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Success vs Value
This quote really speaks to me. I mean pretty much all my life I've been pushed to succeed. Failure wasn't an option, with my high-flying father and impeccably dressed mother. Of course, they weren't perfect. Daddy was always off screwing around with one woman or another. I never understood why Bizzy (my mom) didn't just leave him. Both of ( Read more... ) -
TM #184 - Changing the world, and ourselves
Curt: We set out to change the world and ending up... just changing ourselves.
Arthur: What's wrong with that?
Curt: Nothing!... If you don't look at the world.
(Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine)
This attitude is pretty common among surgeons - we want to change lives, we want to come up with a surgery that revolutionizes the way a procedure is performed. ( Read more... ) -
TM #182 - You've just won an award! What would it be and why?
The greatest award would've been to become chief. Sure, maybe I wanted it for the wrong reasons, to give my life meaning, to fill the gaping hole that is and was my personal life. But was anyone else's reason any better? I wanted to win, because I needed to. They wanted to win for the sake of winning, to win some idiotic pissing contest.
I've won a ( Read more... ) -
TM #181 - Describe your perfect day
Perfection is an important thing to strive for, but it's relative. Things that seemed perfect at the time might seem far from it in hindsight.
Idealistically, my perfect day would involve making love with my husband before dawn (I don't have anyone specific in mind). We'd get up our child, a son maybe, and have breakfast in the kitchen. I'd get ( Read more... ) -
DM: June: Five people Addison Montgomery slept with
Title: Five people Addison Montgomery slept with
Prompt Number/Prompt: 024. Five Theme Drabbles
Character/Fandom: Addison Montgomery/Grey's Anatomy
Word Count: 775 (total). 159/153/138/159/161 (they're long drabbles, so sue me)
Rating: NC-17/FRAO
Warning(s): Contains femmeslash (implied) and AU pairings, including RPG canon. Also spoilers for all ( Read more... ) -
TM #180 - Starting Over
If you could completely start your life over from scratch, what would you do differently the second time around (if anything)? Why?
Spoilers for season 3
I don't usually buy into the whole changing the past thing. I have regrets, sure, but there's nothing I can do about them now, and even considering it is likely to lead to a brutal cycle of ( Read more... ) -
DM: 13 Child/Children
Title: The perfect 13 year old
Prompt Number/Prompt: 013. Child/Children
Character/Fandom: Addison Montgomery/Grey's Anatomy
Word Count: 316
Rating: PG-13
Warning(s):
Summary: Addison reminisces on Ellis Grey and her daughter
In med school, Addison had idolised Ellis Grey, who had achieved an air of legend and proved what a woman could acheive if she ( Read more... ) -
theatrical_muse#176 - Scar
He left a card, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush next to a note
That said "use these down to your bones"
And before I knew I had shiny skin and it felt easy being clean like him
I thought "this one knows better than I do"
After Derek left, I let Mark take care of me. He cooked for me, cracked jokes, made me get out of bed and wash, helped me to ( Read more... ) -
TM #175 - Who is your best friend?
Back in New York, my best friend would be Saffy. She's gone through such a hard time in the last year, and I haven't had a chance to talk to her much about all the crazy stuff happening in my life.
Here in Seattle, Richard would have to be the one that understands me best. We're both going through similar things, and there's a deep trust between us ( Read more... ) -
TM #174 - Would you ever kill another human being?
Not intentionally.
It happens in my line of work. People are too old or too sick or too young or too damaged, and we can't save them. Does that make us killers? Not usually. But sometimes we make a bad call, about a drug or a treatment, and we end up feeling guilty, knowing that we've killed someone.
We can't agonise over every patient, or we'd never ( Read more... )