the reconciliation scene at the end of grace and frankie 3x06 has transformed my soul

also one of my problems is that in my sophomore year of high school i was traumatized by the musical carousel* and it has become my ur-musical and as a result my Musical Theatre Tropes programming is a little effed, like, i was trying to think of what ‘here comes the general’ reminds me of but in my way of figuring that out is a sonorous voice intoning ‘THEN AT LAST COME THE CLAMS.’ and it’s not, like, the biggest problem someone could have, but it’s, you know, a problem.

*i am not being casual with my use of the term trauma here, the guy who played billy barker, who was exactly the kind of guy you typecast to play billy barker, seduced me that fall/winter and not long after the show closed, raped me. so. ** also i had the overture stuck in my head for i am not kidding you nine years straight which may itself have been a trauma effect but in any case so help me if i hear anything like a theme park waltz i am not responsible for my reaction

the difference between the feeling that you are going to literally die if you do not get home and into a giant blanket-and-sweater-nest right now and the feeling of being home in a giant blanket-and-sweater-nest, oh my god

I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO SOB MY GUTS OUT ABOUT SCOTT AND BAILEY I HAVE TO WAKE UP IN FIVE HOURS CAN WE RESCHEDULE