#vanessa abrams

[emilyskinners]

defending overhated characters on the internet isn't enough. I need a mini gun.

[marinscos]

xoxo 💋

[themightywhoosh]

It should have been Nate and Serena, Dan and Blair, and Chuck and his never ending parade of hook ups. The idea that Chuck would ever actually settle down is such a joke, and Blair would have grown so much as a person with Dan😭😭 they challenged each other to grow as people and all Chuck ever did for Blair was expect her to play his games.

[andthatscanon]

incorrect gossip girl quotes

[meiiflua]

"well, you can tell Jesus that the bitch is back."

[blackpilledkremlintsarina5294]

[livinces]

"Unlikeable female character" usually means a female character who is flawed, complex, and hated by the Fandom Fave.

[strideofpride]

i've missed making moodboards and i've missed when we were all talking about gossip girl so i decided to do TWO more ranking series much like my top 15 gg dynamics series! vote here until july 12th!

(i limited it to one response per person but i am NOT collecting emails, your privacy will be kept safe!)

tagging some gg mutuals under the cut:

@terrainofheartfelt @insistonyourcupofstars @blairwaldcrf @fritextramole @vanderwoodlings @andthatscanon @mysteriesofloves @mrs-nate-humphrey @rileykeouhg @yourgoldennotebook @userlaylivia @galstelperion @himbobisexual @clerati @blairwld @sudsnewsletter @intostarlight @jennifersminds @senamarais

[starryeyesxx]

[loquaciousdioxide]

don't you love it when literally everyone on a show's cast has an absolutely LETHAL face card

[zionvt]

really don’t understand the jenny humphrey/vanessa hate….. they weren’t even the worst ones!,

[emilyskinners]

“i just- i think how i'd feel, you know, if i loved someone, and they betrayed me. how would you ever get things back to the way they were?” “wait, are we still talking about blair and nate here?” “yeah, of course. what else can we be talking about?”

[vanderwoodlings]

okay okay here me out season 4 rewrite: tripp drains the brake fluid out of nate's limo in the beginning of season four, and it works. nate's car does crash, and he is presumed dead.

if we're going to kill off one main character, nate would be the best option. he's the only person universally loved by literally everyone. he basically sat around doing nothing for the past season and a half except for dating different girls.

setting up for this in the first few episodes of season 4 is just a mini arc about grandfather choosing nate over tripp or something because instead of hooking up all summer, nate worked hard at an internship idk. ANYWAY

after the funeral, chuck grieves. imagine how bad his breakdown was after bart bass and multiply that x100, since nate and him actually had a good relationship and nate is chucks only friend. to give the actor something to do, he could show up like bart did that one episode of season 3 and basically lecture chuck about morality the whole time lmao. it always felt like chuck's redemption was unearned and the 'arc' consisted of three episodes, so having chuck actually confront his inner demons and spend time working through them would be a nice change. so chuck is just a mess and drinking and not managing bass industries, pushing everyone, like lily away. including blair.

after hearing of nate's death, blair also has somewhat of a breakdown and immediately goes back to comfort chuck, as she always does. except he pushes her away, yet again, and blair realizes that he has to be alone. she also grapples with a slight return of her feelings for nate and wonders if things would have been different had she not broken up with him at prom. dan ends up being the one to comfort her (because serena has run away, yet again, as she does in times of distress). i'd get rid of the baby milo and scott stuff because neither of those arcs went anywhere. they notice something was off about nate's death. i really really loved when they were solving the mystery of juliet so it would be fun to see them working together again. they grow closer because of this, setting them up for a romance.

serena is also consumed by guilt, because she thinks if she hadn't broken up with nate, then he wouldn't have taken that internship and gone on the limo to that retreat. this is when she isolates herself and starts the secret affair with tripp, instead of it happening last season (imo serenate should have gotten together far sooner). serena accidentally discovers evidence that tripp killed nate but doesn't realize what it is. she offhandedly mentions it to blair in a roundabout way as so not to out her affair, and blair, who has been collecting evidence with dan puts the pieces together.

i'm honestly not sure where to fit vanessa into all of this but she stays broken up with dan after the end of s3.

blair and dan go and talk to chuck, who has just started processing his grief and coming to terms with what a terrible person he has been. then, he uses his immense resources so they can all go scheme and take down tripp, which is the midseason finale.

in the last 5 minutes of the midseason finale, chuck returns to his apartment and finds nate sitting on the couch, unaware that everyone has thought he was dead for months.

(nate is too fine to stay dead)

then, the juliet arc (last good arc of the show imo) could pick up in the second half of the season, along with dair and them all dealing with the fact that their dead friend is alive.

ben can rot in jail for the rest of his life.

Are people just using my inbox to pitch their partially formulated au concepts now? I’m down for this y’all should do it more

So. Nate’s death being the thing that finally snaps what’s between Chuck and everyone else feels good. Feels right. If he managed to really start his way to becoming a better person, which… I believe that’s possible for everyone but that doesn’t mean it’s likely, it would be a really long, hard process and man now I’m thinking about old meta (@mrs-nate-humphrey’s I think?) that pointed out how Eva’s work would’ve made her very aware of consent and that whole plot was so weird on so many fucking levels

(And, also, I can see Nate coming back, trying to fish him out, and Serena going with him because Blair’s been unpacking a whole lot of shit and she just won’t but if Nate’s going somewhere sketchy, Serena’s following—and they find him and he’s. Well. It’s not pretty. And Serena kind of loses her cool and Nate just does not get it because he’s been ignoring the Chuck of it all for so long

And Dan or Vanessa or whoever has to explain to him why they haven’t fished Chuck out. The kind of things they’ve let themselves admit to. Nate goes back, angry this time, and… none of it lands. There’s no point, no catharsis, nothing to do with his anger and his shame. And he gets it. He leaves, disgusted)

(I actually have this image in my head, also, of Blair showing up to find Serena half-packed and just absolutely losing it because she fucking cannot have this happen, Serena cannot make a run for it this time, she will hold her there physically if she has to, and this turns into a classic Blair-Serena ‘we get angriest at each other because we are the only people who we know are safe to do that with’ fight and then Blair does, in fact, tackle Serena and then they’re just. Sobbing. And holding each other. And Serena promises to stay)

Man, if you did this with Milo, Dan would be a literal corpse. I mean… oof

So we’ll say instead he and Georgina have had a weird roommate summer where Vanessa and Nate are highly suspicious of everything but it’s honestly been a fairly stabilizing force in the life of Georgina Sparks and helped Dan cope a lot with the Jenny situation… and then she fucks right off as this is all going down. Maybe even right before it, make the chaos and pain in her wake incidental

Which means Vanessa and Dan and Nate have been kind of a team with blairena out of town, and Nate and Vanessa especially, and then… this

Vanessa is the one who’s fucking spiraling, consumed by guilt, trying not to make accusations at Tripp that aren’t going to hold up because she sees something there, something not quite right, because she knows she can’t say that about a fucking van der Bilt, but everyone in their circle can still see she’s holding on by a thread

Dan is coping through caretaker mode, at this point, and Serena is the one who passes along the callout of the classic Humphrey white knight complex happening there, because she knows him like the back of her hand, and he asks her who she’s screwing these days and it’s mean and petty and nasty and correct—though I wouldn’t necessarily move forward the Tripp affair, personally, just give her another Bad Decision. So Dan and Serena are being incredibly horrible to each other and dragging each other out to see the sun. As they do

Blairnessa make a good odd couple, but I do agree about dair making the superior Scheme Team—I can see them both getting a “wait she has a point” moment at the same time and then both going to investigate and falling in step with some semi-comedic improv when they keep ending up at the same places

So that puts Serena and Vanessa together, both of them having lost Nate and just. Struggling. And Vanessa is doing better, and Serena’s doing everything she can to perform Better TM, and they’re engaging in some weird community art project so as not to talk about their feelings, and they do their cute competitive thing and goof off and end up talking about their feelings anyway

(And then, again, Serena isn’t screwing Tripp now, but she sees the murder board at last and uses her previous knowledge of Tripp to provide what they need)

(The beat in my head of Serena showing up to get coffee with Vanessa or something and Dan and Blair and Vanessa all looking at her like squirrels hit by a flashlight. And her just like. Hm. Well. Actually,)

(What would be really delightfully insane to do with Vanessa would be to go for the Juliet plot on time, actually, and have terrible horrible manipulative julnessa also occurring throughout all of this)

One of the things that would’ve fixed serenate for me, I think, would’ve been Serena getting to pine for Nate properly in return, so I can see a 4b serenate arc where she is two steps from kissing him at all times and utterly vibrating with it and also awful about it

I love the idea of Nate hiding out in Brooklyn (because his family and his face are all over literally everything at this point because trying to kill your cousin will make that happen and he just hates everything) and being in the loft and learning to act like a human who has to cook for himself for the first time, and realizing he’s getting weirdly closer to being free of it all than he’d actually let himself want in a long time

[leftistteendrama]

✨EP 34 OUT NOW✨In the Leftist Teen Drama Season 4 finale, Maria is joined by Laura Marino and @strideofpride to dissect the class dynamics on a longtime listener-requested show: the iconic teen drama Gossip Girl! Approaching this episode from our usual leftist lens, we mainly zero in on the “working-class” characters who are thrust into the owning-class world of the Upper East Side: Dan Humphrey, Vanessa Abrams, and Jenny Humphrey. Since Maria and Laura were OG Gossip Girl book readers, we discuss the differences between book and TV to ground us. Then, we dive into the six seasons of the hit CW teen drama, breaking down everything from the way Dan and Vanessa are corrupted by the system and the erasure of Vanessa’s biracial identity to messy arcs featuring working-class characters Juliet and Ivy and the Dorota of it all. Finally, S explains why the Dan-as-Gossip-Girl reveal isn’t considered canon to most of the Gossip Girl fandom.

Hosted by Maria DiPasquale, produced by Jeff McHale, with art by Charles O'Leary, Leftist Teen Drama Ep 34 is now streaming everywhere you get your podcasts!

[andthatscanon]

[your-local-bi-guy]

can’t a girl plot a revenge on basically the entire upper east side without any consequences???? fuck girls do anything smh