bluebloods wining and dining and whining and ... dhining........

[puphart]

hey there upper east siders!

a few of us have characters that live that in Wizarding Country Club Life (ex. new england) and/or Urban Wizarding High-Society Life (ex. manhattan). because kurt is involved in both of those via his parents, i am being selfish this morning and seeing if anybody would like to collaborate on what that actually means. what is it like for our students to go home and attend stupid holiday parties? what is it like when the parents sequester the kids into a different room? or when they're, god forbid, allowed to mingle?

if you have any ideas, post them here! i'll also try to edit this post with a running list of things from the comments. i'm posting this now, but pledge that this evening i will watch at least one episode of gossip girl, and at least one of gilmore girls, to help my brain contribute. i am also not trying to steamroll anybody's ideas of what either of these lifestyles is like; i thought it might be cool to have something common to pull from, but this (a) DOES NOT need to be gooseberry canon in any way! (b) is also a place where, if you have deviating ideas about it, you should absolutely share!, and (c) don't ever feel like you need to live by the things set out in this post.

also begging for way catchier names for them than the aforementioned WCCL & UWH-SL (which are 99% not the serious choices.) the works-in-progress so far include...

THIS GOT PRETTY BIG ALREADY. i'm going to condense it into a google document later instead of constantly updating this post. UPDATES TO COME.

edit: okay, i stuck everything onto a google doc! here's a link. with that you can comment but not edit; if you'd like to edit, you can request it and i'll add you in!

Comments

[gdilevi]

I DON'T KNOW. but i do know that my initials are ALC and as a child, i was determined to marry a man with an F name so that my monogram could be ALF like my fav alien on TV. and i was absolutely devastated when my mom told me that my maiden name would become my middle name and i'd be ACF.

seriously, fucking everything is monogrammed. we even have monogrammed towels with somebody else's monogram on them because someone left their towel at a pool party at ben's grandma's when he was a child and it's just been circulating in their laundry ever since. and we know who the monogram belongs to but after fifteen years, they never bothered to take back their towel so we took it with us when ben moved out because nobody actually wants this towel and his parents happily dumped it on us.

THAT IS MY MONOGRAM STORY, THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.

[riledup]

My favorite part of this story is that this towel has lived a longer life than like most pets I've had.

[momblogger]

we use it underneath the cat litter box. that's how much we do not like nor want this other-monogram towel.

[overturn.insanejournal.com]

....can't you decide which name to keep?

[momblogger]

yes, but i believed what my mama told me because she replaced her middle name with her maiden name. i'm in a LTR with an f-name and i'll be damned if i don't live out my childhood dream and become ALF. our mush name is even 'alien', how cute is that?

[wilhelmeana]

ohhhh nooooo that's so cute... I don't have a fun mush name with Meggie except M&M. Or... Le Fox. LMAO.

[evercreep.insanejournal.com]

LE RENARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[puphart]

please tell me this means a 1920s french jewel heist duo??

[momblogger]

M&M IS CUTE AF OK

[puphart]

yes, "alien" is perfect! my partner's and mine is KHAAAANNNNNNN. i approve of it.

[momblogger]

GOD, YES

[cmdrchloe]

Okay but someone told me that the middle initial on a monogram is supposed to be your last name? So like my initials are CAT so my monogram would be CTA? Idk though.

LOL. But like, that must be a really nice towel if it's fifteen years old and it's not worn out?

I go to thrift stores all the time and I always see monogrammed shit hanging out, and like it'll still be there the next week, because wtf is someone gonna do with your monogrammed lunch box.

[gdilevi]

yeah, the surname traditionally goes in the center and is bigger than the other letters but i've also seen them in order if the font is the same size.

so



also, i think the towel's just lasted that long because nobody wants to use it but nobody wants to destroy it. it's just been in towel limbo until we were like "lmao let's put it under where the cat shits."

YEAH, NOBODY WANTS TO BUY SOMEBODY ELSE'S MONOGRAM. unless they can seamrip that embroidery out. but even then, it's not worth the trouble.

[cmdrchloe]

Right so that's even MORE CONFUSING?

Lol, the rejected orphan towel. THIS IS WHAT MONOGRAMMING CAUSES.

Right, that's too much trouble and it's still going to probably leave lines where the stitching was.