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Something non-angsty: Baran and Michael tie the knot. Maybe some (silly & wholesome) antics ensue at the reception.

Finally writing the wedding! But plot twist, this is going to be a multichapter exploration of their past traumas that will eventually end with a wedding.

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#baran al hashimi #michael robinavitch

wibblyrlin

#the comedic duo we never knew we needed

verins-little-notebook

Siuan like "I may be the gay pope but I dealt with plenty of himbos back in the Rahad"

#siuan sanche #mat cauthon

moirainefeelings

Helen of Troy, 1993 / Maria Zoccola

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#only made better by the fact that in thw show timeline #these girls are sixty-five #and still acting like lovesick teenagers

Remember all the talk about how the Pitt finale cutting Mohan, Santos, and Al-Hashimi scenes was clear evidence that the show in general, and Noah Wyle in particular, was racist? Wonder if the people who kept posting this are reconsidering in light of finding out that a major Robby scene that would have added context to his character and made him more sympathetic was also cut? Might we consider that editing decisions are made based on storytelling choices rather than racism and sexism by a Jewish man that the fandom is having such fun scapegoating?

#the Pitt #fandom antisemitism #michael robinavitch

noah-wyles

katherine talking about a scene cut at the very end of the season finale with noah that had robby's backstory and his mother ending her life when he was a kid...

#head canon confirmed #now I can go back to writing the scene I was in the middle of that was about this #and not ponder when my fic will conflict with canon #michael robinavitch

Prompts prompts prompts:

• Baran misses her son who is away at a summer camp. To distract her *insert friend of your choice* takes her to do something crazy/fun she's not done before.

• Baran experiences a new side effect from her meds or from a seizure and tries to reconcile with her grief regarding the situation.

Thank you for the prompts!

I’ve written a story that’s basically the second one already, so I’m going to post a link.

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But I look forward to writing the first prompt. I’ve been wanting to write more Dana so unless there’s a different character you wanted, I think Baran and Dana will be taking a summer adventure.

#baran al hashimi #my fic

Thanks anon for the prompts! I’m always taking prompts. Happy to try to write some unsatisfying smut. Please feel free to leave me Wheel of Time or Pitt prompts.

And yes I am trying to get back into writing Siuraine. Thanks for the reminder to go write!

clytemnestraaa

hi this drives me crazy

canon is what happens in the text. e.g. merlin tries to poison morgana

a headcanon is a fact that you have personally made up as an elaboration of canon. it is your invention. e.g. i think morgana and gwen had a teenage lesbian situationship before the events of canon. or, i think modern morgana would love evanesence.

an interpretation is how one reads the existing text. it is not an invented fact nor is it a headcanon, it is a reading. e.g. i think merlin tries to poison morgana out of misplaced self-hatred. or, i think that one line was delivered with suppressed malice and shows a nuanced relationship.

fanon is the general fandom’s accepted headcanons and interpretations that elaborate or recontextualize canon. e.g. merlin is a badass waif and morgana is a bitch.

these are all different words with different meanings.

justdecadentcollectiondestiny

and a cannon is a large mounted gun, usually on wheels, that uses explosives to fire projectiles.

happybunnykat

What if I start a trend called "No one nuts November" where everyone writes about their favorite characters having bad sex that sucks and isn't fun.

happybunnykat

Okay so I made a list of 30 (well, 29 actually) prompts I am releasing into the wild. The point of this is that at least one of the participants are not having a good time.

It has 30 prompts for November but feel free to write and post whenever, but please add the tag #No one nuts November or #NoonenutsNovember wherever you post. You do not have to @ or credit this blog if you use any of these prompts.

(Text version under the cut)

#a truly delightful list that makes me want to write terribly unfun smut

club-medical

Hey, Jewish Pitt fic writers! Specifically all ye who’ve used the “Author is Jewish” + “Judaism”tags because it felt specifically pertinent to the content of the story you’ve written!

Some of us are, very informally, cobbling together a collection we’re goofily calling Kosher Pitt Fic.

We go into it in the FAQ & Rules, but it’s an “own voices” kinda deal for fic that centres on or explores Jewish identities and themes. It’s for fic you’ve written that you feel you wrote Jewishly.

It’s not about representation, per se. Mostly because we don’t think representation can only be accurate and authentic on the criteria of “own voices” alone. The world is full of thoughtful, talented writers whose work proves how conscientious their research is. This isn’t about “well-written Jewish character,” it’s casting the net wide to see what Jewish themes Jews are deliberately including and using The Pitt as a springboard to explore.

(And calling it a “collection” makes it sound way more serious than it is! fr we just hope you’ll share whatever cool stuff you’ve written.)

See the FAQ & Rules and hit up my ask box if you have any questions.

#reblogging this because I can’t express how many times I’ve read a fic with Robby and just thought #how incredibly off the characterization was because he no longer felt culturally Jewish #have I written anything explicitly very Jewish for this fandom?#no though I did throw Robby lighting a yarzheit candle into a fic #but I sort of think the Pitt is itself a very Jewish show #and I have a pretty (secularly) Jewish outlook on life #so everything I write is somehow pretty Jewish #everyone is muddling through #and finding joy amidst suffering #and people are constantly working to do better #as a process and not an endpoint #and Robby feels guilty (because I’ve never met someone Jewish who doesn’t)#I will be excited to read other fics that write Robby (or Lena where is the Lena fic???) in ways that highlight the Jewish vibes

puppiegracie

okay I'm saying this as someone who adores both baran and robby...

baran opening up to robby, showing her vulnerability in hopes of a response, was complete optimistic idealism and loneliness driven desperation. which is DELICIOUS as a character moment, but I see way too many people not understanding... duh... it was likely to fail?

oh robby is so big and bad and evil for taking it poorly. on the first day he's ever met this woman. this woman that is in cahoots with management whom he hates, the same management that loves to fuck him over. who is at first a stranger, and at the end of the day, at BEST an acquaintance. who is delivering some pretty important information like two seconds before he leaves on the I'm Gonna Kill Myself trip.

the thing about pitt characters, the general population in fact, is that they're all kinda... little kids. we're all little kids. ESPECIALLY traumatized individuals. with baran, a hurt child resides in her, one who was never truly accepted, and looking to this man for that acceptance. in robby, however, is not acceptance, it's not a father, it's another little kid, and this one has been having his abandonment issues triggered all day by the woman who is labeled his "replacement."

now, of course, they're both fully grown, autonomous adults. they're both capable of many things, they're both intelligent. but that doesn't mean they don't have a hurt inner child peeking out all day, both triggered to shit in their own right. robby's emotions are completely dysregulated. he does not have the CAPACITY to have a therapy speak moment with any character. baran is feeling extra sensitive and stripped of any safeguarding walls.

yes, you have to extend vulnerability in order to receive it, which is clearly what baran was hoping for. baran's idealism is an endearing character trait and a big part of her, but it can and will and has hurt her. robby used to be much more idealistic, (implied) but is incredibly burnt out. it was never going to end well. he's not evil and he's not malicious. he's broken. plus again I feel like people forget this is literally their first day of meeting there is no trust built between them baran had to take a leap of faith and it unfortunately did not work out.

lakeofsilverpike

What’s interesting to me is that I think all this speaks to their emotional states, but what is also going on is a woman with a disability is asking the head of her department for a workplace accommodation.

Baran is not coming to the conversation in a dispassionate calm way because her health changed very suddenly, so while this is a chronic health condition, the need for an accommodation is both new and urgent. And Robby isn’t dispassionate because he’s spent the whole day trying to prove that Baran can’t do her job because he feels threatened.

But in a real serious way this conversation isn’t a novel one in healthcare work places. These conversations happen every day. Workplace accommodations are legally protected. Someone actually does need to work with Baran around this issue rather than dismiss her request and tell her she can’t work (and if she couldn’t work at all she would have legal protections there too to take time for a medical reason which Robby would also be expected to help her navigate). It’s not odd that the head of the department together with HR would help her navigate her accommodation request.

So yeah Baran shows up to this conversation extremely vulnerable in a way that she might not if she took time to process and talked to someone another day, but in a real way who else was she going to talk to and could she really wait? Was she on the schedule for the next day? Alone? She needs to come up with a solution for this now. She really can’t wait if she’s scheduled to work in the next couple days because someone will need to work there with her.

Ultimately it’s Robby’s job as the head of the department to work through this with Baran or to direct her to the person who can if that’s not him. And while there might be no trust between them personally there is professional responsibility. So yeah lots of messy emotions, but in a real practical way, Baran is asking for something that she is legally entitled to from her job. The bare minimum Robby needs to do is take that request seriously and work on this. And that’s if we allow him off the hook for acting with compassion when met with a colleague standing in front of him and being vulnerable and in pain.

Ultimately the scenes with Baran give us a window into how Robby’s mental health deteriorated to the point where he can’t do his literal job and also can’t meet a human being in pain with any kind of compassion. It’s a tragic scene for both of them because of that.

#baran al hashimi #michael robinavitch

alhashimis

07.00 PM (S02E13) THE PITT (2025—)

#baran al hashimi #nazely toomarian #someone in the tags pointed out that this parallels Ogilvie using his little bit of Farsi #and how the other characters in that scene found it so annoying #which they did because they hate him and it come off as him sucking up #but Baran genuinely seems to like that he knows a little Farsi even if it’s just a few words he learned for his friends #(and she’s annoyed by his shit in other scenes so it’s not that she doesn’t notice he’s annoying)#but it’s interesting because the other characters in that scene also are probably bilingual #but have very different outlooks on the importance of learning some amount of a language as a way to break the ice across cultures

autumnsparrow

do people who watch the pitt know that princess and perlah have different accents when they speak in tagalog? and these accents are indicative of how and where they grew up...

because princess speaks tagalog without an accent, but she has the basic american english accent which tells me she was probably born and raised in the philippines before immigrating to the us at a young age. meanwhile, perlah does have an accent when she speaks in tagalog, the same accent a lot of americans have when they speak it, which tells me she was probably born and raised in the us.

i find it interesting. that's all. and i thought i'd share my thoughts to the non-filipino viewers.

#this is interesting #and led me to google the actors and see that this just reflects their own backgrounds #and as I’ve mentioned elsewhere the Pitt does something interesting #in that it does a decent amount of bringing actors cultural backgrounds into the text #and choosing to just adopt that as a part of their characters #it works well since we get so little of their backgrounds discussed on screen #and it’s all gleaned from tiny moments and details like this #and is it’s fun to be able to say sure Perlah was born in the US #rather than say hmm the actors accent doesn’t sound like a native speakers even though she’s supposed to be #because the show flexed around the people they hired

Fell down the ER tag and was reminded that Mark Greene was supposed to be Jewish. And yet you can’t feel it at all in the character, which I think is what happens when you have neither a Jewish writer nor actor craft a Jewish character. The show had Julianna Margulies and Noah Wyle in their main cast and chose to make neither of their characters Jewish.

I’ve joked about how the Pitt basically asked their actors about their backgrounds and crafted characters around that, but it’s such a better move. Because the representation is so much better in the Pitt. All the subtle stuff is there in ways it just isn’t when you have a writer and an actor try to write a character with a background they have no connection to. So asking actors to bring their own cultures and ethnicities to the table does allow for so much of the subtle often non-verbal cultural specificities that you get in the Pitt.

#the Pitt #er 1994