#HOWever....

[and-her-saints]

i want to change my pfp sososo bad...... but will you guys remember me.....? will i be forgotten........? will i fade in your hearts..? will you all replace me with another equally beautiful and haunting lesbian+catholic+latina tripledeadlycombo.....?

[frazzledsoul]

I don't mean to step on anyone's toes here (and this does not just come from any particular person) but I don't think there's a shred of evidence in canon that Jess ever really felt he wasn't good enough for Rory or that he couldn't live up to her high society ideals or ambitions. In fact, he makes it a point to tell her that he rejects those upper class values and that she used to reject them, too. He made a successful life for himself on his own terms and he did not need to embrace an upper class lifestyle to accomplish that. He also didn't want to.

The idea that Rory can't forgive Jess for what he did when he was 17, that she doesn't trust him, that even post S6 she finds him unreliable and unstable and beneath her standards as a potential partner....none of that is in canon after S4. It's a fanon affectation pushed on the story but it isn't the story. Rory doesn't see Jess as inferior to her, she doesn't view him as below her standards or "out of her league", and she is not still angry about him leaving town when he was a teenager. When she hurts and uses him in S6, she's the one that apologizes to him and agrees that he deserves better than that. If she wanted to throw his past behavior back in his face, she would have done it at that point.

As for why he left in the first place? Well, that actually didn't have much to do with her. He was failing school, couldn't take her to prom, needed to work stuff out with his dad, and since he wasn't willing to retake his senior year over, Luke asked him to leave. His problems were a lot more insurmountable than hers were, but the bottom line is he needed to get out of that place where he was rejected for not being the perfect small town boyfriend and the judgment he faced from everyone there, including Rory. Obviously he could handled that shitshow a lot better than he did, but even if the transition had been easier I think he would have ended up back in NYC at least temporarily and that relationship wouldn't have lasted much longer.

However, I don't think the fear of not living up to her expectations had much to do with it. He wasn't the person Stars Hollow wanted him to be, and he could only thrive when he left it behind.

[lsunstreakerl]

Erm, hi, am I in the right place to vote for polyamory in the corporate au?

potentially...

[grison-in-space]

oh no ...

the entickening encroaches

[statementlou]

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[boleynqueenes]

"The King, so far as I see, is not only provoked at the said Bishop being made cardinal, but also at the bishop of Paris, in whom he had always had great confidence, because previous to this creation he was considered a bad Papist. He has also no great pleasure in the Auditor of the Chamber, and to soothe him the Lady lately made him a feast in a house of hers, where she got up several fine mummeries. She invited many, and the French ambassador was not pleased at being forgotten. The said Lady had so well banquetted and mummed, that, as the Princess has sent this day to inform me, the King dotes upon her more than ever; which increases greatly the fear of the said Princess [...]"

okay, i edited and added the relevant quote to the chapter notes, but i have GOT to say...i need to save this for posterity, because this is an insane quote??

[beeceit]

Hyperfixating a normal amount

[always-a-joyful-note]

by the way, big shoutout to gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun for presenting an actually very valid case of a reader x character ship

[problematicsashawaybright]

I was going to say I don't care about celebrity happenings, but I literally do. I wish I had the information we have about celebrities about random strangers I pass on the sidewalk. I'm really nosy. It's more accurate to say I don't have emotional investment in celebrities, but I do want to study every person like they are bugs in my lab, so I unfortunately know everything that's happening with mainstream celebrities. Anyway I want to know what's going on with Ariana Grande. I need to study her in my lab. What's her deal

[sick-ideals-and-dirtied-veins]

personally think this one aged really well :)

[ogata-apologist]

not sure what it means to have a fuckass selfship with ogata but also VAGUELY..... be an ogata kinnie.

[faggglerock]

(im)patiently waiting for season 2

[greywindys]

Adopting one as soon as he shows up in the crunchyroll store or wherever they go on sale...bless you, Movic 😭

[rat-rosemary]

What's this? That wretched little ball of hope from deep inside my chest?

[gruesomejack]

Chris being called up for prom queen and Rabbit is immediately filled with dread. Maybe he even tries to convince him not to go up? But then the spotlight is being turned to Chris and everyone is waiting and all he can do is watch with nervous eyes as he steps up to the podium,,,,