#the barney to my ted !!

[shushmal]

There's an incredibly pretty girl at the front desk in Family Video, and Steve—Eddie's boyfriend of eight months—is leaning over the counter with a sly smile and half-lidded eyes.

Eddie pauses in the doorway, struck dumb for a moment as he takes in the scene, and then gleefully ducks down behind the nearest shelf.

"So tell me," Steve says, all low and intimate. "What kind of movie were you looking for?"

"Um," the girl says. She doesn't sound very enthusiastic—barely indulgent at best. Eddie wishes he could see, but any sight of him will ruin Steve's chances right now. He's got a pretty good mental picture though. "I really like those old black and white movies, the really glamorous ones, you know?"

"Oh, totally," Steve sighs, like he's swooning. "Like Cary Grant, Clarke Gabel?" Eddie can practically hear his smirk. "Katharine Hepburn? Ginger Rogers?"

"Oh, I love Ginger Rogers!"

"Really?" Steve says matching her excitement. "Well, you're just in luck! Robin here knows all about those old black and white movies, don't you Robin?"

Eddie presses a hand to his mouth to hide his snickering. Robin had looked like a hooked fish when he'd walked in, she's gotta be gaping stupidly right now. "Uuuh," he hears her mumbling, and tries not to snort too loud. "Y-Yeah, uh, golden age of Hollywood stuff, absolutely. I could? Show you where they are?"

"Oh my gosh, that would be amazing!" the girl says, her interest in the conversation now warmed by several degrees. Eddie is still a little in awe of how well his boyfriend can sniff out gay girls.

"I got the front here, Robin," Steve cuts in smoothly. "You ladies take your time, make sure you pick out a good one!"

Eddie waits another beat, listening at their footsteps shuffle away, before he pops up from behind the shelf. Steve, lighting up like a Christmas tree, beams at him.

"Am I a genius or what?" he whispers, grinning ear to ear.

"Your lesbian powers know no equal," Eddie says just as quietly, taking the girl's spot at the counter, leaning into Steve's space. Steve happily mirrors him, until they're tucked together, the world narrowing down to the two of them. It's Eddie's favorite place to be. "All hail Steve Harrington, blessid he, lesbian whisper. Come to aid all useless queers in the fight against singledom."

"Thank you, thank you," Steve says with an air of novel benevolence. "I promise to only use my powers for good."

"Dingus. Doofus."

They jump away from each other as if shocked. Robin glowers at them both, but the pretty girl behind her is giggling and standing way too close for friendly, just at Robin's elbow.

"Move it, lovebirds," she hisses as she rounds the desk. "I need to check Claire out."

"I think you already have," Steve says. His smile this time is down right evil.

Robin actually hisses at him, and hip checks him away from the register. Eddie does a bow, sweeping his arm out to give Claire the prime spot in front of the desk, before he turns back to Steve.

"My dear, if you could please," he simpers, all posh and nasally. "Show me to your finest, grossest horror movie, thank you my good sir."

"Ugh," Steve groans already heading off into the shelves, not waiting for Eddie to follow. "You're lucky I love you, Ed. Shit gives me nightmares."

"I know," Eddie sings, chasing him. "I love you too."

[graciehart]

GET TO KNOW ME ✰ [6/10] TV Shows ⤷ How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014)

"Love doesn't make sense! I mean, you can't logic your way into or out of it; love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it, or else we're lost and love is dead and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's just... true."

[dailytraingirl]

THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY REFERENCE IN HIMYM S5 EP3!???!? I WAS SO SURPRISED AND HAPPY I THOUGHT IT WAS DYING.

[romansroys]

i will support any ship that is a Ridiculous man in love with the smartest woman in his universe

[faesfairies]

list of my favourite otps → [11/∞] barney stinson & robin scherbatsky

I love everything about her, and I'm not a guy who says that lightly. I am a guy who has faked love his entire life. I thought love was just something idiots thought they felt, but this woman has a hold on my heart that I could not break if I wanted too. And there have been times that I wanted to. It has been overwhelming, and humbling, and even painful, at times. But I could not stop loving her any more than I could stop breathing. I am hopelessly, irretrievably in love with her. More than she knows.

[zumicho]

ᡴꪫ MY BELOVED MUTUALS

@mitskicain # — lia !! ♡

@mollyrolls # — molly !! ♡, the barney to my ted <3

@nectardaddy # — dodger !! ♡, president of the ‘GET UP’ club

@sweetfushi # — zee !! ♡, the akaashi to my bokuto <3

@kuroppiii # — ro !! ♡, the patrick to my art <3

@sandwhitches # — mitch !! ♡, twin flame !!, the finn to my bmo !!

@causenessus # — ness !! ♡ , ness my tumblr soulmate <3

@yenonnoff # — yen !! ♡ , the sousuke to my rin <3

@guitarstringed-scars # — mo !! ♡

@cr4yolaas # — rye !! ♡

@kitasuno # — kimiko !! ♡

@meloinurmind # — melo !! ♡

@iiwaijime # — lina !! ♡

@miyamoratsumuu # — frans !! ♡

*added by interaction, not by follow, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

ᡴꪫ ANONS

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[lukreziaaa]

“Kids, I won’t lie, that was a long weekend. More ups and downs that I can count. It was a twisting, turning road that led to the end of the aisle, and not everything along the way was perfect.

To be honest, not everything to follow would be perfect either. But what is? Here’s the secret, kids: none of us can bow to be perfect. In the end, all we can do is promise to love each other with everything we’ve got.

Because love’s the best thing we do. And on that lovely spring evening, that’s exactly what Barney and Robin vowed to each other.

And it was legendary.”

[angels-heap]

Not tacking this onto my last reblog out of respect for OP and their notifications, but their excellent post (and my own recent visit with a "family friend" uncle) helped me put my finger on my specific issue with 95% of “Uncle Barney” headcanons.

Like, I am guilty of Uncle Barney crimes. To this day, I am continuing to perpetrate Uncle Barney crimes. I don’t hate the idea of Barney and Alyx having been close for much of her life. To be clear, there is zero canon evidence suggesting that this is the case, but I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with this headcanon. What I don’t like, though, is the way so many people who aggressively headcanon this relationship also conceptualize Alyx as some sort of naive forever-child, trapped in a state of arrested development where she still relates to Barney (and/or Dr. Kleiner, her canonical pseudo-uncle) like she would have at age 12. I am begging y'all to please stop infantilizing this poor woman.

A lot of the appeal of Uncle Barney (to me) is the opportunity to explore the ways Alyx’s relationship with an adult family friend would change over the course of her life. What was it like for her to come of age as one of the youngest people on Earth and slowly become peers with people she used to see as authority figures? What can she learn about herself, the people around her, and the situation they’re in when the older generation finally stops censoring themselves around her? How many of her childhood experiences might be suddenly re-contextualized by new information from her older friends? In a pre-HLA timeline, how does the untimely death of her father, her last living biological relative, affect her relationships with other "family" members?

I would love to see more people explore these kinds of questions in fanworks, instead of just having Alyx around to squeal “eew! gross!��� when the male characters make out, act like they are her dads when she is canonically very close to her actual literal dad, or ask them questions about things that any reasonably intelligent 24-year-old could figure out on her own.

C'mon, folks. We can do better than this.

[mollyrolls]

IT WONT LET ME REBLOG. STOP SPREADING LIES.

hush now, new ‘88 ford chapter just dropped

[dumbfilmschoolkid]

lemony snicket unreliably narrating count olaf as disgusting 🤝 ted mosby unreliably narrating barney stinson as disgusting. both disgustings are neil patrick harris. discuss

[aozui]

“missed seeing you on my dash” mfer i did not go anywhere???? i’ve been here????

i guess u just. idk. hate me. or whatever. ignoring me…. moved on… idk. i don’t care

this is you everytime I’m nice istg

[sanadonmemimkansiz]

[ughhhdavid]

they're the same picture (part. II)

[lovealwayssay]

The ending of How I Met Your Mother makes me even more angry now that I’m in a similar situation to Ted’s kids.

[babyindeath]

[zumicho]

PSA

— @ change !! froyaoya -> zumicho

— I decided I no longer gaf and will be switching out my layout this week too

— everyone can thank molly for the kita fic masterlist going up today bc she showed me the folder option on twinote (u are a godsend. absolute legend. i love you)

— my fic posts might start running on queue instead of spontaneous uploads. not that anyone cares, I’m putting it out there anyway