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[minimorgana]

More Ace ramblings but this time from his pov (ish)

Ace thought he knew what love was. He’d become so familiar with that particular feeling, having thought he was the type of person to fall easily.

He thought he knew what love was. He thought he’d been in love.

There was Laura, a summer fling, but to him, maybe something more. He couldn’t help but fall for her mischievous smile and confident nature—so opposite from himself. And then she’d left. But she came back and he found himself there again, easily falling into what he assumed was love. He’d been enamored, taken by her spell, but that’s not love, is it? So he’d said no to her offer of Paris, knowing he couldn’t do it. Not when he didn’t love her. Not when he knew he loved Horseshoe Bay.

There was Bess, but even at the height of his crush, Ace knew he didn’t love her. But he thought he could easily love her. He knew if he ever got a chance with her, he’d fall, and fall hard. And he was right, in a sense. Because he did love Bess, but it wasn’t a romantic love.

Amanda was someone he really thought he loved. He was giddy at the sight of her, nervous, really, and when she’d reciprocated his feelings, he’d been ecstatic. This was it. This was love, what he’d been waiting for. But then they went on their road-trip and something immediately felt off, like something was missing, like he’d forgotten a piece of himself. But he still thought he loved her—he wanted to love her. And he tried, he really did. He helped her dad, tried to do the right thing, and it had cost him. He’d thought that was love, but he’d only gotten hurt. He knew that maybe with more time, with different circumstances, with certain people removed, he would get to love her. But they didn’t get that time.

Ace thought he knew what love was. He thought it was the quick fall, the exhilaration of feelings, of desire, and the simple want to love and be loved. Because that’s really what it came down to. Ace wanted to love someone.

And he did. It just was not what he expected. Because for Ace, love was slow, a strong bond built over time. It was the connection of minds, the desire to always be by someone’s side, the feeling of completeness and peace in their presence, even when the world was otherwise going to shit. Love was almost invisible, if only because it felt so natural.

Ace thought he knew what love was, but he didn’t, not until he finally understood that he was in love with Nancy Drew.

[naceslibrary]

How I Met Your Mother is a show about change as much as it is about love. And change is inherently uncomfortable. You might lose your best friends, the people who you never thought you might lose. You might lose the truest love of your life, forever. That’s simply the nature of change, and life.

Hell, you might even look into your newborn baby’s eyes and say words that are completely, utterly foreign to you, but suddenly become the ground that you walk on for the rest of your life. Or maybe you marry a man whose dreams have finally all been realized, and still his only dream that he has left is your love, and to love you.

By no means are you two perfect people, absolutely not. At the very least, someone loves you. That’s enough.

[naceslibrary]

Himym literally compared Robin’s absentee father, who dressed her up as a boy for years because he wanted a boy to Barney, and still let them get married and called them soulmates?? Yeah sure…

[naceslibrary]

Dare I say that this is the dynamic that I hoped we’d get with swarkles back when I shipped them? Tracey and Ted are so similar, but seem so different at the same time and I love that! Whereas Barney and Robin feel like carbon copies of each other (minus Barney’s obsession with women) Tracey is so cool, I love her already and I’ve barely gotten to know her!

[naceslibrary]

THIS HIMYM SWARKLES WEDDING IS ACTUALLY THE MESSIEST SHIT I’VE EVER SEEN WDYM TED’S WIFE IS HERE WDYM BARNEY’S JUST NOW FINDING OUT TED’S STILL IN LOVE WITH ROBIN WDYM ROBIN WAS KEEPING THE LOCKET IN CASE SHE MARRIED TED??? AAAAAAAAAAAAH-

[naceslibrary]

Sometimes I feel bad for not shipping Barney and Robin like I used to before they got together, but then I remember that Barney still talks about other women very sexually in FRONT of Robin while ENGAGED to her like?????

[naceslibrary]

Often times, women characters who become moms in TV shows ONLY get to be moms. So I find it endlessly beautiful that How I Met Your Mother still allows Lily the space to peruse her artistry, and I love the person she’s becoming so much! 🥹

[naceslibrary]

Something that I love about Ted and Robin’s relationship is that they’re total opposites of each other. Robin’s a realist, Ted’s a romantic. Ted believes in “the one.” Robin doesn’t buy into it. It’s this very juxtaposition that makes them work in my book.

Robin’s prospective is not necessarily that “the one,” doesn’t exist. She wants to believe Ted, but believing Ted is also believing that he genuinely loves her. If Robin honestly, truly considers that fact, then everything might change.

Her feelings might be called into question once more, and we all know how Robin feels about her feelings. She hates those bitches with a burning passion!

Ted, on the other hand, lives by his emotions, any emotion. Robin’s used to keeping hers locked up tight, so she pushes back against him, full-stop. She’s scared.

Barney, therefore, seems like the safer option for Robin right now. He tells her exactly what she wants to hear, never challenging her ideals or who she is as a person. Sure, that sounds all well and good, but doesn’t allow Robin much breathing room to grow, does it?

[naceslibrary]

I really hope this isn’t foreshadowing something in the future, but my poor girl… 😭

[naceslibrary]

Barney and Robin were so much better as a concept in my head when I thought they were gonna be a 6-season slowburn with proper character development and actual conversations about their relationship and bonding over their dads being assholes-😭😭😭😭 what literally do you mean Barney and Robin dated for 7 episodes in season 5 and now they’re ENGAGED in season 8 when they barely even dated??

I don’t like the way Barney proposed either because while I understand that lying has been a key part of his character and that very last lie to Robin about Patrice was meant to be seen as Barney’s last one (hopefully) if I were Robin, I wouldn’t trust him at all after that because if you can lie so convincingly and easily to the woman you claim to be the love of your life, what else would/could he lie about, you know?

[naceslibrary]

Ted always talks about his wife (I always call Tracey his wife as If I know they got married, I do NOT) but he always talks about about Tracey like she’s a beautiful ghost haunting his home, and I really fear she might be dead…😭

[naceslibrary]

The fact that Robin needed Ted specifically to convince her not to jump ship at her own wedding reinforces a theory I’ve talked about SO MUCH outside of here. Robin Scherbatsky has a deep-routed fear of change, and Ted is the one who helps her see that maybe change isn’t so bad.

That’s not to say that Ted isn’t equally afraid of change, but he’s more open-minded about the prospect, which is why I feel like they work so well, and why Barney and Robin don’t. I’ve been trying to figure out why Robin and Barney don’t feel right to me anymore, and I think that’s why!

See, Barney is somewhat of a chameleon. forever changing and evolving. On paper he’s Robin’s perfect opposite, but I feel like his natural knee-jerk necessity for change is what’s ultimately going to hurt them both in the long run.

[naceslibrary]

I crashed out so hard when Barney, Ted, and Marshall mentioned Peter Gabriel and Fleetwood Mac and Ted renamed Robin Rhiannon in his future daydream because I literally have them all on the Ted and Robin I made before I ever saw that episode…How I Met Your Mother, we are one!

[naceslibrary]

Lily and Marshall are parents, OH MY LOVES MY SWEET SWEET LOVES NO ONE DESERVES THIS MORE!

[naceslibrary]

If How I Met Your Mother ends with Ted’s wife dying and he’s been grieving over her for years in the current timeline and we actually see it…first of all that’ll break me, but if he moves on too “quickly,” in ya’ll’s opinion and that’s why this ending is so hated, I’m side-eyeing all of you because who are you to dictate when someone is allowed to move on, especially after years of grieving??

[naceslibrary]

Ted gave away the apartment to Marshall and Lily…😭😭

[naceslibrary]

While I completely understand why people think that Ted and Robin are in love with the idea of each other, I genuinely believe they’re in love with each other because ain’t no way I’m moving in with my ex if they’re isn’t something still there! 😭😭😭 Now, that’s not to say that Barney and Robin aren’t also in love with each other ‘cause hello??? I just think Robin loves them both and doesn’t know how to admit it

Long story short, they need an in-house therapist that’s NOT Kevin (gonna miss ya king)