#anti-Klaine

[sohemotional]

For the ask game: 💛 💚 💜

💛: What is a popular ship you just can’t get behind, and why?

Tbh... unpopular take but most of the popular ships in Glee don't appeal to me. I don't like P*zberry, Qu*nntana, F*berry, P*ckurt, P*ckleberry and H*vans. I won't get into all of it but one of them I just never understood is Kl/aine. Just never got it, even after five seasons I still don't get it, doesn't do anything for me at all.

💜: Which character is way hotter than everyone else seems to think?

Brittany. I noticed that Santana and Quinn basically get all the love in terms of their appearance whereas Brittany gets way more haters calling her ugly or just flat out ignoring her or just being the one who's forgotten about when people talk about attractive Glee girls. She's incredibly underrated. Her performances in the first Britney episode were so sexy and so was Run The World, to name a few examples but she gets so slept on because people prefer the other two. She usually gets the least amount of edits and fanart out of the Unholy Trinity (and maybe even most of the other girls?) sadly.

💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?

Oh man... be prepared for a lot of unpopular takes. I wouldn't know where to start with what fandom get wrong about Brittany. Although tbh almost all the Glee characters get mischaracterized by fandom, so she's far from the only one. Based on the headcanons/art/fics I've seen, one thing I noticed is that Brittany gets taken to extremes in their portrayal of her.

There seems to be this constant need in fandom to prove that Brittany isn't stupid at all. Whereas, imo there's nothing wrong with her being stupid. I don't see it as a bad thing. She is smart in certain ways, like emotional intelligence. She's also not very smart at all in other ways. Her being stupid doesn't mean she has no worth or that she doesn't deserve love. It doesn't mean she can't be a good character.

She often gets written as this superwoman/independent woman who somehow is the best scientist/chef/doctor to ever exist with a million talents. She's too perfect. I feel like some fans do this to overcompensate for how she was passive/not super successful in conventional ways and not intellectual in the series. It just makes her way less appealing to me when she's portrayed like that.

She also sometimes gets portrayed in the reverse where she's completely childlike/incapable and helpless in every single way - worse than she ever was in canon even - with no edge or agency either which also is not really her.

Her traits like her quirky side that make her unique get washed out and she becomes what my friends and I refer to as the "Wattpad y/n girl" or the generic girl that's totally bland instead of having her Brittany-isms.

One thing I absolutely hate personally is the obsession with portraying Britt as this super dominant controlling top, or this masculine woman who pushes Santana around. It's just not her and it's gross to warp their dynamic into that imo. I see no appeal.

Another thing I noticed that bothers me is that fics often remove Brittany's sex appeal and femininity entirely for some reason. I often feel it's because they dislike the character or they just don't care about her at all.

I noticed on this site especially Brittany also gets demonized and portrayed like if she's some evil borderline sociopath who only cares about Santana and her cat. It's so weird to me, especially when it's fans of some of the biggest bullies on the show of all people who say they can't support Brittany because she's a "bully." Yeah, Brittany has a mean catty side and she dislikes a lot of people but she's not some extreme bully and no worse than most others on the show.

I noticed that people like to switch Brittana around and try to push Brittany's personality traits on Santana/vice versa for some reason.

For example, they are desperate for Santana to be the more cheerful bubbly one who loves all the New Directions and is super creative while Brittany gets pushed in the background and portrayed as the cold one who doesn't care about any of them except Santana. Which is closer to the reverse of how it is in canon. Brittany was the softer, more creative one of the two and they want Santana to be that instead. Or they portray Brittany as this jealous insecure girl with Santana who gets all heated in her jealousy (that is so unlike Britt - that's Santana). Brittany was rarely ever insecure or jealous at all.

Or alternatively, one thing that's annoying as hell is they want Brittany to constantly act as the protector for Santana who goes after people who they think wronged her, when in reality in canon it was almost always Santana who was actively protecting Britt. Brittany rarely ever went after someone who she felt hurt Santana or attacked them. I think her standing up to Alma Lopez and Artie when they were harsh about Santana were two of the only times but she never just ran after Santana's enemies and physically or verbally attacked them.

I also get annoyed by fandom acting like Britt had no agency at all in her romances. For instance, people seriously still act like Santana practically forced her to have sex with her in S2 or they act like Santana ruined Bram and forced Britt to break up with him. Which ??? that is so off. If you really think Brittany didn't know what she was doing was cheating on Artie in S2 or that she didn't want to have sex with Santana, idk what to tell you.

Another thing about the fan reaction to Britt that's way off is how so many people still say things like "Brittana was one-sided because Santana loved her more" or they act like Brittany ruined their relationship more or Santana was more committed/loyal to Britt than vice versa. I won't even get into that here but it is so untrue in canon.

[ecoterrorist-katara]

I’m so tired of wlw background ships in mlm fandoms.

mlm shippers almost never develop wlw ships to the degree that the audience feels invested in them. The conflict and character development and love story rely on tropes rather than actual narratives, yet fandoms act like they’re doing wlws a favour by shoehorning in this shitty “representation” when it’s just golden retriever x black cat over and over and over again in different fonts.

To be clear I don’t blame anyone for not having big wlw ships, because most major media out there do not have two fully fledged female characters you can ship together. If you want to write mlm ships, good for you! If you want a lazy wlw ship in the background, that’s fine! But don’t act as if the fandom actually cares about them, or that anyone did the legwork to make them characters that you can care about. Most of these female characters are never properly developed in the canon source material, and they’re almost never properly developed in the fanon material either. You can always tell by how these women are like, one archetype + gay (sporty gay, feisty gay, slutty gay etc, like some kind of gay Spice Girls). Yet fandoms just love to act like these background wlws mean so much & have the best love stories & everyone just should ship them. It’s all so performative.

wlws are not an aesthetic. wlws are not 2D happy couples to round out your queer utopia, a queer utopia that somehow still manages to foreground men. Women are always treated as 2D characters in narratives, except now there’s a subgenre where these 2D women are gay. Groundbreaking.

[soopertiddies]

Blaine the type of guy to get Kurt a card that says “sorry about your dead mom :(“ on mother’s day and then watch him read it like this ☺️

[backslashdelta]

we could have had it all

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

Hello, I am looking a fic I can't seem to find anywhere anymore (maybe it has been deleted :() It's about Burt's work as a congressman asking his team for all bullying files/stories they can get for his anti-bullying campaign and he ends up finding the one about Blaine's Sadie Hawkins accident (which leads to Blaine finally talking about it)

It's been quite a while so I don't remember if it was on ao3 or ff.net or even on tumblr but i've searched both ao3 and ff.net and couldn't find it so it would be a great help if you could, thank you anyways :)

After some playing with various searches - I believe I have found it. ~Jen

Fix the World Up For You by SpookyClaire

Burt would do anything for his son. And he wants to make the world a better for him. But what happens when he sees a file of a certain ex-warbler while working on his cause? And what happens when said ex-warbler happens to see some of the files? Blangst.

[endiness]

BLAINE ANDERSON Glee 2x20 "Prom Queen"

[sapphic-agent]

Ranking the Glee Endgame Ships

(Finchel included because it would have been Endgame)

Brittana: Yes I love them unconditionally and no I will not apologize for it. Pure love in its truest form (no I won't be taking criticism stay mad💁🏾‍♀️)

Sue/Sue: The best ship, no questions asked. Also means Sue won't subject a romantic partner to her toxicity which is a surprising amount of (probably unintentional) responsibility from her

Samcedes: They're cute. I know they're not "officially" endgame but it's implied they get back together eventually right? I really liked their healthy communication in season 6 even if they did break up afterwards

St. Berry: Soulmates frfr. Jesse's a prick, but outside of season 1 treats her so well and always pushes her to be her best. I think Rachel really taught him how to love. Also just so much chemistry

Wemma: Only reason it's not ranked higher is because Will doesn't always do right by her (like when he let her ableist parents make him doubt his relationship with her😐). They're a pretty solid couple overall though

Finchel: They have their cute moments, but it's hard to get into them when they have so many issues, a lot of which were never addressed. Finn only pursued her when he couldn't have her *cough* when she was with Jesse *cough* and otherwise complained about her constantly. Rachel was more likeable when she wasn't with him tbh (like in the majority of season 2)

Artina: Why even have them get back together? They broke up in season 2 when he treated her like garbage and then she was happy with Mike for years only for the writers to break them up for no reason. Tike was cute and so off to the side that they could have kept it and nothing would have made a difference. Why did the writers hate Tina?

Klaine: To be fair a lot of this ship's failings came from how inconsistently and downright terribly Blaine was written. But still, when he proposed it felt like Kurt wasn't even happy. And it only felt like they got married because everyone pushed them to. Nothing about this ship was ever enjoyable to me, not even in season 2

Quick: Why'd they do Quinn like this😭 I get Puck had changed and that's great but she said to Rachel in season 3, "I can't imagine my past dimming the bright lights of my future." And then she gets with Puck😐 They should have kept her single tbh, her learning to love herself without a man involved was meant to be her whole arc (I also headcanon her as ace, but that's just me🤷🏾‍♀️)

[icedteaandoldlace]

Pffft speak for yourself. I simply choose to hate his guts for all eternity, like a normal person. :)

[lylethewarblerguy]

It is so annoying being a fan who hates one of the main characters and one of the main ships and who’s favourite character only appears in like 5 episodes (all of which center around said character and ship), cause I’ll see a post about the show or listen to one of the songs and go “I should rewatch glee” and then I remember that there’s no way to do that without having to see them, and then I just don’t

[glitteringpoet1685]

"Klaine are soulmates 🥹🥹🥹"

So close! That is an emotionally abusive relationship. ❤️

[porcelainvino]

i don’t like klaine dating JUST AND ONLY because i like their duets more when they’re broken up/arguing/not together

[destielblamscilesinfinity]

Okay, now I'm pissed. Tumblr, I DO NOT SHIP FUCKING KLAINE. STOP SHOWING ME KLAINE POSTS. I SHIP BLAM. BLAM IS IN MY TUMBLR NAME FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

[hevanderson]

^ glee season 4 episode 4 ^

[amorhedera6]

actually sooooo tired of people being all anti-blaine or anti-kurt when they’re anti-klaine. ur missing the point!!! they were BOTH bad for each other. blaine cheated, had insecurities and let those control him. kurt had issues seeing blaine as a person with his own wants and desires, and in the later seasons often cares more about aspects their relationship (stressing over the wedding, the idea of having him back) more than their actual relationship. they worked the best in high school when there was pretty much no stakes. it was a messy, toxic, high school relationship just like every other goddamned ship in this show. sure you could argue blaine’s a narcissist or whatever, or you could kurt emotionally abused blaine (both real things i’ve seen) and it’s like. okay well santana manipulated britt’s intelligence to sleep with her while she was dating artie. sam actively pursued mercedes when she told him not to in s3 and went on to cheat on her. jesse and rachel were MADE on toxic. he started dating her bc shelby told him too, he then stole info for vocal adrenaline, cracked an egg on her head, pushed her to have sex, and she did run joey run which i guess he felt like was emotional cheating or something? they act like it’s cheating. idk, my point is, all the endgame ships are toxic and filled with drama. that’s the point of a high school show. but when you take the characters out of high school and give them real adult jobs even though they’re 19, is it makes people think the relationships are more serious and mature when they’re still, stay with me here, NINETEEN. and yes being cheated on sucks at any age but let’s remember that literally everyone in this show cheats at some point. and when it’s with each other for a different relationship, people don’t care. but when they do it outside of the club, it’s somehow way worse and important. just.. i hate that people hold these two specifically to a higher standard of how they have to be. everyone in this show sucks, they all cheat and manipulate and lie, because they are stupid high schoolers. that’s how the show works. stop hating on them so hard before i lose my mind.

[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!

[mdverse]

One last bonus gift and a massive thank you to @backslashdelta for helping me organise and run the whole art swap!

Finally letting the klaine divorce comic out of the vault for u <3