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JESS & RORY + matching flippy hair

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every time i rewatch the scene where rory speaks to lorelai after losing her virginity to dean, i am more shocked with how frequently people use it to give a bad faith reading of her character. the ‘my dean’ of it all is so often used as a “gotcha” moment to somehow prove what a selfish and horrible person she is, but when taken in the context it takes on a completely different meaning.

was rory right for sleeping with dean whilst he was married to someone else? of course not. does she have some sort of claim to dean? no. BUT that’s not what rory thinks either, not really.

she says, “i’m lucky too, because Dean, he’s … well aren’t you glad that it happened with someone whose good, and really loves me?”

this isn’t about rory’s entitlement, it’s about her compulsion to always be perfect (a narrative that season 4 in particular was stressing throughout). dean, in rory’s mind, is synonymous with a period in her life that she associates with stability - the certainty that she herself is a “good” person.

at this point in season 4, rory hasn’t come to terms with jess’ departure. jess, who lorelai et. al reiterated to her was not “good” and could not “really love [her].” it’s almost as if she’s trying to reassert the balance - to reclaim the stability she associates with her pre-jess relationship (which in reality was never really present, but that’s a whole different tangent).

the word “good” in this scene is so loaded, because we as viewers are not meant to be agreeing that dean /at this point in the show / is a “good” guy. the goodness rory is so desperately clinging onto is her own.

it feels so clear to me that rory in this scene was never meant to be portrayed as a selfish homewrecker, but rather someone on the cusp of a breakdown. a nineteen year old girl unsure, and uncertain, and desperate and afraid.

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Coyote Ugly (2000)

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marrying a woman rn

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Coyote Ugly (2000) as seen on my 1999 CRT TV

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COYOTE UGLY (2000) dir. David McNally

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COYOTE UGLY 2000, dir. David McNally

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Outfit Appreciation ➝ Coyote Ugly

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Hi! 👋 Could you please do 20 and 23 for the Quagmire triplets for the character ask game? :)

Hi Ven ! Sure !!

20 (Weird headcanon)

Quigley

i have literally SO many headcanons for Quigley but I'll try and hold back and only share a few. (I'll refer to Quigley with they pronouns because that is my headcanon !)

if they had been raised in the 2000s, would absolutely have thomas the tank engine or cars bedsheets. so embarrassing

couldn't take serious photos, always had to be pulling a face or doing bunny ears or something

tried to pierce their ears with a safety pin and lemon (did not go well.)

disastrous handwriting. Like incomprehensible.

Isadora

gay awakening was Veronia Lake in I Married A Witch (dir. René Clair)

went through a goth phase (after discovering Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe) where she attempted to dye all of her clothes black. They came out brown.

Duncan

tried to pull a prank on Carmelita Spats by balancing a bucket of water on a doorframe and have her walk through, getting drenched. Forgot to let himself out of the room first and drenched himself.

obsessed with lava lamps

23 (Future headcanon)

Quigley

felt so betrayed by Jacques leaving, that they completely turned away from VFD. Lost a lot of their love for cartography and it took a long time for it to come back. They began to prefer sketching landscapes and people they loved.

discovered David Bowie (this depends on your theory of when ASOUE is set) and he changed their life. Became obsessed with Ziggy Stardust and embraced gender fluidity through makeup, piercings, shiny clothes, etc. learnt to love themself :)

finally got that ear piercing they had botched when they were younger.

actually became really good friends with Fiona. She taught them that it was okay to view the world with more criticism. They got along and were actually really similar. Bickered a lot.

moved to a big city with Duncan and Isadora and got really into the world of music, art, freedom, self-expression. They probably joined a band at some point, no doubt.

Isadora

in the big city, joined a sapphic society and made friends who loved poetry (and girls).

got her poetry published in the paper on multiple occasions, but anonymously. She wanted to spread the beauty of poetry without getting attention for it.

opened up to the idea of writing prose too, and learnt that she was really talented in that area, too, joining writing societies and book clubs and learning so much more about literature. it gave her the opportunity to express herself in more ways than one.

her and Klaus (if reunited) absolutely became an unstoppable best friend duo. They were practically unseperable, and he was in a lot of the same book clubs with her. He worked at one of their local libraries and let her sneak in the back to write in the staff room while he ate his lunch or read on his break.

Duncan

aside from writing journalism, he actually got really into photojournalism. He loved the peace of the dark room and the process of developing photos. He got into the habit of photographing his friends and siblings to immortalise them and kept his favourite pictures in his shirt pocket.

got an internship at a newspaper (NOT the daily punctillio, lol) and had a niche in foreign correspondence, (with the rise in use of the telephone) and he made so many connections across the world. Learning about so many cultures gave him a sense of freedom after feeling so trapped post the death of his parents.

and a dunklaus headcanon, since I can't hold back: after he and Klaus started dating, he would very occasionally sneak coded messages into the newspaper, just sappy stuff saying he missed him and hoped he was having a great day :)

interviewed Lemony Snicket once without knowing it was him.

This was so much fun !! Thanks so much for asking :)

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"Olaf you are a Villainous Fucking Dickhead" - Quigley Quagmire probably

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One of the Quagmire triplets canonically plays the violin! If it was Isadora or Duncan then Nero’s “concerts” would have been so much worse for them….😀

ALSO!!! Quigley plays the ACCORDION!!! 🪗 I’m saying it’s Quigley who plays it bc in TSS he mentions reading a book by L.Snicket on how to play the accordion!

(Also there’s some pretty cool foreshadowing of ‘The Carnivorous Carnival’ with there being a miniature circus tent under the table in their bedroom!!! 🎪)

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rip the Quagmires you guys would have fucked with Chappell Roan so hard

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quigley: would jump and splash in puddles on a rainy day and let the water soak into his shoes and socks.

isadora: would try to write a poem about clouds on a rainy day before deciding to feel the rain on her skin.

duncan: would be holding umbrellas over his siblings on a rainy day, because they're not wearing raincoats/rain ponchos (he's wearing his).

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sorry but duncan, isadora, and quigley are corgi names. like i could totally see someone walking around with 3 corgis, saying, "yeah these are my 3 corgis. duncan, isadora, and quigley"

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tag yourself; a series of unfortunate events kids

violet baudelaire: fingers stained black from spilled ink, sleepless nights, thick fog, harsh on yourself, sitting on a roof, inventive, good at skimming rocks, always worrying, puts other self before yourself, dark makeup

klaus baudelaire: talking just to fill the silence, a downpour, old books, likes writing, keeping a commonplace book, nostalgia, papercuts all over your hands from handling papers and books so much, letters, the reflection of light on water, good at telling stories and loves to be told stories

sunny baudelaire: biting your tongue so hard your whole mouth tastes like iron, flower crowns, the sound of rain, baking cookies perfectly, remembering your dreams, quiet but has many things to say, grassy hills to run down, nails bitten to the quick, cloud-watching, daisy chains

duncan quagmire: messy hair, being up at dawn, good grades, tired all the time, hanging out with lots of different kinds of people, always having notebooks on hand, contagious laughter, gives great hugs, interesting, pays attention to every detail

isadora quagmire: poetry, glittering eyes, getting lost in your own mind, deep thinker, getting defensive of things you’re passionate about, abandonment issues, running through fields, never forgets anything, anxious, confident, and acts like you’re okay, goth fashion 

quigley quagmire: feels vulnerable, wanderlust, constellations, thinking you’re lost, cold snow, fidgeting, winter lover, hasn’t cried in a long time but needs to, winter green bubble gum, theatre 

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I love the Quagmire triplets. I love them being creepy and off-putting. Pale, almost sickly, so identical to one another that it seems alien. The Quagmires who speak a made up language, Quagmires who speak Latin when telling each other secrets. Quagmires with pitch black hair that they let swoop over their eyes - as such, no one can truly say what colour their eyes are, but some think they're as coal black as their hair. Quigley Quagmire, obsessed with bugs and war history, Isadora Quagmire, who recites gothic poetry under her breath, Duncan Quagmire who watches people with an unblinking gaze, the one who knows everything about everyone. The Quagmires who feel each other's pain, the Quagmires who seem to move as one entity.

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ASOUE on my mind so here’s an old-ish Quigley sketch