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When the holidays are 10 days away and you haven’t started gift shopping, how are you feeling? Personally, the top right captures it all. 🤣
📸: Josh Hamilton
Merry Christmas Borneo, seventh day adventists churches in honor maternal side of family Alhamdulillah for the most kozeist drinks and ambience of the year forever sweetest memories with auntie lina uncle albert gran gran odu and nek cha
rosé, netflix , christmas cookies , white chocolate drink 🫕
jess mariano and rory gilmore are literally the SAME people at their core, just in opposite fonts. they MIRROR each other and are each other's TWIN FLAMES. that's exactly why they understand each other better than everyone else (asp herself said so). both are raised by teen moms and have deadbeat dads. yet, one is nurtured with love and care with a mom like lorelai. and the other is abandoned & ignored by a flaky mom like liz. both develop an immense love for reading regardless of whether it became kind of a coping mechanism. both exceed normal expectations of intelligence required for their age. hence, one goes above and beyond, strives for perfection with it, and craves validation while the other could not care less what people think and says "fuck it. rules don't matter anymore for me. i know stuff". one becomes stars hollow's princess, held onto a pedestal by everyone around her. the other becomes stars hollow's pariah, hated by every person he meets. both are under intense scrutiny by people where one is held to exceptionally high standards and the other is seen as "good for nothing". both of them break out of those respective moulds as soon as they become young adults. and both play a pivotal role in helping each other break out of those moulds and still be true to their inner selfs. I COULD WRITE AN ENTIRE TEN-PAGE ESSAY ON THE PARALLELS BETWEEN THEM....I REALLY COULD!
Ahhh, this is forever changing, anon! There honestly aren’t that many Beth x Rio moments that I don’t like after all, haha, so I think the ones that take the top spots are sort of forever in competition. That said, I definitely have some that usually win out over others, so let’s talk about those!
1.10/2.01 – The Confrontation
I’m putting these two in together as they’re technically the same season (even if they did air almost a year apart, haha). This confrontation has the double hander of showing Beth and Rio both at their most destructive and violent, while also showing them at their tenderest and most trusting. Rio was absolutely playing Beth (in more ways than one) in the moment of it all, but the fact that he used this initial betrayal to pull her closer (something he repeats at numerous points after this) is a real turning point in their relationship, and I love everything about it.
2.04 - The Bathroom Break
Honestly, I’d put this whole episode up there as the last scene in Boland Motors in particular is probably one of my favourite in the entire series, but the bathroom break is just something else and unravels me in the best way whenever I watch it. I love it so much I can barely talk about it!
2.07 - Beth Goes to Rio for Help
Another one where I could just say the whole episode honestly, haha. While I absolutely adore the scene where Beth unpacks the dubby, my favourite moment of the episode is when Beth goes to Rio for help and Rio tells her in no uncertain terms that she’s a drug dealer. This moment is affecting for so many reasons, but in particular I love that it’s bookended by Beth’s rabid, outraged defence of Rio to Dean’s accusation of him having taken Jane, and Rio getting the dubby back for Beth. It’s such a revealing sequence overall, and the fact that the meat of it is this scene of intense honesty between them is just! *chef’s kiss*
3.04 - Rio watches Beth make money
I think this is probably one of the scenes that I’ve re-watched the most at this point. It just works for me on so many levels. Not only does it draw a stark parallel to the bedroom scene in 2.09 (which I talked about in this post), but everything comes together so beautifully in it. The music is unreal, Manny and Christina crackle, and the direction of the scene really amplifies just how complicated Beth and Rio’s relationship is at this point. She’s scared of him until she’s not, she wants nothing to do with him and his utmost, honest validation, he wants to kill her and he wants any excuse to keep her around. It’s a mess, they’re a mess, and I love it.
3.06 - The Park Bench Fight
As you can probably tell at this point, I’m a complete sucker for scenes where they’re even a teensy bit emotionally honest with one another, haha. This fight just after Rio’s had Lucy killed is I think one of the most vulnerable of the series. They’re both raw, loose nerves in the moment of it, addressing, however briefly, their tormented history, and both are – rightfully and wrongfully – angry at each other. They’re defensive, petulant, vulnerable in a way that really hones in on this huge wound between them, and it hurts in the absolute best way possible.
I like pain, basically, hahaha.
So that’s me right now! What are your favourite Beth x RIo scenes?
You're not supposed to fight against your feelings. Don't push them away, don't surpress them. Rather, think to yourself: "This feeling is painful and I don't like it, but I will allow myself to feel what I am feeling. It will eventually get better. Feelings are not forever. I am gonna feel this feeling intentionally for a while, then I can distract myself. My feelings are valid and allowed. I am not at war with myself. I don't want to numb myself. I will be happy again soon. There is a time for everything".
i’m proud of you for getting out of bed everyday, i’m proud of you for getting back up even though you’ve been knocked down countless times, i’m proud of you for getting through those tough days and waking up the next day only to do it all over again. your effort and resilience isn’t going unnoticed, i’m sending you infinite love ♡