nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Alex (she/her) | Writer | Perpetual watcher of shows no longer on the air

[bloodstained-ballgowns]

you guys are joking, right. like this is satire. right.

right.?!

[comradesummers]

so for context, the "she" they're talking about here is rory gilmore:

and um? i think lorelai and giles would be kind of great ngl

[comradesummers]

still thinking about this. lorelai would have a hell of a time teasing giles and pushing all of his buttons, which is obviously giles' type and he's super into it. but she'd think they're just friends until one day she sees him defending buffy (i'm thinking of the scene where the mayor comes into the library and threatens buffy and giles responds by stabbing him) and she's like. "oh fuck. he's hot. i want him."

[kaitkatm]

This has been one of my top cross fandom pairings for years. I love randomly seeing people who have the same niche weird fandom thoughts.

[hartfords]

gilmore girls: pulp friction

[chandlerbings]

[shewhotellsstories]

My most deeply held Girlmore Girls belief is that even if Lorelai agreed with Operation Child Bride, she would've still ended up a single mother. Christopher was spineless enough to go through with a wedding, but he's also a weak-willed flake; that marriage would've imploded in a year, and Christopher still would've left them.

[tomclarke]

gtkm meme: [2/20] female characters → rory gilmore

My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. She filled our house with love and fun and books and music, unflagging in her efforts to give me role models from Jane Austen to Eudora Welty to Patti Smith. As she guided me through these incredible eighteen years, I don’t know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her.

[cottoncandylesbo]

i like it when people compliment me. i like it... when people like me. (looks around to make sure nobody is about to shoot me)

[ofstormsandwolves]

cocktails. richard says cocktails.

what is happening with these transcript sites??

[akindplace]

do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

sookie and lorelai have this particular energy in s1 before they've really settled into their sexual tension with their respective menfolk that is just giving. gfs. committed life partners. 'tis, dare i say, very shippable.

[setulose]

Whatttt is with the tendency of Tumblr users to seek absolution from every single person who offhandedly posts about disagreeing with something they do

[setulose]

I say this not unkindly, but firmly: to function as a member of a social species, you have to get comfortable with the idea that not everyone will like you

[comradesummers]

i hate how every single time lorelai warns people that her parents are being mean or nasty or have some sort of scheme going on everyone just rolls their eyes and goes "you're overreacting! everything's fine!" and more often than not it turns out that she's 100% right. it's almost like she knows her parents better than people who weren't raised by them do.

[andremichaux]

Malcolm in the Middle | 5.08, “Block Party”

[bloodstained-ballgowns]

thinking about how in love, daisies, and troubadours during the scene in the diner, rachel is trying to explain to luke why she's leaving this time, and she tells him "admit it. your heart wasn't in it." and luke replies, "my heart was in it. i was here, i didn't leave." and just about how all of luke's formative relationships have basically been defined by their leaving -- his parents, with the whole death thing. liz skipping off immediately after graduation. rachel blowing into stars hollow every few years to the brim with promises only to leave again as soon as the wind changes. and how to luke, being 'in' a relationship, his heart being in it as it were, continues to be pretty much defined to him by this physical proximity, or lack of 'leaving'.

by the end of s1, he and rachel were basically going through the motions of the relationship they once had due to his feelings for lorelai, but guys, his heart was in it; it was rachel that left. luke's heart is still stuck on lorelai during his dysfunctional marriage to nicole, and even though it's him that initiates the divorce proceedings again, he was still there, he was still 'in' that relationship until nicole 'left' through her infidelity with the sock man. in the second half of s6, luke's mind is completely taken up by the hard swerve his life takes in the form of april, and he isn't 'all in' on his relationship with lorelai (she especially doesn't feel that he is) because he doesn't have the capacity for it. but she is the one that leaves, in the end. he was there, his heart was in it; he didn't leave.

and just like about this motif of luke being the reliable guy, the guy that stays and sticks it out, while in all of his relationships being in some way mentally or emotionally inaccessible to his partners and this being a key issue in their 'leaving'. anyway i was just thinking about that!!

[hartfords]

gilmore girls: the deer hunters

[stellaluna33]

Even if you prefer watching the later seasons of Gilmore Girls, I think periodically rewatching Season One is a good idea, even if for no other reason than to see that SO MANY of the things that people speculate about being "subtextual" or even "unintended" themes (like "Was Harvard really Rory's childhood dream or did Lorelai plant it?" or "Isn't Lorelai and Rory's closeness actually a bit unhealthy and dysfunctional sometimes?" or "Is Lorelai really that different from Emily?") are actually straight TEXT and COMPLETELY INTENTIONAL. 😅 Like, oh, apparently the writers DID realize the implications of this and they put it there ON PURPOSE! They just didn't feel like outright saying it AGAIN and we just forgot about it!

[robertphilip]

Now, for the remainder of our time, let's role play.