annakovsky | Okay. All right. So that one is dead. We know that.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Waving at You - The Mountain Goats

Entry tags:

Okay. All right. So that one is dead. We know that.

Thursday night TV what I watched! Which means stuff that aired before Parks, because after Parks I am pretty busy... watching Parks over and over again.

Community

I am super on board the Troy/Britta train, my goodness! Those two are EXTREMELY hot together, Donglover get inside me, etc.

I don't really remember anything else that happened.

The Office

I really wish the pod people who've taken over Jim and Pam's bodies would just get divorced already.

Parks and Rec

Oh my Godddddd, the amount of feelings.

Ben/Leslie and their stupid awkward faces. HANDSHAKING. TUNA ARE YOU KIDDING ME. God, I was shipping them so hard, but seriously, it is beyond time for this train to arrive at Makeoutville. I really wish that in Harvest Fest the two of them had been on the ferris wheel so Ron Swanson could've set them straight. "Ben! You're not cursed. Also it is extremely obvious why you are still in Pawnee. Be a man. Leslie! Ben likes you. Go out on a date with him and put us all out of our misery."

Also of late, despite how hard I am shipping Ben/Leslie, I always come out of episodes shipping Leslie/Ron at least as much. They're just so MARRIED. Their matching horrified faces at the vegetable loaf! "Ron, take a walk." Their mom and dad-esque talk about their bonehead children! How Ron knows it's useless to try to stop Andy and April, but he lets Leslie go ahead and try because he knows she won't do anything too stupid and also he knows it's equally useless to try to make her stop.

Obviously I was also shipping Andy/April as hard as any human being with two eyes and a heart must when they see Chris Pratt's face as April walked down the aisle. Goddddddddddddddd, Pratt, where is your Emmy, where is it.

That being said, when April asked Ron to dance I actually shrieked, startling both me and the dog. I... am not a very dramatic TV watcher. I can count my weird TV reactions on one hand, those being 1) L&O:SVU, Fault, during which I slid off the couch due to flaily arm motions over Elliot/Olivia, 2) I don't actually remember what I did when Jim told Pam he loved her in Casino Night, but there was a roaring in my ears so I could've been actually screaming for all I know. (Those two actually happened in the SAME MONTH. I don't know how I got any work done.) So, um, that reaction to Ron/April seemed extreme. ALSO THE OTHER REACTIONS WERE FOR TOTALLY NORMAL CONVENTIONAL SHIPS, WHAT IS MY PROBLEM WITH THIS ONE? I mean, I always like unconventional ships (lol, remember when n00bs in Office fandom wanted to call them "nonconventional" and abbreviate it "noncon"? Good times.) but I don't think I've ever shipped one to the point of shrieking. But whatevs. SHE ASKED HIM TO DANCE. YES, LIKE HE WAS HER DAD, SHUT UP, IRRELEVANT.

Despite how much I want Andy and April to be together forever (lol, how many of these bullet points begin "Despite how hard I shipped X, I also ship Y"), I really, really, really want fic where she gets together with Ron after her divorce from Andy. They can burn him in effigy together? Idk, you guys, idk.

Honestly my personal future canon for April/Andy is that they'll totally get divorced in like two years, but then a couple years after that they'll get remarried, and that one will stick. Except maybe they'll get divorced again when they're middle-aged and their last kid goes off to college, probably because April is banging a 20 year old, but then they'll get remarried again a few years after that.

As an aside, how cute is it whenever April and Andy cuddle? SHE LOOKS SO TINY AND HE LOOKS SO GIANT.

Retta is SO HILARIOUS. Her delivery of "Are you Nell? From the movie Nell?" was amazing.

All the continuity! Orrin! Ben and Derek! WHAT ARE BEN AND DEREK DOING THERE, DO THEY ALL HANG OUT? WHAT IS HAPPENING? (Also while we're talking about it, when they added Rob Lowe and Adam Scott to the cast, why on earth did they name them Ben and Chris? WE ALREADY HAVE BEN AND CHRIS CHARACTERS ON THIS SHOW. [Will Arnett was named Chris when he was on!] Mike Schur, for someone who likes making up hilarious names you're falling down on the job.) Also April's adorable parents! April's sister whose hoodie she stole!

"You're straight? Jean Ralphio's just a friend?" LOL FOREVER.

I usually hate it when a mockumentary uses music for a montage, because I feel like they're really good at making you have emotions without having to rely on that crutch like they're Grey's Anatomy, buuuuuuuuut I'm not a robot, I totally teared up at the wedding, Simon & Garfunkel was incredibly perfect. (UGH I TOTALLY TEARED UP AT THE AMERICAN GIRL HARVEST FEST MONTAGE TOO, losing my edge, dammit, Parks.) Also the whole thing was super sappy but I didn't even care, I love everyone in this bar, etc!

Lol, which of these three show reaction lists is not like the other. Which of these lists just doesn't belong. tl;dr as usual.

OKAY ENOUGH. In other news,

moireach is ruining my life, on Wednesday she had to look at a bunch of pictures of Prince William & Kate Middleton for work, which apparently led to shipping Kate/Prince Harry a little bit because he is always around too, and in like three emails there was suddenly a lot of characterization about how Harry is always breaking up with Chelsy Davy because she's just not as awesome as the stupid girl his stupid brother got, and how Harry is always making Kate laugh at state functions the way William doesn't, and great, now I have an appetite that the internet apparently refuses to sate. Things I did not plan to care about when I woke up Wednesday morning: Royal Person Fiction. D:

And then today, as though we had made it happen with our minds, I stumbled across this people.com article: Kate Middleton, Prince Harry Rehearse the Wedding. Yeah. They rehearsed the wedding. Without William. And I had feelings about that. I HATE YOU FOREVER,

moireach, YOU DID THIS TO ME.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Your other comments are making me glad that the only thing I've watched so far as been Parks and Rec. HOLY CRAP THIS SHOW IS SO GREAT. I totally agree with you, too - I love Leslie/Ben like nobody's business (especially how they are so freaking awkward, it's makin' me NUTS) but Leslie/Ron is also my secret, best-ever backup ship because they are so awesome, both separately and together. How can we forget Leslie being the only one [sitting] at the table after Ron [fake] pulled his tooth out? (BEN RUNNING OUT OF THE ROOM TO PUKE, OMG) And yessss "Take a walk." I just want those two to be sitting out on their front porch while Ron insults everyone except Leslie and makes really obscure, outdated pop culture references. HAH.

Anyway, I feel in my heart that those two weirdos (Leslie & Ben, I mean) are going to get thrown together next week. If it doesn't happen then, I will probably lose all faith in the goodness of this show. At least as far as that ship is concerned.

Also, do you think that maybe Ben thinks that Leslie likes Ron? I mean, I think it's one of the many things that's keeping him from making out with her. There was this moment where he was watching Leslie talk to Ron and kind of looked away -- am I over interpreting this??

Heee, the other shows weren't terrible or anything, they were mostly just... there.

Leslie/Ron, right???? They understand each other SO WELL, I'm a sucker for people who aren't married acting like they are. Ahahahaha, it killed me that Leslie stayed at the table after Ron did that -- you know he's pulled similar stuff before.

Goddddddd, I hope you're right that Leslie and Ben do something next week -- it really is about time. And clearly Leslie is having feelings now, right? IT'S TIME, YOU TWO. Ugh, Ben, going to her for "advice" about how he wants her to ask him to stay.

OH GOD, it hadn't occurred to me that Ben might think that about Leslie and Ron, but I HOPE HE DOES, THAT IS MY NEW CANON. I did notice him looking at Ron in one moment re: Leslie, INTERESTING. I could seriously see how he might have weird insecurities there.

KATE AND HARRY, THIS IS A THING I AM GOING TO HAVE TO WANT NOW, ISN'T IT.

(Yup. Yup, want it.)

AUGH YES, YOU SHOULD!!!! I said to M that I was going to post about it and look like a weirdo and she was like, "Other people will be into it, though, right???" and you would literally be my dream person to recruit. Uh, not in a cultlike way, though. Except sort of.

(But right? Harry pining after her, and them stuck at all these lame events, and William's his best friend so Harry could never make a move, and they're the only three who can really understand their weird royal world so they're super close and it's hard for him -- UM, AND SPEAKING OF CLOSE, BY THE WAY, WILLIAM AND KATE ARE GOING TO LIVE IN A HOUSE WITH HARRY AFTER THE WEDDING, WHATTTTTTTTT. It's just, it's a pretty okay ship!)

Apparently I was the only person in existence (besides Leslie Knope) who thought April & Andy getting married was a terrible idea. BUT I did enjoy Leslie freaking out about it and ALWAYS ALWAYS Ron and Leslie. I love their moments together. Also, I totally "awww"ed when April got Ron to dance.

Heeeee, oh no, April & Andy getting married is clearly a terrible idea. Those two boneheads, whom I love dearly, are ruining their future on an impulsive decision, clearly. But it was sweet anyway!

Although I did enjoy Andy getting married in his Reggie Wayne Colts jersey. Really, kids.

Heeee, April gave him that jersey! ~*~ROMANCE~*~

HAHAHAHA. HAHAHA. You are welcome.

Remember how they are ALL THREE GOING TO LIVE TOGETHER POST-WEDDING??

AS IF I WASN'T WEIRD ENOUGH WITHOUT YOU ENCOURAGING IT. Augh, I want it so baaaaaadly, I can't believe this isn't on the internet. Effing Rule 34 never applies when you want it to.

I SERIOUSLY STILL CAN'T BELIEVE THAT. OT3333333333!

I AM ON BOARD WITH THIS. Finally, something to get me through all the wedding coverage.

I spent every Ben/Leslie second of Parks and Rec thinking 'omg kiiiiiisss'. It was excruciating and wonderful and other out of proportion emotions. SHE THINKS HE SHOULD STAY.

HEE, man, right? Suddenly everything about the wedding is INCREDIBLY DELIGHTFUL to me, because Harry's always there, helping throw secret bachelor parties and, as M just emailed me, probably afterwards texting Kate all night after W went to bed. And you need this even more than I do, I'm sure you've reached British saturation point.

OMG I KNOW RIGHT????? YOU TWOOOOOO, JUST TELL EACH OTHER YOU LOVE EACH OTHER ALREADY! Also I am so psyched you're into them!!! Also remember how Megan Mullally is on this show and you should write awesome fanfiction about Tammy Swanson-Swanson????

I usually hate it when a mockumentary uses music for a montage,
Okay, I feel like I must have missed something because I totally thought it was diegetic - you know, that they used the song instead of the traditional wedding march. Oh noes, I'll have to rewatch, THE HORROR!

Oh man, that didn't even occur to me, actually! I went back and looked and it's unclear -- they don't have anyone turning the song on or anything, and the way the mixing is it sounds like it's played over the track rather than coming from inside the world, but it's still ambiguous so you could be right! I am going to choose to believe they used it instead of the wedding march, that's way more charming. <3______<3

OMG I LOVE PARKS AND REC SO MUCH, AND IT MAKES ME GIDDY WITH DELIGHT TO READ YOUR THOUGHTS!

IT IS SUCH A GOOD SHOWWWWWW, I can't get over it!

....

Why do I almost care about Harry/Kate Middleton now? Fucking damn it.

Oh, and I will read literally ANY Ben/Leslie fic right now. Any of it. All of it. Where is it. Sweet Lord.

Edited 2011-04-15 21:30 (UTC)

RIGHT?????? What the EFF. The amount of time it took for me to go from not caring at all about Prince Harry and Kate Middleton to REALLY CARING A LOT and having wistful feelings about the two of them is extremely distressing to me. D: But the most cursory of google searches results in a ridic amount of RPF fodder for them, I blame society.

I knowwwwwwww, my Ben/Leslie feelings are THROUGH THE ROOF. Luckily there is a ton of fic being written for them at least? Haha, well, not a ton, but a ton for this fandom, so... some. There is some fic being written for them.

I am basically reading the entirety of AO3 and a few one-shots by some people I know, but I fear this insatiable Ben/Leslie thirst will only become more insatiable so. Dammit.

And maybe it's an American thing, this fascination with royalty (if you can even call it that)? And how it's all happy smiles and things are secretly awful, and Harry doesn't get the girl and he doesn't get to be King and why is every scenario I'm now imagining really, really sad? Okay. Stop. I'm stopping now.

I thought of you immediately when April asked Ron to dance. IT WAS SO GREAT AND BY THAT I MEAN EVERYTHING, NOT JUST THE PART WHEN THEY DANCED, BUT, YEAH, THAT WAS PRETTY BOSS.

Haaa, when I was watching Parks & Rec I was totally checking off the many ship moments and how they would affect my friends. Personally I like Ron/Leslie the most. But I am a freak who likes excessively comfortable platonic friendships, as we know.

The Office is still something that I can watch for about three seconds before closing my eyes and cringing... CANCEL IT. CANCEL.

All I ever see of the Office these days is the tag before another Tivo'd show, and it's almost always horrible. This week's, with the baby? I was desperately trying to fast-forward but I couldn't find the remote in time.

I can't really remember the last time I was so GIDDY WITH DELIGHT as watching P&R last night. Every time I think I might quit TV forever because I don't have a favorite show, something comes along and becomes a favorite show and this is currently it. Also, Chris Pratt is really making me want to go back and watch Everwood like I'm in college again.

Look, if the universe didn't want you to ship Kate/Harry, it shouldn't have made William's hotness and Harry's hotness inversely proportional.

Haha, and you laughed at me when I told you I was really excited about the royal wedding.

I can't believe you made me ship Kate/Harry in under 5 minutes.

they'll totally get divorced in like two years, but then a couple years after that they'll get remarried, and that one will stick. Except maybe they'll get divorced again when they're middle-aged and their last kid goes off to college, probably because April is banging a 20 year old, but then they'll get remarried again a few years after that.

Oh man, this is perfect. Because there's no way it's going to last buuuuut also they are MFEO. I can't believe how joyful that whole episode was. Or how joyful the entire SHOW is. How did the people who made the Office make something (about the government!) so completely free of bleakness? I DON'T CARE I'M JUST GLAD THEY DID.

I'd like to let you know that I have now gotten into Parks and Rec because of you. I just spent two days mainlining it and OMG HO DID I NOT WATCH BEFORE HOW

So yeah. I blame you.

I had to come comment on this post, because THIS IS WHERE IT BEGAN. I was watching youtube videos of the royal wedding and Harry kept turning around to look at Kate and he stared at her when she got to the alter and then LOOKED ANYWHERE BUT AT HER AND WILLIAM during the vows and ohmygod, the shipper goggles are ruining me and it's all. Your. Fault.

Oh my God, I KNOW, RIGHT????? UM, I WAS HAVING A LOT OF FEELINGS. POOR HARRY. IF HE GETS WITH PIPPA IT'S ONLY BECAUSE SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE KATE.

Hahaha, I'm glad you have picked up this ship, it is weirdly immediate and compelling, like coming down with a weird flu.

YES. EXACTLY. He's been crazy about her for years but especially since the break-up, and he's buried his feelings because there is NO WAY it can ever happen (but you know he heavily identifies with Henry VIII, who married his brother's wife) so he flirts with Pippa and parties and DID YOU KNOW THAT KATE'S RING BELONGED TO HARRY? HE INHERITED IT FROM DI, NOT WILLIAM, SO IN HIS MIND IT'S A LITTLE LIKE KATE IS WEARING HIS RING.

These are not things I thought about before two weeks ago, like, at ALL.

So, um, I watched like five hours of Royal Wedding stuff last night/today because like...a flister mentioned it and I was like what? totally wasn't on my radar!!!! but I...guess I should??? x_x and then by chance I was on

londondrowning's journal and saw a comment and was like, oh right, sometimes I check around over there, since M is friends with them...I suppose I'll do that...

AND UGH UGH UGH WHAT IS THISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs. I was going to make a post being all like WATCHED SOME ROYAL WEDDING STUFF HERE ARE MY THOUGHTS I HOPE THEY MAKE IT WORK (I still hope they make it work, IRL) but WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY BRAIN, I HATE YOU.

/almost-stranger

I feel like now I need to clarify that my M is

care_says, but I think you might...know that?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Okay. All right. So that one is dead. We know that.

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject