Please please please I know we all love Friends and Chandler was our favourite character and Matthew always put a smile on our faces and that’s all amazing but can we please please please talk about this:
“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.
And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.
When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...
but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.
I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”
- Matthew Langford Perry
(August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)
Jalal Merzoug
i’m eating up every single fic where mel doesn’t have an emergency contact and frank ends up becoming hers. now i raise you this:
mel at a solo medical conference trip like 3 or 4 hours away? far but not too far
everything is going well she’s learned a ton and made connections and she even did a bit of sightseeing too?
mel & frank has been texting back and forth the whole weekend. abby has the kids so it’s just him & the goldendoodle
on mel’s last day there she ends up going out for dinner by herself, encouraged by frank alongside trinity, samira, victoria, and dennis. it’s nice. she’s not totally alone, she’s facetiming becca and then facetiming frank (so she can see his dog obviously) and it’s so so nice
but on the ride back to her hotel the weather is shit and she ends up in a wreck with her uber driver
she’s okay!!! nothing major beside a head injury and bruises/scrapes and the driver is fine but when she gets to the hospital they end up trying to persuade mel to. All someone because there was no one on her emergency contact list
mel drags her feet and tries to insist she’s okay but they are even more insistent. mel ends up breaking down and calling frank even though it’s the middle of the night and she knows he’s sleeping
he picks up pretty quickly and mel sort of blurts out she was an accident but she’s okay truly (and she is physically but she’s exhausted and overwhelmed and alone in a new place and her brain just keeps on spinning and spinning and spinning)
he promises to come asap and sure enough, by the time mel wakes up a few hours later still in the ER, frank is there. he drove…all the way over…in the middle of the night…and he’s there in pj bottoms and hoodie and beat up sneakers like he really did just wake up, roll out of bed, and leave
when mel sees him—when she sees how his dark strands are sticking up everywhere and his eyes are panicked, she lets him fuss. let’s him look her over and cradle her cheek and sit on the bed and hug her with the exact right pressure
she doesn’t say anything when the nurse assumes he’s her boyfriend and tells mel (very kindly) to add him to her contacts since he proved he would drop everything to be here
she lets frank drive her back to her hotel and settle her in bed
she lets him—no. no, she pulls back the cover and asks him to lay down with her, that he doesn’t have to force himself to sleep on the fold out couch
and then as they lay there next to each other side by side, mel and frank naturally gravitate toward each other, and then mel is curled up against frank’s side and their legs are tangled and he’s bumping his nose against her own and then—and then mel falls asleep to the feeling of hands gentling through her hair and hot lips whispering sweet words in her ear that mel wishes she could understand but she does have a migraine and she’s so sleepy~
people who leave their phones set to military time are fuckin war criminals how do you look at 16:05 and go wow i can understand that . fucking bootlickers whats next? you gonna go join the army??recruit me?
Strange Bird
Me finishing Agatha All Along: I love women
Me starting Rivals: I love men
“actually the term you’re looking for is pansexual” actually i’m dying right now. i am dying right now before your very eyes and those are the last words i had to read before my soul vacates this plane of existence forever. Are you proud of yourself
santos purposefully pissing langdon off by being touchy with mel.
during the time the langdon was gone, trinity and mel became better friends. actual friends, not just people at work who are friendly (this is an important distinction to mel). they’ve had dinner together, gone out drinking a few times, they text regularly. it’s nice. mel has helped trinity be more forgiving to herself and others while trinity has helped mel stand up for herself. they have little jokes and private smiles.
when langdon gets back, there’s the few weeks of awkward adjustment where mel has to balance her friendships with two people who can’t fucking stand each other. she breaks one day, softly crying because she loves both of them but they keep making her feel bad about it. they realize that they love mel more than they hate each other so they come to a truce.
santos, now that she has this weird frenemies relationship with langdon, can now observe him without seeing him as an evil asshole. she notices that any time she makes mel giggle or when mel grips her arms in excitement, langdon makes that stupid fucking pouting face that he has. it’s like she’s hit a gold mine and makes langdon jealous becomes her favorite pastime.
if mel is charting and discussing the patient with langdon, trinity will lean on the counter next to her and play with the end of her braid “waiting” for her turn. mel starts getting sad over a shared patient so trinity rubs her arm until mel leans against her and trinity locks eyes with langdon. smirking while he fucking fumes.
ohh i’m a sad electronic who’s low battery oh so sad so pathetic u have to charge me you have to plug ur big strong charger into my charging hole you have to plug me in you have to push it deep you have to fill me up with your charge oughh i need your charge inside me you need to charge me
Every morning in my bed I experience 100 lifetimes, become enlightened several times over, climb peaks and descend into valleys, lose all hope and regain it, and devise a breakfast