#stacy thoughts

[delululand]

hihi!!! i recently watched txts to do (fashion show one) and during the bf look they kept mentioning ‘older s/o’ ‘younger s/o’ something like yeonha??? and i don’t remember the other one

but i was just wondering if this is like a thing people a lot of attention to in korea, and are those words used specifically when ppl are dating (bc ik there’s oppa/ noons but those are more generally so)

hi!! yes this is really useful things in korea

연하 남친 (yeonha namchin) it’s like bf younger than you and 연상 남친 (yeonsang namchin) it’s bf older than you, but actually can be any adjectives, like in that episode they discussed the concept of a boyfriend and for example they mentioned cute boyfriend concept, school boyfriend, soobin even came up with a whole story about how he hasn’t seen gf for a long time and wants to look his best hahaha

but in general yes, this is the thing that people pay attention to in dating, and according to my observations, one of the popular questions after the ideal type is “연하 남친 어때요?” how about bf younger than you? (ofc it use only if a guy who asked it younger than you), but this question could also be about a guy older than you, but I’ve only heard this in the context of a large age difference (more than 5-7 years)

[drawnfamiliarfaces]

PnF Spirit Week 1: May 22nd - Identity Reveal

Agent Ps have all the worst luck I guess.

[quotefeeling]

We cannot truly understand each other. But we can be understanding of one another.

Stacie Martin

[mroddmod]

posting this old comic in honor of pride and the 1 yr anniversary of atsv 🫶

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

It JUST occurred to me that if Hobie left Gwen the watch in her universe that means he went there and met her dad

The implications of this are SO interesting

Hobie had to go there, find Gwen’s dad, explain who he is and how he knows Gwen, then ask him to give her the watch

He even describes Hobie as a piece of work!!

I’m so curious -

Did Hobie have some choice words with Gwen’s dad? Did he say that he’s the person that housed her when she was homeless?

Hobie met Gwen’s cop dad and gave him the watch WHAT DID HE SAY WHAT WAS THAT CONVERSATION

WHAT DID HOBIE SAY TO GWENS COP DAD

[nightowl374art]

Quick drawing of little Charlotte and Hobie

[gingerpines]

THIS IS INSANE BY THE WAY

[pandadrake]

This comic really lived or died based on if I could come up with enough stupid nicknames for Montreal O’Canada

This comic is Part 3 of a hostage "get along" shirt situation. This comic was in purgatory for a while because I decided to draw a bunch of teenagers in it and also light it, which are two things that I don't do a lot. Part 1 Part 2 This is Part 3

[paintbrushnebula]

"Gwen crashed in Hobie's dimension sometimes"

What Miles thought Gwen and Hobie were doing:

What Gwen and Hobie were actually doing:

[andi-o-geyser]

everyone say thank you subtitle team

[delululand]

no seriously stop it’s tmi day but 1) i like men in classic style and especially in shirt 2) i like men in black shirt 3) i like kang taehyun SO WHAT THE FUCKING COMBO IS THAT? all my tiktok is only taehyun with his slowly twisting hips

thanks but i don’t plane to fantasize about sex today…..

[housemdork]

house md rewatch: 1x21, "three stories"

in shining a literal spotlight on house, david shore shines his own spotlight on his writing. instant classic.

they really do shine a spotlight on house! look!

i'm a little intimidated about writing this recap since "three stories" is so beloved, so i'll just focus on listing the pieces that i found most compelling with the understanding that this episode is brilliant, foundational, etc. etc. some of the show's most expertly done expository work.

first, i love the layers of house's vulnerability in 1x21, which run deeper than him confiding the story of his infarction. house gets exhumed for us step by step, starting with stacy's introduction to the hospital. a member from the Past Life has entered into house's sanctuary, PPTH, and disrupted the ecosystem. it's also a truly gasp-worthy reveal because of how abrupt it is.

his expression is devastating to me, btw.

each time the fellows interrupt his lecture is another layer removed, too. that cameron is the first one to pop this pseudo-reality bubble he's created in the class is brilliant, given the existing tension between them post-date. yet the more interesting tension, as all 3 file into their seats, is that which exists between house's privacy and this sudden rush of honesty he's contending with. despite not wanting to do the lecture at all in the first place, he doesn't stop when he sees he's gathered not just an audience full of annoying med students, but one with personal investment in him.

next follow wilson and cuddy, who make up the middle ground between stacy and cuddy. they're both parts of his work life, the environment that vulnerability is now leeching inside, but also parts his past and personal life. they have the most informed and prying eyes, which is why wilson pushing back against house's atheism makes narrative sense here (more on that later!).

the final layer is the most intimate - the vulnerability house md engages in with the audience. the writers are finally candid with the fact that not only is this house's story, but he's not so reliable. he warps and twists reality, with the caveat that there are several people in his life capable of resetting that warping. the 4th wall breaks are the most obvious example of this, and they're hilarious:

lastly on this point, house only shares the extent of his self-reflection with the audience. he only implies the regret he feels about the infarction episode through the visions he has during his heart attack, while his life is metaphorically flashing before his eyes. only the audience sees this. when he deflects after wilson and the fellows press the issue, we know that he's understating things.

second is how house md and house himself treats group of 3s. they're dysfunctional; they make for bad teams, relationships, and decisions (middle grounds).

the fellows are a massively dysfunctional group of 3, despite 1x21 dressing them up in similar color palettes to represent each of the 3 stories. but this dysfunction is a necessary component of the diagnostics process, seen by how everything flounders when cameron isn't around. another grey area.

the 3 stories tell incomplete portions of house's backstory, and together they don't quite paint the full picture. dysfunction.

though it's in its earliest stages right now, house, cuddy, and wilson make up arguably the most dysfunctional trifecta of all, but they each need one another in a very cylical way.

yet, most significantly, house drives home the point to the students that there will always be simple right and wrong answers in medicine. they must accept that they will fail and kill patients, despite being taught that their responsibility doesn't extend that far, barring medical malpractice. he's rejecting grey areas in favor of simplified, black and white, dichotomous answers - nothing unusual for him.

obviously, he's referring to the choice he made about his leg - to not have it amputated - in favor of the much more dangerous and painful option that could have preserved his mobility. by the episode's conclusion, we get the sense that he's at least reconsidering his choice, but the true strife of the episode is the middle ground decision stacy chose as house's medical proxy.

she says it herself: he's not "big on middle grounds." but after fulfilling his request of being put in a medically-induced coma to sleep through the worst of the pain, stacy goes ahead with some of what house wanted, and some of what she wants. it renders house disabled as we see him today.

i actually think house md handles this very well. house balances many different feelings all at once where stacy is concerned: he still loves her, worries that she hates him, feels guilt for making the choice that he did, is hurt by her choice to go over his head for that middle ground option, and blames her, at least somewhat, for the hand he's been given, all of which he deals with through avoidance. yet he cuts that avoidance short in the episode's final scene, where he agrees to help stacy's new husband, mark:

it's interesting (and emotional) to note that, when handed all of these emotions, he ends up making the kind, self-sacrificing choice (hmm. who could have influenced that decision? could it be the same person who popped his lecture bubble?). but i also need to highlight the eternal question that 1x21 raises...

is this all house's fault?

and by "all," i mean truly everything - his relationships, his addiction, his misanthropy, his loneliness, etc. i also think the show handles this question well by never quite answering it. there's a fair amount of ableism baked in, but the constant battle house fights for his autonomy indicates to me that house md is, at its core, apologetic to him. we aren't led to believe that stacy made the right choice by taking his decision-making. he made the choice to keep his leg, which medically was all kinds of wrong, but who are we to deprive him of his right to choose? ESPECIALLY AFTER NOBODY BELIEVED HIM AND HIS MUSCLE WAS DYING FOR 3 DAYS BEFORE ANYONE THOUGHT TO LISTEN TO HIS OWN DIAGNOSIS.

another example of this (which i think is even more well done) is in the season 2 finale during house's hallucination. when he thinks he's been given ketamine without his consent, he (rightfully) flies off the handle, and the audience has his back.

so no, of course i don't believe that "everything" is house's fault by any means, and i don't think david shore and co. think that either. the continual challenges to his misanthropy and the undoubted audience sympathy speak to the contrary.

relatedly....this episode features house md's treatise on unconditional love. heavily. his conversation with stacy post-bypass operation confirms that he was once full of the stuff. as she's pleading with him to amputate his leg, she asks whether he would give up his leg to save her, to which he replies: "of course i would."

this is one of the least house-like conversations we've heard thus far because the current house would never talk like this, would never admit to that, would never indulge that kind of sincerity. stacy taking his autonomy, even if he agrees with her partially in the long-run, undoes this. the betrayal combined with a life full of pain and the fact that he was warned about his happening combine into his toxic cynicism that festers over time, driving stacy away, warping who he used to be. the sympathy that 1x21 engenders all at once is just SO GOOD; house md caught audiences assuming that he was an just mega-intelligent, jaded grouch with some bad habits and course-corrected.

but don't worry - i will always argue that unconditional love, the base theme of the entire show, makes it full, thematically-aligned return in 8x22 :)

returning to wilson challenging house's atheism + house's visions - i absolutely adore, through and through, how house conceptualizes his beliefs, which is crazy because he's so Negative. when cameron asks him how he can be comfortable knowing that this, the here and now, is all we have, he says, "I find it more comforting to believe that this isn't simply a test." because, if that were the case, house would feel like a failure. he shows his hand here - if it were a test, and he knew that he'd already failed, why would he keep going? why would he keep caring and trying and loving?

this is all we have in his view (and in mine), so we ought to do our best to make it right, even though in medicine, you will make mistakes, and in relationships, and in your own life, in your own mind.

there are many, many more points i could make, but i'll limit this post because it's taken a while to write lol. i know we all have our own laundry list of reasons why we love 1x21, as we should.

i also want to clarify that 1) i really like stacy and i understand/appreciate what she did; 2) i don't "blame" house at all, that's just a moral dilemma the show at large poses; 3) i don't want to excuse the ableism the show promotes throughout, i'm just highlighting a way that they portray house's disability that i found compelling/kind amidst everything else.

lastly, everyone should listen to "graveyard whistling" by nothing but thieves and think about greg house.

EXPLICIT SERIES FINALE SPOILERS BELOW:

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i have to mention this here because, like i keep saying, THE SERIES FINALE MADE SENSE. house is firm in his belief in 1x21, and throughout the show, that present life is all there is, and that it's not a test, and thank god (lol) for that, or else he would have failed.

yet house's subconscious tests him during that final suicide attempt in the burning building, quite literally posing him a yes/no question that rejects the middle ground answer. he tries to let the circumstances take him without any active involvement in his own life, but the cameron hallucination refutes this, calls him a coward, and prompts him to declare what 176 episodes thought to be impossible "but i can change."

he rises above the test of his own creation, functionally dead but alive and enjoying the present that he holds so sacred. he can return to that unconditional love. IT IS SO THEMATICALLY WELL ROUNDED, I CAN'T STAND IT.

[emioliravioli]

sketch of transfem blaze pretty please?

maybe just a few...

[housethemd]

Can’t stop thinking about House pre-infarction.

Like Stacy says he was the same before as he is after but that is so obviously not completely true.

Sure House has always had a disregard for social niceties, always been a genius, always bucked against authorities, but think about the little things we learn about him pre-infarction, and how he behaves while the ketamine treatment is effective.

He played lacrosse in High School. He was a cheerleader in college. He met Wilson at a medical conference. He met Stacy at a Doctors vs Lawyers paintball game. The infarction happened during a game of golf. After the temporarily successful ketamine treatment House goes for miles long runs, skateboards, wears nice suits.

Pre-infarction House was athletic. He cared about his appearance. He was social. He went out and did things and had relationships. Yeah he’s always been a bit of an ass, but he was an ass with a life.

It’s only post-infarction that all of that stops. His relationship ends, he only goes to conferences when forced, he can’t be athletic, he doesn’t want to be social. He can’t be bothered to do more than throw a sport coat on over jeans and a t-shirt.

His addiction aside, all of the above things showcase what a hard time he has coping with having a disability. He doesn’t find new ways to be social, find activities he can do. Instead he isolates himself. He tries to make himself unappealing. He goes to work, and he goes home alone.

The only relationship he manages to maintain is with Wilson, and he even acknowledges that House has changed when he confronts him about his Vicodin addiction. (Yes I know he has brief relationships over the course of the series but none of them can really be compared to his 5 year long, live in relationship with Stacey prior to the infarction, regardless of how one feels about her as a person.)

It just breaks my heart to know that House’s disability took so much from him, and that the resulting depression stops him from trying to seek any type of happiness, and when he does find some he’s convinced it will end.

TLDR: I have a lot of feelings about Gregory House and how his disability changed his life.

[thebrutaliste]

The Brutalist

dir. Brady Corbet

[artbyblastweave]

What I liked about Gwen Stacy's death in Ultimate Spider-Man is:

A.) it actually was very directly the result of Peter's poor Op-sec rather than just Some Thing That Randomly Happened To Drive The Plot as it was in the original, so Peter's subsequent neuroses and guilt are significantly more compelling,

B.) the grieving process of the entire supporting cast was significantly better rendered than the original Conway "two-pages-at-a-funeral-and-on-to-Luke-Cage" take, and

C.) She didn't actually die- they let it hang long enough to get full credit for executing on the basic concept way better than the original before revealing that the death scene retool was in fact a well-camouflaged origin story, although I don't think they really had the opportunity to follow up on that beat in full. Anyway Gwen should be Carnage in everything now I think