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[housethemd]

Do you ever think about House’s apartment?

Specifically his decor choices.

House’s apartment is filled with old books and comfortable furniture and knickknacks. There is even the island in his kitchen which is clearly something he’s chosen for that space, not something the place came with.

From the art on the walls to the funky lamps to the furniture - they are all things House picked. He’s lived in that apartment for over 15 years and Stacy moved in with HIM. He is particular about his space and his belongings.

Every crevice of his home is filled with his personality. Unlike Wilson, who struggles to furnish a home as a reflection of himself, House has made his place scream that it’s his. He didn’t go to Ikea and buy mass-market furniture. Most of his belongings appear to be antiques or at least unique things that he would have found at maybe pawn shops (where we know he frequents) or perhaps thrift or antique stores. Not to mention all his musical instruments like his piano and guitars.

The same actually goes for his office at PPTH. He has his comfortable chair and his desk knickknacks (which if you look closely are animal skulls) and his old TV.

It’s interesting to me that as much as House struggles to open up about himself to others verbally, any space he occupies regularly becomes filled with evidence of who he is.

[oddlittlestories]

Your wip Three scenarios has me intrigued!! Care to share some about it? 😀

- housethemd

Ooh yes absolutely thank you for asking!

So this is a Wilson POV fic that parallels 1x21 Three Stories.

We don’t see Wilson in the flashbacks to House’s infarction, and I have decided it’s because he wasn’t there which begs the question Why.

In three planned chapters, which I have outlined, I explore three scenarios of why Wilson wasn’t there, and the impact on his perspective on each situation.

[housethemd]

Ouu okay!

Currently on repeat I have:

Waving Through The Window - Dear Evan Hansen Original Broadway Cast

Red Line - Geordie Kieffer

Way Less Sad - AJR

Tank! - Seatbelts

St. James Infirmary - Hugh Laurie

Cotton Candy - Yungblud

Before You Go - Lewis Capaldi

Time Of Our Lives - Tyrone Wells

I’ll Be Good - Jaymes Young

My most played artists of this year are: Seatbelts, Yungblud, Hugh Laurie, My Chemical Romance, and Fall Out Boy!

I also got really into Lofi Girl on YouTube as music to listen to while I’m writing!!

I’m tagging @queersolar @thefandomlesbian and @lovelenivy (if you want too, no pressure at all!!!)

Tagged by @hugh-lauries-bald-spot to share a few songs I like and pass it on

I'm gonna choose some songs from my wrapped so I can't pretend like I have cool taste in music lol Until the Day You Die; Abney Park, Shock Treatment; Richard O'Brien, 1816 The Year Without a Summer; Rasputina, Viva! Sea-Tac; Robyn Hitchcock, Life At Last; Ray Kennedy, Inside of You In Spite of You; Thoushaltnot, Masculine Women Feminine Men; Irving Kaufman, Saint Bernard; Lincoln

Tagging @kermit-p-hob-brainrot @halloweenriot @inocent-doodles @ghost-in-fools-garments @friedfriedchicken and anyone else who wants to

[greghatecrimes]

A while ago, I made a post about what I think the PPTH gang would order at Starbucks. This post by @housethemd had me thinking Coffee Thoughts again about House & co., so here are some thoughts about what I think it would be like to have them as customers in my cafe.

At work, there's regulars (people that come in often enough that I recognize their face), and there's THE regulars (customers that come in so regularly that I know their name, order, a couple details about their life/them as a person, and usually have a pleasant conversation with while they're ordering). For this, I'm operating under the assumption that all of the House characters would fall into the latter group (because they're all doctors at a busy hospital. Any hospital job usually goes for so. much. caffeine).

Cameron probably comes in the most frequently out of anyone, but the baristas would all know her solely as Allie. She'd be one of the regulars that makes having the early-morning opening shift worth it, because she's genuinely always happy to talk with you (and almost always carries cash so she can give you a tip directly). She'd ask how you're doing and remember little details from your conversations (like music you said you liked, or your major/degree if you ever mentioned college). She has a favorite drink for every season (Pumpkin Spice Lattes for fall, Peppermint Mochas for winter, etc.) and is so consistent with her orders that at every open, whoever's working marks a cup for her drink and sets it aside for when she comes in. At least once during "buy one get one half off" sales, she'd buy two of whatever's on sale just to give the second one (or both) to whoever's working at the time.

Chase would probably come in at least a couple of times per week. For some reason, he'd make his appointed Starbucks/café name "Bob" instead of Robert/Rob/Robbie, and every single barista he's met would agree that "there's no way his name is actually Bob. He's way too attractive for that." My coworkers (somewhat surprisingly, not a group of college-aged girls. We are a group of incredibly gay and/or trans 20-somethings LMAO) would absolutely talk about how hot he is when he's not around and swoon over the accent (if there's a list of Hottest Regulars, he's absolutely #1). He'd mention having a girlfriend and order coffee for her occasionally, but everyone would refuse to believe she existed until they saw her for themselves. One day he'd come in with Cameron, and it would make the barista group text explode. (Bob and Allie know each other? And not only that, but Bob and Allie are actually... Bob-And-Allie?! Allie is the mysterious girlfriend?!) There would be full on MOURNING. At least one person would joke about calling in sick from the grief of Aussie Golden Retriever Boyfriend's girlfriend being real. Inexplicably, he'd enjoy Taylor Swift's music and the baristas would love him even more for that.

More characters to come in another post :) I'm thinking probably House, Wilson, and Cuddy next? (Also: thank you to @samathekittycat for your tags on the reblog of the House frappuccino post; it was a small thing but the eyes emoji gave me the motivation to get a bunch of stuff done so I could come back and write this, lol)

[suhossineun]

32 + 35 for House and 48 + 49 for Wilson!!

- Housethemd

32: something guaranteed to make them smile/laugh

I mean there is one easy answer- james evan wilson. it doesn't matter what they're talking about, wilson always makes him smile the most genuine, carefree smile. and monster trucks, I'd imagine. I mean this is a really boring answer but it's true!

35: their idea of a perfect day

ideally- a day without pain. house is willing to go to extreme lengths to avoid pain, and he's a different person when he's pain free. anything else on top of that is a nice bonus; monster truck rally, getting a $12,000 guitar, getting high on something new and exciting, converting a priest to atheism.

48 scariest moment of their life

this is a tough one! wilson is always worried for house and house certainly gets up to a lot of stupid shit, but I don't know if wilson is ever scared for him. maybe the days they spent trying to save amber- he was scared then, of making the wrong decisions, of her dying, and it's that fear that clouded his judgment in an awful, awful way.

49 favorite toy as a child

I feel like wilson would have really enjoyed legos, like the really tiny ones that you can build like the death star with. I mean, canonically he might be too old to have had that stuff, I'm not sure when lego started doing collabs with star wars and stuff, but let's just pretend. house makes a comment about wilson having been a nerdy child who spent most of his time watching obscure tv shows, so I feel like this would tie in well.

[bluemoonperegrine]

Hat tip to @housethemd for the "if I got possessed" text post

[long-days-pleasant-nights]

@housemdgiftexchange

@housethemd

I bring you holiday cheer in fic form!

[lovelenivy]

Hey! I’m @housethemd (this is my main blog) and I just wanted to tell you that I only just realized that you are PewDiePie on AO3.

I have read your fics for Haikyuu, Sherlock, and House MD!! You are one of my favourite multifandom writers!! Once I realized that I just had to to tell you!

OH WAIT FR ?? that's so cool omg ???? thank you so much !!! (': <3

[team-sleeps]

This scene always makes me laugh because Same but @housethemd 's tags were so real I had to rb them

[housethemd]

[oddlittlestories]

42 + 44 for House, 27 + 37 for Wilson!!

- Housethemd (can’t ask from a sideblog, how annoying)

@housethemd

Ooh making me work for it with Wilson

House

3 comfort items:

The softball canon answer is (1) his ball of unknown origin (2) his motorcycle and (3) his instruments. (Add to that his t-shirt collection, his favorite fruit apron, and his assortment of desk items collected randomly over time. House is a secret collector. He loves his things.)

But I think I can push it further with 3 fun headcanons / fan ideas.

1. Favorite book—maybe Moby Dick (for obsession and a flight of fancy, characters who are even more intense than he is as a way of release) or Twelfth Night (yearning and gender fuckery plus you know he was that kid who devoured Shakespeare in middle school just to prove he could). For a genuinely “really, Bee,” option—the collected works of Sherlock Holmes. There are lots of Sherlock adaptations House wouldn’t relate to but the original works are not one. Anyways whatever it is it would be some old fancy volume with paper thin pages and a leather binding. Smells great. Feels great. Looks great on the shelf. He’s read it so many times he can quote from it so he doesn’t pull it out much anymore.

2. Weighted blanket. This man would love and needs a weighted blanket, but maybe he has one already. He would use it an unreasonable amount. Imagine the Ducklings rolling up to ask him a question and he’s in Thinking Mode but with a weighted blanket.

3. French press. He likes the way it makes coffee, it’s copper and he likes the way it looks. He likes the ritual of it. Yeah. French press.

Also he should have a tiny comfy (as much as possible) folding chair in his kitchen. Just saying.

His happiest memory:

I think this strongly depends on what time in his life we’re talking about, so I’m gonna play with that a bit.

Pre-infarction: the paintball game with Stacy. Can you imagine the sexually-tense snarking? The glowing feeling of meeting someone who implicitly understands you - or at least can match your blunt deviousness? A fun way to meet someone so much like you.

Post-infarction to s3: I like to think that somewhere in there was a fun & tender moment with Wilson that something reminds him of and makes him smile on occasion.

s4-5: his whole relationship with Kutner tbqh. Kutner blowing up patients. Kutner switching to no. 9. Screwing with Kutner in the cat episode.

s6: when Wilson buys the organ.

Thereafter I think his happiest memory is doing the spud gun thing with Thirteen and when she tells him that promising to kill her was the best way she’d ever been loved.

Wilson

Guilty pleasure:

I’m just gonna redefine this as “embarrassing pleasure” for my own sake.

Canon: Telenovelas. Look at his defensiveness. Look at the plea in his voice when he begs for the season finale. This man is not learning Spanish. He knows Spanish. And loves telenovelas.

Headcanon: stuffed animals. He doesn’t keep any in the house for a long period of time, but he buys them as gifts as often as possible. He can’t help but anthropomorphize them and likes to hug them and do funny voices. If he was more able to allow himself to do what he wants and fly in the face of convention, he’d have quite a few. (Not hundreds or anything, bc he’d connect with each one, but maybe four or five. They’d live on the bed or the couch.)

What he really thinks about himself:

See now this is the tough one. So many (all?) of the House MD characters are layers within layers, and Wilson is tough bc he’s often unaware of what’s going on with himself. So what he *really* thinks of himself? Hmm.

I think he thinks he deserves better in so many situations. I think sometimes he might be waiting for someone to save him, that if he’s good enough maybe he’ll deserve it & it’ll happen. I think he believes he has to be as giving of a person as he can be or else he is committing a crime / causing harm / not fulfilling his moral and ethical responsibilities. I think he knows he goes above and beyond but is terrified that isn’t true. (And I do think the one hc that he has moral perfectionism OCD makes a lot of sense.)

[housethemd]

Finally customized my blog so it looks like it’s actually run by a human being 😂

[queersolarfandompage]

@housethemd This meme is heavily influenced by by the fic you wrote. I think about it every time Wilson is written as both drunk and horny. It is such a good fic!!!!!

If you haven’t read their fic yet you really should. I’d 100% recommend it. I think about it way too much.

[housethemd]

So in the episode where House is on methadone

Everyone is trying to figure out what’s going on with House, why he’s being nice, etc etc and eventually Wilson is just like “he’s on heroin.”

The surety with which Wilson says this really struck me. Like Wilson doesn’t just suggest House must on drugs that aren’t Vicodin, doesn’t even merely suggest House could be on heroin. No he says with absolute certainty that House is on heroin.

The only way Wilson could be so sure, would be if he’s seen House on heroin before.

Now while I’m quite convinced that House was an occasional recreational drug user prior to the infarction, heroin usually isn’t a drug you might take just for fun at a party every now and again. This leads me to believe that sometime in the early days post infarction is the most likely time House used heroin.

I’m imagining Wilson showing up after work to check on House. Stacy left weeks ago and House is still dealing with that on top of healing and being newly disabled so he’s been in a pretty god awful mood that only Wilson seems to be able to tolerate.

But when Wilson gets there House is in a better mood. Not just a better mood, he’s happy. Wilson knows immediately something is going on.

“What did you do? What did you take?” He’d ask. He knows people’s moods don’t change overnight like that, so either House took something or he’s planning to kill himself. Both are equally possible given his recent trauma and mental state, and Wilson needs to figure out which.

“What? Nothing. Well Vicodin but you know I’ve got a prescription for that.” House would reply, waggling his finger in Wilson’s direction like this is all some kind of joke.

Wilson frantically searches through everything within arms reach of House. Thankfully even with his better mood House can’t move very quickly, and Wilson manages to unearth a bag, and dashes out of House’s reach to open it. It’s filled with powder and syringes and Wilson has done enough ER shifts to know what it is.

“No, House. No. How did you even get this?” He’d ask, shocked.

“It’s easy when you know the right places to go.” House would say, not looking at Wilson anymore.

“The right places to… House you can barely get from the couch to the bathroom how the hell did you get this?”

“I guess I was sufficiently motivated.”

And Wilson’s heart breaks. He doesn’t have it in him to be mad at his friend. His life is upside down and House has never been good with change. Wilson does throw away the needles and flush the drugs and it pisses House off (“Do you know how much I paid for that?”) but once House calms down he makes House swear never again, that he won’t go down that road. Wilson says he’ll do anything, even write him more Vicodin prescriptions if he just promises not to use heroin again.

And House promises.

So when House is suddenly in an unexplainably good mood years later, Wilson thinks he knows exactly what’s going on. He’s angry, House promised. Wilson held up his end of the deal for the most part, so he comes up with a plan to catch House and make him admit to it.

But we all know how that plays out.

[housethemd]

Do You Ever Think About Life at PPTH After House and Wilson Ride Off into the Sunset?

Foreman continues on as Dean of Medicine, makes Chase the Head of Diagnostics. The hospital gets a new Head of Oncology.

Chase gets fellows of his own, who ask him what it was like working for Dr. Greg House. He argues with Foreman over medical treatments and diagnoses. Every time the need an oncology consult things just don’t feel right.

Sometimes Chase goes into Foreman’s office when cases are particularly hard and says he doesn’t think he can solve it without House. He almost always does.

Time goes by. Ten years, twenty. There are few left at PPTH who remember House and Wilson. The fellows no longer ask what working for House was like because few have heard of him. “Everybody lies” becomes known as Dr. Chase’s catchphrase. He and Foreman don’t correct people anymore.

But a couple times a year, late at night, Chase and Foreman will sit on the balcony that connects Chase’s office to the Head of Oncology’s office. They drink scotch and smoke cigars and reminisce about “the good old days.” They can’t believe they call them that.

Foreman has long believed House faked his death, he had to have left that ID card for him for a reason, right? Chase was never sure what he believed, but even if it was true it was two decades ago. Wilson only had five months, and House wouldn’t have lasted long without him. They are both long gone now.

But after a few drinks, both Chase and Foreman find that if they sit quietly on that balcony and close their eyes, they can almost hear House and Wilson in their respective offices. For a brief moment it’s almost thirty years earlier, and House and Wilson will soon emerge from and discuss dinner or patients or whatever else those two best friends spoke about.

Like ghosts, a part of House and Wilson will never leave PPTH.

At least for as long as Eric Foreman and Robert Chase remain.

[housethemd]

So I have a headcanon that House has some issues with food.

Mainly he is very particular about what he eats, and stress/pain exasperate this. It’s why when he’s home alone he mostly eats peanut butter sandwiches and canned soup. It’s predictable, safe, and easy because it doesn’t take him long to make so he doesn’t have to stand for very long.

Now imagine he and and Wilson get together and Wilson moves in. Of course Wilson would immediately take over cooking duties.

He makes meals for them taking into account the foods he knows House likes, the way he likes them cooked, and makes healthy meals based on those as foundations.

He also realizes House responds better to food when presented with small portion sizes. He realizes it’s why House steals food off his plate at work instead of buying his own portion - it’s too much, too overwhelming.

So he starts serving House’s meals on smaller plates. There is an immediate difference in the amount House eats. As opposed to picking at his plate and eating very little like usual, he finishes all his food and even sometimes asks if there is any more. Wilson gladly brings him seconds of whatever foods he requests.

He will also sometimes make new things or cook foods he knows House has had issues with just in a different way, but always as a side. He’ll explain to House what the food is, how it was cooked, what seasonings he used if any, the texture of it, and what foods it’s similar to. Instead of putting it on House’s plate for him to try, he serves himself a generous portion and tells House he can try it off his plate if he likes. Sometimes House says no, and Wilson never pushes House to try it. After a while House starts to stick his fork in the new foods. Wilson even encourages him to touch the food if he wants a better idea of it’s texture. With a safe, pressure free environment to try new foods House discovers a few new things he likes.

On nights when House has had a really stressful day, or a bad pain day, and he says he doesn’t want to eat Wilson will make one of House’s safe meals and serve himself a big plate of it and just sit next to House on the couch, knowing House is likely to steal bits of it off his plate. House doesn’t eat a lot of it, but it’s better than him going to bed with no supper.

Basically just Wilson taking very good care of his “picky eater” boyfriend, because he understands his needs and strives to help him be healthy without pushing his boundaries!!