I Decided To Cook

My heart, it aches.

Do people care if u get inspired by other polls.... Anyway the red/blue poll I see going around is nice but I found that I associate my friends with all sorts of colors so. here

"[character] is my husband <3" "[character] is my son!!"

ali is a family friend. he's at the dawat. he comes in with a stack of pizza boxes for the kids. he's watching them play hide-and-seek in the house. he opens the door when one of them gets stuck in the pantry. he's smiling as he hands his son off to an auntie. she's gushing over how cute he is. he's at the masjid. you can see him in the corner, plain tasbih in hand. he stays for the khutbah. he talks to the other men outside, wishing them goodbye. he leaves a styrofoam plate filled with cat food out by the fence. he's at your house. he's in the doorway holding an aluminum tray of biryani. it's for iftar. he can't stay for long, he insists. really, he does. he's sorry. the food's from his wife. he warns that it's spicy. when you go to take a bite, it's still warm.

ali abdul + textposts

hands him to you

nothing more i want in the world rn than a looong outsider pov fic of the pitt crew each finding out that santos and whit are best friends. feed that shit to me slowly like grapes i cant stop thinking about them

do we share one mind, anon?

this is my favorite concept ever actually (as if my posts don't make that obvious). i'm going to gnaw on this for the next few hours if you don't mind.

sangwoo worrying over gihun <3

manipulate mansplain malewife

on the pitt and its writing

I actually cannot get over how the pitt is so good at like. trusting its viewers to catch onto things while fully not giving any information at all. I don't know if I explained that correctly. but we literally are not told a single thing unless it's immediately relevant to the story or one of the characters.

we don't learn about mckay's ankle monitor until it goes off, and we never even learn why it's there because it's not immediately relevant to anything going on. we don't learn the details of why langdon needs the pills, only that the pills stem from something that happened to him. abbot's prosthetic is never mentioned until the very end because, shit, dude, he's probably in so much pain after that shift he needed to take it off to relax. nothing is explained because the characters know what they've gone through and they don't feel the need to talk about it, or it's not necessary for them to talk about it. and when we learn about stuff from the environment or the way the characters are acting, like with princess and perlah's friendship and javadi's insistence on being taken seriously and literally everything between collins and robby. it's all storytelling through implication and sometimes it's really obvious (like with javadi) and sometimes it's not (like with langdon) and sometimes it's just really good for setting up character reveals (like with santos).

this show is kind of a masterclass on the perfect balance of showing and telling, and it knows exactly when to use one, the other, or neither. and somehow it works every time???? jesus christ I need the writers team to win everything during the upcoming awards season.

thinking about santaker and sharing things again. i have more thoughts.

santos and whitaker are around the same height. so, theoretically, their clothes decently fit each other.

i have a feeling they won't tell anyone they're roommates straight up. this leads to interesting scenarios.

javadi about to point out santos is wearing whitaker's hoodie and she just starts threatening her like she does to whitaker when she was mad about the chest-tube thing.

whitaker getting a bodily fluid on him again because it's his personal curse now and straight up wearing definitely santos' shirt when he clocks out.

sharing whitaker's airpods while they fight over the music.

sharing food!

frank "santos is trouble" langdon fresh out of rehab wondering why whitaker has gotten so close with her and then he's sitting there in shock as she willingly gives him half a kitkat bar (she's only doing this because he hasn't eaten anything all day).

king pointing out that she saw them leave in the same car yesterday and everyone's like what. when did that happen.

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tags from @doughnuts-5ever