#rory gilmores graduation

[jakeperalta]

2024 apple replay: @thelightreflects asked gilmore girls + #17 ↳ sorry mom by kelsea ballerini

[anggiazs]

I really don't know if I'm the minority for saying this or if this means I'm a bad fan or person etc, but Rory missing Lorelai's graduation? Neither of Jess or Rory's fault.

It was an impulsive decision by her to hop on to that bus that day, so no, she couldn't have planned it. What she did plan though, is to get to the bus in time to get back home to her mother's graduation. And she did, and Jess went with her decision and didn't hold her back. Everything was going according to plan and Rory could have the day with the boy she is not so secretly smitten with while also making her mother happy by being there for her and giving he Belinda.

Then traffic happened, something that is totally out of anyone's control. People hate Rory in that ep as if she intentionally missed her mom's graduation. She didn't! She was miserable when she found out she did. She confesses her mistakes and regrets when Lorelai confronts her then.

So please, if you want to hate that ep, sure do your thing, but just hate the fact that traffic happened and fate was cruel to her, not because Rory is some sort of an evil spawn and will intentionally hurt her mother.

[not-with-you-but-of-you]

Shall I stay? Would it be a sin If I can’t help Falling in love with you?

Happy 22nd Anniversary to Lorelai’s Graduation Day (aired on May 14th, 2002)!

[emmafallsinlove]

recently i’m thinking about how both of rory’s lovers left her on her graduation day. first it was jess who literally went without saying goodbye, end up not taking her to prom and didn’t showed up for her graduation. but he was 17 and he didn’t know better. and later it was logan, who proposed and when rory had told him “i love you, i love the idea of being married to you but i can’t do it right now at this moment” literally gave her an ultimatum - marry me or else. he was 25 but acted like a literal child at this moment. and i hate it because rory worked so hard for both of these moments, especially for the second one, after having a meltdown and taken a time off and yet, her boyfriend, the person who told her “you base your decision based on what you want for you” left her because she didn’t wanna marry him right at 22 when she graduates, and it sucks.

[autumnrory]

characters like emily and paris will regularly be casually cruel to others and don't show any remorse but rory inadvertenly hurts someone and beats herself up for it and gilmore girls fans will be like "rory is the most evil selfish character ever written"

[theonethatwatchesalotofshows]

Is the Gilmore Girls fandom full of nerdy overachievers? Because why else would Rory dropping out of Yale for one (1) semester be such a big deal? 5 years ago when I watched as an inexperienced high schooler I also thought that she was making a bad decision but now I see that people graduate late literally all the time, for various dumb reasons and it doesn't affect their future career at all. And Rory didn't even graduate late, she literally took a whole semester off and yet managed to still graduate on time! In one of the greatest universities in the world! So why does Rory get so much slander for this, both within and outside of the show? Everyone acted as if Rory was throwing her life away by working one semester instead of studying. When Logan, Colin and Finn literally also took semesters off, but unlike Rory used them to slack off, acted like forever students and actually graduated late, yet they are lovable? Make it make sense!

[a-side-character]

This is about the tag you're scrolling, I promise

so I had the idea to make a post that read something like,

"Imperial Radch makes me want tea the way Gilmore Girls makes me want coffee."

Niche, right?

Then I had the idea to incorporate Justin McElroy's quote "I would bury a bowie knife in any of your chests to eat French Onion soup this exact second."

So I am now VERY interested in the overlap between these three things. I thought it might be too niche, but this is the too niche website.

To clarify, you're familiar with it even if you've only seen a few eps of GG, only listened to a bit of Taz Balance, only read a bit of Ancillary Justice, etc. Even count a fandom by proxy if you happen to know a lot about one of them without directly engaging with it (enough to know what the post is referring to).

Awaiting these results with baited breath.

[liesmultixxx]

crying

[lovealwayssay]

Season 3 of Gilmore Girls might be the best season of Gilmore Girls.

[ritaglietti]

Gilmore Girls. The Road Trip to Harvard (2x4)

[ivystitches]

so you’re telling me that by the end of the show luke had adopted a whole army of kids

[hitchell-mope]

She feels guilty about this but not about leading dean on for a year? Huh. Figures

[lazyspeedy]

[emmafallsinlove]

sometimes i’m thinking how much different the plot to s4-s7 could have been if jess and rory were endgame and im losing my mind over it

[autumnrory]

idk how r*gan shippers think ayitl was hopeful for their ship like they had a pretty explicit goodbye and it indicates she didn't plan to have him in the kid's life which. lol. lmao. he's gonna find out??? his family knows her family?? and i do think for all the ways he's irresponsible he WOULD want to be involved in his kid's life to an extent like he at least has the excuse of living an ocean way unlike christopher but he wouldn't take sixteen years to visit his kid's home imo

but anyway like. he was doing nothing to fight this arranged engagement which i know we don't know much about but you have to assume there's some amount of feeling between him and odette bc like. he has a choice here ya know and neither of them actually acknowledge wanting to stop it from happening AND they're yet again using their relationship as a form of escapism (which bugs me bc rory was over that shit in season 6 idk why they made her have anything to do with that life and death brigade nonsense again) like it's absolutely not a healthy situation

and personally if i were a r*gan shipper i would be bugged at how it ignores the things from season 7 like logan somewhat going against his father in the end and that he and rory were generally a little better at communicating (still not the best because ASP won't let any couple be truly good at communicating, so like dear god will fans not use that as an argument against any shp there are other things to criticize but none of these couples are open and honest with each other lol) LIKE that is the whole thing with ayitl is it basically makes like everyone regressed particularly rory and it's frustrating but yeah like. idk why people find affairs so romantic but it's not and it's definitely not proof that two people are meant to be together

[mzannthropy]

The writing in Gilmore Girls can make you feel really frustrated...