the phantom pool

cunninglinguist on ao3 21+ occasional writer. old man connoisseur. blood & guts enthusiast.

[science-hoes]

Beard so long you can pull on it

[innerchildabortionclinic]

they're saying it's the most thursday it's ever been

[vveissesfleisch]

Music Tag Game 🎶🎸

Rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people 🎶

Tagged by the lovely @shakedownstreet73 (thank you! And full disclosure I did filter out some Sesame Street bangers, but please know they were in there too)

1) Rabid - Mortician

2) Of Wolf & Man - Metallica

3) Sunspots - Nine Inch Nails

4) Blood - Algiers

5) Into Oblivion - Lamb of God

6) Wherever I May Roam - Metallica

7) King’s Harvest - Avatar

8) Asche zu asche - Rammstein

9) Superstition - The Birthday Massacre

10) Krwlng - Linkin Park/Aaron Lewis

No pressure tags - @admirably-abhorrent @oblivionscuttle @ghuletteintraining @chanabunny @wtw3191 @gentlier @freshgratednutmeg @fonulyn @pestbringer @impalachick

[fandomdoestzedakah]

Image Description: a flyer for Fandom Does Tzedakah, a charity fanworks event. It announces: 5 days left until bidding period closes for Fandom Does Tzedakah.

[nowadayz]

ADELINE RUDOLPH as KITANA MORTAL KOMBAT II (2026) dir. Simon McQuoid

[inthetags]

Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

[madamsixx]

M72 Philadelphia.

James looks amazing 👏🏽

[mynorthernattitude]

they should make a sleep that feels like you’ve slept

[plutoflwrs]

what are my doctors doing man!!

okay i had a lot more symbolism in mind compared to how it turned out but that's fine. the idea for this was the thought of robby and abbot only meeting each other fleetingly at work, in the turn overs between the day and night shifts. the flowers used are evening primroses for this reason.

perhaps in the future I'll explore it further; the thought of rabbot being so busy with work and barely having time for each other, but both silently yearning, is running laps around my head. hey these guys should go on a cruise together...

[buddieloustat]

We have lost the meaning of queerbait

[buddieloustat]

Just because what you wanted didn't happen, doesn't mean it's queerbaiting. It is now being used an excuse when the ship you want didn't get together. Queerbaiting has to do with marketing.

[shamebats]

Queerbait: A cookbook that you learned about from ads with pictures of people eating tasty looking soups and the author's social media posts about how soup lovers are going to love it, proves to have no soup recipes.

Not queerbait: A cookbook has no soup recipes. You assumed there would be some based on vibes and wishful thinking. No soups were ever advertised or promised.

Also not queerbait: A cookbook that was advertised as containing soup recipes has soup recipes but not for the types of soups you like.

[lucylehane]

(this scene is why I watch this movie on Valentine's Day every year)

The Birdcage (1996)

[sixft]

[stc019]

Happy Pride Rabbot People! today we celebrate #RabbotRunday and their first pride as married men ☺️💖🏳️‍🌈 (yes I gave Robby my silly pride outfit jfjfgjg sue me!!)

[darthdisasterous]

So because every time I make a Jesse post that gets traction, someone tends to comment on the fact that Ned Brower, the actor that portrays him, is a nurse, I've decided to make this post about the real life medical professionals in the cast of the Pitt.

Partly so more people will know about them but mostly because these are six characters that are seen in a solid majority of episodes, as they are typically in the Trauma rooms, and get next to no recognition since a large part of the fandom could not name these characters if they tried. And that seems wrong since (aside from Ned), they are also part of the Medical Technical Advisors that help nail down the realism of the show.

Ned Brower, RN as Jesse Van Horne

The man, the myth, the legend himself, Ned Brower. Ned is an active nurse at Sollis Health when he's not working on the Pitt. And while most fans of his may know that he was the drummer for the band Rooney and is one half of the band, Bloodwerk (whose name was thought of by one of his medical colleagues if you can't tell), he is also a former EMT with LA County Fire Department.

And really, it's a minor miracle that he's on the Pitt since, when he first heard about it, it was through Joe Sachs, MD, who is a physician at Sollis and a consulting physician for the Pitt. A job Ned did not want, though he suggested his actress wife might be interested (he's married to Sarah Jane Morris, who played Robby's ex and Jake's mom, Janey Malloy). However, when given the chance to audition for a role on the show, Ned did. And clearly nailed it since what was meant to be a 3-4 episode role definitely expanded into a fan favorite.

Tim Van Pelt, RN (Retired) as Tim Sallinger

Tim is a working actor who has appeared in shows like The West Wing and The X-Files and has worked Off-Broadway and in commercials. But when his career slowed, he went back to school at 50 to become a nurse. And what he brings to the Pitt is logistics. He is the man who makes the spreadsheets that map the department, track the patients, their symptoms and treatments. As a former Charge Nurse of UCLA Healther's Santa Monica Hospital, he definitely knows his shit.

Over the nine days it takes to film an episode, Tim is responsible for calculation how much fluid should've drained from the IV and adjusts it accordingly. He figures out who needs crutches or a wheelchair, or if they're in a bed. But also, he advises Katherine on how Dana should respond to certain situations.

Melette Le Blanc-Cabot, PA, as Sophie

Melette is kind of like Ned in that she was an ER nurse that got in to television through a colleague. It's just she did it in 1994 and was part of making the trauma scenes of ER (1994) look more realistic by being of the many actual medical professionals on set. And by the fourth season, she found herself seriously entering the world of medical technical advisor after Noah introduced her to his friend who was producing a commercial at the time, which in time became her advising more seriously.

So it's no real shock that The Pitt EP, Joe Sachs, a former colleague, reached out to her. On The Pitt, she helped train the cast during their two-week medical boot camp by demonstrating essential medical skills like suturing, prepping medications and performing intubations to give a sense of realism, but also found her role expanded from "Medical Technical Advisor" to "actual cast member".

Ambar Martinez, RN as Kim Tate

Ambar is another case where the acting preceded her entering the medical field. Because while she has experience as a nurse, having graduated from nursing school around 2013, worked as an ER nurse and worked as one during Covid, for Ambar acting (and later Medical Advisor) is a primary focus. In fact, when it comes to the Pitt, she first auditioned for the role of a patient. However, when offered the role of a medical advisor helping run the medical boot camps, she took that teaching the cast how to use the equipment, as well as working in the background helping to move patients.

It was only as they headed into episode 4 where she was approached about portraying a new character, Nurse Kim (eventually leading to her having to do a Zoom audition for the character when bigger scenes involving her was planned out).

Jamie Lynn Watkins, RN as Jamie Watkins

While there's not much to be found about Jamie in her own words, it's known that--much like Ned, who works at the same hospital she does--she is an active nurse when not working on other projects. Because, as noted in an interview with Ambar Martinez, Jamie has a long history of working as a Medical Advisor for shows such as 9-1-1 and, of course, the Pitt when she's not playing a nurse on tv shows like St. Denis Medical and the Rookie.

Jordan Farrand, RN as Jordan Prescott

When it comes to Jordan, he's a bit newer to the world of acting despite his established role as an ER nurse. Because of that it's a bit harder to find out about him at this time. However, much like the rest of the actual nurses in the cast, he played his part in coordinating what background actors should be doing during the Pittfest scenes and is an actual on-set reference like the rest of the medical professionals working on the Pitt.

[writerly-muses]

[rhodeys]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.2 …After the Phantoms of Your Former Self

[memories-of-ancients]

Amputation saw with ivory handle, Spain, 17th century

from The Science Museum Group, UK