Thanks to the radio's playlist and caitiedidit; I'm now a fan of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. Been singing it all week with a smile on my face. However, I feel for my poor colleagues who've had to hear my renditions (which often involved singing la la la because I didn't know the words).


PS: Since this is a squee post, I also really like my Dan icon by artemis_sparks.

Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2010 to my flist.

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7

 

 

 

 

Story Title: All Roads Lead To Yale
Story Type - het (PG-13), Alternate Universe (AU)
Characters/Pairings - Dan/Blair (Serena, Chuck, Jenny, Rufus, Vanessa, and other characters also feature)

Plot: Takes place sometime within the Episode 2.21 “Seder Anything” universe.

Summary: Blair is more desperate than ever to get into Yale.  She ropes an unwilling Dan into her plans.  However, she wasn’t expecting the road to Yale to lead to other things.

Notes: Everything in Episode 2.21 occurred except, Blair didn’t make up with Nate, Blair didn’t ask Cyrus to talk to his friend about NYU and Rufus and Jenny spent the night at Lily’s. 

In this universe, Vanessa comes to Dan for comfort following her encounter with Chuck and her break up with Nate respectively. Dan and Vanessa brood over drinks; Dan has one or two drinks while Vanessa gets royally drunk, causing Dan to put her to bed in Jenny’s room.

Dedications and thank yous: A big thank you to artemis_sparks, who waded through the badness and helped me shape this story into something more realistic and hopefully interesting. I appreciate your patience, tenacity and dedication. It couldn’t have been easy reading the same old story (loaded with badness) again and again. I couldn’t have done this without you and I learnt so much from this experience (absolutely invaluable) and I hope I will be able to transfer everything I learnt into my fic writing. I don’t know if I’ll write a fic of this length again though.

Thank you to pink_martini2 for your invaluable help with the initial six chapters, I appreciated the feedback; it was instrumental in shaping the plot, story flow and future chapters.

miss_pai, thank you again for beta reading the first chapter.

Now that I’ve finished gushing like a fan girl, unto the story and happy reading

 

 

 

My xoxobigbang challenge is finished (including beta work) - woo hoo.  

Big thank you to artemis_sparks (I know I've already sent you an email but it doesn't hurt to say it again). Girl, I couldn't have done it without you :)

Thank you to pink_martini2 for your invaluable help with the initial six chapters, I appreciated the feedback; it was instrumental in shaping the plot, story flow and future chapters. 

miss_pai, thank you again for beta reading the first chapter.


I have some story ideas, one of them is as a result of the D/B Season 3 promo, not sure if or when I'm gonna write them. Getting free time to write is very challenging at the moment. 

 

 xoxobigbang challenge finished, just waiting on beta feedback. I'm hoping that it ticks all the right boxes.

In other news, I created some artwork (well, my newbie version) to celebrate - I really need to get out more :)