#community nbc

[tr33hugg33r]

never been so easy to assign colors to characters

troy - red

abed - orange

pierce - yellow

britta - green

jeff - blue

shirley - purple

annie - pink

[the-great-olive]

drawing duncan and im going through an identity crisis FOR him

[varricsbrokencrossbowbianca]

[alltimetrobed]

Hey! I just uploaded a very mini prequel to my Investigative Realism series (that no one asked for lmao) It’s called Lucky Charms Analysis and, while you can read it without having read the other books in the series, the other books would give you some extra context.

Description: Abed stared at the colourful shapes, knowing Lucky Charms were safe and predictable, but that did little to stop his hands from shaking. He could hear his heart pounding and it was getting louder and louder. After scrunching his face up, he shoved the cereal into his mouth and immediately gagged. It wasn’t right. Something wasn’t right. Was it him or the cereal?

Or: An exploration of Abed’s experiences with food as a kid.

Also fun fact, I’m uploading this from a boat. It’s nothing like the sailing lessons in Community!!!! What’s all this water doing here?!!?!

[alltimetrobed]

Chapter 6 of The Least You Can Do is out!!

<3

[isakglaser]

When I watch a long-running TV series from start to finish, its rhythms will start to feel a little like real life, no matter how artificial. The only thing I've ever found remotely comparable is the newspaper comic strip, though in most of those, nothing ever changes. On TV, you cannot escape time, even when a show pretends to be timeless. (Have you heard Julie Kavner's performance of Marge Simpson lately?) Fascinatingly, this quality of television persists even when you decouple it from the linear progression of time. If you binge-watch the entirety of a show with lots of episodes over a handful of days, you will start to internalize its seasonal rhythms. You'll know when the holiday episodes are coming, when a season is approaching its conclusion, when you've gotten deep enough into the run that everybody looks significantly older. It's a little like watching a time-lapse film of a slow-moving evolution, but that's part of the appeal. When I was a lonely kid using television to fill in gaps in my understanding of myself, I watched a lot of Nick at Nite, and while I didn't know a thing about, say, 1970s fashion trends, in reruns of Mary Tyler Moore, I could watch those trends fly by in a way that let a near-decade pass in a few months. Characters came and went. Mary changed her hair, even got a new apartment. Nothing really changed, yet everything changed. It felt more like the dull yet comforting rhythms of life to my child brain than other artforms, and I suppose that's why I made it my life's work. After all, the recap format where I cut my TV criticism teeth is a critical extension of that relationship between medium and time. Come back week after week, and someone will be there to write about each and every episode.

Emily St. James on tv (my bolding) making a very good observation, hitting precisely something I've been circling around a while (TV is a serialised

Anyway, that was just a prolegomena to a post about Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas which you should go read.

[alltimetrobed]

Wooooo chapter 5 of The Least You Can Do is out!

Also good news: I have finished editing so updates should speed up a bit now.