Why has no one written a Princess Diaries au for Gilmore girls???

Rory is Mia! Lorelai ran away from the monarchy! Emily is Julie andrews!!!

Percy pulling over the Blyndeff sisters for speeding.

don't look at Lorelai's arms too hard ok, just don't

I might redo this one later once my tablet is charged, maybe it would look better if I edit her sprite with something that's not a mouse

in my studies I just finished Gilmore Girls 3x02 and it just hit me how...parallel Rory and Christopher are in their respective confrontations? Or like, Jess and Lorelai's respective responses? How Rory and Chris are both like "I don't want it to be this way" and Jess and Lorelai both saying "But it is"

I guess what really got me was how similar the rapid fire questions felt similar.

Are you still with Sherri? / yes / Is she still pregnant? / yes / Are you going to marry her? / yes / then, honey, we are where we are

did you call? / no / send a letter? / no / telegram? / no / smoke signal? / no.

it's just fucking me up a lil that's all.

I see you everywhere, the only thing we share is this small town (saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts)

i just realized that a really important quality of all my otps is that i can picture them as the two old theatre heckler muppet guys

like, i need them to share that exact bitchy sort of spice between them

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

So there was a lot of talk the past two days on my feed over Rory being right to turn down Logan's marriage proposal in S7....which is completely the rational take as both of them were under 25, they'd never discussed it before, Logan is going to crash and burn by trying to rush right into marriage, home ownership, and financial independence at the same time at the ripe old age of 24 (slow down, my man, there's a recession coming in two years), Logan said he'd factor her plans into his and then does the exact opposite and she didn't want to break up with him over the issue....and oh yeah, she didn't want to and it's not like the disaster of her parents failed reconciliation a few months prior to that event could cause her to be wary of the institution in general. Sure, her career devolves on its own years later and Logan becomes unavailable as a legitimate prospect to her years later because he decides to become a character in an eighteenth century novel with the whole "I have to marry this heiress to please my dad even though my heart is stuck on another, whatever shall I do? Oh, nothing, apparently, the narrative says I'm doomed no matter what"...but hey, maybe all of those things would have happened anyway, and it's still not a reason to force yourself to get married when you don't want to.

However, can we talk about how weird this episode is? Why is Rory leaning on her mother for advice at this point, who has gone through a failed engagement and a divorce (to two different men!) in less than a year and Rory was upfront with thinking the marriage was a bad idea? Why is Christopher whining about Logan not asking him first, given it seems that he hasn't contacted Rory on her own since the divorce because he STILL is unwilling to do much of anything parental unless Lorelai is involved? Why is there no discussion of Luke attending this graduation, even as a suggestion that's dismissed? What is even up with Logan's "my way or the highway" attitude? That isn't how he's acted all season and he and Rory have had disagreements and been able to deal rationally with them. And finally, what is up with Luke and Lorelai taking so many steps backwards? Lorelai is frustrated that Luke isn't making a move when she's going around telling everyone that serenading him isn't a big deal, what did she think was going to happen? Luke very logically tells her that Rory marrying her college boyfriend seems like something she should carefully consider (gee, it's not like he and Lorelai both have ill-fated spontaneous marriages in their recent past or anything that could inform his thoughts on this matter) and Lorelai decides to make that entire conversation a metaphorical moratorium on their relationship and conclude that Luke isn't willing to consider marriage again? (Uh, maybe this issue isn't going to be resolved in one conversation, hon). And finally, Lorelai tells Rory that if she doesn't immediately want to marry someone the first time the issue comes up, she should just accept that she's never meant to marry that person and the discussion is forever closed! I'm sorry, Lorelai, that is TERRIBLE ADVICE and maybe ease up on the projecting here.

This episode was written by Jennie Snyder Urman, who would later go on to run Jane the Virgin. She also wrote the Luke/Lorelai car shopping episode, Lorelai and Christopher's breakup episode, and the episode where Lorelai tells Rory she's gotten married and Rory and Logan fight over the magazine article she writes. I think she has good takes on both couples in the past, so it's bizarre to keep why they're so off kilter here. I get it that they wanted Rory to be single by the end of the season and not get Luke and Lorelai back together quite yet but it's just...a really sour way of making the narrative orient around rom com miscommunication and kind of taints the back half of the last season, which was otherwise pretty stellar.

Rory told Lorelai about the way Jess had said, "I love you," and then drove away. We know this because Lorelai brings it up mockingly in a telephone conversation with Rory later in the Season. And after that, Rory never tells her mother about any of her interactions with Jess ever again until the Revival, but actively keeps them from her. And I wonder if that was a coincidence.

Literati/ Javajunkie first kiss parallels

1. Rory and Jess first kiss took place in Sookie’s wedding and Lorelai and Luke’s happened on Sookie’s wedding aniversary, plus it was a detail that didn’t bring anything to the plot, the writers just wanted you to know that it was that day specifically.

2. In the episode where Rory kissed Jess, aka the right guy, Lorelai got back with Christopher, aka the wrong guy, and in the episode where Lorelai kissed Luke, aka the right guy, Rory got back to Dean, aka the wrong guy 

3. They wore matching colors. Rory and Jess wore blue and Lorelai and Luke both wore brown.

4. The kiss was iniciated by Rory and Luke, the less impulsive people of the couples, and I think that says something.

5. Both Rory and Luke ran after the kiss.

6. Someone told Jess and Luke that the Gilmores were seeing someone else before the kiss. Luke told Jess that Rory was happy with Dean and Jason, Lorelai’s ex, told Luke he was seeing Lorelai and they were happy.

7. Both kisses happened in the outside, outside of the Independence Inn in the case of Rory and Jess and outside of the Dragonfly in the case of Luke and Lorelai.

8. Both happened in season finales.

Dana Watches Gilmore Girls: Chicken or Beef? (4x04)

“What?”

“Luke, will you—“

“Yes.”

“You don’t have to answer so—“

“Yes.”

“You can take a minute to—“

“No.”

Twitter really likes that one so I'm posting it here! A little trip down memory lane with the Blyndeff sisters and some tears

Luke: accident happen. Lorelai: not with my kid in the car.

Didn't Rory hit a deer early in the first season?

in teach me tonight after the accident, lorelai:

blames luke for the entire accident because he took jess in, a troubled kid who needed family

doesn’t understand why or acknowledge that luke worries about jess and needs to make sure that he’s okay

says that jess “almost killed her kid” when all she got was a HAIRLINE FRACTURE

runs around looking for jess like she’s going to kill him for something that’s tearing him up too

My favourite women but they’re totally unrelated and it’s totally not pathological of me

i understand that it sucked for lorelai when rory didn't make it to her graduation but damn some fans act like it was intentional and rory was being a selfish brat (as fandom is wont to do wrt rory lol) and it's just like she literally couldn't do anything, and it completely ignores that rory was so excited and proud of her mom and she got richard and emily there to see their daughter's accomplishment, like rory cared so much! she was not being selfish when she was certain she could make it to new york and back without a problem, like she didn't know she would get stuck on the bus ride from hell!!!

also if rory had been there, the moment between lorelai and her parents would not have been so poignant WHICH it's not rory's fault at all, but you notice that most of the sweetest moments between the are when rory is not there because lorelai doesn't have that "rory is the daughter they really always wanted" feeling hanging over her. like, little things like richard kindly letting lorelai escape when emily tries to set her up with that boring dude or emily taking care of lorelai while rory is at the dance, or in bon voyage and lorelai assures an uncertain emily their friday night dinners will continue and when richard points out that the party for rory is due to the amazing life lorelai created for the two of them in stars hollow like all these things happen without rory there. and like i said, it's not her fault, but i think generally the most emotionally vulnerable moments between lorelai and her parents, the ones that don't have them grating on each other are when they're on their own, so ultimately it WAS better for all three of them to share that moment simply as two parents seeing their daughter reach a milestone they otherwise never would've gotten to witness her do