#anti paris x jess

[queenunderthatmountain]

do you ever just think about how it might have been if Jess had moved in with Luke just a few years earlier

[yourhighness6]

Zutara needs to stop being Rory x Jess coded right now because Zutara is the OTP ever but I like viscerally hate Rory x Jess. Like. Jess and Zuko both work for their uncle who owns some sort of food industry business. Both their dads are shitheads and their moms were absent. Both give big city boy vibes. And then Katara and Rory are both the super talented slight overachiever types. They're both mamas girls with absent fathers. I hate this so much and I'm sad I noticed it.

[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!!

[jessmmariano]

Btw it’s unfair to compare a teenage Jess to an adult Logan

[jessmmariano]

This is more proof that season 6 Paris and Jess should’ve had at least one scene together

Porsche owner (derogatory)

[inej-ruination-ghafa]

midnights

lavender haze;

[tommy miller] the one where you still love him even when you shouldn't, even when you know you should give up

maroon;

[logan huntzberger] the one where you finally say yes or, the four times you said no and the one time you said yes

anti-hero;

[cato] the one where he realises the true price of the games and what really happens. He can't lose you now

snow on the beach;

[caspian x] the one where you realise that there will b a change in your whole life and you have to leave to behind

you're on your own kid;

[jess mariano] the one where you follow him to california and realise that you've both always had to rely on yourselves

midnight rain;

[spencer reid] the one where you're the only one to bring him back to himself after a death, the self doubt creeps in

question...?

[scott summers] the one where you finally realise that he never loved you, even after what happened before summer

vigilante shit;

[javier peña] the one where you sit there in colombia and realise that you are in trouble with the cartel and the DEA

bejewelled;

[draco malfoy] the one where after your break up, you go to Slughorns party only to be confronted by his baggage

labrynth;

[ej caswell] the one where you realise that what you thought was going on between you and ej was not real

karma;

[steve harrington] the one where your boyfriend breaks up with you, you get revenge, sleeping with his best friend

sweet nothing;

[anakin skywalker] the one where you both realise that the end is coming, so you hold each other just a little tighter

mastermind;

[jason dilaurentis] the one where your best friends brother comes back to town and you know you can't let him go

the great war;

[gally]: the one where you realise how much you have to go through and sacrifice just to make it to the safe haven

bigger than the whole sky;

[gale hawthorne] the one where you fail to save all of district twelve but find something else amongst the ruin

paris;

[emily prentiss] the one where you have to sit there and live your life without your girlfriend after Ian Doyles attack

high infidelity;

[dean forester] the one where you and dean do something stupid after both of your partners break your hearts

glitch;

[peter hayes] the one where the boy who used to be your mortal enemy turns into the only person you can trust

would've could've should've;

[luke castellan] the one where you have to sit in the aftermath of the way that he treated you all those years.

dear reader;

[peeta mellark] the one where after you've both lost everything, you find someone just as broken as you

hits different;

[derek morgan] the one where you sit with the girls and realise that for the first time in your life, you're truly in love

you're losing me;

[dean forester] the one where you realise that your husband was starting to fall out of love with you

[allamericansbitch]

Hi everyone! Here’s the newest addition to my Creator Shoutout Series (february 5 - february 12)! For info about the series, I explained it in the first post here, but generally, it’s to show appreciate to editors and their creations that i love from the past week. To track this series or look at previous shoutouts, please check out the tag on my blog *creatorshoutouts. Have a great week everyone!

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[randomestfandoms-ocs]

Midnights, Taylor Swift

so I actually did a full Midnights edit series here!! I could list so many characters for each song but to make life a bit easier, instead have just the characters I associated the most to edit with 🥺

Lavender Haze: Aurora Anderson x Sebastian Smythe

Maroon: Ivy Knight x Oliver Queen

Anti Hero: Arianne Martin 

Snow On The Beach: Colton Cartwright x Finn Hudson

You’re On Your Own Kid: Nikki Rogers

Midnight Rain: Sienna Elliot x Logan Huntzberger

Question…?: Amethyst Andrews x Jughead Jones

Vigilante Shit: Ophelia Wayne

Bejeweled: Arianne Martin & Roxie Flores

Labyrinth: Sidney Hopper x Steve Harrington

Karma: Alia Kelly & Serena Van Der Woodsen 

Sweet Nothing: Aurora Anderson x Sebastian Smythe

Mastermind: Ivy Knight x Oliver Queen

The Great War: Avalyn Dorsey x Dick Grayson

Bigger Than The Whole Sky: Julietta Drake & Damian Wayne

Paris: Aurora Anderson x Sebastian Smythe

High Infidelity: Ivy Knight x James Bishop

Glitch: Sara Topaz x Jess Mariano

Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve: Arianne Martin & Cassia Potter

Dear Reader: Aurélia Agreste

Hits Different: Arianne Martin

You’re Losing Me: Blossom x Ben

Send me an album and, if I know the artist, I will try to associate to every song an oc/ship/crossover

[iamnathannah]

I'm picturing Logan just randomly out of nowhere saying 'oh yeah, I know Dav Pilkey.'

Jess – "🤨 From Captain Underpants? Just what IS your reading grade level, dude?" Rory – "God, next thing you know you're going to say you can't read graphic novels." Logan – "They confuse me, all the sex scenes are backwards and the tentacles come in randomly!""

(Jess and Rory back away with Paris off to the side mouthing 'what the fuck') Jess – "Word of advice? Never admit you read hentai in public." Rory – "And just...never talk to us. Or anyone. Again." Paris – "You probably enjoyed it when Pop was hopped on, fucking hell you're a weirdo." Logan is left alone as even Finn is shaking his head at him and scoffing.

Finn – "Bloody weirdo, you don't deserve her. Or to appreciate tentacle porn correctly."

logan thinks he's confusing jess by listing the most well-known authors one after the other<<<<<<

[oceanmusings]

Fandoms

I'm pretty chill when it comes to roleplays, some days I can't plot or be able to reply, but eventually I will respond to you!

If you want the same love interest as me we can instead just do like AU type universe instead, if you really don't want to I can find a different Love Interest (but some fandom's I won't be flexible)

the amount of ♥ is how much I am interested on rping it.

♥ - 1 (not interested)

♥ - 5 (absolutely would)

-cinema-

Marvel Universe | ♥♥♥

Status - watched most of the shows and movies, working on netflix shows (currently on "Jessica Jones, season 2") (9/23)

Notes - Won't write for any of the protagonist, this doesn't include the anti-heros. And I won't write for Yelena romantically, since she is aroace. Only platonically.

Claimed - Tom!Peter Parker, Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson :: paired with Charlotte "Charlie" D'Angelo (fc, vaness marano) || Andrew!Peter Parker :: paired with Charlotte "Lottie" D'Angelo (fc, emmy rossum)

Star Wars | ♥

Status - Watched all the movies, The Mandalorian, Kenobi, and Andor. I haven't watched the clone wars or played all the games, so my knowledge is limited.

Notes - Won't write for villains, like Darth Vader (not Anakin)

Claimed - Rey Skywalker :: paired with unknown || Cassian Andor :: 0aired with Addimaev Carric (fc, daniella pineda) || Obi-wan Kenobi :: paired with unknown

Harry Potter | ♥♥♥♥

Status - read all the books and movies (except for the last fantastic beast movie, I refuse for obvious reasons)

Notes - I don't condone anything JK or some of the actors have done. I will shit talk and make this fandom my own and anything we do for the rp that will piss of JK is okay for me. But also I refuse to write Severus Snape, Voldemort, or Barty Crouch. Mainly any Death Eaters (Draco doesn't count since I like giving him a redemption arc and believe his dad forced him)

Claimed - George Weasley :: paired with Anna Diggory (fc, liza weil) || Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter :: paired with Karina Carter (fc, zendaya) || Fleur Delacour :: paired with Athena Owens (fc, jenny walser)

Marauders Era | ♥♥♥

Status - Gimmie all the headcanons, I will accept anything.

Notes - I won't write for Peter, mainly cause I just don't know him. IF you really want me to, send me things you like about him (like headcanons, fanfic, tiktok's) to help me get his vibe.

Claimed - Remus Lupin :: paired with Devyn Edwards (fc, eliza scanlen) || Sirius Black :: paired with Reese Sudsworth (fc, joseph quinn) || James Potter :: paired with Ava-Rose Wyatt (fc, holland roden)

-tv-

Daisy Jones and the Six | ♥♥♥

Status - Completed both the book and the show!

Notes - I will write for anyone

Claimed - Karen Sirko or Graham Dunne :: paired with Talia Montgomery (fc, zooey deschanel) || Daisy Jones :: paired with Andrew "Andy" Foster (fc, billy crudup)

Shadow and Bone Series | ♥♥

Status - Completed the show, read the Shadow and Bone books and the first Six of Crows book.

Claimed - Nikolai Lantsov :: paired with Elisa Volkov (fc, mathilde ollivier) || Genya Safin :: paired with Stafford Lantsov (fc, harrison osterfield)

Gilmore Girls | ♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed a thousand times, I technically have never seen the last season tho.

Notes - I'll write anyone.

Claimed - Paris Geller :: paired with Eloise Gilmore (fc, talia ryder) || Jess Mariano :: paired with unknown

Switched at Birth | ♥

Status - Currently on season 4 (9/23)

Notes - Will not write for John Kennish

Claimed - Tobey Kennish :: paired with Cora Shepard (fc, hayley williams) || Kathryn Kennish :: paired with Adalia Parker (fc, holly marie combs)

Charmed | ♥

Status - Have watched the originally many times, I haven't read the comics or watched the reboot.

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Paige Matthews :: paired with unknown

X-Files | ♥

Status - Currently on season 7 (9/23), and have never seen the movies either.

Notes - Will not write any antagonist (like the smoking man)

Claimed - Dana Scully :: paired with unknown || Fox Mulder :: paired with unknown

Teen Wolf | ♥

Status - Have finished the show to the point Stiles and Scott leave, wont go any further. (I trust Kai's judgment)

Notes - Won't write for Peter.

Claimed - Allison Argent :: paired with Adam Dorian (fc, milo ventimiglia) || Lydia Martin :: paired with Avery Primula (fc, sarah ramos) || Derek Hale :: paired with Sadie Price (fc, meghan ory)

Stranger Things | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Have watched all the seasons many times. Currently reading the books!

Notes - I won't write for Billy

Claimed - Robin Buckley :: paired with Daisy Hopper (fc, florence pugh) || Steve Harrington :: paired with Paige Evans (fc, kate hudson) || Robin Buckley :: paired with Vivianne Owens (fc, talia ryder) || Will Byers :: paired with Francis Levin (fc, aiden gallagher)

Supernatural | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed, have not watched "The Winchesters" (9/23)

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Dean Winchester, Charlie Bradbury :: paired with Lori Holt (fc, krysten ritter) || Sam Winchester, Castiel :: paired with Virginia "Gigi" Rivers (fc, alyssa marano) || Bela Talbot :: paired with Beau Rivers (fc, colin o'donoghue)

The Walking Dead | ♥♥♥♥

Status - Currently on season 8 (9/23)

Notes - Won't write for Negan or Merle

Claimed - Michoone Hawthorne, Daryl Dixon :: paired with Jennifer "JD" Moore (fc, jodie comer)

Criminal Minds | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Currently on season 14 (9/23)

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Spencer Reid :: paired with Arwen Valentine (fc, imogen poots) || Emily Prentiss :: paired with Michaela "Mika" Briggs (fc, tatiana maslany) || Any :: paired with Dana Hart (fc, deborah ann woll)

-literature-

Percy Jackson | ♥

Status - Currently on House of Hades (9/23)

Notes - Won't write for Luke

Claimed - Percy Jackson :: paired with Arely Wesseck (fc, natalia dyer)

The Raven Cycle | ♥

Status - Completed. Have not read Call Down The Hawk. (4/23)

Notes - n/a

Claimed - Richard Gansey, Blue Sargent :: paired with unknown

The Diviners Series | ♥

Status - Currently on The King of Crows (4/23)

Notes - Will not write for Jake Marlowe.

Claimed - Mempis Campbell :: paired with unknown || Sam Lloyd :: paired with unknown

-video games-

Detroit: Become Human | ♥♥♥

Status - Completed most endings.

Notes - Will not write Richard Perkins.

Claimed - Connor RK800, Markus RK200 :: paired with Alizarin Morgan (fc, suzy berhow)

Heavy Rain | ♥♥

Status - Completed, have seen 2 endings.

Notes - Will not write Scott Shelby

Claimed - Norman Jayden :: paired with unknown

Life Is Strange | ♥♥♥

Status - Completed, have seen both endings.

Notes - I have only played Life Is Strange and Life Is Strange Before The Storm. I also won't write for David.

Claimed - Chloe Price :: paired with unknown

Red Dead Redemption | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed both games. Only seen high honor.

Notes - I won't write for Micah Bell, Bill Williamson, and Hosea Matthews.

Claimed - Arthur Morgan :: paired with Emmaline Nielson (fc, jessica brown findlay) || Sadie Adler :: paired with Delilah Matthews (fc, rosamund pike)

The Last of Us | ♥♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed both games and show!

Notes - I will not tolerate Abby slander

Claimed - Joel Miller :: paired with Fiona Kelley (fc, molly parker) || Abigail "Abby" Anderson :: Camilla Miller (fc, unknown)

-anime-

Fruits Basket | ♥♥♥♥

Status - Completed the reboot

Notes - N/A

Claimed - Sohma Yuki or Hanajima Saki :: paired with Tamaki Sayuri (fc, rinka urushiba)

Cowboy Bebop | ♥

Status - Completed both the show and live action

Notes - N/A

Claimed - Spike Spiegel or Faye Valentine :: paired with unknown

Spy X Family | ♥♥♥

Status - Watched up to season 2!

Notes - Willing to do just 1x1

Claimed - Yor Forger :: paired with unknown

[literatigifs]

As a possible couple or as a ship? As a couple I honestly don't think they would ever be a thing because even taking aside Rory as a significant friend towards Paris and as a former girlfriend of Jess's for whom he possibly still has love for, I just don't see them ever working out in the long-term. They're somewhat similar in how they behave in certain moments and the way that they deal with conflict doesn't work from both sides at all for them. Paris is someone who confronts everyone upfront and at times even lashes out in specific ways by trying to drive people further from her, even in her Yale years, whereas Jess mostly tried to avoid conflict when he was a teenager and I imagine he still doesn't like arguments as an adult, so he might not necessarily go away like he used to as a teenager, but he'd probably just respond to it in such a way that wouldn't mesh with Paris's approach at all. I think I noted on this before but the reason why both of them stick to Rory throughout their lives, even when they haven't seen her in a while, is because her approach serves as a buffer for both of their personalities. Rory has her own faults and bad moments but she tries to be a good friend and considerate towards both of them, and even in the revival, you see her trying to calm Paris down while she's having a breakdown in the bathroom and making sure she understands that she's wrong about considering herself a failure. It's why their dynamics with her work as well as they do, in spite of some popular opinions from viewers that either hate Rory or consider her boring. From my perspective you would have to have the kind of personality Rory has in order to handle characters like Jess or Paris, ones that are sometimes prone to going too far in their emotions or heads, and need someone to reel them back in.

As a ship I previously didn't consider anything about it or minded it, but as of now I've mostly grown unsure of anyone's intentions of shipping it mainly because I only ever see it as an "alternative" for Jess because people hate Rory now. In my opinion it's not only offensive towards Paris as a character to only consider her an option when the obvious person that Jess wants is someone that you hate (and for pretty banal reasons when the same people have no problem loving male characters that have killed innocent people with no hesitation....), but it's just misplaced energy that instead of them spending on how to evolve Jess and Paris as their own thing, they deliberately stick it next to Rory in order to further humiliate her as a character and use two characters that have such a long history with her in order to do that. And once they've succeeded in this, I don't see any further interest from other people in the ship anymore. So I feel like for a ship that is supposedly about Paris and Jess, it really becomes a dynamic they can use against Rory, because suddenly she deserves no understanding or support from either solely because she's pregnant out of a weblock.

[mauradersdaughter]

It is safe to say that Rory and Jess’ relationship had issues and some of the biggest problems were caused because Jess didn’t open his mouth, but let’s talk about how Rory also had a lot of fault on the bad things of their relationship.

The way she compared Dean and Jess was just wrong, she expected Jess, someone who’s clearly in his first serious relationship and has a lot of baggage, to behave like Dean, a guy who has experience on the boyfriend department and has a stable life.

Also, her relationship was not between just her and Jess, Dean was also involved in her choice making, like how she wanted to hide the relationship for the sake of Dean’s feelings. It seemed that she always put her ex-boyfriend’s feelings over her current one. One of the reasons why Jess says: “figures” at the top of the stairs before the fight, is that it always went back to Dean. Jess’ problem was not her friendship with the guy (even if he didn’t like it, he respected her choice), it was that she prioritized him and showed Jess who came first in her life. After the guy goes and punches her boyfriend, she simply doesn’t say anything to him or confronts him, just let’s him get away with it and doesn’t even talk to him about it at the funeral and acts as if nothing happend.

Rory was a people pleaser, emotionally immature and not smart at life or dating. She was quite selfish in her relationships (not only romantic). Yes, her boyfriends were not that great, but she wasn’t an amazing girlfriend either, everybody had some growing up to do!

[jessmmariano]

FOR REAL. Like he was so unnecessary rude to her and didn’t have any redeeming moments. Sure, his parents were probably distant but that’s not an excuse for him to be an ass to Rory. And yeah, Jess wasn’t the nicest either at first but he was way better than Tristan and did things for Rory. Tristan is such a jerk and people only like him because he’s hot (whether they’ll admit it or not).

I see a lot of people say "Rory fumbled the bag with Tristan she should have dated him" like ew no he's a creep! I'm glad she never dated him she didn't fumble the bag with anything! He was a bully and literally harassed her!! He was awful. Period. Tristan has no redeeming qualities.

[literatikoo]

Lane Kim deserved better

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I would only write Lane Kim meta when I am very very angry because I need to be powered by spite and petty energy to unravel exactly how much of a disservice this show was to Lane and by extension any Asian kid with a similar life. And, well, it's happening now, so buckle up kids, this is going to be a loooong ride because I have a lot to say.

Before we start on the negative aspects, the show got a lot of things about Lane right, which is why I care so much about her character. Yes, ASP obviously didn't know how to write a POC experience and it's seen in the way some very harmful stereotypes were propagated (the tiger mom trope, Mrs Kim's religious beliefs, the depiction of the Kim extended family etc) but at the same time Lane was beautifully written as a character, unlike her plot which left much to be desired. Lane Kim was an Asian girl with rock n roll dreams who had an extremely fraught relationship with her mother and had to fight for even a semblance of independence. And I hate to say it but a lot of daughters of Asian households are forced to hide a part of themselves from their families, so Lane's story was authentic.

Not only was Lane amazing as an individual, she was also a great friend. She was the only one who was really in Rory's corner; she never judged her and supported all of Rory's relationships (my favourite example of this is when she barely tolerated Jess in S2/3 and then did a complete 180 like 5 episodes later, all because Rory decided to finally accept she liked him). Lane never pointed out what Rory was doing wrong not because she was afraid of doing so but because the two of them had been friends for years and Lane believed that Rory would figure it out one day. Lane shows this unconditional kindness not only to Rory but to everyone. She takes in her Korean cousin and teaches her to have fun even when she's afraid that Mrs Kim has replaced her, she lets Gil be in the band because she empathises with him, she takes care of the band and prevents it from breaking up multiple times. And these are only a few examples of Lane being the kindest character on GG.

One of the best things in Gilmore Girls is that the most unproblematic, amazing guy is given to Lane. Dave Rygalski is the best love interest on the show hands down (Sorry to my boy Jess but Dave was LEAGUES ahead of him at 17) and Lane definitely deserved someone like that. Their story was adorable and I would have loved for them to be endgame. However, what grates me is that when I see people talking about Lane "deserving better," it's usually about Dave vs Zach. When Lane actually deserved better as a WHOLE and not only in terms of love interests. I always thought it made more sense for her to end up alone at the end of the og series. Because Lane was a person who craved independence and she was not going to get that while tied to some guy (even if that guy is boyfriend extraordinaire, Dave Rygalski). It's even worse when we see that Lane is the only female character on the show to be treated this way. Rory rejects marriage for her career while Lane ends up with marriage as her storyline. Lorelai and Luke get back together but their relationship is still left open ended, though arguably it would've made more sense if they got married when Lane and Zach did. Paris gets into Harvard Medical school and gets a great relationship, similarly Sookie gets the family she wanted and continues to be amazing at her job. But Lane... god Lane is the only one without an open ending, without any space for speculation of where her life might lead her. Not only did they marry her off, they also gave her a terrible first time and twins, effectively locking her to Stars Hollow. The show even cut down all hope of her being a rock n roll mom as one of her S7 storylines is choosing the kids over going on tour with Zach. She doesn't get to be her own person for more than ONE season; she's stuck with being a daughter and then a wife and then a mother.

Something else that angers me about Lane's storyline is that we never really get to see how badly her relationship with her mom affects her. Don't get me wrong, I adore Mrs Kim's redemption arc and I think it was beautifully juxtaposed to Lorelai and Rory's crumbling relationship, but having a mother like that is hard. Not only did Lane have to hide 90% of her personality from Mrs Kim but she also lived with the fact that one day she might have to choose between her dreams and her mother. In the end, Mrs Kim makes that choice for her and deals with it by kicking Lane out in S4, and yet we never really see how that negatively affects Lane. Hell, Jess acts like a broody teen for two seasons, Rory wastes six months of her life away at the DAR and they both come out of it successfully. Lane gets kicked out, figures out her own living conditions, gets a job, works insanely hard for her band and... ends up having to give her dreams up completely.

Lane and Paris shared a lot of similarities too, even if they both had different friendships with Rory. They both came from terrible families and looked to Lorelai as a mother figure, they both cared deeply for Rory, and they were both incredibly passionate about their careers. Paris made calendars and flashcards and went crazy studying for both pre med and pre law. Lane was a walking, talking music encyclopaedia, she bought CDs obsessively and organised them by genre under her floorboards, she taught herself to play the drums and then found a band to play for. And yet... only Paris becomes successful in the end, whereas Lane takes over Kim's antiques. Lane was still a musician in AYITL and she can be rock n roll even with kids but this is all hypothetical and we never see it on the show.

There is a lot of terrible, lazy writing on the show and a lot of characters get ruined because of it but with Lane, her character stays the same, they just ruin everything else for her. I think she'll be an amazing mom and will probably make her best out of doing music casually. But the writers also took something so special and destroyed it just because Lane stopped being as important to the plot as she was in seasons 1-3. Lane and Rory drifting a little after Rory leaves for Yale makes perfect sense, that's just how relationships are, always changing. And yet as Lane's importance to Rory decreased so did her importance to the writers.

Lane wasn't the kind of character that needed character development or a redeeming character arc- she was never a bad person and nothing about her had to be fixed, unlike Jess or even Paris. All she really needed was for her dreams to come true because for the first 4 seasons her dreams were the biggest fixture of her personality. Like how Jess needed to overcome his trauma and Rory needed to figure out where she fit in and Paris needed to become a girlboss, Lane needed to realise her dreams because that's where her arc was leading her. But it just didn't happen. Instead, Lane becomes 2-dimensional; a large part of her screentime is taken up by Zach problems, her dreams fall flat and she becomes tied to Stars Hollow for the rest of her life. Not to mention we see less of Lane in favour of Logan and the dickhead posse.

This is not me hating on all the other characters I've mentioned in this meta, I'm just pointing out the lack of respect the writers have for Lane in comparison to all these other people who fulfilled the role they were made for. Why would you write Lane to have all these dreams and make her struggle so hard for 4 seasons just to smash them to pieces? And why is it that one of the only POC characters on this show is treated like this?

And you can't tell me the writers didn't know what they were doing, not when this is a direct quote from Lane in S7:

"It was such a small window -- a peephole, really. For years, I was this repressed kid, and then there was the briefest of windows. And then -- slam. All of a sudden, I'm this overburdened mother. I barely got to do it, Zach. I barely got the chance to be a person."

[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!

[theonethatwatchesalotofshows]

(Sorry, I meant to clarify that Gilmore Girls is the fandom I'm asking you about!)

Alright :)

Otp: Jess and Rory

Favorite canon pairing: still Jess and Rory

Worst pairing ever: as livid as Dean and Rory make me, I'm gonna have to go with Paris and the professor on that one. It's just gross

Guilty pleasure pairing: Rory and Logan in season 5 (like when they jumped off the tower)

A pairing you want to see more: Jess and Rory, we were robbed! Also Lane and Dave!

A pairing everyone likes but you're like "lol no": Rory and Logan in the later seasons. I mean it was fun at first but then they got annoying. And they didn't even have a storyline in season 7 they just got a bunch of cutesy scenes thrown together with no real arc

A favorite non-romantic pairing: Rory and Paris