Through science or magic

She/her. Found out #rabbot was a thing and kinda flipped my lid. Went from fanfic lurker to poster with a gusto that still surprises me. https://archiveofourown.org/users/ananda9819/works (On a rabbot sabbatical of my own right now so this is a From/Flyers blog for a while)

[ananda9819]

I’ve been a fanfic aficionada going back at least to Buffy, but I had only ever dabbled in writing any (and only years ago). I didn’t even have an AO3 account until Jack/Robby came along and flipped the nascent old man yaoi switch within. There’s just something about our guys.

My work can be found here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/ananda9819/works

All works are NSFW unless noted, although the longer fics tend to ebb and flow. They are all essentially single-ship, at least in terms of characters on the show.

Also, I have dipped a baby toe into HRPF. My beautiful Flyers have enraptured me. I don’t know where that’s going, but I’ll try to tag appropriately.

I saw the crescent - (RPF)(WIP)(T) - Trevor discovers a scary, but intoxicating secret about his best friend and roommate, Jamie. Also, werewolves!

Entre Nous - (M) - Jack visits an escort, but finds a familiar face. Rated M for subject matter, but this is more of a feelings fic than a spicy fic.

Take me to the feeling - (T) - Duke never shows, Robby leaves early, someone is waiting for him at his house. Three guesses who.

10:00 A.M., revisited - (T) - Jack follows Robby around the Pitt for a little bit during season 1 and has a lot of feelings. This one is unusual for me in that it’s established relationship rabbot, maybe only the second time I’ve done that and the only time it’s been a focus. Sappy, heavy on dramatic irony.

That’s just the virus talking - (T) - Jack takes ill and Robby takes it personally. A bit more on the emo side, with staccato rhythms that felt right.

Absolutely soaking wet - (G) - Robby in a dunk tank. Some cuteness, some Langdon angst, rabbot around the edges.

Interloper - An odd, mean little story about Robby showing up to Jack’s unannounced and getting more than he bargained for. Not really like anything else on the list.

The motion of the ocean - (WIP) (M) - Jack and Robby, figuring their stuff out on the high seas (well, a cruise ship medical conference) with the help of a handsome OC.

Well I told you from the start just how this would end - (WIP) - YoungRabbotFic, freshman Jack deals with his burgeoning feelings toward RA Robby. Bit angsty. Set in my beloved ‘90s. Lots of music refs. Growing playlist post linked here!

Promise Land - LongFic, interleaving a past timeline of Jack and Robby meeting on solo camping trips and the aftermath of that with present day.

Silver Lining - Jack and Robby spend a few years just not getting it right. Sometimes I like to turn Robby into a very sexy little demon, I should probably see somebody about that.

climb a mountain, turn around - series comprising Greys (M), Repair, and now Rebuilding (T). Kind of a rumination on male insecurity after reading some of the articles where both Shawn and Noah talk about this quite frankly. A romance, of sorts.

brothers in arms - I turned Mission Accomplished into a series and added Mission Impossible, Esprit de Corps, Forward Deployment, and Heavy Artillery. The common thread here is the boys helping each other relax, whatever it takes.

I’d Like To Thank… - a perfectly slight drabble written while refreshing the Creative Arts Emmy winners list in the hopes of seeing Shawn’s name pop up. I like to think I put some good vibes out there.

Graffiti - I was very inspired by that Televerse panel where they talked about finding dirty pictures of themselves, but I can’t draw.

More to Lose - LongFic, what if the roof had gone another way. This explores a relationship between the guys where they each bring some baggage; Jack, a jealous streak, Robby, internalized homophobia. I quite like it, and there are elements here that keep tapping me on the shoulder as I write new work.

Let me love you - another what if the roof had gone another way fic. Started this around the same time as More to Lose and the other fic won out in terms of my attention. But this one has some stuff about body image that I do like.

Cursed - most of my stories take place in a pretty realistic version of the world. This is as close as I’ve gotten to something fantastical. Robby is cursed by the family of a patient who dies. Jack tries to help him find his true love. What can I say, I like these kinds of stories and I like this story! Give it a try.

We can all go together - my very first fic, was supposed to be a simple “there was only one bed” one shot to warm me up but folks enjoyed it so it morphed into something…else. I’m not sure! But there are parts of it I think are extremely hot, other parts I’d probably rewrite with all of my months of experience. Oh well. I think it’s a fun ride.

[teex]

girls who are going to be okay ass defensemen 🫶

[czarina55]

fiery fuckable front man 🎤🙂‍↕️🥵👅👅👅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

shawn is the second from the right with his band, element, circa 1995

📸 last pic from mikedawsonsdrums on ig

🔗: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPxA8lZjyGY/?igsh=bmY1a2FkaTdnemFk

[hotdocsandcowboys]

How do we get him to release more band pics!!!!!!

[czarina55]

i’ll do anything….ANYTHING 😭😭😭😭😭

[lakeofsilverpike]

Did a little season one of the Pitt rewatch and I’m reminded that Mohan is a character who is repeatedly shown to be exceptional at the doctor patient interaction, to have some strengths and some weaknesses when it comes to her clinical judgment and medical decision making (very normal and expected for a resident as they’re all very much still learning), and is repeatedly shown to be weak in her ability to take feedback as well as in her teaching skills.

One of the main things a resident is expected to do is teach interns and students. And Mohan is interestingly pretty bad at this. I just watched the episode where Santos says one awkward thing to a patient. She’s a new intern and she didn’t handle a patient’s overwhelming emotions perfectly. She wasn’t particularly bad, just not ideal. This isn’t surprising. This is a learned skill for many people.

Mohan takes Santos out of the room and dresses her down her in the middle of the hall. She doesn’t invite a conversation where Santos can reflect and learn. Samira speaks over Santos, shames her, and lectures her. She does the same with Whitaker and the sickle cell patient when she shames him in the middle of the hall rather than encourage him to learn from a common mistake. Both times she’s right in pointing out what her trainee did wrong, but she’s so aggressive and condescending that she’s going to alienate her trainees rather than let them reflect and grow from her feedback. Then she lets Santos take the fall for her mistake with the hyponatremia patient, which is quite a choice for a resident to make.

There’s so much of this character being flattened in fandom that it’s easy to forget that she’s a character with strengths and weaknesses as a resident. And interestingly her weakest point is how condescending and judgmental she is when teaching, which of course is how she will be treated by Robby in season two.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[sheafrotherdon]

I do the same thing with the word "interesting." Interesting good? Interesting bad? What do you actually mean?

[shakedownstreet73]

WIP Wednesday: “Concordant Bodies” (Falling Skies)

I love Falling Skies.

Are there better-written TV shows? Gosh, yes. Are there better shows with Noah Wyle in them? Absolutely. But I love him as Tom Mason and I loved his chemistry with Moon Bloodgood. And he’s sooooooo sexy in it.

To my knowledge, there are no E-rated stories on ao3 focused solely on Tom Mason and Anne Glass, so I intend to fill that void. I’m writing a story set between the end of episode 2.5 and the beginning of 2.6 that will capture their first time together.

Sneak peek below the break…

From the moment Anne Glass fell in with the 2nd Massachusetts, she felt painfully alone. Never mind that she spent every waking hour surrounded by people and slept on a cot, surrounded by dozens of others.

But while it was the Skitters who killed her husband and son, it was Dan Weaver who made her feel like a woman apart.

She wasn’t a fighter, so in Weaver’s rough hierarchy, she was shut out of the upper echelon. However, as a physician, her skill and knowledge made her uniquely useful to the 2nd Mass in a way they separated her from the rest of the “eaters.” At first, she loathed Weaver’s dismissive, patronizing attitude towards the civilian component of the 2nd Mass, but as casualties mounted and basic necessities like food, fuel, and medicine became more scarce and more dangerous to resupply, she began to understand it.

Weaver’s second in command, Tom Mason, couldn’t have been more different. Where Weaver saw the civilians as burdensome camp followers, Tom knew the civilians were the beating heart of humanity, the very reason they were fighting. Although the loss of her son and husband was still painfully raw, she was immediately intrigued by the former college professor turned militia leader. He, too, had lost a wife and son—his middle son, Ben, who had been taken by the Skitters and harnessed. They were both deep in the well of their grief when they met. As the weeks wore on, the distance between them began to slowly narrow as their lives began to overlap in the way that seemed inescapable under the circumstances.

“If something should happen to me,” he told her the night before the 2nd Mass left Acton. He was heading back into the ruins of Boston to find Weaver and his team, and he wanted her to watch over his sons. “You’re the only person I trust to watch out for them.”

“I’ll be there for them,” she replied, deeply moved by the request. The gravity in Tom’s dark eyes tugged at something inside of her, and she wanted to reassure him. “You know that. But only until you come back.” She tugged at his coat, pulling him closer if only by a fraction of an inch, but she didn’t immediately let go, holding him, curling her fingers against the flap of his jacket. He wasn’t the only one who needed reassurance in that moment. “And you will come back. Your sons need you. These people need you.”

She didn’t say it, but she needed him, too, and by the flicker in his dark eyes, it was clear he knew it. Tom didn’t say anything, but took a step forward and cupped her jaw in his big hand, pulling her towards him as he angled his head and captured her lips in his, licking into her mouth with a passion that took her breath away. The kiss lasted a couple of seconds before he pulled away, but it kindled a desire inside of her that she hadn’t been willing to admit was there. He reached for her hands, bringing them to his lips, and he kissed her knuckles, saying with the soft brush of his lips what he couldn’t say with words as he turned, his rifle snug against his shoulder, and walked away into the night.

[ananda9819]

The more I think about that finale, the more I am sort of dreading season three. I feel very out of sync with the fandom and, more importantly, the writers, on how to read these characters. Maybe this is my favorite show that lasted one season and fourteen episodes? (Although I did like a lot of the Pittling stuff in the finale so maybe it’s just weird that the finale of the second season was only thirty minutes long and featured no attendings).

[ananda9819]

WIP Wednesday

What the hell, maybe you all can give me some focus.

- Running from the bullets (jdtz, end of season angst)

- Motel (rabbot, angst, next chapter in Well I told you from the start)

- Emergency Relief (rabbot, feelings + smut, next work in brothers in arms series)

- I saw the crescent (jdtz, next chapter in werewolf fic)

- I saw the crescent (rabbot, I just really like this song)

- I hate to do this (rabbot-ish, needs an ending)

[ananda9819]

Charlie O’Connor was talking about Trevor, Cam, and Jamie sitting in the locker room hugging each other after Cam’s game winner if anyone needs a pick-me-up. He seemed ever-so-slightly moved by it.

[jackabbot]

BORSTAL BOY 2000 | dir. Peter Sheridan

[teex]

“[Jamie] left a candle lit in our house for like three days. Guy’s got no idea what he’s doing.”

[ananda9819]

Fav tropes game

This is a new one! Thanks for the fun tag, @club-medical

slowburn or love at first sight // fake dating or secret dating // enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers // there’s only one bed or long-distance correspondence // hurt/comfort or amnesia // fantasy au or modern au // mutual pining or domestic bliss // smut or fluff // canon-compliant or fix-it // reincarnation or character death // one-shot or multi-chapter // kid fic or road trip fic // arranged marriage or accidental marriage // high-school romance or middle-age romance // time travel or isolated together // neighbors or roommates // sci-fi au or magic au // body swap or genderbent // angst or crack // apocalyptic or mundane // happy ending or unhappy ending

This was fun although as you can see in a few cases I’m a none of the above kinda girl.

Taggedy tag @babyjanedough @denimjacket-714 @lavendergaia @shakedownstreet73 @atlasblue85

[washedupswammer]

travis konecny shirtless sweaty covered in sand crawling through a tight space (2016 trial on the isle)

[ananda9819]

Ok, they’re probably ai, fuck

I needed some timeline info about Jamie for something I’m working on, and I found this site that uses drawings of the players rather than photos. I’m kind of into it (god I hope they’re not AI). Look how pretty they are! (And sort of sparkly)

[ananda9819]

Music tag game

Thanks for the tag @jackabbotsbignaturals

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people 🎶

This is my “Favorites” because I use Apple Music and I listen to the same stuff over and over.

1. Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan

2. See a Little Light - Bob Mould

3. Jonathan - Christine and the Queens

4. I miss you - blink-182

5. Run Away With Me - Carly Rae Jepsen

6. Knock Knock - Mac Miller

7. Escapism - Raye

8. Boy Problems - Carly Rae Jepsen

9. Weak in Your Light - Nation of Language

10. Funeral - Band of Horses

Taggedy tag @wtw3191 @shakedownstreet73 @denimjacket-714 @club-medical @redwinevinegar47 @jackandjuno

[vivienvalentino]

JOSH HARTNETT — The Faculty, , 1998

[nhhell]

straight up my new favorite twitter