"i Don't Have A Type!" I Say, Adding Another Big, Buff Woman To The Collection Of Women I Like

I can't wrap my head around how their are still people that think ellie should have killed abby how are you playing a story based game and seemingly paying 0 attention to the story. they only say this because they're pissed Joel dies and dont like abby, what happened to putting greater biases aside to make and appreciate a good story bro? If you want a story where you kill the final boss at the end go play the modern warefare campaign big boy!!

Abby

i’m sorry but there’s one abby fanfic writer on here that’s so obviously using chatgpt to mass-produce fics and it’s actually infuriating as hell. she’s even been called out before which validated my suspicion. if someone’s dropping 5+ fics a week, you KNOW they’re cutting corners. writing takes time, editing takes time. there’s literally no way you can post so many fics back to back like that every single week i’m sorry. they’re all awfully formatted, with chatgpt copy and pasted spacing. they have zero personality and they’re the same ai generated language. i’m so sick of seeing this person get praised for work that isn’t even theirs, simply because she’s spamming the abby x reader tag with ai fics and overshadowing people who actually work hard and put love into what they write. ai has no place in fanfiction, write real stories. it’s so lazy and fake as fuck. and readers, please try to be more aware. if someone's putting out a perfectly polished character x reader fic every 48 hours, either they're lying about how fast they work or they're outsourcing an ai.

i will not be naming who because people have already flocked to her account to tell her about this post and defend her so whatever, at least i tried. sorry for wanting more for this fandom

for the ellie girls

Her freckles. Her nose bump. Her muscles.

Taking a female character who belongs to a non-majority group of bigger, muscular women in a video game and making her a very skinny person in the TV show adaptation of said video game is problematic and worthy of (respectful) criticism and I’m tired of pretending it’s not. Because the creators of the TV show said they specifically offered the actor who plays this character the part. She even said she didn’t even have to audition in an interview, she was offered the role with no audition for it. No hate to this actor, she’s amazing, she’s out here working, I don’t blame her at all. But they also did not have other actors (or if they did, very few) read for the part.

But I am so sick of people acting like the character’s original physique doesn’t matter. It DOES MATTER. Media has power, and purposefully erasing a part of a character’s physical identity that aligns her with a group of women who are either grossly misrepresented in traditional media or just cut out of it completely IS harmful. And the fact that they used her physicality to market the second game so heavily and then abandon it when the reception wasn’t good for the TV show is SO problematic. Bigger women are not there to simply be movement devices for your plot and aesthetic choices. People who are bigger matter, and having representation of bigger women fucking matters.

omg why did that suck so bad??

let me say the pros first:

young mazino jesse is growing on me. he gets that responsible/sarcastic thing that game jesse has. and the fact that he is shown taking care of all of them in the end is very in character and nice for us to see.

gabriel luna once again slays as tommy. that kiss with maria, the longing???? god. i love him.

the fighting in jackson was a cool idea, would have enjoyed playing a sequence like that in the game, but overall the change hurts more than it helps.

okay that's about it for what i liked lmao! the cons:

where is my pot smoking lesbian love scene. what the fuck.

kaitlyn dever looks like a little kid, genuinely. and so does bella ramsey. kaitlyn has more emotional range than bella but neither of them can carry that rage and heartbreak. neither of them are raw and brutal like they are in the game. they're both trying too hard and it shows.

everything that was changed from the game was worse, and i believe that with my whole heart. why wasn't tommy with joel? the reason tommy goes as psycho as he does it because of the grief he has from introducing joel to abby. why didn't we get dina/ellie patrol route to further solidify their relationship? dina being at the lodge made no sense and added exactly nothing to the plot. why was ellie going to jump right back into patrols with joel? in the game she barely even spoke with him before he died, but in the show apparently they're good enough to just hang out now???

The Scene™ was simply not executed as masterfully as in the game. like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. the colors were off (where is my cold, dark, shadowed death scene?), the stab was fucking pathetic compared to game abby's yell and final blow, owen didn't get a chance to do his "if we kill them we're no better than he is" which actually gives him a character trait. abby spent wayyyy too much time explaining everything to joel. and joel is like. crying? instead of spitting mad and sneering his way towards a death he always knew was coming. where's the RAGE???? it's all sanitized and therapy-speak and big feelings and sad girls and weak old men. it just doesn't hit as hard.

the show is trying so hard to make us sympathize with abby, even more than the game, and it's so forced as to feel stupid. also, side note, why is she housewifing for owen? she's a bitch to him in the game and i like that about her. why is she rubbing his arms and making him soup or whatever? not my muscle mommy.

no "bigot sandwich" line???? best line in the whole game???

anyways those are my thoughts, i'm sure i'll have more, but come talk with me about them if you want!

I will actually die if I don't kiss her

timebomb !

Abby at the stadium