#anti laurie x amy

[darkcrowprincess]

Controversial opinion:

It's a crime these two did not end up together

Talk about unsatisfying endings and ships. And they end up with the worst people possible! Laurie with Amy in Europe! Jo's Europe! Jo with that ugly older guy that keeps criticizing her writing. I rather they both be single that with those two!

(Don't like don't read. Post hate and I'll block you)

#my thoughts #jo x laurie #little women 1994 #little women #movies #anti laurie x amy #anti jo x Mr bhaer #anti little women 2019 #anti greta gerwig

[userchappell]

going on a little women (2019) rant real quick, and i know i'm not the first one to say this but i just needed to vent it out anyways. whenever i hear someone say that jo and laurie should've ended up together, my first thought is that they are basically ignoring the entire premise of jo's story and of how she never once saw laurie in a romantic light or had any romantic feelings for him and of how she always viewed her relationship with laurie as platonic. and she had stated she wanted to be with him, but not because she was in love with him, it's because she wanted to be loved. which i completely get, honestly. the feeling of wanting to be loved comes in many different forms and different meanings when looking into a character and studying that character. there is a reason why jo and laurie didn't end up together. that scene where she said they'd be unhappy if they got married is very true, because feelings would not be romantic on jo's side specifically. especially with her trying to push herself into loving a man she had known since she was so young, but she never saw him in that way that he did with her. she'd be unhappy in a loveless marriage because she couldn't love laurie the way she wanted to, in the way he loved her to make it easier, but it's not always that simple. you guys don't have to ship amy and laurie together, that's fine. but saying that he 'settled down for her' is not what it is. especially that laurie hadn't had any contact with jo in a few years after meg's wedding, and he saw amy in a way he didn't before. he fell in love with amy, (and he even told jo, that the love he has for amy is different than the way he loved her once upon a time, because a silly childhood crush when he was younger is way different than a more mature love when he got older) and wanted to marry her

basically, if anyone says that jo and laurie should've ended up together, you guys are exactly like mr. dashwood that refused to publish jo's book because the main character didn't get married to a man at the end. ignoring everything of what jo's story and her character was about. and also really and obviously are not paying attention to some of the scenes

#also this is me talking more in jo's pov than laurie's because I think it's mostly because I just simply understand most women more so... #little women #little women 2019 #jo march #theodore laurence #any march #anti jo x laurie #amy x laurie #jaiden rants

[littlewomenpodcast]

I love Jo and Laurie and love their friendship, but I do not like them as a couple at all. They would have a miserable marriage. Marmee even tells Jo she and Laurie would be bad for each other romantically.

Oh definitely. I always saw Jo and Laurie more as brothers. I think it was even mentioned in the book, that people in the neighborhood were afraid to become the targets of their pranks.

Marmee was right, when she said that marriage requires great deal of love and patience.

I think Laurie proposed Jo, because he couldn't figure out life. As an adult he was kinda lost. He didn't know what to do, when there was nobody telling him how to be an adult.

I do definitely think that Alcott, planned Amy and Laurie and Jo's and Friedrich's marriages were early on. It is also nice, that we can find these similar couples from the novels she read.

#little women #anti jo x laurie #laurie x amy #jo x friedrich #louisa may alcott #ask little women podcast a question

[joandfriedrich]

I got his comment left on YouTube, what do you think?

"We often discuss how Laurie and Jo shippers injure their favorites characters' arcs as well as Amy's, too, but Marmee, also, more subtly suffers from this blasphemy as well. An important scene between book Jo and Marmee is omitted, and Marmee's role as wise confidante gets upended by this omission. It is Marmee who agrees with Jo's own assessment of Jo's and Laurie's relationship, and encourages her trip to New York. Mrs. Kirke is even a friend of Marmee's, without whom Jo wouldn't have otherwise found such easy employment that far away from home. Marmee loses important credibility in the film versions where Laurie is concerned. Jo would never be advised to act against her judgment and understanding of her own nature. Marmee is as much a mother figure to Laurie as Jo is, and is as privy to his follies as she is to her own daughters' character flaws. She does not only speak of her awareness of their incompatibility, but actively assists Jo in her plan to discourage Laurie's affections. I have often wondered why Jo never said anything about her mother as her champion when Laurie says that their families expect their union. But Jo stands on her own two feet, taking responsibility for her own feelings and insight, and that makes her even more of an endearing and capable person in the face of personal choice despite heartache"

I agree, most films remove Marmee agreeing with Jo that she and Laurie would not be a good match, the only one that comes to mind that actually did this was the 2017 miniseries, but often, the other versions don't have this. I recall the 33 and the 49 versions do have some sort of scene with Meg in which we see that they talk about Amy and Laurie being together and her asking Jo if it's a problem.

But yes, Marmee being Jo's confidant, besides Beth, being taken out really does do more harm than good, as I feel that it takes away any sense of closeness she has with her family and the showing of her growth, otherwise it either happens on the inside which makes people wonder how she just quickly matured, or it doesn't happen at and she remains the childish and immature girl she started as.

Like the commenter said, Marmee is as much of Laurie' mother figure as she is Jo's actual mother. She has watched them both grow up, seen their flaws and their strengths, but she ultimately knows that they would be bad together. As she says in Chapter 32 when Jo asks why Marmee is glad Jo is not in love with Laurie :

“Because, dear, I don’t think you suited to one another. As friends you are very happy, and your frequent quarrels soon blow over, but I fear you would both rebel if you were mated for life. You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.”

This insight not only enforces what Jo had felt as she said immediately after, “That’s just the feeling I had, though I couldn’t express it," but reaffirms to the audience that these two are destined to be nothing more than friends. This line makes it pretty obvious that the line Laurie says later, about how everyone wants them to be together is just not as true as he thinks. We do not see any of the characters trying to put Jo and Laurie together, not in the way that Jo had tried to put Laurie with either Meg or Beth. If that was really true, why didn't we see people trying to hook them up? Oh, because they didn't want them to!

It isn't surprising that fans of Laurie x Jo omit this bit, and to be fair if they have not read the book, they are going off of the movies that omit this scene, but still, it really takes away not only the obviousness of the anti-Jo and Laurie, but the quite a few of the character's depth.

#answered asks #little women #jo march #anti jo and laurie #Marmee #theodore laurence #amy march #Amy x Laurie #amy and laurie

[annemariewrites]

List of all the books I’ve read

just wanted to keep a list of what I’ve read throughout my life (that I can remember)

Fiction:

“The Outsiders,” SE Hinton

“The Weirdo,” Theodore Taylor

“The Devil’s Arithmetic,” Jane Yolen

“Julie of the Wolves series,” Jean Craighead George

“Soft Rain,” Cornelia Cornelissen

“Island of the Blue Dolphins,” Scott O’Dell

“The Twilight series,” Stephanie Mayer

“To Kill a Mockingbird,” Harper Lee

“Gamer Girl,” Mari Mancusi

“Redwall / Mossflower / Mattimeo / Mariel of Redwall,” Brian Jacques

“1984,” and  “Animal Farm,” George Orwell

“Killing Mr. Griffin,” Lois Duncan

“Huckleberry Finn,” Mark Twain

“Rainbow’s End,” Irene Hannon

“Cold Mountain,” Charles Frazier

“Between Shades of Gray,” Ruta Sepetys

“Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Edgar Allen Poe

“Lord of the Flies,” William Golding

“The Great Gatsby,” F Scott Fitzgerald

“The Harry Potter series,” JK Rowling

“The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns,” John Green

“Thirteen Reasons Why,” Jay Asher

“The Hunger Games series,” Suzanne Collins

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” Stephen Chbosky

“Fifty Shades of Grey,” EL James

“Speak,” and “Wintergirls,” Laurie Halse Anderson

“The Handmaid’s Tale,” Margaret Atwood

“Mama Day,” Gloria Naylor

“Jane Eyre,” Charlotte Bronte

“Wide Sargasso Sea,” Jean Rhys

“The Haunting of Hill House,” Shirley Jackson

“The Chosen,” Chaim Potok

“Leaves of Grass,” Walt Whitman

“Till We Have Faces,” CS Lewis

“One Foot in Eden,” Ron Rash

“Jim the Boy,” Tony Earley

“The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox,” Maggie O’Farrell

“A Land More Kind Than Home,” Wiley Cash

“A Parchment of Leaves,” Silas House

“Beowulf,” Seamus Heaney

“The Silence of the Lambs / Red Dragon / Hannibal / Hannibal Rinsing,” Thomas Harris

“Cry the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton

“Moby Dick,” Herman Melville

“The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings trilogy / The Silmarillion,” JRR Tolkien

“Beren and Luthien,” JRR Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien

“Children of Blood and Bone / Children of Virtue and Vengeance,” Tomi Adeyemi

“Soundless,” Richelle Mead

“The Girl with the Louding Voice,” Abi Dare

“A Song of Ice and Fire series / Fire and Blood,” GRR Martin

“A Separate Peace,” John Knowles

“The Bluest Eye,” and “Beloved,” Toni Morrison

“Brave New World,” Aldous Huxley

“The Giver / Gathering Blue / Messenger / Son,” Lois Lowry

“The Ivory Carver trilogy,” Sue Harrison

“The Grapes of Wrath,” and “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck

“The God of Small Things,” Arundhati Roy

“Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury

“The Night Circus,” Erin Morgenstern

“Sunflower Dog,” Kevin Winchester

“The Catcher in the Rye,” JD Salinger

“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie

“The Good Girl,” Mary Kubica 

“The Last Unicorn,” Peter S Beagle

“Slaughterhouse Five,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“The Joy Luck Club,” Amy Tan

“The Sworn Virgin,” Kristopher Dukes

“The Color Purple,” Alice Walker

“Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston

“The Light Between Oceans,” ML Stedman

“Yellowface,” RF Kuang

“A Flicker in the Dark,” Stacy Willingham

“One Piece Novel: Ace’s Story,” Sho Hinata

Non-fiction:

“Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl,” Anne Frank

“Night,” Elie Wiesel

“Invisible Sisters,” Jessica Handler

“I Am Malala,” Malala Yousafzai

“The Interesting Narrative,” Olaudah Equiano

“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” Rebecca Skloot

“Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Harriet Jacobs

“The Princess Diarist,” Carrie Fisher

“Adulting: How to Become a Grown Up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps,” Kelly Williams Brown

“How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie

“Carrie Fisher: a Life on the Edge,” Sheila Weller

“Make ‘Em Laugh,” Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway

“How to be an Anti-Racist,” Ibram X Kendi

“Maus,” Art Spiegelman

“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou

“Wise Gals: the Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage,” Nathalia Holt

“Persepolis,” and “Persepolis II,” Marjane Satrapi

“How to Write a Novel,” Manuel Komroff

“The Nazi Genocide of the Roma,” Anton Weiss-Wendt

“Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz,” Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

#books #some of these I read for school assignments and some I read of my own volition #some I read when I was a young teenager many years ago and some I read just this past month #somewhat in order of which I read them #some of these I have read more than once #for the record I work at a library which is how I'm able to access so many books #support your local library #also just because I read these books doesn't necessarily mean that I would recommend all of them to just anyone #don't come at me for reading 'problematic' books please #I was an english major in college and didn't get to choose a lot of what I read #but even the ones I was forced to read I'm glad that I read them #I don't really regret reading any of these; even the one's that I didn't like #I will add to the list whenever I finish a book #annemariereads

[swiftie-blog-123]

Fictional Characters as Taylor Swift songs

Fearless

You Belong with Me: Archie and Betty (Riverdale)

Love Story: Arthur and Gwen (Merlin)

Red

I Knew You Were Trouble: Shane (The L Word)

1989

Welcome to New York: Jessie (Disney Channel's Jessie)

Wonderland: Alice (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Bad Blood: Prof X and Magneto (X-Men movies)

You're in Love: Alice and Dana (The L Word)

Reputation

Look What You Made Me Do: Wanda Maximoff (MCU)

Don't Blame Me: Joker and Harley Quinn (Batman)

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Gatsby (Great Gatsby)

Lover

Paper Rings: Hermione and Ron (Harry Potter), Jake and Amy (Brooklyn 99)

Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince: Graham and Megan (But I'm a Cheerleader)

The Archer: Aloy (Horizon Zero Dawn), Kate Bishop (Marvel comics)

You Need to Calm Down: Glee Characters (Glee), Young Avengers Characters (Young Avengers Vol 2), X-Men characters (X-Men comics)

False God: Annabeth and Percy (Heroes of Olympus)

Folklore

mad woman: Wanda Maximoff (MCU), Morgana (Merlin), Bertha (Jane Eyre)

Evermore

ivy: Rachel and Luce (Imagine Me & You)

tolerate it: Mr. And Mrs. de Winter (Rebecca)

no body, no crime: Maxim and Rebecca (Rebecca)

gold rush: Hulkling and Wiccan (Young Avengers)

Midnights

Lavender Haze: Carol and Therese (The Price of Salt)

Midnight Rain: Jo and Laurie (Little Women)

Great War: Harry Potter characters (Harry Potter), Merlin and Arthur (Merlin)

Dear Reader: Jo (Little Women)

You’re On Your Own Kid: Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Karolina Dean (Runaways)

Anti-Hero: Allison DiLaurentis (Pretty Little Liars)

Vigilante ****: Harley Quinn (DCEU)

Others

Carolina: Kya Clark (Where the Crawdads Sing)

I’ll add more as I think of them! Give me suggestions if you have them!

#taylor swift #multifandom #characters as Taylor songs #swifties #taylor album #reputation is the best album #fight me #it’s not cool to hate on Taylor anymore #lover #midnights

[lunar-years]

I have gotten some new followers on here lately so I just want to remind everyone that I am multi-fandom and post whatever the heck I want…but I DO try my best to tag my mess! If you don’t like a certain person/fandom/ship I post and would like to blocklist here are the things I go on about about most:

Fandoms—

Taylor Swift: #ts

Stranger Things: #Stranger Things

Hunger Games: #thg or #hg (I just use both now because I never remember which one is my main one)

Little Women: #little women

Harry Potter (I very rarely reblog anything hp these days for obvious reasons, but I’m including it b/c I know it’s a big one people might want to block): #hp

Misc. shows all tagged by their full name: Ted Lasso, The Crown, Derry Girls, Downton Abbey, Friends…

Ships—

Jonathan Byers x Nancy Wheeler: #jancy #otp: monster hunting

All other st ships I reblog infrequently and tag by their popular ship name: #jopper #lumax (also #otp: I see you now) #elmax #byler #mileven etc.

Peeta Mellark x Katniss Everdeen: #everlark #otp: real or not real

Jamie Tartt x Roy Kent x Keeley Jones: #Jamie x Roy x Keeley ; and their other combinations, #Roy x Keeley , #Roy x Jamie , #Jamie x Keeley

Amy March x Theodore Laurence: #Amy x Laurie

Ron Weasley x Hermione Granger: #otp (they have the og tag because I was once primarily an hp/ swiftie blog woops). I will start using #romione too to keep it consistent

I am anti-Nancy/Steve (always tagged #anti st*ncy), & anti Billy and any Billy ships. That’s about it out of the ones that might actually come up over here!

If a post revolves around a specific celebrity or character I try to tag by name as a general rule.

Other oft-used tags:

Quotes I like: #words

Art/Photography: #art

Travel or destination based photography: #places

Misc. movies: #a good movie

Misc. people, celebrities and otherwise: #pretty people

Cute cats: #what a cat

Grammar/Literature/Writing tips: #English

A lot of the funny nonsense is tagged #same or #exactly but I make no promises on those :)

I think that’s most of what you need to know to navigate my blog! Happy tumblr-ing

One last note: I try to keep my blog as inclusive and welcoming a space as possible. I do not tolerate transphobia, homophobia, racism, xenophobia, sexism, etc. and if I see it on my dash I will block you!

#about me #about my blog #anyway welcome everyone! #right now I am fully in my midnights era as I’m sure you can tell

[lovelacegsl]

Can we appreciate how Amy and Laurie saw each other at their lowest and still said; yeah, this the person I wanna marry, (a perfect contrast to Laurie thinking about Jo as a real person for once and calling her a torment).

#little women #laurie laurence #amy march #amy x laurie #anti jo x laurie #not really tho #just tagging it like that to be [safe] #good wives #laurie was in love with his idealized version of jo campaign

[the-other-art-blog]

Laurie's proposals

People don’t appreciate how beautiful Amy and Laurie's proposal is in the book. How peaceful it is. It is completely different from Laurie’s proposal to Jo. That one was chaotic, to say the least. It is full of drama and overreactions from Laurie. It was a man-child looking for a mother figure. He pleads and begs and screams and it’s all too much.

His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret. He was not ashamed of it, but put it away as one of the bittersweet experiences of his life, for which he could be grateful when the pain was over.

But with Amy, he takes his time. He wants to enjoy the courtship, he genuinely wants to spend time with Amy. He doesn’t rush because there’s no need for it.

His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible. There was no need of having a scene, hardly any need of telling Amy that he loved her, she knew it without words and had given him his answer long ago. It all came about so naturally that no one could complain, and he knew that everybody would be pleased, even Jo.

With Jo, he knew she didn’t love him so he felt he needed to make it big and quick in hopes that that would convince her. It was like he was acting against the clock (he already knew about Fritz). Meanwhile, with Amy, he is so sure she loves him that he doesn’t feel the urge to propose immediately. He could do it that same day or in a month or a year and Amy would still be there.

When Amy writes home about the engagement she says,

He isn’t sentimental, doesn’t say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and it makes me so happy and so humble that I don’t seem to be the same girl I was.

With Jo, Laurie felt anguish; with Amy, he felt peace. It’s that simple. He had certainty. Big romantic gestures are great at times, but they're nothing compared to the peace of knowing that the other person loves you without saying anything.

Don’t get me wrong. I love drama. It makes good tv-series and movies and books. I mean, I grew up in a house where soap operas were on all day, seriously they started at 3pm until 10pm. The thing is drama is only entertaining if you’re the audience, for the people dealing with it, it’s horrible.

And just one more thing, Laurie's proposal to Amy didn't come out of nowhere. He planned it. He actually did the work of thinking about what would Amy like. He's such a sweetheart!!!

He had rather imagined that the denouement would take place in the chateau garden by moonlight, and in the most graceful and decorous manner.

But of course, Laurie is still Laurie so he ends up proposing in broad daylight during a boat trip. And still, the dialogue is so beautiful cause he barely needs to say something and she instantly catches his meaning.

‘How well we pull together, don’t we?’ said Amy, who objected to silence just then.

‘So well that I wish we might always pull in the same boat. Will you, Amy?’ very tenderly.

‘Yes, Laurie,’ very low.

For months Laurie tried to keep loving Jo. He tried to make her his heroine and got angry with himself when he couldn't feel heartbreak anymore. However, Laurie's love for Amy came naturally and even against his will.

And then Amy says this in her letter,

He says he feels as if he ‘could make a prosperous voyage now with me aboard as mate, and lots of love for ballast’.

He has plans and he wants to make them with Amy. This is not a man-child, this is a full-grown man thinking about their future. It’s so beautiful and IT IS CANON.

#little women #louisa may alcott #theodore laurence #anti jo x laurie #Amy x Laurie #Laurie Laurence

[sparklycardigan]

I love what you said in your tags on that Literati post (the "Why did you drop out of Yale?!" one) about Rory being like Amy March, with her "I want to be Great or nothing" attitude. That is SUCH a good parallel and a great way of distilling her mindset in a way I hadn't been able to quite put into words yet! I also loved what you said about her time off from Yale not truly being a "waste" because it was a chance for her to discover what she DOESN'T want her life to be, which is almost as important as figuring out what you DO want out of life. And she'd never had the opportunity to consider other OPTIONS before. Think about the way her mom got so upset to learn that Rory was even considering applying to other colleges besides Harvard (even though applying to several schools is absolutely the norm!) because "Harvard was the dream." Rory dreamed about a certain career path when she was little, and Lorelai- with the best of intentions- wanted her to have it. But most kids have the luxury of changing their minds! But with Rory, it was never so innocent as "changing her mind," but taken as "giving up on her dream." And so I think when Mitchum Huntzberger introduced the idea that maybe she WASN'T cut out for it, it really hit Rory that maybe she needed other options, and she didn't know what those other options were. But she found out in the following months that her grandparents' life wasn't one of them. Anyway, I always love seeing your perspective on things!

Hey! Your asks never fail to put a smile on my face and, as always, you get me! There are a couple of things I want to tackle (thanks for giving me the opportunity to do just that, my mind is a bookstore and I don’t always know what book to read if you know what I mean😅), but let’s stick to this:

1. Rory Gilmore/Amy March (with a bit of Amy/Laurie + Literati)

2. The Importance of Logan Huntzberger

1. I think the obvious thing to do would be to associate Rory Gilmore with Jo March, which I’ve seen a couple of people do (and that debate usually ends with something along the lines of “Jo March, the girl Rory Gilmore can only dream of being” which is disgusting but oh well, almost everyone treats Jo like some sort of saint and trust me, nobody loves that girl more than me, but she’s nowhere near saint status which is exactly what makes her so appealing in my eyes and I’m rambling already, let’s leave that for another time), but I strongly disagree with the statement. Rory is a lot more like Amy (Isn’t it interesting? The way fandom’s been treating both of these girls? Coincidence? I think not. More like: The world is hard on ambitious girls.) Both of them have these patterns they feel the need to follow in order to achieve success (or what they consider success to be, it’s very specific in both cases which is a big part of their respective struggles) and both of them seem to be battling the same question: Do I have what it takes to be great, do I posses, not only the talent, but the necessary genius? It’s not something you can accomplish (and they are each hardworking and dedicated and willing to do whatever it takes to be the best, even if they end up suffering in the process) and I find that particularly interesting. Their biggest fear is built out of something they can’t control (I feel like that’s an important word for both of them, control). That’s why Rory’s world comes crushing down when Mitchum suggests she doesn’t have what it takes to be a journalist. He’s voicing her biggest fear. He’s giving voice to something she has absolutely no control over. And that’s something that inevitably needed to happen to her (more of that in the second paragraph). Mitchum was to Rory what Europe was to Amy. This is where Jess (in Amy’s case Laurie) fits in. Jess never tells Rory to go back to Yale, he never refers to Yale as her one and only option, one and only future (Even when they were dating, he never made a fuss about her choosing Yale over her original dream, which was Harvard, there’s never a “Woah, weren’t you going to Harvard, wasn’t Harvard the dream?”. There’s just him being incredibly proud of her and supporting her in decisions of no one's but her own making). Instead, he’s asking her what nobody actually asked her, which is: Why did you drop out of Yale? Why. He’s asking her if this is what she wants for herself, is this the life she wants to lead or not. To Jess, Rory is Rory, she’s not Lorelai’s daughter or Richard and Emily’s granddaughter. Just Rory. (I absolutely adore the fact that Lorelai doesn't like Jess at all and it has less to do with Lorelai and Jess being similar people and more to do with the fact that Jess is someone Rory chose to spend time with on her own without the approval of her mother, who is such a big part of who Rory is and such a big part of Rory's decision making even when she's not actually present, she is. I'll talk more about this in another post once I get myself to do it 🎇head full🎇). That’s the reason why Jess is the only person she actually hears. Because he’s the only person to actually hear her. I think I should leave the parallels between Amy/Laurie and Literati for another post, this is getting too long. I will probably add in a bit of Lizzie/Darcy to the mix too (the I love you from 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice is so so SO similar to the Literati one in 4x13, look at this!!!!!). I’m just going to say that the best thing about both Amy/Laurie and Literati as relationships is the fact that they both rely on identity and growth.

*I feel like “I want to be great or nothing” is an explanation on its own. There’s a lot of Rory in that (and Paris! I have to mention her at least once, though it’s a lot more explicit with Paris than with Rory).

2. Logan Huntzberger. Regardless of the way I feel about him, I think him to be an extremely important part of Rory’s life (and hey, every single character in GG, Jess and Luke excluded, is more of a character of the "Gilmore orbit", as I call it, rather than a character on their own, the show was written like that on purpose, which is why I tend to think of GG characters as chapters in the lives of our girls, each one of them holds a certain importance). Logan’s been introduced as someone who will change Rory’s perspective on things starting from his very first appearance, he’s someone she would never consider spending time with under her own conditions. He was always supposed to shake up her world, challenge her reality. It’s up to the viewer to decide if what he brought was positive or not. I, above everything else, believe it to be beneficial. Maybe it’s the way I was raised that makes me think that, but I strongly believe that it’s necessary to try a bit of everything in order to evolve and make the decisions that are the best for you. If you stick to a certain path for the eternity of your life, the range of possible choices to be made is rather limiting. That’s why hearing the phrase “The Downfall of Rory Gilmore” makes me so mad. Downfall? Why? Because she was exploring her options, because she went to parties, had a couple of drinks? Exactly like you said, her experiences in season 5/6 helped her figure out what she doesn’t want, who she doesn’t want to be. And man, I love Jess (yeah yeah, I make fun of him, so what? he’s still deeply beloved.), but to say Rory doesn’t deserve him, like he’s a saint or something (development doesn’t exclude mistakes, we don’t exactly see every single bit of his life after season three on screen, I doubt he didn’t have his fair share of downfalls after getting his life back together, yet, I don’t see arguments of “The Downfall of Jess Mariano” circling around, people either hate or love him because he’s a man, no other explanation for that).                                                                      

Anyways, Amy March & Rory Gilmore defense squad forever!

I wrote a sort of reflective piece on Amy's character here, so you can read that if you want, I think parts of it can be applied to Rory too.

For the end, these scenes have the exact same energy, I will die on this hill (I need to write that Literati×period dramas post ASAP):

them <3

#gilmore girls #little women #literati #amy x laurie #otp: it's just you #otp: you wrote a book #otp: i'm looking at you #little women 2019 #idk if i should tag this anti logan???? #rory gilmore #jess mariano #amy march #laurie laurence #gg meta #lw meta #long post #jo rambles #sparkly answers

[hourgloss]

being a jolaurie warrior over amylaurie isn’t about wanting them to end up together i don’t have worms for brains that’s obviously irrational and i refuse to dishonor miss alcott’s intentions. it’s not about that. it’s about the yearning and the soft ache of knowing the pain that laurie feels to be rejected by someone he loves so much and the pain jo feels having to reject someone she loves but not in that way and the warm childhood spent in each other’s orbit and how she’s the only one who calls him teddy and the pure HURT of the whole thing THAT is what jolaurie is about

#jolaurie is the hill i was born on and it is the hill i will die on #this isnt anti amy in any way so jot that down #i love her but just not with laurie #jo march #theodore laurence #little women #jo x laurie #saoirse ronan #timothee chalamet #greta gerwig

[nessa007]

antis: amy/laurie have no chemistry, are cringey and so forced

me:

#antis are really that blind huh #little women #amy x laurie #text post

[littlewomenpodcast]

All I can say...

LAUDER TO THE PEOPLE ON THE BACK

This is never in the films

#amy x laurie #little women #anti every Little Women Movie #Youtube

[joandfriedrich]

The second season of Little Women Podcast starts now! One of Louisa May Alcott´s favourite writers was the German poet Goethe and Laurie´s character arc in Little Women is surprisingly similar to Goethe´s young hero, Werther. Join me in a discussion where we are decoding these two characters.  

#little women #little women podcast #laurie #sorrows of young werther #louisa may alcott #goethe #jo march #amy march #anti jo x laurie #jo x laurie #literature

[ourmrsreynolds]

You know why I’ll die mad about how Alcott sunk Jo/Laurie? because it represents a type of ship that’s almost never valorized. I want the dynamic where they’re like “you’re the #1 most important person in my life …. and also I want to rail you” instead of the “yr important”/“i’m into you” revelations occurring simultaneously.

This is why Pride & Prejudice doesn’t do it for me, and why I have a soft spot for Mansfield Park which admittedly is a bore-and-a-half but counterpoint: it also features the only Austen hero whom the narrative refers to by his first name. It’s Edmund, just plain Edmund, because he was Fanny’s friend before he was her love interest. So, Mansfield Park is Friends to Lovers. Pride & Prejudice is the paradigmic Enemies to Lovers ship and as good as it is, it’s not for me. I’ve read it 3 times and watched the movie twice, and I say again: It’s not for me. There’s a difference between enjoying something because the execution is flawless, and enjoying it because it strikes some deep chord within your id. Little Women could have been both.

Theodore “I have loved you from the moment I clapped eyes on you” Laurence has loved Jo March since before he knew what romantic love was, and that’s my jam. Sexual tension overlaid on a foundation of “they were always super close”? Sign me the fuck up. 

Maybe for most people this typology is not all that relevant; most people happily ship, say, Drarry and Stucky at the same time. But not me. I’m the dumbass who spent spent all of Atlas Shrugged rooting for the protagonist to get with her childhood BFF instead of one of her other suitors. Yes, Atlas Shrugged as in The Libertarian Bible. 

There’s this idea that the childhood sweethearts trope needs to be sUBvERteD but I say to you: bitch where?? Name me one iconic childhood romance; I’ll wait. When I set myself this question it took me forty-five seconds to come up with Anne of Green Gables, and it’s literally my favorite trope of all time. Twilight, The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments. Do you see the pattern here? It’s not exactly a hegemonic trope ok? It doesn’t need to be subverted. Plus, you can’t even put Alcott in the same bucket since she notoriously didn’t plan her romantic endgame from the outset; she sunk our ship to SUBVERT READER EXPECTATIONS. Which I’d say worked out about as well as Game of Thrones did.

It comes to me that in romcoms where childhood sweethearts is endgame (13 Going on 30, Sweet Home Alabama, Always Be My Maybe) there’s this second act separation where the leads go their separate ways after adolescence and then they RECONNECT. Which is exactly what Jo’s stint in NYC and Laurie’s Continental Tour could have accomplished. Imagine that reunion scene!!

I just think it’s a shame that “romantic” is so often defined as “hostility/antagonism that gives way to grudging respect that grows into something ~more” when what I really want is “ride-or-die partnerships that grow into something ~more.” You end up in the same place but the starting points are radically different.

#little women #jo x laurie #i'm not anti amy x laurie i just think it's not exactly an underserved dynamic #if amy and laurie were an austen novel they'd be emma #they're important to each other but not THE most important person to each other #not until the Big Romantic Awakening happens #where as jo and laurie would obvs die on a battlefield for each other no questions asked #i'm so mad right now i need to rewatch potc to calm down bye #shipping taxonomy #meta mine

[saint-hatice]

I wanna be 100% Amy x Laurie but I feel personally attacked by it, like it's beautiful but it's very much an unkind alienation of my entire person, like I've got too much big sister pain and humiliation, and though I love both characters Little Women made me feel some type of way like how do I love them so much and yet feel so unutterably betrayed by them, their happiness, their easiness. I am happy for their happiness, but a bigger than I want piece of me feels so greatly hurt by it lmao like its unreal how much I unintentionally projected and identified with all the March girls and yet how in my heart I feel very much like a Jo, when she was in the grips of loneliness, the one that heightens and falls every now and then, goes down to a low murmur perhaps but never goes away. I felt betrayed by Amy's beauty and poise when she returned, her success, her storybook perfect ending, the neatness of her grace and charm. I felt like Jo, hair crazy, breathless, stumbled and graceless, and so immensely lonely and on a deeper, deeper level that's so compact that's been brewing so long that it must rise to the surface naked for all to see, the glaring, shouting loud obviousness that I have not only been made a fool of, but I have made a fool of myself, with a stupid letter in a childhood box and with everyone around me having changed into being fully realised and so absolutely full of belonging. To see my own dreams so half done and see the sister that I love and loathe succeed where I have failed in a traditional sense, in the usual, conventionally female, 'woman' sense, the jealousy, the pain, the slyness of something that ended up having absolutely nothing to do with me. Idk if I talked about Little Women more it would have been proof that it had hurt me less, so much less but lmaoooo it hurt me lots.

#little women #this isnt an anti amy x laurie post lmao #this is the 'little women' saw me too deeply and i hurt myself post #like its great for them to be cannon #but this movie so beautifully called me on on my bullshit it devastated me #like its not even me trying to ship jo x laurie either #i cant even IMAGINE jo x laurie working out in any universe #lmao greta really demolished alternate jo x laurie pairings in every dimension #its just me quietly breaking my silence on this movie #to tell you that most of what i felt is very wordless #and i voiced what i can understand #and everything else cannot be Englished #i loved this movie and was also irrationally hurt by it lmao