#sometimes nick miller and dean are one person actually

[nyc-pizza-rat]

dean, about cas, 2.5 drinks in, unprompted:

[day-fire]

Positive 20 Questions Tag Game

i made a tag game again.  i’m bored, procrastinating, and certain we all need some more positivity right now. hell yeah.

(tgged by @scamp-00 and @sweatercas! thank you, friends!)

1.) Name 4 fictional characters who showcase your personality the best, with explanations if you want.

dean winchester / supernatural - not only because i love pie, women, classic rock, and old muscle cars, but because i also have great a great emotional capacity but no skill at articulating it and will probably spend 11 years harboring feelings for a friend that i’ll never admit to having.

nick miller / new girl - because he is attractive, stupid, funny, and great boyfriend material. i am also attractive, stupid, funny, and great boyfriend material.

debra morgan / dexter - who has a hard exterior, affinity for cuss words, a secret soft inside, and ends up with all the wrong people in an attempt to cure loneliness? deb and i.

tom hansen / 500 days of summer - because i end up falling for people who don’t love me and i tend to associate similar music tastes with attraction for one another like a dumb 15 year old.

2.) Aesthetic?

flowers. decaying buildings. rays of sunlight through tree leaves. empty streets in the middle of the night. hands. a bed filled with blankets and pillows and love. forehead kisses. lingering touches. sleeping in on rainy mornings. the crackle of vinyl records. long coats and big sweaters. mismatched wall art. the condensation on a glass of ice water in the summer heat. open windows letting in the sound of the city in the late evening.

3.) Favorite musical/play? (If you’ve never seen a musical or play, one you’d be interested in seeing?

RENT. i saw it once almost ten years ago and remember virtually nothing about it except at one point an actress had the entire crowd screaming “MOO!” over and over again and it felt like a dream. i saw that play while meeting with a pen pal i had my freshman year of high school.

4.) What is the best compliment you’ve ever received?

i don’t have anything that sticks out to me, but i become a complete mess when people compliment my singing.

5.) How many times have you been in love?

two, i think. maybe once. although, i’ve told a few too many people i loved them, even though i didn’t actually feel it with most. the real question is, how many people have been in love with me? that would be zero.

6.) Embarrassing story or fact about yourself that makes you laugh now?

as a kid, i was obsessed with harriet the spy. to the point that i made my own spy kit (which consisted on a costume purse from my grandma’s dress up bin and a singular compact mirror that i would use to peek around corners). my big brother caught me a few times and told me to stop being dumb.

7.) Favorite Disney/Pixar movie?

the little mermaid, hands down, no questions asked. as a toddler, i would demand that my parents play, rewind the tape, and play it again over and over all day long. i still watch it for comfort sometimes.

8.) Favorite flower or plant?

irises 

9.) What’s your favorite holiday?

i always want to say halloween, but the past few years, halloween hasn’t been very good to me. but christmas always makes my heart swell up with happiness.

10.) Name three things that made you laugh or smile this past week.

watching my manager at work get absolutely GEEKED about how my mom used to work with an ex-serial killer

the fan fiction stay with me, sweetheart by @a-mandala-rose

talking to @sweatercas about grumpty old vampires dean and sam

(these events are actually a week or two old because i had this post saved in my drafts and i haven’t had a lot of smiles or laughs this week.)

11.) What song would you play to introduce yourself to someone?

“way cool baby love” by daisy

12.) Name something that truly makes you feel peaceful even at your most stressed moments.

hand holding. really, any physical touch will ground me when i’m feeling stressed/anxious, but hand holding is my favorite.

13.) What do you, did you, or would you study at college?

i’ve dropped out of school twice lmao, but if i had the discipline to go back and actually finish a degree, i think i’d like to become a high school engligh teacher.

14.) This is kind of a weird one, but which outfit of yours makes you feel most like yourself?

my ripped jeans with the cuffed ankles, my “humans are not real” t-shirt with the alien head that i got from five below, and my oversized black cardigan

15.) What is a quote you live by?

“we must define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that had been done to us.”

16.) Name the funniest playlist name you have.

“classic schmassic” because i’m not all that creative with playlist names (half of my playlist are just a part of my heartthrobs series)

17.) Make a reference to an inside joke you have with someone you love with zero context.

thanksgiving leftovers @areallyoldblog

18.) What is a message you would give your younger self if given the chance?

you’re going to go through stuff that sucks. when you get through it, i don’t want you to try to go back to being the person you were before any of that stuff happened. you should never be the same person more than once. keep learning, keep growing, keep becoming better than you were yesterday. also, don’t date keith.

19.) Who is your favorite family member? (If you have no good blood family members, feel free to mention someone in your found family)

it’s not that i necessarily hate a lot of my family, i just don’t like a lot of them. there’s not a single one that i can pick out and say, yeah, that one is the best one.

so i’ll go with found family. @areallyoldblog, thanks for being the cool sister i never had.

20.) What’s a secret dream of yours?

finding someone who actually loves me back and marrying the fuck out of them.

[nicol3houghts]

STOP WATCHING THE OFFICE:   other things to watch this summer

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE ZIE OFFICE!! But as much as it pains me to say, the office isn’t a personality trait, so I’ve decided to make a list (e.g. Buzzfeed lists) of my top 16 recommendations for TV and podcasts to watch and listen to—since we all need to stop being basic bitches and FOCUS! 

I hope you listen to me when I say these shows are amazing and actually watch them if you have the time. I'm doing this because I care about you and your TV preferences.

I'll break it up by streaming service, starting with Netflix then Hulu, YouTube, then Podcasts last.

*I apologize in advance for the lousy grammar and lack of editing, but also not really sorry bout it.

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On NETFLIX:

1. Arrested Development

Number of Seasons: 5

Number of Episodes: 91

Hours to Binge: 35

Okay, number one on my list is Arrested development. A lot of people I talk to, especially in my age range, don’t know what the fuck I’m talking about, but this show is GENIUS... on G*D. I’ve watched it around four times now, and each time it gets better and better. I read somewhere that it was created as a satire of Bush-era incompetence and idiotic hanky-panky during the Iraq war. But at its heart, the show’s about a rich family with four adult children—who are all goofy and quirky. Their dad get’s thrown in jail for doing business with terrorists or something like that and Micheal Bluth (Jason Bateman) has to get them out of weird ass situations.

Above is one of my favorite scenes  (Best clip I could find on youtube!!).

This show has a LOT of jokes and long running bits that you kind of have to pay attention to to get the storyline. It’s hella META, and at times, can be really weird (see George Micheal Bluth and Maeby Fünke’s little Les Cousins Dangereux). In conclusion, however, Jason Bateman is hot, Micheal Cera is hot, and Tony Hale is ~super~ hot.

P.S. a lot of memes come from this show that you would know but don’t know that it’s from this show.

2. The Haunting of Hill House

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 10

Hours to binge: 9

Scary as f*ck! Do not watch yourself or u will die. I warned you.

I'm not going to spoil it too much, but it's about a family living in a spooky house and crazy ass shit keeps happening to them. They eventually move out, but even 20 years after--when the kids are all adults--the haunting of the house follows them.

There's even a 17 min scene that they shot in one shot!!!!!!!! That's wiLD.

3. Schitt's Creek

Number of Seasons: 5

Number of Episodes: 66

Hours to binge: 25

Yet another show about a rich family loosing all their money. A bit different than Arrested Development. This show is about a rich ass family loosing all their money and resorting to live in Schitt's Creek--a town in Nowhere, U.S.A. the family bought as a JOKE. It's a really easy watch. The characters in this show are SO un-relatable and mean it's hilarious--only if u f*ck wit dry humor tho.

Here's my favorite character, Alexis Rose just being iconic:

Give it a try, the first few episodes are rocky, but it gets better. That's a guarantee.

4. American Vandal

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 16

Hours to binge: 9

A lot of people already probs watch this show, but it's honestly so beautifully written. The show is an homage to Making a Murderer, a true crime mockumentary of sorts. It follows two guys, Sam and Peter as they try to figure out a mystery: WHO DREW D*CKS ON THE TEACHER'S CARS?

Also, JIMMY TATRO!!!!!

Season 2 follows a different crime and it's... it's poopy.

5. Mindhunter

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 10

Hours to binge: 9

YUH. Just started this, already on ep. 8, very interesting. Mindhunter is about the first FBI agents to use profiling to catch serial killers. THE CHARACTERS IN THIS SHOW WALKED SO THAT HOTCH AND REID COULD RUN.

This show is no joke and based on true serial killers like the coed killer, the shoe fetish killer, and BTK, it's very.... very creepy.

ALWAYS carry pepper spray on ya, that's fer sher.

6. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

pinot noir, caviar

7. John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid

eat ass, suck a dick, and sell drugs

8. The Good Place

is it really the good place?

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On Hulu:

9. Broad City

Number of Seasons: 5

Number of Episodes: 50

Hours to binge: 18

One of the greatest television series of all time about two baller best fraaands who get into the schemes of the century in New York City. Illana, a ferocious kween wit ZERO f*cks, and Abbi, an aspiring artiste with a great ass. The two work min-wage jobs in NYC (so they're broke) and they're just trying to find luv and a good bacon egg and cheese.

Think Sex and the City but fresh and new and wild. Abbi and Ilana's dialogue and schemes are relatable af, it makes it seem like you're there with them. Their co-dependency is so powerful... yet at moments, a lil destructive. I once had a friendship like this.. and let me tell you... co-dependency is a wild ride.

Some of the funniest scenes in this show is just of them talking on the street. Sometimes, when I'm walking with my friends, I pretend like I'm in the show lol.

I recommend you start from beginning to end because of the endless callbacks and running gags, but if not start with season 3, episode 7 B&B-NYC. Blake Griffin is in it.

10. Community

Number of Seasons: 6

Number of Episodes: 110

Hours to binge: 41

What can I say about this show to make you watch it? Well first of all the fact that Childish Gambino (Donald Glover) is in it should already have you clicking over to Hulu by now.

Community is about seven quirky misfits: a disbarred lawyer, a failed housewife, an activist everyone hates, a racist old man, a stupid jock who lost his sports scholarship, a high-strung know-it-all who took too much adderall, and abed. They all end up at Greendale Community College with a phsyco spanish teacher and a colorful dean. 

This show is kind of a parody of a sitcom, and it is VERY meta--often referring to themselves as TV show characters. The seven get into hilarious adventures and obstacles along the way. The show also genre hops from time to time. For example, they have a whole pillow fort vs. blanket fort episode (Pillows and Blankets, season 3, episode 4) in a Ken Burns documentary style, an episode in claymation for Christmas (Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas, season 2, episode 11), and a bunch of paintball episodes in style of Quentin Tarantino and StarWars.

Again, you should start at the beginning, but if you want to get into it quickly, I really loved Pillows and Blankets (season 3, episode 4).

11. The Mindy Project

As a "petite asian woman" who is not petite, this show is very relatable. About finding love and eating good in the big apple.  

P.S. If you don't like Kelly from the office, you're dead 2 m3.

12. Brooklyn 99

Cool. coolcoolcoolcool. Jake Peralta is the greatest detective/genius.

13. Superstore

If Walmart and the office had a baby and it was incompetent.

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On YouTube and Facebook Watch:

14. The Real Bros of Simi Valley

Number of Seasons: 2

Number of Episodes: 14

Hours to binge: 4

You straight up know these guys, fool. Four stoner/burn-outs who think your hometown's Mexican food is the best in the world. Amazingly written and surprisingly good acting. Lightweight lowkey thought they were speaking another language at first.

Jimmy Tatro, Cody Ko, Getter, and Nick Colletti. What more do you want? LITERALLY WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?

The unnecessary drama and endless quotable jokes in this show leads you wanting more with only 14 episodes totaling at around four hours.

Watch the first season YouTube here:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybcPQVipNAw

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Podcasts:

15. Tiny Meat Gang

Aha hah bro last night was a movie bro ON GOD.

Noel Miller and Cody Ko talk about literally anything, but goofy. I can listen to them talk for straight up hours.

I usually listen on Apple Podcasts, but you can also watch on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/ZCMs4FrC_c0

Just start listening, bro.

16. My Favorite Murder

No shade to Codel, but My Favorite Murder is my all time favorite podcast. Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark  are two hilarious women who love murder. Not murdering, but the psychology of murderers and survivors. Each Thursdays each of them tell a story about a murder. They don't make fun of murders, but it's their banter that makes it fun to listen to.

If you're a fan of true crime at all, please listen so I have more people to talk about it with. shouts outs Jenna for putting me on to the show!

Here are my favorite episodes!

*tip: skip the first 15-20 min to the first murder when first listening.

150: How Dare You Kill Kelli

The Hanging of Alice Riley and The Murder of Reyena Marroquin

131: The Uninhibited

The Murder of Standford White and The Case of the Boys on the Tracks