dappled with the flickers of light

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i wouldn't stop at red lights

my lil secret santa gift for @donnaamoss, inspired by *that* west wing scene

~between ac/dc and det. dave majors; things between jake and amy have been kinda flirty lately~

With the words of his doctor instructing him to take it easy ringing in his ear, Jake reaches for the box labeled “Case 66TAA-26AR” on the top shelf. His makeshift ladder, constructed from four poorly stacked boxes of drugs from one of the Nine-Nine’s biggest busts, wobbles beneath him.

“Come on, Peralta,” he whispers to himself, reaching just a little bit further.

He almost has it when Amy yells his name. He jumps, his arms flail and the wall of boxes comes crashing down.

“Ow,” he says miserably, laying in a heap on the evidence lock-up floor.

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So, you know, lately, I’ve been hearing this sound. Everywhere I go, like a tick, tick, tick… Like a time bomb in some cheesy B-movie or Saturday morning cartoon. The fuse has been lit. The clock counts down the seconds as the flame gets closer, and closer, and closer, until… all at once… BOOM!

tick, tick… BOOM! 2021 • dir. Lin-Manuel Miranda

“When I showed [Stephen Sondheim] the finished film, he said, ‘You treated me gently and royally, for which I’m grateful,’” says [Lin-Manuel Miranda]. “And then he wrote me and said, 'But the last phone message to Jon, the language feels a little trite. I don’t feel like I would ever really say that. Can I rewrite it?’ I was like, 'Gosh, a rewrite from Stephen Sondheim — do I accept this?’”
There was only one problem — [Bradley Whitford] had already wrapped his work on the project and was unavailable to re-record it. Sondheim offered to record the new version for Miranda, and it’s his voice that audiences can hear in the final cut.
“It makes me weep to even think about,” gushes Miranda. “Because he was such a mentor to Jon and generations of songwriters. But yes, he rewrote that message and recorded it himself and just sent it to me." (x)

i know people care about what details it gives about taylor/jake but i love the fictionalised element to it. like taylor being a successful storyteller but as an author not a singer and having red hair to match sadie instead of sadie being made to look like her. i feel like it sort of removes it from being just like celebrity breakup gossip and elevates it into this epic tragic love story. obviously we all know the inspiration but it really stands on its own as a work of art. like i wasn’t watching it thinking “oh this is the story of a taylor swift breakup” i was just watching a short film about love and heartbreak and coming of age.