#jess and rory in new york au

[gold-onthe-inside]

sometimes i’m glad jess got the hell out of stars hollow cause otherwise, i imagine he’d end up a lot like dean, juggling multiple jobs and struggling to make time for rory. i just wish they’d had a smoother break than whatever implosion they contrived to send jess to california. i mean, rory was headed to europe for the summer anyway. jess could’ve gone to california for the summer, worked things out with his dad, and then moved to new york which is closer to yale than stars hollow anyway. whatever. i’m just torturing myself at this point.

#whatever you do don’t imagine jess and rory spending weekends in new york #going to concerts and prohibition era bars #jess taking her to the new york public library through a secret entrance cause he’s still banned for life for writing in their books #or jess dropping in at her dorm on a friday night with cds they have to listen to #or them spending her semester break in new york working and living together #them having lunches in washington square park #jess mariano #rory gilmore #literati #jess and rory in new york au

[saltygilmores]

A List Of My Favorite Gilmore Girls AU's, Conspiracy Theories and Ridiculous Headcanons

There are definitely more... as I think of them I'll keep adding to it. But these are the biggies and some of my favorites. 13. Jess eventually gains custody of Doula and she avoids ending up in the cult, and she changes her name to something way less stupid too. 12 Jess and Lane have a fling as an act of rebellion to piss off Mrs. Kim (but I really can't see any long term compatability here) and because pissing off one Stars Hollow mom just wasn’t enough for Jess 11. There is an alternate universe where Jess ends up enrolled at Chilton because his mother conned some rich fucker into marrying her and he used his money and influence to bribe Headmaster Charleston into letting him in. I feel like Luke is sitting on a lot of money but he would never have enough to pull to make it happen. 10. Rory was actually a hero for sleeping with Dean and breaking up Dean's marriage so Lindsey could escape 9 Luke, Jess, and/ or Rory finally snap one day after they can't take any more bullshit and go on a rampage around Stars Hollow slaughtering the many people who have wronged them, I call it the Blood In The Hollow triology. 8. Taylor Doose is pocketing all the money made from the festivals in Stars Hollow and he has no intention of fixing The Bridge or putting that money towards other charitable causes 7.In season 4 when Jess is living in New York and Luke insinuates Jess is a drug dealer he's right #HeyTawd 6. Luke serves cheap ordinary supermarket coffee (oh wait, that one is actually TRUE, Mr. Folgers can. I've seen you). 5. There's a vortex/black hole in California sucking in the unsuspecting men of Stars Hollow (Dave Rygalski. Jess. Max. Even Christopher, apparently ) called the Male Gilmore Girls Character California Wormhole, it swallowed Dave Rygalksi permanently because It loved him so much, but it spit everyone else back out eventually 4. Jess erased Shane after the Dance Marathon and threw her body in the lake and the swan that beaked him was a reincarnation of Shane out for revenge 3. Jess' novels become unexpected worldwide best sellers, turned into movies, turned him into a household name, earned him legions of fans and book groupies, making him a millionaire, causing our reluctant and modest blorbo to face the pressures of fame, press, wealth and attention 2. During the Truncheon years and beyond Jess Mariano blossoms sexually and becomes a raging manwhore the likes of which Philadelphia has never seen, sometimes I make him a college student (sometimes I don't), he has a Myspace page that the girlies flock to and a very busy flip phone and two roommates who never get any sleep 1. Lorelai and Dean are having a torrid love affair, and I call it The Dala (The Dean and Lorelai Affair) I will die on this hill, this is my Death Hill

#gilmore girls #ridiculousness #jess mariano #rory gilmore #lane kim #the DALA #Dean and Lorelai Affair #Jess the Slutbag #Shane #Wormholes #Vortex #Luke Danes #hey tawd #Tawd #my abundant imagination

[butchjess]

if a rory meets jess in s1 AU happened i do imagine it would’ve been during the Bangles concert ep. yes solely bc of the fact that they were in new york. not at the concert though at the party but he wouldnt be in the party he’d be out in the hallway bc he got bored and it’s quieter out there for reading (intentional parallel to rory reading during the house party) lorelai would interrogate him about whether he’d seen the girls and he’d say maybe :| and yk what do you MEAN maybe and he says maybe i did or didnt :| bc hes annoying she gives him 5 dollars and he says yeah they’re in there. theyre really Loud :| and well rory thinks he’s kinda funny (paris calls him some caulfield wannabe or something or the other) and she can’t contain the urge to ask him abt what he’s reading maybe it’s didion or something (how could a hemingway-loving jess not love a hemingway-loving didion?) and yk rory can be very talkative when her special interests are involved etc etc whatever you see the vision. a fleeting conversation between strangers that doesn’t matter until it does.

#gilmore girls #literati #maybe i’ll write it idk. its just a plot bunny infesting my brain #everyday im thinking of them. remember that. #🦈

[emmafallsinlove]

daisy jones and the six makes me wanna write a whole au about gilmore girls in the 70s where lane & the band (zach died in a car crash idc he does not belong in this universe) goes on a tour around the us playing some gigs thinking they’re gonna become the biggest band in the world and ending up in new york and meets rory gilmore & jess mariano, two nerds that are in their early 20s who grow up in the city and they’re already married (“they got married with paper rings last summer” “oh, that’s such a bullshit, dave” “no, it’s true. lane told me that rory told her that jess proposed that way”) and!!! lots of dave x lane moments!!! jess and rory in the van living their best life!!!!

#DOES IT EVEN MAKE SENSE? idk but i love the idea of it #dave rygalski #lane kim #dave x lane #jess mariano #rory gilmore #jess x rory #gilmore girls #or speaks now

[redbelles]

Rory Gilmore, thirty-one, reporter for Vanity Fair, is a successful journalist living a charmed life in New York City. But running into Jess Mariano, rising star of the literary world, makes her question— is this the life she was meant to lead?

The Writers ↳ a literati au by @rhiawriter

#literati #rory gilmore #jess mariano #gilmore girls #rory x jess #gilmore girls fic #literati fic #tw flashing #eyestrain #* #fic recs #this fic is such a delicious alternative to ayitl please go read it immediately

[outpastthemoat]

3 sentence au

Rory doesn’t even bother with a pro/con list.

There are a thousand reasons why Rory shouldn’t allow Jess to shove her boxes of books and journals and sweaters into the backseat of his battered old car, a thousand reasons more why she shouldn’t prop her bare feet on his dashboard while they sing along to a Belle and Sebastian song, but she can’t remember a single one of them when Jess shoots her that crooked grin, his fingers thumping along on the steering wheel; she’s not thinking of Dean, driving silently back to Stars Hollow; she’s not thinking of Lorelai, leaving a litany of missed calls and voicemails that she won’t answer until they’re already in the city, and Rory’s always been the good girl, the sensible one, but not this time—right now Rory's thinking only of herself, and what she wants:

Jess, and New York City.

And the thought of Yale is always there, hovering in the back of her mind, but in the here and now, there’s Jess’s lined yellow notepads of hurried, cramped writing strewn across their coffee table, and her own journals with their deeply-creased covers neatly stacked on the windowsill, and maybe they’ll never work out, maybe they’ll only have this one summer, but it’s a summer that she’ll always remember: This cramped one-bedroom apartment with an air mattress on the floor and no hot water; a summer of afternoon sunlight drifting across the tattered sleeves of Jess’s favorite records; a summer of ink-stained fingers and a dog-eared Dickens edition and leftover Chinese takeout, a summer of kisses, of Jess’s warm hands slung around her hips and Jess’s breath against the back of her neck, and it’s all hers, something Rory wanted and took just for herself, and that means she’ll always, always keep it—

Rory runs away from home, and finds herself.

#rory gilmore #jess mariano #gilmore girls #outpastthemoat fics #3 sentence aus

[sunflowerinthekitchen]

literati vibes all over it!!!!!!!! rory working as a journalist for the new york times and jess as spiderman but ofc they haven’t seen each other in years until she covers an article about mitchum huntzberger and jess figures that something is really off with the mayor of nyc and his son logan haha bye

TWO ASKS FROM MY BESTIE???? BLESSED

No but PLEASE. What a great AU I love it. I will never be able to play Spiderman again without thinking I'm Jess and Im obsessed with that.

Also just Rory getting herself into dangerous situations constantly because she needs to get the story and she knows Jess will be there if it gets bad. Ugh. I love them.

Mitchum makes so much sense as Norman too omg

#or <3333 #my head will be full of Thoughts now

[justanoutlawfic]

Hi I’m back! I was wondering if you had any Captain Snowing (Killian/David/Snow) and Swanfire (Emma/Neal) headcanons made yet? Any thoughts on how it would all go down with that relationship?

I would find it kinda hilarious when Killian finds out he is related to the bloody crocodile aka Rumpelstiltskin 😂 David and Snow would have to hold them down, just calm him down at the loft cause Killian was just having a simple conversation with Grumpy while grabbing groceries as he comes home to find out that information by his spouses. Especially since he was hesitant about Emma, Henry and possibly Alice too going with Rumple to find his son, fearing for the lives of his children/grandson, and also curious to Bae actually being here in their world. Seeing how he regrets how that ended for them.

Also he would be surprisingly trilled to see that Bae/Neal is alive and hell. I believe Killian would go racing to New York to protect his children and make sure Rumple doesn’t do anything harshly to harm anyone. David has to call Emma telling her that her Papa is on their way. Once Killian arrives in New York and finally finds them he is in shock to find Bae who is a adult now and completely understanding the situation at hand to the best of his abilities. It hurts a lot of everyone’s side of the story but it is dealt with soon. Killian would definitely seeing Neal as family more than ever, not blaming Emma or him too much for their actions since they were young.

Over the years, Neal and Killian grow closer together with their father-son relationship. Alice possibly becoming that annoying little sister than Neal never had and Emma being embarrassed about it especially after coming home from dates to Alice wanting to hear all about it! Snow is trilled about it and a little curious about everything since he wants to be the cool mom and ask about the dates and such.

David is very overprotective of his daughters and always looking out for her no matter what happens so it takes some time for him to grow close to Neal but they do ofc! (which is probably why Neal tries to go to Killian first before proposing the idea to David about marriage to Emma 😂 and Killian watches Neal ask David for his blissing trying not to laugh at his husband and future son in law’s interaction)

What do you think? I just had this idea bouncing in my head for a while and i have so many other ones lol

This would be funny and awkward because technically Swanfire would be step-siblings in this universe. And normally, I’d say it wouldn’t work but in case, they obviously met prior to knowing who they were and their connections. I also think it works as Neal definitely views Killian as a father figure but he’s not technically his dad?

Honestly as much as Killian loves Neal, I see it going a little like Gilmore Girls (idk if you watch) where Luke grills Jess about treating Rory right and Jess is like “ you know you’re my guardian and not hers, right???” (Adding video for reference)

I’d actually make this an AU of my “Every Little Thing” verse where Killian had Alice right before falling in love with Snowing, then both she and baby Emma go through the wardrobe only to be separated. (I think Alice is like 3-4 years older in this verse) She would totally be the obnoxious big sister that wants to pick out what Emma wears. And Snow encourages it. (She lives vicariously through them as she always wanted an older sister).

I see David as totally making Neal squirm and think he’ll say no. And then burst out laughing.

I’d also work in Baby Snowing into this mix somehow (I always name him Ben is universes where Nealfire is alive). He’d be the only sane one in this family lol.

In this version of reality, I think Henry would like Hook 1.0, because he’s not an asshole trying to burn down the city. He’d be the cool pirate grandfather telling stories of a life at sea (and stories about his dad). Add in Regina as she and Snow are very close. She’d roll her eyes and tease the hell out of all of them, but also find joy in having a family this big and crazy.

Forget when Tallie (Swanfire’s daughter) is born. That little girl will be the most beloved in all the realms.

Now, I want all of this. It’s be a crazy, hectic life for all of them. In this universe. Emma being overwhelmed but also loving all the family who clearly care about her and her well-being. Thank you for giving me all these feels!

#Captain snowing #Swanfire #hookfire #ouat #once upon a time #emma swan #Snow White #Neal cassidy #David charming #Killian jones #Alice Jones #jackiequick #asked and answered

[octaviasdread]

any girls! dark academia movie recs? i really struggle to find anything not about a group of boys (as much as I love them)

SO MANY!!! This is probably a far more detailed answer than you were expecting but this is a popular question and I want to keep a list for myself and others.

Feel free to add to it/give opinions. I've tried to give a tw for anything I can remember

Girls! Dark Academia Movies/TV Shows

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

1950s Women’s college

Art professor! Julia Roberts

She’s legit the female Mr Keating of the art & college world

Feminism vs. Tradition

Maggie Gyllenhall x Ginnifer Goodwin; their characters were more than friends. Fight me.

Does not end how you expect

Strike!/All I Wanna Do/The Hairy Bird (1998)

MY FAVOURITE!!!

Free on YouTube under one of its various names

Comedy

1960s all girls boarding school

Young Kirsten Dunst

Group of girls plot to sabotage a merger with a boys school less prestigious than their own

Secret attic clubhouse meetings of the D.A.R aka Daughters of the American Ravioli (eaten cold, ew)

girls get political & advocate for their rights using ANY elaborate and chaotic scheme

TW: eating disorder, vomiting & creepy male teacher but the girls plot against him too

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

based on a short book I read for uni by Muriel Spark

1930s girls school in Edinburgh

Scottish teacher! Maggie Smith, controversial with a focus on romantic ideals

Spoiler alert, the liberal teacher is actually a fascist

Her group of fave students has cult- vibes and it’s fascinating

Picnic at Hanging Rock

1970s movie or 2018 mini series

Never watched either but I plan to

Wild Child (2008)

00s romcom every UK teen girl loves

Emma Roberts as the spoiled rich American teenager sent to a strict English boarding school

Plots to get herself expelled but oh no she’s making friends with the girls who help her

And the headmistress has a hot son, and he’s nice??? Double oh no

ICONIC SCENES

Everything! Goes! Wrong!

omg she burns the school down

Feel good, comfort, nostalgia

St Trinians (2007)

English girls boarding school

The kids are all criminals, no joke

So are the teachers

CHAOTIC

gay awakening for british girls

Art heist pulled off by school girls

Government tries to shut them down but oh no, the education minister & the headmistress are ex-lovers

Colin Firth x Rupert Everett in drag

Superior cast: Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Juno Temple, Stephen Fry, Colin Firth, etc...

embodies the phrase 'problematic fave'

St Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold (2009)

Mystery, pirate ancestors, hidden treasure

omg Shakespeare was a woman

girls disguised as boys to infiltrate and rob the posh boys school

Villain! David Tennant in that ICONIC boat scene

Teen girls vs. ancient misogynist brotherhood

like the first film but MORE chaotic and BETTER!???

The Falling (2014)

1960s all girls school

best friends! but its unrequited love

Agoraphobic + distant mother aka mommy issues

Sudden death and the school suppresses/ignores the students grief, sparking mass hysteria & a fainting epidemic in the girls

Cast: Maisie Williams (GoT) & Florence Pugh (Little Women) & Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders)

TW: teen pregnancy, death, vomiting, underage s*x, sibling inc*st, past s*xual assault

READ THE PLOT SUMMARY FIRST

The Book Thief (2013)

Based on an amazing book by Markus Zusak

set in 1940s Nazi Germany

Daughter of a communist whose family were taken by the Nazis/died is fostered by an older couple who teach her to read & she paints a dictionary on the basement walls

Coming of age story about a compulsive book thief. No joke, this kid steals books from banned book burnings and breaks into the mayor's library through the window

Family hides the Jewish son of an old friend in their basement and he helps her to start writing about her experiences in the war

TW: death, bombings, WW2 anti-semitism

Mary Shelley (2017)

Overall good & roughly biographical

Pretty costumes and aesthetic

Modern feminist take on Mary Shelly in her own time period

So many INACCURACIES for the drama so don’t take it as truth

Percy Shelley slander and not all of it is justified

Cast: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, and Maisie Williams

The Secret Garden (1993)

Based on a fave childhood book

1901 colonial India & Yorkshire, England

Orphaned, spoilt & neglected girl sent to live with her reclusive Uncle in the English countryside

Gothic elements, mysteries, secret doors/passages/locked gardens

local boy with a flock of animals, magic, kids chanting around a fire and all around immaculate vibes

Happy ending!!!

Hidden Figures (2016)

African-American women as mathematicians for NASA

1960s space project

Women balancing a career and family obligations

Deals with racial & gender discrimination

Loosely based on the lives of Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan who worked for NASA as engineers & mathematicians

Anne of Green Gables (1985) & sequel (1987)

Adaptation L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ books

Canada (late 1890s/early 1900s)

Highly imaginative & bookworm orphan is adopted by a reclusive elderly brother and sister duo

Small town & school years comedic drama

Unrequited Enemies -> Friends -> lovers

Inspiring new woman teacher

Girls re-enact Tennyson’s poem and nearly drown for the aesthetic™

Dramatic poetry reading with INTENSE 👀eye contact👀

Writer! Anne & English teacher! Anne dealing with unruly girls school antics

Collette (2018)

biographical drama on french writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Collette

Victorian & Edwardian era France

More talented than her husband so she ghostwrites for him

Fight for creative ownership of her wildly successful novels

Affairs with a woman called Georgie and also with Missy, born female but masculine presenting

Cast: Keira Knightly, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Netflix book adaptation

Younger sister of Sherlock Holmes

Victorian era! feminism/suffragettes

Mother-daughter focus

Mystery, adventure, secret codes, teens running away & escaping from (and eventually fighting) assassins

Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Fiona Shaw, Millie Bobby Brown

Ginger & Rosa (2012)

1960s England

best friends since literal birth navigating troubled teen years

poet & anti-nuclear activist! Ginger

off the rails but also catholic! Rosa

Shout out to Mark & Mark the gay godfathers we all want

family troubles 

TW: older man has an affair with a 17 yr old

Testament of Youth (2014)

based on WW1 memoir by Vera Brittain

young woman (writer & poetry lover) escapes traditional family & goes to study at Oxford University

abandons to become a war nurse

romance, tragedy and war trauma

Cast: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harrington (GoT), Taron Edgerton (Rocketman), Colin Morgan (Merlin)

Little Women (2019)

Writer! Jo & Artist! Amy

Mother/daughter focus and sister dynamics

the March sisters’ theatre club is *chefs kiss*

champagne problems edits of Jo x Laurie are a mood

Ambivalent ending perfectly captures Louisa May Alcott’s dilemma with the book the movie is based on

set in 1860s America

ALL STAR CAST and a Greta Gerwig masterpeice

Lady Bird (2017)

coming of age in early 2002/2003 Sacramento, California

all girls catholic school

writer! Christine aka Lady Bird wants to get outta town and start her life again at college 'in a city with culture'

Mother/daughter dynamics - so realistic!

I live for that Jesus car stunt & the nun's reaction

school theatre program

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein

Another Greta Gerwig gem

Beguiled (2017)

Virginia, civil war era

Girls school with only five students and two teachers left

Find an injured Union army soldier & bring him inside

Women & teenagers want his attention (v. problematic) before uniting against him

(tbh you'll either love it, hate it, or watch once & forget it)

Sofia Coppola film so its very feminine gaze

TW: violence, death, underage

Legally Blonde (2001)

No questions will be taken

Elle Woods was the blue print

TV series:

House of Anubis (2011-2013)

I know it’s a kids/young teen show but I still unironically love it

ANCIENT EGYPT!!!!

Modern day with Victorian era links to treasure hunters & Egyptian research expeditions (stealing from tombs)

Chosen one plot lines, curses, kidnapping, mysteries, secret tunnels under the school, elixir of life

Teens have investigate & protect themselves cus oh no the TEACHERS are involved in some shady stuff

new American kid at British boarding school is the actual premise not just a fanfic au

Nostalgic, light-hearted, funny, and kinda cheesy but I will accept no criticism

The Alienist (2018 -now)

Mid 1890s, New York

Woman’s private detective agency (Season 2)

Serial killer mystery

Woman secretary turns detective and teams up with a criminal psychiatrist and a newspaper editor to solve crime

TW: violence, child pr*stit*tion

Cast: Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl

The Queen’s Gambit (2020)

Woman chess prodigy

1950s & 1960s

TW: drug & alcohol abuse

Gentleman Jack (2019 - now)

Based on the diaries of Anne Lister

Victorian Yorkshire, England

Upper-class lesbians

Confident, suit wearing! Anne Lister x shy! Ann Walker

Business woman! Anne running the family mines

Cast: Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster) & Sophie Rundle (Peaky Blinders)

TW: violence

Gilmore Girls (2000-2007)

bubbly/ambitious single mom + intelligent daughter

bookworm! Rory Gilmore gets into a prestigious private school and then an Ivy League college

Small town drama is comedic gold

Fast dialogue packed with pop culture and literary references

Comforting & nostalgic

TEAM JESS

Anne with an E (2017-2019)

Loose adaptation of L.M. Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ books

they completely change the plot lines but it’s still very good content!

Orphan girl with trauma and a love of books/poetry is adopted by an elderly brother & sister duo, bringing light and fresh ideas to a rural community

Feminism, girls writing club, lgbtq safe spaces, girls eduction, black/indigenous representation

Miss Stacy as THAT inspiring teacher

Aunt Josephine’s lavish gay parties have my heart

TW: creepy male teacher tries to marry a student, racial discrimination, indigenous assimilation school

Victoria (2016-2019)

Adaption of Queen Victoria’s life

Victoria navigating her political, royal, and personal life

Albert’s involvement with The Great Exhibition, 1851 (on cultural + industrial innovations)

Alfred Paget x Edward Drummond is exquisite

Gorgeous costumes and aesthetics

TW: bury your gays trope

Derry Girls (2018-now)

1990s Northern Ireland during the troubles

Comedy, episodes 20-25 mins long

English boy sent to an all girls Catholic school with his cousin

✨Dead Poets Society parody episode ✨with a free-spirited female teacher

Sister Michael, the sarcastic nun who hates her job & reads the exorcist for giggles

Wee anxious lesbian! Clare Devlin (plus her friends wearing rainbow pins)

Badass with bad ideas! Michelle Mallon

Main Character! Erin Quinn

Lovable weirdo who would fight a polar bear! Orla McCool

Wee English fella & honorary Derry girl! James Maguire

Dickinson (2019-now)

Loose adaption of the poet Emily Dickinson’s life

Set in 19th century Massachusetts, US

Historical drama with modern dialogue & music that works SEAMLESSLY

gives a great understanding of Emily Dickinson’s poems

💕Vintage gays! Emily x Sue💕

Theatre club, writing, poetry, dressing as men to sneak into lectures, love letters, teen drama, feminism, and an underground abolitionist journal as a brief side plot in season 2

Wiz Khalifa plays death in a horse drawn carriage

TW: opium use

A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017-2019)

Based on great childhood books

Bookworm! brother, Inventor! sister, and baby sister with sharp teeth

Mystery, secret organisations, orphaned siblings figuring things out & fending for themselves against the villain after their fortune

Adults either cartoon evil, comedically incompetent, or SPIES

Boarding school, library owner, scientific researcher, and theatre episodes

Ambiguous time period which is really fun to try and pin point

Killing Eve (2018-now)

Classic detective who has homoerotic tension with the assassin she is tracking down

British Detective! Eve Polastri figures out the notorious assassin MI5 are investigating is a woman, is fired & then put on a secret MI6 case with a small team

Assassin! Villanelle, a psychopath with a tragic past and a mastery of both accents & fashion

Woman MI6 boss! Carolyn Martens, head of Russian section

Travel Europe following Villanelle’s killings and escaping the assassins sent by Villanelle’s organisation

‘You’re supposed to be my enemy and moral opposite but omg you’re the only one smart enough to get me and why am I obsessed with you????'

🚨 GO IN FOR A KISS AND THEN STAB YOUR ENEMY 🚨

Cable Girls/Las chicas del cable (2017-2020)

Spanish drama set in 1920s Madrid

Four young women at a telecommunications company form a group of friends and help navigate the difficult situations they are all in

Secret identities, dangerous pasts, murder, crime, lgbtq couple & throuple, trans man character, feminism/suffragists

girls commit crimes for humanitarian reasons and cover! it! up!

UNDERRATED SHOW!!!!

Gorgeous costumes and set

Haven’t finished it yet and I’m catching up

TW: abuse, violence, death

Outlander (2014 - now)

haven’t watched yet but plan to

Woman time travels to Scotland, 1743

Rebel highlanders, pirates, British colonies, American revolutionary war

Time jumps between 18th & 20th century

#CO posts #answered asks #asks #dark academia girls #dark academia recommendations #dark academia recs #dark academia women #dark academia movies #dark academia tv

[gingerteaonthetardis]

you know, when rory, paris, & co. go to new york for the bangles concert, they meet two 'really hot' guys, one of whom is coincidentally named jess, and now i want an au where it's not just some random guy with the same name, it's literally jess mariano at a bangles concert

#i just think it would be v funny a) to explain why he's at a freaking bangles reunion concert #and b) to have him choose to stay there bc he's still having his patented jess love at first sight moment with rory (which paris is #endlessly sabotaging). #abbey.txt #literati #gilmore girls #jess mariano

[literatigifs]

anonymous asked: hi! i dont know if this has been asked before but i recently saw ur au recommendations for post-series aus and was wondering abt whether u have any recommendations for chilton-yale era?

Sure! I know some chilton-yale AU fics, though I haven't been able to read all of them (but the summaries sound good):

this is all addition by subtraction - Chilton AU where Rory meets Jess at Chilton in season 1.

where soul meets body - this is actually a Sense8 AU where Rory and Jess meet each other by being "connected", though it does have Chilton as one of the surroundings and Paris is a supporting character.

this is just how we were taught to love - another Chilton AU where the events of season 1 are altered once Rory meets Jess at Chilton.

Starstuck - this isn't a 'direct' Yale AU but it does take place in season 4 and it's a Groundhog's Day AU where the events of Nag Hammadi keep happening to Rory and Jess, and they're forced to team up in order to figure out how to break out of the time loop.

Hidden Maps - again, not a direct Yale AU but it's a Serendipity AU where Rory and Jess have a faithful meeting in New York in season 3 instead of Jess coming to Stars Hollow, and the fic follows them individually throughout season 4. Very much worth a read.

Sundays at Luke's - this fic takes place in season 5 where Rory decides to fake date Jess in order to get her grandmother off of her back when it comes to her matchmaking. This fic takes liberty with a lot of the events prior to season 5, but it's incredible and very much recommended.

distilla truant - a Chilton AU where Jess is a student when Rory comes in during her sophomore year. This is still ongoing but is regularly updated and the writing is exquisite.

Lux et Veritas - a Yale AU where Jess is slightly older than Rory and also a TA. This AU deviates from some canon facts but is really well-written.

Attitude Adjustments - this is a Chilton AU where Jess and Rory's lives are essentially swapped, Rory is the hooligan while Jess is the more behaved teenager.

The Kids are Alright - a Chilton AU where Paris and Jess become step-siblings and Jess attends Chilton. This fic is part of a series that also covers Paris, Jess and Rory's years in Yale.

Four Letter Words And How We Use Them - this is an older unfinished Chilton AU where I believe that Rory and Jess start fake-dating.

iron hearts all turn to rust - this is an AU fic that goes back and forth between several years and does take place a bit at Yale, though again, not a direct Yale AU.

These are all that I can think of for now, hope this list helps!

#literati #gilmore girls #jess x rory #fic rec #literati fic rec

[georgianadarcies]

What WIPs are you (not) working on? I know about the "Blue Skies" sequel, but what about the other ones???

omg okay okay so one of them is an au where after having rory, lorelai agreed to marry chris, so rory is raised in hartford high society. she and jess have never met so it'll be what happens when they meet at 21 and it's gonna be SO fun if it ever gets written omg. I won't share all the details because some things need to be a surprise but they're going to date in secret for a while there it's going to be. fantastic

another one is a dawson's creek style au where dean jess and rory are all best friends, like jess and dean were close and dean and rory were close (dean's family moved to stars hollow when he was very young and liz took jess to new york after several years but he and dean stayed in touch) and basically jess and rory fall for each other and all hell breaks loose ajsjfhsjd. like they start off very antagonistic but after a couple years pacey style jess falls for her and she falls for him <33 again if it ever gets written it's gonna be so dramatic. god. truly a teen drama

the last one is one that I thought up like two days ago and it was SUPPOSED to be a practice fic so I could warm up with my writing again and try to let myself have a not great first draft (because I struggle a lot with that) but it's already kind of taken over me ajsjdf. but basically because I have no sense of originality it's a the office/jim and pam au <3 loosely inspired by a bullet point au I don't really have a plan for this one either I want to just see where it takes me but I'll loosely follow at least season 1-3 jim and pam but with jess and rory, with new dialogue and stuff but yk.

and yet... with all four I am just sitting switching between docs and slowly losing my mind <33

#ask #stellaluna33 #THANK YOU for asking have I mentioned that you are the best??

[outpastthemoat]

there's a VERY niche gilmore girls au I'd like to see where rory runs off to new york with jess at the end of season four BUT I don't know if I want to write it or if I just want to read it 🤔

#gilmore girls #i think about it CONSTANTLY

[scoopsgf]

Whenever you mention any idea that you have for an AU I'm all 👀👀 but I won't ask for this new one since I don't want to seem like I wanna put more pressure on you than you already seem to be putting on yourself

NO ACTUALLY IM KIND OF DOWN TO SAY just bc im so curious as to whether or not people would be interested in it. the basic premise is: lorelai gives rory up for adoption instead of keeping her because she thinks it’s ultimately what’s best for her kid, but rory actually ends up having a worse life and bounces around from foster home to foster home, wherein she encounters jess. they end up becoming friends, and rory is still very much academically inclined bc she thinks college is probably the best way to get herself into a better situation, and there’d be lots of literati content in school libraries and in various locations around new york. meanwhile lor is absolutely full of regret and determined to track down her daughter, and would probably enlist luke’s help or something. there are a lot of kinks i need to work out with it but. i’m kind of obsessed if I do say so myself

#asks #anon #i’ll need to finish the yale au before i even think about writing it #but im so close on that front anyways that it hopefully wouldn’t be very long from now #i just. rory and jess as unloved kids who only have each other #lorelai being convinced that she wouldn’t be a good enough mom but then growing and realizing ‘hey wait i so would be’ #exploring what parts of lorelai would still carry over into rory’s personality without them being in each other’s lives #and what parts wouldnt #i feel like rory would be less sheltered and a little rougher around the edges #but no less rambly and anxiety prone #my girl <3333 #anyway LMK!

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(tried to hit all different crossovers but it was a challenge lmao)

1. Kirsty and Richie have a standing date that every week (maybe it was Fridays before Friday Night Dinners?) they go for dinner somewhere outside of Stars Hollow so that they can just hang out and talk and catch up without their family or anyone in town overhearing?  They keep it up all the way through Chilton and Yale and even as adults

2. this is totally up to you but maybe!! when Emily and Rory go to Europe after season 4, Richie gets invited on a trip with Sophie and the LDB boys?

3. Willow and Richie climb up to each other’s rooms to talk on a regular basis!  Also I like to imagine that their windows face each other so they can do the You Belong With Me Music Video talking through the window thing lmao

4. Anytime that Christopher shows up, Richie stays with Charles instead — he has his own room (iirc?) but usually he and Charles will just have a sleepover in the poolhouse until he’s gone!  And when Emily and Richard are too much to deal with, Charles stays with Richie!

5. Instead of Brittany, Faith is the one to notice that Abbie is the only person who didn't sing in Duet Week

6. Despite not having any idea what she's talking about, Richie is always happy to listen to Paige ramble about fashion and to get dragged along when she goes shopping

7. Whenever Jess and Rory get too pretentious about books, Char and Grace will get into intense arguments over trashy novels just to get them to stop — both are capable of being just as pretentious but they get bored of those arguments sometimes

8. Grace is the one to encourage Cecilia to show her songs to Hep Alien

9. Richie spends the summer after s2 in New York with Blythe!  In a non-Charles-And-Kaito AU, this could be the start of a romance too!

10. While she’s his sister and he loves her, Charles also holds a lot of resentment towards how blatantly their parents favour Regina

Send me a 👋 and I’ll give you a random crossover headcanon

#ask #answered #the october reviewer