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French 75s are insane. What the hell. I met friends for brunch today, and for some reason, we all wound up ordering them, andafter one drink, I think I need to fall asleep for the next three hours. This is not a cocktail for eleven in the morning, Jesus Christ.

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God, I hate the way people completely abuse the word "canon". It is the text! That's it! Nothing else! Not interviews, not deleted scenes, not backstory provided by writers. External information can inform the text. But it isn't the text. It doesn't "confirm" a theory or headcanon, nor does it disprove them. It doesn't expand canon. It can even flat out contradict canon – it often does, even, usually because writers have a tendency to be deeply terrible at math, and stuff they say blatantly blows apart timelines.

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The three wildly different tones on the word "really" when Samira claims Whitaker made an excellent catch that saved a life make me laugh every time.

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You know something, I do not believe Samira Mohan has a pet, but if she did, she would keep the name the shelter gave it, and this is how she'd end up with a cat like this one, named Guppy Fish.

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Hundred percent agreed!

Sometimes, people make references to Samira's ethnic background in fics in ways that I know are well-intentioned, but nevertheless make me cringe from how heavy the stereotyping is.

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I agree, the chai thing is annoying, and I think might have been what I read that initially prompted this post in the first place, but the thing is, I'm not prescriptivist about it at all. There are few things that are immediate deal breakers for me, because I think there's a way to make pretty much everything plausible. But I need there to be some thought behind it.

Like, I can believe that she uses some Hindi terms – Hindi is the most prevalent language spoken by Indian immigrants in the US, it's very common for people from non-Hindi speaking communities (myself included!) to have picked up on some of the language from other people in community events or from movies, etc. Maybe her parents lived in, say, Delhi or Mumbai, and so are used to switching around in terms of what terms they use for what. It could be believable! But it's...I don't know. I just need to feel like people are putting thought into the things they write, and it often doesn't feel that way.

Sometimes, people make references to Samira's ethnic background in fics in ways that I know are well-intentioned, but nevertheless make me cringe from how heavy the stereotyping is.

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I have a much longer post about Robby and his major trauma occurring in adulthood in my drafts, but one thing that's interseting to me is really the different associations people have with the fact he lived with his grandmother as a child.

Like, I absolutely get that this could be alluding to familial tragedy and that in fiction in general, such a line often is But I also grew up living with my grandmother, with no such tragedy. Both my parents were alive. I had a very normal, average childhood. But I grew up with my grandmother living in the same home. It's the reason I speak the language of my father's family, but not my mother's – I grew up with my grandmother speaking it to me.

The sense I get of Robby really isn't of a character with huge childhood trauma about his family. Of course, we know very little about him, and this could change, and I'm certainly biased by my own life experiences in this regard, but the way he said "lived with" vs "raised by"...I just don't get the clear sense that he was living with his grandmother for a big dramatic reason.

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Okay, I refuse to believe those deleted scenes are real, not one word of that reads like something the Samira we actually see would say.

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Shout out to that one nurse whose name I forget with the long pretty ponytail, AKA the one person who did not so much as flinch when Samira drilled a hole in that guy's head. She was calmly holding him in place while Santos, Whitaker, and Javadi were all freaking out, which I find kind of hilarious.

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I haven't felt particularly out of place for not experiencing physical attraction since I was in undergrad years ago, but damn, sometimes people in this fandom are so dramatic about their attraction that I have to take a step back and think, damn...a lot of people are really experiencing the world entirely differently than I am, huh.

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The Robby/Samira/Abbot vibes throughout 1x12 are kind of beautiful.

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You know that scene in Angel where Wesley sets his table immaculately before eating a frozen dinner alone? Samira, to me.

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Of all the residents, Samira is the only one I feel confident went into emergency medicine entirely on purpose.

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I have never wanted a pizza more than I do right this second.

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I think Mel/Samira has the potential to be extremely interesting, but for such extremely specific reasons that I think what I'd have to say about it would not appeal to the vast majority of people open to it as a ship.

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Sometimes, I wake up and think, god, I love genfic. Nothing makes me happier than a good gen character study.

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It's been months, but it still trips me up that Mel is short for Melissa and not Melody or Melanie. I cannot justify this at all, but she looks like a Melody to me.