The House "What-If" Rec List: High-caliber House M.D. Worldbuilding
This is a place for us to share some of our favorite House, M.D. fics, 'verses, and authors that form a genre we call "What-If." Stories range from wildly fantastical to essentially realistic, but all depart significantly from canon reality.
Wonderful worldbuilding. Food for thought.
The complete, original version of this project is still available on livejournal, where it is cross-indexed by title, author, word count, date, category, and our reasons for recommending each fic.
Rec curators: lit_luminary & resourceress7
(Closed, Moderated)
Recent works
-
Rec Reason Definitions - House "What-If" Rec List project by House what-if (resourceress7), lit_luminary
Fandoms: House M.D.
12 Jul 2013
Tags
Summary
On the House "What-If" Rec List we share some of our favorite House, M.D. fics, 'verses, and authors that form a genre we call "What-If." Stories range from wildly fantastical to essentially realistic, but all depart significantly from canon reality.
For each fic, we list the primary reasons that we feel it is worth recommending. You may have noticed that some of the names of our Rec Reasons are familiar, while others need a little explaining.
Here's what we have in mind for the following:
Brainglue
Characterization
Dialogue
Emotion
Humor
Imagery
Language
Portrayal of Disability
Premise
Research
Structure
WorldbuildingSeries
- Part 2 of The House "What-If" Rec List Project
-
Category Definitions - House "What-If" Rec List project by House what-if (resourceress7), lit_luminary
Fandoms: House M.D.
11 Jul 2013
Tags
Summary
On the House "What-If" Rec List we share some of our favorite House, M.D. fics, 'verses, and authors that form a genre we call "What-If." Stories range from wildly fantastical to essentially realistic, but all depart significantly from canon reality.
In our review of the literature (over 1,000 works), several categories presented themselves:
After Death/Afterlife
Allegory
Alternate Governance
Alternate Personal History
Alternate Time Period
Alternate World History
Amnesiac Odyssey
Creatures/Mythical Beings
Crossover Elements
Deity Chat
Human Variation
Life-Altering Events
Magical Realism
Parallel Universe
Powers
Recovery Fic
Science Fiction
Transmogrification
Wishful ThinkingHere are the definitions of those categories that guided us in selecting over a hundred high-caliber works for the rec list.
Series
- Part 1 of The House "What-If" Rec List Project
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
After Wilson is shot, House takes care of him.
Bookmarked by resourceress7
09 Dec 2022
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
"Duck Duck Goose" series:
1. Duck Duck Goose by nightdog_barks
2. Ugly Duckling by nightdog_barks
3. Sitting Duck by fayding_fast -
Tags
Summary
There are a lot of things Jimmy Wilson has to relearn. 656 words.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 762
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 3
- Kudos:
- 130
- Bookmarks:
- 16
- Hits:
- 1,572
Bookmarked by resourceress7
02 Dec 2022
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
"Duck Duck Goose" series:
1. Duck Duck Goose by nightdog_barks
2. Ugly Duckling by nightdog_barks
3. Sitting Duck by fayding_fast -
Tags
Summary
When the words are gone, what's left?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,357
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 4
- Kudos:
- 212
- Bookmarks:
- 30
- Hits:
- 2,683
Bookmarked by resourceress7
02 Dec 2022
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
"Duck Duck Goose" series:
1. Duck Duck Goose by nightdog_barks
2. Ugly Duckling by nightdog_barks
3. Sitting Duck by fayding_fast -
Tags
Summary
There comes a day when the prediction House’s “father” made comes true: he really is good for quite literally nothing.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 742
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 5
- Kudos:
- 136
- Bookmarks:
- 18
- Hits:
- 1,310
Bookmarked by resourceress7
16 Jul 2020
Bookmarker's Tags:
Bookmarker's Collections:
Bookmarker's Notes
Note: "DVD Commentary" (476 words) isn't currently on AO3. See links to LJ and DW below.
As listed on the House "What-If" Rec List project:
- Comes a Day [LJ] [AO3] by deelaundry
- There comes a day when the prediction House’s "father" made comes true: he really is good for quite literally nothing.
- • Category: Life-Altering Events
- • Rec Reasons: Characterization, Emotion, Portrayal of Disability
-
- DVD Commentary [LJ] [DW] by deelaundry (500 words. Nov 2009. Not Rated)
- Meme: Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from anything I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
Where to find this author:
[LJ author page] [AO3 author page] [DW author page] [SQ author page]