kira // 28 //šØš¦ // disaster lesbian // she/her // writer, sometimes // neurodivergent // currently posting about: House M.D., my ongoing read of asoiaf, and various other nonsense // writing blog: scytheswrites
#scythes rambles - general rambling from yours truly
#scythes reads - book stuff, what i'm reading/have read (see also: #scythes reads asoiaf for current reading of asoiaf)
#malpractice md posting - house m.d. nonsense I don't feel like maintagging, may include hot takes or occasional bitching
#scythes writes - tag for general writing rambling but also where i will put any fics i post (rare)
#scythes music tag - posts about my music interests
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probably time I post an actual about-me post so here it goes:
Basic Info:
Kira, a late-20s disaster lesbian (she/her), Canadian
ADHD & mood disorders aplenty
Iām a writer, I have a college diploma in Professional Writing, and I will occasionally ramble about my writing (but rarely post any actual writing) - writing blog is @scytheswrites
My interests/hyperfixations change fairly regularly and I have no interest in creating individual blogs for each of my fandoms, so this blog is very much multi-fandom (but I always tag my fandom posts respectively for filtering purposes)
Current Interests/Fandoms/Hyperfixations:
House M.D. (multiship hell but nuts about camchase. I love all of the house ladies but primarily Thirteen and Cameron, accepting my fate as a Cameron Guy. Also a Chase guy, despite all odds)
Currently reading: ASOIAF
Longtime Interests/Fandoms:
Games: Dragon Age, Soulsbornes & Elden RIng, Fire Emblem, BG3, Zero Escape trilogy
Marvel (MCU and comics, havenāt seen all of the recent MCU content though)
Music: my taste is all over the place but my lifelong favorite artist is Paramore (late 2000s-early 2010s emo kid here), but i listen to all sorts of pop, alt, metal, k-pop, etc etc
Books: Faves are The Locked Tomb series, The Burning Kingdoms Trilogy, The Priory of the Orange Tree, & the Iron Widow series.
Ancient Interests/Fandoms (My Lore):
Twilight (I will still occasionally shitpost about Twilight)
Superwholock (but primarily Doctor Who, which will forever be in my heart and on my mind)
Carmilla (web series)
Orphan Black
Iāll update this info post as needed, DMs and Asks are always open!
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i know you aren't a house person but. you made a post about half-wit and now i want to know your thoughts on both times house fakes a disease.
three times!!! THREE TIMES!!!
i've talked about it before, because if nothing else it's a fascinating case study of house-the-character AND show's flanderization over time: house fakes sick in seasons 3, 5, and 8, and each time is... worse.
in half wit, yes, there's a bit of "television" to the plot -- house is dying! oh no! -- but in universe the "cancer" and house's actions have an internal logic. he never intended for anyone to find out, because it was a plot to get drugs. he's annoyed everyone does find out. house isn't playing games, or performing: he wants people to drop it because he isn't trying to trick anyone into worrying about him, he just wants to get drugs.
no more mr. nice guy isn't bad, exactly, but... s4 is tonally already very different from s3. it's very aware it is a television show; it is doing things For Ratings, For Views. the elaborate hiring games make no sense in universe; episode plots are starting to get Wacky. and we see this here, too. house is trying to trick his team; the reason he is faking sick is for his own fun and enjoyment; he now enjoys worrying people who care about him. he does let wilson (and the audience) in on the game, which alleviates the bad taste somewhat. but this aspect of house playing with and pranking his team is actually new: he'd provoke and poke at the OG3, sure, but always for a reason (even just "to see what they're hiding"); this simply seems to be a mean prank with no deeper reason behind it. i suppose you could say "house is testing to see what the new kids will do/react," but... again, he has never worried about this before.
and then there's the atrocious blowing the whistle, where house decides to fake yet another deathly condition for no reason at all. this time, we're not given even the barest excuse or let in on the "prank:" we don't know why he decided to do it this week or for what purpose. chase, at least, refuses to play along (foreman and taub should really know better -- wilson too!), but chase's theory that house is doing an elaborate scheme to see who will rat because house wants someone to rat is... silly, not least because we and house have known chase will rat since s1, and sure enough, he does it here, too. his entire team has always been made up of tattle-tales! chase suggests house wants to make sure someone can replace him if anything happens, which i think is true -- but on a meta level (the episode aired about a month after it was announced this would be the show's last season, and the second half of s8 spends a lot of time preparing chase for that job), not a personal one. when has house ever cared about a successor before? why now? what is the reason? why, aside from Audience Views, has house decided that he likes to trick and mislead and manipulate his employees and audience now?
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iām sorry but the funniest thing that i see in some house fics is chase just saying āmateā all the time. how many times does he even say that in the show ššš clearly itās just bc heās australian and you think he says it 24/7 lol
he says it twice. chase very, very rarely uses australian-isms! i can only think of four examples in the entire show, which i'm going to list here because i think it's relevant for how rarely he uses slang and the context in which he does.
poison, s1: while his patient is seizing, chase tries to hold him down and get him drugs with a "stay cool, mate." the subtitles actually say stay calm, but i've Asked An Australian and this seems to be a bit of ad-libbed dialogue. in context, it makes sense: chase is a bit harried/rushed, he's not thinking about his words.
cursed, s1: chase gives a very autralian "you'll be right" to gabe as reassurance. this one is an extremely common australian/new zealandism, but i never see it in fic -- and wasn't aware of it myself until i Asked An Australian (as the phrasing was so specific). context again: he likes gabe, he's speaking to him as a pal, not a "doctor." he's being a bit less professional and casual.
hunting, s2: when kalvin is flirting with him and asking chase to check out of femoral artery (groin), chase replies with a lightly sarcastic "sorry, mate; hand's full." again, context! he's joking a bit. he's not going to check out kalvin's groin, but he's not being rude or weird about it: he's joking in the face of flirting.
private lives, s6: chase talking to thirteen, says he acted like a "tosser" during speed dating. again: he's being informal, he's talking with a friend. he's a bit frustrated/upset, and his tone matches.
chase tends to be a fairly formal speaker, actually! he doesn't use a lot of slang generally, he doesn't swear (unless very upset), he has a professional tone. we usually see him at work and in a professional setting! but even when he's in more casual settings or out of work, he's not very slangy or casual: straight-forward, sure, but his tone is more "polite" than "friendly," you know? he doesn't call people mate.
actually, thinking about it, house's reactions to everyone thinking he has cancer in half wit and how he responds to the kids grieving him are. fascinating
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Re: LRB Itās about time white people (yes, myself included) look inward and examine our internalized biases and racism. and to call it out when we see other people doing it.
Of course this issue is especially prevalent when it comes to food, so much so that I have several recent examples.
example 1: I suggest Taco Bell (or another Mexican fast food chain) for dinner. My partner jokes that itāll upset my stomach, despite me saying on several occasions that it doesnāt (I have a variety of restaurants that notably DO upset my stomach, for reference). the āhaha Mexican food causes diarrhea/gastrointestinal distressā joke is racist in nature, full stop.
example 2: i have stomach issues the day after eating at a Japanese fast food chain. (I have NO IDEA what causes this but itās like a 50/50 chance whenever I eat the teriyaki udon, which I love, my stomach is going to have a bad time). my partner explains this to my coworkers. one says āmust be the msgā. the conspiracy around MSG has literally been disproven, itās literally just a sodium salt. itās a flavour enhancer found naturally in some foods. but people have used it for years as an excuse to be racist (primarily towards Chinese people).
TLDR; white people have to stop using other cultural cuisines as an excuse to be racist. and yes, that includes calling foods from other cultures āgrossā. just because you personally arenāt used to something doesnāt make it lesser-than. this is still racism.
Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. Itās okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so itās okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food
