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“You will be the very goddess of humility, I am sure.” (The Ugly Little Girl, A Dance with Dragons) | Arya Stark as Greek Goddesses

moodboard: dair (dan x blair)

What do you think are Serena's good and best qualities? She needs a lot of love :( (1/2)

Personally my favorite is her forgiving juliet so quickly and calling lily out on her bs in S4, I don't think I would have been strong enough to forgive something as awful as what juliet did to her (2/2)

so many! i love that she’s genuinely a funny and charming person. i love a broody, sad character as much as the next person, but the suggestion that bubbly, bright characters can’t be just as complex has always been weird to me. one thing i love about her that people don’t really talk about often is that she’s definitely... a smart person. yes... serena van der woodsen... a smart person. like no she doesn’t go around making literary and film references all day every day, no she’s not a super studious scholarly type, but there are several moments where she is so excited about school. but nobody ever took her seriously, so her interest always faded (will never stop thinking about how excited she was when ben and rachel took her seriously, because she’d never been thought of as anything more than a hot party girl on page six... but then predatory ass ben developed a crush on her and predatory ass rachel developed a crush on her boyfriend). she’s just so much more than anyone thinks, y’know? and i love that and it makes me sad.

on that same note, i think she’s a harder worker than anyone gives her credit for. not just in terms of school or her career, but in terms of bettering herself, escaping drama, not falling back into her old behaviours. but it’s all just so... sisyphean for serena. because everyone loves to watch her crash and burn and because the nature of her world just won’t allow the type of growth that she’s desperate for. of course she’s not blameless (we see in 3x01 and 5x19 that as much as she hates the things that the spotlight does to her, she has no idea how to live without it), but god... she tries so hard! she wants to be better so badly but almost nobody else wants that for her!

and i agree that she’s a highly forgiving person, to a fault actually. juliet definitely didn’t deserve forgiveness after drugging her lol, but serena is i think a genuinely empathetic person. which is also why the ongoing “serena doesn’t understand that everything comes easily to her and not to others” narrative is so ?!?!?!?! she did understand! she was willing to expose her own mother’s federal crime because she recognized the differences between her lifestyle and juliet/ben’s and understood what led them to such terrible actions. she defended dan for the entire series and recognized the classism and elitism of her peers more than anyone. she tried to hold herself back from several opportunities because she understood where blair’s jealousy came from. just. ugh. the most misunderstood and disrespected character.

All summer, I’ve been sitting in front of my favorite Manet and reading Colette in the park, hoping that I’ll lock eyes with somebody who’s doing the same thing as me and feeling the same things I am.

take a fucking sip babes