Oh, how fun! Who was the singer? I might have heard of them already.
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And because it makes me feel delightfully naughty, in a good way:
A long time ago, before, House knew the height in the atmosphere at which oxygen levels drop dangerously low for humans. He knew this because he had read it in books, looked up as a curiosity among millions of others, a fact he’d simply wanted to have in his brain
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A long time ago, before, House knew the height in the atmosphere at which oxygen levels drop dangerously low for humans. He knew this because he had read it in books, looked up as a curiosity among millions of others, a fact he’d simply wanted to have in his brain.
"A long time ago, before" -- I think you had already established that House and Wilson think of their lives as before the change that gave them new powers, and after. I wanted that clearly in here.
House is quite obviously the kind of thinker who is interested in a wide variety of things, and not always for a specific purpose. Hey, I wrote this before the episode in which House knows the height of Mt. Everest, didn't I? See, that kind of thing.
Now he knows it because Wilson flirts with that height far more often than House is comfortable with.And of course, that makes it way more visceral than it being a mere fact. I think I made the assumption that House was able to "read" Wilson even at that great a distance. My idea was that House couldn't necessarily pick out
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I do like! I enjoyed reading the annotations, as it were. I've always liked Wilson using sex as a distraction and all the layers of what's going on inside him.
Every so often I think of this as 'the little 'verse that could' because when I wrote the original piece I didn't think it'd stick around so long. If I'd known, I'd have taken it more seriously at the beginning.
From 'Comes a Day', which I pratically know by heart and is one of the best things I've ever read: There comes a day when the prediction House’s “father” made comes true: he really is good for quite literally nothing. He can’t work, can’t walk, can’t wipe his own butt. He can barely talk - can’t always think, even. Nothing. He’s a lump of flesh, pain-free but utterly useless. I'd love to have a DVD-commentary on this!
There comes a day when the prediction House’s “father” made comes true: he really is good for quite literally nothing.
This is in House's POV and he's feeling quite angry, so he puts father in quotes. We found out in ep 5-4 that John House is not House's biological father.
It's not explicitly canon, but I can definitely see John House having told Greg, more than once, "If you don't shape up, you're going to wind up a good-for-nothing!"
The next two sentences show why House has decided he's now good for nothing.
He can’t work, can’t walk, can’t wipe his own butt.
"Can't work" - So painful for House, because so much of his self-esteem is tied up in his work. "Can't walk" - Again, extremely painful. He's an active man who enjoys being in motion. He accepted life-long leg pain in part because he wanted to ensure he could keep walking. (And in part because he's a very stubborn person.) "Can't wipe his own butt" - The most private of activities. Poor House.
He can barely talk - can’t always think, even. Nothing.Someone asked me
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OMG, Dee, I love you (well, I already did, but I love you even more after reading this DVD commentary). I can only speak for myself, but yeah, at times it IS very easy to only look at all the things I can't do, or can't do anymore, or miss out on, and the way I slow other people down sometimes, or how people need to make allowances, and sometimes that truly makes me feel worthless/useless. I never guessed you wrote this beautiful story to also apply to disabled people in general and I love you so much for that.
And I love reading your thoughts about this. I'm so happy you made House pain-free, and yes - losing his ability to think must be the worst torture for him. I agree that poor House doesn't believe in unconditional love, and I must say, it IS difficult to do so, but I'm glad he finally saw the light in this wonderful story.
C’mon, Whiskers, leave Fuzzy alone. He’s been away for a long time; he’s just happy to be home.So, this epilogue is from the point of view of two rats who are now pets of House and Wilson. Chirp is who we know as Steve McQueen, the rat House adopted back in Season Two. Whiskers is who we know as Tuco, the rat Wilson adopted during the fic. Throughout the fic, they go by the names their mamas gave them: Chirp and Whiskers
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Re: DVD for "Looking Out" - Part 1chocolate_frappNovember 8 2009, 15:50:21 UTC
Actually I sort of like the idea of rats being somewhat prejudiced against hamsters. I LOVE "arureomorphize". Big linguistics geek here. I did call my first House fic "Iatroeco-oxyglossophilia", after all.
DVD for "Looking Out" - Part 2deelaundryNovember 7 2009, 17:31:25 UTC
Damn, you’re right. I specifically wanted a female. My Mama said they give the best food.
Maybe that’s generally true, but I have to tell you, the cuisine Pudge has been handing out the past few weeks is some of the best I’ve ever had. Much better than anything Fuzzy ever gave me.
Um, didn’t you say humans don’t kill their ill ones? Because Pudge has started munching on your Fuzzy.
Hey! Pudge, cut that out! Whiskers, get your human off mine before he devours him!
:D The rats have misinterpreted. :D
Wait a sec, don’t get your nose in a twist. Fuzzy’s biting back now, and I don’t see any blood. They must be play-fighting.
Play-fighting? They’re adult humans; you think they’d have practiced enough by now.
And they’re still misinterpreting, but they’re closer. :D I imagine Wilson and House’s “play-fighting” is quite spirited.
At least they’ve stopped yapping.
Hey, speaking of play-fighting, want to wrestle?
I’m feeling pretty lazy. Do you mean wrestling or wrestling?
I mean wrestling that might turn into wrestling. If you’re
( ... )
From Green. I read this pretty thoroughly a while back for some reason :) House flung himself back in his chair and considered the ceiling for a second
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If there are any questions you have about this passage, or if you want me to discuss any other topic, let me know.
House flung himself back in his chair and considered the ceiling for a second.
“Green” is the first friendship fic that I wrote, over the summer between Season Two and Season Three. It’s not unusual for most people to have more than one friend, so I had wondered what would happen if a new person came along who Wilson became friendly with. The answer I came up with was that House would do everything in his power to KO his “rival.” Although Wilson’s never been shown to have another male friend, I do feel my answers was confirmed by the driving off of Wilson’s love interests in Seasons Three and Four.
This is the first fic daisylily beta-ed for me, and it wouldn’t have been half as good without her wonderful suggestions!
The passage below is from the end of the fic. Wilson has just told House that the new friend, Charlie, is gay.
“Oh.” He looked back at Wilson and waved a hand in dismissal. “Then go have lunch with him.
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That was really interesting, thank-you! I would love canon to show us Wilson having another male friend at some point, like in Green. It would throw up all sorts of interesting possibilities. I wouldn't beat yourself up for not anticipating House driving off Wilson's romantic interests; until Wendy, I don't think we had any reason to suspect House was so in love with obsessed with keeping Wilson all to himself. Rottweiler is an excellent parallel!
Your explanation to daisylily makes a lot of sense. I would have appreciated the same info when I first tackled the remix, although I think I did get there in the end! Because I was trying to reverse the situation with slash, I got hopelessly confused initially as to what on earth should happen here in the remix. In the beginning I had the revelation simply be as in Green, that Charlie had a partner, just a male one; but I couldn't get it to work and then, as you know, I decided it made more sense to reverse things entirely and have House think he was straight. And then it works - because as you say
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And because it makes me feel delightfully naughty, in a good way:
A long time ago, before, House knew the height in the atmosphere at which oxygen levels drop dangerously low for humans. He knew this because he had read it in books, looked up as a curiosity among millions of others, a fact he’d simply wanted to have in his brain ( ... )
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"A long time ago, before" -- I think you had already established that House and Wilson think of their lives as before the change that gave them new powers, and after. I wanted that clearly in here.
House is quite obviously the kind of thinker who is interested in a wide variety of things, and not always for a specific purpose. Hey, I wrote this before the episode in which House knows the height of Mt. Everest, didn't I? See, that kind of thing.
Now he knows it because Wilson flirts with that height far more often than House is comfortable with.And of course, that makes it way more visceral than it being a mere fact. I think I made the assumption that House was able to "read" Wilson even at that great a distance. My idea was that House couldn't necessarily pick out ( ... )
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Every so often I think of this as 'the little 'verse that could' because when I wrote the original piece I didn't think it'd stick around so long. If I'd known, I'd have taken it more seriously at the beginning.
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Also, yay for nice RL-stuff!
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This is in House's POV and he's feeling quite angry, so he puts father in quotes. We found out in ep 5-4 that John House is not House's biological father.
It's not explicitly canon, but I can definitely see John House having told Greg, more than once, "If you don't shape up, you're going to wind up a good-for-nothing!"
The next two sentences show why House has decided he's now good for nothing.
He can’t work, can’t walk, can’t wipe his own butt.
"Can't work" - So painful for House, because so much of his self-esteem is tied up in his work.
"Can't walk" - Again, extremely painful. He's an active man who enjoys being in motion. He accepted life-long leg pain in part because he wanted to ensure he could keep walking. (And in part because he's a very stubborn person.)
"Can't wipe his own butt" - The most private of activities. Poor House.
He can barely talk - can’t always think, even. Nothing.Someone asked me ( ... )
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And I love reading your thoughts about this. I'm so happy you made House pain-free, and yes - losing his ability to think must be the worst torture for him. I agree that poor House doesn't believe in unconditional love, and I must say, it IS difficult to do so, but I'm glad he finally saw the light in this wonderful story.
Thanks so much for this, Dee!
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I called this “Looking Out” because the two POV characters are in their cage, quite literally looking out at House & Wilson.
They’re annoyingly noisy, aren’t they, Chirp? Yours especially.
C’mon, Whiskers, leave Fuzzy alone. He’s been away for a long time; he’s just happy to be home.So, this epilogue is from the point of view of two rats who are now pets of House and Wilson. Chirp is who we know as Steve McQueen, the rat House adopted back in Season Two. Whiskers is who we know as Tuco, the rat Wilson adopted during the fic. Throughout the fic, they go by the names their mamas gave them: Chirp and Whiskers ( ... )
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I LOVE "arureomorphize". Big linguistics geek here. I did call my first House fic "Iatroeco-oxyglossophilia", after all.
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Maybe that’s generally true, but I have to tell you, the cuisine Pudge has been handing out the past few weeks is some of the best I’ve ever had. Much better than anything Fuzzy ever gave me.
Um, didn’t you say humans don’t kill their ill ones? Because Pudge has started munching on your Fuzzy.
Hey! Pudge, cut that out! Whiskers, get your human off mine before he devours him!
:D The rats have misinterpreted. :D
Wait a sec, don’t get your nose in a twist. Fuzzy’s biting back now, and I don’t see any blood. They must be play-fighting.
Play-fighting? They’re adult humans; you think they’d have practiced enough by now.
And they’re still misinterpreting, but they’re closer. :D I imagine Wilson and House’s “play-fighting” is quite spirited.
At least they’ve stopped yapping.
Hey, speaking of play-fighting, want to wrestle?
I’m feeling pretty lazy. Do you mean wrestling or wrestling?
I mean wrestling that might turn into wrestling. If you’re ( ... )
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House flung himself back in his chair and considered the ceiling for a second ( ... )
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House flung himself back in his chair and considered the ceiling for a second.
“Green” is the first friendship fic that I wrote, over the summer between Season Two and Season Three. It’s not unusual for most people to have more than one friend, so I had wondered what would happen if a new person came along who Wilson became friendly with. The answer I came up with was that House would do everything in his power to KO his “rival.” Although Wilson’s never been shown to have another male friend, I do feel my answers was confirmed by the driving off of Wilson’s love interests in Seasons Three and Four.
This is the first fic daisylily beta-ed for me, and it wouldn’t have been half as good without her wonderful suggestions!
The passage below is from the end of the fic. Wilson has just told House that the new friend, Charlie, is gay.
“Oh.” He looked back at Wilson and waved a hand in dismissal. “Then go have lunch with him. ( ... )
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Your explanation to daisylily makes a lot of sense. I would have appreciated the same info when I first tackled the remix, although I think I did get there in the end! Because I was trying to reverse the situation with slash, I got hopelessly confused initially as to what on earth should happen here in the remix. In the beginning I had the revelation simply be as in Green, that Charlie had a partner, just a male one; but I couldn't get it to work and then, as you know, I decided it made more sense to reverse things entirely and have House think he was straight. And then it works - because as you say ( ... )
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