#didn't understand why people wrote stuff about them being married this whole time

[sunciv]

yeah they're married

[ellowynthenotking]

Jan 21

Dear Dad,

I know it's been a little while since I wrote. Sorry about that. We left the lord's little castle the day after, the day after the wedding. I don't know why we got a day and a half together locked in a room. But I guess the others didn't want to get caught in a loop of weird stuff like that happening over and over again. I completely understand, but also, that bed was warm, big, and soft. 

I miss that bed. 

It's cold. I've been cold since we left. Absolutely freezing, actually, cause we've mostly been out in the cold the whole time. 

Which is just not great. Cause I'm cold all the time. I'm honestly a little worried I'm going to lose my toes. I can't actually tell you for sure the last time I can remember feeling them. It's been that long. I mean, I also can't remember the last time I actually thought about my toes at length. Still, you really notice when you can't really feel them anymore.

In other, also confusing news, I think I'm married, I guess? To Grace, I mean. We were not just allowed, but encouraged to keep the rings we exchanged, which, you know, feels very wedding-y to me. And it's not just, you know, we were wedded and then locked in a room. I feel much closer now to Grace because we mostly just talked for hours because of that. But there's just something about all of it. I feel like, maybe, I'm looking at her differently now? It's not. I knew she was pretty before, but seeing her up in that dress was something else.

And then just spending time together. Learning about her with no idea when we'd be able to leave the room, but it was a guilded cage. We were completely safe and comfortable. Well fed. 

There was nothing to really think too hard about. 

I just, I would love a thousand more nights like that. Preferably without being locked in the room, but I don't think anything will ever match the time we spent together. 

We were only there for a little while, but the whole place was a trip! It was insane! It was crazy! All the people there? Crazy. Should not have power over anyone cause they're going to abuse it. 0/5 stars would not recommend it to another road-weary traveler. 

They'd be lucky to make it out with their lives. I mean, I don't know what was going to happen to us, but I'm not entirely sure we should have made it out. It's absolutely insane. 

At least we're out. And now we're somewhere that actually is safe. Well, safe enough. For now, at least. 

Granted, we have to pay to be here, but in my book, it's better than being out in the cold.

Riley and everyone else are mad at each other, probably the cause of the terrible weather conditions and the fact that we're once again squished into a room that's way too small for all six of us. We should have just gotten two rooms. But we're poor. 

We have no money, ever. We work for it, but apparently, we'll always just be a little poor. 

It might be because we have no real plan. Like ever. We just bounce around from place to place for the most part. 

I hope to be home soon, but I don't know if we will be. 

We don't even really know where we're going at this point. And it's hard to actually plan for anything, any of it, when we don't even know how we'll get home at this point.

I'm just happy to have a bed again, honestly. Sleeping on the cold hard ground sucks, and I don't think anyone should do it. Can I actually control when I get to do it? No. But it'd be nice to even have an air mattress or something. 

Anything would be great. Really.

At least with everything that happened at the castle, I got to keep the ring, and I think Grace is keeping hers. We could probably sell it for some big money, but I don't know. 

It means a lot to me. 

Hopefully, I can write to you soon,

Love Jack

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[bythenineshards]

Okay, no but srsly what is up with the Nesta antis? I stumbled through a few of their posts and why do hate her so much with such a burning passion?? Because she was mean to her sister when her character was nothing but a vessel to make Feyrug the everlasting victim? When Feyrug was as equally mean??

Like Feyre antis dislike her character because of the bad writing. Because we dislike sjm first and then her characters. These ppl hate Nesta but at the same time say sjm is a phenomenal writer. They rant about how we are stupid hating feyre and feysand because sjm loves them and will ALWAYS put them on a pedestal. (Again, roasting her better than most antis) Clowns be forgetting their Queen Maas wrote 700 pages about Nesta and,( ig I read it somewhere) wants her to have a "happy beginning" whatever tf that means.

It's the irony for me 🤌🏼

Hey! It's good to see you!

God I hate how stupid and gullible their hatred for Nesta is. And it's sorta funny at the same time. Nesta is hated by a bunch of Feyre Stans and they aren't willing to look passed "what she did to Feyre" but Rhys? Oh yeah, he's perfect.

I have a controversial opinion about the relationship between Feyre and Nesta. And it boils down to Maas (once again) not understanding something. On my first read through (and the one with my husband right before acosf) both of us never considered the relationship between them to be abusive. We still don't. I think Maas wants us to believe it was because she says so. But in adult fiction you have to prove it.

I told my husband that the fandom hates Nesta for being verbally and emotionally abusive. He scoffed and said that he and his brothers said way worse stuff to each other growing up. For me, it rang hollow as well.

Emotional abuse is about control. It isn't just saying things like "you reek" or "if you treat people shitty they'll leave you" then have them go about a normal relationship. Feyre isn't afraid of Nesta. In fact she openly picks fights with her. I wouldn't have dreamed of fighting with my dad. I'm so afraid of him that I wake up in a cold sweat after having a dream about him. I haven't spoken to him in 7 years.

Feyre hears Nesta in her head? I hear my own voice repeating the things my dad ingrained in me to think about myself. I'm not special. I'm a failure. No man will love me. I'm a loser. Holly I love you but I don't like you. As if by simply being me, I'm not worth being loved.

Nesta has no control over Feyre. So I don't believe the book telling me Nesta is abusive. I don't believe it when I get to see through the eyes of a protagonist who tells me within two pages that she can't wait for her sisters to get married and fuck off. I don't believe it when I get to see how truly vile Feyre is in her assumptions about those around her. I don't believe for one second that this girl coming into a conversation and telling Nesta what she can and can't do then withholding information that could cause her harm in favor of a jab that would likely push her closer to that situation is a goddamn victim.

Sorry.

I'm not speaking for anyone else who has similar abuse. I'm speaking solely for myself and my experiences. They caused what's written in these books to come off as shallow.

The whole "Maas loves Feysand" is dumb too. A Stan saying that is admitting that the author's bias to the leads makes her incapable of writing honestly. Not to toot my own horn but I had a story that's currently on the back burner where the premise is "the MC is married to the villain but doesn't know it". The point of the book was to show the villain as a loving husband and the MC slowly comes to realize that what he's doing (though for a just cause) was being done in the worst way. I struggled with this story and my own realization that the MC was going to have to kill him. I didn't want to kill him. He was a good man to her and I loved him too. But I couldn't see a logical reason to try to redeem him or keep him alive. And this dude, didn't do half the shit Rhys does.

So yeah... Stans just believe whatever Maas tells them to believe. Until they can't believe it. I see it a lot with Nesta's "redemption" where they can't see passed her past actions. They aren't believing what's being spoonfed to them now because Maas spent 4 books making them dislike her. It's similar to those of us who can't see passed Rhys's actions Utm and beyond to believe that he's just the bestest UwU Dark Daddy ever.

[bookofmirth]

i’m a feyre stan first and foremost so out of loyalty sometimes her hardcore stans make me feel like i have to hate nesta and elain or i’m an abuse apologist but then i think about it for a moment and

obviously i understand that sjm always has the main fmc have a tragic backstory but in this case it’s just so utterly ridiculous that 2 girls that are like maximum 3 years older than feyre sat on their asses and stared at a wall for 5 years and it honestly makes me hate them less. i feel like i can’t even be mad at them for not hunting because it’s so cardboard cut out evil older sister villainy that it’s honestly just funny like sjm didn’t even care to give them realistic reasons for not hunting because all that matters is they can’t hunt because it’s feyre tragic backstory

and it doesn’t even really fit in with their characters. elains a literal gardener and they live near a forest? i’m sure sjm couldve had her plant some vegetables. it doesn’t make sense that elain didn’t plant vegetables. i know sjm threw in that lame ‘but the soil wasn’t good’ excuse but come on 😭😭 and how is nesta so selfish to not hunt when like the second time we see her in acomaf she’s championing human lives to be saved?? obviously poverty and trauma does things to people but nesta doesn’t even find herself a husband to take care of her and elain when it’s literally what she was taught and raised to do

love sjm but i wish she fleshed out the beginning of acotar wayyy more.

Here's an alternative I was just chatting with some people about -

acotar should have been a trilogy and all this spin-off stuff shouldn't have happened without the foundation to support it.

Which, because Elain and Nesta were such fairy tale tropes in acotar, we didn't have a good foundation for them. Now, everyone is arguing about how big a bitch Nesta really is and how useless Elain really is, and a lot of it is based on content that was not supposed to go beyond explaining "here is what Feyre was dealing with before she went over the Wall". Nesta and Elain were written as if they would barely make cameo appearances in the rest of Feyre's life, but surprise! Now they are/going to be main characters.

I wonder if it would have been more believable if sjm had embraced the way she wrote Nesta and Elain, rather than trying to make excuses for them. idk. Gardening is hard (just ask my fig plant which just lost all its leaves, and I have time, knowledge, and resources to care for it!) but if Elain's whole personality is Good at Plants, why couldn't she have done better? Nesta was ready to marry the one dude, but she was also like 23 in acotar which is Old Lady status in fairy tale worlds, so why hadn't she done that years before? And obviously Papa Archeron was there. They just... they were such stereotypes, and now we have to try to understand them as fully developed characters based on those two-dimensional tropes.

It's no wonder we disagree with one another, but if we could just not be so mean about it, jfc. It's based on sjm being half-assed! Not any of us being bad readers! Be mad at her!

Don't let the fandom make you feel like you need to think or feel anything in particular, though! It's perfectly possible for us to like all three sisters. I know I wouldn't get along with them all equally irl, but I appreciate their characters.

[quantumboogaloo]

I first learned the term "asexual" when I was 16. I knew about asexual reproduction and stuff, but I was 16 when I learned people could be asexual, as in just not being sexually attracted to people.

A group of friends was discussing the idea that nobody is totally straight or totally gay, that there is at least one person of the same or other gender that they might be attracted to. Us, being nerds, made a diagram and placed each other on it. When they got to me, I simply shrugged. "Come on," one girl said, "haven't you thought anyone was hot?" Again, I shrugged. They listed off names, and I responded with something like "I dunno, I've just never thought about that."

"Haven't you dated anyone," another girl asked.

"Yeah, but, it didn't go well. I didn't end up liking him." (dude was a total creep, btw).

"Okay!" she said cheerily, and in a separate little area, she wrote "Asexual" and my name underneath it. "Like a plant?" I asked, confused. They all giggled and moved on. That idea, though, of being asexual, stuck with me.

I had never even vaguely felt attracted to anyone like that, ever. Literally no interest. When I was a hormonal 14-year-old, I guess I kind of felt bad that no one had asked me out, but that was because them not asking me out was an extension of everyone hating me, anyway. (I was, and still am, a total weirdo). But eventually, I just made peace with that, and cherished my one best friend.

I vividly remember one time, I was maybe ten years old, when my younger siblings and I were discussing our plans for the future with our mom. I had always wanted to be a scientist or engineer. But my siblings mentioned things like getting married and having kids, and I realized that I had no interest in getting married. I wanted to be a mother, but I couldn't care less about having a partner. I told my mom "Maybe I should just adopt some kids, and not worry about a husband. Boys are mean to me anyway."

But that night, after my friends using the word asexual in that context, I googled it. A rush of understanding about myself, why I was so different, etc overwhelmed me. The relief was unfathomable. Nothing was wrong with me, I was just weird in yet another way.

3 years later, I am still happy as ever to have found a community of people who feel similarly to me. Even happier to have finally realised that I am also aromantic, and that I don't need to date or find a boyfriend/girlfriend/partner. I am whole and complete in and of myself, and I probably won't ever date anyone, and I am finally, FINALLY content with who I am. No more questioning if something is wrong with me.

[taegularities]

for "songs about you" couple

1. when do you think you fell in love with each other?

2. how are you dealing with a pregnancy/baby and being a new couple in the same time?

3. do you feel like things happened too fast? i mean most people are married and together for a lot of years before starting a family

4. is the oc still insecure about tae's relationship with other girls?

5. do you thing your amazing author will write drabble about you guys? (i'm dying for parents!au)

6. how do you manage work and family? also, do you feel like the baby is blocking you from fulfilling your dreams?

note: you're such a good writer and your blog is so pretty.

1. when did you fall in love?

Tae: "I feel like I'd been feelings things for her in high school already. She seemed so out of my league and amazing that I tried to build a barrier between us - but then, when we started having sex, everything kinda escalated and I noticed the way she drove me crazy with just a smile... I think I properly noticed the night after our McDonald's date..."

Y/N: "When he wrote that song for me back in high school... and when he told me about his girlfriends that he had back in college. I think that's when I first started feeling jealous. I regret that we both stayed silent, though, we were idiots. 🙄"

2. how are you dealing with a pregnancy/baby and being a new couple in the same time?

Y/N: "Ah, the baby's doing well, but I'm a little overwhelmed! It's so new to me still, but I feel absolutely amazing. Can't wait to see this little ball of sunshine! And about the new couple thing - well, it feels familiar somehow. He still takes care of me the way he did before and we still act dorky and in love as we did before. Just now, we know about our feelings. We're working through changes, but we're floating on clouds!!"

3. do you feel like things happened too fast? i mean most people are married and together for a lot of years before starting a family

Tae: "I was definitely surprised. I didn't think that had happened when I went to her apartment that day... but as Y/N said, things still feel similar to as they were before. Life and things are certainly happening fast right now, but they... do happen and we're indulging in the happy memories we're making 🥰 And yeah, I know! But we've both decided that we'll wait a bit with marriage. Until everything's settled and easier to manage - definitely not before our baby is born, though."

4. is the oc still insecure about tae's relationship with other girls?

Y/N: "No. I must admit, thinking back to Ru still hurts and sometimes, when Tae and I fight, I let these things slip out of anger. But then we both apologise and move forward, because I trust him - he made mistakes, but everyone does. And also!"

Tae: "Yes, also: she like everyone else knows that I worship her like crazy. It's even too much sometimes! :D"

5. do you thing your amazing author will write drabble about you guys? (i'm dying for parents!au)

Tae, looks up to the sky: "Rid, will you?"

Rid: "Ohhhhh yes. I've a whole fic outlined that consists of little drabbles. A compilation of drabbles of some sort? Super fluffy, a little angsty, and I'll probably cry writing it :]"

6. how do you manage work and family? also, do you feel like the baby is blocking you from fulfilling your dreams?

Tae: "I balance work and family well. I try not to overwork, though, I know Swan needs me a lot these days. And since I'm the CEO of my company, it's easy to manage stuff."

Y/N: "Yeah, for me, it was harder. I mean, I'd just started the orchestra thing when I got pregnant, and I tried to go there as often as I could. But when even walking became difficult, I started staying home, and people there were extremely kind and understanding! There were some who looked at me weird, but who has the time to give them any attention, right?"

Tae: "See? That's why I fucking love you."

talk to my characters! <3

[doctorwhoformybestie]

11 x reader

°A very special holiday°

A story in which the Doctor wants to make a very special day just for you

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It was just another not normal day in the Tardis. You both just finished running away from a very crazy Marilyn Monroe that you accidently ran into at one of Frank Sinatra's famous parties. She was chasing the Doctor around trying to convince him that they were certainly and most definitely married. 

He quickly stood from his chair and walked over to yours. 

Once safely inside the Tardis you and the doctor both fell onto the command chairs by the console. 

"Doctor you did not tell me that you knew Marilyn Monroe!"

He just laughed and smiled, "Well you weren't supposed to find out like that!" He sat there and started laughing. Which made you laugh even more. Which just resulted in a gigantic laughing fit. Once the laughing died down, you decided that it was time for a quick nap. 

"Well Doctor, I must say you keep me on my toes. But right now I'm exhausted from running away from famous people." 

"Well my good lady I bid you a good night." He smiled and outstretched his hand for you to grab and lift yourself up to your feet. He smiled and sorta awkwardly waved goodnight as you walked to the corridor your room was on. 

When you reached your bed you fell on top of it and fell asleep with a smile on your face. 

The Doctor on the other hand had a gigantic smile and was laughing and dancing around the Tardis console singing fly me to the moon when an idea sparked in his head. He's been making you run around with him for continuous days. Why not make a special day for you? Including all of your favorite things. 

First he had to make a stop at a 21st grocery store. Now of course he would have loved to do this with you but this was a special surprise for you and he had to make it as extravagant as possible. 

He parked the Tardis in the parking lot and started his journey for operation special day. Now he couldn't think of a better name so he just went with that till something better would come around in that big brain of his.

"Walmart" he said in a curious tone. "Walmarty. Walmat. Wallmot." He tried pronouncing it in different tones til he found his favorite fake accent, Texan. He quickly had another idea and ran back inside the Tardis and grabbed his Stetson and wore it inside the store. 

Now he thought he was ready to move onto the next location. But that was until he saw matching pjs that had tiny elves on them. Now the Doctor knew you hated cringy things like that because he's tried it before. Once at a halloween party he tried to make you both go as a werewolf and a vampire (who was supposed to be who? Only he knew) but you REFUSED to that for many reasons. Many of which the Doctor did not understand at all. But he grabbed them anyways just in case you were feeling a little bit generous in wearing them someday. 

Now usually when the Doctor goes to places like this he has his companion come with him. But he had to do this alone and quickly because you would not sleep for long. At least not as long as the normal human being.

When he walked in he was very curious at all the displays around the store, movies for only $5, a tub of flip-flops, every checkout aisle containing gum and other fun candies and his most favorite section was the giant tall box containing all different sorts of balls. Let's say he may have spent a few minutes taking one out and trying to toss it back in.  

Thankfully he decided to travel at night so there weren't too many people there, but a few strange faces did show up. But he decided just to smile and continue walking, these people looked quite normal, other than that one man wearing a chicken onesie, which may or may not resulted in him asking the man where he got it he wrote it down so he could get one in the future. 

Finally the Doctor decided to get the items he came for instead of exploring the wonders of the modern day store. 

He first went over to the small section of Christmas decorations, he somehow managed to travel to the summertime and not winter, but it worked all out for him. He grabbed 10 enormous boxes of white Christmas lights, stacking them all in his arms. 

He started walking to another section of the store, but then he fell. Yes the famous Doctor fell, because his laces became untied. Y/N always said that it would happen, but thankfully she wasn't here to see it play out. It resulted in boxes becoming smushed because he landed on top of them. 

The Doctor jumped up and started patting his face and his body, making sure that none of his bones were broken. When he finally had himself settled down, he saw a cart shoved into an aisle. He quickly and nonchalantly grabbed the cart and rapidly placed all the boxes of lights into it. 

When he reached his next destination, he had a tough decision to make. Fluffy socks, or fluffy blankets. "What the heck" he said as he grabbed two pairs of socks and two blankets. 

Now he continued on to the next section. Finding the most perfect hot chocolate for you was a must. It was the most make or break situation he had in the past two minutes. So many different brands, so many different flavors. After looking at all the packages he went with the most prettiest packages and decided to get 3 different flavors, just in case you didn't like one of them. 

"Oh no. I don't have mugs" he said this very quietly under his breath while tapping his chin. So he ran with the cart all the way over to the coffee mug section. He grabbed two simple blue mugs (to match the whole aesthetic going on in his spaceship) 

Then he remembered he had to grab some milk and cookies and then some candy to go along with it all. 

But of course as the Doctor does he forgot to grab candy until he was in the checkout lane. So he had to grab what was left, m&m's and skittles two of the most iconic round candies in America. 

When he was putting all his items on the checkout platform the lady gave him a very strange look. She was quite confused on why this man was buying all this stuff in the middle of June. All these items were used in the winter and here was this strange man buying it all in the summer. 

"Got big plans?" The lady asked as she scanned all the items and bagged them.

"Well you see, my friend has been working ever so hard. And I thought. Well why don't we have a celebration!" He laughed as he finished the sentence. The lady just stared at him and continued to scan the items. She now thought this man was out of his mind.

Once he paid for all the supplies he rode the cart out to the Tardis. When he got to the Tardis he placed all the bags inside as quietly as he possibly could, trying not to wake you with one sound. When he finished with all the bags he decided to travel up to the stars just to have an amazing view from the window. 

When you woke up you smelled something baking in the air. Something that you haven't smelled in a long time. You decided to jump up and run to the control room, thoughts running through your head on why the Doctor would be baking at this early of an hour. 

When you were getting closer to the control room you could hear music playing. What was going on? Before you walked into the room you called the Doctor. 

"Doctor what in the world are you…" you stopped mid sentence when you walked into the room. Your face filled with joy as you saw what was around you. 

Christmas lights were strung all around the Tardis, circling you making you feel warm. There was a couch facing the door(that the Doctor moved from the library) with fuzzy blankets thrown on to it. There were mugs and a tall black jug next to them. 

And then there was the Doctor. Sitting down on the ground using his screwdriver to fix a few strands of lights. But yet he was also trying to fix a box of some sort, almost like a radio. Once he finished the light he threw them onto the console. He then put the radio on the ground and jumped up. 

"Oh my goodness you scared me!" He yelled. "You're supposed to be asleep!"

"And you're supposed to be not doing whatever this is?" He smiled and grabbed your hands. 

"Oh but I thought that sense. Oh I don't know. That you've missed Christmas I would bring it to you!" He sounded delighted and was truly excited. 

"Doctor when did I tell you that?" 

He just smiled, and continued on with his mysterious ways of knowing things. 

He showed you everything. From the fuzzy socks to the beautiful Christmas lights. He did not show you the "cringy" pj's because he was quite honestly scared of your opinion on them

Once he showed you around at all the things he did he led you to the couch. 

"Here these are for you" he said, handing you a pair of fuzzy socks. Your face lit up with amazement at how well he knew you. He then proceeded to hand you a fuzzy blanket. Then an alarm went off, "My cookies!" He yelled as he ran down the hallway to the kitchen. He came back about 5 mins later with a plate full of warm baked chocolate chip cookies.

He handed you the plate as he walked over to where he put the warm milk and hot chocolate packets.

"Now I got 3 different packs. So if you don't like any of them you will just have to settle with one of them" 

He showed you the different kinds, dark chocolate, peppermint and milk chocolate. 

"Peppermint please" you replied. 

He smiled and poured out the warm milk and made two hot chocolates. He then proceded to grab his sonic and aim it at the radio box. It started playing White Christmas. He walked over to the couch and sat down. You placed the cookies in your lap and grabbed your mug from the Doctor. He snapped his fingers at the door and it opened to a planet filled with snow. It was thankfully very warm inside the Tardis but every once in a while you could feel a cool breeze flow in. 

The Doctor reached out of his coat pocket and grabbed the candies that were half way melted. 

"Sorry about them being melted" he gave a half grin and handed you a somewhat melted bag of m&m's. You smiled and just laughed placing them in your lap. The Doctor slowly put his arm around you, being a bit nervous as he always is when showing any signs of affection. You placed your head on his shoulder as you both looked out into the cold planet, snuggling underneath the fuzzy blankets. 

"Doctor?" 

"Yes y/n?" 

"Thank you for the best Christmas ever" 

He just smiled and took hold of your hand. 

"Anything for Miss l/n" he smiled and dreamed of how he wished every day could be like that day. 

[lovelylogans]

Can I ask for more Rory salt? Right after finishing the show I didn't realize why everyone was so upset about her but now that I've rewatched I kind of understand. I'd like to hear more about your opinions on her! (Mostly bc I have 2 braincells so stuff like that flies over my head lol)

okay, granted, a Fair amount of my salt comes from the perspective of a journalism student, ie who they’re trying to portray, and also like. someone at a similar Point in their life, so. here we go. rory Salt.

like i will say she isn’t like, bonafide the Worst Character of all time, but like...... okay. like. this tracks back to one of my original and largest gripes with gilmore girls, and also a large reason of why i like the earlier seasons better than the later ones.

this post explains it very well; the early seasons (and first episodes) of gilmore girls seem to promise healing, moving forward, bettering familial relationships. the actuality of gilmore girls is the repetition of mistakes and things continuing in cycles, and often getting worse.

so, like. rory. rory’s character is established as this sweet, innocent, naive kid, with a fairly decent work ethic and big dreams to aspire to journalism and a certain level of fame (like christine amanpour, i think was the journalist she mentioned in the first day at chilton ep?) she’s smart, quiet, beginning to establish a relationship with her parents, but still a bit uncomfortable within the realm of chilton/privilege—i think this is best exemplified within the debutante episode, in which she’s uncomfortable with the premise, but goes through with it for the sake of making emily happy. same with the golfing episode with richard—she has zero interest in golf, but she gets to spend a day with her grandfather, and she wants to establish that relationship with him.

but then there’s that thing kicking in, in which gilmore girls is essentially a cyclical tragedy; rory gradually becomes more confident in herself and her abilities (becoming valedictorian, going up against paris for the speech on cspan) and in her relationship with boys; she goes after jess, and, once he leaves, lets him go and eventually is like “you shouldn’t have left me. but i’m saying goodbye to you, on my terms.” i think that s3 is where her character is strongest; she’s still sweet and shy, but she has a bit of an edge. she’s caring toward her friends, she, sure, makes the occasional mistake, but she eventually rallies from them. that’s when i like rory’s character best.

rory starts her decline in season four. this dates back to the whole cyclical thing; she’s the one who goes to her grandparents for money, echoing the original premise of the show, and a cycle starts anew. she goes to another new, prestigious school (yale) where she’s pushed to new limits. 

but rory makes mistakes. she stands up for herself, yes, namely taylor when he pushes for her to be ice cream queen, but she also has a certain level of... entitlement, i suppose. like. let’s take “die, jerk.”

(i’m gonna go briefly into a journalistic tangent here, which is especially heaped by the fact i’ve been writing a lot of reviews lately. also, it applies.)

so, first of all, she takes her mom to her job. her mom. literally think about every other job in the world and, barring a “family day” at the office, please name a situation in which that’s acceptable. right? there’s basically no other situation in which that’s a thing you do when you’re being professional. (this is a repeated gripe, by the way; she often brings lorelai along. this could have been achieved with some phone calls where she hangs up and then does her job. but i digress. this goes into a whole rant on how women in journalism are portrayed in tv shows and other media, but seriously, i digress.)

then there’s the review itself. it’s mean.

“she has the grace of a drunken dock worker.” compared her to a hippo. “the roll around the bra strap,” the line about regretting how evolution had led man to stand on two feet because it led to this night. the ballerina comes to yell at her, which is wrong, but holy god, that never even should have been published. sure, it’s partially the fault of doyle, who as an editor should have stepped in, said, “rewrite the holy hell out of this,” and given her a talking-to on how reviewing should be about the performance and not body-shaming her, because yes you can give things a bad review but not to that level, but rory is the one who wrote it. and she only begins to seem apologetic when people start to react to it other than doyle; the ballerina, her mom, emily and richard. this happens a few times throughout—rory (and lorelai) never seem to realize how mean they can get until people start reacting to what they’re doing and saying. 

she’s willing to write those things, read them, have other people read them, and put them out into the public, and doesn’t even consider the potential ramifications that it could have had on not only the dancer, but the ballet performance (which gets shut down, in part due to rory’s review) the costumer, the crew, everyone involved. yes, bad reviews exist, and yes, they can be brutal, but they’re almost never so personally vindictive and mean. she says she’s writing her opinion. look at how harsh that opinion is.

that’s part of why my opinion of rory takes a decline; being mean. another part of it is a certain level of entitlement.

because the revival is on my brain lately, let’s talk revival stuff. making it as a freelance journalist is hard. it’s hard work. it isn’t for a lot of people. especially in new york city, where the industry is so competitive that finding a job in journalism is a whole Thing. rory has a piece in the new yorker (not bad!) and is writing a piece for gq (also not bad, not bad at all!) about people waiting in line for a certain event.

now. let’s take, like, season four/season five rory, who compiled like three separate PILES of research for a story that wasn’t even hers, worked hard enough at chilton, a highly academically competitive school, to get valedictorian. rory is portrayed as a hard worker. she does what’s necessary for the job and to improve.

revival? whoosh, out the window!

she falls asleep during an interview for the gq job. she continually jets off to london to go see logan. she’s completely unprepared for a job interview, having absolutely zero ideas for any stories, despite the fact that freelance journalists are almost always working multiple stories and coming up with new ideas so they can, y’know, get paid. chilton offers her a job as a teacher if she gets her masters, but she turns it down, which, on one hand, sure, follow your dreams, on the other, if you’re continually complaining that you’ll take a job, ANY job, and get a very good job handed to you on a silver platter with the potential for more growth post that job with the addition of your masters and DON’T TAKE IT?!?!?!

plus, in the job interview, when she doesn’t get it, UNDERSTANDABLY, she calls the interviewer angrily saying that the interviewer practically promised her the job, despite the fact that it was a PRELIMINARY JOB INTERVIEW and there are OTHER CANDIDATES who DEFINITELY AT LEAST HAD STORY IDEAS. no matter how impressive your resume is, you have to at least show that you’re trying, because the whole thing in journalism (esp for those breaking into a business) is that EVERYONE has an extensive resume. that’s part of why it’s so competitive.

and still complains that she’s broke, in addition to the trust fund that we know she received at 25, plus whatever money richard left her in his will. if she was broke, she’d be living entirely above her means—those continual trips to london, living in a sizeable one-bedroom apartment in NEW YORK CITY, going out to eat very often. 

and then just??? i could ramble more (the whole sleeping with a MARRIED DEAN thing, her partnership with logan, i could go back in and ramble about how the body-shaming is continual despite the fact that they frequently eat fattening foods and make fun of sports and are only so thin bc, well, tv magic, but also because they have Miraculous metabolisms, the way that they treat their friends, to some extent, but. yeah. here is some Rory Salt.)

[bobbystompy]

68 Quotes I Enjoyed From 2019

Below are my favorite quotes from 2019. Though most occurred throughout the year, some took place before but were encountered during.

1) “I don’t bitch about Millenials.

John Entwistle once complained that he didn’t understand rap. Pete Townsend said, ‘It’s not our job to understand it. It’s our job to get the fuck out of the way.’

New generations come of age. The older generation’s job is to shut up and adapt.” - @danagould

2) “I can’t do drugs with you until we kiss.”

3) “If you pay me $50 I'll show up to your funeral but stand really far away, holding a black umbrella regardless of the weather, so that people think you died with a dark and interesting secret.” - @DanaSchwartzzz

4) “A human being is a dangerous thing to let loose in a room with itself, when it cannot think.” - Roger Ebert

5) “There are no bad bourbons, only better bourbons.” - Dave Hernandez

6) “You can’t put a dollar in a kimono.”

7) “This is how it was.” - rampant takeaway from watching ‘Superbad’ several years after its release

8) “What if I had been born fifty years before you in a house on the street where you lived / Maybe I’d be outside as you passed on your bike / Would I know? / And in a wide sea of eyes, I see one pair that I recognize” - Ben Folds, ‘The Luckiest’

9) “Learn the rules so you can break them.”

10) “Nobody makes chili for two.” - Stacy Massey

11) “‘Best city in the world,’ I mutter to myself, as i adjust my ‘driving blanket’.” - Chicago resident Deanna Belos, during the 2019 Polar Vortex

12) “Dude, no one’s ever got arrested for listening to Counting Crows.” - Ricky O’Donnell, justifying late night music volume at his party

13) Bill Belichick: We’re going to have fun tonight. Rob Gronkowski: Yes we are. We deserve it. Belichick: You’re damn right. Gronk: I haven’t stepped out in like eight months. I gotta step out tonight. Belichick: I’m with you, man. I’m even going to step out. Gronk: Oh, I like it!

A Super Bowl winning exchange.

14) Center David Andrews thanked Bill Belichick for giving him "a shot".

Belichick disagreed with it.

Andrews: Thank you for giving me a shot. Belichick: A shot? I didn't give you shit. You earned it! I don't give anything.

Another Super Bowl winning exchange.

15) “We elected one of the very worst living human beings to be President, and it's exhausting. Each and every day, it's an exhausting slog, just to exist in a world where that's true.” - Michael Schur

16) “Some of y’all always picked Odd Job when you played Goldeneye and it shows” - @thedad

17) “Any app is a dating app if you try hard enough.” - Z.W. Martin (though he says it’s lifted)

18) "Once you're as woke as I am, you learn to feel bad all the time.”

19) “Everything’s a balance beam when you’re 90.” - John Dingell

20) [I wake up in a world where The Beatles never existed]

Me: Check out this song I just wrote

[I begin playing “Ob La Di Ob La Da” without having first built up years of goodwill]

Crowd of people: Wow, this sucks ass

-- @seanoneal

21) “People change people.” - Corey Matthews, Girl Meets World

22) “The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.” - William Goldman

23) “Dan could be like a difficult uncle. I didn’t love his fire-breathing conservative politics. I didn’t love the transformation that came over his novels. In Semi-Tough, he created two benighted Texas jocks and laid their prejudices bare. He was declaring himself a member of the Mark Twain coaching tree. In later books, Dan seemed to be trying to prove he could still tell a racist joke. He insisted that his memoir—the last truly immaculate piece of writing he delivered—include a tirade against political correctness. When his editor said people might be offended, Dan said, ‘Fuck people.’

There are certain writers whose style you pilfer. Certain writers whose moral fiber you try to inherit. For me, Dan represented a third category: a writer whose aura you replicate—or, failing that, try to stand in for a while.” - Bryan Curtis, on Dan Jenkins

24) “Never marry anything. Never choose. Even in love, it's better to be chosen.” - La Dolce Vita

25) “An uncluttered, uncomplicated happy ending might sound wonderful, but it’s hardly ever satisfying. Because the value of great stories lies in the tension between desire and need, between the yearning for the ideal, and the unshakable conviction that ideals don’t really exist, at least not the way we want them to. A great story should hurt a little when it leaves us. There should be some hope, but that hope should remain somewhere just an inch beyond our fingers, because that’s the truth. Even if you had all the perfect moments in the world, you’d still be reaching.” - Zach Handlen, on the Futurama series finale

26) “You can’t see him because he has sunglasses on.” - Alissa Levy

27) “The cinema is the greatest art form ever conceived for generating emotions in its audience. That's what it does best. (If you argue instead for dance or music, drama or painting, I will reply that the cinema incorporates all of these arts).” - Roger Ebert

28) “‘Are you gonna let politics ruin a friendship?’ 

Yes tf I am

People talk about politics as if it’s this isolated, abstract concept that only matters at election time. Somebody’s politics is their world view. It’s whether they think certain human beings deserve rights. It’s how they think the world should be. And if somebody thinks that the world should be colder, meaner, less accepting and downright hostile to people that are different to them, then sure as fuck is the friendship over.”

29) “Can the Supreme Court get me mushrooms?” - J-Papp

30) “Any song under two minutes already has a head start on its way into my heart. Just scream at me and then leave me.” - Drew Magary

31) “Long neck cold beers never broke my heart.” - Clemson Tom

32) “I’d just like to point out that the last spoken words of Game of Thrones were: 

‘I once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel.’”

- @Authoroux

33) “Just once before I die, I want to toss my keys to someone and tell them ‘Bring the car around’.” - Mike Skully

34) “For all the weight they're given, last words are usually as significant as first words.” - Grand Maester Pycelle, Game of Thrones

35) “The best remedy for unrequited love is a trip around the world.” - Cheers

36) [on switching from a hotel to a motel]

Manny: I don't like the sound of that. A lot of amenities disappear when an H turns into an M. Jay: Hey when I met you, you were eating cereal out of a bucket.

-- Modern Family

37) “You and Lindsey don’t want to be ‘estranged’. Estranged is the relationship we want to have with our mothers.” - MegFil

38) “Cigarettes are undefeated.”

39) “My toes are like my fingers on my feet. I can pick stuff up with them.” - Tracy Cunningham

40) “Republicans govern without shame, Democrats shame without governing.” - Bill Maher

41) Sam: I don’t understand the vagaries of the Internet Josiah: Post often, without thought, and you’ll either get cancelled or cancel someone else.

-- Blink-155

42) “Hang a lantern on your problems.”

43) “What a weird web we weave.” - The Situation, The Jersey Shore: Family Vacation

44) “Let the ocean worry about being blue.” - Alabama Shakes, ‘Hang Loose’

45) “Honesty without tact is cruelty.” - Shelley Rokos

46) “My whole life is the wrong porn link.”

47) “One parent can take care of 10 kids, but 10 kids cannot take care of one parent.” - Joe Gestetner, via “an old Yiddish saying”

48) “There are no heroes in the room.” - Classics of Love, ‘Gun Show’

49) “If I am a little dismissive, it's only because of my harrowing backstory.” - Mitchell, Modern Family (on why he doesn't like sports)

50) “Every time I’m wearing black, I meet a dog.” - Tracy Cunningham

51) “Shower sex? Why would I fuck in my crying chamber” - @chridollarsign

52) “My theory about quarterbacks, having written about some of them, is you either have to believe in god or think you are a god.” - Mina Kimes

53) “The contradictions of capitalism always manifest in our lyrics if you look deeply.” - Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker, Riot Fest 2019

54) “Got a ‘hang loose’ from the weakside bartender.”

55) “It’s Jennifer’s birthday always.” - Eric Hutchinson 

56) “I can’t think of a less relevant artist in 2019 than Kanye West. A Jesus freak in a MAGA hat. Yeah, congrats dude -- you’re every grandma who watches ‘Young Sheldon’ and mails checks to Joel Osteen now.” - Dan Ozzi

57) “The past and future are in the mind. I’m in the now.” - Tom Brady, via someone else

58) “Sometimes you walk around boring places and you feel like the most exciting thing in it.” - Drew Magary

59) “Sitting is the new smoking.” - Modern Family

60) “I'll straight up fight folks at a book club and discuss books at a fight club I really don't give a shit anymore.” - George Wallace

61) “Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.” - Rose Garvey via wine country

62) “It’s all ‘ok boomer’ until you need someone who can drive stick shift.” - @OrdinaryAlso

63) “He likes the result of the math.” - Dad, talking about my worst subject frustrating during the process but satisfying in the end

64) Stepmom: Do you want a Bears urn or Alabama urn? Dad: Ask me after they play Auburn.

65) “A cold body carries a warm heart.” - Stefanos Tsitsipas’ Instagram, after his Iceland sabbatical

66) [preparing a dish called the Sandwich of Justice with his friend’s recipe]

"The fun thing about it is when you give it to someone, you can say 'Justice is served.’ That's, uh, Ryan's line. I built my whole life on the backs of my friends." - You Suck At Cooking

67) “Usually three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead.” - The Irishman

68) “An artist can't control who consumes their content any more than a chemist can control how their chemicals are used once they're created.” - Brian Crooks

[nie-rants]

Hi y'all it's me again (yeah we know) Anywho today's rant is really going to be kind of serious so stay with me here okay. So I was kind of reading this, book y'know (what's it's name) it's a book (there we go guys I can now confidently tell you it's a fic) maybe it is but essentially this fic was about an affair let me give it to you like this okay.

There's this guy(let's call him John) he hits on a guy(let's call him Jim) at a bar who's a little stiff at first but soon enough they're back at a hotel have a one night stand that's it. Jim left first before John even woke up no leaving any form of contact, no phone number, no nada. Later in the day John gets a a message from Jim on Instagram saying he'd like to keep in touch, John then thinks long and hard about,(for about a minute or so) and just decided to say yes. They keep talking like for a while then Jim just during one of their conversations just casually drops the fact that he spent the day with his in-laws like it's nothing. John was like what and eventually found out Jim was married to a lady. It shocked him, hurt him did alot of things but didn't mean the end of this relationship. Anywho that's where I think the affair officially begun.

Like that's basically the summary of the story and I know that since Jim and John are the protagonists of this story we're supposed to support them and want them to by together and bless their souls but HECK NO! like under no circumstances do I ever find or justify cheating acceptable. I know sometimes people are in relationships they don't really want to be in like they're compelled to be in but like no. I might sound like some self righteous highly pretentious prick or your some kind of Sunday school teacher who says "kill e'm with kindness" but I'm sorry I don't think I get it. Essentially cheating itself has a whole type if definition because let's face it life unlike movies isn't black and white and not everyone gets their picture perfect happy endings. Like I believe cheating on someone is a situation where you don't tell the other partner in this relationship that you're not wholly committed to them like being CRYSTAL CLEAR that you have something with someone else.

And then again I get it, y'know cause this life that we live in is messed up as fuck. Like I remember being like 8'ish and hearing all the negativity towards queer people, particularly gay people an lesbians, those were the ones I basically knew at the time, and thinking why can't a gay guy just marry a lesbian lady so they can understand each other and never have to face critism for being married or generally liking the same gender without actually giving up what they love. Like they can still secretly date and stuff.

Damn think about it, at such a young age I already was thinking about ways to hide things society didn't approve of no matter how much they didn't seem wrong to me.

Like I'm older now, but even as I grew through a those years I started realizing how much more my attraction for ladies, girls, women, people of the female gender was than for makes an did tell you it scared me I would make a comment like how pretty that lady was and like quickly glance around to make sure it wasn't too much or were people going to read into and realize I was even considering not liking guys men boys males whatever. And I like up to by I still haven't admitted to myself that I might like girls like I still tell myself that maybe I just haven't discovered what my type of guy is.

TO BE CONTINUED... (Cause the whole of this thing is too fucking long for how short we agreed these rants would always be) sorry😬 (so wait for part two please to upload please

your's truly nie's "annoying as fuck"🙄 editor) And me nie,😕 who actually wrote it, anyways byeeeeeee👋. (🙁Yeah what she said)