spectralbeef
Fandoms
Recent works
-
Missed you, Wolf by spectralbeef
Fandoms: Wiedźmin | The Witcher - All Media Types, Wiedźmin | The Witcher (Video Game)
13 Dec 2021
Tags
Summary
“Heard there was a witcher competing in Touissant’s tourney and I thought, hey,” Eskel’s amusement arrives before he does. “Haven’t seen Geralt in a while, maybe I’ll drop in.”
-
a voice to speak with by spectralbeef for Deputychairman
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
21 Mar 2018
Tags
Summary
“You gotta see how this looks.” Poe can’t hold back the emotion when he says it. “General, you gotta see. You grew up Inner Rim. You look down there, you see a planet that’s safe for getting passed over by the First Order. I look and half the people in this Resistance look and see a planet that’s in danger for getting passed over by us, the same way it’s been passed over since the First Concordance. You gonna risk their lives because you don’t see that settlement as significant? You’re sending a message, loud and clear - we don’t stand for anything but the Core.”
It looks like it hurts. He sees it in her, sees it because she lets him see it and that makes it worse, somehow. He doesn’t wanna be let in. He wants to be treated like she’d treat an emissary, like she’d treat another of the command staff on the bridge. Knowing he’s hurt her makes him wanna back down and he can’t, not with this, not when no one else will speak up. He needs his voice, needs to be able to use it. -
Tags
Summary
“You gotta lie down on the floor cos you’ve been captured. But you gotta be brave and not make noises cos that’s how Mam says brave people act. Right?” Both the kids turn excited eyes on Poe, completely invested in their make believe. “That’s what happened.”
“That’s what happened, buddy.” Poe says and Finn watches him paper on the smile. The kid on the pretending to be at the mercy of the Force Order lies on the ground and doesn’t do much. Finn sees Poe, tapped out and bloodied, sweat soaked. Can still remember the animal noises he made. He’d never heard someone sound like that, like they were being torn out of themselves. He looks at Poe but Poe’s not looking anywhere else but ahead.
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Set just after the end of The Return. Making it back to the garrison, Athos finds himself in need of a good seeing-to. (What?)
Series
Bookmarked by spectralbeef
14 Aug 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“You wanna move out?” Joel asks, and Ellie bites the side of her cheek briefly. Joel’s face conveys more than his tone, sometimes, but she can’t let herself look at him. It’ll make it too hard to say what she knows she needs to.
“Yeah,” she says, studying a chip in the paint on the railing with way more focus than it needs. “Probably a good idea, you and me having our own space.” She isn’t brave enough to bring up what people are saying about them not having their own space. She can’t do it. Either he’s not aware of it yet, or he is, but reminding him about it might mean him wanting her even farther away before her existence even in the backyard has other people making his life harder. If the closest she can get is being in the garage, she doesn’t want to risk fucking up even that.
“Alright,” he says after a long, long moment. She grits her teeth against the toneless quality of his voice. That’s the tone he uses when he doesn’t want someone to know what he’s actually feeling.
Like he would if he didn’t want a pathetic QZ kid to know how relieved he is that he’ll finally be done dealing with her shit.
(after realizing that she's making joel's life harder, ellie decides to move out to the garage)
Bookmarked by spectralbeef
21 Apr 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“You're not the boss of me,” she says defiantly, and it’s true. She’s still not entirely used to only being directly answerable to one person, but she knows she is. Maria has no direct power over her. Only Joel does.
Maria doesn't appear to take it personally. In fact, she looks mildly amused.
“True,” Maria says mildly. “Come on then.”
Ellie stares in disbelief at her back as Maria starts walking–really, it’s riding the edge of a waddle, but Joel kicked her ankle when she made the observation about someone else before, so she gathers that’s probably rude–and the woman pauses only when she’s at the end of the road, turning only her head back to look.
“Or you can stand in the middle of the street until you get caught for skipping,” Maria suggests lightly, and Ellie glares.
(Still, she follows.)
(ellie finds her feet in jackson)
Bookmarked by spectralbeef
19 Apr 2025
-
relational transgressions by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
06 Jun 2023
Tags
Summary
“No,” he says, when four Fireflies as a unit manage to restrain him, pushing him to his knees on the floor.
“She’s gone,” a nurse says in a voice that might be gentle if she wasn’t delivering his worst nightmare right to him.
“No,” he says at once, the word nearly punched out of him. “No she’s not. Ellie, wake up.”
“Joel-” It’s Anderson speaking to him, he realizes distantly. He doesn’t really give a fuck. The man is lying to him, trying to say that his kid is dead.
“Ellie Williams, you wake up right now,” he orders. She likes her jokes, but this is going too fucking far. “It’s not funny. Now you wake up.”
It doesn’t matter how many commands he gives her, though.
Or how many pleas when the weight of what just happened starts to press in on him.
The only response he gets is that piercing, damning alarm.
(trying to get joel out of the way, the fireflies fake ellie's death) (...it doesn't end well for them)
Bookmarked by spectralbeef
13 Apr 2025
-
facultative by PenAndInkPrincess
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
31 Mar 2023
Tags
Summary
He watched a documentary about wolves with Sarah once, about how they curl up in a den with their pups in winter to keep them safe, to keep them warm and protected from a world that could hurt them.
It's how this limbo feels, both of them in this cabin.
He’s exhausted, down to his fucking bones, residual illness still draining him, and he does his best to keep it from Ellie, made easier by the way she still doesn’t seem totally present, even if she talks a bit now at least. She’s conscious enough to perform the basic functions of living on her own, but even then he has to prompt her for things like taking a drink of water or continuing to eat after the first few bites from the deer he’d managed to shoot, cutting off what he could and leaving the rest in the woods, still too goddamn weak to pull it back on his own and unwilling to wake Ellie from her nap to help.
For now, she’s pressed against him, not dozing but not seeming entirely awake either. There's no space between them, not an inch. Ellie is careful to stay on his left, but she curls up right next to him, head on his shoulder in a way that scratches at the fuzzy place where his memories from Silver Lake live.
(joel and ellie, post episode 8)
Bookmarked by spectralbeef
12 Apr 2025