Dan: "With all due respect, maybe I am only seeing the good in Serena, but I'm at least looking at her and not at myself."
Go Dan! I love him for saying this!
And I love Lily for not getting defensive--and actually listening!
Such a GREAT scene!
Eric: "I would say 'get a room,' but yours is right above mine. Please try to remember that."
😂😂😂
I laugh every time I watch this!
It has totally become my head canon that these four were friends when they were younger.
(And, yes, I know, that if the Lily/Rufus prequel had happened, there were plans to bring a younger Kirsten and Sandy into it.)
Is anyone else with me on this? 😊
Reddit, please give us a way to opt out.
This is right before Eric confronts Blair during the Ivy League mixer.
Lily always looks so young / in-over-her-head here to me. Like she feels like she needs to protect her son but doesn't have a clue how to do that.
(And I know she has made plenty of mistakes leading up to this. I'm just commenting on how she appears to me in this scene.)
Can anyone point me to some resources about how to write about depression without using ableist terms?
Specifically, I'm working on a scene with a character who was somewhat in willful denial that her teenage son was depressed when he got very depressed.
Instead of admitting to herself that he was depressed, her defense mechanisms caused her to (almost) convince herself that he was having emotional outbursts that were fueled by anger, not depression.
Right now, I have her referring to this as "when he first started struggling," but I have found resources that say this is an ableist way to talk about it.
Does anyone have any alternative suggestions for language I could use? Or any suggestions for resources that might help me write this conversation as sensitively as possible?
Thank you to anyone who can help!
Can anyone point me to some resources about how to write about depression sensitively?
Specifically, I'm working on a character who was somewhat in willful denial that her teenage son was depressed when he got very depressed.
Instead of admitting to herself that he was depressed, her defense mechanisms caused her to (almost) convince herself that he was having emotional outbursts that were fueled by anger, not depression.
My story is set two years after this happened. And this woman is having a conversation with her son in which she's starting to reckon with how she reacted when this happened.
Does anyone have any suggestions for resources that might help me write this conversation as sensitively as possible?
Does anyone know how to fix this?
Both of the Yahoo addresses I know are being blocked are in my address book.
Thanks to anyone who can help!
Does anyone else own season 4 of Gossip Girl through Amazon Prime Video?
If so, you may want to check your Amazon account.
Due to some new deal with HBO Max, some of the episodes are now locked without an HBO Max subscription.
I lodged a complaint with Amazon, and they are looking into it. They said this happens sometimes when they reach new deals with streaming services.
In the meantime, they have refunded me for the season.
Just wanted to give people the heads up in case they wanted to lodge a complaint/get a refund, as well.
(And it looks like it is available for purchase as a streaming purchase on Fandango At Home. I'm going to hold off on that for a few days, though, in case the same thing happens with Fandango.)
Character A is meeting her teen son's new boyfriend. She knows very little about the boyfriend, just really that they just met.
Character A is also super rich and extremely polite to strangers (most of the time), but, at the moment, she is exhausted, has recently been told she has a pretty serious medical condition, and has just gotten into a huge fight with her husband.
She comes home to find her son (whom she also had a fight with earlier in the day, which she feels guilty about) hanging out and talking with the aforementioned boyfriend in the living room.
I don't want her to say "It's nice to meet you" when greeting the boyfriend.
Does anyone have any alternative suggestions?
