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the people's princess

Taylor Dearden as Dr. Melissa King in THE PITT (2025-)

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when you get a puppy, you don't really think about them getting old one day, you don't think how one day their fur will turn grey and they won't be able to jump on you anymore when you come home, they won't be able to jump on the couch, they won't bark as much because they won't hear as well as they used to, their eyesight will worsen, the walks you take will become shorter. their legs will get weaker until they can't keep them up anymore. they don't really understand what's happening to them because inside, they're still that same puppy you brought home all those years ago. but you know and it hurts. you don't think about those things, you don't think about having to say goodbye one day. and maybe that's for the better, because the love they give you while they're here is worth all the pain they leave once they're gone.

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biblically accurate haymitch abernathy

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DOCTOR WHO | 8.04

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evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

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Restoring The Smallest Clockwork

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"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level

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I fucking love Robby, but I love even more that he is realistically flawed.

on rewatch it’s even clearer that robby is a great mentor to everyone, but he is a much better mentor to his male trainees. he argues with them less; he is more accepting of their diagnoses around difficult cases; he is more comfortable taking them under his wing. they rarely challenge him. it takes just that much more effort from the women of the pitt — mckay, collins, and mohan especially — to argue their point of view on patient care, especially around women’s issues. and that effort weighs on them! it’s exhausting for mohan to constantly defend herself on her care choices. it’s unfair to put blame on mckay for making an extremely understandable decision about david out of concern for his female classmates. his relationship with collins is inappropriate — at minimum it likely gets in the way of her professional development (note that langdon was the one recommended for that fellowship, without even asking robby for it).

i appreciate this writing choice a lot. robby is extremely likable and a compelling center of the story. he makes the right decision for his female patients many times, including giving a teenage girl a chance at reproductive freedom at personal risk. he’s supportive of the women in his department and wants them to do well.

but still. it’s there. and he doesn’t even know it.

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an apple a day doesn’t fall far from the tree…or something like that

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fellow losers first day fuckups

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Description: [A video of a woman riding a galloping horse bareback while holding a large rainbow flag.]

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Dr. Robby?

NOAH WYLE as DR. JOHN CARTER in ER S12 E20 “There Are No Angels Here” (2006)

#i love arm

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I was holding back tears during this scene. So much joy.

Don't forget to dance today!

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This is so amazing

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Real homies respect trans people!

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Been thinking about this movie again

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.