#at least with James. Kurt however...

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Ok to be fair, the description we get on James's deal is kinda lacking so we kinda...can't conclude anything from canon...? Here's what we got on James's life-long issues and suicide:

James had no care for his own life and was extremely aggressive towards all people he had known in his life. This resulted in what he called his "final act". He had put his neck in a vice and killed himself simply to spite his loving father.

We learn that James was aggressive to others before he died, but we're not told why. Nothing about life-long struggles with mental health, but also nothing about choosing to be an asshole "just because he can". We have to fill in the blanks on this one; pure assholes usually prize their life and wellbeing, so James's lack of "care for his own life" is better explained with some sort of internal struggle that made it hard to interact with others and made him brush up against his dad. (Btw, even the most loving of parents can snap at their kids on occasion—nobody is perfect.)

I thought the creator was trying to paint James as a bad guy too, but then I read his lore more carefully and realized they didn't anything about him at all. Considering how...explicit (in many ways) that Orin Ayo lore can be, this is a refreshing chance to give James some character ourselves.

And I like my baby girls misunderstood and mentally ill.

if you could fight any Orin Ayo character in real life who would it be LMAO

like who is your "on sight" mf

I’m sorry to say but it’s on sight with James and I will explain why, James in canon lore is a little shit and was a aggressive and egotistical shit head towards everyone and hurt those around him just because he could,

see unlike Tab who did it to prove something James did it because why not! And in his lore it reveals he has a loving father who he gives the middle finger to and end himself to spite him!? What person does that?!

It’s hard for me to genuinely like canon James due to how he has been described as and from how he is and to the mention of his loving father it makes me wanna strangle the melting fucker.

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A little piece of heaven [Part 2]

Pairing: Wade Wilson x Original Female Character x Logan Howlett. Summary: In Wade's timeline, Iris is his supernice upstairs neighbor. In Wolverine's, she's his beloved dead wife. A/N: This is a Wattpad Fic with an original character of mine that you can find here. Warnings: Deadpool & Wolverine spoilers, kinda.

PREVIOUS PART.

Chapter 2: A little bit of context/Filler chapter.

To be completely honest, Iris had in fact seen a Logan each time she fell asleep ever since she was eighteen, maybe a bit younger. It was a good thing that she only dreamwalked into hers that were her age, because the amount of times she had seen that man naked without even meeting him in real life was a bit concerning. 

It had grown gradually, obviously. The first Logan she ever saw was in a museum, in a universe where mutants didn't exist. It was a small kid called James Howlett, painted in quite a depressive picture. The second, however, was in a bar and he had tried to flirt with her, but the version of her in that universe wasn't having any of it.

Iris realized that most of the universes where they were teammates, it ended up in an annoying slowburn. She was usually a bit shy, he usually teased her about that, then they'd kiss, and then they'd fuck. And fuck, was sex with Logan good.

He'd always be in love with Jean first, though. When the version of her in those realities had feelings for Logan before he had feelings for her, yeah, that shit stung. 

But it was reassuring, somehow, knowing that in every universe she was able to find him. There were some obstacles in the way, of course. Some Jeans, some Peters, a few Ororos too, maybe a Kurt here and there, but they always ended up together. 

By the time she was 20, she was excited. She had fallen in love over and over, and over again with the same person and she wanted hers, she wanted to feel what it was like.

Time passed and a few flings came across her way. She knew Logan wouldn't mind, he never did. Besides, he had a century of experience before she even existed, so why should she care?

Then Mark came along and the thought of Logan wasn't appealing anymore, no. She didn't remember any Marks in her dreams either, so for a long while she thought it was her equivalent for a Logan and she let herself fall in love for the very first time.

He was stubborn, and rough and charming in every way that Logan was. He made her come out of her shell, helped her leave her family, gave her a life of their own. It was a long relationship, five years. They got engaged even. And yes, the dreams had started to become a bit annoying, and hearing his girlfriend moan and whimper another man's name could make anyone mad, but she thought that after five years of heaven, Mark would never raise his hand at her. 

Yet he did, and then came two other years of complete isolation.

When Iris moved into the apartment that, conveniently, was located above Wade's, she didn't really think she was ready for any kind of relationship, and Mark definitely wasn't ready for her to have one either. She was escaping him, she was frightened, she had no life and no friends. 

And yes, Mark was an asshole. And yes, we should hate him, but at least his pitiful excuse of an existence served for Iris to meet Wade.

Mark was a very confrontational person, she wondered after their relationship if her fascination for Logan made her blind to all the red flags that were right there the whole time, or if she was truly that dumb; but she knew she hoped that he got into a fight with Wade, a fight that would give him no option but to finish Mark's life.

So yeah, she asked him to scare him off, but she hoped he'd kill him.

What came out of that was a beautiful, wholesome friendship. She'd been there when he was scared of reaching out for Vanessa, and she was there when they were finally a thing again. She even remembered how Vanessa was wary of her at first, scared that Wade and her were a thing.

And that would never happen. 

She had pegged him only five times, and they'd shotgunned like... What? Two times?

He asked! What were friends for?

Anyways, Wade was her first friend since first year of college. She'd never met another mutant before and, even if Wade wasn't exactly mutant born, he understood what it was like to be different. He protected her, he helped her protect herself and he was funny.

So, despite having a though childhood and a tormented love life, she felt grateful of being in the life of someone like Wade. She'd be at any party he wanted her to be. Celebrate his birthday all over again? Fuck it, let's celebrate it twice a month. 

That night, right after handling the 30 hormonal teenagers that conformed her class, she went back home and dressed up for the occasion. Iris was thirty-four years old and for the first time she was feeling fulfilled. She was a bit tipsy, talking to Vanessa as she rested over the table and her friend smiled sweetly, telling her something about the guy she was seeing.

It sucked that she was happy with someone that wasn't Wade, but she loved seeing her friend happy nonetheless. 

Then Vanessa asked about her day and she recalled the stupid child that chose to use her class as an intervention to confess his undying love for another student. It was cute, but seeing him get rejected still made her let out an incredulous laugh that could play off as cruel.

And her reaction to the story made her laugh harder. 

Then the melody of her favorite song started playing, and she swayed in place as Vanessa recalled the memory of the last time someone did something as cringe as that for her. Of course it had to be Wade. Iris closed her eyes, laughing and the door swung open, and she turned around to greet the birthday boy.

"Wade! I thought for a second there that you weren't going to make it! This is actually my outfit for your funeral!"

It was. 

"It's the most hideous thing I've seen in my life and yet you managed to pull it off!" She took it as a compliment, closing her eyes with a toothy grin appreciatively, "I came back and I brought you a gift."

She took a look beside him and oh shit.

OH SHIT.

Was that a Logan?

NEXT PART.

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Who I write for /Rules

Masterlist

I'm new-ish to writing (i used to write fanfiction when i was like 13. i'm 19 now and write very rarely) but I really wanna do it again.

So this is a list of characters/fandoms I write for as well as some rules for asks. Some things may be missing from this list so if you dont see something on this list, feel free to ask. :))

Do add as much detail as you want to a request and please ALWAYS have at least some sort of prompt, as i'm really not good with coming up with storys on my own yet.

I WILL NOT DO SMUT SO DONT REQUEST IT! I might however do spicy stuff (Nothing more than making out or somewhat implied stuff tho).

My writing will be mostly pg 13 but please still be careful if the fic-warnings include sensitive topics, and i might repost some 18+ things so be careful when navigating my blog.

Please be nice and have manners when requesting.

Also please include what gender/pronouns you want the reader to have (i write for all genders). If its not included I will default it as gender neutral. :)))

I also write poly relationships and AUs.

Some things I will not write include: Pregnancy, toxic/yandere, student x teacher, love triangles.

(Also english isnt my first language, and even though, in my opinion, i speak it really well, if they are any mistakes, thats why.)

Heartbreak high

Harper Mclean

Quinni Ghallager-Jones

Darren Rivers

Spencer "Spider" White

Anthony "Ant" Vaughn

Malakai Mitchel

Sally face

Sal Fisher

Travis Phelps (male or gn readers)

Larry Johnson

Ashley Campbell

Harry Potter

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Charly Weasley

Bill Weasley

Cedric Diggory

Olliver Wood

Draco Malfoy (+6th year only)

Theodore Nott (+6th year only)

Marauders

James Potter

Sirius Black

Remus Lupin

Regulus Black

Evan Rosier

Barty Crouch jr

Pandora Rosier

Lilly Evans

Marlene Mckinnon

Hogwarts Legacy

Sebastian Sallow

Ominus Gaunt

Gareth Weasley

Poppy Sweetings

Imelda Reyes

Die drei fragezeichen / the three investigators

Bob Andrews

Peter Shaw

Justus Jonas

Skinny Norris

Twilight

Jasper Hale

Emmet Cullen

Carlisle Cullen

Esme Cullen

Rosalie Hale

Alice Cullen

Sam Uley

Paul Lahote

Charlie Swan

Leah Clearwater

Jacob Black

Pjo

Let me know if you want book or show

Percy Jackson

Annabeth Chase

Luke Castellan

Clarrisse La Rue

Selena Beauregard

Charles Beckendorf

Ethan Nakamura

Nico di Angelo (no romantic fem readers)

Rachel Elizabeth Dare

Will Solace

Travis Stoll

Connor Stoll

Hazel Levesque (no romantic)

Jason Grace

Leo Valdez

Piper Mclean

Magnus chase

Magnus Chase

Samirah al Abbas ( no romantic)

Alex Fierro

Blitzen

Hearthstone

Mallory Keen

TJ (Thomas Jefferson jr)

MCU (Avengers)

Bucky Barnes

Steve Rogers

Tony Stark

Sam Wilson

Natasha Romanoff

Yelena Belova

Peter Parker (tom holland and andrew garfield)

MJ

Wanda Maximof

Piedro Maximof

Clint Barton

Scott Lang

Stephen Strange

Kate Bishop

MCU ( Guardians of the galaxy)

Peter Quill

Daredevil (Season 1)

Matt Murdock

Karen Page

James Wesley

X-men universe

Deadpool

Wolverine

Francis

Xavier

Mystic

Angel

Kurt

Venom

Eddie Brock

DC

Harley Quinn

Jason Todd

Dick Grayson (any version, young justice, robin, nightwing,etc.)

Wally West (youngJustice)

Artemis (young justice)

Roy Harper (young justice)

Disney Descendants

Mal

Evie

Carlos devil

Jay

Benjamin Beast

Chad Charming

Audrey Rose

Jane

Lonnie Fa

Uma

Harry Hook

Gil

Rise of red

James Hook

Hades

Bridget

Ella

Cloe

Red

Morgie

Kingsmen

Eggsy

Tiny Pretty things (Netflix)

Bette Whitlaw

Oren Lennox

Shane Madej (no romantic fem readers)

June Park

Jennifers Body

Jennifer Check

Colin Gray

Ever after high

all characters

Redacted Audios

(no x reader, just ships)

literally all characters

[mattzerella-sticks]

My Idea for a Live-Action X-Men Movie...

Thinking... how can we introduce the X-Men into live action, whether through movie, tv show, limited series, etc. ... and I have an idea.

Let's start in media res.

Charles Xavier's School for the Gifted has been active for the past few years, however with a small class size of seven. Scott. Jean. Bobby. Hank. Warren. Alex. Lorna. Despite only consisting of seven students, due to Xavier's wealth he has been able to keep his school open and thriving since the beginning.

However that has changed as the size of his class has dropped from seven to one after a botched mission led to the capture of his students save one, Scott Summers.

And the opening scene is Xavier sitting in his mansion, worried, waiting, until Scott kicks his door down, tells them his team is gone, and passes out due to exhaustion.

We then pick up on our narrator for the movie, the character whose eyes we will be seeing the entire movie take place through, stepping off a plane and into JFK airport...

Ororo Munroe. Storm.

She had travelled from her home in Africa seemingly on a whim, as if drawn there by fate, and - unsure where to go or what to do next - she goes to a nearby bar to make her next plan.

Who should happen to sit next to her but a short, hairy man in a cowboy hat and a thick, Canadian accent?

Ororo, meet Logan. They do not hit it off.

She does happen to hit it off with the soft spoken Russian man who is reading poetry at the other end of the bar - Piotr Rasputin - and the bartender, a Native American man - James Proudstar - who wasn't supposed to be working that day but traded shifts with his roommate.

While they are all gathered there they hear a voice in their heads and turn around to see Charles Xavier, a man they all recognize and all soon realize is the reason they are now gathered together in this bar. At first they all want to leave but Xavier implores them to at least first hear him out, which they agree to do, but he tells them he won't start until the final member of their group is here.

Cue shouts and gunfire as Kurt - Nightcrawler - runs, leaps, and teleports across the airport in all his blueness.

Xavier manages to calm the crowd however not before one of the security guards manages to call in that the threat is a mutant and it's a race to grab Kurt before reinformcements arrive. But wouldn't you know it the group is not the best team yet and the reinforcements do arrive in the form of Sentinels.

It seems like all hope is lost when, out of nowhere, a stray quartz-colored beam blows one of the Sentinels apart and allows the group a moment to escape. They regroup in Xavier's car, which had been where Scott was waiting while Xavier gathered the others.

They return to the mansion where Xavier explains what happens to his team, that they were responding to a mutant in distress on an island that had ultimately been a trap - with only Scott escaping. The group has been gathered together to help Xavier and Scott rescue their teammates.

It's mostly a resounding no. Piotr would rather be at home on the farm. James has to go searching for a new job since he undoubtedly got fired from the bar for leaving during shift hours. Logan is "not a team player" and believes that the team is most likely dead anyway. Kurt is game but he is also "not the best fighter".

Ororo also agrees to help.

That surprises everyone. She says that while the circumstances that brought them together were underhanded, she cannot sit idly by while innocent people, people like her with a mutant gene, are in danger. Not just those on the island, who they are tasked with rescuing, but around the world especially since Sentinels have become standard issue around the world. While she does not see herself being a full-time member, she knows that the team Xavier had protected mutants like them from these threats and, with them gone, who will protect their community now?

Xavier tells them that, after they help rescue his original team, they would be free to leave and do what they want with their lives as they please.

Piotr is in. So is James. Logan sighs and agrees, "Since I don't want to be the odd one out." They agree to go save the others. Scott says, however, that before they can mount the rescue mission, they need to become a team first - referencing their battle at the airport and how they need to improve.

They agree to train.

Meanwhile, on the island, we see that there is a Master Mold along with Trask and scientists working on creating the next model of Sentinels in their ongoing war against mutants using the captured mutants from Xavier's Academy as test subjects. The scientists are just as much as prisoners as the X-Men, however, as they were led to the island on false pretenses and forced to work for Master Mold who had, unbenknownst to everyone until the final act, had taken over Trask and controls him as a puppet.

A few of these scientists came with their families. One of these families were the Prydes. Katherine Anne Pryde is seen as a non-threat by both Master Mold and Trask, and is able to freely wander the island as well as speak with the prisoners because, since everything is monitored and she is twelve, she cannot do anything to disrupt the mission. We learn from this scene that Master Mold is on the cusp of unveiling a new breed of Sentinel that, using the schematics pulled from Jean's mind, would be able to track mutants anywhere without needing to be called in. It was luck that the X-Men arrived on their island, fell into their trap.

Meanwhile back in Westchester, NY, this new team of X-Men are having a hard time at coming together to work as a team, which is making Scott mad. He and Logan almost come to blows if not for Piotr stepping between them to break things up. They both step away to cool off.

Ororo decides to speak with both of them. First, she goes to Scott, and tells him that he is not being a good leader. They have a heart to heart where he confesses that his friends are his family, and Jean... he has a lot riding on this being a success, and this is as new to him as it is new to them. He is not used to working with people he hasn't grown up with. Ororo tells him that he needs to lead from a place of love and courage, and not fear. Then, she goes to find Logan to see that he is brushing off Kurt rather coldly and Ororo does not wait to take him to task on his loner attitude. They clash a bit before Ororo tells him to get his act together or just leave, as it shouldn't matter to him what they think if he really doesn't care.

They all agree to do another training session, only they never get the chance as Xavier tells them it is now or never as there was a spike of pain from the same island his first team was lost, and that cannot mean anything good. The heroes go to get suited up and fly to the island base.

Master Mold is ready to create his new breed of Sentinels and it looks like they are a success, as they have been fitted with new upgrades. He activates a few and they immediately power online with the alert that there is a mutant among them.

All eyes turn to Katherine Anne Pryde. Kitty.

Her father and mother object but are restrained as the Sentinels begin to pursue her, only able to tell her to run before they are knocked out. Kitty runs and manages to escape the Sentinels after discovering her ability to phase through solid matter. The escape is not fullproof as they burst out the bunker in full pursuit. When she reaches the beaches with what looks like no place left to go, the clouds part and reveal the Blackbird jet which Ororo had just exited from and is now flying down to confront the Sentinels she spotted chasing the little girl. The Sentinels sense her power and lock onto her, only to get blasted by lightning and turret fire.

The X-Men land and confront the Sentinels but, unlike at JFK, they are able to work together and take them down. Even Logan finds himself being a team player. They rescue Kitty and she tells them where the prisoners are and also what Master Mold is planning.

The team decides to split up - Scott, Piotr, and James will confront Master Mold while Ororo, Logan, and Kurt follow Kitty to the prison area.

Of course we stay with Ororo because, again, she is who we are relying to guide us through this story.

We get to the prison area and it's Ororo, Logan, and Kurt going HAM on these guards taking them down while Kitty uses her powers to free the X-Men. She manages to get to the main control room and hits the button that releases all the prisoners who do their best to help, despite being weakened from experiments and torture.

We learn from Kitty that there's a prisoner missing, and they admit that it's Jean. She was taken by Trask.

So the group races to the main room where Scott, Piotr, and James are and see a BUNCH of Sentinels on the loose and pure pandemonium. Piotr and James are on the ropes and Scott is putting up his best fight, however just as the group arrives the Sentinels converge and blast him, with a woman across the room watching calling out his name as he 'perishes' (we'll circle back on this later).

Without their leader and shocked, Ororo steps up and takes command, leading the group into battle like she's been doing it all her life against the Sentinels while Kitty and Kurt evacuate the scientists. She cuts across the room almost instantly to get to Trask and Jean where we finally learn that the former has been completely taken over by Master Mold and is now a Sentinel cyborg. They battle it out but it's a tough battle given the numbers they're against until there's a moment where Ororo and Jean are tucked away, shielded from incoming blaster fire from Trask and the Sentinels, when Jean places her hands to the ground and closes her eyes. Ororo asks what she's doing and Jean tells her she's asking for help.

"From who? Xavier only sent us?"

"From the mutant we came here to help in the first place. From the island."

BOOM! We get the reveal that the island. Krakoa, is a mutant and has been weakened by the experiments run on it by Master Mold and the Sentinel. Jean tells the group that they need to let Krakoa 'feed' on a piece of their energy to recupe its strength for it to help them and they all look to Ororo as it's her call, and she says they should do it. They do and the ground rumbles and shakes and we can see the island begin to terraform as it fights back against Master Mold and the Sentinels. It takes out MANY of them while the X-Men pick up the slack on the rest.

Ororo takes on Master Mold/Trask hybrid as the island begins to sink back into the ocean, with Trask, damaged, spouting nonsense. That he is there to save the world, that he is the FUTURE, the INEVITABLE, that the X-Men cannot prevent the world falling apart in the future, that they will be responsible for the apocalypse. However, with a lightning zap and some timely telekinesis, the group escapes back to the Blackbird as the rest of the island has already been evacuated.

The X-Men return to Westchester without Scott and inform Xavier of what happened.

Time moves on. They recover. They mourn. A memorial service is held for Scott. Xavier's original students, Warren, Bobby, Alex, Hank, and Lorna, decide to leave the school afterwards as they believe they need to come at the Sentinel problem another way. They form X-Force.

Xavier comes up to Ororo after the service and asks her to stay on, despite her having no obligation to do so. She watches Logan and Kurt keeping Kitty entertained while Piotr and James speak with her parents, about Kitty staying on at the school and learning from Professor Xavier, and decides that she would like to stay and lead the X-Men. Jean joins them and says that she'd be happy to be on any team Storm is leading, revealing that -of the original students - she is the only one who is staying with the X-Men. The three look out onto the horizon as there are endless possibilities for the X-Men now *play the theme song*

END CREDIT SCENE NUMBER ONE - Magneto watches Xavier's new team of X-Men in action and converses with Mystique, saying that, "If Charles has put together a new team of recruits, we should, too."

END CREDIT SCENE NUMBER TWO - A blonde woman in all white speaks with a raven-haird men with red eyes and a crimson diamond embedded in his head. "You pulled a lot of favors to get him, are you sure he's worth it?" "Believe me. He is." The duo, Emma Frost and Dr. Sinister are looking over the body of Scott Summers, very much NOT DEAD, held in stasis as the camera pans out and reveals the Hellfire Club.

And that would be how we introduce the X-Men, and mutants, into live action movies.

[porcelainvino]

[PART ONE] the room where it happens (b!g animatic): artist’s commentary

spoiler warning for eden, other than that, who wants to hear some lore?!?!

description/disclaimer:

better!glee is my (kind of) glee fanfiction in which my favs are essentially my ocs (i do not claim to own the characters). there’s a difference between the “glee club members” and the “better!glee characters” because some of the main characters in the better!glee story are just side characters i like in the real show who aren’t in the new directions (ex: kurt is in the NDs as well as a main character in b!g, rachel is in the NDs but is NOT a main character in b!g, maud is NOT in the NDs but is a main character in b!g; it’s confusing but i’ll try to elaborate as we go on).

each character has their own color, but it has no secret meaning, it’s just to separate them/tell them apart. i was planning, but it was honestly too much effort, to draw all of the new directions, so i only drew the ones who are main characters in better!glee.

the story takes place during the canonical 3rd season of glee, but it does not necessarily follow the canon plot of that season/the rest of the show. some of my b!g characters may act “out of character” compared to canon, but this isn’t necessarily meant to follow canon. in this animatic, there isn’t really a “good side” or “bad side”, both think their doing the right thing but also have their own flaws; this isn’t meant to villainize any character.

i do not necessarily plan to ever post the fanfiction publicly because it’s genuinely mediocre and frankly not even a glee fanfiction at this point. i don’t mean to gatekeep it or anything, this is genuinely just for my irl friends, not for anyone else. despite the name, better!glee is not meant to “fix” the show nor make it “better”, it’s just for silly funzies.

backstory, and basically the first minute of the animatic:

the last major plotline of better!glee mainly follows maud, the violin girl from s1, and her effort to join the glee club. she was unable to and discouraged to join for the past 2 years by her brother and her peers (there’s more to that but it’s too much to explain), but after becoming friends with some of the new directions members, she’s motivated to join and help them win nationals.

kurt encourages her to join. he didn’t get any letter from nyada yet, and he is determined to win nationals to add on to his transcript just in case. maud films her journey/the glee club’s plans for nationals for an av club project, and kurt encourages her to so he can maybe even use it to help him get into nyada.

kurt takes charge to help the glee club win nationals. however, kurt, the b!g characters, and the rest of the glee club have a bit of beef at the moment due to previous events (there’s more to that but it’s too much to explain), so tensions are high, and friendships are strained. his closest friends, mercedes and tina, try to negotiate with him, especially in such a busy time frame.

for context:

maud sings aaron burr’s part

kurt sings alexander hamilton’s part

tina sings thomas jefferson’s part

mercedes sings james madison’s part

rest of animatic, feel free to follow along :3:

• kurt has control of how nationals plays out, prioritizing winning. mercedes and tina hold a photo of the better!glee friend group, prioritizing their friends, at least in the beginning.

• the trophies are colored in the character’s color, representing how each one of them helped win that competition, like tina got to have a solo at sectionals/got to chose the set list (there’s more to that but it’s too much to explain). nationals has not happened yet so there’s no trophy.

• despite having beef with half of his friends (there’s more to that but it’s too much to explain), kurt begs mr. schue to help, at least temporarily, reunite the new directions for nationals.

• “the pieces that are sacrificed in every game of chess” plays while they point to maud. this is showing how the b!g characters in the new directions are slowly but surely abandoning the non-glee club b!g friends in favor of nationals (i hope that made sense).

• i genuinely don’t know how to properly explain this part because i’m not really sure how i want the plot to be (for context, i’ve only written 16 chapters but i plan for there to be over 80, with this animatic being one of the last plots), but i suppose this could be interpreted as either if mercedes and tina brought up the importance of friendship to kurt, they could all reconcile properly OR maybe mercedes and tina saying that their friend group will be fine if they temporarily work on nationals rather than focusing on fixing relationships? i’m not sure.

• just maud wanting to be in “the room where it happens” aka the choir room.

• there’s a message on the bulletin board saying that the glee club will continue to focus on nationals by themselves and do not require extra members. maud gets mad at kurt for getting her excited for nothing even though he had most of the control of how things would play out and had promised her he’d help her get in.

• maud realizes that kurt was never going to let her join and only hyped her up so she could record the success of the new directions to further his chances of getting into nyada, using her for his own gain.

• kurt saying that the better!glee friend group is insignificant compared to nationals, at least in his eyes. from his point of view, winning nationals is his chance to change the course of his future, and attempting to mend relationships is just an obstacle to that goal.

• this is just my favorite frame lol

[click here for part two]

[thegentlesurvive]

The Albatross, wise men, Elton John, dead poets, and the destruction of reputation

Whenever someone says “Wise men once said,” I feel the need to look up who wrote it first. If Google search results and the absence of it in Bartlet’s Familiar Quotations (fifteenth edition, at least) are to be believed, Taylor is probably the wise men in “The Albatross.” The closest thing I’ve found to “Wild winds are death to the candle,” is “Candle in the Wind” by Bernie Taupin (lyrics) and Elton John (music), originally written about Marilyn Monroe (and in later versions, Princess Diana), who died young after she “lived your life like a candle in the wind […] Your candle burned out long before your legend ever did.”

It is

1) funny that Taylor calls herself a wise man while essentially talking shit about herself from the perspective of her detractors, and

2) interesting to me because, in the warnings, our narrator is being described as the wind, not the candle being burned out. By the end of the song, however, the albatross metaphor is subverted, and the albatross is the hero. If we reverse that first warning, too, it turns the narrator/Taylor back to the candle, at risk of being extinguished by the wind (in “Candle in the Wind,” that is to say, extinguished by the pressures of fame and the way we treat celebrities).

There’s also a loose (undoubtedly unintentional, but fun) connection to some historical tortured poets.

In Elton John: The Making of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (2001), Bernie Taupin said:

“I think the biggest misconception about ‘Candle In The Wind’ is that I was this rabid Marilyn Monroe fanatic, which really couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s not that I didn’t have a respect for her. It’s just that the song could just as easily have been about James Dean or Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain. I mean, it could have been about Sylvia Plath or Virginia Woolf. I mean, basically, anybody, any writer, actor, actress, or musician who died young and sort of became this iconic picture of Dorian Gray, that thing where they simply stopped ageing. It’s a beauty frozen in time. In a way, I’m fascinated with that concept. So it’s really about how fame affects the man or woman in the street, that whole adulation thing and the fanaticism of fandom. It’s pretty freaky how people really believe these people are somehow different from us.”

Lyricist Tim Rice added:

“It’s not just the fact that it’s about Marilyn Monroe, because Marilyn died about forty years ago now nearly, yet the song’s still—well obviously it’s got the Diana connotations now—but it’s about all people who were misjudged in their lives. It’s a song about unfairness and the destruction of reputation. And a lot of people, I think, can—even if they haven’t been through that themselves—they can understand it in their heroes.”

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Was Kurtcedes not replaced by Blaine coming along and taking up all Kurt’s time in season 2? As she didn’t like being the third wheel in The Substitute? I suppose they could have had Kurtcedes together in New York but I guess by then Kurt was Rachel’s side kick. And Mercedes is a lovely character, there wouldn’t be half as much drama going on in the loft in 4/5 as there was with Kurtcheltana.

Also regarding bi Blaine. Personally I don’t like the idea. Why? Well he’d have just been another Sam or Artie figure - dating all the girls in Glee club to provide various stories. Please not another Brittany boyfriend to piss off Santana. Maybe Blaine would have been nice with Tina, in 4/5, purely because he did love her platonically.

But I think it would have changed the Klaine relationships if Blaine had a history of previous girlfriends, maybe even previous boyfriends. The idea of them being each other’s first love, first time, first everything (and last!) and their love and devotion pretty much to no one else, just lifts their whole story. Maybe I’m just being old fashioned.

But I’m more drawn to the bi Sam idea, and the Blam option, if I had to choose a midgame for Blaine.

This has been sitting in my drafts for over a year now, lol...

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Re: Mercedes -

No, I'd argue that since Kurt was becoming way more popular (I believe he was the most popular character from the show) the writers wanted to capitalize on that bumping him up to a lead character. And thus, it'd be better for the writers to make him share time with the actual main character Rachel.

This is why Season 3 Hummelberry was shoved so hard down our throats. Blaine was a part of Kurt's story, and while there are a lot of reasons as to why Blaine faded into the background more during season 3 (mainly Darren's schedule) by season 3, they wanted to make Hummelberry a feature, and not have Klaine (or Kurt's individual story) such a main thing.

Essentially - Kurt's individual arc stops at season 2, because he becomes an accessory in Rachel's story (really, the way Blaine was an accessory to his story in season 2.)

Mercedes and Kurtcedes becomes a relic of the original landscape of the show, unfortunately. They never wanted to Mercedes to a higher tier, hence why she became a B and later C-list character. (To which I lament.)

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Meanwhile, Bi Blaine!

I remember there was a time when people worried that if Blaine was made bi that'd mean, for some strange reason, that it'd cheapen the Klaine "gay" experience or something weird. :P (I'm definitely not saying that's what you're insinuating - just thinking out loud.)

While I personally don't see the character as bi - I'm always up for more bisexual representation. And I agree there were was a myriad of ways they could have achieved that -- Artie would have been an interesting choice. Jesse St. James another.

I wouldn't have minded if Blaine had experiences before Kurt, either, tbh. And I assumed he had at least made out with people (both boys and girls) before Kurt. I personally don't feal that more or less experience with other people has any affect on one's current relationship. However - people are free to enjoy any aspects of the story how they choose to - and that's fine by me. :)

<3

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Open to Glee male characters (please no Blaine or David Karofsky. YES to Finn, Puck, Sam, Mike and OCs to make up the team)

He had been planning on rejoining the Cheerio’s, not least because he looked and felt pretty in the uniform. Hell! Even Jesse St James had gotten a hard on from seeing Kurt in a girls Cheerio uniform! However persuasion from the football team made Kurt rejoin them as the kicker. The team promised to protect Kurt from bullies, and then there was cock. Huge cock in his pussy. The promise was if he scored points he got his pussy fucked, no condom and no pulling out. If he didn’t score a point, a condom was worn. Either way it was win/win. That first game, Puck had gotten the honor of being Kurt’s very first, due to scoring a touchdown! As it turned out he got good and fucked several times a day even on non game days as they couldn’t resist his sweet pussy and the sweet sounds he made and how responsive his body was! All that was running through his mind as he kicked a field goal!

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PIG KILLER - Review

DISTRIBUTOR: Breaking Glass Pictures

SYNOPSIS: “Based on the terrifying true story of Robert 'Willy' Pickton, the pig farmer turned prolific lady killer whose horrific crimes shocked the world. With his herculean hog, Balthazar, by his side, Willy and his menagerie of colorful cohorts terrorized Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for almost two decades until his 2002 arrest that uncovered the most bizarre series of murders that included rape, torture, slaughter, and dismemberment of almost fifty womenCanada has ever seen.” - Publicity Materials

REVIEW: Chad Ferrin’s film can be hit or miss. For me, I found PIG KILLER a big miss.

It’s not the cast, which feels like the line-up for a genre convention, but some of the production values and the script.

I’m not sure if the script is fully to blame or if some of it might also be the directing. This is a fictionalized account of true events and it feels like some of the time it's venturing into dark comedy. At its best it feels awkward and at its worst uncomfortable. I didn’t find anything in the least bit funny, or remotely so. There are many off color comments, and this is a serial killer film so I get it. However, they attempt to backpedal on some of their remarks, for example about the Asian remarks, which feels kind of compounded by Bai Ling’s cliched and outdated performance. Then there are the scenes between Ginger Lynn and Jake Busey. Again, I get it but there is just something about the execution that feels like sophomoric exploitation.

In terms of the production values, the thing that annoyed me the most was the excessive use of Gerard McMahon’s songs. There are 22 songs by him in the film, plus there is a line in the film about him playing Piggy’s Powwow. As mayhem is breaking out on the farm McMahon and his band are performing. Some of the songs are poorly edited into the film and a few times simply cut off. It’s not that I don’t like his music, it just feels like a square peg shoved into a round hole here and does not feel to fit the 2002 period of the story. But hey, who knows what they were listening to in Canada back then.

I get putting a scene in the credits or at the end of the credits to give the audience a bit extra. However, there is a five minute scene at the end of the credits that should have been edited into the main body of the narrative. It feels like an important scene to the story and not something I would consider a bonus scene. It’s the only time actor James Russo shows up in the film. During most of the scene Busey is eating, scraping a disposal plate with a plastic fork that is maddening and I can’t see what purpose it serves to the scene.

PIG KILLER is one of filmmaker Chad Ferrin’s s;pectacular train wrecks. There are numerous elements that make this an off-putting viewing experience, but like a glorious traffic accident we can’t help but slow down and stare in horror. As a die-hard horror/gore fan there was nothing likable for me here. From the language to the gore and nudity, this is an adult film. You’ve been warned.

CAST: Jake Busey, Kate Patel, Bai Ling, Ginger Lynn, Michael Paré, James Russo, Gerard McMahon, and Lew Temple. CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer - Chad Ferrin; Producers - Robert Miano & Robert Rhine; Cinematographer/Visual Effects - Jeff Billings; Score - G Tom Mac (Gerard McMahon); Editor- Jahad Ferif; Production Designer - Matt Rumer; Costume Designer - Viktoriia Vlasenko; Special Effects Makeup - Kurt Bonzel, Jake Porath, Angie Shell; Special Effects & Gore Designer - Joe Castro. OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: N.A. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/T6Hrat-l4Yo?si=_YqvgYarziI-e9ou RELEASE DATE: In theaters Nov. 17th , and also available on Blu-ray & digital Nov. 21st, 2023.

**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)

Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri

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what do you think it is that makes James Potter such an attractive character?

Hello anon ❤️

This is such an interesting question! I could say that he's simply described like that and move on, but I think there's so much more to it, to him.

He was a Quidditch player, ruffled his hair, played with the Snitch, had a charming smile... Physically, he was the textbook definition of hot. On the surface he's a reformed bad boy: he used to be a prat but he died as a changed man, a hero... And this is a trope that a lot of us love.

But really?

He's someone who found out his friend was a werewolf at 12 years old and instead of pitying him or, worse, discarding him, he found a solution. He became an animagus at 15, not only breaking the law but risking his own life - it was already a dangerous process, and he did it unsupervised at such a young age - just so that he could make Remus' life a bit easier. You see, James was no stranger to sacrifices. He was like this before Harry.

James gave Sirius a home and a family when he lost both in one fell swoop, and he forgave Sirius' prank on Snape: he had a big heart, had a lot of love to give.

I'm in no way excusing his mistakes; but I think that even though we mostly got to know him through other people's eyes, it doesn't mean that he's any less interesting.

I think we find him attractive because he was a great friend. He was exactly what they needed: a brother for Sirius, an ally for Remus, an inspiration for Peter. I think his dedication to his friends is one of his best traits: personally, it's exactly the thing I look for in people in real life.

He was smart: he was a Transfiguration prodigy and he became Head Boy, which didn't necessarily require good marks as far as I'm aware, but if he was chosen it meant that Dumbledore knew he would take it seriously.

His relationship with Lily... We don't know enough about them, except for the fact that they rowed a lot, then finally made up, slowly became friends and, eventually, lovers.

I also believe that, no matter how many fix-it fics we read, no matter how many times we see him survive in other AUs, there's still an ache in our hearts when we think about him. He was doomed from the start, which makes his life even more meaningful. Not only that, but he died young. Awfully young. Twenty-one. I think about him and then I think about me at that age and... He shouldn't have seen any of those horrors.

We mourn the person he could have been. He's forever young, forever immortalised in his last moments as he bravely faces death and makes the ultimate sacrifice.

People have always been fascinated by great people who tragically died young. Heath Ledger, John Lennon (though the latter wasn't exactly young, he wasn't old either), or even the 27 Club: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and many more. These people died at the height of their fame; over time we tend to see them as more than human, almost god-like figures that have graced us with their presence on earth. I think we feel a bit like that towards James sometimes. He will never be older than twenty-one, he will never make mistakes as a father, husband or friend. And it is as heartbreaking as it is frustrating.

There's something about his potential as a character. Layered, interesting, captivating... He would have been important not because he was Harry's father, but because he was James.

However, one of the main reasons we love him so much - I know, this reply hasn't been about him being attractive for a while now - is because out of the four Marauders, he's the one we know the least about. It would make sense if we didn't get attached to him. Many people do not, in fact, like him. But we do and it's because he is, in many ways, a blank slate. He can be whoever we want, and that's so liberating! We can project our fears, dreams, insecurities onto him. It's both stimulating and cathartic. James has a freedom that other characters (Harry, for example) don't have. Even in canon compliant fics, James can be many different people and still have the core values that we know and love.

Despite this reply being very long, I don't think I fully conveyed why I like him so much. I'm not very good with words these days and there are things that I can't really put into words. There's a lot more I'd like to say about him but I'd like to see someone else's take on this! So please feel free to add more ❤️

Thank you for this wonderful question you made my day, seriously!

[reallyhardydraws]

XM:EVO kids with my own style! as those who have followed me for a while know i always try to make things just sliiightly 1980s/90s lmao. full rambling below the cut but some of it i’ve said before in previous fanarts:

EVO’s version of kurt weirdly doesn’t hint at his circus upbringing despite it being a major part of his character across other canon so this is re-instated. clothing-wise i loved the XM:A bright red jacket and i think given his circus background and flamboyant attention-seeking personality he would wear some jazzy things. accessories include the image-inducer watch (boo) and a friendship bracelet from kitty.

kitty in EVO is supposed to be a cute girl but really smart. i wanted to make her look a bit geekier with the glasses and scrunchie. build-wise she’s the shortest and skinniest of the girls, and also the youngest (at least of the core group.) i like the pastel vibe of her EVO civvies, so i took that to an 11 with lilac tights under socks. you’re likely to see her in cute skirts and t-shirts, cosy cardigans... and cat-eye glasses, of course!

i like rogue’s EVO look for its early-2000s goth aesthetic but i always thought her wearing a mesh top and gloves with an open back to just be a bit dangerous because what if one of the other kids bumps into her lmao. i think a grunge style suits her prickly personality and i also wanted to make her a bit androgynous, and kind of zendaya-esque as well.

EVO’s jean has this kim possible cargo-pants thing going on which i’ve swapped for a preppy style - kitty’s look is similar (in like a older sister/younger sister way) but jean is more confident (more bare skin on show). however she wears her hair just slightly falling over her face (in the like, i’m still just a little self-conscious about something i don’t talk about kinda way) i took the stripey top from her X:MA look, gave her sneakers since she’s still a practical girl and isn’t going to school in heels.

same as with jean i took a lot of movie inspo for scott, mostly james marsden, who by the way is a particularly iconic version of scott. he loves boybands. he has that teen heartthrob appeal. my scott is the kinda guy who’s so entrenched in his role as big brother that his face looks permanently worried. he’s in no way flashy with his fashion which is just the tragic truth of many straight boys.

for evan just full basketball outfit, because it let him be more colourful. i’ve said it before but since he’s got the same powers as marrow i gave him pink hair to add more of a visual link between him and that character. i’ve essentially turned him into a gay icon? which is what he deserves.

BONUS: image inducer kurt. i’d say in this universe kurt would have had some input in how his disguise looks - he asked to look like the mother who raised him (margali szardos). blue eyes match his real skin and the shoes are blue to hint at his feet, in the summer he’d wear sandals (but i hate drawing sandals lmao.)

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Okay, cool! I just wanted to double check before I asked. If David’s characters all had to live together, what do you think would happen? Like, who would make friends with who, who avoids who like the plague, who would make who ‘disappear’ if they were able to, things like that.

P.S., I love your blog <3

hmm..well, i’ll probably only do ones i know but

i believe out of all of them, Lonny, Bob, Abner and Kurt would get along fine, they’re all quiet and don’t really interact with anyone, Thomas would avoid everyone like the plague but he’s okay with Lonny because Lonny..doesn’t do anything, Piter would absolutely despise everyone except for Johnson and possibly murdoc

Johnson vaguely tolerates everyone, except for Kurt maybe but only because they drink together on weekends, Murdoc doesn’t partially like anyone (however finds Piters talent in poison making intriguing) but since all of the others don’t know how to take care of themselves he’s basically promoted to role of house mother or else his idiot “kids” die

James is the father figure and probably helps Lonny, Abner, Bob and possibly Thomas work out their issues because they really need some stability in their lives let’s be frank, there’s no way they don’t all have parental issues and i think James would be able to help at least a little bit, he probably dislikes Johnson, Murdoc and Piter though, just because of their differing morals, though Johnson and Murdoc are preferable to Piter lol, probably also chastises Kurt and Johnson for their drinking habits

[curlsinthewind]

10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags

rules: show us your ten favorite characters from ten fandoms and then tag ten people to do the same.

thank you @grenadinepeach for tagging me! i did a lot of thinking but i think that im satisfied with my choice :) this took me ages but even if no one reads this, i will come back and read through my opinions over and over again because i like reading my thoughts :D

also, i stole a lot of these GIFs from a lot of people and i am very sorry

Liam Dunbar - Teen Wolf

look, he's my baby, okay? i love his development and how he tries so hard to be better and better and actually accomplishes it. i love that even though he has to act tough, this mask sometimes falls off and he's freaking out over the simplest tasks, because that's what teenagers look like, that's what i look like and i love to see it.

alternate: Theo Raeken, Lydia Martin

Tina Cohen-Chang - Glee

i know she's annoying, i really really do...but hear me out. she makes mistakes, she wants to be something more and tries hard to get what she wants. her voice is beautiful and one of my favourite female voices in glee (besides Santana). she is beautiful and gains so much confidence throughout the series and i love her for it.

alternate: Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson

Arthur Pendragon - Merlin

i love this blonde himbo so fucking much. i would say it's pretty hard to like him at the beginning because his way of thinking isn't the brightest one, but once you get deeper into his psychology and listen to more interviews by Bradley James who so kindly explains why can Arthur sometimes seem so dense and cruel, you start to love him. i can't even express how much i love him, i just look at him and my heart swells with pride because i'm so proud of him and of what he did. i love him and this series with my whole human-being.

alternate: Merlin, Sir Leon, Guinevere

Brienne of Tarth - Game of Thrones

i can't say anything more than brienne of tarth is the baddest bitch under the sun. i loved her storyline the most from the series and i love how she's this warrior who tries to push herself through so everyone would respect her for who she really is, and on the other hand she's just a girl who has feelings and fears and doubts, but she still pushes and pushes and i admire her for it.

alternate: Jaime Lannister, Arya Stark

Carl Grimes - The Walking Dead

carl gets a lot of hate and i get why that is. he has mood swings, is angry in the least fitting situation, does stupid things and acts like someone he isn't. however, that's exactly the reason why i love him. i can't imagine growing up in a zombie apocalypse, i don't know what i would do, but one thing's for sure, carl embodies the perfect picture of a small kid who's world was ripped from them and they had to deal with it at such a young age. i love him because he's far from perfect, i love him because he's trying to survive even though he doesn't know any better, i love him because he's still this compassionate loving boy even though most of the people he loves are already dead.

alternate: Maggie Greene, Michonne

Raven Reyes - The 100

we get a lot of independent strong women in the 100 series which is why i didn't stop watching it. however, when i was trying to decide what female character is my favourite, i immediately chose raven because she's smart and beautiful and so strong. she is important and she knows it, that is also why she' doubts herself so much, but she does what she has to do every single time even if she didn't believe in herself completely. i really wish to be like her.

alternate: Bellamy Blake, John Murphy

Alec Lightwood - Shadowhunters

what can i say. i just love the trope 'he went soft after meeting his one true love' and i love bows and gays so yeah...also he was the only character (together with magnus and isabella) who didn't annoy me immensely :D sorry

alternate: Magnus Bane, Maia Roberts

Debbie Gallagher - Shameless

I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, DEBBIE IS SO FUCKING BEAUTIFUL, I HAVE THE BIGGEST CRUSH ON HER AND I WANT TO TAKE CARE OF HER BABY, thank you very much. i mean, she's a bad bitch. she grows up in a rough environment and that's exactly her personality and i love it. no redemption, no big life changes, no looking backs, just debbie, a bad bitch.

alternate: Carl Gallagher, Ian Gallagher, Mickey Milkovich

Marty McFly - Back To The Future

marty's guitar skills are a big turn on, okay? also, he has the best fashion style ever and my first cosplay and only cosplay i ever did, was on him. he is a dork but still smart enough to right the wrongs and still brave enough to fight his enemies. his friendship with doc is absolutely awesome and i love him.

Theodora Crain - The Haunting of Hill House

PLS, WHO DOESN'T LOVE HER???? she's hot and sarcastic and has fricking superpowers and is a lesbian???? PLEASE, she's the best character from this series, no one even comes close to her. i have the biggest crush on her. i admire how she got over her childhood and instead of hiding, she decided to use her gift for greater good even if it brought her unpleasant memories. she is broken (but like, good broken, if you know what i mean), she is smart and strong and hot and witty and there's nothing i could say against her.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Benjamin (Benjamin), Rikki (H2o Just Add Water), Hiccup (How To Train Your Dragon), Ben Hargreeves (The Umbrella Academy)

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top 5 glee eps? :)

quick confession before i actually answer this: i actually have a little notecard written with all of my favorite episodes (or ones that just make me really happy i guess) and it’s color coded and it’s a little embarassing just how hard i went on that

ANYWAY LMFAO

5) Blame It On The Alcohol - listen. this episode has a lot of problems. not a huge fan of kurt being defensively biphobic (although it’s not a deal breaker for me - a lot of people REALLY hate that scene and it ruined kurt for them which i can sort of understand but i don’t think it was a huge deal) and. god i kinda hate will’s plot line in this episode LMFAO. the voicemail always makes me die a little bit. HOWEVER - this episode is FUNNY AS HELL. ‘why don’t you crack open a fourloko, count boozy von drunk a ton’ is always a one hit KO for me. sue pushing the aural intensity coach down the stairs is so fucking funny. this episode is honestly mid tier at best, but idk. i think it’s funny and i love seeing kurt pine and the music was super fun and this episode just makes me smile (and i love beiste being there for will!!! i wish beiste would’ve been will’s best person at his wedding instead of finn tbh 👀)

4) The Power of Madonna - this episode is so good!!! i feel like some of the more musical themed episodes fall a little flat on plot, but i adore the plot of this one. and there are some super iconic lines from this one (my growing feminism will slice you in half like a righteous blade of equality! mercedes is black, i’m gay - we make culture). and jesse st james???? like admittedly sometimes he gets on my nerves but he’s actually so genuine in this episode, it’s clear he actually cares about rachel by this point. “come out so we can talk. or at least sing about it.” like yes he’s also a dramatic theatre nerd but that’s always how rachel gets her feelings out so offering to sing about it (i think, at least) is so sweet. also i mean. it’s MADONNA. the music is PHENOMENAL. listening to 4 Minutes genuinely makes me feel like the gina linetti headphones meme. express yourself is so fun and cute. THE VOGUE RECREATION IS SO GOOD AND ICONIC. definitely a comfort episode for me

3) New New York - this episode is a favorite partially because the first time i saw it, i was hanging out with an old friend of mine and while i don’t talk to her at all anymore, whenever i watch this episode i remember being in her room and petting her cat and it was a very good time! but also this is just such a solid episode top to bottom. we see rachel enter queen diva mode yet again, but this time it’s artie who helps her wake up from it which i think was smart and helped make the NYC friend circle feel a little bit more cohesive. also the klaine content! the blam content! the kelliott content! glitter rock vampire!!!!! mercedes showing up at the end!! what’s not to love

2) Never Been Kissed - listen i’m aware i’m a klaine stan first and foremost but that’s actually not the main reason why this is ranked so high. genuinely, it’s the music. this is the ONLY boys vs girls mashup episode where i feel like both teams fucking KILLED IT. every time i watch this episode, i change who i think won. and i know a lot of people hate the original ‘teenage dream’ because yes it is kind of overproduced and it is annoying when the music shows blaine singing two lines at the same time. however - i do not care, that song is so fucking good imo. i really hate the acoustic version in s4 just because it sounds so sad, the context really makes it hard for me to listen to. but blaine singing teenage dream the first time him and kurt meet………poetic cinema!!! i hate the beiste plot point because a. it’s just kind of uncomfortable but b. beiste always deserved better!!!! sometimes i forget that the main plot point IS everyone thinking about beiste because genuinely the music is the main highlight of the ep and i try not to think about how disrespectful that was to one of my fav mckinley faculty members ever

1) Original Song - this will never not be my favorite episode. this episode has EVERYTHING. it’s funny, it’s sad, it’s romantic, it’s awkward, this episode is honestly peak glee to me. season two is probably my favorite season because of that, i feel like the whole season did a very good job of staying in its lane and i love that. i love the sadness of pavarotti dying and santana feeling rejected by brittany, to the absolute hilarity of ‘only child’ and ‘trouty mouth’. i love how this episode flat out has quinn saying “rachel deserved better than to live in lima being stuck by finns side, i’ll take that bullet for her so she can go be a star.” and honestly “get it right” is one of my favorite glee songs ever. when rachel sings “so finally someone will see/how much i care” i literally get goosebumps every single fucking time. also i love how “loser like me” was more of a love song to kurt than it was a ‘fuck you’ to sue? like “i’ll get you back when i’m your boss” i headcanon was written by puck because he always admired how kurt knew he was destined for greater things than being tossed into dumpsters. the girls are wearing doc martens which kurt wears all the time!!! can you imagine the ND girls going thrifting to try and find shoes so they can support their bestie from the stage 🥺🥺 and that’s why kurt is the first person to jump to his feet and dance along!!! they’re all besties!!!! like deadass klaine getting together isn’t even a top three moment from this episode for me, which should tell you a lot considering how much i love those two. also MCR gets mentioned a bunch??? like i have never listened to their cover of ‘sing’ in its entirety because it kills me inside - i genuinely love my chemical romance a lot. so whenever they get mentioned i always kind of giggle about it lmfao

i’m sorry this was a whole ass essay but thank you so much for asking anon!!!! 💞

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99 Perspectives on a Single Love Story #64

A/N: The Story of Kurt and Blaine told through the eyes of everyone else but them. Each chapter is a different perspective in the ongoing tale of their love story.

I started something like this a while back - and now I’m taking the idea and really running with it. Each chapter is a ficlet of a different character at a different point in Kurt and Blaine’s life - documenting their love story. This starts in Audition, and each chapter will be paired with a different episode until reaching Dreams Come True.

[Ao3]

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Isabelle Wright (Lights Out) 

Monday mornings are rough.  It’s not that she had partied hard last night - she’s definitely not in her twenties any more - ooff - but the afterparties of the Gala went late into the night.  And Isabelle always feels obligated not to be the first one to leave.  

As she heads back from the break room, black coffee in hand, she notes that the only person who seems to be in as early as her is her intern - Kurt Hummel.  Instead of the normal clicking away at the computer, however, he’s looking pensively into his phone.  She isn’t sure what it is about Kurt, but she feels a special kinship with him. He’s young and green and she can’t help but want to keep an eye out for him.  It can be a hard city when you first arrive (god does she know) and while he’s already had a few bumps in the road, she hopes to make sure he keeps on the right track.  

“Morning, hon,” she rests on the doorframe of the tiny office they’ve set up for the few interns.  “Have a good night last night?”

“Isabelle, hi!” Kurt looks up, happily surprised to see her.  “Oh my god, yes, it was amazing.  Thank you again.  That must have been one of the best nights of my life.  Completely magical.” 

“Well that’s good.” She grins.  “I’m glad you had fun.  You’re here early - I half expected you to call in and sleep.” 

“Oh, I got a couple hours.  It was fine.” Kurt waves it off.  Ah, to his youthful energy again.  “I had to be up for class today anyway.”  

There’s a ding from his phone, and Kurt’s distractedly texts back, a serious look in his eye.  Isabelle waits for him to finish to speak again.  “Everything going okay?” 

“Yeah, just my dad,” he says with a heavy sigh.  “I told him, Blaine’s going to continue to come over to make sure he’s looking after himself, and make sure he’s cooking good meals.  He gets cranky about it.  I mean, my step-mom is great, and my brother’s there, but I just feel better when Blaine goes over there.  He’ll make sure dad takes his meds and not over do it with the fried foods.” 

“Well that’s sweet,” Isabelle says, noting that this is the same Blaine whom Kurt talked endlessly about when he first arrived.  The same Blaine that Kurt didn’t mention at all after their romance seemed to end.  The same Blaine that, after Christmas, Kurt would mention tentatively, as if feeling out how that name works in his life again.  She’s, if nothing else, intrigued at how integrated Blaine’s become in his life again.  

There’s another ding, and this time Kurt lets out a little chuckle while reading his phone, placing his hand over his mouth.  “Oh, Blaine…” he says, mostly to himself.  “I was just showing him photos from last night,” Kurt adds quickly, realizing that Isabelle is still standing there.  “And he said, well…” he stops himself before he says too much, but his grin gives him away.  “I shouldn’t probably repeat what he said, but earlier he mentioned I looked like James Bond in my tux.”  

“Well, you definitely are classy all dressed up like that,” she says.  “So, I take it things with the tumultuous ex-boyfriend aren’t going so badly anymore?”

She has seemingly put him on the spot.  He looks down, flushing a little.  “Oh, we are, um,” he stops himself again.  “I don’t know that we’re going to be exes much longer.” 

Isabelle raises an eyebrow.  She’s not surprised to say the least, even if he looks slightly hesitant about it.  She can’t say she ever felt this strongly about her relationships back when she was his age.  Still, she can’t help but take a more motherly approach.  “And you’re confident about that?” 

Kurt holds the phone up to his mouth, thinking hard about it.  “I’m not happy about what happened.  I feel like it’s just going to take a lot more time to work through that.  But we’ve been talking.  A lot. A lot of really good talks.   And at the end of the day, I love him.  And I realized that I don’t want to be with anyone else.”  

She gives him a kindly grin.  “Well, that’s good Kurt.  I’m happy for you.” 

“Yeah…” he says, drifting off dreamily.  “Oh, and before I forget to ask you - what is up Darren Aronofsky and Christopher Nolan? I mean, do they just hate each other? Frenemies? Secret Lovers? Whatever it is - that energy was intense.” 

“Oh, god, don’t get me started....”