#^ house's internal monologue

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

wow i can't believe that house is soooo dedicated to stealing wilson's food that he sneakily deleted a voicemail offering wilson an apartment just so that wilson would keep living with him. mmm those delicious pancakes and salads and sandwiches yes indeed it's all about the FOOD there are no other reasons because house is very straight he just likes the FOOD and he just wants himself and wilson's FOOD to be together forever alright???

[lazycranberrydoodles]

english translation book 5 baby we are in the ‘people assuming kid form hua cheng is xie lian’s son’ era 🔥🔥🔥 / follow for more hualian silliness

[devondespresso]

FINALLY

after NINE. HOURS. (NOT including meals and sleep) ITS FUCKING DONE.

A complete floorplan of the entire Harrington house. Including too much thought about random, throw-away lines from characters and squint-to-see-it background glimpses inside.

plently of stuff in the actual house is altered or straight up ignored in favor of following the fiction logic and because I Wanted To. A lot of this is motivated by my headcanons for the Harringtons and how I'm writing them in my fic, but I'm also certainly not an architect so it's by no means perfect. It is, however, unreasonably canon compliant in the few bits we do see.

Thought Process (for context):

the darker shaded floor areas are lower than the rest, some bits like the garages having stairs and some areas like the sun and dining rooms list being like a step lower. Windows are marked with dashes along the outside, sliding doors are two thin lines slightly overlapping, stairs change color as they diverge from the level we're looking at, and furniture is eyeballed so don't look to closely a the scale.

not all closets are labeled, just the ones i figured could be confusing. Steve and the guest rooms have closets i promise.

the laundry room and pantry are not the same size but by the time i noticed i was exhausted. so pretend they're both more reasonably sized.

i don't know what the floorplan symbol for garage door is and then i forgot to look so the headlights point to where the doors are and you can see them clearly in photos so yeah.

The general layout is based on the idea that the Harringtons are or were into hosting dinner parties and business meetings in their home, especially as a young rich couple looking for respect in their circles (Mr. Harrington taking on his father's business and reinforcing that power, Mrs. Harrington climbing her own social ladder and building an image).

So the house is laid out with hosting areas towards the right with the office big and near the dining room because it's more than just a workplace, it represents him as a businessman. In canon the entryway and living room both have very high ceilings and no second-floor above them, so I'd imagine they're also aware of how the top floor looks from below, hence the fancy double/french doors to the master bedroom which is in plain view from below. Steve's room and the guest room are's nearly as visible.

As for the kitchen and sun/pool rooms, I see them more as secondary hosting areas that aren't used as the main location most of the time and are more this background setting to these events that still feel rich. The kitchen is massive and mostly for dinner-parties and Mrs. Harrington's social events.

The kitchen and main bathroom's placement is based on a line Steve said to Barb giving her directions to the bathroom: "down past the kitchen, to the left". With the massive living room on the left and wanting to keep the dining and office close by, i interpreted the "to the left" part being like "find the kitchen, then turn left". And with the rest of the area being open-concept, the bathroom would be the only normal door over there and easy to find. it's a bit of a stretch with just that line, but it makes sense to me with the rest of the context for the layout.

the basement is similar to this, though not as openly displayed so I imagine its for slightly closer friends. Theres a garage door down there so I figured Mr. Harrington might have a cool car he shows off, like he's letting people in on a personal detail about himself. There's also a guest room down there (the only one still considered 100% for guests, more on that later) for those people.

beside the basement garage, there was originally one main garage that holds two cars, obvious Mr. and Mrs. Harrington's cars. I imagine they bought the house before having kids, so a third one wasn't on the mind but after having Steve they added the front one (either turning the carport into a closed garage or they never had a carport and added a whole new addition, up to you)

Both garages lead to the same part of the house, and that area is the only one besides the water heater room that is purely function over effect. It still looks good like the rest of the house but it's not made to be fancy because guests would rarely need to be over there if at all and it's not noteworthy from other parts of the house.

In my headcanon, Steve's room used to be a guest room, staying his room from nursery to present with Mrs. Harrington renovating every now and then. Its one of those places in the house that doesn't have to look perfect for all to see, so she gets creative and has fun with it.

The upstairs guest room is also unofficially Mrs. Harrington's room, based on a line where Tommy mentions a fireplace in "his mom's room" instead of "guest room" or "parent's room" or "master bedroom". I belatedly realized this could be a solidarity thing with Steve hating his dad and calling the master bedroom his mom's room, but that was after 9 hours of this and im not changing it but there you go. In this version, I imagine she leaves the master some nights because her marriage with Mr. Harrington is failing (cheating and all, I wouldn't want to be in the same bed with someone who cheated either)

the master bathroom was an executive decision, just looking at the house in canon and not having enough space in my first attempts, i decided the triangle roof part above the dining and office could fit a master bathroom.

Feel free to use or reference this in your own fics! Feel free to block out my furniture or walls and make your own version. If you share my image please credit with an @ mention!! (again, 9 hours) (thank you fhalsfhd)

[glassphinix]

splatoon is such a fun game i wish it didn't make me apoplectically angry

[katabay]

Have you read The H Word: Bringing the Horror Home, by Dale Bailey? It's a little post on the internet that I like to chew on a lot

it didn't sound familiar, so I looked it up, but I think I have! I might have read it back when I was deep DEEP into a haunted house fixation (prompted by Jacob Geller's Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House video essay, which plays in my head rent free)

The H Word: Bringing the Horror Home, by Dale Bailey

and to follow that up, may I in return offer my favorite excerpt from Kitty Horroshow's Anatomy (which is about. a fucked up house)

There is an important distinction that must be drawn between the words dissection and vivisection. A distinction that would appear to be lost on you. Your purpose was to listen and yet at every turn you have pried, you have prodded and you have interfered. Have you not been paying attention? Did it not occur to you that as an organism existing within a greater organism, your intrusion would be felt? And still you harass. And now, like the wayward spider who witlessly settled on a sleeper's tongue, you will be swallowed. Because the truth is this. When a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth.

[thats-h0w-th3-light-g3ts-in]

S T E V I E N I C K S — The Lighthouse

Did Stevie just hint at the release of a new song?

The drawing of the Lighthouse gives me Kiln House vibes and y‘all know what that means.

[oneluckygoose]

To those here for the fic, I've got a little snippet, and a title for you!

Title: House of the Rising Suns

Snippet:

“Don’t do anything to give them a reason, alright Reg?” Sirius had whispered to him far into the night. The thought of leaving his brother all alone made bile creep up his throat. No one to take the blame, no one to face the consequences for him. Sirius felt something like fire burn in his chest at the thought of coming home over the holiday to a Regulus with streaks of gray in his hair. He had to qualm it quickly, for that fire wasn’t characteristic of a Slytherin. Sirius had to be a Slytherin, he had to.

[katrantsasoiaf]

hotd as troubled birds (10/?)

[artino-c]

Thinking again about the way MWT depicts slave naming conventions in CoK and TaT by giving us contradictory, neither-is-quite-accurate hot takes from the two different narrators:

Conspiracy of Kings:

"So, man-killer," he asked. "Do you have a name?" I thought before I answered. Wisdom is not a name for a slave. Stone, Mark, Faithful, Strong are slave names. I had a nurse once who named her son Shovel. She was a foreigner, from somewhere far north, and she told me that she liked the way it sounded.

Thick as Thieves:

"Not Immakuk," he said. "Godekker." Godekker--it's a decorative cord that fastens a scroll closed. No one, no matter how lowborn, would name a child after something so trivial. His master must have given him the name using the first word that popped into his head. I wondered that Godekker didn't change it now that he was a free man.

I love the way these two passages undermine and reinforce each other, both as a matter of worldbuilding (both Sophos' and Kamet's accounts are rooted in historical, real world practice) and as a way to underscore the limitations of both narrators' understanding of other people's experiences. In remembering his enslaved nurse, Sophos doesn't really acknowledge the dehumanization inherent in his first statement (some names are inappropriate/forbidden to slaves), or check any of his assumptions about how those rules ("wisdom is not a name for a slave") might have interacted with his nurse's apparent choice of name for her child. On the flip side, Kamet is so invested in pitying/patronizing Godekker the escaped field slave that it doesn't even occur to him that perhaps Godekker also knew his mother or could have been named by her.

It's also a great way to introduce Godekker, who functions in the story as an antagonist but is also textually correct about a lot of things (Kamet acknowledges this even as he isn't happy about it), and who constantly resists Kamet's attempts to impose his own terms on all their interactions. Anyone who reads the books back to back and remembers that first passage would know to immediately question Kamet's first assumptions about Godekker!

[discountsoysauce]

This movie is June erasure

[not-poignant]

Idk if it was just me but I finished the chapter annoyed at Sebastian and at Alex becuz like, Sebastian is obvi really pushy but Alex could've just talked to him and was enjoying baiting him and chose not to be mature either and now I'm worried it's just me help

It's not just you anon, don't worry sdlkjfas

Okay so, Sebastian's bad behaviour is the most obvious to spot because we're seeing the story from Alex's perspective.

But frankly, Alex can be just as bad.

I have zero doubt that if Alex had just said: 'Sebastian, I don't trust you with this subject, and it's not something I want to talk about. I get that you want to talk about it, but it's not like you've treated me that great about some of these things and I just can't right now' I can guarantee you that Sebastian would have actually taken that on board and left, the way he actually started to leave when Alex asked him to in complete sentences. At that point, Sebastian was pretty resistant, but he still did it and generally speaking every single time Alex has talked to him clearly - like an adult - Sebastian has talked to him clearly - like an adult.

Alex so often sets the tone of their interactions, often without necessarily realising. His truculent, single-syllable answers are very much like a petulant or sulking teenager. It's 100% not healthy communication, and as you say, there was even a point where Alex was enjoying making Sebastian mad.

I love Alex to pieces, but he's not a mature communicator. He has lots of reasons as to why that's true, just like Sebastian has a lot of reasons to behave the way he does, but that doesn't mean it's healthy. Alex mentally being like 'well if you aren't going to ask me questions I'm going to pretend I don't know what you're thinking' is extremely passive aggressive. An adult response is to go: 'If you want to ask me something just ask, but I don't want to talk to you about this, and I don't trust you' or 'Can you please ask what you want to ask' or 'Have you ever noticed that you don't ask me direct questions?'

It's funny because Sebastian will happily admit he's bad at communicating, he can be an asshole, he is pushy. He's a work in progress and he knows he is. But Alex rarely gives him chances to progress. The reason Alex gets pushed against a wall in the next chapter is because Sebastian literally kind of has had enough, and forces Alex to talk to him in like, complete sentences. That's not great, but it's also not great that it's so hard to get Alex to talk like a person.

They're both kind of perfect for each other, lmao. And they're both equally messed up. It's easier to give Alex a pass because we know how distressed and upset he is and we understand and it's bad to forcibly 'out' someone before they're ready. Those things are all true!!

But it's also true that Alex is a passive aggressive monosyllabic little shit who wants love and care and comfort and also doggedly drives it away. This story is about both of them messily growing up (literally, it's in the summary of the story) salkfjsa and that includes Alex. One of the things that makes them compatible is that Alex wants to be pushed and Sebastian wants to push him.

So yeah anon, tl;dr - it's not just you re: being annoyed at Alex and Sebastian in that chapter :D It actually kind of makes me happy that you are annoyed at Alex, though I hope that's not interfering with your enjoyment of the story!

[pbaintthetb]

not on this episode but not Cuddy's mum calling House and Cuddy out for still calling each other "House" and "Cuddy" because it makes it seem like their relationship isn't serious when yanno, House and Wilson being the most important relationship in House's life and honeslty possibly Wilson's (at least at times/at least most satisfying) and they don't ever James/Greg each other

[rragnaroks]

okay i have to post here because i don't wanna forget but i also don't wanna post progress stuff on bookreads. im reading cider house rules by john irving and there's this bit about an older orphan boy having spent the night with his ear against the belly of a lonely pregnant woman who wanted someone to want her baby. he tells another orphan about that and how he sometimes wonders if he'd recognise the baby among all the others, and when his friend makes fun, this follows:

But Homer Wells knew he was just playing a game by himself, with himself; orphans are notorious for interior games. For example, one of the oldest games that orphans play is imagining that their parents want them back-that their parents are looking for them. But Homer had spent an evening with the mystery baby's mother; he'd heard all about the mystery baby's father-and his lack of interest in the matter. Homer knew that the mystery baby's parents weren 't looking for her; that may have been why he decided he'd look for her. If that baby girl was growing up, and if she was playing the old orphans' game, wouldn't it be better if there was at least someone who was looking for her-even if it was just another orphan?

this bit had me suddenly burst into tears out of nowhere. i have no personal experience with this but man this paragraph just hit me like a ton of bricks

[infiniteseriesofhalfways]

im listening to the audiobook for Mary by Nat Cassidy and now every time i see an ant i get extra nervous

[bigtheif]

have been too sick to train properly for the past two weeks and regionals is in a week. I'm leading the conference right now (only one with a perfect score 😁) but if I don't pull through at regionals I'll lose it all. going to kms

[tenth-sentence]

She would not have remained within the burning house!

"Incarnations of Immortality: For Love of Evil" - Piers Anthony