#birthmarks

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Partially from Johns Hopkins:

Macular stains or salmon patches are characterized by pink/red marks that may appear anywhere on the body and usually disappear with age. Common types:

Angel's kisses: Marks located on the forehead, nose, upper lip, and eyelids

Stork bites: Marks on the back of the neck

Hemangiomas are red patches that are often raised or bumpy. They become visible within the first few weeks or months of life and continue to grow rapidly for about 6 to 9 months. Then, they gradually lose this red color and also shrink.

Port-wine stains are flat, pink, red, or purple marks that appear at birth, often on the face, arms, and legs, and continue to grow as the child grows.

Congenital nevi (moles) can be skin-colored, brown, or black, flat or raised and small or large. They can happen anywhere on the body. Moles can also happen in adulthood, but only moles that are present at birth are considered birthmarks. Other nevi that behave like congenital nevi can appear within the first 2 years of life.

Cafe-au-lait spots are usually oval-shaped and light brown or black. Typically these fade with age.

Mongolian spots are blue or blue-gray spots on the lower back or buttocks. They are most common in babies with darker skin, like African-American or Asian babies. They can be mistaken for bruises and they usually fade with age.  

[faifenaco]

Wilson taking House to his dad’s funeral but instead of getting so frustrated that he chucks that bottle through the stained glass they just have freaky gay sex in the back of that funeral home end post

[housetorian]

BTS pictures from 05x04 - Birthmarks

[marauderingpaige]

Okay, so you know how in Birthmarks (season 5 episode 4) House said that his ringtone for Wilson was Dancing Queen by ABBA? Well I actually think it should have been Lay All Your Love on Me by ABBA because honestly that song depicts House's feelings for Wilson very, incredibly well.

Anyways, I hope you are all having a wonderful day! xx

[oddlittlestories]

Okay so I can’t find it but I saw a post about wishing at least one other character would acknowledge there’s a reason House doesn’t want to go to his dad’s funeral. And I wanted to say that I agree with this. And I think it’s the point. And that House as a show was also subverting expectations, so I wanted to talk a little about this.

So first off, I think it does really interesting things when you take a non-diegetic / non-in-universe approach to the show.

One, this was Supernatural era. You know, the show that sometimes categorized the dad (who would leave his child sons alone for weeks at a time, was sometimes implied to hit them, and openly shamed them especially Dean) as the only true hero. And also iirc a lot of shows and movies at that time centered around the theme of forgiving your abusive parent.

Two, in the previous season, we get an episode that canonically parallels the severe traumas of rape and physical child abuse.

Three, House never apologizes or forgives his dad. Yeah, he’s a misanthrope, so there’s a narrative excuse there, but he’s also allowed to do it. And he’s right about his dad not being his bio dad.

Four, for the above reasons, it is reasonable to view the narrative as being on House’s side. He goes because of extreme social pressures (which exist in the real world!) and, possibly, because his mom wants him there. But the narrative essentially says that his dad was a bad person and House shouldn’t have had to go. (With the possibly caveat of ‘[even shitty] funerals are sometimes a place to reconnect with living people you actually care about.’)

Part Two: Diegetic / In-Universe

House’s mom. This is really interesting, right? House’s mom is brought up over and over again. And the narrative thread is—she was abused, too. Should House connect with her? And if so, why and under what circumstances?

And what’s really interesting is, House doesn’t want to under the given circumstances. Because it means submitting to social mores he doesn’t agree with, including the circumspect of implying, “My dad was a good guy.”

But his mom doesn’t seem to see it quite the same way. “He’s not going to care [that we started late], Greg. He’s dead.” Essentially saying, this really isn’t about him. He’s dead.

So it’s this moral ambiguity again. Can and should House align with his also-abused mother? What would it cost him to do so? (And implied: childhood abuse can have lingering impacts forever, especially when people dismiss it because - the war is not over.)

To me, this episode is one of the examples where many characters take on roles as foils to expose a narrative theme. In this case: social pressure around “respecting your parents.” And I think it’s brilliantly done. I think when you have the overwhelming suffocating feeling of WHY ISN’T ANYONE LISTENING TO HIM

I think that’s EXACTLY the point

These motives are, to a degree, being placed on the characters. It’s extremely well-written, so it feels authentic, but to me it’s just as likely Chase would say “he shouldn’t have to go” and Cuddy with her mom would be more sympathetic. But the writers chose to unearth all the reasons each of them would put social pressures on House. And this happens to people in real life.

And of course, Wilson. It’s not inauthentic for Wilson. He’s doing two things at once. One, he’s playing out his own issues around social obligation. Two, he’s grabbing onto “I am socially obligated to be around House” like a lifeline.

Which leads us to the second theme of the episode, which is inherently true to the characters and deeply humanizing.

Complicated grief.

House’s grief is complicated because of social pressure. And he’s not sad his dad is dead—he’s sad that it changes nothing. Like he says to the kid with the facial deformity: “you can change your face, but you can’t change who your face made you.” House can change his circumstances. But he can’t change who they made him.

And Wilson’s grief is complicated because his girlfriend died suddenly, violently, unreasonably. And his best friend was deeply involved—in trying to save her and in her ultimate loss. He’s terrified of losing people and he almost lost them both. And because it’s Wilson, he represses, justifies, and misunderstands his own motives which makes everything harder. And it’s also deeply real. People compartmentalize. They misunderstand their own feelings.

So yeah! This episode is a twofer. One is meant to make you scream internally about the social pressures around funerals and abusive parents. The other is about complicated grief and mourning, and reconnecting despite and sometimes because of death.

The complexity gives me brain worms. I love this episode.

[deja-emtendu]

[housepilled]

the "i'm a middle-aged chinese woman" bit in birthmarks always reminds me of the john mulaney joke about delta airlines where he says: "and they go, 'you're a little fat girl, aren't you?' and i go, 'nooo,' and they go, 'SAY IT!' and i go, 'i'm a little fat girl!'"

[asclexe]

birthmarks is actually hilarious

watching s5 ep4 of house as we speak and screaming it’s so funny

[spoilers !!]

house is extra unhinged in this one, bro’s father died and he was damn ready to just continue the differential. cuddy girlbossing and sedating him + wilson AGREEING to drive him? wilson we know what you are.

yay gay people road trip !! house was also damn ready to piss in wilson’s car, no hesitation. but he respects wilson enough not and wait for the rest stop. and then we get chaos house and THEIR BACKSTORY??? they met in jail??? hello? that’s so silly of them

side note i love kutner and the patient’s bond, even if it’s barely highlighted it’s quite sweet.

help wilson is at the funeral too, what are you doing there you blorbo? and them talking about house’s daddy issues during the service, i’m dead (like john house)

HA I FORGOT HOUSE’S FIRST NAME IS GREGORY. NOT THE SILLY FNAF ORPHAN 💀💀

oop now we’re getting his eulogy, i love him shitting on his dad at his own funeral. HOUSE IS SHOWING EMOTION HOLY SHIT, THIS IS not A DRILL. oh it was acting. but still house can you stop denying your emotions and sob uncontrollably into wilson’s shoulder. we know you want to.

argument in front of a random dead lady <33 like guys just kiss already. and wilson throwing a glass into the window like how they met, so silly.

“this is fun, isn’t it?” KISS KISS KISS

and ofc the buddha was rigged. NEEDLES? um ouch. i fucking hate needles and the fact she’s had them in her brain her whole life makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

finally wilson and house are friends again (like they ever weren’t friends) gay people cannot stay mad at eachother for long.

[cherries-in-wine]

"your birthmarks are how you died in your last life" Tf is this shit behind my leg then?

[totopopopo]

down so bad for my friends that after spending time with them i just lie in bed on my phone zooming up on pictures of their beloved faces admiring every detail loving every detail wanting to bask in the beauty of their faces for eternity. they call me normal about my friends phoebe

[superdogbiter]

If you said yes say what it is and where is it

For me,it's a mole near my armpit

[mobiusmybeloved]

watching house s5ep4 was the first time I ever watched something and immediately thought "I want to rewind this and watch it again right now"

[ravencincaide]

Imagine if the birthmarks on your skin are your connection to your soulmate. When you’re a child the marks are the places they used to love kissing you in your past lives. Then as you grow older and meet anew in countless parallel universes your skin gets covered with new favorite places to kiss. A single kiss on the cheek has now become three. A kiss on the thigh has become two. Your arms are peppered in blank marks as they kiss each and every scar, each painful memory, each cry for help. All the imperfections or protruding veins are yet another favorite place to kiss. 

The only unfortunate part is that these kisses are things a million other versions of you experience. And not you- You.

You’re only left with the hallowing pain and the reminiscence of love through the growing number of marks. They remind you that you are loved- just not in this universe. 

[bugwolfsstuff]

I saw a tiktok that went 'birthmarks are the places your soulmate kisses most'

and I have a birthmark above my foot so like...

was my soulmate the arrow that killed Achilles, or?

[musicmags]

[housepilled]

in the same vein as some people watching movies to ring in the start of the new year, i'm watching birthmarks to ring in the start of pride month