entirely ruined her disposition with books

Y'all, if you ever for one moment thought that this journal was about anything other than TV, you were wrong.

+ Shupt Up! Flower Boy Band was so good. I did not expect it to be good.



I expected it to be entertaining but not good. BUT THEN IT WAS ENTERTAINING AND GOOD!

Y'all, it did not drag. The second half was as good as the first. Every single plot point and twist arose out of characters' choices that made sense and were in character and were realistic. I do not understand how a drama with such a silly name that's about a high school garage band could be so good. I really do not.



( cut for rambling and spoilers )


So that was the most ridiculous thing ever. I guess this is what happens when I don't have access to tumblr. Easter cannot come soon enough so that I can reblog all my kdrama loves!


+ Community this week gave me feelings, all of them centered around Abed and Troy. And they were like...serious feelings.

( spoilers )


Basically:

Compassionate but honest depictions of atypical minds? WHO KNEW IT COULD HAPPEN ON TV?

Don't mind me: I just have a lot of feelings.

Clearly I am kind of overflowing with them.

My Seasonal Spuffy day is so soon and I'd totally forgotten about it, what with being sick and all. I feel like I should probably be panicked or something, but since I usually end up writing mine the night before anyway, I'm kind of just terribly amused with myself because I always do this.

I should get on that, though. At least this is total and complete id!fic so I don't have to take it as seriously as I sometimes do. (Lies. I never take this seriously. But sometimes I at least pretend to and this time I'm not even going there.)

A few brief things that are about TV because we all know that my life is pretty much all about television:

+ ( downton abbey spoilers for last night )



+ Lil Sis (who's in Costa Rica for the semester, did I mention that? I miss her soooooooo) and I were Skypeing the other night and she's managed to keep up with Vampire Diaries since she's been gone and her main thoughts at this point are: WHERE IS BONNIE? THIS IS NOT COOL. BRING HER BAAAACK. Sometimes she has the best taste. Clearly, those are my main thoughts, too. Also, we both saw the reveal at the end of the last episode coming. Still, nice bit of casting there (HELLO HRG! I HAVE MISSED YOU!).

+ Parks and Rec continues to be beyond flawless, so much so that I can't even put it into words and I won't even try except to say that if you still aren't watching this show, you are missing out on by far the most delightful show on television. Also, it is officially official: Ben Wyatt is the perfect man and if he were real I would marry him in two seconds flat.

+ The last two Doctor Who episodes have made me deliriously happy. I have ALL THE FEELINGS about "The God Complex" in particular, but I won't even try to put them into words. I'm sure elisi's done a better job anyway, I just haven't gotten around to reading her thoughts yet. WELL DONE, SHOW. Also, I would like to request an entire show about Eleven hanging out with babies and children because it is the actual BEST.

+ I would not still be watching Ringer if it weren't for Smidge's flawless face. I just have so much affection for her that whenever she's onscreen I just want to burst with happiness. I hope the writing improves--I thought the second episode was better than the pilot, so hopefully it'll keep with that. But mostly I'm just annoyed that all of these people are so very terrible. And not in a fun Fanged Four/half the characters on Game of Thrones/The Operative kind of way. But in a straight-up "you are unpleasant to be around please go away" sort of way. I guess if you're gonna be terrible, I at least want you to have a little bit of glee in your terribleness? When people are terrible and also just sort of bland, I have no interest.

+ I kind of felt like Community was a little weird? Maybe it was because I watched it on the TV and apparently I don't need to do that anymore. BUT. The Abed stuff was so incredibly, incredibly perfect that I'm going to rewatch the episode soon.

+ I'm glad Modern Family is back, even if I feel it's a bit overrated? Like, I'm a bit bitter about it taking over its categories at the Emmys, even though I try not to let myself have feelings about the Emmys because they always fail (except when they're giving awards to Kyle Chandler/Downton Abbey/Margo Martindale. Then they win). However, I will never, ever say no to Phil Dunphy on my screen (I do think he absolutely deserved his award) and also Claire and Dylan interacting is my favorite thing, so.

+ Is that all I'm watching right now? Except for having a massive Friday Night Lights rewatch? I'll probably post about that at some point.

+ OH! If anybody has a link to the Misfits mini episode thingie about what happens to Nathan, can you please link me? I'd appreciate it greatly!

* Should I mention that I'm race!swap casting The West Wing? Seriously, this casting thing has taken over my life. I should get paid for it.

* Last night's TVD pleased me greatly on multiple shipping levels. Just so you know. :D

* I am finally going to see Tangled tonight with the BFF. I AM EXCITE.

* Snow sucks. Spending 3 hours sitting in my truck waiting for someone to be able to pick me up also sucks. Go away, snow. This is getting ridiculous.

* Community's name should be changed to The Troy Barnes Show. MY BOY. MOST DELIGHTFUL PERSON EVER!

* Well, tied for most delightful with several characters on Parks and Rec. ROB LOWE CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FACE. AND ALSO YOUR COMEDIC TIMING. LESLIE KNOPE CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING MY HERO. RON AND TAMMY CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE MOST RIDICULOUS COUPLE THAT EVER EXISTED. NEW GUY BEN CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FORTHCOMING ROMANTIC SUBPLOT I AM VERY EXCITED FOR YOU. AZIZ ANSARI CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING SO ADORABLE THAT I LOVE YOUR CHARACTER EVEN THOUGH HE'S AN AWFUL PERSON. AUBREY PLAZA CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING THE POSSESSOR OF THE GREATEST BITCHPLZ/ANNOYED/BORED OUT OF MY MIND FACE IN EXISTENCE.

More Leslie/Ann bonding, please. More of that.

* Name a fandom (or several! or dozens!) that I am familiar with and I will tell you:

My M/F OTP:
My M/M OTP:
My F/F OTP:
My OT3:
My endgame OTP:
My original OTP:
My crack OTP:
My guilty pleasure OTP:
My anti-OTP:
My crossover OTP:

Aaaaand...go!

1. Most important: I got hopelessly, hopelessly behind on my flist over the past week or two. As such, I’m certain I missed some things I didn’t want to miss. I’m going to try to wade through this weekend, but if you posted something (or saw that someone else posted something) that you know I’d want to see and I didn’t comment on it? Could you please give me a link? I’d love you forever! Not that I already don’t, because I do. But I’d love you forever longer.

2. Probably RPF will be popping up in my journal at some point. I know this makes several of you DELIRIOUSLY HAPPY and several more of you completely squicked. BUT I CANNOT RESIST THE AWESOMENESS THAT IS ANDREW/JESSE/EMMA/CAREY, OKAY? So that will probably happen. Fair warning.

3. I read a delightful little fic earlier that I think probably quite a lot of you missed. If you like Gilmore Girls, and you like Rory/Jess (and who doesn’t?), you should read Alice, about the next Gilmore girl. Awesome characterization and fun prose. I enjoyed it immensely.

4. The brilliantly wonderful in every conceivable way laeria wrote me ELEVEN AND RIVER BABYSIT LITTLE PONDS FIC. OH YES. THAT HAPPENED. I am so obsessed with the idea of little Ponds, y’all don’t even know. If I had my dream!season of Doctor Who, it would involve skipping forward in time about ten years and Amy and Rory AND THEIR CHILDREN running around in the Tardis with the Doctor and River and generally being so awesome I can’t even think about it.

5. BEING HUMAN. IN A MATTER OF DAYS. I MIGHT DIE OF EXCITEMENT. ANNIE ANNIE ANNIE AND GEORGE AND MITCHELL AND NINA. OMG SHOW! If you’re not watching that show, you really, really should be. I can’t think of a single reason not to. Except lack of access, I suppose. But other than that—no excuses.

6. I am having the world’s hardest time casting the James Garner character in my Great Escape gender swap. I’ve figured out everybody else! Why is he so difficult? Any suggestions? HARD.

7. I want to rant about something, and it involves spoilers for last night’s Community, so the rest of this is going ( behind a cut where I can rant about Community, Supernatural, hipsters, irony, and meta-ness, among other things )

Anyways. Sorry for that ridiculous rant. I just needed to get it out of my system. I now return you to your regularly scheduled fangirling. Always in progress.

( vampire diaries spoilers )

Do y'all have reaction posts? Link me please?

I am still trying to figure out whether I loved or hated this week's Community. Obviously Danny Pudi is made of awesomeness, but I felt like an entire episode of the claymation thing was a bit much? And it was hard for me to invest? Although I did take great delight in a few moments where they so exactly replicated one of the characters' expressions/postures/etc. I think, though, that maybe sometimes the show gets a bit too gimmicky? Like with the zombie episode? I can't figure out why the gimmick worked so brilliantly in "Modern Warfare" and why it's bothered me other times (also, I still do not like the Mean Girls/trampoline episode. Just weird). On the other hand, I guess technically the bottle episode was a gimmick episode, and that one worked for me. I need to think about this more.

TROY BARNES.



BEST.

I have never been more proud to be the Troy of our corner of fandom.

+ If you haven't checked out the Bechdel Test Fic-a-Thon Masterlist, you so should, because there is much great fic there and angearia has put in a ton of effort in compiling it. Thanks so much to everybody who has participated!

+ In not-unrelated news, there's a new fic-a-thon on the block: The NOT MY FANDOM Fest!

Welcome to the first ever Not My Fandom Fest! The fest will be running from tonight, Thursday, October 14 through the weekend until sometime on Monday, October 18! Pimp to your friends! Feel free to use the banner! Tell everyone you know! We're going to have fun, guys!

We all joke about "fannish osmosis," and this comment ficathon is going to put that to the test. The object is to write a ficlet for a fandom you're not a part of based solely on what you've learned from your friends list and fandom at large. Silly, serious, the tone and approach are up to you. The only rule is that you can't write for a fandom that you have actually seen the source material for.

Obviously, hilarity ensues. Check it out!

+ And I even wrote Legend of the Seeker fic! It's probably not that funny, but I tried!

+ Also, I was kind of loopy on Benadryl at the time because somehow I'm managing to have horrible allergies and can't find my knockoff Claratin, but I think that Community was pretty glorious last night. I'll have to rewatch it to be able to tell. I do know that I have such a crush on the wonderfulness that is Donald Glover. Just sayin'.

+ Everyone has been going on and on about how good Glee was this week, so even though I stopped watching sometime during the back nine of last season, I decided to check it out anyways.

( spoilers )

+ Apparently there is a meme where you're supposed to post all of your icons with female characters in them? Um, that's like 75% of my (many, many) icons. So I'm just going to link you to them at the source and you can admire them there. They're very pretty.

+ I'm sure there were some other things I'd been meaning to share, but now I've forgotten what they were. So enjoy your Friday!

So tonight was a night of ~conflicts when it came to the TV schedule. Too much awesomeness at one time, and you had to choose!

So I'm curious as to what your decisions were.

[Poll #1622958]

Personally, I just watched The Vampire Diaries (OMG STUFF HAPPENED!) and am now downloading Community. But it was a difficult decision, let me tell you.

So how did y'all decide?

OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!?!

MY HEART EXPLODES WITH LOVE FOR THIS SHOW.



HOW WILL I SURVIVE UNTIL THE NEW SEASON?