Accept the Rose

A Children's Treasury of Moments from ABC's The Bachelorette.

Anonymous asked: Bios are on ABCs website for the men and they included excerpts from their questionnaires. Is it too early to hire a handwriting expert to analyze their writing samples?

It would be fun to get a handwriting analysis done if I wasn’t a computer whose handwriting was “Arial”

o how the mighty have fallen

o how the mighty have fallen

That’s it, guys! The end. See you in May, when we can all watch along as Bachelorette “Dez” becomes less and less likeable!

Follow your dreams!

Love, ATR

Understand, I’ll slip quietly
Away from the noisy crowd
When I see the pale
Stars rising, blooming over the oaks.
I’ll pursue solitary pathways
Through the pale twilit meadows,
With only this one dream:
You come too.

- Rilke

The Bachelor, Season Finale

Taking off her heels, like, fuck this I have no one here to impress The Bachelor, Season Finale

Taking off her heels, like, fuck this I have no one here to impress

The Bachelor, Season Finale

Oh, when the room grows slowly dim,    And life’s last oil is nearly spent, One gush of light these eyes will brim, Only to think she came and went. - James Russell Lowell, 1882 The Bachelor, Season Finale

Oh, when the room grows slowly dim,   

And life’s last oil is nearly spent,

One gush of light these eyes will brim,

Only to think she came and went.

- James Russell Lowell, 1882

The Bachelor, Season Finale

“Through this whole journey I’ve become a strong, independent, secure woman… I can’t even wrap my mind around losing Sean. I can’t even think about it. My heart would be totally shattered.” - Contestant Loser Lindsay, demonstrating her profound grasp of what it means to finally be a strong, independent, secure woman! Yo go girl! The Bachelor, Season Finale

“Through this whole journey I’ve become a strong, independent, secure woman… I can’t even wrap my mind around losing Sean. I can’t even think about it. My heart would be totally shattered.”

- Contestant Loser Lindsay, demonstrating her profound grasp of what it means to finally be a strong, independent, secure woman! Yo go girl!

The Bachelor, Season Finale

apostrophiee asked: My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding on TLC is always a hot mess. Isn't that matchmaker show Are You Ready for Love or whatever starting soon too?

i’ve never heard of either of these, but the latter looks promising sort of

there you have it

thanks, apostrophiee (i just said that name out loud in a funny voice a few times, and i can’t stop laughing now)

Anonymous asked: Can you recommend any other monstrous, degrading freakshows to tide me over until Des begins her journey this summer? Because I've very much enjoyed seeing Yawn find the woman he'll spend the rest of his life with (just as soon as his Dancing with the Stars journey ends), and I fear that I'm now facing a major void in my existence.

i wish

don’t have a tv (will u buy me one?) and i only follow two shows

you will be facing a major void, but maybe that’s ok

face it, and come out on the other end a stronger person

you will be able to look at yourself in the mirror and know that you have overcome something monumental, something that might crush (wo)men weaker than u

(i’m also accepting recommendations for other “monstrous, degrading freakshows” from anyone else out there!)

Anonymous asked: What did you think of Sean's decision to choose Catherine?

she’s immature and obnoxious

but i’d rather watch her during their efforts to extend their 15 minutes than lindsay,

because of her irritating baby talk voice

she probably thinks it cute, but she sounds like she was molested

“The big things you need in a marriage - Sean and I have that. But then we have more than that: another woman! We have a friendship, and I really do think he’s my best friend.”* - Contestant Lindsay The Bachelor, Season Finale *sad!

“The big things you need in a marriage - Sean and I have that. But then we have more than that: another woman! We have a friendship, and I really do think he’s my best friend.”*

- Contestant Lindsay

The Bachelor, Season Finale


*sad!

“My mother believes that if I’m in love with both of them, I shouldn’t propose to either of them.” - Bachelor Yawn The Bachelor, Season Finale …are you expecting us to agree with you

“My mother believes that if I’m in love with both of them, I shouldn’t propose to either of them.”

- Bachelor Yawn

The Bachelor, Season Finale

…are you expecting us to agree with you

“I wouldn’t be here if it was going to end badly.” - Bachelor Yawn The Bachelor, Season Finale thank god the producers let him know how it’s going to end

“I wouldn’t be here if it was going to end badly.”

- Bachelor Yawn

The Bachelor, Season Finale

thank god the producers let him know how it’s going to end

Anonymous asked: You never weighed in on AshLee's ShocKing ReveLations from The Women Tell All. I find the "AshLee is crazy" and "Sean is secretly a horrible person" hypotheses to be equally compelling. What do you think? Do you have any sources who know what really happened that night in the Chastity Suite?

I think they are both telling the truth. He probably did say that or something close enough and doesn’t remember it now, but as we have come to learn, AshLee doesn’t let anything go, ever. Men and women/mars and venus, amiright?!


While I have no sources regarding the chastity suite, I did just find out that someone I know, knows Des’ roommate?! I know they’re already filming in LA now, so she’s not living in the Valley right now, but darnit if I ain’t gonna at least try to meet her, then my name ain’t accepttherose.tumblr.com! Also I know someone (same friend! weird, right?) who once bartended one of the rose ceremonies from Brad’s second season.