Okay, have replied to all the comments and now I have the time to reply to yours, which is the important one. Leaving a comment on my own fic felt so insanely ridiculous, but after I talked queenzulu into doing it I felt I had to follow my own example. BTW, I've been wondering - did you suspect it was me/figure it out after that comment I replied to, or was this sufficiently misleading?
The weird thing about this remix is that if you go to the Hi, Mom page, you'll see that I left a comment the day before remix assignments were mailed out. I'd been going over a few of your stories, and suddenly thought to myself - huh, wouldn't it be weird if I were assigned to someone whose work I already know, like deelaundry. And the next day I was! I continued reading your stories without leaving any comments so as not to arise suspicion, but still, it was the weirdest coincidence. I was even about to friend you, but once I got the assignment decided not to, because there is no bigger clue than that.
I've actually written slash before - one Remus/Sirius fic - so it's not so much that I don't write slash as it is that, like you said, I usually write gen - not romance stories. From skimming your fic list none of the gen stories inspired me to add something for myself, and I ruled out the long epics or the mostly smut fics pretty quickly - the former because there was no way I'd do them justice, and the latter because there was no way I'd remix them well and originally. In the end, I debated between remixing Hi, Mom as a parallel dialogue between Wilson's mother and her own mom, and remixing Green as, believe it or not, a medieval times AU. But I'd been wanting to write a fic using the Jewish-like (in my head) grandmothers of all the characters for a while by then, and your fic was too good an opportunity to pass up.
I loved Hi, Mom, as you know, but one thing about it left me uncomfortable: Evelyn (or, in your story, simply Wilson's mom) seemed like a good person. She cared about her son and wanted what's best from him; and from the good we see in Wilson, one would suppose some of it was influenced by his education and upbringing. How then could this woman be so unaccepting , uncompromising, in denial about reality to a sometimes ridiculous degree? How could she seem so prejudiced? (up until the moment she has her change of heart?)
The simple answer is, of course, because otherwise we wouldn't have a plot. It's a plot device and comic effect and we shouldn't take it seriously. But I wanted to explore what could be the reasoning behind it - why, in spite of living in our modern world, in spite of most likely being Jewish enough to know what prejudice feels like but probably not Jewish enough to care about what the bible says about homosexuality (she did name her son James, after all) - why she acted the way she did, in a manner that in real life would be absolutely horrifying.
Adding Judy into the story accomplished a number of things: it gave House and Wilson an ally from within the family, so that even without Evelyn's support they didn't feel so alone (and it probably lessened some of Wilson's anger at his mother); it gave Evelyn someone to confide in and feel insecure about, and hopefully reminded readers that after all, Evelyn was only human too; and of course, it brought the character of Judy to life, which, in my opinion, yay :-) The more strong Yiddish-speaking old women the better, I say. (I keep harping on the Yiddish, but seriously, I just find it hilarious. The whole bitch fight evolved from me looking through a dictionry and being unable to choose which swear word sounded funniest, so finally I just added them all.)
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The weird thing about this remix is that if you go to the Hi, Mom page, you'll see that I left a comment the day before remix assignments were mailed out. I'd been going over a few of your stories, and suddenly thought to myself - huh, wouldn't it be weird if I were assigned to someone whose work I already know, like
I've actually written slash before - one Remus/Sirius fic - so it's not so much that I don't write slash as it is that, like you said, I usually write gen - not romance stories. From skimming your fic list none of the gen stories inspired me to add something for myself, and I ruled out the long epics or the mostly smut fics pretty quickly - the former because there was no way I'd do them justice, and the latter because there was no way I'd remix them well and originally. In the end, I debated between remixing Hi, Mom as a parallel dialogue between Wilson's mother and her own mom, and remixing Green as, believe it or not, a medieval times AU. But I'd been wanting to write a fic using the Jewish-like (in my head) grandmothers of all the characters for a while by then, and your fic was too good an opportunity to pass up.
I loved Hi, Mom, as you know, but one thing about it left me uncomfortable: Evelyn (or, in your story, simply Wilson's mom) seemed like a good person. She cared about her son and wanted what's best from him; and from the good we see in Wilson, one would suppose some of it was influenced by his education and upbringing. How then could this woman be so unaccepting , uncompromising, in denial about reality to a sometimes ridiculous degree? How could she seem so prejudiced? (up until the moment she has her change of heart?)
The simple answer is, of course, because otherwise we wouldn't have a plot. It's a plot device and comic effect and we shouldn't take it seriously. But I wanted to explore what could be the reasoning behind it - why, in spite of living in our modern world, in spite of most likely being Jewish enough to know what prejudice feels like but probably not Jewish enough to care about what the bible says about homosexuality (she did name her son James, after all) - why she acted the way she did, in a manner that in real life would be absolutely horrifying.
Adding Judy into the story accomplished a number of things: it gave House and Wilson an ally from within the family, so that even without Evelyn's support they didn't feel so alone (and it probably lessened some of Wilson's anger at his mother); it gave Evelyn someone to confide in and feel insecure about, and hopefully reminded readers that after all, Evelyn was only human too; and of course, it brought the character of Judy to life, which, in my opinion, yay :-) The more strong Yiddish-speaking old women the better, I say. (I keep harping on the Yiddish, but seriously, I just find it hilarious. The whole bitch fight evolved from me looking through a dictionry and being unable to choose which swear word sounded funniest, so finally I just added them all.)