#there is no game equivalent. just Rory.

[snail-eggs]

i usually don’t lean much on face claims for my saints row ocs anymore because i am more confident in my ability to make them in game but like. Charlie’s faceclaim is without a doubt Rory Culkin. faceclaim, voiceclaim-everything. he is literally just a Rory Culkin character to me at this point.

[sketchyallstar]

Got inspired by a song to make a ship happen, so I came up with my first male monster high oc to ship with the monster high version of my ever after high oc, Tara Lin. She’s a fae ghost, he’s a goblin, and they’re chaotic and adorable. Rory Tricorne is the son of the Redcap, a goblin who lives in ruins where violence took place or on old battlefields, getting their signature red hat by dying it in the blood of the fallen. Rory himself is quite squeamish in the presence of real blood and gore, but he’s fine with movie blood effects or animations and images of blood as long as they don’t look too real. To make Rory, I had to prepare because I don’t often make male characters, so I practiced by drawing male monster high characters in my style. It took a while but eventually I figured out his look, which I’m very happy with. I envisioned him as a history nerd, a movie buff, a gamer, an urban explorer, and a TikTok influencer (Monster High has EekTok as the equivalent) who talks about history anecdotes, historical accuracy in movies, shows, and games, as well as movies, shows and games he just enjoys. He also posts about his adventures in urban exploration, of course. The way I figured out his connection to Tara is that she was a fan of his on EekTok and finally meets him when she transfers to Monster High, and although he immediately gets a silly goofy crush on her, she’s wary of being a parasocial fangirl so she starts out keeping him at a distance.

[neoluca]

Hello! I saw you reblog a post about wanting more tumblr asks so here I am sending you one!

You wanted someone to ask you about neopets so tell me all about them :]

OMG HIIII TYSM???!!! i honestly wasn't expecting any asks hehehe……

soooo basically i have a whole bunch of neopets ocs and almost all of them live on terror mountain in happy valley!! i made up a school/university called the mountain lodge that they all go to (because on neopets they almost all live in the neolodge onsite ehehe.. it started as just me imagining they were all staying at the same hotel together and then sort of took on a little life of its own <3) at this point i have almost 25 characters and i sort of divide them into little groups, more or less? the main group is made up of the pets i had on my main account, and thats tututykee, cinnabro, wellira, sabrina (the lupe), confetticream, and sabrina5043! they're two different families; Cinna is dating tykee, and wellira is dating sabrina :3 my next other "main" group which currently is actually getting way more attention than that original group is what i affectionately call "the dork polycule" and thats made up of kyohvu, cyvny, lewis, holly, and tsukiyori! they like to play dnd and other dorky games together, and the core of it is made up of kyohvu cyvny and lewis who all have like a betty and veronica thing going on LMAO lewis and cyvny are always fighting over kyohvu, who knows theyre both into him but hasn't really settled one way or another… and ultimately it doesn't really matter because all three of them are basically in a throuple anyway ahahaha the rest of them all have little groups of their own as well but tbh i still haven't really developed them very much!! they're more or less just auxiliary characters for the ones in the two main groups :3 the only real exceptions i think are serlux and rorie!! serlux is an usuki doll that came to life one day along with tsukiyori :D they're basically like the neopets equivalent of barbie and ken, but while tsuki is going to school at the mountain lodge, serlux is adventuring around the world searching for the mad wizard who he believes cursed his owner (along with bringing the two dolls to life). and rorie is a kind of bratty popstar who is pretty good at seeming wholesome and like a boy next door for the cameras but in reality is kind of a tool. his manager is sabrina5043 and they're kind of together?? its kind of complicated hehe. he also attends the mountain lodge, and is on a touring hiatus after a minor scandal caused his label to pull back from him a bit. he's also possibly implicated in a villainous plot to take over neopia?? its unclear but there is a secret agent at the school (bittssy) tailing his every move to learn more hehe

and wow that was a shitload of text sorry!!! i didn't even go into detail on most of those little guys but i hope this was kind of interesting to read anyways!!! thank u again so so much for sending me an ask tehe they take up so much of my brainspace its nice to tell someone else about them!!!

[jackoshadows]

Why do you think there’s such a strong fixation on Jonsa? I watched the whole series and didn’t see it. I just finished A Game of Thrones and didn’t see it. I’m a big supporter of Jonerys (although I don’t think Kit and Emilia had very good on-screen chemistry but that was partially due to a bad script) but I’m very curious about the mindset going on with people who enjoy other Jon pairings. I can at least see where people are coming from with Jonrya even if I’ll never be able to see them as anything but siblings. They’re very close and think of each other often but at least in book one, Jon and Sansa’s relationship is non-existent. I guess Jon and Dany’s is even more non-existent, but the show at least planted a seed of what could be, and the same cannot be said of Jonsa

I think you are the nonnie who send me the Dany ask and I always hesitate to answer these (rather sensible and intelligent) asks because you have not finished reading the books and I hate to spoil the story for you 😂!

Have you read Pride and Prejudice? The equivalent of the Jonsa ship would be like shipping Darcy and Jane because one likes Jane Bennet and then argue that Darcy actually falls for sweet, gentle Jane and not Elizabeth and that Darcy/Jane is canonical. And if we disagree with this it’s because we are sexist Jane haters because Jane’s a girly girl. Absurd right? That’s pretty much the absurdity of Jonsa for book readers.

So why is Jonsa so popular? Briefly, Jonsa is the result of Sansa stans not liking the canon suitors the author has given the character in the books for various reasons. They want Arya's canonical relationship with Jon possibly turning into a romance for their favorite character Sansa or they want Jon and Sansa falling in love instead of any future romance between Jon and Dany. Which is why 80% of their blogs is devoted to tearing down Dany and Arya and involves an unrecognizable mess of a character they call Jon Snow.

Sansa is also the typical beautiful girl who is into romance and songs and fashion and knights, feasts and tourneys - that’s why she gets shipped with everyone. I think she’s the most shipped character in this fandom. And that’s always been a thing since this series started in the nineties. SanSan or Sansa/Sandor Clegane (The Hound) was one of the most popular ships of the series and GRRM has even commented on it.

[As an aside the funny thing is that GRRM is trying to subvert tropes and also write romance for the non conventional girls like Brienne and Dany and Arya (Lyanna is the equivalent of Helen of Troy and Arya is a mini Lyanna) and still this fandom disparages girls like Arya as being ‘male-coded’, ugly and undesirable.]

With the show, they totally ignored SanSan (Which makes sense considering Rory McCann was like 40 or something on the show and Turner is so young - the show cannot go where the books do in terms of these relationships) and instead gave Sansa the story of another tertiary character in the North. Combining characters meant that she got dumped into Jon Snow’s plot and now all of a sudden we have these two good looking actors Sophie Turner and Kit Harington sharing scenes and Jonsa is born (Despite their characters fighting and arguing in 90% of their scenes, and Sansa lying and betraying Jon).

Benioff and Weiss’ Sansa fanfiction meant that Sansa now gets all of Arya’s story beats and narrative themes on the show. And instead of treating it like a crack ship/AU fanfiction, they try to shove this ship into the books and attack anyone who tries to point out how absurd this ship is. And despite GRRM insisting that his story is different and going in different directions, they think that the garbage writing of the show is going to happen in the books

I would also like to point out that, from my experience in fandom, most Jon Snow fans don’t ship Jonsa. And I am talking about fans who genuinely like book Jon Snow. Not the one’s who claim to be a Jon fan and their blog is 90% about Sansa.These two characters have nothing to do with each other in the books!

Jonsa is a Sansa ship for and by Sansa stans. Jon is simply a prop there for Sansa to become QITN, get a direwolf Ghost, get her disney princess happy ending with ten babies. Their version of Jon Snow has nothing in common with the book character.

To refer back to my original P&P comparison, to make Darcy fall in love with Jane one would have to change Darcy’s entire personality.  If Darcy falls for Jane’s beauty and gentle nature instead of Elizabeth’s wit and intelligence, then that’s no longer Pride and Prejudice is it? That’s an AU version of Pride and Prejudice. Or fanfiction based on Pride and Prejudice.

A Darcy who falls in love with Jane Bennet is not the Darcy in the story Austen is writing. In the same way a Jon Snow who falls in love with Sansa Stark is not the Jon Snow in the story George R R Martin  is telling.  

For Jonsa shippers their Jon Snow will be repulsed by Arya Stark and does not care for her, only helps out his friends because they are stand ins for Sansa, is shallow and self-loathing because he thinks he’s not good enough for beautiful Sansa who ignored him because he’s a bastard and craves for the approval of the woman who abused him, Catelyn Stark.

In fact, the Jonsa fandom came up with one of the worst, most nonsensical iterations of Jon Snow I have ever seen in all my years in this fandom. Let me introduce you to the horror that is Political!Jon. You can google it.

Political!Jon is Littlefinger 2.0, a sociopath who will pretend to love Daenerys to get her dragons, deceive her and then kill her, all his true love Sansa Stark can become QITN. And oh, because he does not want his true love to take care of any undesirable bastards, political!Jon will also give Dany some moon tea to abort her baby - that’s abortion!Jon. And Jonsa shippers think that Jon Snow seducing a rape victim, stealing her children (the dragons), aborting her baby and then killing her for Sansa is all so romantic!!

And if not Jon Snow, then it will be Arya who will kill Dany. That’s the whole point of the sword Jon gave Arya - it’s not about their bond and their love and being symbolic of home and identity for Arya. No, Needle is so that Arya can kill Dany and Jon and Sansa can get together! Arya will then turn into a Jonsa cheerleader and fuck off into nowhere on a ship.

I have always compared the Jonsa shippers to the flat earthers of this fandom. Some of the most ridiculous and absurd theories have come out of that side of the fandom and debating with them is like debating with a wall. One can smush all the book text and quotes in their face and they will still be there talking about how Jon Snow loves Sansa because some snow fell on her face in one of the chapters....

[saltygilmores]

Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls, Season 2, Episode 13 ("A Tisket A Tasket") Part 3 of ????

Parts 1 & 2 and all of my previous pickings-apart can be found in my pinned post. Where we last left off, RoryGil appeared to be in deep contemplation about the current shitshow that is her life.

Rory and Jess embark on their Shitshow Picnic, then we cut to Jackson trying to buy Sookie's basket back from Kirk, who complains about the lack of carrot sticks in the basket before proceeding to trauma- dump on Jackson (not about carrots but about how no one loves him). Kirk also looks like he is questioning existence.

Jackson quickly whips out a checkbook which he apparently carries with him at all times (because it's 2002) and pays Kirk $250, and after popping that number into an inflation calculator, Jackson paid Kirk the 2023 equivalent of $423 for a picnic basket with no carrot sticks. Not only does Stars Hollow need group therapy I think they could use a group audit to see exactly where some of these people are getting their money.

As If a checkbook didn't age this show enough, the cut to a payphone immediately afterwards finishes the job quite nicely. You guys are waiting for that whole Rory and Jess on the bridge thing aren't you. Well, let's keep it moving then. It feels like a minute since we've heard some Luke Danes Wisdom. Lorelai (sitting in the gazebo with Luke): We're supposed to be eating a picnic on the ground. Luke: Every time I've seen a picture of people eating on the ground, I've thought, "What the hell are you people doing eating on the ground? Spring for some beach chairs ya cheapskates." Finding the payphone broken (which puts a dent in her complicated scheme to meet Henry), Lane comes running to Lorelai to ask if she has her cellphone. In the third moment of the show aging itself in under a minute, Lane asking Lorelai if she's carrying her cellphone reminds us that the few people who did have cellphones during this time period didn't always carry them 24/7. Somehow even though this is early 2002 Lane (and everyone else seen using a cellphone) manages to get perfect reception at a random spot of her choosng which is honestly pretty impressive for a town that I'm convinced is still a good 10 years away (at LEAST) from getting cable TV and moving away from dial-up internet.

"Morality in an ever-changing world." What do the people of The Hollow know about morality or world-changing? Stars Hollow never fucking changes. Ever. Changes? No one noticed Luke mis-spelled "tomatoes" on his menu board and let that shit slide for a good 6 years. The citizens thought a drawing in sidewalk chalk was the height of immorality. Well, maybe Lorelai could stand to listen to a sermon or two about the immmorality of sleeping with your daughter's underage boyfriend, but I digress. (I really wanted just wanted an excuse to write "Speaking of Satan" and introduce Dean back into the story, but instead it's Henry.

Because this show loves to do poor Lane so, SO SOOO dirty, Henry called Lane's house when she didn't call from the payphone as she promised. Much to Lane's relief, he somehow managed to trick Mrs Kim into thinking he was just a telemarketer and not A Boy (or so he thinks). But afer hearing Lane describe another insane scheme she's cooked up to hide him from her mother, he's tired of playing games.

Wahhhhh my heart breaks for Lane. In my gritty adult Gilmore Girls reboot titled The Hollow all of the women who were dealt an unfair hand on this show will be made whole again. Lane will reunite with Dave or Henry and live happily ever after, Lindsay will have Dean Forrester's head in her freezer, and so on and so forth. Henry says he can't be breaking up with Lane because he's never actually been out with her. He says I want to be able to pick you up, get out of the car, take you out somewhere. And then he has to TWIST THE KNIFE IN MY POOR GIRL'S HEART JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.

SPOILER ALERT/TRIGGER WARNING: UNABASHED CRUELTY AHEAD

*her I AM NO LONGER TEAM HENRY. THAT PIECE OF SHIT. That was the most heartbreaking thing I've witnessed on this show up to this point!!!! JUSTICE FOR LANE!!!!! LANE AND DAVE ONLY!!!!!! And the cherry on top of the Shit Sundae for poor poor Lane is that of course Mrs. Kim has caught on and is none too happy and they scream at each other.

This coat.... and these pants. *deep breath* Look, Jesstopher, I love you and you know you're the only fictional character I'd go to the ends of the earth for. And I'm sorry your uncle is clueless and wears the same thing every day and couldn't style another person no less a child to save his life and I'm also sorry that it's a miracle you even survived your Mom's parenting and she has a very busy schedule of Full Time Child Neglect so making sure her son wears properly fitting clothes is low on her list of prorities. I'm sorry neither cared enough to make sure you didn't look like Vincent Adultman from BoJack Horseman.

Another perfect "okuh" that no silent screen shot could ever capture.

When it comes to Rory and Jess, sometimes I like to quiet my Snark for a moment and just enjoy. Jess tells Rory that he bid on her basket because seeing Dean get annoyed makes him laugh. Any time Jess tries to annoy Dean to get closer to Rory, an angel gets its wings.

I know you don't, but when you're dating such a putz like Dean, That's kinda written in the contract. Date Dean Forrester, lose your will to live. Read the fine print. I just remembered there's still almost another full season left before Jess and Rory are officially dating.

The lighting in this scene is really beautiful to me, and the way the light hits MIlo's face here makes him look angelic.

I can never un-see Milo and Alexis falling in love in real life through their characters. Once you know it will never escape you. It will burrow into your brain, much like the worms in whatever slop Rory put into that Tupperware. I'm tempted to say Rory missed another opportunity to poison Dean's food (like the time she baked him cookies but didn't add poison to the batter), but since Jess ended up eating it instead and because it would be very obvious that she was the perpetrator since it was her basket, I won't hold it against her this time. Keep trying, Rory Gil.

Well, this screen shot isn't exactly going on the cover of People's Sexiest Men Alive magazine any time soon but he speaks the truest four words in Gilmoredom.

There are still 18 minutes left in this episode. HOW???!!! Part 4 coming whenever.

[houseofgriefs]

BASICS ↴

Full Name ↣ Aurelius Hood Nickname, alias ↣ Rory (By his parents), The Flickering Light Race ↣ High elf Subrace ↣ N/A Gender ↣ Male Age ↣ Human equivalent of 35 Class ↣ Wizard (Patron is Pelor) Background ↣ The Sage 

APPEARANCE ↴

Faceclaim(s) ↣ Sam Heughan Skin tone ↣ Tan Hair Color ↣ Ginger hair with brown undertones Height ↣ 6'4 Eyes ↣ Golden brown Scars ↣ Nada Body Type ↣ Fit / Buff Tattoos ↣ A golden sun on the center of his chest In game weapon of choice ↣ Markoheshkir quarterstaff/ Everburn Blade In game attire of choice (mods) ↣ TBH undeclared but he looks much more like a fighter than he does a warlock

BACKGROUND ↴

Parent(s) ↣ Robin (rogue) and Marian (cleric) Siblings(s) ↣ Keyleth (presumed deceased) Present alliances ↣ Undeclared Hometown ↣ Yuirwood Locations lived in ↣ Evermeet and eventually travels as Pelor's unofficial chosen and ends up stuck in the Last Light Inn . Language(s) ↣ Common, Elvish Romantic and Intimate Preferences ↣ Female

PERSONALITY ↴

Virtues ↣ Courage, Humorous, Justice, Visionary, Assertiveness Vices ↣  Impulsiveness, Aggressiveness, People pleaser Alignment ↣ Lawful good Habits ↣ He's gotta loud laugh Nervous tics ↣ Doesn't really show when he's nervous Approachability ↣ It varies on the situation just like everybody. He's pretty approachable in most circumstances Hobbies ↣ Fighting, storytelling, reading Likes ↣ Meat based foods, City life, Listening to music Dislikes ↣ Followers of Cyric, heights, goblins Drink? Smoke? Drugs? ↣ Yes, no, no

ABILITY POINTS ↴

Strength ↣ 15 Dexterity ↣ 16 Constitution ↣ 16 Intelligence ↣ 18 Wisdom ↣ 10 Charisma ↣ 17

MISCELLANEOUS MUSING ↴

Personal aesthetic colors ↣ Black, yellow, orange Theme song(s) ↣ TBD In game (BG3) romance ↣ N/A In campaign romance ↣ N/A Hogwarts house ↣ Gryffindor Deadly sin ↣ Wrath Faction ↣ Dauntless Zodiac ↣ Aries 

AUTHOR’S NOTES ↴

As stated in his backstory, his sister in canon is @karmasrage.

He grew up loving magic, never wanted to do magic. After his sisters murder (or what they thought was a murder), Aurelius made a pact with Pelor for her and for his parents.

[lilacerull0]

husband, one night stand, best friend: chase, dan and laurie

for laurie i don't even have to think it through he's definitely: best friend first and foremost. but listen, husband is the best friend ideally. obviously not the only best friend, but definitely a best friend. this is the perfect ask game for those who love to see me struggle with ~stuff like this~... who is the one night stand....... i guess it COULD be dan if we're both in a self-destructive state of mind. that still doesn't ring entirely true tho because having me and dan in the same room feels very wrong for some reason, like a complete paradox... chase is the husband (well he already was according to cindy) because he's that person who tried marriage and went ummm no, this is not for me. so i guess we can work in a highly unconventional marriage AND we're insufferable in a different way, unlike me and dan. ok, sticking to laurie as a best friend, dan as a one night stand and chase as the husband because those choices beat some of the allegations directed towards their characters and i'm obsessed with how punk that is. why am i taking this so seriously, why am i like this grrr

[glossolali]

TLOVM Ep 9 Twitch Watch Party Summary

- Tried to make that guy with the Briarwoods look like Brian Foster

- Delilah wanted to save Sylas cause she didn't want to enter the dating pool again

- Arthur hand painted the skull book animation frame by frame!

- Long hair Sylas is SO hot, and she gives him a haircut every morning (cause vampire? I guess?)

- Joaquim Dos Santos did some work on TLOVM as a pat on the shoulder for Arthur and some other animators for working under him in Voltron

- Sam: "Hey it's my daughter!" at the sun tree dead Pike kid (omg...)

- Character design team made a ton of zombie designs so you're not looking at the same ones and there's some 3D ones in the back too

- Liam's line delivery is always SO good (at Vax's "Gross!")

- We went through many iterations of what Scanlan's bite looks like and it's very gross and it gets worse as it goes

- The growling giants are Liam!

- Sam immersed himself with an accent coach for 6 weeks for Scanlan's 'french' accent (he's joking)

- We had a scene cut for time constraints that was explaining why no one could leave Whitestone (because of the demon dogs)

- Arthur's wife screamed watching Archie die haha :(

- (Everyone lol'd at "yes yes she's the tits")

- You can really see the love from everybody in every frame, the whole crew really loves working on this

- Travis and Marisha: He said the thing! (about Percy's name)

- Taliesin crushed Percy's speech, he did it twice cause that's what you're supposed to do but he just did such a good job from the first time

- "Don't drop that shit on me now, I can't process this!" Marisha about Keyleth when Vax confesses to her

- (Everyone cheers when Pike comes down all glowy and shit)

- Ashley really wanted to say a very goofy "HULLO!" when Pike beamed down during the zombie fight but they went with something else (lol)

- The sound design is amazing!!

- (They're cute and just cheering throughout the zombie and giant fight anytime anything happens)

- Rory (The Hound) saying "ballbag" when Vedmire kicks it was so funny, Dominic (Monaghan) had said "dobber" which apparently is a very thick penis lol

- Vedmire's hung corpse really brings the room together

- "This is the dungeon, Keyleth" (they laughed about it but idk just wanted to mention it again cause it made me laugh)

- This is Percy level 2 or 3? Nope, it's critical mass Percy

Q&A

Q: Tell us about the art teams' blood, sweat and tears with the zombie apocalypse?

A: All the art teams did a really good job, everyone came together to make it look that good. There was a lot that went in there to make it feel organic and real, like staggered gait, and different looks and personalities.

*We watch the Pike's Return Animatic*

Q: How did the scene change than from the game?

A: We made it extra since it's animated, you know, she came out of the sky and gave everyone the equivalent of Holy Weapon

Q: Giant designs are great, let's talk about them.

A: Everything was really well done, and how they look refers to who they were before they died like: the muscle and sinew under the skin, different levels of decay, barrel as a pauldron, and the different clothes and beards

Q: Vax finally tells Keyleth how he feels, how was it distilling that moment for the animated series?

A: Super wise, but charisma is her dump stat. When it happened in the game Marisha asked Laura: "What?? How long has this been going on?" Laura: "For like fucking 40 episodes." Liam had been doing all these little things for ages like 'Vax sits next to Keyleth' and I was just like "Ok cool!" (Travis: On the show when this happened, we all escaped into our shirts like 'WHAT IS HAPPENING?') Liam trailblazed character romance in our games (Ashley: I didn't know you could do that!) It was important to not rush it here, because in the original game they had like 40 episodes of lead up and a lot of time for the romance to blossom realistically, but here there's less time so you have to be intentional about it. But I (Marisha) like how we subverted the romance trope with Keyleth, she wasn't like "OH my prince!" she's more like "Not now! this is NOT appropriate!" (lol cute)

Q: Speaking of romances: Pike and Scanlan, what the fuck?

A: Sam: I think we're destined to be together, Ashley: but it's gonna take Pike some time to make her way (all: makin' my way) they're long game so it takes a while. Sam: Scanlan has always thought he's a skilled romanticist but he actually cares about Pike but he doesn't know what to do about that, it's easy to hook up with someone but it's hard to get someone to care about you

Q: Arthur, any artists or references that influenced the show?

A: Oh crap, maybe 3 years ago. But I took the last show I worked on with me, including artists and background designers (from Voltron: Legendary Defender) and we had fun with it

Q: Favorite game to show moment so far?

Travis: Dark spirits coming after VM, desmond wasn't there but it was great to lock in on those character beats and different faces of their personalities - big action moment though? Pike's return

Marisha: The sun tree was like "What the fuck is Matt thinking? Holy shit" so was great to see that translated

Ashley: Pike's return and the sun tree moment, and just in general and seeing Gilmore for the first time - it was glorious

Sam: Seeing Scanlan up on the roof amidst rain and flame, it was improv'd on the spot and now it's something that fans can watch and enjoy on their screens - "You know I love you" moment, it's cool that it's different from the game, I always pushed to change moments just a little bit, cause we have the game and we can go watch it again, so it's fun to try new things out

Arthur: Gilmore's shop, getting to flesh that out was really fun, we really went nuts, we shouldn't have gone that detailed, it's crazy - but number 1 moment hasn't come out yet and you'll see it soon!!

(In honor of Arthur's nuptials, they bring out champagne! And they toast for them but also for all the designers and artists and animators and their amazing work. Very cute.)

[safflowerseason]

I LOVE Gilmore Girls but it's weird that in a show so centred around class, it mainly only criticises the wealthy for being snooty and socially conservative. It has little to say on the wealth divide's uglier side. Its presentede that Lane, Dean & Jess couldn't go to Chilton or Yale because they weren't that academic anyway. Meanwhile it was only really Lorelai who had money problems (not Luke, Suki etc) and that was OK because she had a safety net that she was too proud/independent to use.

Hi Anon - I’m *so* sorry it’s taken me weeks to get around to your ask. But I loved your comment so much I wanted to take the time to offer a thoughtful response, especially because it’s a theme I’ve been chewing over in my head for the past few months, since I watched the latest season of AHP’s other show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

I agree that Gilmore Girls has sort of become known over the years, in culture critic circles and online fan discourse, for its unflinching portrayal of how money shapes relationships across generations. And I also agree that for how much of the show revolves around money and wealth, the show never considers the other side of the middle-class divide - it just head-fakes there very occasionally, and usually pretty awkwardly. AHP is fundamentally uninterested in writing characters who truly struggle to make ends meet, as a basic condition of their daily lives. While that’s totally fine and fair, it stands out more on a show like Gilmore Girls, where money problems are a frequent plot device, a character having to deal with the true financial consequences of not having money never actually comes to pass. She uses the struggle to succeed as mark of valor in her characters, but even if that struggle has major financial risks (like Lorelai opening the Dragonfly Inn), the show never goes there. AHP is just not interested in exploring the material consequences of losing wealth or what it means to not have any money. Rather, a lot of the plot of Gilmore Girls is about how various characters on the scale from comfortably-middle-class to old-world-wealthy interpret money, wealth, and the idea of class status to define themselves in relation to others around them, and to influence the outcomes of interpersonal relationships. While the central conceit of the show is Lorelai turning to her parents for Rory’s private school tuition, she and her daughter live a mostly financially secure middle-class life in a prosperous town. In Gilmore Girls, AHP consistently mines the concept of wealth for conflict, but it’s always for interpersonal reasons, always to show something deeper going on within the relationships of the show, it’s never to actually consider what it means to not have that wealth in the first place. Unlike Jane Austen, none of AHP’s heroines ever run the risk of truly becoming impoverished.

As a result, you get moments on the show like Lorelai borrowing $30000 from Luke (which is the equivalent of $50000 in 2022) and then it’s never mentioned again, and Rory sputtering “but I’m a Gilmore!” to Logan when his family ends up hating her. No one in Stars Hollow is actually poor in a real sense, even those characters we might think of as having more traditional “working class” jobs. Even when Lane and her bandmates rent that one-bedroom house (a whole house!), you never get the sense they are *actually* struggling to feed themselves and pay utilities. Instead, that whole experience is framed in a primarily humorous way, with Lane having to find a way to live with two gross twenty-year old boys who eat all the food and play video games instead of being responsible roomates. Luke, who lives over his diner, has enough money stowed away to not only lend Lorelai half a million dollars but also buy a huge house without telling her. Jess is one of the few characters to be framed explicitly without a penny to his name, and yet we never actually see him dealing with the reality of that except very briefly in S4 (and that backdoor pilot in S3, I guess). Besides, the next time we see him in S6, he’s clearly on his way up, with a published book and a job at an independent press. This is another example of AHP equating the struggle to become financially secure as a sign of good character. Which, of course, it’s totally fine to want to get out of shitty economic circumstances! It’s just that on GG, no one ever stays in those circumstances for very long and/or the implications of those circumstances are never really explored. Where the implications of money *are* fully explored, it’s primarily with characters who have a lot of it, like Richard, Emily, Christopher, and Logan in their relationships with Lorelai and Rory. 

I was thinking about this topic while watching S4 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a few months back, specifically the plot when Midge takes a job opening for Sophie Lennon because she’s so worried about money. The speech Sophie gives Midge about her finances, which is set in Midge’s apartment that she’s somehow bought back from Moishe in a way that was never satisfactorily explained, is very similar, almost identical, to the speech that Trix gives Lorelai in S4 about the Dragonfly Inn in “The Incredible Sinking Lorelais”, about how she’s very obviously bleeding through her original budget. Midge takes the gig, it blows up in her face just like Susie said it would, and then…well, she loses Sophie gig but we get no indication after that that her finances continue to be a source of angst. So I think of a lot of the way these themes of money and class are represented on Gilmore Girls are due to AHP’s particular quirks and interests as a writer. She likes to explore the interpersonal implications of wealth, but never the flip side of losing that wealth, nor are her depictions of the working-class and the middle-class especially realistic. Oh well! It is what it is. I wouldn’t describe AHP as a writer whose work is deeply grounded in reality. There’s a lot of fantasy in her world-building, which to be fair she has taken heat for. 

I suspect the reason the topic of money and class is a bit more sensitive within the GG fandom is because Rory has gotten so much hate over the years as the epitome of clueless white female privilege or whatever, and also because of the endless shipping wars between Jess and Logan fans. All of that discourse feels pretty exhausting to me—trying to reduce a character’s virtues down to how much money they have is pretty dumb (unless that person is a billionaire, in which case yes they are morally bankrupt). The point of Rory’s character is that she exists in the liminal space between her mother and her grandparents: she grew up with her mother in a middle class home but doesn’t reject the wealth and class status that is theoretically hers by virtue of her birth (and no, spending her early years in a shed doesn’t negate her financial privilege—sorry AHP, but the idea of Lorelai raising baby Rory in a shed on the grounds of a luxurious B&B where she worked as a maid is absolutely a rich person’s idea of what it means to be poor). Most of Rory’s blindspots I chalk up to AHP's lack of interest in figuring out how certain things work, like journalism and elite private universities.

I was going to go into a whole analysis of how class is specifically explored on the show (as opposed to money) through Rory's relationship's with Dean and Logan, but this is already a long enough essay so that will have wait for another time! Thanks so much for writing in, Anon, and for sending such a substantial ask!!

[soitsashowpodcast]

ep. 119: I rented Working Girl and the first season of Just Shoot Me!

Paris has joined the Proletariat, and she's learning the lingo with the help of an '80s rom-com and a '90s sitcom. Would the work-place banter in these productions really help Paris be a better server at Rory's DAR event? We discuss if an average TV show is better or worse than a movie with some icky undertones and an award-winning theme song.

Other pop culture we ref: The Graduate; Murder, She Wrote; Sandra Bullock; The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Veronica Mars; Friends; Gorillas in the Mist; 98 Degrees

We Wholeheartedly Recommend: Ambulance (read Taylor's review!), Just Like Heaven

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[mantra4ia]

Lucifer 6x07 “My Best Fiend's Wedding” Reaction'd

Props to a good, meaningful opening scene.

Yes please, Rory needs a tailor and a few dozen new outfits.

[About Adam] "Guess God had to start somewhere" a proverbial knee to the groin. But it's not good enough, Maze needs to beat mutton chops to a pulp. Welcome to queendom.

Here's the sitch, I really couldn't care about Rory's self-actualization unless I care about her first, and this season is so expedited that I don't. I do care about Amenadiel and Chloe dismantling the corruption in the department.

Eve: "Just me and my rainbow 🌈 colored belts" — priceless.

"I can't be the only one who believes in you/ oh Maze, when it comes to self-sabotage I fear you've outdone me." Understatement of the millennia. PS: Maze and Lilith need to resolve their baggage if this marriage has a chance.

"Wolves they've turned into, like 800 kinds of pets, some with really dumb names by the way...which is why you don't let amateurs do the jobs of professionals." That's the first funny and witty piece of writing I've heard all episode.

"Demons from hell and freshly dead bodies. It's both something old and something new [wrapped] in something borrowed with plenty of nasty blue bits. Grand slam...most of them turned her down. A fresh batch of white supremacists to torture or a family wedding?" I'm dying! That was actually very fulfilling scene.

Aw, Aurora was gonna wear a matching cumberbund. One step forward, two steps back

Finally! Trixie!!!!! Also an aspiring torturer like her big-little-half-sister it seems. "I wanted to see you squirm." Also, while they had Scarlett I definitely thought she'd be the flower girl or candy tosser, or whatever the demon equivalent would be at a wedding, but maybe that's just me.

You know it would really be something special if Trixie, who believes in the devil, could, by some miraculous gift of God just see ghosts like her dad.

Aurora being jealous or her little-big-sister's game night is so flipping human it's ridiculous. Also, not a good look for a grown angel. Definitely doesn't play as smoothly as Lucifer and Amenadiel.

Finally, Ella is dropping truth bombs like 6-drink Amy Santiago! About time!

5/10 DETECTIVES!

[goose-books]

for the document titles game mrm...

forbidden quark notes

choke

darkling [act two]

forbidden quark notes but of course! quark notes is the general document where i just. throw stuff that i’m thinking about quark that usually makes no sense <3 but i can offer you a conversation between shade and marble! aka heirs to a magical cult who have a tense relationship based around being... foils, among other things. (context here: marble’s been out traveling for eight months.)

Shade looks sideways at him. Marble’s hands flash. In sign language: “Sorry.”

Shade’s sorry, too, for what he didn’t say but thought about saying. But he doesn’t say that; he answers with, “Don’t treat me like a liability.”

“If either of us is a liability…” Marble’s hands go still, the equivalent of an implicatory trailing-off.

His face is blank as ever, but Shade knows him, knows it’s meant to lighten the moment. He allows his mouth to curve up very slightly, a calculated cool movement. And then, before he can think about it, he signs: “If I’d been really low, I would have called you.”

Marble doesn’t hesitate a single beat: “And I would have come home.”

It turns Shade’s stomach. It sets a much less calculated smile to tugging at his lips. “Just like that? Across the country?”

“Right away.”

Shade can’t look at his face anymore, because he doesn’t want to witness Marble’s blinding earnesty; he focuses instead on the broad pale hands. “So much for your grassroots groups.”

“Fuck my grassroots groups.”

“You’re a jackshit politician, Marble.”

“You’re a good one. I don’t hold that against you.”

I missed you, Shade thinks but does not say. I missed you, I missed you, I missed you.

choke is another item on the "things to post once i actually have the brainpower to post a full piece” list; it’s a short story based off of othello (but like. with lesbians) that i wrote, like... the night i finished othello dkfhsdkhfbdsfks. hands you the first line:

You always said I could tell you my secrets, so here’s number one: I didn’t know he was going to kill you when I married him.

and darkling [act two] aka the darkling act i just finished editing yesterday! apparently i’m just throwing excerpts into these asks like darts huh.

“Rory,” Leovald says. Quieter. Breathing hard.

Rory waves.

“You don’t think I’m crazy.”

“Oh, don’t you know, we’re all mad here! I’m mad, you’re mad--” “Rory.”

Much quieter. Near desperate.

Rory clings to the photo in their hands and kicks a leg against the desk hard and says, “No, I don’t think you’re crazy,” and they almost say, “I think you’re an asshole, but I don’t think you’re crazy,” but what they say near-accidentally is, “Do you think you��re crazy?” a lot more aggressively than they mean it.

Leovald doesn’t answer. He just stands there, propping himself up on the desk, panting. And then the tension drains from his shoulders, quite suddenly, like he’s been punctured and deflated. He pulls his swivel chair out, collapses into it like a landslide, puts his face in his hands and breathes.

(ask me about my stupid, stupid document titles)

[hwu-adventures-blog]

Queen B MC and Chapter 1 (yes I’m back to the blog after a break!)

Meet Hannah Hughes, she’s 21 and is from Sandford (which is a reference to the fictional Villiage in the 2007 film Hot Fuzz, I replayed it and changed the name from Leadworth, which is a reference to the town Amy and Rory grew up in Doctor Who...Sandford sounded better)

Hollywood U flashbacks.... no i don’t think we’re going to fall in love with the professor in this, Hunt was a special case. And besides it’s a very f*cking weird dynamic and could potentially be creepy (although I do know of someone in real life who got married to one of the teachers at their school but years after they left school they met up again, fell in love and got married, I think)

Zoey’s awesome!

194, Howard Deduque? As in Howard The Duck? I see you Pixelberry with all the comic references in this series!

Nice attractive guy...okay I’m going to flirt with him a bit because I really don’t know who the other LI other than Zoey is and hope he’s not the professor

Okay I’m really starting to like this Ian guy, if he actually turns out to be the professor I’m going to be screwed because

1) I generally find romantic relationships between student-teachers weird and if they’re under 18 creepy (but we’re over 21 in this so it’s not creepy just a little weird)

2) Whilst I did romance Professor Thomas Hunt in HWU I don’t tend to go down those paths of romancing teachers in other games where that’s an option or ship teachers and students together in tv shows (looking at you PLL, I had to put up with watching it because my sister had control of the TV so I know how messed up a show you are)

3) but he’s really nice and I genuinely go for either the nice LI (Chris, Matt), the grumpy/serious LI (Ethan, Thomas) , or the nice goofy LI (Maxwell) and I really like him!

Oh yeah, I’m going to be a good girl in this (I can’t be bad, I just can’t) and fight for Justice!

F*CK!

I’m glad I didn’t go for the diamond sex scene at the bar and now I’m in a dilemma where I’m not sure I can go ahead with this, I liked Ian but now he’s the MC’s professor, it’s weird! Could someone please tell me who the other LI are or whether it is just him or Zoey as the LI in this book or should I just go ahead with romancing him because I like him despite the weird dynamic? What should I do? Seriously!

Also, aren’t they all college (or equivalent to University if you’re British like me) students? Why are they acting like teenagers? Nobody cares about your reputation or what you’re like at college/uni! What kind of a college is this?

[cinematicnomad]

9, 19, 25, and 36

009. tag 3 fic writers you think are underrated/unknown in the fandom/fanfiction community. oh man, i don’t feel like i have a good sense of who’s “underrated” or “unknown” in a fandom? i just read what looks interesting to me. so instead i’m just going to rec the last 3 fics i read that i thought deserved more hits/kudos/etc: 

this is just how we were taught to love by alexisbldels (25/28 | 95k+ | M) gilmore girls, rory/jess, alternate universe, friends to lovers

there’s more than a crush here,  why aim to be crushed here?

in which jess attends chilton, and rory is set on learning more about her mysterious classmate. 

the law of equivalent exchange by awed_frog (8/8 | 60k+ | M) supernatural, destiel, POV castiel, pre-canon, canon compliant, reincarnation

“and what’s the point of it?”

“of love? there isn’t one. loving is its own purpose.”

i used to think one day we’d tell the story of us by notequitegucci (2/2 | 32k+ | M) game of thrones, gendrya, alternate universe—modern setting, outsider POV 

9 times a stark encounters gendry + 1 time he meets the starks. 

019. do you edit your fics after you write them, or do you prefer to just hit post and run (because it’s someone else’s problem now)? i edit them! if they’re going up on ao3 i re-read them a couple times myself and make some changes, and then my beautiful, amazing beta @crazyassmurdererwall also goes through it and gives me her feedback. after she’s done with her edits, i go through and make all the changes and if needed ask her to take a final look at any updates i made. and THEN i post it on ao3. 

025. do you listen to music as you write? if possible, link your writing playlist. oh hey, timely! i literally just shared this post of my playlist today for when i was writing taste your beating heart. otherwise i just put my itunes on shuffle. 

036. are there any fics or fandoms you’re embarrassed to have written or been part of? uhhh?? no fandoms i’m embarrassed for having written for. my very first fanfic was in the hp fandom and it’s genuinely mortifying to remember. i started writing i the summer of 2005 when i was 13/14? it’s full of all the usual terrible tropes of american exchange students and secret prophecies and 2010s anachronisms and pop punk songs. but even so, i still have it saved on my external hard drive

fic writer ask game

[ilunqa]

both couples for the meme because i like pain 🙃

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KANA & MILO  —

who hogs the duvet: milo, because he can’t sit still.  

who texts/rings to check how their day is going: kana ! 

who’s the most creative when it comes to gifts: milo would give her too many gifts, material items she really has no care for, so it would be kana who is the creative one. 

who suggests new things in bed: ...milo.

who cries at movies: kana, but it is nothing more than a glossy eye. she tries to hold it in. 

who gives unprompted massages: given her job, i’d say kana, especially after a game when milo’s adrenaline wears off and he is tired n sore :((

who fusses over the other when they’re sick: oh, kana. 

who gets jealous easiest: my heart is saying milo, but given his past, i can see kana surprising him and showing some lowkey signs of jealousy in the beginning stages of their relationship, but it would just be her own insecurities. 

who has the most embarrassing taste in music: i guess it depends what is being considered as embarrassing here? i can see them both having some songs on their playlist that just makes the other raise a brow. 

who collects something unusual: neither ?? but if i had to pick one, it would be kana given her addiction to thrifting and antique stores. unless milo keeps the dirty socks he wore to every winning game. 

who takes the longest to get ready: why is a part of me saying milo?

who is the most tidy and organised: kana. 

who gets most excited about the holidays: i can see them both getting excited, and imagine their families coming together :((

who is the big spoon/little spoon: since milo has never been in the sort of relationship to allow him to be affectionate, i can see kana initially being the big spoon, as she’d have to initiate the cuddling. as their relationship secures, i have a feeling the role would shift quickly. 

who gets most competitive when playing games and/or sports: milo, no question. 

who starts the most arguments: okay so, since milo is so emotionally unavailable and keeps everything bottled up, i can see kana snapping at him. the frustration of his attitude would just build and build, to the point where she initiates an argument just to get something out of him. 

who suggests that they buy a pet: perhaps milo? 

what couple traditions they have: whenever milo’s team wins a game, i can see them having the tradition of celebrating in some way. also weekly date nights, but lowkey ones, possibly inside with their favorite take-out and a movie. 

what tv shows they watch together: if they're not watching a game, they’re probably watching a movie, either action or horror for him and a romcom for her. 

what other couple they hang out with: once they become settled into their relationship, i can see them hanging out with other hockey couples from milo’s team. kana needs girlfriends to cheerlead with on the sidelines.

how they spend time together as a couple: hockey, of course, whether it is attending a game or watching from the comfort of a couch. they are a rather lowkey couple, so they just are content at home in the other’s company. however, exploring the city, taking day trips to the beach, and trying out new restaurants are also favorite pastimes of theirs. 

who made the first move: MILO.

who brings flowers home: kana! lil farmer’s markets are her guilty pleasure, and she loves bringing some life into milo’s apartment. 

who is the best cook: seeing as though her parents own a restaurant, kana probably never did much cooking. milo would surprise her with his skills in the kitchen.

LEON & RORY — 

who hogs the duvet: we both know this is neither, due to the fact that they sleep so entangled that there is no room between them, and thus, no hogging of the duvet. 

who texts/rings to check how their day is going: as rory is more reserved about their relationship in the beginning, i see this going to leon. 

who’s the most creative when it comes to gifts: they both are. 

who gets up first in the morning: leon ! 

who suggests new things in bed: they are mature adults who don’t need to do anything new to keep the excitement alive …leon. 

who cries at movies: leon :( 

who gives unprompted massages: with little alone time they have, they just wouldn’t be able to keep his hands off her when the time allows, so certainly both. 

who fusses over the other when they’re sick: leon would be such a fusser, his age would show in times like those when he is hovering over poor rory like a mother hen. 

who gets jealous easiest: perhaps rory, considering her past relationship. 

who has the most embarrassing taste in music: i would say neither of them have embarrassing taste, but perhaps just outdated taste. lots of jazz, blues, and ambient music. 

who collects something unusual: i don’t necessarily see it as unusual, but i can see them both having a few keepsakes from their children. also the little love notes they write for each other, but i don’t know if either of them would collect anything that strange? 

who takes the longest to get ready: perhaps rory? just because i see her waking up late due to her night owl tendencies. 

who is the most tidy and organised: rory, as leon’s office would be as messy as his head. 

who gets most excited about the holidays: i don’t see either of them being very excited for the holidays, i can just see them staying in as if it’s a normal day. 

who is the big spoon/little spoon: leon is big spoon. 

who gets most competitive when playing games and/or sports: gonna go rory on this one! 

who starts the most arguments: i really struggled with this one, because while they both come off as rather passive, they are equally just as passionate and so immersed with the other, that i think arguments would happen over little things that just escalate due to the frustrations and heartbreak they have experienced. they are really the only other person in each other’s lives that they feel comfortable opening up to, so i see both of them starting arguments here and there, just because they can’t show that type of emotion with anyone else. 

who suggests that they buy a pet: perhaps rory?

what couple traditions they have: never going to bed angry and sharing two highs and two lows at the end of every week, just because communication would be vital in keeping their relationship sane. 

what tv shows they watch together: correct me if i’m wrong, but i totally see them watching period dramas together. not because i see their passion equivalent to jamie & claire in outlander….

what other couple they hang out with: don’t expose them like this, they are isolated, okay, and in need of some friends. 

how they spend time together as a couple: once she graduates and he is fully hers, there would be constant book signings, museums, paint and sips, feeding the ducks at the pond, and picnics in the park under a large oak whilst reading shakespeare. for the time being, there are secret meetings in his office, galas, bubble baths, cuddling naked in front of a fire in the privacy behind four walls, and of course, little trips on his boat.

who made the first move: it was mutual, they both leaned in. 

who brings flowers home: leon, big sap. 

who is the best cook: leon ! 

[steamberrystudio]

Can you give us more information on Rory, Sasaki and Reuben? Like ages and personalities and things?

Sure! I’ll try to give you information without going into spoiler territory. I honestly don’t really remember what all I’ve revealed about them here on the blog because it all just blurs together after a while.

Reuben KelnerAge: 29 (Earth equivalent)Height: Around 6′Profession: Detective/Investigator. Works in the “Special Investigations” department, which handles Esper crimes that aren’t serious enough for Endgame to get involved.Status: Pseudo-Esper. He doesn’t have any actual abilities but has really good intuition and maybe a bit of a sense for when something bad is about to happen.Personality: Is a very genuine person, very compassionate. Has become just a little jaded from his work and generally just seeing the worst of people. Is a little wary of Espers and Endgame specifically. He dislikes how there really isn’t anyone who can hold Endgame accountable and how they don’t answer to anyone else. Though he does understand the need for such an organisation. He can be a bit of a workaholic and needs someone to pull him away from work sometimes - but he hasn’t found anyone who wants to stick around long enough to do it.Backstory: He grew up in a very average family and doesn’t have any particular drama in his childhood. He always wanted to go into public service and didn’t really have the academic scores to continue studying after compulsory education was over. He started out as a public safety officer and eventually became a detective. As he investigates serious crimes - and those perpetrated by Espers - he’s seen a lot of terrible things. He travels all over the Triad for work, which has made it pretty hard to maintain a social life.Rory “Fountain Guy” EvansAge: Early 20s (Earth equivalent)Height: 5′11″Profession: Previously a teacherStatus: Esper (Rook...???)Personality: Well...it’s hard to say what he’s normally like. What’s clear about Rory is that he has definitely been through something that has caused some severe issues for him. While it’s unclear what that is, he’s definitely not himself. And it’s hard to know if what happened to him is something from which he can recover.Backstory: Much of his backstory is not known. He grew up the oldest sibling in a large family. He became a primary school teacher after he left school, then went missing some months prior to the start of the game. What happened to him or what he experienced during that time is a mystery.

Yuu Sasaki (Yuu first appears at the beginning of some of the Endgame routes. But I’ve shared a fair bit about him on our Discord Server, so he comes up in asks pretty frequently). Age: 29ish (Earth equivalent)Height: 5′8″Profession: Physician/Head of Medical (Endgame)Status: Esper (Rook - abnormal)Personality: Highly intelligent and insatiably inquisitive. He is constantly observing and analysing things going on around him. He takes a very logical approach to life, but somehow balances this by being a passionate person who always goes after the things he wants. He’s a bit of a flirt - but not in a general sense since he doesn’t flirt with everyone. He has to truly be interested in someone; then he focuses entirely on that individual and is very devoted to them.Backstory: Yuu was born on the New Terra space station. Since the station is very anti-Esper, he was relocated to Altair’s surface by Endgame when he was a child, and was raised by the organisation. He has known many of the main cast members since they were all children and views Caleb as something of a little brother since they are both rooks. He’s been in charge of the medical division for three years, since his mentor (the previous head) stepped down. He also acts as the primary physician for all members of the Guard.