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deeply obsessed with this

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Local Writer Shocked As She Realises Planned 'Short Fanfic' Is Turning Into Multi Chapters Plot Oriented Slow Burn Fanfic

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jack in that pilot deleted scene defending samira, probably:

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Here comes the general

AKA Noah Wiley, we will get you that Emmy trust!!!

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To me the most fun part about fix-its is placing dominoes.

Tragedies often consist of escalating series of actions and circumstances which, in isolation, were not clearly leading to the tragic end but form a chain of cause-and-effect directly towards it in hindsight. In equal but opposite fashion, I love starting with small inoccuous changes to canon that in themselves do not obviously fix everything but start a new chain that leads to a better ending.

It's kind of impossible for fix-its to feel fully natural– the reader by definition knows what the original ending was and that this ending will be happier because the writer wants it to be– but it is possible for them to not feel contrived. A big deus-ex-machina, or a character breaking with their pre-established tragic flaws to suddenly make all the "correct" decisions almost always feels unsatisfying to me.

But a few carefully placed small domino pieces slowly knocking over bigger and bigger tiles until the entire story has radically changed? That's a lot more fun.

It recquires the author to both correctly identify the original chain of cause-and-effect and understand the characters well enough to know how they'd react to different circumstances. Because if the story feels like it's fixing the wrong problem or the characters don't act like themselves the magic is lost. But when it works? When it clicks and the reader sees the domino chain laid out in front of them? It's beautiful.

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Ways Your Character Might Test If They’re Truly Loved

✬ Pulling away to see if they’ll be followed.

✬ Pretending not to care and hoping someone notices.

✬ Saying something cruel just to see if the person stays.

✬ Hiding parts of themselves to see if they’re safe to reveal.

✬ Starting fights over nothing.

✬ Showing the worst parts first, just to get it over with.

✬ Rejecting compliments.

✬ Pretending they’re fine when they’re really not, and watching who pushes harder.

✬ Testing boundaries to see if they’ll be enforced with love or rejection.

✬ Going silent, hoping someone breaks the quiet.

✬ Minimizing their own needs to see if someone insists they deserve more.

✬ Giving too much, too fast, to see if they’re used.

✬ Opening up slowly and watching very closely.

✬ Acting like they don’t need help, and quietly hoping someone offers.

✬ Sabotaging good moments just to see if they’ll be forgiven.

✬ Disappearing for a while, then coming back to see if they were missed.

✬ Showing jealousy to see if the other person cares.

✬ Revealing old wounds to see how someone reacts.

✬ Saying “you deserve better” to see if the other person agrees.

✬ Waiting, always waiting, to be left.

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Friends to Lovers (School Edition) Prompts

The Best Friend Who Knows Too Much ╰ They’ve been friends since primary school. They’ve seen each other in braces, bad haircuts, and full-on emotional breakdowns over math tests. Now they’re teenagers. And things are… shifting. Lingering looks. Accidental touches. One of them falls first. The other realizes way too late.

Study Buddies and Something More ╰ They’ve always studied together. Always. Every test, every exam season, every quiet library moment. But this time, they’re sitting a little closer. Laughing a little longer. And when one of them falls asleep mid-flashcard session, the other catches themselves staring way too long.

“Fake Dating” for Prom... but Make It Personal ╰ They agree to fake date to make someone else jealous (obviously). They already act couple-y, so it’s no big deal. But after the third “pretend” hand-hold and one too many “fake” compliments, something real breaks through. And neither one knows how to put it back.

Late-Night Phone Calls & Secret Sharing ╰ It starts as a joke “Call me if you’re dying during the homework.” But then the calls keep happening. 1AM convos about dreams, fears, their futures. The line between “friend” and “something else” starts blurring somewhere between midnight and sunrise.

One-Bed Trope... But It’s a School Trip ╰ They get stuck sharing a room on a class trip (because of course they do). One bed. One shared blanket. And one realization that maybe this thing they’ve always had? It was never just friendship. Oops.

Locker Notes & Lingering Feelings ╰ They’ve always left each other dumb little notes in their lockers—jokes, doodles, inside references. But one day, one of them writes something real. And then pretends it was a joke. And the other one spends the whole day wondering if it meant more. (It did.)

The Protective Idiot ╰ He’s always looked out for her, scaring off bullies, sharing snacks, defending her in arguments. But lately, he’s not just protective, he’s possessive. And jealous. And confused. Because he doesn’t know when “you’re my best friend” turned into “you’re mine.”

The Moment They Realize Everyone Else Already Knows ╰ They’re best friends. Nothing more. Right? Right. Except literally everyone keeps asking when they’re finally going to get together. And they keep denying it… until one of them wonders why it stings every time the other one flirts with someone else.

The School Newspaper Love Confession (Oops) ╰ One writes an anonymous “love letter” for the Valentine’s edition of the school paper. It’s poetic. Personal. Honest. The other reads it. Knows immediately. Doesn’t say anything. Not yet. But their next conversation has a lot of weird, warm tension neither of them expected.

The Slow Burn to Absolute Devastation ╰ They’ve been friends forever. They almost kissed once. But they didn’t. Now one of them is dating someone else. The other one’s trying to be happy. But every moment together feels like a ghost of what could’ve been, until one of them breaks, and says, “It’s always been you.”

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Still feels weird that the same band made "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" and "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)"

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Seriously, the best thing about The Pitt is that is nothing like Grey's Anatomy. I don't want the show to change.

I want the subtext, I want the smallest little morsels of personal information dropped like Hansel and Gretel's breadcrumbs through the season, I want exactly what season one gave us just MORE.

Because between those lines is where all the creativity in the Fanworks lies. It's been a long time since a fandom has been so inspiring. And it's because so much is left off screen or up to interpretation.

My mind has been spinning with a hundred different ways to bring these characters into each other's romantic orbit based on a few glances, some lines of dialog, and pure speculation. And I don't necessarily want any of it to show up in the actual show. That's what fanfiction (or whatever your fanwork of choice) is for.

The show can give us the bare bones, fandom will build us the house.

The thing I don’t get about critics of The Pitt shipping are people being like “I don’t want the show to become Gray’s Anatomy”

Because I seriously doubt most of us in the fandom for these ships want that either! We want the slow burn and the yearning, not immediate hook ups or interpersonal drama taking the main focus of the show itself - this is literally the point of fanfiction.

My big formative fandom was The X-Files and I waited until season 7 for Mulder and Scully to kiss, I can handle subtext and glances being most of canon.

(That said I would not be opposed to a post-shift gala in a later season where we got a smooch or two)

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glimpses from twitter in the pitt

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“this person at one time looked up to me as somebody that they could trust and i know that i have failed that person”

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Oh the Kingdon next season is gonna be so good!!!

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