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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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The Reaping Song by Merakiae for JudithWilde
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Feb 2025
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Maria holds Tommy’s hand in hers, running her thumb over the calluses of his palm and back along the lineaments of his wrist. They sit in the half-light of a fire burned low, side-by-side on one of the logs in the middle of the atrium, which is notably and mercifully empty in the early hours before the dawn. Outside, the sky is dark and featureless, the stars blotted out by a uniform cloud bank that flows on the wind, rippling out endlessly to the horizon. There’s a damp chill in the air, and Tommy coughs, shivers.
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The Tommy PTSD fic I've always wanted to write, with a heavy dose of found family cuddles and Maria being his port in the storm (I am absolutely inconsolable over these two honestly, do not send help)
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Collateral Wounds by Merakiae for PaigeGoneRogue
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Feb 2025
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It’s late to be having this conversation. She’s tired; he’s tired, can’t get his thoughts lined up, can’t work out this ache— He realizes he’s got a track playing in his head, the one he’d thought he’d managed to shake for good: the low static of a radio, cut by Sarah’s agonal gasps— eventually giving way to the cry of the wind over the desert, the patter of blood from Rico’s neck as it paints the inner wall of the humvee—
Tommy draws a breath so sharp it stings.
“Joel asked me to take Ellie. To Colorado.”
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A Tommy/Maria fic exploring the aftermath of Joel and Tommy’s conversation in the workshop.
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Nascence by Merakiae for Bumblepony
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
24 Feb 2025
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He knows the horses, knows Adam and Rueben and a few others— good men, kind men. He knows patrol, the rotation of the routes, the rhythms of keeping the stables up, feeding and working the animals. He knows how the storms roll in and how they leave, knows the way the gloaming comes over the valley when the sun slips behind the peaks and sets the clouds ablaze. He’s getting to know the feeling of having a house all to himself, sharing meals, casting votes in town halls, asking and receiving and being able to go out and get for himself what he needs without having to steal it. And he’s beginning to know he’s got something going with Maria, something that turns his heart soft every time he dares to think of it. But there are still plenty of days he wonders if he even knows up from down around Jackson, really.
That ain’t gonna cut it much longer. Cause he’s gotta know. He’s gotta know what it means, to have found all of this, and he’s gotta know whether he gets to keep it, and what he’s meant to do with it.
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A Tommy/Maria fic, exploring the nascence of their relationship amidst Tommy finding his footing in Jackson and the loss of Maria’s father.
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Arthur tugs the brim of his hat a little lower as the wind picks up and sweeps over the prairie, quiescent from long drought and encroaching winter. There’s a chill in the air, but it don’t bother him. The light is silver and clear, the grass grey-green and shimmering like water, russet tips bent over in the breeze. The sky above opens up in a great sweeping arc from horizon to horizon, tall clouds so stark against the deep azure that it mimics a cyanotype.
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An ill-fated hunting trip leaves Arthur fighting to make it home alive.
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“I mean-” Ellie licks her lips, swishes a bunch of pieces aside with the flat of her hand. “I mean, do you think, like, old women think Joel is attractive?”
A pregnant pause swells to fill the garage. Then Dina snorts and claws upright on the couch. She sways dizzily. “Oh, for sure.” Ellie squeaks, and Dina goes on, voice sing-songing, “And not just the old ones.”
Jesse says, slowly, bravely, “If we’re being honest, I think Joel’s attractive.”
Ellie falls backwards onto her ass, grunting at the impact. “Oh my God-”
“Tommy too,” Jesses adds, and Ellie throws a handful of puzzle pieces at him, shrieks:
“What?!”
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Ellie discovers that Joel might be Jackson's most eligible bachelor. Complications ensue.
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24 May 2026
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The Whisper of Snow by kxthiiiy
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
31 May 2026
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A hunt. A fight. A fall.
What happens, when Ellie gets hurt outside of the safety of Jackson?
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19 Apr 2026
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vanishing hours by 6hoursgirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), Prospect (2018)
07 Nov 2025
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In the winter of 2025, Joel Miller hires Anna Williams to help as an office manager at his thriving construction business. An odd friendship blossoms between them, but Anna has secrets and a baby on the way, and Joel has a monkey on his back.
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- Part 1 of vanishing hours
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02 Nov 2025
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the privilege of being yours by two_birds_alone_together for Merakiae
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
01 Nov 2025
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Sarah dragged him stargazing a handful of times, but they never ventured far enough from Austin to escape the light pollution. After, when he and Tommy wandered the country with no real destination in mind, Joel couldn’t bear to look up. What was there to see but stars that outlived his daughter? Light that kept shining when Sarah didn’t?
Ellie, though… well, he hopes she never stops marveling at the night sky. She’s the one who tricked him into lifting his gaze for the first time in decades.
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joel and ellie mark september 26 with old and new traditions
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- Part 2 of explain the infinite
- Part 4 of whumptober 2025
- Part 6 of bad things happen bingo 2: electric boogaloo
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01 Nov 2025
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Joel looks back at her, oozing guilt, uncertainty. He knows
he's wrong, he knows he should tell her the truth, he knows
that this is too big. Too important to lie about...But Joel is Joel is Joel, and Joel is a father before he's
a good man.He can't lose her, can't hurt her, even if it's for the
best. He'd rather protect her, feed her pretty lies, not
ugly truths. Live in a fantasy with her than reality
without her.He'll feel guilty about it as long as he lives. It'll eat
him up inside like maggots gnawing through his bones, but
he won't regret it.He won't.
So he makes the selfish choice. The choice he knows is
wrong, because a life without Ellie is too dark to
comprehend.I swear.
(A full rewrite of TLOU s2) (In script format)...
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17 Sep 2025