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Idk how to explain, but Dair and Literati are both the "mature-best friends" relationships that take time to grow with intelligent IT girls w/book writer boyfriends living together in New York. It should've been themmm.

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THANK YOU

Pet peeve of mine in fandom spaces is people reposting very clearly edited photos of actors or characters and acting like or not realizing it’s normal like the pictures of leighton meester/blair waldorf edited to be yassified and it looks fake asf and that picture of spencer reid where someone edited over his button up and sweater vest to instead put some like edgy eboy tight shirt and I think a necklace on him and it’s weird asf and so NOT Spencer I’m just like what are we doing do you even know these people/characters ???? it bothers me ESP the Spencer one I KEEP seeing it on TikTok WHY

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Hello internet space I am here to vent because all my friends have ganged up against me because they said that I hurt them and I didn’t know that they had all these issues they apparently had but they were upset that I didn’t already know (???) and when I, in my eyes, addressed the things by recognizing my faults and apologizing for many things and providing TRUE REAL explanations for what I meant and how I never meant to hurt anyone they said that I am selfish and handle things poorly and don’t take accountability for anything and don’t listen which I don’t understand AT ALL and through this my therapist says “you might be autistic” and now we’re going through signs and my behaviors and it resonates a lot while all at the same time my now ex friends are saying that I’m a liar and hiding behind my neurodivergence so as to not take any accountability… feels ableist to me, no? I’m just mega pissed and I wanna tell them what bitch ass hoes they are for pretending they were my best friends this whole time when apparently when I’ve always been 100% honest and truthful behind my intentions they just think I’m constantly lying to save my ass and they claim to be empathetic understanding woke as fuck but they are so quick to drop their friend for their autistic tendencies and not believe anything they say … HELP

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Pet peeve of mine in fandom spaces is people reposting very clearly edited photos of actors or characters and acting like or not realizing it’s normal like the pictures of leighton meester/blair waldorf edited to be yassified and it looks fake asf and that picture of spencer reid where someone edited over his button up and sweater vest to instead put some like edgy eboy tight shirt and I think a necklace on him and it’s weird asf and so NOT Spencer I’m just like what are we doing do you even know these people/characters ???? it bothers me ESP the Spencer one I KEEP seeing it on TikTok WHY

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After my relationship ending and now exploring (with a professional) that I think I am autistic I am more and more convinced that Spencer Reid is my perfect man

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Nobody talks about the heartbreak of breaking up with your partner before you’ve finished sharing your favorite dramatic show with them like there’s still 8 things left on the list of things that I thought were going to shock you but we’re never gonna get there now

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Relationships where you start off as the one less obsessed but then the roles switch and you break up because the other person doesn’t feel it anymore despite you still being in love with them… yeah that hurts

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I know people have talked about this before but Liz is a frustrating character. From the beginning we hear awful characteristics via Jess and Luke, how she's flaky and neglectful, etc, and we see it firsthand on several occasions.

I'm not saying Jess was a saint, but why was the abused child (and yes neglect is a form of abuse) hated by the town when the second his mother shows up they all adore her it's just aaaagghhhh

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What's gorgeous about this line is that Rory doesn't just mean Jess looks handsome... he looks WELL, and that's even better. The last time she saw him, he was wide-eyed and frantic, yell-begging her to run away with him in an impulse he agreed was "insane." Nothing about Jess looked or sounded well in S4.

But here? Jess is calm, cool, collected. And Rory can tell, from 60 seconds of interacting, that Jess is in a totally different and healthier space. And look how happy that makes her! 🥰

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i would recognize that season of television by haircut alone

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Jess comes out ahead of basically the entire main cast. He started out as an angry, violent, self-destructive kid, chooses to change, gets his shit together, and becomes a happy and functional adult. Most importantly--and unlike the rest of them--he does not regress.

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Jess is such a show-off when you stop to think about it. Yeah he’s private and closed-off like the moody teenager he is, but he absolutely loves showing off when it comes to getting noticed by the girl he likes. He stole Rory’s book during their first meeting just to write notes in the margins and show he’s read it plenty of times before to impress her; he jumps into a moving carriage and insists Rory was about to get in trouble for riding alone just to be able to get a moment alone with her; in that same night he destroys her competitor’s snowman as a nice gesture; he plays magic tricks for her and jokingly gives her an apple before their tutoring lesson; he pays an insane amount of money for a single picnic basket just to one up her boyfriend and then makes it a whole thing to take a bite of the food just because Rory lies and says Dean would’ve eaten it and he wants to prove himself.

I’m absolutely convinced that when he took Rory’s bracelet, he had only planned to keep it for a while until she noticed it was missing so that he could make a whole show out of returning it to her while teasing that she’d be hopeless without him only for that to be thwarted when he realized it was a gift from Dean. At the end of the day, that dork loves doing a grand gesture.

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my gilmore girls headcannon is that the rabi and the reverend were very gay for each other

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"For women, only one standard of female beauty is sanctioned: the girl. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty: the boy and the man. The beauty of a boy resembles the beauty of a girl. In both sexes it is a fragile kind of beauty and flourishes naturally only in the early part of the life-cycle. Happily, men are able to accept themselves under another standard of good looks — heavier, rougher, more thickly built. A man does not grieve when he loses the smooth, unlined, hairless skin of a boy. For he has only exchanged one form of attractiveness for another: the darker skin of a man’s face, roughened by daily shaving, showing the marks of emotion and the normal lines of age. There is no equivalent of this second standard for women. The single standard of beauty for women dictates that they must go on having clear skin. Every wrinkle, every line, every gray hair, is a defeat. No wonder that no boy minds becoming a man, while even the passage from girlhood to early womanhood is experienced by many women as their downfall, for all women are trained to want to continue looking like girls." — Excerpt from Susan Sontag's 1978 essay The Double Standard of Aging

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i've been thinking about this scene

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It's funny when fans reduce Jess and Rory's connection into an "I can fix him" trope. Did they... watch the show? Rory did NOT fix Jess. They dated and he struggled, imploding at the end of his senior year with a spectacular series of mistakes. Jess doesn't get "fixed" until later, and he does it all on his own. It's kinda the whole point of his arc. Rory didn't fix him, nor was she trying to fix him. She just loved him and believed in him even when he was struggling.

You know who WAS Rory's "I can fix him" guy? Logan. He's the guy who magically changes for Rory. He's suddenly monogamous, he's real quick to move in with her, he suddenly starts liking his job. All the characters comment on this, too. Logan notes that he never thought he'd like a relationship until Rory, Mitchum credits Rory with Logan's good choices, and Rory worries out loud that she's "tamed" Logan. And once they break up, Logan reverts to most of his bad behaviors. He's the definition of an "I can fix him" trope. Just another thing that makes Logan so overwhelmingly boring.

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Flabbergasted to read at the end that this is their FIRST fic!! So talented I was locked in! I love it!!

You guys, I just posted my first ever fanfic and I am wildly wildly nervous about it. Please would you go look?

(and if you like it -- if -- please say nice things... and maybe reblog? I don’t have many followers so I’d be really grateful)