Academics keep writing books about criticism despite the clear fact that things are just good when i like them and bad when I dont
also on the train Kate was winking at my reflection in the window and turned her head to wink at actual me and said “oh I got whiplash I moved my head too fast I flew too close to the sun I’m Icarus”
Highlights of Kate and me going to our English department’s holiday party tonight:
-Kate telling me ahead of time that I had to make sure she didn’t fight one of her professors
-me opening a bottle of sparkling water and it exploding all over the floor about one minute after we got there (and a professor who loves me walking by and saying “I knew I could count on you!” in a cheerful voice which what does that even mean)
-Kate calling like five things “a whole ass mood” within about ten minutes
-“I love lesbians!”
-someone Kate and I both really like but rarely interact with introducing themselves to us
-Kate abandoning me to a boring and awkward conversation with our advisor and her husband and another professor’s husband
-the new Dean looking very awkward and wearing socks with unicorns and narwhals fighting
-Kate drinking slightly more than she intended, leading her to get a little tipsy and getting kind of panicked but giggly when she couldn’t find her jacket, then getting rapidly drunker after we left, resulting in her saying “I don’t want Public Safety to know I’m drunk!” immediately before breaking into a run and crashing into a bush then loudly saying “oh a sewer – hi Pennywise!”
Hozier covers We Are Young by Fun.
me: Do you want me to wake you up really fast?
Kate, seconds after turning her alarm off: No
me: The Avengers trailer is out
Kate: WHAT
Teresa: What’s going on in there??
Kate and me: Taxidermy!
Teresa: What?!?
us: Yeah!
Teresa: … I’m going to the dining hall… Bye….
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Something that I really like about The Good Place is that at times it feels like fanfiction. It has that element of taking the same characters and placing them in a reality in which something is different to see what changes about their thoughts and actions and what stays the same. All the different combinations and types of relationships that arise with each reboot (Jason and Janet vs. Jason and Tahani, romantic Eleanor and Chidi vs. platonic Eleanor and Chidi, even mention of a reboot where Eleanor and Tahani were soulmates) totally remind me of fans rewriting the canon to get their ships together. Heck, the most recent season is basically “AU where the characters never died.” You get to see that comparison of “what ifs” whereas in most shows there’s only one canon that they stick to, and I find that so appealing and fun.
The Good Place is 802 AUs in a trenchcoat
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