Hi, I'm Cris a demisexual biromantic Scorpio. On this page you can find everything from art history to fandom. I follow Critical Role, The Untamed, Horrible Histories, BBC Ghosts, The Vampire Chronicles, WWDITS, and many more.
I know myself well enough to know I would not be very good at fanbiding and that would mainly frustrate me, so while I love fan binding and admire those who do it, I've never dabbled.
I have never regretted that decision more than I did waking up from the dream I recently had, where I excitedly bought a rare copy of the novel that Goncharov (1973) was based on, opened it up, and found that it was a hollowed out "book safe" for keeping valuables in.
@copperbadge were you looking for the Goncharov novel ?
I tracked down a copy of this invaluable classic and somehow got my hands on a near pristine copy secondhand from the 4th printing. It’s lost the dustjacket, alas, but that means I got it for like £5 and not the £4200 a first edition printing in fine condition goes for.
(Who’s the author? *looks at smudge on spine* uhhhh Mkkhill Montanann)
It looks right at home in my bookcase 🥰
Under the cut: a look inside at what the book holds:
Just kidding.
It holds only the air of regret and disappointment.
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Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?
Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.
I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.
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Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).
Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.
Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.
Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.
Everyone say mean things about him.
Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:
His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid
He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times
He dies and gets resurrected
His wife gets possessed
He fails to save her and she dies in his arms
He dies and gets resurrected again
He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum
He dies and gets resurrected again
His ex gets possessed
He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation
He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped
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absolutely looosssinggg it. i'm so obsessed with movies which portray the woman MC in a highly specific job because the writers clearly think it's like "off-beat" and "quirky" but have no idea how the field works whatsoever.
i decided to try a romcom i somehow missed i the 2000s 'head over heels' and i got 3 and a half minutes in and we're introduced to the lonely MC with bad taste in men as evidenced by her extremely short list of ex boyfriends, including her first boyfriend when she was 11 or something because i guess that's still relevant in her adult life.
so she's resigned herself to never finding love and prefers to ignore men to focus all her energy into her career.
this job is immediately presented as though it's for spinsters with no hope of ever finding a man.
the mc's lesbian bestie (whose first line involves her being scolded for being too sexual in the workplace, but moving on) points out their colleagues as evidence that they're doomed to a romance-less, sexless life if they don't switch up their shared career path. the colleagues are three old women, so-dubbed "the menopause triplets":
these women are presented as if they have no idea what's going on at any given moment. this is 2001, and presumably this is an entry level job requiring low effort and no experience.
then their boss bursts into the room, unceremoniously bumping a large painting into the door jam and walls, announcing that it's a new project for our MC.
our MC is thrilled to see the painting. apparently it's a light in the daily slog at her dreary job for loser women with nothing going on in their lives.
And that job is? Conservator of paintings (specializing in Renaissance) at the New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The painting being handled like an old couch on its way to the curb?
The Bacchanal of the Andrians by Titian.
Her lesbian colleague who is presumably also a a highly trained & skilled curator finds it depressing that the MC is so excited about the painting.
it's a quirk unique to this MC that she cares so much about paintings, in her department at the metropolitan museum of art, where her colleagues find all that art business rather dreary. because we all know that's what conservators in extremely competitive museum positions are like.
I'm not saying there can't be lifelong love in here somewhere but I also just feel like the monogamous heterosexual marriage you're fantasizing about isn't necessarily best represented by the bacchanal. and that's okay. but i do stand by that.
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.
Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.
He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.
She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.
And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.
It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.
But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.
He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.
Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.
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