Mel's Musings @melifair - Tumblr Blog

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

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Shakespeare is like this

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Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

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guys shut the fuck up this is the only thing im gonna talk about for the rest of all time

(publicly shared video of a sweetheart’s dance from Rodney Stanger on fb)

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This is really the cleanest Sweethearts Dance I’ve ever seen in my life. I am in love! I am transfixed! Footwork smooth and strong like a mfin mountain river! Incredible! 🤩 😳 🥰

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Oh my God this is incredible to watch!

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Found the credit, from the Great Plains Dance Company. This is Jocy Bird and Trae Little Sky dancing in the Sweetheart Special at the Seminole Tribal Fair in Hollywood, Florida.

Jocy Bird and Trae Little Sky are married and apparently an adorable couple and I am loving their beaming grins as they dance so smoothly together. 💖

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have reblogged before, will reblog again

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How it feels to genuinely enjoy the Pitt and not get caught up on every little bad thing a character has done because they’re all complex human beings and none of them are truly evil like everyone in this fandom seems to think

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Characters without a little nuance are not characters worth writing.

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someone save my goat

#leave her be #dana evans #the pitt

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Oded Fehr as Ardeth Bay in The Mummy Returns (2001)

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Brendan Fraser this, Rachel Weiss that, ODED FEHR.

#I mean #all three of them #for real

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i love project hail mary (and andy weir in general) so goddamn much because the overwhelming message, the one that you hear over and over again, is that it is always possible for things to get better. there is always a solution to be found. there is always someone who will help you. there are always friends, always answers, always a reason to keep going even when it seems so hopeless and terrible and lonely. and every time you hear that message you're like yeah. i know. sometimes i forget and things seem really dark. but you gotta keep going.

also there is a rock alien who's really good at science and i want him to be my friend so bad.

I had Tangled on this morning and it made me miss you!

I miss you too!!!! I always think of you when I see Hiccup or Merida 🥰 and Thor of course!!!

Speaking of, I haven’t gone yet, but… I SO want to go to Isle of Berk at Universal Epic Universe 😭

I haven’t been on tumblr very much since I was promoted back to manager. Last year was especially busy!

I hope you are doing well, Twin! I may not see messages right away, but I always check!*Mightiest Thor hugs*

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and the thing about both Project Hail Mary and The Martian is that both stories are grabbing you by the shoulders, looking you in the eyes, and from behind the fourth wall Andy Weir is smiling at you saying "you are never as alone, or as far gone, as you think you are"

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sexually repressed people be like “i have an ancient evil stirring within me. no one can know” and its literally just craving intimacy

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thought of the day on the pitt:

robby handled things with mohan badly. dana was nicer in delivery to mel but it wasn't great longterm advice. robby is not handling things well with himself or langdon. langdon is not doing a great job being responsible about his steps.

but also, because it's a fictional drama, viewers expect specific emotional arcs and discussions on screen. it's a conditioned and normal expectation for fiction!

and

robby and dana aren't wrong. the delivery is varying levels of flawed. but these people are at work, in a high stress environment where lives depend on them. mohan needs to find a way to set aside her issues with her mom, or accept that she's spiraling and go home. mel needs to table her upset about her relationship with becca and not use the red phone or obsess. langdon needs to ask people to talk to him after work or before a shift or another day, instead of during treatments or patient on-boarding.

we as the viewers have a natural emotional desire to see the discussions and reactions! but also! robby and dana are still not wrong that it's a workplace and these adults should be able to get a grip ok themselves and finish the next few hours. if they can't do that, then they shouldn't be at work! robby was HORRIFIC to mohan but it's still true that if she's having an active breakdown she should go home! the reason it feels especially awful from robby is that we all understand that HE should go home or seek help and he isn't doing that. but to seek help, he'd have to excuse himself from work, because his workplace is not one where he can do his job AND be treated.

mohan needs help and time to talk. so does mel. langdon needs to make apologies and amends. and the realistic messiness of the pitt as a show is that these people are hitting their breaking points at work and they should not be letting it spill over. it is! but it's also not stuff that should be handled at work during work.

their work environment is making it worse, for sure. the workday is one with unusual stress. and it's still not sustainable to let personal problems shut you down at work and refuse to leave or take a break. yes, they're understaffed, and that's a management from administration problem the pitt has made clear from hour one of day one.

when someone is spiraling that noticeably or publicly at work, in front of patients and other staff, it is not actually cruel or wrong to pull them aside and say some variation of "you need to set it aside, pull yourself together, and do the work, or go home."

and i think because robby was so awful about HOW he did it, and because he's not taking his own advice, and because we can see HOW mel is hurt and overwhelmed, a lot of fandom is getting the two (delivery vs message) confused and thinking the message itself is mean. neither dana nor robby owe any of the staff a ten minute sit down and discussion about what's bothering them in the current environment. long term yeah, a senior staff member taking that time to check on someone and give advice for pursing help would be ideal. but they barely have time to see the patients they have, much less manage staff, so the staff that's there this specific day with a computer systems crisis needs to be staff that can self-manage without intervention. because it's not a found family. it's not a bunch of friends. it's a job.