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Expect me to go missing from this site when silverborn comes out because I have yet to figure out a way for me to get it right away once it releases 🥀 If I get spoiled I'm deleting this app

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One must never underestimate an opponent who does not fear death. An enemy who values your death more than their own life is unpredictable - you cannot assume that there is anything they wouldn't dare to do. Risk a blow to distract you, run right into your sword in order to get their own into you, tackle you off a cliff to throw you both into your deaths. An enemy that does not seek to survive is ruthless, they will think in ways so alien to you, that you cannot anticipate what they might do. The best defense you can have is to never make enemies like this.

The same fear and respect should also apply to clowns. They do not fear shame or mockery, they have no honour to lose by becoming laughingstock. A clown will not hesitate to look ridiculous, if tackling you makes you both look stupid. A clown does not fear losing their dignity for as long as they can take yours down with them.

Do not make enemies with clowns.

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Do u think that, because he's been rebuilt so many times he forgets what he looks like? Built after his fathers image, will he forget what his father looks like aswell?

The show treats him like hes "Zane the Robot" not "Zane" who is a robot and he gets re-designed so many times and erases so many memories that like....at what point are you no longer you?

Im still working on his design but I chose Oymyakon (cold af, kinda isolated so Dr.Julien can hide) as his place (or at least the prev ice master) of origin but i have more reserch to do before settleing on my design.

I also gave him sun spots bc i feel like Dr.Julien would of put a lot of time and care to make him look as human as possible so any natural skin conditions will be inspired by him and/or prev ice master :3

Which only hurts more when all of that is gone again and again....

I feel like i fumbled the coloring part but oh well i'll get there one day, i also need to practice hair more lol

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Inspired by this image

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(in a cute skirt, stockings, with a bow in my hair) "I am about to do the sickest backflip you have ever seen"

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i am supposed to have the energy… to do stuff...?

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Enemies to lovers "you grew on me (like a fungus)"

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Switching between these every day

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Thinking about how Zane was basically programmed to be passively suicidal. Like he was built with the intention to help others, right. Like his purpose for existing, his sole motivation is to help others, even when it costs him everything. I mean like, why else do you think he was so willing to die in Rebooted. It wasn't just because he was the only one with a chance at stopping the overlord, because even then a normal person would've hesitated. A normal person might've chosen to run away. It didn't even occur to him to do either of those things. Like- he knew he was going to die and did it anyways without asking questions, because he didn't care if he lived so long as he saved everyone. Like even when it's like doing that whole flashback thing, he's thinking about how he was built to protect everyone.

Idk, the fact he's a sentient robot and his own programming actively works against him fucks me up a bit.

Uh kids show guys.

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6x11: when a reductive gay joke plotline is still queer-coded (or more metatextual queerness in house md)

in its later seasons, house md keeps doing this really funny thing where they play into house and wilson with increasingly low-hanging fruit gay jokes (dw i still laugh lol). but they manage this without sacrificing the 6 seasons' worth of cultivated subtext that permits genuine queer coding above queerbait/2000s gay jokes/etc. 6x11 is one of the best examples of this so far.

so i'm not a musical junkie, and i'm sure this has already been written about to hell and back, but 6x11 prompted me to look more into the song that wilson was singing at the end of the episode.

"one" from the musical a chorus line (also the poster house bought):

"One singular sensation Every little step she takes One thrilling combination Every move that she makes One smile and suddenly nobody else will do You know you'll never be lonely with you-know-who!"

according to genius lyrics, "Despite the lyrics which praise a singular star, the star at whom it’s directed is never shown. The “One” is absent...The star is not even named – only referred to as ‘she’ or ‘You Know Who.’"

there is a "one" in 6x11 - nora, whom both house and wilson stake their claims for dating (which is exceptionally gross & misogynistic of them). but the song/musical choice implies that she was never important enough to be The One in question.

this frame seems self-aware of the potential absence of "The One." the shot gives the impression of symmetry, but it's very uneven. house is reclined back, warping the straight line of the couch, and the boxes on wilson's side are neat and tidied, whereas those on house's side are sparse and thrown about. more importantly, there's that arm rest between house and wilson's seats. if The One (nora) was to sit anywhere, this frame seems to imply that it would be there.

thus, this frame isn't straight.

house seems to be aware of this pseudo-absence, as well. he looks at wilson with a thoughtful, revelatory look on his face:

superficially, he's probably just astounded that wilson is singing the song from a musical he hates so much, but he lets the song continue, nonetheless. here, the episode remembers the genre of the song that wilson is singing - a showtune! and what happens in showtunes/musicals? the singers are spot-lit! the audience watches them perform!

here i'm gonna posit that wilson is a (non-self aware) paul, a chorus line's man character whose revelation that he's gay is both tragic but also drives the plot. house can see this. meta-textually, we see this THROUGH house seeing this.

taken together, this scene's asymmetry, implied spotlight, and awkward arm rest divide offer wilson as the performer in this musical-adjacent exchange, with house as the in-text audience, and us, the real audience, as the outer-textual audience. what a long winded way of saying that wilson is performing comphet here!

and there's another note i want to make on the subject of performance/performativity...

this is from the golden globes official article, "'A Chorus Line' Brought Visibility to Queer Stories in the 70s and 80s'":

"The audience gets to see [Paul, the main character's] valor, which may be an inspiration to those in the audience who face similar challenges."

wilson's proposal to house is complete performance. the entire precedent for the scene is just gay joke after gay joke and wilson's anxiety that this false impression of him will negatively impact his dating life.

when he makes this performance of homosexuality, he's lauded for it. the restaurant urges house to say yes, and everybody claps even before house has given an answer.

also from the article: " The character of Paul delivers a touching monologue about how performing revealed his identity as a gay man."

6x11 inverts this dynamic. the performance in question is that of homosexuality, and wilson is not rewarded for it in the end. he loses The One, as does house, and they go home and watch a hockey game together in yet another intricate ritual (as stated above).

i also think there's something to be said about house enlisting nora's help in bringing the poster for a chorus line up to his apartment.

i'm genuinely hesitant to applaud this show - or any show, really - for subtextual intentionality like this. i have a hard time believing that there was, long ago, a time where tv didn't just capitalize off fandom's tendency to pair up its characters in our internet fanbase/fanfiction age but deliberately queer-coded things. but even silly episodes like this one remind me of that one robert sean leonard quote about house and wilson, that they are the only relationship in the show based completely on choice - the choice to always come back to each other.

all that is to say that i sincerely think these 2 are written in a subversion of gender norms and binary platonic/romantic relationships. for 2000s tv, that's just like lightning in a bottle.

oh and apparently there's a gay character named greg in the musical, too. someone who's more qualified to talk about a chorus line should hijack this post. what the hell are we doing, david shore.

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Cant talk, I'm disturbing JK Rowling

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

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Moodboard about this one girl I really really miss

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Rewatching and literally.

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i have butterflies in my stomach.... the strange part is that i do not recall putting them there.

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Break a leg!!

okay that is just rude... why would you want me to do that!?