#thetechnicolorofthemoment

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thetechnicolorofthemoment reblogged your post 27 years old and still have not met Em... and added:

I actually have! For a brief and beautiful second while she signed my copy of Deathly Hallows, and all I managed to do...

I was about 5 feet away from her at the GoF New York Premiere in 2005...

It was still the beginning of my Emma obsession but the closest I've ever gotten :(

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thetechnicolorofthemomentsaid: Despite my husband being deployed and living in a town I never wanted to be in, 400 miles from anything that’s ever been home, 2014 has been a pretty good year. Thanks for that, Biscuit.

It's a good life. <3

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I really hope Jenn is aware that, like it or not, I’m going to be spending a lot of time sitting on the floor in her craft room on tumblr this summer.

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thetechnicolorofthemoment said: I just joined the Y and they have yoga & cycling and also Zumba which I kind of love?

Yeah, I was planning on joining the Y. I've had great expereinces with them.  Zumba is hella fun.  I actually enjoy it more than swing...probs because you don't have to dance with somebody else

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How I Met Disappointment

Okay, I'm going to talk about the finale of How I Met Your Mother, so *spoilers*.

I was upset by the last episode of HIMYM, but not because it was a bad ending per se. It managed to tie up most loose ends, and the plot twist was even passable (the show ends where it started, Ted chasing after Robin - not my favorite, but not a travesty). What really got me was the plot twist necessary for that plot twist: Barney and Robin's divorce.

Even there, it's not the divorce itself (though I'm no fan of divorce), it's what it signified. You see, to me Barney's role in the show aside from comic relief was mainly to embody the type of person Ted was growing out of - immature, carefree, the "ideal" single male. Barney provides a counterpoint to the "ideal" couple, Marshall and Lily; and most of Ted's relationships are wrecked on the rocks the the advice of these three, his closest friends.

But through all this Ted becomes more mature - and so does Barney. It's no accident that as Ted gets closer to meeting the mother, Barney forms more lasting relationships, and they affect him more deeply. It's no accident that the starting point of Ted and Tracey's relationship is Barney and Robin's wedding. Ted's "single man" side is ready, for the first time, to be in a couple.

And this is why I dislike the finale so much. For eight seasons, Barney has been a flake and a child when it comes to relationships. At first he's proud of it - occasionally he's seen to recant, but it always turns into a tasteless joke of the "Ha, fooled you" sort - he proposes to Robin and burns the playbook (which is subsequently brought back). Then in season 9, his love of Robin is tested and it holds true. Through the weekend he does and says amazing things for her, and they tie the knot. Yay!

Then the finale comes along - and it turns out even that was no more than empty words. For all his grand promises of giving up the old life and telling the truth, he hadn't learned enough to stick through a time of contention in the marriage, and so he ends it. This would be bad enough on its own - but remember that his situation is a symbol for Ted's: so now we have to be suspicious of Ted's growth as well. Nine seasons of character development essentially rendered void (or at least questionable) by one episode.

In conclusion, tl;dr and all that, I'm okay with the story coming full circle or whatever; what I'm not okay with is that, because of the divorce, we can't know if Ted has changed at all, and so there is no meaning to the episodes in between. What tenuous meaning they may have had has been exchanged for a weak plot twist and a return to an immature, simpleminded status quo - and that is unacceptable to me.

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thetechnicolorofthemomentsaid: Yeah girl, glad you got them done!

I am so pleased with them lol

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I love my friends ugh I am just so in awe of the rad as fuck people I know and who choose to hang out with me what fun I love you guys

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thetechnicolorofthemomentsaid: I love you.

two somebodies! also i love you, too!