Tommy looks thoroughly overwhelmed, and Ellie tries not to let the dread that’s fighting to crawl up her throat overtake her. Nothing's wrong. It’s just like she said: he’s disappointed she’s not what he expected. He probably thought Marlene would give them a pretty girl, sweet and meek, with perfect blonde hair and a mouth full of straight white teeth. But Ellie will prove to him that she’s worth ten of those pretty blonde girls, she’s got determination and grit. She’s exactly what they need on their ranch.

    Mr. Miller rolls his eyes skyward, his brows pinched, looking almost as if he’s in pain. But then he sighs, lets out a slow, resigned breath as he looks back to her, and extends a hand away from the station.

    “You best come along,” he drawls softly and starts down the stairs.

    Ellie smiles and follows obediently. She will prove her worth to the brothers, and she’ll finally find a place where she belongs.

    IE: Ellie is being fostered by the Miller brothers at their ranch, but she isn't what they were expecting. This is a found family fic based on the worlds of Anne of Green Gables and The Last of Us.

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    24 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This is a very well done au. In this one, Ellie is a blend of herself and Anne.
    Tommy and Joel are not uncle and dad. They're spoilers!
    Enjoy if you decide to read

  5. Rec 22

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    Ellie likes to say that she pulled a Joel by going out and getting herself a feral child of her own. Not unlike him, it was supposed to be temporary until it wasn’t.

    Just as she chose Joel all those years ago, Astra chose her in all the wisdom an almost six-year-old could muster. And it’s not something Ellie ever wants to take lightly. The trust that comes with it. The devotion. The honor of being that choice.

    Even if it fucking terrifies her.

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    24 Dec 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Parent Ellie is so well done here ❤️