♡ —√\_disco /\_

When you ask someone who their favorite House M.D character is, there are three incredibly common answers: House, Wilson, and Chase. All three of these answers make sense; House is the protagonist, Wilson is the best friend to that protagonist, and Chase is one of the original deuteragonists with the saddest, most fleshed out backstory. While, of course, there are political, societal reasons that these three are the common favorites—all three of them are white men, who we have been conditioned into feeling more empathy for than their non-white, non-male counterparts; Wilson and Chase are both able bodied and conventionally attractive; House, while disabled, is the protagonist, making him far more sympathetic than he would be otherwise—there are just as many solid, textual reasons for this happening, including how the show itself handles the other characters. I am not making this post on a high horse; I got into House because of Chase-centric fanfiction, and Wilson is my current favorite character in the cast. But it has got me to think about something… odd, with these three characters, particularly in the fandom.

House, being the main character, is an infinitely interesting character to dissect. We follow his perspective for most of the episodes, and understand (or are made to think about) the decisions he makes on a more intricate level than most of the other characters. We know far more about Chase and his backstory than we do almost everyone else, and he’s around on and off for a majority for the series, so of course people will pull apart the things he does and why he does them. While I am upset that these two get far more attention than some of the other people in the cast, I get it. I understand why there are so many people out there talking about House or Chase and why they were written the way they were.

But do you know who I don’t see getting these character analyses written about them (at least on Tumblr)? Wilson. If they exist, they are very few and far between, and are never enjoyed enough to show up on my dash. This to me, is very, very interesting. It’s not for a lack of content, a lack of things to talk about when it comes to Wilson; I have gone on multi hour long rants and tangents to my friends about his character, about the things he does and why he does them. And neither is it for a lack of people interested; he is one of the most popular characters in the show, after all. So why is this? Why do people not talk about Wilson?
To me, the answer is obvious: because Wilson is seen as accessory to House, both by the show itself and the fandom.

Of course, every character in House is seen in a similar light; everyone has some sort of connection to House, and since we rarely ever follow a perspective that isn’t his own, we really only see them the way House sees them. But with Wilson, it’s far more apparent. There’s a reason I, despite his importance to the narrative, described him as the “best friend to the protagonist” rather than the solo descriptions I gave House and Chase.

There are so, so many episodes and plots surrounding him and his life in comparison to the rest of the cast—a large portion of the Tritter arc in s3, the end of s4, s5ep17, s6ep10, the latter chunk of s6, etc.—and yet we still know so, so little about him as a person. Cuddy, while having a somewhat mysterious backstory throughout a large portion of the series, is a character we become incredibly familiar with familial-wise during the House/Cuddy arc, and we also follow her life adopting and taking care of Rachel as well as her relationship with Lucas in seasons 5 and 6. We meet Chase’s father; get two whole episodes surrounding him, and learn about his mother and his sister, his life in seminary, his love life with Cameron, etc. We see Foreman’s mother, father, and brother multiple times throughout the series, and he, like Chase, has a whole arc surrounding his relationship with Thirteen. We meet Kutner’s parents following his passing, and Thirteen’s parents are often alluded too—hell, Taub has entire episodes centering around his personal relationships. Of course, we see Wilson’s relationships with Amber and Sam, we meet Bonnie in s3, and we learn about Danny throughout the series. But his unnamed parents and his unnamed brother, or any friends he may have outside Tucker (who we only meet because he’s relevant to a medical case, in the episode that centers Wilson)? We know nothing about them.

And this lack of knowledge, in part, is why I believe Wilson is treated the way he is by the fandom: as accessory to House. I can name on two, maybe three hand the number of fics I’ve read (as someone who has read maybe over a thousand House M.D fics at this point) that don’t have House actively in the narrative. The only ones in that list that don’t mention House are the ones where Wilson is too young to know who he is. With fanart, it’s a lot easier to draw just Wilson on his own, but the moment he’s put in a scene with another character, 9 out of 10 times it’ll be House. And this is, in and of itself, not a fault of the fans, or even a fault at all; but this insistence on including House in everything Wilson does, in everything Wilson is, has become a problem.

There are many, many pieces of fanfiction that center around Wilson and his issues (in part to patch the fact that the show almost never addresses them) but I’ve noticed that so many of them always wrap back around to House at the end—usually with the two getting together romantically. Which leads me to the second part of my hypothesis as to why Wilson is treated the way he is in fandom spaces: House/Wilson. As someone who has written works surrounding this ship and has actively talked about it ad nauseam to people, I am not bringing it up to bash it. I love Hilson. But I’ve also had direct conversations with people about this show, trying to talk about its contents, only for them to tell me they’re not watching the show for the medical content, or for the direct premise itself; they’re watching it for Hilson. They skip scenes; episodes; entire arcs and plot points, just to see the dynamic House and Wilson have. And that, to me, shows exactly why Wilson is treated the way he is: he’s not his own character with his own agency in a narrative, but the less interesting, less important, pretty boy half in a hollow “old man yaoi” carcass, devoid of plot or importance.

To the fandom, Wilson doesn’t really matter. He’s pretty and he’s tragic, but there’s no reason to think about why he’s tragic or what it means for the narrative, what it means for him and his actions. The only traits people care about are the fact he’s attractive, he’s attentive, and he loves House. Why would we need to treat him like his own character?

why this prompt ?

i was talking to someone about the fact wilson eats specifically twizzlers during this scene ( we were discussing what his favorite candy would be ) , and they , in turn , told me that watching him eat them while house and "coma guy" were talking was funny . this made me realize that these gifs were able to be made , and so i made them . i might end up making a full gif set of this episode at some point ; if so , this post will be deleted and all of these gifs will be in that post instead .

gif amount : 8

all of these should be in order of when they happen in the show ; they are all uploaded privately to imgur , with specific favorites put onto tenor and giphy for mass use . all gifs can be downloaded and used wherever without credit ( as long as you don't take credit for them yourself ! )



( get in the right lane for 295 . and pass me the twizzlers . )

Title: I Am Looking at You with My Best Eyes and I Wish You Could Tell
Author: disc0_volante
Characters: House and Wilson
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Slash
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: If I was the owner of House, House would've professed his love for Wilson far more throughout the course of the show...
Summary: House has to take care of a sick, feverish Wilson after he shows up to his doorstep during a thunderstorm. This is his night.
Words: 3570
Author Notes: For Feveruary 2026, fulfilling prompts 2 (“You’re going to get yourself hurt.”) and 8 (Sharing Blankets). Title comes from Sunglasses (Single Version) by Black Country, New Road. Set sometime in season 3 after s3ep12, with no major spoilers for the series.

( He leaned against the doorframe, let his eyes lounge on Wilson’s sleeping form, and grumbled uselessly to himself at the unfairness of these circumstances. )

Title: Just Five Feet Tall and Sick of Me (and All My Rattling On)
Author: disc0_volante
Characters: House and Wilson, mentioned Julie
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: If I was the owner of House, Wilson would’ve been a patient of the hospital far more times than he was in the show…
Summary: Wilson comes down with a sinus infection during his actively failing third marriage. House investigates why his friend took the day off.
Words: 4351
Author Notes: For Feveruary 2026, fulfilling prompts 1 (“Don’t get too close”), 24 (Contagious), 25 (“It’s just a cold”), and 27 (“I don’t think that’s exactly hygienic”). Title comes from Lucky Ball and Chain by They Might Be Giants. Set vaguely before s2ep14.


( Pathetically, even though he knew it would make his face hurt even more than it already did, he sniffled. )

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

i have ... a ton of stuff i could put for this prompt , so i suppose i'll just ... make a list ?

( links under cut ! )

hi ! sorry to everyone who may be subscribed to me , but i think i'll be doing a ton of post spam today ... filling out the snowflake prompt list atm + i'm just generally feeling very "dreamwidth"-y at the moment .

side note , i'm currently considering making different icons based on the kinds of posts i . post ? like my profile and perhaps disco rambles has the main one i'm using right now , then gifs n fanfics each have their own separate icons . maybe even make a sick!wilson icon for myself , hehe ?..

i could even make a different icon per fic if i really wanted to be overzealous ...

Challenge #1: The Icebreaker Challenge

Introduce yourself. Tell us why you're doing the challenge, and what you hope to gain from it.

hi! going to forgo using my "typing quirk" on this one so it's a little easier to read because i'm probablyyy going to end up using this as my "intro post"? (i am nothing if not an annoying little shit)

but... hello! my name is disco, or wilson, or whatever else people on the internet know me by. i'm a 16 year old from ohio who's super into super into fandom culture, writing, and human anatomy (more specifically illnesses and injuries, but i like to say human anatomy so people think i'm smarter than i am...). as of right now i am super super into the medical tv show house m.d, but i know by the end of the year that unfortunately might not be the case.

i mostly decided to do this challenge because... well, my account is super, super new! my new years resolution this year is to be more in tune with my interests and the communities surrounding them, and, because i'm super into fandom culture, making a dreamwidth felt like the perfect way to do that. but, because i am a teenager on the modern internet, i also long for human connection and friends and whatnot. people to look upon my journal entries and my gifsets and my fic and go "hey, maybe this girl is interesting!" or however it is people talk. thus me participating in the snowflake challenge--however late i may be--!

but uh... yeah! if my journal seems at all interesting to anyone who may by chance come across it, feel free to subscribe or read it or whatever else! i am nothing if not someone who loves attention, haha...

aghhh finally after . like . a week of on and off writing . i finally finished writing my first feveruary fic !!! this makes it my first finished house m.d fic at arrrouund 4.3k words . it was supposed to be 1.5k but you know what ! it's okay ! alls well that ends well ... besides , i'm happy enough with it .

i'll probably repost my tf2 fics sometimeee this week ? n that ones gonna be posted on the first of february while i hopefully work on ( and finish ? ) the second prompt .

the only dilemma i'm having is ... well ok so theres this rlly old lj community dedicated to posting wilson whump and i've kind of binged a majority of the fic from both it and the dreamwidth version and i joined the community when i got this account but i'd feel really ??? awkward ??? posting in it for the first time in like 9 years ?????? especially because i'm not at all someone who was originally from either the community or the fandom ???????????? so , like . on one hand i know the community is abandoned and that a majority of the people who used to be apart of it either don't have dreamwidths anymore or aren't in the fandom . so by all means me doing it is harmless . but on the other hand i hold this community in super high regards and i guess i feel like by me posting it i'll be a stinky "newgen" invading on the "oldgens" space and they'll kick me out and kill me and my writing sucks actually ????????????????

edit : so i thought the last update was in 2021 but noooo it was 2017 . not sure how i messed that one up haha ??? but yeah i prolly wont thats wayy too long for me i think

idk . i'm also kinda thinking about this one livejournal account that posted a wilson house sickfic in 2006 and was 15 when they did it and turned 16 in like may or april of that year . like its the duty of 15-16 year old teenagers to write wilson whump no matter which generation they came from . and that makes me a bit emotional actually

why this episode ?

i've wanted to make multiple video edits with the clips from this episode for a while , so i had a bunch of the scenes with wilson already sectioned out for use . in my mind , this meant that it would be easy , right ? haha . hah . oh my god i spent the entire day on this i am so tired . but it was so so worth it . this will probably be my longest gif set ( unless i do s6ep10 wilson , but i'm ... not anticipating it ? ) , so ... sorry for the image spam i suppose ? i would've made it into multiple parts , but i wasn't really sure when i wanted to section one part off from another , and anyway , this is my journal , sooo ...

spoilers for the season 4 finale of house ! do not look at these if you don't want spoilers ! all trigger warnings for the episode apply !

gif amount : 102

all of these should be in order of when they happen in the show ; they are all uploaded privately to imgur , with specific favorites put onto tenor and giphy for mass use . all gifs can be downloaded and used wherever without credit ( as long as you don't take credit for them yourself ! )


(  cuddy's right . i was afraid to do anything . i thought if everything just stopped , it would be okay . )

why this episode ?

i took a clip from this episode on twitter and made it into a gif a while back , and ever since then i felt like i needed to pay better tribute to the episode by making a more proper gif set . also , wilson in the bowtie ( and later the suspenders ) is adorable , hehe ...

gif amount : 38

all of these should be in order of when they happen in the show ; they are all uploaded privately to imgur , with specific favorites put onto tenor and giphy for mass use . all gifs can be downloaded and used wherever without credit ( as long as you don't take credit for them yourself ! )


( either you go all in , or i tell everybody in the building that you wear toenail polish . )