I know that most people won't touch this story because of the pairings, which I think is a cryin' shame. Really. The writing is excellent. Some lovely language. Gorgeous, extended metaphors and imagery. And fantastic characterization on top of it all.

So, I rec: Fireworks by queenzulu. It's a dual pairing of House/Stacy, House/Foreman. (I just woke up so forgive me for not finding the technical terms in my brain, but...) It's structured in a somewhat fragmented, back-and-forth kind of style, so the two pairings work together in way that highlights the other's uniqueness with contrasts. It's not long, but, like most of queenzulu's work, portrays quite a lot with such a modest word count.

Study break. A little discouraging so far today, but I'm trying to remind myself that, although I am smart, I am not superhuman. I don't find myself confused by these concepts, and, whenever I make a mistake on a question, I can see and understand where I went wrong. I'm sometimes slow to complete questions, but I'll get better. I'll get faster. It'll be fine. More work. More studying. More practice. It'll be fine. I can do this. I can do well.

Anyway. Now that I've done my pep-talk to myself...

I've been meaning to do some House fandom, erm, housecleaning. Some of you may be interested in this. It's probably no secret to many of you that I'm no longer participating in the House fandom. I doubt I'll write for it again. Over the course of last season, I lost interest in and, actually, came to dislike the show. I've parted ways with it and have moved on from it.

I have an RP journal that is in need of a new and caring owner:

• james_wilson_md This journal is on Dreamwidth. First person to comment gets the journal. I'll send you the generic password, so you can change it.

As for the rest of the communities I was involved in, I've given up my moderator/administrator status for:

• house_md (Dreamwidth). Current mod: zulu


• house_stacy (Dreamwidth). Current mod: amy_119

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So, I have to talk about House. ( Finale/Season Five talk and thoughts. )

Decided to post more thoughts, because I seem to have them. This was originally written in comment form, so it may seem somewhat choppy, and it's still not everything that I've had to say about this episode, but it's a start. I keep telling myself it's okay if I don't write meta on the entire season based on the newest episodes, but here are my thoughts anyway. I'll probably edit this if I feel compelled to add more.

( More serious thoughts on 5.20, Simple Explanation. )

So I say bravo for this episode. I didn't feel like this was lazy writing at all, and I thought the choices across the board were good ones. Bravo, I say. Bravo.