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[thefoxfrompeds]

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[katstealskat]

lmaooo the concept of cassie showing up to that art gallery date after a way too long shift that at some point turned into a paperwork hostage situation— like yeah she’s been on her feet for fifteen hours, and lost a patient, and witnessed a nurse get arrested by ICE pigs and another get assaulted, and dealt with her suicidal boss, and revived a newborn, and held a crying med student— but god FUCKING dammit she is putting on her black tank top and brown slacks and a fresh coat of deodorant and she is GOING ON THAT FUCKING DATE. fiona dourif confirmed certified and notarized

[backonmybullsht]

“Season one, you're watching a guy who's drowning that doesn't know he's drowning. Season two, you're watching a guy who knows he's drowning, but does not want to accept a life preserver. So, who actually has convinced himself that it might be easier to drown. And yet, as the shift goes on, the idea of leaving all of his fellow shipmates stranded or in an environment that's not set up for success is increasingly difficult for him, as is the decision to leave.

So, structurally, it's really about coming in with one resolute idea, which is, I'm excited to go on the sabbatical, and this is my last day, and I can't wait to get out of here. And then as the day goes on, you just start to chip away at that resolve and show that the more, the closer you get to the door, the closer you're coming to face your own mortality. And as people get more and more desperate, they get less and less graceful. So I wanted his behavior to seem a bit more erratic, sometimes volatile, sometimes petty, sometimes mean, sometimes challenging, but very out of character for him, where you could reverse engineer all of that pathology and go, oh, look at that.

He didn't know how to ask for help, but he's screaming, somebody stop me. Somebody ask me about my behavior. Somebody put me on a hold, you know. And then ultimately, you know, everybody tries. Langdon tries, Abbot tries, Dana tries, and they do begin to kind of, I think, get through to him that this is a community of people that really have a vested interest in him staying alive and being part of this community.

And then what we've been sort of building to, I'm not being very articulate about this, is that the original wound that we've shown in season one, this loss of mentor that died during Covid, that was the catalyst for his breakdown, was not the original wound. He's predisposed to abandonment because of how he was wired young and went into this line of work because he wanted to save people he couldn't save.

And so here you are in the room where you lost your mentor, where you lost your son's girlfriend, and you're holding another abandoned innocent who's about to face a very similar road that you faced. And in that, what is your advice to this innocent? That they should get a motorcycle and not a helmet, or hang on, there's gonna be some beautiful things to see and some things worth hanging around for.”

- Noah Wyle

Awards Chatter: Noah Wyle - 'The Pitt', Jun 9, 2026

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[drowningintheshower]

What if the whole Michael is John is kind of already known. No dramatic reveal just, ‘yeah, after I set up the foundation I just wanted to study medicine and not be bothered so I changed my name to my grandmother’s maiden name and my cousin’s middle name’. God tier dad-lore but not all that important in the grand scheme of things, especially when they realized he couldn’t magically make the department’s funding woes disappear.

Until a new Chief of Surgery was announce.

Peter fucking Benton.

Michael/John sends him a curtosy heads up email, little does he know he’s just open Pandora’s Box. Now Peter know exactly what he’s walking into, and he wants to see Michael/John like in old times. Hence him actually going down to the ED.

Jack and Peter meet early on and immediately start bickering over who gets Michael/John. I’m talking Brandi and Monica ‘The Boy is Mine’ level of fighting. The best part is both refuse to consider they have a crush on the guy. Nope, this beef is strictly born out of the heterosexual, 100% platonic friendship they have with Michael/John.

Meanwhile Michael/John is drooling and over the two hottest guys he knows being in the same room together. Bless his heart he doesn’t even clock the chaos he’s created. He just goes about life, complimenting one in front of the other, being competent, bemoaning the fact no one finds him attractive literally half the hospital wants to jump his bones, inviting them (both together and separately) out for drinks where they stare into each others’s eyes for too fucking long to be considered platonic.

Ahmad has a board. Dana’s considering quitting again. Princess and Perlah have become the designated Love Triangle news source. Santos can’t decide if she’s upset with her self for not realizing Robby’s bi or impressed he managed to hide it given the bi disaster energy he emits. Whitaker’s given up and is just shooting sad puppy dog eyes at Robby every chance he gets. Langdon’s now forced to confront why he was so desperate for Robby’s approval and immediately bounced back when Jack complimented him.

The Pitt has effectively declared war with surgery. The casualties are staggering. Walsh has allied herself with Benton on the principle of ‘do whatever that pisses off Abbot the most’. Garcia is, in a shocking twist, neutral.

They’ve effectively turned the hospital into a war zone. Gloria and HR consider early retirement daily.

Everyone’s put out of their misery when the two repressed jackasses get their shit together and everyone enjoys a nice trip to Paris.

[lin4lool]

rabbot dancing in their kitchen yippie!!!!! (in my mind they are dancing to the german song „Sommerregen“ (summer rain)!)

~ Song and Details under the cut ~

[alexisneverokay]

hes out here fighting misinformation with his own two hands atp.

[alexisneverokay]

do the people throwing a fit about javadi being in psych and not ER in season three not understand that this is actually the writers going *out of their way* to keep her IN the show because they value her as a character?

she is a med student. rotations do not last more than a few weeks tops, so as much as you mightve liked her to still be in the ER full time, this isn't realistic at all four months after season 2. anyone with basic knowledge of the american medical school system would be aware she wouldn't still be there in real life, and the show tries to keep to realism as much as it can.

she would not still be in the ER as a med student. it would've been SO much easier for the writers to say "oh, javadi is on another rotation right now, she's not in s3 but will be back in s4 after graduation", and it also would've made sense to not see her. that's how it is.

INSTEAD, the writers went out of their way to write her with a storyline that will bring her back to the ER and still give her a role since they know how loved she is and like writing her. now, we'll get to know MORE about who javadi is and her passion for psych, AND we'll get a heavier presence of psych in the show as a whole because of it, which is a great thing too!

there is nothing logical to complain about here. the writers have made a decision to advance the storyline of, and keep in the main cast, a character and actress that we all like. be happy about that, narratively they could so easily not have done- insulting and attacking people who are trying to give you this interesting storyline for her rather than writing her off as would make sense for s3 is *insane*.

some of you need to learn how to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, and also need to learn how to enjoy things and not look for a betrayal everywhere you look. let's have some critical thinking, please.

[noah-wyles]

oh! this is exciting!! i'm so glad they're showing her in her new rotation - as much as i'll miss her being so active in ER. she's going to be fantastic at this and i'm looking forward to how they incorporate it into emergency medicine too.

[usernamesarebitches]

Thank you Vanity Fair for this article. As soon as something amazing comes along, people find ways to destroy it. Blaming the actors for their characters and then blaming the writers for making certain decisions (which is in their right to do because it is a FICTIONAL show). Like yall, let the actors be. Leave them alone. You don't get to judge their personal lives and pasts just because you suddenly are in to this show.

Leave the actors alone, leave the writers alone, leave the directors and producers alone. Stop digging into their personal lives. Just let them be.

You don't like their decisions? Dont watch the show anymore.

[thefoxfrompeds]

Full article for the intrested

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[bompeii]

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[natendo-art]

Fem rabbot 💕💕

[agarthanlaboratory]

Text of letter-

Commodore Sir J. Abbot

HMS Pitt

Portsmouth

Jack,

As ever, you spoil me. The latest collection you sent from Montreal replenished my stocks at a crucial time, and the pamphlet on the use of evergreen aneda to treat scurvy proved most enlightening. I am just returned from a trip into the interior to treat survivors of Trelawny Town at Accompong.

Do try your best to retain your moral virtue in between your dashing exploits against the French. I don't intend for you ever to be my very badly-behaved patient again.

Yours in sincerity,

Robby

Text of letter-

Dr. M. Robinavitch

Duke Street Apothecary

Kingston, Jamaica

Rob,

Anticipating the mail packet will get this to you ahead of our arrival - we are ordered to Kingston as the first stop on a cruise to the Pacific, after French privateers. At least three weeks of refreshment before sailing on. Squadron is well-furnished with supplies but not yet, alas, with seasoned men. Flagship in particular is lacking an appropriate surgeon, if you can believe it, despite my usual protestations to the Admiralty.

You would honor me by taking the berth. If circumstances allow the time I will be glad to stop at the Galapagos for you.

Yours in respect and affection,

J Abbot

Art by me, words by @akathecentimetre

[qedart]

A few people requested a Robby companion piece to the Baby-Jack photo album, so here we are, a sneak peak at Bubbe Robinavitch's photo collection.

(No I did not make myself sad with the notion of Robby's smile fading post-age 8).

[siriaeve]

It was serendipity that Robby saw the flyer. Gloria’s 10 a.m. meeting ran over, so Robby went into the twelfth-floor break room to get a coffee. Bulk-buy instant coffee was fine for the peons in the Pitt, but not for the senior admins, and while Robby waited for the Keurig to do its thing he scanned the message board and spotted a notice for ADAPTIVE AND AMPUTEE SOCCER — Ages 12 and up — Brookline Rec Center. He pulled out his phone, snapped a picture of it, and sent it to Jack.

Since he’d quit the TEMS unit, Jack had been making noises about needing another hobby (“Would we call that a hobby?” Robby had said) and not liking being without something to do (“You’re making the jokes too easy”, Robby had said). Soccer was a hobby. Not that Robby knew much about it, and he didn’t think that he’d ever seen Jack watch a game, but it was worth a shot.

He didn’t get a reply to his message, but a few days later Jack started adding some new entries to the dry erase calendar that lived on the front of their fridge. Every Saturday now said 9 A.M. — SOCCER in the red marker that meant it was one of Jack’s items.

Robby very carefully said nothing about it until after the first training session, and then over dinner just said, “It go okay?”

Jack seemed to think about it for a moment and then shrugged and said, without looking up from his pasta, “Yeah, okay, I think.”

But when Jack invited Robby to attend his first game (“Match, Robby, not game”, Jack said as if he’d known was the offside rule was four weeks ago), it was so clear that it was okay. Clear that Jack had, in fact, found what he’d been looking for: exertion, challenge, brotherhood, and not a firearm in sight. That ratcheted down some little bit of tension that Robby hadn't even known he'd been carrying inside him.

Robby cheered on from the sidelines as Jack chased down the ball with a look of focused exhilaration on his face. The huffs and shouts of the players as they called out to their teammates mingled with the clang and crash of crutches as they jostled for position and vied to be the first to get a goal. He applauded Jack’s goal, and even though Jack’s team drew, when he swung over to Robby on the sidelines afterwards, panting and sweaty, he was grinning just as hard as if they’d won in a landslide.

“Please go shower,” Robby said, wrinkling his nose as Jack slung one arm around him and kissed him hard. “I love you but God almighty.”

“That is the smell of victory,” Jack said.

“You didn’t win!”

“Victory,” Jack said, and his voice was as firm as his kiss.

[doctor-hash]

I'm thinking about Robby. About his pieces of his backstory, specifically, the reveal that Robby’s mother abandoned him when he was eight. For analysis purposes, we could place him in the category of being someone who is considered a ‘kinship adoptee’ (even if not formally) due to being raised by his grandparents. Many adoptees (and foster youth) experience lasting feelings of fears of abandonment well into adulthood (more about the impacts of adoption here; it’s a nuanced topic). This residual trauma can show up in many areas in life. And is apparent in Robby. We know he needs to feel needed. The ER gives him that. His chosen profession is as a doctor, which is a job defined by caring for others and others seeking out that care. If he leaves that ED and comes back to find it in one piece then this confirms his existing fear that he is no longer needed. That he will be forgotten. He says just as much. Robby has a fear of abandonment, both perceived and real. ALSO this explains another reason as to why he's having a hard time trusting others to run the ED without him -- his lack of trust in others. Robby has being handling things on his own mentally and within his work for many years (6 years post COVID and longer if you're talking about his other traumas). He is used to doing it alone. It is scary to reach out to people -- especially when they've let you down in the past (a recent example would be Langdon but could apply to something like his romantic relationships not working out, and obviously his mother leaving him -- his biggest betrayal). This could partially explain why he's a bit upset at Dr Al for dropping her health information on him at the very end of the shift. In his mind this confirms that he cannot trust anyone else to lead the ED. It has to be him.

When he’s with Baby Jane Doe (who's looking good and taking formula well) he talks to her as if he’s talking to his younger self. Telling her that there’s many good things to come. That life is still worth living. The wound of abandonment is still there but there are people who care [about you]. And you will find them. For many adoptees/FFY, it is important to find others with shared experience. This scene was an abandoned person talking to another abandon person (a baby). That is very meaningful.

As for if Robby will take her in… Robby is a looooong way from being healed or even stable and even Noah Wyle said it himself babies (and children by extension) are not life preservers. Children do not exist to fill a hole in an mentally unstable adult.

[doctor-hash]

Also wanted to add that the death of his mentor (and likely father figure) probably (re)triggered his abandonment issues. For people who struggle with that sort of thing, death can be very much a trigger. He doesn't want to be let down and he doesn't want to let others down (he couldn't save Adamson or Jake's girlfriend, or stop Landgon with his addiction).

[oidingus]

I don’t have anything finished but couldn't miss Dr. Carter's birthday, so here’s a quick rough of him presenting an interesting case to his longsuffering favorite resident (because that cat gif i saw on tiktok matches his energy a little too well)😌 🥕 #JohnCarter #PeterBenton #ER

[officialqueer]

Another short Pitt shapeshifter AU post because I am still busy and tired and I am sorry

(and it's stupid too)!

While he's recovering, Robby is in his animal form more often than not (not willingly, it's just harder to stay human with a busted shift reflex) and Jack has to broach the topic of how they're going to get him places for like, physical therapy and stuff, b/c as much as Robby insists, hiding in Jack's pockets/jacket/hoodie/etc is not exactly safe when you factor in stuff like being in crowded places or the potential to accidentally fall or stuff like that.

So, when Robby manages to be human again for a few minutes, Jack brings up that something like a pet carrier might not be a bad idea, and he just gets the most withering, furious look from his partner. They argue until Robby shifts again, and then he's just glaring at Jack with all the fury his tiny hedgehog body can muster.

For the rest of the night, they basically are stuck in a cycle of "Robby shifts to human, argues with Jack, gets cut off when he shifts to hedgehog, spends some time fuming like that, then shifts to human again and picks the fight up where they left off."

(Even though Jack is sleeping on the pullout couch for safety reasons right now, Robby makes it very clear that he would still be banished to there for the night even if they were able to share a bed right now).