#it's hell

[rukafais]

To truss you up in pretty patterns Oh, to dress your flesh up with the works Perfectly portioned by a dagger Serving the finest leftover dessert Why would I desecrate a carcass? Oh, why let the offal go to waste? It’s love that guides my cleaver with such tenderness A perfect strike to fix the horror on your face!

I loved Fraud's theming of helplessness and being subject to the puppeteering whims of a higher power who also finds you unsettlingly delicious perhaps. Can you tell

[noah-wyles]

maybe an unpopular opinion but i'm getting the sense that more and more people online are treating the pitt like some kind of Reality TV Show and not like the Fictional TV Show that it is... I understand the whole ''most realistic medical drama'' thing but some of the takes I've read make me believe people are getting so invested in criticizing the characters that they start to sound like they're talking about real life situations that have happened. I'm kinda considering just watching the show without engaging with the fandom because.. it gets to a point. idk

this is quite funny to me because i've been thinking that people are watching the pitt like it's a documentary!! they're treating these characters like they're real and this plays into the ever present and ever fierce argument of realising what's fiction and what's reality. we have an entertainment drama highlighting the stresses and ordeals of the american healthcare system and people are treating it like its the kardashian's or a netflix documentary.

the other problem we have is we have so many characters and each character has their own individual problems. so you have addiction, you have self harm, you have depression, you have suicidal ideation, you have a repressed trauma, you have loneliness, you have issues with empathy, and alongside all of that you have an audience who love these characters so fiercely that they become 'perfect' in their eyes. nuance and grey areas are vacuumed out and all there's room for is black and white and finding a villain and a hero to fight over. the 'villain' is the cuts to medicare, it's the cuts to an overworked and fragile system. what's going on is an overworked team of characters who battle everyday to portray what's happening out there in the real world. you need to see the nuance, you need to see not everybody is right and wrong, you need to see the biases and yes you don't have to agree with them. but instead santos is a bitch, langdon is a no good addict, robby is a bitter racist misogynist, samira mohan is a princess who can do no wrong ever, dennis whitaker is a favoured white boy who deserves no character development, al-hashimi is awful because she favours AI, and hey guess what their shift still isn't over!

[inanna-76]

Still here...

[s1lverd4sh02]

Freaky Justin reaction pics for Owen content

this thing

[kenny-the-silly]

Torbek has back pain as we all know and his back pain affects his sleep a lot. He obviously can't sleep on his back because of the canisters but sleeping on his stomach is a struggle as well because the canisters' weight upsets the balance as it's a pushing weight against his back (obviously) causing pain and discomfort and his body will try to even out the weight which wouldn't be comfortable. Why doesn't he lie on his side I hear you say, well ignoring the tubing we go back to the canisters. Him lying on his side provides no support for the canisters so gravity is gonna try and pull them down and since they are yk connected to him it's gonna hurt. But I think it might work if he like uses something to support them. Why doesn't he sleep sitting down you may ask and you aren't gonna believe what I have to say

[madeofklay]

For the ageing userbase prompt: 1, 3, 4, 12, 16, 20 (an excuse to post your header image lol), 25, 27, and 28 <3

Okay, I already answered 1 and 16, so let's go down the list:

3. Best job I've ever had:

It's kind of hard to say - my old art store in California has a huge part of my heart in it, and my old bosses are basically family now (they've been better parents to me than my actual ones in every way). But I also love working in an elementary school enough that I'm literally going back to school so that I can become a certified teacher. Do those two!

4. Worst job I've ever had:

This is more of a gig than a proper job, but it would have to be the time I cleaned out an old married couple of clown's house. It's been almost 20 years and that haunts me.

12. Most expensive purchase I've ever made:

The monkey's paw kind of curled with this one, but my house.

20. Favorite beverage:

Despite my header image, it's tea! (My header image, for reference)

This was based on another ask game like 3 years ago, and it was probably funnier then because my online handle for a decade had "tea" in it.

25. "would you rather own a dishwasher or a laundry machine if you could only have one or the other":

A laundry machine. Every dishwasher I've ever owned has broken down in some catastrophic way to a point where I just plain don't trust them anymore.

27. Favorite household chore:

Piggybacking off the last one, washing dishes. It's kind of my zen "listen to music and think" time.

28. Least favorite household chore:

Cleaning the cat litter. I love cats but my god they're gross

[incendiarydaydream]

alright see yall next week try not to die on me :)