saturninesunshine:

Can I just say I love the juxtaposition of Chuck and Blair and Dan and Serena. Dan and Serena have been in this dance and finally in this episode, their entire story is about having sex for the first time. At the same time, Chuck and Blair have always been platonic and don’t think about each other at all in that way, though they do have mutual admiration and maybe a little bit of attraction for each other.

In the last minutes, it’s Dan and Serena who don’t end up going through with it but Chuck and Blair give into their wild passions spontaneously.

It is so telling and just a perfect parallel for these two couples and the real start of everything.

1 week ago · 14 notes · Source

I can’t stress enough how much I love the line “It’s just us here. You and me.” They’re Chuck and Blair, Blair and Chuck. Their relationship distilled into how much they know each other best and are the only ones who’ll ever understand what they’ve been through. It’s how they operate as a couple at the very core. This interaction is what I live for. The intimacy. The history. The understanding. The love. No matter who they’re with, or what’s keeping them apart, what they have cannot be erased. It will always be their story. It will always be their relationship.　

3 weeks ago · 186 notes

The way he did it, omg, paragraphs upon paragraphs. He touched her arm first, then wrapped his hand on hers. Ed and Leighton simply slay me when they work together.

3 weeks ago · 58 notes

flowersforfucktards:

After giving up on GG after the 100th episode I was happy that I decided to tune in tonight.  This was vintage gossip girl.  The kind of vintage that has been missing for a couple of seasons.  Before I stopped watching officially I would watch, get bored, start reading.  The hour flew by this time. 

Serena:

I feel like this episode was a cumulation of a lot of what Serena has been going through for years.  Ever since GG posted that she was irrelevant.  She has been failing around since high school, hardly sticking to anything or anyone.  She’s made horrible choices but mostly she hasn’t made any choices.  The fact that she wanted to be GG was actually pretty sad.  It shows how little she has going for her.  And the fact that she’d ditch her plan to help Chuck shows she’s still got a good heart.  I think Serena needs some stability but also some independence.  It’s got to start with her moving out of Blair’s house and on her own. 

Nate:

So adorably clueless.  I have to say that Chace’s acting has improved tremendously since the first season.  They really need to give him a meaty storyline before this show wraps because I think he can handle it now.

Dan:

I’m not surprised he’s jealous.  I actually feel bad for him because it’s obvious that Blair doesn’t love him in a romantic way and that she’s using him as a rebound.  He does this with all his girlfriends though.  He imortalizes him prior to dating them and quickly grows dissolutioned.  That’s why I actually liked the idea of him & Vanessa.  But after the way he treated her I find it difficult to like Dan at all.

Chuck:

BAAARRRTTTT!  Always one of my favorite characters.  It’s such a retcon.  But you know what.  After all the horrid/doesn’t make sense retons I’ll take this one no matter how badly written the excuse is.  I also loved Chuck with Blair this episode.  You could tell how much he loved her by the way that he looked at her.  But he kept his distance and respected her relationship.  He did not touch her until he saw that she was upset and then it was to comfort.  Their connection is truly electrifying onscreen.  It’s sad to me that the GGWrtiters haven’t made proper use of it within the context of a relationship.

Blair:

I’m glad to see Blair recovering herself this episode.  She’s been hiding out in Brooklyn, ignoring all of her friends and playing girlfriend with Dan.  She’s basically been unrecognizable.  I still don’t understand why she felt the need to rebound with Dan.  She has all her friends who are there and ready to support her.  But, I’m guessing, that Dan is fundamentally unthreatening to her.  However, you could just see the demeanour change when she was with the NJBC.  The change in her poise, her posture and tone of her voice.  Then she went back to Brooklyn and it was back to the fake babyish voice (the same one she used to use with Nate in S2).  I think that she does love Dan but not in a romantic sense.  Ad I think that Dan telling her that he loved her, you could see the panic, the moment of “oh sh*t, what have I got myself into”.

3 weeks ago · 25 notes · Source

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3 weeks ago · 111 notes · Source

hermiola:

blairhappiness:

the problem may be w/ some CBers that whenever the IP is mentioned they think automatically in reference to what Chuck did. But Blair can also be talking in reference to what she did because she was also part of why it succeeded at all. because if she wasn’t wiling to save him then there would have been no IP.
But i feel that in some CBers minds maybe they associate the guilt entirely to Chuck so whenever Blair mentions the IP, to them, she has to be talking about Chuck and holding him accountable. She was part of it too. How about she may be holding herself accountable? give the girl a little credit. I feel like she should be able to talk about the IP without being shushed. It was something that did happen to her. And yes, she’s entitled to still be dealing with feelings about it. It doesn’t mean that she hasn’t forgiven Chuck. But maybe this whole time she hasn’t forgiven herself for how she betrayed herself, her dignity, her self-esteem. you have to understand that what happened was very complex. I think this whole time Blair has been dealing with those feelings. And i understand that it may be easier to forgive Chuck for what happened then to forgive herself. If she’s verbalizing them now, it’s a good thing. She’s dealing with them. That’s a sign of maturity, a sign of positivity. She’s resolving things with herself. why wouldn’t people be happy for her to do that?

If Chuckc and Blair ever end up together. It’s only to their benefit that she’s dealing with these things now.She wasn’t being accusatory of either Chuck or Louis. She just acknowledged that she lost herself in the process of being with those men
did she Blame them? i don’t feel she did. She’s aware she’s the one who compromised herself in those situations. that’s exactly what she was acknowledging. That it was her who lost herself. 
I remember when she told Chuck “i don’t like who i’ve become with you”.
i think it was very precise that she didn’t say “I don’t like who i’ve become because of you”
because in the former statement she’s holding herself accountable for who she’s become. who she’s allowed herself to become.
Louis has truly loved Blair. Never asked Blair to compromise herself. If she didn’t love Louis, she could have walked away. But she didn’t. She compromised herself.
At first Chuck never pushed Blair to save him. he told her precisely in 3x12 that he doesn’t need her taking care of him. But she pushed him. she wanted to be purposeful to him. she wanted to save him. she told him and i’m going to cap this
’ I FORCED MYSELF FOR YOU’ (3x18)
When they were dancing with the balloon in between them. those are her words. Chuck may have known how to play her but Blair is ultimately responsible for allowing herself to be played. She crossed moral lines on her own. Chuck betrayed her. But she betrayed herself too.

(i just published this on twitter but i was asked to re-post it on tumblr. so there you go)

I do think that she didn’t blame Louis when she said “selling out for a tiara”, but seeing that she accused Chuck of buying her and selling her in 5x14 and 5x19, I couldn’t help but taking the IP reference “badly”. She has every right to mention it whenever she wants, and however she wants, though. That’s not what bugged me, personally. I’m just over watching her going around in circles, asking people to tell/remind her who she is. English is not my mother tongue, so this may not have sense at all, but even in the final scene with Dan, she asks him to remind her who she is, she says “I want to be found”, not that she wants to find herself. It’s like she’s waiting for someone else to find her… when *I think* she needs to start working on herself by herself. Or that’s at least what I would like to see. She gave up control on her life at the end of S4, when she accepeted Louis’ proposal, and I haven’t really seen her in control since then (just briefly in 5x14). She’s just… passive. She wasn’t at the beginning of this episode, and then she was again by the end of it. That’s probably why I didn’t feel like she was blaming herself when she mentioned the IP.

(I also think that the writers are taking every possible chance to remind us of the IP. They clearly got a huge deal of backlash for that storyline, and it only seemed to get worse when Dair came into the picture. I always feel like they want us to know that they know how important the IP was, that they didn’t forget, that they know what they’re doing. And I also feel that’s why Blair keeps accusing Chuck in these episodes. It’s like they want to anticipate what Chuck haters will say, and make Blair speak before them. I felt like that when Blair accused Chuck of selling her/buying her; also when she refused to help him in 5x19 telling him that there’s always “an agenda” hidden somewhere in his actions. It’s like they want to take care of every possible aspect of Chuck and Blair’s relationship right now, like they don’t want to leave any material to CB haters. Which may be a good thing for CB, so… I’m not really complaining. At least I saw the Blair I used to love at the beginning of this episode.)

I think Anne and Serena both have great points. The best thing we can take from this is Blair finally realizing that she’s truly lost. The things she speaks of is reflective of the ugly debates in the fandom, the things that need to be addressed. Maybe they finally will be, so the past can be put in the past, and she can move forward as can we. It’s also very interesting that she starts interacting—civilly, not dismissively, and actively, not passively—with her friends on the heels of this realization.

It’s just very painful for all of us because we’ve known it for so many episodes now, and the bad writing isn’t exactly a reassurance that the arc will leave us satisfied. 

1 month ago · 37 notes · Source

friedectoplasm:

“I think somewhere between being traded for a hotel and selling out for a tiara, I lost my true self. But I want to be found.”

- Blair Waldorf on Blair Waldorf, 5x21

“That girl is fiercely strong, outspoken, independent, beautiful, capable of anything, and no man or magazine could change that.”

- Dan Humphrey on Blair Waldorf, 5x21

So at long last, an acknowledgement that Blair has been lost. (I think others have rightly pointed to a big absence on the list of things that have shaken her identity: if you can see a neon sign saying ‘MISCARRIAGE,’ you’re not Blair Waldorf.) I think it’s interesting that Dan named specifics, when he told Blair who she was. Not inaccurate specifics, I think, but specifics all the same. I think it’s interesting that what lies between the aforesaid hotel incident and ‘selling out for a tiara’ is the moment that Dan Humphrey fell in love with her – perhaps it’s just an unfortunate slip in the writing, but the same period Dan cites as the start of being smitten with Blair Waldorf is the very same period that Blair Waldorf says her true identity escaped. And yet, those traits all sound like our girly package of evil. I think it’s most interesting of all that the next episode after a confession of contrite loss of identity – where presumably Blair will be getting back to Blairness, one step at a time –  unites our favorite furniture couple.

Look, this is in desperate need of expansion into a cogent essay, but I just wanted to say that I am glad that there is a concrete nod to the dissolution of Ms. Waldorf across Season Five. Sometimes I see posts retaliating to the general despair at lobotomy!Blair (this is getting rhymey, apologies all) as a desire for her to be ‘bitchy,’ that our current declawed girl is merely more mature, and not a stranger. I think this episode’s ‘scheme’ is a perfect example of what many of us have been feeling, which is that Blair’s still got bitchiness aplenty, but it’s Persian kitten bitchy, ineffectual selfish floundering – see her stealing the spotlight from Dan and embarrassing them both, rather than a masterful stroke, just the right amount of doe-eyed attentiveness to a literary mogul, say, or blackmailing one of Dan’s contenders for the same prize, or ingratiating herself at exactly the right moment to be asked to make a toast (which Waldorf would graciously accept, pulling out miraculous notecards that she’d had, you know, just in case). When I fell in love with Blair, I fell in love with her finesse and righteous reworking of the world. She doesn’t need to hold that same venomous streak we saw so much of in early Season One to be that girl, but something has sapped the strength that so often accompanied it. In a moment that I hope doesn’t go to Humphrey’s head, he was right: the defining quality of Blair Waldorf really might be that fierce strength.

I want her to get it back.

I want to get her back.

1 month ago · 42 notes · Source

Trivia: Ed was asked to audition in both American and English accents. Zomg foreshadowing since BEFORE the pilot!!!

1 month ago · 11 notes