#FUCK ROSS GELLER

[smaeemo]

Order of events:

Had a freak out about the dentist

Opened ao3 and went “ACK” when I was jump scared by destiel fanfic

Went onto tiktok and watched like 10 Nara Smith videos

Kind of paid attention to this family guy episode

Now Im just chilling

#self care (?)

Sometimes I wonder if I could magically become an animated character and just jump into the tv. Ok thats such a lie, I totally have not imagined that until right now, but now I have a new thing to imagine. You know, like when you pay too much attention to the subtitles on accident, forget how to read, get really caught up in the fact that actors exist, you know that kinda stuff. But this one has like potential incentives. I almost just typed “potential inc*st” and I was giggling about it for like a nanosecond before I was like “Oh boy” and then changed it. Also, how tf do you censor stuff, like F*ck, F**k, F***, etc. Are there rules or is it like personal preference?? Ah, I just thought too much about words and like totally freaked out because I was like “How the f**k(?) do you spell thought” and then I just had a moment of reflection. Sitting alone in an apartment in a lawn chair watching family guy is peak brainrot. Honestly? I think brainrot is what makes life so interesting yk? Like how else will I stop the OCD? Therapy? Psshh (Jk im in therapy) (But you get the point). One time I had an interview with a new therapist and she was like “So what are your coping mechanisms?” and I sat there for like 2 minutes and just said “Family guy, sims 4, and Tumblr” and I will remember that moment forever because all she said was “better than drugs” and then I did not see her again. What a time to be alive. To be fair, I was in middle school. That’s not to say those coping mechanisms aren’t still alive and healthy, I have just added more to the bank (worse and better) (lol) (not lol) and I would not tell another therapist that because I found my embarassment somewhere along the way. Honestly? The best coping mechanisms I have found work, are like literally writing all of my bullsh*t (did I do it right?) thoughts onto paper, notes, google docs, or like tumblr (lol) and then I just sit here and stew in em for a bit. Poetry never worked for me, so like if you open up my “poetry journal” all you’d really find in there is just like “Today I had a panic attack, now I found that I am so scared of mountain lions” and then it ends in like “All in all, I am glady nickname isn’t marv,” Then after I write all of it, I’m like violently reality checked and just like “why am I on the floor, on tumblr, and crying” and then I get back up and watch family guy. Sometimes I just pretend Im doing a vlog and just start talking to myself. It’s like super embarassing to be caught “vlogging alone” because then you have to explain yourself and it always ends in either “omg yeah I do that too!” or “… anyways,” Oh god. I HATE ROSS GELLER. Sorry that just reminded me of that scene where Pheobe was sharing her horrifying trauma and it gets all quiet and R*ss (hahah) just goes “I think the word you are looking for is… anyways” and then proceeds to divert the attention. Also, everything about him PEEVES me. I’ve been rewatching friends as like an actual human being vs like a child, and oh my god. This is an EXPERIENCE. I would talk more about it, but like the music Im listening to just got so “vibey” that I need to listen to it and just process that I wrote an entire tumblr post that I will 100% forget about and then regret in like 20 min. But yk, gotta keep up the grind.

XOXO,

Leenya Green

[vulgar-mouth]

I’m re-watching Friends and it’s at the one where Ross becomes upset at Rachel having to work late. God he pisses me off.

I understand that your significant other not being able to spend that SPECIFIC night with you is hard, it sucks. But dude eat some ice cream and get over it.

This woman has a job and is doing something very important related to that job. He had no right to come to HER WORK, disrupt her and her coworker, and distract her.

My boyfriend works late hours and I can guarantee that if I ever showed up at his work and pulled the shit Ross did, I would be dismissed immediately from that relationship.

There are just certain things you don't do.

[michaelnotwheeler]

Got to appreciate the fact that Chandler sat in the back alone by himself at first and then later on Joey sat next to him.

I’m grasping at straws here people.

[pizzaboat]

Seeing people wanna look at Ross through a Kevin Can Fuck Himself lense is so

I screamed "DO IT" at my phone

Anyway. All the friends are pretty dysfunctional/messy in their own rights, but I have thoughts about how specific characters would feel about each other when the perspective shifts from sitcom to a regular show

[hello-nichya-here]

Why do you say Ted is worse than Ross

Because he is - and I say this as someone whose least favorite character of the main six in Friends is Ross because the dude can piss me off A LOT.

Ross is selfish, whinny, spoiled, obsessive and immature like Ted. But the writers of Friends were far more self-aware than the writers of How I Met Your Mother - mainly because they were not using Ross as a self-insert, and would not use Twitter to say shit like "If you ship Rachel with Joey instead of with Ross, you're the reason people like Trump get elected and destroy nations." No, I am not kidding, that actually happened.

Ted CONSTANTLY acts like a creep and the show treats it as fully romantic, and if a woman (mainly Robin) is turned off by it, the show tries to spin it as "She's afraid of commitment" or some bullshit. When Ross is getting possessive over Rachel the show actually allows her to call him out and she doesn't always run straight to his arms - not to mention, she can act just as unreasonable and entitled, meanwhile the most Robin does is say "Maybe, someday, if we're both single and miserable and no one else wants either of us, I'd consider marrying you."

Even Ross's most absurd moments get a bit more of pass because they're (usually) meant to:

1 - Show that the character is flawed (Him constantly getting paranoid that Rachel is gonna cheat on him with her co-worker is meant to show he's insecure, jealous, possessive AND doesn't listen when she repeatedly says she loves HIM, not this other dude - though the writers do still want the audience to root for him and Rachel to find a way to make it work)

2 - Make a joke about how he's kind of insane (see him not telling Rachel they're still married because he can't have another failed marriage - a situation in which NO ONE in the cast makes excuse for him, and we even have Chandler rightfully saying "At point did you think this was a successful marriage?")

Meanwhile the writers of HIMYM did things like:

1 - Say Ted breaking up with a girl on her birthday, through an answering machine that all the guests in her surprise party heard before she did, finding her years later, winning her back, then breaking up with her on her birthday AGAIN is totally just what was meant to be because "Well, she found true love later"

2 - Have him use "It was past 2am" as an excuse to cheat on his girlfriend/lie to Robin about being single to sleep with her.

3 - Make him have an emotional affair with a married woman that then left her husband (who thought of Ted as friend) for him, accept getting back together with his ex that was engaged and then left the groom at the altar, and make a move on his ex that was engaged to one of his best friends on the weekend on their wedding.

4 - HAVE TED TELL HIS KIDS HE WANTS TO TELL A STORY ABOUT HOW HE MET THEIR DEAD MOTHER, BUT IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT HOW HE ALWAYS LOVED A DIFFERENT WOMAN THAT HE WAS STILL OBSESSED WITH AFTER 25 YEARS.

Not to mention, even the stuff in Friends that genuinely did not age well at all and that the writers weren't self-aware about in any way have a bigger excuse than the stuff HIMYM did because Friends started in 1994 and ended in 2004, yet HIMYM was on the same level, if not worse, and it started in 2005 and ended in 2014. There's a reason audiences tolerated Ross's shenanigans way more than they tolerated Ted's - Friends was a product of it's times, HIMYM felt behind it's time. Ross feels like a typical character you'd see in the 90's, Ted feels like the hero of every "Nice Guy" that is actually not nice at all.

Plus, Ross had much better chemistry with Rachel than Ted ever did with Robin (or literally any love interest except the Mother) and the series made sure to never give us an alternative pairing that was much better than the planned one like HIMYM did with Barney and Robin (and I say this as someone that ships Joey and Rachel). And while Josh Radnor made the rare good scene of Ted feel great, David Schiwimmer, and the entire cast of Friends really, made mediocre or downright bad scenes enjoyable or at least tolerable. The only one in the HIMYM cast with the same talent was Neil, who was playing the character that we were not supposed to actually want to see get the girl, which just made it even easier for audiences to root for Barney, not Ted.

It's just a perfect storm of different factors that makes a character like Ross getting a happy ending after all the shit he pulled MUCH easier to accept than when that happens to a Ted type, hence the finale of Friends still being incredibly beloved by nearly everyone, while HIMYM's ending was absolutely hated to the point that it shelved the planned spin off and put the showrunner's careers in limbo for nearly a decade.

[toadtoru]

i love you jim halpert, i love you ben wyatt, i love you jake peralta, i love you awkward fictional sitcom men who spend four seasons desperately pining for the same woman

[nikkiruncks]

You know, as much as I hate Ross, he really taught me a valuable life lesson

Ross Geller taught me that I should be happy for my partner when they get a job and not say that the guy only gave it to fuck them. Ross Geller taught me that when I'm on a break with someone, that doesn't mean that we're broken up and isn't a code to fuck someone and lie about it. Ross Geller taught me to never body shame my sibling or anyone else in my life because people should be allowed to exist and not be bullied. Ross Geller taught me to never date someone in their early twenties while over thirty because there's a big power imbalance. Ross Geller taught me to never let someone take the blame for some I did several years ago to the point where their s/o's parents hate him. Ross Geller taught me that I should let my kid play with any play toy he/she/they wants and not give a fuck about gender norms. Ross Geller taught me that I shouldn't judge that my kid's nanny is a man and definitely not assume his sexuality just because he has a job that not considered traditonally masculine. Ross Geller taught me everything I shouldn't do in life.

[adharastarlight]

"I don't cheat!"

Ross. You cheated on Julie, the moment Rachel showed any interest. Then you fucking slept with Chloe, when they weren't even twenty four, nay, twelve hours into their break.

Then you cheated on Bonnie with Rachel later on.

Ross, all you do is cheat.

[lanawinterscigarettes]

i am absolutely LOVING the ross geller hate on this site

[lucy-moderatz]

I have acquired a Friends complete series boxset.

You all have a lot of Joey/Rachel gifsets in your future.

You're welcome.

[femmenerd]

luke newton is a lovely darling of a man with very WRONG opinions about ross & rachel from friends that i try not to think about.

[wouldvebeensweet]

all i've done today is watch season 3 of sex and the city

[hellaephemeral]

i rewatched all seasons of friends this week and i still don’t understand why everyone is all “ross and rachel!!!!” when it really should be “monica and chandler!!!”

[cleaduvalls]

ooooh hate ross from friends. i know that one’s easy but i was rewatching and he’s not just mean and shitty like i thought as a teenager — he uses abuse tactics to isolate rachel && sees her as a girlfriend before seeing her as a person 😭😭😭 ik shes shitty too sometimes but NEVER to the same levels

OMG I FORGOT CHARACTERS WERE ALLOWED i fucking hate ross dude i hate him so much 😭😭😭😭 i didnt see the abusive shit when i watched it as a teenager and i dont have the energy to rewatch the show but GODDDDDDDDD i knew he was annoying

[shreks-boppin-bussy]

when i say i’ve watched friends i always need to clarify that i never watched it for the plot or the jokes, i’m just very bisexual

[bpmorepjo]

RACHEL SAID “MAYBE” on taking a break so nothing was confirmed