FIC: you say I took the Name in vain (House MD, House/Wilson-ish)

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Title: you say I took the Name in vain
Author: Drea (bluerosefairyRating: PG-13, for language. Nothing too shocking if you’ve seen the show, though

Comments

[radiobroadcast]

This is absolutely lovely.

[bluerosefairy]

Thank you so much for reading and commenting!

Oh, your Wilson icon is ten kinds of adorkable. I kind of just want to squish him.

[dominus_trinus]

Oh. Oh, my God, that's beautiful. I have a soft spot for fics that remember Wilson is Jewish, and you've taken that and created something poignant and utterly unique. Granted, I had to suspend disbelief a little bit at the idea of Wilson with tattoos, but once I stood back a little, it fit: he is the type who'd want some type of permanent reminder, and while I generally fall into the 'significant object' school, body art is a similar expression

[bluerosefairy]

*frames comment*

Gah, you are amazingly wonderful for leaving me such a lovely review. I'm so glad that you liked the story, and even more glad to have such detailed feedback.

I have a soft spot for fics that remember Wilson is Jewish

I completely agree. I have more than a little bit of a religion kink, and I just adore stories like pwcorgigirl's Pesach (which is, IMO, the benchmark for Wilson's-brother + religion stories), and roga's Ushpizzin. There's just so much richness in stories that are willing to "go there", and explore the faith of characters. And ninebillion is coming up, too.

she manages to give a clear-but-subtle understanding of her own character while showing us the characters we already love (she could walk into an original work with no problems)Thank you especially for this comment. I'm always a little iffy on my original characters, especially within the confines of fanfic - there's always the potential for Mary Sue-age, and sometimes it's just hard to fit a character into a specific canon well enough to suspend that disbelief that a

[dominus_trinus]

"Gah, you are amazingly wonderful for leaving me such a lovely review

[poorfrances]

Utterly wonderful. It's had the hell rec'ed out of it at HHOW and I can see why. Stunning.

[bluerosefairy]

*blushes* Wow, I didn't know that. I'm not familiar with the site - yes, sometimes I live under a rock - so could you send a link my way? I'd love to thank the reccer.

And thank you muchly for the lovely comments. I'm so glad you took the chance, and liked it.

[poorfrances]

Sure, it was phinnia who it looks like started it first:

http://hhow.10.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=11&start=1245

[bluerosefairy]

Thanks for the link!

[ant_bug]

This is getting mem'd. That was wonderful.

[bluerosefairy]

Thank you very much - I'm glad you liked the story!

[dropthetowel]

And even though it all went wrong I'll stand before the Lord of songs with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah.

[bluerosefairy]

Ah, Leonard Cohen. I do adore his lyrics.