GAH I HAVE TO SCREAM
Jan. 14th, 2012 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bironic has told me a million times to stop reading this fic and I CAN'T STOP. It's bad for me. BAD.This fic is by another of the writers who gives House's flaws to Wilson, and then yells at Wilson for being awful while House is AWESOME and AMAZING and SO INCREDIBLE GIVEN ALL THE ISSUES HE HAS TO FACE THAT ARE NOT OF HIS OWN MAKING.
So in the fic, Wilson is a "stress alcoholic" (whereas House's issues with pills were "pseudo-addiction" due to not ever having been treated properly) and cheated on his girlfriend. He then unknowingly gave herpes to the girlfriend -- picked up during the one-night stand -- and she was, unbeknownst to him, pregnant. So he's lived nine months not knowing if the baby has it too. And he's living with his girlfriend but not allowed to have sex with her, on the advice of his therapist (who was House's therapist first, and LOOOOOOOVES House).
When Wilson's girlfriend went into labor early, it was very stressful and scary, and then the baby went into distress. Wilson was afraid the baby had herpes and it was all his fault, so he kissed his unconscious girlfriend goodbye and left to go get drunk.
He turned his phone off, House was pissed at him, girlfriend was hurt, this was the worst thing anybody's ever done to anyone, WALKING OUT ON YOUR FAMILY IS LIKE MURDER, yadda yadda yadda. (Also, Cuddy yelling at her kids due to her own stress is child abuse, and House was going to take the children and leave her, but she agreed to get help. So she's fine.)
ANYWAY, Wilson came back, House punched him, girlfriend hasn't forgiven him but is still living in his apartment and letting him take care of her, cook dinner for her, etc. Baby is in NICU with a complication but not herpes, so nobody seems too concerned about him.
A few days later, it's time for Wilson to have his first session with a therapist after the night Wilson's kid was born. What do you suppose they spend the session talking about?
Wilson's kid who is still in NICU? No.
Wilson's feelings about the kid or parenthood? No.
Wilson's feelings that led him to have a mental break and walk out of the hospital? Ha, no, of course not. He didn't crack under stress and guilt in the face of possible loss of his newborn son. As his therapist says, he made the "decision to walk out in the first place."
How awful it was of Wilson to "walk out on his family" even though he was gone less than twelve hours and girlfiend was asleep for most of them? Yes!
An in-depth analysis of all the mistakes in judgment Wilson made that night and what Wilson should have done that would have kept him from walking out of the hospital ("exits from the road of disaster"), with the added dig that he depends on House too much for emotional support? Yes!
A declaration that Wilson's girlfriend must be notified at all times of Wilson's whereabouts and he is never allowed to turn his cellphone off? Yes!
A conclusion that Wilson is the complete cause of the "damaged foundation" of his relationship with his girlfriend, and the solution is for him to put conscious effort in working on their relationship (with the insinuation he wasn't doing that over the past nine sex-free months)? Yes!
Half the time on House, and how House is a good friend, and how Wilson is too much of a buttinski and should stop asking House anything about House's issues, while continuing to show up all the time and be there for House? Well, OF COURSE.
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(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:10 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:20 pm (UTC)I tried to leave a comment at one point (in the chapter where the girlfriend tells Wilson she changed the baby's name while he was gone from 'Daniel James' to 'Daniel Gregory' because James is too weak a name) but the author doesn't allow comments from people who don't have ff.net accounts.
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Date: 2012-01-14 11:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:33 pm (UTC)Of course, the therapist doesn't provide any emotional support in this session (or any of Wilson's sessions that hve been in this fic), but that doesn't stop him from chastising Wilson for not asking for support from other people.
(And who does the person in the therapist's quote sound like in canon?)
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:31 am (UTC)http://house-mst.livejournal.com/
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Date: 2012-01-14 11:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 12:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 04:43 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:40 pm (UTC)If it makes you feel any better Dee, I appreciate you taking the time to write a synopsis. Even a watered down version where Wilson is the world's worst bff ties my stomach into knots.
Is the fic getting many positive comments?
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 12:22 am (UTC)Wilson's not the world's worst bff in this. He's been told more than once (by the therapist and by Cuddy) that he's a good friend, he just does everything wrong. And that House would let them have a more equal friendship if only Wilson would stop doing everything wrong.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:39 am (UTC)I've liked plenty of fics that others wouldn't/didn't. So I can see where, if you ignore the Wilson bits (and the bits where Cuddy and House slam Wilson behind his back), someone could find this fic enjoyable. I just can't ignore the Wilson bits. : )
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:41 pm (UTC)You're always so kind to everyone here on livejournal, that this tell-it-as-it-is aspect of you is a bit frightening. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, you know. Or, rather, there but for the grace of God...
I'm sure you would have said things very differently if you had been able to write a comment directly to the author.
ETA: From A/N in chapter 1: I do not wish any bodily illness or injury upon the real president, although I won't be voting for him in 2012.
Maybe it's a lie, and the fic is written by Democrats to make everyone who 'gets' Wilson vote Obama?
Seriously though, I think people can write great (or horrible) fiction wherever they stand politically, but why would this person think it necessary to use an A/N to inform us of who they're not voting for?
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:45 am (UTC)I don't want to discourage anyone from writing. This particular fic writer is getting extremely arrogant, though, and for her character analysis to be so awful frustrates me.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-14 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:56 am (UTC)House is interesting and fun and to write and has a lot of layers to him -- and Wilson does too. It's scary to me that this author (and others I've read) think understanding House = excusing him for everything he does. And that distorting Wilson's character as depicted in canon = showing Wilson's real flaws. Wilson has a lot of flaws in canon that could be explored realistically and interestingly, as well as some things he feels guilty for that he shouldn't.
In the latest chapter of the fic, the therapist asks Wilson why he turned off his cell phone. "I didn't want to get the call that he had died," he said softly. "I thought it was all my fault." That's in-character! It's interesting! But the fic author doesn't explore that AT ALL. She just has the therapist tell him that turning off a cell phone didn't affect whether the kid died or not, then goes off into "And this is everything else you did wrong." Bleah.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 04:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-01-15 04:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 02:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 06:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:37 am (UTC)Maybe you should put the dross down and slowly walk away.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 02:05 am (UTC)So far in this universe she's written:
- 33-chapter first fic
- 58-chapter sequel
- 35-chapter next sequel
- Two 1-chapter interludes
- 63-chapter fourth fic (featuring House and Cuddy's wedding and her pregnancy)
- 123-chapter fifth fic (that's one hundred twenty-three chapters)
- 9-chapter fifth fic ("Huddy, kids, and more Wilson than they would have wanted.")
- 2-chapter interlude
- Current fic
I NEED TO WALK AWAY
HELP ME
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:54 am (UTC)STOP READING STORIES LIKE THIS OMG
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 01:59 am (UTC)Maybe I am a Stress Ficaholic! I need to realize how this is destroying the lives of people around me. : (
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Date: 2012-01-15 02:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 04:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 02:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 10:52 am (UTC)However, I do agree House's "addiction" never really was one and did for the most part result from not being treated properly (medically).
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Date: 2012-01-15 02:12 pm (UTC)I agree the show made a mess of distinguishing between House's genuine need for medication and his abuse of it. They haven't treated his real chronic pain consistently or realistically. However, they did establish in the show that he has an addictive personality: gambling, drinking, even his obsession with Wilson has some addictive facets. So it's both things, with House. I also have a problem with the fic therapist's assertion that it's all other people's fault for not giving House a proper medicine regime. He's a doctor, with a brilliant mind and an almost encyclopedic knowledge of disease. He was not helpless at other people's mercy when it came to deciding his medication plan.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 02:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-27 05:11 pm (UTC)It's like handing someone a model kit to build a car and they end up randomly gluing model pieces to the table, sticking the decals on the cat, and painting the refrigerator with the paints… You just have to stand back and give them a round of applause for getting it all so completely wrong. And then you're tempted to check out their next effort, just to see how wrong they get it THIS time!
Perfect metaphor. ♥
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 06:13 pm (UTC)I might have to drop out.
Badfic. Like heroin: just as addictive, but without the high.
ETA: Do you remember when I was posting hideous chunks of that romance novel in my LJ? (Anyone says, "You mean your story?" will immediately be Fed-Exed a bag of poop, to be lit on your doorstep up arrival.
I couldn't stop reading.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 06:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-15 07:00 pm (UTC)Look up heirloom tomatoes instead and start the plans for raised bed gardening.
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Date: 2012-01-15 10:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-16 01:29 am (UTC)