#Kerry/elizabeth

[littleorangecactus]

WIP’s coming soon:

Hello! I have had a list of WIP’s in my notes for close to 2 years that need to be cleared out and published. This is my list of them, if you are interested, please send me an ask and let me know what you think!

Here is a list of all of the ships I have, and a synopsis of what the fic will entail. Everything I post here, I cross post on AO3, same username. I will be doing a linked post for them when they are finished so it’s easier to access. This is list will be multi fandoms, multi media. It’s a little bit of all the things I’m interested in. I know it’s a lot but please bear with me. 

HARRY POTTER

SNARCISSA: Severus is a spy, which we all know, but what if he had help that no one knew about besides Dumbledore? What if one day Narcissa got hurt and had to be taken to the Order headquarters to be healed, leaving everyone to wonder who exactly the second spy is, and why they are there.

SNAPE ANGST: Hagrid comes rushing in to the great hall carrying a body that’s been dropped off at the gates. The woman bears a resemblance to our snarky potions master, but who they believe she is, physically cannot be possible. Who is this woman? And what does this mean for Sev?

SNARRY: Severus and Harry continue to butt heads after the war, Harry having come back for his final year. The more Snape tries to only see Potter in him, the more he realizes that they are two separate people. What is he to do with this new found attraction and knowledge?

SNUPIN: An order meeting turns upside down when Severus storms in the house, covered in blood, with a look in his eyes that no one has seen before. He is in an almost catatonic state after what LV asked Severus for this time, and the Order has never seen this side of him.

PLATONIC SNILY: Set after the end of their friendship. The bullying has only gotten worse. A treasured item from Sev’s mom gets destroyed by the boys and he completely breaks down. Lilly cannot help but come to his aid when she and the entire school witness this act, and the effects it has on Snape afterwards.

PLATONIC SNILY: Lilly is homesick, tired of fighting with Petunia over being a witch. Sev is there to comfort her after getting a rude letter. The Marauders try to be the assholes we all know they are, but Lilly isn’t having it. Cute friendship fic.

SNAPE ANGST: The order is feeling distrustful of Snape, him being late to the current meeting being held doesn’t help his side. When he comes in, he is disheveled and hurt, nothing like they’ve seen before. The Order gets an inside on the punishments DE face, and they cannot look at him the same way again. (Explicit tags for this one, trigger warnings will be posted)

BADASS SEVERUS: Final battle, Snape doesn’t go to meet Voldemort. Instead he hides in the shadows and bides his time. When the battle reaches the school grounds, he comes from the darkness ready to strike. No one is prepared for what he’s about to unleash, nor do they know where his allegiance lies.

SEVERITUS: Lilly and James have passed, leaving little Harry behind. I changed his age so he is around 2-3 here. The Order has taken him from his awful relatives, but they aren’t quite sure what to do with him now. Severus is tasked with being his guardian, which he isn’t at all happy about. Mainly my two fave boys, but there’s wolfstar and some other pairings as well.

SNEGULUS: Marauders era. Regulus and Snape centered, but the others will be here too. The marauders get to see an inside to the snakes they never thought they would get to before. Lilly and Snape are friends, regulus is obsessed with quidditch, Snape loves to piss off Sirius by dating his brother.

SNILY: this is a silly, goofy fic but I love it. Instead of the frog choir preforming, Dumbledore asked for a volunteer to preform at a ceremony for the school. Of course Lilly offers her and Sev to be the entertainment, leading to a lot of revelations. jealous James, Snape is a hormonal mess and can’t say no to his crush.

SNAPE ANGST: Severus is hurt and at the Order hideout, poppy has been called to heal him. The Order members get to see what it’s like going on a DE mission and what he sacrifices every day. Poppy/minerva as Snape’s adoptive parents bc I love my little lesbians. Lots of hurt and comfort.

Bellamione: ABO, omega Hermione, alpha Bellatrix. (I needed to write at least one of these and I have no shame in doing so.) Bellatrix is a professor at the school, with the same personality just a little less crazy. Protective Alpha golden boys, asshole Slytherin bullies. Hermione is the glue for the trio and basically runs their group.

Bellamione: They are both teachers, but completely opposite. The tensions between muggleborn and pureblood is getting ridiculous so Hermione comes up with a group activity to get them to see things from other perspectives. Sharing of cultures, cute lil fic on acceptance.

ER

I just found this show and I am obsessed. The fandom might be dead but I’m not, so buckle up.

Kerry/susan: Dr. Kerry Weaver is new to County general, and no one is enjoying her arrival. Her attitude and structured rules are driving everyone up the walls. Being such a private person, the others don’t get to see a lot into her personal life. That’s all going to change when someone from her past comes to visit and the skeletons in the closet can’t hide much longer.

Kerry/elizabeth: Mark is gone, Sandy is gone. Two broken women with their children remain behind. Can they get past their grievances and help each other, or will the past stop the future from becoming reality.

Kerry/Abby: starts off as a mentor fic, Abby seems like the only person who truly understands Kerry and her behaviors. When they are pushed together by events out of their control, will they allow the sparks to fly, or will one of them run away like they are prone to do?

platonic Kerry and Carter: John Carter is suffering and no one seems to be able to see it. No one except his boss who seems to be watching his every move. Kerry has been in his shoes and knows what he’s going through. Sometimes a little help can go a long way.

[erdaily]

ER 30th Anniversary Celebration Favorite Episode ► All in the Family (1ˢᵗ Place → 21.6%) Lucy's dead, isn't she?

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Mac is a Lesbian and uses she/her pronouns!

[mitsumemustim]

Drag fanart doodles

[a-bold-departure]

More character portraits by Kai Ravelson Madden

[gaygalsworld]

The marching music had no right being this funny

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Canon Sapphic Characters Tournament Round One (Bracket 8)

[onionjulius]

Alright so, ER rewatch is happening, but I'm swamped with work and so I'll have to wait for episode posts. For now, an initial inventory of my remembrance of the main characters/my opinion of them:

Love: Carol Hathaway, Mark Greene, Susan Lewis, Kerry Weaver, Abby Lockhart, Luka Kovač

Really like: John Carter, Doug Ross, Peter Benton, Elizabeth Corday, Lucy Knight, Jing-Mei Chen, Greg Pratt

Like: Jeanie Boulet*, Cleo Finch, Michael Gallant

Unlikeable but not devoid of complexity: Robert Romano, Dave Malucci

I remember your existence: Neela Rasgotra, Anna Del Amico

I don't remember your existence: Sam Taggert, Ray Barnett, Archie Morris, Tony Gates, Simon Brenner, Cate Banfield

*Jeanie's on the cusp between Like and Really like.

I'll be curious to see if my opinions change much watching this show 15-30 years after it initially aired. No doubt there will be cringe "Oh wow that aged poorly" moments, but hopefully also some that hold up well. It'll also be interesting to watch a pre-Prestige TV critical hit post-Prestige TV (and yeah, nostalgic, I'm getting quite nostalgic in my old age). And I'm wondering how my impressions of the characters will hold up in a close watch; I think I'm much more analytical now, and I'm pretty sure my opinions reflect the characters at their best without necessarily accounting for them at their worst. Although maybe that's not a bad thing as long as it's consistent.

More character recollections, some quite spoilery:

Mark's death slew me. It was so protracted too, he was suffering so much and his family was fraying at the seams and I just remember him trying so hard to handle things the best he could with that understated irony of his and just feeling so terribly for him. There was that thing with the guy in the elevator that he just let die, I don't remember what became of that ...

I love so much that Mark is really just Some Guy trying to do his job well while having normal Some Guy things like a wife and kids and basketball breaks. He's smart, decisive, dedicated, compassionate, a good teacher, and truly a deserving leader.

I know that Jeanie had at least one great story, which of course is the HIV story. I'm actually struggling to recall much before that, so that'll be fun.

I just ... I remember having such complex reactions to Kerry, and all these years later that has registered in my memory as love. I love Kerry, warts and all. You could feel so bad for her while simultaneously hate what she was saying or doing, and I do think she learned things over time. She was an outsider, a party pooper, ambitious and career-driven, a disabled lesbian, oil to Doug Ross' water. She was not easy to love, and so I loved her. Also, she was ER Mom. Love you, Mom!

I also loved Kim/Kerry. They felt so real and human and not simply an "issues" story. I find myself not recalling much of her relationship afterward, so looking forward to seeing if it is a worthy follow-up.

I loved Mark/Susan. They were such easy friends, so natural and believable together, so bright and breezy and (mostly) supportive and wonderful. I think they would have made a fine endgame, it was so easy to want good things for each of them, and what an unforgettable, lovely and bittersweet moment when she left Chicago on that train.

For all that though, I liked Mark with Elizabeth. It's true there wasn't the same will-they-won't they (and I remember feeling like her thing with Peter ended rather abruptly) but their domesticity was very sweet and she was a kick-ass character, strong and funny.

Romano was ... Problematic ... but his bond of some sort with Elizabeth was probably the best thing about his character.

I remember feeling that Peter was shafted, but that said he did last 8 years and I remember some good stories with his mother and sister, work vs parenthood, the custody battle, and of course (of course) his evolving dynamic with Carter.

Seriously though. Benton/Carter.

And on the topic of BroTPs: Mark/Doug!

There's something about the two most ambitious characters being Peter, a black man, and Kerry, a woman, that I kinda love.

Upon reflection, it seems to me that at least some of my affinity for Susan and Abby have to do with their family stories--particularly, having to deal with flawed family members, walking the line between loving and enabling, battling the desire to hope because of the need to protect against disappointment. It's ... interesting? ... because I don't have any deadbeat family members or family members who refuse to take responsibility for their illnesses, but something about how they use sarcasm to deal with life resonates with me, even though Susan in my head was a sunny character while Abby was a little black raincloud.

I loved Abby. Abby was a hot mess, a human disaster, a trashfire. Abby was strong, but also a coward. Abby was full of contradictions, Abby mistook self-abnegation for independence, Abby was only happy when it rained. Abby was hard to love, and so I loved her.

There was something about Abby/Luka that I found compulsively watchable. Something probably having to do with being really messed up and dysfunctional and full of maladaptive habits, but nevertheless wanting love like any other human being. There was a brooding intensity and understatedness to them that I remember just eating up. I was an undercover emo kid, what can I say.

That said, there was a phase in which he was truly insufferable (which I know was them taking a page out of the Doug Ross book ... but he isn't Doug Ross, even though he was brought on as a direct replacement). I'm curious if, on my rewatch, it will feel like an organic arc given how sweet, patient, gentlemanly and sensitive I recall him being at the start. Oh tragic little meow meow.

The final scene between Carol and Luka is so etched in my brain. "Because I'm still in love with him. I've been in love with him since I was 23 years old. He's everything to me. I feel complete when I'm with him and I feel empty when we're apart. He's the father of my children, and he's my soulmate." Yes, Doug was a manbaby and yes I was so hurt on Carol's behalf that he left her for Seattle, but really Doug/Carol were the Truth. You bought their connection so thoroughly and George Clooney's chemistry with Juliana Margulies was critical to that.

I remember thinking that Peter/Cleo's chemistry was nothing in particular to write home about (you know, not bad, but not special) ... but hell if they weren't beautiful together. Michael Michelle was just so stunning.

I really thought that they were heading for a lot of yummy Carter-denying-his-feelings-for-med-student-Lucy angst, which I was so there for. But I can't deny that what ended up happening (you know ...) was unforgettable television.

On that note, Carter was never the same after That. There's such a sad lost innocence about his character, given how earnest and caring and even hapless he was at the start. That's not necessarily a bad direction to go, narratively speaking, but one would hope for some eventual hard-won optimism for him all the same.

And yeah, at some point ER became darker and soapier, but I honestly have good memories of a few of those years, before becoming bored.

Like, another scene seared into my brain is Maggie Wyczenski turning on a dime and going postal right in the middle of the ER, screaming "I'm leaving! I'm leaving! I'm leaving! Iiii'm leaving!" and "You're my daughter you bitch!". God did Sally Field earn that Emmy or did she earn that Emmy. I wouldn't want to have missed out on that story, for all that it was such a downer.

Apparently Sam, Ray, Archie, and Tony came on more or less when Neela did, but she's the only one I remember. How'd that happen? Though I can't say I remember her stories, so there is that.

I remember watching with my sophomore year roommate the night that Romano freaking lost his arm to a helicopter. It was crazy. And I really thought it couldn't get any crazier, but then, as you know ...

The look of the show really changed from beginning to end, which, given that it lasted fifteen years, is probably to be expected. But I remember most the constantly moving camera in so many of the medical emergency scenes, and I hope that doesn't go away.

Mark's daughter and Peter's son were impossibly cute. Impossibly cute. So so cute. So so so so so cute.

Speaking of Chicago in the 90s, goddamn do y'all remember how incredible the Bulls were? I don't know why I'm putting that in this post, but I guess I am.

Carter/Jing Mei were such great friends, they never stopped being competitive with each other but they nevertheless grew up together and I love that the show never hooked them up.

I don't recall quite why but I feel like Doug and his dad were reminiscent of Riker and his dad from Star Trek. I don't know.

Okay yeah that's all for now.

[laura-elizabeth-legaspi-weaver]

Kerry and Kim on their “not a date” dinner in Rescue Me 07x07

Kerry: You know what? I'm really very flattered. It's just that I'm, uh... I mean... gosh, you're such a beautiful woman. You're... you're so beautiful. But I'm... I... I'm straight... I mean, I don't... I'm straight. Oh, God. Oh, my God. I don't know... I don't know what's...

[meowmeowgrrrl123]

Guys look I know ER came out in the late 90s but I’ve been watching it with my mom and like. It’s so so good.

I’m in the middle of S10 and like. The thing happened.

How am I supposed to go on knowing my favorite character died a horrible fiery death by the thing he feared the most? And then NO ONE went to his memorial service??

Wtf!!

I looked it up and the actor said that the character had just run its course but like!!!!!!! No!!! I want more!! Please! Why are you so emotionally stunted!!! What happened to you bbg!!! Why were you so mean!!!!

His character was such a jerk and bc of that I don’t think the show runners even wanted to put time and energy into exploring his character further. It just feels like such a disservice to him. Sigh.

I’m sad. I want more of him.

[newpartnerincrime]

It's Lucy.

[maurastierney]

ER POLL TIME! below are the top 10 results from the three previous polls.

(All results below received over 10% of the vote in their respective poll)

[pia-writes-things]

Today was ER's 30th anniversay and I almost missed it ! I had planned to do something for it but life happened so I couldn't but anyway.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite shows, my top 2 comfort show, the one that made me realise I was gay and introduced me to fandom culture. The one that is actually tied to very fond and famous family memories. You will always be famous to me <3

[a-bold-departure]

Final show, final curtain call. 😭

01/08/23

[gaygalsworld]

I feel like no one talks about these photos of Laura Innes and we need too

[sonchus-arvensis]

ER was so good, they had an important lesbian, the guy from fame (1980) and river song