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Noah saying trans rights is so important to me 🤍

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Let’s gooo lesbians let’s fucking gooo!!!

a short hurt/comfort langdonmel drabble for everyone beneath the cut. don't think i've got them nailed well enough for ao3 yet so pls enjoy it here instead!

idk i just think they're neat 🩺

ok now that I have time to feel all the 14 episodes, robby was so dead wrong for bringing mckay to meet david. it is not her responsibility and in fact it was his responsibility to make sure david gets the help he needs. people are always so sympathetic towards white boys as if their actions don't have serious consequences. Mckay was right about caring for all those girls and even if David didn't do anything now, he would have sooner or later because he is refusing care and a way to open up. police should have not dragged him so I get his agitation

but but robby forces his mom to sign a petition that forcefully institutionalise david and somehow that's not ruining his life. Anyway mckay did nothing wrong and I hope everybody knows it.

while I’m here:

I think 100% of the dynamic with Walsh and Abbot is that they’re both vets but they’re different branches. He’s like an army medic and she’s like a navy surgeon.

They have built-in respect but also pre-existing beef and completely different approaches to medicine.

"if you like langdon but dislike santos youre a hipocrite" okay but you guys do know that there is an actual difference in their approach to patient care, and that it has been addressed multiple times in the series. you know this right.

not just langdon, but also garcia and walsh can all fall into the competent asshole category- the difference is that santos is not fully competent yet. yes she has good instincts, but instincts are not all that a doctor can rely on and we were literally shown that a patient would have died as a result of her actions if his care had been delayed by just a few minutes. she refuses to consult her attending and senior residents because she assumes that she knows best, despite her lack of experience. the way langdon handled the situation was unacceptable, but that doesnt mean he was wrong to be angry with her. garcia also sees herself in santos, but still reminds her that there is a difference between confidence and arrogance, and that she needs to learn humility while working in an environment with such high risk, and which requires so much trust between coworkers.

she continually makes fun of her fellow junior residents despite repeated polite requests for her to stop, yet blows up at them the second they find out she did something wrong. she takes criticism poorly, shes competitive with people she should be working with, the way she speaks about patients and treatments is sometimes dehumanizing and disrespectful, and she holds a disregard for hospital policy without asking why that policy is in place. she has a strong sense of justice, but it is not always directed in a way that is helpful or appropriate.

again, santos has good insticts and a solid medical knowledge, but it is Literally her first day as a resident; no amount of training will ever be able to compensate for her lack of real world experience. she has the potential to become a really amazing doctor, but first she has to recognize that she is not one yet

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

that link isnt working BUT i did find this which i think is the same book? maybe?

EDIT: wait no they probably werent talking about a picture book for children, maybe they meant this one by William Maley? but i couldnt find any ways to read it for free

ppl who genuinely believe langdon is straight are so foreign to me. he has the look of a man who experimented in college

It was Mel who chose him first...