dan & blair | foundations

[diamondrocker]

So I've been MIA from LJ for months, I've got a shit-ton of real-life stuff going on, and what is it that I'm posting about? Freaking Dan and Blair from fucking gossip girl - ngl, they've taken over my life at the moment. And what did I do with the precious little free time that I have (that should have been spent on doing work for my masters)? I

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[lloydsgurl]

OH MY GOD THIS IS MY LIFE EXACTLY!!!

Right around the episode of Blair's bachelorette party, the gifs of D/B became too powerful for me to ignore. I started watching clips on youtube of all their past scenes.

mid January - youtube it
start of February - picspams, recaps, think about GG for a day
mid February - fanvids, fanfic, think about GG for a few days
late February - voluntarily watching episodes, essay reading, spend the whole week thinking about GG
start of March - WHY IS IT ONLY MARCH?!?! APRIL, I NEED YOU NOWWWWWW.

[diamondrocker]

Happy to hear I am not alone!!! And your timeline = my timeline.

IDEK HOW THIS HAPPENED - THE FORCE OF DAN/BLAIR BANTER WAS TOO STRONG FOR ME TO RESIST. AND THEY ARE JUST SO PERFECT AND PRETTY IN EVERY WAY.

[veritas724]

I am so far past ashamed nowadays.

Now I just apologize for sucking people into this black abyss of a show. Even if D/B ends in three episodes, or at the end of the season, or at the start of next season... it was totally worth it to see this beautiful, well-written storyline. I won't regret dumping all of my flailings and creative energies into it, THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEE.

Seriously, though. I'm sorry.

[diamondrocker]

No need to apologize! In fact, thank you for bringing this ship into my life (even though it's temporarily consumed it for the moment). I've kept most of my gg viewing exclusively to Dan/Blair (though I did recently go and watch the 2nd half of S4 and plan to finish the first half at some point). And I feel only a mild pull to go back and watch the series from the start - but again, that's a very mild urge. I may or may not act on it, and if I do it will only to be see how far Dan and Blair have come in their relationship - from people who couldn't stand each other to reluctant friends to friends to BFFs to BF/GF-BFFs.

Even if D/B ends in three episodes, or at the end of the season, or at the start of next season... it was totally worth it to see this beautiful, well-written storyline. I won't regret dumping all of my flailings and creative energies into it, THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM MEEEEEEEE.

TRUTH. No matter how they torpedo them, I will always have the glory days of S4 and the 3rd quarter of S5 to go back and flail over.

[lama_not_llama]

Dude! Gossip Girl fell off my radar but then someone else on my flist mentioned that this is happening, and was flailing with glee, and I thought "no way"! It almost makes me want to pick GG up again and find out how this is all happening! (and the awesomeness of it)

[artic_fox]

You need to catch up. Srsly, girl ;D

[lama_not_llama]

I know!!

[diamondrocker]

Do what I did and just watch their scenes starting from 4x10-11 and onwards. THAT WAS ALL IT TOOK TO GET ME HOOKED IT WAS RIDICULOUS. pfft, context you say? THEIR BRILLIANCE TRANSCENDS CONTEXT. Although I did recently go back and watch the latter half of S4 and have watched the most recent eps - all of which have been pretty great (the earlier half of S5, notsomuch)

[artic_fox]

OH MY GOD. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS POST, OKAY?

I admit, I do watch Gossip Girl each week and have for a long while (not since the beginning - I'm sure I marathoned it at some point, but not that far into it). I LOVE DAN/BLAIR. Seriously, I watched the show before and found it kind of silly and addictive, but this year I have become ridiculously obsessed with this ship. RIDICULOUSLY. But omg, they are just so pretty, and snarky and WONDERFUL together. I can't even believe that Chuck is an option for Blair at this point and it offends me that people still think that ship is healthy.

ANYWAY.

ALSO, THAT VIDEO IS BEAUTIFUL. I love the song choice and the editing is fabulous. FAVOURITING IT RIGHT NOW. You should definitely pimp it at daretodair if you haven't already.

(apologies for all the capslock, btw)

[diamondrocker]

Aww thanks!! So happy that you enjoy the post and the vid!

Snarky and pretty and wonderful is the BEST combination. And I love that there have been so many parallels to when harry met sally and breakfast at tiffany's being drawn all over the place, b/c omg how could they not??? I've admittedly only seen late-S4 ChuckandBlair, and that was enough for me. I don't care what they were like in previous seasons (though I know enough), that is NOT a healthy relationship - it's a toxic and an emotionally abusive one; they make each other miserable and they bring out the worst in each other, where Dan and Blair can be happy when they're together and bring out the best in each other. /god i really have gone full shipper, haven't i

[lama_not_llama]

You twto are too cute! :-)

You both do make me very excited for Dair! Thanks for pinpointing where to start from. GG had gotten too mug for me around S2ish, and with my time constraints I just couldn't afford to watch anymore. But this pairing intrigues me!

[diamondrocker]

time constraints = the beauty of having all of their scenes culled from the show and posted on youtube. cuts required viewing time requirements by more than half*!!!

*unless you end up watching and rewatching the clips over and over hundreds of times, but whatevs /shrug

[zombie_boogie]

I do not watch Gossip Girl but I have been shipping D/B via the influence of The Internet (someday I'll make the time to watch the Dan N' Blair YouTube show).

ALSO HI.

[diamondrocker]

Yeah, I too was basically shipping them before I even saw one of the scenes - they are just so pretty to look at, and you could feel the charisma and quirk coming through the screencaps lol

I HIGHLY suggest going and watching the Dan n' Blair show on youtube - it will honestly only take you a couple of hours as their interaction up until the second half of S4 is pretty limited - but mid-S4 is when it gets screwball fabulous and you could honestly just take it from there.

And HELLO!