#sean ames

[whatsortofschoolisthis]

Ben: *screams*

Sean: *screams louder to establish dominance*

Charlie: Should we do something?

Andre: No, I want to see who wins.

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Hecate: Would you punch me for two thousand knuts?

Rowan: Noooo, I'd never hurt you!

[Meanwhile]

Sean: Would you punch me-

Talbott, squaring up: I'm glad you asked.

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Dumbledore: How did none of you hear what I just said?

Hecate: I’ve been zoned out for the past two and a half hours.

Kit: I got distracted by Fawkes about halfway through.

Sean: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.

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Charlie: What are you implying about my baking skills?

Jae: That they're non-existent.

Charlie: ...I didn't think it was possible to be as rude as you are being right now.

Jae: And I didn't think it was possible to barbecue brownies so I guess we're all learning.

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Alanza: Well, has Merula been wrong before?

Ismelda: How wide are we willing to open this up?

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Diego: What's it called when you're, like, bisexual, but for language?

Talbott: ...BILINGUAL?!

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Kit: What are you doing?

Ben, laying on the floor: I’m slowly and painfully suffering in my stupid, miserable existence.

Jae, eating popcorn: I’m supervising.

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Merula: Hope you get run over.

Tonks: Hoping is all well and good, but ultimately, it gets you nowhere. Be the change you wish to see in the world. Get on your broom and run me the fuck down instead of waiting for others to do your work for you, you coward. You lazy fool.

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Skye: I swear that everything was carefully calculated!

Murphy: You almost DIED!

Skye: I never said i was good at maths!

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Liz: Dolphins and I - let's just say there's some bad blood

Bryn: There's bad blood between you personally and all dolphins?

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Sean, staring at Percy: um… you want a butterbeer?

Charlie: hE’S ELEVEN!

Sean: I DONT KNOW WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH IT????

[emilybeemartin]

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

[underwhelmingalchemist]

So apparently the version of the "Isn't It Bromantic" interview that gets passed around isn't the full thing

So after seeing a tumblr post I can't find, about two and half hours of intensive internet digging, and one purchase from a sketchy second-hand site later (full story under the cut, I promise it's interesting, but also long), I got the physical magazine and scanned it

So here you go: the full "Isn't It Bromantic?" TV guide interview with Robert Sean Leonard and Hugh Laurie

Feel free to repost wherever you want- I want people to be able to find the full thing

SO, as for how I found it:

I saw this tumblr post forever ago that I can't find anymore because tumblr is just Like That with a cropped screenshot of an interview with Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard. In the interview, they're asked about the "bromance" between their two characters. Leonard makes an annoyed comment about how "everyone [is] obsessed with homosexuality", followed by the interview apologizing and Laurie immediately jumping in with, "No, no, let's talk about it. Wilson and House have an unusual relationship so you have to explore…" and the screenshot cuts off there. Cue funny comment from the OP about the interaction, roll credits.

Except, as these things tend to do, it ended up becoming a bit of a brain worm, and I wanted to find it again. But I couldn't find the tumblr post. I looked absolutely everywhere, and in the process of looking everywhere, I found what I thought was the original interview- a blog post with the full quote from the actor. I didn't think too much about it, I figured it was just a short quote given to a popular blog in 2008. There's a magazine cover above it, but I don't think too much about it, because I'm focusing on the quotes in the article instead of the rest of it.

So I send screenshots to a couple friends to make jokes, and it probably should have died there.

However, late at night I end up thinking about that interview again, because of course I did. I start to think about how it's weirdly formatted for, what I assumed at first reading, was just an entertainment news blog reaching out for comment and getting a response. So I pull up the screenshots of the article (because weirdly enough, the old-ass blog only loads on mobile) and look at it again.

This is when I realize that this isn't an original piece from a blog interviewing these two after reaching out for comment. This is a blog post quoting and commenting on a full interview from a magazine, which I had originally thought had just been the inspiration for the piece.

So naturally, I go looking for the magazine.

Luckily, the name of the magazine is displayed on the cover, and so is the title of its main piece. This should be easy to find, right?

Wrong.

This is an interview in a physical magazine. From 2008. October 13th, 2008, to be exact.

I know this exact date because searching the article title and magazine name leads me to an archive on the TV Guide website.

Of covers.

And nothing but covers.

I spend like forty-five minutes searching everywhere I can think of on the web. Internet Archive, the TV Guide website, any search result that comes up when I search any combination of the words "House" "Interview" "Bromantic" "Bromance" "TV Guide" "Archive" etc. Over and over, all that's coming up are that original blog post and the cover from the official gallery.

The only things I could find online were:

The cover and date of the issue on the TV Guide website

The original blog post that was screenshotted in the original tumblr post

Another blog post that had a much shorter version of the quote, references something Leonard says from later in the article, and makes a comment on the nature of his reaction to the term "bromance"

An entry on Leonard's IMDB page's "interview" list mentioning it in title only

And:

5. A single listing for the issue on what seemed to be a second-hand site that looked like it hadn't had its UI updated since the mid 2000's, with a listing with no date or additional information besides what issue it is.

This is the only listing anywhere. I checked every other second-hand site I could think of, and then some that only came up through google searches. There's not a single listing for that issue on any of them. There were plenty of listings of TV guide magazines, including one that seemed promising because it included issues from that year, but it was missing all of October.

It seemed like the only listing for this issue on the entire internet was this one copy on this one obscure website. For all I know, this was listed in 2008 and abandoned, and just never got marked inactive. It could also be a complete scam.

A few quick google searches show that that website seemed to be legit, albeit a bit loose on quality control (which makes sense, this website seemed like the kind of thing you'd have to use the Way Back Machine to access). It also had an option to pay via PayPal, which meant I could file a chargeback if need be.

It was $11.50 when you include shipping.

So at about half past midnight, I bought the listing.

Naturally, about an hour later, I manage to actually find a scan of the interview. I had to follow a link in the comments of a post on FanPop, taking me to an old wordpress blog, and I'm sitting in front of the damn interview at last.

But something doesn't make sense. Why would their cover story only be two pages of text that aren't even full pages, and why would it cut off so strangely? There was no concluding sentence or paragraph, even though it started with a fairly long lead-in. It also led right up to the edge of the page, which felt like there should be more to it. There were more images in the interview than text, and the fact that there are so many of them and they clearly did a whole photoshoot indicated that they had them on hand for a while. The silly string one, for instance, I imagine probably had to require a couple takes, which means cleaning off Wilson's hair and face, adjusting makeup, etc. for it. Meanwhile, the conversation itself seems like it could have taken ten minutes total. I could have been totally wrong and that was where the article ended, but I couldn't shake the feeling that there might be more.

So I hold tight. A couple days pass with no update, and then the PayPal purchase gets updated with a tracking number. Promising, but it could still be a scam. Whether or not I get the actual magazine becomes a source of anxiety for the next week.

Until today, when I get told it was delivered. And when I opened the envelope it was sent in: there it was.

When I tell you I was happy stimming in my bedroom just holding the damn issue in my own hands... And then opening it and finding out that I was right, there was a missing page... I was elated. I still am, just typing this.

So I spent half an hour getting my scanner to work, and I give you the above issues.

Like I said above, feel free to repost however and wherever you want. I want all this to mean something.

In the meantime, I have two more House-themed TV Guide magazines coming to try and get articles from.

[glossglamour]

[chonnysinferno]

genderfluid michael & sean based on this post . huzzah!

[hellfire--cult]

I'm not ashamed.

[keery]

hey uh WHAT THE FUCK

[bonojour]

robert sean leonard with the dead poets society cast members in new york

[cottoncandysprite]

Guys holy shit ok i just had a fun moment of overanalyzing a background prop. So this is on one of Laszlo's plan posters in Local News:

Transcript: "During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy and unprotected from his attacks, exasperated as he might be by my departure. But he had promised to follow me wherever I might go, and would he not accompany me to England? This imagination was dreadful in itself, but soothing inasmuch as it supposed the safety of my friends. I was agonized with the idea of the possibility that the reverse of this might happen."

It's a quote from Frankenstein (which to be clear I have not read past the first chapter yet, but I have seen summaries and listened to plenty of infodumping about it from @goddamnlethamlet, who also helped me with this theory despite not watching wwdits), from when Victor leaves behind his family and fiancee to go build a monster bride for his creature, specifically him choosing to bring his best friend/boyfriend Clerval (yknow, instead of his fiancee. Just guys being dudes). It's also right before the creature kills both Henry and eventually Victor's fiancee on their wedding night, so that's..... worrying.

With it being associated with Laszlo by being on his plans, as well as him fitting into a scientist role this season, i think its safe to say any foreshadowing would put him in Victor's shoes. And with laszlo as the scientist, Guillermo would be his experiment, the Creature. Obviously Nadja is the fiancee and I believe Sean would fit into the best friend slot. As for Nandor, remember how I said victor planned to make the creature a bride? Well, the reason the creature lashes out and kills everyone is bc victor has a moral crisis over the bride and scraps her.

So I think in the finale, Guillermo lashes out, maybe even goes full monster mode, and somehow hurts (or god forbid kills) Nadja and/or Sean before running off, all bc Laszlo told Guillermo he would smooth things over with Nandor after his turning gets revealed but for some reason Laszlo fails or just straight up lies and doesn't do it.

Another alternate take is that this quote in particular refers to the fact that Laszlo is willingly hiding the dangerous creature (vampire guillermo) from the others as to not concern them, but in doing so is also putting them in danger because they have no warning and no defense prepared against him. Hmm.

Anyway I for one love classic lit parallels and would kill for any of this to be actual foreshadowing bc i spent way too long typing that for me to be wrong

TL;DR If they made that Frankenstein reference on purpose we are FUCKED

[arthursfuckinghat]

You see these mfs talking and you KNOW the gossip is going to be good

[whatsortofschoolisthis]

Sean: Time to get clever. Or, failing that, violent.

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Penny, shortly before the 2nd vault adventure: Everything will be ok. You can not stop it. 

Rowan: Everything will be fine. You have no choice. 

Bill: What the fuck kind of pep talk is that? 

Penny: Ominous positivity.

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Merula: Okay, if we can't do it by sheer force, we'll do it my way.

Kit: But your way is sheer force, just with a 'please' at the end!

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Jae: Come on, you can’t make everyone like you. You're not Chiara.

Ben: Not everyone likes Chiara...

Jae: What do you mean?!?

Jae: WHO DOESN'T LIKE CHIARA

Ben: Nobody I just-

Jae: I NEED NAMES

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Dark Wizard to Sean, Kit, and Jae: I’ve cornered you here because I crave the deadliest game... 

Jae, nodding: Knife Monopoly. 

Dark Wizard: 

Dark Wizard: I was actually going to hunt you lot for sport, but now I'm really interested in whatever knife Monopoly is.

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Ben: Why do you think I don't like you? I do. I would kill for you. Ask me to kill for you.

Hecate: First of all, calm down.

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Hecate: Can you keep a secret? 

Rubin: Do you know anything about my life? 

Hecate: No, I don't. Good point.

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Random person, pointing at Sean: Is that man bothering you?

Talbott: Yeah, but he's my boyfriend so I kinda signed up for this.

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 Bryn: Alright, so I got this box and we're gonna put everything we love in it.

Jae: *raises hand*

Bryn: No, we're not putting Chiara in the box.

Jae: *lowers hand*

[essektheylyss]

Sean is really the Candela character of all time because of how fundamentally entangled he is within not only the world but the literal mechanics of the game. He is entrenched in the cycle of violence and he has no capacity to see any escape.

And how could he? Why would he care in the end about monsters living among them, wearing human faces? There's nothing anymore monstrous about the shapeshifters than the men in that room—himself included. The only difference Sean sees between his doppelganger and those men is that the doppelganger is going to give him what he wants.

In fact, this is also the only difference he sees between himself and those men. He doesn't kill them because they did something monstrous. He kills them because in his estimation, with all of them as evidence of this belief, the only things you get in this world are the things you take for yourself. Their deaths won't bring back his brothers, or erase the things he himself did, or even really further his efforts to rescue his mother. He kills them because he wants to—if the world is inherently violent, and it is on a fundamental level, then he's going to take what he wants.

Because the violence of the world is baked into the fabric of reality, both narratively, through the Flare, which can never be defeated, only struggled against, and mechanically, through the significant odds of failure or complication. There is so little success in the world of not only Newfaire but Candela Obscura itself.

It has nothing to do with who is the biggest baddest monster. Sean's approach to violence and later betrayal is beyond the consideration of morality, because the struggles of Candela Obscura leave so little room to split hairs over morals. Survival is at stake. The organization of Candela Obscura is misguided and ineffectual not because of any inherent problems of the organization or corruption of its members, but because they are, in Sean's mind, always only making losing bets.

In Newfaire, the dice are loaded, the house is all-powerful, and humanity is the underdog. Was it any surprise that Sean Finnerty got tired of losing?

[where-our-stories-start]

"Sam was cocksure, and deep down a little conceited; but his conceit had been transformed by his devotion to Frodo. He did not think of himself as heroic or even brave, or in any way admirable – except in his service and loyalty to his master."

-J. R. R. Tolkein

[starlightseraph]

merry christmas from princeton-plainsboro teaching hospital, where we’re all gay and treat patients solely through slurs and felony malpractice!

[mutifandom-madness]

HOUSE MD RENAISSANCE HOUSE MD RENAISSANCE HOUSE MD RENAISSANCE HOUSE M- *House kills me to find out if I have thigh worms*

[daydreamoftheendless]

dr. jean is really walking around here like, “this is my boyfriend, marion. and this is his boyfriend, sean. they both experience The Eldritch Horrors.”