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So this is a long shot - I accidentally stumbled upon a shop that does in house b&w film development that had shelves of used equipment for sale. It's literally just the 1-2 aisles of equipment and the sales desk. That's it. Nothing more.

It is on the North side and I want to say on one of the E/W streets. I tried googling, but they're all showing fancy pants photo stores. I'm trying to find cheap/affordable darkroom equipment for some free classes I'm going to be teaching.

Thanks in advance & no problem if no one knows, but *fingers crossed*

Hey y’all so i just got back from being in the woods since the beginning of July (hence my absence).

How’s everyone doing? Staying safe from the fires i hope - i had to dodge air quality issues coming home (oh nooooooo i had to stay in the Rockies and at my friend’s lake house while coming back oh boooooooo). But also on that note - please check your meds! I had heat exhaustion because 3 of mine kept me from sweating! (All as needed, thankfully)

How’s your July been?

I’m 27F and live with my dad, brother, SIL, and best friend Ally 26F. These past months we were all watching The Pitt together. Ally is REALLY into the show and the fandom and she has strong opinions. I thought it would be FUN to watch it with her since she likes it, not stressful lol. My dad’s life passion and work is television so he’s always telling us to look at the background, lighting, and other visuals for context bc it’s all part of the story. It can be fun sometimes draining. The Pitt does some camera work that my dad thinks is really funny because it makes things obvious in retrospect.

So we were watching the last episode yesterday and there’s a scene with two of the characters outside watching the fireworks. Dad was like “wait a second, I want to watch that again” and Ally was already annoyed because she does not like the man in the scene bc he’s the antagonist to her favorite character. But we replayed it and dad was giddy talking about the lighting, framing, symbolism, and he said “This is a really well done scene, it almost feels invasive to watch.”

Ally got so upset about this and started saying that he’s reading too much into it and it doesn’t mean anything or it doesn’t mean what he thinks, and she just went on this incredible rant about it. He was really surprised by her reaction and said “I’m talking about what the scene itself is conveying” and “This is not the first scene with them where it feels like you’re entering a bubble and there's a recurring visual pattern” and Ally was like “you people are so weird those two are like brother and sister, you’re delusional” and said that the guy who created the show even said it’s weird and that they’re like siblings. Dad said “You think I’m saying something I’m not, I’m talking about visual storytelling”

I told Ally she needed to calm the fuck down because calling someone who has literally worked in tv for years delusional over talking about a SCENE in a show is crazy work. Ally got super pissed off at me for tleling her to calm down and told me that I don’t get it because people like my dad are ruining the show by overanalyzing it and trying to force something that isn’t there. And that just because my dad loves television doesn’t mean he’s right about what he sees. Mind you my dad doesn’t care about any of the stuff she thinks he’s implying. He looks at it like art and she’s mad about something else entirely.

Anyway I want to know am I the asshole for telling Ally to calm down? Bc I get that SHE feels passionate about it too and she’s allowed to feel that way and act accordingly, it just felt like overkill.

Here are a few details me and many other people have noticed while watching The Pitt that enrage me to no end. (marked as spoiler just in case)

1. Robby not wanting to call the police on David Saunters because “it’s going to ruin his life”, completely disregarding the fact that the kid made a list of girls he wanted to eliminate. And when McKay calls the police on him, Robby gets mad at her. And although he eventually comes around the idea—even apologizes to McKay—as soon as we know that he was not the one to blame for the shooting, Robby is back to his previous stance and tells McKay to “fix the mess she made”—but it was him the one who told a cop to keep an eye on David’s mom because his son had something to do with the shooting, not McKay.
2. Robby blaming Samira for Ogilvie’s mistake because “he’s a student, she’s her superior and should supervise him properly”—but having no problem in having Dr. Garcia blame Javadi (and Robby agreeing with her mother when she scolds her later on) even though she’s also a student, and Whitaker was supervising her.
3. Langdon not being fired for stealing drugs from the hospital but Robby threatening Dr. Al Hashimi to rat her out to the administration if she doesn’t tell them first about her seizures.
4. Having the “ER cowboys” always be right as opposed to the consulting women surgeons who most definitely have equal or more experience (Langdon and Robby with Garcia, Abbott with Walsh) and having the only male surgeon to be relevant (Shark) to be the “scary” one and the one they actually respect.
5. The women in the cast being constantly used as Robby’s punching bags for character development purposes. Not to mention how much he is projecting.
6. As soon as Caleb, the hospital’s psychiatrist, says he feels disrespected by Robby, he apologizes and proceedes to have the conversation with him that he had been wanting to have all day. But when Samira has a panic attack all he does is mock her and tell her to go home because “he doesn’t need the liability”.

These things aren't even half of the many situations people have notices while watching the show. I just compiled a few and put them into a bullet list, but I'm 100% there are more, so if you feel like it, feel free to comment anything else you think is worth mentioning!

It's really upsetting, because I really do like the show. I love medical shows, and the more accurate the better, so this one caught my eye immediately. But it does get overwhelming when the more you watch, the more uncomfortable you feel by the constant misogynistic actions. it just gets to exhausting.

Edit: Didn't expect this post to get so much attention, so let me clear up a couple things:

1. I love the show. Just because I'm pointing out a flaw I notice it has doesn't mean I'm a hater. This is just criticism for the sole purpose of shedding light to some tendencies that may not be seen by everyone.
2. I most certainly do not hate Langdon!! And I do not want him to get fired. I don't know why people came to the conclusion that I did. I love his character and his storyline, but in comparison to Dr. Al Hashimi's it's just unfair. I use his story to make a comparison, that's all. It's relevant for the point I'm trying to make.
3. Many people have argued that just because a character is misogynistic, doesn't mean the whole show is. But when said character isn't written to be misogynistic, that's a different story. And that's what's happening here. So ya'll can argue all you want but the fact of the matter is the writers didn't create Robby as a big sexist prick. But he is. So, what does that tell you about the show.

(ABS-CBN news is a news channel from the Philippines.)

Villanueva had told her agent "no more nurses" because while Filipina nurses can be seen on TV they're always just background characters who don't get screentime or depth and how with Princess and Perlah they are actual characters and their input is taken seriously as the writers don't know what it's like to be Filipina, which is pretty awesome, but also should be the norm.

I love that they let them and Isa bring in the Tagalog when they feel it's appropriate. (Like please who wouldn't be gossiping in their native language.)

They both discuss how excited they were to see Muslim Filipino healthcare worker representation as it hasn't been seen on TV despite there being a large Muslim population in the Philippines and a large number of Muslim Filipino healthcare workers. (Catholicism is the largest religion with iirc ~80% of the population being Catholic and Islam is the second largest religion).

It's really cool to read the comments from lots of Filipinos who are so happy to see themselves represented accurately on screen.

So I'm not a shipper and I am missing a bunch of ship tags and really randomly just made these, so please let us know what post flairs you want to see/we need. Us being me & my co-mod u/onyxmunson23 (who's finding all the sexy lady ships)

We have:

• huckle my robby
• mohabbot(ing) along
• fuckleberry
• our boy whitaker - a top???
• ladies ladies ladies
• that's soooooooo gay 😍
• that's hot 🔥 🔥 🔥
• santo's soft side 👀 🤤
• crashtos

Also I know y'all can make your own user flair, but if you want us to add some or like make "your shit here" in a colour scheme or something let us know.

This article makes some very interesting points, but apparently this is Samira’s fate in Season 3:

“The issue isn't whether The Pitt can justify her exit narratively. I mean, it probably can; the actress is slated to have minimal screen-time in the first few episodes of Season 3 to close her character's story out, which will see her choose a medical department that is not the ER, which she finds too demanding”.

If what the article says is true and she’s really leaving the ER, then they’ve completely wasted a great character and a great story.

The article says it’s because the job is too demanding, but if they’re really talking about Samira Mohan (and the author did not mistake her with Javadi), then the writers and I see this character in completely different ways. Season 1 already proved that she does belong in emergency medicine, that she can do it, and that she has what it takes. The whole point of her arc was that she grew, adapted, and thrived when given the right mentorship and environment.

And it’s not just something the character herself showed on screen. The actress has talked about it, and many of the people who worked with her, including cast members, have described Samira as someone who absolutely belongs there and has the potential to become an excellent ER doctor.

So if this is really the direction they’re taking, then they completely missed what made her journey so compelling in the first place.

Seven of the superb actresses who keep TV’s No. 1 emergency room running weigh in on the highs and lows of Season 2… and penis empathy