Love, love, love, love, love "Harvest Festival." The final sweeping shot of the festival grounds never fails to make me tear up. It's not Parks and Rec's funniest episode, but damn if it doesn't make me feel the most.

Best wordless joke: Tie between the tiny cosplay Professor Smartbrain and Ben staring in awe at his own hands after being knighted.

You want a crossover hit? HOW ABOUT MY LEFT HOOK.

Ben is me with different fandoms. If we ever met we would kill each other within minutes, like how you always kill your alternate-universe self when you meet them, except in our case it would be over my distaste for Game of Thrones.

Well, if we're going to start with Teen Wolf-level confessions, here's mine: I really, truly, deeply, unironically like Stiles/Malia.

Well, if we're counting crack pairings, I ship Draco/Goblet. It has textual evidence!

Wesley and Lilah didn't hate each other, they just didn't love or like each other, and betrayed each other at every opportunity. Wesley hated himself, and Lilah was amused by his self-loathing, and laughed at him whenever he tried to be a good person.

I have no problem with Fred/Wesley as like a series finale, happy ending, "now they can at last be with the one they love" kind of thing, but if I'm going to pick a couple to actually watch week to week? I'm going to pick the couple who say things like this: "Don't think about me when I'm gone." "I wasn't thinking…

The "all stories are derivative" argument is one you run into a lot in these kinds of discussions, but I think there are other reasons why making fun of fanfiction—maybe not specific fics, but fanfiction as a whole—is silly.

General rule of Harry Potter shipping: The more fucked up a ship was, the more likely it was to have a combined-name ship name. Thus, Snarry.

I miss Harry Potter shipping, where all the names were insane and hilarious and came with incredibly convoluted backstories.

Who cares about stupid Angel? Wesley/Lilah is where all the fun Buffyverse shipping is at.

I'd have said Easy A just for Emma Stone, but I'll admit my massive celebrity crush probably biases me.

If it's not Easy A it really should be.

Well, either that, or La Pipe's spouse has a sibling whose spouse has a sibling who works for Comcast.

So, there were basically two debates about racism in the episode: the one in the kitchen, and the one between the mayor's office and the governor's office about how to handle policing the protests. In the latter, every single point being made is being made by people who are arguing purely to advance their own…

Okay, I don't think that The Good Wife was 100% successful in tonight's episode, but it seemed pretty clear to me that it wasn't really an attempt to explore racism in America. The Good Wife is built almost entirely of really rich white people, and it knows that it can't tell any but the most artificial of stories…

That's what Fandango's for.

"Just so you can be pissed off." Weird. It kinda looks like you're the one reading into things.

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