#glee headcanons

[unholy-fabray]

An update: I've become an acespec Quinn truther

[kawaiicoot]

Autistic Rachel Berry Headcanons because I am autistic about her and she is autistic and I will defend this hill with my life

She was hyper verbal as a child I mean she did win a singing competition when she was 9 months old so….

She rambles a lot and doesn’t even know she is doing it her friends have to remind her to slow down and to get to the point or else she will just go on and on

Her special interest is musical theatre

As much as she loves New York, it is horribly overstimulating she wears noise canceling earplugs when she is walking in the city or else it becomes too much for her.

She uses music to ground herself

Very academically gifted she was the kid in elementary school who just kinda sat there during class because she already knew everything. She probably had a high reading level for her age too

She claps as a stim, when she is excited she will start clapping this one is just pure projection

Absolutely HATES change she has a very strict routine and if that gets disturbed she will lose her mind.

She plans EVERYTHING every gathering has a full itinerary even if it is something as simple as grabbing lunch or something.her friends think it’s funny and goes along with it most of the time

I am the number 1 autistic Rachel Berry Truther

[uncannycandy]

New Directions headcanons

Brittany was taller than Kurt in middle school, and she would commonly use his head as an arm rest.

The Glee club has a Minecraft server that they play on. Somehow Sue keeps getting into it and starts griefing/trolling.

They also have a group chat, where arguments are not uncommon. Rachel and Santana argue often, and even Kurt and Finn engage in sibling banter on there.

Sam and Mike have a joint YouTube channel where they upload videos of their dancing/guitar playing.

Quinn and Mercedes celebrate Easter together.

When they first joined Glee club, Artie introduced Kurt to Sonic as a way of bonding as the only two male members. Kurt is not bad at the games, but he likes Sonic more for the storylines and character designs.

In their freshman/sophomore year, the original 5 all had P.E. together. They HATED dodgeball, especially since they never got chosen to be on the same team as the athletic kids.

The Unholy Trinity also shared World History class together.

The whole club does Secret Santa for Christmas.

They also all played Dungeons & Dragons once, which was chaotic, but fun.

[autismtana]

brittany s pierce is autistic

around a year ago, i made this post about santana lopez and why i (as a neurodivergent person) view her as having adhd (among other things which i've mentioned elsewhere and plan on writing more meta about), and i think it's finally time to talk about brittany s pierce, my autistic queen, and why i view her as autistic.

firstly, i want to acknowledge that i'm not the first person to headcanon brittany as autistic. i'm nowhere near the first person to write a post about it. in fact, sue sylvester calls brittana "autistically feisty", which i think is the closest we've got to an actually autistic canon confirmation. i'd suggest reading these posts by smolbrittana and sopheadraws among others. brittany has also been written as autistic in fanfiction (the road to unicorn and there's something about santana are two of my personal favourites in terms of writing brittany as autistic in an authentic way that doesn't feel like autistic media portrayed by neurotypical people).

as i've said in other posts, i'm autistic myself and also have a background in adolescent psychology. i do not endorse diagnosing real people with anything; brittany s pierce is a fictional character and displays a lot of traits that resonate with me as an autistic person hence why i am making this post. i'm also aware that some of these things were written to be throwaway lines or comic effect but viewing them as that and viewing them through an autistic lens does not have to be mutually exclusive. also, i use identity-first language, which is generally preferred among actually autistic folks.

(trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault, as well as mention of school shooting)

sidenote but i also believe brittany to have a specific learning disability in language in addition to being autistic which will most likely require its own post.

anyway, without further ado, let's go.

poor executive functioning - brittany struggles with basic self-care tasks such as brushing her teeth and remembering to eat breakfast. it's also worth pointing out that a lot of autistic folks struggle with brushing their teeth for sensory reasons, which could be a possibility with brittany and why her teeth were in the state they were in during 2x02. i myself did not brush my teeth regularly until i got braces (when i was 15).

difficulty coping with change - this one is pretty broad and can encompass small things, such as believing in santa claus or believing that storks bring babies in her junior year of high school, and big things, such as her feelings of hopelessness and depression when she is held back a year and santana goes off to louisville.

rigid routines - writes everything with multicoloured crayon (a different crayon for every letter). she was also very particular when the planning for her wedding was taking place; was stressed out by the idea of santana seeing her in her wedding dress and felt the need to put a lot of rituals in place to alleviate her feelings of anxiety in that situation.

difficulty comprehending figurative language - brittany tends to take things people say at face value. there are a lot of examples of her misunderstanding when other people use non-literal figures of speech (e.g. "brittany, take it away"/"take what away?"). in 3x22 mercedes wishes everyone in glee club could all stay in the room together so they wouldn't have to leave and brittany suggests using the bin for a toilet and eating joe.

unusual eating habits - brittany has pica (consuming non-food items); canonically she has eaten the snowflakes at sadie hawkins, kleenex, sand in her master cleanse and the soil sue put in her and santana's lockers.

very particular narrow interests - brittany is an expert on cat diseases and (although the storyline bothers me for personal reasons) she is also exceptional at maths.

flat affect - often speaks in a monotone voice

tendency to come across as blunt or rude - this comes through in a lot of her interactions with tina and rachel, as well as in her speech to santana's abuela in 6x06 and her communication with guests on fondue for two.

inability to lie - often tells on herself, particularly in instances concerning sue and being pressured to spy on the glee club for her.

heightened sensory experiences - the one time when she notices blaine isn't in glee club because she can smell his hair gel. brittany is a great dancer (because the actress who played her was a professional dancer who worked with beyoncé) and is sensory-seeking in a proprioceptive way. she also enjoys the use of koosh pens and fidgets with them at times.

"unconventional" experiences with gender identity and/or gender expression and sexuality - research has shown that autistic individuals are more likely to identify as part of the lgbtq+ community, which brittany does as a bi woman. she has also experimented with androgynous gender expression (e.g. her senior prom outfit) and she ran for prom king.

masking - tends to have different personas depending on who she's with. she is more comfortable around santana and mercedes, but alters how she communicates with people depending on how they have communicated with her (or santana, who she's very protective of) in the past.

hyperfixations - when she's running kurt's (and later her own) campaign for president, a lot of her dialogue includes mentions of unicorns.

learning difficulties and poor experience in mainstream schooling - statistically, autistic children have poor school outcomes (and it's entirely the fault of the school system, not the children themselves). 60-70% of autistic people also have a learning disability. 56% of autistic youth in australia report being treated unfairly at school. when talking to rachel in 2x13, brittany explicitly says that teachers have told her that by not attending class, her grades might improve. as a result of the lack of support (which may have led to discomfort in asking for assistance), brittany was unable to graduate from high school with her peers.

naivety and/or childlike interests - brittany can be gullible at times (e.g. sue's baby cannons tactic). as smolbrittana pointed out in their post, she writes with crayon and plays with barbies at times.

difficulty understanding other people's points of view - the dissonance between her own understanding and expectations of sex versus artie's expectations for what his first sexual experience should be like.

unconventional ways of expressing emotions - brittany often uses lord tubbington to describe how she feels about a particular situation (often when she's upset about a situation involving santana); for example, she tells lord tubbington "you joined a gang" right after santana tells her over skype that her commitments to the louisville cardinals cheerleading team impede on her ability to talk to brittany over skype.

burnout - i've touched on this in other posts, but brittany's presentation in 5x12 and 5x13 read as her being exhausted and overwhelmed with feeling forced to pursue mathematics and not have any other creative outlet.

faceblindness - this is not very well-written on the show but there are some canon moments that definitely qualify.

love of animals - brittany has a close connection with her cats, lord tubbington and lady tubbington. research shows that autistic individuals prefer to interact with animals over humans and 80% of autistic children participated in pet therapy.

freeze response to trauma - brittany experienced a freeze response during the lockdown in 4x18, which is common in autistic people. this can be prolonged and can occur for minutes, even hours.

sexual trauma - this is unfortunately a case of glee making a joke out of serious topics and it's not an isolated incident. in 1x17, brittany (who at the time is a sophomore and therefore 15 or 16 years old), in an effort to state her case for why she should be ranked higher on quinn's arbitrary list of who are the most sexually promiscuous glee club members, mentioned that she has "made out" with mr kidney the janitor, who is presumably an adult as he is employed by the school* (also i want to point out that any relationship involving a school employee and a school student that is of a sexual nature is predatory regardless of age; for example, although puck is 18 when he has a sexual relationship with shelby, she is still in a position of power over him and by engaging in a romantic and later sexual relationship with him is a sexual predator). in 3x05, brittany later describes her first sexual experience as an "alien invasion" (and in fact the original dialogue for that scene revealed that she was 14 and the "alien" in question was a 19-year-old). research suggests that 30% of women have experienced sexual assault, and 2-3x as many autistic women are affected. an estimated 9 out of 10 autistic women have been victims of sexual assault. outside of her relationship with santana (who also canonically has experienced SA), brittany engages in hypersexual behaviour; she mentions having a "perfect record" and she mentions her sexual history as evidence of her popularity when persuading kurt to let her be his campaign manager. this can be interpreted as her way of coping with her traumatic experiences, and it becomes a problem when she uses sex as a way to help artie move on from tina, not realising that artie views sex differently than how she does.

(*also i want to point out that brittany's experiences with mr kidney could have also occurred much earlier than when she brought them up, which is even more unfortunate)

[soupandsauce]

Puck taking care of you during your period | Noah Puckerman x Fem reader

Summary: you get your period and Puck is surprisingly domestic

Puck knew you from Spanish class, you sat a row in front of him to the right and always had pretty good grades. You'd come to class and seemed to effortlessly take exams and pop quizzes. This led him to ask you to tutor him since he ended a c average to stay in glee club.

This week was different. Puck was bouncing his leg up and down as he sat at his desk, waiting for you to show up. 5 minutes late, you walked in, or shuffled. Your usual silky hair was in a messy top knot and you wore your glasses today instead of your contacts. You had on black high waisted leggings and a oversized t-shirt. You seemed like you had just rolled out of bed with your dewy, makeup free face yet Puck still thought you were the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.

As class went on, you seemed preoccupied with something, pain. Puck watched as you discreetly held your lower tummy as you sluggishly wrote the assignment down in your notebook. He figured it out.

After class, you stood at your locker to apply your chapstick when all of a sudden you hear Puck exhale as he leaned against your locker.

"Alright I got Swedish fish, and I didn't know which you like better so I got Kotex and this pearl one with a braid. Theres also some voltage Mountain Dew in there too." he says as if its nothing, handing you a grocery bag.

"How did you-"

"You suck at hiding pain, it was pretty obvious." He says as he leans his back against the other lockers.

"Thank you.' You say, then start to walk to your last class of the day.

After school, you lay on your bed, wearing the same oversized t-shirt and your underwear with your pad wings visible. your nose is red from sniffling and you're passed out laying on your side on your bed. its 6 pm and you completely forgot that you would be tutoring Puck tonight.

Puck was nervous that you weren't answering the door so he went ahead and let himself inside, knowing damn well how to pick a lock.

"Y/n?' he says as he walks through the house, making his way to your bedroom. The door is cracked open so he slowly peeks inside to see you asleep. He smiles and sets his schoolbag down in your room before walking into the kitchen and pulling a pan out from the cabinet. As you start to wake up, you hear clanging in the kitchen and wonder if your parents have come home a week early from their trip, so you shuffle out to the kitchen to see none other than Puck wearing an apron with no shirt, stirring food in a pan.

"Noah" You say very softly, not using his first name very often. he turns around.

"hey" he says as he takes a bite of bacon from the fridge

"You like steak? M main steak" He says casually as he's chewing the bacon.

"Wow." You say, kinda blown away that he's making steak and not an easier meal.

"Yeah, I mean, who doesn't."

He smiles as he continues to cook the steak and you take a moment to go to the bathroom and change your pad. You come out and Puck has plated the steak and the side.

"Wow" You say as he carries the two plates into your bedroom.

"What?" Puck asks as he sits shirtless on your bed, against the headboard.

"I just... never saw you as the domestic type. I mean, you even cleaned up after yourself." You say

Puck chuckles and starts to eat as you two watch a show on your tv. You take your first bite and are impressed with how good Puck cooked. The steak and mashed potatoes is just what your period pained body needs.

"mmmm." you moan as you eat.

After you're done, Puck takes both the plates and washes then before coming back with a glass of water.

"here, it will help with your cramps." he says.

You drink some of the water before feeling your eyes start to feel heavy.

Puck pulls your minky blanket over your legs and shuffles his body right next to yours and holds your side.

"Better?" he asks.

with a relaxed sigh, you let out,

"yeah, thank you."

......

"Would you maybe want... stay the night? Like a sleepover? We can watch movies and eat our weight in junkfood." You offer.

Puck holds you a little closer

"Thats so temptinggg" he says as you mention junk food.

You smile

[literally-rachel-berry]

How I think the glee characters would feel about FNAF

[lusthurts]

so i discovered this headcanon generator on tiktok and im a big fan of the results (yes i’ve included my ocs, why wouldn’t i???)

[thedelicatearcher]

i just know that quinn fabray is a snoopy lover. she has a big snoopy plushie on her bed that occupies half the space, she wears woodstock socks under her boots, and watches every charlie brown special every holiday

[yeastymuffin]

What are some of your fave glee headcanons?

Okay so I don't know if these are fandom wide but I have a few:

Santana, after a few trail and error moments in college, has decided to become a (divorce) lawyer

Brittany is talkshow host/has sold fondue for two to television. She also picked up baking as Lord Tubbington's dying wish was fish cakes and she misunderstood him

Sugar and Britt are best friends, text eachother their every waking thought. They've gotten in trouble for ghosthunting before in an abandoned building (Santana saved them by speed driving them away before the cops came)

Quinn is either a lawyer as well, or a real estate agent, and has written a book about her hardships. She also joined a cult like mlm in her early twenties, but Santana got her out of it

Kurt makes haute couture based on musicals. His phantom of the opera line is the one he is most well known for

Rachel is a mommy blogger, and has written books about combining 'the mom life' with musical theatre

Besides having directed movies, Artie also has done a few music videos.

Mercedes, who is obviously world famous, has asked Artie to direct a all music videos for her upcoming concept album which contains lots of visuals, themes and intricate storylines.

[katyobsesses]

she/they quinn has my whole heart (saw your tags and 100% accurate) --unholy-fabray

I mean she went from Lucy to Quinn - a fem name to a more gn name, so it's basically cannon to me lol, not to mention just her whole... vibe when they're not tryna project femininity to the world which is so definitely a mask. I imagine them coming into their own just after canon (not 2020 flash forward canon, but like, before that, in her later years of college or just after)

(@unholy-fabray also omg was sure i was already following you opps 💀)

[jayswritings13]

Miscellaneous

Glee: Santana Lopez Relationship Headcanons

Scooby-Doo: Mystery Gang x Reader - Fred, Velma, Daphne, & Shaggy

Multifandom: Black Hearts - Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice), Heather Chandler (Heathers), Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz (Cobra Kai), Eddy (Ed, Edd, n' Eddy), & Dallas Winston (The Outsiders)

TMNT 2012: Headstrong & Independent Blind! Reader with April & Raph

Holiday Songfic: Winter Things - Tory Nichols (Cobra Kai)

Holiday Songfic: What Christmas means to me - Santana Lopez (Glee)

Holiday Songfic: I'll be home for Christmas - Lexie Grey (Grey's Anatomy)

Holiday Songfic: Where are you, Christmas? - Curtin Gang (The Outsiders)

Holiday Songfic: Christmas (Baby, please come home) - Spencer Reid (Criminal Minds)

Holiday Songfic: New Year's Day - Veronica Sawyer (Heathers)

Holiday Songfic: Kissing in the Cold - Robbie Shapiro (Victorious)

Miraculous: Secret Identity reveal with Marinette & Adrien

Multifandom: What else can I do? - Quinn Fabray (Glee), Samantha LaRusso (Cobra Kai), & Adrien Agreste (Miraculous)

TMNT 2012: Turtles saving reader

Multifandom: Hello Nurse - Robby Keene (Cobra Kai), Santana Lopez (Glee), Danny Fenton (Danny Phantom), & April O'Neil (TMNT 2012)

Multifandom: Congrats, Grad! - Santana Lopez (Glee), Donatello (TMNT), Eddy (Ed, Edd n' Eddy), & Ponyboy Curtis (The Outsiders)

Multi: This is Halloween - Demetri (Cobra Kai), Eddy (Ed, Edd n' Eddy), Raph (TMNT 2012), and Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, & Velma (Scooby Doo)

Pink goes well with Green - Leo (ROTMNT)

[unholy-fabray]

I genuinely think that Rachel Berry having a bisexual awakening post-S3 would have made for incredible television.

The woman clearly has chemistry with other female characters (Quinn and Santana especially) and there's already numerous lines and plenty of subtext that suggest she's queer. She could have been in her "I want to experience so many things and discover myself" Exploration Phase™ that so many people go through in college and hooked up with a girl (Santana would've been an obvious choice, but it could have been any other rando in her class). We already got a version of this with her dating Brody and how she tried to "keep things casual" for a change. We could have had:

Her battling with the stereotype of gay parents having gay kids

Her figuring out what this means for her dreams/idealistic vision of the future - when she imagines being married with a Tony at 25 and shouts them out in her acceptance speech, does it really matter what gender her spouse is?

A greater diversity of love interests for her rather than (hate to say it) bland, stereotypical, hot, white guy Brody

All the bisexual banter and flirting with everyone like Dani or at the gay bar in Opening Night

So many retrospective jokes (and/or serious discussion) while looking back at her tenuous relationships in high school (e.g., Faberry UST/URT)

[kawaiicoot]

AP classes that I think the glee characters would take (as an AP student who is losing their mind)

Rachel: she would probably take a lot of APs because she canonically is an academic weapon but her favorite is AP Music Theory. I could also see her being the most annoying person in AP seminar

Kurt: AP art history, Ap Music Theory & Ap 3d Art (fashion focused portfolio)

Quinn: same as Rachel, she would take a lot of APs but she is definitely a AP Psych and AP Lit girlie

Mercedes: AP Music Theory with Rachel and Kurt

Tina: AP Human Geo, Ap 2d Art and Design (photography portfolio) in my mind Tina does photography and she’s really good at it

Santana: AP Spanish she is already fluent and just took it to boost her GPA and do nothing all class

Artie: AP US History, AP World, AP Euro, AP Calc AB, AP physics (he’s a nerd)

Everyone else wouldn’t take any APs I think

[uncannycandy]

some burt and kurt headcanons bc why not

Kurt was one of those toddlers/kids who would get scared and see stuff that wasn’t there, but as he grew older he completely forgot about it, and every time Burt brought it up Kurt didn’t believe him. Remember when Burt said that Kurt has been acting weird since the age of 2? Yeah, that’s when the paranormal activities started….

Burt’s favorite dessert is pecan pie

The Hummel family is originally from Germany, but some of them, such as Burt and Kurt, were born and live in the U.S. I head canon this because of their German sounding names.

When Burt and Carole got together, the Hummel-Hudson had a family group chat.

And after the 8th argument that broke out between Kurt and Finn in said chat (Burt & Carole’s phones kept blowing up with notifications), Burt wanted to mute the texts, but he didn’t know how.

Sarcasm runs in their veins, so when the Glee club members first met Burt, they knew instantly where Kurt’s wit came from.

Kurt looks like his mom, but he gets his eyes from Burt. Side note though… does anyone else find it freaky how almost every parent-child duo on the show look alike even when the actors/actresses aren’t related? Cory and Romy actually look they could be related, same with Chris and Mike… it’s the eyes.

Both of their favorite colors are blue, but nothing Kurt does can ever be simple, so his favorite is actually a unique shade of blue.

[autismtana]

my headcanon has evolved from "santana can't cook" to "alma taught santana to cook as a child/preteen but as an adult she forgets to eat and mostly uses her cooking skills to bake edibles for herself and brittany"

[soupandsauce]

Sam Evans | Glee Poster Assignment headcannons

summary: imagine having to do a partner poster board as an assignment for glee. each pair of people (assigned by mr schue) is assigned a famous musician to make a poster about.

hearing the doorbell ring while you’re almost done making dinner made you jump slightly, mainly because it’s your crush from glee class, Sam.

your mom answering the door since you’re in the middle of straining food in the kitchen or something.

sam walking up behind you in the kitchen while you’re playing the food

“Wow, you really worked on this huh?” he says as he watches as you plate the dinner and walk over to the living room floor where the coffee table and poster supplies is.

“We’re gonna get this one in the bag.” you say

“i was OBSESSED with Katy Perry as a little girl and i have her movie and everything, i’ve even seen her in concert.” you say as you smile.

sam smiles too and laughs a bit at your geeking out. he likes how you’re makeup free, hair up in a pony, in your pjs. you just look so casual.

“alright then.” sam says, “lead the way.”

he seems like he’s actually enjoying the whole time you two spend together. watching the katy perry movie and gluing info onto the poster board. that’s why you liked sam, he wasn’t afraid to dive into more girly subjects. if he likes it, he likes it.

he recognizes a few of katy’s songs as the movie goes on and he sings along as you two make the poster, which makes you laugh.

“this is such a powerful moment because she’s just now going through a divorce with Russel Brand and is taking a breather before her show. Her self control and emotion regulation skills really show her maturity here.” you say as you pause the movie.

sam is watching with a sniffle

“i’m not sure which i wanna be more, Gaga or Katy…” Sam says. “Both are incredible in their own way and i can’t choose”

Sam asking for seconds from the dinner you made and licking his plate clean.

you two finish the poster halfway through the movie and just end up sitting on the living room floor with blankets and such.

turns into a light cuddle

then a heavy cuddle where you’re sitting imbetween sam’s legs and your back leaning against his chest with his arms around you.