the fact that jess shakes his head in disappointment while knowing it’s the same girl that missed her mother graduation to see him in his hometown is insane to me. logan told her to do something stupid, something fun, something bad for her, but we are talking about the girl that went to nyc by herself to see a guy and she wasn’t even sure he’d be there!!! jess knows it, he knows her.
NO YOU'RE SO RIGHT!!! Like, here Logan is, giving her this speech about being brave and doing scary things or whatever, when he doesn't even know her. She jumped on a bus to New York to see a boy with absolutely zero plan, she chose a different school than she'd planned her whole life, she was student body vice president even though she really didn't want to be, never backed down from whatever challenge Paris threw at her at the Chilton paper (parking lot paving? And interviewing her mom's ex fiancé?? I mean come on, that was NOT easy), she navigated an incredibly challenging extended family (I mean, her mom and grandparents constantly fight and still Rory managed to have a relationship with everyone, and her dad who was mostly absent from her life has another daughter and still Rory was there for the kid's birth), and those are just the things I can think of off the top of my head. She's done so much that Logan doesn't know about because he never cared enough to ask but somehow in one conversation has her questioning everything about herself.
Meanwhile Jess knows just how very Not Rory the girl in front of him is just by taking one look at her. Knows she is lost and confused and scared after one conversation. He's the only one she has ever let her guard down around, felt safe enough to be truly herself, because he never tried to change her. And because of that, he knows her.
Exactly what it says on the tin, I was tagged by @samblerambles for this one!
Top 3 Ships: I hope this question means just, like, currently, cause no way could I choose a top 3 of all time 😭. Current Nuclear-Levels-of-Brainrot Blorbo ships are: 1) Jeca (Jesse x Beca, Pitch Perfect); 2) Zelink (Link x Zelda, primarily Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom); and 3) Zekkna (Jaina x Zekk, Star Wars Legends/Young Jedi Knights). Honorable mentions go to the polyam versions of these ships tho (JessexBecaxChloe and Jaina's Mini Harem aka JainaxZekkxJag(xmaybe Kyp but I'm not sold on him). And maybe also YonaxSidonxLinkxZelda, which I just think is neat and fun)
Favorite color: yellow! I love a good golden, sunny yellow I gotta say 😁
Last Song: unintentionally, Cake by Itzy (played on the radio at the boba place I went to today); intentionally, Mr. Perfectly Fine (Fearless Vault Track by Taylor Swift)
Last Book: you know what, it's been 7 months since I last read anything, I think that officially makes this answer None until I get around to reading another book 😅.... Or it's the Little Golden Books baby's first biography on Taylor Swift. Which might actually be cringier 😅 (cringe is dead and it's a cute book etc etc but goddamn does this still say something about my ability to read actual books nowadays rip)
Last Movie: The Eras Tour Movie, preceded by The Barbie Movie
Currently Watching: nothing intentionally. I like watching some of the MeTV block of classic 70's/80's/90's shows tho. I'm always down for classic Macgyver and Emergency!
Current obsession: while you might come to the conclusion, based on this post, that it's Taylor Swift, I'm actually still fairly normal about her I promise 😅 I maintain the distinction that I'm a swiftie, but I'm not a Swiftie™. There's a difference. No, the actual answer is only mentioned once so far: Pitch Perfect, more specifically Jeca (and also SwanSongs aka Jesse/Beca/Chloe), even more specifically the secret good sequel to the third movie where Jeca can still win (and everyone is truly, canonically queer in a myriad of ways) that lives rent-free in my head, multiple pages of my sketchbooks, and as the Big Damn Fic™ I've been posting very slowly to AO3 since last year. Don't believe me? I'm gonna add '#jeca' and '#not to Blorbo on main but' to the tags of this post, look through the reblogs and actual blogs I've tagged over the past couple years and you'll truly understand how deep it all goes.
Currently Working On: allegedly, it's chapter 2 of the Big Damn Fic™ I just mentioned, 'these hands had to let it go free and- (This Love came back to me)', for which i just posted the ending a couple weeks ago as its own fic in the series to show that I'm doing something with it.
Country You Want to Visit: Scotland, Norway, and New Zealand. And also maybe Iceland. Pretty much in that order. I'd take a tour of Europe too tbh but those are the Big 3 (4).
Tags for Funsies: @thesorrowoflizards @lord-owlsnake @qcboeifzzz @beautiful-flutey @avian-violet and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it! Go for it! (No pressure tho ofc)
i mentioned willow park being under-appreciated to my friend and he was like "i need to start a blog in which i post a shitty doodle of willow like, pumping iron or something every 5 minutes" and ik he was joking but Please i need this
I like baseball and I also like them so here's a little doodle I did while watching a game (feat. what their favorite teams would likely be based on geography)
“if our love died young i can’t bear witness and it’s been so long but if you ever think you got it wrong i’m right where you left me” my god if that isn’t the bus scene in s3 and kinda the jess window scene in AITYL i agree with you that’s he’s probably trying to move on and date other people but he’s still definitely carrying a torch for rory and the real paul anka
“you told me that you met someone” l*gan huntzberger (derogatory)
Sorry, I didn't answer sooner!! This one is so good ahhhh. Right Where You Left Me can definitely fit oh my gosh. You're so right though like I don't believe that Jess has been all mopey and pining for ten years but I do think that part of his heart definitely stayed there with Rory, it's seen like you said in AYITL window, The Real Paul Anka, "That's not her" moment in S4...
The beginning lines also felt strangely like them, well more Jess:
Friends break up, friends get married
Strangers get born, strangers get buried
Trends change, rumors fly through new skies
But I'm right where you left me
Matches burn after the other
Pages turn and stick to each other
Wages earned and lessons learned
But I, I'm right where you left me
Like the way life just kept going, everyone's living their lives and learned (as well as still growing) but there's still a wound there, still something there. Also, this isn't literati related but this lyric is so Rory imo, too.
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it
She's still 23 inside her fantasy
Like if this isn't the most AYITL Rory vibes- like. She's in a rut, stuck and so lost, trying to feel how she did when she was 22 with Logan again. And on the topic of him, the line you chose could definitely fit with him as the someone she met.
I literally love this so much. THANK YOUU for sending it!
I was possessed with a need to draw Molly and Bella's (true) first meeting as Wee Baby Bellas at a reunion, being FAR too cute for their own good! Neither of them remember this moment by the time they meet again in college, btw. (Beca goes to the bi-annual Bella Get-Togethers pretty regularly but she and Jesse decided pretty early on that it wasn't worth the effort to tow the whole family across the country for a single weekend, especially after the twins were born, so Molly hasn't been to one since she was a baby. Bella's been to quite a few, but she and Stacie live much closer to the usual meetup spot, plus it's just the two of them so they're a bit freer to travel.) And yes, that is a Bella scarf that they're about to play tug of war with, tho whose scarf specifically is anyone's guess considering there's over a hundred women there. 🤷
On the flip side, i have the True and Correct Analysis of most of the main/supporting cast according to the "Every Friend Group Should Include" meme. This is objective truth and i will not be taking suggestions at this time.
(this is a joke for the love of God don't come for me i will Cry)
Close ups can be found under the cut, along with the typed up breakdown of who fits what (for the meme); the image ID is in the alt text!
The Lowdown:
Every friend group should include:
A himbo (Jesse)
A mean bisexual (Beca)
Even meaner lesbians (Aubrey, Cynthia Rose but she isn't actually mean she's just cool)
He/theys (Benji, Unicycle--tell me that's a nickname an NB transman wouldn't pounce on, come on, they'd be all over that) and she/theys (Jessica, Ashley)
A token straight who's on thin ice (Bumper, Fat Amy)
An astrology bitch who has everyone's birth charts memorized (Stacie, Chloe, Emily too but she's not pictured)
And a Short King (Donald, alternately it's just Beca again)
Alrighty! It's been a hot minute since i did one of these but luckily I've actually got a wip i can use for this! (You'd be surprised at how infrequently that's the case 😅.) Thanks for the tag, @erinsworld ! I hope you're, uh... Ready for a rarepair fic for a completely different fandom 😂
The last* Line--written for chapter 2 of "these hands had to let it go free and--(This Love came back to me)":
'This man is still all of those past versions of himself that you knew so well; but now, he's also all the past versions of himself that you never got to know.
(And when he breathes your name, it sounds the same way it always did.)
"Beca."
"...Jesse."'
*-yeah so this is actually the last several lines cause. Well. You can see why a single word/pair of names doesn't exactly make for a compelling final line without, ya know, context. So. Context.
For a more in-depth discussion of what this fic is (vaguely) about, + some relevant art, check out this post i made announcing chapter 1! But the tl;Dr is that this is a Pitch Perfect fanfic exploring the nature of love, relationships, and what "inevitable" really means... Through the lense of a rarepair 😅. And not only that, it is to date the longest (single story) fic I've ever written (currently clocking in at 20,200 words total between both chapters--and im nowhere close to finishing chapter 2) as well as, quite possibly, the queerest fic I've written in terms of themes (the Brady verse was queer by the nature of it centering around a gay couple and their children, plus the handful of other queer relationships around them, but it's more of a family narrative than it is a truly queer one; in contrast the ideas on love explored in this fic are very queer, as are... Just about every character i mention, no matter what canon says about them). It's a doozy! I'm quite proud of it so far tho 😁.
Now, to tag... Alright, how about @impossiblepluto @zeldaelmo @demonicsoulmates @readingwriter92 @wanderingnightingale and @lizartgurl ! No pressure ofc, but I'd love to see what y'all are working on!