Fandom stuff

stede is 'oh this place has something related to my interest i must go in immediately' autistic and izzy is 'if we deviate one inch from my plan for today i will murder someone' autistic

my most important izzy hands and Edward teach take

i will never complain about a book seeming like a fanfic with the serial numbers filed off because that means the author had the invaluable ability to tell when their au had diverged enough that these were just straight-up different characters now

even as we speak there is probably someone out there writing a delightful 100k+ word gay romance novel about a genderqueer bisexual single parent who lives in a beach town and fixes classic cars and falls in love with the sexy tentacle monster mermaid that saved their life, and that writer could probably make pretty good money self-publishing it, but they won't because that would mean admitting that they aren't really writing destiel anymore

love that despite not being in the fandom i hit the middle of the venn diagram of 'characters that the average person would never in a million years recognize as dean winchester' and 'characters that a certain subset of fans would immediately think are dean winchester' so perfectly that i've since been told i described multiple popular fics

Cheery Littlebottom is actually the best fictional character ever, demonstrated below:

@conudrum Okay let me take a deep breath and try to explain this to you. You're not the first cis person to not get this and I'm sure you won't be the last.

It's long been established that dwarfish culture has only one set of pronouns* and nothing that could be described as gender roles. Gender is a social construct, and the only gender dwarf culture seems to have is "dwarf." As someone else put it, Cheery is the dwarfish equivalent of non-binary, except she's non-unary.

What tends to trip cis people up at this point is, put bluntly, that a dwarf's genitals are entirely irrelevant in their society except sometimes during courting. And there's still this cultural obsession with genitals, so people ignorant of trans issues tend to go "we're not told Cheery's got a dick, so she's not trans" when being transgender simply means identifying with a different gender to the one assigned at birth. Cheery was, as all dwarfs, assigned dwarf at birth. She identifies as a dwarf woman, so by the modern definition of the term, she is a trans woman. Whatever is under her armoured skirt is irrelevant.

*early books do sometimes have characters refer to dwarfs as "she", but this can be easily explained by it being translated that way from the dwarfish genderless pronoun, especially considering how casually homophobic society was at the time those books were written. Even if you don't buy this, it's still clearly retconned by the time the dwarf-cemtric books are written, so it's not really relevant either way.

My little pet theory (or ret-con I suppose) is that when dwarves first started learning human languages they got confused by the differently gendered pronouns* and the way they were being used. Assuming that "she" and "wife" referred to the dwarf you were courting/married to. So for instance, when Carrot writes letters home asking his parents to send his love to Minty he uses "she" because he is courting him. But likewise Minty (were he speaking a human language) would have referred to himself as he and Carrot as she.

Husband translated at first to "the dwarf who is this dwarf" and Wife translated to "that dwarf to whom I am married." So each married dwarf would be both husband and wife, depending on who's doing the talking.

Later this would cause some confusion among humans, but not much because they're all too stupid to be able to tell the difference anyway.

*at least those human languages that have gendered pronouns.

bonus:

having a lot of fun thinking about the different types of genderlessness embodied by different doctors.. not in-universe agender identity (as fun and interesting as that is to think about) but in a more narrative sense of a genderless character. like, 11 is genderless like a child. 4 is genderless like an insect. 7 is genderless like a dark silhouette in a doorway. 8 is genderless like a dissected corpse is genderless. do u know what i mean

@alexmey-does-an-arts thank you for putting it into words 🤣

Headcanons that Mycroft Holmes style, Raffles' sister is smarter than him--wilier, craftier, more charismatic. She could literally be the greatest criminal in Europe, make Moriarty look like a total chump, but she doesn't care enough to try. Like, she lives comfortably, manages her money well, no need to go to all that hassle. She just chills at her place in the country. She has the same magpie tendencies as her brother, but channels it into ruthless bargain hunting. Anytime a mundane problem comes up, she solves it with no effort, but just doesn't have any higher ambitions.

I was having a conversation at a cafe w a friend about how media is so sanitized these days and she was like "to bringing back homophobia on TV" and i was like "CHEERS TO BRINGING BACK HOMOPHOBIA ON TV" but i was way too enthusiastic about it and people around us just turned around. but i said what i said

what I like about early house MD is that the og fellows HATED each other they kept backstabbing and plagiarizing and toying with each other's feelings and so on and so forth. And then the new fellowship generations had this sorta "we'll get through it together" mentality... honey this is house md not home md.

YOU GET IT

some of the plot resolutions in house were so fucking funny. like one episode a guy had seen 10000 different doctors to try and figure out why he was sick and when he came to house, house’s first question was “ok i think i recognize this, there’s this tropical disease that’s preeeeeetty common, have you ever been to the tropics?” and the guy said no and house was like “hm ok guess it’s not that, it must be something mysterious and obscure because this is the Mysterious And Obscure Ailment Show, i will keep digging” then 35 minutes later in the episode house is like “this really REALLY feels like it’s that relatively common disease i mentioned earlier, are you SURE you’ve never been to the tropics” and the patient is like omg NO why do doctors always harp on that I TOLD YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE TROPICS I HAVE NEVER BEEN SOUTH OF FLORIDA and house just stares at him before being like “FLORIDA IS IN THE FUCKING TROPICS” and the patient is like. oh.

this all happens while the patient is holding house and like some other people hostage and forcing house to treat him at gunpoint btw.

patient: bleeding from every orifice and in respiratory arrest

house’s shoes: 

what I love about Hugh Laurie's acting is the face House makes immediately after roasting some innocent person to shreds like you can hear him in his brain going god I'm such a fucking piece of shit

House will really destroy a 20yr long marriage for no reason other than his own amusement and call the husband a cuck bitch then pull the world’s most sorrowful, damp-eyed 🥺 face the moment they turn away

this is so funny. ducklings from wish.

huge giant win for the evil polycule enjoyers

developing a theory that House has obsessive compulsive disorder

chase looks the investigator in the eye and is like actually dr house is a goddamn genius stop pitting us bad bitches against each other hes gonna fix my legs. and like. thats the unshakeable faith that your father can fix anything ever like hello?????

sorry to be like this but i'm sick in the head and it's such a fascinating thing about shows like spn and house that they started airing in the mid 00s when just saying "gay" was both setup and punchline and they both ran long enough to be like. actually. the most meaningful and romantic relationships in these shows are the ones that can be interpreted as queer. and it wasn't necessarily intended, but writers see where the emotional resonance and compelling narrative is, and they will take that to its conclusion best as they can. because it's compelling. because it resonates. because it's integral. because it means something.

and it can't necessarily transcend its origins but they will try.

the thing about Three Stories is that it shows what makes house’s methods so special. three stories, three patients with inexplicable leg pain. the first two are treated by house and his team, who go above and beyond to find what’s wrong with them, no matter what; both patients return to their lives happy and healthy. the third is dismissed by ‘normal’ doctors as a drug addict for so long that the diagnosis and treatment are too late for a full recovery, making patient 3 the only one who still has to live with restricted mobility and constant pain. and then you find out patient 3 is house, and he’s doing for others what should have been done for him. ough