Дон, ниче, что я открыла секреты нашего фикрайтерства? я же не настоящий райтер, и не знакома с райтерским этикетом

Anonymous asked: Can you explain why you like Nair so much though? Not hating but just wondering because they've always just chosen other people over each other every time. It's like every time they were together it's because they couldn't be with who they really wanted (Serena, Chuck). again, just wondering

Oh man… I apologize in advance if this turns into an all out novel, but I have a lot of feelings about Nair and everything about Nair…

I’m just going to completely leave the books out of it since you’re obviously talking about the TV show. And while the books did give me my initial Nair feels, I love TV Nair as an entirely separate entity and my TV Nair feels are just as strong.

First of all there’s the whole first love, childhood sweetheart thing which I am a complete sucker for. Just the idea of it is so endearing and sweet and how could you not love how cute that is, dating from when you’re just a kid to when you’re becoming an adult. It’s adorable. It’s sweet and innocent and the little flashes of it that we get to see are precious. E.g. Thanksgiving flashbacks, them talking about the past and how Blair used to make them watch her Audrey movies over and over again, Blair making fun of Nate about his favorite movie being the Sound of Music, Blair’s prom scrapbook, “he’s the one I want to marry”, the ruby ring, Blair knowing that Nate doesn’t eat tofu when it’s called bean curd and that he doesn’t eat pork since they watched Babe together, etc. etc. (I could go on. Believe me)

It’s all so incredibly precious and innocent. And I know they can’t always be innocent. As they grow up their relationship is sort of forced to grow up too. I think there was such potential to portray how their relationship would evolve as they had to face the struggles of growing up, Nate going through his family issues, Blair’s eating disorder. There was such potential for them to showcase how they could go through these problems but in the end they’d be together and it’d be okay. And they’d have their issues of course because you can’t always hang on to such innocent childhood love, but they could have adapted and grown with it. It would’ve been such a beautiful story.

A lot of my love for them, I think, comes from all the potential that I see they could have had, and that was never put to good use.

Also, I don’t think that they were together just because they couldn’t be with who they really wanted. Because I honestly think that when they were together, the people they really wanted actually was each other.

(Jsyk, I get incredibly, irrationally offended when people undermine Nair’s relationship for Serenate. Not that you did, but I see it so often from a lot of people that I’m incredibly defensive about it. People who claim Nate never really loved Blair, or he always loved Serena more, or that Blair didn’t mean as much to him as Serena did, it just gets me very irrationally angry at the world.)

To me, it’s very obvious that Nate loved Blair. I think that one Nate poster puts it best when it says “torn between the love of his life and the girl of his dreams”, Blair being the love of his life obviously. When he cheated on Blair with Serena, he was a 15 year old sexually frustrated boy who had been drinking. He had the “girl of his dreams” in his lap and he gave into temptation. It was wrong but I don’t think it diminished his feelings for Blair; it just intensified his feelings for Serena, and in having feelings for both girls he got confused.

Then Serena leaves and he’s left having had just a taste of something that he’d always been curious and wondered about. Now Nate being a young teenage boy obviously wants what he can’t have. See again Hi Society when he wants Blair back after she’s finally let him go. That feeling of wanting Serena and then having her and then watching her walk away spurs him on in season 1 when she finally comes back. That’s what we see him struggle with in his feelings for Blair. I don’t doubt that he had strong feelings for Serena, I just don’t think they were any stronger than his feelings for Blair.

And I beg to differ that Blair was only with Nate in season 2 because she couldn’t be with Chuck. I’m painfully aware of how Nair 2.0 was simply a prop for Chair to get back together, but I still strongly believe that they loved each other, even then and Blair saw more in Nate than just an alternative to Chuck’s heartbreak. When Nate gave her that pep talk in 2.19, he helped her in a way that Chuck never could, in a way that no one but Nate ever could. I believe when he gave her that pep talk she was reminded of how much she used to love him and it sparked something in her that made her wonder if they could ever have it back. They had a special bond and although the show obviously cared more about her bond with Chuck, there is a bond between Nate and Blair that can never be replicated or replaced because they’re each other’s first love. No one can ever change that or take that away from them.