#jess and doula

[jojoblessed365]

For those who miss So Far Away.... Here's the highly anticipated sequel!!!!

First 2 chaps out now!

Tagging @ernestonlysayslovelythings as my lovely co-writing partner on this and dedicated to @disasterbiwriter

For those who would like to visualize Doula, here's a picture of the actress I had in mind:

[jojoblessed365]

Exactly!!!!

That's what I love about writing Jess and Doula- siblings have a unique relationship compared to parents and friends or even romances.

I really wish someone does a great sibling show. That's something that hasn't been done.

the languages siblings speak are absolutely incomprehensible to outsiders btw. even parents. best of luck to the amazon wiretappers who have to try to piece together what my brother and i are talking about, sorry u just had to be there.

[teddypickerry]

au! where jess is a protective older sibling taking care of a little sister/brother like they’re his own WHEN.

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 3, Episode 13- Dear Emily and Richard-Aka DVD Players & Abortions. Part 4

You guys, I thought this whole "Rory attending her sister's birth" thing could not get any weirder.

BACK. IT. UP. Not only does "Rory was coerced to leave school by her stepmother's coworker to take a train to a hospital in Boston and left completely alone at said hospital as the only support person while her hysterical stepmother gives birth" barely garner a shrug from either Lorelai or Emily, but Emily would fight Lorelai or Rory trying to get out of Friday Night Dinner if they had come down with raging pneumonia. Now Emily thinks this is a fine, perfectly normal not insane excuse to miss FND. She barely blinks at Rory's absence. Lorelai didn't freak out when Rory called her and explained this situation? Haven't you people ever listened to the theme song? If you're out on the road, feeling lonely and so cold, all you have to do is call my name and I'll be there on the next train? Not this time!

She's SOOO excited, you guys.

Richard isn't home, so Lorelai probes into what goes into Emily's boring life without him, which is nothing. She offers to spice up her mom's life by buying her a DVD player, then we take a sharp left turn to a third flashback where the four Parents are bemoaning Fake Lorelai's pregnancy situation and Crusty's father is insisting Unborn Rory should be aborted. Midseason 3: Vengeful Swans, DVD Players and Abortions. There is talk of sending Fake Lorelai away to a boarding home for naughty bad girls who get pregnant which I did not think was still a thing that existed in 1984. All of these suggestions are only coming from Fake Crusty's parents, who insist he shouldn't shoulder any blame for the balcony boinking because HES JUST A BABY! Richard's solution is for Fake Lorelai and Crusty to get married and to support the new bundle, Chess Club Crusty will work for Richard's boring insurance company (at 16 years old, sure. Doing what?). Turns out the whole time FL and CCC were listening from the stairs, where Christopher says that he is definitely going to get a job and support his kid! And Lorelai believes him. lol. Speaking of teenagers who wouldn't know a job if it smacked them on the ass:

Well I'll be damned. Because Rory can't say no to anyone, she's now doing Sherry's bidding and making business calls, copies and faxes for her. Midseason 3: Swans, DVD Players, Abortions, and Rory With A Job.

Oh, finally a medical professional makes an appearance? What kept you? Sherry: Oh, it will be my wholly unprepared and nervous high school age stepdaughter who should be at home doing homework right now, but since she can't say no to anyone, well here we are. You guys, I looked up the time it takes a train to get to Boston from Hartford. I was thinking it had to be what, like an hour? No, it's 3 and a half hours on Amtrak. God bless America speedy rail system! Presuming Rory immediately left school around 4pm after the first phone call, immediately found transportation to the train station, immediately purchased a ticket, got on the very next available train to leave Hartford, said train had no delays or stops, she didn't stop after arriving in Boston to you know, find dinner or pee or something, and she immediately found transportation from the Boston train station to the hospital, she probably didn't get to that hospital until AT LEAST 9pm, easy. Don't hospitals have visitors hours? By the time Sherry actually goes into labor it had to have been some ungodly hour of the night already. Go home, Rory. Presumably, Lorelai drove there, an according to Google Maps, it's only an hour and half drive from Hartford to Massachussetts General Hospital (our stand in location). Rory could have saved a lot of grief and money if Lorelai had just offered to give her a ride the first time around or told Rory she was flerking insane and forbade her from going. Mmm, carry on.

Oh Sherry, you sweet bleached blond summer child.

Rory, sitting in a hospital room at the bedside of a woman in labor, is Deer In The Headlights'd when informed that a baby would have to come out in the near future. With the reality of the situation finally hitting her, she calls Lorelai in a panic. Let's see how she responds?

Lorelai is also shocked that a pregnant woman who was admitted to the hospital to give birth to a baby might actually give birth to a baby. NOW she's asking these questions? The horse is kinda about to escape the barn, Lor.

Our neurodivergent pal, RoryGil.

About time? Emily: What do you mean you're going to be with Rory's father's girlfriend while she gives birth? And I don't understand what Rory's doing there either! I have similar questions. But Emily, none of this sounded weird to you like, an hour ago?

We then cut to a fourth flashback, this time of a heavily pregnant Fake Lorelai. Oh lawd she comin! We then see her at the hospital alone listening to Nena's early 80s hit "99 Red Balloons" on her stylish 80's Walkman.

Then, back to present day hospital where Lorelai jokingly tells Rory "I'll be holding this over you for the next 10 years" for making her come to the hospital to rescue her. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, Lorelai. Crusty's whereabouts are still unknown. Gigi you are so fucked. At least Jess' father presumably attended his birth before bailing?

So I have a "Lorelai is irrational" space on my episode bingo board, for once she's doing the exact opposite. Would you look at that. This episode is so topsy turvy!

Well, letting Crusty impregnate you was your first mistake (the both of you). Now you want him to "be there"? Pshaw. Why not ask for a million bajillion dollars while you're at it.

After This is Us, hospital vending machines in tv shows just feel like a bad omen. Don't turn your back to a hospital room to buy something from a vending machine!

Oh how CONVENIEEEENT.

Thank you for being the adult in the situation for once Lorelai, and not making Rory go in there.

Oh how CONVENNIIIEEENT. I'll never stop.

Now what is she so salty about? She didn't want to help Sherry give birth two minutes ago. Instead she's going to stand there and stare saltily because her crusty ex baby daddy knocked up some other idiot with another child who's life is completely fucked before she even exits the birth canal. I mean, shouldn't Sherry and Lorelai have that special "We both got knocked up by Christopher" trauma bond? You can't put aside your passive aggressive weirdness while Sherry is really, really Going Through It? Oh. Is she salty because Christopher was present at GIgi's birth and not Rory's? Is that it? No need to be jealous. Just because he watched the kid pop out doesn't mean he's not going to be an equally shitty father to the do-over kid. My point still stands. Put it aside, smile, say congratulations to the happy couple, and GO HOME.

What's more gag worthy, "My Christopher" or "My Dean". VOM. Fifth flashback of Fake Lorelai in labor with Rory.

This episode is something else, I tell you whut. Back at future hospital:

WHY. GO HOME!! Neither of you care one bit about this infant!

Speaking of infants: SURPRISE JESS! I was not expecting him. That's a good lewk on him too. Luke and Lawyer Lady return from their date and it appears to have been going well. They appear to be deep in a conversation about cheese. Hey, why don't you two make yourselves comfortable upstairs in the apartment? Not like there's a teenage boy living there without any doors or walls separating you.

Yes, just snap your fingers and the coffee boy will come running. What ungodly hour is it? Get your own fucking coffee, Luke. The baby is tired and needs to go to bed. He's running the whole place by himself so you can go out and get your dick wet with Cheese Lady. It's bad enough you made this baby serve a different woman who's pants you were itching to get into on Thanksgiving. I ran out of space for pictures, so I'll have to bleed this over into a final part 5.

[rudeflower]

Chapter 3

The tent got moved to the entry way, but they left the mattress where they were on the floor. Doula had rapidly gone from hating the mattress to loving it, and she curled up under the new yellow blanket and ate popcorn out of the bowl and read a book that Jess delivered out of her duffle bag. 

There wasn’t much in it. Grimy clothes, a few kids books, what looked like one of TJ’s hoodies. It all smelled. Dirt, sweat, rot. But not weed, Jess was glad to note. 

The sleeping bag smelled bad enough that Jess stuffed it in a trash bag for safe keeping and hid it, then put Doula’s clothes in the washer dryer. He was afraid that she’d see the trashbag and think he was throwing out her sleeping bag and Doula would burn the building down. After that epic tantrum Jess was fucking terrified to make another surprise misstep.

He was going to ruin her. Doula would be better off dead compared to the condition he'd return her in by the time Liz was better. 

Washing the clothes he could do. Jess closed the machine and hit the buttons. A second after water filled the machine Jess groaned. 

“What’s wrong?” Maja asked, appearing at the fridge behind him. She took out a beer and handed a second one to him. Jess took it, accepting the offer as a sign it was okay to have at least one beer.

“She needs pajamas.”

[frazzledsoul]

[honestlydarkprincess]

evan 'i specialize in scratches' buckley, you have no game but don't worry, eddie and i are still in love with you

[anxiouspotatorants]

Hi.

So I reread your headcanon of Doula being a rebel like teen Jess, and I would like to add something -

So I read in a Medium article of how siblings, when even despite being given the same treatment from parents, they end up becoming two very different people; they cited Luke and Liz as an example.

So I was wondering- could this mean that Jess and Doula can become mirror versions of each other even despite experiencing different versions of Liz as a mother?

So... For example, Liz ran to New York and raised Jess as a single mom, and Jess had to do most of his growing up on his own; so maybe Liz and TJ are romantically entangled that they don't pay attention to Doula, and she's supposed to take care of herself and doesn't tell Luke or Lorelai, because she feels like a burden. And then, there's the relationship between Liz-Jess and Liz-Doula, where the former is somewhat complex and the latter parallels ASP's fraught mother-daughter/daughter-in-law relationships (Lorelai-Emily, Midge-Rose, Fanny-Michelle from Bunheads) but Liz is the immature one and Doula is the one who looks pained but has the final mic drop (you can see that in GG season 2 episode 2; Mrs Maisel season 3 episode 8, and Bunheads episode 11).

In terms of Jess and Doula's relationship, it could parallel Luke and Liz's, but sometimes it can parallel Lorelai and Rory's relationship, where Doula says something and Jess is inspired in many ways...

I also think Doula and Rory should have a love-hate relationship, where Doula doesn't like the way Rory is very indecisive in choosing Jess or Logan and she gives her a very rude awakening/ shake up like Jess's tough love talk in GG 06x08. But then, she shows that she cares for Rory in different ways like encouraging her to pursue Jess or even help babysit Rory's kid and listen whenever Rory feels low.

What do you think? I would love to know your thoughts.

Thanks. 😃

So it's been a while since I came up with my Doula headcanons so I don't quite remember my reasons or if I imagined that a rebellious Doula was going to live in a AYITL-canon world. I think what I was mostly interested in was how Jess is sort of unique on the show when it comes to being such an outcast in town. I liked the idea of a grown Jess seeing his past replay itself with another teen and him standing up for that kid and sort of healing his inner child through that experience.

I also think it would've been a great excuse to get to interrogate Liz' parenting and what this was truly like. Because we sort of take for granted that she either 100% sucked or that she was just some goofball based on how we as viewers interpret the hints and references to Jess' childhood and her love life before TJ. But we never get a proper canon dive into how Liz was as a mother to Jess, and I think showing how she raises or fails to raise Doula could force that into the light.

I also just liked coming up with a different approach to Doula because at the time I wrote that headcanon I had only seen headcanons about Doula where she was a very ideal little sister who was mostly there to help set up Jess and Rory, and one thing I love about Gilmore Girls is how so many side characters genuinely get to exist outside of the romantic plots. We would not have characters like Lane or Paris or Sookie in the capacity that we have if all ASP and crew cared about was writing Rory and Lorelai's romantic storylines and their conflicts with Emily and Richard. So I'd like to think a teenaged or grown up Doula would get to be her own character with an actual arc in relation to her brother, if the show had continued in some way. And teenage rebelliousness felt like an obvious but solid route to go.

[jojoblessed365]

Love this fic!!!!

Let the fun begin!!!

Kudos to @mrsmess for the excellent writing!!! Thank you @iscahmckrae for the lovely headcanon.

💛 Gigi Hayden and Doula Danes 💛

[jojoblessed365]

So Far Away From Yesterday

Jess has had to deal with a lot of blindsides in his lifetime, but he wasn't prepared to become a widower and the single dad of a six year old daughter in one afternoon. Spiraling in grief, he moves back to Stars Hollow to be closer to Luke and Doula. Five years later, Jess is still attempting to get parenthood right- his daughter is in the early stages of adolescence and his teenage sister thinks it's time for him to move on. What happens when he crosses paths with Rory? Is it the universe's way of telling him that his story with Rory isn't over yet? Or will he continue to be faithful to the woman who left him six years prior?

A first collab with the ever talented @ernestonlysayslovelythings!!!

You have been nothing but the best with taking an idea I had out of the blue at 2 am and then waking up to find you have written the first chap and making me cry!!! It has been so inspiring and exciting working with you on this one!!!

Strap in folks- it's a bumpy ride!!!

Check out the first chapter here:

[wonderlandleighleigh]

Jess and Doula (if there was a headcanon for them)

Or

Luke and Liz

This could work for either:

[teddypickerry]

do we have a doula fan cast/headcannons or do all of us just collectively not give a shit about her? (unless it includes big brother jess) gonna say it’s the latter.

[mrsmess]

[adveanture]

tswift tag drops:  jess mariano,  gilmore girls pt. 2 

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   rory.

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   luke.

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   liz.

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   jimmy.

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   lorelai.

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   tj.

╰   ––––––– ✧   JESS  MARIANO!      :      ft.   doula.

[stellaluna33]

I know that I've written fanfiction depicting a sweet relationship between Jess and Doula, his younger half-sister, as have many other wonderful writers, and I have my reasons why I think such a relationship might be plausible, but just as a reminder...

This relationship is a COMPLETE Fanon invention with absolutely no mention in Canon.

The show itself never indicates that they have any kind of relationship, and the Palladinos either neglected or forgot to mention Doula AT ALL in the Revival. So... All I'm saying is, keep that in mind if you feel tempted to compare Jess's situation to Rory's, over the fact that the show didn't portray much of an on-screen relationship between Rory and Gigi and may have forgotten to mention her once or twice.

Anyone who has interacted with me here KNOWS how much I love BOTH of these characters, but I just think it's extremely telling that the fandom reacts to Jess's lack of an on-screen relationship with his half-sister by INVENTING ONE and saying, "Well, SURELY they had more of a relationship that we couldn't see!" ...and reacts to Rory's lack of an on-screen relationship with her half-sister by concluding "Well, she must not love her half-sister!"

[teddypickerry]

this is adult jess trying to figure out bereal

This would be adult Jess trying to use facetime 😅