random ravings

20s / autistic scientist currently obsessed with mel king and frank langdon

[keystothekingdon]

The absolute euphoria and relief Mel must have felt when she laid eyes on dr Langdon after 10 months…

[potentloinz]

this isn’t even about romance, just the relief of having, when you’re autistic, someone in your corner. someone willing to at least try to understand you.

autism is often profoundly lonely and when we do make a connection with someone we cling to it.

[inkskinned]

unfortunately there are like 23 billion other things to worry about right now but just for the record: straight people who are trying to "rebrand" pride month as "national nuclear family month" are so fucking evil. positioning gay pride as antithetical to the concept of a family is evil. doing so in a way that is explicitly white nationalism is evil. acting like queer pride is the thing that destroys families is evil.

we are not just backsliding, we are back at the milquetoast assertation "love is love." for the record: when people ask us why we need pride this is literally fucking why. when other queer people ask me if we really need all the rainbow shit, this is why. when we make a fuss about so many shows not having any positive queer rep: this is why.

it has only been 11 years since it was nationally legal for gay people to get married. homophobia is still very much alive and well - and it is often the thing that ruins a family.

[frodo-of-the-nine-fingers]

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

[ninewheels]

#at least once a month I think about that one post about laminating a paper towel#and how that makes it immortal but also forever prevents it from fulfilling its true purpose#yes you will live. but at the cost of everything that makes you You

(courtesy of noknowshame)

[potentloinz]

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For icks:

If I'm watching a movie with someone and they go on their phone!!! Especially if it was something I was excited for them to watch :( OBVIOUSLY I am as internet/social media addicted as the rest of them, but when I watch a movie I’m like okay, phone is going down.  Bonus points if afterwards they ask me to explain some obvious plot point.

For random hate:

As someone in biology I get twitchy whenever people bring up evolution or natural selection in casual conversation. 99% of the time they are incorrect in some way (sometimes small ways. sometimes absolutely egregious ways). I don't blame people for having misconceptions---the way we teach it in high school and college is atrocious---my problem is that it's one of those topics where a little knowledge can be dangerous and SO often used in bad faith to promote sexism/racism/ableism. The entire field of evolutionary psychology makes me want to tear out my hair actually.

[potentloinz]

drawing is hard guys wtf

[pghumfort]

I’m so happy for Mel King who can breathe easy again now that Langdon is back at work, because for ten months she’d only hear his name in the context of unkind whispers and wild speculation. And now he’s back and Henderson is taking a lap around the pitt to tell everyone about Langdon’s closed cervical reduction that saved this patient’s mobility.

[cynicscene]

mel: beep beep beep

frank: i want to understand it; i wanna figure out how to speak that language

[tdeardztown]

TAYLOR DEARDEN as MEL KING

THE PITT ∙ 1 x 14

[langdon-mel]

the thing that matters most to me, regardless of the context of their canon relationship, is that mel and frank are a pair. you can't have one without the other, whatever happens they are intwined and inseparable. and I think that's really beautiful

[jeaniefranklins]

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

[nancescreek]

in the video hbo posted, the characters' badges appear in order of rank or experience except for ONE person. it goes like this: robby, al-hashimi, dana, ellis (r4), cassie (r3), LANGDON (r4), mel (r3), santos (r2), whitaker (intern), javadi (ms4). you truly cannot make this up 😭😭😭 langdon and mel codependent friendship era is upon us like you can't have mel or langdon without each other they have to be NEXT TO EACH OTHER!

[hagioscopes]

feeling so normal about the fact that melfrank in season three will have had interactions that we’ve not seen on screen… inside jokes…. cases they’ve worked together… quiet moments….

[potentloinz]

Hello from your fellow picky eater!! (If I'm not mistaken??)

🥪 and 🤢

yes fellow picky eater :)

Least favorite foods: I hate fresh fruit. It’s a texture thing. I can deal with certain fruits if they’re frozen, and I love many types of dried fruits, but the soppy wet quality of fresh fruit? Ew.

I haven’t (intentionally) eaten meat in almost a decade and I don’t miss it. I get grossed out by all those new fake meat products because, for me, they actually taste so much like real meat that it becomes uncanny.

I also get veeeeeeeeeery stuck on routines with food, and I appreciate that other people find it incredibly tiresome. As an example, I’ve been eating the same thing (oatmeal) for breakfast for the last six months. But it must be in a certain bowl and it has to be eaten within a certain timeframe. You would also think, because I eat it every day, that I love oatmeal, but I would never order oatmeal at a restaurant because (1) that’s not my routine!!! (2) that’s not my oatmeal bowl!!! (3) that’s not the specific context I associate with oatmeal!!! I’m a very conflict-averse person, so I try to hide these idiosyncrasies at work and whatever.  

Icks:

Okay, in real life, strong perfumes/artificial scents are one. I get viscerally ill.

The Pitt-specific: this is so small and trivial that I consider it an ick. And probably a controversial one (please don’t hate me). But I don’t think Mel is blonde and I don’t like when people describe her that way. Taylor Dearden---sure, she often has blonde hair. But Melissa King has light brown hair and THAT’S FINE??? She has gorgeous hair and I’m obsessed with it. But sometimes I feel as though I’m going insane because so many people describe her as blonde (especially in fics) and I don’t understand it. Maybe you could argue it’s dirty blonde. Or maybe I'm being too literal about it? I don't know.

[potentloinz]

continuing my melbunny studies (I figured out how to download custom brushes for photoshop yippee)

[potentloinz]

there’s a mouse in my room. my cat died on Wednesday and there’s a MOUSE in my ROOM. I am not feeling chill about this.

[potentloinz]

the mouse has been relocated to the great outdoors. it was in fact the cutest kind of mouse, those woodland ones with the oversized eyes and teeny tiny feet.

[racketghost]

every time i start to feel cringe for being too deep in the hyperfixation i remember the intense depression i have waded through and have to remind myself that enjoyment is fleeting (so grab it with both hands), and life is for loving (so hold that love close), and if anyone thinks i’m cringe they must not be having a very good time (and i hope they can find a good time soon).

[queenofattolia]

companion to this post!

for the sake of this poll, it's fine if you don't have a diagnosis!

kingdon nation: do you believe yourself to be neurodivergent?

yes, i'm on the autism spectrum

yes, i have adhd

yes, i am some other form of neurodivergent

no

i'm not sure

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