#there was going to be a joke that the humphrey sibs make

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does 3 emojis mean 3 answers??? well, give a mouse a cookie....give a liz a prompt....

okay 1: another jenate fic idea the death of WVDB. nate's grandfather passes, and so he's called back to NY for the funeral. it's basically jenny being nate's rock through vbd family nonsense, because nate knows what he wants and the kind of person he wants to be and that does not compute with anne and his grandmother. like, there's a will reading, and nate ends up being promised a huge sum BUT with stipulations, like, there's funding to set up his own nonprofit as well as set him up comfortably -- but only if he's married. and he's like "fuck that" and walks away from it. another nuggets I've thought about over this idea: dair being Old Marrieds; blair still being favored by lots of vdbs but like anytime she interacts with any of them she's like "have you met my husband Dan???"; jenny & blair playing Nate's self-appointed emotional guardians; jenny being so glamorous and put together that all the vbds are like "whaaaa?"; and there's actually a couple cousins nate keeps in touch with and they LOVE her. oh, and nate joking that he doesn't need his grandfather's will because "Jen's gonna be richer than me in 5 years anyway"

2: a big little lies au!!!! okay so like, jenny is shailene woodley, blair is nicole kidman, serena is reese witherspoon, vanessa is zoe kravitz. kinda want serena and vanessa to just be wives and drop that jealousy subplot idk. and blair is locked in her abusive marriage with chip wiskers, and she thinks she's keeping it hidden from her son henry, but he starts first grade bullying a kid in his class, but jenny's son gets blamed for it, since they just moved to town. (who would be laura dern tho?! penelope?) serena adopts jenny as her new best friend, and so her best friend blair does by proxy (lady friendships!!!!) and all the tension comes to a head when it's revealed that jenny's assaulter is blair's husband, a fight breaks out, and chuck ends up dead at the bottom of the stairs. and all the women band together in solidarity (lady friendships!!!!) oh and jenny and blair heal fall in love and raise their boys together <333 maybe they open a boutique together. the challenge with doing anything with the humphrey sibs Going Through Some Shit, is: where the hell is the other one??? my answer for this au is that Dan is living his Happily Ever After with his son Milo and his husband Nate and they all fret over Jenny from a distance, because she wants to make her own way, dammit.

and 3: a pop musician's au. born entirely out of my obsessive listening of carly rae jepsen's The Loneliest Time, because, it's a Blair album. full of dair anthems. it'd be kiiiiinda sorta like the 90s music au by audrina, but not because I'd want to do something different if I only had the time, but that's the vibe: Blair is a pop princess, Dan an indies guy, and ✨ROMANCE✨

(also the vibe would be like one of my favorite GOT fics Dangerous Woman, but this time I would pick the music)

they fall in love, fall apart, etc. etc. and there'd be other characters too. Serena in a music au could ONLY be Kesha, and she and Dan are exes-turned-besties and sometimes they write stuff together.

Dan's ride or dies are Jenny and Vanessa, and they each have their own thing going but they still write and perform together. boygenius. they're boygenius. (obvi Vanessa is Lucy Daucus, Jenny is Julien Baker, and Dan is Phoebe).

oh, and Carter Baizen is an actor and he and Dan meet through Serena and they date before the grand Dair Reconciliation.

and endgame dair & serenessa. bc I'm me.

#ty stars love <333 #asks #insistonyourcupofstars #gg au #srsly the album the loneliest time belongs to blair waldorf

[mrs-nate-humphrey]

i’m trying to write alison and nate being friends but it’s not happening. this is like rufessa 2.0 

#so fun fact: in this au #there was going to be a joke that the humphrey sibs make #about 'we can't leave nate alone with our mother #he will sleep with her' #and then i started thinking about it actively and like #alison is actually nate's type? #blonde sad eyes older woman who is sort of lost in life #anyway that's a talk for another day. this is supposed to be a d/n fic #with some nate & alison interaction #in the context of dan #but i am worried i am accidentally writing romantic tension LKDHFSLKGFH #like i know i'm not. my head is just Too Anxious #anyway i have a post series nate/alison crackfic plot #which - who knows when you'll get #it involves nate in his 20s and a series of bad decisions #i think there's background rufessa but i don't know #it's a crackfic don't @ me #the tl;dr is that #i do not want accidental ust / unresolved romantic tension #if it's there it's gotta be there on purpose!!!!!!! #fic progress #i took out the joke btw because it was just Too Much #it ruined my life tho LDFHLKFGKLGH

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I made a character playlist for my girl Jennifer Tallulah Humphrey, and at the behest of @bisexualdanhumphrey I decided to write a post about it (because I love music and have a lot of Opinions)

Here is a link to the unlisted youtube playlist. A lot of these are just songs that I think Vibe, but when there’s a particular lyric I added it to the list. and WOW this got very long bc I have no restraint #sorrynotsorry

1. “Kaleidoscope Heart” by Sara Bareilles

Inside is not a heart / But a kaleidoscope

2. “Bird Song” by The Wailin Jennys - this to me is just the vibe of baby Jenny when we first meet her at the top of the series? And I had to include this band just for the name alone, yk?

3. “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” as performed by Patti Smith

4. “Save Yourself” by tiLLie

5. “Mainstream Kid” by Brandi Carlile - again the whole thing. (loving Brandi Carlile is wlw culture)

I was born so I could fall in line / I'm a legend in my own mind

6. “Gold Dust Woman” by Fleetwood Mac

Rulers make bad lovers / you better put your kingdom up for sale

7. “Hard Times” by Paramore

All that I want / is to wake up fine. / Tell me that I’m alright / that I ain’t gonna die.

8. Careful by Paramore (Paramore first tracks go so hard what a gift)

9. “Least of All Young Caroline” by Frank Turner (like this whole thing especially the chorus but the 2nd verse in particular)

You know her parents build her up / then they let her fall aside. / Now she has the scars on her legs that she won’t explain from when she disappeared that night

10. “Bastards” by Kesha

Got too many people / got left to prove wrong 

Don’t let the mean girls take the crown / don’t let the scumbags screw you ‘round / don’t let the bastards get you down

11. “Is there Somewhere” by Halsey (she is such a Jenny vibe, like everything she does but there are a few song in particular on this list)

12. “Why Am I Like This?” by Orla Gartland

I've got my mistakes on loop inside my head

13. “Church” by Aly & AJ

Too many nights and there's no end / I'm hellbent, the reckless one

14. “Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse - just bc no one rocks the black monochrome lewk like J

15. “Hold Me Down” by Halsey - really all of Badlands is Jenny, but I really like the live performance I have on the playlist bc it’s so raw (and the piano is so good)

I sold my soul to a three-piece / and he told me I was holy

16. “Hurricane” also by Halsey

Don’t belong to no city / don’t belong to no man

17. “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” as performed by Kesha - I know a different cover of this is on the show during That Episode, but this cover? It’s just her voice with a synth (or strings?) underneath and it is such an incredible and devastating interpretation 10/10 would recommend

18. “Good Kisser” by Lake Street Dive - an aftermath of That Episode song

Now everybody's talking 'bout me / 'Cause you would dirty me up just to get yourself clean

19. “Motion Sickness” by Phoebe Bridgers - I have no explanation other than that she is just a Vibe

20. “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole” - by Martha Wainright - just, all the lyrics

I will not pretend I will not put on a smile I will not say I'm all right for you When all I wanted was to be good

21. “Galileo” by the Indigo Girls - I just, cannot make a lesbian-themed playlist without them

How long ‘til my soul gets it right?

22. “Tattoos” by Frank Turner - one of my fave lyricists of all time, and I very much hc Jenny getting several tattoos in her adulthood and I may have written fic about it

23. “Loving Her” by Katie Pruitt - this is just a wlw anthem, that’s all

24. “26″ by Paramore

Hold onto hope, if you got it Don't let it go for nobody And they say that dreaming is free But I wouldn't care what it cost me

25. “Rainbow” by Kesha - this whole album is for women exorcising all the toxic men from their past, we love to see it

And I know that I'm still fucked up / But aren't we all, my love?

26. “@!#?@!” by Motion City Soundtrack - it’s been years and I still don’t know how to say this title out loud, I just call it expletive or the motherfuckers song. Justin Pierce just sings “you motherfuckers” so tenderly...unparalleled...

You all need to go away, you motherfuckers. / You all need to leave me and my sensitive homeboys alone.

The final two are more like bonus tracks, for both the humphrey sibs, bc I love them both sm. (And they’re both by Brandi Carlile. because I’m me.)

27. “The Joke” - like the first verse is so Dan? and the second is so Jenny?

I see you tugging on your shirt / Trying to hide inside of it / And hide how much it hurts

We gotta dance with the devil on a river / To beat the stream Call it living the dream, call it kicking the ladder

28. “Murder in the City” 

I wonder which of us is better Which one our parents loved the most I sure did get in lots of trouble They seemed to let the other go

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing Like the love that let us share our name

#gossip girl #jenny humphrey #it's loving jenny humphrey hours #it's loving the humphreys hours #adding all the tags bc why not #character playlist #playlist

[mrs-nate-humphrey]

Oh I 1000% headcanon that the Humphreys are very musically talented but the were too embarrassed by UES cynicism to really show it.

Like Rufus taught Dan to play guitar when he was a kid but he dropped it when he started going to St. Jude’s. (Does he pick it back up again post series? I think so!!) And Jenny has always had a crazy good ear and that’s why she got into the Constance choir as a freshman but then she made the director so angry because she didn’t know how to read music.

I just—I’m a musician and I have a music degree so I am always looking to work it in somehow. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

i love this headcanon, omg!! 

i remember in firstaudrina’s dan/nate fic (without a key, i think it is?) there’s this bit where jenny tells serena that dan will play guitar hero with her, because he’s good at guitar hero, and also at the guitar, and they (dan & serena) joke about forming a band together? i loved that banter and also just that image, haha.

anyway i definitely see it!! i feel like dan probably learnt early on that his being passionate about music openly would not be seen as cool in st judes’ so he just denies being able to do it, or whatever, and he denies that he can sing as well, but there are moments where he slips up, like, singing softly when he thinks nobody is around and listening, or just generally doing that thing where you put your fingers in chord positions even though you don’t have the instrument with you? 

(now i’m thinking of dan singing to milo - we had that in CANON!!! ugh! why couldn’t dan have gotten to keep him!! ouch! dan cradling milo in his arms and singing about milo’s aunt jenny in hudson and nate walking in on him and - urgh. never will be over that baby plotline. ever.) 

and omg YES jenny having a good musical ear!! i feel like jenny would be one of those people who can figure out how to play any instrument after spending like fifteen minutes with it? but she’s not that passionate about music, not like she is about fashion, so all the band kids / music people are like ?? you’re naturally gifted why would you give this up?? and she’s like ‘oh this is just a hobby i don’t want to make a Thing out of it’ maybe? 

dan and jenny would never entertain the idea of being musicians because they’re both too focused on making it as a writer and designer respectively, but imagine... they do a cover of a lincoln hawk song as a joke and put it up on youtube and it suddenly blows up into a big hit, potentially a bigger hit than rufus’s version was, and then they’re both like... “whoops, sorry dad”

also WOW this response is LONG apparently i have many many opinions about musical humphrey sibs hahaha sorry about that!! 

#mezzoklutz #oh omg i just realised. is your url a music pun? #gotta look that up #anyway!!! this is a cool convo #PLEASE add more if youre so inclined hahaha