#grudd

Please be forreal and admit that if Grace was dead, the entire fanbase would be spiraling and coining the show as "ruining" one of the best couples of the series and unnecessarily killing one of their poc characters.

There's a lack of realism in Grace not rushing back home, but we know the reason of real-life vs crafting an acceptable cause of a tv show that doesn't remove Judd's "Heart" and go the cliché route of ending her legacy entirely through death, because their actor left the show. I know Judd was on his last leg at the time of their phone call, but there's not a world in which Judd would tell her his struggle if he thought it meant causing her to sacrifice her personal dreams. It's the same with Tommy, but she is hellbent on caring for herself and not reaching out to others for help, so it's pretty on brand for her during her cancer battle.

At least this way, Grace can live on, being present in season 4 and she doesn't join the list of characters meeting their end in sad tv deaths during their final season. Judd had to be lost, because it wasn't realistic for him any other way, while acknowledging her impact and paralleling him being at a point of wanting to end his life when he met her to feeling out of options once he didn't have her physically there for the first time in years, anymore.

We know Sierra McClain likely departed because of budget cuts and it all makes sense now that we know this season was all but definitively cancelled while they were filming, and I fully support her decision.

Music Monday!

I’ve been listening to more country music lately for musician AU research purposes because it’s a genre of music I am not very familiar with, and this song make me think so much of Judd and his love for Grace! (Also this artist is my main inspiration for the sound of Carlos's band in the musician AU which has a name now and a tentative posting date 👀)

She's a dream and look at me I know we're two worlds apart I'm a dead end, she's an amen But here we are

Peddling down that road to forever Settling down my raising hell, yeah

She's a million miles out of my league Anyone 'round here would say so Took all the broken parts of me Hid 'em underneath her halo

The way her hair lands on her shoulders Like the stars are falling down And every time I pull her closer My feet don't touch the ground Every night in any light, everyone can see Can't believe I found her The only thing not perfect about her is me