You watch your phraseology!

[tzikeh]

I am looking for strong, creative words or phrases with which to replace "turd-pile" and "abhorrently repulsive" (which are merely placeholders until you all come up with something better than I can).

"I believe that this turd-pile of an idea is abhorrently repulsive."

Hit me, flist. Go crazy.

I learned all of this during my eight-month stay in the day hospital group therapy program and talking to the doctors and the cutters there, so I have, you know, actual examples. Most cutters say they do it because they feel numb inside, and they cut themselves to feel *something*. Most of them use self-harm to feel in control, to feel physical instead of emotional pain (hence the association of "emo" with "cutting). The *vast* majority of cutters begin cutting between the ages of ten and sixteen. The latest psychiatric diagnosis is that cutting is a cripplingly maladaptive coping behavior to deal with these types of issues.

We have seen House deliberately injure himself before (in Detox) and were *specifically told, in the episode*, that it was to release enough endorphins so that the *physical* pain he felt from the self-inflicted injury would outweigh the *physical* pain he felt from his leg. This is about as far from being a "cutter" as you can get.

And the TWOP thread was full of people I can only assume had heard the spoilers and were going on and on and on about poor widdle emo!House and how he's really just in need of a hug.

Comments

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

"I believe that this utter craphole of an idea is so vastly vile and disgusting that there are drunks in the street laying in piles of their own vomit and realizing that, compared to your suggestion of utter non-brilliance, the scent that surrounds them is not unlike potpurri."

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I adore you, but... no. This *is* for a graduate comp. course, after all. Though I'm not averse to "vile". If you need more context, let me know. ;)

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, tie my hands like that.

So you need an intellectually posh way of saying "this stinks on ice"?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

We're not supposed to admit to wanting money. We're trained to say that money doesn't matter. Money can't buy happiness. The best things in life are free. We're discouraged from discussing salaries with our friends; it is considered rude to ask "how much did you pay for the condo?" or "what does private school for three kids run you?" I believe that this turd-pile of an idea is abhorrently repulsive, born of the age-old guilt of the haves and the have-nots, coupled with the deluded perception that monetary worth signifies the worth of a human being's soul. I have no compunction about admitting to desiring wealth.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Is it just the highlighted you're looking to change or are you open to tweaking words near them? Because for me part of the problem is that turd-pile is modifying something that I don't think totally fits.

And how often is that sentence said in the English language? ;)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

tweak away, Dexter! :)

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Okay, see, now I'm just reading that paragraph with Dexter's voice in my head.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

God, I love the character he's created. I want *so badly* for some good Dexter fiction to come out of Yuletide. Or anywhere, really. ;)

That is a *hard* voice to capture, though.

The look on his face, after he hit Paul with the frying pan? The one they froze on? Was that not the face of a five-year-old who just dropped Kool-Aid in a Stainmaster commercial? I *died*.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

I know! I also loved the earlier moment of Paul trying to get into the house and Dexter being all "Hmm, yeah, not comfortable with this." And not flinching when Paul mock-hit him.

They have done such an AMAZING job fleshing out the story and characters from the books. I can't wait to see how they handle the finale, and how they change it from the book ending just as they've tweaked the story thus far.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Watching MCH is being in a master class. I can't even describe how intricate and delicate and deliberate and magnificent his performance is. And I'm an actor. I'm at a loss for words. None of my similes come close.

GAH.

*note to self: after Yuletide, make Dexter icons*

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

*nodnodnodnodnod* He does the perfect combination of Dexter's fake emotions, that layer of emptyness, and the emotions that creep out of him in spite of himself.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

It's like - not walking a tightrope, but like walking dental floss. Walking a fiber-optic thread. Like etching the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin. Like...

GAH. See????

Where is the Emmy. That's what I say.

I also note I have two serial killer icons already. So I'll have a trifecta.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that so do I, if I include this one.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

I believe that this stale, misguided canard is so off-base as actually to be offensive, born of the age-old etc.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

ooh, "canard" is good...

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

Also note the carefully un-split infinitive. [g]

Go on, girl, get your Snape on. You can do it! :-D

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

I like that!

[zulu]

So much word on the cutting thing. I work with kids with these issues, and they are not remotely similar to House in any way.

Anyhoo, I didn't mind the scene in question. Or most of the episode, actually. It didn't grab me, it wasn't a bag of win and awesome, but it built from the arc in a believable way for me, and I don't hate where it's going. Am I now one of those crazy-insane fen you're trying to steer clear of?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Am I now one of those crazy-insane fen you're trying to steer clear of?

Nope. If you had been "OMG House is so emo!", I might have cut you from the flist. ;)

[zulu]

*takes notes*

[nestra.livejournal.com]

You're right, of course, about House. But I still laughed on your behalf.

[ardent-muses.livejournal.com]

I laughed when I saw the scene last night, because I finally saw what you had been talking about in your post Monday and I had to roll my eyes.

It seems clear to me that there's a difference between cutting yourself, which he obviously did, and *being a cutter* in the sense that we generally talk about it. I dunno. Kind of like the difference between drinking and being "a drinker".

:::Is tempted to write emo fanfic in the form of House's journal: Dear Diary, I hate my parents SO much!::::