Another Gilmore Gal

Just another lover of these two fabulous women that grew up wanting to be sisters with Rory and grow up to be a mom like Lorelai 

[not-with-you-but-of-you]

LNC: JESS MARIANO edition

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Literati + text posts

↳ See also: Rory on Jess + text posts

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[belleandsaintsebastian]

rory with bangs!!!!

[carolsturka]

Favorite Jess + Rory moments for @moonteases 💙

[jessmmariano]

Just saw a Twitter post saying that Logan is smarter and more hardworking than Jess because he graduated from Yale and Jess didn’t even graduate from high school…just say you’re classist and shut up

I have a strong feeling that Logan didn’t get into Yale because of his grades, extracurriculars, volunteer work, etc. He got in because of his name, his wealth, his connections. It’s safe to assume that he didn’t work very hard, either. I’m sure he skipped school often, maybe even as often as Jess.

But when Logan skipped school he was probably messing around. Meanwhile, Jess was working a minimum wage job because, unlike Logan, he didn’t have any wealth to fall back on. Jess had to work for everything in life, he didn’t have any wealth, family, connections, etc.

[cowboycereal]

thinking about the “it’s not her” scene w jess in season four because my god. that initial look on jess’s face when he thinks he’s seen rory. half fear and half hope because he wants to look upon her even when she turns away in hate. he wants her no matter what, no matter what she wants of him whether it be space or time or just friends or dating or any of it. and then even when he’s told that rory cut her hair, jess still waits for the girl to turn. and it’s like he just needs to see if it’s her just in case it is. maybe because it isn’t. like maybe part of him is relieved because he hates that he wants her so much because he thinks he ruins everything he touches and he never wants to ruin her. but he thinks that’s all he knows so he hates himself for wanting her when he thinks he doesn’t deserve to. that initial look on jess’s face when he thinks he’s seen rory. half fear and half hope because he wants to look upon her even when she turns away in hate. he wants her no matter what, no matter what she wants of him whether it be space or time or just friends or dating or any of it. he would take anything she deigned to give him, but he’d want more and he’d feel so guilty and self-loathing for asking more of her.

[jessmmariano]

Jess is the only one of Rory’s love interests to actually work on himself and become a better person, which makes him superior.

Did Dean ever change himself for Rory? No, but Rory certainly did for Dean. Instead of acknowledging his misogyny over the whole Donna Reed thing, he just doubled down and made her feel as if she was in the wrong. Huh??

Did Logan ever change for her? I guess he quit sleeping around for her…how romantic? Oh, wait, that’s just the bare minimum! In fact, one could probably argue that Rory changed more for Logan than Logan did for her.

But Jess? He became a better person. He read an entire self-help book after making fun of it. He learned from his actions and actually took the corny advice to become a better person.

People love to remember the reckless, brash teenage Jess but you have to remember—he’s not like that anymore! He’s an adult now, he’s mature. He has a whole business, he’s a published author! He is by far the most mature of Rory’s love interests yet no one ever address that.

[bookstoregirlsworld-deactivated]

team jess <3

[emmeriex]

watching s4 through the lens of rory being depressed and struggling just adds so much to the story i wish we got canon confirmation of it

[mvalentine]

i didn’t choose this town, i dream of getting out. there’s just one who could make me stay, all my days.

[stellaluna33]

Rory not being able to call herself and Jess "friends" when Lorelai asks her about it but awkwardly downplaying it to "friend-ish" is so hilarious. Girl, you're overcorrecting there. 😂 Because if she ACTUALLY only wanted to be his friend, why shouldn't she admit that?! Haha! But she was so freaked out by the scrutiny of "Oh no. She suspects I have Feelings. I must convince her and also myself that there are NO Feelings! I don't care at all, actually!" that she thought "friends" was... too STRONG of a word? Haha! It's like the time when a mutual friend asked my future husband how he felt about me, and he (instantly suspicious) said, "She's ok, I GUESS..." WE WERE FRIENDS!!! GOOD friends! Like... why would you say that about an actual friend? 😂 (Was I devastated at the time anyway? YES... But yeah, he liked me and was freaked out about it, haha. In retrospect... methinks the lady doth protest too much, is what I'm saying.)

[jessmmariano]

Jess brining Rory food because he heard that Lorelai was out of town and he didn’t know how long she was going to be gone for. He knows what it’s like to have a parent who sporadically leaves unannounced, probably with no food or money in the house. Even though he knows that Lorelai is a seemingly good mother, he still knows what it’s like to be lied to by a parental figure. He definitely had a voice nagging him in the back of his head to check on Rory.

[gold-onthe-inside]

NO BUT IMAGINE THEM AT PROM THEY WOULD HAVE ATE SO BAD

[witchmd13]

listen i love luke and lorelai with all my heart but there’s something so satisfying about luke not speaking to lorelai for an entire summer after their fight about jess. he stopped talking to lorelai the only person he’d drop literally everything for the minute she calls or asks him something only because she attacked jess. it shows how much luke actually loves and cares about jess even when jess was being impossible to him. it’s probably the first time anyone stood up for jess his entire life too.

[gold-onthe-inside]

sorry, still thinking about how jess who skimps and saves and hoards every dollar he earns shelled out 90 bucks for the chance to eat bad pasta with rory

[mynonclicheblog]

okay but like, the biggest disservice to jess & rory (and those of us who are fans of them) is that their relationship in season 3 was really only featured whenever shit hit the fan. they only received a place in the narrative during those times when jess didn't call, when he was in a piss poor mood, when rory jumped to conclusions and assumed the worst about him.

yet we're told time and time again throughout that season how often they hang out together offscreen. like. sooo many times. they're constantly planning to meet up with each other, where we can assume they would watch movies, talk about shit, listen to music, swap notes from the books they've been reading, gorge themselves on takeout - this was happening every single weekend (according to dialogue) and then some.

for the majority of their relationship, things were going fine! they were getting along and being besties! we just didn't get to see it!!! do not forget this!