marginalia

tommy and billy deserve to find out abt their grandpa's 60 year gay situationship/relationship/divorce. as a treat

making bucky a politician is one of the most insane choices the MCU has ever made but you know what. sure. i'm here for it

fitz: oh dude i’ve got this in the bag. i literally died one time when i was in high school and they had to resurrect me jesus-style and everything. and yeah. i MAY have given some of my traumatic memories to girl-on-a-dragon 🤭 this is gonna be a cakewalk!

And it is both very telling and very interesting that his final straw is Langdon openly mocking his masculinity, the back-handed compliment of stating Whitaker doesn't seem like a gym guy, starting to make what was obviously going to be a crude and inappropriately derisive joke about his sex life. And I don't think Langdon is intending to be as mean spirited or triggering as Whitaker is perceiving it--he has had moments of trying to be a genuinely good teacher to him, being helpful and kind. But still, he has been condescending and patronizing all day, forcing a familiarity and power dynamic to their non-existent relationship that Whitaker is very clearly not okay or comfortable with at all. And exhausted from this shift, stressed about his badge and the shitty old lady and Amy and money, Whitaker has completely lost his ability to swallow it all down. And so for the first time that day, maybe ever, he asserts a firm boundary and stands up for himself.

in the present, she’s managing emotional stress from cutting into children and comforting crying families. she’s managing seizures and the additional physical and mental toll that takes.

she’s managing a coworker who she’s smart enough to realize has internalized issues that he’s taking out on her, and she manages to placate him; make him feel seen by showing him her chart so he knows the ED is in good hands, and saying she respects him. she can do that while still standing up for herself, her students, and her patients.

she’s a mother taking on a very taxing new position where multiple staff members don’t trust her or even want her there.

in the past, she developed a devastating infection and from it lifelong symptoms: recurrent seizures which are likely still somewhat of a mystery to her as they are for many people with neurological disorders. she suffered trauma helping hopeful refugees and injured civilians in the middle of a war (many of which were pregnant women).

and she’s still somehow not only a functioning adult, but a beautiful human being with a happy child, a chief attending position, and the most patient and compassionate personality i’ve ever seen on tv

me: who the fuck wrote this