Serena had absent parents. Her mother was chasing men, her father was nowhere to be seen. Everyone around her failed her. The guy she fell in love with was a narcissistic douche who kept whining about "different worlds" as if it was serena's fault for having money. Dan knew he didnt belong yet he pursued her relentlessly.

Honestly serena tries her best to be the good person and to do right by people. I do not recall even one story arc where serena's actions werent justified. She was a fucking teenager with NOBODY to rely on and basically navigating her life by herself. Yes her choices and priorities were questionable but who could blame her?

I know everyone hates Dan around here, but I thought I'd throw my hat into the ring. Every episode just gets more aggrevating, with his 'moral compass' that he really doesn't have, that somehow makes him involved in everything, anyone else? rant over, sorry :)

can anyone tell me which designer dress is this?

I wish we’d gotten to see more of them as a couple!

Rewatching GG and I think this is one of the prettiest and saddest scenes in the entire show.

I’m only on the beginning parts of season 4, the part where Chuck is back with that woman who saved his life in Prague. I actually really like them together and would ship them to be endgame. It seems like Chuck and Blair will end up with each other though (no spoilers please). While I don’t like Chuck and Blair in their own ways, I think they’re perfect for each other too in some ways. I just can’t get past the situation with Jack Bass, I really believe Blair did nothing wrong. She was being coerced. Chuck is so wrong for what he set up. And then when he thinks Blair stood him up, he goes and sleeps with Jenny. I’m sure they’re gonna write something in and make Blair forgive him for everything and they end up together, but I think it’d be nice if they move on from each other too.

By this point in the show while sometimes entertaining the writers had lost the plot from
The Ben/Serena stuff to the awful Juliet stuff, but for like a 10 episode stretch in the back half of season 4 Blair and dans dynamic really grounds the show in a way imo really makes the craziness outside of them way more tolerable kinda like Dan/serena did in season 1. Now Dan and Blair get caught in the writers losing the plot in season 5 unfortunately (I still think Penn and leighton are so good together they make it work until the writers full on massacre them in the finale) idk if this makes total sense as i just found this scene just really warm and heartwarming and inspired me to post about it lmao but yeah thoughts?

I know that there has been such polarising opinions on Ivy, especially as why she was introduced and how CeCe left her so much in the will.

But, I am flabbergasted at how remarkably quick she came up with the tall tale in S5 E9! Telling the family that Max was blackmailing her over a s3x-tape is WILD. If you look closely, you can see Carol hiding a smirk 😄

The fact that they never even question her makes me think that extorting money in this way is familar and entirely plausible on the UES.

What are people's views on this?

hiya!

my neverending gossip girl fixation has yet to die out, and i am reaching a point where i'd like to try dipping a toe into GG fanfiction

when i get into fan-written works for any media i'm into, i like to start out with the most well-known ones.
this leads me to my question: are there any GG fanfics that are considered 'classics' in the fandom - whether that be newer ones, or ones that were written way back in the 2000s/early 2010s?

ao3 is the site i'm used to, and i'm not very well-acquainted with fanfiction.net, which was the leading site for fanfiction in the GG era as far as i'm aware. but i'm willing to go anywhere for GG fics! i just need the material lol

as long as it's written with a decent amount of nuance, i'm not too picky about genre or ships. i'm sapphic myself and i do tend to gravitate towards lesbian/wlw fanfic though, so if anyone knows any good blair x serena fics (or any other wlw pairings), send your recommendations my way please!

thank you 🙏

Rewatching the show and wow she has some terrible boyfriends, from con artists to ex-cons.

EDIT: Ok I clearly forgot how awful Tripp was. I'm bumping him up to Serena's official worst boyfriend ever. But I still think Aaron is so absolutely terrible that I'm keeping him above Gabriel. At least Gabriel was relevant to the plot!

REVISED:

1. Tripp Van Der Bilt
2. Ben Donovan
3. Aaron Rose
4. Gabriel the Southerner
5. Stephen Spence
6. Colin Forrester
7. Dan Humphrey
8. Carter Baizen
9. Nate Archibald

ORIGINAL:

1. Ben Donovan
2. Aaron Rose
3. Tripp Van Der Bilt
4. Gabriel the Southerner
5. Stephen Spence
6. Colin Forrester
7. Dan Humphrey
8. Carter Baizen
9. Nate Archibald

Who am I forgetting, and how would you rank them?

Re-watching S1, and I loved this little detail of Nelly Yuki essentially wearing a knock-off version of Blair's outfit to take the SATs.

Creme blazer cinched at the waist, black skirt, high-necked black shirt with some light contrast. Nelly's is more ill-fitting and looks thrown-together, showing that she isn't in her natural style.

This is a brilliant way to show that Blair "won" her one-sided battle with Nelly. Nelly is no longer the teen-genius threatening Blair's academic standing, or the loner that's too focused for friends. She's now desperate to be "in" with her peer group, and she's a dorky follower trying to keep up. From this point on in the show, she never stops being this person.

I love how the show uses clothing to show power dynamics among the social groups. Serena putting her Chanel scarf around Blair's shoulders in S2 to show that "Queen Serena" is back, Dan "de-throning" Blair at NYU by removing her headband, etc.

I feel like we got robbed like WTF was that ending to their relationship????

Rufus is crazy for choosing ivy like I loved Rufus before that he was one of my favorites but EW that was so creepy??? He thought she was his niece for like a year? And she fucked over Lily ofc Lily is mad? Why did he act like Lily was heartless for that?

Also WILLIAM?!? Did we all forget he was drugging her and lying to her to get closer to her and her family? Taking advantage of her whole she thought she had cancer? That's crazy why does everyone forget about that except Eric but Eric disappears the last season.

Idk I thought we were so robbed it felt like such a waste but I'll sacrifice Rufus and Lily for Blair and Chuck to be together any day of the week

Also wtf happened to Scott? I was excited to see him after he left but nope he's gone forever ig

it’s been a while since my last watch so can someone please explain and remind me how chuck traded/sold blair for a hotel. like prostitution? cause i have very little memory of this happening

I’m curious to hear some thoughts on this and what maybe you all think is the worst story line of the show. For me it was Serena and Ben dating. I always skip those scenes because I find it so irritating. It went against the whole plot before hand and the fact that he was convicted for doing nothing wrong and then they date after that? No. I’m sorry. I also thought it was really important to the story that he was the one guy in the entire show that actually had ZERO INTEREST and said NO to Serena.

Dan and Serena really were the centre of the show in season 1. The season begins with the two of them and the season finale is their breakup. And throughout the season we see them have their first date, dance at cotillion, and more.

I think its funny how then the shows finale is basically entirely about chuck and blair instead. We see them get married and reference their past in a sentimental way.

Meanwhile dan had just published a hate piece on serena to finally gain her respect. Which barely made sense bc from the start she was the only one who didnt care about him being from brooklyn😭. And even worse he is gg. The fans of the show from s1 got done so dirty. Its so sad to see how all the og derena fans see is a flash forward of them getting married 5 years later😭??

Also I would like to add derena could not compete w what chairs connection became. Blair was engaged and still tethered to chuck. It is proven that they would choose each other over anyone else. Meanwhile dan and serena truly repeatedly chose others. Like when serena chose Ben donovan. And was stuck between dan and nate.

And as much as i love rufus and lily i think their relationship inevitably changed serena and dans dynamic. Which we really see in s3a where derena are truly friendly and have no feelings between eachother. So its weird that the writers gave us rufus and lily the entire show just to ruin them towards the end for a derena endgame??

Just like Jenny and Georgina… the only two times I can remember they were in the same room were at the Waldorf apartment during Yom Kippur and the spectator release party. Weird.

Especially considering when he wrote it blair had just banished his sister from the city😭?? Moreso blair was the one who constantly attacked him for not being “one of them”. And he brings up both of these things in his sequel of the book??😭

I would have understood if Blair was not included or given the same treatment as Serena but the juxtaposition between the way he wrote about the two of them is wild.

Hate: Dan X Blair (I’m sorry it was so cringe could not watch), Dan X Vanessa (they were lowkey almost siblings it was weird), Ivy and Rufus (what was this?? What the heck), Ivy and William (again who did this??), Chuck and Jenny (um episode one)

I mean It Could’ve Been Worse: Serena’s random guys (lowkey couldn’t tell them apart), Nate’s random girls (same thing), Bart and Lily (they were both cold and boring woah they made each other even more so, crazy), Georgiana and Dan (what was this?? It was entertaining though)

It Worked Until It Didn’t: Blair and Louis (it was like a fairy tale and then…), Serena and Tripp (I liked it and then he left her in a car after an accident so um that was not okay)

They Were Chill: Nate and Vanessa (they kind of worked and the best out of Vanessa’s relationships I guess), Dan and Olivia (I kind of shipped honestly, then there was a threesome and well…), Serena and Nate (I mean besides the whole first season and preshow it was fine), Blair and Nate (they could’ve been good but they didn’t have any chemistry it felt so forced)

Endgame Worthy: Nate and Jenny (the chemistry was good okay? It was only a two year age gap and I liked the relationship), Dan and Serena (season one got it right these two were meant to be together, we’re not even addressing who was gossip girl because I’m in denial ok?), Georgiana and Jack (they were legit made for each other)

BEST: Chuck and Blair (I’m not explaining they just are, I don’t care what anyone says)

EDIT: fixed some of the names bc I lowkey forgot them sorry

All I see is people rooting for chuck and blair and saying they were meant to be and they were the perfect endgame but I disagree sooo muchhh. Dan and Blair were in my opinion the best couple in the show and I just really wish the writers had made them endgame. Maybe its cause I love a good enemies to lovers but I always felt like they were so good for each other. They brought out the best in each other and were actually so cute, unlike blair being with that harasser chuck 🙄 anyone else agree?

The closest I can think of would be probably Inventing Anna? Are there really that many con artists in the upper society that the show got inspired by?