#different types available

[all-pacas]

Chase inheriting house’s braincells the moment house lets go of his responsibility and losing all his abilities once house comes back is so funny bc it’s probably meta thing but also very parent-child coded. Kinda like being destined to mess up cooking when mom’s watching.

i'm recently really fascinated in this from a meta perspective. because like. the show is pretty fucking explicit in s1-3 that foreman is the Main Character, right? he gets the most focus, the strongest arc, he is house's special favorite (in an antagonistic way, but house clearly takes him under his wing in a way he doesn't the other two). he gets put in charge of a case in s1, and gets a whole arc in s2 where he's in charge again. foreman is the main character.

they kind of tamp down on this in s4-5 with the new team arc, but even then: foreman is the leader. he is the best of the team. he is the one house puts in charge, he is a supervisor, he is the smartest, he gets his own subplots and career. the show kind of drops this after s6 i think, although it's hard to say exactly when it happened: by s7 foreman's pathological need to be in charge is a running joke, and he starts being made fun of for it more often -- they were teasing him in s2 for it, too, but at the same time it was unequivocally true, right? by s7 they're still teasing him, but foreman isn't really given his moments of Strong Leadership to compensate. in any case, by s8 they clearly have abandoned the idea of foreman as house's natural heir, not just because foreman is now dean (instead of cameron, who in turn spend s4-5 getting lots of set up for that job): in s8 chase also starts getting very obviously thrown into the old foreman role, taking charge, being called the best of the crew, given lots and lots of focus episodes and time to shine.

i say this all because i think it's pretty clear, right? foreman is the best of the team. he is the smartest. he is the most leaderly. he has the most focus. so why, i wonder: why does chase keep getting the brain cell?

chase solves the most cases on the show outside of house. admittedly, several of them are clustered in s8, when he's being groomed to take over the department, but like. s3 he gets two independent solves; in s4.2 he solves the case two seconds after learning about it (admittedly in a moment kind of meant to show up the contrast between the old team and new candidates). in the pilot, he doesn't solve the case, but he figures out how to prove the diagnosis when everyone else is stumped. at the same time, early seasons chase isn't… i wouldn't say isn't smart, but is often slightly less likely to participate in differentials, is kind of a dumbass in a very chase-ish way; he's perceived as being a little dim. house is surprised in no reason when fake!chase says something smart, you know? chase isn't on the team for his genius intellect, he's there to keep people alive while house thinks. and that's fine! but he keeps getting that braincell.

and it's even more striking because foreman doesn't, usually. part of it is because a lot of foreman's arc is his struggles with his arrogance/coldness - he tends to lose patients to teach him a lesson, etc. and i think you can make a case that in s3, chase was written as more confident to set up his firing/leaving: foreman was going to leave as part of his development, cameron was leaving as part of hers (letting go of house -- her desire to protect/fix/shelter him by instead just letting him be), but chase doesn't really get character arcs like the other two, so we just need to prove he's ready to move on in other ways, right?

but he keeps solving cases. and foreman, really, doesn't.

i have no grand thesis conclusion here. i just find it fascinating from a meta perspective. there's a real temptation in fandom to pretend chase was always the most special smartest boy, and that really isn't the case. but because it wasn't the case, that makes his frequent wins even more interesting to me.

[toughtink]

the genshin/hoyo sag-aftra strike situation is depressing and complex and i wish everyone stopped pretending that it’s easy because the more i learn about all the ins and outs of these agreements, the more i see why this has stalled out for so long. can people at least stop harassing VAs over it, please???

[meiloorunn]

maybe i’ll finally put my bihyung and biyoo crochet patterns into a nice pdf… could make them a little more accessible than just floating in my personal tumblr abyss

[mearcatsreturns]

deeply frustrated by bureaucracy and things I’ll have to deal with over the next couple of days, but at least the couch is full of cats

[kyotosummer]

Y’all have no idea how excited I was when I not only managed to come in right as they were stocking FuwaMoco, but I also somehow was graced the miracle of winning their individual crane games. 😭

[aria0fgold]

Been playing Cookie Run: Tower Adventures for awhile now and it's kinda funny how even in this game, the earth type cookies gravitates to me. Earth magnet certified.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

gonna turn off reblogs on the weather post soon bc a weather forecast is only any good when it's actually timely and also bc while people mean well when they give advice, nobody seems to think to check the notes to see if that specific advice has already been given so there's a LOT of duplication in my notes and i'm getting bored lol

[divinekangaroo]

a home painted bright with blood and thorns - pettiot - Peaky Blinders (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

Ch 1 | Ch 2 | Ch 3 | Ch 4 | Ch 5 | (COMPLETE)

After the S4-S6 election/marriage, pre-S5. Some months into Tommy and Lizzie's marriage.

This frequently absent father and husband considers that he often does his best work in extreme circumstances: time pressure, resource constraints, situational uncertainty, high stakes, and gross emotional wounding. He knows what to do, doesn't he?

No matter what sort of internal spiralling disaster cascade he's busily ignoring inside. No matter what badly considered spur of the moment decisions he makes to get through the moment that he might pay for later. No matter what—

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Tommy Shelby/Lizzie Stark, Charles Shelby, Ruby Shelby, Arthur Shelby, Frances, Various Shelby Household Maids, Charles Strong, Cyril the Dog, | Domesticity, Intimacy, Menstruation, Bodily Fluids, Bodily Solids, Bodily Functions, Babies, Lactation, Mental Health Issues, Repression, Abusive Families (Past), Attempts at Communicating, Trying Hard, Family Trauma, Family Feels, Nail-Biting, Household Dynamics, Absent Father, Avoidance, Deflection, Trying Sooooooooooo Hard, Distress, Comfort Sex, Dysfunctional Family, Contraception, Spiralling, Intrusive Thoughs, Mild Paranoia, Grief, The Lasting Legacy of Catholicism, Fear of Mental Illness

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[phagodyke]

aouuugh my uterus......

[undead-potatoes]

Going through my Ma/ss Ef/fect tag and seeing SO MUCH of the discussion around Bi/owa/re's treatment of queer characters (and by extension queer fans), remembering how this was a whole thing every single time a new game came out bc they seemingly never learned

And then juxtaposing that up against B/G3 where this just... wasn't a thing? To remember all the turmoil around this shit and feel such an overwhelming sense of relief that every character is available to any gender or race, instead of gating off romances for especially queer people or the less "conventionally pretty" player races. Ideally we'd have a bigger variety of queer identities among the LIs (like lesbians or ace characters etc), but not having to worry as a queer player whether you will get the short end of the stick again is just so nice? for once?

[varjopeura]

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[dnptheinfinity]

got a fancy light up keyboard as a slightly early birthday present and i love it so much it feels like we were meant to be together

[daz4i]

they should invent a my body that has less than infinite issues!!!!!!!

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

and if I changed the url of my sideblog only a week after making it?? what then??

[boypr1ncesss]

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[sysig]

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