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Lily x Rufus / Dan x Blair Parallels - Part I

dair parallels (104/?)

Gossip Girl 2x16 // Gossip Girl 5x20

i may never be able to put my feelings into words but trust i will be able to find a way to insert my favorite ships in any conversation

My Favourite Screenshots from Gossip Girl: Season Four, Part 2.

I see all these Carter Baizen fics and no Nate Archibald. I’m sobbing like WTH.😭😭

How did rufly stop being about lily getting out of her world to do the things she actually wants to do with rufus and start being about rufus staying at home and trying to fit into lily‘s world. Why didn’t she start pursuing her photography, something I had completely forgotten about before rewatching because it’s not mentioned after season 1?? Why did lily start turning into her mother when it came to her children instead of fighting back against that and trying to break the family trauma cycle?? Ik that this is just a part of gg stopping to be about getting out of the UES world and start being about trying to get inside… ugh

actually okay the more i think about it—rufus insisting jenny and dan go to private school as the only way to get a good education but then always judging them (especially jenny) when they try to fit in with their peers? actually MAJORLY lends itself to my theory/interpretation that rufus was used to being ‘the fun parent’ before alison left and is now having to pick up the slack and take on a more active role. not to say he didn’t support the decision or that they didn’t make it together, because i imagine that they did. but i do get the strong sense that she was to the one to bring it up and maybe push it a little bit, and that his inconsistency is reflective of some of his own values not aligning with what they decided together was best for the kids. he still keeps them in private school because that’s what they decided and i do think he generally agrees in the long run that it will be good for them, even if he sometimes struggles to remember why—but i think that’s where some of this tension comes from.

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Because I’ve got birthdays on the mind, some thoughts on the gang as gift givers:

Dan: altogether bad with the material, his best work is making more of an experience—Blair’s plastic crown, Serena’s Christmas tree. Think taking Nate to laser tag, getting Vanessa into a series of silent movies with a live and professional organist. With people he can’t do that for, he often defaults to books

Jenny: goes for the handmade! That doesn’t necessarily mean a clothing item; she’s got other artistic interests. She’s also claim it isn’t, like, a sweet thing all the time, often it’s just easier to make a pair of wire and bead earrings in colors that she knows suit someone’s skin tone than to go out and find them

Nate: doesn’t put much thought into it. If he sees something he think someone will like, he’ll get it. If he doesn’t, he’ll get something everybody likes—like coffee, right? Loves it when people have wishlists

Serena: secret superpower of planning personalized events (inverted/turned evil on Jenny’s Clue and crock pot night). Generally, if she’s not giving a party though, it… falls a little flat. Definitely something liked, but it has a sense she sort of just threw money at it

Lily: literally throws money at it. Once she actually did just give Serena some and tell her to buy her own gift, which resulted in her always giving Eric the money as a “birthday shopping trip.” (This worked well, seeing as what he wanted was her time.) Will generally get something of very high quality she sees as necessary—eg a good suit for Dan—for the Humphrey side of the family

Rufus: likes to give people art (whether visual/musical/other) over anything that might be practical. Weirdly good at finding things that make an immediate emotional impact on the person, which is part of how he ended up being pushed into art salesman with his gallery. Despite this, he has also given his kids a multitude of socks over the years

Eric: will just ask people what they want. If at a loss, he usually gets something small and ornamental (a piece of jewelry, a stuffed animal, whatever) so that it can be easily hidden away if not wanted

Vanessa: considers giving money as a gift—whether disguised or not—the highest possible crime. She makes things and does consider it to be a sweet thing. One of her more famous film festival entries actually still starts with the “hey, I love you, I hope you like this” message from the first draft; Serena insisted that she not cut it

Blair: much like Dan, finding the right gift is a process of deep frustration until she finally gets it right. Blair, however, is all about getting the right material object—the thing you open and stare at and keep around for years. She will do research on her targets beforehand

you know you're grown when you go back n watch ur fave teenage movies/tv shows/etc. and straight up crush on the DADS or just older characters and not the main (younger) characters

Lily x Rufus / Dan x Blair Parallels - Part 2

dair parallels (120/?)

Gossip Girl 2x08 // Gossip Girl 4x17 // Gossip Girl 5x11 // Gossip Girl 5x11

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