#Save Melendez

[ainesse98]

Safe place. ✨💕

[specialagentlokitty]

Melendez x reader - different kind

Part two:

Sighing to yourself, you looked at the doctor who was still sitting next to you.

“You understand that even doing this surgery on me may not work.”

“I know, but we’re going to do everything we can do in order to make it work.”

You slowly nodded your head.

“Why did you came all this way Melendez?”

He took a small breath and sighed softly.

“Because you deserve a fighting chance, just like everybody else.”

“Your boss made you come here.”

Melendez laughed a little bit.

“Nothing is getting past those keen werewolf senses.”

“I can hear when you lie, the heart rate increases.”

Melendez smiled at you, and he went back to overlooking the people who were milling about by their homes.

“Tell me more.”

You glanced at him.

“Shouldn’t you be rushing me into surgery or something?”

“Well, yes. But right now we can sit for a few more minutes. I’m curious about your way of life.”

“It isn’t much different to yours. We prefer our own communities, we aren’t welcome in the cities unless it is medically necessary. Even then most won’t treat us.”

“Because you’re not human?”

You shrugged a little bit.

“Partially, most are scared, don’t trust us. But it’s because they don’t know how to treat us. We heal so fast, even with everything you’ve put into place there is a chance that it could not work.”

“Then we’ll figure something else out.”

You gave a small nod, standing up as three people walked over.

You knelt down, lowering your head a little bit.

“We have come to bless you before your procedure.”

“Thank you, May the man be present? He is intrigued by our ways.”

The three shared a look, and they nodded their head.

“He may, he is willing to save one of us, we can allow him this as a kindness.”

“Thank you.”

You stood up and he followed you.

As you approached the fire, you smiled at your friend who sneered at Melendez who was following you.

“Leave him Liam.”

“He shouldn’t be here.”

“He has permission, you are my second in command, but the elders outrank you. Explain everything to him.”

“Fine.”

You got Melendez to stand next to Liam, and he watched over everything that was happening while your best friend explained it all.

He was the first person outside the pack to witness such an event, and when it was completed the elders turned to him.

“We wish to place a mark of our ancestors on you.”

“Why?”

“You are a healer, we will place the mark of our healers on you. The healers will offer you their guidance and protect our future leader.”

Melendez turned to you, a little lost.

“It’s your choice.”

He looked around at the pack who were watching him.

All of them relying on him to save your life.

Standing up, he walked over and stood in front of the the elders, giving a small nod of his head with a smile.

They took his arm, and rolled up his sleeve, on his upper forearm they drew a cross with charcoal, and two lines underneath it.

“You must leave it on.”

“I will.”

They mumbled something he couldn’t quite understand and stepped back.

With that you were rushed to the hospital and prepped for surgery as fast as they could and he looked at his arm.

He needed to clean it, but he couldn’t go over the mark, he promised he would keep it there.

So he carefully washed around it.

“You need to clean that off.” Andrews said.

“I can’t, it’s part of their tradition. They wouldn’t have allowed me to bring her here if I hadn’t have agreed to this.”

Andrews sighed.

“They’ve signed paperwork agreeing not to sue the hospital.”

“Smart. But still needs washed off.”

“I can’t wash it off, it’s going to be covered.”

Andrews seemed unconvinced and they carried on bickering until Doctor Glassman shut them both down.

They had to set up a meeting and finally Melendez was allowed to carry on with the surgery with the marking.

“We need to closely watch not only her vitals, but her incision sights. The poison needs to be administered extremely carefully, we do have the antidote to it but only enough for for one shot at this.”

Everybody nodded, and Melendez picked up the scalpel.

“Let’s see if we can return this wolf to the wild.”

It was a slow procedure, everything had to be done carefully and to a strict regime.

Even with the poison affecting your body, it was still hard to hold off your healing process, but it was helping.

“It’s messier than we thought.” Melendez said.

“We can create a new one.”

Shaun explained his reasoning behind this and how it could be done.

“We can’t keep her on bypas for too long, we need to do it quickly, but it has to be able to withstand the pressure of her changing.”

They weren’t sure if it was going to work, but it was a solution for your problem, and it would fix your heart.

So that’s what they did, and you were rushed into recovery.

Your father stood over you, eyeing up Shaun.

“There’s something wrong.”

“There isn’t, she’ll be fine and awake soon.”

“No. (Y/N) should have already woken up. A werewolf immune system is stronger than ours. It would have dissolved the anything in her system by now.”

Your father walked over, staring at you.

“Her heart sounds stronger.”

“Her body will need time to adjust to the antidote.” Melendez said.

They kept a close eye on you until you woke up, and did some checks before confirming you were fine, and that you could leave at the end of the week.

“You can’t be changing any time soon.”

You looked at Melendez who was stood near your bed.

“You kept the mark.”

He looked at his now empty arm.

“How did you know?”

“My father told me. Thank you.”

He smiled at you, setting your chart down.

“I know you have a faster healing rate, but I still need you to take it easy, and since it’s hard for you to come to the city I’ll be doing your check up at yours.”

You shook your head.

“It’ll be fine, thank you though.”

You scribbled on some papers he had handed you and handed them back.

“You are a good person.”

With that, you left.

You began preparing for the next part of your healing journey, and it was nothing you could expect a human doctor to help with.

This had to be done by you.

It was something you needed, after another week and a half of bed rest, you received the blessings from the elders and looked at your pack.

“I will return.”

“We believe you will.”

You made your way towards the entrance of the forest and took a deep breath.

“You’ll get yourself killed!”

“You cannot go!” Liam snapped.

You turned around, looking at Melendez.

“This is something I have to do, to determined if I am still worthy in the eyes of our ancestors.”

“It’s a sure way of getting yourself killed, you’ve just undergone heart surgery.”

“And this is why it has to be done now. The trail will last for a week.”

He sighed heavily.

“I can’t let you do this.”

“You have no say now, this is our tradition.” Your father spoke.

Melendez didn’t know what to do, he didn’t want to let you go, it wasn’t safe.

But who was he to stand in the way of centuries of tradition passed down from generations.

He didn’t like the idea, and he didn’t want you to get hurt or injured up there alone.

But by the time he had thought it all over you were gone, and he was left with your pack who were just as worried.

“Werewolves cannot go, there is nothing about humans.” The elders mumbled.

Melendez looked at them, and they have a small nod.

“Follow the trail.”

With that, he rushed after you, phone in hand so he could call in sick so he wouldn’t have to worry about work

[goodwhump-temp]

Shaun Murphey Whump - The Good Doctor

1x01 Burnt Food - Chased by TSA, pinned down, flashbacks to trauma, abusive father, childhood breakdown, flashback to dying brother 1x02 Mount Rushmore - Flashback to dying brother 1x03 Oliver - Brother trauma 1x04 Pipes - Frantic, sweating, obsessive the whole episode, upset, insomnia, anxious, angry outburst, meltdown 1x05 Point Three Percent - Meets brother doppleganger, faced with trauma, visibly upset 1x08 Apple - Held at gunpoint, panicking, in shock, guilt, therapy, avoidance, obsessed with apples 1x10 Sacrifice - Forced to take therapy, panic attack, sweating, withdrawn, sleeps in Janitors closet, makes Melendez worry, confrontation, emotional outburst/meltdown, hits himself multiple times, runs away 1x11 Islands pt. 1 - Talks about trauma, meltdown, throws up/hungover, heartbroken 1x13 Seven Reasons - Heartbroken x2 1x15 Heartfelt - Overwhelmed 1x18 More - Extreme denial, obsessive to the point of insanity, yelled at, emotional, nausea

2x01 Hello - Avoidance, extremely overwhelmed 2x02 Middle Ground - Emotional, heartbroken, emotional confrontation 2x03 36 Hours - Heartbroken 2x04 Tough Titmouse - Punched, bruised, obsessed 2x06 Two-ply or not Two-ply - Yelled at, in shock 2x08 Stories - Obsessed 2x09 Empathy - Overwhelmed 2x10 Quarantine - Obsessed over light, overwhelmed, meltdown 2x11 Quarantine pt. 2 - Overwhelmed, stressed 2x14 Faces - Stoned 2x16 Believe - Anxiety 2x17 Breakdown - Breakdown, extremely angry, fired, rightfully upset 2x18 Trampoline - Beaten up, punched and kicked, severely bruised, hiding injuries, coughing blood, sweating, emotional, collapse, hospitalized, incubated

3x01 Disaster - Complicating stress of a date, upset 3x05 First Case, Second Base - Emotional, meltdown during surgery 3x10 Friends and Family - Parents reunion, panic attack, brothers grave, traumatic memories, brothers funeral, emotional pain, angry outburst towards father, hurt by father again, guilted, verbally abused, meltdown, sobbing 3x11 Fractured - Fear of abandonment, emotional pain 3x14 Influence - Painful brain freeze, embarassed by patient, issues with fame, love triangle 3x15 Unsaid - Manipulated, broken up with, cries 3x16 Autopsy - Avoidance, emotional outburst, imprisoned, complex emotions, confesses love, heartbroken, cries 3x17 Fixation - Denial, heartbroken 3x18 Heartbroken - Depressed, heartbreaking/emotional outburst towards Lea, growing hatred 3x19 Hurt - Earthquake, desperate to find Lea, hallucinating Steve, heartbroken, aftershock, stuck underground 3x20 I Love You - Trapped in flooding area, aftershock, danger of drowning

4x05 Fault - Blames his ASD on patient death 4x16 Dr. Ted - Told his baby will die at birth, scared, told its unsaveable, miscarriage, emotional 4x17 Letting Go - Emotional outburst, bursts into surgery room 4x18 Forgive or Forget - Slips on log, falls, dislocated foot, torn artery, emergency surgery with no anesthesia, intense pain, passes out from blood loss

5x02 Piece of Cake - Overwhelmed from Ethicure changes (scrubs, hand soap/dryers) 5x07 Expired - Operates on baby, finds all supply expired, tries his best to save the baby, meltdown over change, breaks off the wedding, hyperventilating, angry, sobbing 5x08 Rebellion - Emotional about Lea, heartbroken 5x09 Yippee Ki-Yay - Guilt, quits his job 5x12 Dry Spell - Hit in the face 5x14 Potluck - One of the few sane doctors, stressed by Glassmans pace 5x16 The Shaun Show - Nervous from the cameras 5x17 The Lea Show - Panic trying to conform to Lea, emotional with Claire

6x01 Afterparty - Covered in blood, in shock, meltdown during surgery, remembers his brother, panic attack, emotional shutdown from trauma, hallucinates brother, cries 6x03 A Bad Sign - Confronted by Lim 6x04 Shrapnel - Confronted by Glassman, upset 6x05 Growth Opportunities - Relationship strain with Glassman, doubted, upset 6x07 Boys Don't Cry - 1 Year anniversary of their miscarriage, baby patient, sad 6x08 Sorry, Not Sorry - No confidence in the OR, emotionally involved in patient, guilt, emotional pain, emotional confrontation with Lim 6x09 Broken or Not - Scared of pregnancy 6x10 Quiet and Loud - Learns of another possible miscarriage, in denial, desperate, obsessive, scared, emotional 6x16 The Good Lawyer - Humiliated 6x17 A Blip - Worried, scared, emotional/cries with Glassman 6x19 Half Measures - Scared, emotional with Glassman

[masterlistmaker]

Special Agent Lokitty - Criminal Minds Crossover Works

Criminal Minds x Marvel x reader

Complicated, Part 2

Idiots, Part 2

Secret (Hotch x daughter!reader)

Together (Phil Coulson x reader)

Broken souls, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12, Part 13, Part 14, Part 15, Part 16, Part 17, Part 18, Part 19, Part 20, Part 21, Part 22, Part 23, Part 24, Part 25, Part 26, Part 27, Part 28, Part 29, Part 30, Part 31, Final (Hotch x reader)

what should be left in the past

Criminal Minds x Supernatural x reader

Hey Brother, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Final

This world (Spencer Reid x reader)

NCIS x Criminal Minds x reader

Bond (Dinozzo x reader)

Criminal Minds/Sherlock x reader

Spoken for

Criminal Minds/Grey's Anatomy x reader

Surprise (Spencer x reader)

new family, part 2 (Derek Shepherd x daughter!reader)

Criminal minds/Chicago Med x reader

New start (Neil Melendez/Derek Morgan x reader)

Criminal Minds/Twilight x reader

Secrets, Part 2 (Derek x reader)

No matter where (Hotch x reader)

Criminal Minds x Wednesday x reader

the outcasts (hotch daughter!reader)

Criminal Minds/Brooklyn 99 x reader

quality time (hotch x reader)

Criminal Minds/AvatarTLA x reader

save the world for you (hotch x reader)

[akitasimblr]

and round three comes to an end and five of our contestants will leave the challenge. let me remind you that calculations on this round were firstly defined by the difference between the romance level before and after the date with the bachelor; and secondly, in case of tied points, by the level of friendship.

time to say goodbye to journey vatore (@aresember), gloria melendez (@natiesims), klara fay (@nugsims), dru briney (@noeyinthemist) and harvey lynx (@simgrump-main). it was such a roller coaster of funny chaos, but having them in this challenge was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! thank you for sharing your sims with me! let me know if it’s okay to keep them in my save for future use in my legacies 🙂

on other news, how will round four work?

round four will be named: «meeting the 'famous' parents»;

we'll return to the rule of full autonomy and no forced interactions;

we will divide the contestants into 2 households. the bachelor + his parents (leo harper and judith ward) will receive in their house each contestants household for 2 sim-days;

the 2 sim-days will be divided in 2 moments: from 10am - 15pm, group travel to sulani (household 1) or komorebi (household 2); and from 16pm - 23pm in club mode;

club mode means that contestants and bachelor will be in club meeting mode. the club has preference for romantic interactions between its members and has a very flirty vibe too;

polyamorous trait will be given to ALL contestants and the bachelor during this round to avoid jealous drama;

by the end of round four, 3 contestants shall leave;

the calculations will be based on the sum of the friendship and romance levels. the three contestants will less points will abandon the challenge.

[wanderingaroundwithmysoul]

Mun is 20+. No minors.

I'm non-selective. I'm down to RP with anyone, so don't be afraid to drop into my inbox/tag me in stuff! My style can sometimes lean a bit towards the lengthier side, but I don't expect anyone to try and match that.

I don't RP outside of the Resident Evil universe. I'm up for anything within it, though! I enjoy the games, the comics, the novels, etc. alongside the Anderson flicks.

I'm OC & AU friendly. I love to hear about 'em, too, so please share with me!

I multiship, so I'm open to pairing the Rains with various characters. Lemme know if you're interested in shipping.

I like having multiple threads. If you want to start a new thread with me while we already have another going, feel free!

I don't have any exclusives. If you see me already RPing with somebody who has the same muse as you, that doesn't mean that I'm not interested in interacting with you.

You'll find blood, gore, & violence here, so be warned. It appears both in my writing and occasionally in my icons or reblogs.

I don't write smut. My ace ass simply can't <3

Although I also write for the Rain clones, I always default to the OG Rain when replying to asks/tags. So if you'd like to interact with Good or Bad Rain, please specify!

There might be times when I'm slow at replying. I promise I'm not ignoring you. I've just got other stuff going on too, y'know? And on that note, I don't expect fast replies from anyone. Take your time!

Also on @crashandswirl (multi-muse) & @roleplay-evil (starters).

If you have any questions or anything, feel free to ask!

Starter memes || Starter calls || Interest tracker || Tags || Promo

Rain comes from the 2002 film, Resident Evil. Alongside it and various headcanons, my interpretation of her is loosely based on the novelization, Resident Evil: Genesis. (I do have a lot of problems with that book and how she was written in it, though). The clones come from Resident Evil: Retribution and take loose elements from the novelization of the same name.

Name: Rain Melendez Ocampo [extended info sheet/verses here]

Eyes: Dark brown. However, I do occasionally make them partially light blue after infection.

Hair: Dark brown

Pronouns: She/her

Age: Dependent on verse.

In the movieverse, twenty-three at the time of the Hive Incident in 2002.

Also in the movieverse, her late twenties to early thirties in Extinction through to The Final Chapter, which ends in 2012.

In the game verse, her early twenties during the time of the Raccoon City Incident in 1998.

Height: 5'4"/163 cm

Sexual/Romantic orientation: Homosexual/homoromantic

Occupation:

Former LAPD police officer.

Paramilitary commando for the Umbrella Corporation. U.S.S. (Umbrella Security Service).

After Apocalypse, working to screw over her last employer and aid survivors.

In the gamverse, after Raccoon City, a BSAA soldier.

Personality: Rain is tough, intimidating, prideful, and full of tenacity. But beneath that rough exterior is a caring person looking to do good and help others. If sacrificing/putting herself at risk means saving someone, Rain isn't likely to hesitate.

She's fiercely loyal and protective toward friends, none of whom are safe from her ribbing or attempts to rough around.

Often, Rain comes off as crude and/or blunt since she isn't very careful with her words. If she has an opinion, she probably won't refrain from telling you. Vulnerability, however, isn't something that comes easily to her. She tends to simply close herself off with an "I'm fine."

You might find that she has a slight temper... Perhaps more than slight. Most call it hair-trigger. Her anger usually comes and goes in quick bursts.

Rain was heavily infected by the T-virus and received a dose of the antivirus when it should've been far too late. She should've died. Instead, she woke up sometime later in an empty hospital, having been put under quarantine and subject to various tests. She left, unsure of what exactly happened to her.

Name: Rain Melendez - AKA "Bad Rain" [extended info sheet/verses here]

Eyes: Dark brown. There's a faint red haze when her retinal implants are in use.

Hair: Dark brown

Pronouns: She/her

Age: Dependent on the verse.

In the Anderson flicks, in her twenty-three during Retribution, which takes place in 2012.

In the game universe, she'd realistically be alive sometime between the Raccoon City Incident in 1998 and Umbrella's end in 2004, during which she'd be in her early to mid-twenties. She could survive past that, though.

Height: 5'4"/163 cm

Sexual/Romantic orientation: Homosexual/homoromantic

Occupation: Security operative for the Umbrella Corporation. U.S.S. (Umbrella Security Service).

Personality: Rain is programmed to be ruthless, tough, and intimidating. She's cold, blunt, and matter-of-fact, typically to the point of heartlessness. Her care for others is incredibly minimal, and most of her loyalty lies where it was programmed to be.

When she's given orders, Rain follows them without question or hesitation. Vulnerability and weakness are something she very scarcely allows herself to show.

She's stubborn, being somebody who fights until her absolute last breath. There's also a fair amount of cockiness in her.

While not impossible to form a bond with her, it certainly isn't easy. If her programming breaks, she becomes much more like the Rain she was cloned from, but still far less selfless.

Rain is a clone manufactured by the Umbrella Corporation. She was created to protect one of their testing facilities. More specifically, Umbrella Prime, which is located underwater in Kamchatka, Russia.

Name: Rain Ocampo - AKA "Good Rain" [extended info sheet/verses here]

Eyes: Dark brown

Hair: Dark brown

Pronouns: She/her

Age: Dependent on the verse.

In the Anderson flicks, in her twenty-three during Retribution, which takes place in 2012.

In the game universe, she'd realistically be alive sometime between the Raccoon City Incident in 1998 and Umbrella's end in 2004, during which she would be in her early to mid-twenties. She could survive past that, though.

Height: 5'4"/163 cm

Sexual/Romantic orientation: Homosexual/homoromantic

Occupation:

(Programmed to believe she is an) environmental activist.

(Programmed to believe she is a) recycling worker.

In the game universe, after leaving Umbrella Prime, a member of TerrSave.

Personality: First and foremost, Rain is good-natured. She's always looking to do the right thing, help others, and stand up for what she believes in.

Although she prefers non-violence as a solution to problems, when it comes down to the wire, Rain will do what it takes to help somebody in danger. There's definitely a protective side to her. She's a quick learner and brave.

Most people would probably describe her as an ever so slightly awkward, quirky character. Often, she's somebody who will speak without thinking her words through.

Rain is a clone manufactured by the Umbrella Corporation. She was created as a civilian to be placed into a test simulation to demonstrate the capabilities of Umbrella's bioweapons. However, rather than dying like she was meant to, she survived the simulation.

[beardedmrbean]

A grieving New Jersey mom, whose 11-year-old daughter is said to have taken her own life in a school bathroom, is demanding to see security footage to prove the pre-teen was alone at the time. 

Elaina LoAlbo is still waiting to see critical evidence related to her 11-year-old daughter, Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez’s unexpected February death, which investigators have ruled a suicide. 

“Over the last eight weeks they have refused to show me any video tape footage, and several emails in reference to the school about the bullying,” LoAlbo said. 

“I have asked to see the scarf [found in the bathroom], the security tapes and I’ve been locked out of her school [online] account since before she had even passed.”

LoAlbo said she fears someone else could have been in some way involved in her daughter’s death.

Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez, 11, took her own life in February, according to police.Facebook/Layna Marie

“And until I see footage proving otherwise, that will remain in the forefront of my mind,” she added.

“Show me the tapes and prove it to me … If I saw the tapes, 100% it would help me get some kind of closure.” 

LoAlbo admitted the pre-teen’s death came after rounds of vicious bullying from her peers, which had prompted her to write a number of emails requesting help from the school and its counselor, whom Felicia was visting regularly with.

LoAlbo said her daughter, who only turned 11 in December, had been bullied “for many years,” and she has had to personally call another students’ parent to ask them to help the bullying stop.

“They were telling her to ‘unalive’ herself, they called her all kinds of derogatory names, put gum in her hair, stole from her,” she recalled. 

Felicia LoAlbo-Melendez and her mother Elaina.Facebook/Layna Marie

Felicia punched one student who told her to “unalive” herself, LoAlbo said. 

“But even then, there was never any repercussion from the school, no follow up. Nobody called me, nobody talked to me about that incident,” she went on. 

LoAlbo said Felicia was set to be switched to a new class after winter recess to get her away from the bullies, but it never happened.

LoAlbo charged the school had “tried to cover up” her daughter’s bullying in the past, and then tried “to cover everything else up when it comes to the details of her passing.”

According to her mother, Felicia was the victim of constant bullying.Facebook/Layna Marie

She added her husband, Felicia’s father, died in late January just weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Felicia had been undergoing therapy before and after her father’s death, LoAlbo said.  

But LoAlbo said “there were no signs” her daughter was experiencing suicidal thoughts. 

“There was no Google searches or anything referencing self-harm,” she said. “You’re not going to learn to tie a noose without some kind of Google search.”

She said her daughter had never harmed herself in the past.

“A kid doesn’t just doesn’t hang themselves in the bathroom without ever contemplating suicide. That’s just not how these things happen,” she told The Post. 

Felicia and her mother Elaina before she lost her daughter and husband within two months.Facebook/Layna Marie

A student at F.W. Holbein School in Mount Holly, New Jersey, discovered Felicia’s unresponsive body around 1 p.m. February 6, the prosecutor’s office previously said. 

The office described how she had been discovered “after hanging herself in a closed” bathroom stall. She was ultimately rushed to a Philadelphia hospital, but could not be saved. 

Felicia died two days later. That Friday, investigators told her mother “they thought it was suicide and she had a scarf around her neck on the floor,” LoAlbo recounted to The Post. 

The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office determined Felicia had committed suicide and died of “complications from hanging.” 

Elaina says she will get closure if she can see footage proving her daughter was alone when she tragically died

Last week, the prosecutor’s office cited surveillance footage in reporting Felicia “was alone in the restroom when this tragic action occurred.”

Several school and school district officials did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment throughout the day Monday. 

But a spokesperson for the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office told The Post the video would soon be released LoAlbo.

“It was previously communicated that we would accommodate her request to view the school surveillance recording at the appropriate time, but not while the criminal investigation was ongoing,” the spokesperson wrote in a statement.

“The investigation has concluded, and arrangements will be made in the near future for Ms. LoAlbo to be shown the footage.”

If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 1-888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial the 24/7 National Suicide Prevention hotline at 988 or go to SuicidePreventionLifeline.org.

[jinxedshapeshifter]

i might end up making a side blog dedicated to the good doctor

anyway here are a few reasons i love it so much.

yes the autism representation is good. there are some incredibly subtle representations of autism that are represented that aren't brought up even in autism centric spaces much and that fact makes me incredibly happy (for example, i don't see a lot of discussion about shutdowns, but as someone who experiences shutdowns more than meltdowns, seeing an autistic character shutdown because he's overstimulated, then see another character refer to it as "falling apart" made me feel represented because it can feel like you're falling apart, and from the outside, it looks like you're falling apart). like at the very least i feel represented.

i swear to god lea has adhd. shaun and lea give me audhd couple vibes and i love it. at the absolute least, lea is definitely not neurotypical.

the good doctor made me want to pursue a medical career again. not just "oh, something like bioengineering where i'd be working in the medical field would be super fun!!" no. i want to get a bachelor's in biology, go to medical school, and do a residency in either neurology or surgery (possibly something else, i'm not entirely sure yet). if i can get some structure in my life and find a place to live in salt lake city (where they have a university that doubles as a med school and a teaching/research hospital) i can absolutely start the journey to being a doctor at an actual hospital as soon as next fall.

im learning about actual conditions i didnt know about. did you know theres a real congenital deformity of the spinal cord that leads to your spinal cord being split in half at a certain point, leading to what basically results in two functional spinal cords? or that your heart can develop outside the ribcage, and protrude outside the chest? or that just getting a surgery, no matter how sterile the operating room and surgical tools are, can give you sepsis, because cutting you open can leave you vulnerable to bacteria regardless of sterility of the surgical environment due to the bacteria inside your body (risk goes up depending on the surgery; for example, your risk for sepsis goes up if you get surgery on your intestines for obvious reasons)?

theres what i perceive to be a realistic balance between personal experience/empathy and objective medical knowledge when it comes to the doctors in the good doctor. for example, morgan not wanting to fuck up a patient's chances of playing violin in the future, and this resulting in the patient's arm getting amputated. on the other hand, shaun's objectiveness means in that same situation, he was trying to convince morgan to do testing, something she was hesitant to do. i think that experience helped morgan find a middle ground between being empathetic and being practical about what tests and such she needs to do in the future; as melendez tells her, one day, she will kill a patient. all doctors eventually do; mistakes are made, surgical errors are made, signs and symptoms are missed, things get misdiagnosed, and a patient dies. i feel like that's a very grim reality in medicine that people don't like to acknowledge (especially people who practice medicine) and adds some realism to the good doctor that isn't seen much in shows centered around anything medical. it's something i'll have to accept if i do decide to go into medicine. yes, the goal is to save people; but i can't save everyone, and in my career i will almost be guaranteed to make mistakes that result in someone dying. the earlier i can accept that (before residency is best), the better off i'll be as a doctor, no matter what specialty i decide to go into.

most of shaun's colleagues are super accommodating when it comes to shaun's autism. it's just a detail i appreciate. they also figure out what helps him out of meltdowns/shutdowns fairly fast, which is another thing i can appreciate.

[te-intheworld]

@apileofgoodthings11 sent me a message with book asks in it and I'm gonna answer it here.

I've already answered 1 so check that out here.

6. what books have you read in the last month?

So many, Pile, you know this! Why do this to me?! The Doctors Blackwell by Janice P Nimura; This is Our Story by Ashley Elston; Dustborn by Erin Bowman; The Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge; We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu; I Think Our Son Is Gay vol 2-4 by Okura; The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu; Medusa by Jessie Burton; Playing the Palace by Paul Rudnick; Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez; Solo by Kwame Alexander; This Golden State by Marit Weisenberg; Norroway vol 1 and 2 by Cat and Kit Seaton; Hide by Kiersten White; Deadly Class vol 12 by Rick Remender; Vow of Thieves by Mary E Pearson; The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen; A Little Bit Country by Brian D Kennedy; Less by Andrew Sean Greer; Even Though I Knew the End by Cl Polk; Onion Skin by Edgar Camacho; Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse by Susan Vaught (autistic MC!); A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson; The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

15. recommend and review a book.

From the above list because they are the freshest in my mind, I'd highly recommend Me and Sam-Sam Handle the Apocalypse and The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys. Despite the title, Me and Sam isn't about the apocalypse but an event that feels like this, hyperbolically, to the main character. But we see an autistic girl make a friend, stand up to her bullies, save a bunch of people, show empathy for others, and be happily autistic. Truly amazing! It is a middle reader, so not for everyone, but I greatly enjoyed it. The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys is about Spain under Franco's regime. It starts in the 1950s where we meet all of our characters in their late teens, early twenties and we see their lives unfold and twine together. Then in 1975 after Franco dies, they come back together in a surprising way. I cried so hard through the last part of the book, but it was well written, the characters are so strong and I rooted for all of them.

19. most disliked popular books?

Hmm, well I usually avoid reading popular books to avoid this. For example, I'm currently not reading Where the Crawdads Sings or any Colleen Hoover because everyone is blowing up about them and I can't trust the opinions of such a large swath of the population.

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Verdugo's go-ahead single and acrobatic catch lift Yankees over Royals 6-5 in ALDS opener

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Verdugo hit a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning and saved at least one run with a sliding catch along the left-field line, boosting the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Saturday night in their AL Division Series opener. New York’s Gleyber Torres and Kansas City’s MJ Melendez hit two-run homers in a back-and-forth game in which the Royals wasted leads…

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Verdugo's go-ahead single and acrobatic catch lift Yankees over Royals 6-5 in ALDS opener

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Verdugo hit a tiebreaking single in the seventh inning and saved at least one run with a sliding catch along the left-field line, boosting the New York Yankees over the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Saturday night in their AL Division Series opener. New York’s Gleyber Torres and Kansas City’s MJ Melendez hit two-run homers in a back-and-forth game in which the Royals wasted leads…

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Twins Hang On To Take Series!

Royals 6 Twins 7 W-Thielbar (2-1) L-Stratton (2-3) SV-Duran (9)

The Minnesota Twins have played better baseball over the past week and had a chance to take a long series from the Royals today. The Royals struck first in the first when Maikel Garcia led-off with a walk. Two batters later, Vinnie Pasquantino crushed a Chris Paddack fastball out to right for a two-run home run. This put Kansas City up by two before Minnesota grabbed a bat. The Royals added on in the third when Maikel Garcia led-off with a single and Bobby Witt Jr. doubled him home. The Kansas City lead continued to grow in the fourth when MJ Melendez belted a Chris Paddack fastball out to right for a solo homer. This put the Royals up by four and the Twins would solve Daniel Lynch in the bottom of the fourth. Carlos Correa reached on an infield single and Ryan Jeffers smacked a Daniel Lynch change-up out to left for a two-run homer. This cut the Twins deficit to two after four frames. Ryan Jeffers was at it again in the fifth when he blasted a Daniel Lynch offering into the bullpens for a solo home run. The Twins had one more rally left in them in the sixth as Willi Castro reached on an infield single and Max Kepler knocked him in with a base hit to right. Carlos Santana and Manny Margot walked to prolong the inning. Carlos Correa then delivered a bases clearing triple to right to put the Twins up 7-4 after six frames. The Twins bullpen was holding up until the ninth when Jhoan Duran entered the game. Adam Frazier drew a walk and Kyle Isbel reached on a throwing error by Jhoan Duran. Bobby Witt Jr. plated a pair with a single to left and Kansas City pulled within a run. Vinnie Pasquantino hit a comeback to the mound to end the game and the Twins took three of four from the Royals this week.

-Final Thoughts- Chris Paddack got roughed up a bit, but gave the team some length. He went 5 2/3 innings and allowed four runs on five hits with two walks and four strikeouts. Caleb Thielbar got out of the sixth, Jorge Alcala struck out two in the seventh, and Griffin Jax fanned two in the eighth. Jhoan Duran ran into a bit of trouble with two unearned runs allowed in the ninth. He did eventually get the save though. Ryan Jeffers and Willi Castro led the way with two hits on the day. The Twins hit 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left six men on base. The team heads out on a nine-game, three-city road trip this weekend. They will head down to Houston to play the Astros. Pablo Lopez will face Ronel Blanco in the series opener tomorrow night.

-Chris Kreibich-

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

HWU

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'Jesus: Origins' isn't super but has a hero's heart: Review - Orlando Sentinel

Christianity tells us that Jesus Christ has a dual nature: He’s God, but he’s also man. Orlando playwright Michael Knight’s “Jesus: Origins,” onstage in a New Generation Theatrical production, has its own duality: It wants to be irreverent (and at times it is) but is also curiously respectful to the central teachings of Christianity. That means much like Jesus’ inner struggles, the play sometimes feels as though it’s fighting with itself over which direction to take. Knight’s idea was to present the story of Jesus in the vein of a superhero origin tale, and the best parts of his comedy are the references to all the tropes such comic and movie stories entail. Jesus faces every budding superhero’s crisis of conscience: “I can’t save the whole world,” laments the young man Christians call the savior of the world. A movie-montage-inspired sequence of Jesus comically learning about his divine power is incongruously set to a live performance of the meditative hymn “Mary, Did You Know?” Knight makes good use of what we are told about Jesus’ life in the Bible — and even better use of the good book’s large gap in Jesus’ formative years. One big cheat: The sword-fighting tacitly approved by Jesus. The stage combat livens things up, but the Bible is clear that even when being arrested at the end of his life, Jesus told his followers to put away their swords. If we are meant to think that Jesus matured into that belief, there’s no foreshadowing of that in the play. But Knight does pepper his script with other foreshadowings, sometimes highly effective, sometimes with an overreliance on cringey references to the Crucifixion in the vein of Seth MacFarlane’s adult cartoons. (This is also reflected in the specialty cocktails on offer, which include a gin and elderflower liqueur concoction called the “Nailed It.”) In one early scene, Jesus’ best friend comments on his obsession with sheep — which frequently feature in the Bible’s parables. “I don’t know whether to call you a carpenter or shepherd,” she says. “Thinking of changing professions?” Knight, who also directed, has a shrewd opening: The king — a descendant of Herod the Great, who ordered the Slaughter of the Innocents at the time of Jesus’ birth — has learned about the new Messiah from his father’s notes. He and his henchwoman set out to find him and destroy him, creating the perfect superhero arch-nemesis. The cast is game. Alexander Mrazek can go from imperious to petulant brat in a nanosecond as the evil king, Hannah McGinley Lemasters and Robie Phillips create a loving couple in Mary and Joseph — a loving couple straight from Queens. You know it’s just a matter of time until Mary squawks to her son, whom she refers to as her “little bubbeleh”: “What, were you born in a barn?” Meghan Mitchell and Deanna Quintero are entertaining as Jesus’ BFF — a foreshadowing of his friendship with Mary Magdalene — and the king’s conflicted adviser, respectively. And Josh Melendez beautifully radiates goodness and kindness and, yes, grace as Jesus. The play is too long for its conceit, and the pacing gets thrown off when Knight gets distracted by philosophy instead of hurtling from action scene to action scene like the best superhero movies. Still, as it plays out on its cross-shaped stage, like “Godspell” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” before, “Jesus: Origins” succeeds in one important way. It shows these Biblical characters as humans — with hopes and fears, dreams and goals. “Jesus: Origins” never quite soars like the best superhero yarns, but its ultimate message of hope would be right at home in an episode of “Superman & Lois” — or a Sunday sermon. ‘Jesus: Origins’ Length: 2:10, including intermission Where: The Abbey, 100 S. Eola Drive in Orlando When: Through April 23 Cost: $15 and up Info: newgentheatrical.org Follow me at facebook.com/matthew.j.palm or email me at mpalm@orlandosentinel.com. Want more theater and arts news and reviews? Go to orlandosentinel.com/arts. Sign up for email newsletters Copyright © 2023 Orlando Sentinel source Read the full article

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Yesterday, former president Trump took to his Truth Social media platform to announce that he would be making “a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” today. Since he recently threw his hat in the ring for president in 2024, there was a great deal of speculation about what political move this would be.

When it came today, it turned out that his announcement was for digital trading cards with images of him as a superhero…available for $99 apiece. Radio personality John Melendez promptly called them “Broke’mon cards.”

Ron Filipkowski, a former federal prosecutor and Republican who now monitors right-wing extremism, tweeted: “All I can say is that those of us who have lost friends, fought with relatives, resigned positions, been called traitor, left our party, all because we saw very clearly what a con-man, huckster and fraud this man is, have never felt more vindicated.”

The reduction of the former president to a cartoon grifter seems likely to have political repercussions. Right-wing media personality Baked Alaska, who is facing six months in jail after pleading guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing inside a Capitol building for his participation in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, tweeted: “i can’t believe i’m going to jail for an nft salesman,” with a sad face emoji.

Meanwhile, three members of the “Wolverine Watchmen” who hatched a plot to kill police and elected officials and to kidnap Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer in summer 2020 as Trump urged his supporters to “LIBERATE” the state from her coronavirus restrictions were sentenced today to a minimum of 7 to 12 years in prison. Kara Berg of The Detroit News recorded their reactions: "I had a lapse in judgment," said one; "I sincerely regret ever allowing myself to have any affiliation with people who had those kinds of ideas,” said another; "I was caught up highly in the moment,” said a third. Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel noted that, “appropriate consequences for illegal acts are necessary to deter criminal behavior.”

Trump’s political star is fading, leaving the Republican Party without plan or policy: recall that in 2020, for the first time in its history, the party didn’t write a political platform. Instead, it said that if it had written a platform, it “would have undoubtedly unanimously agreed to reassert the Party’s strong support for President Donald Trump and his Administration.” Going forward, they simply resolved “[t]hat the Republican Party has and will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first agenda.”

Now the former president is increasingly toxic. As the party tries to find someone to blame for its poor 2022 showing, some seem to have concluded the party hasn’t been extremist enough. Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel, who remade the party to serve Trump, is now in a fight to keep her position, challenged by a woman who has backed election challenges and worked directly as Trump’s lawyer, rather than coming up from within the party.

The lawmakers Trump helped to usher into Congress are also doubling down on their extremism. In 2022 the Republicans just barely won control of the House—and that with the help of gerrymandered districts—leaving them very little room to argue with each other.

But while leadership in the Senate is determined by the party in power alone, the speakership of the House is voted on by the whole House. This means that with such a small majority, current House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who intends to become House speaker, can lose only a few votes and yet win.

The far-right wing of his conference, some of whom were prominent in the newly released texts to and from Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows as they tried to keep Trump in power despite the will of the voters, have said they will not back McCarthy. He appears to have promised them plum committee assignments, investigations, and even impeachments, but so far, they aren’t budging.

Today, McCarthy put off the choosing of committee leadership slots until after the January 3 election for speaker, which also means the Republican membership of the committees is unclear (in contrast, the Democrats will have made their decisions by next week). This enables McCarthy to use seats as leverage—Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who was stripped of her committee assignments in this Congress, has already said she expects a prime spot on the Committee on Oversight and Reform—but it also means that the House cannot organize to start the upcoming session. It can’t even hire staff.

Republicans who style themselves the “governing wing” of the party are quietly talking about stripping their more extreme members from committees. “From a governing perspective, it’s important that Republicans don’t start January 3 by going face down and not having some clarity as to what we’re going to be able to accomplish,” Representative Steve Womack (R-AR) told Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona of CNN. “We need to be able to hit the ground running and demonstrate to the American people that the trust and confidence they’ve given to us by giving us a majority, albeit slim, was a good decision.”

Indeed. And first on that list is keeping the government funded. Yesterday, the House approved a stopgap funding measure to keep the government operating another week while Congress prepares an omnibus bill to fund — until the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2023. The omnibus bill must be bipartisan to get through the Senate, but House Republican leaders urged Republican members to vote against the short-term measure, saying it was an “attempt to buy additional time for a massive lame-duck spending bill in which House Republicans have had no seat at the negotiating table.” Nine Republicans voted for it nonetheless, but at the very least, it seems that negotiations next year will be difficult.

Meanwhile, over at the White House, President Joe Biden has spent the last three days hosting the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. Both Russia and China have invested heavily in Africa in the past, and Biden, who is trying to weaken Chinese and Russian power around the globe, announced that the U.S. is committed “to expanding and deepening our partnership with African countries, institutions, and people.” This week he announced not only that he backs the African Union’s membership in the G-20, the intergovernmental forum of leading economies, but that the U.S. will invest at least $55 billion in the continent over the next three years. The U.S. hopes to work with African nations on issues of security, health, food security—Somalia is facing drought conditions that will affect food supplies, while the Russian invasion of Ukraine has cut down fertilizer shipments to Africa more generally—climate change, corruption, and so on.

Biden announced that he and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as Dr. Jill Biden, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, and several members of the Cabinet, will travel to the African continent in 2023 to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to African countries and citizens.

But while the White House this week was all about geopolitics and representation, the person who handles the president’s personal Twitter account apparently couldn’t resist poking a little fun at Trump’s news. “I had some MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENTS the last couple of weeks, too…” the account read:

“Inflation’s easing

I just signed the Respect for Marriage Act

We brought Brittney Griner home

Gas prices are lower than a year ago

10,000 new high-paying jobs in Arizona”

If the Democrats are trying to portray themselves as the competent party, the Republicans seem to be trying to give them a leg up.

“Broke’man cards”

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Danny Melendez is from the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union and I got really distracted by the union name. One of those things is not like the others. But he's talking about how the pension and benefits from his union improve his life, and how the Biden/Harris administration has supported unions in the past.

Now we see a video about how many benefits unions offer. I agree, they're pretty awesome! But everyone in this call is already in a union so I'm not sure who it's targeted at.

Fred Redmond from the AFL-CIO talks about the importance of organization and solidarity and the damage the Trump administration did to the labor movement.

Al Herman from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees - I am learning a lot about how many unions are represented by the AFL-CIO - talks some more about how much damage the Trump administration did, and how political organizing flipped Georgia blue in 2020 and 2022.

Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director of National Nurses United, talks about the difference in policy re: pandemic response between the Trump and Biden administrations, the lowering of the price of insulin and other life-saving drugs, and how anti-abortion laws are causing untold damage to both patients and healthcare providers.

First speaker is also from the IBEW WE STAY WINNING

She's speaking about the Biden/Harris administration's push for renewable energy sources and electric vehicles and how it benefits union electrical workers, and the importance of training the next generation of union laborers