"Oh they were so narcissistic,-" they were selfish. Relearn the word selfish. Oh my FUCKING GOD. STOP demonizing people who have those disorders. It affects them and puts stigma on that disorder and generalizes them.
That aren't LIKE THAT, half the time. People need to relearn other words than excuses that effect other real, living people.
"Narcissistic,-" selfish. Self centered. Ignorant. Negligent. Not fucking NARCISSISTIC, YOU DUMB FUCK. Maybe I'd understand it more if the person was indeed, diagnosed with NPD. But that is literally barely the case at this point. Holy shit
(I am being So Brave by not sending this on anon) A recent tag of yours implied you only like a small part of the current season of the Pitt; may I ask what you don’t like about the current season? (I just love to get other people’s takes and I respect your opinion in many ways) (and if I misinterpreted the tag then my apologies)
hi friend!! i'm always ok with people sending me asks on anon but it's nice to see a longtime mutual :)
and yes, the latest season of the pitt is not doing it for me. it's kind of a variety of issues so i'm going to put it under the cut so as not to bother anyone. in the first season I still had some issues with the writing but I saw the cohesiveness and thematic bounty expressed by the fandom in the core show, and the acting was good enough to carry me over the bumps. this season, though, the show feels like it's departed from a lot of the things that originally were its strength.
it's late so I'm going to go through this fast and sloppy but!
there is too much focus on Robby. s1 was a cohesive ensemble show but—as a person who has been suicidal, and can see exactly what Robby is going through—this is WAY too much from him. the grand emotional moments of this season have been reserved exclusively for him and Dana, which is a goddamn shame when they already won their Emmys. it reads as a craven push for MORE emmy noms, instead of spotlighting the other performers who also deserve them.
there has been actually nothing happening with McKay, and I also think Mel, Samira, and Javadi have been botched. McKay has not had any storyline at all, beyond a vague gesture toward a lack of dating life; Samira's has been an absolute nothingburger about flopping out of the ER, and Javadi's plotline with her parents feels thin. Mel did pretty much nothing until her deposition happened, and I didn't really care for the consequence of the Becca storyline—it felt like the moral was supposed to be "look at Mel overreacting to her sister having autonomy!", without any deeper exploration of why Mel was reacting that way. Every character she talked to onscreen shamed her for reacting, instead of acknowledging that being a caregiver is just, purely, emotionally complex and difficult. it's not black and white.
the lack of complexity as a whole has been my biggest issue, and the one I can't really get over. the biggest patient case of the season for me was the Black medical student who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. I felt like the show absolutely shat the bed on that case, turning a complex, emotionally layered issue—with how he was treated and sedated by the security guards and medical staff, how his sister was brushed off for her very valid concerns about his treatment, with how the history of mental illness was shamed and hidden by the parents—into a bleak little moment of Javadi sitting with the sister, saying "some families have a hard time talking about mental health." hmm, the pitt, I wonder why Black families might be reluctant to talk about mental health and trust the healthcare system that diagnoses it? could it possibly be because that healthcare system decided the right step to treating a young Black man having psychosis was sedation and an involuntary psych hold? no WONDER the parents never wanted to talk about it. the Pitt is communicating loud and clear that having a mental health problem lands you in a bare white room and a psych hold, never explaining what steps are being taken to actually help you. and in that whole storyline, not once do we ever hear the perspective of the young Black student telling his side of the story. not once.
similarly, i think it's weird and telling that we haven't really gotten Langdon's perspective as an addict. the show has done a lot of talking AROUND addiction, but I'd like to actually hear Langdon's point of view! he's having back pain that he now has to deal with without his go-to solution. the show seems scared to face looking at what actually drives addiction, as if by facing it you validate it, so instead we have a void where Robby and Santos and Al-Hashimi discuss whether what he did was a crime, instead of looking at why and where and how pain manifests as addiction.
related note to that: I thought the moment where Langdon wanted to buy something in honor of Louie, and Dana said "you have a support system, he didn't" to justify not doing it was DEEPLY fucked up. I replayed it a couple times to see if I missed something but it seemed like Dana was implying the reason Louie shouldn't have honors taken for him was because he didn't have a support system, and that was somehow a problem he could control. sorry that's not really related to anything that just left me aghast
not related to any of the above but dr. al-hashimi confiding her seizures to a colleague who has been nothing but disrespectful to her all day is an insane move. if it pays off in the finale I'll take this back but that was absolutely bonkers. why on earth would she do that? she knows she is replacing him, she knows he'll be gone tomorrow. talk to literally anyone else about it if you must, you literally called your actual neurologist, why are you confiding to an ER guy who treats you like shit?????
several other writing moments have just been dumb. a Black woman with POTS begging for treatment while in pain is going to stop and mention, to her white doctors, that it's hard for her POTS to be taken seriously because she is Black? you think a patient in deep pain who is dependent on her doctors for even a modicum of care is going to come out of the gate with that, and not think she's going to be retaliated against with even worse care? there seems to be a complete ignorance by the writers of the power imbalance inherent in being a patient, particularly a patient from a community constantly overlooked and undermined. they are comfortable naming the statistics, but not exploring why that culture is permitted to move forward, even while perpetrating it in the show by treating Black patients and families (like the one above) as difficult for having questions or normal responses to pain.
i've completely lost the plot because I'm so in my feelings right now about patients, and being heard when you're in pain, but I guess at heart I feel the show is not treating complex issues with the full complexity they deserve. i can think of so many other little beats this season where I went "wait, what? that's where you're gonna end that?", because it felt like the takeaway was the healthcare system is always right! without any deeper examination of why people would not trust it or how its harms can actually deeply impact minority patients
i have more thoughts but i think i've gone insane actually. thank you for asking this i'll try to be more cogent later, i just wanted to respond to this asap! :)
i love when people have a mini marathon of my works, i really do. but only liking them doesn’t help me. if you like my works a reblog or a little feedback it’s so much better and it only takes a minute, even less. if you reblog things, more people will see it. reblogs are really important to fic writers. only liking and not reblogging does not help to get our works noticed. and please don’t get me wrong, i’m very grateful for the amount of notes on my works.
i’ve seen this happening to a lot of fellow writers and it’s very sad to see them just losing all the motivation and feeling discouraged from writing and posting because they just don’t get interaction.
and if you want to give us feedback but are a little shy or simply don’t feel comfortable leaving a comment on a post, i want you to know that is totally fine if you send an anonymous ask telling us your thoughts about what you read! that does help us a lot and gives us the little push to keep sharing our works.
and to the people who will say that we “should not be demanding / asking for anything or we're not obligated to comment anything” or whatever, remember that you are getting content for free—fics, fanarts, etc.—and all we’re asking for is literally the bare minimum! sharing content you LIKE helps and show creators appreciation for the work they put in.
liking is not bad but it doesn't tell us anything. reblogging is the way to help writers on here to gain exposure!
Gosh as a fanfic writer the only ships I don't write are the big ones due to the fact I genuinely treat other people's fanfics as canon...but with small ships sure I can write...so this is why I can't write Sambucky no matter what...to precious for me to touch.
The only thing worse than being a fan of something everyone online is obsessed with hating is trying to give up something everyone is obsessed with hating.
You already convinced me to quit, leave me alone. Why are you like this Internet? I fucking hate you!
Is it so hard to believe in this fandom ... that Evil Pomni is just who Pomni HASN'T shown of herself yet????? I'm going to lose my mind. I'm going to lose my mind. It's not any deeper than that. "Did they ruin Pomni" WHAT DO YOU LITERALLY MEAN. SHE'S LITERALLY A THREE DIMENSIONAL CHARACTER STOP PUTTING HER IN A BOX AND KEEPING HER THERE. WE HAVEN'T SEEN THE ENTIRETY THAT MAKES POMNI HERSELF BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN UNCOMFORTABLE THE WHOLE DAMN TIME!!!!! I WOULDN'T SHOW ALL MY COLORS IF I WASN'T COMFORTABLE. NOW SHE'S FINALLY GETTING TO THAT POINT.
IT'S NOT DEEPER THAN THAT. WE'RE GETTING TO SEE THE TRUE NATURE OF POMNI RAW AND UNCUT.
