#KURTOFSKY

[callmebrycelee]

Advice from a Queer Almost-40 BuckTommy Shipper

Over the last several months, there's been a one-sided war brewing between Buddie shippers and BuckTommy shippers. As we get ready for Season 8, I want to give all of you fellow BuckTommy/Tevan/Kinley shippers some advice:

Do NOT let them ruin something truly groundbreaking and special.

I repeat:

Do NOT let them ruin something truly groundbreaking and special.

Let me take you way back to the early-2010s. Glee was quite popular in the cultural zeitgeist. The show spawned a plethora of ships including Finchel, Brittana, Samcedes, and Fabrey. However, there was one ship that reigned supreme on Beyoncé and Al Gore's internet. If you were on Tumblr during this time you definitely remember the chokehold Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson aka Klaine had on the Glee fandom.

Now I'll admit, at first, I was into the two glee club gays being together but then episode 2x06 aired. For those of you unfamiliar with the show, episode 2x06 titled "Never Been Kissed" is episode where closeted football jock Dave Karofsky cornered Kurt in the boys' lockerroom and kissed him. What followed was some of the best storytelling in the history of the show.

Over the next few seasons, we watched Dave Karofsky come to terms with his sexuality, apologize to Kurt for his relentless bullying, finally embrace his sexuality, get outed, and attempt to un-alive himself. Those of us who initially hated Dave and his initial treatment of Kurt became fans of him due to how realistic he was. If you went to high school in the early-2000s, chances are you either knew someone like Karofsky or you were him. That's why he resonated with so many of us in the queer community.

However, the showrunners weren't invested in Dave and Kurt becoming an item. You have to remember, this was the era of listening to the fandom and giving them exactly what they wanted. The fandom wanted Rachel and Finn to be together so that's what we got. The fandom wanted Brittany and Santana to be together so that's what we got. And what the fandom wanted was Kurt and Blaine.

Till this day, I still resent the fact that the showrunners and writers went the safe route when it came to couples on Glee. For the most part, all of their main pairings were expected and boring. Over a decade removed from the show, a lot of folks have come around to the idea that maybe Kurt and Blaine aren't the #couplegoals they initially thought. A lot of us will forever wonder just how different (and possibly better) the show would have been if they took a chance on Kurt and Dave.

Fast-forward to the year 2024. We have, on another Ryan Murphy show, Klaine and Kurtofsky 2.0. The moment Eddie came on the scene back in Season 2, folks on the internet started shipping him with Buck. Nevermind that these two were coded as platonic friends, here we had, once again, two good-looking guys played by two actors who have impeccable chemistry.

Much like Klaine, a lot of us see Buddie as boring. The ship smacks of cis straight women overlly fascinated by two good-looking, masculine guys. It reminds me of the overabundance of m/m romance written by straight women which have little interest in showcasing real queer male relationships and instead serve as fantasy fulfillment for straight women using two queer men as avatars to satisfy what they feel is lacking in their own heterosexual relationships. I don't necessary have a problem with those books existing but I do take issue with that kind of storytelling overshadowing queer male content written by queer male writers.

Whew! Now that I got that out of my system, let me tell you what I loved most about the latest season of 9-1-1. It seems the showrunners and writers of this show took note of what happened with Glee and they decided to go a different route. Instead of listening to the relentless noise on the internet, they have decided to not go the safe route.

Enter: Tommy Kinard.

The romance between Buck and Tommy is truly revolutionary. As someone who grew up consuming the queer media of the 90s and early-2000s, it is quite refreshing to have a couple like Evan Buckley and Tommy Kinard on primetime television. I love that many of the scenes between these two is just slice of life. Very similar to the scenes we get between Athena and Bobby and Chimney and Maddie. I've always said that true equality is when queer people can be just as mundane as straight people. Mission accomplished. Finally, we have two queer characters just existing and being happy. No AIDS. No gay-bashing. No Don't Ask Don't Tell. No epic coming out scene. Buck and Tommy are a shining example of what queer couples can and should look like in the 2020s.

So, back to my original point. When it comes to the great ship war, please do NOT let them ruin something so groundbreaking and special. If the showrunners wanted , they could have made Buck and Eddie a thing years ago. However, that's not the direction they wanted to venture. Thank you Tim Minear for not going the safe route. I look forward to all of the rich storytelling we will get in Season 8 and I have decided that whatever happens, I'm going to enjoy this era of 9-1-1. Oliver Stark and Lou Ferrigno Jr. are amazing actors but so are Angela Bassett and Peter Krause and Aisha Hinds and Kenneth Choi. All of the actors on this show, whether main or guest or supporting, are putting their whole self into crafting the characters we know and love. Regardless of what ship you champion, keep in mind that behind these beloved characters are real, human actors who do not deserve to be bullied and harrassed and threatened due to them simply doing their job. At the end of the day, everything we see on the screen is fiction.

Okay, this has gotten really long. Stepping off of my soapbox. Remember ladies and gentlemen, it's just a show. And although it makes us feel real emotions, 9-1-1 nor Glee is real life.

[cryscendo]

GLEE (2009-2015) - PROM QUEEN

Ladies and gentlemen, your 2011 prom queen, Kurt Hummel. (insp)

[spacelizzbian]

Kurtofsky being happy and a bit sappy at a gala for @starkurt for the @gleeful-holiday-art-swap!! Enjoy fren and happy new year :D

Something something, a happy parallel to prom queen something something

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

reason: Their start was messy but they had so much potential for a wonderful story. The chemistry was there and the acting was top notch.

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Happy birthday @karofsky!

[starpawedart]

after everything they really deserved to graduate together

[kcdahippie]

Rewatching glee with my sister again and got to the episode where Kurt goes off in Karofsky and then Karofsky kisses him. Truly an amazing scene. Totally changed the game on Karofsky.

[sunmontuewrites]

People are still using FF.net and I just got a whole lot of emails from one person going and favoriting all my Glee fanfic.

Living their best life reading fanfic until the wee hours no doubt... 💛

[angelhummel]

klaine, kadam, kurtbastian, kurtofsky for the ship grid ask game :0

one in every quadrant we did it boys!!!

Klaine goes without saying. So I won't

Kadam.................... I feel like I'm too harsh on Adam and how dull he is alskjfdslkfjdl like he's Nice and Good and that's all I can say. I'm glad Kurt had a chill little relationship in s4 but I'm just not excited for them lol

Kurtbastian doesn't NOT compel me but it's like. In an au he's Kurt's toxic ex that shows up once or twice for drama lol and that's it. People took Grant saying he played Sebastian as flirting with Kurt and ran with it and I'm over here like well Kurt still fucking hates him asjlfksdjkflds

Kurtofsky I've softened up on a lot. It wouldn't make much sense in canon but like. It could be less plausible??? Idk. It's also more of an au situation for me but I also do think thoughts about them so there's that

send me a ship!

[andthatisnotfake]

Too sick for fashion

“What do you wanna watch?” Dave settled onto the couch.

“How about a—”

Silence.

He was about to ask Kurt “a what?” when a loud sneeze came from their bedroom, followed by a groan. Poor thing had had a cold for days now.

Kurt appeared, wearing pajama pants and an oversized hoodie — one of Dave's, actually. He seemed too sick to even care about fashion, which actually worried Dave.

He patted the couch and Kurt settled comfortably against him, pulling the throw blanket over them. In the end, the movie didn't matter at all, for Kurt was asleep within minutes.

[jin-zixun]

Drabble Challenge 2024 #15

Nothin' Fancy - Prompt #15 - Fortunate Fandom/Ship - Glee; Kurtofsky “Fortunate Indeed” Warnings - None, I guess internalized homophobia but that’s like. Par for the course.

Dave Karofsky used to think himself very unfortunate indeed. All the time, even as he tried to make the best of things, and ended up making everything worse, it felt like his life was nothing more than a cosmic joke.

And Kurt Hummel, who it seemed was put in his path just to taunt him. So much better, so much braver, so much more real, and so beautiful. Everything he could never be, everything he could never have.

But with Kurt Hummel willingly placing his hand in his, smiling at him like that… It seemed he was very fortunate indeed.

[cryscendo]

klaine, kurtbastian, kadam, kurtofsky, kelliott for the ship grid thing 😋‼️

klaine: this should go without saying that this is THE ship for me. they’re meant for each other and no matter what happens, they will always end up back together, come what may.

kurtbastian: now DONT come for me but i like them in VERY specific circumstances. typically they exist in the realm of AU where it can work. i don’t really consider it within canon tho bc kurt just purely hates him 😍

kadam: i’m kinda mean to adam sometimes. like he’s fine, and a cute midgame for kurt ig. but there’s not much there tbh. kurt was still so hung up on blaine that adam just didn’t even get a chance.

kurtofsky: this is one of those ships that i want to get into a bit more. but like with kurtbastian, it can’t sustain itself outside of AU. at no point in canon can it really happen. i think their friendship is the most valuable thing that could be built between them. and that’s on kurt’s call.

kelliott: my fave non-klaine kurt ship. they’re just so good, and elliott would’ve made a FAR better midgame than adam. i feel like if glee hasn’t gotten rid of elliott we would’ve seen even more great moments between the two. i love them ❤️

send me more ships!!

[aurumjank]

I need someone to write Glee AU where Pavarotti is alive. I mean, can you imagine the changes this little event could make? Like, Kurt wouldn't sing Blackbird dedicating it to Pav → Blaine wouldn't realise his feelings → Blaine wouldn't transfer to McKinley → Kurt would be more likely to get the role of Tony → Kurt would have more credits for his application and might get in NYADA for the fall semester etc. There's so many possibilities! Any ship could happen and all because little bird stayed alive 🤯

Klaine could still happen, but differently.

Kurt could move on from Blaine and become closer with other Warblers and/or Dalton students and maybe start dating someone else. This could also lead to Kurt staying at Dalton.

Kurt coming back to McKinley single, which opens a lot of opportunities for Hevans, Kurtofsky, Puckurt etc. (for each their own)

When in season 3, there's Kurtbastian and Chandler/Kurt - not necessary romantic relationships, but friendships as well. And Blaine might transfer to McKinley or stay at Dalton (there's also a possibility for Seblaine in the background - I'm not a fan, but for each their own). Kurt might be still in close contact with Warblers or they could go completely separate ways.

Blaine staying at Dalton makes it possible for Kurt to get the role of Tony and get more solos, which means he has bigger chances of being accepted in NYADA.

And then season 4, where if Kurt is single there's Kadam and it can start earlier. And Vogue could or could not happen in this timeline. As well as Kurt and Rachel living together and Santana joining them.

And then Kurt's band in season 5. Elliott and Dani could still be there, but their meetings might change. Kelliott is a possibility. Kurt might impress June this time or still not make her think he has a potential. He could meet Maggie and perform as Peter Pan or not.

And then the 6th season - it could become a completely different story!

I just had to share this thought because it was haunting me for months now 😅 I even made a list of some of the possible storylines up until the end of season 3. But I'm not a writer and so I'm sharing this so anyone could use the idea(s). Just, if someone gets inspired by this and writes something, please send me the link to the story! 💜

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❤️ Kurtofsky as Prom King & Queen ❤️ [insp]

[starpawedart]

A very belated happy birthday to my bestie @ktfranceebee ! Can't wait to take more of these stupid selfies with you next month ✈️