Same old story, different fandom.

[annakovsky]

Ugh, you guys, the Leslie-bashing is already starting in Parks and Rec fandom, and I feel so weary. She hasn't even broken up with Ben (yet? I'm unspoiled, keep me that way!), but I feel like if she does in season 4, the fandom is going to be a nightmare hellscape of misogyny, and it's upsetting to me. On my Murtaugh List: listening to sexist bullshit that seems to assume that any woman who cares about her career or even her own happiness over a dude is an uppity bitch. I am too old for that shit.

Ladies bashing ladies. When are we going to cool it on that, fandom?

(Haha, the best, most nonsensical bashing so far: I keep seeing people complain that because Leslie said, "If this turns into something real" to Ben after they had been dating a week, she is not taking the relationship with the appropriate level of seriousness. Lolololol you guys have met a human being before, right? EVEN IF SHE WAS MENTALLY PLANNING THEIR WEDDING, SHE WOULD SAY THAT SO AS NOT TO SEEM LIKE A WEIRDO. But no, try saying "When we get married" to someone you've been dating a week, see how that goes over.)

(All the Leslie-bashing from Ben's POV is starting to make me hate Ben, so I think I'm going to have to, like, quit reading fic/watching leslie_ben/following some tumblrs. Otherwise I am totally going to end up writing spitefic where Leslie breaks up with Ben for Ron.)

(Which, honestly, I have been really in the mood for Leslie/Ron fic lately anyway. Whyyy is there not more, they're so married! Blatant mustache discrimination.)

But whatever, the season 3 DVDs came out yesterday! Delightful things from the stuff I've watched so far:

1) The gag reel's revelation that Adam Scott clearly hates Rob Lowe's guts, and that Nick Offerman probably does too. (Offerman is harder to read, but omg, Adam, are you even trying to hide your irritation??) This makes me like both of them SO MUCH MORE THAN I ALREADY DID, Rob Lowe, you are such a jag, I wish you would get out of this otherwise delightful cast.

2) Mike Schur said that he's been friends with Rashida Jones since 1993. THAT WAS THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR AT COLLEGE. OH MY GOD, THAT IS AMAZING. I want weird Harvard RPF of them now where she's way out of his league but he has a huge crush on her, and they listen to Neutral Milk Hotel and go to Lamont together and complain about fires on the red line. Also now I am wondering if this is how Poehler knows Rashida, since Schur wrote for SNL and produced Weekend Update, etc. That is adorable and delightful.

3) Ugh also the commentaries and gag reel totally made me ship Amy Poehler/Adam Scott a little bit. What's next, am I going to write JKras/Jenna Fischer fic, ugh wretchery.

4) Pratt getting a boner when Aubrey slapped him omg. Haha, I don't know if he was in character, but it kind of seemed like not? EITHER WAY, I AM CHOOSING TO BELIEVE THAT HAPPENED FOR REAL, WHATEVER.

5) Adam Scott trying to think of a name for a hot club and coming up with RASCALS. I am still laughing today. Nerdddddddddd.

6) Also other stuff, but I feel like this is getting boring.


Okay, enough fandom stuff for now. In other news, I dyed my hair blond, bought tickets to visit my brothers in Seattle later this month, and am trying to deal with my depression over the 40 degree drop in temperature and constant rain this week. I hate when summer ends.

Comments

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

HEE, well, I understand that, I'm always so annoyed at any fandom that I'm in that I really enjoy it when other people are annoyed at theirs. We're all in this together! Haha, such a BOFQ, ridic. And Leslie/Ron is the BEST -- haha and it's totally the Liz/Jack of P&R so I'm not surprised. :P

Right?? Rob Lowe is the worsttttttt. Remember when he submitted himself for Lead Actor for TWW and then did it again with Parks? Lololol what a dbag. I'm hoping he quits the show because it's not about him soon. (Haha, in the gag reel his phone rings during a scene, and he hams it up about it and then totally NAMEDROPS and Adam Scott looks so unimpressed, it's amazing.)

I'm still so mad I didn't make it to Seattle before you went overseas! I'm only going to be there for like a long weekend, though, basically -- Sept 22-27, a Thurs-Tues. It should be fun!

[frey-at-last.livejournal.com]

I actually had to Google BOFQ, that is how hard you just dated yourself.

it's totally the Liz/Jack of P&R so I'm not surprised. :P

I am nothing if not predictable! lolol

UGH I knew he'd done that for TWW but I didn't know he did it for P&R?!? WTF, he's some guy added on to the ensemble in the third year, right? He's sooo trying to Alec Baldwin his career. I need to hear more about the ways Adam Scott dislikes him behind the scenes.

I know, what is wrong with you????? Perhaps one day we won't be thousands of miles apart -- have a good time! Touch, I don't know, a tree, a fish, for me. That sounds weird. So just reflect on your northwestern location for a moment while you are there.

[annakovsky.livejournal.com]

I actually had to Google BOFQ, that is how hard you just dated yourself.

lolololol oh God, shut up, maybe some of us are sad old ladies who were reading X-Files fanfiction on the internet in 1994 when you were in diapers or whatever. DD:

Ugh, yes, added to the ensemble in season 3, and doesn't even get that much screentime! WEIRDO. He really is trying to Alec Baldwin his career, but much less successfully. I need to hear a lot more about Adam Scott disliking him too, though his irritated face was glorious to behold. NO ONE LIKES YOU, ROB LOWE, LEARN YOUR G.D. LINES.

Ahahaha, I will totally touch a fish for you, it will be great. But seriously, one of these days we will make a meeting happen! If my bros are still in Seattle in a year I'll totally do another trip.

[frey-at-last.livejournal.com]

lol, I'd seen it written out, but anyway I didn't recognize the acronym, so yes, you are ancient.

Yes, for sure! That would be awesome. (Also: dead fish or live fish?)