Hi everybody. Just a quick notice to let you all know there might not be any updates on this blog for a little bit. My mom had a stroke the other day, so keeping up with Colin --- Well, no. Keeping up with Colin is still possible for me, since he hardly does anything we can see anyway and the lovely soul behind @colinodonoghue will surely inform me if he does.

However, keeping up with this blog is gonna take the back burner for a bit, while I help my mom through this tough time and we all adjust to her new limitations and difficulties. I won't be checking my dashboard or seeing posts/mentions/replies on posts (including this one) regularly at all. I only have about an hour or so a day to catch up on ALL my usual things at home (the rest of the time is, for now, spent at the hospital, away from my computer), so please don't be hurt or offended if I don't respond to you here. I'm gonna leave Asks on so you can send me messages if you want to, but please be aware it might take me awhile to see them! I'll also be responding privately to them (or not at all to anonymous ones) so as not to gum up everyone's feeds with my thank yous ;)

I AM on Discord still, as it's the one app I have in the phone I'm borrowing for the time being. Username's the same, and I'm keeping up with the O'Donocrew server (you can join it here if you want to). But again, responses from me are slow and sporadic. Some days I have quite a bit of time to putter around, some days none at all. Please don't be offended if my responses take awhile and/or are a bit short.

As for my Mom's condition... Physically, she's doing pretty good and seems to be on track for a full recovery. There's weakness on her right side, a bit of spatial neglect (sometimes she forgets the right side is there), and some rigidity they're watching out for, but these are all things that are already improving a bit and should improve a lot more with physical therapy. Cognitively, she's a bit easily confused, but her mind is still sharp, her memories intact, and her personality unchanged. However, she's having the most problems with speech and there's a major disconnect between her mind and her mouth when it comes to being able to form words and say what's on her mind. It's highly frustrating for her and worrisome for us, because we want to make sure we're doing everything we can for her, but it's hard when she can't really tell us what she needs/wants. There seem to be improvements in this, little by little, everyday... so we're hoping with more therapy and practice, she'll keep improving and things will get much better. Overall, we're all so lucky and thankful it wasn't any worse, and we're being optimistic about the future.

Thank you for all the well wishes and love I know you guys would/will send. I always feel the love from you all - my mutuals, my followers, my secret lurkers... all of you, my friends. I love you all and will certainly be back as soon as possible to regale you all once again with my crazy hijinks and my immense love of Colin ❤️

Be well, be happy, and be good to one another ❤️❤️❤️

Three actors and a casting director go to a baseball game...

More Colins!!!

via Chris Cafero's Instastory

Via Nakoadecoite’s Instagram Story on April 20, 2024

A COLIN!!!!!! 😍 I love Colins!!!

dong car, dong car, everybody wants a dong car

*ADD A DRAWING OF YOU KNOW EXCATLY WHAT * but we both know that drawing and its brodrong will never be posted here bc it would look like that:

XD

SO HAVE THIS INSTEAD:

Picture this.

Killian, Emma, and Henry are settling in for a movie night. The DVD starts up, and this warning comes up on the screen:

Killian: ......

Emma: ......

Henry: ......

Killian: you know what ELSE isn't a victimless crime

Emma: oh God, here we go

Killian: feckless, coward kings who can't even amass the scrap of honor it would take to do their own dirty work--

Henry: make it stop

Killian: --and send innocent men to their deaths without so much as a sliver of--

Emma: *jamming the fast forward button on the remote as Killian goes on* It won't let me skip it!

COLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN

WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN LOS ANGELES

TELL US PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE

Okay, now I have all kinds of mental images of Colin personally making new Colin Characters for the Coven and... every single one of these mental images is hilarious 😂

So apparently I just don't know my own strength. I felt some sort of disturbance in the force, foretelling of some kind of content stirring in the aether, about to come into fruition... but I also clearly felt there would not be any direct contact drop just yet and so reined in my urge to try to summon the man himself...

Only to find I have inadvertently summoned a fan encounter in Los Angeles, of all places! I wonder what he's doing there??

I am so confused 😂 what is the context of colin wearing an Italy NT(?!!) shirt, the one he's wearing in the trollin colin meme? I need to know why?

Oh! The shirt is just one a fan gave him at that convention and he was wearing it at the time. The meme isn't about the shirt, just about that smug trolling face he's got on in the picture, lol.

Yeah, I remember that con.

That was when he found out we were betting on his attire and wanted to show up dressed in his full Hook costume to subvert our expectations, but it wouldn't fit in his carry-on bag and he didn't want to wear it on the plane, so he wore other things we weren't expecting and accidentally dressed as Rogers instead. One of my all-time favorite Trollin O'Donoghue moments.

Forgot about the Roger Rogers comment, though XD

He was really in top form that weekend, lol.

Has anyone ever asked Colin what he thinks Rogers' first name was?

I'm glad I'm not alone in immediately thinking this is what that man would do to us. I was typing up my own continuation at the same time this was occurring on my initial post.

But it turns out that even our best (worst?) expectations are surpassed by reality, where he apparently decided the man's name is "Roger Rogers" and I need to go lay down now.

Has anyone ever asked Colin what he thinks Rogers' first name was?

OH GOD. REALITY IS EVEN WORSE.

Has anyone ever asked Colin what he thinks Rogers' first name was?

Nevermind. I can already hear him in my head going, "...Detective?"

And then when you say, "But he wasn't always a detective!!"

"Right. Before that, his name was Officer."

And then he'd just smile that smile and you'd know he's 100% dedicated to this bit now and there's nothing you can do about it.

Or maybe this even already happened. I dunno.

I guess it's canon now.

Has anyone ever asked Colin what he thinks Rogers' first name was?

Has anyone ever asked Colin what he thinks Rogers' first name was?

I've long been wondering if perhaps my skill is not so much in summoning the man to appear... but in sensing when an appearance is imminent. After all, one does not tell Mr. O'Donoghue what to do. He is more likely to do the opposite, anyway, as has been documented by the O'DonoScholars of old.

So apparently I just don't know my own strength. I felt some sort of disturbance in the force, foretelling of some kind of content stirring in the aether, about to come into fruition... but I also clearly felt there would not be any direct contact drop just yet and so reined in my urge to try to summon the man himself...

Only to find I have inadvertently summoned a fan encounter in Los Angeles, of all places! I wonder what he's doing there??

O'PARRILLA REUNION EVERYBODY!!!

i HOPE WE GET TO SEE PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!

starfuryevents: This November the magic returns, as with one final wish we bring back our Once Upon A Time conventions! Starfury: Enchanted 5 is a three day event celebrating the TV series Once Upon A Time. Taking place from the 1 to 3 November 2024 at the Hilton Metropole Hotel Birmingham, the event will feature guest talks, autograph sessions, photos with the stars, cosplay, themed parties and much more. We are excited to confirm that two of the shows most popular Stars, Lana Parrilla and Colin O'Donoghue, will be among the guests joining us! Lana Parrilla appeared on Once Upon A Time as the Evil Queen, Regina, while Colin O'Donoghue was Captain Killian Hook. For more details on this event, please visit our website at:- http://www.starfury.co.uk#onceuponatime#lanaparrilla#colinodonoghue#killianhook

So apparently I just don't know my own strength. I felt some sort of disturbance in the force, foretelling of some kind of content stirring in the aether, about to come into fruition... but I also clearly felt there would not be any direct contact drop just yet and so reined in my urge to try to summon the man himself...

Only to find I have inadvertently summoned a fan encounter in Los Angeles, of all places! I wonder what he's doing there??

Such a wonderful addition. Yes. Yeeeeees.

🐱 🐦