Accept the Rose

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?

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:54:49 -0700

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

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:42:37 -0700

o how the mighty have fallen

The entire second season of Burning Love is online, FYI

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:50:15 -0700

The entire second season of Burning Love is online, FYI:

Those of you that watched Ashley’s season will appreciate the story arc of BL.

That’s it, guys! The end. See you in May, when we can all watch along as Bachelorette...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:52:26 -0700

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...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:46:37 -0700

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...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:24:05 -0700

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...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:20:00 -0700

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,...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:07:52 -0700

“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

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?

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:11:00 -0700

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)

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.

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:40:26 -0700

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!)

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

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:19:46 -0700

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....

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:50:08 -0700

“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...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:00:55 -0700

“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...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:01:41 -0700

“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

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?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:27:00 -0700

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.

obviously you are not a catherine fan. am i right?

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:25:13 -0700

i am a fan of precisely no one on this show

“Yeah, it’s hard… I’m…...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:01:09 -0700

“Yeah, it’s hard… I’m… takin’ in what you say, but at the same time, all you’ve seen is… 20 minutes…”*

- Bachelor Macklemore, to his mother

The Bachelor, Season Finale

*As opposed to the month that I’ve had with both of them! GOD MOM

“My greatest fear is that he’s not absolutely sure,...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:51:25 -0700

“My greatest fear is that he’s not absolutely sure, and proposes. Because if you’re about to propose to somebody in the next two or three days, and you’re not sure… it makes it a little difficult for me to hope that he proposes to either one of them.”

- Mrs Yawn, who doesn’t know very much does she, it is totally possible for him to be exactly as in love as he is with two different women and in the next 24 hours all will be revealed when he decides that he cannot live without one over the other, shut up and believe in the process

The Bachelor, Season Finale

“We have the best time being goofy, but when it’s...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:01:47 -0700

“We have the best time being goofy, but when it’s time to be serious, we can be serious.”

- Contestant Lindsay

The Bachelor, Season Finale

EXACTLY WHEN on this network reality show where you see him once a week while you’re flying around the world for free, have you found the time to be serious or even disagree about anything? Enlighten us, please!

“And honestly, like, on our first date, it felt like our...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:24:10 -0700

“And honestly, like, on our first date, it felt like our fifth date!”

- Contestant Lindsay

The Bachelor, Season Finale

SOUNDS LIKE YOU’RE READY FOR MARRIAGE THEN!