top 5 Parks and Rec ships:#2, Leslie/Ron
To quote lookupatthesky, “If Leslie and Ron don’t end up married it will be a waste.” Remember that time she wanted the two of them to hide out at his cabin for 2-3 years? Remember that time they took a roadtrip to Indianapolis and she kept bringing up tourist attractions and when he didn’t want to go, she was like, “What’s wrong with you?” as though normally Ron Swanson would totally go see the World’s Largest Rocking Chair with her? Remember that time she threw him the world’s best birthday party, and that time he knew why she should dump her awful boyfriend Justin, and that time for Christmas he gave her a political campaign, even though he believes the government should be one man alone in a room who is in charge of the nukes? Um, remember that time I wanted them to bang?
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.
We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.
I’ve been thinking lately about the character of Leslie Knope, since some random bloggers have been complaining that she’s too saintly or something. (Which is so weird. She totally has TONS of flaws, it’s just that the show doesn’t think she deserves to be constantly put down for them, unlike how practically every other show on TV treats women. So maybe that’s why it’s confusing for people.)
I think what I love about Leslie and her flaws is that they are all, like, childlike flaws, in what is somehow a very appealing way — she’s impulsive and passionate and feels everything intensely, so she loses her temper very unself-critically. I feel like post-puberty so many women are socialized to not express negative emotions, or at least to be really… what is the word. Like, circumspect or careful about expressing them.
But the way Leslie Knope gets mad — man, that is the way a little girl gets mad. She is totally not worried about whether her feelings are legitimate, or whether she’s being unreasonable, or about anyone thinking she’s a bitch. She just scrunches up her face and loses her shit, and threatens to waterboard a teenage boy, or declares war on the country of Peru, or knocks files out of Mark Brendanawicz’s hands. I GUESS I’VE BEEN PRONOUNCING YOUR NAME WRONG ALL THESE YEARS, MARK BRENDANA-QUITS.
Basically I feel like Leslie Knope (and, honestly, a little bit Amy Poehler) is what would happen if a girl was allowed to get through puberty with her real self intact, instead of getting relentlessly socialized to be whatever an acceptable woman is supposed to be, and that is kind of great.
We can have a City Hall dodgeball league! I have first pick, and my pick is Ron.
They look like they’re on The West Wing.
