#thank you for this jo

[itsybitsybookworm]

I think it's interesting how Eric ended up as Cuddy in spite of his justified fear that he would turn out to be House 2.0, especially through the House and Cuddy as mirror images lens.

Yes! I have been thinking about this! Not just the job, Foreman's personality also resembles Cuddy which fits nicely into the mirror image factor of it all. Foreman's choice not to be involved in drama, the way he treats his employees and the way he treats House are so wonderfully similar to Cuddy. I guess, in her own way, Cuddy was also afraid of turning into House. Remember that episode where Cuddy's mom is trying to sue the hospital for mistreating her but it's later revealed that she was actually trying to push House and Cuddy together? She says something along the lines of 'who else will tolerate either of you?' That just goes to show how similar they really are. But their worldviews, mannerisms and most importantly their choices are what set them apart. Which is why I believe they're complements of each other.

Foreman shares many of House's beliefs that are unique to him yet his choices, his ambition bring him so much closer to Cuddy. Things are not puzzles to him, they are cases. The puzzle is House and, in extention, himself.

Remember that scene when Foreman is fired by the other hospital for not following procedure and Cuddy is rehiring him? She says that Foreman is too much like House for anyone else to employ him, the only one who will even consider it is the one who employed the original House. That is strikingly close to his views of himself. In the last season there's a scene where the investors say there's been a downgrade in the hospital due to the change in administration, Foreman counters that it's because House's department was closed for a year. But you can see in his face for a second where he considers that it might be true that he is at fault. There's more similarity in his responses in these scenes than is casually visible. I don't have it all worked out yet but I know there's something deeper.

Finally, my two favorite Foreman is replacing Cuddy moments-

When he gets some sport event tickets for House and himself. He says House doesn't have to be alone after Wilson's gone, he will still have people who care about him, he'll have friends. The entire series we see the two people who care most about House are Wilson and Cuddy. House says Foreman is trying to replace Wilson but that's not it. Foreman cannot replace Wilson even if he wanted, he just can't. Cuddy is the one he's replacing.

The one where he's asking Chase not to quit. Chase asks if he's there as the boss or as a friend. They talk and Chase says he's there as House, wanting to force him into a decision. Foreman says "we've both seen it work". Which is why Cuddy kept House around. As insufferable as he is, House is the best, he gets results. She kept him in line, made exceptions for him, etc. etc. Foreman does exactly that for Chase in this episode. This also fits into my theory that Chase is more like House than Foreman.

In conclusion, Foreman has more in common with Cuddy than House. At the very end, he becomes Cuddy, Chase becomes House and maybe (I don't have enough arguments to support this) Taub replaces Wilson.

This turned out a little too long, I hope it's coherent.

[artemispt]

This is too cute. A baby bird waiting to be fed 🥰

[the0retically]

Jay would definitely get sick during a solar eclipse and Gill would get sick during a lunar eclipse

they get their magic from the sun/moon so when it’s blocked they would definitely feel the effects of that

[scuderlia]

cinematic parallels

[jockweek2024]

The prompts are in! Thank you to everyone who went out of their way to vote. The event will run from May 30th to June 5th.

Jock Week 2024's prompts:

Day 1/May 30: Fashion Day 2/May 31: Vampire AU Day 3/June 1: "Maybe Brick and Jo wanna kiss and make up?" Day 4/June 2: Injury Day 5/June 3: Confession Day 6/June 4: Genderbend Day 7/June 5: Double date

AO3 Collection is here

Have fun and see you then!

[mitamicah]

🩵💗💚The powerpuff boys (x) 💚💗🩵

[darkcreamz95]

Wake up baby boos new episode of "JO Cooking Show" just dropped~

[undercoverpena]

omg, you lot. i cannot believe this at all??? 7k of youuuu???

thank you so much. i wish i could hug every single one of you. like, from the bottom of my heart, i am so grateful to every single soul who has supported me. i cannot believe you've allowed me to take a little slice of the internet (and your hearts) to share stories and crazy ideas with you. whether you came for one fandom, and stayed for another or whether you've just discovered me, i adore you all. thank you, from the bottom of my heart ❤️

now. normally, i do celebrations differently, but i'm trying to be kinder to myself and allow myself to celebrate how good i am (ugh, felt so weird saying that). so, I thought we could have a...

CELEBRATION SLEEPOVER 🩷✨

you can send as many as you like from the below (and you can send them in on anon, if you'd feel more comfortable), but all you have to do is send me an emoji:

📝 send me a word + i'll search for it in my wips + show you the sentence 📺 make me choose between two (characters, shows, episodes) 🍑 fmk (you can be wildly inventive, just choose pedro boys please) 🎶 + your name/word and I'll assign a song from my liked songs to match each letter 🖼️ + a mood/word and i'll find three photos to send as a moodboard (you can also choose one of my fics if you want) 🔐 + a fic of mine and I'll tell you a directors cut/fun fact about it 🌝 open ask: you can ask me anything! send me any questions, top fives, fave things, book recs, random questions you're burning to ask

tagging below some moots who may wanna take part (but zero pressure):

@psychedelic-ink @fuckyeahdindjarin @thetriumphantpanda @hellishjoel @goodwithcheese @secretelephanttattoo @rhoorl @joelsgreenflannel @swiftispunk @joelscruff @maggiemayhemnj @perotovar @scenaaario @burntheedges @laughing-in-th3-purple-rain @msjarvis @hier--soir @oonajaeadira

[valiantstarlights]

[The Proposal AU]

Inspired by: @voukkake 's art, and what @valeriianz wrote.

I have totally forgotten that I said Betty White's character should be played by Destiny. 😂 And while I changed my mind about the blanket just now, I'm still pushing for him to do the forest ritual scene. 💃 Anyway, here's my contribution to the dreamling The Proposal AU. 🖤

"Hey, are you both decent?" Johanna, Hob's younger sister, calls out as she raps a quick knock on the door of Hob's bedroom.

Hob, currently lounging on the bed and reading a novel, rolls his eyes and says, "Dream has never been decent once in his entire life, but I suppose we're both fully clothed at the moment."

Dream, who is getting some editing work done at Hob's desk, glares at him from the corner of his eye.

Hob beams at him as the door opens and Jo enters with one hand covering her eyes, while the other held out a wrapped package for either of them to take. "Just delivering this," she says. "Gran said it came in the mail this morning."

"It's already open," Hob notes, putting his book down as he moves to take it from her. "Who is it from?"

"Oh, uh, the entire Endless family? There are a lot of signatures on the letter."

Dream notices an envelope peeking out of the package, and it, too, has been opened. He stands quickly and slaps Hob's hand away before grabbing the letter himself.

"Well, okay, that's all," Jo says mysteriously as she turns back towards the door, trying to navigate her way out of Hob's room with one hand still placed firmly over her eyes. "I'm gonna go and find my noise-cancelling headphones and some duct tape. Just give me like a ten minute headstart, okay? Please? For my sanity?"

"I have literally no idea what's going on," Hob says to the room at large: to Dream, who is reading the letter accompanying the package with a furious look on his face, and to Jo, who is using her other arm like a blind man's cane as she exits the room.

"You'll know soon, Hobsie!" Jo calls out as she crosses the threshold, and immediately slams the door shut. Hob then hears her tearing down the corridor to her room like the hounds of hell are chasing her. "Remember: ten minutes!" she yells out. "Not one second earlier!"

Helpless, Hob turns to his boss. Fake fiancee. Whatever. "Wanna clue me in on why my sister is acting weirder than usual?"

In response, Dream holds up a hand, nonverbally telling him to wait until he finishes reading the letter. A few seconds later, he scoffs in disgust and throws the letter towards Hob, who scrambles to catch it.

"The last paragraph," Dream spits, tone utterly disgusted, then stalks back towards the desk. When he starts typing again, it sounded like he was manifesting for his fingers to turn into hammers so he could destroy the keyboard. "And once you're done reading, burn both the letter and that..infernal package, will you?"

Hob, mystified at what the fuck is actually going on, turns the paper over to read the last paragraph.

'We are sending this letter with The Babymaker, which, if you have already forgotten--like you have forgotten all about our entire family's existence for the past few years--is the Endless family blanket that has been passed down through the generations, in the hopes that you and your fiancee will be blessed with many children.'

Hob chokes on his spit as he reaches the end of the paragraph. "What the fuck?"

"Precisely," Dream says bitterly. "No doubt my parents and a couple of my siblings find this entire situation amusing."

"Okay, first of all," Hob says, very gingerly setting both the package and the letter with the envelope at the farthest corner of the room from the two of them, being very careful not to touch the blanket's fabric, "Who the fuck names their blanket The Babymaker? And second of all, of all the heirlooms to pass down to your children, it has to be the blanket that each and every ancestor used when they fucked? Really?"

"Now you understand why I do not interact with most of my family members," Dream says. "This is not the first time they have gone to great lengths to humiliate me, although sending the blanket to potentially humiliate me in the eyes of my soon-to-be in-laws stink of desperation."

The more Hob learns about Dream's biological family, the more he wants to punch them in the face. No wonder Dream acts like he's under attack all the time. Heck, if Hob grew up in a home where he was treated like shit, he wouldn't emerge prickly and wary. He'd be a full-blown bastard who punches first and talks it out never.

"We could send them a letter back," Hob offers, a little cheekily to infuse some humor in the situation. Dream is clenching his jaw so hard, and a small, miniscule, microscopic part of Hob wants to run his thumb gently over where the muscles are bunched up. Dream was having a pretty okay day before all this. Like, sure, he was muttering that the writer whose work he's currently editing is an idiot, but that's his usual thing. And Hob likes listening to him rant and read ridiculous passages from the manuscript.

(He'd never admit that, of course, but...he's come to like it. He sometimes even looks forward to it.)

"And what shall we say, hm?" Dream challenges, hostility stiffening his shoulders. "That we are grateful for their gift and we are keen to invite them to our wedding? Because this entire thing might be a sham, but I would rather eat hot coals than have either of my parents walk me down the aisle, or my twin siblings be part of the wedding party."

Hob gives in to the temptation and walks towards his desk. He ignores the way Dream sits up even straighter, like he's ready to get into a physical fight, and gently runs his thumb over Dream's jaw.

Immediately, as soon as Hob's thumb makes contact with Dream's jaw, Dream's eyelashes flutter, and his brows furrow. He looks utterly confused. Was he expecting Hob to hurt him? Hob grits his own teeth at that, but takes care not to let the sudden flare of anger show on his face.

When Dream looks up to meet Hob's gaze, Hob could still see the guarded way he holds himself, but there's also yearning in the line of his neck. Hob rubs his jaw again, and does not remove his hand from where it cups Dream's face. He could feel Dream lean infinitesimally closer, and he wordlessly lets him, continuing to run his thumb back and forth in a comforting gesture.

"Disclaimer," Hob says softly, at the sudden hush of the room. "What I'm gonna say next is a joke at your family's expense, so please don't commit violence against my person."

Dream's eyes actually sparkle at that, and the corner of his lips lifts the tiniest amount. "Go on, then," he says. "I welcome jokes at my family's expense. I will even give you bonus points if you make fun of my parents and my twin siblings."

Well. Alright then.

"I was thinking," Hob says slowly, "maybe we should write back and say we didn't need the blanket at all, since I totally got you pregnant weeks ago when we fucked at your place, just after you gave the most romantic proposal ever. The doctor said we're having twins, and since I'm a total simp for you, I will allow you to commit all sorts of crimes, including not letting our children meet your parents and your twin siblings, and burning the Endless family's precious blanket heirloom at the very first opportunity."

"You would dare invite the wrath of the entire Endless family, both the living and the dead, just to please my arsonist tendencies?" Dream asks, but his eyes are crinkled in laughter, and he's actually smiling.

"Yeah," Hob says, suddenly feeling a strange, tender sensation in his chest. Dream absolutely looks breathtaking when he smiles. "Absolutely."

"Then come," Dream says, and stands. Hob watches him pick up the package holding The Babymaker, as well as the envelope and letter that Hob had set aside. "We still have an hour before dinner, and I would rather not sleep in the same room as this wretched thing."

Fuck, Hob thinks inanely, mind still replaying how Dream's smile widened as Hob talked shit about his family. They were really gonna burn The Endless family's highly inappropriate and very disgusting heirloom.

"Hob," Dream says, now on the threshold of Hob's room. One eyebrow was raised in a manner that should definitely not make Hob's nether regions interested. "Are you coming?"

"Yeah," Hob says quickly, and rushes to Dream's side. He feels like he's gonna trip at any moment. "It could prove cathartic for you," he says, a little stupidly. He has to say something so he doesn't think about Dream's smile and his imperiously raised eyebrow. "And symbolic. Like watching bad memories burn and be reduced to nothing."

Dream hums and takes Hob's arm as they walk down the stairs to go outside. It's a bit chilly out, but not too much. Apparently, it's more important to Dream that they burn the damn thing than pause for a second to don a jacket. "Reword that, and I'll allow you to use it in your novel."

"Great," Hob squeaks out at Dream's fond tone. "Definitely will remember that one."

He has already forgotten what he just said, his entire being focused on Dream's warm hand on his arm, and the scent of his own shampoo.

"I will remember for you," Dream assures him. "Eidetic memory, remember?"

Hob was about to say that that is something he will definitely not be forgetting any time soon, except it was at that moment that they hear Jo holler all the way from her room, "Finally found my noise-cancelling headphones! The two of you can fuck now!"

Their eyes meet, and there is a moment of silence, before Dream lets out the most frightening laugh Hob has ever heard, except all he feels is giddy and fond and slightly off balance, like something huge just happened, and his entire world has been changed irrevocably.

[thissying]

📷: Peter van Egmond, 2001

Formule1 magazine

[artemispt]

[rhoorl]

Delta Landscaping Extra | Benny's IG

So in Chapter 16 of Delta Landscaping, there are a few mentions of Benny's Instagram account. A couple of months ago I was talking about this with @undercoverpena and sent a few photos I was using as inspo and she made me a little mockup of Benny's Instagram for me (below the cut).

Thank you so much for making this Jo, you are a creative whiz and I love all of the Instagram stuff you've done for Do Me Yourself! I'm so happy with how this turned out!

That latest photos really caught Vanessa's attention...and Cousin Joel who heard about it by way of Sarah.

If you look closely you'll see a reference to the skate party Olivia threw for her twins back in Chapter 12!

[arctixout]

praying to all known gods we get a heavier song on the new album

[sneg-v-avgustu]

🥹

(original video)

[s0lairee]

cw for scars, fantasy body horror/gore (in art and text).

apotheosis/corruption.

blake body horror has been on my mind for an embarrassingly long time...

[totaled-drama]

bowie would be in the center of the gossip between the coaches. like that one kid at the center of their mom's friend group brunch? That's Bowie.

It'd make a cute comic!

Yeah!! Bowie gets up to a surprising amount of shenanigans. The coaches talk about him a lot.