five things meme: gossip girl edition

One of these days I'll probably post a fic but hahaha, let's not get our hopes up.





I feel like I get asked this a lot, so I'm gonna leave off the explanations; I've probably already given them at some point. I pretty much just like it when they yell at each other.










I am ride or die for musicians AU. And, very politely, Penn and Leighton seem to be doing everything they can to make it a reality, lolz. In general I am a sucker for musician stories and films so it's no surprise I'm super drawn to it with DB too. Plus they just give me so much to work with!




Lol it's sad that GG plots make more sense if you insert them into the 19th century, but c'est la vie. A lot of Wharton couples give me DB feels, and period pieces are just fun.




One of these days I am so going to do this in a fic. I was working on one with the excessively wonderful lookinglassgirl for a while but it sort of petered out and wasn't quite post-able; maybe one day I'll go in and edit it and get my shit together. I love AUs so much because I really like taking characters out of their element and seeing how they change and/or remain the same. And this one is particularly suited to these characters, I think. Blair would definitely maintain her elitism, albeit of a different sort, and I think Dan would still have a chip on his shoulder, it just wouldn't be related to being the "poor" loner. So yeah. Lots of fun to come at their dynamic in a kind of opposite way.




I saw this in a graphic on tumblr and became obsesssedddddd. How cute!!! Blair as an impossible, arrogant aspiring starlet and Dan as the writer/director slowling losing his mind over her antics! So screwball!!




Hahahahahaha cries.







I think of this as, like, the ULTIMATE Serena look. It's got that Kate Moss/Edie Segewick vibe. It's weirdly casual in a careless, thrown-together way that nevertheless manages to make a huge impact and look great. My issue with the direction Serena's styling took post-s1 is that it stopped looking effortless and started looking overworked, which is the opposite of how Serena should look. She's one of those characters who has to look amazing while seeming to put in zero effort, because that is the whole point of her effect on other people. Blair tries too hard; Serena doesn't try at all.



Loooove this. I wish I'd put some of her outerwear on this list because her coat/gloves were always so boss. But casual!Serena is my favorite Serena. I love this outfit because it's not super sexy or anything (aside from the obvious fact that she is hot). It just looks comfortable. It looks like something a real human woman would wear to go chill with her friends.



I AM COUNTING THESE AS ONE, I DON'T CARE. Legit think I have been looking for the perfect black with gold studs Serena dress since 2008.



A very simple outfit I have also been eternally obsessed with. She looks sooo good in jeans and her s2 hair was the pinnacle of her hair aaand that purse with the gold chain strap!! So good.



I mean she just looks hot as fuck. Love this dress.








TONY STARK STYLE: no powers, but using $$ and brains
I did an Avengers-themed GG graphic a little while ago and have been quietly obsessed with it ever since, lol. Blair is like Tony and Pepper's horrible love child: a spoiled rich bratty meglomaniac with terrifying effienciency skills. (Okay, she's more Tony than Pepper.) But I could just really see Blair with no powers existing in a world where people do have special abilities and utilizing her money and intelligence to make herself equally formidable. Plus stories of self-obsessed women crazy for power are just interesting to me.

(Dan would be Bruce and obviously Serena is Thor.)


PETER PETRELLI'S POWER: absorbing the powers of others
Aw remember Peter! I think this could feed nicely Blair's hunger for everything, her burning desire to possess everything (though she'd lack Peter's compassion, of course; Blair wants everything especially if it comes at a detriment to other people). She would totally collect abilities and amass power that way.


SUPER LEARNING!: the ability to take in information at an advanced rate
Remember when Blair was a person who cared about academics and stuff? I know, I barely do either. But once upon a time she did, sort of, so I think evil genius Blair would be pretty great.


PERSUASION / MIND CONTROL
Self-explanatory. She would clearly use it to create a dictatorship.


ROGUE DOES THIS I THINK?: feed on life energy
I don't know one single solitary thing about X-men but I saw the first movie when I was like ten or whenever it came out, and Rogue did something like this, right? She sucked away people's life force for her own (unintentional) benefit? Yeah, I think that works well with Blair's characterization. I think at first she'd probably take advantage of it but then it would start to majorly fuck with her.