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THE PITT SPECIAL EDITION ISSUE: MEL & LANGDON CHRONICLES #01

#took me an obscene amount of time to make this haha #happy episode 9 eve!#langdonmel #kingdon #the pitt #thepittedit #frank langdon #melissa king #mel king #mine:langdonmel #langdonmelcomics #myedits #heymaur #heycece #userrebekah #usermelking #deetracks #userfranklangdon #fellowshipincynicism #usermelika-elena #tuserdragon

just realised the next episode for my archives series is s01e07

#girrlll girllll #so excited for this #zoomiesss

cvldbones

ooh maybe a restaurant au? sleazy line cook frank + painfully earnest paying-her-way-through-med-school server mel does things to my heart

The kitchen is a bit of a sensory nightmare, if she's honest. It's hot and loud, the sizzle of the pans warring with the shouted instructions from the cooks, and that's not even touching on the smell: thirty different spices, browning meat, stale sweat, a hint of cigarette smoke. When she showed up for the interview two months ago, she'd been momentarily overwhelmed, her body going rigid as it tried to adapt to the everything happening around her.

Now, she finds it oddly soothing. The controlled chaos feels not unlike the inside of her brain.

Whitaker is already waiting by the food window when she swings in, his arms crossed in what she assumes is meant to be a confident stance, though it just makes him look vaguely petulant. Mel doesn't bother acknowledging him, standing on her tiptoes to slide Table 12's ticket into the proper spot along the line. It reminds her of hanging laundry, the flimsy paper wavering beneath the weak A/C.

"Two burgers," she adds unnecessarily, just to see if Frank will look at her.

He does, smiling, and she feels warm down to her toes. The kitchen's fault, obviously.

"Comin' right up, King," Frank says. He adds two patties to the grill without breaking eye contact, and she wonders when that sort of thing became attractive to her. "It a zoo out there?"

Mel hums in consideration. She can feel Whitaker's eyes on her, the judgement rolling off of him in waves, but she ignores it. She's gotten quite good at that.

"It's not terrible. Last week was worse."

Frank snorts. "Glad to see you've already gotten used to the pace of The Pitt, then." He slides a finished patty onto the pre-assembled bun on his left before letting the plate clatter into the window. "Here you go, man," he adds to Whitaker, gaze fixed on the griddle.

Dennis mutters something under his breath, but dutifully scurries up and captures his table's meal. Mel glances at him sidelong just in time to catch his irritated frown, but he doesn't comment; he disappears through the swinging door, and Mel lets her shoulders loosen.

"You okay?" Frank asks, a frown puckering the middle of his eyebrows.

She smiles. "I'm fine."

"You sure?"

"Positive."

"Good."

He grins at her - the easy, lopsided one that means today's been a good day - and her chest clenches. She knows she's not supposed to be loitering in here, that she has tables to check on and waters to refill and checks to cash out, but she doesn't want to.

And she doesn't think Frank wants her to, either. He flips the patties and then folds his arms on top of the window, like he has all the time in the world to dedicate just to her.

"What are you doing after this shift?" he asks.

Mel blinks. "Oh. Um." She clears her throat, trying to keep her voice even. "Nothing. My sister's with her boyfriend today, so - "

"You should come out with us."

His voice is casual, unbothered, but Mel can tell he's bouncing on his toes, and she isn't sure if it's from nerves or his general aversion to stillness.

"Us?" she repeats.

"Me and Garcia. There's a bar down the street we hit up sometimes - dingy place, but the food's decent. Better than this shit hole," he adds with a wink. "Beer's pretty good, too. Whaddya say?"

Her answer is easy, tumbling from her mouth without really having to think about it. "Yes."

Frank beams, ducking his head as he nods. "Cool. Great." He returns his attention to the burgers, serving them up for her, and she takes the plates with numb fingers.

"Princess, I'm taking a smoke break," he calls, and then adds to Mel, "Tonight, King!"

"Tonight," she echoes, staring after him until the back door slams shut.

#delicious #and now i want a burger #kingdon #any universe and i'll eat it up #gosh i am hungry

fellowshipincynicism

the pitt 1x09 2x02

#if only he was in the room with her #but oh my gosh can’t wait for new call backs in season 3 #kingdon

notlayingroses

in my opinion, the question isn't "Is RPF ethical?" but rather "Are you engaging with RPF ethically?" and even more importantly, "Are you being stupid about it?"

I personally hate any kind morality thought policing. I'm not Catholic or religious and I do not feel guilty over my thoughts. You are not an inherently evil person because you saw two athletes in an interview and went "Hmmm...... what if...." The Feds are not going to come banging down your door because you wrote about one band member dicking down the other and sent it to your friend.

Wondering about other people's lives is very human. Being nosy about their personal lives is very normal. People have been writing fiction about other people's lives since the dawn of time. Some people even manage to write New York Times Bestselling Books that are "historical fiction" or "alternate reality." It does not make you inherently bad to be curious about the details of someone's personal life. That's being human. Being nosy is kind of fun.

The problem, however, comes with the ways in which people engage with it, and involve the real people in this. Harassing an musician's real girlfriend because it doesn't fit into the RPF ship. Showing up at real sporting events holding signs about how certain teammates should kiss. Trying to get actors to sign art of them fucking their coworker. Flooding social media with comments using the celebrity's full name and speculation. There's a line, there's a fourth wall, and there's fandom etiquette.

I hate the question of "Is RPF ethical" because it feels like morality thought policing. Post your fics on locked accounts, censor someone's name when you tweet about it, blow up your groupchat with hundreds of "DID YOU SEE THE WAY THEY LOOKED AT EACH OTHER??" texts. It's not inherently evil to wonder what other people are doing when they're out of the spotlight. Kill the cop in your mind.

But just have some basic decency and do not involve the real people. Don't cross the line without caring how it affects them. This is basic fandom 101 and lately we have been flying too close to the damn sun! Everyone get more normal about RPF so major news outlets and magazines stop posting articles about "Is RPF ethical?" and blowing up our spot!

#this like imo as long as we don't @ the person and link to anything let people do their thing

mel king and frank langdon scenes archive ↳s01e04

Taylor Dearden as Mel King The Pitt. S01E03 9:00 A.M.

#mel king #melissa king #the pitt #thepittedit #taylor dearden #myedits #heymaur #userrebekah #deetracks #fellowshipincynicism #userfranklangdon #usermelking #heycece

monnaow

please let my girl be happy!!

#kingdon #meowies

xskywalker21

winter days

#i love being spoiled #this is so beautiful #raaahh #kingdon

audreyvoilax

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