I was going to defend, and then I thought, why bother. It's not like I'll change anyone's mind.

Right. And I have a crush on Batman, so it's not like the sanity fairies are sprinkling me with sanity dust.

A lot of my favorite characters are assholes. And then there are the characters I want to marry, like Eric Weiss.

Was anybody else hacked off at House's blithe assumption throughout "Heavy" was that being obese was an incurable social problem, and that now that the little girl's pituitary tumor was removed she'd deserve and have friends?

[Not Dr. House; the entire show. And I wanted to kick Chase in the balls.]

and this is why I am a Fannish Outlier

? I do feel like a complete eejit, but I have no idea what this means.

I don't recall all that much Wesley love until after he became less buffoonish.

Well, I can't speak for everyone, but iirc, early Wesley, BtVS Wesley, made me cringe, yes -- but I had a messed up liking thing going on already. (See also my affection for Jonathan and Andrew.) Season 1 AtS depiction of Wesley gave him more competence and intelligence to go with the painful vulnerability, and I was sucked right in. And then Denisof and the writers kept on cranking up the hot. Gah. (The only fanfic I've written about Wesley was written during AtS Season 1 and early Season 2.)

I remember Dorothy Sayers writing something in one of the Peter Whimsy/Harriet Vane books to describe the moment when Harriet realises she's in love with Peter. He's asleep, and she finds herself looking at the scrolling shape of his ear and the way his hair has fallen in his face, that kind of minutiae, with an odd tenderness; and Sayers says something about the vulnerability of sleeping people prompting other people either to mockery or to protectiveness, something like that. Anyway, what I'm saying, in a roundabout way, is that there's something oddly disarming (for me) about seeing someone's flaws and frailties exposed so. McKay's vanity - or Wesley's vanity, for that matter - is actually kind of endearing, in a weird way.

Well, plus, I like clever people. Cleverness gets you an awful lot of brownie points. Cleverness and competence gets you a lot more brownie points. Cleverness and competence and cuteness gets you a blowjob a badge.

and this is why I am a Fannish Outlier

? I do feel like a complete eejit, but I have no idea what this means.

Deviation from the norm.

? I do feel like a complete eejit, but I have no idea what this means.

Ignore me, I'm being a crankypants. I think my flist is overloading me on the Rodney-love, and I'm all exposed nerves today anyway. Sorry about that.

Go read Des' new thing, Katie. It's all loveliness and sand and light.

Well, except for the melancholy of never getting home. But beautiful melancholy! Might make you sniffly, though, depending on your current baseline.

I wanted to kick Chase in the balls.

Oh, dear Lord, yes. I'd finally started watching in reruns, missed a couple of shows, then saw "Heavy." WTF? I kept expecting House to call the other two in, and ask them to do a differential diagnosis on why Chase suddenly turned into a raging asshat.

I missed "Heavy." I think I'm glad.

Was anybody else hacked off at House's blithe assumption throughout "Heavy" was that being obese was an incurable social problem, and that now that the little girl's pituitary tumor was removed she'd deserve and have friend

Yes, but I got the feeling that House himself was a bit better about it.

I didn't like the exaggeration irt stereotypes.

Might make you sniffly, though, depending on your current baseline.

Nah. It's lovely, and not sniffle-making. Interesting style for her, actually--almost fairy-taleish. I like it.