#gg meta

[robins-den]

"the best thing about guilty gear is the designs" "the best thing about guilty gear is the plot" "the best thing about guilty gear is the music" "the best thing about guilty gear is bridget" WRONG the best thing about guilty gear is that like 5 separate characters are born on christmas because the game devs were like 'oh yeah thats a cool day to be born on' and did not think about how ridiculous that is

[strideofpride]

Gg dair and im pacing around in my room bc the conceit is that shes chucks most PRIZED possession but there is a short shelf life on that satisfaction. Being possession #1 never feels as good as Not Being A Possession feels but to admit that is to admit that hours of youth were spent on a mission that only serves the people as odious as CHUCK BASS.

i think part of the problem is that blair has always seen relationships through the mode of possession. nate was hers, not serena’s. harold is hers, not roman’s. the minions belong to her, not serena. all she ever really wants is to belong to someone, whether it be nate or her father or serena. that’s part of the appeal of chuck to her - she’s the one he always comes back to, she’s his. and that flatters her and fills a hole in her heart that’s never been there. it’s immature and childish but blair is an immature child! they all are ofc. we finally see her mature out of this with dan. first by teaming up with him against juliet, acknowledging that serena is theirs. and then later when they’re a couple and she tells serena she couldn’t steal him away because he’s not a possession. in five seasons, this is the first sign of a real adult maturity in blair. and of course the writers erase it all to go back to chuck. i think it’s a realistic relapse that’s still depressing as hell. because yes, when she’s 40, being a possession won’t seem nearly as welcoming as it was at 20. but that’s blair’s cross to bear

[strideofpride]

Given how heavily gender plays into gossip girl how do you think a rule!63 version of the show would go? Ex. Blair's pregnancy scandal being changes, the class thing in Serena dan relationship with the addition that Dan is a girl, the Dan/Blair/Serena triangle, the Nate being expected to fall into family's footsteps arc the show focuses in his relationship with Howard would more be given to his relationship with Anne?

tbh i think their assigned genders at birth play such a huge role in shaping who they are and their arcs that it’s really hard for me to even fathom. like those are just different characters on a different show at that point tbh. i will say though that i think a certain subset of the modern fandom really project onto jenny and they definitely wouldn’t be doing that if she was a man lol. they’d hate his ass. anyway

[strideofpride]

something something the njbc's graduation never rlly felt like a real graduation from high school tendencies something something blair going back to head bands , minions and selling Queen b uniforms is a perfect downgrade in writing something something that part where Blair goes " so now we can all just, grow up ? " in the scene where Dan gets exposed is something chuck bass doesn't want judging by the frown on his face cuz he doesn't want a more mature blair waldorf something something they will never have truly 'graduated high school' and whatever these fans and the social media marketers try to aim for makes sure of that

Just a random rant based on the , very little, content of gg I've watched cuz I can't stand a show where everybody shits on the woc character because she's annoying and 'wants to be treated different becuz she's not rich' ( Vanessa)

i mean that’s kind of the nature of a teen drama tbh. it’s not unique to gossip girl, it always loses the magic after high school. we want them to stay 17 forever

[trashfordair]

serena is the reckless one.

everyone’s always said it, she’s always believed it. maybe she’s not proud of it, but she’s glad for her ability to do things without thinking sometimes. she’s seen what happens on the opposite end of the spectrum.

dan, blair. dan, and blair. dan and blair.

dan and blair.

she thinks perhaps she’s not the reckless one. that maybe, in all the time they’ve spent loving her and blaming everything on her recklessness, they’ve missed the parts of her that reflect on themselves.

because dan didn’t think twice about serena when he fell in love again. he didn’t think about her when he fell in love with blair. and blair thought about serena, she knows this. blair thought so much about serena, until she didn’t.

sometimes serena thinks she deserved it, that she had it coming. she had led dan on for so long, let him love her despite everything, left him hanging when she couldn’t handle his love, always came running back into his open arms.

sometimes she thinks maybe dan is her chuck. she’d always thought her and dan were everything chuck and blair weren’t. they were truly in love, a happy and healthy love, everything the other had ever wanted, but maybe they were all the same.

[joyride-time]

Just in: Man who thinks that guy raised by Saturnus Heterodyne doesn't know what he's in for marrying Lucrezia about to bed her and punch a one-way trip to Skifander five seconds later.

I don't know if Klaus' IQ dips quite as sharply around his love interests as Gil's does, but I wouldn't exactly call him smart about them either.

[sapphojennyhumphrey]

actually i’m not over the fact that vanessa reached out to georgina after just one apologetic convo because she didn’t want to be lonely + said sorry to chuck for completely justifiably if you’re not lying doubting him before reading his business proposal + forgave and showed understanding to juliet for throwing her under the bus after she saw those pictures that made her believe that she wasn’t lying about the email (which is hmmm as a whole arc but anyway) all going to prove my point that 1) vanessa does near if not always take accountability for her actions and is very a compassionate person as 2) if people treat her with respect/minimally put in an effort to be good then she WILL be good to them.

[strideofpride]

I get why they had both Dan and Blair not get into Yale (although it would have been so fun to see them both in this separate environment) like they all had to be in NYC but the ideal solution would have been to have Dan and Blair be students at Columbia from the beginning (no NYU arc) and then have Serena transfer either to a school in NYC (I think it should have just been Dan and Blair at Columbia like come on the financing problem was so stupid his dad is married to a billionaire). I think it would have been fun to see Serena and Vanessa potentially both at NYU.

i think the nyu arc could’ve been really great for blair if they actually like…did something with it. like seeing blair outside her comfort zone, her learning how to make friends without fear would’ve been great! it’s too bad they dropped it after like 1 episode

i think the person who should’ve gone to nyu the most though was nate! i think it would’ve been PERFECT for him