@gymleadercheren read my brain (again) so i have to post my essay draft
if a tumblr sexyman is a conventionally unattractive man whose perceived sexiness is abnormally high due to having a certain collection of Attractive Personality Traits, rock is literally the opposite. tumblr unsexyman (name subject to change)
rock is a conventionally attractive twink who nonetheless manages to not just undo every bit of god-given advantage he was given but actually pushes into the negatives through his incredibly odd and off-putting behavior and wack fashion sense. which is ironic since the reason he gives for these — in his own words— is “I wanna be the ideal man”
of course, this is based on HIS concept of the “ideal man”, an ideal which no one but him seems to share. in this same dialogue he acknowledges that “chasing trends” (like idk allowing marvelous to give him a makeover instead of insisting on what they very politely termed his “unique worldview and aesthetic sense”??) might get him actual dates but ultimately would rather just kinda hope that striving for his vision of the “ideal man” will land him some interest… but it does not. he dies utterly bitchless unless rescued from his Free Man To A Good Home cardboard box by the player.
rock is this strange paradox of being chronically unable to just be himself while refusing to be inauthentic in his made up persona. a paradox where both of the contradictory things he decides to do repel everyone who might otherwise be into him.
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Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls-Season 2, Epsiode 13 ("A Tisket A Tasket") Part 1 of ???
So this is like, the first heavily Jess-centered episode after his debut back in 2/5. He's kind of been chilling behind the counter at Luke's for 8 episodes. He's been seen, he's been mentioned since he lives rent free in the head of every citizen of Stars Hollow. But here, he has truly arrived, making his debut in one of these shitshow eps that combine Dean, Jess, the DALA (Dean and Lorelai Affair), etc etc. A real fucking doozy.
PS: All previous commetary is now linked in my pinned post.
What have we here? Oh, look everyone, it's yet ANOTHER fundraiser/excuse for Taylor Doose to embezzle money from the citizens. All proceeds to go to the retirement home, right. Sure. Where is this mythical retirement home that no one has ever mentioned and has never been seen before? I think he mis spelled "All proceeds line Taylor Doose's pockets."
Pictured below: A senior citizen of Stars Hollow after receiving money raised for the retirement home.
Oh, Lorelai is just STARVING for some Dean Forrester today. She’s foaming at the mouth.
Patty: Do you have any change? I don't know where all my quarters go.
Lorelai: Down some guy's g-string?
Patty: Oh no. A quarter would be insulting.
Miss Patty for Prez. On my gritty adult Gilmore Girls Reboot titled The Hollow I would make sure we'd see a scene of Miss Patty at the male strip revue, it would be hilarious.
I've never seen "You". Is this "You"? Is Dean Forrester the guy from "You"?
I've warned you two to stop doing this. Time to resort to drastic measures.
Go and get him Lorelai. This fine specimen is right there waiting for you in the Cheese Ball aisle.
The way Jess Mariano's name rolls off of Dean's tongue with such vitriol, such disgust, the way Jess Mariano clearly lives rent free in Dean Forrester's otherwise empty little head 24/7, it gives me tremendous joy.
Jess' jacket may as well be the equivalent of a cold blast from a garden hose. It's so ugly that it will put a damper on even the most passionate makeouts (of which Rory and Dean's was not) because you must stop whatever you’re doing and gaze upon it, to wonder what rock-bottom of a church donation bin his mother scraped that thing from, or maybe he took it from one of Liz's lousy husbands who left it behind. I'm telling you, that in my opinion, this is the ugliest man's coat to ever exist, and the other thing that makes it so ugly is that it's way too big on Milo's tiny frame. He's drowning in it.
Where was I? *ugly coat ugly coat ugly coat* Uhh, let's get back to it...
Does anyone else think about the fact that Gilmore Girls (2000) was the last time anyone would see Milo with even a single curl in his hair? He had jumped to Peter Petrelli hair by S6 and never looked back.
RENT-FREE.
Someone: Can you sum up the relationship between Jess & Dean in 15 words or less?
Me: I Gotchu fam.
Rory Giving Dean Completely Sensible Advice: I wish you two could get along. He lives here. You run into him. He goes to school with you. It's a waste of energy to fight with him.
Dean:
Alexis Bledel's acting can be pretty wooden, but her "Rory is fucking sick of Dean or Tristan's shit" facial reactions are priceless.
I wrote a Haiku:
His ugly brown coat
Ugly coat you are so brown
Vomit colored brown.
For anyone keeping score, Rory has been snuck up on from behind and frightened by two different people in the span of only a few minutes. Give my girl a break.
Rory: "Dis guy.... sigh."
And now for some other Goings On in this episode: Lane has yet another insane and convoluted plan to meet with Henry behind her mother's back, involving her male cousin and using the Line Taylor Doose's Pockets Auction as a cover. If she has to go through all of this to hide a nice Korean boy like Henry (and later, Dave Rygalski, the Best Boyfriend On Tv) from her mother, it once again makes me yearn to see Lane and Jess date openly if for nothing else but to give Mrs. Kim chest pains. This will happen on my adult Gilmore Girls reboot titled The Hollow.
Lane: Mom, I had sex with Jess Mariano. Oh and I might be pregnant.
Mrs Kim: Evaporates into the ether, ascending to the heavens to meet Jesus.
Jackson wants Sookie to move in with him, but she's not getting the hint. Miss Patty thinks Lorelai needs to get laid and has taken it up on herself to try to remedy that, much to Lorelai's annoyance, but Patty is obviously blind to the fact that Lorelai Gilmore waits for only one man.
For anyone keeping score, Rory has been snuck up on from behind and frightened by two three different people in the span of only a few minutes.
Stars Hollow video can be seen in the background in this scene, so I withdraw my take that it was never seen again after the previous episode.
Perhaps there was some deeper meaning, a metaphor of some kind, something AmyShermanPalladino was trying to say, with these repeated references to people being shoved into closets against their will.
The bidding wars have begun.
I had to listen to Milo Ventimiglia talk about being Team Dean again this week (we all know he's really just Team Jared) and he said Dean was "A sweet hometown boy" and obviously he doesn't remember this show at all if he thinks that, and he would probably be pretty upset with me if I said I wanted to smack that stupid smug grin off of Jared Padalecki's face right now.
Jess, I will give you $1,000 if you burn this coat and I'm allowed to watch it go up in flames. Glorious, glorious flames.
Are we talking about Dean Forrester's weiner here?
Does anyone else wonder where Jess gets $90 of easily disposable income from? Not like he can make that in the short time he's been working at Luke's since his uncle is probably paying him sub minimum wage and no one in Stars Hollow pays for their food or tips their servers.
Just a baby! Just a little guy, in an ugly brown coat!
When his lips get real thin you know he's mad.
Guy behind him in the black coat is like ha, you putz, you almost spent $80 on a basket for a girl who won't even put out until you're already married to someone else.
Kiss my ass, Doose.
Okay, that was just the first TEN minutes of the 42 minute episode. We may have a 4-parter on our hands, people. Be patient for the next chapter.
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