#Doyle McMaster

[elevenenthusiast]

[megumiifushiiguro]

GILMORE GIRLS 5.06 | Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant

[jessmmariano]

As much as I like Doyle and Paris together, them getting divorced in AYITL makes so much sense. Like it’s so them.

[winnie-the-monster]

“Paris, no offense to nanny and her magic healing balm. But when I came over here I thought you would take care of me.”

“I am taking care of you. I brought you nanny.”

“I don’t want nanny. I’m scared of nanny. Can’t you take it from here?”

“No.”

“Why?”

“Sick people freak me out.”

“You’re pre-med.”

[bluebooks1]

They referenced Buffy The Vampire Slayer in Gilmore Girls A Year in The Life but Doyle plays Jonathon in BtVS so that can't work, my brain cannot handle that

[anxiouspotatorants]

This is a direct attack on my boy Glenn Babble but otherwise I’m proud of you guys

I can finally do polls.

[frazzledsoul]

Okay, do OG Gilmore Girls fans want to feel old? I'm afraid to step outside my house right now, so I'm going to tally up the ages of the show's kids.

Clara Forester, Dean's younger sister: I may be off about this, but I think she is now...32?! Wait, that can't be right.

April Nardini: She is now 30. What?!

Georgia "Gigi" Hayden: 20. I'm convinced she became a Parisian Jess and fronts a punk band somewhere in Europe.

Davey Belleville: 19. Get out of town, y'all.

Martha Belleville: 18. Bitch, uh uh.

Doula (do we even know this child's last name?), Steve Van Gerbig, Kwan Van Der Gerbig: 16. What?! All these kids are driving around Stars Hollow now? Lane has two TEENAGERS?! NOOOO.

Unknown Third Belleville Child: 15.

Gabriela and Timoteo McMaster, Paris and Doyle's tykes: This is a guess, but I think they'd be about 11 and 9 now, if you figure they were 4 and 2 in AYITL.

Rory's hypothetical AYITL spawned child: 6.

[doumekiss]

2024

Fanfiction

Inside Your Head - 51/51 (ORV, Joongdok)

Doodling - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Labru)

A Life in Your Shape - 1/? (Dungeon Meshi, Labru)

If I'm Lucky - Oneshot (Yellowjackets, Taivan)

The Beginning of Something New - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Laishuro)

when you kill the lights, and kiss my eyes (I feel like a person for a moment of my life) - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Labru)

Oh...oh no - 2/2 (Dungeon Meshi, Labru + Mithrun)

Flavors - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Farcille + Laios)

White Day - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Labru)

Interesting Facts About Cicadas - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Laishuro)

What are your intentions with my brother? - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Labru + Farcille)

Ramen Noodles - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Mithmil)

I knew nothing of romance (but it was love at second sight) - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Mithmil)

Kabru's Great Regret - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Labru + Mithrun)

It's love's illusions I recall - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Kabru and Rin)

Breasting Boobily - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Cithadol)

Xerochrysum - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Farcille)

Whatever this world can give to me (It's you, you're all I see) - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Mickbell and Kuro + Chilchuck)

If the fire in your chest goes out (well I'll hold you all the same) - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Mithrun and his Brother)

will I find you when the night is over? - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Chilshi)

Elf Cake - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Kabru and Mithrun + Mithmil)

Heartache - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Farcille)

Poison Paradise - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Cithadol)

Motherhood - Oneshot (Dungeon Meshi, Milsiril and Kabru)

The Royal Advisor Did WHAT With The King? - 15/? (Dungeon Meshi, Labru)

TV Shows Seasons/Series 

1. Meet The Richardsons - S01 - ★★★★

2. Ghosts (cbs) - S01 - ★★★★★ 

3. Ghosts (cbs)- S02 - ★★★★★ 

4. Upstart Crow - S01 - ★★★★

5. Upstart Crow - S02 - ★★★★

6. Link Click - S01 - ★★★★

7. Link Click - S02 - ★★★★

8. Shadows House - S01 - ★★★★★ 

9. Shadows House - S02 - ★★★★★ 

10. Abbott Elementary - S02 - ★★★★

11. The Curious Case of Natalia Grace - S01 - ★★★★

12. The Curious Case of Natalia Grace - S02 - ★★★

13. Extraordinary - S02 - ★★★★

15. The Apothecary Diaries - S01 - ★★★★★ 

16. Sousou no Frieren - S01 - ★★★★★ 

17. Mashle - S01 - ★★★

18. We Are Lady Parts - S01 - ★★★★★ 

19. Ghosts (cbs) - S03 - ★★★★

20. Rick and Morty - S06 - ★★★

21. Dungeon Meshi - S01 - ★★★★★ 

22. Smiling Friends - S01 - ★★★★

23. Interview With The Vampire - S02 - ★★★★★ 

24. Smiling Friends - S02 - ★★★★

25. Bob’s Burgers - S14 - ★★★★

26. Rick and Morty - S07 - ★★★

27. Handa-Kun - S01 - ★★★★

28. Dead Boy Detectives - S01 - ★★★★

29. Servant - S01 - ★★★★

30. Taskmaster - S16 - ★★★★

31. Star Trek : Deep Space 9 - S06 - ★★★★★ 

32. Tanaka-Kun is Always Listless - S01 - ★★★★

33. Train To The End of The World - S01 - ★★★

34. Taskmaster - S17 - ★★★★★ 

35. Star Trek : Deep Space 9 - S07 - ★★★★

36. Superstore - S01 - ★★★★★ 

Books and Comics 

January 

1. Unruly (David Mitchell) - ★★★★

2. And Put Away Childish Things (Adrian Tchaikovsky) - ★★★★

3. Patricia Wants to Cuddle (Samantha Allen) - ★★★

4. Earth Fathers Are Weird (Lyn Gala) - ★★★★

5. Earth Husbands Are Odd (Lyn Gala) - ★★★★

6. Flashforward (Robert J. Sawyer) - ★★★

7. Elder Race (Adrian Tchaikovsky) - ★★★★★ 

8. A Haunting on the Hill (Elizabeth Hand) - ★★★

9. Marigold and Rose (Louise Gluck) - ★★★★

10. Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (James Baldwin) - ★★★★

11. Tress of the Emerald Sea (Brandon Sanderson) - ★★★★★ 

12. Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943 (Erica Fischer) - ★★★★

13. Breadcrumbs (Anne Ursu) - ★★★

14. The Borrowers (Mary Norton) - ★★★

15. The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Brandon Sanderson) - ★★★★

16. The Commitments (Roddy Doyle) - ★★★

17. The Art Thief (Michael Finkel) - ★★★★

18. Barrayar (Lois McMaster Bujold) - ★★★★★ 

19. This Book May Save Your Life (Karan Rajan) - ★★★★

20. The Salt Grows Heavy (Cassandra Khaw) - ★★★

21. The Year of the Hare (Arto Paasilinna) - ★★★

22. A Dog's Heart (Mikhail Bulgakov) - ★★★★

23. Crooked House (Agatha Christie) - ★★★★

24. Goodbye, My Rose Garden (Dr. Pepperco) - ★★★★

25. Kissing the Witch (Emma Donahue) - ★★★★★ 

26. The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern) - ★★★

27. Meruhen Na Otoko Tachi (Itsuki, Makoto) - ★★★★

28. Murikon. (Makoto Itsuki) - ★★★

29. You're Not a Girl in a Movie (Hala Alyan) - ★★★★

30. The Arkadians (Lloyd Alexander) - ★★★

31. The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) - ★★★★★ 

February 

1. Poor Things (Alasdair Gray) - ★★★★

2. Night (Elie Wiesel) - ★★★★

3. Carnaval (Manuel Bandeira) - ★★

4. Sins of the Black Flamingo (Andrew Wheeler; Tradd Moore) - ★★★

5. Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) - ★★★★★ 

6. Sentimento Do Mundo (Carlos Drummond De Andrade) - ★★★★

7. The Woman in Me (Britney Spears) - ★★★★

8. Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome (James Kinross) - ★★★★

9. Songs of Innocence and Experience (William Blake) - ★★★★

10. Estrela Da Tarde (Manuel Bandeira) - ★★★★

11. The Maidens (Alex Michaelides) - ★★★★

12. When Marnie Was There (Joan G. Robinson) - ★★★★

13. Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe) - ★★★★★ 

14. Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome) - ★★★

15. Redemption in Indigo (Karen Lord) - ★★★★

16. The Warrior's Apprentice (Lois McMaster Bujold) - ★★★★

17. Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich) - ★★★★★ 

18. The Egg and Other Stories (Andy Weir) - ★★★★

19. Dogs of Summer (Andrea Abreu) - ★★★

20. Ruthless (Dumplone) - ★★★

21. Kay's Anatomy (Adam Kay) - ★★★★

22. Way Station (Clifford D. Simak) - ★★★★

23. Palepoli (Usamura Furuya) - ★★★

24. The Princess in Black (Shannon Hale & Dean Hale) - ★★★★

25. The Princess in Black and the Perfect Princess Party (Shannon Hale) - ★★★

26. The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde (Shannon Hale) - ★★★★

27. The Colossus and Other Poems (Sylvia Plath) - ★★★★

28. Winter Trees (Sylvia Plath) - ★★★★

29. The Gods Themselves (Isaac Asimov) - ★★★

March

1. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - ★★★★★

2. The Woman in the Purple Skirt (Natsuko Imamura) - ★★★★

3. Contos Negreiros (Marcelino Freire) - ★★★

4. Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach) - ★★★

5. The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) - ★★★★

6. Void (Zariya) - ★★★

7. On Palestine (Noam Chomsky) - ★★★★

8. The Martian (Andy Weir) - ★★★★★ 

9. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) - ★★★★

10. Foster (Claire Keegan) - ★★★

11. Blood of the Sun (Yang Seonghyeon) - ★★★

12. The Eternal Husband (Fyodor Dostoevsky) - ★★★

13. The White Darkness (David Grann) - ★★★

14. Shadows House (Somato) - ★★★★★ 

15. Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb) - ★★★★

16. Royal Assassin (Robin Hobb) - ★★★★

17. Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons) - ★★★

18. Sexing the Cherry (Jeanette Winterson) - ★★★★

19. Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science (Erika Engelhaupt) - ★★★★

20. The Story of China (Michael Wood) - ★★★

21. Kieta Hatsukoi (Hinekure Wataru, Aruko) - ★★★★★ 

22. Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima) - ★★★★

23. Jamais Peço Desculpas Por Me Derramar (Ryane Leão) - ★★★★

24. This Won't Help : Modest Proposals for a More Enjoyable Apocalypse (Eli Grober) - ★★★★

25. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke) - ★★

26. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai) - ★★★

27. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov) - ★★★★

28. The Prince of Mist (Carlos Ruiz Zafón) - ★★★★

29. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie) - ★★★★

30. Lincoln's Dreams (Connie Willis) - ★

31. Goodbye, Eri (Tatsuki Fujimoto) - ★★★★

32. The Call of the Wild (Jack London) - ★★★★

33. Rutka's Notebook (Ruth Laskier) - ★★★

34. The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa) - ★★★★★ 

35. Jane of Lantern Hill (L.M. Montgomery) - ★★★

36. The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes on (Franny Choi) - ★★★★

37. Deliberate Cruelty (Roseanne Montillo) - ★★★

38. Final Chapters: How Famous Authors Dies (Jim Bernhard) - ★

39. Shirahime-Syo (Clamp) - ★★★

40. Via Láctea (Olavo Bilac) - ★★★

41. The Goodbye Cat (Hiro Arikawa) - ★★★★

42. The Hole (Hiroko Oyamada) - ★★★

43. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Jeff Kinney) - ★★★★

April

1. The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie) - ★★★

2. Erio and the Electric Doll (Mujirushi Shimazaki) - ★★★★

3. The Watcher in the Shadows (Carlos Ruiz Zafon) - ★★★

4. Romanceiro Da Inconfidência (Cecília Meireles) - ★★★★

5. Ordeal by Innocence (Agatha Christie) - ★★★ 

6. Tao Te Ching (Lao-Tzu) - ★★★★

7. Schoolgirl (Osamu Dazai) - ★★★★

8. Billy Budd, Sailor (Melville, Herman)

9. The Princess in Black Takes a Vacation (Shannon Hale) - ★★★

10. The Princess in Black and the Perfect Playdate (Shannon Hale) - ★★★★

11. Princess in Black and the Science Fair Scare (Shannon Hale) - ★★★

12. The Princess in Black and the Bathtime Battle (Shannon Hale) - ★★★

13. The Princess in Black and the Giant Problem (Shannon Hale) - ★★★★

14. Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan) - ★★★★

15. The Lover (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) - ★★★

16. The Grandmothers (Doris Lessing) - ★★★

17. Kindergarten Wars (Yuu Chiba) - ★★★

18. The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky) - ★★★★

19. Grendel (John Gardner) - ★★★

20. Sleeping Dead (Asada Nemui) - ★★★★★ 

21. Dear, My God (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

22. Deen, My Love (Asada Nemui) - ★★★★

23. Madara Moyou No Yoi (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

24. The Pale Horse (Agatha Christie) - ★★★★

25. Call (Asada Nemui) - ★★★★

26. Ai, Sei (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

27. Takatora-Kun to Omegatachi (Asada Nemui) - ★★★★

28. Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi) - ★★★

29. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro) - ★★★★★ 

30. The Flowers of Buffoonery (Osamu Dazai) - ★★★

31. If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin) - ★★★★

32. Skin (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

33. Magma (Thora Hjörleifsdóttir) - ★★★★

34. Dreaming in Code : Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer (Emily Arnold McCully) - ★★★★

May

1. Wyrd Sisters (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★★ 

2. Witches Abroad (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

3. Starve Acre (Andrew Michael Hurley) - ★★★★

4. Feet of Clay (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★★ 

5. Jingo (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

6. Hare No Hi (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

7. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)- ★★★

8. A House With Good Bones (T. Kingfisher) - ★★★★

9. The Premonition (Banana Yoshimoto) - ★★★

10. Ani No Chuukoku (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

11. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - ★★★

12. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (Yukio Mishima) - ★★★

13. Going Postal (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★★ 

14. Making Money (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★★ 

15. The City and the Pillar (Gore Vidal) - ★★★★

16. Every Man for Himself and God Against All (Werner Herzog) - ★★★★

17. The Story of Doctor Dolittle (Hugh Lofting) - ★★★

18. Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing and Light (Nikita Gill) - ★★★

19. Myra Breckenridge (Gore Vidal) - ★★★

20. Oratório De Santa Maria Egipcíaca (Cecília Meireles) - ★★★

21. Loved Circus (Asada Nemui) - ★★★

22. The Truth (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★★

23. The Mountain in the Sea (Ray Nayler) - ★★★★

24. Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne) - ★★★

25. A Theory of Haunting (Sarah Monette) - ★★★

26. Dialogue (Robert McKee) - ★★★★

June 

1. Sleep Donation (Karen Russell) - ★★

2. The Islands of Chaldea (Diana Wynne Jones) - ★★★

3. Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin) - ★★★★

4. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Anthony Bourdain) - ★★★★

5. Rivals! Frenemies Who Changed the World (Scott McCormick) - ★★★★

6. Rivals 2! More Frenemies Who Changed the World (Scott McCormick) - ★★★

7. The Goblin Reservation (Clifford Simak) - ★★★★

8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon) - ★★★★

9. Casino Royale (Ian Fleming) - ★

10. Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Kevin Wilson) - ★★★★

11. Outlaw Marriages (Rodger Streitmatter) - ★★★★

12. Before the Ever After (Jacqueline Woodson) - ★★★

13. Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words (Joni Mitchell & Malka Marom) - ★★★★

14. Cumbe (Marcelo D'salete) - ★★★★

15. Shy (Max Porter) - ★★★

16. Alien Clay (Adrian Tchaikovsky) - ★★★★

17. Trinta E Poucos (Antonio Prata) - ★★★★

18. Noite Luz (Marcelo D'salete) - ★★★

19. O Meu Amigo Pintor (Lygia Bojunga) - ★★★★

20. If Cats Disappeared From the World (Genki Kawamura) - ★★★★

21. The Postman (Antonio Skármeta) - ★★★

22. Ten Drugs (Thomas Hager) - ★★★★

23. Black Paradox (Junji Ito) - ★★★★

24. Service Model (Adrian Tchaikovsky) - ★★★★

25. The Duel (Anton Chekhov) - ★★★

26. The Depth of the Sky (Kohinata Maruko and Sakurai Mina) - ★★★★

July

1. Sherbet Above The Sea of Fog (Ppeowapiwasal) - ★★★★

2. Sensor (Junji Ito) - ★★★

3. 4. Pity (Andrew McMillan) - ★★★

4. Talking About Detective Fiction (P. D. James) - ★★★★

5. The Bow (Sasaki Kuroda) 

6. Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine (Kevin Wilson) - ★★★★

7. Kill The Male Lead To Become The Villainess (Shisi Xia Xiang) - ★★★

8. Maskerade (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

9. Why We Get Sick (Randolph M. Nesse and George C. Williams) - ★★★★★

10. 84, Charing Cross Road (Helene Hanff) - ★★★★

11. The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) - ★★★★

12. O Jumento Que Foi Á Lua 

13. Rendezvous With Rama (Arthur C. Clarke) - ★★★★

14. Strange Sally Diamond (Liz Nugent) - ★★

15. The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt) - ★★★★

16. Mort (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

17. Soul Music (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

18. Caffeine (Michael Pollan) - ★★★

19. Novelist as a Vocation (Haruki Murakami) - ★★★

20. Star Trek : Revenant (Alex White) - ★★★★

21. The Sea and The Little Fishes (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

22. Beacon 23 (Hugh Howey) - ★★★

23.Ascendance of a Bookworm: Daughter of a Soldier Vol. 1 (Miya Kazuki) - ★★★★

24. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Daughter of a Soldier Vol. 2 (Miya Kazuki) - ★★★★

25. Only You Can Save Mankind (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★

26. Elevation (Stephen King) - ★★★

27. The Gilda Stories (Jewelle Gomez) - ★★★★

28. The Cry of The Owl (Patricia Highsmith) - ★★

29. The Fifth Elephant (Terry Pratchett) - ★★★★

30. Shakespeare For Squirrels (Christopher Moore) - ★★★

31. Welcome to the OC : The Oral History (Alan Sepinwall) - ★★★★★

32. Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami) - ★★★

33. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Seanan McGuire) - - ★★★★

August

1. Paldin's Grace (T. Kingfisher) - ★★★★

2. Little Lord Funtleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) - - ★★★

3. Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier) - ★★★★

4. Paladin's Strenght (T. Kingfisher) - - ★★★★

Movies 

January 

1. Totally Killer (2023) - ★★★★

2. The Estate (2022) - ★★

3. On Chesil Beach (2018) - ★★★

4. Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) - ★★★★

5. Mean Girls (2004) - ★★★★★ 

6. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - ★★★★

7. Jaws (1975) - ★★★

8. The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) - ★★★★

9. Chicago (2002) - ★★★★★ 

10. Next Goal Wins (2023) - ★★★★

11. See How They Run (2022) - ★★★

12. Bottoms (2023) - ★★★★★ 

13. Eileen (2023) - ★★★★

14. The Bishop's Wife (1947) - ★★★★

15. 12 Angry Men (1957) - ★★★★★ 

16. Torch Song Trilogy (1988) - ★★★★

17. Don't Bother to Knock (1952) - ★★★

18. The Divorcee (1930) - ★★★

19. Scooby-Doo (2002) - ★★★★

February 

1. Saltburn (2023) - ★★★★

2. Milli Vanilli (2023) - ★★★★

3. Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (2021) - ★★★

4. Ishtar (1987) - ★★

5. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - ★★★

6. Ivy (1947) - ★★★

7. Hotel Transylvania (2012) - ★★★

8. Gone Girl (2014) - ★★★★★ 

9. American Fiction (2023) - ★★★★

10. Surf's Up (2007) - ★★★

11. The Godfather (1972) - ★★★★

March

1. Poor Things (2023) - ★★★★

2. Mean Girls (2024) - ★★

3. Happy Death Day (2017) - ★★★★★ 

4. Cold Comfort Farm (1995) - ★★★

5. Shiva Baby (2021) - ★★★★

6. The Three Faces of Eve (1957) - ★★★★★ 

7. Dicks: The Musical (2023) - ★★★★★ 

8. Analyze This (1999) - ★★★

9. The Mask (1994) - ★★★

10. What's Up, Doc? (1972) - ★★★★★ 

11. The End of the Affair (1999) - ★★★

12. The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004) - ★★★★

13. Shrek (2001) - ★★★★★ 

14. Leave Her to Heaven (1945) - ★★★★★ 

April

1. Bell, Book and Candle (1958) - ★★★★

2. The Company of Wolves (1984) - ★★★★★ 

3. Sabrina (1954) - ★★★★★ 

4. Getulio (2014) - ★★★★

5. The Croods (2013) - ★★★★

6. The Heiress (1949) - ★★★★★ 

7. The Dark Mirror (1946) - ★★★★

8. In This Our Life (1942) - ★★★

9. The Remains of the Day (1993) - ★★★★★ 

10. My Best Fiend (1999) - ★★★★★ 

11. Burden of Dreams (1982) - ★★★★★ 

12. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) - ★★★★★ 

13. All About Eve (1950) - ★★★★★ 

14. It's Love I'm After (1937) - ★★★★

15. Encounters at the End of the World (2007) - ★★★★★ 

16. Grizzly Man (2005) - ★★★★★ 

17. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? - ★★★★

18. Stand-In (1937) - ★★★

19. The Petrified Forest (1936) - ★★★★

20. The House of the Seven Gables (1940) - ★★★★

May

1. Auntie Mame (1958) - ★★★★

2. Shrek (2001) - ★★★★★ 

3. Late Night With the Devil (2024) - ★★★★★ 

4. Biosphere (2023) - ★★★★

5. Gone With the Wind (1939) - ★

6. House of Wax (1953) - ★★★★

7. The Whales of August (1987) - ★★★

8. Myra Breckinridge (1970) - ★★

9. Precautions Against Fanatics (1969) - ★★

10. May December (2023) - ★★★★

11. Lucy and Desi (2022) - ★★★★★ 

12. Creep (2014) - ★★★★★ 

13. Creep 2 (2017) - ★★★★★ 

14. Abigail (2024) - ★★★

15. Gosford Park (2001) - ★★★★

16. Clockwatchers (1997) - ★★★

17. Rashomon (1950) - ★★★★

18. Rosaline (2022) - ★★★

19. Challengers (2024) - ★★★★

20. Matilda (1996) - ★★★★★ 

21. Re-Animator (1985) - ★★★

22. Shadow of the Vampire (2000) - ★★★

23. Dragonwyck (1946) - ★★★★

24. Vincent (1982) - ★★★★

June

1. The Frog Princess (1954) - ★★★★

2. I'm No Angel (1933) - ★★★

3. Coherence (2013) - ★★★★

4. Exam (2009) - ★★★

5. How to Murder Your Husband: The Nancy Brophy Story (2023) - ★★★

6. In the Soup (1992) - ★★★

7. She Done Him Wrong (1933) - ★★★

8. Blonde in Black Leather (1975) - ★★★★

9. The Philadelphia Story (1940) - ★★★★★ 

10. The Night of the Hunter (1955) - ★★★★★ 

11. Rebecca (1940) - ★★★★

12. Inside Out 2 (2024) - ★★★

July 

1. Tripping (2024) - ★★★★

2. Tall, Dark and Handsome (2023) - ★★★★

3. The Orgy (2018) - ★★★★

4. Lady Brentley’s End (2022) - ★★★

5. Home (2015) - ★★★★

6. The Silence of The Lambs (1991) - ★★★★★ 

7. Rain Man (1988) - ★★★★

8. The Super Mario Bros Movie (2023) - ★★★★

9. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) - ★★★★

10. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) - ★★★★

11. Faye (2024) - ★★★★

12. Mommie Dearest (1981) - ★★

[happyk44]

[Text ID: One of the biggest markers for maturity is when you become willing to disappoint the people you love in favour of what feels right to you, when you start to unravel the stories you've told yourself (or been told) about who you are and what you should be. These stories are the pillars that hold up to the jenga-tower that is our ego. As we start to remove them one by one, the whole thing begins to tumble down. This is the process of individuation: becoming who you truly are instead of who you want to be for others. Disappointing people is practically a rite of passage in creating a life that is yours, rather than one your parents, family, friends or even a younger, more conditioned version of yourself might have imagined for you. /end ID]

https://twitter.com/isabelunraveled

[jojoblessed365]

Okay, @jessmmariano :

I just had this crazy thought - has anyone seen parallels between Lane, Rory and Paris's love interests?

So, to put it like this:

Henry Cho --- Dean Forrester --- Tristan Dugray

["Epic" First Loves]

Dave Rygalski --- Jess Mariano --- Jamie (no last name)

[Soulmate kind of loves]

Zach Van Gerbig --- Logan Huntzberger --- Doyle McMaster

[Kind of okay but boring and not-set-up-for-endgame loves?]

What do you think???

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

""RED" DOYLE TAKEN TO MONTREAL JAIL," Toronto Star. February 8, 1934. Page 13. --- Alleged Gunman Will Face Robbery Charges ---- Harold "Red" Doyle, alleged Montreal gunman wanted there on armed robbery charges, was taken from the Don jail under heavy police guard last night, placed on a train in charge of Montreal detectives and taken back to the Quebec city.

Doyle, who came to Toronto last week to celebrate with his wife their fifth wedding anniversary, was arrested Monday morning while asleep in bed, by Detectives Clarke, McMaster, Koster and Whitelaw. A.32 calibre revolver was later found buried in the cellar.

Doyle will face the Montreal charges with Henry Wilson, who was arrested in Montreal shortly after the arrest here of Doyle. When Wilson was arrested in a Montreal apartment, some $1,000 worth of morphine was recovered, it is alleged.

[alfvaen]

Leap Novel

Here comes another book roundup post, for the books I read in February 2024. What are the odds? It's amazing.

Actual book list and ramblings below the cut, so let me just say that's there's potential spoilers within for Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga, Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series, Kristen Painter's Comarré series, and maybe more.

At the end of January I had managed to get myself a little bit ahead on my Goodreads challenge, which I usually take advantage of by knocking off one of the thick books which can sometimes clog up my shelf. (Maybe if I set my Goodreads challenge count a little bit lower, I could read more of them…but maybe at the moment this is about the right level of long books for me anyway.) This slot was for a "female diversity" book, which presented me with a few choices (for some reason I have a lot less trouble with this one than I do with the male diversity slot), and I even had three possibilities which would result in my finishing off a series…N.K. Jemisin's The World We Made, C.L. Polk's Soulstar, and the one I went with, because it was the thickest of the three…

Fonda Lee: Jade Legacy, completed February 9

I first ran across Fonda Lee at the When Words Collide festival in Calgary, where she had YA SF books like Zeroboxer and Exo, but then Jade City came out and I was intrigued. I enjoyed the first two books, which are set in an interesting alternate world which is kind of analogous to our own. The map is completely different, but most of the places map to our world if you squint. The story centers around the island of Kekon, which is vaguely Japan-coded (though, for instance, there were no nuclear bombs dropped on it in their All Nations War, so it's not exact). It's set in an era which is basically the late 20th century (people have cars and phones, but not as many computers). But there's also jade, which is special.

Many of the inhabitants of Kekon are Green Bones, which means that they can wear jade and use it to do extraordinary things--healing, telekinesis, sensing other jade users, protecting themselves, giving themselves strength, etc. Others can also use jade, but only with the help of dangerous drugs. The Green Bones have formed into various clans, and at this start of the story Kekon is mostly divided between two rivals, No Peak and Mountain, who between them dominate the Kekonese government, and are frequently engaged in bloody internecine conflict. Mostly we follow the Kaul family, the leaders of No Peak, in a family saga which makes me think of, say, James Clavell (though admittedly I've only ever watched the "Shogun" miniseries and haven't read his actual books) or maybe The Godfather (which I haven't even watched), or at least what I think they would be like.

By the third book the (surviving) main characters from the previous books are moving into middle age and we're getting a new generation rising up, and we're covering lots of other territory--particularly Espenia, the American analogue, which is in a "Slow War" with its rival Ygutan (Russia), and who is eager to use jade for their military but still forbids Kekonese immigrants from using it. The book is probably as long as the first two books in the series combined, but there are a lot of plot threads and characters to follow, and plenty of exciting scenes and satisfactory resolutions. Well done. (There is a novella set in the same world, "The Jade Setter of Janloon", which I should probably read sometimes as well.)

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study In Scarlet, completed February 11

A few decades ago I read something called The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes, a book I'd borrowed from a friend named Julia. I don't know if I'd read any actual Sherlock Holmes before then, though I was of course aware of him (how not?) and had seen bits of various adaptations. That book contained a number of stories, as well as the novel The Hound of The Baskervilles. It was years before I learned that what I had read was by no means the entirety of the Holmes cycle, and that there were in fact three other novels: A Study In Scarlet, The Sign of Four (or is it The Sign of The Four? I've seen both), and The Valley of Fear. At some point I picked up a huge coffee-table book "complete" collection, which seems like it does contain the novels as well as various collections. (Though it's not everything Doyle wrote--I have read a collection called When The World Screamed of mostly non-Holmes stories which do not seem to be in here.)

What gave me the impetus to actually maybe read them, though, was my reading, last year, of Sarah "Katherine Addison" Monette's Angel of The Crows. Not related to the magnificant The Goblin Emperor as the other Addison works have been, this was in fact an homage to Sherlock Holmes, in which the detective is an angel named Crow, in a London with other supernatural creatures such as werewolves. It became clear, as I read the book, that it was likely doing more than just "a tribute to Holmes", but that it was recasting several actual Holmes stories into this alternate supernatural London. In particular I noticed that there was a "Sign of Four", and then something that definitely reminded me of The Hound of The Baskervilles. So it was at this point that I decided to put A Study In Scarlet on my virtual shelf.

According to Goodreads, it was a mere 120 pages long--and in this monstrous collection, the pages were large enough that that was reduced to 52. So after spending so long on Jade Legacy, it seemed like a nice short change of pace, something I could polish off in a couple of days. But also, those couple of days would be on a weekend, so I wouldn't have to lug this gigantic book to and from work (I like to read at lunchtime, you see). Oh, sure, I could grab a copy from Project Gutenberg and just read that, but this seemed more convenient.

The story itself is, apparently, the one in which Holmes and Watson first meet; I wasn't even sure such a thing existed for years, that we might have just started with their relationship already established. But apparently not. And apart from that…well, it's a Sherlock Holmes mystery. As a novel it's a fairly short one, as established, and it would be even shorter if it weren't for the bizarre insertion, into the middle, of the actual backstory of the murderer and his victims, which is practically a mini-Western. It involves homesteaders in Utah, a tragic love story, and somewhat demonized Mormons (Doyle apparently apologized later for mischaracterizing them in this novel). And it really doesn't fit--there's no sense in which this is part of Watson's transcription, and the murderer, when revealed, basically gives a summary of the story which is quite sufficient. I can only presume that this was an early work and Doyle got better later.

After reading this, I skimmed over the Angel of The Crows version and discovered that the vast majority of the details were all but identical; in particular, the names of the characters involved in the mystery were exactly the same. The major differences were that the dead girl who the murderer was avenging was actually an angel in this version, and the memento he carried was an angel feather rather than a wedding ring. Oh, and that the family one of the victims was rooming with, whose son was a suspect, were actually werewolves. But apart from that, it was really quite close. So much so that, it turns out, Angel of The Crows is more similar to Pride And Prejudice And Zombies than I was expecting. …So perhaps I should let a little more time pass before I try The Sign of Four.

Guy Gavriel Kay: All The Seas of The World, completed February 16

After the Holmes story, and still needing a male-author book for my cycle, I decided I might be in the mood for a more straightforward fantasy. I briefly contemplated another thick book--Ian Esslemont, Steven Erikson, and R. Scott Bakker all have large volumes which have been stuck on my shelf for a while--but I decided I didn't really want anything that thick. Instead I spotted the most recent Guy Gavriel Kay, which was a more 500 pages (instead of 700-900) and picked that one up instead.

I've been reading Kay for a while--I don't think I read The Fionavar Tapestry trilogy when it came out, so it may not have been until Candas Jane Dorsey (again) encouraged me to read Tigana that I tried him. I did love Tigana (though it is one of the few books where I recommend skipping the prologue, which I found quite dire and mostly irrelevant to the rest of the book), and the Fionavar books as well, and have since read everything of his. I don't like all of them--A Song For Arbonne didn't land for me, or The Last Light of The Sun--but they're mostly good. Most of them are set in a fantasy Europe, and after Tigana there is very little in the way of actual magic. Often they are tied closely to real historical figures or events.

Also, though this book is not marketed as a sequel to anything, it is literally crossing over with the previous book, A Brightness Long Ago, with some of the characters showing up. It also makes reference to "Al-Rassan" from The Lions of Al-Rassan, as the "Asharites" (Muslim-coded) have now been drive out of that land by the Jaddites (Christian-coded), not to mention the expulsion of the Kindath (Jewish-coded), and it's been renamed to "Esperaña". So it seems like everything from at least The Lions of Al-Rassan onward (I don't know about A Song For Arbonne, frankly, or The Last Light of The Sun), with the possible exception of the ones set in fantasy China, are in the same fantasy Europe.

Lois McMaster Bujold: Mirror Dance, completed February 21

Returning to my Vorkosigan Saga reread… As I may have mentioned before, I inserted the Dick Francis book into my reread schedule to simulate the lengthier gap between Brothers In Arms and Mirror Dance (three years in-universe) which has caught me off guard in other rereads of the series. But this begins my favourite sub-sequence of the saga.

I was prepared to dislike Mirror Dance when I first read it. I bought a membership to the 1994 Worldcon, which was in Winnipeg, closest it had come to us, and we were (perhaps foolishly) prepared to even drive there. But then we came over all poor and couldn't afford it after all. But I had made an effort to read the Hugo nominees so I could vote informedly. For the 1995 Hugos I also read all the nominees (my 1994 membership allowed me to nominate, I believe, but not vote--did I get a voting membership? Probably not, if we were still poor), or at least four out of five of them. I read Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings, John Barnes's Mother of Storms, James Morrow's Towing Jehovah, and Nancy Kress's Beggars And Choosers…but I didn't read Mirror Dance because it was in a series and I hadn't read the others yet. I was plumping for Mother of Storms, personally. But Mirror Dance won…and I kind of resented that.

Luckily, by the time I got around to read it in the context of the series, I was willing to forgive it, and now it's one of my favourites, along with Memory and A Civil Campaign. (Komarr is also okay, I guess.) In particular, I like the middle of the book, where Mark goes to Barrayar…in fact, I'd have to say most of my favourite Vorkosigan series moments take place on Barrayar. Great scenes with Cordelia, Gregor, Ivan, and introducing Kareen Koudelka. I also like the opening chapters, where we compare and contrast Mark and Miles's impressions of the Dendarii Mercenaries.

So obviously it's a direct sequel to Brothers In Arms, but almost as much it includes elements introduced in "Labyrinth", and we probably spend more time on Jackson's Whole than we do on Barrayar. It ties up nicely at the end, back on Barrayar.

(But Memory is my absolute favourite, and I can't wait to read that one again…)

Ruth Ozeki: A Tale For The Time Being, abandoned February 22

A few years ago, my wife was a judge for the Sunburst Awards, a juried award for Canadian speculative fiction. (I was briefly on the organizing committee for the awards at its inception, but didn't stay for too long; I have no talent or inclination for such.) This resulted in her getting shipped boxes of books from various publishers for consideration, and in theory she had to read all of them, though in practice she bailed out on some of them partway through. It turns out that not every publisher sends all of the books that are under consideration, and you're not supposed to say which were included and which weren't. But A Tale For The Time Being was on the shortlist for the year, so it's safe for me to mention it.

I liked the title, because you could read it as "for the time being" meaning "for now", but you could also postulate the existence of a "Time Being" for whom this tale was intended. So I was curious about it. I suppose I could have put it into my "diversity" slot, as I believe the author is Japanese-Canadian or something like, but I left it in my "trying out" slot, which meant that I gave myself permission to bail on it early.

It seems like there's three stories going on in this book--a Japanese girl who was writing in her diary; a writer named Ruth (?!) living on the west coast of Canada who finds said diary (sealed up in some flotsam, with a cover that identifies it as Proust's "A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu"); and, at least alluded to, the story of the girl's great-grandmother. The girl confessed to being suicidal; the author thinks that her diary was swept across the ocean because of the tsunami.

I wanted to get engaged in this book…but it didn't happen. Authorial self-insert characters (with the same name as the author, no less) lose points for me…80 pages in, we didn't actually get into the great-grandmother's story, just the girl's father, who was also suicidal after he lost his job; and...I don't know, on the second day, I just didn't want to pick it up again. I asked my wife what there was for speculative elements, and she said just some mild magic realism. So, basically, this was Japanese-flavoured CanLit. Maybe at another time in my life I would have read the whole thing, but I just wasn't in the mood this time.

Kristen Painter: Flesh And Blood, completed February 27

Time for another female author…I wasn't sure what I was in the mood for, so I decided to look at some of the books that had been on my shelf for a little while. I'd read the first book in Kristen Painter's Comarré series back in 2017, and liked it. In some ways it was a standard urban fantasy…but it was set in the future, in the world of 2067, which I found intriguing. My wife hadn't finished the series, so, like the Kelly Meding series, it had made me want to try it too. Though apparently I still waited a few years to go on.

In this world, we have vampires, of course, but we also have comars (feminine comarré), who start out as normal humans but have special properties (possibly conveyed though their gold tattoos, I can't quite remember) which makes their blood particularly valuable (and tasty) to vampires. It may also grant them longevity. So we have Chrysabelle, a comarré who is bonded to her patron Malkolm (who killed her original patron in the first book). But Malkolm has a curse which means that he can't drink from someone without killing them. This has apparently led to a certain distance in his relationship with Chrysabelle, even though they are clearly coded as The Romantic Couple for the series. But mostly what's keeping them apart is pride and stubbornness, which I don't find particularly winning.

So we have Chrysabelle and Malkolm being annoying; we have a surfeit of scenes from the POV of Tatiana, our nemesis for the book, a stupidly arrogant vampire from Europe (mostly we are in "New Florida"); we also have a subplot with Malkolm's friend Maddoc "Doc", a shapeshifter trying to bring back his ghost lover, and a new character named Creek, a badass dude from a mysterious secret society who seems mostly to be there to start a love triangle with Chrysabelle. (Not that I don't mind the occasional love triangle, but some are done better than other. And these days I feel that you always need to acknowledge that one of the possible resolutions is a polycule.)

Only Tatiana and Doc seem to be proactive for most of the book; the rest of the characters spend most of their time reacting. Things just happen and they're dragged along. The future setting barely affects the course of the book; it might as well be set in present day for most of it. Eventually we do get to a sort of resolution (though not the one I was hoping for, alas), which is satisfying in some ways but not in others, and some of those ways feel like ham-handed attempts to leave threads dangling for future books, or reach the ending the author wanted even if if doesn't quite fit any more. All in all, mostly problems that could have been resolved with, perhaps, a few more drafts…which it didn't get.

I had bought the third book at some point, and I was considering just going and finishing the trilogy to wrap things up…but it turns out it's not a trilogy, it's a pentalogy. So I guess…no. I won't bother. Cut my losses, put the books into my donate boxes, don't pursue any further. Pity, it could have been better.

That's all the fiction books I finished this month. I mean, it was a short month, and I read Jade Legacy, so that's slowed me down a bit. Currently I'm reading You Feel It Just Below The Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor & Janina Matthewson, but I'll be finishing that one in March so I'll talk more about it then.

I did finish a non-fiction book, though. It's one that I started a few months ago and kept losing enthusiasm for and setting aside (which I allow myself to do for nonfiction in a way that I don't for fiction)--We Are The Nerds by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, a book about Reddit, which I'm sure I bought as a remaindered hardcover as I do a lot of my nonfiction books. I wasn't sure I was going to finish it at all; the early part is all about tech bros and startups and crap and I just wasn't feeling it. I should say that I've never spent a lot of time on Reddit--the only time I recall posting there was to mention that I had figured out how to decode the binary format of Crusader Kings II "iron man" save files, and I never bothered to go back and share the details--so I don't have a lot invested in it, and maybe that would have helped. I might have been more engaged if I knew some of the names, or some of the important site events. As it was, I managed to slog through to the end, and then I shrugged and also put it in the discard box with the Ruth Ozeki and the Kristen Painters. I have another few nonfictions books I'm in the middle of, but more likely I'll try another new one, maybe one from the library. Though first it'll probably be another month of comics on Marvel Unlimited (I'm up to December 1993!), and maybe another issue of OnSpec or another Love & Rockets book or something.

[shahananasrin-blog]

[ad_1] Scooters, both manual and electric, are gaining popularity in Canada and around the world. They are especially popular among kids of all ages to stay active and get around. However, scooters can be dangerous when ridden around traffic or at high speeds. In Canada, and around the world, a popularity increase is also leading to a surge in emergency room visits from scooter-related injuries, said Meagan Doyle, a pediatric emergency physician and the trauma medical director at McMaster University. “To be honest, a lot of us in the emergency department are saying ‘just don't use them because they're not safe,’” Doyle told CTVNews.ca over a phone interview on Tuesday. A report published in 2022 by Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada stated there were 523 hospital cases related to e-scooter injuries between Jan. 2012 and Dec. 2019 in 11 pediatric and nine general hospitals across the country. Out of these cases, 299 (57 per cent) were between the ages of two and 14 years old. Doyle said they are seeing even more kids come to the pediatric emergency department with scooter-related injuries this year; yet, these numbers are difficult to accurately compare to previous data. “The problem with using any sort of numbers is that, because they're new, any data will obviously tell us there's an increase in injuries related to e-scooters because we didn't have them easily accessible before,” she said. Scooters are moved by pushing with one foot against the ground, or else they are powered by a motor. The ones powered by a motor tend to lead to more injuries due to reaching faster speeds. Doyle said the most common injuries are head injuries such as concussions, brain injuries or facial scrapes, and arm injuries like forearm or elbow fractures. Some, she explained, can be minor and heal in four to eight weeks, while others require sedation and a procedure to straighten the bone. WHEN TO VISIT A DOCTOR A recent study assessing whether e-scooters pose a risk to children in the U.K. found that out of ten patients identified, five required orthopedic surgery after an e-scooter accident and four required admission to the hospital’s emergency department. Doyle said a visit to the hospital is not always necessary; however, there are cases where painkillers or soap and water alone cannot heal the injury. “If it is an arm that the child is still not wanting to use, then that could be a sign that there is a fracture there that should be looked at,” she said. Other symptoms such as ongoing confusion, vomiting repeatedly or not waking up properly could be signs of head injury, which requires a visit to a doctor. “Our bottom line is, if you are worried, we'd much rather have you seen than have you sitting at home worried but, you know, sometimes that may come with a wait,” she said. While some injuries can be assessed by your family doctor, Doyle said urgent care is a great alternative to emergency rooms for injuries needing an X-ray. “But obviously, if the bone looks clearly bent or deformed, if there's an obvious dislocation, or concerns about a patient's level of consciousness, those absolutely should come to the emergency department right away,” she said. HOW TO REDUCE RISKS WHEN RIDING A SCOOTER Many scooter-related injuries are preventable and their severity can be minimized with a few simple safety tips. “A helmet is by and large the most significant way to prevent serious traumatic brain injury,” said Doyle. “The other things – that I think are just as important – are around making sure that people aren't using these e-scooters under the influence of alcohol or other intoxicating substances.” Another tip is to limit one rider per scooter as the second person would have less time to react if something were to happen. Being aware of surroundings is also important, she added, as busy streets could lead to higher chances of collisions with other vehicles or pedestrians. One of Doyle’s biggest concerns with scooter use, she said, is the lack of policy or safe infrastructure around cities. “We don't truly have appropriate infrastructure in most places to safely merge with traffic on the scooters,” she said. “So, I think it's a really difficult space from a policy standpoint for how to set people up for success and minimizing injury with these scooters right now.”  [ad_2]

[jessmmariano]

Things in AYITL I disagree with:

Paris and Doyle getting a divorce, especially the part where Paris insists on it being messy. Like, she’s felt the repercussions of a messy divorce before why is she putting her kids through that?

Luke and Lorelai making literally no progress in their relationship.

Rory having an affair with an engaged Logan. She learned her lesson with Dean.

That Lorelai couldn’t come up with one nice thing to say about Richard at his funeral. He helped her daughter to attend Chilton and then Yale. That was a safe yet sweet thing to say, yet she couldn’t come up with it?

Paris being a surrogate agent. She said she wanted to do cancer research. This job just doesn’t seem like something she’d be interested in.

Rory having a boyfriend that she was always forgetting about/just stringing along.

Wtf was the musical? Like, it didn’t need to be that long and it wasn’t funny in the slightest. Fill that time with, I don’t know, Luke and Lorelai’s wedding maybe??

Building off of the Luke and Lorelai relationship thing—they seriously didn’t talk about kids? What was that whole surrogacy thing? It seemed so out of character. Also, why did they make Luke so dumb about the whole thing? He isn’t dumb.

Sookie’s poorly explain disappearance. Like, I get Melissa McCarthy had a conflicting schedule or something of that sorts, but give a better background? Or just have her come in one day and film a bunch of small scenes of her’s to slowly sprinkle in? I don’t know, it just bugged me.

What was that Mr. Kim thing? C’mon, you can’t just suddenly have him pop up and try to act like we’ve known about him the entire show.

Why was Jess only in, like, five minutes of the entire thing? He was literally there just to push other characters to do stuff (Luke with Lorelai, Rory with her book). What’s he been up to?? Don’t give us a longing look just to have it never discussed again?

So yeah, that’s all I have right now. I’ll probably add to this later bc I know I’m forgetting a lot. Feel free to add more!

[marmotsomsierost]

Depending on the definition of western... Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga and Debra Doyle/James Mcdonald's Mageworld series, Margaret Weis's Mag Force 7 books...

Trigun

[anxiouspotatorants]

AU where Rory and Brad stay in touch. Rory gets Broadway tickets to see him perform and be in his element. She starts out going by herself, but at some point she lets it slip to Paris that they stay in touch and has to bring her along on her next theatre trip. Hilarity ensues.

AU where Rory and Dave became proper friends. They have each other’s emails and complain about university-work to each other. Sometimes it becomes a competition about who has the biggest and most terrible workload, other times it’s arguing about who goes to the best school, sometimes it’s sending each other early 2000s memes to help each other cope. And Dave asking for updates about Lane because of course.

AU where Doyle becomes this weird «big brother»-type for Rory. He’ll rip her work to shreds without remourse but have an assistant spit in the coffee of anyone who badmouths her. He doesn’t go into an actual «fight me»-mode, but finds creative ways to make it known that one does not f*ck with Rory on his watch. No one can shit on her but him (and Paris, obviously). And any time he and Paris are on rocky road, he fights to keep Rory in the ‘separation’.

AU where Glenn and Rory become office besties at the paper. Glenn barges into Rory’s study sessions and they talk for hours about hopeless romance and the ethics of biographical works about living people and the best place to get coffee on campus. He’s still awkward and mopey and bad at picking up girls, but Rory finds that he’s also a great listener and an honest critic and a loving friend.

AU where Marty doesn’t have a crush on Rory. People around them keep insisting they’re going to get together and it makes them super-uncomfortable. But they have a heart to heart and realize their relationship is strictly platonic. They get to be proper friends throughout, with movie marathons and gossip and banter and emotional bonding and fights that have nothing to do with romance.

AU where Rory gets to have male friends. Not «lessons who knock her down a peg». Not «nice guys waiting for their shot». Not «my boyfriend’s friends» or «my friend’s boyfriend». Not flimsy aquaintances or «Sassy Gay Best Friends TM» (although LGBT+ friends are more than welcome). Actual close male friends.