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Okay, this is just a theory and because I'm ferociously bored, so here goes:
I just finished watching Wednesday and while watching episode 5, I couldn't help but draw parallels between Gomez-Morticia-Wednesday and TJ-Liz-Doula respectively.
Both sets of parents are full-on sexually romantic with no boundaries whatsoever, and their children can't help but blanche at that. I personally feel that Liz and TJ are egotistic and tend to get wrapped up in their own problems and Doula is sadly caught in the middle.
Also, it would be a good conflict- that no matter how much Liz has changed and handling parenting in two completely different ways (being a single mom with Jess and then co-parenting with TJ their kid Doula), Doula ironically becomes a version of teen Jess.
And then I watched episode 7 and loved the relationship between Uncle Fester and Wednesday. And I immediately thought of the possible rapport between Jess and Doula- coming in whenever she needs a shakeup in her life or going through an existential crisis.
Anyway, I believe that if the Palladinos ever want to go back to Stars Hollow and the Gilmore universe, it would be so fun to see a different perspective and they should take Doula's POV, given that we haven't seen her and she is a "blank slate"; also I'm so bummed we never got to see the Jess spinoff and I think they could recycle the material and use Doula as the lead where she searched for a family member and attempts to find herself. And then Jess periodically comes to check on her, much like how Lenny Bruce would pop in at odd times in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Anyway, I'm fully out of steam!!! Drop your thoughts in the comments or reblog!!!
Mic drop!!!
#wednesday#the addams family#Wednesday Addams#doula danes#morticia and gomez#Liz and TJ#anti liz danes#uncle fester#jess mariano#potential parallels#headcanon for a spinoff
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I could say so many things about this completely bonkers scene straight out of Bonkersville which I decided to watch earlier. But a couple of special things stand out to me. 1) the quickness with which TJ flips that book out of Jess' hand. Like, that book does a fucking graceful somersault in the air and 2) the way Milo's Pre-Emo hair flippy-flops when Luke grabs him :)
#milo ventimiglia#gilmore girls#jess mariano#luke danes#tj#this scene is bonkers I tell you#family bonding with uncle and stepfather at the mud wrestling joint#I don't totally hate TJ#I mean if he wants to marry Liz Danes it's his funeral#Tried to see what book he was reading but it was too dim inside the girly joint#the way Luke stands and watches the girlies in the mud with his arms crossed stark serious#I could go on#I'll be swan food by the time I ever get to the end of season 4 in my rewatch
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Oh dang, oh no. I keep going on about how Liz kicked TJ out and then told everybody that he "left" her, and how insane that is... but it only just now occurred to me that that's basically what Luke did to Jess too, especially from Jess's perspective. 😫 This freaking family, I swear...
#Gilmore Girls#Luke and Jess#Liz Danes#I mean I know the situations aren't EXACTLY the same#In Luke's mind Jess CHOSE to violate the 'agreement' that would lead to that ultimatum#Whereas TJ didn't do anything and Liz just started making stuff up and screaming at him#But STILL!
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Coley Phipps patron saint of jorkin it
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Also with Austin now most definitively dead too, it keeps giving into my theory that if you become a doctor at GH, you will die.
#general hospital#they have like#no doctors left holy shit#like terry liz portia and tj are the ones that instantly come to mind#finns likely to lose over his career over what the hell his plotline is
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Top five episodes of Gilmore Girls?
I’ve never thought about my ranking before o lord okay
- those are strings pinocchio
- the Lorelais’ first day at yale
- the pilot
- deep fried korean thanksgiving
- raincoats and recipes & last week fights, this week tights
#in no particular order just off the top of me head#I also feel like raincoats and Liz and tjs wedding ep go together#just like the ep where they come back from Europe and then the 1st day at Yale#thank you for asking 💛
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Please tell me: they can be brothers at least once? In one lifetime?
#character parallels#jess mariano#conrad fisher#christopher briney#milo ventimiglia#if ASP had made Liz and TJ's kid a boy she'd definitely cast Christopher Briney#given that Conrad knows sailing hed definitely strike a chord with Luke#he'd be the baby Rory 2.0 to Jess's Lorelai
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tswift tag drops: jess mariano, gilmore girls pt. 2
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. rory.
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. luke.
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. liz.
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. jimmy.
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. lorelai.
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. tj.
╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. doula.
#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. rory.#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. luke.#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. liz.#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. jimmy.#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. lorelai.#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. tj.#╰ ––––––– ✧ JESS MARIANO! : ft. doula.#tswift tag drop
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what the agony had been for | bucktommy bonus chapter
To those of you who voted for the secret fic, told you I'd have this up before the poll even closed.
Shoutout to @chobani-flip for letting me shout about this a little so I didn't post about it on main.
“Hi there, beautiful.” He’s — he might be crying. Tommy is definitely crying, big fat tears leaking out of his eyes. There’s something magical in the air, something cozy and intimate even while the doula wipes at Liz’s brow and murmurs something low to her, and TJ curses in the kitchen moments after about the crash-bang of pans sounds. Buck can’t stop staring. He can’t stop pressing closer to Tommy, even though there’s barely any room between them not reserved for the bundle in Tommy’s arms. It’s too soon to tell whether the shade of blue will stay sparkling like Buck’s sky-blue eyes, or shift shades darker like Tommy’s — whether the wispy strands of hair atop her head will shine burnt auburn in the sun in ten years, or turn deeper and darker every winter until they match the chestnut of the crib they’d spent three hours arguing about how to build. No telling what those rosy cheeks will look like once her face isn’t still all smushed in, or whether or not she’ll always have that weird dent in the back of her skull.
bonus chapter on ao3 or start from the beginning
#bucktommy#bucktommy fic#tevan fic#somehow this turned into a 5+1 fic#because both buck and tommy are meeting the same important person for the first time you see#anyway imma go reread this chapter and possibly cry a little
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JESS NON-ANGST??? AYITL JESS META
You know by ATIYL Jess had gone to therapy and dealt with his shit because he's so unbothered by his mom's antics by then.
He comes to town to save her from a cult but he's perfectly calm about it and willing to joke with Rory about it. His interactions with Rory regarding his mom when they were kids were tinged with resentment, resentment of Liz and a quieter resentment of Rory for not understanding what he was saying.
The first couple times I watched AYITL I was noted when he says his mom is stuck in an 8 million year contract he instantly accepts Rory correcting it to six. He even uses it to flirt with her! I thought surely he knows for sure surely he has read the contract he has been all over this and he's only letting her be right to be nice.
But what if he hasn't? What if he's aware of the contract but he's learned not to engage too much in the crazy, he'll just come out when asked and keep his distance. From Jess referring to his presence in town as "Mom Maintenance" it's implied this is a repeat performance, but he's not resentful of it, just matter a fact.
Then in Fall he's even amused about the whole thing! He planned for a short trip made even shorter when in a twist of irony Liz and TJ are kicked out of the cult. It's good this got fixed but it wasn't wearing at him and most notable he's not mad about it.
He's not angry with his mom for falling for a cult. He doesn't call her a whack job or insult her while talking about it, or insult TJ. Jess doesn't resist Luke's efforts to get him involved...but he also doesn't get that involved at the end of the day.
He's engaged but emotionally sheltering himself.
And emotionally uninvolved enough to use leverage a trip home into a flirty couple minutes with his high school girlfriend.
Look at this healthy adult with health insurance, a therapist with an office walking distance from work, and a copy of The Body Keeps Score in the bottom drawer of his nightstand
#this meta post directly contradicts multiple fics of mine including one i'm writing now#but THAT'S OKAY#gilmore girls#jess mariano#jess mariano meta#gilmore girls meta
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Overanalyzing the Danes family again and thinking about how they react to change:
Liz appears to have an affinity for material objects. When Luke goes to Liz and TJ's place in S7, they have lots of Renaissance faire decor, supplies for making jewelry, quite a few other decorative items, and what appears to be a sizable Beanie Babies collection. That could just be their style, but it's interesting that Luke mentions in S4 that Liz has ended up in situations where a guy leaves with her belongings and clears out her bank account. Perhaps having a lot of physical things around her that aren't very expensive and probably aren't family heirlooms makes her feel safe and gives her a sense of control when everything else changes. Those things might not be as likely to be stolen, and if they go missing she can acquire more.
In S6, Liz tells Luke after a successful run selling jewelry that she doesn't know what to do with all the money, and Luke's suggestion of putting it in a bank hadn't occurred to her. Maybe when Liz came across some money she liked going to thrift stores and getting as much as she could afford. I'm picturing her finding yet another lava lamp or doll and saying, "I feel a connection with this one, don't you think it belongs with us?" while four-year-old Jess, who has been dragging around Curious George Learns the Alphabet for months, stares at her blankly.
Most of the things Jess seems to value are sources of ideas (books and music) or have a clear practical purpose (his clothes, watch, and car). One notable exception is the bracelets he has in addition to the one he temporarily keeps from Rory, and there's that ring he has in AYITL. Maybe there's a story there, and it's possibly an interesting connection to Liz's interest in jewelry (cue the everlasting Gilmore Girls theme of being like your parents even if you don't realize it or try to resist it). Twice we see Jess moving out of town with just what he can carry, and it happened offscreen when he went back to New York. Luke points out that Jess doesn't have much when first gets to Stars Hollow, but he doesn't seem to mind and says that Liz will send the rest later. In that episode, Liz tells Luke it will be that Friday. When all this stuff arrives 10 episodes later, there is of course comedic value in Luke's frustration at being trapped by mountains of boxes, but it's interesting that there is so much, and Jess doesn't seem to care about most of it. Did Liz think Jess would be comforted by this in the way she might be? Even with the extra space when the addition is built, a lot of those things realistically would not have been kept. Jess doesn't seem to own much besides books when he's in his New York apartment either.
Liz is more gregarious than Luke and Jess, but she also appears less affected when people she loves are absent. Liz calls Luke to see if Jess got to town alright in his first episode but famously doesn't ask about Jess going back to New York for the holidays. In S4, Liz is happy to see Jess both times he is in town, but she doesn't go out of her way to find out where he is or if he's okay. In S6, when she projects her concerns by telling TJ that he's going to mess up their child and throws things at him, she tells Luke that TJ left her like all the guys before him, but she's calm about it because of her "new come-what-may philosophy." Luke's the one who intervenes and gets TJ to come back while Liz is busy making new friends, and then Liz is glad to reconcile with him. Maybe Liz's apparent ease with all of this and her inclination toward meeting new people is how she's gotten through all of the losses she's experienced. She's predisposed to moving on.
Jess isn't social by nature, and as a teenager he's extra resistant to being around other people. However, in the two examples we see, once he gets emotionally attached to someone, it's for life. Being estranged from Luke and Rory affects him deeply and for a long time, and when he reconciles with them he makes it clear how important they both are to him. When he's working at Truncheon, he and his co-workers are friends, and he's conversational enough to be a successful businessperson in that environment, but April still notes that "men in this family aren't chatty" when she meets him.
For Luke, the circle of people he likes being around is small, but to those people he's extensively loyal ("Once Luke Danes is in your life, he's in your life forever"). The absence of someone he cares about clearly distresses him, and he tends to seek solitude in response. His apartment isn't cluttered, but he seems to have kept high school trophies, and he has a strong emotional attachment to things that are connected to his family: the diner, the "William's Hardware" sign, the boat, and his grandmother's bedroom furniture. Luke's life has been a bit more stable because he's the one who stuck around to take care of his parents and run the family business, and he's often hesitant to accept change. When metaphorical storms uproot Liz and Jess and take them elsewhere, they have contrasting coping mechanisms that they take with them while Luke stays behind and tries to hold down the fort, and eventually Jess finds stable footing and is able to help him. Or something like that.
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