Of This and Other Worlds

Major spoilers lurk beneath the cuts, so proceed at your own risk...

( Lost: Two for the Road )

( House: Euphoria I & II )

( Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace )


And now to bustle about tidying the house and making school lunches and all those other things I can only get done when the kids are in bed. Sigh.

Things I forgot to mention about "House vs. God" last night, because I was too busy capering about the room over the Cameron=Wilson thing:

( More spoilers )

Did you know that the writer of this episode is on LJ? She doesn't post often, but you can find her at tightropegirl. She writes for Lost and other shows on occasion, too.

Some of you were wondering what I was on about re posting fic on a weekend, and looking for the last chapter of "Galatea" in vain, since I had it f-locked while I gathered last-minute beta comments. However, I did some more editing last night, and Part Four is now public. Hope you enjoy it!

It's House time again! Thanks to everybody who's been reading and commenting on the fic as it's posted, I really appreciate it. Thanks also to logastellus, lizbee and cesario for early feedback on this chapter.

First, links to the previous chapters: Part One | Part Two

And now:

( "Do you mind telling me exactly what we're doing here?" asked Wilson... )

Why, why, WHY is it that just when I come up with what I think is a great idea for a diagnosis, and spend half the day researching it and the other half writing it into my Housefic, do I come across a story (and in this case a canonical story) that's going to make all my hard-won and carefully developed ideas seem derivative and old hat?

*curses the writers of "Clueless" bitterly*

It's not that the diagnosis in that episode is the same as the one in my fic, it's just that in one conversation Foreman and House mentioned practically all the tests and all the treatments I'd come up with over the past 24 hours. Gnarr!

Also, why was this episode so dark and moody-looking compared to the entire rest of the season? Did they hire the lighting staff from The X-Files or what?

*grumps*

Fandom meme gacked from yahtzee63:

Name a character or pairing! Watch me ramble on about it!

Simple, no?

So, during the Great Hiatus of 2006 (is it February 14th yet?), I'm catching up on S1 episodes of HOUSE. A few observations:

"Heavy", I've decided, is like a Very Special Episode of HOUSE set in Bizarro World. ( And this is why... )

As for "Role Model", which I've just finished watching... ( Now this is more like it. )

Though after seeing this episode, what I really want to know is, why aren't there more Cameron icons identifying her as "a stuffed animal made by Grandma"? Hee!

Some of my favorite grouchy people were born in early January, it seems. First we have Mary Russell on January 2nd, on no lesser word than that of her author editor Laurie R. King; then Sherlock Holmes on January 6th, a date not explicitly given in canon but nonetheless widely accepted among Holmesians as correct due to Holmes's penchant for quoting Twelfth Night.

We know also that Dr. Gregory House was born in early-to-mid January, and seeing that he shares a house number with Holmes, it doesn't seem much of a stretch to propose January 6th as his birthday as well. And then, of course, J.K. Rowling has informed us that Severus Snape was born on January 9th.

Is it an astrological thing to have brilliant, misanthropic, sarcastic, obsessively driven characters born in January, or is there some other logic behind it?

Paul is learning to use his hands now, and he's started to play with toys. I think lizbee in particular will be interested in the result:

( Best Friends )

I think my fellow House fans will have no difficulty guessing the wombat's name. I mean, what else could I possibly call it?

Some random linkage for a Friday afternoon:

Community plug: housefic_meta. Right now they're looking for recommendations of "Classic" House fics, by which they really seem to mean "really well-written House fics of any sort, even if nobody's heard of them". So in the end, some useful recs could come out of this. I personally plan to submit a couple (recs, I mean). It's hard to find good Housefic.

Also, probably everybody in creation has seen the best Christmas lights display ever, but here it is in case you haven't. Snopes has the backstory -- it's the real deal, cooked up by an electrical engineer with delusions of grandeur and waaaay too much time on his hands. Now if only I could get my kids to stop playing it over and over and over...

Finally, ursulav has just posted an amusing story about editing one of her manuscripts which I think will be of special interest to lizbee, among others.

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I should probably have mentioned a couple of posts back, since there seems to be some honest confusion on the subject, that I did enjoy GoF. In fact, I probably enjoyed it as much as PoA or more so -- definitely more than I did the first two movies, anyway. Not that any of them were actually painful to watch, IMO. Of course the books are better, but aren't they always?

The best thing about the film, though, I haven't yet seen mentioned anywhere -- ( costuming spoiler ). Comedy GOLD, man. I nearly spit my water all over the row in front of me.

Also, I love Neville like whoa, shiny shoes and all.