First of all, let me say that your entire comment is made of love and sort of made my life day.

I'm so beyond glad that you liked this, since it's the first Gossip Girl fic that I've allowed other people to see. And Chuck is definitely one of the hardest characterizations to get down, because you have to try for equal parts awesome and asshole.

Someday, I will figure out how to write RPS about living people without hating myself, and it will totally happen. Someday.

I made the mistake of reading the first Gossip Girl novel, which kept me from the show until near the end of S1, but they're not really all that similar. It's good to know it's a guilty pleasure that other people share :D