The Bi Who Lived

#that's her emotional support drug addict. so what. (via thepitts)

STEVE ROGERS 🎬 letterboxd series [insp, template]

— Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

what if you were a MED STUDENT and it was you FIRST SHIFT in emergency medicine and then you spilled MYLANTA on yourself and you had to CHANGE YOUR SCRUBS and then a patient BLED all over you and you had to CHANGE YOUR SCRUBS and RIGHT AFTER THAT a boy BARFED BLOOD all over you and you had to CHANGE YOUR SCRUBS and then a some guy PEED on you and you had to CHANGE YOUR SCRUBS and you looked like a BABY OWL

bonus: the dancers dote on them too

Jason meeting Damian for the first time but I rewrote and made it a comic lol

(you're reading part 1)

omgg???

going through screenshots of decade old tumblr posts on pinterest because it's easier there and i had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that it was a known joke/open secret/whatever even within the marvel cast that steve was a bit fruity. a late night talkshow host called it gay and Sebastian said it was a little brokeback mountain. red carpet interview with Chris and Scarlett had Samuel L interrupting them saying he was the "first lgbt captain america." like i know it's jokes but they knew. Chris said all the Steve+Bucky scenes in CW were cut short, and meeting up in wakanda couldn't have been the first time they saw each other since because otherwise they would've hugged for 30 minutes. they knew. they KNEW. and i don't know if it was the russos or Disney or both but they purposely took that from us. no they probably would've never been able to canonize anything without pissing off a very large percentage of their audience (and lose money not being able to show it in several countries) but they overcorrected WAY too much, so much so that it sullied people's opinions of Steve forever. his character was assassinated because of homophobia. and I'll literally never be over it.

Absolutely hilarious how Robby is Mr #1 mentor to everyone but one innocent question about his emotional well being throws him into a spiral of awkward hand gestures

So, @drmelking and @eveningspirit have been having a conversation about whether and how Santos may have been manipulative during the 1.09 confrontation with Langdon, and I want to tag in for a minute on this one, but the thread is getting long, so I thought I'd make another post.

I'm also one of the people who accused Santos of manipulating Langdon, firstly because a lie is an attempt at manipulation. It just is, full stop. You're trying to get someone to do something or to react in some way that you don't think they'd do if you told them the truth.

Digging deeper, while I agree with @eveningspirit on this:

I don't think the lie Santos tells was instinctive. It's too targeted for the response she needs from Langdon for there to be no calculation in it - in the specific lie that flips Santos' decision with Mohan's, that flips saline for Ativan + Keppra. The fact that she's taking on blame for not calling Langdon back into the room is ultimately far less important than the fact that she's shifting responsibility for what could have been a lethal mistake if it hadn't turned out to be a Hail-Mary save.

I could maybe be convinced that part of what's going on is that she's protecting herself from danger, although my impression was that it's less immediate/physical danger than the danger of Langdon getting her kicked out of the residency program. My impression was that this lie was mainly about proving that Langdon's unfairly got it in for her, and not only will he yell at her for doing the same thing that he wouldn't yell at someone else for doing, but that he'll actually praise someone else for doing the same (risky, non-protocol) thing he would reprimand Santos for. So, success! She manipulated him into exposing that, not only to her, but in front of a half-dozen witnesses - including Mohan, who now feels aggrieved on her behalf and is a potential new ally, conveniently replacing Garcia.

The fact that Mohan is a third-year resident who Langdon's worked with and knows - and who's had those hundreds of hours of simulation training plus experience with real patients that Langdon ends up yelling about - compared to an unknown who's literally nine hours into her first shift as a doctor, who Langdon has responsibility for despite having no real feel for her knowledge, instincts and decision-making capabilities yet, and who in fact has repeatedly shown that she's so terrifyingly over-confident that she'll just give orders without touching base with her senior resident so that he could not only teach her but try to correct mistakes before they happen - none of that context occurs to her, because of course it doesn't (because she wouldn't be the character she is, if it did). But I think this is part of why Langdon isn't giving her the chances he's giving Mel, who not only has more experience, but more importantly, who started their relationship by being honest about her own emotional reactions and by coming to him about the gummies kid and saying "I need help," while showing the work she'd already done.

He's seen Mel's diagnostic work and knows it's thorough and well-thought-out. He knows Mel will ask for help if she thinks she needs it (for her patient, if not for herself, although she still does a shockingly good job on that front). He knows Mel is likely to recognize if she does need help. Conversely, his experience of Trinity is that she thinks she knows best, that she'll repeatedly do whatever she thinks is best without getting her senior resident's sign-off the way she's supposed to - despite repeated correction on that front - and he's seen evidence that some of her decision-making is beyond bad - potentially fatal. His nine hours with her have taught him that she thinks rules are for other people and that she'll ignore the guardrails that are set up to protect her, her patients, and her co-workers.

Yes, he probably just plain likes Mel better - Mel spends her downtime petting dogs and psyching herself up with geeky little raps and calling her autistic sister to make sure she's doing ok, while Trinity spends her downtime bullying the med students who are below her on the ladder and trying to start a whisper campaign that her meanie senior resident is a drug addict, and I know which one I like better - and Langdon needs to self-police the way that could affect the tenor of his interactions with Trinity vs. Mel. But Mel also has shown professionalism and skill in her job and has shown herself to be trustworthy in a way that Trinity just. Has Not. So Mel has earned a longer leash than Trinity.

Tangentially, I do find it interesting that one of the first things we see Robby do, in the first hour of this shift, is push calcium gluconate for hyperkalemia before labs are back on our marathon-runner after going through very much the same kind of thought process that Santos shows about our MDMA girl - Robby and Collins have essentially the same discussion as Santos and Mohan. And then Robby just goes and does it, the same way Santos just goes and does it, before the labs are even back. Robby at least has the benefit of years of experience, but I have to say I think it's interesting to see Robby and Santos so strongly paralleled in this, and I wonder what they're trying to show not only about Santos, but about Robby with that parallel.

THE PITT (2025-) 1.06 || 1.09