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i am absolutely vibing with morgan and the hot janitor. those fuckers better be together for at least half a season

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also, side note, when Van has sex, does he feel what he's feeling and what the other person is feeling? because I feel like that could be either really good or really bad

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every new episode of Brilliant Minds reaffirms how good this show is. they had an arc where heightened sexual desires were a symptom of a fatal disease and still managed to be incredibly sex positive. and not in a preachy tiktok buzzword type way but in an actual human way and I just don't think I've ever seen a show handle a story like this with so much care

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If ody3 gets together right now, what do yall think the rest of the show is gonna be about? The show has the possibility to morph into a larger ensemble cast in the future, but right now, Max, Avery, and Tristan are THE main characters. If they get together with no drama, what's the back half of the season even going to be about

Also, it makes sense that it's going to take some time. Avery is already against things like marriage and heteronormativity. And both her partners are male. It makes sense that she's having an easier time accepting and enjoying this.

But Max and Tristan are both still into the whole marriage, house, and kids thing. It will take them more time to adjust to the possibility of it looking a little different. And assuming they both currently identify as straight, they also have to adjust to being in a relationship with another man

Just give it time and let the slow burn slow burn

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If anything, this episode has made me more sure of a throuple. Yes, Max and Tristan don't seem to be into it right now. But Avery very much does. And the show is actually acknowledging this being a possibility beyond just a one-time threesome. I do still think they will keep there backdoors open and I'm not entirely sold on them consistently following through. But this episode does make me sure that, at least for now, they're not going to ignore it or play it off for shits and giggles

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Crying pleading begging you all to go watch Brilliant Minds. It is technically a medical procedural and yet calling it that feels a disservice to the emotional and intense storyline. Doctor Wolf, despite not really playing well with others, cares so much about his patients and not just "curing" them but actually helping them live happy and meaningful lives.

It also centers around a middle-aged gay man who mentions his sexuality multiple times and has a bantery relationship with another doctor who is also explicitly shown to be gay by the third episode.

The interpersonal and character plots aren't just drama for drama's sake, but actual mature and heartfelt issues that are intense but also very adult in nature.

And the characters themselves are all interesting. They all have distinct personalities and quirks and problems. And they each have their time to shine.

Just go watch it please!!!!!

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ima be honest, Avery really pissed me off in this episode. rant under the cut if you want to avoid. tldr: hipaa privacy laws are there for a reason, and a stranger's sexuality label is none of your business.

a. you can't ignore hipaa privacy laws just because you think it's the right thing to do. I don't care if he was cheating on his fiancee, it's none of your business. you're not his friend or her friend, you barely know these people, and it's not your responsibility to solve their relationship problems, or pass judgement on what they do. there's a decent chance you don't know what the real story is. and guess what? you didn't. you were wrong. This one is a real problem for me because it happens so often on tv where someone ignores some kind of law because "it's the right thing", completely misunderstanding the point of that law in the first place. hipaa privacy laws are for the benefit of the patient. in this case, it protected a cheater. but in other cases, it prevents doctors from disclosing embarassing or even dangerous information to strangers. how would you feel if, for example, you confessed you were gay to a therapist, and they told your family without your permission? It's not for you to meddle in someone's relationship, and you're not qualified to give actual couple's counseling. It is not your business.

b. DO NOT ASK A STRANGER THEIR SEXUALITY. This one really really pissed me off because, what are you doing? that is none of your business. first of all, and this one's less important, bi is not the only inclusive label. he could have been pan, fluid, queer, questioning, or even just unlabeled. You cannot assume someone's label based on limited (and, as it turns out, incorrect) information. Second of all, again, it's none of your business. him being whatever sexuality he is, and possibly having had an affair with his groomsman is none of your business beyond what that means for his medical health. it's not your job to figure out what he identified as. and to ask his fiancee? these people are not your friends. they're not your family. they are your patients. to ask a grieving woman about her late fiance's sexuality to satisfy your own personal curiosity is incredibly inapropriate, and a major overstep of boundaries

I swear I love Avery. She's witty and opinionated and a goofball at heart, and I respect that so much. But if you want to be a doctor you need to know what your boundaries are. If I was her patient, and she did something like this, I would immediately request a new doctor, if not sue.

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Urgent please don't skip please without giving this a re-blog.I have full custody of my 8y/o sister that I'm raising. I really need the help.

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Please, spread this for those who might need it right now

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

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Take care of yourself and each other. Please stay safe ♡

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I can’t believe tumblr is sleeping so hard on Doctor Odyssey.

It’s The Love Boat meets Baywatch. The actors don’t know what genre they’re in. The writers have never had or witnessed a conversation with a human being before. There’s very real potential for a throuple. Joshua Jackson did parkour while performing an appendectomy on his fuckbuddy during a hurricane. Truly THE show of all time.

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ughhhh I love wolf and carol so much

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welcome to my blog

Hi, I'm cheese, big fantasy nerd. I don't post regularly, but every so often a thought makes its way from my brain to my keyboard

my main fandoms are 911 (specifically bucktommy), brilliant minds and doctor odyssey rn, but I post about a bunch of stuff. kinda just whatever I think of

leaving anon on for now, but the minute i see something rude or hateful in an ask it's immediately going in the trash. if you don't much like me, well just block and move on, it's what I do.

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got mad and wrote abc another complaint. this one's not as much about bucktommy and about the show's overall problem with commitment, especially in season 8, read under the cut

I wrote a critique the other day specifically about the Bucktommy breakup, but more generally, this show has a huge problem with follow-through. You start interesting and emotional arcs with characters, and then wrap them up in 5 seconds. Season 7 ended with Hen and Karen's life in complete chaos. They were in the midst of a custody battle with a vindictive councilwoman, and separated from their traumatized daughter. We were told in interviews that there would be tension between Hen and Chim over seeing Mara become more and more part of Madney's family. We even got to see a bit of that tension in episode 1. Season 7 also ended with Gerrard at the helm of the 118. This left Buck and the rest having to deal with answering to a boss they hate, and Bobby at a job he hates. We were told that we'd see Buck learning how to deal with answering to Gerrard and being separated from Bobby. There was so much room for growth on Buck's part, as well as an emotional and angsty storyline for Buck and Bobby when Buck realized that Bobby had been planning on leaving without telling him. Maddie and Chimney ended season 7 with a new kid who is not only older than their daughter, but also dealing with the trauma of losing two sets of parents in a short time span. That, along with the afforementioned tension with Hen could have made or a great long-term emotional arc for the whole family. All these arcs had so much potential for long-term emotional storylines, and what happens instead? All of them are solved within the first 4 episodes in an incredibly rushed way. Hen and Karen get Mara back without too much fight, Ortiz is arrested and Gerrard gets a cushy new job (which is its own problem), and Bobby gets back to the 118. There's no payoff, it's all just magically okay. And then the next episode, instead of maybe focusing on Mara's trauma from moving around a bunch and almost losing her second set of parents, all of that is forgotten in favor of giving Denny a completely random near-death experience, which itself is pretty immediately forgotten. Eddie's storyline with losing Christopher and never getting over Shannon is still ongoing, but instead of leaning on the rest of the firefam for support like Ryan Guzman mentioned wanting in multiple interviews, he goes to a priest? Here's a perfect opportunity to lean on Hen, who has experience losing custody of a kid, and Athena, who has experience losing a lover out of the blue with no closure. But does he do that? No. He goes to a stranger for advice who tells him to stop punishing himself when that's not even the root problem. The root problem is that he's never gotten over Shannon and keeps trying to replace her. But we're never going to come back to that, are we? Also, what happened to all the other characters? Harry, May, Sue, Linda, and Ravi, all prime opportunities for fresh and interesting storylines, have just disappeared? Seriously, what happened to Harry? Is he just living on the streets? The reason people latched onto Bucktommy so much is because it was fresh and interesting. Not only was Buck's bisexual awakening so revolutionary, he was finally in a healthy stable relationship. He was finally off the hamster wheel. People love Tommy, not just because he's a great character, but because he's new and different and he opens doors for new stories. We had this new character who had his own untouched backstory, and with Buck in a committed relationship, we can see new arcs for him with his job, as well as dealing with problems that come when you get farther into a relationship. Now Buck has to find someone new and develop a new relationship before any of those doors open again. The point being, 911 has failed to commit to any interesting storyline for longer than 5 seconds. This is true for more than just season 8, but I don't have the time to go through all of them. It's not just bucktommy, though that might have been the last straw for a lot of people, it's everything.

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jfc can you stop being an absolute kill joy in the Ody3 tag, stop bringing bummy into this and let this show be it's own thing. No one can enjoy something happening because the couple you like broke up on a different show? No one needs to be warned by you about anything thing, your not the fandom police. Just let people have fun, it's a fun show, it's not that serious.

i'm not being a killjoy, i'm just telling people to manage their expectations, so they don't get disappointed when network tv does what it does. if you don't like me, block me and move on

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also, to add to my earlier post about ody3, even if they do go through with it being an actual throuple, do not expect this to be great representation. this is the same network and creator that just broke up a healthy mlm relationship in an incredibly biphobic way (I know Ryan Murphy isn't really involved with 911 day-to-day, anymore, but the point still stands). And speaking of Ryan Murphy, this is the guy who wrote Glee. I haven't seen Glee, but I know enough to know even that has iffy representation. Not to mention, there is next to no poly rep on tv right now. I certainly cannot think of any throuples on tv atm (if any of y'all know any, please drop in the notes). The first rep is usually not great because they have nothing else to go on. I don't really follow cast and crew irl, so I have no idea what their deal is, but I would imagine most of them are straight-monogamous. And this is a drama.

There are going to be stereotypes, there are going to be offensive remarks, there are going to be toxic storylines. I'm not saying don't call that out. In fact you should absolutely call that out when it happens, at the very least, it might help someone in the future create better poly rep. But don't hold out hope for this being the greatest poly rep in the world.

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I know everyone is excited about the threesome (I am too), but I feel like we need to slow down a minute before we get our hopes up. The way the dynamics between the three of them have been portrayed since the beginning make me hesitant to believe this is a lasting thing.

Max and Avery are shown to be The Couple. The longing looks, the emotional conversations, the adultness of it all. Everything about them points to them being the show's intended endgame (currently). Meanwhile, Avery and Tristan's relationship has been shown to be a playful friendship, with Tristan having a puppy-love type crush on Avery that is largely unrepciprocated. And though Max and Tristan have been very flirty with each other, there's nothing that points to it being anything other than friendly banter. Neither man has explicitly expressed interest in other men, and in network tv land, charged looks and flirty banter are not indicative of the show's intentions.

Not to mention, the episode at large and the threesome are still mostly focused on Avery and Max. Avery and Max are the ones getting "married." They have their own one-on-one conversation about love and marriage where Avery mentions something Tristan seemingly doesn't know. In the threesome, Avery is looking at Max while Tristan is kissing her, which convinces him to join. And when he does, he starts kissing Avery only. We don't know if he and Tristan even did anything together.

So what does this mean? Well, I think there are two outcomes. Max says that when he had a threesome the other two were all over each other and he was more of a spectator. If we're meant to see this as a metaphor, that would likely make Tristan the outsider given the framework of their relationships. So they can either go the route of saying that, yes, Tristan is an outsider and the two of them only have eyes for each other. Or they show that Tristan is just as important in the relationship. They can even make it an anxiety of his that the three of them have to overcome.

Personally, I think the first scenario is more likely for a few reasons.

First of all, this is network tv. a threesome for drama's sake that doesn't amount to anything is not far out of the realm of possibility.

Second, the show is currently only focusing on Max, Avery, and Tristan, with a minor focus on the captain. Putting all three of them in a relationship with each other closes doors down the road to have individual romances for each of them. And it closes off a large audience that is uncomfortable with a throuple. Were it to be side characters, or a main character and 2 side characters, it would be ignoreable. But with 3 mains, it just becomes the premise of the show, which would likely be a deal breaker for a lot of people.

Third, Tristan has his own love interest. Vivian is not a main character, and she wasn't even in this last episode. But she does exist and is shown to have a reciprocated sexual/romantic interest in Tristan.

Now, it is possible that they really would go through with it. For them to do this so early in the show, it was most likely pitched with the show. It's possible this show was pitched as "doctors on a boat are in a throuple". And having the main characters in a poly relationship would certainly put this show on the map and differentiate it from every other procedural medical drama out there.

the tldr is; they can't ignore this, Ryan Murphy (i think) acknowledged it in an interview, and they've gone through with having a threesome. But remember, threesome does not mean throuple. There are still several backdoors out of this situation, and there's still plenty of time left in the season to backtrack. I'm excited, but i'm also not waiting with baited breath

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? They didnt do anything with Tommy's 'angsty' (weird way to say racist) past. I think they just wanted someone who wasn't a new character so it would feel slightly less abrupt when Buck got into the relationship with him (i don't think it worked but anyway). But he had incredibly little screen time and individual plot (compare him to Taylor, who had her own stuff going on). It was clear to most people he was a plot device for bi Buck and that the relationship wasn't great. People just confused their shipping goggles for what the show was actually saying

Anyway thank let's just thank god LFJ and his qanon movie, lowkey homophobic comments (seriously what was that thing about how he's straight so he can play a masc gay person better then a gay actor shit?) BS has gone

Really hoping the fandom like. Heals a bit. From this

Ooooh goodie my first hate ask. I guess I can say I've finally made it here.

You're right, they didn't do anything with Tommy's past, and that's what enrages me. Tommy is a gay man who was raised by a supposedly homophobic father, moved to the homophobic army, and then to the homophobic firehouse. There's so much room and so much setup for an arc about his family and his upbringing.

I wasn't excited for the possibility of an Abby thing, but I wasn't too disappointed at first because it made sense. Buck cared for, and probably even loved Abby, it makes sense that he would need a second to get over the fact that the man he loves was able to hurt her. And it opened the door to talk about Tommy's life before he came out and accepted himself. But instead of running with that, they decide to just blow the relationship up for a completely different reason.

There relationship was great. Since y'all are such a big fan of facial expressions, I'm surprised you haven't clocked all the lovely ones shared between Buck and Tommy. Tommy was attentive and sweet and flirty and matched Buck's energy at every turn.

the reason Taylor had more screentime was because they were trying to use her to fill the space Kenny and JLH left. and as for Lou's comments, I'm going to need receipts. y'all have been making shit up for months.