I have this headcanon that Ellie writes letters to her mom. Se know she carries around the one letter she got from her mom in her backpack. I imagine that Ellie writes to her whenever she has feelings because she doesn’t want to share them with anyone else. Sometimes she writes just updates on her life, for example when JJ is born she writes “Mom, you’re a grandma now I guess”. But more often she writes about her deepest fears and shames and regrets. Sometimes they have drawings, sometimes they’re just a few scribbled sentence. She usually burns the notes after writing them or leaves them to dissolve in a lake. But on very rare occasions she will leave them behind on her travels. She’ll tuck them safely in a nightstand or a desk drawer. She doesn’t believe anyone will find them or read them. She’s ready plenty of stories and letters left behind that never got to the intended reader. But when she leaves a letter of her own behind she feels a sort of solidarity with the other survivors. And she feels like she’s making a mark on the world, however small.
‘girl with a gorgeous voice sings in a weirdly industrial space that actually has incredible acoustics, turning the song into a heavenly choir of one’ is such a SPECIFIC genre of video and i never get tired of it
