#I am so invested in whatever is going on with Lorelai and Luke

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I’ve already watched half of the first season of Gilmore Girls WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME

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A ship edition of make you choose, my friend! Klaroline or Bangel? Lorelai/Luke or Rory/Jess? Anne/Wentworth or Emma/Knightley? Mondler or Benslie? Rachel/Ross or Rachel/Joey? April/Jackson or Lexie/Mark? And I always love your analysis, so please feel free to explain the reasons behind your choices if you want to! XO

I am always so excited to receive these even though answering/picking means ripping my soul into shipper Horcruxes haha. Love your new icon, btw! xx

Klaroline or Bangel? 

Although Buffy and Angel are arguably my favorite forbidden love couple on TV - their longing for each other is an eternal, visceral, soul-encompassing thing - I have to go with Klaus and Caroline on this one. They’re the ship that brought me to Tumblr. They’ve yanked more fic out of me than I can believe. They’re the reason why I have so many amazing friends and mutuals. More importantly that all that, I am trash for them and always will be. 

THIS CANNOT BE HELPED.

Klaroline have such tangled history, such rich possibility for the future. I get lost in the labyrinth of goodness and darkness unspooling between them. The qualities that clash. The emotion that sparks. The resistance that builds and builds, binding uncomfortably before it snaps. The enigmatic ‘something’ that scrapes between them like teeth until it comes away infected, bloodied, marred in chunks that are beyond reconciling with any chronology. They have the kind of connection that digs under the skin with claws. It’s neither painless nor pretty, not always happy nor healthy, but it pervades. It permeates until possession becomes nine-tenths of the law in their conquered hearts. Inevitability coils like like a living thing between them--and breathes.

I love the malleability of time that surrounds them, too. Part of that comes from their status as vampires, as supernaturals, but it also has something to do with how they punch through it as well - individually, together - both of them finding new ways to love eternity as it continues to stretch before them, bending it to their will whenever necessary. 

I don’t know, it’s fun to imagine the enigma they pose to the world. To each other. What will a new year bring? A decade? How about a century? 

Despite their lack of heartbeats, there’s change on the cusp of every word they utter to one another, on the fringe of every kiss they almost share but swallow before they reveal too much, not enough, everything all at once. It’s a dizzying, dangerous, and intoxicating “thing” they share, you know? 

I suppose...well, I suppose I just like how there’s nothing easy about who they are or want they want. 

Lorelai/Luke or Rory/Jess?

This one was difficult because JavaJunkies and Literati are top tier ships for me. *cries* I went with Luke and Lorelai mostly because I’ve been a shipper since I first saw them in the pilot episode back in the early 2000′s, and--I haven’t looked back since. They had me rushing home from school to watch re-runs, hightailing it from after-hours sports so I could catch new episodes on the WB. I haunted message boards. I scoured the Internet for spoilers. I tumbled into fanfiction before fanfiction was even a thing. I watched the seasons over and over again until I nearly memorized every moment they had, every bit of dialogue they spewed; until I analyzed subtext until I made my own head spin.

What I love so much about them is that they’re friends first and foremost. They genuinely like, trust, and respect each other as people beyond all else. They’re opposites, of course, but in a complementary way that just works. They also come to know they can depend on one another in good times or bad, and it’s that ‘unconditional’ element in their dynamic which draws me in hook, line, and sinker because it’s the kind of quality that preserves the longevity of a relationship. To be honest, over the OG series, we do see Luke and Lorelai veer farther away from each other romantically more than we’d like: *side eyes s6-early s7 specifically*; yet, at the same time, there’s a Permanence about them that never fails. Never fades. They’re simply THERE in whatever capacity the other wants or needs. No matter what, no matter when, no matter the emotional crap that’s already pooled between them.

Call me crazy, but I think steadiness and devotion of that caliber is beautiful.

Luke and Lorelai evolve together in such a way that it’s impossible for me to imagine them with anyone else in the end. They belong together like coffee and donuts.

Anne/Wentworth or Emma/Knightley?

Ask me this same question tomorrow and I’ll probably give you the opposite answer. However, today...today I am all about the angst and pining! 

Eight-and-a-half years worth of regrets and broken hearts that never mended, looks that scorch because they were held a moment too long in front of company, secret longings that are whispered into pillows before the candle on the dresser expires and they tuck their weary limbs into bed, dreams that feature that one face impossible to forget--LEAVE ME HERE TO SING “KILLING ME SOFTLY” because that’s what Anne and Wentworth do to me!

Mondler or Benslie?

Look, I will love Monica and Chandler until my dying day but Ben and Leslie are so unbelievably adorkable together that anytime I think about them my heart is instantaneously flooded with warm, sunshiny, politically active, eats-waffles-for-every-meal-and-regrets-nothing fuzzies. I just--*melts onto the floor in a puddle of Pawnee rainbows*

Rachel/Ross or Rachel/Joey?

Ross-hatred is pretty embedded in the Friends fandom these days so I am sure many are or will be tempted to jump down my throat for this choice but...BUT...I do not care! *laughs maniacally* Ross and Rachel always had that boomerang spark, that “we’ll find our way back to each other” ellipsis at the end of every break-up or missed opportunity, that kissing-each-other-in-the-rain passion that could not be weathered despite the number of years or marriages or ‘almosts’ they had with other people, and I cannot get over them. I cannot give them up. I won’t, I won’t.

SHE GOT OFF THE PLANE, OKAY?  She. got. off. the. plane. And, controversial though that might be for some (trust me, I get all the arguments against it; against them, really), I can’t help but be gleeful they got their happy ending. I wanted it then, I’m still satisfied with it now. *shrugs unapologetically*

April/Jackson or Lexie/Mark?

This last one cut me deep. 

Ouch. 

However, with Slexie, at least it’s canon that they were each other’s true albeit last *cries* loves and I can pretend that they reunited somewhere in the afterlife. But Japril...Japril was done so. stinking. dirtyyyy by Grey’s Anatomy. I will never forgive the writers for ending them the way they did. Never!

JACKSON AND APRIL ARE THE EPITOME OF SOULMATES. Their relationship was predicated on the purest, most wholesome kind of love because it blossomed from mutual respect and admiration as well as understanding. They invested the time. They put in the work. They peeled back the layers slowly, carefully, learning the magic of caring by opening their ears first then offering their shoulders when hurt swooped in to snip at pieces the other had left undefended. It was only later, with time, with trust that had turned conversation into a balm of contentment, that arms became a refuge, too. A harbor. A place of comfort and affection where they felt seen. Heard. Known. Loved in a way that wasn’t free from tears - oh, no - but was embracive of them as they fell, cushioning their remnants on thumbs as if they were more precious than pearls. 

They loved everything about each other, vices included. They were best friends, lovers, something more intimate that defies definition but wraps itself around the sentiment of “having a favorite person.” 

There’s an ethereal quality to what they are--what they mean to each other. You can’t quite touch it, can’t quite capture it, all you know is their atoms continue co-mingling whether or not anyone else notices it’s happening. 

There’s no ending to a love like that, only another beginning.  

[deschanelswifts]

Do Gilmore Girls and parenthood for the meme!

YAAASSSS okay i was hoping someone would send gg and parenthood is such a great bonus yay thank you!!!!

5 things i would change about gilmore girls:

1. christopher and lorelai should have been done looonnng before season 7. preferably way back when he left lorelai after sherry got pregnant (which i am pretty sure i saw someone else say today too), but i’m so mad that lorelai didn’t drop his ass completely after the fiasco in wedding bell blues. i get being co-parents, at least while rory is in college. but they don’t need to be bffs and i just can’t believe lorelai forgave him for that bullshit so easily like it really pisses me off. and then…. slept with him? like two hours after she thought she and luke were over? what the hell? and then as if that’s not enough, she MARRIED him???? it’s not realistic that she was still holding onto this possibility of a long-lasting relationship with him after so long…. it’s just not?? she is smarter than that like even rory wasn’t holding out hope that he would eventually start showing up and being there for them lmao i could really go on and on about this for days so i’m going to quit because you get the picture

2. i love april so much and i love that luke has a daughter, like i am so here for that. but i really wish she hadn’t been used to tear luke and lorelai apart. that’s not fair to her character and it’s not fair to luke’s character either? because the luke we knew for the five and a half seasons prior to that told lorelai everything, he went to her with everything, even before they were dating. it was just really annoying, shitty writing on amy’s part. so i would keep april, but change the execution of that whole thing.

3. why the actual fuck is rory sleeping with logan in the revival? she missed her chance by not saying yes to his proposal in season 7?? and same with him, i don’t really understand why he is with his fiancée when he clearly wants to be with rory??? because the logan we saw at the end of season 7 was not living life under his family’s vice anymore, so what happened in the 9 years between the end of season 7 and the revival? why is he suddenly doing things the huntzberger way like when he says “that’s the dynastic plan” or whatever? logan what do u mean i thought you were done with that shit 9 years ago WHAT HAPPENED. amy really should have watched season 7 before she wrote the revival because there are so many questions i have 

4. WHY OH WHY DO LUKE AND LORELAI NOT HAVE ANY KIDS TOGETHER. ok you know what this is what i want: the two of them have a cute little boy who helps luke work on stuff around the house and the inn for his mommy and lorelai dresses him in flannel shirts so he can look like dad and he is a huge mommy’s boy but he loves to fish, learn how to cook, and basically do anything he can to be like his dad. and then i also really want them to have a little girl together because we deserve to see luke going to ballet recitals and have tea parties with his daughter ok WE DESERVE THESE THINGS

5. i love sutton foster and christian borle but the stars hollow musical really should not have been five years long or even exist at all like that time could have been spent on actual stories such as luke and lorelai being cute ok???

wow i forgot i have parenthood to do too omg ok here we go 5 things i would change about parenthood:

1. joel and julia’s separation n o p e they did not deserve that heartache especially julia :(((

2. i wish it wouldn’t have taken so long for hank and sarah to get back together i love them so much i want more time with them

3. i also just wish hank hadn’t left for minnesota in general that hurt me so bad omg and when he says i love you oh no and she loves him OH NO my poor baby

4. crosby sleeping with gabby? whY. jasmine’s reaction actually BROKE ME she was so hurt

5. tbh i wish sarah didn’t move in with mark ugh i just don’t like mark and sarah together lmao he is such a puppy and idk i just don’t see the chemistry like i do with sarah and hank. even before hank was on the show, i didn’t like mark with sarah so i was hoping they wouldn’t last and someone else would be introduced. and then as soon as i saw ray romano on there and i saw the chemistry he had with lauren i was like oh hell yeah this better be end game anD IT WAS

can u tell i’m very invested in sarah and hank