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Footnotes to a Revival: Momentum and Other Loose Ends by mailheliotrope
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000), Gilmore Girls
15 Feb 2026
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Set before, during, and after A Year in the Life, this story traces the quiet, complicated years that shaped Rory Gilmore and Logan Huntzberger—and the choices that followed.
Beginning in Fall, with flashbacks reaching back to Hamburg and the moments that refused to stay in the past, the narrative unfolds through Rory and Logan’s alternating perspectives as memory, timing, and unfinished love begin to blur together.
How did they arrive at that infamous autumn night in New Hampshire?
And what, if anything, came after?A character-driven exploration of second chances, family expectation, ambition, and the fragile space between the lives we choose and the ones that keep choosing us. (Chapters are relatively short + I've added soundtracks for each chapter because Amy Sherman-Palladino is great with music)
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The Path We Walk by sandy_s for Nangala, TheresALoveLover
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
14 Feb 2026
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Jess thinks he knows Rory better than anyone, but when she confides in him in bits at a time, what will he learn about himself? In London, Logan is confronted with his father’s choices and is forced to reckon with who he is becoming. What path will he choose to follow? Post-AYITL, Jess and Logan POV
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
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The conversation at the restaurant scene in AYITL: Spring takes a different direction
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- Part 4 of Unwritten Endings
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On the one year anniversary of their rekindled clandestine reunions, Rory hesitates to reach for her phone, but she calls. And Logan is there to answer.
A collection of interconnected microfics set before, during, and after AYITL from Rory’s POV.
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I Am The Only Being Whose Doom by Continuing_the_Story1
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000), Gilmore Girls RPF, Gilmore Gir
12 Feb 2026
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It never sat right with me how A Year in the Life ended.
The idea of Rory’s pregnancy reveal was compelling — but ending there robbed her of the chance to grow, reflect, and redeem herself. This story picks up where the revival left off, giving Rory that opportunity.
Here, she finally faces the consequences of her choices, the weight of generational patterns, and what it truly means to become her mother’s daughter.
Expect angst, humor, and bittersweet romance. Canon details from A Year in the Life remain intact for context, but the story diverges into a new future: one where Rory Gilmore earns her happy ending — realistically, painfully, and beautifully.
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need to work this maze inside my heart by medliwaith (Medliwaith), tedliwaith (Medliwaith)
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
08 Feb 2026
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Rory's trying to sort her shit out. But it's hard.
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Picking up immediately after the final scene of A Year in the Life, Rory finds herself pregnant with Logan's child and searching for solid ground, all while circling back to the one constant she's never been able to shake: Jess, the love she never could truly let go of.
Told across seven years in a traditional seven-season style, this is the story of navigating motherhood, co-parenting with Logan, and finding each other again when everything else is falling apart. But it's also about the patterns we inherit and whether two people can finally break toxic cycles, learning to let each other in and trusting that this time might actually be different.
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Love's never lost when perspective is earned by AileenGilmore
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
31 Jan 2026
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Rory Gilmore moves back to Stars Hollow with her nine year old daughter Lola, none the wiser that Jess Mariano has moved back there too only couple of weeks prior and taken over Stars Hollow Books. Between starting a new job as a teacher at Chilton and being a single mom, Rory has sworn off dating (at least until Lola's twenty or so) but as old flames alight anew and throw her off balance, Rory finds herself wondering if maybe, just maybe, right person, right time, could finally apply to her and the man she's always harbored feelings for even after all those years.
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At the Kings Head Inn in New Hampshire. A conversation that could have ended in a different way.
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- Part 3 of Unwritten Endings
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A conversation between Logan and Rory in AYITL:Summer that could have gone differently.
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- Part 2 of Unwritten Endings
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What's going on at Christmas nine years post-AYITL?
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After their fun, passionate, wild night together in "Fall," Logan takes a leap, something he hasn't been doing with Rory for years. The results are unexpected and lead them both on different journeys. Will they find their way back to each other again?
This fic is a collaboration between Nangala and sandy_s. Banners for each chapter by sandy_s.
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A series of one-shots of all the conversations between Logan and Rory in AYITL that could have gone differently. Not in a specific order.
This one-shot is set during A Year in the Life: Winter, at Logan's apartment in London.
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- Part 1 of Unwritten Endings
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Jess has been more of a father to Rory's baby than Logan could ever be.
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- Part 4 of Ultra's OTP Advent Calendar 2025
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Inevitable by WhatAm1DoingWithMyL1fe
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls, A year in the life - Fandom
08 Nov 2025
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After Luke and Lorelei's wedding Rory finds Jess standing in her kitchen, it's been so long, what will happen?
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Literati one-shot. AYITL canon aside from what I've changed. a short but satisfying reimagining of some events in "Fall".
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logans fortieth birthday is coming up, and colin and finn decide to pay rory a visit. what they dont know is that rory has had logans kid. (im really bad at summaries give me another chance)
unfinished soz im probs not gonna come back to this for a few months :3
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Ten years after A Year in the Life, Rory Gilmore has sworn off relationships to raise her daughter, Ivy, in the same man-free household her mother once created for her. As the next generation takes its first steps toward careers and love, the season sets the stage for new stories while promising longtime fans the closure they’ve been waiting for. By the finale, Rory will choose her forever partner, and the identity of her daughter’s father will be revealed.
Episode 1 now complete!
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the road not taken looks real good now (and it always leads to you in my hometown) by OnceUponaSwanQueen
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
13 Oct 2025
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Jess has been spending more and more time with Rory and her daughter Ellie, and at the fall festival, the two finally stop pretending they're 'just friends'.
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Something That in My Memory Has Been Misplaced Suddenly All Comes Back by AnxiousLittleBird for Ultra
Fandoms: Gilmore Girls (TV 2000)
11 Oct 2025
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Jess grows up, Logan gets married, and Rory makes a phone call.