#ballroompink

1. Parks and Recreation

2. Brooklyn Nine-Nine

3. 1995 Pride and Prejudice

4. Guy's Grocery Games

5. Miss Scarlet and the Duke

6. The Good Place

7. Late Night with Seth Meyers when he has Andy Samberg or Amy Poehler on

8. Original version of Powerpuff Girls

9. The A-block of Rachel Maddow, which isn't actually comforting, but I like listening to smart people

10. Any sporting event where I don't really care who wins and can just enjoy excellence.

This makes me think of Moonstruck (my beloved!), so I would write a fic where Ted is woken up by the giant moon shining through his window in Kansas. (here's a clip from the movie for context.)

It's the middle of the night, but the moon is so bright that Ted's wide awake and unable to go back to sleep. He checks his phone and likes a message from Rebecca (or maybe replies to one an instagram story with a funny quip). A few minutes later she calls, worried about what he's doing up in the middle of the night. He explains that the moon woke him up, "Cosmo's moon" he mumbles, chuckling quietly as he crawls out of bed.

"Moonstruck?"

"Course."

Rebecca hums and he can hear her morning tea clink against the kitchen counter top. "Cosmo can't own the moon."

"And yet it's his moon." Ted pulls back the curtain and looks out on to the quiet street below. "You a Cher fan or a romcom fan?"

"A Nick Cage fan, actually."

Ted pauses, processing this new fact about Rebecca. Maybe he's still dreaming. "Well that's a surprise."

Then they go on to chat a bit, exchanging late night little facts about themselves until Rebecca gasps at the other end of the line. "I see it!"

"See what?"

"The moon."

"Stop. You're pulling my leg."

"I do. I swear. It's just a little thing, but it's right there above the roof next door."

"Well how about that. Guess it wanted to visit us both, huh?"

It was only supposed to be a one night stand for the freshly divorced Rebecca. She went into that bar with her friend, Sassy, to celebrate her newly found freedom (Sassy’s words, not hers). She wasn’t looking for a hookup, but the kind eyes somehow made her feel seen.

There wasn’t much talking between them that night. His accent told her it was safe. That they would never see each other again.

Imagine her surprise when she saw him walking down the corridor of her school with principal Higgins.

“Rebecca! I’d like you to meet Ted, our new PE teacher,” he laid a hand on the man’s shoulder and pointed at Rebecca with his other. “This is Rebecca Man- I mean Welton. She teaches maths. Ted here has come all the way from the US!”

“Howdy,” he greeted her, his eyes crinkled with recognition, but deciding to play along.

After the initial awkwardness of bumping into each other in the teachers’ lounge or the school hallways, they decided that it was best to forget about that night. Besides, she wasn’t ready to pursue a relationship this soon after the fiasco of her previous marriage. And he understood, his own hand bearing a thin, pale band on his otherwise sunkissed skin.

Neither of them could’ve known that their lives would forever change that night at the bar.

never seen | want to see | terrible | boring | okay | good | great | a favorite

25 - Lover - Noah Gundersen

50 - Losing You - Solange

75 - Nobody Speak - DJ Shadow, Run the Jewels

THE ABSOLUTE CUTEST SNOWFLAke

Watsonian: Pressing business concerns for the former, and an appointment at the Spellman mortuary in Greendale for the latter.