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abigail | she/her | 26 frank langdon defence squad hands/veins/hair/sweat

[fellowshipincynicism]

hi!

my name's abigail (she/her), northrndwnpr on ao3

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this is my sideblog dedicated to the pitt so likes and follows come from my main blog @champains

my asks are open and i'm always happy to reply to any questions/requests/prompts/speculation about s3/just chat in general!

i also have a semi-encyclopaedic knowledge of the mel/frank ao3 tag so if you're trying to find a fic you read months ago that you only remember vague details of, hit me up :)

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i can only apologize for the amount of times i discuss sweat/hair/hands/veins. i am aware.

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if you read this thank you i love you xoxo

[joriesau]

"...you just feel sort of fatally unique, fatally different... feels a kindred spirit..."

[fellowshipincynicism]

I've read 200 monas yesterday! And I could smell the Kingdon AU easily!

give me kind understanding hot drug dealer frank langdon who after meeting hot mess grieving mel king one time drops everything to help her sell a fuck ton of sex drugs like seriously this is made for them

[fellowshipincynicism]

200 monas x kingdon fandom rise up there are now AT LEAST EIGHT OF US

[melika-elena]

a heart even more your own

The Pitt, Mel King/Frank Langdon, 10k, Part 4/4, Regency/Persuasion-inspired AU. A @kingdonwishlist fic for @musing-and-music & @stalactice. And for its #1 fan @disgracedprinceera because this fic would be nothing without her!

Miss King’s eyes swept over the crowd before meeting Langdon’s. He felt his breath catch. “I have loved him and been true to him, by word and by deed, for years. My love has been beside him for all these years; now I ask that the love he once felt for me returns, where it belongs.” She paused and turned her gaze from Langdon to somewhere above and beyond him, delivering her final line powerfully. “If there is any power whose peculiar care is faithful love, that power I invoke to aid me.”

(Read on Ao3)

[langdonfranks]

I think Mel feels a bit misfit in this place, and I think Langdon — I think most people that struggle with addiction or masking of any kind — I think there is a sense of chronic apartness. Like, you just feel sort of fatally unique, or fatally different. And I think that is something that a lot of addicts talk about. And I think that is something that he sees reflected in Mel. (x)

patrick ball + referring to mel and langdon as kindred spirits

[fellowshipincynicism]

idgaf about anything this is MY kingdon cathedrals

[fellowshipincynicism]

fatally unique okay loverboy sure

[fellowshipincynicism]

guys i’m away and i don’t have my laptop someone PLEASE make kingdon gifs to the lyrics of bobby by phoebe bridgers im asking so nicely i have nothing to offer in return but my love

[sawdustandstardust]

sorry i think it’s actually nuts that cast members/producers of the pitt are presenting their only lead neurodivergent female character being incapable of viewing coworker relationships outside of the “big brother 🥺 father 🥺” paradigm as novelly progressive representation

[saltoncity]

“i love how we as a fandom have just agreed that–” don’t include me in this. do NOT lump me in with that.

[kingdonsource]

original 2x10 script (x)

[fellowshipincynicism]

Hi :) I was reading your answer from one of your asks regarding the bible camp fic (also lives rent free in my brain so thank you for the masterpiece <3<3) and I was wondering what you meant by Frank’s double take when they meet in ep. 1 being free game for a different au meeting? Or something along those lines! Sorry, the dyslexia hahah

thank you!

what i mean is that even though the 1.01 double take frank does is never given an explanation, it’s fun to use out of context as an ‘i’ve seen you before’ i-recognise-you-from-somewhere kind of moment. the idea that they have a shared past and their paths cross again on that first shift together and that’s why his head snaps up when she introduces himself and he has to look twice to make sure she’s real. i think that’s so fun! obviously we know that’s not the case in canon but i like to think about it in that way when i read aus where they both still end up at ptmc together :)

[fellowshipincynicism]

I checked out 200 Monas today from the library and damn. Where is the Kingdon AU of this book? It's practically Kingdon already! I might have to tackle it myself, but. Hopefully others do too!

anon this is like asking for my hand in marriage do u want to go make out somewhere

i need everyone to get wolf/arvy / kingdonpilled NOWWWWWWWW im gonna start posting quotes to convince you ppl if you’re not careful

rachel @miracle-and-wonder and i joked that if this had been published next year we would’ve totally been convinced it was kingdon pull to pub its that crazy

[ztwilight]

[fellowshipincynicism]

i read a revelation of your own a week ago and it’s plagued me… what happens once the summer ends? does mel become a dirty secret frank keeps buried in his mind? does he regret the way things happened between them? does he wish he did things differently? does mel go back to being unseen and ignored at home? do they stay in contact? does she end up getting her MD? do they meet again at the pitt? the unknown future between them haunts me and i mean that as a very sincere compliment the whole story was soooo good but there was an ever present dread of, oh, this can’t last forever, there’s a clock that’s slowly ticking down to the end of summer

WOWWWW my bible camp mel and frank live on 🥲 they spend the rest of that summer together in the most egregious ways he is shirking all responsibilities for her she is not talking to anyone else at that camp every girl in her cabin seethes with jealousy but mel doesnt even notice theyre not even in her periphery when frank is there. i do think as summer draws to a close mel starts to feel that same fear as when she got her cast off, those thoughts of 'what can i do to keep this attention what do i need to do to be seen and to not fade away into obscurity once more' but he does make it clear up to the last second that the only person he seeks out is her he really does put her above all else

when summer ends i think the path of least resistance is mel goes back with her aunt and uncle and becca, and frank goes back home to pregnant abby and its a just-for-the-summer kind of thing where the memory of it both haunts them and is also the only thought that keeps them going in the hardest of times. of course the ages dont line up, but one of my fav things about their canon meeting in 1.01 is that frank's double take is free game for any different-first-meeting au. so maybe they do both end up in pittsburgh by chance, working in the same emergency dept, and just-for-the-summer becomes forever. if bible camp mel does become a doctor i know she puts more love and care into plaster casts than anyone else :(

HOWEVER. this fic was written for jac so in actual fact what happens after the fic ends is that mel and frank run away together and he marries her on her 18th birthday. is he already married to abby in the fic well yes but he's a smart guy i trust he'll work his way out of that <3 they live together forever and he tells her he loves her every second of every day <3 so thats the alternate ending for all the real lovers out there

[fellowshipincynicism]

i am also a firm believer that when you have made a piece of 'art' (in any format! fic, novel, painting, poem, movie, play etc etc.), once you release it to an audience their interpretation is always the finishing touch. so if you read the fic and envisioned their future differently, thats just as valid as what i think. part of the beauty of sharing is what others make of it!

[fellowshipincynicism]

i read a revelation of your own a week ago and it’s plagued me… what happens once the summer ends? does mel become a dirty secret frank keeps buried in his mind? does he regret the way things happened between them? does he wish he did things differently? does mel go back to being unseen and ignored at home? do they stay in contact? does she end up getting her MD? do they meet again at the pitt? the unknown future between them haunts me and i mean that as a very sincere compliment the whole story was soooo good but there was an ever present dread of, oh, this can’t last forever, there’s a clock that’s slowly ticking down to the end of summer

WOWWWW my bible camp mel and frank live on 🥲 they spend the rest of that summer together in the most egregious ways he is shirking all responsibilities for her she is not talking to anyone else at that camp every girl in her cabin seethes with jealousy but mel doesnt even notice theyre not even in her periphery when frank is there. i do think as summer draws to a close mel starts to feel that same fear as when she got her cast off, those thoughts of 'what can i do to keep this attention what do i need to do to be seen and to not fade away into obscurity once more' but he does make it clear up to the last second that the only person he seeks out is her he really does put her above all else

when summer ends i think the path of least resistance is mel goes back with her aunt and uncle and becca, and frank goes back home to pregnant abby and its a just-for-the-summer kind of thing where the memory of it both haunts them and is also the only thought that keeps them going in the hardest of times. of course the ages dont line up, but one of my fav things about their canon meeting in 1.01 is that frank's double take is free game for any different-first-meeting au. so maybe they do both end up in pittsburgh by chance, working in the same emergency dept, and just-for-the-summer becomes forever. if bible camp mel does become a doctor i know she puts more love and care into plaster casts than anyone else :(

HOWEVER. this fic was written for jac so in actual fact what happens after the fic ends is that mel and frank run away together and he marries her on her 18th birthday. is he already married to abby in the fic well yes but he's a smart guy i trust he'll work his way out of that <3 they live together forever and he tells her he loves her every second of every day <3 so thats the alternate ending for all the real lovers out there