Gretson AU where Carson is a flight attendant who wanted to see the world and Greta is a business woman that falls for her in one of the flights and keeps showing up in random layovers just to hang out with Carson.
I NEEEEED D’Arcy Carden reading Greta’s letter to Carson. Like fit it somehow next season please. I need it so bad. That would be so powerful.
tumblrs not a blogging or social media or whatever platform. its an aquarium.
and brother, i’m a stingray who wants to be petted
Side Note To Fan Fic Authors
Here’s the thing.
I read a lot of scripts. A lot. From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies. Features and pilots. Specs and treatments.
And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff. It’s more inspired. It’s more compelling. It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt. It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful. It’s smart and thoughtful and good. It’s novel-quality. Better than, sometimes.
Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job. This is what they do on the side. In their spare time. For free.
So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good. You’re good writers and great storytellers. I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do. And because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies. You’re better than that. So be better than that. If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it. You’ve already started.
And you’re more talented than you might think.
“Captain, why is an entire planet being used to hold only two life forms”? “The species confined there is the most savage and destructive of any world. We’ve waited this long to check on them to make sure they died. We’re lucky they’re the last ones”. “Checking status of prisoners Adam and Eve”.
The Captain looked at the reading. Then reached into their coat pocket and produced a flask, taking a long drink.
“Captain?”
“Seven. Billion.”
“What?”
“There are. SEVEN. BILLION. of them. Down there. They’ve spread to every inhabitable continent.”
“But…how? WHY? WHAT?”
“"Um sir, look outside the window, you want to see this.”
Floating outside the window was a human in a primitive space suit, tapping on the glass and waving politely.
The Captain took another drink. “Alright, we back away slowly, we fly back home. We never look back. We never mention this to anyone. Ever.”
As the space ship sped off, the Astronaut sighed dejectedly. “Mission control, we scared off another one. I’m heading back to the station. Over.”
“Roger that. Don’t be discouraged, I’m sure one of them will want to talk. Over.”
“I don’t know, I’m starting to get the feeling they know something we don’t. Over and out.”
‘Humans are the real monsters’ never cottoned with me. We’re the worst in the entirety of the galaxy? Hello, Borg, Cybermen, Daleks, Time lords, Weeping Angels, Klingons, Founders, Hutts, ETC.
I see the modern not as “humans are the real monsters”, but the idea that how would alien life perceive an inventive but easy bored species that is the top of the food chain everywhere they live that doesn’t have tigers.
“So, why exactly are you so afraid of us?”
The captain looked across to the human scientist and drew a deep sigh (well, the scientist assumed it was a sigh, she was still trying to figure out where the mouth was on this guy), “Well, you’re kind enough to put me up while my crew repairs our ship, its not that we’re afraid of you its just…. well, I’m not sure how to put it without coming off as offensive.”
“Is it because of all the war and genocide and stuff?”
The alien stifled a laugh “Are you kidding? We do that shit too. God, I’ll tell you about the Andromeda purges sometimes, you’ll never be able to look up at those stars again.” He cleared his throat “But I digress; no its more that…. you’re an invasive species.”
“What.”
“I mean look at you, in the time you’ve been on this planet you have spread to every single corner of this planet, you are seven billion strong. You live in biomes that should rightly kill you. Temperature doesn’t stop you, lack of available food and water doesn’t stop you, diseases don’t stop you, nothing stops you. You breed faster than any sapient species in this section of the galaxy, you can survive injuries that could kill most creatures or at least leave them unable to function, you can eat almost anything, and your endurance and tolerance for pain is second to none. Basically, if you ever got off this planet, you’d spread everywhere, we’d never get rid of you.”
The scientist considered this. “Huh.”
can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying
reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them
ngl, I'm beginning to take issue with how in conversations about anti-intellectualism almost automatically, the face of girls and women will be slapped on the problem.
“Mean girls all grow up to be nurses!”
“Mean girls all go into social work!”
“The mean girl to teacher pipeline!”
Y’all, these are just pink collar jobs. The reason you think there’s so many “mean girls” in these fields is because they’re all like 97% women. Of course some of them are gonna be assholes. There’s assholes everywhere.
We get it. Your job isn’t like other girls’ jobs. It’s a cool job.
it’s true that there are some incredibly cruel people in all of these professions.
it’s also true that they all suffer from chronic underpayment, overwork, lack of institutional support, and insane bureaucratic demands that would make them fail the people in their care all the time even if every single one was a saint.
That’s absolutely missing the point.
While those are all “helper” professions and they very much are pink collar (and are underpaid, that’s not an incompatible idea), they’re also ones that involve power over vulnerable people’s lives. (And I’ve only encountered it as a comparison to, say, male bullies becoming cops, it’s not like men aren’t being mentioned here.)
Secretaries/administrative assistants aren’t on that list for a reason. Flight attendants aren’t on that list. Housecleaners aren’t on that list. Receptionists. Customer service representatives. Dental hygienists. The people who style hair or do nails. That’s not a list of pink collar jobs. It’s specifically (pink collar) positions where if you want to abuse people you’re relatively likely to get away with it.
It can both be true that “nurses who care for disabled people need better pay” and “nurses who care for disabled people have a lot of opportunities to abuse their power and that’s something worth talking about.”
Women aren’t immune from treating people badly because they’re women, or because women are underpaid. They’re sure not immune from specifically seeking out jobs that will allow them to be cruel without any consequences to them, if they get personal satisfaction out of being cruel.
You are trying to shut down a conversation about abuse.
dead-dyke
Shitty people are attracted to positions of power. That includes working class women!
There have been a lot of studies about hazing and abuse in nursing communities and even murder!
My mother is a nurse, her co-workers sit around laughing about the people who fall out of their wheel chairs, about the nurses who do cry when someone dies, my mother has ignored patients crying out in pain in order to drink her coffee.
My mother has intentionally let elderly patients at her nursing home die. She has abused them and she has laughed about it. She has left people suffering and has caused that suffering.
Nurses are underpaid and they are disrespected as medical professionals who aren’t a doctor. That’s true and we should talk about that, but we can not ignore the fact that violent women seek out these jobs with God Complexes and the intent to do harm.
Sure, that harm might be because they are bitter, over-worked, and disrespected. None the less, it is no different than when a male doctor causes purposeful harm to his patient.
Nurses contribute to eugenics, to patient abuse, elder abuse, and yeah even child abuse (my mother was proficient in all of them!)
Here are some important articles to read:
Nurses Eat Their Young An article about hazing and bullying among nurses. The title comes from a common saying in medical circles, the first time I heard it, it was in reference to my mother’s best friend who had poured coffee over the hands of a new nurse who had reported another nurse to a superior for abusing a patient.
Bullying in Nursing – Why The Hazing is Getting Worse A brief article on forms of hazing.
Nurse hazing: a costly reality
Why do nurses abuse patients? Reflections from South African obstetric services
Patients’ lives being left at mercy of abusive nurses
Every single one of these articles, with exception of the last – which is guardian article – is a professionally published medical article.
And as always, my stance is going to be, “If you can’t do your job without abusing people, quit your job.”