#fifteen seconds

[atourofmymind]

Missed Suicide Signs

Scrubs: Season 3, Episode 7, My Fifteen Seconds

I was watching the TV show Scrubs the other day and this scene really hit me.

“My Fifteen Seconds” is built around the statistic that doctors tend to only listen to their patients for fifteen seconds at a time. As recurring Sacred Heart visitor Jill Tracy recovers from exposure to pesticides, J.D. and Dr. Cox give her the minimum amount of their attention, a handy countdown clock on-screen letting us know how much longer they’ll have to suffer through her inane banter. Cox and J.D. learn enough to cure her ailment and rule out her apartment being toxic, but in their lack of further care they miss clear, obvious clues that Jill is suffering from depression, and that the pesticides in her system were the result of a suicide attempt.

From https://www.avclub.com/scrubs-my-fifteen-seconds-my-friend-the-doctor-1798177187:

[fieriframes]

[Looked at me for ten or fifteen seconds.]

[temporal-nebula]

[stevenrogered]

Oh, I love this. Classic!

[freyadragonlord]

Some people seem surprised that Chuuya managed to fool Fyodor about being a vampire for less than 30 minutes, but you gotta remember that when he and Dazai first met, Chuuya succesfully hid that he was Arahabaki for two or three days, all while Dazai was specifically investigating Arahabaki.

Chuuya has always been an extremely good liar, and he is kryptonite to people like Fyodor or Dazai (or at least Fifteen's Dazai, he learned from that experience) because he looks brash and impulsive and ""simple"", but actually Chuuya has been lying about who he is for most of his life, and nobody knows how to be a mindless monster better than him.

[polarsirens]

first shot

[claraoswalds]

I'm just... post-bi-generation. Ah, it's more than that.

DOCTOR WHO The Giggle

[perilsensitive-sunglasses]

Watching Fifteen and Rogue, thinking of Two and Jamie.

And they're holding hands too!!

[confused-wanderer]

Everyone gets terrified when they see Dick put on the Cape and go into downright brooding shadow death aura mode, capturing Bruce’s scowl and glare to an uncanny extent.

They don’t know that the real reason Nightwing had to get real good real fast at transforming into batman is because in his early batman days he accidentally smiled while trying to talk down this guy from blowing up a building.

They made eye contact for a split second, before the guy burst into tears. He then proceeded to rip off the bomb, throw up, faint, wake up, throw up again before immediately running for the window of the 45th floor of a building.

[mikakuna]

bruce and robin-jason era is just a repeat of civilians being unable to spot jason because he's so tiny. batman is fighting a bunch of dudes and one guy thinks he's safe because batman is clearly preoccupied but then bam- suddenly a yellow blur is body slamming his face.

during fights, criminals literally just start shooting at the ground like there's a cockroach infestation because robin is so small that nobody notices him until it's too late.

some high-pitched, pubescent voice insults them and they all look around, confused as to where it came from. meanwhile jason is biting their ankles and rendering them ineffective!

[originalaccountname]

winged Chuuya that I am using as proof Hoshikawa has read Storm Bringer

[creep-girl]

i think this interaction would be amusing

[justplaggin]

HOSHIKAWA?!?!?!?

[resplendent-chungus]

I've been re-reading Worm and God the part starting with Coil bombing the mayoral debate and ending with the heroes coming for Taylor in school (or Noelle's death, if you're picky) is such an insane run of arcs. Just banger after banger after banger.

It's got everything; Taylor being blinded, Coil pretending to free Dinah, Taylor fighting her way out of Coil's trap, the Undersiders thinking she betrayed them, Coil finally biting the bullet and Dinah going home, and then boom! Noelle time, and everything that comes with it!

It's by far my favourite part of the book. I honestly think Gold Morning is the only thing that can compare to it. It's an absolutely insane decision to have the two cathartic things we've been building to since before Leviathan (Dinah being freed and Coil exiting stage right) happen in the middle of that shitstorm, and even more insane to make them work so well.

[runawaymarbles]

Between Black Sails and Percy Jackson I want it to be a running bit where Jessica Parker Kennedy and Toby Stephens keep being on the same show playing characters whose lives have huge effects on each other but also have zero scenes together

[coquelicoq]

as a huge unreliable narrator enjoyer i love the fact that the raven tower is narrated by someone who cannot lie. so the narration is not unreliable, and any kind of uncertainty is always couched in "here is a story i have heard" or "i imagine", but it scratches the same itch as unreliable narration because the evidentiality of the narration is still so central, just in the opposite way. stories that don't care about where the narrator is getting their information or what biases are present in the way that information is shared with us are on one end of a spectrum, and stories that do care about those things are on the other end, and the raven tower is firmly situated alongside the unreliably narrated stories even though the whole point is that the narrator is as motivated as it is possible to be to never say something that is untrue. and it's fascinating to see how ann leckie manages to build suspense and subvert expectations without really at any point deliberately misleading the reader. every time i reread one of her books, the bouncing of the dvd screensaver in my brain gets a little more frenetic. how does she do what she does. ann leckie what is your secret.