laurel

Just relax have a Dorite

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A breakfast counter. The waitress recommended the biscuits and gravy, and when the plate arrived, I thought something had gone wrong in the kitchen.

I say this with shame. The dish looked like a construction site after rain. Pale mounds. Gray ladle-fall. Speckles I could not identify.

In my land, the eye eats first. A meal is arranged like a garden. This meal was arranged like weather.

"Is it… finished?" I asked, carefully.

"Honey, that's what it looks like."

The man beside me was already eating his. He did not look up. "Just try it."

I am a man who has charged hillsides at dawn. I raised the fork. I tried it.

I must now formally apologize to the biscuits, the gravy, the waitress, the kitchen, and the entire breakfast tradition of the American South.

It was magnificent. Warm. Peppered. The biscuit drank the gravy the way a field drinks rain — THAT is why it is shaped like that, you fool — and every mound I had insulted was a soft fold of comfort that my homeland, in eight hundred years, never once thought to invent.

"Well?" the waitress asked.

"I judged it," I confessed. "By its appearance. I am ashamed."

"Everybody does, hon."

Everybody does. A national dish that forgives you for doubting it. It expects the doubt. It waits for you on the other side of it.

Do not judge the gravy by its face. Judge yourself, for hesitating.

I order it every Saturday now. I no longer see the construction site. I see only the garden.

It was a garden the whole time. The eye must be trained.

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@directedbyayo You need real, actual help lmao she is quite literally still a series regular

[UltraNosk @UltraNosk]

Mulan for Americans

[Bex @handsomegoggins]

About to go to work and have a terrible day 🙃

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@nikicaga ....do people really think the term "Yankee" comes from the baseball team?! Yankee has been used since before the US was even its own country 🤣 "YANKEE DOODLE CAME TO TOWN"??!? Yall think they were playing baseball in the 1760s?!

[kaysi ✨ @Iilithsternin]

people are not crashing out enough rn I am gonna vomit and cry and go on sabbatical this has broken me

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@redrummarts And now has a super hot wife! What a life lol

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@ABODE_IVORY @punishedtoad88 There is truly not a more disgusting place on this planet than a woman's bathroom. One time I walked in and the SMELL was so vile I walked out. No line for the men's and nobody was in so I quickly popped into a stall and yall...night and day lmao.

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@xjoydivision They're literally FRIENDS what is this made up narrative oh my god

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@_celia_bedelia_ I worked with a woman who used to wear white scrubs to work with zero underwear (no bra & panties) or even like an undershirt. I cannot tell you how many times when she bent down to pick up an animal we ALLLLL got a to see a lot of her and ngl it was very uncomfortable

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@geneslovee I HAD THIS EXACT SAME THOUGHT FOR THIS SCENE!!!! Was Robby being abandoned by his mom always a thing bc it very much seems that way to me from his reaction here

[kit 🐾 mel king is a horseshoe crab @peekoloko]

holy shit

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@disaster_sarah He loves to show his skinny bird ankles like a Victorian whore and I am all about it 🤣

[✷° 𝕚𝕤𝕚 °✷ @wxtrbottle]

first thursday without the pitt

[laurel @Mikeliterous]

@canuck_dark @somuchhappenin_ Its bc of the damn NDA yall! During AND outside of work they must all say how much they love Noah otherwise hes gonna write them off clearly!!! /s

[the pitt med student⚕️ @robbys_toupee]

The Pitt Night Shift

[mea 🦵 @kneesantos]

WE ARE THE NIGHT CRAWLERS WE DEAL WITH THE WEIRDEST AND WILDEST BECAUSE WE ARE THE WEIRDEST AND WILDEST OF THEM ALL. #pittspoilers

[daz @MetamateDaz]

You'll have to pry the millennial “lol” at the end of every sentence from my cold dead hands.