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Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.

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Robert Chase

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want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

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what is HAPPENING

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running me over would hurt less than this scene

“You can’t take pain if you don’t care.” I’m going to stop you there Mason Hewitt. Allow me to remind you MASON, your werewolf best friend Liam, couldn’t take pain in 5x08. He tried to take Hayden’s pain and he COULDN’T. He only could in the car ACCIDENTLY when he kissed her.

Theo cared but he did not know how to take pain. They all learn. Isaac had to be shown, Liam had to learn and eventually Theo did too. He took none other than Gabe’s pain. He saw himself in Gabe. Another scared, manipulated and misunderstood kid. He took Gabe’s pain in front of Mason and that was the best part. HE DID CARE MASON 😭

I love Mason with my whole heart so don’t come at me. That line from him just always bugged me considering the circumstances of the situation. If Theo didn’t care he would have left Mason in the sewers, but he didn’t. He specifically said ‘I can’t leave you.’

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This might be stupid but what are the nicknames you guys use in fanfiction? Like little wolf etc...? Because yesterday I read a fic where Liam calls Theo Teddy and I can't get it out of my head. Please feed my obsession 🥺

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Okay, so, I have this little headcanon.

Liam is very good at medical stuff.

Take my hand and follow me.

We know that Liam has IED and we don't know anything about his father: the two things are probably related. We also know that it was David, his stepfather, who introduced him to lacrosse and we know that Liam is very good at it which implies that he has been playing since he was little. From this we know that Liam had behavioral problems long before the official diagnosis (which was given to him after he was expelled from Devenford).

Knowing all this it is very likely that when Liam was little he spent a lot of time in the hospital (for example after school) since both David and his mother (I like to think she is a nurse and that's how she met David) have very long shifts and maybe they don't trust Liam to be cared for by neighbors/babysitters since without the diagnosis he just seemed like a rather unpredictable child.

And so Liam spent a lot of time in the hospital and like all the nurses would check on him every now and then and maybe David would show him stuff. He was like "the hospital kid".

And so growing up, even if he could stay home alone/go out maybe sometimes he was still in the hospital just because he was used to it and maybe after the transformation he also asks David to teach him some things that could help the pack in case of need.

I also think that the reason why we never see him in this situation is that Liam is not the one they count on for this kind of stuff and also he is very afraid of doing something wrong/hurting someone and so he always takes a step back.

Little bonus (of a fanfic I'm writing so it's not even a headcanon anymore), the first to find out this thing is obviously Theo.

Like after the battle Theo is injured (you can clearly see that he was shot but it's probably even more serious) but knowing how he is he tries to downplay it or leave but Liam forces him to get help.

But of course Theo is Theo and so he would never stay in the hospital, let alone let a doctor he's never seen touch/help him.

And so Liam takes him home and kind of (with David's help probably) stitches him up and manages to calm him down and maybe manages to convince him to get some anesthesia/sedative (even though Theo hates being so helpless).

And Theo is obviously shocked because there's Liam with a fucking needle in his hand stitching him up and take care of him and doing it well and so, yeah I like to think that Liam is less clueless/naive than everyone thinks most of the time.

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some fandom disagreements are like "I see your point but I think this other aspect of the narrative is more significant," and some are like "I don't think you can read."

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Question for mobile users!!

HOW THE FUCK DO I CHECK THOSE NOTIFICATIONS ON THE HOMEPAGE!!??!!

Normally they show up on the lightning bolt -and they still do- and you can just check em easy peasy. But since the update they've been accumulating there AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM GO AWAY!! Not even clearing my phone of notifications helps. They just pile on til it's 99+ then at some point go away before piling on again. It's not a real problem but it's just mildly irritating enough to get under my skin.

So if anyone knows, please do share.

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but fr I'll never take it seriously when someone says "i was abused by men, I'm allowed to hate them and anyone trying to show love for men is an MRA" like you know how many of us were abused by our mothers and it's still (rightfully) considered not okay to say that women are all abusers just waiting to kill their children. If you blame violence on someones gender instead of the societal mechanisms that encourage and allow violent and harmful behaviour you're perpetuating that cycle.

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There certainly was a time when Shadow was just a tiny, trusting baby-hedgehog, hanging onto big sister Maria’s every word, and her playful mischief got him into all sorts of trouble. Siblings life. One’s the bad influence, but they both end up getting yelled at.

Gerald might be grumpy, but he's a loving grandfather.

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Hey you all know about that fungus that possesses ants to make them climb on the tip of grass blades in hopes of getting eaten by a cow, so that the fungus can continue its life cycle in the cow's guts? Because I think that's the kind of thing that's wrong with cave divers.

We don't know what's down there. We don't know what's gotten into their heads that makes them so determined to physically, personally go down there to find out. But I wouldn't entirely dismiss the possibility that whatever has gotten into them is very invested in getting eaten by whatever is down there.

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modern-day house m.d. episode where the patient is transmasc and on T, and after house reads his file he goes in and is reading off prescriptions like "estradiol cream, finasteride, prescription face wash, prescription deodorant... god, it's like you don't even want to be a man!" and the patient says "just because i wanna be a man doesn't mean i have to suffer all the shitty side effects" and house goes "it's all shitty side effects! being a man sucks!" before tossing the file down on the little tray table thing and leaving.

chase and cameron exchange A Look in the room and then while they're walking down the hall cameron's like "we should talk to him about it - maybe he'd be... happier? if he transitioned?" and chase rolls his eyes and is like "just because he thinks being a man sucks doesn't mean he's trans, every guy hates being a man at least some of the time" and then cameron gives him Another, Slightly Alarmed Look

we cut to house and wilson and wilson's looking at him like he's insane, going "so you... told the patient that being a man sucks?" and house laughs and says "sure did! i wanna know which will take longer - cameron coming to me concerned about my gender, or chase realizing he should be concerned about his gender. her gender? eh, probably easier to just stick with 'his' for now." wilson accuses him of being a sociopath and house looks fake-wounded and says "you know, if i am a sociopath, you're being ableist by attributing my cruel actions to my sociopathy, and if i'm not a sociopath then it's even worse that you're accusing me of being one just because i'm mean."

cuddy approaches house later and tells him that she heard about what he told the patient, and she is required both to make him take sensitivity training and also to provide him resources on transitioning if he wants to pursue that. house asks if him being a woman would make cuddy bisexual, and she raises and eyebrow and says "that ship sailed long ago" and doesn't elaborate on whether she means she isn't into house anymore so it doesn't matter or that she already is bi. house starts cyberstalking her to try to figure out if she slept with any of the women she's friends with on facebook. the team comes in to tell him about a new symptom and he shows them a photo of cuddy from college with a hot girl at a halloween party and is like "do you think they ever fucked? i think they fucked. even if they didn't, i'm gonna imagine they did." foreman tries to get them back on track but chase leans in to get a better look at the photo and it turns out to be wilson in a costume. there's an awkward beat of silence before cameron goes "SO, back to the patient!" and house makes a sort of dismissive "huh? oh, yeah, go test him for [whatever]" while staring intently at the photo.

he confronts wilson about the photo, wilson admits it's him, house starts by going "oh, yeah, but i'm the one having a gender crisis" but accidentally says "sexuality crisis" instead and wilson is like "house do you... do you think i'm hot in that photo?" and then we cut to chase asking cameron if she thinks he could pull off an outfit like that and they discuss it a little while doing a blood draw or LP or whatever. the patient gives them both A Look and is like "you know, you can get wigs and breast forms pretty cheap these days..." and chase is like "hm? oh, yeah i guess one of those costume supply sites would probably have stuff like that huh," and the patient raises his eyebrows at cameron who just shakes her head a tiny bit.

house accuses cuddy of sleeping with his best friend in the clinic lobby and she drags him into her office to ask what the hell he's talking about and he shows her the photo. she's like "yeah, we were at a halloween party together in college, so what?" and house says that wilson makes a really hot chick and asks if that's what awakened cuddy's "bi side," and cuddy just rolls her eyes and tells him to stop projecting his sexuality crisis onto her just because he thinks his best friend is hot. house asks if wilson was at least a good lay and cuddy says "find out for yourself!" before kicking him out of her office again.

house goes back to his office and cameron is pacing outside the door, and she looks nervous when he walks up to her. she follows him into his office and she has clearly prepared A Speech about how if he doesn't like being a man he doesn't have to be, and he doesn't even have to be a woman either, there's options, and it's never too late to transition no matter what people say, and he cuts her off like "yes yes you're very supportive, you clearly aced sensitivity training" and then he has the episode's Epiphany and it turns out that the patient transitioned too early and there was some (largely made-up and not actually backed by irl medical science) complication from starting his transition as a teenager, and the patient is like "oh so you're saying i did this to myself?" and house says "well legally at least, either your parents or the governor of new jersey did it to you - depends on who approved the hormones."

wilson comes up to him at the end and is like "you know, it's okay if you think i'm hot. and it's also okay if you're a woman. if you... ever need any tips on passing as one, i'm happy to help."

the ending is left ambiguous as to house's actual gender identity and, much like the autism episode, it kinda feels like the writers' room was full of heavy debate about whether house should be trans or not. we also never actually circle back to the fact that chase is definitely trans, it never comes up again, and this move pisses off both trans people and allies who wanted it to become A Story Arc and anti-trans people who are mad it even came up in a single episode, absolutely nobody is happy about how they handled that subplot.

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art dump?