#le sigh...

[girl-drink-drunk]

me, at the beginning of every episode of the pitt: but will the pretty sommolier come back to date dr. mckay??

[cuddytism]

for the choose violence ask game: any 2 questions you want to answer :3

ooo ooo fun. i think i'm gonna go with 8 & 16

#8 : common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

cuddy fandom characterization!!!!! i think a lot of the fandom tends to lean way too far into cuddy being nurturing or "motherly" in their depictions of her. which is very funny lol. because she really isn't. she's actually very indifferent (borderline avoidant, one could argue) to the personal lives of her employees. she comes of as antagonistic towards them more often than she is nurturing. i think the biggest example of this is her relationship with cameron in the first three seasons. where she is especially harsh to her when, i think, if the fandom's interpretation of cuddy was true, she would likely go the easiest on cameron, due to their similarities and cameron's position as the odd-woman-out in the team.

this is not to say that cuddy isn't a good mother. because she is! but she can be a good mother and also not have those qualities extend to the people she employs (whom she has very little personal relationship with lol.)

ALSO. since we're here. the idea that cuddy is weak-willed / lets house walk all over her, which even the show can lean into at times. and it's just. not correct. as per The Right Stuff, we know that the main reason cuddy lets house do the insane things he does is because his explanations make sense to her, in a way that they do not to a majority of people. which is what sets ppth/cuddy herself apart from the rest of the in-universe medical world. season 4 tackles this really well and i'm hoping to write more about it. but anyway. cuddy is not as easily manipulated / weak-willed as many think her to be, she just... understands house's brand of insanity.

#16 : you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

ok. people are not going to like this one. but the trans/lesbian cuddy headcanons. i see both of these a lot and they lowkey get on my nerves but i get a little scared of critiquing them out of fear of being called -phobic (which is funny as i . am a lesbian and also trans . ) but i'm going to use this as an attempt to articulate it. (though, i'm going to focus mainly on the trans one here because the themes i refer to are much more prevalent where i am at currently in the show, whereas the sexuality stuff is explored more later on. though i can definitely make a different post discussing that if anyone's interested ^_^)

i think that these headcanons only really have merit if you've only watched the first season lol. because post-season 1, not only is cuddy being a cisgender woman incredibly crucial to her story, but so is her attraction to house (though, to a lesser extent at that point), who is a man. i've seen arguments against this, writing it off as unimportant, mostly with the belief that the argument is only rooted in 'she canonically has a uterus/persues ivf/etc' and that that alone isn't a good enough reason to keep people from headcanoning what they want.

and i see the appeal of that argument. if it were true! but... it isn't. cuddy's infertility (i'm really on this train recently, huh?) and what it means for her character is the real root here. making her transfem waters down all of the intricacies that come with that. because with that, instead of her infertility -- and how it deeply wounds her and affects her view of herself/her life -- being something that is important to her character, it is just a side effect of her being a trans woman. it's watered down completely. there is nothing to grapple with there, because trans women know they cannot get pregnant, but for a cis woman -- cuddy, specifically --, being infertile can feel like a personal failure. a betrayal of the body for the one thing it was built to do. there's a lot of neat character stuff there (which i alluded to a bit in my last post). and that headcanon completely writes it off.

add the fact that this storyline is basically the only main cuddy storyline that we get outside of her attraction to house, and... yeah, i don't like it being written off for the sake of a headcanon. sorry. this alone changes (erases) so much of her character on a fundamental level.

not to say that trans people cannot have complicated relationships to parenthood, and that there shouldn't be stories that reflect that (there absolutely should), but i am saying that cuddy's story isn't one of them! and i think it's disrespectful to the writing of the show/cuddy as a character, cis women whose stories cuddy reflects, and trans women who do struggle with their relationships to motherhood, to try to act like it is.

and then there's also the people who say shit like "it explains why she's an endocrinologist and infertile" and to those people i say: i don't respect you enough to write another argument.

thank you for the ask :))) i got very ramble-y here oops.

[whitefoxfiction]

I saw something on my timeline earlier that made me feel so very... called out. I don't read enough. I truly don't, at least not much outside of fanfics these days. I feel like I had a better vocabulary 15- 20 years ago than I do now, and I read a whole lot more then. That was before the internet became such an all-encompassing thing and before health issues cropped up that have necessitated medications that aren't the best for cognative function. Now, I honestly have no excuse. I'm not able to work right now, and my youngest kiddo is in high school and able to mostly take care of herself. I would very much like to push myself to start writing regularly, and if I'm going to do that, then I want it to be good writing. And, that's not going to develop if I don't read a variety of really good writing. I am open to suggestions for non-fanfiction books. I never had a literature class because I let my mom talk me out of being an English major, so there's a lot I haven't read.

[nickothecrow]

i just wanna draw gay people why must i have EXAMS RAAGRHHDHDHS

[superchat]

i wish vtubers were more well known and not a super underground niche micro community :( its fun being into something so hidden and out of the mainstream but i also would like more people to know abt them too

[cosmoseinfeld]

[masgwi]

I wish I could get pregnant. Really starting to feel the envy of my friends' little families...

[funwalker]

Honestly, I was thinking about this earlier today... That like... Printers are sold at a loss because they know that they'll make up for the sales in ink.

If your platform is basically going to rely on digital sales... And YOU own the eShop... You can probably afford to do the same.

posting this for no particular reason

[a-taupe-fox]

I saw a post like "Would love to see a sequel to this!!!!!"

And I was like. "?????? HOW?????? WHAT WOULD THE PLOT EVEN BE????????"

...

then I couldn't stop thinking about it, and of course now, I have the entire plot for a sequel thought out...

[fictional-boyfriend]

don't know what to say because it's incoherent but also wanting desperately to blabber about my ddcau insert. if my synapses had any semblance of spark left i would have typed out 5000 words by now.

[lesbianraskolnikov]

I will tonsure Alyosha. Come here

[alientopsurgery]

i bought a badge with my google survey money but it didnt show up in my badge menu 🤨.... it took the money out but it doesn't show the interaction on my purchase history...

[afamiliarsword]

My days are so fluxuating lately in mood, I'll start drawing and call myself the worst artist to ever live, eat a snack and feel fine, feel like I have rats in my hair and gain a massive headache, finish the illustration and feel fully accomplished. Like girl... Just let me do this normally!!

[functioning-minne-holic]

Telling her how my day was while she chokes and drools on it tbh.