#NBK 2

[bromfieldhall]

NEVER BEEN KISSED - A Polin Fic

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Rating: General

Chapter: 1, 3

Summary: Colin finds out that Penelope has never been kissed at midnight on New Year's Eve and resolves to ensure that doesn't happen again.

Pairing: Colin Bridgerton/Penelope Featherington

NEVER BEEN KISSED

Chapter Two

“You look amazing!”

Penelope turned her head and smiled when she saw Eloise standing there with her boyfriend, Phillip. She gave her friend a quick glance up and down, taking in the exquisite dark blue fitted gown with its plunging neckline and halter neck she wore.

“Thank you. So do you,” she replied sincerely, raising her voice a little to be heard over the loud music.

Phillip offered to get both ladies a drink and headed off leaving them alone. Eloise sidled up a bit closer to her and shook her head.

“Can’t believe it’s another year nearly over. Where’s the time gone?”

Beside her, Penelope shrugged her shoulders. The past year had dragged for her. Her life felt as though it had stagnated. Her work, her book. She’d had the most agonising writer’s block when it came to that. Her family, her love life. Another failed relationship that she knew was mainly down to her. How could she truly commit when her heart wasn’t remotely in it? It had been fun, she supposed, for a while and it would have been nice to be with someone over the festive season but she didn’t miss him now that they’d split up.

And then there was Colin. He’d been working non-stop it seemed. So much so that he’d hardly kept in contact, even less when she’d started seeing her ex. She’d convinced herself that he must have met someone too, although Eloise had told her that wasn’t the case. Still, it was odd. She couldn’t think of anything she’d done and wasn’t brave enough to outright ask him about it – just in case Eloise was wrong.

Not even writing her Whistledown blog had helped. Usually, it was a catharsis. Everything pouring out of her under a cloak of anonymity. All it had succeeded in doing this year, however, was bring her to the very stark conclusion that she’d always be alone. Romantically, anyway.

Considering she’d spent most of the year with one man while thinking of another, it wasn’t really that much of a shock to her. She’d just never consciously made the decision that that would be her life.

Until now.

The truth was, she didn’t want to go through the motions with someone just for the sake of it anymore. It was tiring. The only person that pressured her about meeting someone was her mother anyway, and she was just going to have to get used to the fact that Penelope was done.

Phillip came back with their drinks and she stood and chatted with the couple for a little while before they headed onto the dance floor. She watched them with a wistful smile as they swayed together, seemingly lost in each other, completely oblivious to their surroundings.

She never thought she’d see the day that Eloise would fall in love, but there she was, and Penelope was so, so happy for her friend.

Tearing her gaze away, she turned and walked around the edges of the ballroom at Aubrey Hall stopping every now and then to chat with friends and the other members of the family.

“Are you having a nice time, dear?” Violet asked at one point, placing a gentle hand on her arm.

“I am. You’ve truly outdone yourself this year,” Penelope replied warmly.

She loved the Bridgerton matriarch. The older woman was the complete opposite of her own mother and she’d often gone to her for advice when growing up.

“Well, it’s mainly down to Kate now, of course,” she’d demurred lightly, gesturing to her daughter-in-law who stood beside her, “I just helped out when I was needed.”

“It was a joint effort and I am always grateful for any help,” Kate remarked graciously before turning back to Penelope. “And have you settled in okay?”

“Oh, yes, thank you,” she replied, feeling herself grow a little warm at the thought of her room.

Well, his room.

She had travelled down to Kent, and Aubrey Hall, that afternoon. It had taken far longer than expected because for the last two days, the south of England had been shrouded in fog so thick it would’ve put old Victorian London of the infamous Jack the Ripper days to shame.

As usual, she was going to stay a couple of nights before heading back home. She’d been doing it for years, but this was the first time that she hadn’t been given a guest room.

No, because as more people wanted to stay and as she was such a close friend of the family, Kate had asked if she would mind having Colin’s room this year. It would be doing them a huge favour and he was away working, so...

What the hell could she say to that?

It would be churlish to say no, that it felt like a violation of his privacy, because Kate didn’t know how she felt about Colin. None of them did.

And so, she’d simply smiled and told her that she understood. That it was fine, oh, so very fine and she’d gone upstairs to drop off her suitcase.

She’d been in his room before, obviously. When they were all younger – her, Eloise and Colin - and she’d stayed with them for a week or two during school holidays. Listening to music or just chatting together. All three of them had been inseparable back then.

They still were to a degree, whenever he was back from whatever foreign climes he’d been visiting. Sadly, those instances were few and far between now.

But this was going to be different. Staying in his room and sleeping in his bed, it just felt…wrong, somehow. Especially as he didn’t even know.

“That is good and thank you again for being so understanding,” said Kate, bringing her back to the present, “it really has got us out of a bind.”

Penelope merely nodded at that. They chatted for a while longer and then she was on the move again. She danced a couple of times with Hyacinth and her friends. Chatted to Benedict and Francesca and their spouses, Sophie and John. Sat with a heavily pregnant Daphne while her husband, Simon, checked in on their children, then hit the dance floor again when the youngest male sibling, Gregory, grabbed her hand and pulled her up.

She needed a drink after his exuberant dancing and let out a sigh of relief when she could fade into a corner of the ballroom and have a modicum of peace.

Time ticked on and at around half past eleven she decided that it would be a good time to head over to one of the Hall’s balcony’s so that she might slip out when the time came and see the in the new year in solitude.

She was almost there when she heard her name being called and turned to see Eloise and Phillip heading her way.

“You’re not leaving already?” Eloise accused with mock severity. She made a show of looking at her wrist, checking an imaginary watch. “There’s still half an hour to go before midnight.”

“Just getting into position,” Penelope quipped. “Can’t get caught in here when the countdown starts, I might turn into a pumpkin.”

“The fact that you equate yourself with a carriage is a little disturbing,” Eloise joked back.

“Seemed apt. I don’t want to be a mouse, I have no glass slippers and definitely no Prince – hence the pumpkin.”

“No Prince yet,” her friend corrected. “Look at me, even I found one.”

Phillip preened a little under her unexpected praise and Penelope smiled.

“We can’t all be as lucky as you, Eloise.”

“I believe I’m the lucky one,” Phillip cut in, giving his girlfriend a loving look.

In the face of such adoration, Penelope looked away, annoyed with herself at the dart of envy that shot through her system. It wasn’t about them really, it was more about herself, but it still didn’t sit well.

“You’re right, you are,” Eloise deadpanned, then turned to Penelope and grinned.

The red head couldn’t help but let out a grin back in response and took a sip of her drink. She glanced around the ballroom then back at the couple beside her and saw that Eloise was still looking at her, a contemplative expression on her face.

“What?” she asked curiously.

The brunette shrugged.

“You just seem a bit quieter than normal this evening. Not missing your ex, are you?”

Penelope’s eyes widened in horror.

“God no!” she exclaimed.

Eloise seemed to relax a little at that and nodded.

“Good. He always came across as a bit of a…a…”

She was obviously trying to be pleasant, but Penelope had no such qualms.

“Dickhead?” she supplied helpfully.

“I was going to say pretentious twat, but that works just as well.”

Penelope let out a laugh at that. Eloise wasn’t wrong. Not for the first time did she wonder why on earth she stayed with him for so long. Had she really been that lonely? That desperate?

Yes, of course she had – because sitting around and waiting for Colin Bridgerton to notice her was decidedly worse.

And now she was thinking about him again. Not that he ever really left her thoughts. He was always there, sitting at the fringes ready to pop up at the most unexpected times.

There was one thought in particular that had kept nudging at her brain the last few days and, unable to stop herself any longer, she finally asked Eloise.

“Have you heard from Colin?”

Apart from a meagre, ‘Merry Christmas, Pen,” on Christmas Day, Penelope hadn’t heard from him at all in the last week and she couldn’t help but be curious if it was just with her or everybody.

“Yes, a couple of days ago. He was in Sicily.”

Just her, then. Her heart ached a little at that knowledge.

“And is he doing okay?” she queried, trying for nonchalance. “We haven’t been in touch much recently.”

“He’s fine. Working hard.”

Penelope nodded, hating herself for what she was going to ask next, but she couldn’t help it.

“Did he have a good Christmas? Must have been difficult for him being all alone over there, gorgeous though it must be,” she clarified with a slightly forced laugh. “Or did he have some…some company or something? Because, you know, I’d hate to think of him being alone like that, but since he didn’t come home, I just wondered…”

Her friend looked at her with a frown as she trailed off, then turned to Phillip and said something she couldn’t hear. He glanced at Penelope then back to Eloise and gave a nod.

“I’ve just seen friend of mine,” he announced, rather obviously. “I’ll nip over and have a quick chat.”

Penelope watched him walk off and her stomach plummeted. Clearly her friend wanted to speak to her alone. Did she have news about Colin that she wasn’t going to like to hear? Had she been too obvious in her feelings by keeping on asking after him? Although she didn’t think she’d asked that much, had she?

“Come with me,” Eloise ordered and grabbed her hand to lead her over into a far corner so they could talk undisturbed.

Penelope’s trepidation rose with each step as she steeled herself for whatever the brunette was going to say.

When they came to a stop, Eloise turned to face her and looked at her with something akin to sympathy.

Oh no. It must be bad. Maybe he hadn’t just met someone, maybe he was engaged…married even! He had been gone a year, after all. But surely someone would’ve told her by now or perhaps they only just found out themselves…

“Have you ever thought about telling my brother how you feel about him?”

Penelope was so surprised by the question that she stared back at Eloise blankly for a moment then uttered stupidly, “Which one?”

The brunette gazed back at her like she was quite mad and chuckled in amusement.

“Well, considering two are married, one is far too young for you, and we were just talking about Colin, I think you know which brother.”

She did. Of course she did. She laughed nervously and shrugged.

“There’s nothing to tell,” she denied, her voice a little higher pitched than normal.

“Isn’t there?” Eloise questioned pointedly. When Penelope shook her head, the brunette sighed and revealed something that sent her reeling. “I know about your blog,” she told her, then after a pause clarified, “The Whistledown Diaries.”

The red head stared at her in shock. That had been the last thing she’d expected to hear.

“What?”

Even in the slightly dimmed lights of the hotel ballroom they were in, Elosie could see the colour drain from her friend’s face.

“You left your laptop open one time when I popped in to see you,” she elaborated. “It was a couple of months ago. Your page was just sitting there. I think you thought you’d shut the tab down, but you hadn’t, so…I did it for you.”

Penelope felt her stomach churn a little.

“Oh God.”

“Pen, it’s okay…”

“So, you’ve read it?” she broke in abruptly, needing her to say it. Her friend looked back at her apologetically. “Have you read it, Eloise?” she repeated tersely.

A guilty expression flickered across her face and she nodded. “Some of it,” she admitted then reached out to place her hand on her arm, but Penelope took a step back.

“Don’t.”

 She could feel the panic swirling around in her gut laced with a healthy dose of mortification.

How much was ‘some of it’? Had she told anyone else? Phillip? Her family?

Colin?

She took another step back, her breathing becoming more laboured as the enormity of what she’d said really started to set in.

“I’m sorry.”

She was sincere, Penelope could tell that even through the alarm that was shooting through her body at a frightening pace. It was nauseating.

“You shouldn’t have read any of it, Eloise,” she burst out suddenly. “It’s private.”

“It’s a public blog,” the brunette pointed out reasonably, “I could have stumbled upon it any time.”

“Yes, but you wouldn’t have known it was me,” Penelope retorted unhappily, tears starting to gather in her eyes. “It’s anonymous for a reason. You probably would have carried on scrolling; but for me…it’s my safe space, Eloise, can’t you see that? A place where I can just be me. Where I can get out all those feelings that I have to keep locked down tight inside because if they were out there it would ruin everything.”

“I’m sorry,” Eloise said again, her own eyes starting to look shiny. “I didn’t mean to…”

“Who else knows?” Penelope cut in abruptly, not looking at her friend as she tried to keep her emotions under control. Her silence was damning. Closing her eyes, she shook her head. “Please, just tell me you didn’t tell Colin,” she pleaded shakily.

“I didn’t…tell him as such,” Eloise muttered awkwardly.

Penelope’s eyes shot open and met her friend’s sheepish gaze. It was rare that the brunette looked uncomfortable, but she did now and the red head’s heart sank.

“I don’t even want to know what that means,” she replied flatly.

She really would have preferred to hear that he was married.

The DJ suddenly announced that midnight was just ten minutes away and people should get their drinks to see in the New Year. She took that as her cue and turned away from her friend to head hurriedly over to the balcony. Eloise called after her, but she ignored it and kept on going. She needed some space.

Once outside, she sagged back against the door she’d closed behind her and huffed out a shuddering sigh. Her hot breath floated in the chilly air a moment before dissipating into the ether. Slowly, she walked over to the ornate balustrade and looked out over the gardens. They were heavily shrouded in thick fog and she welcomed the unearthly stillness that enveloped her as she rested her hands on the cold, stone handrail.

Behind her the muffled sounds of the party continued on, while she felt as though part of her life had just ended.

She was going to have to take the blog down now. She couldn’t leave it up knowing that Colin had read it. Because she was sure that he had, despite Eloise’s cryptic answer and now he knew of her feelings for him. She’d been so obvious. All her love laid bare in black and white for all the world to see.

Lord, he must just feel so embarrassed.

That was probably why he hadn’t been in contact.

Thank God he was away. Far away. It was bad enough that she had to face the rest of the family because she was pretty certain that Eloise had told them as well. Every interaction she had with them tonight and over the past couple of months left her cringing inwardly.

Did they pity her, she wondered now? She didn’t recall ever feeling like that thankfully, but putting her up in Colin’s room suddenly felt even more inappropriate.

Hot tears began to trickle down her cheeks and she absently brushed them away then took in a deep bracing breath. She couldn’t breakdown. Not now. Not here. She had to go back in soon. Pretend that everything was okay while she wished everyone a happy New Year and tried to ignore the fact that they all knew her personal business.

She would have to leave tomorrow, she decided, there was no other option. She’d go now if she thought she’d be able to get a cab, but she doubted many would be running in this weather and certainly not back to London.

A shiver ran through her body and she wrapped her arms around herself as the cold started to seep into her bones. Her dress was nowhere near warm enough to be out there and she’d been so desperate to get away that she’d forgotten to grab her shawl. She really should have just gone straight to her…his room instead of going outside. She could have easily feigned a headache.

The DJ shouted out another time announcement. Five minutes to go.

She rubbed her arms a little trying to get some warmth back into them when she suddenly heard the door creak open behind her. Music blared briefly, then quietened again when the door squeaked closed. Penelope’s mouth tightened in annoyance. She’d hoped that Eloise would leave her be.

“Shouldn’t you be inside with Phillip?” she asked curtly without turning around.  

“No,” came a familiar, slightly breathless, male voice that had her freezing in shock, “I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be.”

She slowly turned around, the cold forgotten as heat flooded through her veins when she saw him standing there in a t-shirt, jeans and brown jacket. Breathing heavy, cheeks red, hair dishevelled – he looked as though he’d just run a marathon.

“Colin?” she gasped out in surprise.

He smiled.

“Hello, Pen.”

[wolfieskies-25]

Rediscovered a bunch of art from a phase I had and completely forgot about; Nanbaka 2nd Gen XD I remember being obsessed with these fankids. (And poor Liu- my Liang X Upa kid- had a whole arc of a near death experience during the Hachiman fight, my poor baby boi) I should draw more of them sometime,, I miss them

[angelhummel]

i know everyone loves s2 bc Gay but damn there are already so many episodes im dreading alksjfdlskfs like honestly with s1 there was only one episode i was really dreading but in s2 its like damn how much do i have to suffer thru for an ounce of joy???

[jin-zixun]

the desire to write glee s6 au fic

vs

the desire to not watch glee s6 which would be an implicit requirement to properly writing s6 au fic

[notrebdomine]

Eric Harris journal last pages ↷

There are about 40 pages scanned from his journal of various kinds of things, but these were the last ones

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I would like to say that at first i thought those were like the columbine maps but no, i never noticed those are actually (except for the 6th image) DOOM maps! ꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀꕀ

+ last writtings !

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❝Jesus christ that was fucking close. Fucking shitheads at the gun shop almost dropped the whole project. Oh well, thank god I can BS so fucking well. I went and picked up those babies today, so now I got 13 of those niggers. WOOHAH. The stereo is very nice, but having no insurance payments to worry about so I could concentrate on BOMBS would have been better. Oh well, I think I'll have enough. Now I just need to get Vodka another gun.❞ 12/29/98 (December 29th 1998)

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❝Months have passed. It's the first Friday night in the final month. Much shit has happened. Vodka has a Tec 9, we test fired all of our babies, we have 6 time clocks ready, 39 crickets, 24 pipe bombs, and the napalm is under construction. Right now I'm trying to get fucked and trying to finish off these time bombs. NBK came quick. Why the fuck cant I get any? I mean, I'm nice and considerate and all that shit, but nooooo. I think I try too hard. but I kinda need to considering NBK is closing in. The amount of dramatic irony and foreshadowing is fucking amazing. Everything I see and I hear I incorporate into NBK somehow. Either bombs, clocks, guns, napalm, killing people, any and everything finds some tie to it. feels like a Goddamn movie sometimes. I wanna try to put some mines and trip bombs around this town too maybe. Get a few extra frags on the scoreboard. I hate you people for leaving me out of so many fun things. And no don't fucking say, "well that's your fault" because it isn't, you people had my phone #, and I asked and all, but no. no no no don't let the weird looking Eric KID come along, ohh fucking nooo.❞ 4/3/99 (April 3rd 1999)

[wrathh777]

intro post

♱ my name is sol

♱ i used to be fijifalls777 (r.i.p.)

♱ she/her

♱ 16

♱ 🩷💜💙

♱ i mainly speak english but i can speak a lil bit of spanish (not too much tho cuz im a no sabo kid)

interests

꩜ ginger snaps, she's the man, nbk, jennifer's body, twilight 2008, saw 2004, pulp fiction, daria, mtv downtown, south park, smiling friends, boondocks

꩜ hole, nirvana, nine inch nails, pixies, fiona apple, veruca salt, slowdive, kmfdm, the sundays, earl sweatshirt, paramore, avril lavigne, nicole dollanganger

꩜ silent hill 2, life is strange, skateboarding, domo, pete the cat, anything 90s/2000s tbh

꩜ obvi tc mainly columbine tho i wanna get more into jodi arias' case

꩜ i have a shitty memory so im probably forgetting some stuff

other info

♡ cw: tcc, ed, sh, maybe gore?? idk man just be cautious when looking thru my blog

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♡ no dni just don't be a dick and i'll be cool with u

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[receivedhope]

I think what disappoints me in the way they wrote Blaine is they set him up to be a leader, popular, more self assured in season 2. They stripped that of him in 3 because Finn had to still be ND leader, and turned Blaine into a weaker, less capable character. In 4, when it became apparent there were issues with Cory, they started to build Blaine up again as leader of ND, with the great Blam moments too, and into section 5 with Blamtina.

But then when he moves to NY he had to become the weaker of Klaine, no disrespect meant to Kurt or Chris: but he had to become support again to Kurt , and appear the blubbering mess during this arc.

Even in 6, he wasn’t allowed to be strong, they paired him with Dave, not allowing him time to grow for himself. And by the time he’s married, it’s Kurt making the decisions again and speaking for him. (Think of how we found out about NYU).

That’s just my take.

Oooh, interesting!

This got pretty long again, so. And also please take note that there are some largely speculative parts below the cut.

Well, I definitely agree that in S3, Blaine is more... whiny, imo. I think this is the time to mention that I do think Blaine being younger than Kurt is definitely a retcon, one that just does not make a lot of sense with the previously established canon, imo. For more black and white examples, there is the NBK script clearly saying Blaine is a Junior and he is called a 'Junior member' of the Warblers in Silly Love Songs.

(source)

But I also think that with episodes like Sexy and BIOTA, Blaine being at the very least the same age as Kurt simply makes more sense for their dynamic as mentor and mentoree that the writers were clearly aiming for before Blaine became a viable romantic interest for Kurt.

I think Glee always struggled with balancing what the writers wanted to see (lot of Will, Finn and Rachel centric storylines, close to nonsensical relationship drama and satire) and what the dedicated fanbase did. When I watch certain episodes or plot lines I can almost picture the kind of social media posts that inadvartently inspired the writers to try and course correct something established previously or in other cases, lampshade their bad writing. Just so messy lol.

I believe Blaine was made younger because by S3, the NY spin off was already something they thought they might do. And as it stood, plenty of their most popular characters became a ticking time bomb to leave the main show and Blaine was a regrettable casualty in my eyes - sure the episodes before made a little less sense in light of him having been younger than Kurt all along, but it is certainly not out of the realm of possibilities for someone younger than you being a mentor figure, and they could not write out every single popular character off the main show because they did not want Glee itself to end yet either.

I've always beefed with the WSS storyline because I think it would've been far more interesting to use it as a way to start breadcrumbing the communication issues Klaine would end up facing later. I think Blaine is a rather simple guy who does not necessarily dwell on his emotions and is late to pick up on them himself. Meanwhile Kurt is crazy emotionally perceptive and good at identifying his own emotions - he just refuses to open up about them and since he is so quick to pick up on how others feel, he believes other people should be able to do that for him too. But Blaine is very much like Burt, but without the years of experience in speaking Kurt's language - he needs Kurt to tell him himself.

I think ideally, in a world where S2 Blaine was more of a blueprint to his character later on, Blaine would've turned down the role of Tony more firmly and I would've wanted Kurt to be the one convincing him to take the role when he gives him his roses, since he was growing very insecure about his ability to ever play straight. I think it could've been a very interesting emotional miscommunication, where Blaine does not realize there is an underlying insecurity and self-deprication to Kurt's support and it would be another one of Kurt's "why isn't he noticing it, does he just not care" moments.

Stuff like that is why I wish the writers had been more purposeful with Klaine and their direction, there are so many missed opportunities like that.

I agree I would've wanted to see him butt heads with Finn far more often, but I did not mind them making up before sectionals. I'm inclined to give some leeway here since Blaine has his meltdown eventually so I don't feel like I am filling in the blanks too liberally lol. And I like the thought of Blaine's need to be part of a team winning out and dimming his own leadership skills in response.

I agree that in S4 Blaine is very much becoming essentially the male lead of the show. Though I will say that I personally have felt that when it was not Kurt related, he felt very juvenile to me LOL?! I can't word this aptly, it is really just a vague feeling I get when seeing him outside the context of Kurt.

As for NY!Blaine... I really like him, personally. I think because I am just a fan of Blaine being messy and having his asshole tendencies in general, I really like episodes like Tested, even if I spend a majority of it cringing at Kurt and Blaine respectively. I think Blaine being such a one track minded and obsessive person is a huge charm point to me and I love messy Klaine. In the landscape of Blaine discourse, I am a yandere Blaine centrist. YES, he did and said fucked up things, but he did it out of love and obsession so he is forgiven.

As for S6 - Blainofsky may be my only other Blaine ship aside from Klaine that I like, actually. Because the thought of them having a relationship that is essentially just you, your boyfriend and the collective hallucination of the guy you were both obsessed with as teenagers is so entertaining to me.

I think at the end of the day what I like the most about Kurt and Blaine is that they're actually not that compatible with each other, but because they are so stubborn and actively choose each other as their own soul mate they are willing to put in a stupid amount of work.

(Also I am once again too Kurt minded unfortunately, because if anything, I felt like Kurt was far less allowed to be his own person S4+, with the Hummelberry of it all. So I apologize in advance if I come off too contrarian or something, it is really not my intention.)

[spaceorphan18]

14 years since Never Been Kissed aired. Did you watch it live? Where were you? Did you think it would be the start of something major - one of your favorite ever ships?

Ohh, interesting question!

It's kind of funny to try to remember details of something that did happen nearly fifteen years ago. the tl:dr version of how I started watching Glee was that I wasn't in a great place in Mar of 2010, and a friend of mine had given me the DVD of Glee S1 Part 1 (because that's a thing that happened back then.

And I watched it and I was, meh, it was fine. I mean, DSB gave me literal chills. But I didn't really connect with any of the characters (and omg did I find Terri and Ken annoying). And it's funny, Kurt I had a hard time with -- not at all because of the gay thing, but because his crush on Finn hit a little too close to home and I was still a little sensitive about how I was during high school.

Anyway, the same friend said we should start watching the show together - so I started going over to watch it with her. We watched the rest of Season 1 together. And maybe the first half of Season 2? I definitely watched the first four-ish episodes with her. I think (?) I must have watched NBK with her.

The ONLY thing I remember from my first time watching was the forced kiss between Kurt and Karofsky. It was THAT shocking. Like, WHOA what is happening???

The only real thing I remember about Blaine was that my friend had told me that Kurt was supposed to be getting a boyfriend, and we all wondered if it was going to be Sam (because Duets did give that tiny-ish set-up). And when Blaine showed up, it was one of those - oh, is it this dude? type things.

I did not like Season 2 when it was first airing, Nonny. I'll be honest with you about it. The thing I've since learned about RM and his shows, he often fills them with a lot of unlikable characters who are often ridiculously dramatic. And it just wasn't my thing. But also remember, the show focused hard on Rachel, Finn, Quinn, Puck, Sue, and Will (and Emma). Like -- not my favorite characters. At all.

It's one reason I appreciate the later seasons, because characters I like got more focus, and it just became super weird and super queer and that's just more to my taste.

But anyway -- I kind of only watched sporadically after the first few weeks. I caught Silly Love Songs - because I remember thinking after Kurt and Blaine have their When Harry Met Sally convo, oh yeah, they'll get these two together.

I have zero memory of watching Original Song for the first time. Which I just have, because I knew Klaine was together after that point. But I did miss most of the second half of Season 2.

No, I had zero idea I'd love Klaine as hard as I did (do). I can tell you I remember the exact moment I fell in love with Klaine, though. I decided to catch up on Season 3 because I missed the first half (and hilariously - I was actually enjoying Season 3 more than Season 2 at the time, wild right?) and it was The First Time, and it was the auditorium scene, and it was this moment.

And really, just Kurt saying -- I'm just a silly romantic, and Blaine saying it wasn't silly, and just kissing him. And, my god nonny, it made my cold, dead heart come alive. It took my breath away.

And then, I mean, I rewatched the full series again, and really got into the Klaine of it, and got into fandom, and as much as fandom was a headache -- and my god it was a headache -- I think that's why I stayed with Glee for so long? It was something to have fun with and explore and write about and talk to people about and there was the insanity of week to week, and it was wild - I mean really wild, but it's what made the show fun. Because, I mean, I love the show - but it's a mess.

And I'm constantly amazed new people come in for it, because sometimes it feels like there's a -- you had to be there -- to get it, lol.

But, I mean, did I think I'd be here, fifteen years later, still talking about how it impacted me? Not even a little bit. :)

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

Hello!! Do you know of any fics that have to do with the Karofsky situation

So, when I saw your ask, I immediately thought of season 6 - but it's probably season 2 you mean? But I have included here references to season 2, and 3. If it's season 6 you want, I can do a separate ask for it, if you let me know. ~Jen

For season 2 reaction fics, some au, or pre the episodes! It's best to look at the old fanfic site, lovejournal. Here are some:

The Aftermath of the Karofsky Kiss by- iliketowriteaboutklaine (rebeldawgspirategirl)

Once Kurt got over the shock of Karofsky kissing him in the locker room, he had to tell the one person who would understand, at least a little bit. So, Blaine comes over.

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Pancakes and the simple life by rainjoyswritings

Set the morning after Prom Queen. Warnings: Seriously, somehow I ended up in Karofsky's head. Because he's obsessed with Kurt Hummel too? Look, basically, deals with some of the intensely creepy shit going on in his head between NBK and Furt and if you don't want to know then that's cool, I didn't really either.

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Truth and Consequences by rainjoyswritings (AU)

How To Survive parts one, two and three and And Dance, a big pile of angst. Azimio pushes Karofsky too hard against himself and specifically against Kurt, and the fallout reverberates through everyone's lives, including his own. The whole verse can also be downloaded as a PDF at Klaineficspdfs <3

Warnings: The aftermath of violence and a suicide attempt, so it could be pretty triggery. Also just like angsty as all fuck. Nothing past Original Song, but set sometime after S2.

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And the truth shall set you free by @slayerkitty

Author's Note: This fic ate my brain. No, really. It was supposed to be just a short one-shot based on a prompt from foreverfaith101 , in which Kurt transfers back to Mckinley, and on his first day back is cornered by Karofsky in the boys locker room. Karofsky tries to apologize (and based on 2.12, I didn't find that too out of character), but the entire thing is broadcast in the gym during a pep rally (Jacob Ben Israel, I'm looking at you), and the truth about the kiss comes out. It's...not so short, lol. Written pre 2.18

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Coffeespills by elanorelle

"Come on, I'll buy you lunch." Kurt and Blaine after the second Karofsky confrontation in Never Been Kissed.

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3X14 tab - our library tab relating to On My Way season 3.

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There But For the Grace of…  by flamingmuse

By the time the front door opens, Burt is sitting in his favorite spot on the couch, pretending to watch TV.

set during 3x14 ("On My Way")

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Being Born is the Hardest Thing  By @wowbright

Blaine is sleeping in Kurt’s bed while the rest of the family is home because, this week, no one has the energy for pretense. Feelings, with hope. 

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Looking For White Buffalo  by @wowbright

Burt wants to make sure that Kurt is doing things for the right reasons. Visiting your former bully in the hospital? Maybe that’s not such a good idea.

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Visitations by etmuse 

David Karofsky receives two unexpected visitors. Set after 3x14

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[misanthropic-lovers]

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Hello everyone!

we are a blog focused on horror, true crime and boomer shooters

we post art, memes, educational stuff and more

we won’t use TWs for any of our posts

we, Arliee(f) and Left(m), are a joint account consisting of 2 members (over 18)

our interest are horror, true crime, boomer shooters and anything scary/weird

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our fav bands are KMFDM, NIN, Pantera, Korn, Slipknot, SOAD, Rammstein, Daft Punk, Rob Zombie, Msi, Ministry, Rage Against The Machine

our fav movies are NBK, Star Wars OG Trilogy, Back to the Future, Truman Show and Zero Day and anything horror

our fav games are og doom, og quake, postal, dusk, cultic, superhot and the sims

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[mooniechild]

E & D possible bpd disorder (part 1 D)

Okay so for those who don't know I'm a psychology student (yeah that's exactly what you read, now focus)so I gonna bring so reason why we can,and can not say Eric and Dylan may have had BPD, basically I gonna use their behavior, tapes transcriptions,drawing and their journal as a base for this.

Okay so for star BPD is a short for Boderline personality disorder,which is.....exactly a personality disorder wow.... unexpected,okay but what that means? different from a depression or a anxiety which is cause by yours hormones and can be treated with medicines Boderline is not cause by hormonal changes or brain chemistry like those two,which it means that medicate someone with BPD pretty much not gonna help in most of their behavior since is something on their personality and not on their chemicals.

Around 5 million people in the US have been diagnosed with PBD,okay now for Dylan and Eric and why most of the psychologist analysis of them could have been wrong even after years and years after.

1- one of the principal symptoms of BPD is the fear of a abandonment which Dylan demonstrate A LOT in his handwriting, especially after (apparently Zach Heckler) has found a girlfriend, Dylan felt that the world was conspiring against him trying to take the people he love away from him, Dylan saw Zach's behavior as him trying to abandone him after all they had lived together.

2-intense or unstable relationships,Dylan had a back and forth a couple times with Eric, asking his mom to backup him when Eric called and asking her to talk out loud with him so he could give a excuse to not be around Eric for a while,they both had a pretty intense relationship between them,BUT...let not forget Dylan dream girls,which him used to see them as a true love and then notice they didn't care about him at all (according to the man itself) Dylan was desperate to experience a true love like the ones in his fantasy and reading to his journal we can feel how left out of the whole relationship thing he felt,how he felt that he would never be loved back.

3- quick changes in self aspect, D used to have those low and high on his self esteem ever now and then,he would be 'Mr cutter' in a second and hate his nose,and feel complete godlike in another,he would have those up and downs most I think to protect himself in situations that he felt under pressure like around the jocks in school,or in the tape while he was trying to act tough in front of the camera

4- Impulsive and risky behavior is also a very common sign of Boderline,Dylan would scratch a locker, hack school computer with his friends to get the school lockers combo,he would break into a van and apparently even stole credit card passwords,he put himself in danger endless time(honor mention for him pointing a gun to his stomach while reloading it)

5-periods of paranoid,not let me get started it every time Dylan though people was conspiring against him,in a McDonald's as Sue mention on her book,Dylan even write about it on his journal

He mention a couple time felt that people was trying to fuck his life in a almost Godly way, trying to get his Alcyone away from him with all those human feeling's and thoughts and confusion,after a while Dylan started to see NBK as a way to get away from this reality to a whole new one with his love (he is a romantic let him be happy,let the kid dream)

6-Threats of suicide or self-injury, Dylan would very openly talk about his suicide thoughts on his journal,about blowing his head off with a pipe bomb or even shot a poor SOB person(someone is needing to understand his social class)

He discuss about his self harm and about how he felt depressed and with nothing left to live.

7-long feeling of emptiness,well well well look where we got,this sunshine boy is full of that,this feeling could be caused by triggers I think in Dylan case is most about his shyness,he was a very social anxious person, Devon once said he wouldn't go to her party cause some people he doesn't like would come over,so I guess most of his feeling of emptiness was caused by creating those paranoias that people was trying laughing at him.

8-Inappropriate, strong anger, losing temper often, being sarcastic or bitter, or physically fighting. Well I couldn't find anything about Dylan in fact physically fighting,I meant....Brooks on 4th grade doesn't count I guess,once he hit at his co-worker shoulder when she told him about a work Infraction....so yeah,he was know by many person as scary cause he would just be here and stare at them,or bounce at girls in the gym making them fell on the ground, calling Doddy a bitch,and being a asshole with his french teacher slamming doors and whatever at class,he would threat a special student Adam Kyler to kill him if he showed up for class,and he confess being mean to people at his journal,well at being sarcastic....

This men is my favorite sassy machine,he was know for being sarcastic,the whole voodoo thing on Devon birthday card, the way he act at the video he Brooks and Zach made for Mrs Caruthers.

The thing here is, boderline almost never comes alone most people ended up having a 2 or more mental health problems, boderline is more diagnosed on girl's and it didn't have a cure as I said before BUT have some great sources of treatment,the thing is psychology didn't came to a conclusion about how it develope BUT they think is a combination with genetic, environment,and social factors or huge trauma.

SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS: D in fact suffered with some sort of mental health problem,and analysing the case for 7 years now I guess we can pretty much see him trough a LOT of angles, searching in the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders) a couple hundred times in the last 3 years I tried to comprehend Dylan actions and behavior,and I pretty much can see him getting a diagnostic of BPD,so this is the thread basically hope you guys enjoy,I gonna do a part 2 for Eric:)

[angelhummel]

I finished up her s2 wardrobe back in August 2021, and have since gotten about halfway through s3. But I’m posting this now. Oops. Brought to you by AngelHummel :)

In season two, Rachel added 176 new outfits to her look book. Britney/Brittany features 12 unique looks - the most of any episode this season - while Furt, Prom Queen, and Funeral are tied for least amount of outfits, with only 5 each.

While there is a whole plotline dedicated to Rachel’s animal sweaters in one episode this season, she doesn’t actually wear that many. This season features six animal sweaters - twice as many as season one - along with a few more animal themed pieces, making a grand total of nine articles of animal themed clothing in s2

And while Rachel’s sexy schoolgirl librarian chic style still includes plenty of knee high socks, a good chunk of her junior year is spent experimenting with tights, in a whole rainbow of colors. 45 of her outfits feature tights as an accessory

And while Rachel sported forty plaid skirts in s1, that number drops to only 9 plaid skirts in s2. She’s graduated to wearing mostly dresses this year. She is also seen wearing 16 pairs of pants, though the majority of those are parts of a costume for a group number. The exceptions are two instances of pajamas, and two outfits in Rumors

Rachel’s headbands also get the spotlight this season, with her instant classic hit single My Headband, which goes on to inspire the whole group to win regionals. While her headband count also disappointingly drops from s1 to s2 (from 17 to a meager 7) she takes this time to branch out and try more accessories. Along with her 7 headbands, she sports 5 hats, a football helmet, and a zombie wig, making for a grand total of 14 dome based accessories

While I’m sure everyone on the planet can agree Rachel is perfect the way she is, it’s also a lot of fun to see her dress up and pretend to be someone else. From Britney to Blame It, from celibate to Chicago, from jock to Janet, from competition to coordinated group outfit, Rachel sported 22 fun costumes this year

Now onto her most popular colors! Of course some outfits could fit into more than one color category, since Rachel isn’t afraid to mix a lot of colors into one ensemble

Honorable mentions this season are yellow and pink, with 12 and 14 outfits prominently featuring those colors, respectively

For fourth most popular color worn by Rachel Berry in s2, we have blue with 21 outfits

Third place is a tie between red and black, with 31 outfits each

Navy takes second place with 32 looks (I separated it from regular blue bc they feel too distinct, but if you combine them all then blue sweep with 53 looks)

And finally in first place with a grand total of 35 outfits is Rachel’s most popular color - or lack thereof - ...white!

And now for the most important part of this whole thing...

My Top 10 Rachel Looks of Season Two:

[gleetournaments]

Well if we’re thinking of Rumours v 2009 - as someone said many fans just haven’t made it to season 6 or watched 2009 more than once. It’s an enjoyable episode, the main fascination being Kurt’s story and his glow up, but this tournament has all other ships and stans voting. Is there any britanna in there? Season 2 remains popular. Rumours is popular for Songbird especially plus other extra songs plus the Britanna Artie plot, plus the Sam of it all - the story is cute. Klainers love to laugh at the stupidity of people thinking Kurt is cheating on Blaine.

Nbk v hos - well someone pointed out in comments only good thing about Nbk is Klaine meeting. And theres been a lot of anti Blaine stuff around this week on twitter so that’s changed again. The beiste plot is horrible and puck is an ass, and it’s not really Britanna focussed. hos is a competition episode which people tend to enjoy and you’ve got one of the sancedes mashups in there too.

I think, and I mean no disrespect to you, but we do know ultimately there’s a handful of episodes which will be in the top 4. Pq and Os have been long term fan faves and have won many times over the years, I’m not convinced it’ll change now. I’m interested to see what fills in the spaces 3-28 or whatever.

But I love you doing this. It’s fun. It’s not to be taken too seriously. It’s interesting to hear PoV even if they’re wrong (I jest) . I’m not commenting or reblogging because people can be so rude or shoot people down for having a different opinion.

I don’t want you to stop it. Plus you’ve worked hard on it.

Hi Nonny!

Sorry - I am finally getting around to addressing all of this.

First of all, I just want to say, even if I'll campaign passionately on my own blog, I completely understand that this blog's intention is to service the wider glee fandom, and not one particular corner of it, therefore the opinions are going to be different. That is usually part of the fun of it.

What isn't fun is when there's an obvious bout of cheating going on and all of sudden those numbers get skewed in a really wonky way. And as I said before, I know there's always some form of cheating going on in these things -- especially in polls that reach a huge audience. But this particular blog really only gets out to 200-ish people, so when someone spams it with an 100 extra votes it feels really noticeable.

And, at the moment I discovered it - it felt... idk violating in a way? It's like someone did it intentionally to make some sort of statement?

Most of the polls they did it on, the episode in question was already winning. So, why even bother?

That said - I do agree that we're hurdling towards a pre-determined endgame. I've ran this particular poll maybe four times over the course of the years, and it's always ended the same way. But the real fun is getting there, and seeing where everything else shakes out.

I'm glad you are having fun, and I think overall, most people are, too. As of now, things seem to be normal again, so I'm continuing on with the tournament. But if things seem suspicious again, I may decide to pull the plug then.

As an aside -

I’m not commenting or reblogging because people can be so rude or shoot people down for having a different opinion.

I'm sorry to hear this, and this is a good moment to remind people that everyone is entitled to have their own opinion. No one is dumb or stupid or whatever if they like something else. It's a TV show, and subjective to each person. Someone not liking your favorite isn't going to hurt you, and people should feel safe to state opinions without getting ridiculed. I realize this is the internet, and the anonymity makes that hard. But c'mon. This is so not worth getting into it with people over.

Thanks for dropping a line! I do appreciate hearing from you guys. <3

[chiefexecutiveofnir]

NBK (part 2)

Because Marika is related to the Nox (another theory I will cover), she enlists the Black Knives to help her out. So now the plot is all prepared. Ranni and some Knives steal death from Malekeith, because despite being Marika’s shadow he is forced to be more loyal to the Greater Will and the Greater Will wouldn’t want this. With their death knives, they sneak into the capitol, intent on murdering Radagon. Meanwhile Ranni is attop the tower so she can see the signal and get knifed at the same time. (Or perhaps they’d agreed on a set time, which was why timing was crucial).

But the Knives get spotted by Godwyn. He was possibly up for a midnight bathroom run and accidentally stumbled over them. Whatever the reason, he saw them as assassins trying to kill is parents, so he went on the offensive. The time was almost upon them, it was now or never. But they couldn’t get to Radagon. A younger group of Knives, more loyal to Ranni’s radical ideas and distrustful of Marika for having sided with the Greater Will for so long, lead by Tiche, took matters into their own hands. They used Godwyn’s soul instead (possibly at the instruction of Ranni, though I’m not yet sure how they’d contact her). Killing Godwyn was a risky move, and left them vulnerable.

This lead to Tiche’s death, which infuriated Alecto, and so she went after Ranni, determined for revenge (she could have also been working for Marika, but either way she wanted revenge on Ranni for putting her daughter in that position). Meanwhile, the rest of the Knives (possibly at the behest of Ranni, who could have wanted to screw the Golden Order over even more, or perhaps because they really hated the Golden Order and did this independently of the two women) went around slaughtering as many demigods and important figures as possible.

(More parts to come)

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