#i started watching house md yesterday

[realbeefman]

the way i ship gay ships is undoubtedly kind of regressive and heavily influenced by my severe internalized homophobia but i can always count on my beloved mutuals to understand what i mean when i say things like “this 40 year old white man should be barefoot n pregnant in a kitchen cooking meals for his loving husband”

[jurassic-cunt]

wilson LOVES being house's only friend. if house made another friend wilson would do something totally insane like make up symptoms to have a mysterious illness only house can solve

[warlenys]

but i need you // cool about it, boygenius

[whydidoth]

Thinking about one of those soulmate aus where the pair experiences each other's pain from a medical perspective and how much that would screw up diagnosis and seeking treatment to begin with. Like, if you suddenly start having acute abdominal pain, would you bother going to the ER or would you just assume your soulmate got stabbed in the gut? And people who do genuinely have chronic pain syndromes that lack really obvious outward indicators would be even more likely to be dismissed by doctors because why order a panel to see if there's inflammation in the joints of a young person when occam's razor would suggest it's something the soulmate is experiencing. Would doctors opt to prescribe painkillers that are more associated with neurological/nerve pain like gabapentin since there's no actual injury for normal NSAIDS or acetaminophen to treat? Or would they be even less likely to treat pain since an allonormative perspective might fetishize experiencing pain as a way to be connected to their apparent fated love?

[oediex]

The reason House episodes are fun to watch is because they solve the riddle, right? There's a problem and a number of side streets are explored but eventually they hit the jackpot and at the end there is a treatment.

It's for the same reason that gaming is so fun. There's a puzzle that you have to figure out, even if it's just figuring out the right way to shoot the baddies who invariably deserve to be killed, until you make it to the next level.

It's dopamine hits. You're rewarded to stick it out until the end and you know that it's coming, so you do stick it out. Arguably watching a tv episode doesn't require you to do much, but depending on the difficulty setting you've introduced - and I happen to like the highest one - gaming does.

Now the question is - are we supposed to find ways in life to get the dopamine hit? Is that how you stick with something? Is that how you get disciplined? How to get things done? Or is it about finding the same fulfilment and reward even when the neurotransmitter is lacking? Is my brain supposed to work in other ways too?

[housemdork]

i want to share with you guys the house md web that i’m surrounded by irl. this is how it started:

my sister falls in love with robert sean leonard in december 2024. when i’m home from school for christmas, we watch dps together. i cry. i agree that he’s very cute.

i return to school. i see that infamous “house md out of context” tweet about 4x16. i say to myself, “it’s been a while since your medical trauma. why not give this a go.” i watch 2 seasons in about 10 days.

i tell my friends at work. several of whom have seen disparate episodes. one starts watching it in order for the first time.

my supervisor asks for tv show recommendations if i have any. i tell her to watch house md. she does so, remembering fondly when it aired back in the 2000s.

my sister and i tell our mom, a huge house md fan, that we’ve been watching it in order and that wilson is our favorite. she starts rewatching it in order, along with our stepdad.

i tell my dnd friends since we always share tv show recommendations. i find out yesterday that they got thru season 1 in about 2 weeks.

my sister’s roommate and their mutual friend have both begun watching.

my friends who don’t watch the show but know that i love it are sending me endless instagram reels of edits, clips, etc.

house is everywhere. house is eternal.

[humanteethmarksonhumanbone]

ive started watching house md,

pro: its fun

con: i convinced myself i had anthrax yesterday

[jameswilsonsupremacy]

started testosterone yesterday!! celebrated by watching House MD, s8 ep13 (Man of the House) so I could hear Taub say “T time!”

[redgoldblue]

Fic Writing Review 2023 🌈

tagged by @itwoodbeprefect - i have also been thinking about this so thank you for taking the initiative!

tagging @faorism @gallantrejoinder if you'd care to do this in any form (including as writing/art review)!

Words and Fics (on ao3) 📚

words posted: 52,220, apparently. Which is actually... basically last year's but minus 10k because I didn't do H50 Big Bang this year, because med school. most things in my life now can be stated as 'because med school'. (actually I just realised I didn't do it last year either, but that was because I was already finishing a 10k H50 fic. so my point stands)

fics posted: either 6 or 29, depending on whether one counts the advent calendar as one fic or 24. plus 3 posted only on Tumblr.

first fic: love don't treat you like that (babe, I'm letting you know) (H50). on the NINTH of january, apparently. i've already lost my first-fic-of-the-year contest to last year, unless i unexpectedly finish something today.

last fic: Advent Calendar 2023 / ...Zaph Kilkane, the pre-eminent climate scientist of the 22nd century...

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Ships and Fandoms ⚓

would you believe I literally did not repeat a fandom this year, outside of the advent calendar. and this year's AC had the most fandoms since 2019.

Hawaii Five-0 (McDanno)

NCIS: LA (Sallen)

Starsky & Hutch (S/H)

House MD (Hilson)

MASH (Punnihawk)

and then AC-only ones:

Star Trek (Spirk)

The Man From UNCLE (Napollya)

911 (Buddie)

Due South (i don't know ship names. are there ship names? Fraser/RayK)

Good Omens (Azcrow)

Leverage (thiefsome)

Almost Paradise (Ernesto/Alex. alesto. i'm coining it)

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Top 5 Fics by Kudos 🏆

I mean, I have 6 posted fics that can be kudosed separately.

love don't treat you like that (babe, I'm letting you know) (H50)

When You're Loving Me (That's When I'm Loving You) (NCIS: LA)

Advent Calendar 2023 (see above. nine fandoms)

my powers of expression and thoughts so sublime / could never do you justice in reason or rhyme (House MD)

Finding A Cure In You (S&H)

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Top 5 Favorite Fics 💖

okay, I'm going to count distinct chapters of the advent calendar for this. in no particular order and subject to mood change:

When You're Loving Me (That's When I'm Loving You) (NCIS: LA) - I cited this as a contender for my favourite fic I've written a couple months ago, so obviously it has to go in the year's. what can i say, fake dating is an immaculate trope, and this also all came onto the page very easily which is always vaguely miraculous.

there you go pulling me right back in (H50) - sometimes vague prompts i've had down for ages write up as something that's. fine, but a bit clunky, and I just have to move on bc it's the advent calendar and a new fic each day. sometimes I start writing them and they spring into life with joyous delight. or in this case, uninhibited grumpiness and love.

singing yesterday's songs wishing i could be with you tonight (MASH) - the one that didn't make it into the top 5 kudosed, I assume partially due to being locked and partially due to being a serious tone, not terribly shippy, and Peg POV. But I've had some version or other of it for a long time, it's one of those stories I'm genuinely proud of, and I was glad to finally post it.

Totally Normal (Due South) - it's fun. it was fun. I was slightly nervous about it, because the only prior Due South thing I'd written was Dief POV and this was Fraser and RayK POV and the first time writing either of those, but it turns out watching + liveblogging four and two seasons, respectively, of a character in four months is. enough to cement their voices in my head. it was unexpectedly easy and also. fun.

Festive Spice (MUNCLE) - i just think it epitomises the advent calendar. in the words of coolbreezemage, 'yesssss bake cakes and kiss your partner'.

HMs:

Finding A Cure In You (S&H) - this doesn't make it to the above list due to the fact that I haven't actually managed to reread it since I posted it. but just for the amount of time I spent with it, how different it is to my usual M.O. of writing, and the weird way I wrote it (entirely in the notes app, with almost zero rereading while writing), I have to somehow mention it.

A Thousand Words / To Be Spared (Good Omens) - I don't know if they're favourite but I do think they're good. and the format of to be spared was pleasingly experimental and i think it worked.

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Fandom Fic Events 🤝

also the Starsky & Hutch SHarecon zine! which the zine still holds copyright on, but will be posted in April.

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Projects for 2024 👀

mmm gonna sort this differently and also ramble

Ones that will definitely be finished in 2024 and if they aren't you have free rein to come to my house and tie me to a chair come November: MUNCLE wip, The Unwitting Truth Affair/The Honesty Affair, I haven't actually decided which title yet;

Starsky & Hutch, the still-unnamed Huggy & Pete wip.

Ones I have both hope and some amount of faith will be finished in 2024 and if they aren't you have free rein to come into my inbox and harass me about them: Hawaii Five-0 wip, Much Ado About Something (*salutes squares*);

other Hawaii Five-0 wip, state of disrepair. yes, I'm manifesting state of disrepair 2024. probably november/december 2024, but i'm manifesting it anyway;

Leverage wip, all that I want is a kind heart to haunt

Ones I would like to be finished in 2024, and if my brain decides it likes them might be, but all you have free rein for is to politely ask me about them once per business month: Hawaii Five-0 cath/steve/danny pwp, Wait A Minute Let Me Take You There;

horny S&H wip, Previews Of Your Body Driving Me Insane;

S&H Vanessa coda, so cordial / so rotten (don't ask me);

Good Omens wip, love won't you be as you've always been

Ones I don't expect to finish in 2024 but would like to get some words down in: angsty S&H wip, Relentless As The Rain;

ridiculous undercover H50 wip, Four Seasons of Love;

other ridiculous H50 wip, The Irritating, Annoying, Infuriating, (Effective) Seduction Techniques of One Steven J. McGarrett;

SPN ..wip? depending on the time limit on 'progress'?, Smells Like Turpentine.

vague thoughts: i'd like to write a full-length (for whatever value of that. the AC ones actually were full-length, especially the second one, but what I really mean is AC-independent) due south fic. they're very weird and i enjoyed writing them, and I'd also like to write something with RayV in it. maybe if I successfully inspired @itwoodbeprefect to write new ds, when she does that it will inspire me to write something, and we can set up a ping-pong game. no, wait, that's mixing fandoms.

I expect more MUNCLE fic. this one's already 3.5k and rocketing along, and i'm only two-thirds of the way through season 1. what form that will take i don't know at this stage but we'll see.

....i was discussing the vague concept of house/h50 crossover fic with squares literally yesterday and on the one hand I haven't written a crossover since 2014 and also don't want that to be my legacy, but on the other hand i think there is at least a 50% chance it's going to stick in the back of my brain and keep niggling.

[sacredglitch]

love this unconscious knowledge I get for fandoms

started House MD the last few days (currently on s3) after an urge to watch it came out of the blue

turns out yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the show

not the first time this has happened and I'm certain this won't be the last time it happens

[runituptheflagpole]

i didnt know we were house md mutuals as well! (as in we both like the show)

i just started watching yesterday actually haha, your house md posts worked

[itsbetterthananal]

i started watching house MD yesterday and im literally already on episode 12. new fixation incoming

[asknarashikari]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pvbp12scQQ These people show up, comforting a grieving husband who just came to the city a month ago.

They showed up for the funeral rites of the husband's wife, who he lost in a fire.

Whereas Ace and Neon couldn't be bothered to check on their "friend".

Sorry, my saltiness for that scene just manifested tenfold when I saw that clip yesterday.

Me seeing Jesse Spencer: Chase that you

(Yes I was a House MD kid lol)

But yeah I feel you.

When my best friend's dad died, it was early morning on a holiday when she told our friend group. I saw the message before anyone else, and I didn't bother even washing my face or anything before I started attempting to contact her. I spent an hour trying to call her, messaging her, texting our other friends if they've managed to contact her.

When we finally got ahold of her we all made sure she knew she could call us up anytime if she needed to, or tell us if she needed help with anything.

We would've all gone to see her, but her dad died from covid and she was under quarantine as a close contact. And she also lived out of town, so we couldn't travel with the restrictions in place at the time. We would've gone to the funeral if we could, but again, plague times.

So yeah, it was a bit personal for me to see Ace and Neon kinda dithering about while Keiwa was stewing in grief. Like, jfc you could've fucking called him at least. At least give it the bare minimum of effort even if he may not respond!

[mickeyavenue]

February 5, 2025.

It’s been a while. I got new Medds and that helped so I wasn’t doing this so much. Plus my wisdom teeth were removed and that’s taken a lot of my energy.

At this point this blog may be a way to document my dad’s behaviour. I think he is dangerous. I am scared to be around him.

Yesterday, he and I had a conversation where I just tried to explain how he has hurt me. How his behaviour, no matter what mental illness or what disorders he has, is inexcusable and cruel. He just had excuses and deflected all blame onto others. Since then he has become more volatile.

He keeps taking food/drinks from mom. He does pay for these groceries. I’m specifically talking about snacks and sodas. Things he does not need. Anyways, the issue there is he was asked to either help pay for these groceries or get his own. He instead waits until mom is asleep and takes food. He tapes up the Fresca cases to make it look like he didn’t take any. This is the most tame stuff. He was blasting music and whistling to annoy mom bc he thinks this is unfair.

He continues to yell and call names. Today he was saying something to G, thanking him for a conversation they had earlier (idk what that conversation was. It’s mentioned that it may be about when and where to talk to him). G kinda shit down the conversation that dad was trying to have. Just being like ‘I don’t want to talk right now’, not irregular for him. Then dad was in the kitchen. It seemed like he was continuing the conversation but only to himself. Made some comments like “sorry I was interrupting you. I know you have so much on your plate” it was sarcastic in tone and with context (we were about to watch a show). He went like that for a bit then called g a dickhead and practically punched the light switch to turn off the kitchen light.

Later K was upstairs getting the pringles picked up for them. They asked if we had taken any bc they were for them specifically. G said he had bc mom said it was fine. I told K I hadn’t and asked how much was gone. They said about half the can. I asked G if he had taken half the can, he said no. So I said it was probably dad. Mom could’ve but she knew k had missed them last time and had been snacking on popcorn and candy, so it seemed unlikely. K goes back to their room downstairs, where dad is. I think k must’ve asked dad if he took any and dad lost it. I could hear him yelling. I couldn’t hear k unless I was at the basement door, even then I’m unsure if it was k speaking. But dad was yelling so much, cursing and all that, g and I decided to head upstairs early. We usually stay until midnight, or at least a few episodes of house md but we didn’t even finish one.

I think saying what I did yesterday is what triggered this episode from him. I feel fucking awful. I’m starting to hate him which just makes me feel worse. I miss my dad. I miss when he was nice and approachable. Now he’s so mean. I’m scared of him. As scared as I am to move, I can’t wait for it to happen bc I just can’t live like this any more.

[housemdork]

i've fled here because i was subjecting my poor twitter followers to live tweets about my house md journey. i've never watched it before, started a week ago yesterday. so i'll be live blogging/thought dumping here, starting at the halfway point of s3!

[zalrb]

(soa anon) I continued my House MD watch yesterday and I watched the first episode of season seven and was reminded of something else I love about House and Cuddy. The way he cares about the hospital and what it means to her is so special to me. Like there was that quarantine episode where he referred to it as “Cuddy's baby" then at the beginning of s7, Chase and Thirteen go to get the sick neurosurgeon from his house (on House's order) because the hospital will be shut down without a NS present then they start diagnosing him and Thirteen calls the hospital “their patient” and I don't mean to ramble but I just think they're neat.

Oh for sure, the way that things that didn't really matter to House start to matter to him because he's in a relationship with her is done well and organically, it's sweet.