#not everybody dies

[irrelevant-86]

I want a Mostly Everyone Lives AU!!!

Like after the events of the first Life Is Strange game (wether Max chose to sacrifice the Bay or save it) Max decides fuck this I’m not accepting this shit. And she uses her powers again.

The first thing she does is travel back in time and save Chloe’s dad. After that she then uses old pictures of herself from over the 5 years she was gone from Arcadia Bay to put certain things in motion. She leaves notes for her younger self, guiding her to do things. She makes sure her younger self keeps in contact with Chloe after she leaves Arcadia.

We’re never told exactly when Chloe’s accident is in the alternate timeline where her dad lives. So I’m just gonna say for the point of this au it happens like near the end of the summer (about a month before school would start back up). So Max uses her time travel powers to set up with her parents and Chloe’s parents that every summer Max goes back to Arcadia Bay for a week near the end of the summer (the same week that Chloe’s accident is supposed to take place), and stays with the Price’s. So Max winds up being there the day the accident is supposed to happen and manages to pull Chloe into doing something else. Because of this Chloe isn’t in her car and doesn’t get run off the road and doesn’t get paralyzed.

Because of her being in constant contact with Chloe and Chloe not getting into the accident, Max also gets to meet and befriend Rachel alongside Chloe. Most of Max’s relationship with Rachel is through the phone and FaceTime. Chloe meets Rachel the school year before Max comes back to Arcadia, so this version of Max has a whole year to get to know Rachel. And Max has left notes and hints for her younger self to protect Rachel and Kate from Jefferson. And thanks to Chloe’s dad not dying, and keeping in contact with Max the whole time, and having Rachel there, Chloe doesn’t rebel as much as in the original timeline. She still gets her blue hair, but she doesn’t get in trouble at school, and keeps her grades up and doesn’t get kicked out.

The next change Max makes is that summer right before Max came back to Arcadia Bay. We know Max came back sometime in September when school started up. And by then Rachel was already dead. And she disappeared sometime between the end of the previous school year and the beginning of the school year when Max came back. So again I’m gonna say she died within that last month of the summer. So Max, knowing that that year she’s going to be going to BlackWell and that she’ll be having her annual end of the summer week at the Price’s, convinces her parents and the Price’s to let her stay with them for the whole of that month till school starts up.

With Max there in Arcadia Bay with Chloe and Rachel, she’s able to keep Rachel far away from Jefferson. Maybe even manages to expose him and his plots to the police before the school year starts up. Because Jefferson, and Nathan since he helped Jefferson, have been caught the whole Nathan shoots Chloe in the bathroom doesn’t happen.

Max also makes sure to find a way to get a lot of people to the lighthouse on the day of the storm just in case it still happens. Maybe she manages to convince the Vortex Club to have their end of the world party at the lighthouse the night the storm is supposed to happen. And maybe she finds a way to get the Price’s out of town as well for the night. And she even manages to, with the help of Rachel, get Frank and his dog out of town as well.

The storm does happen cause Max fucked with time and the storm is the price of that. Some people that are in town still die during the storm. And the town gets wrecked. But Max is able to save a lot more people this time around! Classes wind up going mostly online for a couple months while the school fixes the damages done to it during the storm. Max, Rachel, and Chloe all graduate together. And then that summer the three of them leave Arcadia Bay for the last time.

Chloe’s parents decide to move away from Arcadia as well after their house was destroyed in the storm. They move out pretty close to where Max’s parents are. And the three girls get their wish to leave Arcadia behind, and they get to do it together!!!

[melblancscream]

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[wilsons-three-legged-siamese]

NOBODYS MENTIONED THIS AHH

SO, THE PILOT OF HOUSE IS CALLED PILOT RIGHT?

FUCKING WRONGGGGGGGG

ITS CALLEDD EVERYBODY LIES.

AND WHATS THE FINALE CALLED???

EVERYBODY DIES.

im going mental WHAT is this show?????

OH AND, PEOPLE LIE A LOT IN THE FIRST EPISODE, INCLUDING WILSON WHERE HE SAYS THE PATIENT IS HIS COUSIN WHEN SHE ISNT.

THEN HOUSE LIES IN THE FINALE ABOUT DYING

ACTUALLY WHAT

[chucktaylorupset]

I think there's something to be said for fanfiction that loves canon in a way that’s rude. Like thank you for this wonderful thematic tragedy made out of this character’s entire arc ending in death, it was emotionally and intellectually moving, but also fuck you fuck you fuck you they live, this time and every time they live, they never died, their flaws are not their undoing, actually they have no flaws, actually they save everyone, actually who cares about a story, any story, where this one dies, actually i cared about that story so much i made a new one, actually i cared so much i unmade the old one, you gave me morals and i left them for the mortal, but they’re mine now and i will never let them die, actually thank you, actually fuck you, strongly worded letter to follow

A kiss for canon and spit in its face all at once, it’s great

[v1codn]

no you DONT know queer pain unless you've seen the end scene in the series finale of hit 2004 show house md everybody lies when you realize house and wilson are simply now a shell of what they once were ending as they had began, freeing each other from cells they didn't want to be in with bail money they didn't have but at least they were together when it all went to shit

[imfinereallyy]

“The demon is back.” Eddie pokes into Steve’s side to wake him up.

“Babe, please go back to sleep.” Steve shoves his face into the pillow, making his voice muffled.

“Steeeeve.” Eddie whines, “It’s really there I swear this time. And I locked the door so I know it’s the demon again. Nothing else can get inside.”

“Eddie.” Steve squishes his face even deeper into the mattress. “You do this at least once a week. I love you; I do. But I never look because there is no demon. And every morning, you wake up fine. So please, go back to sleep.”

“What if I promise never to mention it again if it’s not really there? Will you look then?” This time Eddie’s voice wavers, his actual terror showing.

Steve sighs and shifts his head to look at Eddie, “This is really freaking you out, huh?” He says it kindly. Steve can tell this is serious to Eddie. So even if he doesn’t believe it, Eddie does. And what’s important to Eddie is important to Steve.

Eddie nods back furiously.

“Okay, I’ll look.” Steve shifts his head towards the other side, where the chair by the window sits. There, sitting in that corner is a dark shadowy figure. “Oh.”

“See! I told you! Demon! Oh god, it’s gonna get us.” Eddie throws his hands up. Even though he’s terrified, he’s accepted defeat.

“No.” Steve says calmly. “It’s just El.”

Eddie pauses his rant, “What?”

“It’s just El. In the corner. She does that sometimes, watches people she cares about until she falls asleep. To make sure they’re safe.” Steve looks at Eddie.

“The door was locked! How are you so calm about one of the kids just watching us at night?”

“Honey, she has mind powers. I don’t think a flimsy lock from Home Depot is going to stop her.” Steve deadpans before shrugging, “And it’s El. She could ask me to kill a man, and I probably wouldn’t even ask questions.”

“What if she asked you to kill me?”

“I’d be conflicted.”

“I want to be mad, but honestly I think I’d hand you the knife.” Eddie sighs, looking down at Steve.

Steve scoffs, “Don’t be ridiculous. I wouldn’t stab you. I’d obviously sneak some kind of poison into your honeycombs. Way less messy.”

Eddie goes back to nearly shouting, “Why have you thought about this?!”

“Honestly, I have a lot of intrusive thoughts. I just don’t speak them out loud.”

Despite the fact they are actively talking about his murder, Eddie can’t help but get all gooey with Steve in their bed. “Is this why you don’t get mad when I think aloud? Another reason why you just get me. Adding that tally to the ‘why we are great together’ column.”

“Yes, we’re pretty amazing. Can we go back to sleep now?” Steve smiles.

“Yes—wait, no.” Eddie corrects himself, getting himself back on track. He loves this man, but he is a sneaky little minx. “Why did El never say anything? I mean, this is not the first time I accused her of being a demon. Hell, we’ve been talking for literally five minutes, and she still hasn’t said anything. Also, what if she walked in on us doing, ya know, adult stuff?” Eddie blushes at the end. He’s acting like he hasn’t been whispering way worse things in Steve’s ear every night.

“First off, she won’t walk in on that. Apparently Max taught her about happy screams a long time ago.”

“Gross.”

“Yeaaa. Second, I’m pretty sure she’s asleep right now.”

Huh, now that Eddie thinks about it, he does hear soft little snores. Which is weird since neither he nor Steve snores, and they are both, ya know, awake.

“And I don’t think El speaking in a dark corner would have helped your fears. Like imagine just hear her soft “Hello” at 2 a.m.” Steve raises an eyebrow.

“I—okay I got nothing.”

“Fantastic can we go back to sleep now?”

Eddie gives one last shout, “You’re not going to stop her?”

“Are you going to tell her no? And make her worry?”

Eddie slinks down into the covers, “...no.”

“That’s what I thought.”

Eddie curves his body into Steve’s, seeking him out. Steve wraps his arms around Eddie, securing him to his chest. “Thank you for indulging me.”

Steve hums. “Anything for you baby. I love you.”

“I love you too.” Eddie kisses Steve lightly.

“I love you both as well.” El’s voice suddenly speaks into the silent room.

“Jesus Christ!” Eddie screams.

Steve can’t help the giggles that come out of him. He tries to smother them into Eddie’s shoulder.

Eddie can’t find it in himself to be mad.

———

some people seemed interested in more el + Steve sibling energy. And they are a sibling-like duo I love. So here’s a little something but more steddie involved. I think all three of their relationship would be very sweet. Both Eddie and Steve would protect el. I hope you enjoyed :)

[spooksier]

head in hands, on my freaking knees. the running theme of dopplegangers and other selves in protocol both textually and metatextually is going to send me to an early grave. like. beyond it just being cool as hell, its such an interesting way to take a sequel/side-quel/whatever of a story where even the most minor character has a whole fanbase behind them because yes! we’re all waiting to hear from our faves after so long and here they are! but not really. the voice is the same but the person is not, at what point do you stop being you and start being someone else? is that you?

and ! ☝️ id argue that sam and alice as characters play into this theme because they are both completely different from jon and martin but also exactly the same (sam being very friendly and personable in a way that hides his obsessiveness, alice being loud and sarcastic to hide her loneliness/jealous streak) (also erm. theyre actually canonically south asian and trans this time. win.) (we also get this with gwen (literally a bouchard) and celia (literally from tma)) the whole team is meant to ring the archives alarm without any fire. similar but not the same yknow?

idk man playing with expectations and familiarity like this is so cool to me. like yes ill trust the voice in my computer telling me to dig myself deeper! it sounds like my friend jon!

[noahschnappinfs]

David Harbour talking about the cast crying during the last table read + an imitation of Noah’s crying

[rocketbirdie]

better than being someone to somebody, that's for sure.

[sttinkky]

Everybody, Everybody, Everybody dįes!

[atomicradiogirl]

i find it a very interesting choice that house md ends on enjoy yourself rather than you can’t always get what you want or maybe even the actual lyrical version of teardrop by massive attack.

enjoy yourself is the most optimistic of the songs and i’ve seen people complain that it kind of comes from nowhere and the actual meaning of the song especially considering that post-canon, wilson will die and house is dead figuratively (and will probably die literally with wilson), the song is not only a call to the viewer to live their lives to the fullest but asks house and wilson to enjoy the time they have left as they drive away from us, their stories are fundamentally over.

enjoy yourself is only referenced one other time in the show when hallucination amber sings it to house at a restaurant just before the hallucination finale of season 5. this presentation of enjoy yourself by “ghost” amber, someone who haunts house from his guilt over her death and near destruction of his relationship with wilson as a result is also a callback to her death in the first place. house is so scared by hallucination amber singing this song to him he begs wilson over the phone to pick him up, the exact request that killed amber. the optimistic song about living out your life to the fullest sung by the manifestation of his guilt, someone who died too soon also coupled with kutner dying 3 episodes prior to this, just makes the final use of this song so fascinating. the house writers obviously called back to this moment because it was house’s fear of death and change that made the initial scene scary. meanwhile house accepts wilson’s death and his death in the finale after healing and growing. this is why i think enjoy yourself is the perfect finale song. the house writers are telling us that they accept that their time is up and we should too, even though death is horrible and tragic and scary at the same time, everybody dies.

[warlenys]

the fucking house md universe only exists because of the medicine. that world was built around house being a doctor. and yet house chose wilson over that. they wrote house to choose wilson over that. they said fuck the medical drama bitch this is about homosexuality

[hewasmadeofthegalaxy2]

As a disabled person, I am so, so fucking tired of being used as an argument FOR AI.

You think I can't ask for help from a human person if there's something I can't accomplish? You think I am so isolated due to my disability that even if something is beyond my capabilities, all I can do is sit in my room and fucking sulk unless I have AI?

What the actual fuck do you think about our quality of life and our ability to create that you think that disabled people can't draw, paint, or write? You honestly fucking believe that I have no thoughts of my own, no ability to bring them to life, unless a fucking computer does them for me?!

"we're including AI entries for NaNoWriMo or whatever the fuck because we respect disabled peoples" you are spitting in the face of disabled writers, you are saying point blank that we are absolutely incapable of producing any art ourselves and that we have an inherent inability to produce anything worth reading unless we get a useless algorithm to tell us what it's like to be human.

If I cannot hold a pen, a scribe can.

If I cannot hold a brush to paint, I'll follow my disabled artist predecessors and get as creative with my method as I do with each image I create.

Our methods are part of the art, part of the creation, and get woven into every fiber of our tapestries, get set into every letter of our stories.

This is just another ableist take disguised as care and concern and I am so, so sick of people using us as an excuse when they don't want to fucking write an email or some shit.

[anyataylorjoys]

annabeth: you died in the river luke: percy died in the river man I hate it when that happens I knew this would be endgame I just didn't know the enemies to friends to lovers pipeline would escalate this quickly

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS S1E6: We Take a Zebra to Vegas

[aroaceleovaldez]

silly short nico hc propaganda

im amazed with myself that i had enough images for this

[killjoy-prince]

House M.D. but it's when a character says the name of the episode