TITLE: Love Bite
SHIP: Penn Badgley/Leighton Meester/Ed Westwick
RATING: NC-17
AUTHOR: meesterbate

SUMMARY: Set during Hollywood’s Golden Age, against a backdrop of grand fêtes, unimaginable fame, and deadly secrets, three up and coming actors enter a torrid love triangle that will span eternity.

Sworn brothers Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick are inseparable until they meet Leighton, a stunning, mysterious ingenue who turns their world upside down. Bromance turned rivalry, Penn and Ed compete for Leighton’s affection, only to discover that her sumptuous silk dresses and glittering gems hide a terrible secret: Leighton is a vampire. And she is intent on turning them into vampires so they can live together. Forever.

(opportunities for eternity)

Notes: This is my first fic, EVER, and it’s been 5 years in the making. Be nice. Of course it’s an RPF because I’m me and I’m creepy. Also, because I’m self-important, it’s in a .pdf file. Constructive criticism welcomed. Please enjoy!

Oh I didn’t know you guys wanted things in CONTEXT? I thought we were just doing math and blaming things for fun…. it’s okay, and that is why there is a part II! (P.S. I thought you guys had more common sense and vigor than to just give up midway through the season before the story was over. I thought Chuck/Blair were the story!)

Let’s Talk Gossip Girl Ratings, Chuckistans Prt. II (c) lokiyan [full post]

Season 3: Here is where I can’t deal with the CBers ratings shoutouts. Going into season 3, we KNOW that Blair and Chuck are together. All is right in the world of Chair. They’ve said “I love you” in quantifiable measures in the last finale so given that, it should RAISE the number of viewers, right? The increase from non-chair-ness to Chair-ness is negligible. A 2.55 mil season premiere and THIS is the season that Chair fans have been shouting for. They’re together for a good amount of the season and yet THIS is the one that gets them below 2 mil into the 1 million zone.

Chuck and Blair the majority of what fans/fandom want?

Have they ever won a poll without sitting on their asses all day refreshing, deleting cookies, AND inputting in captcha? (Nuh uh, lol)

Season 2: Man, look at that drop. If ever there was a season that lost large numbers, it’s this one. Over a million viewers lost between the premiere and the finale! The ratings slowly decline, as it does after buzzed about premieres, but it really drops below the 3 mil mark at Bonfire of the Vanity - aka the start of the Bass daddy issues. Remember that episode? I didn’t, so I wikipedia’d. That was the one with the Dan hanging out with Bart and the book and expose and zzzzzzzzzzzz.

And then the Bart death happened and the whole business with the will and Chuck fighting Jack started a huge downward trend. You’ve Got Yale! took a huge hit of 600,000 viewers and again, I had to wikipedia - this was the one where “Chuck pairs with an unlikely ally in his war with Jack.”

But we have to ask - who do you think Dan’s soul mate is? 

Blair, actually. Definitely. I think Blair is Dan’s soul mate. I don’t know if they’re ever going to get together, but I’ll tell you that I’ve never enjoyed any scenes on the show as much as those scenes with Leighton Meester, on a strictly intellectually as an actor. There’s a whole other thing—like everything that happened early on in the show, like the obvious Dan and Serena stuff, that moved me in a different way for obvious reasons, but strictly as an actor, those scenes with Blair are the best.

[Nylon]

[Stricly Intellectually as an actor? Fix it Nylon mag!]

Batshit Crazy Gossip Girl Shipping Wars
I’m sorry to all of my CB shipping friends, but your peers are earning you that reputation, man. (I don’t think DB shippers are that better off though). Do Chair stans have to harass every entertainment writer for liking DB? (LOL, and that’s right. Every authority who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to substance in television—from Michael Aussiello to Tim Stack to New York Magazine—likes DAIR so save face and stop denying it.)

And then today an extra confirmed Blair’s pregnancy on Twitter while filming a scene for the character’s bridal shower. He deleted the tweet because he did something he wasn’t supposed to do of course, but I’m glad Chair stans were there to threaten to kill him to upkeep vigilant order of things (they’d never steal scripts or do things for attention or anything desperate like that):

It’s almost an unwritten rule that at some point during a science fiction or fantasy show, the writers will inseminate their female leads with some sort of ghastly pregnancy experience. The mystical pregnancy is one of the plot devices that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level. Yes some of us are physically capable of having babies but no that does not mean you get to take advantage of, and abuse, that for the sake of your story.

Fanvidder, Laura Shapiro calls the Mystical Pregnancy a type of reproductive terrorism because it makes becoming pregnant seem disgusting, frightening and nightmarish. Laura goes on to say, “The problem from my point of view is that pregnancy and birth are natural processes that are being distorted into torture porn, ways of punishing women and exploiting their terror to up the dramatic stakes.”

This trope can’t just be brushed off as “just entertainment.” Human beings since the beginnings of the verbal storytelling, used narratives to understand ourselves and the world around us. When we hear a story repeated enough times it can affect the way we think about reality. The Mystical Pregnancy is just another sexist narrative that exploits women for being “female”.

These stories are especially striking at this point in American history because women’s reproductive rights, which have always been threatened are currently under vicious attack by conservative and religious groups. Some states are trying to pass legislation that will criminalize miscarriages or make abortion procedures so strict and complicated that it renders them nearly impossible. Planned Parenthood is even in danger of being defunded through direct ideological attacks on women’s ability to control what happens to their own bodies.

So, all you Hollywood writers, you should all feel real guilty right about now for continually using the tired old Mystical Pregnancy trope to violate and degrade women’s bodies on television.

I sincerely hope that after this lesson you will stop terrorizing female characters with the magical-demon-impregnation-from-space-story-lines. You know, maybe you should just stop writing pregnancy altogether until you can do it with some respect and dignity and with the appropriate amount of emotional impact.

I’d love to see a show set in some dystopian future that deals with issues surrounding women’s reproductive rights as the core plot line, not just as some throwaway episode or for dramatic effect.

Pregnancy is not a “here one week, gone the next” kind of a thing, and it seems as though Hollywood might need to be reminded of that fact.

It’s almost an unwritten rule that at some point during a science fiction or fantasy show, the writers will inseminate their female leads with some sort of ghastly pregnancy experience. The mystical pregnancy is one of the plot devices that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level. Yes some of us are physically capable of having babies but no that does not mean you get to take advantage of, and abuse, that for the sake of your story.

Fanvidder, Laura Shapiro calls the Mystical Pregnancy a type of reproductive terrorism because it makes becoming pregnant seem disgusting, frightening and nightmarish. Laura goes on to say, “The problem from my point of view is that pregnancy and birth are natural processes that are being distorted into torture porn, ways of punishing women and exploiting their terror to up the dramatic stakes.”

This trope can’t just be brushed off as “just entertainment.” Human beings since the beginnings of the verbal storytelling, used narratives to understand ourselves and the world around us. When we hear a story repeated enough times it can affect the way we think about reality. The Mystical Pregnancy is just another sexist narrative that exploits women for being “female”.

These stories are especially striking at this point in American history because women’s reproductive rights, which have always been threatened are currently under vicious attack by conservative and religious groups. Some states are trying to pass legislation that will criminalize miscarriages or make abortion procedures so strict and complicated that it renders them nearly impossible. Planned Parenthood is even in danger of being defunded through direct ideological attacks on women’s ability to control what happens to their own bodies.

So, all you Hollywood writers, you should all feel real guilty right about now for continually using the tired old Mystical Pregnancy trope to violate and degrade women’s bodies on television.

I sincerely hope that after this lesson you will stop terrorizing female characters with the magical-demon-impregnation-from-space-story-lines. You know, maybe you should just stop writing pregnancy altogether until you can do it with some respect and dignity and with the appropriate amount of emotional impact.

I’d love to see a show set in some dystopian future that deals with issues surrounding women’s reproductive rights as the core plot line, not just as some throwaway episode or for dramatic effect.

Pregnancy is not a “here one week, gone the next” kind of a thing, and it seems as though Hollywood might need to be reminded of that fact.