Comments | boundbyspells: Here's the thing. Also, this is kind of a rec.

boundbyspells

Here's the thing. Also, this is kind of a rec.

Dec 11, 2007 22:14

I just watched this week's HIMYM for the second time. The secret Robin/Barney ship is so not a secret. There were glances. And physical closeness. And outright seduction on screen, only somehow none of the Trifecta noticed it ( Read more... )

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splash_the_cat December 12 2007, 03:34:38 UTC

Look at you with your OTP. :)

boundbyspells December 12 2007, 04:14:04 UTC

I know!

Though, the show is infinitely interchangeable. I don't think there's an invalid combination. Possibly NOT Ted/Barney/Lily, but that might be the only one. They're really all just a big puppy pile of seething sexuality.

splash_the_cat December 12 2007, 04:49:24 UTC

Possibly NOT Ted/Barney/Lily, but that might be the only one

And the universe just HAD to prove you wrong. :)

boundbyspells December 12 2007, 21:06:02 UTC

No, I totally get Marshall/Barney/Lily. Just not TED/Barney/Lily. The universe still has not proven that one wrong.

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dsudis December 12 2007, 03:34:59 UTC

...dude, that story is titled from a song called "International Small Arms Traffic Blues." Just, for the record. Of awesomeness. In case you are not up on your Mountain Goats references.

boundbyspells December 12 2007, 04:09:33 UTC

No, not up on my Mountain Goats references, but I insist on being educated now. :)

dsudis December 12 2007, 12:49:41 UTC

I don't have a copy of the song handy for uploading right now, but here's the second half of the lyrics, starting with the relevant line:

Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania
Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania
Trucks loaded down with weapons
Crossing over every night
Moon yellow and bright
There is a shortage in the blood supply
But there is no shortage of blood
The way I feel about you baby can't explain it
You got the best of my love

It's off their album Tallahassee, which is a concept album about a codependent couple of alcoholics who move to Tallahassee together and go inexorably down in flames. (I spent much of season three of House thinking that it was the soundtrack to House/Wilson, if that reference helps.)

Um, but International Small Arms Traffic Blues is really one of the cheerier tracks! So hurray for your OTP!

boundbyspells December 13 2007, 01:49:25 UTC

Huh. I'm gonna have to check that out.

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iuliamentis December 12 2007, 03:36:58 UTC

They make a contract, and it's a real written one, to have secret sex, and there's a contingency clause if Ted finds out and then cries!

<3 <3 <3

boundbyspells December 13 2007, 01:50:06 UTC

There's so much opportunity for law in HIMYM. Not that anyone knows what Barney actually does.

annakovsky December 12 2007, 03:46:42 UTC

Dude, Amen to all of this. And Robin SITTING against Barney's LEGS? I keep thinking about how Barney is the suspicious one and none of the rest of them would notice and HOW FREAKING TRUE that is.

boundbyspells December 12 2007, 04:11:33 UTC

irishmizzy wins for pointing out that Barney is the suspicious one. (So is Robin, now that I think about it.)

YES, THE SITTING AGAINST THE LEGS. And his arm was all like, right THERE, and he could totally reach out and touch her hair once they turn down the lights, and no one will know.

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boundbyspells December 13 2007, 01:50:47 UTC

I don't know, but it's *there*.

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boundbyspells December 13 2007, 03:41:26 UTC

Yeah, just saw it on your journal, actually.

*sigh*

Our only hope is to write LOTS OF FIC in the intervening time.

Somehow, I am working on more Barney/Lily. *frowns* Even though that's not my ship.