boiiiiiiii more thoughts than I could write in an answer

to summarise, I guess: I adored the show, I found the humour and storylines so fun and the writing so fresh and it was the comedy show of my generation, the one we all went to school talking about the latest episode

and I, like many, adored Barney and Robin’s relationship, from Barney’s first crush, their first failed attempt at a relationship, the relapses - we powered through the seasons of forced other relationships clearly meant to just drag on the drama of those two, which I do get but also, not fun. and then the entire. fucking. last. season. was based around the weekend of their wedding. the ENTIRE last season was set on the weekend of their wedding.

and also to be fair to people who were more invested in Ted and the mother, literally the entire SHOW was obviously supposed to be the story of how Ted met the mother of his children. that was how it was supposed to end. with Ted meeting the mother and falling in love and telling his kids, “THAT’S how I met you mother.”

and in like 30 minutes the writers decided to shatter everything the show had become. they destroyed the long awaited and obviously built up destined love of Robin and Barney by having them get divorced, because Robin was too focused on her career, something that had been a part of her character and one of the obstacles she dealt with in relationships from the beginning, something Barney had accepted her for.

they shattered the entire point of the show being about meeting the mother, because in those last 30 minutes she had died and Ted was for the fifth time in love with Robin, and the entire point of him telling his kids his story was because he was nervous about getting their approval for dating (their AUNT) Robin.

all the more insulting by the fact that the only reason the writers decided to go with these horrible decisions is because that was the plan when they created the show, NINE YEARS EARLIER, before like 80% of what ended up happening had been planned, and they had recorded the kids early based off the original ending and they were like “well, the kids look the right age here, we’re lazy, let’s fuck up like 5 years of character and story development.”

it’s the original game of thrones. no, seriously. it was a show with such popularity and hype and was so beloved, and right when they needed to stick the landing, the writers got impatient and lazy and messy and destroyed their entire work. himym was talked about and hyped so consistently and so enthusiastically for so many years and with one decision they wiped himym from the pop culture map. no one talks about it anymore, no one writes about it anymore. good luck finding merch. good luck finding a fan that doesn’t get angry just thinking about how it ended. even now I have himym cravings and still find it so hard to enjoy earlier episodes knowing how it ends. that show was one of my all time favourites and I still love it to pieces, but also literally FUCK that show don’t talk to me about it.

not over the holidays, unfortunately as much as I love gaming it’s barely happened in years because of my depression. the last game I got, and the last game I played was last April when Ron got me the new Doom for my birthday. it’s absolutely incredible and so much fun (and crazy difficult but mostly cuz I’m a pretty shit gamer) but of course I didn’t get far before I just stopped playing. Ron has all kinds of plans for me to game once I move in lmao

And thank you for asking these, too!! <3

3 what's the best job you've ever had

Oofff maybe the one I have now. I'm good at it they're good to me except that they should pay me more. Oh pet sitting is pretty cool! I could never do enough of it/charge enough for it to make a living off of it alone I do it for the love of the game and creatures and every time I meet new pets I learn new cool stuff.

5 what's your favourite piece of furniture and where did you get it

Aww this is like maybe my favourite question on the list 🥺 I had to think for a minute but I do absolutely love my Billy bookshelf, I think probably partly because of where/how I got it. A number of years ago (maybe a decade or even more now 😬) my best friend and boyfriend took me to IKEA, it may have even been my first time at IKEA. We spent hours, ate meatballs, etc. I fell in love with Billy. White, with glass pane doors. We only bought small things, placemats, candles, we had gone on the train. A few weeks later was my birthday, we three were going out bowling I think. I was so excited for a fun night. These terrible people who loved me had hatched a plan behind my back! Hours before it was time to go, a knock at the front door. My boyfriend. With a clipboard. "Hi I have a delivery for um... *Checks notes* Kait?" 🥺😭 Had me sign the notebook paper he had clipped on and scribbled my name and "Billy bookshelf" 😍 he'd finished work hours early to pick it up and bring it to me. They'd bought it for me together as a gift. We three built it together the next day. That's a really precious happy memory, I'm really glad you asked and I got to think about it and tell it.

13 what are your hobbies

E V E R Y T H I N G. Word puzzles, crossword puzzles, reading. All kinds of yarn crafts. I used to be strictly knitting only, eventually finally I taught myself to crochet and now I'm doing A Lot of that! I got a lap loom recently so I've been thinking about weaving a lot, I made a tiny little fabric and started on a smaller one, intended to be a bookmark. I guess sailing now.

16 how long have you known your oldest friend