#and ted not going to the wedding.

[ishouldbedoingalright]

i would type a big ol' paragraph about jane and beard's relationship but I also can't be bothered so tis staying in the ol' noggin

edit: did it anyway lols

[singaroundelay]

“I now pronounce you fucking married.” — Roy Kent, probably

[pineappical]

in light of tedtrent becoming so real, im also jumping on the tedtrent epilogue 😊

there's just no way ted wouldn't keep in touch with the others (and have weekly zoom meetings just like in the christmas special) and I just love the thought of the whole team having reunions once in a while.

and going back to trent's arc in s3, the sunflowers conversation, "And your daughter?" "She's never been happier." I think it could go the same for ted.. we've never really properly saw how henry felt about his dad being in london, it's always other people that told ted his son misses him, who's to say henry would rather see his dad happy because that in turn would make him happy too? he was there to win the whole thing, right? I just know ted’s story isn’t done yet when he still hasn’t learned to let others take care of him in return and who else to pair him with than the man who blew up his career because a man was nice to him (and also because they were so. so cruel for the fakeout tedbecca scenes for that finale) 🥺

I'm no writer so just pretend these are snapshots of a slow burn fic where ted visits london for their team reunion and slowly realizes that trent has a crush on him and they kiss about it 💛

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

i think my main problem (aka why i am so insanely anxious) is that. after the finale i... kind of lost faith in the writing entirely? and now i'm afraid of What They Will Do With A Whole New Season. if this retroactively ruins a show i find flawed but still otherwise love i will be very upset. and i know that would be somewhat my own fault but like. gnaws

[obisamya]

first time in my life im choosing to interpret that whole thing as just a ‘and it was all a dream’ scenario

[thatonesquintern13]

“ted’s going back to kansas to be with henry” um? he literally told rebecca he was never gonna say goodbye?? in front of the whole church, no less??

[carterashofficial]

I have an announcement

Boyfriend is no longer my boyfriend

He’s been prompted to fiancé

He proposed in the middle of a road trip overlooking the beach and it was hilarious. He’s got Zero skills at being sneaky about things so I knew to get my nails done ahead of time. Also he was nervous AF.

So we walk along the beach bridge, I’m taking photos of the sunset, and from behind me he goes “Carter, stop walking now!”, and there he was with the ring.

He did manage to hide that it was my great-great Aunt Gusty’s engagement ring, which he got stones for and had all fancied up and resized.

Anyway. We can’t stop giggling like idiots.

[coachbeards]

still cannot believe we don’t get ted being the uncle to beard’s kid like wtf

[deanncastiel]

okay y'all i'm settled on that ending all being a dream it's the only way

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

trent is the best man at his ex-wife''s wedding and some people are like hang on werent you married to the bride? and hes like yes. and.

[lunar-years]

Sorry, another anon jumping in here- while I'd love to think that Roy would take Jamie's feelings in an R/K wedding into account, I think canonically hes still a bit inept at reading Jamie sometimes (ie: the bar date/ stay away from Keeley scene) so I can see him asking Jamie to be best man without considering the further implications. Which of course leads to the Richmond boys deciding to be an emotional support bubble for him through the whole thing and its only later in the evening when Roy steps outside for some air and sees Jamie with eyes shining, gritting his jaw determinedly trying not to cry while Sam tries to wordlessly comfort him, that Roy realises hes fucked up a bit there. Isaac coming up to him like "we know you didn't mean it like that, but bit cruel that bruv"

yeah 😭

I think it all very much depends on the timeline this is theoretically happening in, too. The thread I read about the alternative s3 roy-keeley wedding was kind of funny because they were using s3 dynamics with everyone else but those two. So when they said "Jamie would obviously be best man!" I found myself thinking...like...idk man, I don't even think Roy would even want or ask Jamie to be his best man in that scenario, because they would not actually be best friends the same way they are in the actual s3.

This might be very cynical...but in a s3 where the Roy & Keeley we see on the verge of breakup in the s2 finale are suddenly getting MARRIED... i do not think Roy and Jamie would become nearly as close in that timeframe as what we see play out in canon. Because so much of their dynamic in s3 is built upon Roy being in a very bad place post-breakup, then volunteering to train Jamie (imo, at least in part as a distraction/way to bury himself in work to stop thinking about how miserable he is in the personal aspects of his life) and then ending up genuinely loving spending time with Jamie and spending ALL of his time with Jamie, slowly pulling him further out from his slump because Jamie's given him something and (someone) to care about again.

Whereas, if Roy is busy and stressed out over wedding planning all the time, whilst also consumed by the same unaddressed insecurities that plagued his relationships with both Keeley and Jamie in the s2 finale (which he only would've pushed further down after a successful proposal) I 1) think it's quite possible he wouldn't have even volunteered to do extra training with Jamie in the first place and 2) even if he did, wouldn't have had the same time to spend with or focus on him, resulting in them...not becoming close! certainly not best man close. Also, Keeley has ALWAYS been a point of strife between them. it's why Roy's head butting Jamie in the s2 finale, it's one layer of why the bar date goes so poorly, etc.

Roy "when I look at her I only think about Jamie fucking Tartt" Kent who has not gone through the breakup nor any of the growth said breakup facilitated is a man deeply insecure in his own relationship (and in this case, engagement) who sees Jamie on some level as still a threat to his peace. I do not think he'd want Jamie to be involved in the wedding at all, tbh, even if their relationship was getting slowly better and they were at the place of tentative friendship we see in the s2 finale.

Now, of course all that changes if we're talking about a scenario where roy-keeley have gotten back together post-series and are then getting married somewhere down the line. That's the version of events where I think 1) Jamie would do anything Roy asked him to, up to and including being his best man, even if it hurt him in the process and 2) Roy would be perceptive enough and care enough about Jamie not to ask. You're totally right that Roy struggles to read Jamie sometimes, but I also think there were sooo many factors at play in the bar date and so many of them would be eliminated in a scenario where Roy and Keeley are getting married post-series. Like, so much of Roy's obliviousness there stemmed (imo) from jealousy and insecurity and his own desire to win Keeley back regardless of Jamie's feelings, so part of it was him being inept on purpose as a form of avoidance, lol.

Whereas, if he's proposed to Keeley and said yes and they're both in a significantly more secure place in their relationship, Jamie isn't really any "threat", so I would like to think Roy would at least pick up on his discomfort surrounding the wedding before hitting him with "will you be my best man" (or like, Keeley would say something when Roy brought up the idea, because it really is deeply ludicrous).

[shrugalug]

My personal theory for why Ted was not at the Beard/Jane wedding is that Beard did not want to be pulled aside and given criticism on his facial hair before he walked down the proverbial aisle, like he himself had done to Ted.

[shitpostblogwahoo]

choosing to believe everything after and including the scene of jamie and his dad was ted dreaming. no beard and jane wedding. no none information on what teds living situation is like. the real final minutes were ted coming to visit the team when they win the champions in the next year trust me

[tumblasha]

food review: happy crab (cajun seafood)

overall rating: ★★★★/5

what a cute lil place! reminded me of high school in a sort of amusement park sorta way (i'm used to peeling crawfish and shrimp in people's backyards rather than a restaurant), and it was so fun! had half a pound of crawfish, half a pound of shrimp, and some sausage!!

i re-learned to peel seafood (sad to say i forgot abt the crawfish digestive tract / poop thing until the second crawfishfjewiaofj). muscle memory helped me out tho :,)

minus half a star because they served me my food in a bag..? never seen that before, but ig it makes sense..? minus another half a star bc they only gave me one (1) piece of corn : (

also had a strawberry daiquiri! reminds me of a parade i went to with some hs friends where my friend's mom got us daiquiris and then we went to the mcdonald's where the worker said i'd look good w gages in my ear. i fell in love that night. (it doesn't take much to do it for me)

u know it's a Good Restaurant when they use those red cups w a random coca cola logo LMAO

[mysweetoddbird]

fucking hell. maybe worst finale since himym. what the fuck was that