GG Season 3 writers after throwing their brains in a blender: So Blair forcing herself to have sex with a man twice her age who has full control of the only thing her boyfriend still has left (and the prospect of losing has caused him to lash out at her and become deeply bitter and miserable about) is TOTALLY as bad as Chuck intentionally putting her in that position without her permission in the first place!! Blair is a terrible person for considering it and she deserves to be with Chuck because they’re as bad as each other and therefore the perfect couple!! How dare she want better for herself instead of instantly forgiving Chuck, now he has to go have sex with a bunch of random women (including on the literal same day they broke up) because she’s so mean :(

6, 19 and 51 for the ask game!

Hi!

6 which shows do I think are underrated and deserve more love?

Bored to Death- it is very Rian Johnson meets Arthur Conan Doyle vibes; iZombie would be another one

19 which shows are on my to-watch list?

Veronica Mars, Checkmate, The Twilight Zone, On My Block... Just to name a few

51 which TV cliche you despise?

It's not exactly a cliche, but overreliance on physical chemistry in couples - I saw this in Varchie (from Riverdale), Chuck and Blair (Gossip Girl)... Another would be the unlucky gay pal (Kevin from Riverdale? Classic example)

Thanks for the ask! 😃

- Hozier, Nobody

So the thing about dair for me is that they literally can't stop arguing and never see eye to eye on anything at all. And I know Tumblr loves those couples who bicker nonstop, but those kind of ships annoy the hell out of me while showing that the two people involved are just not compatible. Chuck and Blair, for all their many flaws, don't actually bicker nonstop---they connect, they communicate, they understand each other. Dair barely even LIKES each other!

hi!! sorry it took me so long to answer this but after seeing a v hateful ask in my inbox answering this feels much needed so ty 🫶🏻🫶🏻 exactly!! at the risk of angering ppl further (again if u don't like chair pls leave my blog idk what else to tell u) for all their supposed similar interests they only seem to argue about them which shows they might have broadly similar interests but when u get into the specifics they're the complete opposite, which is a reason why they don't work romantically as it's not sustainable. chuck and blair however genuinely have things in common, and like u said they don't really bicker when they date (or when they're apart either, showing their true connection) and instead just enjoy each others' company. they know the other is on the same page so they can just be themselves and not worry about judgement or an argument breaking out, and in turn that makes them stronger and actually healthier. ur so right by saying dair barely like each other, bc dan likes the version of blair he's invented and when u look at how blair interacts and engages with him it's not loving or even vaguely romantic at all. they argue bc that's really all they can do, but it's not banter or playful bickering it's 2 characters who aren't suited for each other trying to be something they're not meant to be

dair: exists

🪑’s, for some reason:🤓😩why did they have to ruin the friendship?!?! 😫smh no romantic chemistry😤😤,,, their friendship>>>>😌😇

i start to think i'm the weirdest person out there but then i realise people who ship chuck and blair still exist <3

Blair Waldorf + Dance Fever (5/?)

Chapters: 8/12 Fandom: Gossip Girl (TV 2007) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dan Humphrey/Blair Waldorf, minor Nate Archibald/Blair Waldorf - Relationship, very minor Carter Baizen/Blair Waldorf Characters: Blair Waldorf, Dan Humphrey, Serena van der Woodsen, Tripp van der Bilt, Aaron Rose, Nelly Yuki, Dorota Kishlovsky, Nate Archibald, Harold Waldorf, Eleanor Waldorf, Diana Payne, Carter Baizen, Georgina Sparks, Rufus Humphrey, Chuck Bass Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1960s, Alternate Universe - 1970s, Alternate Universe - Journalism, loosely based on Good Girls Revolt, Period-Typical Sexism, Period Typical Bigotry, Period Typical Anti Semitism, jewish!Dan Humphrey, References to eating disorders, Implied/Referenced Drug Addiction, Attempted Sexual Assault Summary:

Blair beams up at him. “I am so proud of you.”

“I’m proud of us,” Dan corrects. “As far as I can tell, you and I are kicking everybody else’s ass.”

Or, the one where Dan's a star reporter and Blair's his researcher. For now.

Spike and Chuck are so entitled when it comes to Buffy and Blair.

Nice video! But the comments on it are weirding me out. There’s two comments praising the couple, even though this song is about being happy to escape an abusive relationship

The only part I don't like about the GG reboot is that when I come to the tag here, I have to see d*air stuff and I do not wanna see that

Anyway Max is my baby Monet is getting amazing the end

I think I never felt as sad as I’m doing now for Dan

Dan Humphrey is literally my Gossip Girl male crush since the first episode and now that I just finished 5x04, I think I can say I never felt as sad for him as I’m doing now. And the way the writers wrote this episode to make him end all alone reminds me of what is going to happen when he’ll be revealed to be Gossip Girl (it makes so less sense. Like in 5x03 he’s LITERALLY alerting Chuck (I promised myself I wouldn’t write about him but in this episode ALAS, he was actually essential) on the fact that Gossip Girl spy all of his moves and that he doesn’t want him to end up on the site.)

What makes me sad here is that we realize that deep down, Dan has no friends who will put him first like Serena and Blair can do for each other despite the toxicity of their relationship. Dan can finally enjoy a bit of success and light that isn't due to the fact that he dated Serena. He was afraid of being abandoned by his friends because of a satirical book. And as incredible as it may seem, Chuck Bass is the only one who understands the meaning of this word. Dan NEVER said that this book was an autobiography, it was even an "inspired" novel of his life, as he kept saying. And instead of having the support he should have from his closest friends, he reaps an anger that he had seen coming in the book and that he had written in the hope that it would allow them to understand that he had no bad intentions. And since each of them is selfish and self-centered, all of them have made the choice to focus on "their" character and not read the book in full. I suspect that this will change in the next episodes but here, Dan was there, desperately seeking the support of his loved ones and receiving none.

And can we talk for two minutes about the toxicity of Rufus' words? This is not the first time he has ripped out the heart of one of his children with the worst words they could hear. What could be more horrible for a child than to hear that his father is ashamed of him? And Dan and Jenny can confirm that nothing is harder to hear. But I think it's worth another post. Here I focus on Dan and the 5x04 because I'm not quite done.

In this episode I think the attitude that disappoints me the most is Nate's. Nate didn't even pretend to be interested in the novel. And for good reason, it is not in his interests. Dan only repeated throughout the novel that all this was not necessarily true to reality and everyone seemed ready to accept it. Nate had no problem with a character inspired by him being gay. On the other hand, while he does not even know what the novel is about, as soon as he learns that he is not "alone" to have inspired his character since he shares that of Eric. And then, instead of doing what any BEST friend would do, which is read the book or call Dan to ask him if he should see a problem with it, he calls Dan to call him a false friend. What makes no sense is that Nate does NOT know what he is talking about since he has NOT read the book. It leaves me quite speechless that we could have made everyone's best friend act like this. Especially when that day was so important to Dan.

For Blair, let's say that with her pregnancy we can possibly understand her mood swings but she is supposed to share the same intellectual level as Dan and they like the same novels as a rule. I find it hard to understand that she holds Dan to account for writing false things about her relationship with him. I mean... He NEVER said that everything was true, they were the ones who imagined it. Except that Blair's reaction is probably the hardest for him to hear. Of course, as blind as she is, she doesn't see how much he is in love with her. But I still have Dan's lost and confused look in mind when she tells him that their friendship is over for good. She broke his heart when it was not necessary at all. After... it's Blair but after everything he did for her in the previous episode and... actually since they are friends, it's terribly unfair to throw a sentence like this at him. Not to mention how she keeps reminding him that he's far off her priority list. In fact, I think the biggest problem with this story lies there. This book showed how far Dan was on everyone's list of priorities. So far away, that the idea that he can be successful without having been perfect in the image they had of themselves makes them cruel.

Serena probably has the most reason to be hurt I guess. She was the one who had the worst portrait after all. But it's also based on facts and the way she seems to think he has to see her the way she wants him to see her is very toxic. Of course I can understand her pain by reading this especially since Serena and self-mockery are not great friends. But the acts she had in the episode are only a reflection of what he was describing. The Serena of the book exist as much as the amazing Serena, always there for her friends, that she wanted to see. Except that instead of accepting her bad sides, she blamed Dan for them. So I wouldn't dwell on her reaction because on the one hand I conceive and understand it perfectly. But on the other hand, she acted in the most selfish way I would say. Because she is the one who knew the most what writing and a publication meant to Dan and she still ruined this event. As for Lily's transparency, let's not talk about it. The writers never wrote a relationship between Dan and her so I can conceive of it.

As for Rufus' attitude, it makes me very uncomfortable because in addition to reacting like a child when he is an adult and an artist who is supposed to differentiate between reality and fiction, he sees his son suffer, he sees him drown in a universe he doesn’t know and lose all his friends and what does he do? He pushes his head under water. Rufus is presented as an incredible father but here, he voluntarily chooses to smear Dan's evening by specifying

last night it was the launch of your career so I didn't want to say anything but...

a phrase that is enough to destroy what was supposed to be a beautiful memory for his son. And Rufus knows it.

Which brings me to the worst part of this little essay. Chuck Bass. The fact that this character that I hate with all my heart (except with Vanessa and Eva and his dog) is the only one who has been mature enough to support Dan (in a way he did not be too cruel he at least has this merit) because he knew how to distinguish fiction and reality makes it all the more difficult to see this episode which once again shows all the sides of the Upper East Side.

So I think I'm going to go to bed because this episode really put me in all my states. Dan Humphrey deserved better.

“i don't want you anymore, and i can't see why anyone else would” - chuck to blair

“and what if i lose everything?”

“you'll still have me.” - dan to blair

this parallel says it all.

something I find really interesting is that a lot of anti-chair fics portray chuck as going away on business trips all the time and not spending time with blair or his family. I think canonically in the show he goes away once (and that's to see jack iirc) he barely leaves the empire to run bass industries, let alone the country. now bart was well established to frequently leave on business trips, but chuck pointedly wasn't. it's obvious that he doesn't want to be like his father, as shown throughout and especially with regards to his family. funnily enough if either of them were more likely to be away on business more it would probably be blair, given that waldorf designs has some kind of office in paris that eleanor regularly worked from. the fact that in order to paint blair as some kind of lonely wife (with her own multi-million dollar business to run mind you) who, presumably, needs to turn to dan for companionship and romance once again (never mind that she would canonically rather be alone than with him) they have to just... make something up that's never happened or been implied to happen (both chuck and blair could be suggested to be workaholics, blair probably moreso, as they do spend a lot of time working on their respective businesses but they also have thriving social lives so they clearly don't work that much) shows that it doesn't fit with anyone's characterisation

my roommate ships chuck and blair so guess who's standing in a queue waiting for the room to change because. because.

Lemon/George is the dynamic Nate/Blair should have had! First loves with history and a strong friendship. How Nate continues to be friends with Chuck after watching what he did to blair is beyond me

I actually feel like they do have shades of that dynamic though? As @terrainofheartfelt and I have talked about Dan/Serena should have also had the Lemon/George dynamic!

But yes, Nate continuing to be Chuck’s friend is maybe his worst trait.