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Asked by ultra_fic: Gilmore Girls / Rory Gilmore / what would you have liked her life to be in the revival?

I'm not sure what I was expecting when I watched the revival, but it definitely wasn't whatever that was. I think there were some positive and realistic aspects and certain ideas that were good in theory but poorly executed. Rory's arc about struggling with her career and life was one of them.

I've said this multiple times and still feel this way: the Revival came off as the showrunners attempting to create the version of s7 that they didn't get to, but the problem was that it doesn't work ten years later. I'm assuming I'm not alone with wanting Rory to a successful journalist and seeing her struggling was probably tough. It's the same reason people were disappointed with the later seasons of the show when it seemed as if her personality changed, while it was just her making some more mistakes. Years later, I do think that her struggling and having doubts was in character. ( Read more... )

For the lands_of_magic 'tropetastic' challenge, we had to get inspiration from bookish tropes. I made 23 icons of characters who love to read from various fandoms (Beauty and the Beast, Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter, Pride & Prejudice) based on the character trope 'bookworm'.

( icons here )