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Kingdon centric. Exploring slow-burn relationships, emotional intimacy, and the quiet, complicated space between wanting and acting on it. Heavy on yearning, hurt/comfort, and character-driven storytelling.
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The Anatomy of Kingdon
An unhinged, scene-by-scene breakdown of every Kingdon interaction, from full conversations to blink-and-youâll-miss-it background moments.
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Kingdon Through Song Lyrics - Last updated 4-18-26
A study of Mel and Frank through song lyrics, tracing who they are alone and what they become when their emotional worlds collide.
Music is something that has always really spoken to me so almost all of my work is driven by it!
I'm always taking suggestions so don't hesitate to leave an ask!
We're On The Same Team - Completed 2-21-26 | G | 5k+
My first Kingdon fic, so be nice! Extremely inaccurate and messy, but itâs all about them finding each other in the middle of a really hard day, and deciding they donât have to do it alone.
The Man Who Can't Be Moved - Completed 3-9-26 | E | 52k+
A quiet routine between Mel and Frank that slowly becomes everything, until feelings make it too complicated to keep. One moment changes everything, and losing each other might be the only way they find their way back.
Hey Baby - Completed 3-16-26 | G | 2k+
An AU where Mel is a quiet, routine-driven med student, Frank is the persistent frat boy who just wants her to let loose. And somehow, they end up at a club together.
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Completed 3-25-26 | G | 5k+
Frank at his lowest, and the quiet, unwavering way Mel chooses to care for him anyway. Soft, steady, and healing in all the ways that matter.
We Can't Be Friends - Completed 3-29-26 | E | 41k+
Mel and Frank are nerds together. Abby doesn't like it.
Spring Into Summer - Completed 4-6-26 | G | 3k+
Quiet tension, stolen moments, and feelings that canât exist the way they want them to. Soft, restrained, and full of almosts.
Bowling Alley - Completed 4-9-26 | G | 3k+
A night that was supposed to be nothing turns into something soft and easy, unexpectedly meaningful. And for once, Mel doesnât feel alone.
Pushing It Down and Praying - Completed 4-10-26 | M | 3k+
Mel tries to move on from someone she canât have knowing nothing will ever come close, no matter how hard she tries to replace him. Quiet, consuming, and devastating in the way it never actually ends.
The Best Of Times - Completed 4-10-26 | E | 30k+
6 times Mel and Frank are alone together.
Dancing Queen - Completed 4-12-26 | G | 17k+
Mel returns to roller derby after years of grief, with Frank quietly by her side as friendship turns into something deeper.
Songbird - Completed 4-14-26 | G | 8k+
Frank has a date.
Mel has an epiphany.
Ceilings - Completed 4-15-26 | G | 4k+
Moments blur together, each one feeling almost right.
Mel doesnât question it.
Not at first.
Call Your Mom - Completed 4-19-26 | T | 9k+
After a devastating shift, Frank isnât sure he trusts himself to make it home in one piece.
Mel refuses to let him face it alone.
Just A Notion - Completed 4-21-26 | G | 10k+
A year later, under string lights and fireworks, Frank and Mel finally see whatâs been there all along.
End Game - Completed 4-21-26 | G | 2k+
A rewrite of the ambulance bay scene, with everything left unsaid finally given a voice.
And what happens in the quiet moments after we left them outside.
You've Got a... Friend? - Completed 4-26-26 | G | 12k+
A bad day, a blown tire, and one phone call are all it takes for Mel to realize that
Frank isnât just someone who shows upâheâs someone who stays.
And somehow, that makes everything feel different.
Fever - Completed 4-30-26 | G | 5k+
Frank comes home to a very sick Mel and takes care of her in all the soft, quiet ways she deserves.
A good boy, a bad boy; a good bad boy; A half good, half bad, half boy - Completed 5-1-26 | T | 2k+
Mel and Frank go to a comedy club and get read for filth in front of an entire crowd.
Turns out âjust friendsâ isn't as convincing as they thought.
Paradise - Completed 5-7-26 | G | 6k+
Frankâs birthday is filled with homemade cake, old records, slow dancing in the living room, and the overwhelming realization that he is deeply, unconditionally loved.
Terrified of what s3 holds for kingdon because they'll have spent more time together off screen than on screen. We won't have seen the development between them in the past four months. What to expect? I don't even know!!! At least with season 2, we knew Langdon's first day back so Mel would react in a way, but season 3 is so mysterious. What happened between them? Did they get closer and in what ways? Do they hang out outside of work? Does Mel call him Frank? Do they have more inside jokes? Do they know about each other's interest in history and have they nerded out together? SOOO many delicious possibilities.
frank langdon's staring problem has me on thesaurus.com trying to find new and exciting ways to say "and when mel turned he was already looking at her"
Season 3 opens, and there's a conspicuous woman sitting in Chairs that the camera keeps focusing on starting around 2PM. No one addresses her by name, but scenes keep cutting back to shots of her as she's waiting in the reception area for hours. She's becoming more impatient as time passes, and she approaches Lupe to ask whether the doctor she's hoping to see is available (we don't catch the doctor's name).
There's a major trauma event on this particular day that starts around the same time this mystery woman arrives, and everyone in the ED is busy moving from patient to patient. Lupe tells the woman that all the doctors are unavailable, but the woman insists she'll wait until she can see this particular doctor because it's important.
Finally, at handoff to the night shift, all of the trauma patients have been stabilized or moved to surgery. The woman approaches Lupe again, and this time she's allowed to enter the ED through the double doors. As she passes through the threshold of the door, Mel and Langdon are walking in her general direction, together, leaving for the night and deep in conversation. Langdon sees the woman and stops dead in his tracks. Mel notices he's no longer moving, and he's standing in place, looking at this woman across the nurse's station.
The woman is scanning, as if looking for someone, when her gaze falls on Langdon, and she starts marching towards him with a determined look on her face. Langdon still hasn't said anything as the unnamed woman approaches him and Mel.
"Why have you been avoiding my calls, Frank?" the woman asks, furious. "I had to fucking sit out there in the waiting room just to catch you because you can't pick up a damn phone. You're working even more insane hours here, so you're never home, and you refuse to talk to me when you are home."
"Abby-" (Mel goes wide-eyed as she now recognizes who this woman is)
"No, I'm really not in the mood now because I have to pay the sitter for watching the kids for almost 7 hours to come all the way down here to do this." She pulls out an envelope from her tote bag hanging off her shoulder and hands it to him. He opens the envelope and finds paperwork for a divorce petition.
"You can avoid the calls from the lawyer and me all you want and you can pretend that it wasn't gonna happen by not talking to me, but you knew this was coming," she says and then turns and walks away.
With Smut Appreciation day cumming up fast (see what I did there, Iâm hilarious) I thought maybe a few of us could benefit from this:
Penis
arousal, cock, shaft, dick, length, arousal, hard-on, hardness, erection, phallus, manhood, male part, prick, member
still has his pants on: ridge/hard ridge, bulge
Semen
seed, cum, vitality
Vagina
pussy, core, sheath, cleft, slit, quim (historical), cunny (historical), cunt, sex, well, between her legs, between her thighs, heat, wetness (also usually preceded by an adjective), into her/into her body
By request of the discord! Hereâs the smut thesaurus Iâve been building to help me write. Itâs even longer now because I included some extra words from The Ultimate Guide to Writing Smut Fic by QuinnAnderson on AO3.Â
How many words are there for âpenisâ and âthrustâ (that arenât completely cringey)? Here are all the ones Iâve gathered so far đ
Itâs going under the read-more cut because itâs over 1,000 words in bullet-point form so it is loooong.Â
something i loved writing with frank langdon is his ADHD, i truly believe in the ADHD!Langdon agenda, and part of ADHD is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) which i really think is prominent during moments where he wants to relapse. and he just fucking calls mel because a lot is happening at once (i.e robby eventually returning, his divorce being finalized, his son getting an ADHD diagnosis) and mel knows exactly how it feels to internalize everything and it all hits at once.
which is what happens when frank calls mel - he says he doesn't mean to scare her and he hopes that he isn't, but he says i need you, his sponsor isn't picking up, and mel already has her shoes on and is asking him the address of his apartment so she can put it in for the uber and tells him to stay on the line until she gets there.
frank keeps talking and apologizing frantically, that he's so so so sorry for cutting her off earlier (it was a family emergency so he had to leave) you'd think that frank had murdered someone in cold blood but no - it's because he simply cut her off because of an emergency that's got him like this (and the combination of other things), and he just keeps going on and on and do you hate me Mel? Are you mad at me? Do you think I'm annoying? I'm so sorry if I'm so annoying, you can tell me if I am. I've been playing that conversation in my head all day, where I cut you off, and I was an asshole, so I'm sorry.
And Mel is like... what. I could never ever hate you, I don't find you annoying, it's okay, you're not an asshole, I just care about you and I'm worried (She repeats this at least twenty times, and Frank apologizes for making her worry, and thus the cycle starts again).
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(They're not even close to dating yet, btw...)
I see a lot of Frank taking care of Mel bits and I wanted to invert it - which we'll get in a later chapter of my story.
paper rings {2k, g}
friends-to-lovers, marriage of convenience
She pulled the straw of her boba up to her lips, the first sip tasted heavenly, enough to make her forget the nerves that bundled in her stomach.
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âMel⊠will you marry me?â He said softly, his eyes bright in her direction.
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She spat her boba across the table at him. âWhat?â She screeched.
read chapter one here @ ao3
dedicated to the ever lovely @tutters-sourdough for her birthday today!!! Hope you LOVE!!
paper rings {2k, g}
friends-to-lovers, marriage of convenience
She pulled the straw of her boba up to her lips, the first sip tasted heavenly, enough to make her forget the nerves that bundled in her stomach.
Â
âMel⊠will you marry me?â He said softly, his eyes bright in her direction.
Â
She spat her boba across the table at him. âWhat?â She screeched.
read chapter one here @ ao3
dedicated to the ever lovely @tutters-sourdough for her birthday today!!! Hope you LOVE!!
6-my usual writing environment is typically sitting at my desk with my laptop, my water bottle, an energy drink, and my dab pen đ while I listen to music on my headphones. OR sitting at my desk at work with screaming children behind međ
11-I do A LOT of research for all of my fics! Most of my research is Pittsburgh/Philadelphia based, trying to find actual places they could go. I donât really do much medical research. I try to avoid writing any medical scenarios, because I know Iâm going to butcher it, so I typically keep my stories outside of the hospital. I learned how to change a flat tire for my Frank changes Melâs flat tire fic đ I also did some research on early American currency as well as vintage pins for my We Canât Be Friends fic. I did A LOT of research for my roller derby fic, as I had absolutely zero knowledge of anything roller derby related. I researched movies with milestones this year for my The Best Of Times fic, and went with TLOTR.
Tldr: I have way too many tabs of research open while I write đ
16-I donât make full playlists however, 99.9% of the time I either have a song for inspiration before I start writing or I scour lyrics.com for a set of lyrics that match the vibe of my story!
Maybe Iâll make a playlist to go along with my camping ficâŠ
Iâm currently working on a ficâfor nature day of Kingdon Week, June 26thâwhere Frank brings Mel to the Adirondacks, specifically to a campground that Iâve gone to every summer practically my entire life! Itâs completely inspired by my own experiences growing up in the Adks so my whole heart has gone into this story and Iâm so so so excited to finally get to share it with you guys! Everyone in the discord has been so wonderful, listening to my process of writing this story and helping me out, and Iâm so happy with how itâs coming along!
A little sneak peek below the break!
Frank drove up the I-90, the road humming beneath his tires. Mel watched the pine trees pass by her window in dense blurs of green and brown as Tyler Childers played softly on the radio, filling the small cabin of Frankâs truck.
âI was planning on going up to the Adirondacks,â he had said the month prior when Mel asked him what his plans were for their upcoming week off, âto Buck Pond, specifically. Itâs this campground I went to when I visited my aunts in upstate New York. I havenât been since I was like fourteen, and Iâve been really excited, but honestly,â he shook his head in an attempt to shake away his ego, âIâm kind of nervous to go by myself. Thereâs absolutely zero cell service out there. Just you, the trees, and the bears.â
âOh,â Mel smiled at his willingness to always be honest with her.
Frank shook his head again, his eyes glued where his hands were laced on top of the desk they were leaned against, âI know,â he sighed, âthirty-four year old man, scared to go camping by himself. The Blair Witch Project ruined me, alright? Go ahead, I know you want to poke fun. I can take it.â
âNo,â she assured him, shaking her head at his self criticism, something sheâd been trying to help him unlearn since he came back from rehab, âItâs endearing, actually.â
He looked up at her finally, âReally?â he questioned, always surprised by her ability to twist everything he did into something positive.
âYeah,â she paused, thinking over the decision sheâd quickly made in her head, âya know, Iâve never actually been camping,â she admitted quietly, her shoulders pulling up towards her ears, âIâd love to be your camping buddy. If you want, of course, no promises Iâd be any help with the bears but Becca says I make the best sâmoââ
âThank you, Mel,â Frank cut her off, his arms wrapping around her shoulders in a grateful embrace, Melâs hands settling against his back after a moment, âI would love that.â
So there they were, surrounded by what Mel thought was an excessive amount of camping supplies, and each otherâs company. They filled the time with conversations about anything and everything.
Frank gave her a rundown of all the things he was excited to show her, smiling brightly as he listed off all the places heâd spent hours hiding away from his brothers. His hands waved through the air as he described the serenity of the pond, and the lake with the ropeswing that was only a few miles away from where theyâd be staying.
Mel told Frank about how her dad had always talked about a family trip to Thousand Trails in Williamsburg, but he died before they could ever find the time to actually go.
Frank admitted that heâd always wanted to take Tanner and Penny on a camping trip, but Abby always shut down the possibility by reason of humidity and bugs, so theyâd always end up âglampingâ instead.
He said it as if it was no big deal, but Mel could tell it bothered himânever being able to share the things he enjoyed as a kid with his own children, because if Abby didnât want to do something it meant nobody else could eitherâbut heâd never say that out loud.
Even after all this time he never had a negative thing to say about his ex-wife, but that was just because he kept those thoughts to himselfâor his therapist.
Bonus for picking my fav question-a photo of baby me and my brother fishing on Buck Pondđ«¶đŒ
