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annakovsky) wrote2011-09-07 04:01 pm
annakovsky) wrote2011-09-07 04:01 pm
Same old story, different fandom.
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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.
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.
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Um, so yeah. I would read Leslie/Ron if you wrote it. Or Leslie/Ben/Ron. Or Ben/Ron. Hee hee. Just sayin'. Can you tell I like Ron?
Also, I don't get people that have to go so crazy over this relationship stuff - maybe I'm just not as invested as I used to be in fandom, but is it really the end of the world if they break up? I mean, they're pretty much awesome together, so it would definitely be sad, but I feel like at some point they'd get together again because they couldn't stay away, that's sort of the way I play it in my head, anyway.
Also please do not tell me you don't think that John has crushed on Jenna at some point. Yes, RPF about it does kind of make me feel like a weeaboo. BUT, to be fair, a lot of us at some point form crushes on our cute and charming co-workers, whether we can help it or not. And yerrrr I speak from experience. Not that anything ever comes of it (OK, once and the guy ended up unceremoniously dumping my ass by never calling me again). So, yeah, does Adam Scott totally love Amy (and vice versa?) I believe it! They are the cutest people ever.
Looks like I'll be makin' that trip to Target in the next day or so.... :P
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Yessssssss, Leslie/Ron! AND I WOULD BE SO INTO LESLIE/RON/BEN. Reverse Big Love AU? Ron is the greatest.
I never get it when people are that invested in a 'ship either -- I mean, I really like them together! But probably if they break up it would be more interesting anyway! Also haha, seriously, clearly they're the endgame here, soooo yeah.
Heeeee, oh man, I totally believe that John crushed on Jenna back in the day, I just hate being one of those people who ships a canon ship and then feels compelled to write fic for the actors too. Though honestly I do get a charge from it -- I read an article about Roseanne Barr the other day in which she said she had a crush on John Goodman when they were in their show together and I was weirdly REALLY INTO THAT. Hahaha, oh dear. Coworker crushes, though, adorbs.
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Did you read the one that SHE wrote (basically a long rant about her evil directors and producers from the early years of Roseanne) where she just casually mentions "and it was even worse because [the director] was yelling at me all of this in front of John, whom I was in love with at the time." Period, new anecdote. I was like WHAT?????? TELL ME MORE
Like, when I first watched Roseanne in high school, I loved it for how real the characters were together, but she was in love with John Goodman??? I would read that in a hearbeat!
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(Hahaha, that article was totally crazy, right? I felt sympathetic to her while at the same time never ever wanting to be anywhere near her in actual life, yiiiiikes.)