#Paris Gellar

[emmafallsinlove]

[iamnathannah]

Twenty years ago today, the Gilmore Girls spring break episode, "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist" aired for the first time on The WB, and everything shifted in that moment for me. Rory Gilmore and Paris Geller had a fun and light few days of fun, let off all the steam, yelled at some guys about how they ate bananas, watched some Power of Myth, listened to the Shins...oh, and maybe Paris kinda kissed Rory and introduced her to lesbianism in a panic about being cool on the dance floor 🥹. Sure, Prory didn't happen in ASP's "canon", but so many young minds shifted from 'god is there any other guy besides Dean and Jess Rory can love' to 'PARIS IS THE LOVE OF HER LIFE THIS IS THE DESTINY SHE TALKED ABOUT GOING BACK TO WHEN SHE TRIED TO SEDUC–I MEAN INIMIDATE RORY WITH A READING OF SONNET 116 STOP FORCING THESE MEN UPON THESE LOVELY AND SMART LADIES!"

This episode changed my life, made me who I am today, gave me so many friends I treasure to this day, and even if it ended up with Logan the next season, the AU where Rory doesn't pull away from Paris and says 'let's take this back to the room' and they become the happiest Boston marriage of all time still fills many a Gellmore shipper's brain to this day.

Thank you, episode 417 for showing Rory and Paris at their best.

[userlaylivia]

one of my favorite things about gilmore girls is seeing the development of rory/paris because they hated each other at first and then slowly became best friends and I love that so much!! now it's been years since I watched and idk if I'll like rogan in any way after years of not watching but I just can't see it lol literati will always be my otp and luke/lorelai and if rory had to end up with anyone besides jess it should've been paris just saying!!

[frazzledsoul]

The current clickbait media/podcast take that Paris was being a "loyal friend" by lying to Dean that she had a crush on Jess so Dean would calm down and not hurt Rory because she was spending a (perfectly chaperoned and relatively innocuous) evening with Jess is really, really messed up. If you have to outright lie to the guy to get him to forgive you for spending time with other people, then he's a possessive asshole who doesn't deserve the courtesy of an "excuse" and should be told that he doesn't get to control who his girlfriend hangs out with (and they weren't even alone! They were hanging out as a group!) However, it's worse than that: Paris lies because Dean is genuinely about to explode into anger and possibly hurt both of them, and it's a last ditch effort to calm him down. This comes (I believe) a few weeks after Lorelai and Rory are turning the house upset down to find Dean's list bracelet because they're afraid of what he will do to them if she doesn't find it and before Rory has to carve out time to explain to Dean that her car has been totaled because she's afraid of how he'll react once he finds out.

It just makes no sense to me that Paris, who has zero tact and is never hesitant to tell anyone that they're full of shit, wouldn't outright tell Rory that Dean was dangerous and she needed to cut him loose. She shouldn't be commended for giving into the idea that Rory needs to be submissive to him and coddle his ego. And in other cases, she isn't. Compare her behavior here to the way she confronts Logan in season 6 after the bridesmaid fiasco and tells him he's worthless and if he died only his Porsche dealer would miss him. Why didn't she defend Rory like that when Dean was literally howling at her for having plans that didn't include him? The whole thing makes no sense to me.

[annairaleigh]

Paris jumping in and defending Rory when Dean walks in and starts berating her despite Paris sitting at the table staring in disbelief. Is one of my favorite moments. And the scene they deleted from the show of them laying and watching tv after it all should have made it in.

Paris is a girl's girl. 100% more than Rory.

[thatdysfunctionalfool]

[bandit-heart]

Paris Gellar is looney tunes and I kind of love her for it. She wants to feel better after her outburst over not getting into Harvard and Rory tells her to get out, do something crazy. Paris goes and pierces her nose, in a part of society where that isn’t something people do. She’s awkward, and intense, and borderline feral. Sometimes I want to see more of her little pocket of life, see her internal struggles, and the crazy things she does because she has kind of been left to navigate the world on her own. Paris is great. Mean, terrible, and great.

[disasterbiwriter]

choose 4 of your favorite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe <3<3<3

I was tagged by literal Jen Lindley @belleandsaintsebastian to do this and it seemed like so much fun! Like our @stellaluna33, I won't tag specific people, but if you decide to do this, feel free to tag ME because I want to know! 🥰

[weepynymph]

Ok, but picture this: sisterhood of the travelling pants AU but with Rory, Lane, Paris, and Jess 😂

[emmafallsinlove]

All those times that you didn't leave It's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you For my whole life

requested by @taylorswifff

[iamnathannah]

I know it's canon but I find it absolutely ridiculous that Paris would dump a girlfriend if she had that same situation she had at the end of S7 (never mind that it likely wasn't her true written end because of ASP). Just could never see it with the women who she said coming into Yale that they had an incomplete journey.

Like that girl's following you until death, Gilmore. Doyle, yeah, I 100% believe she should've just stayed firm and she was happy to let him go. But Rory 'Sonnet 116' Gilmore? She's learning to accept the Megabus and getting down to NY every single weekend to see her (loi Rory was like 'what the fuck am I gonna do with an overpriced house in the middle of Bay Area traffic hell with an avacodo tree?!' and that's the other reason she was happy to let Logan go after his attention whore marriage stunt).

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 2, Episode 9, "Run Away Little Boy". Part 2

You can read my previous reviews here.

If you have to keep repeating something out loud like this, it probably isn't true. Every time Rory or Lorelai say Rory's relationship with Dean is "a really good thing going right now", God plucks a whisker off a kitten. TWWGG= We Make Weird Metaphors.™

The Time Traveler hath returned (after a stop for a quick shave, apparently). I forgot to add that in the middle of all this DL/Rory/Dean drama, Lorelai went on her date with TT and had fun but twas not meant to be but she was happy to discover she could Date Casually ™ after Max.

A crystal clear Tomatos Sign spotting! Lorelai to Rory, who is stifling laughter: What? Say it! Rory: Nothing, I always wanted a little brother. Lol. And we have another scene for the Rory's Bizarre Food-Related Habits Hall of Fame. Rory picks up her burger and walks out of the diner without putting it into a to-go box. Is this the neatest burger ever that doesn't drip grease or ketchup? Like the time she walked out with a piece of French toast in her hand with no syrup dripping down her uniform? Luke's Diner Motto: Do You Think We're Made of To Go Boxes Or Something? Carry Your Own Food.™

I kind of look like Lorelai right now after the suffering this episode has put me through. Lorelai apparently talked about Luke on her date with Time Traveler or at least has mentioned Luke on some other occasion. Time Traveler even knew about Rachel. STOP. EVERYTHING. A MIRACLE HAS JUST OCCURED IN STARS HOLLOW! LORELAI PAID FOR HER FOOD!

Luke In My Gritty Gilmore Girls Reboot titled "The Hollow": "You are hereby banned from this establishment. Get the fuck out."

God, Dean is so creepy. And not to say I'm an expert on Shakepeare, but Tristan reciting Shakespeare was...wow. That was some of the worst line reading I've ever heard, ChadMIchaelMurrayDietLogan.

The lips are getting reaaaal thin!

While looking straight at Dean, making Rory panic that he's about to tell Dean about their kiss, but he turns it around and pretends he was just talking about a scene from the play. Sneaky, disgusting, an absolutely vile piece of dog shit either way.

Honestly if I were Rory the sweet release of death would be preferable to being alive and having to suffer these two Butts With A Capital B.

Let's all Take Five and have an Ancient Cellphone Break.

Lips are realllly thin. Practically invisible.

I don't know how much longer I can tolerate this shit stain talking to Rory like this. How is this the fourth or fifth time I've suffered through this show? Why am I doing this to myself? Am I that masochistic? I'm in pain. Dean is such a piece of shit that I am concerned for Jared Padalecki himself, in the same way that Milo Ventimiglia's mother thought he had suffered some kind of unspoken childhood trauma because he played dark villains so believably. Are you ok, JarPad? How are you this believably awful?

This is horrible. I want to shut it off. There are 9 minutes left in the episode. Ugggggggggh. Poor Rory. PUNCH HIM! PUNCH HIM! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO! The next episode is the Bracebridge Dinner. My second favorite episode and a shining beacon of of light, joy, minimal drama, and Jess galore in his ugly brown winter coat. You can do this, TWWGG. You can do this.

Oh my god my blood is just BOILING right now.

Portrait of the author.

Let's take turns. Something should absolutely fall on your head, but also, I really need something big to fall on mine right now. I would welcome the sweet, sweet unconcious state where when I wake up this episode is over and I'm watching The Bracebridge Dinner. (Context: Lorelai is annoyed because everyone is calling her a pedophile). (Because of her date with the Time Traveler, not because she's absolutely having an affair with 17 year old Dean Forrester). Luke is grumpy with her for going on a date with this guy. Jealous or something. Whatever. I'm tired of these men. Sure, Jess has not made any appearance in this episode yet. But with 5 and half minutes left to go, my pain and suffering is about to be rewarded in other ways. With one tiny scrap and one medium scrap to gnaw on and one big, big juicy hunk of meat. Justice, thy name is Amy Sherman Palladino! (and Chad Michael Murray leaving for another TV show). The small scrap:

Lane's face while she's watching Henry. My girl is feeling things. Stirring, yearning, Un-Christian things. The medium scrap: Paris taking Diet Logan's part as Romeo to Rory's Juliet. Sweet. And the big one:

DIET LOGAN IS GONE!!!!! GONE GONE GONE GONE!!!!!!!! WHO CARES WHY!!! HE BROKE INTO A SAFE OR SOMETHING WHO CARES!!! GOODBYE!!!! *PUNTS HIM IN THE ASS*

Look at Dean creeping again in the background!!! But I'm so happy we're back down to only one clown instead of two!!!! Wait, there's still Christopher. Still two clowns left. God damn it. #ClownMath He's getting shipped off to military school lol he'll be eaten alive probably lol BYE

Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya #BYE "Take care of yourself Mary." Ahahah I won't have to hear anyone call Rory a stupid nickname again because I'm not watching this show past season 4 ever again and I won't have to suffer through Full Calorie Logan calling her "Ace" yay!

Ahhhh. *breathes in* Everything just feels...a little more right once more.

A sea of confusion.

Dean: Did you and Paris actually kiss or was that just a stage thing? Shut up. The episode ends on a sweet little note of Luke & Lorelai talking about how they can rely on each other. Not even a drop of Jess in this episode. Not even a shot of him in the background cleaning the counters. Nothing, zip, nada. But... BRACEBRIDGE DINNER NEXT!

[frazzledsoul]

I really don't think the Gilmore Girls fandom (or the writers, either) take into account that Paris Gellar was 19 years old, stranded in England with her much older lover, her second serious relationship ever, months after musing how small and old he looked in the hospital and how he'd tire of her while she was in a foreign country isolated from everyone she knew....and then he up and DIES on her, and she's the one who has to make arrangements. Just think about how terrifying that would be, how she'd have to explain who she was to his colleagues and family, how much they would probably judge her.

She wasn't even old enough to buy her own beer back home! Come on. She was still a teenager. Just imagine the huge, huge trauma of that. The show plays it off as comedy but it's really horrific if you think about it for two minutes and how truly awful it was for Asher to place her in a situation like that in the first place.

[sergeantpixie]

never forgiving the s7 writers for forgetting/ignoring the fact that Paris is Jewish.

[junemayrain]

chapter 2 of here, there, and everywhere!

But here she stands with a boy that makes her knees weak with a glance and he likes books so much he does it for a living and he is looking for a book for her. She fears her heart might have dropped on the floor and she’s unable to pick it up. Doesn’t want to pick it up. She just wants to leave it there and wait for him to notice and pick it up and give it back to her (she probably wouldn’t mind if he just kept it to be honest).

“You better not be looking for any Hemingway.” She tells him all coquettish and light-hearted.

She hears him chortle, bending directly down to look at the bottom shelf. “Don’t worry, I’m not looking for Hemingway in the horror category, although I’m sure that’s where you think he should belong.” And boy does that make her laugh because it feels like he knows everything about her already, which isn’t shocking because she feels like she’s laid herself bare here. All blood, guts, and bones exposed. An open book even if that seems too cheesy to think while in a bookstore.