#contagiousgrace

[itspileofgoodthings]

🌟 Did my bi-monthly check of your blog, and you know I cannot resist a Jane Austen Personality ask game

(also praying for you in the new year and sending you so much love <3)

Grace!! thank you so much for the prayers and the love!!!! Will so very happily take both ❤️❤️❤️

Your Austen heroine: Emma Woodhouse

okay but Grace, right?? RIGHT?? Let me explain. So here is my usual caveat about all Austen heroes/heroines existing in a very specific set of circumstances with very specific flaws/character traits resulting from them. So please let me say you do not have Emma’s fatal flaw of interfering or her Extreme Blindness (I don’t think you would have bungled the Elton thing for example) but you do both have a very fascinating way of combining intellectual analysis and this very deep interest in personal relationships seen from a bit of a distance. Again Emma is so much bossier than you are and much more interested in sort of managing things, whereas I doubt you are interfering at all, but that same impulse of seeing the Bigger Picture and Seeing the Story in a way that is both analytical and yet not Coldly Detached in the way of Academia is the same!!! It’s the personal that draws you in, always, the relationship dynamics but you always have a strong view of what it is that you’re looking at and a desire to understand WHAT you’re looking at that IS analytical. You also do have a strong desire to arrange figures on the board and even sometimes shape the board itself; you see the possibilities ALWAYS in a way that’s very compelling.

There is also the same strong charm and the sense of moral duty that exists right alongside and yet also underneath that deep interest in people. Also you have a wonderful sense of, not exactly gathering people in but of stopping by their front porch or having people stop by yours for a friendly visit and that is so Emma to me. Like I love the bi-monthly visit! You are a visitor! And you have things to gather and to garner and to learn on the way. Tea to offer, gifts to bring. But you always have a home/central core to go back to when you’re finished like Emma does.

This is just my two cents/instinct. As always I could be way off base here.

[fictionadventurer]

26, 34 and 35 for the tv show ask game!

26. favourite TV show theme song?

Psych's theme is such a banger. ("I know you know!") Honorable mention to Cheers.

(Special category for best theme songs related to shows I don't watch much or at all: Monk and The Greatest American Hero.

35. who are your top 5 TV characters right now?

Clint Barton's the current favorite. Mostly because Hawkeye's the only show I'm currently watching. But the revelations in the last episode about how he doesn't consider himself a hero even for his SHIELD/Avengers work shot his character up in the rankings. It's all the Natasha complexity I loved in Winter Soldier, but even more nuanced because to us he's always been on the side of the heroes. I love it. I also dearly love Kate. I have no clue what's happening in the plot and suspect it makes no sense, but I watch solely because I love these characters and their dynamic.

The Eleventh Doctor. My shorthand for describing the characters I love most is "anyone like Eleven". He's kind and goofy and ancient and terrifying, warm-hearted and ice cold, confident and competent and a complete numbskull, and he can't resist helping a crying child. There are so many aspects of his character that can spin off into lots of different kinds of characters, all of which I love, but he's the only one who has it all.

Superman from Superman and Lois. He's a genuinely good-hearted, kind and humble person, and a superhero who's unique in the current tv landscape because he's confident in his role as a hero; he's already gone through the growing pains so you can see him at the height of his powers, yet he's still interesting to watch because it's the personal, human conflicts that matter. He's trying so hard to be a good dad, and he and Lois have one of the best tv marriages I've ever seen.

Lt. Commander Data. He's the most competent person on the ship and the most innocent and compassionate, always fascinated by humanity and struggling to figure out his place in the world. Plus he can be really funny.

Rhoda Morgenstern. A blunt and brutally funny woman, always steals any scene she's in on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

36. what TV character would you die for?

At the risk of taking this too literally, I'm going to say none of them, because they're fictional, and I'm not sacrificing my life for someone who doesn't exist.

(But also Rory Williams)

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Ooh I would love a song!

I feel you'd really be edited to Edge of Seventeen (my beloved) for some reason, or Wonders by S J Tucker (which I adore and you should totally listen to)!

Send me an ask I'll say what song I think fans would use for edits of you if you were a fictional character

[nuttmeg13]

Top 5 favorite Doctor Who characters (including different iterations of the doctor)!

This is.....hard. okay.

1. Amy Pond

2. Rory Williams

3. Clara Oswald

4. Martha Jones

5. Eleventh Doctor

6. Twelfth Doctor

Oops that was 6. Just put Rory on the same line as Amy and there's 5 😂

Send me top 5 favorites asks

[misscrawfords]

5 and 6 for end of year ask!

5. TV show of the year?

Oooh there have been a lot of good ones! Probably Lucifer gets the winning vote though. I mainlined it in the way I rarely get through anything these days. It’s fun, pretty, unexpectedly well-written, theologically interesting (?) and has the kind of redemption arc and enemies to friends to lovers slowburn ship of my dreams. 

But His Dark Materials is right up there with one episode to go. Absolutely fantastic.

6. Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you?

Oh goodness, I don’t know... I rarely remember a specific episode of anything.

I think instead I’ll go for all the episodes of shows I haven’t got round to watching because I’ve stopped watching shows half way through because I don’t seem to be able to finish stuff at the moment. So, here’s to all the unwatched episodes and unfinished shows!

End of year asks

[madamescarlette]

EDEN! I just tried sending a happy birthday but I don't know that it went through so here it goes again: my warm hearth friend, Happiest of Birthdays to you on this your magical Taylor Swift year! I'm always learning new things about you and they always increase my awe and admiration for you. I'm so thankful for your humor, generosity of spirt, and determination to find, hold and share joy however and whenever you find it. I pray this year is wonderful! Love you <3 <3 <3

GRACE OF GRACES. I love you so dearly!!! You amaze me daily with your beautiful, quick mind, your deep-reaching faith, your sharpness and sweetness that always seem to go hand in hand!!! I am so deeply grateful that you are my friend, darling. Thank you for coming to celebrate with me, and praying for me!! God bless you always! 💖💖💖💖

[illbeoutofthewoods]

Celeste! It's your brithday?? Happy Birthday!!! It sounds like it's been a less that ideal day, but I just want to say your presence in this world is loved and appreciated! I also have continually bad luck with birthdays turning into shitty days and it sucks. But I pray the year is far better than the day! <3 <3 <3

Yes Grace thank you !! Well by now it isn’t the 8th anymore but oh well. Yesterday was horrible but today was better, so it’s already looking up :D Thank you very much. I feel like the older you get it gets harder to have a nice birthday, or maybe it’s just us. Let’s hope the next ones turn out better !

Thank you for your prayers, they are greatly appreciated, and I do hope so <3<3<3

hope your day was/is good ❤️

[itspileofgoodthings]

Hello Maria!! Sending love from over here. Too many favorite lyrics to name BUT here are the ones that hit me on the face on my first listen and are also hitting me in the face today:

Break up, break free, break down. You would break your back to make me break a smile.

When my depression works the graveyard shift, all of the people I've ghosted stand there in the room.

I guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted, some kind of haunted. And I never think of him except on midnights like this (also all of Midnight Rain).

No one sees when you lose when you're playing solitaire.

I'd pay good money if you'd just know me.

'Cause there were bridges burned with the pages turned. Everything you lose is a step you take.

AND the ones that made me giggle with the cleverness and bight and humor:

Talk that talk and go viral. I just need this love spiral. Get it off your chest, get it off my desk.

She was on your mind with some dickhead guy that you saw last night, but you were something.

Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism like some kind of congressman?

Every line from Hits Different (which also breaks my heart)

Hi Grace!

Yes, love these choices!!! Get it off my desk sends me every time, I LOVE it.

Also I too love the “I guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted, some kind of haunted” from Midnight Rain.

And Hits Different, wow every single line really does hit different!