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watching a house md christmas episode in this fine christmas morning!
here's one of many things that make me insane about house and wilson: sometimes it seems there is no one else capable of seeing the good in house's actions other than wilson.
to everyone else, an extremely logical, cold direction house might propose is just "house is being an antagonistic asshole again". that is never the case for wilson, because he is able to try and understand a fundamental fact about house's psychology: that house makes himself emotionally detached because he cares too much, and because he knows caring too much leads to human error, to unnecessary suffering -- and that is house's way of being kind. the entire premise of this show, of "a doctor who isn't nice but who is right", is a façade: being right is house's way of being nice.
other people in house's life do pick up on this momentarily, but house always makes sure to push back whenever he's perceived as good - to me, this pushing people away is part of how he protects himself from the world (you can't disappoint people if they don't expect anything good from you; you can't be good or people will harm you). yet wilson always sees through this. he sees house's actions, house's psyche for what the double edged swords that they are. he knows that deep down house is doing his best to be good, in the only way he can do it, the only way he thinks is safe to do it. and he often is the only one to point this out, leading to crazy moments like him going to cameron about them getting involved because he's worried for house, or him pointing out that house is being kind-- this guy knows all house does is because he is scared and angry and hurt and still trying to be kind and he never forgets it.
anti-survival horror where you're desperately trying to die but everyone is keeping you alive
hamster simulator
The only way a bisexual house episode would happen is house makes a weirdly specific and knowledgeable joke about gay sex and Wilson asks if that’s true/how he knows that and house goes “from fucking men”. Wilson’s initial reaction is a bit weird so he spends the rest of the episode trying to show how good of an ally he is by trying to support house’s bisexuality by “checking out” men with house like he would with women but it’s just weird. House wants to see how far Wilson will go with his allyship and it gets to the point where house brings Wilson to a gay strip club, where Wilson is extremely uncomfortable. They get back to house’s place and house finally tells Wilson he’s just fucking with him, Wilson doesn’t need to do all that weird shit, just treat him like he normally does. Wilson actually takes it to heart and asks what kind of men house is into and house answers by describing Wilson exactly. Wilson low key freaks but then he realizes house is fucking with him and he’s like “oh you’re messing with me” and house is like “fucking obviously. I like twinks with big butts, why do you think I hired Chase?” Wilson turns to his drink on the table and laughs, camera shows house looking lovingly at Wilson, end of episode
had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”
what the people want, the people get
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my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.
evidence as explained:
- victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world
- his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression
- he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest
- henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces
- afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?
- Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational
- the book does not otherwise have central female characters
Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.
in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature
I love how everyone else in the hospital just functions normally and then there's the diagnostics team