The Heart Palace

A work in progress being rewritten again and again. Alt account so don't be upset if I don't follow back from here!

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Sesame Street (1969-Present)

Source: Muppet Wiki

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#monday

[manmahal]

The wonderful, brilliant, and lovely @pansiesandposies made this wonderful moodboard for The Fasting Girl.

Please look at her amazing fics and check out her profile!

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Mel admits to the chronic loneliness to Doctor Langdon one day post shift. Becca bailing on her again.

Langdon gets it. Admitting to Mel that no one reached out to him during his stint in rehab and the time at home.

... That he doesn't have as many friends as he thought he did.

It's not so much sad as it is resigned.

"but you have your kids and your wife right?"

"kids were happy to have Dad around more. They're young they'll learn"

Mel doesn't miss this avoidance of talking about Abby but doesn't pry. 10 months without a friend reaching out. People he'd seen almost every day for years.

It's a loneliness she gets.

So on a very silly whim she picks up a large welcome back card. Not a multicoloured loud one. Something simpler and a little dark sided.

Almost everyone signs the card. The usual suspects she doesn't even approach. But makes it obvious she has something. Give them the choice.

Then she asks Abbot to fix Langdon's locker situation. She hopes her intent isn't misinterpreted. It's just... Unfair. Yes Doctor Langdon messed up but the burden of addiction is a monster. And everyone makes desperate choices.

So she tapes the card to his original locker. His name big and bold on the card. Right before shift end.

She knows he'll be behind everyone else. Preferring to go when everyone else is distracted. Felt less exposed.

Mel gets waylaid by Parker. Who is determined to get her to sharpen her teeth for her next deposition. Mel - if someone tries to take a bite outta you - take a bigger one.

So he catches her outside. Card in hand. Eyes bright with tears.

"you are too good a friend Mel King"

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happy trails

mel king x frank langdon | explicit | chapter 2 | 4.8k words

Frank stepped fully into their bedroom and Mel’s brain short-circuited. His jeans, old and worn over many years and really only donned when Frank was doing any sort of housework, hung low on his hips. Indecently low, really, and it was probably a miracle that they were held up by his hips at all. It wasn’t just the jeans, of course. No, it was the shirt he paired with it. It was a black crew-neck t-shirt, with Greek letters stamped across it and the “Greek Week 2013.” All the lettering was a rainbow of neon colors, so the theme was probably 80’s, or something like that. But what really caught Mel’s attention was the cropped cut of the hem of the shirt.

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There's more?!

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blep like mama and papa (little warmup before i work on comms again~)

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i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

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Lunch Poems / Frank O’Hara

—St Paul and all that

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If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there. GROSSE POINTE BLANK (1997).

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Anchor

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"At the troll court" by Ink Yami

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ANASTASIA (1997) dir. Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

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STEMI with me Mel!

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frank langdon having a staring problem in season two of the pitt (2026)

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Thinking about how Dana told Frank that Abby might not want a new dog to take care of, and then Frank sat with Mel King, who loves dogs, petting a dog between her legs as they shared a beautifully intimate moment.

Thinking about how Abby threatened to leave Frank, but Mel told him she didn't want him to leave.

I just. I'm thinking.

[manmahal]

So wise!

[manmahal]

Chapters: 6/? Fandom: The Pitt (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Melissa "Mel" King/Frank Langdon Characters: Melissa "Mel" King, Frank Langdon, Dana Evans, Jack Abbot (The Pitt), Dennis Whitaker, Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, Abby Langdon, Emma Nolan (The Pitt), Original Characters, Other Pitt Characters TBD Additional Tags: Historical AU, Sherlock Holmes AU, Medical Mysteries, Medical Fraud, Religious Fraud, Victorian era, Fasting Girls, partnerships, Frank is Holmes, Mel is Watson-ish, Marriage of Convenience, Detectives, Period Typical Attitudes, Friends to Lovers, Falling In Love, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Neurodivergency, Abby Langdon is not really Abby Langdon but you know who I mean, mentions of child death, Substance Abuse, Recovery, childhood traumas, Eating Disorders Summary:

To save her nearly insolvent bookstore from going under, Melissa King agrees to a sudden proposal of marriage to the famous consulting detective, Francis Langdon. The marriage is purely transactional and in name only until a mysterious young woman, presented as "The Fasting Girl" sends Langdon on a dogged path to solve. The case reveals unexpected secrets, tragic pasts, and a future neither Francis nor Melissa can ever predict.

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Fairy tale illustrations by Nadezhda Illarionova

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Rose photograph - Author: theph0tographer1816