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Here we go again...
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Ever since Book of Bill got a whole swathe of frankly cracking Gravity Falls art popping up on my dashboard again it got me looking back through my own old art. And would you believe it?
My first post was 10 years ago today
So in celebration, a redraw of that post- with a little twist!
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Human Bill Cipher design by @itsscaredycat Original post under the cut

#gravity falls#ford pines#human bill cipher#bill cipher#book of bill#stanford pines#10 years on tumblr LORD ALMIGHTY#(actually longer - I used to lurk around since like 2011 before I got an account)#SIMPLER TIMES#my continued descent into nostalgia#stanley pines#human!bill#rick sanchez#mickules#mick fnart
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#simpler times#windows xp#old windows#old microsoft#cybercore#y2k#old internet#old web#cyber y2k#00s#2000s#tech#moodboard#cyber core#tech aesthetic#tech core#y2k nostalgia#nostalgia core#nostalgiacore#nostalgia#tech blog#curators on tumblr
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I liked the posing of this sketch so I gave it some color🥹
#lord of the flies#lotf fanart#book fanart#lotf jack#lotf ralph#jack#jack merridew#just this once they can be besties#simpler times#sketch#lord of the flies fanart#lord of the flies fandom
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house md rewatch: 1x14, "control"

foreshadowing central along with ~duckling sabotage~
tw for mention of self harm & eating disorder, in case someone hasn't seen this episode.
when the "our friendship is an ethical responsibility" hits, it makes for a very long recap!
one of my favorites of the season, maybe even The favorite, so far. we finally had cuddy heavily involved in the episode, major ethical qualms hit the ducklings like 3 individual trucks, wilson is giving the audience insane premonitions about what's coming, and house is actually being met with Consequences. house md (2004) - master at lulling viewers into senses of formulaic television security and ripping them out in (increasingly) jarring ways. looking @ you, season 2 finale.
what i find strongest, and most blatant, but these things can coexist without cheapening the episode, is house's mirrored experience in the patient (sarah) - extra thrilling because i remember having no real clue why he was so diligently fighting for her. the case culminates in my new favorite patient/house conversation that's wrapped up so uniquely in the issue of house's lab coat.
backtracking a bit - i am disappointed to arrive at the vogler arc lol, but i think the lab coat question is a clever and efficient way of establishing the season's dynamic going forward. clearly, the lab coat represents conformity, a concept antithetical to house. when house reminds cuddy of this, we're met with another case of her constant ethical dilemma: cuddy vs. house vs. the hospital's livelihood vs. her instincts. it really feels like she's balancing all those forces at once.

house's obstinance plus the sexism vogler throws at her - "are you sleeping with dr. house?" just point-blank - makes this an incredibly sympathetic episode for her. reading comprehension test failed if viewers think that she's a part of the problem here.
but what the lab coat really comes down to is a representation of house's desire, or lack thereof, to keep going. he finds out that sarah has been self-harming and, through very sherlock-ian deduction, figures that she's bulimic, hitting the nail on the head. this indicates psychological problems that would prohibit her from receiving the heart transplant she needs. in a very intense exchange, the most impassioned we've seen from house toward a patient yet, he demands to know whether her life is important to her or not; "because i don't know!"
not only is he willing to compromise his medical license for her, but he also asks her outright what he should do. this quite literally never happens.
"what do you want?"
"i want to know what's right."
"am i worth it? you think i'm pathetic. has a good job, but she just doesn't like the way that she looks."
"oh, stop hiding!"

sarah confirms to house that she does want to live despite her struggles, even though it's very hard for her to admit. so much of her mental strife is based on looks, like she says - whether she looks the part of a CEO, whether she maintains her athleticism, whether she can hide the parts of her body that embarrass her, whether she can hold onto her facade and functionality via a dangerous drug.
all of these concerns exist within house; just swap the corporate pantsuit for the lab coat. in lecturing sarah, he's lecturing himself, showing a subconscious understanding that he's putting what gives his life meaning - doctoring - in jeopardy. and with stacy in the wings, along with the full history of his infarction upcoming, i really admire the skilled and potent foreshadowing that this episode has going on.
when he does get sarah to the top of the transplant list, saving her life, i'd qualify this as another act of pretty unconditional love. even in the earliest days, we're tallying up those points! another failed misanthropy moment!
another crucial dose of foreshadowing occurs between cuddy and wilson as house strains their own ethical responsibilities to the hospital, their leniency highlighted under this "regime change" (house's words). cuddy's presumed protection of house is chalked up as romance/sex-driven, according to vogler, and he won't listen to the value of saving individual patients nor the argument that it warrants an entire hospital department. this conversation was SOOO nasty.

wilson, meanwhile, seems to take his own advice and keep his head down. he is silent during the board meeting and the emergency transplant committee meeting. he warns house that vogler is different, that his business-first mind won't bode well. yet, despite knowing that house is clearly withholding information in order to secure sarah a heart, he lets it slide.
this makes sense, especially in retrospect, understanding the full scope of their relationship. but it also indicates a clear disrespect of the Conformity Lab Coat and shows wilson's own version of saving 1 patient. house is the one patient. in an episode fraught with language about medical ethics, the declaration that "our friendship is an ethical responsibility" does not bode well for WILSON, specifically.

we've got the first inkling of a very long-standing trifecta: house/wilson/cuddy, with house at the center, like the middle wheel of a tricycle lol. when vogler threatens to throw one of them off the board, it prompts endless questions about who cares about house more than their responsibilities, and who is house most willing to hurt?

wilson's silence being paralleled in the clinic patient who refuses to speak, ironically, speaks volumes here, and house's exceptionally smug look as he leaves for the day spells Incoming Ruin for sure. not only does he not thing his tenure will be jeopardized, but he's taking for granted what it will cost those he cares about/those who care about him.

circling BACK to the ducklings -- holy robert chase sabotaging house! the choice to have this plotline comes directly after "cursed" is bold, and i think it comes from a combination of 2 of chase's strongest character traits: his impulsivity and, still, his fatherly issues.
he's in self-preservation mode. that says enough (and will come to be mirrored in house's later drug crazes). he refuses cameron's assurance that house won't fire him.
and he refuses this because he's failed and been failed by a fatherly figure once before (in his mind, at least. he did everything he could to please rowan). if he loses being a doctor, he's fallen flat. so, in an odd and very clever twist on 1x14's part, ratting house out can preserve his career, for now, and his relationship with house. it shows daringness and gumption, to use an old-timey word. but ofc audiences don't know what comes next.

regarding cameron - idk. i just really didn't like her conversation with house about whether he likes her or not. it felt like boiling down an otherwise crucial point - her expertise being dismissed - to another Crush Era moment. i wrote at the top of my notes about the opening DDX scene, where she's using the negotiating techniques she read about, as her and house "having an understanding-and-manipulating-social-cues competition." i'm sorry to write off her portion of this episode :(
finally, a tiny note about wilson. his conversation with sarah was extra touching to me because it's occuring, slowly but surely, how often patients confide in him, even during his somewhat minimal screen time. every conversation he has with any patient is heavy by nature of his work, and house md is already posturing him as the Persona Guy.

oh, and is sarah refusing tests and treatment for potential colon cancer bad? is she really "a smart person about to make a very dumb decision?" really, wilson? can i write that down? can i quote you on that at a later and perfectly random date?
#i like this one if you couldn't tell#remember when wilson being fired was the worst thing that had ever happened in house md#simpler times#house md#malpractice md#greg house#james wilson#allison cameron#eric foreman#robert chase#lisa cuddy#cameron#foreman#chase#cuddy#house md rewatch#rewatch 1#season 1
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A Welsh lady invites you inside her lovely thatched cottage in 1905
#Wales#stone cottage#thatched roof#monochrome#nostalgia#vintage photo#rural britain#Welsh countryside#rustic#UK#simpler times#yesteryear#architecture#bygone era#1905
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the year is 2022. you're waiting for erik to drop a new inversion video. asher and david just shared the most bromantic moment to ever bromanced. damien and huxley being gay on main. we lost xavier. you're praying they don't kill your fav.
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the return of cave wives in 2025 was unprecedented. I felt like I was back in 2016
#roughly#I think it was 2016#the way I time travelled to everyone’s bi4bi headcanons and thirsty zazzalil posts#simpler times#starkid#icbiballtay#Starkid innit#Firebringer
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Man i miss the times when i would just get home every week, excitedly waiting for an omgcp update.
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doodled this thing while procrastinating
being moonmilked is a horror and he hates it.
#saw the meme so many times it was taunting me. well. it is done#somewhat nostalgic for year one nightmarriage... look at both of em with short hair. look at the moonmilk making a fool out of eddie boy.#simpler times#fl meme#fallen london#fallen london oc#the twilight phantom#poor edward#chaindoodles#nightmarriage#just winged the clothes tbqh dont look at me#digital art
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Travis Scott - Mamacita ft. Rich Homie Quan & Young Thug
#travis scott#rich homie quan#young thug#days before rodeo#simpler times#in honor of the mixtape hitting stream today for the 10th anniversary
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How can you even claim to like Hal when you've never drawn him shirtless
i'm choosing to believe this is a reference to the seminude minor guy
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SANSA STARK ▸ Game of Thrones, 1.1
#lovely girl smiling🥹#simpler times#got#tv#sansa stark#sophie turner#game of thrones#sansastarkedit#gif by ria#gotedit#gameofthronesedit
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elena ferrante, my brilliant friend
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Time is the longest distance between two places




#tennessee williams#life quotes#quotes#literature#lit#quotations#relatable#simpler times#time#reason#void#memories#existentialism#life#aesthetic#spilled thoughts#spilled words#original photographers#photooftheday#photography#city#lights#glow#night#cityscape#city photography#buildings#urban#streets#my photos
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