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the pitt + taylor swift songs mel king - "you're on your own, kid"

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pitt asks #17

Do you have any have any favorite ships? Which ones?

do you really have to ask, anon? 😅

my number one ship is mel/frank, duh. they make me so very much insane in the best way <3

but i also really like santos/garcia and robby/collins!!

the pitt ask game

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guys new cast member just dropped

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Pitt ask game: 1, 3, 4, & 5

thanks nonnie!!!

1. Who is your favorite character?

MEL MEL MEL

i would die for her my baby angel 😍😍

3. Who is your favorite recurring or minor character (i.e., not in the main cast)?

i never know who's main cast or not tbh 😭 so i'll say mateo!!! he's a sweetie <3

4 + 5. Which episode is your favorite/least favorite?

ok so i'm cheating but honestly all the episodes have kinda blended together? but i don't remember one where i was like meh tbh 🤔

the pitt ask game

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ooh number 12 & 23 for the pitt ask game?

eep thanks for the ask rachel!! 😊🥰

12. Which doctor would you want to handle your care if you were in the ER?

Mel, Heather or Samira I think.. I feel like they would be sweet and gentle and give me their full attention. And I'm also more at ease around female doctors so yea. (I also have mental health issues and I feel like they'd show comprehension, care and empathy.)

23. You somehow found yourself in the Pitt. What is the most likely (silly) medical reason, and would it happen during the day or night shift?

Oooh good question 🤔 the first thing that came to mind was V V BAD so I'll spare you that but hmm I feel like I would cut myself while cooking or something? I'm not the best cook and cutting all the veggies takes forever and sometimes I get frustrated and want to go too fast. So I guess it would be around dinner time/evening?

the pitt ask game

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The Pitt Ask Game

I want people to send me questions about The Pitt, so here’s an ask game with general questions.

Who is your favorite character?

Who is your least favorite character?

Who is your favorite recurring or minor character (i.e., not in the main cast)?

Which episode is your favorite?

Which episode is your least favorite?

Which patient/case is your favorite?

What is your overall favorite scene?

Which scene was the one that had the most emotional impact for you?

Which scene is the funniest to you?

Which character dynamic is your favorite?

Which character dynamic do you want to see more of?

Which doctor would you want to handle your care if you were in the ER?

Which nurse would you want to handle your care if you were in the ER?

If you worked at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center, which department would you work for?

Would you rather work day shift or night shift?

Which character do you want to see the most in season 2?

Do you have any have any favorite ships? Which ones?

Do you have any crackships or rarepairs? Which ones?

Which friendship is your favorite?

Tell me your thoughts on [insert character A] and [insert character B]!

What are some of your headcanons for [insert character]?

If you were working on a patient, which doctors or nurses would you want to work with?

You somehow found yourself in the Pitt. What is the most likely (silly) medical reason, and would it happen during the day or night shift?

What storyline do you most want to see in the next season?

After a shift, how would you decompress?

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THE PITT season one posters

[insp.]

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no one:

taylor: mel is ALONE she’s SO ALONE and her family is DEAD and her and becca are ALONE and she has NO friends NO family she’s ON HER OWN she feels ABANDONED and LANGDON CAN TAKE CARE OF HER

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TEDRA MILLAN as EMERY WALSH in THE PITT | 1.12

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10, 29, or 31

10. things you said that made me feel like shit / 31. things you said right before goodbye

Mel doesn’t mean to— she doesn’t want to— she’s not this type of person, usually— But right now…

She’s just so horribly envious.

She has learned, in twenty eight years, that most of her desires are out of her reach. Usurious things that need to be tamped down, deep, before they impede her ability to function. If she had to bear the weight of everything she wants and can not, can not, have— It would be crushing. She would fold underneath it all.

Frank Langdon fits right into that box. He’s the latest in a line of things that are decidedly not Mel’s. She can work with him, and stare, and pine, but there’s— distance.

They’re friends, she would say. Good friends, even. Close enough that they’re out for lunch on a day off. You’ll like this place, he’d said, when he brought it up at work. He likes forcing her to do things she wouldn’t normally, like karaoke with their coworkers, or impromptu mini golfing on a weekend, or taking her to hole in the wall restaurants because They have the best street tacos, Mel.

Frank moves like a whirlwind, picking her up and leaving her unsteady and untethered, floating in the air until he decides to bring her back down. It’s unfair, sometimes. He slots so nicely into her empty spaces, all warmth and understanding, the type of connection she’s always yearned for and never quite been able to grasp. She still can’t grasp him.

Frank slips right out of her hands at all the wrong times.

He’s here with her, eating too many of her tortilla chips, probably because she always lets him, leaning into her personal space like he wants— wants it too, like they’re on the same page— and then he’s, all of a sudden, very far away from Mel.

His phone rings and Frank’s attention snaps like a rubber band, harsh against her wrist, a welt in its wake. He answers immediately, and Mel doesn’t have to wonder who it is. She can tell from the soft tone in his voice.

“Hi, baby, what’s up?”

Mel bites hard on the inside of her cheek, expression neutral. Or maybe he’ll mistake her grimace for concern.

“Oh fuck, are you okay? Are the kids— Okay, okay, calm down, Abs, tell me where you are…Alright, I’ll be there, okay, love you too. I’ll be right there, baby.”

Mel sucks in a breath when he hangs up the phone. “Is…is everything okay?”

He flicks his eyes towards her, a little vacant, like he’d forgotten she was there. He shakes his head, “Abby was gonna take the kids to the mall, but they got a flat tire on the freeway. I’ve gotta go change it for her.”

“Oh,” Mel says, carefully. “Of course. I’m glad she’s alright.”

“Yeah, she’s close by at least. Last year she was taking a trip to see her sister in New York. On the way back her engine stalled right outside of Shippensburg and I had to drive, like, three hours in the middle of the night to pick her up,” he says this half laughing, fond in retrospect.

Mel’s going to be sick with jealousy. The last time she had car major problems, she was moving across the country with Becca. Her father had just died, and Mel had to take care of the dregs of his estate. It was going to take a full two days to drive all the way from Lansing back to Seattle, where she was going to school. They broke down somewhere halfway through. Becca had a melt down, crying and screaming at Mel while she desperately tried to figure out what was wrong with the car, smoke coiling out of the hood. Mel had nearly broke down herself, hot tears slipping down her cheeks, with no one to call.

The thought of Frank, willing and capable, a phone call away—

Not for the first time, Mel thinks of Abby Langdon and resentment brews in her stomach, all the way up her chest until she’s sure it must be all over her face.

Frank pulls away from their table, patting down his pockets for his wallet and keys, absently tossing a twenty down for their meal. Mel wants, avariciously, to tell him not to leave. It’s ridiculous.

“Hey,” he says, catching her eye, like he sees all the way through her, “You good?”

That’s the worst part, the one that really leaves her self piteous, riddled with greed. Frank is a perfect friend, really, but— for all that she wants him— is not hers.

“Yes,” Mel murmurs, “Just… worried for Abby. Let me know how it goes.”

He smiles at her, “I’ll tell her you were worried. Sorry we had to cut this short, by the way. Rain check?”

“For sure.”

“You’re the best, Mel. I’ll see you.”

She waits until he turns out of the building to press her head pathetically against the sticky table.

Wanting is a horrible thing. Mel would cut it out of herself, surgically, if it meant she didn’t have to feel like shit every time Frank says goodbye.

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This is keeping sane atm

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shift change

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Q: From episode 3, it's the conversation she has with Santos where she says to Mel, "you see a family and I see every man for himself." Why do you think that Mel is so quick to see family even with that loneliness?

Taylor: I think because it was taken away from her. There's this thing that I've noticed where children of divorce go two ways. They either don't believe in marriage at all, or family. Or they become the most family ever. And it's this interesting thing. So, it's either they believe what happened and they're like, "yeah, no one should be together ever." Or they're like, "I'll prove I can do it." The reason Mel sees family is because she doesn't have it anymore. She's got her sister, but they've been alone for a long time. And so I think, the craving to create it, especially when it's not divorce, it was illness and death both times. And it's like, just trying to find and make it. I think that's why anyone who showed anything to Mel, she would latch on so quickly.

...still going insane about this btw

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Taylor Dearden stuns in Collider Ladies Night (x)

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“Mel can’t not feel abandoned. And so I think having the one person— the one person, who feels like an adult who can take care of her, being gone…and coming back felt gr— and also, he didn’t ignore her, he came right over.”

(x)

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Langdon: I left instructions for everyone while I'm gone.

Santos: Mine just says "Santos no."

Langdon: I want you to apply it to every possible situation.