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modern college shirbert au where anne works a side gig as a tour guide at redmond for incoming freshman. she hates the stuffy polo and slacks and the heavy microphone set she has to wear but she quite enjoys getting to walk around the beautiful campus every weekend and describe every nook and cranny to the freshmen (even if they start yawning and wandering off halfway through)

however, each beautiful tour is RUINED when gilbert blythe’s stupid run club manages to cross their path multiple times. gilbert, who started the club to promote cardiovascular health for boys who started drinking a little too much in school (blegh, med students!), never fails to run by with his stupid shirtless sweaty body and wave and yell at anne like an overgrown puppy. and each time, anne scowls and rolls her eyes while the freshmen girls immediately start paying attention. god forbid he stops and tries to chat, often met with her steely eyes and short answers. she tries to ignore the knowing looks from parents accompanying their children.

it did not escape charlie and moody’s (and definitely bash’s) notice that when anne got the tour job, gilbert insisted on planning the routes each weekend

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kingdon variants are shirbert and literati in the sense that it only has to make sense to me

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i feel like we need a discussion on stepmom mel because I haven’t given it much thought… like how would she interact with t&p.. is she more friendly? auntie? dad’s special friend? how would she angle in on coparenting? what’s her relationship with abby like?

for me personally, she strikes me as being very aware that she is Not their mom and does Not want to be that for them. when she and langdon have been dating for a few months and she’s ready to meet them, the two of them and abby have a coffee date to work out the logistics. it’s clear to mel that abby is very anxious about being replaced or losing her lifelines to the “cool dad with the bachelor pad and the puppy and the sweet new gf” so mel overcompensates and is like well maybe it’s better if we just never meet and abby and langdon are like girl what no.

eventually they do meet and it takes a lot of adjusting but it works out. mel’s comfortable enough to stay home with the kids if langdon is working. tanner calls her Dr. King because he thinks it’s funny and penny calls her Mellie and she’s okay right now.

abby starts feeling comfortable enough to ask her to babysit the kids if it’s her week and langdon is unavailable. she starts going to their soccer games and listens to abby whoop and cheer while she reads a book.

abby doesn’t have a ton of girlfriends, she lost a lot of them trying to fix her family, but one time she unexpectedly drops in on mel to rant. she’s obviously nervous about getting kicked out but mel sits her down and they gossip on the couch. becca wanders out and her and abby start talking about boys and the best spots in the mall.

when abby gets her first serious boyfriend since the divorce she turns to mel for advice on how to introduce them. the three of them have another logistics talk, but now about another person joining the crew. mel thinks the new bf is a dud and subtly tells abby that. he’s dumped the next week.

it’s weird but it works. the kids will never call mel mom, but she’s the third on their emergency contact list. abby will jokingly call her a sister wife, much to langdon’s horrific embarrassment. maybe one day if mel has a baby of her own, abby cooks a bunch of frozen meals and is one of the first to meet the baby with becca.

okay this turned more into mel&abby study rather than the kids but it’s all intertwined. im not against evil abby tropes but im a sucker for female friendships perservering despite a man!!!

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im a sucker for a “i know im not good enough for you now but someday i will be please i can be good for you” love confession in fics. the raw desperation is *mwah*

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i can’t get over how pretty and BLONDE!!! she is here

i like to imagine mel’s hair gets as blonde as this in the summer sun and she’ll come in for a shift one day and everyone is like… woah… ER Barbie…

[melsnoopy]

newsroom pitt au with a kingdon focus

- their paper is probably called some shit like The Pittsburgh Gazette but there’s so many similar papers like that and everyone just calls it The Pitt

- robby as EiC obviously, dana as copy editor

- langdon is head editor of the investigations team and bikes to work everyday. very peppy for a man writing dark stories

- whitaker on religion and santos on city govt.

- mel is a new hire from a veryyy small local paper and is still getting used to having to work with a team. For now she’s general assignment but stumbles her way into a long-term investigations story that robby wants her to collaborate with langdon on

- they immediately hit it off and everyone’s freaked out seeing known snarky head editor langdon absolutely praise mel’s writing and pitches

- just imagining business casual kingdon… they don’t have a strict dress code at all but mel feels weird wearing casual clothes to the office so she’s often in skirts or slacks and to make her feel less alone langdon (begrudgingly, cursing himself the entire time for going and falling head over heels for a tiny but powerful blonde woman) gets out his box of old ties from when he was a freshman reporter and starts wearing button downs again. robby is like wtf

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i absolutely love kingdon but i 100% believe they will never ever be canon and i am okay with that!!!!! that is the beauty of shows not being real…

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cheat day

[welliswelliswell]

shen always knew he enjoyed getting a rise out of people. he was a cheeky child and his parents always remarked that he was why they decided to stop having children after him.

it was honestly a pleasure to get under people’s skin. to see their eyes twitch, their lips pulled tight into a line, the tension in their shoulders - it was like chicken soul for his weird soul.

but it was nothing too malicious, of course. just a few seemingly innocuous comments here and there, actions that couldn’t possibly be misconstrued unless you thought about it etc. he knew exactly how to toe the line and that’s how he’s still alive to practice medicine.

he didn’t do much aggravating while in med school or in residency (no amount of dunkin’ coffee could have possibly provided him with that much energy), but ever since he settled in as an attending, he’s come to realise a few interesting situations at PTMC.

Dr Langdon and Dr King.

he’s overheard (while signing orders and charting) conversations between Princess and Perlah about the state of his marriage, alongside critical analysis about his behaviour and what that meant for his marriage.

and he has realised the increasing number of times he’s saw Langdon and Mel hanging out by the ambulance bay, personal distance seemingly an afterthought in whatever conversation they were having.

but the time he really took note was during a case where he stood (maybe) a little too close behind Mel while monitoring the patient. Mel’s side had a better vantage point where he could see the patient and what the nurses and doctors were doing, and he had instinctively, moved closer behind Mel to get a better look of the monitor when their vitals dropped.

Langdon wasn’t in the room, but once the patient was stabilised, he was suddenly standing pretty close to him, almost as if he was trying to nudge him out. he stepped away to talk to the nurses and the patient’s friend, but when he turned, he swore he saw a hint of something he’d never seen from Langdon before.

hostility. like that of a cat poofing their fur to appear larger and intimidating, and that really amused him.

not one for jumping to conclusions however, he laid his hypothesis and went to work testing.

the next shift he had with Mel and Langdon, he bought donuts for the entire crew and then handed one personally to Mel with the excuse of thanking her for helping him with his journal submission and making sure she eats (he did observe that Mel was often late to freebies brought in by staff).

he made sure to do so while Langdon was watching, and the uncomfortable daggers he felt on his back only emboldened him to venture deeper into his hypothesis testing.

over the course of their few shared shifts, he’s made sure to initiate as much contact as he could with Mel.

he started prioritising her for cases, checked in more on her, reassured her whenever she had doubt in her diagnosis and treatment plans, and even gave her high-fives when a patient showed promising signs of recovery.

and the reactions from Langdon? simply delightful. the prolonged stares through the windows whenever he was talking to Mel, the tight smiles he wore to not alert Mel, the almost brusque responses whenever he made a comment about how wonderful of a senior resident Mel was…

it was like giving candy to an unsupervised kid and Shen, being the sweet-tooth that he is, really couldn’t help himself.

the smiles from Mel didn’t hurt either. while second to Langdon’s reactions, he enjoyed seeing the excitement on Mel’s face when her patient’s treatment worked or when she performed a difficult procedure without complications. coupled with her eager high-fives (that she’s started initiating whenever she sees him), it was really nice seeing just how much she enjoyed being a doctor.

but like all good things, his trolling must come to an end.

he overheard from Princess and Perlah that Langdon’s divorce was finalised and had an inkling that he would have began making plans for him and Mel.

he did enjoy soap operas and their messy relationships, but he did so as a viewer, not a participant.

but when a birthday present arrived for him in the form of a confetti cake and an extra large brown sugar shaken espresso in the staff’s fridge (labelled a little excessively with his name), he felt himself hesitating as he opened the handwritten card addressed to him.

To Dr Shen:

(If you’re not Dr Shen please do not indulge in the cake and coffee! It’s for Dr Shen only!)

Happy Birthday! I’m sorry I couldn’t be there to personally hand this to you, but I had made a promise to Becca that I’d meet her immediately after my shift. :(

I digress but I wanted to say how much I appreciate your guidance and the patience you’ve shown me. I genuinely enjoyed learning from you, and the calm you’ve shown to patients and their loved ones really inspires me to be more of a stabilising presence for my patients too.

I hear from Princess that it’s your birthday and I understand how “sucky” it can be to work on birthdays. Hope the cake and coffee makes up for it.

Happy birthday again and thank you!

From: Mel :)

Shen re-read the note carefully, and an idea formulated in his head.

why should Langdon get to enjoy having Mel to himself?

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the concept of shen being someone who never purposefully overachieves, works everyday on the same level, never brings in his personal issues to work, rarely stresses, etc. putting in extra effort to make mel smile and laugh…

[melsnoopy]

something something kingdon being in a band with other pitt ppl and blowing up when they were young and people totally thought they had something going on but then langdon starts a crash and burn relationship whom he marries and checks into rehab and the band breaks up. years later they reunite for a music festival and u can visibly watch as kingdon fall back in love with each other on stage performing their old hits… imagining some sort of “lcd soundsystem” vibes for their music… insert duck smoking gif

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mel, jesse and emma are such a work friend group trio… they all try to shuffle things around so they’re working on the same patients together, who just sit in silence as they watch their doctor and nurses kekeing with each other 😭😭

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desperately need someone to write a fic from the perspective of a documentary crew that goes to the pitt to spread awareness about emergency doctors but instead get a hour and a half of jim&pam-esque footage of kingdon.

I can literally imagine langdon in a confessional blushing and grinning to his ears being like “oh yeah dr. king is one of our best doctors here,” overlayed over footage of him and mel just orbiting each other in the pitt

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i need to see mateo and mel have a convo. now that’s real siblingsism

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there’s a significant lack of donnie in kingdon fics. he and langdon get sushi once a week, cassie joins every now and then. his and langdon’s (and future kingdon) kids grow up best friends and close family friends

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langdon putting out his arm for mel to hold is so buzzy….

he’s very big on being A Gentleman considering his lack of attention and inconsideration cost him his last relationship. so he goes the whole nine yards with mel, always offering his arm out for her to wrap hers around.

he doesn’t mind holding hands, but if given the chance he’ll always choose to awkwardly stick his elbow out, just so he can feel her soft hands circle down from the crook of his elbow to his wrists. she has nimble fingers and small palms that curl around the bracelets on his wrists, or lightly scratch the hairs on his arm and sends shivers up his spine.

they avoid PDA during work, partly by personal preference and partly by fear of getting made fun of, but the second they leave that locker room langdon’s waiting by the door with his arm out for her to latch onto like an octopus.

after the hard shifts, when everyone meanders to the park to have a beer, they’re always cuddled up close, her arms circled around his, their loosely conjoined hands in his lap.

and mel never really thought much about hands or arms or any limbs (aside from her medical thoughts) before, but something about langdon ignites this weird primal feeling she’s never felt before. she loves that he could hold both her hands in one of his and almost completely encompass them, loves that his shoulders are broad and block the noise and the light that overwhelm her, love that his bicep is firm and strong (and hairy? didn’t know she was into that but okay..) in her hands.

most of all, she loves that he’s like this and still turns into putty in her hands. loves that his big hands are gentle and soft (trembling, the first time they kissed) on her face, that sometimes his broad shoulders loosen and turn into themselves, making himself smaller when he’s around her, almost like he’s afraid of being intimidating. love that they widen and his chest puffs out when she accepts his arm.

santos and ellis make fun of it, and yeah okay maybe mel would giggle in her head if it were any other man offering, but she knows it’s more for him than her. know that her arms around his is sometimes the only thing that keeps him grounded on his bad days. she’s willing to take on the treacherous and hard burden of being held by him if it’s means he stays down on earth with her.

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me and all the other kingdon shippers who’ve been writing headcanons and oneshots since may 2025 today