Shannon (Taylor’s Version) 💙

24, (She/Her) Probably listening to Taylor & 5sos, rereading the hunger games or the shadowhunter chronicles, and/or rewatching parks & rec, new girl, derry girls, house of anubis, or something from the mcu (specifically catws and bw) etc

[ivysos2001]

Nysmnyd au where Jack and Lula never broke up so when he gets his tarot card they just assume it’s meant for both of them and we get all five horsemen for the whole movie

[ivysos2001]

Love watching the development of Leslie and Ben’s working relationship bc it goes from

-Two equally stubborn government employees on opposite sides of the budget crisis who won’t stop complaining about each other to everyone they know

-Co-heads of the harvest festival who become an unstoppable team the second they’re finally on the same team (they’re partners in crime with their own secret handshake that makes everyone around them gag but they both love it sm that it doesn’t matter)

-A secret couple who technically can’t be together bc of the rules that govern the jobs they both love so much (except they’re starting to love each other more and every time they try to talk about being more subtle they end up making out at work)

-Married couple who get to work together again and frequently annoy their coworkers with how disgustingly in love they can be (we see Ron get mad at them and Donna tell them to stop it and neither reaction seems to dissuade them in the slightest so we can only assume that this is a frequent occurrence)

If only we’d gotten to see more glimpses of Governor Knope and Congressman Wyatt being disgustingly in love at the federal level

[ivysos2001]

It’s really funny to me that they went from atlas and merritt hitting on henley in the first movie to having merritt turn around and use atlas as his new target in the second one while lula hits on jack lmao

[ivysos2001]

The concept of merritt getting into the habit of calling atlas ‘buffy’ when he’s getting on his nerves post-nysm2 and eventually having to explain the reference to henley and the others when jack and lula lose it laughing the first time he does it post-reunion

[ivysos2001]

Ok genuinely what’s the plan to get a fourth season of party down bc I just rewatched s3 and that henry x casey reunion scene was just *way* too buzzy for that to be the end of it

Like I’m gonna need more of them *now*

[ivysos2001]

I love all of the tid couples sm like wdym charlotte and henry were married for literal years before either of them found out they weren’t in a marriage of convenience and they had both actually been in love with each other this whole time

[ivysos2001]

Looking forward to seeing where Serena and Matt are at next week after the classic “first kiss at the end of the episode and then it fades to black” sitcom cliffhanger

Aka I can’t wait to see where they’re at next time we see them on a scale from Jim and Pam (haven’t seen each other in months, everything’s awkward and they’re not really in contact anymore) to Leslie and Ben (hooked up immediately after said kiss and are now fully in a committed relationship) lmao

[ivysos2001]

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since sotr came out and my unemployed ass sat down and read the whole thing cover to cover in one sitting and SOBBED when I saw the first mention of Katniss and Peeta in the epilogue (I missed them so bad)

[ivysos2001]

One of the reasons that I think Ben and Leslie are so special to me is that the show had a such a strong, ambitious female character like Leslie at the helm and decided to give her an equally strong, ambitious love interest in Ben. In a lot of ways I think Ben is sort of a revolutionary kind of love interest for a character like Leslie and I adore them together

Like there’s a version of a show like this where Leslie ends up alone (in the typical “strong independent women doesn’t need a man” fashion) bc she can’t find a partner that won’t slow her down or inhibit her individualism. There’s also a version where she ends up with a Dave type guy: someone kind and sweet but rather simple compared to her, who loves her and supports her dreams but never fully understand them, who can cheer her on from the sidelines but couldn’t ever really stand beside her, who admires her big ambitions but has none of his own

But parks didn’t do that. They knew they didn’t need to make Leslie permanently single in order for her to retain her power and individualism and they didn’t have her end up with some kind of simpleton in order to give her a husband who wasn’t intimidated by her ambition or success. They did something that shouldn’t be as rare or feel as revolutionary as it kind of is: in Ben they gave her a true partner, an equal

Ben is as strong willed and ambitious as she is. He loves Leslie as fiercely as she loves him, but they also *understand* each other just as well. He supports her and her goals as her bf/husband, but he’s also there beside her as her partner as she works for them and she does the same for him

In these two, parks gave us a couple who love each other fiercely, who come together to become even stronger, more sure versions of themselves, grounded by the partnership they build together. Neither one of them gives up their strength or individual ambitions or their complexity as a character when they’re together. In fact, they’re more powerful and ambitious as a team than they were apart, constantly encouraging each other and pushing the other towards the things they want

Ben and Leslie are a couple, but even before that, they’re a *team* and I just adore them for it

[ivysos2001]

If I had a nickel for every time lizzy caplan made a surprise return to a series when it finally came back for a third installment after like a decade long break - I’d have two nickels but it’s weird that it happened twice

[ivysos2001]

Rereading tid for the first time in a bit and I’m still never getting over Gideon accidentally proposing to Sophie in front of the whole institute lmao

[unfortunate-songbird]

tbh nysm would be great as a tv show

mini heists or magic shows every few episodes

character interactions! fun magic!

one episode where Merritt and Jack get a new bunk bed from IKEA and the entire episode is them struggling to put it together

Dylan and Thaddeus do a small heist together but accidentally get seen at the end by like a bachlorette party and have to call Merritt to hypnotize them to forget about it and he’s like “yall are hardcore Eye magicians you can’t fix this yourself?” and Dylan goes “neither of us are mentalists, what do you want us to do, kill them?”

Danny is getting increasingly paranoid because everyone is acting slightly Off and it’s because they’re planning his surprise birthday party

Through a series of events, after staunchly refusing to do so the whole episode, Lula is forced to recreate her ‘hat out of a rabbit’ trick

Henley shows up like “I’m gonna jump in a crocodile enclosure for a thing, can you watch my kid for a bit?” And Babysitting ensues

another episode with Henley (perhaps multiple) where she participates in the latest heist/magic show but always makes it back to her house before the cops bust her like “what’s happening officer I’ve been home all day innocent blink” ala Antman and the Wasp. Other times she’s the tech person who hacks into stuff and monitors cameras

Dylan’s FBI ex-coworkers/boss are reoccurring antagonists. At one point after setting up a sting all episode, they fail to catch the Horsemen. What went wrong? The Horsemen used pigeons to communicate and avoid the trap

Thaddeus and/or one of the other Eye magicians shows up occasionally to be weird and cryptic and either cause problems or give vague, eventually useful advice (or both)

basically any era would work

pre nysm1 awkward get-to-know-you bonding

post nysm1 hjinks with Dylan maintaining his cover and the Horsemen screwing around

post nysm2 everything

even post nysm3

the possibilities are endless

[share-the-damn-bed]

JANCY + their shared separated section of the sofa

they are a set. do not separate.

Bonus: off to claim their oversized chair

[ivysos2001]

I firmly believe that once peacock is done releasing these superfan episodes for the office we’re gonna get the same thing for parks and rec (and I can’t wait)

[ivysos2001]

Nysmnyd lumping in ai with wars, pandemics, and climate change in their “bad shit that’s gone down since the last movie” line was *chef’s kiss*

Oh nysm the franchise you are

[ivysos2001]

Ok in my head there’s no way that the jancy breakup ends up lasting very long. But even so, I’m just picturing them getting back together and eventually going home to tell everyone this amazing news only to find out that no one really believed them about the breakup in the first place

Like let’s be honest exes don’t act like that lmao

[ivysos2001]

One thing I liked about Jack and Lula in the new one is that even tho they establish early on that they’ve broken up, once we get them in a room together it’s immediately clear that they’ll be back together by the end of the movie

[asexualbert]

Honestly, I don't even think it took that long.

As soon as you see Jack's face when he confirms they broke up, you can go "yeah that's not sticking."

[ivysos2001]

This is so real as someone who walked into the theater having already convinced myself that Lula would be in this movie somehow and by this point was just waiting for her to show up so they could get back together already lol