#life and death brigade

[knights-0f-walpurgis]

A headcanon of mine is that, besides the Knights of Walpurgis, there was a generational secret society at Hogwarts for all pure-blood students that has been around for hundreds of years. I based it on the Life and Death Brigade from Gilmore Girls, where they'd host events in covert locations for all members. Their dress code would vary according to the theme of the evening and their mannerisms would differ depending on the era being celebrated.

Imagine this: The members jumping off high platforms with umbrellas. Picture a young third-year Druella Rosier being blind folded by her brother and his friends, who take her to one of these gatherings for the first time. As a dare, she was forced to jump from the towering platform, but she was too scared so Cygnus held her hand and they went down together.

The secret society was only rumored to exist, nobody outside of its members and honored guests knew about it. By 1964, an aspiring journalist Rita Skeeter, managed to get into one of these parties and wrote an article to get more inside information on the enigmatic group without exploiting its existence, merely adding on to the rumor that it was, in fact, a real organization.

[doverstar]

the only person I really, truly ship Rory Gilmore with is Finn

[sunlitsorrows]

currently audeobooking Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome - read by Steven Crossley

because a friend recommended it as “those three from the Life & Death Brigade try to go boat camping” and

it’s so ACCURATE these boys are so DUMB I love them SO MUCH

if this were any other genre i’d be convinced they were going to drown tragically but as it is i’m in chapter five and they’re still packing and unpacking and repacking only to discover they repacked something they still need and at this point i’m not convinced they are aver actually get IN the boat and i am loving every word 🤣

[stellaluna33]

I'm so so sorry, but paying the price of a large house per seat to go look at the wreckage of the Titanic in an unregulated vessel steered by a videogame controller is some real Life and Death Brigade type of shenanigans. 😬

[starswhogaze]

logan and his friends always give me the same vibes as eris and his bothers. Just hilarious little shit behaviour.

[iscahmckrae]

[deafblindshorty]

I was thinking about the Life and Death Brigade

If it still exists by the time Logan and Rory's child is in college, would they be okay with their kid joining the LDB? Even after what happened to Logan in Costa Rica?

It'd kind of remind me of those movies from the '90s-'00s where the kid wants to participate in something but their parents don't want them to because they had a bad experience, and don't want their kids to experience the same.

[lonelywitchversion13]

You know that scene in A Year in the Life of Gilmore Girls where the Life and Death Brigade gets back together to the tune of A Little Help From My Friends??

I need that but in a Dramione context. You know Hermione would be Rory, and the Slytherin gang being the rest...Draco, Blaise, Theo

Please and thank you

[carolinemorrison]

She shook her head. "I'm fine. . . I just. . . they're actually letting us leave with a baby."

Logan laughed. "Did you think there was going to be a test?"

"I'd feel better if there was." She grimaced. "You're not scared at all?"

"We can do anything Ace. One little baby and two of us, remember? I'm not worried at all."

She glanced out the window noticing cars flying past them. She suddenly realized that the car was going incredibly slow. "Not worried huh?"

He shook his head. "Not in the slightest."

"Then why are you driving so slow?"

He shrugged, never taking his hands off the steering wheel. "It's not my car, it's yours."

"You've driven my car a million times."

"Never with her in it." he said, smiling slightly.

.......

Aren't new parents Rory and Logan adorable?! Read more here:

[felixcatton]

lorelai gilmore and logan huntzberger are the same character in different fonts and once you realize that, you also realize that logan is indeed not the luke to rory's lorelai, but instead, logan is the lorelai to rory's luke. in this essay i will

[dailytraingirl]

wait btw if anyone also likes gilmore girls and dps i had this realization earlier that the life and death brigade is kinda like the dead poets society

(the prank collin, finn and logan pulled where they fought over rory is something charlie, neil, and knox would do (it was charlie’s idea))

[anxiouspotatorants]

I found a new thing in Gilmore Girls that would be so much better if Palladino and company had just had the guts to be more explicit about class on the show. And it’s Marty’s storyline.

So I’m one of those few people out there who really liked season 5! Marty, and even though I hate that he was written to crush on Rory I also think his confession scene and departure was well written (it was just ruined by season 7 hindsight). The thing is, I’m fully convinced that you could’ve had a big conflict between Rory and Marty that would cause a rift so big he wouldn’t come back for a full season without that conflict being Marty’s feelings for Rory. And you see what it could be in the same episode as Marty confesses. 

It’s the Life and Death Brigade.

So hear me out. In LDBs introductory episode we are not just introduced to the main trio (Logan, Finn and Colin) as womanizers and pranksters, but as people who pick on Marty because he has worked in their functions. Logan even explicitly states that he thinks he’s better than Marty, and it’s implied (if I’m remembering right) that he thinks so because he’s wealthier and has been in a position where he pays Marty. Then as we get to the confession episode, Marty gets dragged along to a dinner with the LDB gang where they frivolously spend money and then mock Marty for struggling to pay for things he didn’t even want to purchase. The LDB gang - Logan included - is shown multiple times to look down on Marty for his lack of wealth. Marty can’t socialize with these people because of that, but also because he literally cannot afford to spend time with them when all of their gatherings and events are money pits. But Rory’s dating one of them. To Marty, she’s actually dating the worst one. 

How do you think that would make Marty feel as her friend? 

He really doesn’t have to be into Rory or in love with her, his close friend dating one of his bullies is more than reason enough to cause a rift between Marty and Rory. And the thing is, this conflict could’ve been an impactful addition to Rory’s thematic storyline if the writers had just gone for it. Rory is financially and socially stuck between worlds. She will never fit into Logan’s world because of her upbringing, but she will always have more access to that world and resources than someone like Marty. And Rory “chosing” Logan’s world in season 5 before she hits rock bottom, and then returning to her roots (her mom, studying, Lane and Paris) and standing up for herself against Emily can be seen as a step in her journey of coming to terms with never being able to truly choose one world. And then Marty could’ve come back, not as a bitter former crush, but as a hurt friend who sees the change Rory is going through, and might help her along as she continues on this journey. 

We could’ve had a great storyline about the highs and lows of a friendship that’s affected by class, and instead we got a half baked nice guy plot.

[obsessingoverl]

LIFE AND DEATH BRIGADE WHOO!!!

[autumnrory]

rory: works on her school newspapers for 6 years, is believed capable by everyone at her internship except mitchum, is chosen as editor for the yale daily news, gets job offers immediately after graduation gg fans: idk i just don't think she has what it takes to be a journalist

[jojoblessed365]

Just thinking as to if I'd meet any of the members of the Life and Death Brigade, how I would react at first glance, and all I can think of is this, especially if they were wearing those God awful gorilla masks: