Ron and Ben react to the most recent gifts Leslie has given them.
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.
top 5 Parks and Rec ships: #5, Leslie/Ben
Ben Wyatt is basically a male, slightly-less-competent Leslie Knope, so their dynamic doesn’t have a lot of intrinsic tension to it once they’re together. But it’s impossible not to find them adorable, or to be unpsyched at Leslie getting to be happy with someone who thinks she’s so amazing he has to resort to sports references I don’t understand to fully describe how great she is. Personally, I find the two of them most interesting when they’re yelling at each other, or when they’re playing weird sex games.
Which. Can we talk about that for a second, because seriously, the sequence up above aired two episodes after the one in which they first kissed. The timeline of season 3 is fucked beyond repair, but they do tend to try to say the episodes happened around their intended airdates, so it seems reasonable to assume that this happens two weeks after they first got together.
So if you’re Leslie Knope, when do you first introduce WEIRD RONALD REAGAN SEX GAMES into your relationship? The third date?
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.
Ben Wyatt in: What the hell is happening to me now?!
(Source: marchtember)
Frankly, Ben just sitting there letting this happen to him makes it seem like Ben badly needs to be cuddled.
