#reunited!klaine

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Reunited Klaine fics?

Definitely browse our reunited!Klaine tag, and I'll suggest three that I really enjoyed. ~Lynne

Come What May by MrsCriss2012

Four years ago, Blaine Anderson broke Kurt Hummels heart when he left. Now a smart and successful lawyer and poised to take over the family firm, Blaine is a shadow of the man he used to be. Struggling with conflicting emotions surrounding his parents, and trying to live in a world without his one true love, Blaine must discover who he really wants to be.

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The Luckiest by wordplay

Blaine broke Kurt’s heart 3 months before high school graduation. Now, four years later, their group of friends reunites at a lake house to marry off two of their own. With luck, Kurt and Blaine will also be able to finally mend something that’s stayed broken for far too long.

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Friday June 10th 2011 by SarahBeFree

Set nearly eight years after a messy break up, Kurt and Blaine meet again unexpectedly, thousands of miles from Ohio and thousands of miles from the people they used to be. But what really happened at the Dalton end of year party to pull them apart?

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Life Is...

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2lTVLPU by soggy_peppers Blaine Anderson discovers he can reverse time. He also reunites with his former best friend, Kurt Hummel, who's trying to find his missing friend, and tries to heal their broken relationship. Or: what if Life is Strange had Klaine in it? Words: 24440, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English Fandoms: Glee Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: M/M Characters: Blaine Anderson, Sebastian Smythe, Kurt Hummel, Will Schuester, Principal Figgins, Quinn Fabray, Sam Evans (Glee), Mike Chang, Tina Cohen-Chang, Santana Lopez, Kitty Wilde, Brittany S. Pierce, Noah Puckerman Relationships: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel, Blaine Anderson & Sam Evans, Blaine Anderson & Quinn Fabray, Blaine Anderson & Mike Chang, Blaine Anderson & Tina Cohen-Chang, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Mike Chang/Tina Cohen-Chang, Santana Lopez/Brittany S. Pierce, Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert & Kurt Hummel, Elliott "Starchild" Gilbert/Kurt Hummel Additional Tags: Inspired by Life is Strange, College, Alternate Universe - College/University, Time Travel, Friends to Lovers, Childhood Friends, Alternate Universe - Childhood Friends, Gun Violence, Missing Persons, Fights, Visions, Prophetic Visions, Storms, Snow

[hevanderson]

in honor of the klaine anniversary im going to try very hard to get to klaine reuniting in the lis au

[sillyname30]

There was that seblaine affinity thing too - once a warbler, always a Warbler, which Blaine took it very seriously, even after the slushie. Kurt never took it seriously, and had no allegiance to Dalton. A lot of Kurt stans resent that no one seems to apply the”once a warbler” tab to him too, but it was never meant to be that way.

So Dave was supposed to have been redeemed and be a nice guy by season 6, which was supposed to make Blainofsky acceptable, even though it was a horrendous idea. Sebastian had never been redeemed to Kurt, and not really to Blaine, he wasn’t a nice character. He’d never have let Blaine go back to Kurt with some almighty fight. And they only had 13 episodes to split them, reunite and marry them - it all felt very rushed anyway. I think they should have asked the writers, but they’re not that interested.

I can’t understand Grant saying that Sebastian wasn’t a villain. He was put in there to stir things up between Klaine, and Kurt always hated him. Seemed like a villain to me. Plus he conspired with Hunter in 4 to cheat and manipulate Blaine further.

Kurt went back to McKinley as soon as he could. Being a Warbler wasn't that important to him. Same as the actor. Chris wasn't happy to be separate from the OG cast and happy to be back. Darren was happy at Dalton with the Warblers.

It would have been better if Blaine had a new character as a boyfriend in season six. Both Dave or Sebastian felt wrong.

Grant had a whole backstory for Sebastian in his head. Maybe because a lot of stuff he said was funny, he didn't feel that evil. Kind of like Sue. She should be in jail for the stuff she did, not teaching at a school.

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My fic year in review, 2022

I saw @captain-aralias doing this and I thought “hey, this is fun!”. So cool that you (aralias, you are the you here) do this every year.

Fics I wrote:

Learn to let go (929, T, CrisTales)

A rip in time (68K, T, Doctor Who Universe)

Zimbits April Updates (2.7K; T; Check, Please!)

che col tuo lume mi levasti (63K, T, Simon Snow Series)

At last (801, G, Glee)

e pare stella che tramuti loco (29K, T, Simon Snow Series)

Wielded by the righteous (2K, G, Simon Snow Series)

The Naked Truth (15K, T, Simon Snow Series)

Call Me Maybe (12K, T, Simon Snow Series, with @captain-aralias)

Barking Up The Wrong Bakery (8.7K, T, Glee)

These numbers could be lucky for you (402, G, Glee)

Then maybe time would not erase me (2.7K, G, Julie and the Phantoms)

Thinkin' about us (377, G, Our Flag Means Death)

All I needed for another day (768; G; Love, Victor)

Ebb & Flow (29K, G, Glee)

Dalton 8 Days of Pride (2.8K, G, Dalton)

Dalton 8 Days of Wrath (WIP, T, Dalton)

I can't believe it IS butter (1.111, G, Simon Snow Series)

Time After Time (18K, T, Simon Snow Series)

The Moon fic (49, G, Glee)

Stage Fright (12K, T, Glee, with all the authors of the @gleefrankenfic)

aap noot mies (8K, G, Glee)

A Grimm Christmas (5K, G, Simon Snow Series)

So Much Better (12K, T, Glee)

There's nothing ironic about show choir (14K, T, Simon Snow Series)

Ljubim te (WIP, T, Glee)

Holy moly. This is... more than I thought. I also just found out that you can filter your statistics page by year, so I don’t have to grab my calculator. AO3 tells me I published 319,614 words this year! “Published”, because I have a lot of unfinished WIPs that I wrote for. Meanwhile, Paradiso 2 was written in 2021 and part of Paradiso 3 as well. I’ve been writing A rip in time since 2017 and also I wrote the beginnings of the alien!Blaine fic and Time After Time in 2018 and 2021.

All Glee fics are about Klaine. Almost all Simon Snow fics are about Snowbaz, with Call Me Maybe as the exception. That is a gen fic. Same goes for the Love, Victor one, the JATP one and the CrisTales one. The Dalton ones are multiships. The other two ships I wrote for are Zimbits (OMGCP) and Gentlebeard (OFMD).

Some questions under the cut. Aralias, these questions are really good.

Best/worst title?

The best titles are Time After Time, The Naked Truth and A Grimm Christmas in my opinion, and I cannot take credit for those. Christina @facewithoutheart came with Time After Time (my working title was “damn Baz, you live like this?”), Pati @aristocratic-otter came up with The Naked Truth and Jas @aroace-genderfluid-sheep came up with A Grimm Christmas.

If I gotta pick my own work, it’s I can’t believe it IS butter. Okay, and I kept laughing every time I wrote There’s nothing ironic about show choir, because Rachel’s delivery of that line would play in my head.

The worst is probably Thinkin’ about us. That was definitely a last minute title. I mean, it makes sense to me, but it makes no goddamn sense for this fic. I chose it since it’s the lyrics of Just A Dream (UH UH UH I WAS THINKIN’ ABOUT YOU, THINKIN’ ABOUT ME, THINKIN’ ABOUT US yada yada) which is a huge inside joke in the Dalton Discord, but this fic has absolutely nothing to do with Dalton and its Discord. The fic is about waking up from a dream, hence the shit connection, but yeah... not the best.

Best/worst summary?

I am not the best at writing summaries, mostly because I tend to forget about them until I am ready to post and I’m like “oh SHIT oh FUCK”, so the best? Hmmmm. @cerriddwenluna really helped me out with the aap noot mies and the Ebb & Flow ones. But alas, if I have to pick my own work, I think it’s Time After Time.

Simon Snow dies in the White Chapel, and Baz has to live an immortal life without him. Or so he thinks. Every twenty years, when the Veil lifts, Simon and Baz are able to reunite. Something is keeping Simon from moving on, and Baz doesn’t know if he wants to find out what that is, because it would mean letting go.

And if there’s one thing Baz can not do, it’s letting Simon go.

Simple and straight to the point. It introduces what the fic is about and it also introduces the main source of tension: Baz doesn’t want to let go of Simon. Drama ensues!

Worst:

And finally, the end.

This is from the Zimbits Update fic and it means absolutely nothing. That’s because these Updates fics are collections of drabbles, so each chapter has a summary of its own. But as a result, I always put my own commentary in the summary of the fic as a whole. It makes some sense if you read the series in one go, which is something a lot of people do (and it always brings me joy when I get an AO3 e-mail with kudos and it’s clear that someone went through it all), but on its own it is terrible.

I just refuse to write “I am bad at summaries” in the summaries. I at least gotta commit to the bit 😔✊.

Best/worst first line?

All my first and last lines are very short. I realised most of the fics start with a short line, then a larger line that really kicks of the story.

There seems to be one exception, which is the Bakery fic. That’s why I think that’s the best first line.

There are many decisions that have led Kurt Hummel to this dog bakery, but the biggest one was his decision to move to Los Angeles to become a dog party planner for influencers.

And worst.... Hmmm. Like I said, most of the first lines are very similar: short and not saying a lot. I don’t think the beginnings of my fics are bad, per sé, because all the opening paragraphs are a decent way to start a fic. I’m going with At Last, since that is a missing scene from Glee, so the fic jumps straight into a scene:

“But... But what?” Kurt asks, desperate to make some sense out of this situation.

Best/worst last line?

The best is probably The Naked Truth, once again because that one is longer than 10 words.

I put my pencil on the paper, I look over to Simon who’s already flexing his upper body, and I start to draw.

But yeah, I don’t think of first and last lines, but I think of beginnings and endings in a larger scale, like a paragraph or a chapter. But this one is nice and it also says something about what the fic’s about, unlike other last lines.

I picked the upcoming worst line since I apparently used it twice.

All is well.

Again, my last lines are very short and again it doesn’t mean they’re bad, but sometimes they are. Sometimes it’s clear I was looking for a quick line that felt fitting for any kind of ending. So this is the end of A rip in time and The Moon fic. (And I won’t be surprised if I have used it more).

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted?

Damn, I wrote a lot more than I thought. Over 300.000 words is insane, so yes, definitely more than I thought. I admit I don’t really plan my fics in advance. It’s changed a little bit since I started doing fests (more on that later), but most of the time I just start writing and I see when (or if) it sees the light of day.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year?

Well, I couldn’t have written for Gentlebeard since the show didn’t exist last year, but jk jk. More seriously, I did write for three new fandoms: OFMD, JATP and CrisTales. And I got some returning ones (Dalton and Love, Victor).

The genre that completely threw me off was parenting fic or whatever you want to call it. I never even attempted a serious fic with any of my ships as parents. There have been kid OCs before (like, Julie for Klaine in the Myosotis series, or the unnamed twins for Zimbits in one fic that I can’t fucking remember right now), but I never wanted to do that, mostly because I don’t want kids myself so I never think about it.

And then my little Rosemary Snow happened. Maybe this is cheating, cause I did mention that I wrote part of Paradiso 3 in 2021, but oh MAN. OH MAN. How much love I have for this fictional child. If Simon and Baz are the dads, then I am the fairy godmother (who killed her biological parents oop-). She’s not real and yet I’d die for her. And not only is this a fic with a kid, but also it delves deep into adoption, another topic that I swore I’d never delve into. Alas, here we are.

Oh, and I wrote my first Main Character Death with Time After Time, but Simon is still constantly present in the fic as a Visitor.

What’s your favourite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest.

Paradiso series. And yes, I know, I wrote all of Paradiso 1 and 2 in 2021 and part of Paradiso 3 in 2021 as well, but I loved it. I had so much fucking fun.

I often say that Paradiso 1 is the amazing eldest child, Paradiso 2 is the awkward middle child and Paradiso 3 is the surprise youngest child. What I mean by this is that Paradiso 1 is probably the best and maybe I should’ve ended it there, but I wanted to continue so badly that I wrote Paradiso 2. Could that fic have been better? Definitely. I think it is quite messy. But I love it nevertheless and it still introduced a lot of cool things. Paradiso 3 was even more unplanned and since it took me on a journey, it was a surprise.

Okay, NOW your most popular story.

Everyone say “Thank you AO3!”

I usually don’t pay attention to my stats. I have no clue if something is popular because a) most of the time I do not know how many kudos etc. a fic has and b) even if I do have a vague idea of it, I don’t know what constitutes as “popular” in the grand scheme of things. I do sometimes associate one person with a fic and even if that one person was the only one loving it, I’d be happy.

So thank you AO3 for this goddamn great statistics page. Now, I do peek here maybe once a year, just out of curiosity (I think I may have made annual posts about that) and god this page is a godsend for having all the information in one place.

Here are the hits:

Note that a lot of people who read A rip in time read it in the beginning of when I started posting (2018). All the others got posted in 2022 only. Oh, well, Paradiso started posting mid-December 2021, but most of it was posted in 2022.

Kudos:

Same story here. I filtered the results on 2022, but since A rip in time did post in 2022, it is an outlier, like spider georg.

Comments:

Bookmarks:

And here again. If we disregard A rip in time, it seems like Time After Time is the most popular. Damn Baz, you live like this?

Story most underappreciated by the universe?

Call Me Maybe. Call Me Maybe! God, @captain-aralias​ already mentioned it, but yes, I totally agree that Call Me Maybe is the most underappreciated. And I know why. It isn’t a shippy fic. It’s a gen fic about Agatha, and Simon and Baz only make a “cameo” in the actual fic.

But I put my heart and soul in this fic. I projected on Agatha like a boss. I even tried to rickroll the fandom!

And this was the only time I was aware of it not being popular. Like I wrote above, I have two reasons that I am usually ignorant of how well my fics are doing. I don’t care. Yes, I’d like people to read my stuff. I always use the cake analogy. If someone spends hours baking a cake and no one eats it, then even when the baking process was fun, it stings. But even then, since I do not actively track my stats and I don’t look at other people’s stats either. I remain blisfully ignorant and I find that very freeing.

But this fic was part of a fest. All the fics of that fest were put together in one AO3 collection. And that made it very easy to see how this fic was not getting the hits that others did. It took a long time before this fic even got 100 hits, while others already had over 400 or so. When it hit 100, I was very emotional. I knew it wasn’t going to be as popular, since this isn’t a Snowbaz fic, but man. There were some huge differences.

Now, honestly, the most important thing to me was that @captain-aralias​ liked it, which she did. I am so happy she liked it. Even her comments in her 2022 review page make me feel warm and fuzzy and happy. But I also wished more people had the chance to like it as well.

I’ve talked about my approach to stats etc. several times with people. There I also said that no matter how true it is that 99% I do not care, there is also the 1%. I think every writer, even “chill” ones like me, is prone to some anxiety or disheartened feelings at one point about stats and Call Me Maybe was my fic for that situation. I just really, really wanted people to read it. I still do. I haven’t checked the stats ever since it hit 100 hits, since that was the milestone I had in mind when I realised Call Me Maybe was falling behind, and it happened, but I wouldn’t mind more people reading it.

Story that could have been better?

Without a doubt, it’s Ebb & Flow. It’s just messy. Even more messy than Paradiso 2. (Not as messy as A rip in time, though, but the whole idea behind A rip in time is that it’s kinda bad anyway, which is why I love it.) (If you love the Doctor Who universe, and mess, A rip in time is the fic for you!).

Or well, at least I think Ebb & Flow is messy. It had a beginning with a lot of info-dumping, a wacky middle where too much was going on, and a good ending that is only that good because I was inspired by another fic. It’s because I had a story to tell, but I also wanted to nerd out about Splatoon 2. Do I regret the nerding out? No, not at all, but it made it a bit messy, especially for people who do not know Splatoon 2 (I did provide a glossary, but still). Besides, the Big Sad of the story is that Burt is dead and I am not sure if I like how I handled the grief. @thnxforknowingme​ told me it’s fine, which was reassuring, but every time I reread Ebb & Flow, I have to stop myself from skipping to the last few chapters cause that’s the good stuff.

Sexiest story?

Gotta pass. Would you believe it when I say T-rated The Naked Truth is the most steamy I ever wrote? All because they were undressing each other! (Well, okay, look, Simon was naked for a lot of the fic but in relation to his relation with Baz, it’s only a scene where they start to take off to undress). I used the word dick for the first time! Wooooh!

Although I think an upcoming chapter of Ljubim te might surpass it. Not too big. I don’t think I’ll ever write E (or M. I gotta see how it goes with Ljubim te.)

Saddest story?

Time After Time. I mean, it’s MCD. I made people cry! Even though Simon is still constantly in the fic, he’s Capital D Dead as in No Amount of Magic Can Bring Simon Back kind of dead.

And on a personal note, Paradiso 3 was incredibly emotional for me, as an adopted person, to write.

Most fun?

Probably I can’t believe it IS butter. I want to write more of the Butter Saga, where Simon marvels over all the forms of butter!

Just... the image of Simon carrying butter packets with him everywhere, so that he can gnaw on them. I love this guy. I kept laughing throughout the entire writing process and I loved that I got to share it with the CO Discord, since the idea came from there.

Oh, and as a Glee fan, I absolutely loved There’s nothing ironic about show choir. I really tried to capture the crazy Glee dramatics for this fic and Simon and Baz’s feud. Ruta and Vitis forever!

Story with single sweetest moment?

Not to toot my own horn, but I am obsessed with this line from The Naked Truth:

Again, there’s so much laughter.

Is this what love is like? Endless exuberant laughter? I revel in the sound of his joy.

I mean, pretty swell for an aroace gal.

And I also got the comment that Time After Time is utterly romantic in its own way, and I have to agree, even though Simon is super dead.

Hardest story to write?

Ebb & Flow. It’s the unfortunate truth that I hated writing this fic. I complained constantly about it here and on The Lima Bean Discord. I don’t want to put it so crassly (”I hated writing that!”), because it was a fest so I wasn’t the only person involved, but it’s just what happened. I loved the prompt. I fucking ADORE the art that was created for it, but the writing.... Oh honey.

I got stuck a lot. Getting stuck isn’t new, but this was my first fest and it was nerve wrecking. I’ll get more into that later. But this led to this extra pressure and that only made the existing bad feelings even worse. Basically, when I ended it, I was so fucking done I couldn’t look at it, since it just made me anxious. I normally write and then polish my work before posting, but here I didn’t want to dwell on this fic. The day before posting day, I finally opened the document after 2 weeks (I think?) to do some final edits and that was it.

This also goes back to the whole “story that could have been better” answer. Is Ebb & Flow truly that messy, or am I just projecting my negative feelings on it? I did talk with some others about how I started to like Ebb & Flow after I got positive feedback, and how that also motivates me to comment more. The comments I got on that fic make my day and I admit I am surprised every time I get a positive one. Not that I expected negative ones, but I don’t know... I just didn’t like it.

I do now. Don’t get me wrong. I like Ebb & Flow since the people in this fandom really lifted me up, but I still think it could’ve been better. But I like it. It’s on my mind a lot, mostly because I am listening to a lot of Splatoon music and of course, Splatoon 3 has been released. Hmmm, maybe I’ll write that sequel one day (*wink wink nudge nudge* @cerriddwenluna​).

Easiest/most fun story to write?

Barking Up The Wrong Bakery. I actually wrote Bakery fic to counter all the bad feelings that arose while writing Ebb & Flow. Instead of polishing up Ebb & Flow, as I should’ve done, I went head first into Bakery fic.

I even made a meme about it:

It was just so much fun. The whole idea of this fic was letting go of trying too hard and it was so worth it. And I had Cooper as a cartoon villain of sorts. I have more to say about it later, but crack is very relaxing to write.

Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters?

Call Me Maybe definitely was a huge thing. I had written an Agatha saga in 2021, but I still think Call Me Maybe was the first time I gave Agatha the love she needs. And, yes, yes, projection on characters. You know how it is.

After Wayward Son, I was really rooting for aroace Agatha. So much that after I first finished AWTWB I was clinging onto the fact that Niamh wasn’t mentioned in the epilogue. As in “yes, yes, they kissed in the book but that doesn’t mean they actually end up together, Agatha can still realise this isn’t what she wants either!”. I came around because I too am obsessed with Niamh. If I weren’t aroace and if Niamh Brody weren’t fictional I’d also ask her hand in marriage. If Agga doesn’t want her, then I want her!

So yeah. Niamh Brody, amirite?

But still, I liked the idea of exploring the big What If. Originally, Call Me Maybe started out as Agatha realising she likes girls since she gets a crush on Penelope. @captain-aralias​ already wrote in the original CO WIP Adoption Fest fic that she was also fine with it being a friendship fic between Agga and Penny. I shifted the crush part from Penny to Ginger. I tried that for a while, which is why the beginning of what I’ve written is more about Agga having Feelings and Thoughts when she’s around Ginger.

But I suppose Ginger isn’t Niamh. I realised I wasn’t vibing with it at all. I already have issues with writing characters who fall in love because my aroace ass has no clue what that is. So I messaged Aralias again to tell her it was going to be an aroace!Agatha fic and I realised that I could use the Feelings and Thoughts from the beginning for that reason as well. Yes, she has Feelings and Thoughts about Ginger, but it’s not romantic and that bothers Agga, because she doesn’t know why she can’t just fall for her. As a result, I had to let go of the more flirty playful Agatha from AWTWB, but I worked out. So maybe it wasn’t a change in perspective, since I already had aroace!Agatha in mind after WS, but more a “coming back to that perspective”, after AWTWB changed it up.

Most overdue story?

A rip in time. I mean, I started writing it in 2017 and I started posting it in 2018. I felt incredibly empty when I finally finished it, but it was time. I knew I wanted to finish it before 13 regenerated, so I did.

God.

What a ride this was, though.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?

Oh, yes, definitely. There are probably two big risks and one smaller risk.

The smaller one is that I branched out to new fandoms, but honestly, that isn’t super new. I also wrote fic for other fandoms in previous years. It’s just true that Glee/Simon Snow/Check, Please! are my go-to’s, even though I only wrote one Check, Please! fic this year.

The bigger ones are:

1. I participated in collaborative fests and challenges. I have been doing the Klaine Advent since 2015 and I’ve written for some other challenges, but this is the first year I collaborated. Call Me Maybe and Stage Fright are the only ones that I co-wrote, but the other collaborative fests are still collaborative in my eyes, because I wrote other people’s prompts or other people made stuff for the fic. But yeah, I had the 321 Klaine Reverse Bang, and the CO WIP Adoption Fest, and the Glee Frankenfic, and of course the latest Klaine Secret Santa. And oooooh boy, it was nerve wrecking. Not gonna lie there. I usually live by the “I write for me and ME alone” principle, and that obviously does not apply when you’re working with someone else. There have been moments where I was so nervous. I was constantly hoping that the others would like it, especially with So Much Better, because that was a holiday gift! I remember fistbumping the air when I got the news that I could use Legally Blonde for that fic. Sometimes that had negative consequences (yeah, again, Ebb & Flow), but I learnt a lot. I do think I ought to tone it down. I wrote a lot about my girlboss situation, which was basically that I took on too many challenges etc. and that I was girlbossing too close to the sun. I am just genuinely excited and I want to encourage people in the fandom to make more challenges, but woooh, maybe I gotta tone it down.

2. I wrote a surprising amount of cracky fics. Bakery fic, The Moon fic, Thinkin’ about us, Butter fic, aap noot mies, There’s nothing ironic about show choir... Heck, I still have the WIPs Hold on to that feeling and Just Some Guy. I started both this year and those are also cracky. I made Baz a Klainer 12! Check, Please!’s John Johnson is here! I usually write angst and serious stuff, like mental health issues, grief, broken friendships, internalised homophobia, questioning identity etc., so this was a huge departure. Not to say I’ve never written crack. The fic where Jack and Bitty almost adopt a donkey on the Sims 4 is a thing. But I didn’t see it as a genre that I write often enought to say that it’s a genre I write. Man, Bakery fic did me a lot of good, because I had a fucking blast writing all the crack stuff. I kept laughing a lot while writing the stuff and I am happy being also found it cracky. Kissy kissy smooch smooch! BONK!

This year’s theme and the story that demonstrates it most:

Kinda what I wrote above: crack and collabs. I don’t know if there’s one specific story that demonstrates it. None of the collab fics are the cracky fics. Although that being said, I shared a lot about writing the cracky fics, since I obviously didn’t have to keep that a secret until a post date. As a result, I did get fun feedback while writing it. I already made a mushy post a few weeks earlier about how I am so happy that fandom exists and yeah, yeah I am happy it exists.

What are your fic writing goals for next year?

please for the love of god let me finish my fucking zimbits fics oh GOD

This is a long post so if you made it to this spot, hi! Since it’s a long post, I wrote some little drafts for each answer and the sentence above is the draft for this one. Because yes, please, let me finish the two Zimbits fics that I’ve been writing since 2019. They aren’t my oldest WIPs, but I want to write Zimbits again because I miss these characters.

I don’t know when I’ll get to it, though. I currently have one WIP on AO3, which is Ljubim te, my Klaine Advent 2022 fic. I don’t feel rushed to finish it. After all, I finished my 2019 Advent fic in October 2020, but I want to finish it. And I really want to wrap up my CO textfic. I got very far into that fic, but then I put it away to focus on the fests and challenges that did have a deadline.

I‘ve also been thinking about bullet point fics/fic where the author just writes it down as “notes”. There are two big AUs that have been on my mind for a while, namely the Sarah Jane Adventures Extended Universe (SJAE, since 2017) and the Glee/Sense8 crossover (since 2020) and since these two are basically a collection of ideas, maybe it’s possible. I’ve never made a bullet point fic/”notebook fic” (no idea if that is an actual term), but I have read them.

Apart from that, I’ll see.

[annon-guy2]

Video Game Idea - Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Revised Edition

Game Details

Developer: Bandai Namco Studios

Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment

Rated: T for Teen (Mild Language, Violence, Suggestive Themes, Alcohol Reference, Blood)

Platformers: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch and Steam.

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A tale that believes in Resonating Hearts...

As of now, the world is whole, but in the ancient past it was divided into the realms of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla. Two years ago, Lloyd Irving and Colette Brunel, the Chosen of Regeneration, set out on a journey to reunite the fractured worlds. Together, they planted a new world tree that brought together the worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla.

What should have been a joyous occasion, it instead descended into chaos and despair. A series of unfortunate natural disasters ravaged the land. Lakes dried up, savage winds beat the mountains and verdant forests became deserts. The citizens of the New World were lost in the confusion and in the desperate times, they turned to desperate measures.

Tethe'alla's forces rallied behind the Church of Martel, claiming the authority of the hero Lloyd Irving and the goddess Martel. The Sylveranti formed the Vanguard, a violent resistance moment with no mercy for Church sympathizers. War engulfed the New World...

In a small seaside town, a new journey is beginning. War has reached the shores of Palmacosta and in its path are the lives of two budding heroes. Emil Castagnier and Marta Lualdi have a chance encounter that changes their lives forever. Together, they must set out to discover the secrets of the past and, in doing so, find hope for a brighter future. Only through their actions may they find the light to see the Dawn of the New World.

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Game Features;

Improvements

Experience the story of the original game, now with updated sequences and expanded sections.

Updated visuals and skits in the artstyle of Tales of the Rays. Experience new facial expressions and body movements in bith gameplay and in-game cutscenes.

Improved gameplay! The battle system and tag team switch mechanic from Tales of Berseria is utilized!

Once the original Symphonia Heroes permanently join you, they will now be able to Level Up to the Max Level Cap like Emil and Marta and can obtain additional weapons.

Side Quests can now be tracked and kept manage of! You'll now be notified when Side Quests can be tackled without missing them! You'll even be given a time frame of when they'll be open before they get closed off.

Improved Monster System! Monsters you form pacts with now gain EXP from battles alonside the Playable cast.

Improved World Map! Travel across the world map like in the original Tales of Symphonia, including battles with enemies in the overworld!

Remixed soundtrack! Experience the music from the original game with a new coat of paint! You can even switch to the original soundtrack to suit your preferences.

Co-op returns! Two players can play and fight alongside together in battles!

Additional Content

Experience the story of the original game, now with improved dialog, updated sequences and expanded sections, including the three endings you can obtain! New story additions include two new chapters (for a total of ten chapters), six new locations (Ozette, Latheon Gorge, Dragon's Nest, Exire, Lake Umacy and a new Dimensional Warp Gate) to explore, additional boss battles and a new epilogue upon obtaining the True Ending.

The other six Centurions are given full characterization, including designs and personalities.

During Chapter 10 (The Eternal Bond), when you head to the Dimensional Warp Gate, you can challenge the heroes from Tales of Phantasia in a secret boss fight. Battle againt Cress Albane, Mint Adenade, Claus F. Lester, Arche Klaine, Chester Burklight and Suzu Fujibayashi! Do you have what it takes to fight against these challengers from the future?

Anime cutscenes are now added! Witness key points of the story with new animated visuals!

Costumes are added for Emil, Marta, Richter and the original eight Symphonia Heroes. Dress them up with iconic outfits!

New Skits are added! Will you be able to experience them along with the classic ones?

Updated After-Battle Quotes! Battle Quotes are now tied to story and character development of Emil, Marta and the playable cast. Even new animations are added.

Emil, Marta, Richter and the original Symphonia heroes now have three Mystic Artes in addition to their original one.

Sheena can now summon her contracted Summon Spirits when certains conditions during battle are fulfilled.

Additional Tag Team Artes outside of Emil and Marta's Ars Nova has been added. The following pairs are; Emil/Lloyd, Emil/Richter, Marta/Colette, Lloyd/Colette, Genis/Raine, Sheena/Zelos and Presea/Regal. Even Alice and Decus gets a Tag Team Arte when you fight them, so be careful!

New Monsters! 3 for each of the ten creature types are added for a total of 30 new monsters to form a pact with!

New overworld animations! Marta will now follow Emil (or Emil will follow Marta if she's in the lead) on the overworld with new animations and interactions. Marta will now have unique dialog when she interests with NPC's.

Additional overworld characters! When in your party, you can now play as Richter and the original eight Symphonia heroes in the overworld and World Map, each with unique interactions with NPC's. Additionally, the party gains items when Zelos interacts with Female NPC's.

New Game Mode - Battle Royale; Up to four players can play as any of the 11 playable characters and face each other locally or online! Last one standing will be the winner! Initially, only Emil, Marta, Richter and Colette are available. Unlock the other characters by playing through Emil and Marta Mode. You can also choose to battle against the computer as well.

New Game Mode - Alice and Decus Mode; Experience a new story through the eyes of Emil and Marta's Arch-Rivals, Alice and Decus. See Alice and Decus' own thoughts and views on the world and people around them alonside their dark past up to their final battle with Emil and Marta. Unlocked after obtaining the True Ending in Emil and Marta Mode. Once you clear Alice and Decus Mode, you can play as Alice and Decus in Battle Royale Mode.

New Game Mode - Monster Chess; Select one of the eight Centurions and compete with each other in a game of chess with the monsters as the pieces while the Centurion is the King! Can be played with a second player or the computer!

Downloadable Content - New content is added over time. These include;

Extra Stories

Marta's Quest - A Prequel story starring Marta. Experience her story during the six months before she meets Emil in Luin. Includes new characters in the form of Marta's former Vanguard unit. Clearing Marta's Quest will add the seven Vanguard Special Unit characters to play as in Battle Royale Mode.

Richter's Journey - A Prequel story starring Richter. Experience Richter and Aster's joruney to find Ratatosk, setting up the conflict in the main game. Clearing Richter's Journey will add Aster and Original Form Ratatosk to play as in Battle Royale Mode.

Colette and Zelos' Travels - See what Colette and Zelos have been up to as they search for Lloyd after the battle at the Cape Fortress!

Raine and Genis' Adventure - See what Raine and Genis have been up to after leaving Flanoir.

Presea: Memories of the Past - Experience the story through the eyes of Presea Combatir prior to her meeting with Emil and Marta.

Kratos: Protector of Darris Kharlan - Experience a side storyline featuring Kratos Aurion that occurs before and during the Main Story! Clearing Kratos: Protector of Darris Kharlan will add Kratos and Yuan to play as in Battle Royale Mode.

Post-Game Stories - Eight Post-Game chapters can be played. Set after the True Ending. Includes Day at the Beach, Standing Trial, To Cure a Sickness, Memories of Mom, Ozette Adventure, Lloyd and Colette, Battling the Neo Vanguard, and Guardian of the Gate.

Extra Content

Battle Royale Character Pack - Adds Dirk, Seles Wilder, Mithos Yggdrasill, Brute Lualdi, Hawk and Magnar as playable characters in Battle Royale Mode.

Legacy Costume Pack - Dress Emil, Marta, Richter and the original eight heroes up as other characters from the Tales Series games.

Special Weapons Pack - Gain exclusive weapons for Emil, Marta and the original eight heroes.

Tenebrae - Adds Tenebrae as a playable party member in Emil and Marta Mode! Take on a special side quest to make Tenebrae a playable party member in game! Tenebrae will also be added to Battle Royale Mode.

Aqua - Adds Aqua as a playable party member during the Emil and Marta Mode and Richter's Journey DLC! Tackle a special side quest in both modes to make Aqua a playable party member in game! Aqua will also be added to Battle Royale Mode.

Collaboration Boss Battles

Battle against special cameo collaboration characters! Experience new cutscenes against them and when you defeat them, Emil and Marta will gain new items and Titles they can use in Emil and Marta Mode!

To challenge them, head to the Dimension Warp Gate Area in Emil and Marta Mode and select them in the Summon Menu list!

Shakugan no Shana Colaboration Pack - Battle against supernatural heroes Shana and Yuji Sakai from the Light Novel series Shakugan no Shana! Winning will give Emil a copy of Shana's sword Nietono no Shana to use as a new sword while Marta will gain a new spinner stylized after Yuji's Midnight Lost Child Treasure Tool.

Kung Fu Panda Collaboration Pack - Battle against kung fu masters Po, Tigress, Monkey and Shifu from Dreamworks popular movie series Kung Fu Panda! Winning will unlock a Panda Costume for Emil, a Tiger Costume for Marta and special Monkey Charm and Red Panda Charm equipment for any character to use.

Sonic The Hedgehog Collaboration Pack - Battle against Supersonic legends Sonic The Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles The Echidna and Amy Rose from SEGA's iconic Sonic The Hedgehog series! Winning will give Emil a special Sonic Wind Arte, Marta a Storming Heart Arte, a new sword based off Knuckles' Shovel Claws for Emil and a new spinner for Marta based off of Tails' own twin tails.

Disgaea Collaboration Pack - Battle against the superpowered (and wacky) Overlord Laharl, Etna, Flonne, Sicily and Hero Prinny from Nippon Ichi Software's iconic JRPG Series Disgaea! Winning will give Emil one of Laharl's Diabolic Swords, Marta will gain a special spinner based off of Flonne's Magic Staff, and special Demon Queen Charm and a Demon-Angel Necklace equipment for any character to use. Additionally, Prinny Costumes for Emil and Marta can be obtained.

The Familiar of Zero Collaboration Pack - Battle against the particular mage and familiar duo Louise Françoise Le Blanc de La Vallière and Saito Chevalier de Hiraga des Ornières from the memorable Light Novel series The Familiar of Zero. Winning will give Emil a Gandálfr Sword Strike Arte and Marta a Void Explosion Arte.

The Nightmare Before Christmas Collaboration Pack - Battle against the Pumpkin King Jack Skellington alongside his faithful dog Zero from Disney's classic movie The Nightmare Before Christmas. Winning will award Emil a Pumpkin King (Jack) Costume and Marta a Pumpikn Queen (Sally) Costume. Additionally, Emil will get a Soul Robber Sword and Marta will get a Soul Robber Spinner.

Street Fighter Collaboration Pack - Battle against famous World Warriors Ryu and Chun-Li from the smash hit fighting game series Street Fighter. Winning will give Emil the Shin Shoryuken Mystic Arte and Marta the Kikosho Mystic Arte. Additionally, Emil will obtain Ryu's Eternal Wanderer Outfit and Marta will obtaian Chun-Li's First Lady of Fighting Outfit.

Fate/stay night Collaboration Pack - Battle against the Holy Grail War legends Saber, Shirou Emiya and Rin Tohsaka from the classic Visual Novel Fate/stay night. Winning will give Emil a copy of Saber's Excalibur Sword and Marta will gain a spinner based on Rin's magecraft compass. Additionally, a special Shirou Bow equipment will be obtained for any character to use.

To Believe in the Resonating Hearts RPG

"Emil, I'll always love you."

"And I'll always love you too, Marta."

Perfect Partner - "There won't be anyone but you. You will always be with me."

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIM

@porcelain-nightbird​ it is officially your birthday and I did a thing so you should keep reading :)​

Dear Sim; my Tumblr spouse, the love of my life, the person who has for some reason more-than-willingly helped talk me through many emotional crises and still somehow loves me through it all. My fellow Canadian who has let me scream at them AND screamed with me about fandom and music and data and, at times, all three at once, and more. A human being that I am so lucky to have in my life, and I could go on and on but I will try not to get much sappier to spare everybody else that comes across this post ;)

It's your birthday now, and what a wonderful day, because it means that you were born, and I am so glad for that. I hope your day is as lovely as you are. I hope you are reminded of how loved you are and how wonderful you are, and I hope you appreciate that the Glee cast is having a reunion on your birthday and there is clearly no explanation other than that they wanted to give you an amazing birthday present because you are so amazing.

I can't top that birthday present. But, I do still have something for you.

You may or may not remember saying these things:

Well, I remember them. And I have been thinking about them since you said them. And I decided to try to bring them together into one single fic, because hey, that sounds like fun, right?

So, without further ado, here is your birthday present: a Sebklaine D&D oneshot.

I hope you enjoy it, and that it helps make your birthday even just a little brighter <3

Roll the Dice

[also available as a podfic]

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I’m Never Saying Goodbye To You

Chapter 9 is now up. Thank you for all the likes, follows, Kudo's, reviews and for just reading my work. You made my day. Thank you for my amazing beta JayHawkWrites for all your suggestions and fixes. You are the best.

Words: 52094 Chapters: 9 (WIP) Genre: Drama/Romance Rated: M Character: [Blaine A., Kurt H.] Sam Evans, Adam Crawford, Tina Cohen-Chang

Summary:A promise given, words spoken, and then not kept. Kurt had promised Blaine on more than one occasion he was never going to say goodbye, but he did. Was there any way for them to get their love back, or was it just over. Was it worth the fight, or better left alone

Can be found Here on Ao3 and Here on fan fic.net

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

If anyone knows this fic, please let us know. - HKVoyage

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Thanks for the fic, @pikachu-cc!  ~Lynne

Apple of My Eye by idoltina

A fill for this GKM prompt. AU after The Break Up. Blaine finds out that he’s pregnant after Kurt breaks up with him (with Kurt’s child, no less). He tries telling Kurt about it, but Kurt refuses to talk to him. Blaine decides to finish his senior year at home and give the baby up for adoption. Only he doesn’t. He ends up keeping the baby -- a daughter -- and takes her to New York with him when he leaves for college. He raises her partially on his own with some help from his parents, and tries to juggle parenthood, school, and work. And everything works out okay for a little over two years -- until he runs into Kurt.

Warnings: adult language, blood, boypussy, discussions of therapy, male pregnancy, mentions of canonical character death, mentions of canonical infidelity, mentions of childbirth, mentions of previous assault, mild disordered eating, mild illness, obsessive compulsive behavior, sex, vomiting

So there's this fic i'm looking for ar least for one years and i can't find it anywhere. I'm 100% sure it was on fanfiction*net and it was a reunion fic where Kurt and Blaine break up while at college bc Kurt wasn't ready to settle down. Then, years later, they met at airport (?) when Kurt finds Blaine's daughter and then they go drink coffee. I remember that there is a line during the break up where Kurt thinks he can't stay while blaine is so unsufarable perfect. Pleeease help me find it!

This sounds vaguely familiar but I can’t find it. I’m going to reblog this on @klaineccfanficlibrary to see if one of the followers knows this fic. - HKVoyage

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ik this's kinda weird but is there any fics that has the same vibes as the song wicked games ?

This is a great question, and I assume it's Chris Isaak's "Wicked games" song? Which I love too. So i thought perhaps the tone of the song is meeting someone, falling in love but not wanting to, and not ending up with that person. And there's no one who could ever replace that person? Sounds just like Klaine! (but thankfully they got their happy ending.)

I'm going to suggest the angst tag, or the reunited!Klaine tag because there's a lot of fics on there that would fit the song. And here are some that I thought of. ~Jen

The One That Got Away by @catcat-85

AU after the breakup scene in Season 6 Episode 1. Heartbroken and devastated after Kurt ended their relationship, Blaine changed his life completely. He quit NYADA. Enrolled at NYU and became a Pediatric Surgeon. He married Sebastian Smythe and they later have a beautiful daughter named Elena. Kurt realized he made a huge mistake by letting Blaine go. But the realization came too late. Blaine had already moved on and wanted nothing to do with Kurt. Kurt did his best to move on with his life. He graduated from NYADA and started getting cast in off Broadway productions, which led to having his big break when he was cast to be Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway. Since then, his career had taken off and he became a successful actor, but he couldn’t find a man he loves enough to marry. Desperate to have a family of his own, he found an egg donor and surrogate to have a baby, a boy which he named Chris. This is a story about a lost love between Kurt and Blaine, as well as a love story between Chris and Elena. No matter how hard their parents try to keep them apart, Chris and Elena find each other. Even after 25 years, the strength of their love might just be the thing to bring Kurt and Blaine back together.

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The Awakening by @heartsmadeofbooks

Kurt Hummel has put his perfect life together carefully, making sure all the pieces fit exactly how he wanted them to. But all it takes is one name from his past to make all his hard work go to waste - Blaine Anderson.

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All I need is Everything Every Word by pene

After years apart Kurt and Blaine have moved on from one another and built separate lives. Kurt is developing a quiet reputation off-Broadway. Blaine is a fledgling musical theatre writer and producer on the West Coast.

Then they reconnect - because of the music, because of the theater. Because of course they do.

"This show is Blaine’s baby. The madness is that the only person he can picture in the lead role is a boy he has been failing to forget for six years."

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Chrysalis ‘verse by @flowerfan2

Just after graduating from NYU, a car accident puts Blaine into a coma. No one expects him to wake up. Almost three years later, Kurt sees a man in a wheelchair who couldn’t be anyone else. A story of love and new beginnings. Canon compliant through 6x11, then AU.

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Foundations by gentlereader

After breaking up Kurt and Blaine went their separate ways.

Blaine’s now a successful LA musician while Kurt is a high school counselor.

The creation of the Pavarotti Music Foundation was their dream… and now its a reality.

~~~~~ I'd cry a river just for you by maanorchidee @forabeatofadrum

Seven years ago, Kurt and Blaine had a huge fight that ended a ten year long friendship. Now they unexpectedly run into each other in another part of the world. Can they let go of the past?

Hope these are what you're looking for!

[gleefulpoppet]

Since Sense Sensory, a new Klaine fanfic coming soon!

If you had a second chance with your first love, would you take it?

What if Kurt and Blaine never reconciled after the breakup on that dreadful rainy night in New York? And what if twelve years later, they suddenly find themselves reunited in a way they could never have imagined? Will the past bind their hearts forever, or can they find a way to a back to each other?

This 31 chapter, 110k story is completely finished and will be released multiple times per week until entirely posted (starting Friday). You can subscribe to my author's page on AO3 [here] to get notifications about when it posts!

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it’s kind of ridiculous that two of the most pivotal moments of 6x08 - abuela reconciling with santana and finally accepting her, as well as kurt and blaine getting married - were both engineered by sue sylvester. i’m not sure if this is unpopular or not, but in my opinion, sue’s involvement takes away most of the gravitas and emotional impact of what could've been two of glee’s most important scenes. 

despite being a huge klaine shipper, i felt no happiness when they decided to get married because the decision wasn’t entirely theirs. don’t get me wrong, i don’t think they were forced or manipulated into it, and i know they wouldn’t have done it if they didn’t want to, but it’s still not a decision that they came to on their own. it wasn’t their moment and they didn’t get to own it. we didn’t even fucking see how or why kurt said yes!! i was insanely let down by the way that it went down and i would've been more satisfied if they’d told sue to fuck off and chosen not to get married in the ep. i hate just about everything to do with klaine in 6x08, but sue being the one to tell them to get married was the cherry on the top of the disappointment cake. 

and the abuela storyline...god that one is even worse. i would've been fine with the ending of 6x06, because it showed brittana standing together as partners and proving to abuela that their love is stronger than her bigotry. it showed santana finally standing up to abuela and showing her that she was the strong latina woman that she was always meant to be. imo, it was the perfect representation for queer kids whose families have not and will not ever accept them, and i think it helped a lot of people who were in this situation. 

however...glee wanted to go for those big, happy endings. and even though it wouldn’t be my first choice, i can’t begrudge them for wanting to give santana her abuela back in her final episode bc really, how often do queer girls get to have that happy fairytale ending? i don’t blame glee for bringing abuela back even if it wasn’t the most realistic thing to happen. 

what really bothers me is how they chose to go about it. abuela didn’t come to the wedding on her own. it wasn’t santana and brittany’s powerful speech that compelled her to come. it wasn’t another family member, like santana’s mother or father, who convinced her to put aside her prejudice and come reunite with her granddaughter. no, it was fucking sue sylvester. 

it was sue, the woman who made santana’s life hell, who made her come though her BS reverse psychology. sue, who santana hated and didn’t even want at her wedding, was able to convince alma to come in five minutes when santana herself couldn’t do so in three years. what kind of message does that send? if they wanted to do a reconciliation storyline, why didn’t they allow santana, her family, or brittany to be the one to push down those walls and bring her abuela back to her? 

why did so much of this episode have to center around sue when she shouldn’t even have been at that wedding? why weren’t we allowed to see kurt, blaine, santana, and brittany own their narratives in the episode where they committed to spend their lives with each other? it’s funny how the purpose of this double wedding was to push ‘gay marriage good!! go LGBT 🤪’ yet it removed the agency of so many of its queer characters in the span of 43 minutes in order to allow a character (that no one cared about past the first half of season one) to take the spotlight away from them. 

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Maybe I’m just bad with symbolism, but what is the significance of Blaine singing Somewhere Only We Know to Kurt? I’m not really sure how it fits into the Klaine narrative or how it’s a suitable song for saying goodbye.

Well, there are a couple of layers to this.  The first being that it was a hit song at the time, and the show wanted to cover it, lol.  

So, first of all, I think this song would make way, way more sense if it had been done at Dalton.  Because the lyrics (and I looked up the meaning - or what the band Keane had in mind) are about finding solace in a familiar place before a couple parts.  Whether this means break up or whatever, it just means let’s enjoy this safe moment before go our own ways.  So, I do think it’s suitable for saying goodbye, actually.  Because it’s about endings.  

I think this moment actually represents a really interesting dynamic shift in Klaine.  From when they met to this moment, they were, mostly, on equal footing, and were comfortable with each other in the place where they were are in life.  And then something changes - Kurt moves back to McKinley, and Klaine will not be back on complete equal footing until the end of the series.  So, I think the song represents the pivot the relationship is going to take.  This whole relationship has so much fairy tale and youthful vibes to it, which start to be tested with the heaviness that is adulthood.  And I think that kind of sentiment is in the song.  

I think Blaine is also somewhat dramatic (said lovingly) and in a way this is a sort of break up.  It’s a change in the way things are -- and Blaine kind of wants to hold onto that special time where he and Kurt did everything everywhere together.  So, it’s his (somewhat melodramatic) way of dealing with his feelings.  

Plus, I think there’s some thematic element related to Kurt’s individual story - as Kurt is coming back to somewhere he used to know and is being reunited with his original family, but that means leaving his new one behind, and that’s a sad thought.  The song also pairs nicely as a lead in to As If We Never Said Goodbye, which is almost a response to the Somewhere Only We Know.  

Hopefully that helps it make sense? 

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JUNE CHARACTER CELEBRATION - BLAINE ANDERSON

Fandom has some funny ideas about Blaine. I just can’t comprehend any hatred of this character, and just believe people read what they want to into every scene. Most of us see the great and good in Blaine’s character and the Klaine romance. Not to mention, Darren’s amazing abilities and qualities that he brought to Blaine. Blaine - the amazing singer, performer, piano player, charismatic front man of Warblers and leader of Glee club.

Let’s talk about canon Blaine and the positivity towards his character.

EVERYBODY loved Blaine. There’s not a character that disliked Blaine.

Kurt obviously adored him. He called him the love of his life and chose to love and trust him. Blaine was his anchor, made him feel safe and loved. Blaine helped Kurt deal with the bulling in season 2, supported him in applying for NYADA is season 3, despite his own inner turmoil about it; continued support for him in New York and what he chose to do regarding their relationship in season 4; their engagement and highs and lows of season 5; and season 6 reunion and marriage after therapy and time apart. Kurt chose to be with Blaine forever.

Burt and Carole adored him. Always helps to get on well with the in-laws. Burt called him part of the family, like a son to him. Burt could see he was good for Kurt, and supported them through their ups and downs.

His best friends especially loved him, enjoyed being with him, they had great times together, he looked after them and they looked after him. (Sam, Tina, Artie, Brittany, Mike and the season 4 newbies). He just wanted to help people, make them happy . He helped Sam with body issues, his self esteem and trying to choose a college, and encouraging him in New York. He cared for Tina, especially on prom night. He supported Brittany when Santana left and she went off the rails. Artie was a huge fan, as was Jake and Ryder. Also support for other characters, such as the season 4 newbies and the Warblers.

Kurt’s best friends loved him - Rachel, Santana , Mercedes, Elliott. Even when Klaine was split, these characters wanted them reunited. Finn liked him, when he got over his pettiness. Puck too respected him. Rachel was his and Kurt’s biggest supporter. He was there for her when every thing had crashed in season 6.

The Warblers , season 2, 4 and 6 respected him - sex on a stick and sings like a dream- flawless - the adoration in season 2. Especially Sebastian - who had the hots for Blaine - not Kurt. BLAINE

Blaine forgave Sebastian and the Warblers for the slushie that nearly blinded him, as well as other poor behavior.

And even Hunter recognised what he was dealing with. (I’ m going to take it up a notch , and that starts with you.)

Will and Emma always spoke highly of him, praised his abilities, and Becky loved him.

His mom and brother, gave him them support he needed in adult life. Cooper and he became friends after a childhood of complex emotions towards each other. Blaine was willing to forgive, and move on, not just with Cooper.

And even Sue had a soft spot for him. Or recognised a worthy adversary?

I wish I could put more than ten gifs here, but I think you all get the general idea.

EVERYBODY LOVED BLAINE.

@spaceorphan18

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Stages of Loss

Author: Scrapmom2112

Status: Complete

Pairing: Kurt/Blaine

Word count: 39,663

Rating: M

Summary: When you experience loss, whether it be through death or just a break up, you go through 5 stages: grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance. After their break-up, Blaine went through all these stages of loss except one, anger. Somehow he'd skipped that stage...until Kurt came back to town to win him back. No BA/DK!

Comment: Angst and general emotional turmoil will tug at your heart.

Story link: AO3

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Author Spotlight: Flowerfan2 Day 2

Author: @flowerfan2​

Share one of your strengths.

I really like writing communication.  I can't stand when miscommunication is overused.  But my favorite thing to write is having a couple in a loving, established relationship face an outside challenge together, and showing how that unconditional love can grow stronger in the face of difficulties.

Share one of your weaknesses.

I wish I had the kind of style that made it seem like my writing was effortless. 

Which fic has been the hardest to write?

Focusing on my Glee fics, I would have to say the Advent Challenge years when I wrote one long continuous story with a new chapter posting every day.  I always wanted each chapter to be at least 1000 words, and having to do one every day (without knowing what the word might be) became a little bit too stressful.  But I like to think the stories came out ok!

Which fic has been the easiest to write?

Dancing in the Dark, about early!Klaine sexytimes, is one of those that just flowed out of me in one long breath.  Pillow Talk (Blaine and Kurt talk about when Blaine was with Dave) was like that too - and much shorter.  Recently my early pandemic silly sexytimes fic Private Time was a lot of fun too.

Is writing your passion or just a fun hobby?

It's really my passion.

Is there an episode or character or arc above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?

Klaine was my first and most powerful inspiration, and will always hold a special place in my heart.

What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever come across?

Write for yourself.  If you try to write what other people want to read, you're not going to have any fun.

What’s the worst writing advice you’ve ever come across?

Only write what you know (although I've certainly used a lot of locations and tidbits from my life, if I limited my stories to just my life, we'd all be quite tired of lawyer AU's).

If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?

So many!  I think The Journeying and its sequel Ever After would be very entertaining - in those stories, Blaine and Kurt reunite in NYC for a production of Into the Woods.  Blaine has a supportive bestie, both Blaine and Kurt are young and gorgeous, although of course sad and pining, NYC is a great location, and thinking of them singing the songs in that show gets me teary every time. 

What’s your process? Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order? Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines? What are the perfect writing conditions for you?

I write from start to finish, often without a clear enough idea of exactly what needs to happen to get from A to Z.  I'm not proud of it, and I'm trying to fix it.  Lately for my longer fics I have been using an outline document, mostly to keep track of what has happened overall in each chapter and what beats are still upcoming.  I hit on my perfect writing conditions last fall when I got a new laptop so I can write anywhere - and it's a good thing, because with the pandemic I never have any alone time in my house anymore :)

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Here Comes The Sun -  AU after 5x02. When the New Directions’ bus crashes before Nationals, Finn is killed and Blaine is badly injured. Grieving and damaged, Kurt and Blaine call off their engagement. This story takes place two years after the tragedy, when Kurt and Blaine run into each other in New York City. Klaine; Blam friendship.

Dancing in the Dark -  What if Kurt and Blaine’s early sexual relationship wasn’t quite so fairy-tale perfect, but was more like, well, real life? A different look at early!Klaine’s sexytimes journey.

The Journeying - Freshly graduated from music school, Blaine is thrilled when he is chosen to stay in the cast when the production of Into the Woods he was lucky enough to be part of in Boston moves to Broadway. He knows it’s going to be hard returning to New York City – the scene of his epic breakup with his fiancé and the emotional meltdown which cost him his place at NYADA. But he’s determined that this time, everything will be different. Little does Blaine know that out of thousands of potential castmates, his director has chosen none other than Kurt Hummel to play the part of Jack. Blaine has worked hard to recover from their breakup three years ago, and struggles to find a new way to relate to Kurt and simultaneously protect himself, especially when tragedy strikes. This story looks at what would have happened if Kurt and Blaine had reacted differently to the break up in 6x01 than they did in canon; if events hadn’t brought them back together as soon, and if forgiveness hadn’t come so easily.