If you’re ever self-conscious about embarrassingly gay things you did before realizing you were actually gay, just know that when I was 18 I wrote a story about me and my best friend living together and adopting kids together. And not only did I write this literal RPF fanfic about marrying my best friend, I GAVE IT TO HER FOR CHRISTMAS.

Barney and Robin moments in Season 4

Okay, here’s the list of B/R moments I noticed and loved from the second half of Season 4: 4.13 -This one was bereft of B/R moments, considering they didn’t even share a single scene. But I have to give mention to how sexy Barney is in this episode. I don’t know what it is exactly, but he’s fantastic in this episode. -On a side note, I’ve always wondered where Robin is when Barney and Ted bring “Puzzles” upstairs after they leave MacLaren’s. She’s living in the apartment, so you’d think she’d be present, especially since Lily’s out of town and she can’t be at work either because she doesn’t have a job yet. -(As we’ve already discussed) Marshall and Robin’s conversation foreshadows one of the problems of the B/R relationship to come and how the group tries to force their idea of what it means to be in love onto B/R and the disaster that follows because of that. 4.14 -This is a B/R goldmine. Of course there are the obvious things like Barney being so distraught after hearing about Robin’s deportation that he drops the letter he was holding, and then being willing to marry Robin (and even trying to propose to her). But the part where Barney says he doesn’t think he can use any of the footage he already has of her is interesting too. I still don’t believe he actually has a sex tape, so it’s fun to surmise what footage he could be talking about. It could be Robin Sparkles’ videos or old Metro News One shows (but why couldn’t he use those?), or depending on how sleazy you believe him to be I still remember that line that got cut from “Glitter” but was on the extra DVD footage about how Barney gave Robin a stuffed bear as a present but it actually had a hidden camera inside so he could record her in her bedroom. -Once again, we are shown Barney going to tremendous effort to help Robin and make her happy. I love Future Ted’s line “Thanks to your Uncle Barney we got to keep Aunt Robin”. -The scene at the end where they hug is perfection. First, right after her initial quick hug, Barney looks so shy and bashful, receiving such praise from her. But the second hug….the way she looks at him and the way he looks at her, and then she throws her arms around his neck, hugging him so tight, and his hand stroking over her hair, it’s just beautiful. I also love the way they look at each other as they’re pulling back from the hug. It’s hard to see because they cut away really quickly, but they’re both smiling, staring into each other’s eyes and Barney slides his hand down to her hip. 4.15 -Robin is very resistant to the idea that Barney has a girlfriend, and then when they’re following his cab, she looks upset and says that Narnia line being debated above. - Barney is so embarrassed that his mom said he calls her every day in front of Robin, but Robin thinks it’s cute. -When Barney’s fake wife comes down the stairs, he immediately looks nervously to Robin (and doing the introductions too), afraid of what her reaction will be. And Robin does seem the most angry of the group, and she's the one to confront Barney about this “wife” and “son” before he tells them that they’re both fake. -When they’re all waiting around for dinner, right before Ted goes to talk to Margaret by the table, Robin can be seen behind the couch looking at a childhood picture of Barney and then actually picking it up to study it. -After he flubs his lines at dinner, Robin defends the little boy playing Barney’s son, and after she speaks up Barney listens to her and just tells the kid to go eat his ice cream. Later, when he “cries” after they find Ted and Margaret kissing, Barney and Robin exchange an impressed look. -And of course the scene at the end where his mom tells him if he meets someone special not to run away but to try, and then Robin comes to the door and they have that look and smile in the cab.

4.16 -When Robin is laughing over a monkey wearing two tuxedos, Barney’s just stares raptly at her, watching her laugh and smiling because she’s laughing (also, interestingly enough, Barney had footage of a monkey in a suit – the funnest thing Robin can imagine – in his video resume). -Robin smiles over at Barney when he gets so hysterical about the pants story. -Barney reveals the fact that he really hates that Ted and Robin are living together. 4.17 -This episode hints pretty strongly that deep down Barney is actually okay with the idea of marriage, and that kind of connection is something he even longs for subconsciously. 4.18 -This, once again, shows how alike Robin and Barney are because they are the only two who seem to know what all the sex acts are at Canadiansexacts.org. -In the very first scene where Robin reveals she once went home with a celebrity, Barney and Robin are sitting very close together, so close their arms are pressed together (and much closer than even Marshall and Lily, who are married!). -When Robin is telling the more provocative parts, she keeps looking over at Barney, including the part where Lily guesses the “Sticky Flapjack” and Robin says “That I would have done”, to which Barney looks intrigued. -Barney thinks Robin is talking about him and he’s flattered, but more interestingly he brings up a time when he “only put the mask on as a joke” (and he even says “for the last time”, like they’ve discussed this event many times already). He can’t be referring to the “Sandcastles” incident because Robin is talking about a time when she went home with a guy but he wanted to do something so freaky she left without anything happening between them. So at the very most Barney must be referring to one of the times he propositioned her that he alludes to in Season 3’s “Ten Sessions” (although I did see it suggested somewhere that maybe Barney hit on her when she was over at his apartment during “The Possimpible” because with all the costumes he had lying around that he used in her video, he could have easily had a mask that he put on too).

Also in 4.17, though it's technically a T/R moment since they're the ones making the pact to marry at 40, one could draw parallels between the fact that they had both Barney and Robin bring up marriage in the same episode, showing that they're both open to the idea, at least at some point in the distant future. 

  4.19 -Barney and Robin are so great together, but even more so this is an episode where you can really see Robin’s appreciation of Barney. She loves this side of him. She loves it when he’s being ridiculous and zany like this. They’re just having so much fun playing together, but especially it highlights how much Robin enjoys Barney’s company. It really shows how Robin is the perfect woman for Barney and he is the perfect man for her. -When Barney first says “Challenge accepted”, Robin is smiling in delight. And when he begins his speech about how he’s going to do everything on the list, she’s looking up at him in awe with a hint of “The Fight”’s level of attraction/desire. -Robin chooses to spend the entire weekend constantly with Barney when she did not have to go along with any of his stunts at all (which again proves how much she enjoys his company and how perfect she really is for him and he for her). -Robin is concerned for Barney’s ear, both when he first pierces it himself and later at the bar when it has become infected. -Barney and Robin similarly both want to stay young while Ted wants to be old, showing their connection and compatibility. -Of course their joint phone call is adorable, and the fact that they made their own anti-Murtaugh list together. -I love the little looks Barney and Robin keep exchanging in the scene where they show their list to Ted. And she seems so impressed with Barney when he raises the stakes on the bet. -Their little rave dance is too cute (and I think it’s funny that they together probably helped to unknowingly rob that apartment). -Robin is the one who insists Barney call off the bet for his own good. Also when Barney says after laser tag he needs to go to the hospital, he’s looking directly at her, like he knows she will go with him or at least he knows that’s an answer to her concerns for him. -At the very end when they’re toilet papering the laser tag place, when the manager first comes out, Robin looks very concerned for Barney and what will happen to him. Then when he says Barney is reinstated, Robin is grinning with happiness for him. And when he takes it back, she looks concerned again and even starts to approach Barney. 4.20 -At the beginning when they're talking about Ted not hiring an assistant he can sleep with, Barney and Robin keep sharing little looks and smiles as they jointly make fun of Ted. -There are a ton of very obvious moments from Barney, of course, with him being so upset that Robin is sleeping with Ted’s assistant, but then also when Barney reveals his feelings for Robin to Marshall. But what I really love is this very subtle moment when Barney storms away from the table after first hearing that Robin is sleeping with PJ, and you can see him in the background, standing there dejected with his head and arms actually facedown in defeat on the bar. -It’s very telling that after learning Marshall has known all along, the first thing Barney says is “you’ve been laughing at me behind my back this entire time”. He just automatically jumps to those insecurities that of course M/L would think it’s ridiculous that Robin would ever want to be with him. But then he’s so touched when they’re actually being supportive instead and think Barney and Robin would be perfect for each other. It’s like it gives him this little vote of confidence. -It is certainly a case of foreshadowing that in the episode immediately following “The Murtaugh List”, which makes it so clear that Barney and Robin are perfect together, Robin describes her ideal man as “smart, funny, passionate, challenging” which is an exact description of Barney. We’ve seen countless examples of Barney’s intelligence, and how he challenges Robin. If we’re talking passion in a sexual sense, we’ve seen plenty of that between B/R too, and if we’re talking passion meaning enthusiasm and dedication to a goal, “The Murtaugh List” immediately preceding 4.20 was a shining example. And the very next episode, 4.21, shows us how funny Robin thinks Barney is. 

I love "Murtaugh". Like you said, it shows how perfect they are for each other in a million different little ways, and also how they have the same kind of life philosophy. Plus, it shows how much fun they can be together. And I don't know why, but not only do I love that Robin goes along with all of Barney's crazy stunts without him asking, I also love that she does it all without seeming affected by it while Barney is exhausted. I have no idea why I find that funny, but I always do. 

And yes, I think it's super cute/sad that Barney's insecurities make him jump immediately to the thought of Marshall and Lily laughing at him and making fun of him behind his back. And Robin's description of her perfect man definitely does seem to fit Barney, and I obviously think that was on purpose. 

4.21 -There is this really cute interplay between Barney and Robin at the beginning when Barney starts talking about girls who names end in ‘y’ . Robin laughs at his joke and Barney stops and looks over at her with this look on his face like he’s very pleased that he made her laugh. And when he looks at her, Robin starts playing with her hair, putting it behind her ear. Then in the middle of his monologue on the origins of the 3 Days Rule, Robin starts laughing hysterically, and Barney glances over to her again, quite pleased with her laughter and it seems to spur him on in his story. And again, right before they cut away to the theme song, when Barney says “True story”, Robin giggles at him, and Barney turns to her, smiling at her laughter. -When Robin says Ted having only three months to live would be way more shocking than gay dreams, she mimes a head explosion with her hands in the exact same way that Barney does in “The Leap”. -In the tag scene, when it first fades in from black, Barney’s got his arm up around Robin on the back of the booth and they’re sitting very close, smiling at each other, and staring intently into one another’s eyes. Barney is the first to look away, but Robin keeps staring adoringly at him. It’s only when Stan comes that Robin looks away and Barney removes his arm from around her. 4.22 -There’s this great little look between B/R when Barney says “B-smooth don’t do nothing roughly” when they’re talking about how many women Barney hits on in a week. -They make a point of highlighting how Robin has also supposedly had a high number of sex partners (and they touched on this a little in the past when she was dating Ted), yet another thing she and Barney have in common, sharing a healthy desire for sex and the ability to separate the physical from the emotional (except for with each other), and one would assume then also not judging each other based on their pasts. -Robin shows a fascination with Barney’s list of women he’s slept with. Whenever we see her, she is studying this list, reading it over with much more attention then anyone else has shown.

And yeah, while I assume that the number of men Robin has slept with is way (way, way, way) lower than the number of women Barney has slept with, they do seem to share a similar outlook on sex in general. They did touch on that in Season 2, implying by Ted's reaction that Robin had slept with more people than he had, which obviously bothered him.

4.23 -Robin is clearly charmed by Barney’s ‘what up quake’ joke. -When Robin hears that Ted got Tony to dump Stella, she requests a fist bump and then says she’ll be waiting (with her hand still raised) until Ted gets back to receive her fist bump, just like Barney does in “Intervention”. -Ted’s ringtone for Barney is “Let’s Go To The Mall”. -When Lily comes back at the end and mentions the joke Barney told that so disgusted and offended her, Barney looks guiltily over at Robin like he’s worried what her reaction will be, or at the very least like he’s ashamed of being called out in front of her. 4.24 -There are so many B/R moments in this one. Of course the Mosbying in the hospital was actually unintentionally deeply honest, particularly when Barney asks her “Why are you so afraid of giving this a chance?” and she answers “Because I’m afraid of how much I like you”. Then of course there’s “With you I want the trouble”, which is classic. -Possibly the most telling moment when it comes to Robin’s feelings is her inner debate when discussing this with M/L at MacLaren’s. She says, “It's Barney”, in a disgusted ‘he’ll always be a womanizer’ tone. Then, a second later, “I mean.....it’s Barney”, in a soft, tender tone, and it’s like she’s stopping and really thinking about all that she feels for Barney and the times they’ve shared. But then she jumps right back to, “But it's Barney”, and the ‘he’s a womanizer’ tone returns again. You can really see the debate within Robin that continues to rage pretty much up to this day: her heart wants him but her heads says it’s a bad idea. (But maybe now that Barney has gone so far as to become an engaged man, it will show Robin that she was wrong about him. Of course what happens in the aftermath could bring those fears back…) -I also like how Barney starts out by Mosbying Robin too at Ted’s party. He’s wanted her all this time and yet when he thinks he’s finally gotten her, he’s terrified, doesn’t know what to do, and runs away – much like we’ll later see Robin do in “Tick Tick Tick”. -The looks on their faces as they leap are fantastic. First, when Robin leaps, Barney is clearly terrified for her safety. Then when Barney is preparing to leap, Robin looks anxious for his safety too, but then it’s about so much more than just the physical leap, and you can see such excitement and hope on their faces. -I love it that when he lands on the other side they let Barney and Robin share a hug, just the two of them, as a symbol of the relationship they will now start.

https://barneyrobin.livejournal.com/858373.html

Junmyeon: The Pact

anonymous asked: 53 and Suho please? I'm a sucker for marriage pacts 💓

53: “If we’re still single when we’re [age], do you want to get married?”

Characters: Junmyeon x reader

Genre/warnings: non idol au, drabble, a touch of angst but mostly all fluff, and some drunk shenanigans

Word count: 769

Summary: Being your best friend, Junmyeon is always there to pick you up--literally and figuratively. You’re too drunk and sitting outside a dive bar? He’s there. You think your life is over? He’s got your back.

As Junmyeon pulled up to the dive bar you were currently sitting in front of with Baekhyun, he sighed. This wasn’t the first time this week that you had left your apartment to go off and get drunk, but he was hoping he could make it the last.

Recently, your boyfriend had dumped you, which left you a mess. You two were together for years and you truly felt he was the one. Junmyeon couldn’t even count how many times you had told him your plans for a future with your now-ex-boyfriend, and now all of those dreams were nothing but dust. He understood you were heartbroken, but did you really have to cope like this?

He was thankful Baekhyun ended up at the same bar as you, so at least he was able to call him to come get you. Even though it was well after midnight, he couldn’t find it in himself to be angry at either of you. You were simply too upset, and Baekhyun just wanted to go back in and enjoy himself without having to babysit you.

Junmyeon got out of his car and walked up to the two of you, concern written all over his face. You were the opposite, your face lighting up as soon as you saw him. From where Baekhyun had sat you on the sidewalk, you made grabby hands up at your best friend, wanting to just hug him.

“Hi, Junnie!” you grinned as Junmyeon grabbed your hands and helped you--with Baekhyun’s assistance--to your feet.

“Hey, ___.” he gave a half-smile as you stumbled into his chest and wrapped your arms around his waist. Despite his concern, he still couldn’t resist how cute you were when you were intoxicated. You were much like a little kid. “How’re you feeling?”

“Great!” you told him happily as you turned to point at Baekhyun. “I found a friend!”

“I’m glad, sweetheart.” he told you with a chuckle. “But you should say goodbye to Baek so I can get you to my place, okay?”

“Ooh, sleepover!” you clapped cheerily before waving with both hands at a very annoyed-looking Baekhyun. “Bye-bye, Baekhyun!”

“Yeah, see ya, ___.” he nodded before going back into the bar.

Junmyeon put a strong arm around your waist and led you back to his car, where he buckled you in securely before getting in on his side and driving off to his home.

You stared out the windows, all of the headlights and lit up signs becoming one giant blur to you, but you thought it was beautiful in your drunk state. Junmyeon glanced over at you every so often to make sure you were okay, but he couldn’t help but have a permanent small smile on his face at the toothy grin you kept plastered on yours.

“What’re you so happy about over there?” he wondered.

“I’m with you!” you told him as if it was common knowledge. “Duh!”

“You like being with me, ___?”

“Uh huh!”

He chuckled at how happy you seemed despite the fact you went out to cope with your breakup. Every other time he went to collect your drunk ass, you were a sobbing mess. He wasn’t sure what was different but he was happy for the change.

“Did you leave because of him again?” he asked you softly, glancing over at you to gauge your expression.

Your face fell into a pout as you nodded. “Uh huh...”

He sighed, carding one hand through his hair while the other stayed on the wheel. “___...”

“What do I do without him, Jun?” you asked, the cheeriness in your voice completely gone. If he didn���t know better, he’d think you were sober. “My entire life was planned around him.”

“Plan a new life.” he shrugged, stopping at a red light. He took this opportunity to look over at you, taking one of your hands in his. “You don’t need him, ___. You’re better than some guy.”

“I can’t just plan a whole new life. I planned on marrying him.”

“Then how about this: if we’re still single when we’re 40, do you want to get married?”

The question had your drunk mind reeling. To you, it was the equivalent of getting proposed to. A wide, drunken grin spread across your face, and Junmyeon could already tell the excitement was coming back to you, and it made him grin just as big.

“Hell yeah!” you exclaimed. “God, we’d make the coolest couple, wouldn’t we? Getting married to your best friend would be the best!”

He nodded, laughing at how enthusiastic you were. “Yeah, ___; yeah we would.”

Part 2