First of all, my littlest sister very much enjoyed reading all of your nice comments, so thank you for those!
So I got this really weird e-mail today. REALLY WEIRD. To convey why it is so weird, I will have to do a little bit of esplaining. Earlier last month, I took over running the Gossip Girl newsletter. It has been fairly uneventful, but not unfun. Since the show is narrated by a blogger, we have some kitschy tie-ins, like a Spotted! section for celebrity gossip, which this cast seems to generate on a daily basis, and an e-mail address inspired by the show: tips4gossipgirl at gmail dot com.
Anyway, I'm checking my e-mail on my iPod, and I notice I've got one in the Gossip Girl account, which is not that unusual in and of itself. But instead of a link to caps or a fanvid, it seems like a genuine tip for Gossip Girl, if she actually existed. The e-mail has a Sidekick signature, and it's clearly a picture from someone's phone, taken in what is clearly a middle school or high school hallway. Its subject certainly seems unaware she's being photographed. And the accompanying message is something about how the girl in the picture can't be trusted and everything that comes out of her chapped lips is a lie.
I am intrigued by this, you guys. Is there a real Gossip Girl virtually terrorizing the halls of some suburban high school? (Is she the reason tips dot gossip girl was taken, and I got this as a mistake?) Did someone not get that I am the nice, shiny Gossip Girl OF FANDOM? Is someone playing a joke on me? Or does eveybody get this kind of spam, and I just get stuck with all the boring penis enhancer stuff?
Anyway. While we're on the subject of Gossip Girl, I have some quick, drive-by rec/pimps.
The Wake Up Toast by
them0rgue is a completely excellent deleted-scenes type of fic about Eric's time at Ostroff and how he managed to get involved with an asshat like Asher. I think I have internalized this as canon, it is so good.
Climb a Ladder Up to the Sun by
mardia is a Dan/Blair -- OKAY WAIT because she's been intrigued by the idea of them since their lovely scene in 1x04, and she invented an incredibly convincing and entirely plausible scenario that runs parallel to the show in a really fun kind of way, and it is brilliant. And if you like this one, click on her Dan/Blair tag and read her missing moment fic from 1.15 and the other version she wrote of this same story in Blair's POV, and then rejoice in the fact that she is writing this, like, RIDICULOUSLY ambitious epic, and everything you've read is just a "teaser."
Not Your Girl by
sionnain is a beautifully written Blair/Jennyish Jenny fic with an interesting interpretation of Jenny's ambitions and motivations throughout her arc. I especially thought
sainfoin_fields might like this one.
Yellow Ribbon by
cupiscent is very in-character Chuck/Nate fic that doesn't cut Blair out of the narrative. It's a post-ep for "Hi, Society" that got a little jossed by 1.11, but it's still ridiculously great. (It's also R-rated, so hide the children.)
A Milestone by
cherryroad is all about Blair and Nate's first kiss, according to Blair (of course).
Hill of Beans by
goddesspharo is a fun Blair/Chuckish fic. You know how sometimes stories are pre-slash? This is kind of pre-het, I guess. I was impressed with the way she tied so many of her scenes into episodes, and there are a bunch of fun little details, especially the fanwank about Kati being Asian and also apparently Jewish. (And if you like this fic, check her tags. She's written tons more.)
So I got this really weird e-mail today. REALLY WEIRD. To convey why it is so weird, I will have to do a little bit of esplaining. Earlier last month, I took over running the Gossip Girl newsletter. It has been fairly uneventful, but not unfun. Since the show is narrated by a blogger, we have some kitschy tie-ins, like a Spotted! section for celebrity gossip, which this cast seems to generate on a daily basis, and an e-mail address inspired by the show: tips4gossipgirl at gmail dot com.
Anyway, I'm checking my e-mail on my iPod, and I notice I've got one in the Gossip Girl account, which is not that unusual in and of itself. But instead of a link to caps or a fanvid, it seems like a genuine tip for Gossip Girl, if she actually existed. The e-mail has a Sidekick signature, and it's clearly a picture from someone's phone, taken in what is clearly a middle school or high school hallway. Its subject certainly seems unaware she's being photographed. And the accompanying message is something about how the girl in the picture can't be trusted and everything that comes out of her chapped lips is a lie.
I am intrigued by this, you guys. Is there a real Gossip Girl virtually terrorizing the halls of some suburban high school? (Is she the reason tips dot gossip girl was taken, and I got this as a mistake?) Did someone not get that I am the nice, shiny Gossip Girl OF FANDOM? Is someone playing a joke on me? Or does eveybody get this kind of spam, and I just get stuck with all the boring penis enhancer stuff?
Anyway. While we're on the subject of Gossip Girl, I have some quick, drive-by rec/pimps.
The Wake Up Toast by
Climb a Ladder Up to the Sun by
Not Your Girl by
Yellow Ribbon by
A Milestone by
Hill of Beans by
feeling: weird
hearing: fleet foxes
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