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i’ve come back from the dead (dealing with senioritis + having a job + impending college responsibilities) just to promote my own stuff… guys please just hear me out </3

…i may or may not have written a whole essay on the relationship between food and love in house md

looking back, i’m disappointed by the writing (the citations being incorrect are a whole other thing) because i didn’t hit things exactly how i wanted to, but, who knows? maybe other house fans will enjoy it.

(ps… if you liked this post i previously made about the episode “epic fail,” that’s what inspired this essay!)

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so… guys… i actually did end up thinking about this a bit more…

some of the citations are a bit wrong, and it’s all pretty surface level stuff to actual fans of the show, but it was still fun to write (especially as a school assignment) :P

ok, so i’ve been thinking about the whole food/love symbolism in house, (i’m not sure who the first person to mention this symbolism was, but i love them so much. if anyone knows please mention them!!!) and there's one more specific element that i want to overanalyze, so just bear with me for a moment; there were four people that directly interacted with house when he was cooking in wilson's apartment (episode 3 season 6): cuddy, thirteen, wilson, and a random lady from the cooking class house and wilson took together. and i feel like these four best represent how house's love is spread. just hear me out for a second you guys.

first, you have cuddy. she comes to house and he happens be cooking; however, she never tastes the food he’s preparing. they love each other, he has love FOR her, but it's never the right time for them. (house and cuddy have such an insane and doomed relationship that i don’t think i quite understand myself tbh).

for the random lady, she's cooking *with* house when cuddy is there. this one isn’t as clean/sensible as the others, but i’m sure at least one person will get what i’m trying to say or be able to word this better. house has a certain level of understanding and care for others/strangers, but on a very grudging level. his love isn't necessarily made just for them, they'll never know the depth or spontaneity of it, and they'll never know what it means like the people close to house do.

with wilson, wilson wakes up to house cooking. house shoves the food in wilson's face, not listening to a word that wilson has to say. and wilson just goes with it! and i believe that it’s around here that house admits that he stayed up all night cooking because he was in pain, but i could be wrong. if that is the case though, that just ties into the whole idea that all of house’s strongest emotions are directly tied to his pain, all of his actions are fueled by his pain, which makes his love even more insane if you think about it. (i wish i was as eloquent as some of the other house fans on here when talking about this stuff but i only ever think about it when half-awake).

and lastly, there's thirteen. she visits house to ask for advice. and you see how precise he's being with the cooking. i don’t remember quite what he was making, something to do with chicken embryos or yolks, and extracting some of the yolk to squeeze sauce in there, something along those lines. pretty precise stuff. and thirteen tries it and says that it's the best thing she's ever eaten. quick and positive interaction.

so. we only see *two* people eat his food in this episode. two people who know what his love is like: wilson, the man that house depends on to even exist, and thirteen, basically the only character that (at this point in the show) has a chance of understanding house’s suffering, to some degree (house dreading the pain that comes with simply existing, knowing each day will be filled with pain, thirteen dreading every day, knowing that her huntingtons can only get worse and one day she’ll lose control).

also, this isn’t to say that house doesn’t/hasn’t loved other characters!!! i personally just feel like the relationships he has with wilson, cuddy, and thirteen are some of the most significant on screen relationships we see. (maybe i’m a bit biased because i adore wilson and thirteen, but we’ll ignore that).

anyways. all of this was likely just coincidence, but i don’t quite care! it’s the coincidences that make for the most meaningful portrayal of characters, in my humble (questionable) opinion!

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boo (i’m back) (i’m actually not i’ve just been thinking about house a lot recently and when i read that i knew i needed to make this)

i need to take a considerable bite out of this man’s arm. not that it would fix me, of course (it would probably make me worse) but i think it’s just necessary (i have rabies)

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The collection so far. If anyone has any other ones, pleaseeee I need them

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(i made a better version, which ended up almost costing me $80…)

i’ve unfortunately found myself stuck feeling like i can’t consume any media i enjoy and im blaming it all on senior year

anyways after weeks (months?) of offering nothing to the house fandom, i offer this awful edit i made on picsart in 10 minutes

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i’ve unfortunately found myself stuck feeling like i can’t consume any media i enjoy and im blaming it all on senior year

anyways after weeks (months?) of offering nothing to the house fandom, i offer this awful edit i made on picsart in 10 minutes

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hilson cowboy au

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I know you won’t run away, but it’s a pretty dream.

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Have you heard about the secret Beach Episode 🏖️

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she’s about to start playing toxic gossip train guys

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Remembering when I saw a clip of house md for the first time and it was the clip of house telling Wilson he loves him and I assumed Wilson was doctor house and he was a sociopathic Hannibal lector type character who locked people in his house and gave them illnesses to treat them. I thought House was one of his patients who was suffering Stockholm syndrome. Idk how I came to that conclusion but yeah

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😳🤨 the Taub haters are scaring me

“Kill him or castrate him for cheating on his wife” okay and what are your thoughts on Wilson btw 🎤

“I took one look at him and hated his aura and nothing will change my mind” let me give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re not being antisemitic (🧐), why is that do you think?

“He’s boring” okay and what are your thoughts on Foreman? 🎤

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Yuri MD…

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"thirteen is the son house never had, chase is the daughter house didn't want" blah blah. wrong. house is clearly a girldad and that means ALL of his kids are gay daughters

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house would NOT fw skibidi toilet