#like ok lane kim from gilmore girls

[itscuntingseason]

just read a part of the wotakoi light novel (it's only available in japanese and i screenshotted the pages to translate them to english) about hirotaka's unrequited feelings for narumi when they were kids and...... i need to lie down for a minute.

[rickie-the-storyteller]

Happy STS!

What’s the most self-indulgent element (trope, character, scene, etc.) you’ve written in your main WIP? Or in general?

What makes it self-indulgent?

Sorry for the late response… I was planning to answer this question as soon as I got it, but it really made me think haha

I don’t know if the stuff I’ve got in mind as answers really count as “self-indulgent” or not… to be honest, I don’t really go out of my way to be self-indulgent with my writing when it comes to characters/scenes/tropes etc. Unless you count me trying to write sequel/spin-off stories for my standalone stories lol. That’s one of the reasons I have yet to post most of my other stories… I never feel like they’re completely finished.

I suppose that looking back through my stuff, I could maybe think of a few elements of my characters/works that could be subconsciously self-indulgent in a sense…

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The fact that my main series is centred around a group of rebellious teens could be me trying to live vicariously through my characters. I don’t know… I’ve never been the rebel type. I’ve always been the quiet, sensible one. That’s how I’ve been known as throughout my student life lol. I don’t know what being a rebel is like (and I occasionally worry about not portraying it well in my writing), but I’ve always wondered about it.

Stephanie (on surface level) is the confident badass icon I wish I was in real life lol. Like, she has depth as a character and we see her weaknesses and how vunerable she can be outside all that, but she just has that strong, feisty energy that I just admire so much. She’s a strong independent woman (even though she’s still a teen).

Elise, as well (And by extension, Brelise). Ok, so I put a bit of myself in all my characters… but I’d say that the three girls sort of represent three sides of my personality - Steph is a confident boss, Alice is the insecure one that tends to feel like an invisible outcast to others, and El is the cheerful brainy one. I gave El most of my personality traits, but I also think that I could have made her a more idealised version of myself. Like, in real life, I’d say I’m more of a mix between Alice (insecure and sarcastic) and Elise… I’m an introvert, but Elise definitely has more people skills than I do lol. I’ve always been kind of a loner at school, and she has a group of friends (and gets along well with most people in school generally) That’s just one example. I’m awkward around people. Elise is much more confident (even though it’s in a more quiet sense, especially in contrast to Stephanie’s louder, bolder and more energetic confidence). And she’s WAY more upbeat than I am, too. Maybe when I was writing El, I was trying to think of how my school life would be like if I had come out of my shell sooner and let others in more… I probably would have been a lot less lonely haha (other than social skills, though, she’s basically me. I typically do well in school, I got good grades - though I don’t get As all the time - and I work hard. I also read a LOT. Often late into the night… it was part of my bedtime routine lol). As far as her relationship with Bret is concerned… well, I personally have never been in a relationship. Ever. Like all throughout high school… nothing. I’m about to go to university in September. But I digress. Just because I haven’t dated anyone before doesn’t mean I’ve never liked anyone before, though. I think I have mentioned before that I think Brelise is me subconsciously giving El my bad boy phase lol (I’ve completely grown out of it now hahaha)… as Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls says, every girl has to fall in love with a bad boy - that’s the rule. Not that Bret is just another “bad boy” character… I really wanted to try and make him more than that. But yeah their relationship definitely fits the “good girl, bad boy” trope. Which, now that I’m saying it, could be the reason I love writing for them so much!

Ben. Just Ben as a character. Steph’s long distance boyfriend. In The Misfit Manifesto, Ben really doesn’t have a lot of focus time, but the time that he does get is just him being a really good guy. He’s such a sweet boyfriend to Stephanie, and you really feel his presence even he’s not around. I think I was trying to imagine and create the perfect boyfriend when I was writing him. Only for him to be given a proper arc in the sequel that’ll completely ruin that perfect boyfriend image that he had in the previous instalments lol.

The fact that I include romantic subplots at all is self-indulgent… half the time, it isn’t even necessary. I write lovey dovey crap all the time. My main WIP was supposed to be a break from all that. Steph’s Crew was originally meant to be a YA/teen drama with some aspects of mystery/crime thrown in here and there. I didn’t want to add any romantic elements to it at first (except for Ben. He was still going to exist, there just wasn’t going to be as much of an focus on their relationship). But I had to. Because I love love! 💗

I’m sure there’s probably other things I could add if I thought hard enough… but I’m going to leave it there for now.

Thanks for the ask, @sam-glade!

[vindieselsfacebook-blog]

Ok ok building as accurate a timeline for Gilmore Girls (and realistically understanding the inevitable gray areas within) is kind of a special interest of mine so I'M GLAD YOU ASKED!

We see Rory's entire birthdate and time in the flashback in S3E13 so we know it's October 8, 1984 at 4:03 am. As an astrology nerd, I fucking love this and if I ever got to ask ASP a question, it would be about her personal interest in astrology because it gets mentioned a few times and the birthdays for her characters are always SO perfect. It would be a wild coincidence if she didn't care at all. I need to do a deep dive of Rory's chart here because it's sooo scarily accurate. For those who care about big 3, hers are Libra sun, Pisces moon, Virgo rising. Sooo perfect.

We know Lorelai's exact birthdate, too - April 25, 1968. My Taurus sister!!! Haha I always shake my head at folks who say she's a fire sign - my homegirl is SUCH a Taurus please be for fucking real. We know this date because of the original episode air date in relation to on-screen events and it's since been kind of "confirmed" by other GG sources. What we know of her chart is also scarily correct. Aries moon which adds that fire people get from her and Aries venus, of course. :')

Luke's age has the most uncertainty and inconsistency. We know Liz was born in 1966 because we see her 20th high school reunion on S4 in 2004 and of course we know Luke is the older sibling ("big brotherrr") but his varsity track high school photo in S3E4 implies he was a senior the same year she was. They could've been Irish twins I guess but I tend to assume it's a goof and Luke is only about a year older than her. We also of course know he's a Scorpio so Luke was born between October 21-November 21 likely around 1965/66.

I have Richard and Emily getting married in 1966 but I don't obsess as much about them so I don't remember why...? lol Both born in 1943 with Richard in January - we know his month because Emily throws him a 60th birthday party in S3.

Other noteworthy birthdates I have: 1917 - Lorelai I aka Trix 1943 - Taylor - he's the same age at Emily and Richard 1953 - Mitchum 1963 - Mrs. Kim - 2-3 years older than Luke and 5 years older than Lorelai?! 1966, Summer - Michel - whether he's a Cancer, Leo or Virgo, I kind of love all those options for him. I hope he's a Cancer lmao 1972 - Kirk 1982, February - Logan - the idea of him being an Aquarius or Pisces is fascinating to me. Mysterious man. Suits him! 1983 - Doyle 1984 - Jess, Dean, Lane, Paris... anyone Rory's age is kind of a boring "duh" 1993, April - April - born in April. Yes, really. January 31, 2003, 1:17am - GG - haha it's funny to know such a minor character's entire chart because we see her born on the show, but PHEW based on her chart, this girlie is a handfull which delights me to no end. I bet she grows up to be quite the character. Aquarius sun, Capricorn moon, Scorpio rising. 2017, Summer - Rory's kid who I affectionally call Lorelai IV. I kind of refuse to entertain the thought they aren't a girl. I hope she's a Leo. Keep Rory on her toes! For my other astro nerds, we also know Rachel is a Pisces or Aires. Love both those for her - she must be an Aries, don't you think? Davey is a Scorpio which amuses me. Richard is a Capricorn or Aquarius - must be Capricorn, yes? And for all my Jess girlies - what do you think his sign is? I like the idea of him being Aquarius. It would be REALLY interesting to me if both he and Logan were two sides of that Aquarius coin...

Birthdays

Rory: 1984, October 4th (Season 1: Episode 6)

Lorelei: 1968, early spring (Season 6: Episode 19, Season 3: Episode 18)

Luke: 1967-1970, Scorpio, more likely 1967 (Season 3: Episode 4, Season 5: Episode 3)

Richard: 1942/1943, winter (Season 3; Episode 10)

Emily: around 1942, likely between 1942-1945, but could be 1939-1945 (Season 3; Episode 8)

Age on the first episode (fall 2000)

Rory: 15

Lorelei: 32

Luke: 29-32

Richard: 58

Emily: ~58, 55-61

Miscellaneous

Emily and Richard: married in winter of 1964/1965 (Season 5; Episode 12, though there is conflicting information in Season 2; Episode 3 which indicates it should be 1967)

Richard was 22 when he got married, Emily was around the same age.

Richard was around 26 when Lorelei was born, and 42 when Rory was born.

[fureliselost]

Hi, I was doing some thinking (and we all know that's a dangerous thing). Just random thinking. It ventured vaguely into DP territory and Brainy said "HOLD UP BITCH LEMME AU THIS" so here we go:

Sam Fenton AU.

Ok, that's not an accurate name because in this AU it would also be Danny Manson.

And Brainy also said "Valerie Foley/Tucker Gray" but didn't elaborate, so lemme elaborate on the first part before I figure that out.

Ok, so Sam is Phantom in this AU, she's Jack and Maddie's younger child instead of Danno. She's still her activist, vegan, goth self; except it has a little less "why can't my parents accept me for who I am" and a little more "screw society", because here she would've been, like Danny was in canon, basically a social pariah without having done anything to deserve it.

She, like Jazz, takes this one thing about her (being goth/alt) and maximizes it so that people will stop thinking of her as the "Fentons' child" and start thinking of her as her own person (even if her own person is viewed as "the freaky goth").

Unlike Danny, Sam joins Jazz in taking a stand against Jack and Maddie because "why can't you be normal parents".

Her relationship with Jazz would be a little different from Danny's. In this situation, Jazz wouldn't be as overprotective as she was with Danny because I can see Sam learning how to take care of herself and how to handle things in a way more similar to Jazz. The part about Jazz being overbearing, though? Not different. Jazz and Sam would bicker a lot too, there would be a lot of Jazz talking about Sam's "phase" and Sam complaining that Jazz tries to adequate herself to society's standards.

Danny in this AU is fun (as in, fun for me :))) ), his parents (Mr & Mrs Manson) had him study in private school in middle school but he convinced them to let him go to Casper High for High school. I pictured him having a sorta Lane Kim (Gilmore Girls) relationship with his parents, in that he pretends to be a good little boy who gets good grades, but in reality he hunts ghosts with Sam and Valerie and listens to rock (on Control Freaks he literally brings Sam a cd of his from a bad called Morbid Antisocial Youth, so that part is canon). I can imagine some scene like one from GG where Lane had a band shirt and when she took it off there was another one underneath written "Trust God", so someone asks "is that a band" and she answers "no, my life".

Valerie in this AU is supposed to be to Sam what Tucker is to Danny in canon, but also what Tucker is to Sam. She's not a social outcast tho. She used to be an A-lister but left/was kicked out when -- hold -- Tucker got into the A-listers. She's still very much that no-nonsense 8th degree belt (or 9th, idk the term) badass and, man, does she rock some guns/Fenton creep stick.

Our beloved Tucker is Valerie in this AU. He is an A-lister and uses some of his talent for technology to be the school blogger -- so even after the Cujo event, he's not completely demoted from the social ladder. But, boy, is he every bit as furious as Valerie was after the Cujo incident. He becomes the Red Hunter (Maybe I'll switch the color to Yellow or Green), yada-yada.

I was thinking about the whole GrayGhost romance, and like... Sam and Tucker would never date in this AU because Tucker is an A-lister, even if he's the one who doesn't beat anyone up. Valerie is also unlikely because, well, he's the reason she's not an A-lister anymore. But you know who doesn't have many objections towards Tucker? Danny-boy. I picture that they start talking via Doom and things go up from there.

Anyway, this is my crazy take on the Sam Switch AU (not the best name, but whatever), have a bad edit:

[trashyeggroll]

What are some good examples you've seen of diverse Asianism? Like usually for Asian you see the descent of Chinese or Japanese for characters because they're what most think of when it comes to Asian but really you have varying forms which include Philapino, Korean, even Russia is part of Asia thus they're Asian in that sense. Would it be better to say Orient heritage or is that too mixed up in racism to use now for people who share similar "Asian" features?

So I think you landed on something that’s really important, and that’s how specificity is so critical to appropriate representation. There’s a lot of tertiary stuff here like the actors’ backgrounds and whether the studio wants to release their media in China, but I’m putting all that aside to talk about storytelling.

I didn’t watch all of this show, and haven’t in awhile, but Gilmore Girls actually comes to mind as a good example. Keiko Agena’s character, Lane Kim, is identified as Korean, has the proper name, and the fact that her family is deeply Christian is accurate to a lot of Korean American families in the US. She’s a first generation, firstborn girl, and the experience of her hiding the “mainstream” and secular things that make her happy is too fcken real. Again, I didn’t watch this show religiously (hey-yo!) but what I saw of the Kim family seemed pretty solid. Like it’s nothing super flashy or dramatic, it just told a story with enough details that it rings authentic.

Alice in Good Trouble is a great current example of LGBTQ+ Asian rep done right, along the same lines as why I enjoy Lane Kim—her character and story feel organic, genuine, and complex.

Lucy Liu’s Watson in Elementary also deserves a nod, plus there’s PEN15 (Maya Erskine’s haircut... we been knowing that pain). Adena in The Bold Type is another interesting depiction (she faces immigration issues) as well as, and hear me out on this ya’ll, Saadia in Slasher Season 3. These are shorter character arcs than Lane Kim, but subtly done well.

And that brings us to the second part of the question—“Orient” and “Oriential” have fallen by the wayside as terms, least of all because they’re colonizer words (“Occidental” = West, “Oriental” = East), but there are a billion people in China and a billion people in India alone, and 60% of the world’s population is “Asian” as we use the term in the US. “Eastern” or “Asian” just doesn’t cut it.

I think the general terms people have landed on to specify (the most commonly depicted Asian identities) would include “East Asian” (China, Japan, Korea, etc), “South Asian” (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, etc), and “Southeast Asian” (Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, etc), plus the “Pacific Islanders” (Samoa, Fiji, native Hawaiians, etc) who are often included. I honestly have no idea how Russia fit into this picture (Russians: what u think?), but that’s also where native ethnic groups come into play, like the Uyghurs that have recently been in the news due to China’s violent oppression of them.

So when an “Asian” character appears, there can be a whole slew of connotations that come with the details storytellers choose to consider or ignore, and these don’t have to tell some grand tale, but those details are integral parts to the background of an “Asian” character and subtle efforts can go a long way to making the community feel seen.

Like, take my mom—Vietnam War refugee, spent her teen and adults years in Oklahoma, speaks English with the strangest combination of a country twang and Viet accent. She’s wildly conservative because she lives in OK and sees the U.S. as saving her family from certain death and offering a standard of living that she would have never had in Vietnam. Like many Vietnamese in the U.S., she’s a staunch Catholic.

Boom, that’s a paragraph implying more about a character than we know about Grace Choi or Niko Hamada after three seasons between them.

[lasshoe]

gg (shocking) and parks and rec

gilmore girls

my all-time ultimate fave character: the queen, the legend, the url namesake 

a character I didn’t used to like but now do: none of them 

a character I used to like but now don’t: mmmm any of rory’s bfs i thought were at least entertaining in my first watch and now they’re snoozy to me

a character I’m indifferent about: rory’s bfs 

a character who deserved better: LANE KIM

a ship I’ve never been able to get into: any of rory’s lmao

a ship I’ve never been able to get over: i almost started crying the loves of my life luke and lorelai

a cute, low-key ship: emily and richard ok dgms on wbb 

an unpopular ship but I still enjoyed it: doesn’t feel that unpopular but rory and paris were so perfectly written to consummate as a romantic arc, so

a ship that was totally wrong and never should have happened: ugh rory and dean the 2nd(?) 3rd(?) times 

my favourite storyline/moment: all of s4 was perfect. lorelai adjusting to rory being at college while putting her heart and soul into opening the dragonfly with sookie all the while growing closer to and ultimately falling in love with luke? iconic

a storyline that never should have been written: the very last moments of s6 and subsequent fallout in s7 

my first thoughts on the show: uh, pass, the daughter has a good and close relationship w her mom? can’t relate

my thoughts now: lmao oh i get it there are PLENTY of mother daughter relationships to relate to, got it 

parks and rec (how did you kno i’ve been using this show to become human again after my dramatic illness) 

my all-time ultimate fave character: leslie knope

a character I didn’t used to like but now do: i’ve always like them all

a character I used to like but now don’t: none

a character I’m indifferent about: hmmmm

a character who deserved better: ann perkins probably 

a ship I’ve never been able to get into: ann and chris. i mean i get it but i thought it would give me more

a ship I’ve never been able to get over: ben and leslie i wanna cry they are so pure im in the middle of their getting together s/l and i’m !!!!!

a cute, low-key ship: not even lowkey at all april and andy are also :’) 

an unpopular ship but I still enjoyed it: idk i cant think of any 

a ship that was totally wrong and never should have happened: tom and ann... i....... always forget that it last longer than like 2 seconds which was already long enough

my favourite storyline/moment: leslie running for city council, the entire series finale, ME getting to be in the same room as the entire cast at seth meyers on the night of the finale and listening to them sing bye bye lil sebastian and crying and im crying now rip

a storyline that never should have been written: none

my first thoughts on the show: my friend showed me april and andy’s fancy party randomly at a big sleepover when everyone was asleep and i vividly remember trying to not wake everyone else up from laughing

my thoughts now: i would literally kill and die for this show also stay the fuck away from leslie knope @ nra 

[macaknight]

I- you guys know I’m indecisive, right?!

This goes in absolutely no order, I’m just putting them as i remember them:

1. Steve Harrington from Stranger Things. He was a dick™️, but now, he’s one of the best part of ST alongside w Robin and the DefeatEvilRussians squad.

2. Marinette Dupain-Cheng from Miraculous Ladybug, as stated before: biracial Queen, who is so devoted to the point of tears (#letMarinetteTakeAFuckingBreak).

3. Subsequently, we have the other half of my blueberry children, monsieur Luka Couffaine, Aldo from Miraculous Ladybug, who has such love and dedication for his loved ones.

4. Jess Mariano from Gilmore Girls aka the “bad boy”, he had a troubled childhood but, when someone gave him a chance (Luke Danes bless your heart) and love him, he took the opportunity and became one of the best characters in the show.

5. Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls. Girl, you deserved better.

6. King Arthur from... Celtic mythology I guess, or is it British? It has many origins or versions, but there’s something about the core of the history that I truly love, (can someone give me a book of Arthurian legends for my birthday?).

7. Can I say the whole cast of Derry Girls? I mean, they are the funniest, quirkiest, stupid and lovable group of people... no? Ok, then Erin I guess, she’s so stressed but so does Clare... crap.

8. Rebecca Bunch from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, I was certain I was supposed to be a theater kid when I listened to this musical comedy; also, shout out for the portrayal of mental illness and that being in a romantic relationship doesn’t always mean assured happiness, (“relationship shouldn’t make you happy, they should make you happi-er”).

9. Blue Sargent from the Raven Boys, back in 2014 I wanted to be her, now in 2020 I want her fashion style -and a little bit of her clairvoyant family-.

10. Spider-Man, my favorite superhero of all time, every version of him... I guess... I’ve liked every version until now.

@tomagucci @lolzihavenolife @froggbody @dalagangbukid

Top Favorite Characters

Rules: List your favorite character from 10 Different Fandom’s and tag 10 people 

thank you for the tag @macaronsforchat !!! you're the best boo!! ❤️❤️

aight in no particular order

1. Dipper Pines- technically i relete to Mabel more, but i stan one anxious, curious boi

2. Marianette Dupain-Chang- biracial, feminist icon? sign me tf up

3. Edmund Pevensie- i'm a hoe for a redemption arc ok

4. Carmen Sandiego- (specially the netflix adaptation) i'm so fucking gay for her

5. Lance McClain- HE DESERVED BETTER OK

6. Dean Winchester- look this was the dude the made me realize that i have suppressed bi urges

7. Rose Tyler- uh we stan legends only

8. Klaus Hargreeves- uh we stan garbage gays only

9. Camicazi- (httyd books) she's my spirit animal

10. Morty Smith- i wanna take this poor traumatized child out of that toxic show and give him to gravity falls

alright, don't got time to tag so if you see this you've been tagged!! although i am curious about @notasiren21' s answers lol 😉

[javajunkiedaily]

ok so i just realized that during the revival hype lauren mentioned that she has to wear a costume for one of the final scenes and we were all like OMG WEDDING DRESSS but like that didn't happen and i know there were last minute budget cuts that changed everything but like we were so close and im bitter ok thx

We feel you, we honestly do! We complained about that fact a thousand times to each other, over and over again. We never get tired of picking on the things we didn’t like or we could have had. The whole fandom is probably with you on this. We wish we never knew about the dresses and the possibility to have the wedding of all weddings and not the cheap, yet beautiful elopement, where so many important people were missing. 

It’s OK to be bitter, there were a lot of hopes and expectations for the revival and the wedding, especially when they teased us like this. But let’s canalize all this bitterness and let us come up with what the real wedding would have looked like.

What we know for sure: (x) and (x)

The ceremony/reception will be on November 5 in the middle of the town. (Even though Lorelai mentions it will be on a Sunday, which would be November 6…)

Lorelai will wear more than one wedding dress. One will be inspired by Jackie O and other famous wedding styles. (To our mind comes Diana, right?) Miss Celine is the one making the dresses, but Lorelai will probably help her because Miss Celine is like a thousand years old.

Luke will wear that suit that he looks as hot as Rande Gerber. He will even wear the pocket square - Jess will make sure he does!

The decoration is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. You enter the location through a door with a huge key, walking through a tunnel of white clothes before you see the whole town square decorated with all these beautiful flowers, twinkle lights all over the place. Then there’s the tunnel with the heads,. A car works as a decoration, the Stars Hollow sign is serving as a cute little welcome sign and reminder of the wedding. The couches and stools next to the gazebo invite the guest to chill and talk. While at the richly decorated table the hot dogs can be eaten.

All of Stars Hollow will be present, even Caesar will be allowed to come. 

Emily will come all the way from Nantucket to the wedding, probably still not believing that Lorelai will actually get married, even though Lorelai had assured her. However, Lorelai had persuaded her, in the end, to invite her friends, after all, they were on the guest list.

Kiefer Sutherland might show up, we don’t know if he will make it. One thing is for sure it will be the biggest mystery of the wedding and a running gag.

Reverend Skinner will officiate the second ceremony as well.

Rory is the bridesmaid, and she will be excellent at it.

There will be two flash-mobs. Lorelai’s will be to “Relax don’t do it” with Patty’s girls, who wear t-shirts with Luke’s face on it. It will get crazy, cheesy, and Luke will want to leave the reception as soon as the song starts playing.

Luke’s flash mob will be a disaster with the song change Lorelai had ordered last minute. (Either Luke will get so flustered that he won’t know what do anymore, or he will suck it up and just go through with whatever choreography had worked so hard on. Either way, Lorelai will be super proud of him.)

Both the flash mobs will successfully entertain the guests and nothing else matters.

Sookie is in charge of the wedding cake. The milestone cake will be the official wedding cake, but maybe Sookie made a different one after all - you never know with her. They will get displayed on a table somewhere, maybe even in the gazebo. There will be a lot of leftover cake and Lorelai will eat it for weeks after.

Kirk is in charge of all the organizing of the wedding, and his skills in that department have improved a lot: An incident like the egg incident a decade ago won’t happen this time around, partly because there won’t be an easter-egg-hunt.

What we can assume (headcanon-time!):

Even though April never gets mentioned she’ll be there to see her father getting married. Finally, she will be able to cal Lorelai her step-mother and Rory her step-sister. It’s the beginning of the Gilmore-Danes-Nardini-fam, which we all grew to love so much. 

Lorelai won’t be able to hold back the tears when she realizes that her father can’t be there to witness her big day. There will a heartfelt exchange between Emily and Lorelai, which hopefully won’t be interrupted by any of the townies.

Either Emily and/or Rory will walk Lorelai down the aisle and will give her away to Luke. There won’t be any threatening words, but Emily’s look will tell Luke she will hunt him down if he ever dares to hurt her daughter.

Speeches will be held. Rory is giving probably the most heartfelt one, making everyone sob like a baby (like she did when she gave the speech at her high school graduation). Liz’s speech will be a wild one, filled with all these creepy, yet somehow adorable childhood memories. She loves her big brother dearly.

The dance floor gets probably entertained by Kirk as a DJ and/or Hep Alien will play live. There will be dancing all day and night long. Morey and Babette will be the last ones to leave the dance floor. Morey will moreover play some music himself because it’s a special occasion, he will melt Babette’s heart with that. However, Babette and Miss Patty have prepared some songs themselves to declare their love for their dream couple. 

Either there won’t be a father-daughter-dance at all, or Emily will dance with Lorelai. Luke will ask April to dance, and halfway through the song, he will ask Rory to dance with him. Rory is a little bit his and he steps up to all the step-father duties.

Lorelai and Luke will dance to “Reflecting Light” again. Liz and TJ will get emotional since it was their first dance as husband and wife too.

Jess acts as the best man for Luke, taking care of him and giving him the support he needs.

Paul-Anka and Petal will have some kind of role in the wedding, maybe bearing the rings, or ruining a nice or emotional moment. Paul-Anka will wear a big white bow on his back, and so does Petal. 

Doula would have the right age to act as a flower girl, so has Martha. Davey might be the ring bearer after all, or Lane’s twins. All the kids have some special role and will be involved in the wedding.

Babette and Miss Patty will sit in the first row at the ceremony, sobbing like little girls when Lorelai and Luke exchange their vows. They will hug them so tightly, that Luke thinks he might not be able to breathe ever again. And then he will get the shock of his life when Babette and Patty will finally pinch his butt. Lorelai will shrug her shoulders and smile at him.

Liz and TJ will entertain half the wedding party with their stories of the vegetable cult they were in for about half a year. But they will avoid any explanation for all the couches they have at the new home. (Maybe they are in a couch cult now?)

Luke knows Cousin Billy, he totally forgot about him and he is embarrassed to admit that to Lorelai. She will find out much later. 

It will scare the crap out of Luke when he sees Paris at his wedding. Lorelai was like a mother to her and therefore she could not miss the wedding.

Even though it is Luke’s wedding day, Taylor will find a reason to annoy him. It will probably have something to do with some rules and the town’s regulations.

Kirk will get tangled up in the white clothes and will need to be rescued from it.

Later, Kirk will get into a fight with Lulu because he doesn’t have enough time to dance with her. He has to make sure everything goes according to Lorelai’s plan and that leaves no time for dancing or some crazy times on the couch.

Michel will come to the wedding with his husband. It will be their last big event before their kid gets “delivered”. Frederic will drive everyone crazy with his special orders for the food, everything needs to be served on separate plates.

The 30-something-gang will work as waiters at the wedding, they don’t have anything else to do and they can put another waiter job on their résumé. The parents of the 30-something-gang will be forever grateful for that.

Crazy Carrie will forever be bitter that A) she isn’t invited to the party and B) Luke is off the market for good now. She will hold onto the rumor she made out with him under the bleachers though.

Mrs. Kim will ask Lorelai if her new choir can perform at the wedding, and since Lorelai still is a little scared of her she agrees on it, but she cringes the entire time the choir performs.

Moreover, Mrs. Kim will give her some useful antique as a present, telling her who that item has belonged to some time and why he or she was important to the country’s history.

Mr. Kim won’t be able to make it to the wedding because he will be off on a business trip again.

The guests will demand countless times of Lorelai and Luke to kiss by clinking their glasses. Lorelai enjoys that very much and is happy that Luke is for once comfortable with that kind of public display of affection.

There will be some of Patty’s founder’s day punch, and Emily will try it out and get a little tipsy. Miss Patty and she will bond over it and laugh just as much as at her bachelorette party all these years ago.

Emily will be just as smitten with Gypsy as she was when she first met her at the same party she bonded with Miss Patty. When she’s tipsy, she will confess to her that she reminds her of her maid Berta. Gypsy will think Emily is crazy because Emily won’t have a picture to prove it to her. In the end, Gypsy will be very thankful when Lorelai rescues her from Emily, telling her mother the cab she asked for had arrived.

Kirk will be the last one to be at the reception because as the organizer he’s also in charge of the clean-up.

Lorelai and Luke will spend their first night as husband and wife at home, having the house completely to themselves. Lorelai will want to discuss everything that has happened and Luke will actually have to talk her into sleeping with him.

You’re welcome to add all of your headcanons! The more the better - we can come up with all the subplots for the “shebang” AS-P intended to have.

[miranyx]

It’s going to be OK in the end; if it’s not OK, then it’s not the end.

I keep finding myself rewatching Gilmore Girls these days. I used to watch the show as a teen, I re-watched the whole thing a couple of years ago as a 25-year-old, and ever since, it’s one of the shows that keep me company - it often plays in the background when I’m home, while I’m doing something else. I’ve always loved it, sometimes more, sometimes less, and I still do, even though I can now acknowledge problematic aspects of it. But still, I’ve always appreciated how this is a show about life and relationships of all kinds - very realistic about some things and very unrealistic about others, and it’s tought me a lot and made me think about my own life and relationships a lot.

Then the revival happened and I was really excited, and I would text my friends who love it too when the trailer aired, and I teared up at the first “la-laa la-laa”s and when it actually aired, I spent all of that Friday night and the following Saturday crying my eyes out. I did truly enjoyed watching it and crying with it, but I’ve come to the conclusion that, taking away the nostalgia factor and the joy of seeing again characters that I didn’t realize I’d missed, I didn’t like it. 

There are many things about the four new episodes that left me rather disappointed with them, but lately, I’m feeling like it’s mostly down to Lane’s arch. And Rory’s. And Paris’, too.

When I first watched the show as a teen, I didn’t particularly care about Lane. I supposed I could not relate to her and her struggles, and, well, I didn’t know any better, I mostly cared about the cute boys. Only after growing up a little did I realize how important Lane’s character was. Lane was one of the most brilliant, guttsiest, bravest characters. Growing up in an extremely conservative family and with an extremely controlling mother, she managed, at a very young age, to form her own, personal and different view on the world. She managed to live her own ‘separate’, secret life, while staying under her mother’s radar, hiding her entire rock n’ roll world under the floor of the room, devising elaborate schemes in order to play in a band, to go on a date. Lane was just a teenager, but she knew she was meant to do something other than working in Kim’s antiques and singing Christian hymns. She knew she had a thing, and lo and behold, she found her thing, and knew she had to be a drummer, before she knew one musical note, and all the obstacles she had to overcome in order to do that, never curbed her enthusiasm. The whole rock thing was very cool, but the coolest thing about her was that Lane knew, at 16, who she wanted to be. And she didn’t compromise that, even when she was kicked out of her own home and written off by her own mother.

Fast forward to the revival.

Lane is married to Zach and had gotten immediately pregnant at around 20 years old with twins. She looks like she lives a happy family life, still in Stars Hollow. Her band still plays, even though they never really made it, they all have other jobs. And she works at Kim’s antiques. She dresses like her mother, she uses her mother’s “appreciate your business” sendoff to customers.

And it made me so depressed.

We didn’t get enough screentime of Lane to see how she really feels about it, but I got the feeling that this is not what she wanted for herself. There’s nothing wrong with keeping up a family business, or following your parents’ footsteps and I never saw Mrs Kim as evil or unlikeable, but it’s just that this isn’t what Lane wanted. Lane went through hell with her mother, because she didn’t want any of that. And she got it anyway. And it just felt like the show was telling me, that’s life, kid. You’ll compromise. You’ll have to. 

Rory was not one of my favourite characters. I’ve pretty much always found her immature, selfish, ungrateful and inconsiderate, spoiled and entitled and as the seasons went on, increasingly annoying. But one of the best established things in Gilmore Girls from day 1, was that Rory was a smart, competent kid, with great potential. That, combined with the education that was handed to her, her grandparents’ money and connections, all lined up a bright future for Rory.

Fast forward to the revival.

Rory is a mess in many ways, and her professional life is one of the worst aspects of it. She’s written like one good piece and then there’s nothing, she can’t land a job, she blows interviews, she falls asleep while talking to a source, she can’t write a goddamn thing, she takes on the Stars Hollow Gazette and messes it up. And, I get it. She’s lost. They make a point of it so that they can give her the book solution and well, so that modern audiences can relate to her, but still, I hated it. Because Rory had a lot going for her, and she amounted to nothing. Granted, she had a major part of the blame, because she made many wrong choices and lacked motivation and professionalism in many occasions, and that was a lesson, in a way: don’t be a Rory, or you’ll blow it like she did. But it still nagged me how the same message creeped in my head. That’s life, kid. You think you’re ready for it, but you really aren’t.

Paris was sort of an aquired taste, because she could get really, really over the top. She could be mean, and a bully, and lose perspective, but man, I love Paris. She worked so hard. She knew who she was, what she liked, what she wanted and what she didn’t want. She was honest, even brutally so. She was a go-getter and would pulvarize anything standing in her way. And she, the girl who could not believe it when she was asked on a date, was one of the characters with the most stable and healthy relationships.

Fast forward to the revival.

Paris rules the world. She’s an MD, a lawyer, an expert on architecture, runs a top fertility clinic. And she’s as insecure as she was at 16, dumped by Tristan. She’s splitting with Doyle. She feels like her kids like the nanny better, that her home is breaking up, to end up like the broken home she grew up in. She carries an empty briefcase because she feels like, for all she’s accomplished, she’s still not enough. That’s life, kid. You’ll never feel enough.

Why did they had to take our three leading girls, the representatives of the young generation, who’ve grown up working hard and making dreams, and give them these messed up futures? I can understand that one can’t get everything they hope for. But they chose to take their most crucial points away from them. Lane wanted to be her own person and live her rock n’ roll life. Rory wanted to be the greatest journalist in the world, and the thing she was most certain of, was her writing. Paris wanted to be accepted, even when she couldn’t admit it. And these were the things none of them got. That’s life, kid.

Maybe that is life, what do I know, I’m still young and silly.

But I need to hope that I can work for something and get it, at some point. I need to hope that I’ll overcome my insecurities and feel better in my own skin, at some point. I need to hope that not all I do is in vain, since life will get the better of me, anyway.

Maybe that’s too romantic, but if we’re not romantic now, when? Life sure is hard, harder for some, certainly, and things will get ugly at times, but I need to hope that things will eventually get better. That our bright futures and potentials are not a fool’s hope.

I suppose it’s a matter of faith and whether you can find that hope in you. Some days I do, others I don’t. But I like to have the option of finding it.

I like to choose to be optimistic. I choose to be optimistic.

[copperstown]

Tag meme

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better (sorry not happening)

I was tagged by @joko-san, thanks for that!

1. Relationship status: Single, not searching

2. Lipstick or Chapstick: Most of the time neither, but I do wear lipstick when I get extra fancy

3. Last Song I listened to: Spring Day by Bangtan Sonyeondan (on repeat)

4. Top three shows: 1. Naruto 2. Gilmore girls 3. Criminal Minds

5. Top 3 characters: this is the vaguest thing, so I’m gonna narrow it to favorite characters from those three shows - Gaara (THE MOST PAINFUL I CRY LET ME HUG YOU BUB) (i don’t know if he’s truly my favorite, but he’s definitely one of them and this show is too much, i can’t pick ok) - Lane Kim - Penelope Garcia

6. Top 3 ships: Again, so vague, so let’s go with the ones I find myself appreciating the most these days (all are BTS) - Namjin - Jihope - Yoonseok/Yoonmin (they get to share)

Feel free to fill this out yourself if you want, and you can tag me if you want! I’m just too lazy to find nine people I’d like to get to know better. I apologize. ^-^

[therewatcher-blog]

Best Underrated Scene: Gilmore Girls - 1x07 Kiss and Tell

Rory’s first kiss! How fun. This episode is overall pretty tight, I’d say. We have a fun, monumental moment and the hurt feelings from Lorelai when she learns Rory didn’t tell her about it, followed by Lorelai actually being an Embarrassing Parent and inviting Dean over to watch a movie. I do think that is a bit out of character, but I don’t know...like Lorelai should realize how stupid it is to invite Dean over when Rory hasn’t even gone on a proper date with him herself? But I guess Lorelai is trying SO hard to not be a “Mom,” that she overdoes it and is super Mom-y. While I enjoy the episode overall, I did find it difficult to find a scene that popped out as underrated and special. There’s something to be said for the Lorelai/Dean serious talk, but it is to be expected. Also, it will always disturb me how much more chemistry they have together than Rory and Dean. It must be impossible to be in a room with Lauren Graham and not be turned on.

So with that it came to a toss up between Lorelai and Luke at the grocery store and the very brief scene I ultimately chose. I am a diehard Lorelai/Luke shipper, so it’s easy to always go to these moments as stand outs. As such, I’m going to try and restrain unless it is really called for. I liked this scene a lot because it show cases their back and forth wit and joking with each other, while also showing how Lorelai is starting to share personal aspects of her life with him in small, intimate ways and how receptive Luke is to these moments. He is also a good listener with decent advice (albeit rather short and to-the-point, as we should expect from him). But I went instead with:

Lorelai Finds Out About The Kiss From Mrs. Kim:

Mrs. Kim is a tricky character. She teeters between a racist caricature and a sincere portrayal of a strict Christian Korean mom. It’s not a culture I am super familiar with, so I won’t pretend to be. I do know that Mrs. Kim and Lane are based on real people and the lived experience of Helen Pai -- friend of ASP and a producer on the show. So with that in mind, we can assume there might be slight elements of exaggeration, but the basic core of the character is based in reality (which is true for a lot of Gilmore Girls’ characters and townies). Emily Kuroda does a great job of toeing this line, especially as the seasons progress and we get more depth and understanding of her character. Something I realized on this rewatch, is that this scene ends up being a subtle hint at the complexity of this character.

It starts innocuously enough with Mrs. Kim jumping up from behind one of her many pieces of furniture and frightening Lorelai. It’s kinda a funny gag, but maybe by now in my rewatching of the show, the “Kim’s Antiques” set has lost it’s comedic sensibility. I get really bored with all the “Marco Polo” games played in the house to locate each other. BUT, moving on. Lorelai bought a rocker a “couple weeks ago,” and is there to pick it up. “Six weeks ago,” Mrs. Kim corrects her, scolding her simultaneously. Mrs. Kim often acts as a foil to Lorelai in a similar way as Emily does. She is a strict mother, with very traditional views on the roles the parents and children play in the family. She is often icy and a little scary. We can tell that Lorelai herself is scared of her. Lorelai is obviously very responsible in a lot of ways, but she doesn’t see the harm in leaving her stuff around to be picked up later and she certainly isn’t particularly worried about the difference between two and six weeks when it comes to a chair she bought seemingly on a whim (as she remarks later, she remembers it being smaller). Mrs. Kim, on the other hand, runs a tight ship. And while her house may look a bit haphazard, this is simply due to the nature of her business and it would be best if one didn’t forget that. I imagine she has a flawless mental record of everything that comes in and goes out of her store.

She finds the chair easily in the mess as she remarks that her store isn’t a holding facility, it is a furniture store --“Except when Lorelai Gilmore buys, then furniture stays here for six weeks.” Lorelai offers to pay extra to keep the items there, but Mrs. Kim will not stand for this. That’s not what she wants. She may be stubborn, but damn if we can’t admire her for this quality sometimes. It is always a bit admirable to see people who don’t bend to the entitled Lorelai Gilmores of the world. Lorelai makes her comment that she remembers the chair was smaller and we get a bit of the dry humor that Mrs. Kim occasionally displays, “It’s been six weeks, maybe it grew.” Everyone in an ASP show has to be a little funny at times.

Lorelai apologizes again about the chair and adds that she’s been really busy. “Maybe you should be less busy,” Mrs. Kim says, “then you can remember to pick up chairs...And then you could keep your daughter from running around kissing boys.” The significance for Mrs. Kim’s character in this moment is not that she tells Lorelai that Rory kissed a boy (of course she would say this and use it as a indication that Lorelai lacks the type of parenting skills that Mrs. Kim feels are required), it’s that in a scene earlier she obviously overheard Rory and Lane talking about the kiss and rather than say anything or banish Rory from the house or anything that we might expect, she pretended to buy Lane’s quick lie that Rory had been kissed by “the Lord.” I think this showcases a little bit of the softness that we eventually get with Mrs. Kim character as she eventually learns to accept her daughter’s rebellious nature and love her despite their differences. It’s a very small moment, but we can see that while she is annoyed at the influence she perceives Rory’s life having over Lane, she also allows for them to lie to her at times. Certainly she wants to control many aspects of Lane’s life, but in the end she knows she can’t control it all and that Lane (and Rory) are both decent kids.

Lorelai takes a little long to accept what Mrs. Kim tells her. She can’t believe that Rory wouldn’t tell her about the kiss. Eventually she accepts the truth since Mrs. Kim mentions the “boy in the grocery store” and Lorelai remembers from the incident in the pilot that this is the same boy who unwittingly almost convinced Rory to give up on Chilton. We see a host of emotions go through her face as she accepts this truth. Certainly she is worried about what it means for her daughter to be kissing boys, but ultimately she is more hurt than anything about the secrecy of it all. This is the reason for the events as they unfold in the rest of the episode. Lorelai turns to leave and process the information and Mrs. Kim yells after her again that she left her chair.

Again, the reason for my choosing this is the small hint at what Mrs. Kim as a character is and what she will become. She’s not a monster or a caricature of a uber-Christian, Korean mom. She is just a mom, doing what she thinks is best, and constantly battling with what is okay and what is not okay according to her own beliefs and upbringing. Not every mother-daughter relationship can be Lorelai and Rory, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t moments of softness in the other relationships we see with more strict parenting styles.

Also -

Shout out to this prescient line in the year 2000, pre-An Inconvenient Truth (2006):

Rory: Well what did you want to talk about?

Lorelai: I dunno...anything. [coyly trying to get Rory to tell her about the kiss]

Rory: Ok, did you read that article in the newspaper about the polar ice caps melting?

Lorelai: Yeah, yeah. Oo, big deal.

Yes, Lorelai. It IS a big deal. Ah, sweet innocent 2000.