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tarmairons · 6 years

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aaaaaaand here’s part 2 of the extensive (book & netflix) masterpost of all my fave eslaf moments!!!! again, fair warning, this is a very long post

[part 1]

i wish i could have done all this in one part but i hit a size limit oops

NOW ONTO SEASON 3!!! which was a nightmare but i’ll try to pretend it wasn’t for the sake of this post

to begin: the constant endearments in the book (and the show... “darling dearest dreamboat” damn esmé) have me losing my wholeass mind like

next up we have the indisputable fact that they f*cked in the tent on mount fraught. my proof is that they shared a tent and it was cold and so they had to generate heat. thank you

and then another instance of their shared brain cell evaporating

olaf being super proud of scoring the world’s hottest girlfriend and bragging to his parental figures is surprisingly wholesome

aaaand their brain cell is still missing in action

it’s very very cute how olaf obviously has zero artistic talent but esmé is always out there looking at him putting on a show like he’s the most amazing actor alive

and next on the list of scenes we were robbed of: p h y s i c a l a f f e c t i o n

but at least the most important line, that is:

was included:

so i won’t torch netflix hq just yet!!!! oh but WAIT they cut this next part, so i might change my mind about the arson after all

and also this line ???? ugh they’re disgusting i love them

and then this whole entire scene of olaf being so proud of his murderous gf was. beautiful. spectacular. legendary

and then someone pointed out that their hug looks like that draco/voldemort hug and it’s TRUE but i’m still gonna include it bc netflix is eslafphobic and i’m clinging to scraps here

this next line isn’t an eslaf scene but the phrasing is sending me shddhhdjsh

ok submarine time!!!! aka netflix making the sugar bowl esmé’s priority whereas in the book it is olaf’s as well AND netflix making it look like olaf was against carmelita joining them whereas it was his idea in the book… so basically all the reasons they fight in the show are unsubstantiated but go off i guess

very grateful for this Old Married Couple Bickering tho

and i know this whole scene is very problematic and talked about profusely on tumblr dot com but i’m including this screencap bc it’s soft how esmé considers them all a family

and Oh Wait olaf does too i’m melting

it’s like in TPP they wrote him bitching about “pretending to be a family” but he didn’t have any issues with it earlier, he just ran with it when esmé called carmelita their daughter

and was like “i know” ok netflix so why have him complain about it later on smh… he’s clearly not THAT mad about it, like:

next up!!! i’m a big fan of them disagreeing over something…

…and then 0.5 seconds later they’re getting along again:

^ that is the essence of their relationship

and now back to the topic of olaf not being annoyed at esmé’s Fashion Diva moments:

see he’s lowkey impressed ok

i’m now realizing that 99% of my alleged fave eslaf scenes from s3 are just me complaining about how the books are superior but ok

anyway this next scene deserves an emmy. give lucy an emmy for the delivery of “BUT DARLING”

and this is also soft bc olaf is like :/ and then esmé says something and he turns to her and is like :) so that always has me on the floor in tears

out of context this sentence is wild but like… netflix back at it again with robbing us of all the affectionate scenes huh

and here’s another instance of Couples Scheming being a fun activity to do together

and then we have their joint brain cell screaming for help but it’s adorable so

and then they go off to f*ck again

next up this whole beach scene is just more old married couple behavior and i absolutely adore it

and then we have Bonding Over Arson ~just couple things~

the fact that as the series progresses they go from “count olaf’s gf” to “esmé squalor’s bf” is legendary

and now this isn’t really a fave scene per se BUT considering the mess netflix made of the breakup i have to give a shoutout to the book version bc in comparison to the show version it’s.. beautiful how Mutual Agreement it is

but yeah lucy is spectacular here and it adds fuel to the Esmé Did Have Feelings For Olaf Because Otherwise She Wouldn’t Be Crying fire, which is great for me bc i love my otps with a side of angst

and of course netflix confirmed that esmé squalor, the city’s sixth most important financial advisor, has a daddy kink, so that’s incredible

you may think i’m done bc they broke up but no

here we have them a millisecond away from murdering each other but they’ll still take time out of their busy schedules to menacingly glare at children together. a spiritual bond that no breakup can destroy

but the real gem is the massive horny on main energy in the opera flashback (which was awful, but horny, so i have mixed feelings)

subtle, esmé

you too olaf, good job

and ofc it’s [luciana voice] imperative to remember that in the book esmé was out there trying to stop the premeditated murder of olaf’s parents so that’s nice of her

and last but not least the only valid s3 scene aside from esmé menacing the kids in the burned vfd headquarters:

sexy noir aesthetic fire escape rendezvous that ignited a revenge scheme spanning decades. if that’s not peak romance idk what is

and not to be controversial but i’m gonna drop this here anyway

ever since i read the end a billion years ago i always used to think olaf meant kit in this scene but like ?????? over the past few months i’ve been thinking, what if he meant esmé?? i mean, nothing directly negates that possibility, the books are so ambiguous and so open to interpretation that i might as well twist them to fit my headcanons, as we all do, so why tf not

and i’m gonna add some final Thoughts and Opinions in case i get more anons asking why i ship eslaf even though they’re constantly bickering &/or about to Snap and kill each other:

i’m hopelessly weak for villainous ‘us against the world’ power couples and it’s like.. even though in the series they ultimately have different end goals, they have a great time being awful people together along the way and that’s all that matters, that familiarity and mutual understanding between them. neither of them ever tried to change the other, they’re both garbage people and that’s why they get along, and what makes them so compatible

and while i’m still hesitant to use the word ‘love’ in regard to their relationship bc it just doesn’t feel Right to me (i know there’s people out there who feel otherwise but i’m still meh about it), i don’t doubt that they had feelings for each other deep down, even if they didn’t always outwardly express them

so that’s my massive essay with so much source evidence that tumblr made me divide it into 2 separate posts thank you for your attention i need a vacation from tumblr now bc this took me HOURS

#a series of unfortunate events #asoue #eslaf

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cosmic-horror-clown · 6 years

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Some of y’all bout to be real mad at me, but it must be said

Samantha look like something straight outta “gone with the wind”.

Like, the only black woman (that I know of) in the series and she a whole mammy??? Like, really??? And she’s a housekeeper??

I know Narita did research, as all good writers do, for Baccano, and it takes place in America. And if anyone looked into this country’s history at almost any point in time, black folk had to come up at least once or twice.

Especially 1920-1930s as this was the era of the Harlem Renaissance, a time in which many AA creatives were influencing, pioneering, and cultivating a culture that is the very foundation upon which many aspects of modern “American culture” is built.

I mean, the entire soundtrack of the anime is AA classical music (or jazz) and Coraggioso is a jazz hall. AAs created that genre of music and blues (which are closely related and overlap sometimes in my opinion)!!

You can’t google “jazz” or “blues” without seeing how we’re connected to that. You can’t really strip us away from it. It’s in history books we didn’t write and though there are so many things that are left out of those books, that’s not one of them. But I bet many won’t stop trying to bleach the context out of it.

All that to say, that I’m aware that Baccano is about gangsters and stuff that doesn’t solely focus on poc in that era and I’m fine with that. And in this instance I’m not gonna complain about it. I’m just upset that one of the two AA characters in the entire work look like this:

Which just so happens to look like this:

Srsly? This literal stain on American literature and in my opinion American film history happens to bare resemblance to his only AA woman character?

There’s no way around this. Is this what he thinks we look like? He can’t. He has access to the internet. The world is at almost all of our fingertips there’s no way a quick google search couldn’t have given anyone an array of black women to look for. This isnt coincidence. This is just seems like blatant anti-blackness.

And using my Raven Baxter psychic powers I can tell some of y’all are about to write some foolish dissertation about how it isn’t and I’m saying right now I’m not gonna entertain it.

My personhood and humanity are called into question far too often for my to waste time trying to defend it on tumblr dot com of all places. If you can’t see how this is offensive, and try to tell me how to tell feel about it I’m just gonna block you.

In all honesty, I’m not all that heated about this. My feelings are just a little bit hurt seeing stuff like. And I just thought the fandom should be aware since this is something that we consume and thus should be critical of it.

#not art #baccano #samantha baccano #before anyone asks i am black #antiblackness #mammy #i know i said i was barely coherent and having a breakdown but im coherent enough for this #i do actually like this fandom and baccano #i just feel like things like this should be addressed

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getfuckedstayfucked · 3 years

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callout post for aineedhelp dumbposting majimaguro

@dumbposting @majimaguro since you've been harassing my friends I figured I'd lay this out for you in no uncertain terms. Kyle, if you read this, scroll down to the bottom where there's a screenshot of Charlie literally telling you to die.

Hi Charlie. I deadass had to make a tumblr for this bullshit because your lying has really gotten excessive. I mean really? Telling people you’re 23? Telling people that you were groomed by us? Telling people we forced you to ditch your friends when all you’d do is complain to us about how uncomfortable x person would make you with their requests for sexual roleplay, or their aggressive demeanor, or their shipping wants? Telling people you were abused by us when you clearly have done this more than twice to different friend groups and when one group falls apart you move on to the next and start your predatory cycle all over again???

I can see you do this for every friend group you make, no matter who it is, where they are. You know how I see this? Because you are saying that we did what you told us your old friends were doing - Jasper, Robin, and Merc. You’ve moved the narrative that THEY were sexually abusive groomers/manipulators over to us since your new group of friends doesn’t know about them outside of the parts those new friends (your dear friends who never hurt you ever even though you consistently complain about said new friends behind their backs!) play and now, suddenly, WE were sexually abusive groomers/manipulators because you milked the attention and pity you could get out of us over the awful things you said about Jasper, Robin, and Merc, and in the process you eventually abused the two people who had the patience to stick out that behaviour SO MUCH and for SO LONG that you alienated them. Once they were over how you treated them, then suddenly, they were the bad guys. And you wouldn’t stop rocking the boat because you needed to have your endless little baby tantrum. Now that you’ve pulled the trigger, you can’t unshoot that bullet.

Newsflash? When these people told you THEIR BOUNDARIES - something that amazingly seems to only be valid when you do it - you got pissed at them. When people told you THEY COULDN’T HANDLE SOMETHING - like, oh, you know, detailed descriptions of severe animal trauma/death, or being told repetitively and graphically that you were going to kill yourself/how you were going to do it, they were suddenly awful. Well, you know what? That is textbook manipulation, to use a phrase you seem so fond of. Guilting people for having boundaries and making them feel bad for drawing lines because they want to have a healthy relationship with their friends isn’t bad, you just don’t like it because it means you can no longer do what you want or treat people like crap without repercussions.

You are a cruel person. You don’t care about anybody but yourself. You are a self-serving, self-driven, emotionless asshole that knows how to twist situations to be in your favor because your favorite tactic is to divide people up from one another so they have less and less outside views of what your treatment is actually like. It takes a lot of practice to be able to do something like you do for so long and so aggressively so I imagine you’ve been doing this for years. You hook someone - or multiple someones - in by being nice and personable and funny and relatable, then you destroy your friend groups by pitting people against one another and when you’ve isolated the people you’re obsessing over, you flip the switch and start to abuse them in private.

And you know what? You are not the victim in this narrative. You are just another abusive jerk who knows you can get that attention from someone somewhere as long as you twist the narrative to fit your ‘I’ve been abused my friends all treat me horribly’ angle. And you know what? I’m sick of you. I’m sick of how you treat my friends, I’m sick of how you treat people in general. You make me sick and if you’re proud of that, that’s not a badge of honor or pride. That means that you are exactly like your father.

You don’t get to be out here and be like ‘oh no! it was me who was hurt by these people!’ when you're the one harassing them with your nasty, miserable anon hate even though they’ve blocked you time and time again.

Steven showed me the conversation where you exploded at him for saying he needed a moment, because apparently it’s fucked up to not be able to handle graphic depictions of an animal’s death, and somehow saying that he couldn’t handle that in that moment was a personal attack and he was betraying you by being an unsupportive friend? People have triggers, hunty, you aren’t god’s gift to this earth and you aren’t the only person to have those! HE tried to set his boundaries and what did you do? You shit all over them. You only care about boundaries if they’re your own and if anybody else has one they try to set with you they’re suddenly awful and someone to be tossed aside.

And you know what else? You forcing Sam to deal with your maladjusted stalking all the time because you’re out here harassing him via tumblr dot com isn't cute. You’re entirely, creepily obsessed with him and irrationally upset that he stood up for himself and got tired of you treating him like your own personal emotional punching-bag. You are a pathetic, vengeful little person who has no life and nothing to do but troll the internet for victims and people you can trick into giving you sympathy until you inevitably wring them dry too and then you abandon them because they won’t give you what you want anymore.

Go fuck yourself. Get fucked, stay fucked. You complained to us and cried to us about Merc and Jasper and Robin and how they either wouldn’t stop bothering you for sexual RP or wouldn’t stop guilting you or pushing you in that direction, or how Robin wouldn’t stop trying to force you to say what she wanted you to say, and now you’re LITERALLY saying that about Steve and Sam? You are not. The fucking. Victim. Here. You are the orchestrator to an amazingly convoluted drama that rotates around you and you alone and I’m sick of this and I’m sick of you and I’m sick of having to hear about the lies you’re posting about my friends.

By the way? You aren’t 23. You are 27 by now! De-aging yourself to seem younger and more vulnerable only works when people don’t know you’re actually older - which, by the way, is SUPER creepy of you to do because it gets you closer to a younger demographic and endears you to them because oh! wow! You’re young and abused just like them! Do you know how fucked up it is to position yourself closer to younger, less experienced, vulnerable people like that? Do you know how fucked up it is to try and net those poor kids with your sob stories and how these ‘bad oldew peopow abewsed yew uwu’ even though that wasn’t the case? It puts you in a position of power and it gives you the reigns in any interactions you have with anybody younger than you and that is creepy and disgusting and you are creepy and disgusting for doing it, especially since your tumblr is filled with a mixture of sfw and 18+ content with zero 18+ follower requirement.

And you know what-- in the same vein, you use your being autistic as a sob story point to make it sound like one more way that you’ve been taken advantage of, but in reality you’re actually the one out here taking advantage of those around you and you’re being ableist while you do it? Wow. Wowiee wow wow.

You infantilize autistic people and say in the process that, in a blanket statement, ALL autistic people can’t fend for themselves or see anything coming at them from a mile away. On top of that, you shit on other autistic people’s special interests? Do you have any idea how many autistic people are out there with special interests focused around kid’s shows, or cartoons in general, or anime, or fandoms? No? Well, here’s a clue: there’s a lot of us (and yes, I am autistic, and yes, I do have special interests involving anime and fandoms, and no, I’m not a predator and I am DEFINITELY not the one out here creepily de-aging themselves to endear themselves to younger people like you are) with special interests ranging from anything from MLP to mushrooms to My Hero Academia (which is, for the record, one of Steve’s special interests, which you shit on him for, you ableist fuck) to Stephen King’s IT and you don’t get to say it’s predatory to have special interests in these areas!!!!!

You are not only perpetuating stereotypes about autistic people but you’re encouraging them because these stereotypes suit you and your current narrative! You’re using the same exact arguments that neurotypicals use! And you know what ELSE? Way to suggest that autistic people who have special interests that aren’t ‘adult’ are predators, too, you nasty little weasel. That’s the kind of narrative that gets autistic people killed!!! How selfish ARE you?

But wait, we really, really aren’t done here. I would really like to address your obsession with accusing people of being groomers and/or predators.

YOU LITERALLY ROLEPLAYED EDDIE KASPBRACK. YOU ROLEPLAYED HIM AS AGE SIXTEEN AND YOU HAVE DONE SO IN A SEXUAL AND SEXUAL-ADJACENT MANNER. YOU SMUT ROLEPLAYED SEXUAL CONTENT ON A CHARACTER THAT WAS SIXTEEN. YOU ALSO ROLEPLAY AS SHERRY BIRKIN FROM RESIDENT EVIL. SHE IS TEN. YOU CAN’T SAY SHIT. YOU. CAN’T. SAY. SHIT. YOU WROTE SMUT AS UNDERAGE CHARACTERS WHILE USING REAL LIFE UNDERAGE FACECLAIMS AND NOW YOU’RE OUT HERE SAYING THAT SIMPLY WATCHING THESE SHOWS AND BEING INTO THESE FANDOMS IS PEDOPHILIC? I don’t think so. I really, really do not think so.

Saying stuff like ‘reblogging anime posts or gifs or art is child porn’ also belittles and undermines actual CSA/pedophilia victims which is one more tally on the list of fucked up shit you’ve done. Way to be one of those people out there who do their best to divert valuable time and resources that could be spent on actual CSA victims instead of fictional fucking people.

This is a two-way street. You rant about how this is a 13+ site and how adults are responsible for kids in their spaces WHEN THEY HAVE ALREADY GONE TO REASONABLE LENGTHS TO PREVENT MINORS FROM GETTING AT THEIR CONTENT, but you’re always going on about getting high and doing drugs and talking about onlyfans which is AN ADULT SUBSCRIPTION WEBSITE GEARED TOWARDS PEOPLE WHO MAKE PORN OR FETISH CONTENT. You have absolutely ZERO 18+ content warning or follower requirement on your blog! Which is made creepier by the fact that you’ve de-aged yourself by a whole four years, you’re making yourself out to be some kind of abused child who was manipulated by older people, and you’re trying to speak for children. It’s wack.

For the record, being mentally ill is not an excuse for any of this at all whatsoever. If you hurt someone and you are mentally ill that is still on you. It is on you to learn to live with mental illness and not hurt those around you. When your shitty actions give someone else trauma, that is your fault, and it does have an effect on them, and it does hurt them. Fuck off with that 'no accountability' bullshit you're peddling. That's not how life works. Your actions have affected those around you and it takes a massive amount of willful ignorance to go around acting like you don't fucking know that already, especially considering that other people’s mental illnesses hurt you-- unless you were lying to us about that, too.

Get some fucking help and get out of our collective DMs........ Or don’t and get high like you always do instead of accepting responsibility for your actions, Mr. 'I'm lucid enough to be able to blame my mental illness for my own behaviour when that bs wouldn't even hold up in court'. Whatever.

I’m done with your shit.

Here's some receipts. Kyle, whoever you are, I suggest you run the fuck away before they start doing to you what they've done to Steve and Sam. Good luck having a friend who non-jokingly says they wish you would die because that is extraordinarily fucked up.

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Some tea about how you were fed up with the people treating you like shit instead of you being forced to ditch these people

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#queued post #aineedhelp #dumbposting #majimaguro #abusive people #narcissism #narcissists #abuse #abusers #emotional abuse #gaslighting #manipulation #weaponized mental health

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meggannn · 7 years

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ironically one of my favorite things about shepard/garrus is one of the things i think bioware did least successfully, at least for my personal taste. and i admit this is mostly cause i prefer developing/reading professional or emotionally reserved sheps (at least on the surface) who gradually open up to their li over time, over sheps who wear their heart on their sleeves from the beginning, and there are very few bw romances that really allow you to play that first kind of character, considering you, the pc, have to instigate the romance dialogue. there’s only so much a game can do to mimic a ‘real’ romance after all. even so i do prefer a bit of, if not subtlety, then.... tactfulness, i guess, when the pc pops the question, especially with a character like shepard who is so duty-focused and (until the proposing scene) never really indicated they were driven by their libido when looking for a partner (even if they were joking). so that “do you wanna bang” scene gives me such second hand embarrassment i gotta rewrite most of their entire me2 romance in my head and one day i’ll put it to a fic, but in the meantime...... i’ll just blab about it on tumblr dot com i guess....

like, i like the VIBE that is established. i like that in me2, we get confirmation that: a) garrus’s confidence in personal matters is absolutely nil when it comes to romance, much less an interracial romance; b) it sets up a real sweet theme of realizing they actually DONT know that much about each other’s culture or biology or anything related to their race, and the romance is staged to give them each time to do research on the other’s biology and anatomy (which is practical and common courtesy and the right thing to do! and also a little sweet when you consider how terrified garrus is of screwing it up!), c) however it started, whether facetiously or nervously or enthusiastically, these two are still able to have a nice moment together and acknowledge there are feelings between them that can (and if you ask me, do) still go unsaid. and in me3, we see them both (or at least garrus) in a bit more emotionally stable situation, maybe driven by a desire to see something go right in the middle of the war, so we establish a) garrus is still nervous and treading cautiously, but b) confident enough to prepare for a reunion, to articulate his questions about their relationship, to let shepard know he’s there for them regardless, and c) if you confirm the relationship, shepard and garrus can tease each other as friends and work together as soldiers and still have a supportive emotional/intimate partnership in their private time.

i just think you can have all of these angles to their relationship without the current get-together. imo you lose a lot of possible development and depth when you start all of this by having shepard walk in and say “heyyyyyyy let’s you and me ‘‘‘ease some tension’’’ together ;) :) ;) do you see me winking”, like.... how does a commanding officer say that to another adult they respect and (possibly) genuinely like, idk. it seemed like such a lazy way for the writers to get them into bed together without considering who these people are. and yeah, every shepard’s different, it’s possible someone found that very ic for their shepard. personally i’ve always been more of a fan of piecing together canon clues to tell me who the pc is and extrapolating an oc from there, and what most of canon tells me, is that shepard is someone who prioritizes duty (either to the alliance, or to saving innocents, or to just getting the job done) above nearly all else, including their own personal life. that doesn’t mean i don’t see shepard being an instigator or an occasional flirt. just......

bleh. is it too much to want a better get together than “let’s fuck”? idk. i feel like a whiner bc shepard/garrus is obviously the most popular pairing in the fandom, it dwarfs so many others in content and you can’t throw a stone without meeting an insufferable stan, and here i am complaining about it not being done my way. i guess i just feel like the writers listened to the fans who wanted garrus as an li from me1, but didn’t listen to why. they drew the shortest line between a and b (“they want to bone the alien? here you go, i guess!”) and left it at that.

i mean admittedly, left up to me, i’d stuff so much drawn-up pining into a canon shepard/garrus get-together that neither of them would be able to breathe through the ust. there’s a line i like in kaidan’s romance (not to hijack a shenko line for a shakarian thing, but it’s something i find so true to shepard’s character i adopt it for my shepard too, even though i don’t romance kaidan and save ashley) when shepard tells kaidan in the moment that she needs a shoulder, not a subordinate, and kaidan says “cut me a little slack, shepard, it’s not like you’re easy to read.” that is how i tend to play and read shepard: as someone who is emotionally available for their crew but plays things close to the vest with their own feelings. paired up with garrus, who is a better turian than he thinks and is pretty goal-oriented and professional under shepard’s command, it’s hard for me to believe these two would just fall into bed with each other after only one or two conversations of known build-up (stressing “known” here is as “acknowledged feelings” but could also be notable ust, which is my hc). in my reading, these two are much better at reading others (c-sec and officer training) than themselves, and one could argue are duty-driven enough to maybe not even bring up/realize their attraction until me3 (why couldn’t garrus have been an li in me3 for new romances or mshep!!!! who tf knows!!!!!)

all those times femshepard tells garrus she loves him in me3? not really my shepard’s style..... how’s an earthborn kid who’s been a marine all their adult life and never had a family or serious relationship know how to recognize and admit love out loud? garrus himself doesn’t tell shepard he loves them till the beam run, and even then, he barely whispers it. i have to turn my freaking speakers up just to hear him. it’s hard for him to say out loud. maybe turians have different language for it, or maybe there’s a stigma, or maybe the culture’s different. i dunno! but i keep thinking about the impact it would’ve had for that to be the first time shepard says it, too. like they’ve just realized it and want to get it out because they know it’s the end. or you could get away with not saying it at all, if you pick the renegade option. or you could have them try to say it and fail! come on, isn’t that sadder?

shepard wants to say -- she doesn’t know what she wants to say. whatever great emotion she’s been holding back since that night in her cabin is stuck in her throat and refuses to form. the bay door can’t remain open for long. garrus’s skull is caked with dark blue blood, his leg bent awfully, and shepard sees a sharp, snapped edge to his armor where his spur used to be. he should be in the med bay. he needs medical attention more than he needs to be wasting time saying goodbyes.

but he won’t go, he refuses, he won’t leave her be. “shepard -- i’m still good. just give me my gun. i can still fight.” blood dribbles into his eye from a crack in his forehead. he’s crouching so low to stand that he nearly meets her height. she’s never heard him plead before.

“vakarian -- ” her voice is hoarse when she talks; her throat burns. she’s been shouting all day. she’s surprised she can still talk at all. “don’t make me give you an order.”

“that’s not fair.” he laughs desperately, a bit disbelieving. half of his visor is dangling, interface dead; his armor scorched and chipped across the carapace; and his eyes, still, are locked on hers. “don’t -- shepard. please.” she’s ever heard him plead before.

“shepard,” tali says quietly under garrus’s arm. her helmet is cracked, badly, suit ruptured in a dozen places. but shepard hasn’t heard a single complaint from her, from either of them, and she realizes in this moment that she can’t let them go on. if they followed her, they’d follow her through hell again, follow her until they dropped, and she cannot abide by that.

“we’re in this -- ” garrus coughs, badly. fresh dark blood spits up from his throat; spots hit shepard’s chestpiece. his eyes water. “we’re in this ‘till the end. shepard.”

she’s never pleaded in her life either; she will not start now. “i need.” her voice is too hoarse, too quiet; he can’t hear her over the roar of the thrusters. she swallows, tries again. “i need to know people are getting out of this alive. i need you to be one of them.” to tali: “both of you.”

garrus stares at her, lost for words. “shepard,” he whispers. he looks prepared to say something great, and she readies herself for another argument -- but then she sees the moment the fight leaves his eyes, the moment lays down his gun, and she hates herself for being relieved. “just,” he says, “make sure that includes you too.”

harbinger roars in the distance; she glances to the great white beam heading their way, then back to the bleeding pair of them, waving firmly toward the ship as she moves off the gangplank. “go! tali -- take care of him!”

she realizes belatedly that those will be logged as her final words, and the last he’ll remember her by. and then he’s gone, and so is the normandy. the moment is over and she’s missed her chance. she thinks, garrus will understand. he couldn’t say it either.

i mean that’s garbage but i like it better than shepard dropping the l-word in every romance scene! fuck! i just want a little nuance ok leave me alone

#megan talks about bw

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whenyouworkatamuseum · 8 years

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Museum Dance Off 4: A New Hope

Hi.

How are you?

If you don’t mind me asking, are you prepared to shake it like a Polaroid picture?

No? Well, that’s OK. This is just your heads-up to get ready.

This is your official notice to start planning your Museum Dance Off 4 videos! They need to be submitted by March 31st (see below for more info on submitting your video). Voting will begin on April 17th.

We are changing things up this year from previous dance offs. We considered a lot of different configurations, but in the end decided to shift it from random match-ups to Regional competitions. The winners of the Regional rounds will go on to compete in the final Thunderdome Round.

Since this is an *International* Dance Off, we hope that these regional rounds will put people on more even footing in terms of time zones. Plus, each region will have a Champion Museum! It won’t eliminate time zone differences, but it should help greatly reduce the night and day peak voting differentials up until the Thunderdome Round.

In previous years, the bulk of our entries (about 80%) have come from the US and Canada, so we are dividing those into Eastern and Western Divisions (see below for definitions). The Eastern and Western Division winners will compete against each other to become the Regional winner, who advances to the Thunderdome Round.

After the entry deadline, when we know how many museums we have and from where, we will announce the final voting schedule and notify the museums about when they will be up.

The Regions are:

United States (Eastern Division - States & Territories East of the Mississippi River. Western Division - States & Territories West of the Mississippi River)

Canada (Eastern Division - Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. Western Division - Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, & All Territories)

UK/Western Europe

Asia

Australia, New Zealand & Oceania

Eastern Europe*

South America*

Africa*

Antarctica*

One winner from each of these regions will enter the Thunderdome finale!

*We’ve never had an entries from these regions before, but we’re really hoping this might be the year we do! If no one enters from these regions, they will be dropped. If only one museum enters in a division, it will be grouped into the division with the closest time zone. But to be quite honest, we really hope that someone in Antarctica makes us a dancing penguin video.

Entries are due by 11:59 EDT pm on Friday, March 31, 2017. Submit your entry here: http://bit.ly/2l8YBqw

Voting begins on Monday, April 17, 2017 at 8:00 am EDT.

Here are your general guidelines for submitting a video, and an FAQ for submitters/voters.

General Guidelines For Submitting A Museum Dance Off Video

Submissions are due by 11:59 EDT pm on Friday, March 31, 2017. No exceptions!

Voting will begin on Monday, April 17, 2017 at 8:00 am EDT.

Any organization in the GLAM (Gallery, Library, Archive, Museum) family is welcome to enter. if your organization cares for artifacts and objects of scientific, cultural, historic or artistic value and importance, and you deal with the crap we complain about on this blog every day, you’re qualified to enter.

Entries should be no less than 2 minutes and no longer than 5 minutes.

Museum Dance Off is an inclusive event, so please select a soundtrack/song that does not contain gender, ethnic, religious or sexual/sexual identity slurs. We may reject entries if the songs contain offensive language. But we realize that can be somewhat subjective, so if you’re not sure, just email us and we’ll discuss it.

Staff, volunteers, docents, interns, family, friends and visitors are welcome to participate. Follow your organization’s internal policies for recording the public, or any person under the age of 18.

Museums who entered any previous Museum Dance Off are eligible to enter Museum Dance Off 4.

Upload your submission to YouTube or Vimeo. If those platforms are blocked in your country, please email us to work something out.

To enter, complete the Museum Dance Off 4 Entry Form at http://bit.ly/2l8YBqw.

Community partnerships and collaborations to produce your video are welcome and encouraged, but you cannot hire a professional video production company to produce a video for you.

Museums that are part of a campus, cultural collective, system, or in the same city, state or province, may collaborate and submit one video to represent multiple museums.

FAQ

What is Museum Dance Off 4: A New Hope?

It’s the fourth annual international dance off competition featuring the the upstanding professionals from museums, galleries, libraries and archives around the world showing off their best dance moves. Take a look here to see some of the AMAZING submissions from the Original Museum Dance Off 1, Museum Dance Off 2: Electric Boogaloo, and Museum Dance Off 3: Tokyo Drift. And watch the trailers for MDO2 and MDO3!

How Does Museum Dance Off 4 work?

You pick a song, and convince your interns, colleagues, volunteers, docents, friends, family and maybe even your visitors to dance to it. Somebody videotapes it, uploads it, submits the link and then we all vote online for our favorites. This year, museums will compete by Region, and the Regional winners will go to an international finale, The Thunderdome, to determine the overall Champion.

Why should my museum enter Museum Dance Off?

Because it’s fun. Museums are fun. Dancing is fun. Dancing in a museum: instant super mega-fun.

It’s also a chance to show your guests a different side of their favorite museum, and rally your community to vote for you. From an internal perspective, it’s a chance for staff to take a break from the routine and do something fun, creative and different. From a PR perspective, it’s a chance to engage audiences all over the world. In the last three years, several museums received local, national, and international media coverage online, via television and radio, and in print.

How is the competition structured?

This year, Museums will compete against others in regions before advancing to a final Thunderdome Round to determine the winner. That means instead of only 2 museums entering the Thunderdome, one winner from each Region will have a chance in the final round. Winners are determined by online voting.

What do we win?

Winner gets a trophy and bragging rights. There is glory, but no fortune. There will also be Judge’s Choice Awards in categories to be announced later.

My museum doesn’t have a lot of AV or filming equipment. Can we partner with another museum in our community who does have that stuff?Absolutely! Community collaborations are welcome and very highly encouraged. You could also consider partnering with a local school, college, or cultural organization to produce a video. But, you can also create something amazing with just a camera phone and open source editing software. A big production budget and fancy equipment is not a requirement for entry.

What does it cost to enter?

Nothing. This is a labor of love. There are no fees to enter or vote.

How will I know when my museum is up for voting?

When you enter, you will designate a contact person for your museum. We will email that person the schedule one week in advance of the voting during Round 1, and send ongoing updates throughout the competition.

What is no other museums from my region enter?

If there are no other entries in your division, you will be grouped into the Region that has the most similar time zone. We will contact you if that’s the case.

How do we let people know to vote for us?

Reach out to your visitors and use social media to spread the word. Your loyal, loving visitors will vote for you if you ask. This is a competition about making a great video, but it’s also about rallying your supporters, promoting your contribution to your community, and celebrating your awesome collection and staff. Social Media promotion can make-or-break your chance at winning the round so make sure to make the most of it.

The official hashtag for Museum Dance Off 4 is #MDO4

Links to voting will be posted on the WYWAAM tumbler, Facebook, and Twitter every morning at 8am EDT.

How do I vote?

Visit http://whenyouworkatamuseum.com each weekday starting April 17 at 8am EDT and view that day’s videos. Please note that there is no voting on weekends.

Vote for your favorite video.

Encourage your friends to vote on Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook or whatever the kids are into these days using #MDO4

Winners will be announced the next morning along with a new round of videos to vote on!

What are the voting rules?

Anyone can vote, from anywhere in the world.

Voting for each pair will be open for 24 hours. All start and end times will be synced to the US Eastern Time Zone, because that’s where most of the Museum Dance Off organizers are based.

You can vote as many times as you wish. (We tried limiting it to one vote per person per day, and it’s simply not something we can enforce with our limited tech capabilities.)

Museums and individuals are allowed to encourage people to vote for their video by facebooking, tweeting, tumblring, emailing, etc. You don’t have to wait for your museum’s turn on deck; it’s fine to promote it early.

In event of a tie, voting will be opened for a special 2-hour window the next day to allow for a final voting push.

Does WYWAAM own my video?

Nope! It’s all yours. WYWAAM may take clips or screencaps for publicity and promotion, but the museum who created it retails all rights to it.

I am a reporter/journalist and I would like to talk to you more about Museum Dance Off.

Great! Email Maggie G. @ whenyouworkatamuseum at gmail dot com with the details and someone will get back to you.

My company would like to sponsor Museum Dance Off. How would that work?

We have several sponsorship options! Email Maggie G. @ whenyouworkatamuseum at gmail dot com.

I have another question not answered here.

Email whenyouworkatamuseum at gmail dot com with your questions and someone will get back to you.

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hi i was wondering if you had any good coffee shop aus? like either of them owns it or works at one?

Hey @evanisoverwhelmed! Ooh, I love coffee shop aus with a passion, so this is going to be a very long list. I’m also going to mention the stories where they’re both customers meeting in a coffee shop, all right? Enjoy! Hugs, Marjan

23 by felix_felicis33

Blaine doesn’t think he’ll ever fall in love, or get the chance to, but that all changes when he meets a man with blue eyes and a beautiful smile at a coffee shop. The world seems a brighter place when Kurt enters his life. The only problem is, he doesn’t belong here with Kurt. He belongs ninety-one years in the past, back in the year 1923.

50 First Dates by Aki_Aiko

Blaine Anderson meets Kurt Hummel in a little coffee shop and they immediately click. The only problem? Kurt forgets who Blaine is every single day. Based on the movie 50 First Dates.

A Great Day to Meet the Love of Your Life by @unshurtugal

AU where Kurt and Blaine didn’t meet in high school. Kurt’s first relationship was with Adam, and a few weeks after a particularly nasty break up, Kurt happens to bump into him and his new boyfriend at a coffee shop. In a moment of panic to not appear as alone as he is, Kurt kisses a stranger. His name is Blaine.

About Coffee Shops, Pick Up Lines and Two Boys by @daydreamerlily

“Kurt is really happy to have found his coffee shop. And it’s totally unrelated to the fact that the guy behind the counter looks dreamy.Ok, maybe it is related. But sue him, the guy is very good looking.”What if the guy you have been crushing on, hears you saying a stupid pick up line? And what if from there it starts a weird but super cute relationship based on those pick up lines? What if Kurt Hummel falls in love with Blaine Anderson in a way that is all theirs?

Across a Crowded Room by @lady-divine-writes

The first time Kurt sees the handsome stranger, it’s like a fairytale. Their eyes meet from across a crowded room, and Kurt falls hard. But in this fairytale, Kurt gets called away to deliver coffee and bagels to the higher ups at work, and is in danger of never seeing his prince again. And the next day, he doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean they don’t end up together in the end.

Ad Eros by @the-cimmerians

AU. Kurt grows up. Blaine does too.

After Sunset by @fablewriter

Blaine is a vampire who works in/owns an all night coffee house. He meets Kurt when Kurt comes in one night after being sexiled from the loft. Cue challenges of dating someone who can only go out at night and passes out at dawn.

(Bonus if there’s a moment where Blaine is all “wow, is that the time? I’ve had such a good time talking to you I didn’t realise how close to dawn it was and zzzzzzzzzzzzz” or something like that)

Always a Coffee Shop by CharleK

Blaine Anderson is at the prime of his swimming career. During his stint in the London Olympic games, he meets the owner of a small coffee shop called The Espresso Room. Inspired by Klaine AU Fridays.

And I Am Left To Sell by @whynobritneybrittany

Shamelessly stealing the title from a line of “It’s Time.” Based off spoilers from this article revealing what Kurt’s doing for money while stuck in Lima. Because the world needs more barista!fic.

Ashtanga Yoga Love by @hazelandglasz

*AU where kurt falls in love with the instructor from those youtube yoga vids* mercedes: i thought you planned to do yoga in the morning only?kurt: y-yEAH but blaine just put up this really important afternoon yoga session and i just have SO much to do this evening! i need to relax first that’s all!!!mercedes: http://31.media.tumblr.com/20f465ec34be41664a099fa381298913/tumblr_inline_nt37y4iCLz1qalwhh_500.gif

Bad Luck Verse by holdingdaylight

It’s just Blaine’s luck that the barista at the new coffee shop is really, really cute. It gets even better when a condom falls out of his wallet in front of him.

Barista Boy, by @purseplayer

Short funny story with an unexpected twist :-)

Best Seat in the House by @constantcompanion

Inspired by mshoneysucklepink on tumblr, who wrote: “Honestly, I would like to think that Blaine is completely oblivious to the market for that because he has a bubble butt, and that in fact the inventor saw his butt once and was inspired, and Blaine doesn’t know, but he finds out in some cute way.

Oh, wait, an AU where KURT invents the bubble butt because Blaine the barista at his favorite coffee place bends over in his job a lot…Oh God someone write the thing!”

So I wrote the thing.

Beyond Expectation by @whatstheproblembaby

klaineniffhuntbastianmalec prompted: mafia/soulmate klaine. Kurt works at the lima bean, which was just bought by the Anderson family. Kurt hates the family since they’re the local mafia. Blaine’s name is on Kurt, doesn’t matter where, and has no idea his new boss is also his soulmate.

Books, Summer, Coffee and You by just-an-artist-pl (check out the sequel too)

Blaine loves books, Blaine loves to study and he is in love with the popular Kurt Hummel for two years now. But he never talked to Kurt, never made eye contact with him and he doubts that Kurt even knows he exists. nerd!barista!Blaine and popular!Kurt

Breakfast with Snorlax by @prideofportree

Blaine is a Pokémon trainer on his way to the big city. Kurt works as a barista in said city. They meet. There is a Snorlax present.

Caffeine and Love by @thistidalwave

In between cleaning stainless steel counter tops and making cups of coffee at his job as manager of Anderson Coffee Inc. in Midtown Manhattan, Blaine dreams of breaking out of the shell he’s been trapped in all his privileged life–though of course his father would never allow him to strike off on his own. When someone sets up shop in the abandoned building next to the coffee shop, Blaine thinks nothing of it save that at least his father won’t complain about it going into disrepair anymore. That is, he thinks nothing of it until he meets Kurt Hummel. Then it basically all goes to shit.

Careful, The Beverage You Are About To Enjoy is Extremely Hot by @munchkinpandas24

“He read somewhere that it was one of Starbucks’ brilliant marketing strategies to maintain at least one completely dreamy (gorgeous, ravishing, steamy, prettiest of the pretty) guy behind the counter at any given shift. Nicely done, Starbucks. It seemed Kurt found his absolute favorite.”

Catch Me A Catch by @lilyvandersteen

Blaine is a hard-working pre-law student and part-time barista, whose brother Cooper has snagged a role in Funny Girl. Kurt is a diligent NYADA student and intern at Vogue dot com, whose roommate Rachel is the new Fanny Brice. Cooper and Rachel hit it off immediately, and then start scheming to get Kurt and Blaine together.

Chocolate Croissant by @missmichellebelle

There’s a certain employee that would entice Blaine to keep coming back even if they stopped serving his croissants entirely.

Coffee Shop Listening by @flickerthenflare

Kurt and Mercedes take an interest in the live music at a coffee shop, although Kurt is most interested in the musician.

Coffee Shop Soundtrack by CoffeeEyes (squick warning: infidelity)

AU where Kurt and Blaine never met or dated in high school. Blaine works at a coffee shop in New York and Kurt comes in one day.

Covered in Rain by oncetwiceforevr

Blaine plays guitar in a cafe, Kurt’s there one day and Blaine’s smitten. Inspired by this picture as found on Zachary Quinto’s twitter and John Mayer’s Covered in Rain. A love song to New York City.

Crema by @twobirdsonesong

Kurt’s just landed a job at Vogue as Carrie Bradshaw’s assistant. One of his tasks is to bring her coffee in the morning. Enter Blaine, the barista. This is the story of how they change each other’s lives.

Cross Your Mind by @supercess

Blaine Anderson is a normal person; working at a coffee shop and once in a while, playing for an audience at a local music bar but when he gets a chance to attend a prestigious fundraiser, he meets a certain Kurt Hummel. And now one question is on his mind: how do you make a celebrity fall in love with you?

Daily Special by @spinmybowtie

Kurt is working at a coffee shop for some extra cash, when Santana, his meddling coworker, decides to help him score a date with a cute regular.

Damaged Hearts Can Heal by @mrscriss2012

“As if in every lifetime that you and I have ever lived, we’ve chosen to come back and find each other and fall in love all over again…” Blaine and Kurt meet in a Coffee Shop.

Delicious by @hazelandglasz

barista!blaine fic in which kurt is alone on christmas eve and sitting in a cafe and blaine made him a drink and watches kurt as he licks the whipped cream off his drink and blaine never looks at the whipped cream can the same way again and then the cafe slowly empties and blaine goes over and talks kurt because he looks so lonely and all he wants to do is make this beautiful boy laugh and he does and soon enough it’s just to two of them left and kurt has a spot of whipped cream the corner of his mouth and blaine wipes it away with his fingers

Double Double by @downtowndystopia

Blaine Anderson is an international student at a Canadian university. He meets Kurt Hummel in a Tim Horton’s and the most stereotypically Canadian coffee shop au happens. (Based on an almost-true story) (no really)

Drawn Your Eye by @backupandround

A wee barista!Kurt drabble based on this post

Early by @accio-chris

“I came earlier, so I could talk to you, alone.” It was Blaine’s turn to blush.

Everything by @somethingfishyfan /morethanwords

Blaine Anderson was everything.. and Kurt Hummel was in love

‘Blaine leant forward, closer to Kurt. “I know the coffee order of all my favourite customers,” he whispered.’

Everything Has Changed by @dont-stop-believin-in-klaine /blackrose1002

Day 8 of Klaine Valentine’s Challenge 2016

Coffee shop AU :)

Excuse Me While I Fall For You by ohmyheartsbeentried

There’s a new curly-haired guy that plays guitar at the coffee shop; he’s charmed everyone with his voice and stage presence. One of their most frequent (and best dressed) customers has certainly taken a liking to him. Not that this is any of Sophie’s business. She’s just a barista.

Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by @accio-chris

14 days, 14 songs.Two boys, one love.

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Day 2 - Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg

Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by @iliketowriteaboutklaine

Written for Klaine Valentines.

Prompt: Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg

Whlie visiting Lima, the Anderson-Hummels return to the Lima Bean.

Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by ItsNotEasyBeingQueen

A few Lima Bean moments in the Klaine timeline.

Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by @somethingfishyfan /morethanwords

‘This was so unlike me.. but my whole body ached with just how lovely he was.’

Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by @starsandcologne

College!klaine au; The one where Kurt longs for a date with the new barista.

Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop by @warblingaway

AU Klaine. Kurt goes for coffee every Wednesday, and the one time he sees Blaine changes all future visits for him. At this coffee shop, the same song plays every Wednesday at the same time, and Kurt slowly relates to them, one lyric at a time.

Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop by @whenidance

A series of coffee shop scenes throughout Kurt & Blaine’s relationship and Kurt, Blaine, Rachel, & Mercedes’ friendship. Based on Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop by Landon Pigg (yes, that song from that commercial). Written for this prompt.

Fantasies Make for Tidy Relationships by @lady-divine-writes

Blaine has his life set up just the way he wants…well, no, not really. After a painful breakup with a manipulative, abusive boyfriend, Blaine can’t quite get back in the groove of things - anything. He spends more time teaching than following his dream of striking out and having a career in music, and as far as relationships go, no. Too messy. Too complicated. Too much of a chance of getting hurt. Even though the handsome, witty, charismatic owner of the coffee shop he goes to every morning, Kurt Hummel, really seems to have a thing for him. And Blaine can see him having a thing for Kurt, too…but no. Still too messy. Still too complicated. No matter how flirty things get between them. But Blaine needs something. All his old methods of stress relief are just that - old. So he hops online in search of something new, a toy that will take his old routine of self-pleasure from boring to soaring. And if he happens to start fantasizing about his beautiful barista, what could it hurt?

This is the story of how Blaine Anderson realizes he’s having the relationship he’s always wanted with a machine instead of with the man of his dreams.

Finally Found The Boy by @whatstheproblembaby

Based off my tags on this Tumblr post: #okay but combine all four: person a works at a coffeeshop #person b works at a flowershop #they start fake dating to cover for person a who’s lied to their parents about meeting their soulmate #but then they do whatever thing reveals soulmates while fake dating and start REAL DATING #THE END

Frayed at the Ends by sparkofinspiration

When the love of his life Kurt Hummel left him, a broken Blaine Anderson dropped out of college and moved in with his parents. At 25 he decides to move to New York City to pick up the pieces and start fresh, but a run in with Kurt stops him in his tracks.

Grande Non-Fat Mocha by JustGidget

“He loved the way the boy would smile at him. He loved the way he would giggle and brush at his bangs when Blaine would greet him with “Grande Non-Fat Mocha?” and slide the cup over to him.“

Grande Non-Fat No Whip Mocha by dontwantyourcrown

Completely unrelated to You’re The Cream In My Coffee. This is a Barista!Blaine AU. One shot only, first meetings AU where Kurt is a frequent visitor to a coffee shop and Blaine wonders why he’s so paranoid about his drink.

Half & Half by @skivvysupreme

Puppy!Blaine loves his barista job, and his coworkers and customers love him. He likes to be liked, and he loves feeling appreciated. It’s just… well, there’s only one coworker, in particular, who Blaine wants to notice him…

Happy Accidents by @lilyvandersteen

Blaine, who is going to the same coffee shop every morning, at the same time for his morning fuel, is confused. At the coffee shop, he often sees the same faces - of the other regulars. There is one particular face he looks forward to seeing, though, but Blaine is just not sure if the face belongs to one or two men (twins). Kurt has shared custody of his kid. The weeks when he is dad, he dresses one way, the other weeks he is more sharply dressed.

Happy golden days of yore by prettyskylark

Kurt passes by the coffee shop every Thursday evening. A coffee shop where a very cute pianist plays and whose smile warms Kurt’s heart even on the worst of days. So when chilly weather and bad mood make Kurt finally step in, he takes his chance and go not only for his coffee order (written for the Klaine Advent Drabble Challenge, Day 1: Artist).

Hello by @dont-stop-believin-in-klaine /blackrose1002

Day 8 of Klaine Advent Drabble Challenge

Coffee shop AU :)

Hope by @dont-stop-believin-in-klaine /blackrose1002

Day 8 of Klaine Advent Drabble Challenge

Soulmates!Klaine AU :)

Hot and Strong by @rospeaks

Blaine owns a coffee shop. Kurt is his favorite customer.

I don’t need you to fix me but I want you to help me by @prettyskylark (trigger warning: physical abuse)

Blaine is just a simple barista and Kurt has got a perfect boyfriend anyway. What if he is not so perfect after all?

I Feel Good by DreamingKate

Kurt and Blaine meet and NYADA and Blaine basically falls for him right away. He’s happier and it’s easier for him to get out of the bed in the morning because he knows he’ll see Kurt. One day, they’re out to coffee or something and Blaine sees a piano in the shop so he sings Kurt I Feel Good by AJ Holmes and basically it has a cute, sappy ending.

I Have Measured Out My Life In Coffee Spoons by @daswarschonkaputt

Based off Sara Rye’s Tumblr Klaine Young Models AU gifset.

Kurt Hummel is one of the most coveted young models, with a phenomenal following. Blaine Anderson is not far behind, even if he’s forever going to be labeled as ‘the kid from the GAP commercials’.

They’ve never worked together. Until they do.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand by @munchkinpandas24

Just a quick one-shot from a tumblr post. Basically magic happens when Blaine and Kurt hold hands and it’s adorable.

Ik was meteen ondersteboven by @forabeatofadrum/maanorchidee

“you and your friend always sit at the table and gossip in [insert language here], which happens to be a language i’m currently learning. i’ve been eavesdropping to try and improve my listening comprehension and oh my god are you actually talking about how hot i am??” and Blaine speaking Dutch, because it’s an AU I’ve never seen before.

I’ll Wake with Coffee in the Morning by kurtsolos

“What’s wrong with the Lima Bean?”

“There’s nothing wrong with the Lima Bean, it’s your motive for going in the first place,” Sam says. Tina nods.

“Yeah, it’s just… again? This is the third time this week,” Tina prompted. “Blaine, you don’t even like coffee.”

Or an AU where Blaine is always looking for opportunities to ogle the cute barista at the Lima Bean.

It all began with bets by Biscuit

AU: Kurt’s working in a coffee shop in New York as a barista. One time Blaine wanders off to the part of the Big Apple that he’s never visited before and he discovers the coffee shop. He sees Kurt, falls in love and then keeps coming back until Kurt says yes to flirting.

Jitters by whatiknew

Blaine Anderson gets up at 5am every day to serve coffee with Santana Lopez. And that is the easiest part of his day. As he starts his sophomore year at NYU, Blaine tries to navigate his inevitable conquering of Tisch while figuring out how to talk to the beautiful boy who’s started frequenting the coffee shop. There might be dragons involved.

Learning Who You Are by @whatstheproblembaby

Boy band member!Blaine/not famous!Kurt. Kurt meets a cute guy in a coffee shop, and what happens next is a little more than what he was expecting.

Life Less Ordinary by dizzy and @savvymavvy

Blaine’s life is privileged, fantastic, and entirely routine until he changes things up and tries out a new coffee shop, where one struggling NYADA student named Kurt Hummel happens to work.

Like a Handprint on My Heart by @somethingfishyfan /morethanwords

Blaine is a NYADA student finding his way in the big city. Kurt is the 'feared’ owner of Blaine’s local coffee shop. We all know they’re perfect for each other - this is their journey.

Listen by @blainesdevon /hwespn

AU where you know someone is your soulmate when they make a certain noise. It could be laugh, a sneeze, a moan, or simply them talking. Whether you decide to listen to that noise is up to you.

Blaine Anderson is a 23 year old fresh-out-of-college music teacher. Kurt Hummel is a 25 year old barista and aspiring fashion designer. They hear each other, but will they listen?

Lost and Found by holdingdaylight

Kurt is the loneliest boy in the world on Valentine’s Day, until he stumbles into a quaint little coffee shop hosting an open mic night.

Love Shack by anythingbutplatonic

Coffee shop AU.

Love Soaked Lungs by @switch842

Blaine is annoying the shit out of Santana with all the whining he’s been doing about how lonely he is and how he hasn’t gotten any in forever. Okay, maybe not that last part, but she can tell it’s been awhile. He’s awfully tense. So, Auntie Tana decides it’s time to take matters into her own hands.

Maybe the star that shined before… by @hazelandglasz

Klaine Prompt : Mistletoe

Klaine AU First meeting

More than a non-fat mocha by @onceawarblette

Summary: So I was inspired by this perfect post http://shinnysarah.tumblr.com/post/36754871502 where Santana tries to help Blaine, a barista at the Lima Bean, to get a boyfriend by writing a rather blunt message on the board outside the shop. It does bring one particular customer by though, and they want a little more than a non-fat mocha.

Mostly Roastly by @fablewriter

Anonymous said: Cooper owns a popular coffee shop in NYC, Kurt is his new barista and Cooper’s brother, badboy!Blaine, takes an immediate liking to him?

No Flirting by @klainechel

A cute lil’ barista!kurt besotted!blaine story inspired by this beautiful giftset.

Number by @dont-stop-believin-in-klaine /blackrose1002

Day 14 of Klaine Advent Drabble Challenge

Coffee shop Klaine AU :)

on my way by @fearlesslysgleefics

From the day they started crawling, Kurt and Blaine were on their way to find each other.

Right in front of you by @munchkinpandas24

Blaine is a nerdy barista by day that is in love with his favorite coffee patron Kurt Hummel, the only problem is Kurt is not reciprocating the feelings. But Kurt can’t think about anyone who isn’t this hot curly headed lead singer of his favorite band. Little does he know that the singer is the same barista that has been nervously flirting with him for weeks.

Roses in December by @ckofshadows (WIP, trigger warning: violence)

In a cozy coffee shop in a small town, a boy with beautiful blue eyes sits at the same table every day, as if he’s waiting for something, or someone. Blaine feels strangely compelled to sit down and talk with him… and discovers the unimaginable.

Santa’s Super Sleigh by @lilyvandersteen

Blaine is enchanted by the caroling elves in the mall, especially the boy elf.

Kurt keeps seeing the same cute boy in the audience when he is singing with Rachel and Santana.

Will they ever get the chance to talk?

Scenes from the Broadway Bean by @gleekto

Coffee shop AU. Kurt and Blaine. New York and a coffee shop.

Kurt is a freshman at NYADA - top of his vocal class, stage combat superstar. He’s busy becoming a star, so what if he scores a zero in coffee shop romance history? Or in romance history all together?

Blaine Anderson is a sophomore at NYADA. Song writer. Performer. Barista. Sworn off boys altogether. Though he really hopes Kurt Hummel will let him buy him a biscotti. What? White chocolate cranberry is seasonal. And delicious.

Secret Message by @whatstheproblembaby

Inspired by a picture I saw on hermioneclone’s Tumblr.

Silly Love Songs by @hkvoyage

On Valentine’s Day, Kurt goes to the Lima Bean for his usual grande nonfat mocha. He meets a gloomy teenage boy who doesn’t believe in romance…or does he? An alternative meeting set during Season 2’s ‘Silly Love Songs’.

So I Need a Favor by @klainehugs

Blaine doesn’t expect anything when he walks into his favorite coffee shop. Kurt doesn’t expect anything either, but he’s got a lunch date with Rachel and Finn soon, and he’s promised to bring a boyfriend who doesn’t exist. Neither of them expected anything at first, but then Kurt saw the good looking guy sitting by himself in the corner of the coffee shop. So, “I need a favor…”

Somebody to Love by @bazllton

Klaine Coffee shop AU in which Kurt is a barista and Blaine is a dorky customer. Basically just lots and lots of fluff.

Sometimes, I Wish To Fall by MakerOfAnarchy

In a coffee shop, on a hot, humid day, Kurt finds him. That’s how it starts, and it does not end.

Soulmate Script by @sunshineoptimismandangels

Written for a Tumblr Prompt: “I wish you would write a soulmate fic for Klaine (there are loads of those already, but I’m sure you’d give it your very own unpredictable twist).”

Blaine and Kurt are best friends, living in New York and enjoying their lives. From the outside it looks like two good friends waiting to met their soulmates in the city of their dreams. The only problem is Blaine is in love with Kurt, who could never be Blaine’s soulmate. Kurt is waiting for the the person who’s name matches the script on his skin, waiting for someone other than Blaine

Soulmates & First Dates by alexwhitney

Kurt’s a 19 year old NYADA student; Blaine is an 18 year old who works at a coffee shop. Since their 18th birthdays, they’ve had their soulmates name on their right wrists, and they’ve been searching for that person ever since.

Summertime Blues by @somethingfishyfan/ morethanwords

Another coffee shop fic. Kurt’s reluctantly working though the summer. Lucky he likes his boss!

Starbucks Lovers by whoaaitsmichele

klaine advent drabble challenge day 17: rent

barista!blaine meets kurt

Sweetest Mistake by @hazelandglasz

Anonymous asked > coffee shop au: Kurt gets his coffee everyday from the shop around the corner because he thinks the barista is cute even if he always screws up his order. Truth is, barista!Blaine is just too distracted by his stunning customer to make it properly. :D

Sweet Like Coffee by Ellienerd14

Blaine is a blushing barista with a massive crush on a frequent customer.

And then one day, blue eyes are full of tears and they finally have a much needed talk.

Take All That I Am by becausehiships (please heed the warnings!)

In a world where extreme opposites can’t help but attract, never to leave one another alone again, rock bottom is just the beginning.

For Blaine, rock bottom turns him right side up and suddenly he doesn’t feel like running anymore. He finds a beautiful, ethereal, much-older man in Kurt, the owner of the coffee shop Blaine escapes to for shelter from the constant black cloud that follows him everywhere he goes. The Lima Bean is, gratefully, within the boundaries of the allowed radius Blaine’s constricted to after stealing a thesaurus (of all things) and he falls into a routine with Kurt without effort, seamlessly inserting himself into the man’s life, forcing his way inside his heart.

The Boy from the Lima Bean by heystella

AU. There are three things he knows about Kurt. One, he’s a barista at the Lima Bean. Two, he does community theater. Three, he’s totally going to take Blaine out for a movie date this Friday. K/B.

The Coffee Artist by glee-klaine-Dalton

Kurt owns a small coffee shop in the middle of New York. He makes it his mission to cheer up other New Yorkers by putting a small sentence on their cups to brighten their day. But what happens when a cute guy comes along?

The Coffee Conundrum by @twitchysquirrel

Kurt just wants a %@! mocha. Will cute barista Blaine give him one?

A humorous and very short story that you can read on your phone while you wait in line for your own coffee.

The French Connection by @goldenraeofsun

Blaine was perfectly satisfied as a barista/college student in New York working under Santana Lopez. Well, everything was fine until he developed an almost unhealthily obsessive crush on that cute French exchange student that kept coming by during his shift.

The line between spontaneous and stupid by colferbird

Kurt is a barista. Blaine is charming. Can I make it anymore obvious?

The Medium Drip Incident by zikwon

Klaine alternative meeting. That’s it, that’s the summary.

The Most Beautiful Boy I’ll See All Day by @chatterboxrose

Kurt’s coffee machine breaks down, that’s how he ends up going to the little coffee shop Chae +, and meets the beautiful barista named Blaine. AU. I thought of this little fic because of this photo. :)

The Shadowy Corners of Me by @switch842

There’s a new barista at the coffee house on campus who has Blaine intrigued.

Through the eyes of the observer by @klemonademouth

During the day, a barista saw a lot of things- people arguing on cellphones, sappy couples, people getting their heartbroken, people getting proposed to. All stages of love, out on display for the world to see, if it so chose. Klaine. Coffeeshop fic.

Tonight & Forever by raymykeller

AU in which broken, cynical Kurt meets optimistic, romantic Blaine at a coffee shop. Can Blaine win Kurt over? Can Kurt believe in love again?

Turn Around Bright Eyes by @lilyvandersteen

This is based on the following Tumblr prompt: you work in a coffee shop and are in the middle of a hella rendition of ‘total eclipse of the heart’ and get WAY too into it, and a (really hot dammit) customer tried to get your attention by singing “turn around, bright eyes” AU

I turned it into a fluffy coffee shop Klaine romance with bonus Cooper :-)

Wander by swallowthewhale

In the early 1990s, Blaine is an aspiring musician working in a coffee shop to make ends meet. There he meets Kurt, a fashion writer whose self-confidence makes Blaine wish he were brave enough to be himself.

warm coffee (do you love me?) by beanieklaine/ princeissy

In which Sage, the barista at the Lima Bean, watches Kurt and Blaine’s relationship develop.

Waste of Time by @istytehcrawk

When Kurt’s not working at the Vogue.com offices, he’s picking up shifts at a coffee shop, where he’s not the only one with his eye on a cute customer.

What He Wanted by DreamingKate

Blaine always got what he wanted but this new guy was ignoring him. That wasn’t okay.

Will you do the fandango by @hazelandglasz

Klaine Bingo : Disney / Dreamworks

Anonymous said: we live in halls opposite each other and i keep seeing you changing through your window.

You Remind Me Of Coffee by @misspelledideas

Starring Barista!Kurt and High School Student!Blaine, and how they meet and get together. Completed one shot. Rated T for Santana and inappropriate language.

You’ll Add to the Local Color by HermioneGrangerTwin

“He’d expected Kurt to be seated with coffee in hand, so it comes as a shock to him when he comes into the coffee shop at 2:05 and Kurt is nowhere in sight.”

You’re The Cream In My Coffee by dontwantyourcrown

Here are some one-shots/drabbles of Barista!Klaine, all will probably take place in the coffee shop, but we’ll see.

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