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newly discarded abby langdon being furious, petty and rude and mean about mel king – she’s like hello rue, you owe me money :)! and then the first chance she gets to catch mel without frank for once, she’s made her mind up to really give it to her. so when she sees her putting gas in her little volvo at the shell on east liberty, abby pulls in, parks, and marches herself right over. with a relish. she’s like oh hi, little miss homewrecker? :))) lovely morning. hey, you know what i was thinking i might do for my first weekend without the kids i love and adore and cherish and never used to have to spend time away from? i was thinking i might do something fun like, i don’t know, find your last boyfriend, whoever he might be, and fuck him silly. i haven’t figured out the point system yet – and for the record as it stands it’s abby langdon zero, little miss homewrecker two – but i do think it’s extra points if he dumped you. you want to give me a head start and tell me who he is, or should i default to sorting it all out on instagram? and poor deer-in-headlights mel’s tank is only half full at this point, darn it, and she lowkey does guiltily feel like she deserves a little bit of the contempt abby is throwing at her (she’s actually been expecting it honestly), so instead of shrinking into the drivers seat and closing the door the way she wants to, she takes it all nobly on the chin and quietly says, “frank is the only person i ever dated, actually.” and waow, if there isn’t just a ton of shit to unpack there. but really abby care, doesn’t want to think about the implications of all that right now, she’s too busy being pissed and hurt about everything, so she charges on anyway, and just goes, oh god. fine. how about i’ll just find your father on facebook and ruin your parents’ marriage instead. how’s that sound, huh. that’d be poetic justice enough for me, i think. mel’s tank is three-quarters full by now, and she does wince a little as she says, “oh. my dad is dead.” which does give abby pause for one single second, mostly while she tries to figure out if that’s the truth or not, she really doesn’t know this girl, but then mel, still trying to be helpful in the face of an incident so awful, visibly brightens, and offers in earnest, “☝🏻i have a cousin in florida you could try to date...”

“that fandom is so annoying” i hate to break it to you but every fandom is annoying. all of them. if you’re in a fandom you’re annoying. i’m in several fandoms i’m extra annoying. everyone on this website is annoying.

listen to me. this is my final message to you. when you are at your lowest a fictional guy will come to you and when that happens you must start putting them in situations. this is the meaning of life.

no matter how much we talk about “i really don’t want you to leave, either” it’s not enough. are yall hearing my mel??? admit her own desires, needs, and wants to another human???? i can’t think of a time where mel has stood so solid in HER OWN feelings and defended them and voiced them. it was babygirls first time ever being selfish and she used it to convince her man to stay at her side!!! like i’m emo

the great thing about the pitt is that it's a show of infinite nuance where every character has moments in the right and in the wrong and no one is irredeemable but also no one is unassailable. the terrible thing about the pitt is that you have to watch people raised by the bad faith no nuance everything-contains-a-moral-failing social media landscape of the 2020s interact with it and enough of that will make you want to join robby and abbot on the roof

“why are you, as someone in their 30s, still on tumblr” oh so you think you’re gonna be normal when you’re my age? you think you’re gonna be CURED?? you think the witches’ curse will have been lifted by then?? cmon now

(removes the heating pad from my lower back) also baby this is my house???