a long rant about the culture on the pitt twitter, the early season 2 discourse, and the state of the pitt fandom in general.

it genuinely saddens me that a show like the pitt, one that's so needed right now in a country that's currently quite literally systematically reversing course on every progressive reform that's been made for decades and decades, is being torn to shreds regularly on social media by people who ignore all of the things it's doing right. it's never woke enough, it never addresses everything perfectly, no one can sit down and watch more than one episode before jumping online to complain about all the ways they feel like the show has already fucked up, or complain about the ways they're so sure it will fuck up in the weeks to come.

me, wise: part of what makes the pitt such a special show is because there is really no romance. it isn’t a soap opera, characters can have tension and history, but ultimately these are doctors in their place of work. we intentionally know very little about their personal lives.

me, desperate: one kiss between the big pitt and the little pitt wouldn’t hurt

i know we all talk about or reference dennis being homeless, but I still think we brush over how much an experience like that is actually going to affect him (or anyone) in a way that is likely permenant.

don't get me wrong i love dennis and trinity bestfriendisms and roomate saga with my whole heart, but dennis is still going to be suffering because of his time without a home.

he's gone, at the very very very least, six weeks without permenant shelter (he did his internal medicine rotation before the ER, as he told trinity). that's at least 6 weeks unable to recieve any post. unable to recieve medicine he might need. unable to apply for numerous legal documents that all require addresses. at least 6 weeks not knowing if he'll be discovered and lose his shelter, AND his position and possibly his place on the medicine track for doing something technically illegal.

at the very least 6 weeks with not knowing where he'll be tomorrow. no permenance, no security, no place to rest. and he's STILL showing up to work and actually being incredibly skillful (despite his liquid blunders in s1).

he can't cook proper meals in a hospital room. it's implied he doesn't have a proper shower. he's living in constant fear of losing literally everything he's worked years for. and based on what we know, its incredibly unlikely he has a stable family to fall back on in Nebraska.

and he's STILL working. was planning on staying there. was ready to risk losing that "home" if they needed to transport patients to the 8th floor when he suggested it in the MCI.

he might live with trinity now, but there's no way he's stable and secure, even if they're close like siblings. he'll be resource hoarding, he'll be saving every scrap of money he can, he'll be relishing every hot shower he gets. he will not be carefree and relaxed. that's a fear and insecurity thats going to stay with him possibly his whole life.

i just think we can't ever happy go luckily write him as no longer being afraid or destabilised, even if visibly he's healthier. with him not paying rent in the appartament, although she wont, trinity could kick him out at any time.

he's going to live in a state of anxiety maybe without even realising that's what he's doing.

As someone who has been homeless off and on my while life. Yeah it never leaves you. Often times once you've "gotten out of it" your really mentally heavily aware your towing the line of "i can he back on the streets at any moment".

It seriously fucks with yout ability to do things as an adult. I was homeless a lot in my childhood and was kicked out at 18 I only just found housing at the end of last year. I am never going to outlive the fear that I'm so close to losing it all again.

So yes Dennis is 100% resources guarding. He's holed up in his room. Hes skiddish and not easy to cource into talking in the living room. He doesn't want to share his food. He's protective of what little he owns. He's definitly constantly trying to prove his worth to Trinity so she doesn't "have an excuse" to kick him out.

Dennis is 100% traumatized by being homeless and that sorta shit never leave you.

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just some of the the changes in design for the Penguin Symbol on old Penguin Paperbacks 

he did a little dance and for this crime he was imprisoned in a bubble

They liked his little dance so much they gave him a spotlight

family album

*sandwich voice* the world is vast and beautiful and i have a sandwich

*wiggles fingers* balicazam!! Your sandwich is now yarn

idk what you did and normally i wouldn't complain but my sandwich has straight up vanished as if by dark magic

im not even joking my sandwich is gone and i am fucking pissed

motherFUCKER i bet i lost it on the railway tracks

ok im on a train right now. so what happened is I was rushing with my precariously-stacked luggage with my sandwich on the top. and unfortunately it was a vertical sandwich (baguette) and i didn't tie the plastic baggie shut. fucker slid right out of its wrapper

somewhere in this train station is a single perfect naked sandwich lying peaceably on the ground

MOTHERFUCKER I WAS RIGHT i lost it wheeling my luggage (jostling) across the tracks. i can see it from the fucking window. it's just sitting there, taunting me

the train leaves in 5 min, I'm already in my seat, and as stated the sandwich is lying buttnaked on the train tracks.

i still kinda wanna run and get it tho

hey op are you still alive

sorry i was busy staring out a train window. yeah got my sammich

yes i risked missing my train for a dirt sandwich, and paused to take a tumblr photo of said sammy. my decision-making skills are extensive and highly-developed.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a sandwich to eat.

if u ever think i’m rlly awkward and uncomfortable in my interactions that’s just bc that’s my default state of being

also bc i'll spend like 3 days trying to come up with the right response but then obviously 3 days is too long and then it's been a week and then it's been a month and like tbh at that point i should just deactivate or commit seppuku or something idk

In case you’ve ever wondered what being an environmental biology student is like

Strong contender for most depressing thing Charlie Brown has ever said

Strong contender for

most depressing thing Charlie

Brown has ever said

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:

Here's an AP news brief with a little more info. It's limited in the way major news outlets are right now but provides context that supports the personal account shared.

Too important not to share.

This is Gaza, where not a single house remains standing. We are without shelter, without food, without water. We are dying. We are being bombed every day. We are being shot at in the middle of Gaza City. Where is the ceasefire agreement? Where is the humanity? They are shooting at and targeting people who go to get some firewood for their families to cook. We are truly oppressed.

heated rivalry fans check this out:

I am utterly captivated by this video series that Taryn Delanie and friends have been making on TikTok

Also this makes me wonder if even the association between "tropical" and "rainforest" today might be due to that trope! There are many temperate rainforests (for example in Cascadia), but rainforests are associated with these narratives as a whole and are turned into this stereotype of a tropical primitive land.

Temperate rainforests in Cascadia and the Appalachians, Wikimedia Commons (1 2 3 4)

The plant communities that non-avian dinosaurs inhabited were just. So crazy different than the ones we have now. Like, flowering plants didn't even exist at all at the beginning of "dinosaur times" and even into the cretaceous they were nowhere NEAR as dominant as they were today.

Like, in general a lot of contemporary biomes are really new. Grasslands are extremely new because up until pretty recently geologically speaking, there was no such thing as grass, and it was even more recently that grass-dominated ecosystems became a thing.