It all makes sense--Blair always sees herself as the heroine of an enormous, sweeping drama, even though she's just a high school girl. And that's the magic of GG as a show, too! Classic monarchical power struggles. In. A. High. School.
Thank you so much! I got the idea for the story back in June, and it took me this long to get the nerve to finish it!
The Age of Dissonance brought that element out of subtext, but it's really been there the entire time. What strikes me about that, though, is how realistic it is in terms of how lots of teenagers see themselves -- I was definitely the star of my own internal drama in high school, though I was too much of a bookworm to inflict it on other people the way Blair does. ;)
(And thanks for empowering all the scholarly GG fans. Confessions: hello, I'm an English professor and I love Gossip Girl!)
I'm an English doctoral student and it actually came as a surprise to me how many other people in my department watched the show. :) Actually, I went to a seminar paper on transgression in Gossip Girl last year and absolutely loved it. Makes me want to write one, just because.
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Thank you so much! I got the idea for the story back in June, and it took me this long to get the nerve to finish it!
The Age of Dissonance brought that element out of subtext, but it's really been there the entire time. What strikes me about that, though, is how realistic it is in terms of how lots of teenagers see themselves -- I was definitely the star of my own internal drama in high school, though I was too much of a bookworm to inflict it on other people the way Blair does. ;)
(And thanks for empowering all the scholarly GG fans. Confessions: hello, I'm an English professor and I love Gossip Girl!)
I'm an English doctoral student and it actually came as a surprise to me how many other people in my department watched the show. :) Actually, I went to a seminar paper on transgression in Gossip Girl last year and absolutely loved it. Makes me want to write one, just because.