#rich girl and poor boy

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[haitaniholic]

modern!au with bf!satoru and you're both from rich families and your family arrange your marriage with naoya zenin bcs him and his family are rich nd they came up with proposal.. and gojo is so angry because hey! he's from rich family too and he says that he will win you back!! he has power, wealth, looks so he will convince your parents..

"what he has that i don't have?! huh, tell me!"

[wowthatsextra]

Idk why but i believe that jarah is ryan and marissa reincarnated to give us the endgame

[silverview]

chardee ~ common people

[artnijna]

Did an art stream on Twitch today. Ended the stream with puppyshipping so it was a good one. Have a CEO falling for a bleach blond with a lopsided grin.

[melancholypancakes]

Welcome Home Human AU: Uptown girl

It’s not confirmed in OG but Brienne is from a wealthy family in other AUs she is :)

I just love interracial and opposite attract relationships so i put both with Wally and Brienne

Brienne as a human is white and she is a descendant from France, she lives in a estate with her family in this au much like the actor au.

It has been confirmed by clown The Welcome home neighbors are Black as humans.

I also like the fact of a rich girl in a relationship with a poor boy or just a guy not as rich as her.

Brienne has the same chill and sweet personality in the human au and loves to try downtown or what opposite of her uptown society.

She loves messy food and circus rides. She may or may not have a crush on Wally 👀👀

[roses-red-and-pink]

Does anyone remember that k drama I was obsessed with like… 6 months ago?

[untilyouremember]

Love in Focus

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[anxiouspotatorants]

Alrighty, time to get into my theory about how each of Rory’s three main love interests represent different versions of the bad boy trope! So, I’ve seen some discourse about how certain characters are not actually bad boys and how others are and how that relates to Rory, and it made me go into this big reflection over what defines the bad boy archetype and how it’s changed from iteration to iteration. Long story short: it made me realize that all three of the boys (yes all of them) are one version each. So here’s a massive rant where I explain how that works, with Dean as the «good boy gone bad», Jess as the «bad boy made human» and Logan as the «rich bad boy».

Note: I am writing this as someone who ships literati, so know that my analysis will be biased. That being said, I want to focus on how the boys inform the bad boy archetype (and the other way around) and not on the value of their relationships to Rory. So think of this as a defense/deconstruction of certain characters rather than another round of «who should Rory have ended up with?».

Out of all the boys, Dean is the one who is rarely defined as a bad boy, and with good reason. Seasons 2 and 3 played him up as the «good» against Jess’ «bad», he is routinely described as the perfect first boyfriend (and by Lorelai no less), and he’s the one with the most traditional small town outlook on things (liking the concept of a housewife, being a chaste boyfriend in the first round, getting along with the parents etc). But that doesn’t change the fact that a lot of people despised him by the end of the show, since he cheated on his wife with Rory and made her the other woman. And I think this very action is what solidifies him within the good boy gone bad-trope. I haven’t found a lot of writing on this sub-trope (although one could argue it falls under the face-heel turn trope), and it has very vague limits, but I believe that it exists anyway. A good boy gone bad is a male character that started out in a piece of fiction as all around «good». He respects rules, gets along with parents, might even be a bit of a «nice guy» with/without the entitlement. But something in the story (sometimes a build up) will trigger the good boy’s transformation into a bad one. Sometimes it’s getting sick of being an outsider/underdog, sometimes it’s triggered by romantic conflict. I would argue that this transformation begins for Dean when Jess and Rory get together. While Dean has been a jealous and arguably possesive boyfriend before he breaks up with Rory, he still hasn’t done anything that properly makes him a “bad boy”. But once Rory and Jess are a couple everything changes: he threatens Jess in private, insinuates that he can manipulate the situation to his favour and that he can «steal her back», physically fights Jess at one point and arguably marries Lindsay in part to rouse jealousy in Rory. This transformation is fulfilled once he has sex with Rory for the first time while still being married. He might continue keeping the good boy image, and his infidelity is definitely turned into something that harms Rory’s image more than his, but his actions still qualify for the subtrope. (I also want to note that Dean is introduced in season 1 with a leather jacket and love of motorcycles so… do what you will with that information)

In spite of how often Jess is defined as the bad boy of the show — and by other characters in the show at that — a lot of viewers don’t actually think of him as one. And that’s understandable. I think a lot of people in my generation and onwards have grown up with very simplistic iterations of bad boys that follow the formula to a T. They’re aggressive, violent, wildly sexual and usually downright toxic (see: After-series, Jacob post-transformation in Twilight, 90% of erotica novels). And the women in these stories usually exist to «give in to animalistic urges» and heal the bad boys with their love. Taking even the quickest glance at Rory and Jess shows you how this is not the case. He’s more basket case than sex god, is repeatedly denied second chances at love with Rory, and has to heal and improve without her, out of frame. But I don’t necessarily think this makes him less of a «bad boy». While I despise the overuse of the term «realism» in popular media analysis, Jess is arguably a «realistic bad boy». He embodies most classic bad boy tropes (if not all of them), but each trope is then humanized within him. Jess gets into fights, but the two moments we know about in detail are with a bully and with Dean (and both fights are initiated by the others, not Jess). He’s the first boyfriend that Rory acknowledges/explores her sexuality with, but they never technically consumate (and good for Rory, the Keg! Max! scene is a massive yikes). He’s a high school drop-out, but because he worked too many shifts at Walmart. He reads classic literature (yes, a lot of bad boys in media do this) but is a total nerd about it (see: Bukowski v Austen). He has mommy- and daddy-issues, but they are fleshed out and given the space to exist on their own rather than as in relation to Rory and making her love him more. And while he heals through love, it is not through the active romantic love of Rory, but the familial love of Luke and his eventual love for himself. A crucial factor for Jess is that he gets to exist outside of the romance. His most important relationship in the show is perhaps not with Rory but with his uncle Luke. It is this relationship that introduces him to Stars Hollow and it’s this relationship that officially heals him. The last time we see Jess in the original run, when Rory admits to trying to hook up with him as revenge against Logan, Jess claims that he deserves better. And he does. He’s a human, and more than that, he has spent years working to become the person he has become and to get a chance at a loving and respectful relationship. Jess still loves Rory enough when he lets her go to not hold a grudge, but he also now loves himself enough to know he deserves better than to be the other guy twice. He is the bad boy made human.

But whenever people argue that Jess isn’t a bad boy, they usually claim that another boy in the show is. And while I still think Jess is a bad boy, I don’t think that means that Logan isn’t one. Logan simply fits into a very specific subtrope: the rich bad boy. I can’t trace the origins of the rich bad boy, but my (and probably many’s) first introduction to the trope was Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl. Where the classic bad boy has a problem of reputation and in some cases specifically struggles economically, the rich bad boy is partly bad because of his wealth. The daddy issues come from a tyrannical capitalist father who expects his son to be a carbon copy. Instead of a motorcycle he drives limousines and expensive cars. His sexuality is informed by lavish parties, a casanova-lifestyle and general hedonism. While the classic bad boy drags the woman «down» into his world, the rich bad boy drags her «up» into his world of wealth and «civilized» violence. The woman exists to bring the rich bad boy «down to earth». To teach him values of fidelity and kindness, and to show him he is more than his money/work. And as a reward the woman gets to live out the materialistic fantasy: expensive gifts, exclusive balls, luxurious trips around the globe, you name it. If the classic bad boy is about the inherent eroticism of anger/violence, the rich bad boy is about the inherent eroticism of wealth. And Logan fits this archetype to a T. His initial relationship with Rory is «no strings attached», he apologizes with expensive gift giving, and he introduces her to exclusive hedonistic circles like the Life and Death Brigade. He cheats, he recklessly gets into dangerous situations to simply feel something, he has a dysfunctional relationship with his father, and he loves Rory partly because she simultaneously does and doesn’t «belong» in his world. I also think that either end for him (breaking out of his father’s shadow or falling back in it) is realistic for the rich bad boy. Which end he gets simply depends on whether the author desires an endgame relationship for the rich bad boy or not.

So that’s it. Mind you, me categorizing Rory’s boyfriends as different kinds of bad boys doesn’t necessarily mean I would tie them exclusively to that trope. The Gilmore Girls writers did an incredibly good job at writing fleshed out characters that grew outside of their stereotypes and created their own molds. And one could argue that if you make the definition of a bad boy broad enough, most flawed boyfriends will fit into the trope in some way. That being said, I’m currently standing by my analysis. Not only do I think it’s fun to view the guys through such a lens, I think it helps flesh out Rory too. She isn’t necessarily drawn to ‘bad’ men, but her track record does show that she deals with a lot of inner conflict about her love life, and that this is externalized with incredibly flawed (and sometimes ill-timed) relationships to men who have a lot to figure out themselves. Honestly I’ll probably pull a full analysis on her love life one day too, just not yet.

At the end of the day I think who people root for depends on what kind of bad they’re either drawn to or willing to excuse. If you like the idea of someone going mad/bad with love, you might prefer Dean. If you like a character who is undeniably human (as in has good sides but can be so so so flawed), odds are you’re a Jess-person. And if there’s just something about grand gestures and finding a «real» person in a sea of «fake», you’re probably a fan of Logan. It really is a case of personal preference.

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THE HEIRS OR THE INHERITORS (2013)

Almost 10 years ago this drama aired. And it was my first foray into my new obsession with Asian Dramas. It also lead me into HANA YORI DANGO aka BOYS OVER FLOWERS. Original Air Date was October 9, 2013

So like BOF this drama is about a rich boy with a super complicated family dynamic. His mother is a mistress living with his father who is married to another woman who allows her husband and his mistress to live together. She also claims the mistresses son as her own for the public view.

The story is about Kim Tan (LEE MIN-HO) the second son of a chaebol family who was exiled by his older and jealous half brother to America. HOLLYWOOD.

While there he meets a visiting Korean girl there to see her sister and give her sister money. Her name is Cha Eun Sang (played to perfection by the lovely PARK SHIN-HYE)

Kim Tan becomes so enamored with Eun Sang it makes him break his brother's rules and return to Korea.

There he learns his new lady love lives in his house. But she is the daughter of the mute maid.

How did this lead me to BOF...we all know LEE MIN-HO played a version of DOMYOUJI TSUKUBA known as GU JUN-PYO for the SOUTH KOREAN ADAPTATION of BOYS OVER FLOWERS.

Though this KDRAMA gets mixed reviews I LOVED IT. And I searched LEE MIN-HO and so his version of BOF was the first I watched. Then I went back and watched all the other adaptations.

[ghostbeam]

I wish I could explain to u the dynamic me and rin have in my brain I hate him so much he hates me more he has the most correct opinions about horror movies of anyone I’ve ever met he hates my favorite scary movie he’s madly in love with me he hopes I die he calls me at 3am cause he sleeps better afterwards I want to chew on him he blocks my number six times a day

[isaangie-art]

Dummy question, guys:

How exactly we went from "Two teen superheroes with 'mahou shoujo' stereotype fighting a 40 y.o. supervillain who only wanted to bring his wife back and have a happy family"...

... to "Sentimonsters, evil rich people, and 2 love-thirsty teenagers that still need to stop an idiot powerful white haired man who now wants to control everyone" as main plot??

Like, what xD

(Sorry for my bad english btw)

[nepotizma]

' no , you're being dramatic ––––  i like hanging out with you , i just can't come with you to your parents' gala - dinner , or whatever it is . i don't fit in with those people and besides , your dad's already asked me to work the open bar . '

[1ikethat]

'   no   ,   you're   being   dramatic   ––––    i   like   hanging   out   with   you   ,   i   just   can't   come   with   you   to   your   parents'   gala   -   dinner   ,   or   whatever   it   is   .   i   don't   fit   in   with   those   people   and   besides   ,   your   dad's   already   asked   me   to   work   the   open   bar   .   '

[unicorn-onion]

Your privileged lack of ambition is nothing to be proud of, but neither is my desperate abundance of ambition.