#msmandapants

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The always-wonderful @booksandabeer tagged me on this one and I can't pass up an excuse to post about tv.

Rules: without naming them, post 10 gifs of your favorite TV shows, then tag 10 people

No-pressure tagging: @asmoonlightthroughthepines @msmandapants @popsiclememories @between-a-ship-and-a-hard-place @scare-ard--sleigh @asofterhibou @ffollies @caviar-derolo @deliriumsfish @betelgeusetoo

[tangledbea]

HEY HOW ANNOYINGLY GOOD IS BAPTISTE? DON'T YOU WANT TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE? Just asking for a friend. haha :)

HOLY CRUD, I’M DYING! Due to unfortunate circumstances, the stars aligned in the wee hours of the morning to have me up much earlier than I would have liked to have been, and I was checking Insta (which I often forget to do) and there was this post of Max from “Night Bite,” and I went, “Wait, what? Is this a crew member I wasn’t aware of before now?” AND IT WAS!

AND NOW I’M FLOORED! I have queued every single Tangled-related thing on his insta, and it’s just been running all day! lol

[disasterbiquentin]

msmandapants replied to your post “don’t ruin this on me -- chapter three”

I'm legit SO EXCITED, I've been loving this. haha. And don't you ever apologize for long chapters. YOU WRITE THEM I READ THEM I LOVE THEM. Make them 20k chapters. You see if I revolt! I will never. haha

omg that’s super sweet dude thank u sdhfjd

ALSO 20K CHAPTERS MAY BE A REAL THREAT. I ALREADY HAD TO RELOCATE A WHOLEASS PLOTLINE FROM THIS CHAPTER TO NEXT CHAPTER BC IT WAS GETTING TOO LONG TO EVEN WRITE IN ONE GO dhjhfdjfh

[wittyandcharming]

msmandapants replied to your post “Why don’t you like people tattooing your poem?”

omg, that's bull! why do people do these things! I need your work to get you-credit because it is THE. BEST.

*CRADLES TO BOSOM* Bless you hahaha

[mbrleigh]

No Time Like the Past revisions! Eugene didn’t have any pimples on his first rendition so it was honestly a surprise to see that in the final design (Teen Eugene and Lance designed by the lovely, the talented, the iNCREDIBLE @msmandapants)

Director - Philip Pignotti

Boards - Anna Lencioni, Todd Kurosawa 

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[msmandapants]

your thoughts on the last magicians episode are exactly my own, but expressed far more eloquently than I ever could and I wanted to thank you for it.

Thank you!  That’s comforting to hear, and I’m glad I’m not alone.

That said, the OP I was responding to responded back to me (if you haven’t seen it), and the meta is FANTASTIC:

 https://messier51.tumblr.com/post/184105429357/msmandapants-messier51-magicians-people

PLEASE check it out if you haven’t.  It’s long but well worth the time.  I responded to it just now (I’m still a skeptic, oh well, haha), but it contained such great thoughts and analysis and genuinely made me feel better.  Give it a read!  Fans gotta boost each other back up when we’re crawling on the floor in our collective angst.  haha

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People I Want To Know Better tag game

Thanks to the lovely @booksandabeer for tagging me! Even though it took me literalllll weeks to sit down and do this one!

Book you’re currently reading:

I've vaguely started Senlin Ascends, but it's been languishing on my Kindle for, eesh, awhile. But it was recommended by the same friend who demanded I watch The Magicians, so I have no doubt I'll get into it once I get more than a few chapters in.

Last song you listened to:

Gold, Kiiara

Currently watching:

Husband and I are finally catching up on the new season of Our Flag Means Death, only a couple months behind everyone else on the internet. Otherwise, I just finished The Tudors as a something-on-in-background-while-I-cross-stitch show. Back when it was airing I didn't get past season two, so I was pleasantly surprised that it got a bit better in later seasons. Not more historically accurate, but... better.

Fic you’re currently reading:

I'm slooowly savoring @sparkagrace's Treading Water, trying to not catch up too fast before it's complete. But aaah, I'm so happy it exists. Lane Lines was such an immersive, rich AU; getting a meaty sequel to it is an absolute treat.

Next on your to watch list:

I still haven't worked up the energy to watch season two of The Bear, even though it's so good and I know I'll like it. I'm on month five of work being a neverending stress cyclone, and I just can't get myself to watch the show where work is an endless stress cyclone for every character, but with knives and open flames.

Current obsession:

Still forever on my Stucky bullshit. I'm also still in the depths of whatever this new Henry Cavill hyperfixation is. This was probably evident by the fact that I just admitted to watching all four seasons of The Tudors in the year 2023.

Absolutely-no-pressure tagging: @hetrez, @msmandapants, @elliquinn and anyone who wants to share!

[tangledbea]

What cultures do you think each of the seven kingdoms is based on (I know some appear more obvious than others)?

@msmandapants (also known as @jollylines) just answered this here! (x)

[disasterbiquentin]

msmandapants replied to your post “don’t ruin this on me - chapter four”

Yeeeeees!!! Honestly, I’m living for this fic of yours these days. As always, thanks for writing this. I’m gonna get my act together someday soon and make actual comments on AO3 like a functioning human being. Haha

ahhh thank u sm!! i’m glad you’re enjoying it ahaha

[wittyandcharming]

msmandapants replied to your post “types of people”

@wittyandcharming omg Linds I’d read that and thought of you. Hahaha

Omgosh I’m so PLEASED

[jadebee]

@msmandapants

[stepharoni]

msmandapants replied to your post: I’m watching the selfie pilot and even...

Omg I hope John Cho is rocking the pants off the episode.

He's pretty enjoyable as the grumpy "anti-technology" straight man. I wonder how his character will grow

capleesi replied to your post: I’m watching the selfie pilot and even...

somehow I just couldn’t like it. 80% of it felt so forced IDK. But John Cho ;___;

Oh gosh, yeah the beginning of the pilot on the airplane and when Eliza was saying all the "hashtags" and social media references in real speak were painful. I cringed. But then I liked it - I'm a sucker for makeover shows though. I wonder if the pilot will be much different from the premiere?

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Foxglove, Daffodil, Marigold! :D

FOXGLOVE: Name three facts about your family? 

Oh gosh. 1) My mother's maiden name translates literally to Nightingale, and we have a lot of nightingale related private jokes because of it. 2) My surname, which comes from my father, was his mother's surname. My grandfather took his wife's name, and when they divorced and he remarried he took his second wife's name again. I like the fact that my surname came from a female relative. 3) Everyone in my family comes from either a village or a small town, none of us was born or grew up in a big city. 

DAFFODIL: What's the most thoughtful present you've ever received?

Wow. I am not sure? Everything that was ever given to me out of love is something I greatly appreciated because you can tell if someone is giving you something because they want to or because it's customary or whatever. So whether it was a knit sweater or a book or a drawing or a graphic, if it was given to me because someone wanted to make me happy then that makes it incredibly thoughtful. There's not one thing from one person that would stand out above the rest. Tbh it is really easy to make me happy with a present. Last Christmas my brother gave me a book on how to draw manga and even though it's not really something I'd pick myself it made me happy because it tells me he knew I like to draw and want to be better at it and that this was the reason why he bought it for me. That's pretty thoughtful.

MARIGOLD: Do you listen to what's on the radio?

Oh, as in the current hits, or if I listen to radio at all? Bc I don't really listen to the radio but I do enjoy the popular music they usually play :)

[castexpectopatronum]

msmandapants:

fawkesisntanordinarybird:

#when a group of college kids capture the friendship between ron and harry in one scene better than directors and screenwriters of seven movies could

YES!  HAHAHAHAHAHA.  IT’S TRUE.

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8 Shows To Know Me

Thanks for the tag, @booksandabeer! This was extremely difficult and I look forward to kicking myself in a week when I remember some other show that's 20% of my personality but I totally blanked on when making this list.

No pressure tagging: @asmoonlightthroughthepines, @scare-ard--sleigh, @msmandapants, @blithers, @dontcallmebree and anyone else up for distilling themselves down to eight tv shows!

Okay let's do this!

Star Trek The Next Generation

TNG imprinted on me in 4th or 5th grade. I'd watch it every night before dinner and have lots of opinions about the holodeck and Data. Did I put a headband in front of my eyes and call it LaForge's visor? Yes. Did I unironically love the cheesy episodes like Rascals, The Game, and Disaster? Absolutely. It was also my intro to fannishness, pre-internet. One of my friend's dads had a stack of action figures, and a Riker uniform he'd break out at Halloween. I remember being confused by his whole deal, but mostly thinking it was really cool.

Flight of the Conchords

I saw this promo before the first season premiered and was instantly sold, it was so silly and unassuming. I was in college which is just. the perfect age to find everything about it delightful and hilarious and to be low-key in love with both Bret and Jemaine. I'm pretty sure I've thought about some lyric or throwaway line or small facial expression every day since 2007.

New Girl

I made myself limit this list to only one 2000s/2010s network comedy. New Girl edged out The Office, Parks & Rec, Community, 30 Rock, and even my beloved dark horse, Happy Endings. It's pure comfort. Every character is the best character.

Severance

I will not rest until everyone is as obsessed with this show as me. I've already watched season 1 three times, and I'll probably watch it all the way through again before season 2 comes out. It just hits all my buttons. Eerie weirdness! Sci-fi elements explored at a very personal, human level! Retro corporate dystopian branding and decor! Random moments of absurdity! Existential dread! Defiant jazz!

The Magicians

One doesn't keep up a semi-active sideblog for four years (?!!) and counting for a show without being permanently altered and irreparably damaged by it. One day, a work friend and I were talking tv and she went, "you would like this show! I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but you would like it!" For better or worse... she was not wrong. (On the fandom side, the fic for this show is just exquisite. The art, edits, and gifs are impeccable. I'm grateful it compelled me to start making stuff more regularly. Fussy, high-effort stuff!)

Better Call Saul

I know, I know *pikachu surprised face* that this one made the list. Y'know that post that makes the rounds every once in awhile, about 'ships and fictional relationships that's like, "sure they're in love or whatever. But, like... do they even like each other?" I think this silly lawyer prequel to the crime-and-drugs show accidentally became the best display of two people who like and love each other on tv. (Also yes, everything else about it is A++. Meticulous. Stressful. Exhilarating. No notes.)

Simpsons (Seasons 1-8ish)

This feels like an embarrassingly basic answer, but my personality really is just several early seasons of The Simpsons in a trench coat. It's what shaped my sense of humor. It's the foundation of my marriage. It's why I knew what Citizen Kane was at eight years old.

Pushing Daisies

Pushing Daisies was one of the first times I felt like, "oh! Someone made a show for me specifically!" Every single element was a feast for the eyes, from the saturated colors, to the quirky, overly literal sets, to Chuck's outfits, to Lee Pace's face. Baking AND knitting were heavily featured in every episode! There was a cute romance with supernatural complications. There was whimsical, fairy tale-style Jim Dale narration!

Runners up include: Tuca & Bertie, Buffy, Firefly, Freaks & Geeks, Mad Men, Home Movies, Legion, WandaVision, The Mandalorian, and Lost.

[theladyem]

Jasmine, Daffodil, Locust!

Jasmine: What color looks best on you?

*I* think blue-green but I think I'm biased because that's my favorite color and literally all that I wear

seriously last time I hung out with my friends one of them commented "I love how emily is always wearing blue!" 

Not even kidding so I HOPE it looks good on me because that's my entire wardrobe

Daffodil: What's the most thoughtful present you've ever received?

UMMM...nothing is coming to mind at the moment- i'm sure I'll think of something in 12 hours or something like that but I'm pretty sure whatever I think of will be from Hayden because lets face it Hayden gives the best gifts

Locust: What was your favorite book as a child?

This is hard to answer because I didn't like reading until middle school and then I read EVERYTHING so I didn't have a favorite...but I think Narnia.