the last of us (2023) | 1.03

he's not wrong

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A/N: happy holidays @trulybetty! thank you for being so lovely about this being a little late. I was only going to go for one or two of your prompts for the @pedrostories secret santa, but then my brain went why not all of them, and now here we are. 

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I don’t think I’ve ever read a Joel fic quite like this. The reverence and the way he’s like so in awe of her competence and ability was so hot. The smut was spectacular and so normal in a way that I really appreciated. Idk if I’m making sense just trust me when I say this was gorgeous k!

ommmmg thank you! I am actually thrilled you called the smut normal 😅 that was the plan, it's just normal, neither of us have done this in a while, sex. I write a lot of weird smut so it was a nice challenge to do something less weird and out there and filled with kink.

genuinely thank you so much for this lovely comment 💛

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A/N: happy holidays @trulybetty! thank you for being so lovely about this being a little late. I was only going to go for one or two of your prompts for the @pedrostories secret santa, but then my brain went why not all of them, and now here we are. 

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Oh goodness! I loved this piece so much - and to be honest, it's hard to articulate why? I mean, look - the smut was smutting 🥵🥵, and Jackson!Joel is always warning in and of himself, but it was something else... 🤔🤔

Maybe it was that the holidays seem to always hold so many expectations, and this year was hard for me; I felt very uncomfortable in my own home for a while. Reading Joel, someone whose competency and fearlessness I find endlessly attractive, feeling unmoored and unsure of his place and standing was so relatable. But that he found comfort and peace in surrender and letting go to, for, her? That gave me some comfort too.

Thank you for writing this, Lo! It was sweet and just what I needed this holidays!

I hope things have settled for you now, and that everything feels less uncertain and scary 💛 it was a weird time for me too, especially when I was writing this (can you tell 😅 the more I look, the more I see parts of my own grief and processing of it in this fic, a fic that isn't really about grief at all)

I think you've just nailed why I find Joel with a competence kink so attractive - he's usually the strong, capable one that knows what's what. him being unsure, or at least looking to someone else for that stability and capability is just 🥵 him being vulnerable and also the idea of being able to impress and captivate a person like that just by being yourself and doing what you're good at? 🥵🥵🥵

thank you so so much for reading bb 💛

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A/N: happy holidays @trulybetty! thank you for being so lovely about this being a little late. I was only going to go for one or two of your prompts for the @pedrostories secret santa, but then my brain went why not all of them, and now here we are. 

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oh this is so lovely. it’s also hot as hell when the time comes (🥁) but everything that comes before it is the real gem. soft joel. joel with a competence kink is 💯

I’m not too verbose today but there were so many times when I found myself smiling fondly at my phone like an idiot.

I love you even when you're not wordy bb 💛 (I yap enough for both of us, it's okay)

I need Joel with a competence kink so bad. all day, every day. I say this and I'm not particularly competent at anything but like, just let me watch him and Tess or something?

I hope you find more reasons to smile today, and every day bb 💛 I'm glad to have been one of them, even for such a small blip in time.

for the nasty freaks in my tags, i see you <3 + as a moodboard under the cut

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A/N: happy holidays @trulybetty! thank you for being so lovely about this being a little late. I was only going to go for one or two of your prompts for the @pedrostories secret santa, but then my brain went why not all of them, and now here we are. 

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Lo, this was so good! It was such a lovely mix of angst, buildup and then hot AF smut. I loved it. Felt for reader and felt for Joel just trying to find some purpose. Perfection! 🥰🥰

I think we're all just trying to find some place, some way, anything as a reason to be. it makes sense for Joel to have a bit of a crisis with that and have some kind of longing for someone like him who seems to have found that place, that way, that something.

honestly was so v nervous about the smut just suddenly happening but with these two I didn't think for a second there'd be romantic build up. it'd just be BAM you're here, I'm here, we both need and want the same thing, I trust you, let's go.

this gif has me all 🥹🥺 too. that's a baby man right there.

A full transcribe of DIN DJARIN'S dialogue/lines from the TV show THE MANDALORIAN.

Includes full dialogue, and dialogue from any deleted/additional scenes available.

I've created this as a point of reference when writing for Pedro's characters, and I hope you find it useful. Even if you just want to read the dialogue. 🖤

FULL MASTERLIST OF PEDRO CHARACTERS DIALOGUE

My Paramour, My Evermore - A Joel Miller Story

Joel Miller x f!reader

A/N: Great news, Joel has a sword! There is real *wavy hands* AU in terms of the time, think knights and kings, ye olde times and GOT vibes? But mostly just enjoy some Al flavoured emotional torment.

Thank you so much Freya @almostfoxglove for setting the Angst challenge 2025! This fic is an absolute classic in the genre of 'oh I’ll just write a couple of lines before they fall out of me head’ that rapidly became ‘fuck now I’m obsessed with them and I’m going to bed thinking of them and waking up thinking about them’. Writing is such a normal hobby, love that for us. Huge thank you to @toomanytookas for being the most wonderful beta and pal (who also created the Joel/Oberyn green robe in the header! thank you!) and to @secretelephanttattoo who has been inundated with my ramblings about this one.

I really hope you like it, I'd love to you know your thoughts! Link to the inspiration Moodboard here and I’ve popped it at the bottom as well. 

The wedding 

The girl in the dress isn’t you, but you can distinctly remember what it felt like to be her. It wasn’t that long ago you were the one in the intricately detailed, handsewn frock. Being scrutinised and appraised by a gathering of onlookers, people who were supposed to be your kin, your friends, but whose eyes felt hard and calculating. Marriage was a transaction after all. Where men traded power and connections, whilst the woman in the veil gave a studied performance in looking meek and virginal, of being worth the price and the fuss.  

I can't usually handle angst, but I can handle this kind, and oh my is it juicy and scandalous to boot. I'd be a servant in that court giggling behind my hand istg.

I *know* you wouldn’t rat them out Lo! Just quietly washing away the blood stains, throwing the sword in the bin….

Thank you so much for reading and sharing, I’m properly tickled that you liked it! 🖤🖤🖤

I wouldn't rat them out, but I would ask to watch.

which is also probably entirely predictable from me tbh

ly💛💛💛

the man whose hands are stained

dave york x f!reader

wordcount: 3k warnings: sex diary. third person, dave pov. smut (it's a sex diary) 18+, so the usual explicit things. been inspired by The Cut’s Sex Diaries.

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an: to @goodwithcheese, I told you I'd never write Dave, and I also told you the only time I would, would be for you. Here's a gift to make you smile. A thing which began in July, and I've been chipping away at for the last few weeks (like literally a sentence or two omg) to finally be able to gift you just a little amount of my appreciation for how special you are to me. I hope you love this, but if you don't I can recommend a great series by someone I know we often refer to as "Dave and His Girl" haha. thank you to @schnarfer for the prop up, the love and the check to ensure it was dave-enough for my girl.

part i: sex diary (javi p)

Jo, you know I adored the Javi P diary, and you've absolutely smashed it with this Dave one too omg 😩 he's perfect. you nailed that "conflicted but working on auto-pilot because it's his job" vibe he has about him, and this reader is just fucking fantastic. I don't blame him for wanting her tbh

solstice

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A/N: happy holidays @trulybetty! thank you for being so lovely about this being a little late. I was only going to go for one or two of your prompts for the @pedrostories secret santa, but then my brain went why not all of them, and now here we are. 

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oh i love this so much! 🥹

jackson joel has such a special place in my heart and you made him so soft and adorable 😭 how he’s slowly coming back to feeling human and having interactions and small talk ugh i’ll sob

and his relationship with reader!!!! my man is so smitten ahahaha i love it 🥹 it all felt so tender and soft between them. my heart is incredibly full right now 🥹

janaaaa 🥹 thank you bb 💛 I've never done Jackson Joel before so I was NERVY AF (and it being a fic gift?! terrifying tbh)

he's just a vulnerable little murder man 🥺 he needs some tlc desperately, and he might not get it from reader exactly, but he knows there's softness to be found there, under it all. he knows because he knows it's in him too, or hopes it is, and that's what he's holding onto in hopes he'll make it in Jackson 🥺

ily deeply 💛

My Paramour, My Evermore - A Joel Miller Story

Joel Miller x f!reader

A/N: Great news, Joel has a sword! There is real *wavy hands* AU in terms of the time, think knights and kings, ye olde times and GOT vibes? But mostly just enjoy some Al flavoured emotional torment.

Thank you so much Freya @almostfoxglove for setting the Angst challenge 2025! This fic is an absolute classic in the genre of 'oh I’ll just write a couple of lines before they fall out of me head’ that rapidly became ‘fuck now I’m obsessed with them and I’m going to bed thinking of them and waking up thinking about them’. Writing is such a normal hobby, love that for us. Huge thank you to @toomanytookas for being the most wonderful beta and pal (who also created the Joel/Oberyn green robe in the header! thank you!) and to @secretelephanttattoo who has been inundated with my ramblings about this one.

I really hope you like it, I'd love to you know your thoughts! Link to the inspiration Moodboard here and I’ve popped it at the bottom as well. 

The wedding 

The girl in the dress isn’t you, but you can distinctly remember what it felt like to be her. It wasn’t that long ago you were the one in the intricately detailed, handsewn frock. Being scrutinised and appraised by a gathering of onlookers, people who were supposed to be your kin, your friends, but whose eyes felt hard and calculating. Marriage was a transaction after all. Where men traded power and connections, whilst the woman in the veil gave a studied performance in looking meek and virginal, of being worth the price and the fuss.  

I can't usually handle angst, but I can handle this kind, and oh my is it juicy and scandalous to boot. I'd be a servant in that court giggling behind my hand istg.

PEDRO PASCAL as GENERAL ACACIUS Gladiator II (2024) dir. Ridley Scott

a few doodles of ezra

send a bulge pic so I know you got home safe

Dieter would definitely talk you through it