Here’s the sole comment I will allow myself: I wasn’t sure I had ten favorite tv shows? But here we are.

I was tagged by @eclecticmuses — thanks Steph!— to post a gif, not from a fandom in my header or bio, that represents my life. I’m cheating a little, because I can’t find a gif of this:

I certainly think that’s true, but I also think—and this is my personal opinion—that for every person there are certain foundational things that disagreements over throw up barriers of understanding. Not that two people who disagree about those things can’t be friends, but they speak to a fundamental difference between the two parties. To me, someone who dislikes Gaudy Night across the board (not, I mean, dislikes certain aspects of it or mysteries in general or whatever) likely disagrees with its positions on work, intellectual honesty, the balance of heart and head, the role and potential of a detective novel to explore the human condition, etc.—all things I feel strongly about. This gives us a different kind of relationship than people with whom I agree on these things. However, I want to also say that I am a very religious person and have many friends who disagree with me fundamentally in regards to my faith and it doesn’t keep us from being friends, so these barriers are not insuperable! By no means. :)

This has really pushed me to think about how to talk about how I think about this, so thank you!