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today is not my birthday

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Speaking of Jess struggling to make ends meet, do you think Jess ever learned how to cook? like he worked at the diner but he was mostly serving tables and taking orders so I doubt he knew how to back then, and in the beginning he probably ate whatever he could afford, but I'm wondering, after settling in Philly, if he ever got sick of ordering food/ not eating full meals etc. and decided to learn how to cook for himself? 🤔 (hopefully not from a Martha Stewart book) What do you think?

Honestly, since Liz said in Season 4 (I think?) that she'd "never cooked dinner before," I suspect he learned how to make at least basic meals (following package instructions, boiling water for pasta, heating up soup, baking frozen pizzas, etc ) long before he ever lived with Luke. And a lot of young adults experiment with cooking once they start living on their own (at least a lot of young adults in my acquaintance- including guys, by the way), especially since it's a lot cheaper than eating out, and even after Jess "makes something of himself," let's be honest: anyone running an indie publishing house is probably going to need to stick to a budget.

I imagine the guys at Truncheon making a lot of simple, cheap meals: stir-fries, frozen pizzas, spaghetti and marinara sauce from a jar, etc.

And I see Jess as a person who is always curious and eager to teach himself new skills (how do you think he learned how to fix toasters? Necessity, study, and experimentation, most likely), so it wouldn't surprise me if he read some cookbooks at some point in time. And as an adult, I don't think he'd be afraid to ask Luke for some guidance if he felt like he wanted some (and we all know Luke would be thrilled to be asked)

So, in other words... Yes. Absolutely.

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ahh I love this picture so much

#gilmore girls #lauren graham #lorelai gilmore #sookie st james #lorelai and sookie’s friendship is amazing

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Happy June 3rd everyone :)

#gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #lauren graham #june 3rd #I know it didn’t happen but I still like to celebrate :)

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my biggest problem with writing is that I watch an entire season of gilmore girls in two days and think I can write dialogue like amy sherman palladino

#gilmore girls #amy sherman palladino

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My favorite Lane Kim looks!

I’ve done the Gilmore’s, now it’s Lane’s turn!

#gilmore girls #lane kim #keiko agena #purple hair lane #I love lanes purple hair with all my heart

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When you’re in pain, who would you most like to comfort you?

#gilmore girls #lorelai x luke #jess x rory #it's about the tenderness

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Weight shaming in Gilmore Girls

As much as I love this show, there are some things that aren’t great about it, and I don’t think we need to be afraid of pointing some of these faults out!

One thing that has always kind of bugged me in Gilmore Girls are the sort of fatphobic comments / jokes.

A few I can name off the top of my head are one time (can’t remember the episode..sorry) Michel was on a diet or something, and he was fighting Sookie, and when Lorelai came in, he said something like “I don’t want to end up looking like her.”

Another one is in the episode called Die, Jerk (S4 E8) Rory and Lorelai attend that ballet performance thing at Yale. Both of them say some pretty rude things, like the comment about the skin around the bra strap or comparing the dancer to a hippo. And when she was on screen, she didn’t even look overweight at all. I feel like she wasn’t completely in the wrong for yelling at Rory, even though writing ‘die, jerk’ and yelling at her in front of a ton of people might have been going too far. But I’d get mad if someone said that about me, too!

It’s pretty confusing, especially considering Rory and Lorelai are friends with Sookie, Babette, and Patty and would never say something like that to them. (I hope)

#gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #rory gilmore #sookie st james #miss patty #babette #fat shaming #fatphobia #i will not tolerate that #this must be addressed

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My favorite Emily Gilmore Looks

I’ve done it for Rory and Lorelai, now it’s Emily’s turn!

#gilmore girls #Emily Gilmore #kelly bishop

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Happy birthday to Lorelai!

#gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #lauren graham #happy birthday lorelai gilmore

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My favorite Lorelai Gilmore looks

#gilmore girls #lauren graham #lorelai gilmore

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My favorite Rory Gilmore looks

#gilmore girls #rory gilmore #alexis bledel

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Remember that time Jess fixed the sprinklers, but had to break them again so Dean’s precious ego could remain in tact and he wouldn’t yell at Rory?

Because that screams healthy…

#gilmore girls #anti dean forester #jess mariano #rory gilmore

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With Dean, Rory was Stars Hollow’s idealized Rory. With Logan, Rory was Emily and Richard’s world Rory. With Jess, Rory was…Rory.

#gilmore girls #rory gilmore #jess mariano #rory x jess #jess x rory

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Luke vs whimsy

#luke danes #gilmore girls

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So on and off I’ve been writing this super long post on some of my thoughts about Gilmore Girls. And something I wrote made me go, “wow, the evidence against AYITL just being the season ASP didn’t get to do is really stacking up because the two things I can see Jess being around for in season 7 is what he does in the revival except the circumstances with Liz are different.” SO. Hear me out. If the reason we didn’t get a “real” Lorelai/Luke wedding was budget restrictions (I call bullshit, why did we need TWO musical numbers)…well let me take you on a made-up journey of the end of season 7 on the CW with ASP showrunning. Without Netflix freedom and money to throw her unrestricted last hurrah with GG, we get our series finale with a full-on Luke and Lorelai wedding because, well, why wouldn’t this be the ending of the show??

I now realize that getting Luke and Lorelai married in one season after the shitshow that was the end of season 6 might be difficult so let’s just assume this is handled in a mature and healthy way and they’re back and better than ever! Because I honestly didn’t think about that bit when this scene popped in my head and made me go “WHY, it could have happened! And now I need to tell everyone!” And I’m not really in the mood to go about theorizing this AU season 7 in full.

Rory still has to get pregnant but not want to be with the father because ~*fULL cIrcLe*~. The way I can see this happening is Logan goes off to London, their long-distance relationship is a lot rockier, and she eventually finds out that Logan has been cheating on her. OR Logan convinces her they should open the relationship up; Rory is not comfortable with this but is too emotionally invested in him to let him go yet. Either way, the hurt she feels has her breaking up with him for real, is very sad, blahblahblah, and they end up having a “last hurrah” together that gets her pregnant. WHY? Because FULL CIRCLE. 

So we’ve seen Rory break up with Logan for good, she’s pregnant but we don’t know that, and we’ve gotten some sort of “window scene” that shows Jess still has feelings for her. WEDDING TIME. For real this time with family and guests and ceremony! Town square or Dragonfly Inn, take your pick.

Maid of honor and best man start the show. Jess is hilariously nervous because that’s my favorite look on him, ngl. While waiting on Rory to meet him, we get a nice little look between him and Luke of familial love and respect across the room. Jess gets distracted by Rory appearing and his whole face goes soft, and the proud smile on Luke’s face quickly devolves into a smirk because Luke has his number and knows he’s still got it good for Rory. Jess glares. I laugh. Rory is unaware of this moment of amazing communication and is nervous as well, but puts on her best brave face and walks arm-in-arm with Jess in all her beautiful grace.

Now for the actual ceremony, I could never even begin to come up with something as heartwarming and beautiful and hilarious as ASP or a talented fic writer. But I’m gonna throw in the detail that for some reason the officiant they booked can’t get there and Kirk has to step in last-minute because of course he’s an ordained minister. He throws in way too many personal stories and exudes his awkward charm (cut to appalled looks between Emily and Richard), but overall it goes surprisingly well (cut to proud, tears in their eyes like in Lorelai’s Graduation, MY HEART). We also get one little Jess and Rory smile at each other all shy and romantic-like because I wanna see it.

Now we’re at the reception. Rory comes up to Jess all cute and happy, “come dance with me.” Jess is like, why would I do that, blank stare. “It’s tradition.” Super cute innocent smile she knows will get anyone to do anything; Jess is not immune and is already going to say yes but he has to be difficult, Rory knows this.

“What tradition? And why would you think that argument is going to work on me?”

“Best man and maid of honor traditionally share a dance.”

“*rolls his eyes* Your mother is not going to care, and frankly would probably prefer not to have a picture of us dancing.”

“*pulls out the big guns* You owe me for prom.” Not unkindly, clearly in a joking manner. (I KNOW THIS IS A TROPE BUT I LOVE IT OKAY)

Fake hurt, clutches his chest “OUCH.”

The dance starts a bit awkward and stilted, but they slowly relax and enjoy themselves. Jess cannot waltz. Neither can Rory. We’re getting served some serious “Reflecting Light” vibes tho with the shots, set design, and another beautiful Sam Phillips number. The parallels are being thrown in our faces. We LOVE IT. We EAT IT UP.

Jess goes to make the slightest move to bring her in closer when a wave of nausea comes over Rory. She backs away quickly, and Jess does a “did I do something wrong” look/line like after the “Then She Appeared” kiss. She’s got her arm covering her mouth, looks panicked, “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” runs out of the party. Luke notices and asks what’s going on. “I don’t know, she looked like she was sick?” “I’ll get Lorelai.”

Lorelai searches for Rory and finds her crumpled on the ground crying, sweaty hair, make up ruined, just completely unraveled. She tried so hard to keep this secret to herself for Lorelai’s big day, but she is too overwhelmed and tired. Lorelai settles in next to her, pulling the hair out of her face, “Oh honey, what’s wrong?” Rory cries harder.

After some good Lorelai hugs, Rory calms down slightly, looks at her mother distraught:

“Mom?”

“Yeah?”

“I’m pregnant.”

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IF YOU’RE OUT ON THE ROAD

#lorelai gilmore #gilmore girls #rory x jess #luke and lorelai #literati #c'mon i really needed to see emily and richard plus the townies at a wedding

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aw I love this!!

So tonight I watched the newest episode of The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers with my parents. This was the first time dad had watched it and he though we were gonna watch gilmore girls like we usually do, so when he saw Lauren with her new tv kid he asked if that was luke and Lorelai’s kid, and suddenly all the ideas popped into my head. Like imagine if it was 🥺🥺🥺. Lorelai trying to make this team for her kid and trying to convince Luke to help but he’s being grumpy and has some bad memories from his time on the ice, but then he can’t say no to helping his girl and kid, so he joins them. Ahhhhh, too cute. Maybe I should do a fanfic about this..