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I left my apartment to fly to my parents' yesterday at 3:30pm. I was supposed to get to their house around 9pm. Instead I got there today at 3:50 am 😵‍💫

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been thinking a lot about olivia wilde’s take on camteen.

“after she euthanised her brother, she found solace in the arms of cameron”

so what would that look like?

picture this, thirteen had just done it. she had fulfilled the promise and euthanised her own brother. she’s scared. she’s upset. she needs some sort of support to get her through this.

but its hard to mourn someone whose life you took with ur own hands. despite how merciful and “right” it may have been.

she goes to work for a couple days, but only to hand in her leave of absence and to sort of say goodbye to everyone before she goes. (just so they think she is doing okay.)

she doesn’t even know where she’s going to go, she knows she’s gonna end up doing time but that could be months from then. she doesn’t want to stay by herself, wallowing in her own guilt, but it was beginning to look like it.

she couldn’t go to House, or Chase, or anyone at the hospital for that matter. because as far as they knew, she was in Rome doing a Huntington’s trial.

so she thinks back to Cameron, a woman who she barely knew, despite the fact that they had worked in the same hospital for almost 3 years. word on the street was she was an empath, too big of an empath.

if she was gonna go to anyone, it would have to be someone who cares enough about other people to not hate her for what she did. someone she knew wouldn’t shut her out and tell the world what she had done.

and Cameron seemed the perfect fit.

so she calls on her house, hiding her desperation under the confident facade she had perfected. Cameron was confused at first, she hadn’t expected a visit from anyone at PPTH, let alone Thirteen. a woman she almost knew nothing about.

but she welcomes her in nevertheless. they make small talk about how life is going until Thirteen mentions taking a leave of absence from House’s team. Cameron looks confused, but keeps listening.

Thirteen tells her everything. she tells her about her brother and the Huntington’s, and about how guilty she felt.

Cameron remembered her mistakes with Chase, about how trying to forget what he did eventually caused them to divorce. and despite her not knowing Thirteen very well, Cameron trusts her a lot and wants her to know she cares.

so she offers Thirteen a place to stay, a place she can be away from home and distract herself from what she has done.

they live together for a little while, just until she goes to prison. Cameron offers to pick her up when she gets out, but Thirteen doesn’t want to be any more of a burden than she already felt like she was.

what happens in those 6 months, i think, could vary. my camteen heart likes to think they at least dated for some time, they maybe even had a messy breakup which is why Cameron didn’t pick her up from jail.

but those 6 months meant a lot to Thirteen, even though she never told anyone about it.

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Little does she know the first one already floats around the House fandom (lol)... but oh my god, the second one

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thinking about s2 ep2 autopsy, yes that episode.. bc everyone (esp on tt) keeps boiling it down to “chase kissed a child” like he woke up and chose to for fun. be serious.

the whole episode is about control. andie is nine, terminal, way too aware of what is coming, and she is trying to claw back any agency she can get. she asks for a first kiss bc she thinks she might not live long enough to have one. it is framed as a human ask from a kid who had to grow up fast, not a flirt. chase hesitates, he is uncomfortable, and what actually happens is a brief, not-sexual peck meant to steady a terrified child and honour her dying wish. the scene obviously wants you to sit in the discomfort and argue with yourself about boundaries, consent, and that morally grey area where nothing feels like the right choice.

yet ppl keep rewriting it like he initiated it or wanted to. he did not. it’s clear in the scene he didn’t want to. it is not played for titillation. the episode gives you the counterpoints in real time. then there’s chase’s own constantly reused line in every joke I see, delivered after explaining what happened: “It wasn’t sick. It was one kiss, for a dying girl.” hearing that, cameron literally covers her mouth in shock and foreman turns away holding his head in disgust, which is the show acknowledging how uncomfortable and unethical it is.

and yet somehow this one scene has become the go-to “reason” people throw out when they say they hate chase’s character. “Chase is a pedo” gets tossed around like it is a factual descriptor of his character instead of a bad faith oversimplification of a complex moment.

You don’t have to like what he did. in real life a doctor should obviously never, and should redirect a request like that to a parent or literally anyone whose job is emotional support. the show is a medical drama, not a handbook.. but calling chase a “pedo” over that scene is WILD to me. idk how we went from a messy ethical moment to full character assassination, tbh the narrative bends over backwards to show his reluctance, her tiny slice of agency, and that the moment is about comfort, not desire.

it is actually a really good episode, but no one can ever talk about it outside of “ew chase is a pedo” or “remember when chase kissed a kid lol.” and that is a shame, bc it has one of the most interesting moral knots the show ever threw at the team, and it gets completely lost under bad faith takes.

As for the jokes, I get them a lot in my comments over on tt and I’ve gone along with them etc and they were slightly funny to begin with, but it got old, fast.

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thirteen + her dad essay that has been sitting in my brain for months, i'm coming for you soon

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I've been following your account for a while, and I love your Huddy posts so much! I love the way you talk about them and the way you analyze the scenes. I would also love to know: what's your favorite Huddy moment from each season, and why?

ohhhh my god you don't even KNOW

thankyou so much btw :) i appreciate these types of messages a lot, y'all r so sweet so nice mwah

now onto the meat of this ask...

JOAN CUDDYTISM'S MOST TREASURED HUDDY SCENES

(of each season. in order.)

warning: this is long as Fuck.

season 1

they don't really have a lot of scenes that Stand Out in season 1. they're all kinda just. them being quippy to each other. which is fun! i like s1 huddy a lot. they're fun. but not much for substance.

honorable mentions: the birthday card in The Socratic Method, cuddy telling house to wear his light blue shirt on his date with cameron (if only for season 7 callback reasons). honestly, every one of their little snarky back and forths deserves an honorable mention, but i love the small, more real scenes like these.

but i think my actual fav huddy moment from this season is in Occam's Razor, when cuddy says:

"It's not gonna work. You know why? Because this is fun. You think of something to make me miserable, I think of something to make you miserable. It's a game, and I'm gonna win because I got a head start: You are already miserable."

it works to be an excellent cuddy moment (i love this quote) but also a great starting point for how their dynamic is characterized. it's very... surface level; this is a jab. but it definitely is a great one to come back to even just a season down the road, because in comparison, we get to see how their relationship has developed!

is it romantic or even flirty? not really. but i like it.

season 2

honorable mentions: cuddy's heart-eyes in Humpty Dumpty, like all of the little moments in All In, house's whole deal in Forever but especially the end scene!!!

everyone knows it, everyone loves it: my favourite scene is the injection scene in Who's Your Daddy? i am a big fan of this episode's whole deal! i love the trust that cuddy has in house here, i love how much it shows their growth in their personal relationship—it's very distinctly different from where they were in season 1. and also: THIS SCENE IS HOT AS FUCK!!!!!!!!!! i'd say probably the most erotic scene these two have together. and they literally have sex in s7.

season 3

GOD season 3. it's so hard to choose. also this season is quite full of huddy scenes, but they're mostly angst. for angst i'd say Finding Judas because obviously. or cuddy yelling at house in Words and Deeds because i like when she yells at people.

honorable mentions: cuddy perjuring herself for house in Words and Deeds<3, house's "i thought you were gonna kiss me" in One Day One Room, whatever the fuck was going on in Fetal Position, whatever the fuck was going on in Airborne, house asking cuddy out in Act Your Age (also the scene where he thinks she and wilson had sex and his face DROPS).

i'm picking two for this one, because neither should be an honorable mention:

"Do you like me, House?"

from Insensitive! this shouldn't be a surprise. i love this episode a lot and it does some great work for huddy as a couple. it's kinda our first Real Episode delving into a possible romance between these two. i love both of the date-crashing scenes but specifically when cuddy asks house if he likes her. it's like... Woah.... and his reaction!!! his deflection with his words but his emotions on his face. very much the epitome of She Only Gives Him As Much As She Wants Him To Get, which is one of my favourite parts of their dynamic at this point in time.

"Stop staring at my ass when you think I'm not looking, showing up at restaurants where I happen to be on a date, and fantasising about me in the shower. That ship sailed long ago House. Get over it."

from Top Secret! one of my favourite huddy scenes everrrr. we get a little clarity on the ever-elusive Huddy One Night Stand, house's jealousy, and once again cuddy only giving house as much as she wants him to get. it's also a very early (if not the first) episode that has the theme of Everything Coming Back to Cuddy, which gets tackled more and more in seasons 5 and 6 and is one of my favourite huddy episode themes. i Love both of their reactions to each other here. cuddy turning back and laughing at house, house unabashedly smiling... I CANT STAND THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

can you tell that i like season 3?

season 4

if you haven't, i would like to advise you to read my Season 4 Huddy Examined post where i go way too in depth on their scenes in season 4.

honorable mentions: the House-Cuddy Alpha Contest in Mirror, Mirror, the end of Ugly, the Thong Escapades of You Don't Want To Know, the phonecall in Living The Dream, the striptease in House's Head.

i'm once again going to do two moments for this season:

"What you want, you run away from. What you need, you don't have a clue."

from No More Mr. Nice Guy! i go way more into this in the above post if you'd like to know a more in-depth reasoning for this, but it's a mix of a great cuddy characterization moment and a great house-knows-cuddy moment. once again, this is a scene that is less just Great for Shipping Purposes and moreso a moment that really defines their dynamic at this point in time, so it's important to me because of that!

there's not a quote for this one since it's sans-dialogue, but the moment at the end of Wilson's Heart where cuddy is curled up on the chair next to house's hospital bed, holding his hand. yeah. that's probably top 3 huddy moment to me. as i said in the above post, that was the moment that made me get really invested in huddy! i think it is such a beautiful, emotional moment that breaks free of all of the expectations these two have for each other, all of the walls (as demonstrated in the other scene i mentioned) they've built, and just lets them be two people that care about each other with no further agenda. i really love it. it's very dear to me.

season 5

OKAY. i am still in the process of rewatching season 5 so these are subject to change!!!! don't take me at my word.

honorable mentions: cuddy yelling at house in Dying Changes Everything<3, the injection scene in Birthmarks (for s2 callback reasons), the "You want a relationship?" moment in Last Resort, cuddy watching house holding rachel in whatever episode that was in (i told you my memory is shot), "If she turns around, she's into him, too" [Cuddy turns aroung] from Locked In, like the entirety of Under My Skin.

so it's the kiss in Joy. but that's super obvious. because it's The Kiss. i don't have to tell you that i like the kiss in Joy because hello.

but The Itch? An episode basically entirely about huddy relationship drama? where all three different plotlines in the episode work to either come back to or parallel huddy? where the episode's namesake is an extremely heavy-handed metaphor for how house's attraction to cuddy is unavoidable? where house is clearly yearning like a mad man? where we get more of cuddy's thoughts on why a relationship with house wouldn't work? WHERE WE GET THE FUCKING MONTAGE OF HOUSE WALKING UP TO CUDDY'S HOUSE WHILE "I'M IN LOVE WITH A GIRL" BY BIG STAR PLAYS IN THE BACKGROUND? sign me the FUCK up. i've gone on and on about The Itch and i will continue to. my real answer is the entirety of The Itch.

season 6

another season where my memory is completely shot. it's been almost ten months since i last watched any part of season 6, so these are definitely subject to change.

honorable mentions: god, like, the entire season. there's so much huddy in this one. maybe i don't remember it all in specifics but i do know there's, like, a lot. this is an excuse because i don't remember a lot of specifics.

[Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper starts playing]

KNOWN UNKNOWNS. my roman empire. i have been annoying my friends with Known Unknowns-posting for almost ten months now. this episode has everything. the 80s dance. real answers to what happened way back in michigan. huddy angst. it's so great. i come back to it a lot.

"I love you. I wish I didn't but I can't help it."

from Help Me! i know this scene is a bit controvesial? because it poses cuddy as a saviour (and other, far worse takes that i don't even want to give a voice) blah blah blah IDGAF, honestly. i will defend this scene with my whole heart. i think this confession is so very vulnerable and emotional and heartbreakingly romantic. there are so many thematic callbacks here (especially to Joy) and so many Cuddy Romance Routines that it notably breaks out of. as well as the stark differences between what happens In Real here vs what happened in house's hallucination at the end of season 5... i'm literally about to cry just thinking about it all (i'm also listening to Luna by The Smashing Pumpkins as i write this, which is adding to the sappiness). i'm sorry. i'm a sappy sappy romantic about my beloved fictional couple. they are so so dear to me. you can pry this scene from my cold dead hands. i'm going to get very annoying when i get here on my rewatch, trust.

season 7

oh, season 7, you mess. but at least we got some great huddy moments out of it. unfortunately, this, too, is another season i don't remember very well, so i don't have much to list here even though i know there was great stuff here.

honorable mentions: Thunder Roadtrip in the arms of the angels what we could have had... i still count you beautiful, that one episode where they went to a wedding..., forgive me for being a pervert but every huddy sex and post-sex scene, the very beginning scene of bombshells and nothing after that, cuddy being the only person to answer house's call in the penultimate episode.

for now, my answer is the entirety of Now What? it's like. the huddy episode. it's all huddy. oops! all huddy. and i think it's pretty good! it's basically the calm before the storm lol i think this is the happiest we ever see either of these two. cuddy wearing the blue shirt, the sword, ilobeyou, all of the stupid sappy quotes, huddy sex... it's awesome.

okay. that was a Long Ass Post. thank you for this question. i love huddy. i love talking about them. i'd apologize for making this So Very Long but y'all should know by know i am a Yapper, so NO APOLOGIES!!!!!!! i'll definitely come back to this once i've finished my rewatch with updated s5/6/7 thoughts :)

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you like tlt?!

I LOOOOOOVE TLT <3 I actually had Gideon the Ninth on my TBR + my bookshelf for like three years until my wife finally read it at a friend's recommendation, and she loved it so much that I devoured the series too. I just finished Nona for the first time at the end of June. I'm planning on doing my first reread soon and I am so fucking excited to take everything in the second time around and really get into the layers of it!!

Nona is my baby and I love her with my whole heart (my love for Nona cannot be physically put into words. She makes my heart explode. I have a google doc where I have thrust her and Noodle upon PPTH to wreak havoc and she decides Thirteen is her new best friend in this place because they both have numbers for a name. They bond. Nona emotionally wrecks Thirteen. <3). Griddlehark drives me insane in the best way. Mercymorn the First has rotted my brain. Cytherea also lives in my brain rent free. Ianthe is my beautiful princess with a disorder and I wanna put her in a snowglobe and shake it. and everything about both Cam, Pal, and Dulcie + Cam, Pal, and Pyrrha makes me so, so emotionally ill 😭😭

TL;DR Thirteen is still my #1 blorbo of all time, but I love Nona so fucking much that I know she'll be sticking around in my brain for a loooooong time.

"You can't take loved away" fucking wrecked me. I get emotionally punched in the throat by it at least twice a week <33

I also have the cutest Nona charm from Etsy (displayed w my dan and phil lanyard bc at the time i didn't have a thumbtack small enough to hang the Nona charm on by itself)

Bonus: if you want to see all of the TLT stuff I reblog, all of it is on my main blog, @rhythmofsnow :3

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ohhh my god anyone in the House fandom that shits on Cuddy or Cameron or Amber (or any of the women, really)... you people would not survive one day in the locked tomb fandom. I love morally dubious women who commit murder. house md fandom we could LEARN a thing or two from the TLT fandom about both analysis and how to treat female characters

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In an alternate universe where Gregory House meets Ianthe Tridentarius, I knooooowwww the banter goes crazy. But also House spends most of the conversation trying to figure out what the fuck her deal is. She ate Babs, that's what her deal is. Fucking... creature that lives in the walls (affectionate)

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In theory, maybe I get the “we’re all just playing with barbies, they’re fictional characters, no interpretation is incorrect because it’s an interpretation” argument. But actually no, not all takes are equally valid. Framing something as an interpretation doesn’t mean it inherently has merit. Some takes are completely incorrect and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material. They just aren’t a reason to harass people or send death threats

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i 💖 hospital yuri

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redraw of that one scene from theory of everything with camchase in that s2 episode

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i need to jump out a window. post breakup foreteen (slash platonic foreteen) with "your needs, my needs" by noah kahan. 7x01 before she leaves for the "clinical trial"; circa charity case when she leaves PPTH for good; and foreman knowing that over the next few years he's gonna have to watch his friend slash ex decline and slowly die as her huntington's symptoms continue to get worse.

"oh, well, who was i?

who was i to watch you wilt?

you ain't gotta tell me what it means,

trace the outlines of your dreams,

you'll always be a flower on my skin,

and the pain that i am in

it's all the same,

the losin' touch, the waiting game"

this next part. ough. foreman offering her support and to come visit her in Italy/help take care of her during the clinical trial if she needed it in 7x01 (as opposed to pushing her away like he did in 5x20 or as he also sort of did by firing her in 6x03):

"across that county line,

i promised to be there this time

alright?"

and. jesus christ. this line with foreman knowing exactly how thirteen's gonna decline because he's a fucking neurologist:

"i spiral out and try to float,

you see a friend, see a ghost."

next bits below the cut b/c they're sliiightly headcanon based and more angsty:

the foreman & thirteen goodbye we deserved in charity case but never got in canon:

"you asked me why i wasn't sayin' a word

i'm naming the stars in the sky after you"

i just hurt myself with this last one. foreman slowly over the years watching thirteen get sicker, knowing that he's not there for her the way amy is b/c they were incompatible as a couple (and he couldn't function tying himself to someone whose future was so wholly out of their control) wanting to do something more than what he can do as a doctor and friend but not being sure how (until he hopefully offers to kill her):

"to spiral out, to try and float

to see a friend, to see a ghost

bitter-brained, always drunk

rail-thin, zoloft

subtle change, shorter days

dead-eyed, dead weight

your life, your dreams

your mind, your needs

and my needs"

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wails at my own tags. back on my platonic foreteen bullshit. i'm genuinely heartbroken that we got zero interaction between them in charity case

On Eric Foreman and Remy "Thirteen" Hadley

5x11 "Joy to the World", Virginia Woolf // 5x13 "Big Baby", what does love mean? by Ladan Lashkari, 5x20 "Simple Explanation" // 5x10 "Let Them Eat Cake", Foundry by Mikko Harvey // 6x03 "Epic Fail" // 6x07 "Teamwork", The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde // 5x20 "Simple Explanation", P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

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foreman and thirteen are special to me ok. he cares so much about her it really does make me go awwww :(

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out: "projecting on characters is cringe!"

in: doing whatever the hell you want, because letting myself project on characters ended up helping me stop psychoanalyzing myself and intellectualizing all of my trauma, thoughts, feelings, and reactions to things. now i psychoanalyze my blorbos instead while i sit and actually feel my feelings and process them.