#!through thick and thin

[autumnalarchives]

[crowleysfall]

i stand with my cancelled wife btw

[burriburi]

“I…”

[rillils]

Tony : so was I

Steve: bitch I was bouncing on it even before you were born

I just laughed out loud so hard I startled my mom 😂😂 Nonnie, you beautiful, gorgeous gem you 💖💖💖

Ah man, Tony had no idea what he was talking about, had he? He thought he had Steve all figured out, but in truth he had barely begun to scratch the surface. He didn't know what Steve was really capable of, the lengths he was willing to go to, the lines he was ready to cross, just to keep Bucky safe.

Tony dared to touch the one thing that, to Steve, was sacred above all else, and he almost got his skull bashed in because of it.

In a weird sort of way, I'm kinda grateful to him for it? Because his stunt gave us the chance to see once again how fiercely protective Steve and Bucky are of each other, how they're both willing to die before they'll let anyone come between them - and also how absolutely glorious they look when they're fighting together in perfect sync like that, understanding each other with one glance, two bodies moving as one, one of them throwing the shield and the other one already thrusting his arm out to catch it before the thing was even flying, like seriously how fucking hot was that entire sequence?? 🔥💖💖

The funniest bit? The way that Tony just had to be petty until the end, demanding the shield "back" because his father had made it. Like Steve was going to have to pick between the shield and the man in his arms. Like Steve even had to think about it. Like the choice wasn't already made before the question was ever placed in his lap.

I don't think Tony really understood that there was nothing, and no one, that Steve would ever choose over Bucky, until he saw Steve drop that shield on the ground like a hot potato and walk away without looking back.

But ohhh, how I loved that. There's something so deeply satisfying, so vindicating, and so painfully sweet about seeing Steve, bloodied and bruised and hurting, gently gathering the man he loves up in his arms, holding him close to his side, and taking him the hell out of that cold dead place with this one final gesture - unceremoniously dropping the shield and leaving it behind with no regrets - that is both so simple and so powerful, and that says, loud as metal clanging against the floor, I love him. He's worth giving up this and more.

[enii]

Through the good times and the bad💕

[apollymitpolly]

U ever just sit down to finally take a break - have some tea, chew a snack, stare at the wall for a bit… And then THAT ONE GUY rolls up like: “Why are you sad? No, I can see it! You don’t usually act like this! What happened?? Don’t be sad 🥺”

Domestic qiurong is my everything 🧡💚

[bklily]

HOW ARE WE FEELING TWST ROOK FANS

[housemdork]

so. i know that fighting on the wilson defense squad is a little taboo around here...but i still want to share the germ of a thought that i've had, which i'll definitely expand on in the future.

does anyone hear me when i say that so much of wilson's work is silent and unseen?

i mean this, first, quite literally regarding his practice. it's a rarity, seeing wilson interact directly with his cancer patients without being called in for a consult. we hear about his patients all the time, just not often by name. but whether because we're in house's POV, or because the show aligns with house's belief that "cancer is boring," we don't see wilson practicing oncology that much in the grand scheme of things, even compared to the snippets of ER and surgery life that cameron and chase move on to, respectively.

house pokes fun at wilson's oncology all the time, and pretty definitively in 2x04 when he makes fun of medical specialists. to house, things are simpler for them; house views them as existing in a box, much smaller than his grand purview over things. wilson's work is relegated away from the main text of the show; he operates in isolation, which hurts in the long run.

wilson's own cancer experience is profoundly impacted by the pain of loss he's endured over the years, watching his patients die. he rattles off their names, their cancers, their ages, and the dates they died to house from memory. we never saw these patients. house probably never did, either, so we can only learn of this pain afterwards. we re-contextualize wilson's emotions and behavior after the fact.

finally, the work wilson puts into his friendship with house is often invisible. i won't ever paint wilson as the ideal friend - that would completely ruin any interpretation of his character - but i find it disingenuous to ignore the strain house puts on him, however self-inflicted. what starts out as trickles of jokes and subtle hints (the loans), evolves into the season 3 medical license debacle, which evolves into wilson's repeated responsibility for house's mental health (which isn't even mandated by house, but by those around wilson and house), which finally evolves into house attempting to control wilson's last wishes. repeatedly, wilson is nominated, especially by dr. nolan in season 6 and foreman in season 8, to be house's steward, and who else would do it, but him?

big example: we never see the decision for house to move into wilson's place, but all the energy in the world is put into wilson asking house to leave. it's first presented as a natural assumption, then a mortal sin.

unlike the other characters surrounding house, the origins of wilson and house are usually only hinted at. their history unfolds across the entire show, and that includes the good and the bad parts that are only heard about in passing and in retrospect. at the start of season 5, wilson, at his most honest, breaks the hardest news to house yet - that he's leaving PPTH because of him.

"i've enabled it for years. the games, the binges, the middle-of-the-night phone calls...if i've learned anything from amber, it's that i need to take care of myself."

again, we learn of this long-term pain afterwards, once house takes a beat to digest it. we re-contextualize wilson's emotions and behavior after the fact.

say what you like about what wilson asked house to do in 4x16 (it kills me, personally). i cannot completely fault wilson for telling house this ^. as much as house needs to change, wilson does, too. amber was right about that. we can gauge the strain that house has in his relationships based on how many work out long-term: one.

and later, funny as it is in the moment, wilson is the one to go to physically check in on house in 7x01 when it was VERY apparent that he should not have gone home alone (not to dismiss foreman's attempt in 6x22 to be there for him, though). house's fake voicemail message attests to this: "if this is wilson, i'm fine, not suicidal, not on drugs, coping very well with the loss of my last patient, so feel free to go about your day without worry."

i understand why he crawled through that window! after six seasons of this, i would have done the same!

i argue the same about house that i do about wilson - these 2, despite how messed up they are when it comes to human goodness and love - could not do what they do if they did not have the capacity to love. they're both rewarded in their own, twisted ways; house is gratified that, if nothing else, his brain sets him apart and preserves his sense of self, while wilson gets to feel loved in the way he can never quite fulfill elsewhere. does that cancel out the lives they save and soothe along the way?

all of this is to say that it's easy to brand wilson with a red "morally corrupt guy who pretends otherwise" stamp across his forehead because i think that's what house md tempts us to do by mandating how, when, and what we see of wilson's life. trust me - i'm trudging through season 2 right now and fast approaching his rendezvous with grace. but over time, i think the show invites us to treat him with sympathy and nuance in the same way it does house. if we penalize wilson too much for returning to house, and for needing his neediness, that may just imply that house doesn't deserve that sort of love. and we know that isn't the case.

isn't there more poetic irony than the oncologist getting cancer at hand? what about cancer as the silent-killer? what about cancer eating at every part of the body, slowly, over time? unseen and unheard?

[dykedvonte]

I think a very interesting idea and misconception within the fandom is the idea Curly himself spreads the idea about his superb leadership and status as a great idealistic person.

A big personal issue with him is the very idea that he doesn’t think he embodies much of either. Or rather doesn’t think it was meant for him. The status is placed onto him from people like Jimmy, the rest of the crew to an extent and Pony Express themselves. He is never exactly excited or eager to hear praise on those fronts as he’s grappling with the existential woe of imposter syndrome and feeling like he’s done nothing despite moving up in those roles.

We buy into Jimmy’s belief that Curly holds himself up on the same pedestal and cares when he’s placed up there and scared of coming down, not that he doesn’t want to. He also just sees himself as some guy. A guy with a lot on his plate. A guy with a lot of responsibilities he doesn’t want. But still just a normal guy. Good and bad. Average. He’s very honest with himself about his own faults, very aware of the the thoughts plaguing him, both by his dialogue in the HFIM DLC and the awareness he shows to Jimmy before he’s shit down. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s good at expressing it to other people but it is the stuff he actually believes about himself.

The reason he keeps up the facade is for others, the necessity of his job for the Captain to be put together but oddly enough he never tries to reinforce it himself. He falters at the praise and bristles at personal concerns to himself. If you outright asked him if he thought he was a good person or even a good captain, there’s of course the objective answer and then the one he’d have…

[sajntgeorge]

george admitted that he has very few friends because he dropped out of school and f1 is a hectic life and there are still people complaining that the drivers hang out a lot and don't hate each other off-track. insane.

[autumnalarchives]

While going through TTAT designs and trying to decide what to change, I realized that I messed up and forgot to make one of Bryan's eyes green - Sawyer was intended to have a brown eye from his mom and a green eye from his dad, so it was a major oversight on my part.

So, take this headshot design for the two of them fixing it! I also changed Bryan's hairstyle because I always hated drawing it. I know this drawing is kinda janky, its very much a quick one!

[crowleysfall]

“he killed people” have you considered that i don’t give a FUCK that’s my 61 year old babygirl who loves his daughter and has never done anything wrong in his life leave him alone!!!

[tobisaw]

walks into the room covered in blood Hey

[im-a-mint]

every ship war can be fixed if we get funny about it. sargington & tuckington but it's sarge and Tucker having beef over who gets to take wash out on weekends becoming increasingly more extravagant and exaggerated about it ("I'll take him out to the finest restaurant in town!" "oh yeah? I'll find us a perfect spot to go on vacation for a whole week!") meanwhile wash is trying to put the idea in the table they all have a night in and watch movies as the date night to stop them from going to the moon. do u see the vision of just being funny about it. do u.

[one-hit-boy-wonder]

alfred is martha's gay little british friend whom she gossips with and he's thomas' old drinking buddy who's been with him through thick and thin. but also their boyfriend.

[hiddensneker]

I was watching nickels exit interview and the interviewer called balloon nickels closest bud and I’m just imagining how absolutely snuffed baseball got 😭