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The Edge of Town by mrs_nanamiller
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Oct 2025
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Based on Gabriel Luna’s song: Edge of town
co-created with @millermamiYou are a former skilled firefighter (that never actually fought fire – important to mention!) that were assigned to work for FEDRA’s Boston QZ after the outbreak. After a traumatic event, you become one of the most tyrant FEDRA soldiers. Eventually you get closer to the smuggler Tommy Miller - someone that was once a hero for you, but has no idea of it. You both will start a post apocalypse Romeo and Juliette romance. Lies, love, betrayal, moral choices among nights of wild love. A slow-burn lovers-to-enemies-to-something-more that asks what you both will sacrifice for love, ideals and survival.
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Something Like Home (But Not Quite) by cherryispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
21 Oct 2025
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It’s 2013. Ten years ago the world ended, and people coped with the outbreak any way they could— mostly with drugs, alcohol and sex.
Self destruction wasn't unfamiliar to Joel, but Cam definitely pushed the definition to the limit. And damn it, Tess was right: he can’t help himself when he sees her do another line, or skip another meal.
He wanted to save her, even if she didn't want to be saved by him. Even if she didn’t want anything out of him besides sex. Even if he didn’t want to save himself.——
Or: the fic where Joel gets tangled up in the messiest situation of his life. A love triangle between Joel, Tess and the reader, with a bittersweet ending.
Reader has a name and struggles with an eating disorder as well as other shit (check tags) so please feel free to not read this if it triggers you in any way. -
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Joanne and her dad have been surviving in Michigan at their cottage since the day the world went to hell. After years of survival they realize they are no longer safe. They travel to the Boston QZ believing it to be the safest. During their travels they run into a small group also heading in the same direction. Joanne and her father join this group until they reach Boston. Here Jo starts to develop feelings for a man in the group named Joel. Though he's older, she's old for her age. She proves time and time again she doesn't need help from anyone, that she's not afraid to be alone, that no one will pull the wool over her eyes.
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The job is simple: move the girl, get paid, stay alive. It should’ve been another run—guns, ration cards, maybe a few bodies along the way. Joel Miller’s done worse for less. She’s just trying to keep her head down and her secret buried. When the Fireflies come calling, and the job becomes something they can’t undo, it stops being about who makes it out alive and starts being about who they become getting there.
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What if Riley had a twin and watched over Ellie for her? What if Ellie wasn't the only one who was immune? What if the cordyceps modified into something more?
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Floriensoul
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"The spirit of blooming"
The personal growth that mirrors flowers blossoming, embracing new stages of life with grace and color.
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Daisy has lived her whole life fighting battles no one can see. Behind her steady smile lies a fragile secret, a sickness that demands her strength each day and a family that never belived in her dreams. The world has always told her she's too weak, too naive, too small to matter.Then the world ends.
When the sky burns and everything she knows collapses, Daisy finds herself running through the ruins beside Joel and Tommy.Two men hardened by loss and survival. Together, they navigate the wasteland where hope is rarer than food and trust is a dangerous thing to offer.
As days blur into nights filled with with silence and fear, Daisy begins to see the cracks in Joel's armor. The moments when his guarded eyes soften, when his voice faltersjust enough to let her in. In a world stripped bare, they find somrthing neither of them expected: a reason to keep moving forward.
In the shattered world beyond the outbreak, Daisy learns that survival isn't just about fighting death. It's about remembering why you're alive in the first place.
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vanishing hours by 6hoursgirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), Prospect (2018)
20 Oct 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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Ellie Miller has spent twenty years building a life she can stand. She produces records in Nashville, owns a condo, and has her name tucked into liner notes. Her routine is set: late nights in the studio, crowded music halls, and just enough distance from Silverlake to pretend it never really mattered.
Then one call pulls her home to where she’s needed, back into the town she gave up on long ago. Silverlake is waiting with the gym she refuses to walk into, the twenty-year reunion emails she keeps deleting, and the people she has avoided for more than half her life. Most of all Dina, the ghost she has never been able to outrun. Will Ellie discover that not everything in Silverlake was what it seemed, and that even broken bonds can be mended into something stronger than before?
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5 Times Joel Got Walked In On (and 1 time he walked in on someone else) by Fiachra
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV)
19 Oct 2025
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5 times Joel attempts to have sex post Outbreak Day and 1 time he ruins someone else's attempt
For the TLOU Sex Gone Sideways Challenge 2025
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Ellie Williams was going to die, all by herself, in a forest clearing, under a bright blue sky, without a soul knowing. Alone, all alone, not even some beautiful final vision of the one person that cared enough to break the world for her, that was her fate. As her vision faded, as breath grew impossible, and the pain finally dissolved into nothingness, Ellie’s final thought was ‘this is how I end’.
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After being engaged to the same day, the last thing you would expect is for the world to come to an end. Thousands and thousands of infected around you. You believe that the love of your life is gone forever. You try to move on with your life, possibly meeting someone along the way that makes you believe in some sort of love anyway. After over two decades, you end up getting injuries and end up in a town called "Jackson" in Wyoming. Turns out what you believe was truly gone from your life forever is right there in front of you. But it can't be that easy, could it?
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Sarah never died, and Riley was never bitten.
When everything fell apart, Joel Miller did the impossible—he saved his daughter. Two decades later, he’s tasked with protecting a girl who might hold the key to humanity’s future. But Ellie refuses to go anywhere without Riley, the one person she trusts—and loves—above all else.
Can a broken smuggler, his daughter, a battle-hardened survivor, and two inseparable teens survive the journey across a fractured country?
Can love endure in a world where everything else has already been lost?
And if a cure is finally within reach… what will it cost to hold onto the people who matter most?Series
- Part 1 of The Last of Us: We Lived
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Sweet Dreams by stumblingaway
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Oct 2025
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“Woah.” Ellie’s face is inches away from her window when Tess looks back, her gaze fixed on the deer. “They’re so big.”
“There’s a whole lot of things bigger than them,” Tess snorts.
“The only animals I’ve seen are birds and dogs.”
Right.
Joel rolls down his window and she’s hit with a blast of cold air to the face. She’s thankful, actually, as the roar of the wind fills the car, drowning out any of the kid’s attempts at further conversations. He rolls it back up once the sun has started to set, the insects beginning their evening songs.
Tess, Joel, Ellie, and the rare occurrence of sleep. A Tess Lives story.
Written for Whumptober Day 18: Dystopia
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- Part 4 of Whumptober 2025
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Zenith and Nadir by Arien for marchflower
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Oct 2025
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This was good. Joel could work with this. Dallas was far enough away without having to worry about hitting the reset button on every aspect of his brother’s life. He nodded quickly. He wasn’t worried about the kind of work he might be asked to do. He didn’t even consider it then - he saw a way out and that was all that mattered. But a wave of anxiety did wash over him which left him faintly trembly, weak in the belly. Everything was going to be on him, now. He had to do right by Tommy. There was no point to any of this if he couldn’t do it better than his old man.
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Joel through the years, the people he loves most and the patterns which emerge.
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- Part 3 of Night Fever, a Tess/Joel 1970s AU
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In which Joel Miller and Bridget Adams met in rather unconventional circumstances in the early days of the Boston QZ, going from somewhat enemies, to friends, to almost lovers before that all fell apart. Bridget disappears, with Joel loosing hope of ever finding her again. After four years of desperately searching, he and Ellie stumble across a cabin to hold up in for the night, hoping to find the supplies they've been desperately seeking and a safe place to rest. Joel however, comes to also find the one women that he hasn't been able to get off his mind for all these years.
Or in which Bridget realises that she just can't seem to let her past go.
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THE LAST JOURNEY (JOEL MILLER-THE LAST OF US) by Acer_Wolfe
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), tlou - Fandom, Pedro Pascal - Fandom, joel miller - Fandom, tommy miller - Fandom, ellie tlou - Fandom
17 Oct 2025
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After a series of tragic loss Joel Miller travels far and wide surviving on his wits and experience. Always moving forward despite the unforgiving environment he encounters because a quest keeps him going in his journey. (From the game The Last of Us and the live action TV series)
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Safe are the Ghosts by plsdontseemeeeee
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us
17 Oct 2025
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In post-apocalyptic Jackson, you work as a medic and navigate tense relationships—especially with Ellie and your father, Joel. Despite the past, grief, and unspoken wounds, you figure out how to continue in a world that seems to love nothing more than ruining your life. - based of the HBO television series, currently in Epsiode Five
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After saving a little girl’s life, you’re thrust into her and her father’s small cabin oasis. She wants to be your friend. He wants nothing to do with you. Fighting for a better life, you’re forced to reconcile your differences, battling against a world wrought with monsters and raiders.
Because while they might not be family, they’re the only ones you’ve got.
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Wilting trees in the horizon by pedritofics
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
17 Oct 2025
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After your wife’s death, you decide to take a different route. Thanks to Sarah’s idea, you run into some familiar faces.
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- Part 3 of Space Boy Series
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love in the wrong lifetime by cyreneia
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
16 Oct 2025
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