#team jess

[kimberly-stocks]

Adult Jess cosplaying Luke

#milo ventimiglia #gilmore girls #jess mariano #heroes #peter petrelli #jack pearson #this is us #team jess

[raisedbythetv89]

Anyone who says "Rory should have married Logan" or that Emily and Richard were a good influence on Rory or that they weren't "that bad" of parents to Lorelai just DO NOT GET IT and "it" being literally the entire messaging of the whole show.

Rory started at chilton when Lorelai left (literally Rory had her birthday party in ep 6 and her first day of chilton is ep 2)

They have the exact same name, look the same and it's said countless times that Rory is just like her mother. So, Rory is picking up in Lorelai's "correct life path" (according to Richard and Emily) exactly where Lorelai left off when she had her and left home, continuing at the "good schools" going to an ivy league college, has a coming out party, joins the D.A.R. etc. Rory has the life Lorelai's parents always wanted for Lorelai AND YET!!!

Rory still doesn't marry "her christopher" aka Logan, but is having his baby and is choosing to be a single mom while Jess is her endgame because Luke is Lorelai's endgame and Jess is Luke and Rory is Lorelai.

Literally the ENTIRE POINT of the show is that everything that Emily and Richard were so worked up about and prioritized all of Lorelai's life about her life choices and how she "threw her life away" because she got pregnant, moved out and became apart of the working class and didn't go to any ivy league college and marry Christopher do not matter and the idea that she "threw her life away" and wasted her potential is absolute bullshit. Because Rory does all the things Lorelai didn't get to do and the results were IDENTICAL except Rory wasn't a teen mom and she would likely continue to live at home with Lorelai and Luke when her baby is first born breaking the those specific Lorelai/Emily cycles because Lorelai did her best to meet her daughter's emotional needs and therefore was able to have a infinitely better relationship with her and Rory is always willing to accept her help and support because it doesn't come at the emotional cost that Lorelai getting help from her parents took because they are literally emotionally abusive and controlling parents - they aren't just bad parents they are abusive (that's a whole other post but there are people who are just human and make mistakes like most of the other characters in the show and then their are abusive ones and Emily especially but also Richard emotionally abuse their daughter even though they help with money and aren't completely horrible 100% of the time that doesn't make them not abusive and while that is never explicitly stated we see and hear how horrible all of the other chilton parents and Logan's circle of friends parents are to their kids demonstrating just how horrible parents in Emily and Richards social circle truly are and it has nothing to do with Lorelai "being difficult or stubborn" as Emily tries to claim but I digress...)

That point of, what Emily and Richard prioritized their entire lives is all bullshit, is literally driven home by Emily's speech at the end of AYITL that "all of this is bullshit!" Emily acknowledges - once Richard is gone and therefore no longer fits into her society like she used to as a wife and married woman - that playing along with all of the societal norms and her ultra-wealthy social circle is SOUL SUCKING and bullshit! She is SO HAPPY to have a home deed with HER NAME ON IT. She has an interested suitor but it's clear she never plans to marry him and she gets a job at a museum as a tour guide for crying out loud!! The old Emily would be horrified by that - she's literally making choices so similar to Lorelai's by the end showing Lorelai's choices WERE THE RIGHT ONES. Moving away from an environment that hurt you and misunderstood and abused you and fighting and working your ass off to build a life that's yours. Even building a loving community with her housekeepers family that moves in with her!!!

All of Luke's "rantings" about the wealthy and corporate greed, owning and operating a diner even though he's shown to have the cooking skills and know-how to do "more". Taking something he inherited from his father but making it his own by turning it into a diner instead of keeping it a hardware store. Whereas by the end of AYITL Christopher is working within his family's business, staying on the path his parents wanted for him and it's the same with Logan - marrying the woman his parents want him to marry and working for his father - The show tells and shows us over and over again, not just doing what society tells you you should do with your life but knowing yourself well enough to decide for yourself and taking the time to find out is what is best and you shouldn't let anyone else dictate that for you. The show is very pro "break out of the boxes society tries to shove you into"

There is a whole other convo to be had about privilege that comes with being white and thin and pretty and coming from money that more easily enables your ability to do so as well as Lorelai having a community in Stars Hollow that has always supported her which allowed her to leave home at 16 with a newborn and build a great life for herself because if she failed she wouldn't end up homeless because her support system and her parents provided a safety net so the message is very much only aimed at the characters within the show that have the ability to make your own way in life but that is what Rory and Lorelai do (Rory's really starts with rejecting Logan's marriage proposal when she graduates and taking a grueling, low paying campaign job instead of using any of her many connections to get her a more prestigious and stable position whereas before she was absolutely on the "conveyer belt" described by the "other daughter" of the wealthy family of Harvard alumni who helped Rory with all her college application questions, who chose not to go to college like her two other siblings) as well and Luke and Jess both make their own way and build a life that best suits their passions and skills. Which is why Luke/Lorelai and Jess/Rory are endgame because you can't have a relationship between someone who fits into their societal mold and one who broke out, it just doesn't work. Logan's affair with Rory shows he has the desire to break out of his mold but never has the strength to do so, just like Christopher which is why they could never truly keep up with the Gilmore Girls.

The show does have flaws in it's execution of this message because of internalized misogyny, white supremacy, and fatphobia that we are still struggling to get out of writers rooms to this day so don't think this post is me saying everything about the show or Rory and Lorelai is perfect because they absolutely are flawed characters who makes questionable decisions and mistakes but to me they are all very realistic of 2 pretty white women in the early 2000's dealing with all of the trauma that came from Richard and Emily's abuse and Rory being raised by a teen mom and a completely unreliable father for most of her childhood.

Anyway Team Jess, Team Luke and Team Rory receives entirely too much hate because of misogyny and her trauma is completely overlooked because she so rarely shows how much hurt she's endured in her young life and is carrying the weight of the world and her entire family's expectations and "legacy" on her young shoulders. Emily and Richard never being able to let go Lorelai getting pregnant and leaving home and SHOWING THAT/SAYING IT around Rory made her feel responsible for all the issues between Lorelai and her parents, her grandparents pain and disappointment and to "fix" all her mother's "mistakes" - her burn out/break down in AYITL makes COMPLETE sense and her choice to allow herself to be "just like her mom" by keeping her baby and being a single mom is the start of her shedding those burdens she's carried her entire life and letting her just be herself even if that looks a lot like her mother who her grandparents and everyone in their world has been telling her for decades is a failure and a disappointment. Rory has always tried to please her grandparents and having to tell her grandmother she's going to be a single mom is basically the worse thing she could do in Emily's eyes (at least the old Emily who knows how post AYITL might react because she's stopped caring and therefore stopped trying to be so controlling but her revelation might not be enough to counter news like that that hits a wound that she literally never even tried to heal). Radical self acceptance despite what society aka her grandparents and their world thinks is what is meant for both Lorelai and Rory and choosing Luke/Jess over Christopher/Logan is apart of that acceptance.

#team jess gilmore girls #jess and rory #rory and jess #team jess #luke and lorelai #lorelai and luke #jess x rory #rory x jess #luke x lorelai #lorelai x luke #rory gilmore #lorelai gilmore #gilmore girls meta

[roeyliteratiforever]

So if your looking at things from Jess' pov his mom just kicked him out to live with his uncle he barely knows, he has a lady he's just meeting for the first time talking to him about how she knows what he's going through and to him it feels condescending even if it wasn't meant that way by Lorelai. He doesn't want to be in Stars Hollow initially so he starts acting out to test how quickly he could get sent back such as stealing garden noms...etc, then he meets a girl who shares the same interests as him and the only person in town so far that doesn't automatically treat him like a preconceived opinion about him and she makes him feel comfortable so he proceed to impress his crush with writing notes in her book margins (that says I want you to know me) and pulls pranks that would make her laugh to then learn she has a boyfriend and learn that he is beloved by her mother that loathes him.

Dean does all the "perfect boyfriend things" while being a possessive, explosive, and an emotionally abusive control freak. Jess only wants to then spend more time with her, but the whole town already thinks he is trouble because of the reputation he set for himself.

He gets into a car accident with Rory and people then act like he's the spawn of Satan. He becomes so anxious and feels so bad after the accident that he leaves town because he doesn't want to cause Rory any harm or get harm from the weirdo townies. When she comes for him in New York he gets this burst of hope in him which is why he decides to move back for the possibility of being with Rory.

After Rory kissed him the first time he was so gone for her and in that moment that was all he wanted. He genuinely thought she was going to break up with Dean and choose to be with him, but when she didn't and left instead (my boy who already has deep abandonment wounds) is hurt because she didn't outright choose him and left. He then was alone without the one person in that town that he wanted to be around and so he met Shane who didn't want anything serious so it was a perfect way to try to mask his pain with her. He mysteriously gets a car, and people are going nuts thinking he stole it, and he's thinking I can't even get a second job without people thinking I'm a criminal, and I can't get a second job without people accusing me of being a drug dealer or a stripper.

Once him and Rory get together he is so happy he doesn't want to mess it up with her and he gets nervous because he wants everything to go right. She's the one he's been waiting for and now he has her. Then her ex boyfriend starts stalking and harassing him in secret and he feels like he can't do anything about it, and can't even tell his girlfriend about it because he thinks she won't believe her if he told her, so he bottles it up. When he gets attacked by the swan and she thought he got in a fight with Dean and didn't believe him it really hurt him. (I don't blame Rory for this she had no way of knowing and Dean was being manipulative with his "nice guy" and shitty behaviors but it still hurt Jess none the less.) After that he begins to put up his walls again.

When he realizes he's been messing up after not calling he then starts trying to do better and set dates and plans to be with her. All he wants to do is make her happy at this point. Then he gets the news that he's not graduating and in that moment it feels like everything everyone had always said about him came true, he felt like a failure and knowing that he wasn't going to be able to keep his promise to Rory that he would take her to prom crushed him. He wanted so badly to be there for her and do all the boyfriend things and he was so afraid of telling her he wasn't graduating and so upset he couldn't keep his promise to her. His smart girlfriend was getting into an ivy league school and he wasn't even going to graduate highschool and the thought of telling her that was horrible to him.

He could feel he was losing her and he thought once he told her that it would be over, and ended up messing things up with her anyways. He felt like he was doing her a favor by leaving because he figured she would want him gone. He didn't think she would want him to stay, even though that's all she wanted. He was battling his demons alone and was used to everyone shipping him off when he messed up that he thought he was doing her a favor by leaving after he messed up so bad.

His father that left him as a baby showed up in his life for the first time and he didn't know how to handle that. Once Luke kicked him out he ran to his dad that left him because crashing on his couch or floor was better than staying with his neglectful deadbeat mother.

He finds out his uncle was hiding his car from him and felt double betrayed he was already feeling abandoned yet again after Luke kicked him out to then find out he took something he worked so hard to get from him he was more betrayed. He comes back to Stars Hollow to get his car and everyone still wants him gone. Luke tells Jess to stay away from Rory so he proceeds trying to avoid her while he is there and he knows how badly he messed up with her and he wants to talk to her but when he sees her at the firelight festival he wants to explain to her but she is still so mad and all he could get out was that he loves her. He just wanted her to know he then leaves because he doesn't expect her to say anything he just wanted her to know. Jess is deeply hurting at this point inside and his pain is at it's peak. He just keeps digging a deeper whole and doesn't know how to fix it at this point.

Luke convinces Jess to go to his neglectful mother's wedding and goes to a bachelor party where he is assaulted by his stepdad to be at a bar and he naturally goes into defense mode. He was so used to his other abusive step dad's that he was constantly in defense mode and fought back. He goes to his mother's wedding anyways and walks her down the isle despite everything his mom put him through. Luke gives him the self help book that he had been reading, and Jess reads it and tries to better himself as well, meanwhile Lorelai scoffs to Luke about it. (I love Lorelai but that was extremely uncalled for by her and it just makes me think no matter what he does or how better he becomes he will always resent him, and it just makes no sense that she has this one sided grudge with a kid that was deeply in pain.) He makes up with Luke and thanks him for everything he did for him, and then he goes to try to apologize and tell Rory how he feels, but then he sees Dean there and he is thrown off and he just wants to make things right so in the spur of the moment he asks her to leave with him because he just wants to fix what they had. (He wasn't thinking rationally, but he meant it when he said she could count on him now and so he went out and turned his life around and made something for himself and came back to show her how much she could count him now even if it meant as a friend. He would still be there for her and he showed her that he could be the person she always knew he was. He still didn't expect anything from her he just wanted to show her his book, and let her know he couldn't have done it without her.)

He was so badly traumatized while him and Rory were together and it couldn't have possibly worked out at that time. He was battling so much pain internally, and everyone in that town was against him and actively hating him 😭 and I just feel for what he was going through, and I'm just so proud of who he turned out to be. I'm not sure what this rant was anymore but I'm just thinking about Jess' perspective and his pain right now. He was in so much pain while him and Rory were together and he didn't know how to properly express that or tell her that, and I just want to hug him and I'm so proud of him for how far he came and how much he overcame his pain and trauma and ugh I just feel so much right now. (Also I had a lot of coffee today and my autistic/ADHD brain is just going with thoughts right now.)

#gilmore girls #jess mariano #literati #rory gilmore #jess and rory #rory and jess #jess x rory #rory x jess #team jess

[imlovelace]

"ice cream in coooones"

#me n who #gilmore girls #gg #rory gilmore #jess mariano #rory x jess #rory and jess #literati #team jess

[rha3nyr4]

will never understand how jess was supposed to be the bad boy because what?? he literally always minded his own business except for a few harmless pranks that made everyone lose their shit for no reason

like everyone thinking he stole the money for his car or stole the whole car but hb was the employee of the month at WALMART

he came back to his mom's wedding JUST because Luke asked him to even though Liz was a shitty mom and then read SELF HELP BOOKS?????

everyone was praying on his downfall and the day he gets arrested but no RORY gets arrested luke ALSO gets arrested and then EMILY GILMORE? like if jess was the one who got arrested everyone would be gossiping about it INCLUDING lorelai who was probably the #1 jess hater

ending my short "rant" because im sleepy with the fact that jess was a lover boy and a hopeless romantic just in a leather jacket and walls up so high with one hidden door and only one person has the key

#jess mariano #his charcter development #he's so #i would pay billions to read the subsect #he's so lover boy #I wish we got his spin off #we were robbed fr #character development #team jess #for me #gilmore girls #gg #literati

[rain-on-the-moon]

they don't make men like him anymore

#jess mariano #milo ventimiglia #gilmore girls #team jess #rory gilmore #jess and rory #jess x rory #lorelai gilmore #luke danes #lane kim #lgbtq+ #aesthetic

[rogue-academic]

#my aesthetics #autumn moodboard #autumn #fall moodboard #gilmore girls #rory gilmore aesthetic #rory gilmore #team jess #jess mariano #jess and rory #literati #lorelai gilmore #study aesthetic #study inspo #chilton rory #chaotic academia #chaotic academic aesthetic #cozy aesthetic #cozy moodboard #moodboard #study motivation #studying #studyblr #school #bookblr #booklr #books #books & libraries #bookworm #reading

[poppletonink]

Jess Mariano: An Inspired Reading Recommendations List

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

On The Road by Jack Kerouac

Sweet Dreams: The Story Of The New Romantics by Dylan Jones

Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

We Owe You Nothing, Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews by Daniel Sinker

Factotum by Charles Bukowski

The Green Mile by Stephen King

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Why Bowie Matters by Will Brooker

A Light that Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of the Smiths by Tony Fletcher

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

1984 by George Orwell

Punk Avenue: The New York City Underground 1972-1982 by Phil Marcade

Emma by Jane Austen

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger

Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg

The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

#books #book blog #booklr #readblr #book reccs #book recommendations #bookaddict #bookblr #bookworm #jess mariano #team jess #jess mariano vibes #jess mariano book list #jess mariano reading #book list #gilmore girls #gilmore girls book list #ernest only has lovely things to say about you

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

average conversation between two gilmore girls fans

#gilmore girls #jess mariano #team jess

[personaldiary]

role model

#moodboard #gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #autumn #autumn aesthetic #autumn season #fall aesthetic #gilmore girls aesthetic #team jess #rory gilmore #dark academia #lana del rey aesthetic #taylor swift #brown moodboard #coffee #luke x lorelai #fav couple #cozy aesthetic #book #lana del ray aesthetic #cinamon girl #school

[heyvivalapluto]

jess really went from “i don’t even know you” to “i know you better than anyone. this isn’t you”, huh

#jess mariano x rory gilmore #jess mariano #gilmore girls #gg #team jess #milo ventimiglia #literati gilmore girls #literati

[kimberly-stocks]

Inspired by @ernestonlysayslovelythings 's latest fic update, I decided to make this poll.

Cozy pic of Jess to get your attention 😍

#milo ventimiglia #gilmore girls #jess mariano #team jess

[roeyliteratiforever]

I'm so over "Jess not wanting to go to the carnival with Rory is proof he was a bad boyfriend" or "This is proof that he just stopped trying after he got her." Jess has serious social anxiety and it makes sense why he wouldn't be so interested in going to the stupid town things when he's a total outcast in the town. He went to meet Emily when he didn't want to for Rory (even though it didn't go well) and even agreed to go again, he would go to Lane's band practice with Rory, they talked about going on dates we just never got to see it, they started having movie nights and he was making more plans for other movie nights, he wanted to take Rory to prom even though he wouldn't be particular interested in going to prom and was upset he couldn't get the tickets, he went to Kyles party with Rory even though he was upset about not going to graduate or being able to take Rory to prom. Was he perfect as a boyfriend? No, but can we stop with the narrative that "he just stopped trying." There's also the flip side of this where Luke also tells Lorelai not to get used to him going to the town things with her after they got together but this is supposed to show Jess was the worst boyfriend?! Luke and Jess both hated the stupid town things, but no one ever here is over here saying "oh this is proof Luke was a bad boyfriend." Luke and Jess both have their flaws for sure, but it definitely makes sense for both of their characters to not really want to be involved with the town events.

#gilmore girls #literati #rory gilmore #jess and rory #jess mariano #jess x rory #rory and jess #rory x jess #team jess

[imlovelace]

one thing about the gilmore girls that pisses me off.

while rory and jess were dating we only saw their arguments and reconciliations. i can't believe that we saw their date (?) scenes only while she was dating dean.

#rory and jess deserved better #gilmore girls #gg #rory gilmore #jess mariano #dean forrester #rory x jess #literati #team jess

[espresssobean]

why is it that when luke confronts lorelai about dean not being good enough for rory, citing— very logically — that dean was unstable by deciding to marry lindsay, knowing he was pining for rory, lorelai immediately jumps to his defense, saying he’s “only 19, give him a break” when jess literally came from an abusive single parent home and mouthed off out of fear and anger when he was a literal minor in a new town after being abandoned by his mother and he’s written off as “bad news”. he never did anything half as slimy as dean cheating on his literal wife. i love lorelai but god she’s so dense sometimes 🙄

#literati #anti dean forester #lorelai gilmore #luke danes #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #team jess #jess mariano

[coolchickblog]

Dating Jess Mariano aesthetic 🤎🍂☕️📚

- Jess’s girl🥀🖤

Pt. 2

#jess gilmore girls #gilmore girls moodboard #rory gilmore moodboard #gilmore girls aesthetic #rory gilmore icons #jess x rory #rory x jess #rory and jess #jess mariano #literati #team jess #literature #books aesthetic #books and reading #rory gilmore aesthetic #moodboard #lorelai gilmore icons #gilmore girls autumn #gilmore girls fall #autumn aesthetic #fall moodboard #fall academia #gilmore girls icons #rory gilmore #gilmore girls #lorelai gilmore #lukesdiner #lukes diner #autumn leaves #fall aesthetic