20 Works in 40-Something Joel (The Last of Us)
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When your mum finally has enough of your anger, she sends you back to Texas to live with your dad for the summer.
Who better to help you try and tame your wild streak then the steady head of Joel Miller.. a.k.a your dad’s best friend
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Mercy for Those Seeking by moderatelytroubled
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
29 Sep 2025
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Sometimes it takes a moment akin to an atom bomb to remake a life. Other times, all it takes is a whisper. This is both. For fate can exist as a single, chance meeting.______________
Joel is a construction worker. Ophelia is an architect. Chance or fate brings them together and sends Ophelia on a journey of rebirth.
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Alone during a night shift at the coffee shop, you receive an unexpected visit from Joel Miller - the delivery man who protagonized both your romantic scenarios and wet dreams. When he starts trying to get to know you better, you need to confront that, maybe, you're not the only one who fantasizes about it all.
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reader’s dad is a contractor like joel, and considers him a rival after a bidding war goes wrong. so what happens when he sends his daughter to the chamber of commerce banquet by herself, and joel saves her from an awkward situation? it leads to long nights and hidden away getaways of reader hiding joel from her dad… until it doesn’t.
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Friday I'm in Love by munsonsreputation
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Aug 2025
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Joel’s favorite day of the week is Friday and for good reason.
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Joel knows you're prone to stressful weeks and he does what he can to take some of it off your plate and get you through to Friday.
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Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by crimsonstargirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Jul 2025
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Joel Miller is a lot of things: your dad’s best friend, your boss, your next-door neighbor. And, y'know, the guy you’ve been harboring a massive crush on since your freshman year of college.
You're pretty sure your feelings aren't reciprocated... until one night that changes everything.
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A self-indulgent dbf! Joel fic where you find out just how much your little crush on Joel Miller isn't one-sided.
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Finally by fckyeahsaltandpeppercurls
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
18 Jul 2025
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Joel does not have feelings for his secretary. It's not like Tommy constantly teasing him about it is going to change his mind either.
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- Part 1 of Finally
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Damned if I Don't by Eternalsterek24
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
19 Jun 2025
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Jesse has been on her own now for a long time. But when she runs into Joel and he takes her back to Jackson, will she be able to make a home again?
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red, white and blue by joelmillersgirl
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
21 Mar 2025
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you (reluctantly) attend a summer pool party hosted by your dad. this party, however, is dripping with tension for his best friend: joel miller.
“here, in this moment, you realize you do—and always have—had feelings for joel.
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Sleeping With Trouble by daydreaming_mylifeaway
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
23 Feb 2025
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Your dad's best friend Joel picks you up from college to drive you home for Christmas—a long trip, just the two of you. When a storm forces you to share a motel room for the night, the tension you’ve been ignoring becomes impossible to avoid. You’ve always been into him, but he’s never given any sign he feels the same. Until now. A little too close, a little too much, and before you know it, things get messy.
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Joel is not happy to see you when you come over to bring a tool box he left at your house.
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Family get together's were never Ellie's thing, too many noisy little cousins running around screaming. It was a good thing her handsome Uncle Joel was there to make it more bearable.
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My Burning Sun Will Someday Rise by littledarlin
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
04 Jan 2025
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"You are allowed to have fun. You’re doing this for your Dad more than anything, and you’ve been bending over backwards trying to make him proud with your good grades, so if there’s something you’re able to get out of this trip, you figure you’re at least allowed to look. And anyway, it’s not hurting anyone. It’s just natural, the half-naked bodies and blissful relaxation would affect anyone who has spent the last four months cramped up in a little dorm room.
You watch Joel swim towards the beach again, rising out of the water like some sort of Poseidon sent to personally make this trip unbearable for you."Reader goes on a beach vacation with Joel after her father broke his leg.
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Oh, I love it and I hate it at the same time. You and I drink the poison from the same vine. Hiding all of our sins from the daylight.
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It was just sex.
Sex.
That’s all it was, right?
But it's hard to keep emotions out of intimacy.
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We loved each other with fragments of ourselves that were dead - Nikita Gill
Love. Such a poignant emotion. Such a terrifying feeling to give into. One that is stored right in the precious cavity of the heart. A sentiment that can turn the toughest of people plush but can forge such an aggressive desire to protect. A dangerous intensity, even more so when you’re left to find it in the obsolete remains of what was once planet Earth.
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Joel finds himself catching feelings for an existing resident of Jackson. Ones he just can’t seem to ignore but it’s not all plain sailing as they navigate through one another’s trauma.
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- Part 1 of DLG universe - TLOU
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After acquiring a rather embarrassing tattoo on a drunken night out, you go to JM INK to get it removed, unaware that who awaits you is the sexy, stoic Joel Miller who works as a tattoo artist by day and a musician by night.
Things get hot and heavy pretty quickly over the course of your regular sessions with Joel. His gentle praise and affirming touch is all the painkiller you need.
In a world where Joel Miller has tattoos.
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honeysuckle’s & huckleberry’s by Zialltops
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
15 Apr 2024
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After four years away at collage, you’re finally home with the tools and knowledge to save your family ranch. That is, if their ranch hand would stay out of your way.
Or: Ranch hand Joel doesn’t know how to handle the return of his bosses prodigy daughter, her snarky little attitude, or her sinfully tight jeans.
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You’ve had a thing for your dad’s smuggling partner for years, despite (or maybe because of) his fearsome reputation. A deal gone wrong strands Joel at your apartment after curfew. Will this finally give you a chance to push the boundaries with your dad’s closest friend?
Set pre-show/game in the Boston QZ, Tess doesn’t exist, sorry Tess I love you.
Basically 4.7k of build up and then porn.
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Joel/Ellie ship fic. Dead Dove: Do Not Eat.
After living in Jackson for over a year, Ellie received her first invite for a parent-teacher interview. It’s a stupid fucking name, she thought. They lived in the apocalypse, and she couldn’t be Jackson’s only orphan.
Couldn’t they have called it something else? Guardian-teacher interview? Roommate-teacher interview?
She’d take anything else. Anything that didn’t make her feel like she was assigning Joel—the man she’d been sleeping with for the last four months—to the role of her dad.
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J is for Jungle Juice
You’re still new to Jackson and after your first patrol, Tommy insists you try his infamous jungle juice. After a few drinks, you run into his quieter, older brother, Joel.
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- Part 10 of A-Z with Joel Miller and Samuel Drake