#lane and jess friendship!!!

[1-8oo-wtfbro]

SHE GOT UPDATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAYAYAYAYYYAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYSYYYYYY YIPEE I YELLED OUTLOUD!!!!

THANK YOU @doverstar THIS IS TOTALLY MY FAV FIC IM SO GLAD IM ON FALL BREAK SO I CAN REREAD THIS MASTERPIECE!!!!!

[aerialflight]

i'm writing a gilmore girls fic that involves paris geller from our pandemic year 2020 going back to 2001, around the time jess first comes in to town. very slow burn between jess/paris. i have around 10k words of snippets all over my doc and an outline and i'm slowly becoming re-obsessed with gilmore girls again. what the fuck is up with this fandom that i keep going back to like an on-and-off again boyfriend??? anyway, i have no idea if i'll ever post this and i've been going back and forth on this for what feels like forever. if this sounds at all interesting, let me know.

[anxiouspotatorants]

"Come on Lane, live a little." "Putting on Limp Bizkit is your idea of living?" "It's either that or A Rush of Blood to the Head." "Curse your britpop-obsession... Bring on the nu-metal."

The Last Great American Dirtbags: An Audio Junkies Roadtrip AU

(Raw images: not mine)

[mctreeleth]

One day I'll do up all the stupid memes I think up that apply incredibly specifically to my 5 hour roadtrip home.

[troublegoblin]

we were ROBBED of a rory x lane x dave x jess friendship and I will never be over it.

[jessmmariano]

Jess is the best boyfriend for Rory because he just fit in so well in her life.

First off, the two have so much in common. From books and music to both having absent fathers, the two fit so well. Yet (as Rory said) they’re not too similar that it’s boring—Rory gets Jess to branch out a bit more whereas he encourages her to pursue her dreams.

Secondly, the Stars Hollow connection. Dean was too involved in Stars Hollow that he would keep her back, and Logan was so disconnected that he would pull her away. Jess is the perfect balance—someone connected to Stars Hollow through family (mainly Luke) yet isn’t afraid to go other places and pursue other options.

Third, he got along with Rory’s friends. Him and Paris would’ve definitely hit it off if they had more screen time, considering the conversation they had together about authors. Him and Lane weren’t super close, but they had the music connection that definitely could’ve began a friendship. They also have a connection through Luke. Also he and Lorelai have such similar personalities the two could definitely get along if they weren’t both so stubborn.

Anyways Jess fits so well in Rory’s life and Rory in his and that is why they’re the superior couple. Definition of right person wrong time.

[amorhedera6]

paris rory jess lane and dave are the perfect friendship group. give paris a gf so she doesn’t complain about fifth wheeling and you’re golden.

[stellaluna33]

A Season 3 "What if Jess found out he was skipping too much before it was too late?" AU, or the "Lane and Jess slacking off in Gym Class" Friendship Fic!

"I wonder how much Rory would pay me for a photo of you in gym shorts…” she teased.

“If Rory ever finds out, Dave is getting a photo of you in gym shorts for free,” Jess calmly threatened.

Lane shuddered in horror.

“Ugh, fine.  Still, that's more effort than I thought you'd put in.”

“Well, our draconian institution has attendance stipulations for buying prom tickets, so…”

“Awww!” Lane squealed and flailed her hands.  She ignored the death glare Jess was aiming at her and kept gushing.  “That's so sweet!  I wasn't always sure about you, but now that I know you'll expose your scrawny legs to the world just to make my best friend happy-”

“You know, I've often wondered how well drumsticks burn…”

[belleandsaintsebastian]

for this, jess mariano!!!

hiii hellooo omg thank u for sending jess i always want 2 talk abt him my bby <3

fave thing about them: when he has wet hair bc he just dived in front of a sprinkler to impress the girl he's in love with!!! + his big brown EYES + fluffy curly hair + silly magic tricks + his snarkiness + sense of humour + obsessive reading habits <3 + proclivity to run away from his problems (same) + the way he says words + BOOKS IN BACK POCKETS + umm everything basically.

least fave thing: when people hurt his feelings!!!!!!!. like um please DON'T do that?? also perhaps umm. inability 2 communicate his problems sometimes...perhaps....

brotp: omg paris geller friendship of C!!! and lane kim they should have been best friends swapping cds AND they should have been in a band together.

otp: JESSRORY.

notp: i dont know hmm. sorry its always just jess + rory for me 4ever and ever...

random headcannon: BISEXUAL. also in my magical made up s4 world where jess + rory get back 2gether (hooray!!!) he totally steals all her yale hoodies <3 ALSO he also plays bass actually....

unpopular opinion: umm that like. hmm i dont know if its unpopular or not but...i think he was totally justified in being so pissed off at luke in s4 like. when he yelled at him it was soooo like. hes nineteen?? hes just been kicked out i mean obv hes going 2 be upset??? let him be pissed off etc!!!!

song i associate w them: born to run by bruce springsteen!!!

fave picture: again i have added. three...i cannot be stopped oops...

character ask game :))

[sarayoonc]

SETTING: wine and painting in durham, nc ; late afternoon AVALABILITY: closed starter for jesse graves | ( @jessexgraves )

Out of all of the unexpectant friendships she could've gotten, Sara's friendship to Jesse was probably both the strangest and yet, one of her favorite. She was always happy when art brought her close to people, especially since she'd been using art to express herself for so many years. So, that afternoon, since both happened to be free earlier in the day, she had gotten them tickets for a wine and painting type of evening the next town over in advance, and, drove by the school to pick him up. "Hi there, Mr. Principal, sir." She teased, rolling her eyes at her own words, before wrapping her arms around Jesse in a sweet hug and planting a small and soft kiss on his cheek. "Are you excited? Because I don't know if I'm more excited about the wine or the paintings." Sara chuckled as she pulled out of the pick up lane and started heading out the road, her usual bubbly kpop tunes playing from her car's radio.

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls- Season 2, Episode 16, "There's The Rub", aka A Sheer Masterpiece of GilmoreDom, AKA The Gilmore Geller Mariano Trio, And Everything is Right With The World Until Forrester Shows Up, Part 4

I realized I’ve been spelling Dean's last name wrong all this time (it's only one R, not two) but I'm going to keep misspelling it on purpose because it's what he fucking deserves, frankly. You can find parts 1-3 and all other episodes I've recapped in my pinned post. Leggo.

All of the purest and most heartwarming episodes & scenes are the ones that take place outside of Shit's Hollow. Emily and Lorelai at the spa. The Bangles Concert. The time the Dragonfly Inn crew+ Rory and Emily went to a drag show. That time Lane and Rory went to Madelyn & Louise's party and Lane danced with Henry. Various scenes that take place at the mall. Rory's trip to New York City to see Jess (MY FAVORITE EPISODE). The time Jess, his uncle and his stepfather took him to see some naked mud wrestling (ah, family bonding).

It does not get any better than this, people. Let us all bask in this warm, peaceful glow, the smell of french fries, the sound of gentle literary debate, the absence of Dean, Lorelai and all of the other loudmouths of Shit's Hollow, who are safely (if temporarily) contained in secondary locations. *breathes in* Ahhhhhh.

Person: Hey ThoughtsWhileWatching, what day of the week is it? Me: Idk but I will never forget the weird way Milo held this can of salt

The fact that a friendship between Paris and Jess wasn't allowed to develop past this episode, in large part due to Dean Ruins Everything Forrester, was another one of AmyShermanPalladino's high crimes she needs to answer to. (and let's not even start on how a nice little friendship based on a shared interest in music could have formed with Lane but AmyShermanPalladino decided to make Lane salty at Jess for no reason until literally the last episode before he splits from Rory. I remember a scene in a later episode where Lane tries to run away to New York to meet up with her band but when she gets there she finds she's lost and in over her head I wanted her to get in contact with Jess so badly so she could have stayed with him or he could have helped her out. Speaking of salty.

He's so frigging cute, my heart hurts. Ow. The phone rings in the Gilly Girl household and this is one of the many times I wish I was still a GG virgin and didn't already know it was Dean the Serial Killer on the other end.

Someone who is already violating her boundaries by inviting himself over, knowing full well she wanted to spend the night alone, is totally going to double-super-duper respect-her-boundaries if she says no to this additional boundary violation. Asking her permission, that's rich. And Dean the Abuser totally won't triple violate her boundaries when he finds out her circumstances changed and she ended up spending her time with someone other than him. This is going to go just swell.

Oh god, she's still wearing the Quarter on a String and it's even uglier than I could have imagined! You can finally see it well in the harsh light of the Gilmore Kitchen. I still need an extreme closeup. D: I know you want to be alone but I just want to stop by for a minute and say hello. Actually, what I meant to say was, fuck you Rory, even though you told me repeatedly you wanted to be alone I'm coming over anyway because I'm an abusive piece of shit. R: But you just said hi.

R: But I look like a mess. I'm not pretty. You wouldn't recognize me. D: Fuck you I'm coming over.

Dean Forrester is a straight up horror movie villain or at the very least the villain in a bad Lifetime movie/cautionary tale about an abusive boyfriend. Gilmore Girls really is a 7 year long Lifetime movie. (for the youngn's, Lifetime Network was a tv network primarily targeting women, something akin to the current Hallmark channel, and although they had their share of wholesome movies like HC they also produced dozens of low budget movies about men who stalked and abused women) TWWGG's Memory: "Hey TWWGG, remember in 2020 when 4 years had passed since you had watched Gilmore Girls for the 1st time, and you wanted to watch it again during the pandemic, and halfway through the 1st season you said to your best friend, "boy howdy I'm glad Dean finally leaves after Jess and Rory start dating" and she said "I hate to tell you this but Dean is around untl the middle of season 5, and also Jess leaves at the end of season 3" and all the color drained from your face and your whole world crumbled to pieces?" TWGGG's Memory Replying to Her Memory: Yes. I remember.

This "Dean not taking no for an answer" is terribly frightening and disturbing. My skin just prickled. When you take into account the fear and sheer desperation in Rory's voice it gets even worse. I feel like I should be putting trigger warnings on these scenes or something?

But what? But why? FUCK YOU DEAN FORRESTER!!

Thats true, you're not ruining her night. You're ruining her life and you're ruining everything you touch. The sidewalk you're walking on doesn't even want your smelly shoes walking on it. You are Dean the Ruiner. You make this show unwatchable. I hate you. Look how proud of himself this motherfucker looks. "I just violated Rory's boundaries. I violated them so hard. I'm gonna barge into her house without her consent and yell at her in front of her friends. She’s gonna love me so much. I'm such a good Dean. Yeah." Dean's holding a bag of something that we're supposed to believe is a pint of ice cream. But this is Dean so it's probably a human head on ice and not ice cream. "Ice cream" is just serial killer lingo for "human remains."

[youcalledmebabe]

30 - please tell me more about the Gilmore Girls AU and Babe's Anatomy 🥺

okay so here is the list of Gilmore parallels because it got a little long

lorelai: george

luke: joe toye

rory: web

jess: joe liebgott

logan: nix

dean: hoobler

sookie: skip

michel: perconte

paris: cobb

lane: gene

zack: babe

dave: renee

max: lipton

I mean… web and lieb having the why did you drop out of HARVARD argument. nix being the charming alcoholic playboy. toye as grumpy coffee shop owner who loves to banter with george. toye pushing lieb into a lake. web and cobb having a bizarre friendship/rivalry. george and web as father and son. I can see it all now…

babe’s anatomy is a love letter to grey’s anatomy and my take on the hospital au. Babe is a surgical intern and Gene is a trauma resident. we follow babe through his intern year as he falls in love, makes friends, and learns to be a doctor while facing a big loss. it’s also kind of a big fun crossover fic with lots of characters from the other shows having little cameos. there are several planned sequels following different characters in the universe (webgott, renee, winnix). my luztoye fic is a prequel that introduces us to some of the doctors and nurses. and babe’s anatomy will be out in just a couple of weeks!

thanks for the ask!!

[roeyliteratiforever]

do you ever think about how lonely jess must have felt when he first moved to stars hollow? to be trapped in that tiny snow globe of a town for his junior year where everyone’s already formed friendships and cliques and groups and his teachers teaching shit he either already knows and knows better than them or shit he doesn’t know and can never catch up with. to know in his heart that staying with luke isn’t an unconditional thing; that the minute he screws up, he’s gonna get kicked out. to have nothing to do all day every day and to know all the things he could be doing in new york. to have left behind friends a month after 9/11, where people have lost businesses and jobs and family members. to just want to be 18 already so he can get out and live independently and not have to be a burden on anyone. trying to find extra income in a town that completely mistrusts him. and by the way, i have no doubt in my mind that there were kids in that town who pulled shit worse than jess did and blamed it on him because jess is like that town’s boo radley. do you ever think about how alone jess is in stars hollow that he latches to the one person he finds a connection with? how lonely he must be to bet $90 just so he can have lunch with this girl who seems to be the only one in town to not have crucified him yet?

Hi Anon,

Awe this makes me so sad 😢 Yeah I do think about how Jess must have felt living in Stars hollow from time to time, and how Rory was the only one he felt safe, and comfortable around in that town that he definitely did latch onto that. The fact that she would go out of her way defending him to her mom ensuring that he is a good person and not who they think he is. Omg yes he did just want so badly to be 18 and independent so he could depend on himself he was scared to have anyone depend on him mostly because he has never had anyone to depend on. Him growing up in a neglectful childhood at best and his condition for staying with Luke if he did slip up he might get kicked out. I do think about these things, and it rips my stomach apart especially the way Lorelai treated him. Like I love Lorelai but sometimes come on he was just a kid. She would use the he was just a kid excuse for Dean all the time, but with Jess it was no he's unforgivable! It's maddening to me really. I also think about how if Jess went to Chilton with Rory would he have done better in school because it would challenge him more because intellectually he was more on that level. (Now I'm thinking of Distilla Truent and I want to go re-read it!) There probably were kids in the town who pulled stuff like that around school and blamed Jess. I am forever wishing Asp had given Jess real friendships and Jess had joined Rory's friend groups and became friends with Lane, Dave, and Paris! Rambles about this forever!

[divinelovers]

gilmore girl hot takes & opinions

if you don’t agree byeeeee

spoilers below

+ first and foremost richard was way more hurtful to lorelai then emily was. especially when they found out christopher got sherri pregnant- richard lashed out on lorelai. idk it pissed me off

+ everyone blames rory for dean cheating but it takes two to tango, he could’ve & should’ve said no they were both in the wrong and lindsay didn’t deserve that.

+ i know we ALL agree lane got a shit deal but they really screwed her over. not only did she get pregnant the first time she and zack slept together but she really wasn’t ready to be a parent and i feel like the writers glossed over that and made it a joke. poor girl was miserable

+ rory and christopher, let’s discuss. i know all about having a shitty dad, i mean mine is a world class asshole but christoper, he deserves the worst. i feel like the writers didn’t really divulge on rory’s daddy issues ie., needing validation from men (hello dropping out of yale because mitchum didn’t think she was all that great) and never being happy in any relationship. it’s sad really, i feel her pain.

+ everyone likes to say how amazing lorelai was but dog on rory?? like rory was a product of a teen mom raising her ALONE i can’t even imagine how hard that was. rory was the way she was because lorelai was more a friend then a parent.

+ in addition to the previous one and kinda contradicting, lorelai actually showed up when she needed to. she really loved and provided for rory. going to her parents for money, when she knew it would come with a catch, and supporting rory to get her into an ivy league school??? she had flaws and both she and rory were messes but lorelai did the best she could. + now for this one… yes, i love and adore jess will every fiber of my being, however he had too many issues to be with rory when they were younger. like yes rory had her own issues but she didn’t know how to cater towards him and be the person he needed in that season of his life. however if the truly reconnected it would’ve been magic, there’s a reason rory cheated on every boyfriend with jess they should’ve been endgame.

+ once again jess was JUST A KID!! having to deal with his alcoholic mother shipping him off to crazy town- of course he was pissed he got the raw end of the deal.

+ my bby tristan deserved so much more, i wish they would’ve brought him back a bit later and made him into a fantastic addition to show.

+ if dean and rory stayed just friends i would’ve actually liked him. tbh i really liked his and rory’s friendship.

+ we can all agree that rory and lorelai were a bit self absorbed however the show is literally called gilmore girls. it’s all about them, they are the main characters of course the storylines are going to revolve around them.

[frazzledsoul]

Thinking about it now and an awkward hook-up with Marty would have been the ideal way for Rory to lose her virginity. The show seems to punish the girls for over idealizing sex. Paris doesn't get into Harvard and casually dumps Jamie for a senior citizen. Lane is punished for holding onto her mother's values by a disappointing first time and an unexpected pregnancy. Rory mistakes nostalgia for love and is scapegoated and shamed for believing Dean's lies and the story once again becomes not in how she was manipulated (she was) but in how she's destined to hurt poor, innocent Dean by leaving him behind (even though he's the one that lied and made zero attempts to actually leave his wife).

I feel that crossing that threshold with a friend who likes her more than she likes him would have been a much easier way for Rory to move into the Logan era (being slightly more prepared for a casual relationship) than having an affair with her married ex. Maybe there would have been some hurt feelings if it didn't go anywhere but it would have been way less emotionally traumatizing than what actually happened.

I guess in this ideal scenario, Rory backs away from the friendship with Dean because she needs to set boundaries, Jess still goes and begs her to run away with him but maybe it goes slightly better for them both (as in Rory lets him know lol, no, how about an apology first and he gets it in his head that he needs to fix some other stuff in his life instead of this crazy plan), she still goes to Europe with Emily to clear her head and when she gets back to Yale Marty is there and lol, why not. Alternatively, it could have happened during freshman year and just didn't go anywhere after that, which could lead her to make wiser decisions about both Dean and Jess.

I also think it would make Rory's later interactions with Marty realllllly interesting. Imagine her telling Marty she's interested in Logan after they hooked up and it didn't lead to anything significant, or him pretending he doesn't know her during season 7.

[aestheticvoyage2024]

Day 69a: Saturday March 9, 2024 - "Vi-Lee's Third Birthday"

This post contributed by Audrie after we went to Jess' house for Vi Lee's Birthday party

Wild to process that three full years have now come to pass between the birth of this child and this day. I remember it all well, as I was watching with learning eyes; my long time best friend journeying through pregnancy, labor and birth and into and through the multitude of layers of motherhood just about 12 weeks ahead of my own expedition. Witnessing the beauty in the birth of a mother through this lens — knowing that what was unfolding for her was on deck for me —helped me beyond measure; it has been a bit like owning a crystal ball, giving glimpses of my own future, albeit hazy and unclear, lighting the way to some generalized knowing’s of what is likely to come. Jess and I had this fantasy idea when we were both tracking our first pregnancies a trimester apart from one another about having  this picturesque new life along side one another with our littles in tow and a thriving friendship with frequent visits and support and face to face camaraderie… our reality after the tiny humans arrived was far from this dream. As visits and play dates and coordination of get togethers were far less frequent and far less bountiful than we imagined. And when we did manage to sync our children’s and personal schedules up, we found face to face visits often rushed, and hectic chasing babies, changing diapers, and being generally exhausted and scatter-brained mamas. But if anyone understood me the most and made my motherhood madness more normalized and feel welcome, it was and still is her. And watching Jess and listening to her about this Journey with Vi Lee —on the development scorecards, on the work/life balance, on the edges of the fray and in the depths of the mixture of gratitude, love, and exhaustion that embodies the life of committed mothers, I’m always in awe and learning from her experiences and actions. 

Vi Lee is a brilliant, beyond articulate, sassy, sweet, silly, sturdy young child now. Her bright mind is equally balanced by her strong physical presence. She is stubborn, she is witty, she is playful, and she is generous with her sweet nature. All a reflection of her well rounded parents and their parenting. It’s glorious watching nature and nurture unfold in these little miracles.

And now, with the birth of this second, I get to peer a bit more into that personal crystal ball of mine — watching with learning and curious eyes how Jess again seems to make seamless the transition into being mother of two. Aiven Lane is just two weeks old now as Vi Lee turns three. There were so many magical moments I’ll take with me in my heart and memory from today; William prancing with the older girls in his green dragon wings, the flutter of my heart when William was examining the baby for the first time so tenderly and sweet, Vi Lee bounding from the bounce house to the cake and kicking off her own birthday song, Parker wider blue eyes than ever and more outgoing but still soft spoken in the shadow of her graceful also pregnant mother.

When Jess and I talk later about the day she will recall a blur of butterfly cake baking and broken conversations between adults and toddlers and presents and birthday candles and songs and tattoos and nursing baby snuggles.

The whole of the day was beautiful, and the quiet time driving across town with Jake and W and I in the car, my husband’s hand on mine and smiles and sunshine and blue bird AZ spring time weather filling me up with all the feels of new life, new possibilities and big things to soon come.

Song: Generation X - Dancing With Myself

Quote: "Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless." ~Paul Bowles