top 5 Parks and Rec ships: #1, Ron/April
I totally watched Parks since the pilot and always enjoyed it, but I’m not lying when I say that Ron/April is the OTP that got me into the show in an actual fannish, shippy way. In the words of Andy Dwyer to Ron, “She’s perfect for you.” April and Ron are two people who try very, very hard not to care about anything or anyone, and who are really, really bad at actually doing so. They understand each other and they keep each other’s secrets. In the episode “Soulmates,” April spends the whole time following Ron around a health food store throwing away vegan bacon with him while ignoring her husband. Who are the titular soulmates, Parks? I see what you’re trying to say and I like it.
top 5 Parks and Rec ships: #3, April/Andy/Ben
I have a serious, serious thing for forced domestic intimacy, whether it’s a good pretend-to-be-married contrivance scenario or a good forced-to-be-roommates one. All that toothbrushing and accidentally seeing each other in their underpants!
And these three are such great forced-to-be-roommates because of the whole “two kids with a spineless babysitter” dynamic that somehow Ben seems to have accepted. He knows he’s going to be the one taking care of that three-legged dog, the same way he knows if they get pregnant he’s raising that baby, because he’s not going to send a three-legged dog OR a baby to its death. In the meantime you have Andy wrestling him by holding him down and doing weird things to him, and April being really aware of what kind of baths he takes. A++++, every episode should have a B plot of this household and there should be at least 3 times as much fic.
Parks and Recreation high school AU.
Hold me close, young Tony Danza.
You’ve got to dream up some weird scenario. Like you’re her boss and sex is forbidden because she works for you.
APRIL: Hey, can I get these?
RON: How much are they?
APRIL: Two bucks a piece.
RON: Good deal.
CLERK: Anything else?
RON: Nope. Just the crows and the beef.
3x10 - SoulmatesGood deal. Also, are these two the soulmates or what? (Kovsky, you put your weird ideas inside my brain and now they won’t get out!)
Hey, it’s not my fault they’re canonically the soulmates! April apparently would rather follow Ron around grocery stores than her husband, throwing away vegan bacon and having Ron buy her taxidermied crows (which are, as everyone knows, the most romantic of gifts). Good girl.
It’s Ron and April’s anniversary today.
