February 01, 2024

Two women DM about The Last of Us 2: a poem about life

February 01, 2024/ Isa Adney

Content warning: MAJOR The Last of Us Part 2 spoilers. Like. MAJOR. DO NOT READ THIS if you haven’t already played The Last of Us 2 OR don’t plan on watching season two of the show and don’t care about spoilers. If you don’t fall into one of those two categories skip this one.

Special thanks to my friend Ashley for letting me turn our DMs into a poem. Italics are me, bold is her. Line breaks are mine, but no words were added; everything else is as it was in our DMs.

January 07, 2024

An open letter to Neil Druckmann

January 07, 2024/ Isa Adney

This is a piece I wrote during an MFA workshop today. I knew I wanted to write about The Last of Us somehow in this workshop, and the prompt we were given was to write a piece in the form of a letter. So I decided to write a fragmented letter to the creator of the game, Neil Druckmann. This is the draft of that letter.

Dear Neil,

You made me kill a nurse but you also inspired my largest tattoo to date. So this is a thank you letter. But not like the kind you feel obligated to write after a wedding. This is the kind you can’t not write, at least in your own head, when something changes you, brings back a part of you you thought was dead.