𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜.

i'd love to be like "oh, what a fun ship, a shame it ended."

and instead i see or read or hear anything that i could possibly connect to a ship from the early 2000s and suddenly i get a full heart replacement and jess mariano level yearning courses through my veins

Man, I am unhelpfully preoccupied with these two.

What's gorgeous about this line is that Rory doesn't just mean Jess looks handsome... he looks WELL, and that's even better. The last time she saw him, he was wide-eyed and frantic, yell-begging her to run away with him in an impulse he agreed was "insane." Nothing about Jess looked or sounded well in S4.

See: 'So what happens when you move, do we break up?' from Dean.

And: Logan's 'Listen, maybe we should hang out at my place for a while so as not to give your grandparents a visual to latch onto.' in response to being asked by Richard about his intentions (marriage, babies, etc, although this wasn't Richard's intention--he's trying to find out about Rory's plans specifically, Logan just gets the wrong end of the stick)

Now, I'm not condemning either of these two for being hesitant about committing to a future with Rory, they're all super young and it's valid not be freaked out by stuff like that (plus there are so, so many other things more worthy of condemning both of them for) I'm just saying that this sort of thing never rears it's head with Jess.

Instead we have: '22.8 miles.' and 'we're supposed to be together. I knew it the first time I saw you two years ago'

This was fate. I think it was.

Jess and Rory in GILMORE GIRLS (2000-2007) || Jesse and Céline in BEFORE SUNRISE (1995)