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marsyas-brainweasels · 1 year

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Playing The Last of Us Part 2 for the first time, part two

Part one is here

All right chums, let's do this. ABBYYYYYY... uh... okay, I don't know her last name. But let's assume I shouted her last name in appropriately dramatic fashion.

Reminder: SPOILERS FOR THE LAST OF US PART 2. Probably spoilers for The Last of Us. Please don't spoil parts of this game that I haven't played yet!

The playthrough continues. We open on Abby. Abby, who continues to look amazingly cool, follows some dude named Owen through the snow until she reaches this scenic view of Jackson, and she's shocked by the sight of a full blown functional city with electricity and everything that's not controlled by FEDRA. Guess wherever she's from they aren't doing so hot.

I found this image of Abby on twitter. Girl's got muscles for days:

So Abby is looking for someone or trying to meet someone? Whoever it is, he lives in Jackson and she floats the idea of jumping one of Jackson's patrols and interrogating them before trying to infiltrate. That doesn't sound like it's gonna go well. Owen agrees that it's a terrible idea, and Abby is just like, "Fuck it," and goes off to do it on her own, leaving both Owen and her group behind, heading for this outpost she saw outside of Jackson that has lights on.

I'm gonna have to get her out of the trouble brought on by her own rash decision making, aren't I?

... Yup. Takes almost no time for her to get swarmed, and I get to fight a bunch of infected playing as Abby, which brings up a question: why are all these swarms of infected outside of Jackson in the middle of winter and not dead of frostbite or exposure or what have you? Is Jackson losing this many people on the regular? If so, how is it a thriving community and not a rapidly dwindling one?

Anyway. Abby makes her way through the storm. The storm gets worse and worse. Eventually, she happens upon horse tracks.

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Scene change. We're back with Ellie and Dina on horseback riding through these creeks. They're on patrol.

... okay, I see where this is going.

There's more slice of life stuff and I love it. Dina is clearly into Ellie, and Ellie has no idea. She thinks Dina is just being Dina and is terrified of screwing up their friendship despite Dina LITERALLY KISSING HER LAST NIGHT. Suspect that if the two of them had been living together for five years, sharing the same bed, and having an active sex life, Ellie would likely still not be sure if they're girlfriends or not.

Dina: "Sweety, we've been dating for five years."

Ellie: *has no clue* "WE HAVE!?"

Dina: "..."

Anyway. They are perfect and adorable and I want them to be happy forever. But before I can get to them being happy forever, I have to deal with this abandoned supermarket full of infected. I deal with the first couple of runners no problem, and then there's a clicker, and it tears my throat out.

Okay. Let's try that again. I carefully creep up behind the clicker, preparing to kill it. It hears me, and it turns and shrieks and tears my throat out.

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Okay. Screw it. I'm just going to shoot it. So I do! The clicker goes down. I manage to kill several runners, and then the second clicker grabs me and tears my throat out.

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I am bad at this. Should I be playing this on moderate instead of on hard?

Eventually, I finally succeed in defeating the Infected, and it only takes me a dozen deaths! Dina and Ellie clear out the supermarket and they move on with their patrol, remounting their horses. The winter storm starts getting worse. They're gonna need to take shelter. After a bit, they find a place to take shelter in and turn on the lights while we learn more about Dina and how Ellie has spent the four years since the time skip, and they continue to be adorable and perfect and I love them.

The lights they turn on are probably the same lights that Abby saw. NGL, I would not be unhappy if Abby joined Ellie and Dina in a kind of Three's Company romantic comedy situation. Has someone written that fanfic yet? Somebody had better have written that fanfic. Abby can't possibly be straight, right? There's no way. Girl is lesbian catnip.

That's all I had time for this play session. Time to head off. I will continue tomorrow. Really enjoying this game so far!

#tlou2 #tlou liveblog #tlou spoilers #tlou2 spoilers #the last of us part 2

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fallingin-like · 4 years

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november 4

“i hate you” sounds like “as you wish” by @luci-cunt

see which other fics i’m reviewing this month! / my review request post!

this is a princess bride!au and as a person that has never read/watched it, this was a wild ride. a really funny fic, i thought this was such a fun read!!

wow okay so i’ve already talked to you a little bit on my thoughts regarding this fic so i’m just going to jump in and mention the bits i especially liked:

the part about the duchess realising annette loves chocolate and supplying so much of it so that she gains weight?? so funny (i watched an asian drama where a similar thing happens and it’s just so petty and dramatic i love it) also wowee 42 children, such goals

exCUSE me did you just say the duke fell in love with his mother in law because that’s wILd and also nasty

ohmygoodness early adulthood being 12 and 13 at that time. so true but also crazy to think about

”’so tell me, what’s your secret?’… ‘i feed them,’” THIS IS THE BEST

andrew moving to america to make money to build a home for him and neil is soooo cute!

part II is a good part. i love the author’s/authors editor’s notes and the repeated elaboration. i agree that other groom deserves no respect and his character shouldn’t be explored, although the additions to add more emotional depth was a good touch

queen bella is a blessing for being so wonderful and acting as a translator for the king

”’no one could be following us then?’… ‘no that would be inconceivable,’ she smirked… “why do you ask?’ ‘no reason… i just happened to look back and see a ship catching up to us’” oh i love this quote so so much. i’m pretty sure it’s a part of the original book/movie but it’s so good that i can’t not comment on it

”’i’m not a moron, i just can’t see that far,’ matt said defensively” yeah! don’t let lola boss you around matt!

”’how is this normal man gaining!?’…’i have to carry three people, and he only has to carry himself and-’” lola is the worst and matt is the best. he’s so lovely and is just trying his hardest~~

”you keep using that word, i do not think it means what you think it means” this is the perfect line for kevin!! i can totally imagine him saying this phrase in the normal aftg universe in response to the rest of the foxes saying weird stuff as a meme without realising that it’s actually a quote. also could be used for neil every time andrew says he hates him ;)

iconic moment when kevin switches hands, just to be outshone by andrew doing tHE EXACT SAME THING

”lola was waiting for him, in fact, she’d set out a small picnic spread complete with blanket, wine, cheese, apples, and a tied up and blindfolded neil laying beside her with a knife to his throat” as yes, just the usual picnic things

dread pirate roberts being jeremy aka the human sunshine?? amazing

neil on andrew’s golden pillows!!!!

riko being super extra and riding four white horses like chill dude

i am definitely the count during the bit where riko is figuring out what happened “do we not want to hunt down the loser of the battle?”, “the count blinked at him, unsure how the prince was able to get as much from some stirred up dirt”, “the count only saw dirt and rocks” like what a big mood

this author’s note is hilarious! also i have not heard of phish food flavoured ice cream before but i just looked it up and it looks exactly like the kind of ice cream i would enjoy

”if i’m being honest, this is a bit underwhelming” typical neil josten, i think he would say this even if he was in the middle of being tortured

oh my goodness snow sand is terrifying and i definitely would have ended up being that person’s skeleton if i fell in.

”every day jeremy told me ‘i’ll probably kill you tomorrow’ and while i didn’t believe him, i also didn’t want to risk that a letter to you could be my last” andrew! is! so! in! love! how soft, how can you argue against that logic?

hhh it breaks my heart when neil always sacrifices himself for andrew

OH DANG WAIT THE COUNT IS THE SIX FINGERED MAN

ngl i would have enjoyed reading a chapter abt the different types of food to be served at the wedding.

thank you for summing up the bit about matt waking up. matt doesn’t deserve to be sad because he is amazing and lola sucks and those local boys who mocked him are terrible >:(

MATT RHYMING BACK WHEN KEVIN IS YELLING AT HIM AT FIRST I DIDN’T REALIZE AND THOUGHT HE WAS JUST SAYING GIBBERISH BACK ahhh he’s so precious!!

miracle minyard being aaron!!! i do not understand what miracle men are but this is great! “you look a lot like our dead man” “is that supposed to be a threat?” LOL

”riko was to be married no later than a quarter to five, six wouldn’t do, and he still had to get ready and figure out how to force nathaniel into looking like a semi consensual groom” is a sentence i never thought i would ever read

MATT ON A WHEELBARROW WITH HIS ARMS OUT AND ON FIRE IS THE BEST THING EVER oh my goodness this is amazing

”andrew made his way as fast as he could-currently eighty year old man speed” this is me most of the time

”andrew, who was now moving closer to health-freak 80-year-old speed” this is me the rest of the time

i loved this so much! the tone of the story remains humourous and funny even when it gets really intense and emotional making this fic a really fun read. since i haven’t watched/read the princess bride before this was a really wild ride and i never knew what was coming next or how the story would be resolved. the author’s notes were really funny and were nice breaks from the plot of the story, especially since there was so much going on. even with me not knowing much of the context, you did a good job of explaining things without distracting from the main story too much. the characters that you matched up worked really well and this felt really true to the aftg characters, although maybe a little more dramatic (rip to king ichirou tho). thank you so much for writing this fic!

#i hate you sounds like as you wish #aftg fic review #raelle writes

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