Patron Saint of Morons

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

ten months of casual fucking and garcia can’t even get trinity to text her back anymore. two weeks of just knowing trinity and baran’s practically got her wifed up already.

two weeks and trinity’s already debating giving up her tenancy lease…whitaker’s practically homeless. ten months and trinity can’t even remember garcia’s address anymore.

she’s not going to steal your girl, yolanda, she’s already been stole.

If I was harmless and small, and easy to hold, you would love me. If I was a worm you could put me in the soft earth and I would be helpless in your care. Of course you could love me, but could you love me if I stung you, bit you, pulled against you, hid and didn't understand you but wasn't harmless or helpless at all?

We build wildlife preserves. Often explicitly for the protection of animals and ecosystems that can and have killed humans.

Whenever a whale gets stranded on a beach, CROWDS show up ad risk getting bludgeoned to death trying to get it back into the water.

Every Zoo has a reptile house full of venomous snakes and a team of humans dedicated to giving them the best quality of life possible.

There are volunteer beekeepers who will travel for miles and miles and hours and hours to relocate an entire hive.

There are people who rehabilitate dangerous dogs and horses

There are people who restore structurally unsound houses

There are people who study the way that fire burns so it can rejoin the ecosystem and not be smothered on sight.

Every day, millions of people get up and devote themselves to things that can and will kill them by their nature. Things they can't touch or show kindness to. Things they can't go near. Things that are wholly incapable of loving them back.

And they do it because they love them.

Everything dangerous, everything poisonous, everything 'useless'- absolutely everything has someone, often many thousands of people, who loves them exactly as they are, without expectation that their affection will be returned.

in this season alone, santos was the first person who checked in on mel and asked her about herself and becca, proceeded to explained mel’s stress over the deposition to dr. al-hashimi because mel was obviously exhausted by talking about it, listened to mel’s advice about using dictation for charting, listened when mel taught her, and held in her overstimulation outburst when mel was talking to her and took it out on whitaker instead. similarly, mel has tried to validate and ease santos’ stress about her R2 year, taught her and helped her in a gentle and non-condescending way (which rarely anyone does with santos), specifically went to santos to gossip about the patient flirting with her, and has tried to be near her and engage with her and be friendly to her in a time when trinity is obviously feeling alone and unloved. they like each-other and they both have made their attempts at connecting and those attempts still matter even if they failed!

i find it sad that fans of mel usually have neutral-negative opinion on santos and fans of santos often have a neutral-negative opinion on mel (if not negative, just total lack of regard) and find it even sadder that these stances have blinded a lot of people to their interactions and developing relationship on screen. (not even mentioning that the reason fans of either feel negatively towards the other is literally because of a man lmfao gag meeeeee)

Yes santos is sarcastic and quippy with mel, but that’s how she is with everyone. if she were to treat mel with baby gloves and not be herself, would that not be infantilizing? i also keep seeing people say like “oh santos is rolling her eyes or making a face at mel speaking” and despite there probably not being a single person in that ED that santos hasn’t made a face at, i do think trinity’s reactions to mel are something more than “oh she’s annoyed/weirded out”. What is noticeably different about their interactions is how when Santos gets defensive and sarcastic or tries to play things off with humor with other people like whitaker or javadi or even frank, those people tense up and get defensive or sarcastic back, and Santos’ defensive shield remains intact. Mel, on the other hand, is impervious to trinity’s sarcasm and defensiveness. she takes Santos seriously and wants to connect with her in a way that freaks Santos out, throws her off her normal defenses, and i think, leaves space for vulnerability to grow. Yes they communicate differently and see the world differently so they bump up against each but they do have similarities! they both have control freak tendencies! they both have big hearts that tend towards caring for others! they both are blunt and say what they mean! they both want a family out of that mess of an ED even if mel is the only one willing to say it out loud.

mel has obviously grown up as an autistic glass child who never got to figure out who she was, figure out what she likes, or really learn much about herself as we were told explicitly this season. who possibly on earth could be a better friend for her than a girl who couldn’t possible be anything other than her truthful authentic self even when it gets her in trouble, causes people to dislike her, and causes strife in her personal relationships? santos obviously has a problem with regulating her emotions, holding anyone (or anyone really) in a positive regard, lacking defensiveness. who is a better friend for her than a girl who is really just excited to be there, who pries the soft side out of the cocky smartass R4, who has carried herself through an extremely hard life but knows how to care for and regulate herself and remain steady in the world?

How Garcia and Santos look at each other

No one has said shit about Samira's pace this season. Meanwhile this season Mel has barely had any patients or really worked on anyone without being distracted by deposition. In fact, Jesse interrupted Mel twice while she was with Becca to tell her she had TWO separate patients that needed her and Mel brushed him off both times. But Robby calls her the best resident and no one is out here saying that Mel needs a different job with a different pace (hmmm I wonder why that is??)

And by the end last season, it was clearly shown by HEATHER'S support that her work with patients was good and taking her time to know them was an asset. That Samira can move just fine during a trauma. And again, I know y'all hate to remember Heather Collins but Heather told Samira that Robby was off and to listen to her gut. Heather told Robby he was riding her too hard.

And as a black woman, I am so tired of people bring up Joyce to ding Samira. Joyce had faced microaggressions if not flat out racism from the moment she was in the ambulance and even at the hospital from Whitaker. Samira making sure to make a black woman comfortable with an invasive procedure because she knew what she had faced getting there is not a crime. Neither Joyce nor her wife seem to have a problem with Samira's care. Hell, she's got the highest patient satisfaction scores in the department and it's very clear why.