look to the pasta

Man, Yuletide nominations not being open yet is making me so antsy. What are you guys going to request/offer? I reread Wuthering Heights lately and I REALLY want really dark, fucked-up fic, because omg that book has some distressing sexual subtext, but I am wary of asking for anything from a stranger that requires archaic language and/or explicit porn, so I think I'm probably not going to actually request it. In the end my three requests are looking like Parks and Rec (Leslie/Ron), Party Down (Henry/Casey), and SNL RPF (Seth/Amy), which three fandoms make me look like a HUGE LESLIE/BEN SHIPPER so it's kind of funny that I am not actually asking for Leslie/Ben.

(Like ALL the fic in that fandom is Leslie/Ben, you guys, it's so boring and Jammy. I just want some multishipping! Also why is there not more Ben/April/Andy fic? The whole roommates thing is pinging all my buttons. FORCED TO BE ROOMMATES: BEST SHOULD-BE TROPE THERE IS.)

A weird little side-note on Leslie/Ben fic -- the fic is SO manpain centric, even though the show really is not, it's really odd. The funny thing is that because manpain always requires the pain to be SO WAY OVER THE TOP (your whole family was murdered! your sister was abducted by aliens and it was supposed to be you! etc!) because men are of course not allowed to be sad about things normal humans are sad about, it means that the fic somehow has to make Ben being sad over a breakup into something WAY MORE EPIC than it is. No one has ever loved the way he has loved! He loved Leslie so much more than she loved him! Oh, fandom, you're so predictable, never change. If there is not a hot straight white male protagonist with canonical manpain, we will find one of those people and shoehorn it in, because what, are we supposed to treat non-white-male emotions as somehow important? Pshaw!

Anyway, have some actual show reactions:

( Up All Night )

( Community )

( Parks and Rec )

Okay enough! I am so glad it's Thursday and there's new stuff tonight!