Chuck and Blair’s mutual love for the stuff with their initials. They really are soulmates! Those yoga mats still make me think of CB, not just a CB though.
Chuck’s dog will kiss his tears away.
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Prohibition never stood a chance against exhibition. It’s human nature to be free, and no matter how long you try to be good, you can’t keep a bad girl down.
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As much as Chuck screws things up, he’s been clear about what he wants almost from the beginning. 1.07 sets it all up: Chuck seeks his father’s approval, he needs a mother figure like Lily in his life, and (through four years of fear and joy and hurt), he wants Blair so much that you physically feel it. Blair was the first in Chuck’s heart, and it aches and breaks for her again and again, but his body needs her too. It told him so with butterflies, with those “difficulties” in early Season 2, and, now that his heart believes he has lost her for good, his body has shut down completely.
“Despite whatever vestigial attraction my body may feel for you, my brain knows better.”
“I was resolved not to, every bone tried to slow me, every voice in my head screamed ‘don’t’…but I didn’t listen. I followed my heart.”
By contrast Blair’s head, heart, and body are often at war with each other. In Season 1 we saw Blair use her bulimia – controlling her body – as a way of gaining some semblance of control over her world. Blair’s head tries to rein everything in with stories where she knows the ending, and this extends to the men in her life too. She put the world’s simplest prince into the world’s simplest fairytale, Cinderella. She found a friend who stays in the box she put him in, who is always where she expects him to be – the boy who stayed in character (on- and off-stage) throughout the brilliant meta-mess that was 2.18.
Chuck wasn’t even in that play. And though Blair constantly tries to put him into her plans and stories, he never sticks to the script. Write him off for good and he’ll be there with macarons and “I love you too”. Let him Affair to Remember you and he’ll be so hurt when you’re late that he’ll totally forget he’s supposed to be playing the Cary Grant part.
(It’s so ironic to me that Chuck may be actually playing the role of The Philadelphia Story’s Dexter this year when Blair has not placed him in that role. So bloody typical of Chuck to finally start acting like Cary Grant in a - Katharine – Hepburn movie just when Blair has stopped expecting him to.)
“It’s time to let go of your fantasies.”
“Blair, we’re not living in Paris in the Twenties.”
Wonderfully and horribly, accidentally and deliberately, Chuck is consistently the person who makes Blair step out of her head (and all those pre-existing stories) and into the real world. Not just because he’s unpredictable, but also because he makes Blair unpredictable. Chuck makes Blair want to strip down to her slip; he makes her want to cheat on her boring aristocrat boyfriends; he makes her choose him in a way that surprises her in every season finale.
A pregnancy means Blair losing control over – and being forced to really live in and accept - her body. It means the Cinderella train has been well and truly derailed. It means Blair has surprised even herself, again. OF COURSE Chuck is involved!
“I love you Nate Archibald. Always have, always will.”
“In the end, love makes everything simple.”
Watching Blair for four years, so many of the great things that have happened to her have been unplanned (not least her connection with Chuck) and arguably when her plans have gone astray (not getting engaged to Nate, not getting into Yale, love failing to make everything simple in 3.22) it has been for her own good. After all, knowing how the story will end is fine when you’re re-watching Tiffany’s, but in real life, would it make you grow? Would it really make you happy?
If Blair and Chuck’s baby is born, then Blair could never fully go back into movie land again, because she’d have this living, breathing reminder of how life rarely goes to plan - how scary and amazing it is that you can’t control everything. A concept which, come to think of it, probably first occurred to Blair when she was up on that stage in 1.07. Victrola has a lot to answer for.
“…she’d have this living, breathing reminder of how life rarely goes to plan - how scary and amazing it is that you can’t control everything.”
It’s such a beautifully written essay, S! It just left me breathless and speechless, adoring you all the more. Sometimes I think this fandom doesn’t deserve such great talented insightful posters!
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stupid marcus blocked this hotness…=)) they are sooooo beautifulllllllll <3
Have sex already!
SPOILERS ABOUT GOSSIP GIRL
Doing this under a read more. It involves Dan, Chuck, Blair, Louis
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Chuck and Blair in 5.01 Yes, Then Zero
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