#omg the tv show one was impossible lulz

[renee-walker]

top 3 christmas songs, top 3 tv episodes, top 3 books you've read with your kids!

Woah, you are not playing! Mmmmmay, here we GO.

Top three Christmas songs (a list that would change if you asked me in five minutes, but see me here trying!):

Carly Simon, ‘The Night Before Christmas’

Vienna Teng, ‘The Atheist Christmas Carol’

(totally cheating tie) Emmylou Harris, ‘Light of the Stable’ / Elvis Presley, ‘The Wonderful World of Christmas’

Top three tv episodes (acknowledging that this is actually impossible and again the list would probably change if you asked me in five minutes):

BSG, ‘The Hub’ – I am nothing if not the world’s most hopeless shipper, and this episode was one of the greatest shipping payoffs I’ve ever had the joy of experiencing in my lifetime. The entire sequence where Bill steps out of the raptor to find Laura waiting for him owns a ridiculously large piece of my soul. I waited four seasons for her to be ready to accept his love, and that wait was worth every second to get this scene. Every look, every touch, every tiny little sobbing gasp – I have them all fucking memorized. And only Adama could respond to the love of his life’s very first “I love you” with “About time.” Iconic.

China Beach, ‘Hello Goodbye’ – I wonder if anyone who follows me even has a clue what I’m talking about here, but anyway I was a very weird teenager and this was one of my two favorite shows. I can’t really explain why it’s on my favorite episode list, save that clearly I love pain. By the time I was ¾ of the way through this ep (the first time I watched it), I was using commercial breaks to curl in a ball on the floor of my downstairs bathroom, sobbing so violently that I couldn’t really breathe. So few shows end with what feels like a satisfying emotional payoff for the viewer. This one covered pretty much every last base, and not even in some sappy, cliche, unearned way. Everything wasn’t fine, not by a long shot. But these people who had shared an experience that no one else would ever be able to understand had gotten together to help each other exorcise a few of their demons. And I got to be there for it.

TWD, ‘No Sanctuary’ – My relationship with this show is so complex now, but there will probably never be a more perfect episode starring the love of my fictional life, Carol Peletier. To see this character I’d loved since the second she appeared onscreen pull herself together after the horror of ‘The Grove’ and save the entire goddamn group … I just can’t words. And no matter how I feel about a lot of things, the pure joy on her face when Daryl hugs her at the end is something I will always hold so tightly that nobody could pry it away from me if they tried.

Top three books I’ve read with my kids:

Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You. I don’t know how to tell my kids in words how much I love them, but this book was a good attempt.

J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter series. Yep, I know it’s eight books but I’m a cheating cheater who cheats. My kids aren’t the generation who grew up waiting for the latest HP book, but omg, I’ve been through the entire series with both of them at least twice (and with S three times), and it’s just part of our family culture. 

Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time. Lmao, neither of them love this book as much as I do, but since the book is kind of a statement of how I view the world, it’s something I cherish sharing with them. 

OMG THOSE WERE SO MUCH FUN TO ASNWER. Thank you for the awesome questions!!!

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