#tv: liv and maddie

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Liv and Maddie, S01E13/E14/E15.

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Came up with an idea for a new tag game last night while I was trying to sleep.

What are three movies/tv shows that shaped your childhood?

1. Frozen. I feel so bad for the amount of times my parents had to listen to me and my sister screaming the lyrics to Let It Go (really all the songs in that movie). We went to see it in the theater THREE TIMES, my parents even got us those Elsa dresses that were like $100. My sister and I were obsessed with that movie for YEARS (I can literally quote every single word).

2. Descendants. I very vividly remember watching this movie for the first time on Disney Channel, I can even tell you where all the ad breaks were lol. Another one me and my sister were obsessed with. The year the first Descendants came out, for Halloween I was Evie and she was Mal, and the year that the third one came out I was Audrey and she was Mal again.

3. Since the other two were movies, let’s do a tv show. Liv and Maddie. It was like me and my sister, but twins and older. I related a lot to Liv (I’ve always really liked singing and acting, and at the time I wanted to be an actress when I grew up) and my sister really like Maddie (she’s always been the more athletic of the two of us). We also both really liked Parker because we’ve both always been very good at school and enjoyed it a lot, plus he’s just funny. We watched all four seasons at least ten times.

Can you tell I grew up in a Disney house? Disney has always been a big part of my family, my parents met during the college program at WDW and then my mom transferred to my dad’s college without even knowing it was his college. They always say their love story is like a Disney movie, very fitting. Anyhoo, I’m off topic.

Time for tags! I really hope y’all like this 🙃 @sushis-mylifeee @ivys-garden @thekingofworems @the-stars-are-ineffable @bippityboppityouch @kingofdandelions @aeolianmusic @sushi1056 @nyx-of-darkness-1620 @aaronofithaca05 @jarondont @the-decapod and anyone else who wants to join in!

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LIV AND MADDIE (2017) Sing It Live-A-Rooney - 4x13 dir. Paul Hoen.

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today's twins of the day are:

maddie and liv rooney from liv and maddie

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I've been rewatching and studying kids/teen comedies and dramas lately, and I'm learning SO MUCH about what works and doesn't work and why stories are told in a certain way for a specific audience.

Here are the ones I’ve been watching (on and off) if you want to chat about them: Liv and Maddie, Girl Meets World, Dance Academy, H20: Just Add Water, Big Time Rush, Legacies, Gossip Girl — and, as always, One Tree Hill and TVD.

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Okay so. Theories. One of the things they’re selling says ‘Bites and Pieces’. Is this foreshadowing or what??????? Gimme your opinions!

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The nostalgia

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i hate diggie

i hate him. for so many reasons.

in s2e24 champs-a-rooney, maddie is about to go out in the gym for the victory rally to celebrate her basketball team winning the state championship. shes in the locker room as the girls are individually announced to go out into the gym so that everyone can cheer for them. bc it’s a huge moment for everyone. maddie made the game winning shot and is the team captain of the team. she won mvp. liv rushes in to the locker room about two people before maddie has to go out into the gym and be celebrated and tells maddie that diggie is by the paulie statue and will not go to australia if maddie tells him to stay. maddie is shocked that diggie would do that for her and kinda wants to get back together too. liv says his PLANE leaves in 10 MINUTES!! and maddie has to go to diggie RIGHT NOW. so they do a switch-o-rooney so that maddie can go see diggie.

so with context: here’s one reason i hate diggie: this is maddie’s MOMENT!! to be celebrated by everyone because of how hard she and her team have worked for this! and yet here comes diggie- whisking her away during her big moment. i don’t CARE about love and i don’t CARE that he can’t control when his plane leaves. diggie didn’t think about how this is maddie’s moment, nooo, he thinks about himself and being with maddie. if he really cared about HER he would know that her being happy is more important than them being together. but he doesnt. this is especially clear during the whole “i choose diggie” moment near the end of the show.

throughout the series, we see this happen again and again. he puts being with maddie over maddie herself. i hate diggie!! i mean god damn that break up scene was awful. diggie was terrible. i don’t blame him for wanting to go to australia and see the world. i blame him for only thinking about how HE feels in that fight. and not even validating maddie’s feelings at all. maddie constantly has to CHOOSE diggie over things.

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Top Ten Disney Channel TV Shows

Disney Channel. The Millennial and Gen Z peeps know what I'm talking about because we grew up with it. It's fun, silly, cheesy, and AMAZE-TASTIC at the same time! To be honest, it's embarrassing how many times that I have watched Disney Channel's TV shows...we know how that goes. Overall, it's the nostalgia that gets me every time.

Top Ten Disney Channel TV Shows

Lab Rats

That's So Raven

K.C. Undercover

Jessie

The Suite Life of Zach and Cody

Shake It Up

Hannah Montana

Girl Meets World

Good Luck Charlie

Liv and Maddie

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I love liv and maddie ❤

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I've been informed that icarly isn't a disney show, my bad.

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Blue hearts (9-1-1)

A coda to 6x10/6x11 | 1300 words, Taylor Kelly

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Taylor’s in the newsroom working late because it’s Santa Ana season and everyone’s working late. Buck once told her that first responders hate the Santa Anas because the wind makes people do weird shit, but weird shit is good business for her. She has already filed a story about a woman out in Brentwood going around pouring yellow paint on cars to protest a proposed rideshare law and now she’s working on the dry lightning story because it’s too big for just Jose and he might be better at investigative work but she’s the one with camera presence.

The big screen on the wall is showing a building fire and once upon a time she’d have been paying close attention, offering to take it even though she’s high enough up on the food chain now that if someone from the mayor’s office isn’t there than neither is she. Once upon a time, she’d joked about hot firefighters but it had always ever been about knowing what was happening before she got an awkward phone call from Bobby Nash because she wasn’t Buck’s next-of-kin. (She’d never cared that Buck hadn’t changed it from Maddie; his reasons weren’t about his lack of commitment.)

But it’s not once upon a time just like it’s not happily ever after and so she turns away and back to her own screen because Jose’s notes read like he’s cramming for a midterm and not a three minute hit before the weather report.

(She knows the 118 is there because nobody in this newsroom will ever stop telling her when the 118 is there. It’s only partially mean-spirited.)

“Holy fuck!” someone yells and she looks up. The cameras on the scene are running B-roll that someone not-her will be narrating later and, without needing to focus on a reporter, the camera is pulled in for a tight shot of a firefighter dangling limply at the end of an extended ladder like bait at the end of a fishing line. Or a sacrifice to an unholy god.

“Lightning strike on the ladder. Blew one guy clean off, other one’s just hanging there.”

She gives up pretending she doesn’t care and stands to watch.

The camera pulls back to another firefighter scrambling up the ladder and while it’s pouring rain and the floodlights are making the reflective strips spark like flares as the man moves, she can make out the name on the back: Diaz.

Eddie’s not the only Diaz in the LAFD and any Diaz would be running for whoever it was at the end of the tether. But she knows it’s him, even in the pouring rain, even in the dark cut by floodlights; he gets illuminated in profile and she can see enough. And she knows that he would be the closest man for precisely one firefighter and Taylor reaches blindly for her desk because she needs something that will stand still while her world is suddenly spinning.

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The rest of the night is a haze. She texts her friend Olivia that she thinks she just watched Buck die on TV and then tries to focus on Jose’s notes like they will make more sense now that they are the only thing that might keep her together. She gets sent home at eleven by her editor because everyone is going home now that the rain is down to a drizzle. She doesn’t look at her phone until she’s got a glass of wine in her hand and there is a long string of increasingly concerned texts from Liv and two voicemails and she just can’t right now.

In the morning there’s a post on the station website about the fire, the footage of the lightning strike in prime position on the page and autoplaying. Inez did the news story because she gets stuck on overnights and she doesn’t say who it was or which hospital the ten injuries got sent to and Taylor has to decide whether to ask her. Inez is young and pretty and would shank her own grandmother for a scoop and Taylor respects that about her – game recognizes game. Inez isn’t giving her the time of day unless there’s something in it for her and Taylor hesitates on paying that price. Right now, the fire story is clickbait because of the video, but the video will be all over socials by nine-thirty and the story link will be down by the hockey scores and horoscopes by lunch. Inez finding out about Buck will have that story on the top of the site all day because then she’ll have an exclusive – the names that the LAFD has thus far refused to release. Taylor’s not ready to give Inez anything that will get her off of the graveyard shift.

The problem is that she’s got no other options right now. The Jonah Greenway story didn’t just end her relationship with Buck, it also burned all of her other sources. There isn’t anyone at the LAFD who will talk to her on or off the record; the brass hate that she exposed their shitty due diligence in hiring Greenway and the rank-and-file all think she nearly got Hen Wilson and Chimney Han killed. She lets everyone think she doesn’t do fire stories anymore because of a bad breakup, but the truth is that she can’t get anything out of anyone anymore. The entire station has trouble now.

She has no other options and so that’s why she’s knocking on Eddie Diaz’s door that afternoon. Eddie didn’t like her when she was with Buck and she’s sure he likes her even less now, but he’s the member of the 118 least likely to slam the door in her face and that’s enough right now.

Eddie doesn’t answer the door; Carla does. Carla tells her what and where, but also tells her not to go. It’s kindly said, but Carla’s do-not-bullshit-me tone is clear. Everyone from the 118 is there, none of them want to see her, and she no longer has the right to intrude on their privacy.

Taylor wants to say that she doesn’t have to make herself hurt more to make them feel better, but there’s a sudden, desperate, awful wail from the back of the house and it has to be Christopher and Carla gives her a meaningful look before telling her to be well and closing the door.

She can hear Christopher still, crying out for Buck and for his father and it makes her shudder and turn to go.

Back in her car, she calls Buck’s phone and it goes straight to voicemail and she isn’t even sure what she says but she’s glad she got to say something, that the inbox isn’t full. That in case this is ‘goodbye’ she gets to do it pretending he will hear it and not to his coffin.

It’s not to his coffin. LAFD announces that one firefighter has been released from the hospital and, a week later, the second one.  

Two weeks later, she gets a text from Buck’s number: “Thanks” and a blue heart and it makes her laugh despite herself because they had once had a protracted and somewhat drunken debate over what non-red hearts in texts meant and Buck had decided that blue was for nice things and green was insincere for reasons that had made no sense at the time and are lost to her now. Despite everything, she misses him sometimes and right now, she wishes she still had the right to turn up at his apartment and give him a hug.

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STRAWB DROP EVERY HC YOU HAVE FOR ZACK WARD'S CHARACTERS IN MOVIES AND TV (jkjk but i would like to hear it if you have em)

Tbh I haven’t seen him in tons of shows or movies besides the postal movie, P2, Liv & Maddie, and Titus BUT

Sometimes I wonder about Zack from the P2 dlc bc there, he plays a version of himself that’s very full of himself & then if u go back to fight him again later, he claims he’s the real ‘Dude’ lol so I like to imagine in the P2 universe, Zack stopped getting offers to do movies and stuff for some reason or another and it drove him off the deep end and somehow he found out about Dude and for some reason got obsessed with the idea of being him or he’s so off his rockers that after he met dude, he liked something about Dude that he lacks himself so he randomly is like “Ok imma pretend to be this guy now & take over his life”

I feel like my two theories of why he wanted to be pdude make him sound a little gay for p2 too. So that’s great 😎