why do you want so bad not to be human

house md side blog

[cuddytism]

one take that i see kinda often that always tickles me is "cuddy should've haunted the narrative in s8" because like.... she does. in a pretty noticeable way. just because she's rarely mentioned by name doesn't mean she isn't haunting the narrative. because her absence (and the consequences of the events that led to her absence) is kinda a huge factor in what makes season 8 the way that it is. maybe this is because serious discussion of s8 is so limited. maybe it's because a lot of cuddy fans refuse to watch it. maybe it's because s8 "returns to form" in such a way that makes a lot of people underplay its differences. maybe there's a million different reasons. but, at least in my eyes, cuddy's absence is felt all through s8 and that season would be. pretty different. if not in substance than at the very least in tone, if she were still there. house as a character (our protagonist, let's remember) is influenced, not minutely, by her absence, by the events that caused her absence. she haunts the fuck out of this season!!! what do you meannnn

did u think the tone of s8 fell out of a coconut tree.

[halque]

btw the "women aren't written in a compelling way" argument quickly falls flat when the people who say these things also happen to be fans of MEN who aren't written well. you can argue that its the system which is misogynistic all you want, but drooling over a gimmick-y trope-y male character a second after tells me all i need to know

[hooansen]

[docmelking]

SEPIDEH MOAFI on Collider Ladies Night discussing The Pitt Season 2 finale and Dr. Baran Al-Hashimi (x)

[possumtion]

Girls who are gonna be okay

[roseandsalt]

[dailypittwomen]

"But there's that, in the beginning, this moment of: Fuck them all. I’m so fucking sick of men. I’m so sick of bureaucracy. I’m so sick of fucking being sick. So, all these things amalgamate and create this, like, she’s trying to push it down, and then it just explodes.” (x)

SEPIDEH MOAFI as DR. BARAN AL-HASHIMI THE PITT: S02E15, "9:00 PM"

[robaran]

excerpts from noah wyle and sepideh moafi's interviews presented side by side. for no reason in particular at all. (credit)

[eloiscbridgerton]

reading sepideh's thoughts on the finale is so fucking cathartic i love her so much

[scrubtop]

theory: trinity can only befriend people she feels pity for (dennis and mel) which places her in a quasi-savior category, and that’s why she hasn’t been able to befriend victoria in 10 months. bc she can’t view herself as better than victoria.

[eloiscbridgerton]

BONUS: Trinity letting Mel's hair down

THE PITT 2.15 – 9:00 P.M.

[djo]

SUPRIYA GANESH as SAMIRA MOHAN 2.15: 9:00 P.M.

[funeral]

Trauma-Related Altered States of Consciousness (TRASC) Questionnaire

[loveridden1999]

This was the beginning of a strange dysphoria I would experience upon immigrating to this country in 2015 for college, one that would constantly remind me of my brownness and judge my womanhood by how far I could distance myself from it.....I want to tell stories that show us as full, three-dimensional human beings who live in the gray. I want to turn tropes on their head and tell uncomfortable truths. And I want us to evade any definition anyone could ever impose on us.

[my-mt-heart]

Have you seen The Pitt? If not have you seen any of the news/discourse about how they wrote off Supriya Ganesh’s character, Samira Mohan? In the show’s two seasons, this is the second time they’ve fired/written off a central female character of color and “replaced” her with another (the actress joining the main cast was announced at the same time it was announced that Supriya would not be returning for season 3). I was just wondering if you’d be able to offer any insight into the this as someone in the industry?

The show’s not really for me, and I’m not too familiar with what goes on bts for it either, but I will say that there is a *very* long history of treating women/woc/poc in television like a revolving door i.e. like they’re easily replaceable. Sad to hear that The Pitt is perpetuating that trend. It’s good if people are talking about it though. The more you speak up, the more you promote positive change.

As for what may have happened in this particular case, remember that what’s *not* being said or done is just as important if not more important than what is. What has the actress said about the matter? Anything? Or are her white male colleagues/bosses doing most of the talking? Sometimes that tells you all you need to know.

[in-finitesuns]

like the thing that pisses me off most around the writing of the pitt is that there is such heavy-handed moralizing around hot button issues (re: violence against healthcare workers, ICE, the current administration, AI) but seems so oblivious to the issues around whiteness and patriarchy that undergird the hierarchy of the ED.

[kvitasinelibris]