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[altruistic-meme]

abram darling, my love, the light on the eastern horizon, what are all your WIPs rn?

first and foremost i need you to know that when i got this my thought was "hm. what are all of my WIPs right now....." with the EXACT cadence and tone as this line from atla;

and then i had to go and find them all fksjdjjss but!!! these are all of my WIPs :) and now I've got an actual doc that has them listed so I don't have to play hide and seek in my overcrowded google docs next time

i only included ones I've actually WORKED on and not the ones that are random ideas that don't have anything written yet ;;; there are...... More if we were to add those.

[mrs-nate-humphrey]

how would u rank the parents in gg?

ah, anon, they're all terrible. but you know what you just did? you DIDN'T give me the milo exception. so, #1 is obviously dan, the summer he had milo! most darling and most beloved dilf <3 perfect parent <3 i'm so glad that everything that happened after 4x02 was actually just a dream that nate had after drinking too much and that dan canonically still has milo <3

ok, now for everyone else:

i know that technically the worst parent should be bart bass, since he tried to have chuck killed, but i will be very honest about the fact that i don't understand anything about the bass family in the sense of like. is bart even chuck's dad?? is jack chuck's dad?? who was chuck's mom?? if it was evelyn then why did bart "hate" chuck for his mother's death if his mother was alive and frolicking?? like. bart doesn't feel like a real character to me - none of the bass family drama feels real. so i am simply not counting them in this ranking, because i can't take them seriously. they exist on a different plane of reality from the other gg parents.

so. howard and anne, hands down the WORST parents. difficult for me to say which one is worse (i think anne most probably, because howard at least tried to patch things up with nate, anne all through was singing the 'i've done you no wrong nathaniel!' tune), but i just. when howard hits nate in 1x07 i had to pause the episode to be like. uh wtf? and obviously, the whole blaming nate for his coke thing is messed up. anne is also - she is so busy denying family problems and whatnot that nate often ends up taking responsibilities that he shouldn't have to, like when anne denies howard's suicide attempt and nate tells her off and gives howard a pep talk. (this isn't even mentioning the fuckery of trying to arrange nate's marriage against his consent.) along the same vein, but darker, nate's entire thing with catherine where he's with her for the money is because he is trying to protect his parents. and the fact that he thought this was his only option - yeah, catherine is very manipulative and awful, but i think nate's upbringing definitely played a big part of his being vulnerable to catherine. (you don't give up, not in business, not if your family is depending on you.)

uhhh, i'd probably rank eleanor next, as the second worst / third worst parent, after the archibalds. the fact that she is so overly judgemental and critical of blair to an extent wherein blair has internalised it - eleanor keeps making these comments about blair's body and about blair's food and what she is allowed to eat, i feel like that probably contributed in a significant way to her developing an eating disorder. i know that as the show goes on she mellows and all of that, but growing up with someone like that, as a young girl... it's a very damaging experience. if i were blair, i probably wouldn't forgive my mother for it.

im not sure how to rank alison or harold, since we barely get to see their characters. i think alison leaving was more fucked, especially since she wasn't even honest with her family about it, and unlike harold, who was ready for blair to stay with him, alison didn't even have that kind of conversation with her kids, that we saw, at least. i actually really like harold as a dad, i think the pep talks he gives blair are very sensible and i think if she'd grown up with just him as her parent, maybe things would've been majorly better for her. (my sister disagrees and thinks harold was too uninvolved with blair's upbringing. which is a good point, actually.) anyway, i don't know where to put them, because we don't know anything major about them, other than They Left. we don't see enough of what life was like before they left for me to really confidentally say "oh they're worse than ... " or whatever. im still slotting them into the ranking though, just based on gut feeling, implications made by canon, and vibes.

this just leaves us with rufus and lily.

im gonna answer this question as if they're four people, okay? rufus, as dan's dad, was okay. had his faults (major faults!), but okay. dan wasn't hurt too much under his care. lily, as eric's mom, also, was okay, she fucked up but made amends, and in some episodes like 2x07 we see that she and eric are actually able to have sincere/open conversation with each other. i think lily as serena's mom was kind of terrible, though, especially when you look at everything serena canonically went through pre-series and how little lily was there. i think rufus as jenny's dad was either just as bad, or worse - the way he treats jenny is downright degrading. i don't know how bad of a mother lily really was to serena, since we don't see much of pre-series other than the implications, but i think she was probably really bad. the way rufus treated jenny, though.......... dude, your daughter is getting bullied and peer pressured in school. your solution is to make her home environment unsafe, too?? so to me, from what we've seen onscreen - jenny's dad rufus is worse than serena's mom lily. but i don't know.

okay, ranking, worst to best:

anne archibald

howard archibald

eleanor waldorf

rufus as jenny's dad

lily as serena's mom

alison humphrey

lily as eric's mom

harold waldorf (?)

rufus as dan's dad

i hope this makes sense!!! it's a really subjective answer.