Sorry I squeezed your lights out, there, son.

[annakovsky]

You guys, some glorious person started an NBC kink meme, nbckink -- the first post is up here. There are tons of amazing Parks prompts, along with other NBC shows like Community and 30 Rock and, hilariously, SVU (plus older stuff like Friends and Seinfeld!). You should all go there and write stuff, especially rare Parks pairings, because there are some GREAT prompts for things like Ben/April (which is a ship I am really into, but I didn't think anybody else would be) and Ron/Leslie and Ben/Chris and April/Ann, as well as the expected million for Ben/Leslie (which would also be great to fill!). PLUS there are some really good SNL prompts, which is good because my lady boner for Amy Poehler is getting out of control and I ship all the Weekend Update anchors with each other way hard.

Basically, an NBC kink meme is all my small fandom dreams, though it is really making me wish that Happy Endings (you guys are watching this, right? BECAUSE IT IS GREAT) and Party Down were on NBC, but what can you do.

(I've been rewatching a lot of Party Down lately because I like seeing Adam Scott make out with people, even though that show overall is pretty disappointing apart from Henry/Casey. But I REALLY WISH there was just one good fic for that pairing. Weirdly the only fic that seems to be out there for the show is a couple of Roman fics on AO3, which is disturbing because that dude is maybe the skeeviest character I've ever seen. Like, there are a lot of morally gray characters on television, but Roman is one that I am absolutely sure would, if he thought he could get away with it, rape you and not give it a second thought. The show treating him like he's skeevy but mostly harmless is really disturbing to me, because he is clearly NOT AT ALL HARMLESS. But whatever. Thanks for ruining Bill Haverchuck for me, though, Party Down!)

My computer's trackpad broke over the weekend, so I had to take it in, and now I'm stuck using my old laptop, which at least still works but is comically huge. I feel like Dwight: This is humongous. I am not a security threat. And my middle name is Kurt, not Fart.

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[tellcincinnati.livejournal.com]

Now very, very determined to make some April/Ron happen.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

OMG YESSSSSSSSSSSSS, DO IT!!! They are always my ultimate jam, omg, I would be so excited.

[tellcincinnati.livejournal.com]

It's perfect because I feel the ways I want them to get together are all very dirty and inappropriate and vaguely incesty and perfect to say anonymously on a kink meme. Or publicly here in your journal? Um.

[calendae.livejournal.com]

Party Down leaves me feeling sick a lot of the time. Because the people are all so awful. And not even in a nuanced, I've-got-flaws-but-I'm-human way. I totally agree with you about Roman. Just ew. Also, all I spend most of the time thinking Rob Thomas, I used to defend you. But you really are rapey.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Ugh, right? It's so unpleasant to watch most of the time, even though I love Henry/Casey super hard. And haha, yeah, I totally blame Rob Thomas for the rapey misogyny, which probably isn't totally fair, but TWO STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT, THOMAS. It kind of bums me out because I usually really like Adam Scott in interviews (AND PAUL RUDD, FOR THAT MATTER) but both of them being involved in creating it makes me think less of them. D:

[calendae.livejournal.com]

I feel like they watched a lot of Curb your Enthusiasm and Christopher Guest movies and were going for sort of an over the top something, but didn't realize that a) Larry David is a ridiculous curmudgeon who says outrageous things but is totally called on it by everyone else on the show and b) Christopher Guest movies have humor that relies on believing that the characters are humans that are sympathetic because they are flawed.

Instead Party Down is just sociopaths in a crappy job who screw over anyone for anything and no one is ever called on their rapey misogynistic shit.

[irishmizzy.livejournal.com]

Hahaha Idk, I've been rewatching a lot of the Office lately. ANYWAY, someone needs to take all the Henry/Casey scenes and put them on youtube a la The Blair & Dan Show so I can watch all the parts of that Party Down I like without suffering.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

HEE, thank you, I wanted a graphic of that nature but was too lazy to go find one. (Which, speaking of that impulse, is it just me, or does tumblr start to make it hard to think in a non-graphic way? It like takes actual effort to use my words instead of expressing myself only in gifs, haha.) Mannnn, Office rewatching sounds so nice, I miss those days. And like, I don't actually really want Office fic in this kink meme, but it is a little shocking to me how few Office prompts there are. Aww, how fandoms die.

Someone REALLY needs to do that with Henry/Casey, GOD. Plus it'd be so much easier to tell people to watch it if you didn't have to be like, "BUT WATCH OUT FOR THE LADY-HATING, IT'S UNPLEASANT."

[irishmizzy.livejournal.com]

Oh god, tumblr has wrecked me. It's a combo of how instantaneous it is and how much easier it is to post a picture and let it explain for itself why it made you laugh, I think. I barely know how to talk about TV on LJ anymore because I feel like it's a) been gif-ed to death on tumblr and b) harder, why can't i just tag my post #lollerskates #dying rn #and then i will put my mouth on his mouth and let everyone reblog it if they agree? (Oh god, no, I don't want to read Office fic, especially not in a kinkmeme. That's a short trip to licked coffee cups. But it's nice to watch it and feel removed from the whole thing, ngl. Like flipping through a yearbook and remembering inside jokes.)

[londondrowning.livejournal.com]

Ugh, did we ever have an aggressively long conversation about that week I watched Party Down and could not A) make myself understand why I kept watching it or B) convince anyone else that no, actually, this show is SUPER MISOGYNISTIC, and no, sorry, I can't just turn my brain off and laugh at it when so much of the time it's avout actively hating ladies?

I feel like we should have had an aggressively long conversation about that.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

We did NOT have an aggressively long conversation about that, but we REALLY SHOULD, because that show is pretty much the worst. Like, it's not even that the show offended me (though it did) -- it actually more MADE ME UNEASY, as though the show itself could rape me. Which is crazy but how I felt, like I needed to keep my eye on my drink while it was on the screen. I actually did quit watching it once I got through the first couple episodes of the second season, because I could not take it anymore, but then when Parks came back my Adam Scott feelings compelled me to finish it, haha. And also siiigh. You couldn't convince anyone that it's super misogynistic?? THAT IS EVEN MORE DEPRESSING, oh my God, how much more overt does it need to be?

[londondrowning.livejournal.com]

Haha, I don't really know what I was expecting from another Rob Thomas production. And I actually really loved Veronica Mars the first time I watched the first season, except after that, when I watched it again and started thinking harder, ohhhhhhh dear, V-Ron, you are a little bit of a Mary Sue for girls who hate girls, aren't you?

ALSO A MILLION OTHER THINS.

[crackers4jenn.livejournal.com]

I could kiss that NBC kink meme on the mouth for the Tom/Leslie prompt alone.

I almost feel like going in there and shaking up all the Ben/Leslie prompts by asking for, like, Mark/Leslie and Dave/Leslie and Ben/April and Ben/Ann. TAKE THAT, MOST POPULAR 'SHIP! It is a confusing feeling to have because I love Ben/Leslie a lot, but apparently not when it's in HOSTILE TAKEOVER mode on an anonymous kink meme? Who knows. I don't understand my feelings right now.

Every prompt I saw for SVU made me laugh, and then stop and think, "Self, that sounds sexy. Hope for someone to write it!" I don't even regularly watch that show, what is wrong with me?!

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I know, right, Tom/Leslie! GOOD WORK, ANON.

And hahaha, yeah, I know what you mean, I'm totally having Ben/Leslie BACKLASH feelings which is ridic, because I am so crazy about the ship on the show. Buuuut the fic is mostly boring, I'm sorry. YES, WE ALL WANT HER TO PUT HER MOUTH ON HIS MOUTH, THAT DOES NOT A STORY MAKE. It's hilarious to me how much Ben/Leslie is dominating everything else from every show, like, uh, I guess you can tell that the main canon pairing on Parks finally kissed right before the meme went live, huh.

You should totally ask for Mark/Leslie! And Dave/Leslie! AND BEN/APRIL AND BEN/ANN. God, I would read all those so hard.

Ahahaha, I HAVE THAT EXACT SAME REACTION TO SVU -- it's like, "LOL THAT SHOW EXISTS" and then like "... actually I would read Benson pegging Stabler, now that you mention it." I haven't watched that show in like 3 years at least! And yet.

[leatherteal.livejournal.com]

Hearing that Party Down is creepily misogynistic DISTRESSES ME GREATLY, I know a number of people who aren't misogynistic who swear by it. Like... whoa.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Oh man, yeah, like, I don't judge anyone who likes Party Down or anything, because we all like things with terrible elements to them and we all have our blind spots, but it's just... um, let's say, very problematic, haha. Mostly connected to this one character, so I guess maybe people can split that off, but idk, the misogyny's pretty pervasive, I really can't watch around it myself.

[cheapmetaphor.livejournal.com]

There are other characters on Party Down apart from Adam Scott and Adam Scott's mouth?

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE CLEARLY WATCHING THE SHOW CORRECTLY. Once you're done we will have to have an in-depth discussion of which is the best makeout scene, I have a lot of thoughts on this matter.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Kovsky I feel like I should apologize for butting into like three different threads here, but I really just have a lot of feelings. Or something.

Here is my point: Ron/Ben. With a side of them both being in love with Leslie.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, ilu, the comments just kept coming. I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS TOO.

Oh God, that fic would be AMAZING, Ron and Ben are both so into her. Did you watch the spoiler clip for the finale that Offerman took to Jimmy Kimmel? (It was posted to the Leslie/Ben comm.) Because if so I have something to say, and if not, I SURE DON'T, WHAT, NOTHING.

[sarcasticpixie.livejournal.com]

Today's Twitter convo between Aziz and Mindy makes me want to prompt it and then write a sprawling epic about East Coast kids being stuck in LA for their jobs and buying shit they don't need (but that they love!) and realizing that Tom Haverford would totally be all the way into Kelly Kapoor (because they both have strong feelings about manicurists!) and Mindy's on a book tour and Aziz is doing standup and they call each other to check in every night and and and. These are the things I think about when I should be doing work.

And THANK YOU for linking to the kinkmeme. I'm just going to sit here and read about Ben going down on Leslie for the next eighteen billion years.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

OH MAN, I wasn't on twitter today, I'll have to go look at that! You should totally prompt Mindy/Aziz, I would be way into it!

AND WEIRDLY, I TOTALLY SHIP TOM/KELLY KAPOOR -- they're just so the same character, they would get along like gangbusters. I-I would be weirdly into a fic where their traditional Indian parents arrange a marriage between them, and at first they hate each other but then they realize they are MFEO and fall in love.

Yessssssssssssssssss! Enjoy that!

[cashewdani.livejournal.com]

I had so many windows open last night to write because there are really awesome prompts happening, but then I got distracted and remembered that writing is hard, especially sexytimes writing which I feel gross about doing at work on my lunchbreak. Or, okay, in all seriousness, whenever people aren't in the library with me.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I know, I have a file of prompts that I am interested in filling, but then I remember that I'm lazy and tired. Heeee, and y-yeah, I don't imagine a children's library is the most conducive place for sexytimes writing, you are working under a handicap!

[allthingsholy.livejournal.com]

LOL, Ben/April. Apparently my life goes:

Try to write Ben/Leslie. End up with fic that is mostly April torturing Ben about how much he likes Leslie. Come out of it shipping Ben/April.

WHAT.

And I'm just waiting for some Seth Myers/Bill Hader (god, don't judge me, just ... don't) but I was really pleased with the random Aubrey Plaza/Donald Glover that is there? Yessssssssssssssss.