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I am the worst sick person ever. Seriously. I don't sleep and I don't eat; I just shiver under piles of blanket and/or coats, and complain. So please pretend that I have just filled this space with vociferous complaints, because that is how I feel today.

I am, however, at work. SORRY COWORKERS. I am staying in my cubicle and disinfecting everything I touch. I felt guilty staying home when I am, in fact, mostly functional.

WHILE I AM ON THE SUBJECT OF GLEE -- three new promos were leaked last night. I managed to watch one and a half of them; the other one and a half were way, way too much for my crawling-under-furniture-to-escape contact embarrassment squick. OH BB WHY YOU DO THIS. I can usually make a pretty solid guess based on previews, but I still can't decide if this episode is going to be delightful, a trainwreck, or -- in what is basically my gold standard for Glee -- a delightful trainwreck. I'm leaning slightly toward trainwreck, after watching what I managed to stomach of the promos.

Day 01 - Your favorite male character
Day 02 - Your favorite female character
Day 03 - Your favorite group performance
Day 04 - Your favorite solo
Day 05 - Your favorite duet
Day 06 - Your favorite Rachel/Finn moment
Day 07 - Your favorite Finn-Kurt moment
Day 08 - Your favorite Quinn/Puck moment
Day 09 - Your favorite Kurt-Mercedes moment
Day 10 - Your favorite Santana/Brittany moment
Day 11 - Your favorite Sue Sylvester moment
Day 12 - The couple you ship the MOST
Day 13 - A scene/moment that pissed you off
Day 14 - A scene/moment that made you cry
Day 15 - A scene/moment that made you happy
Day 16 - Your favorite episode
Day 17 - Your least favorite episode
Day 18 - Your least favorite character
Day 19 - Your least favorite performance
Day 20 - Your favorite quote
Day 21 - Your favorite guest-star
Day 22 - Your least favorite guest-star
Day 23 - The character you most relate to
Day 24 - The character you would like to hear/see more of
Day 25 - Something that happened you wish hadn’t
Day 26 - Something that hadn’t happened but you wish had
Day 27 - Your idea for a future Glee episode
Day 28 - Your idea for a future Glee character
Day 29 - Your idea for a future Glee performance
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy

Oh God, Kurt and Mercedes have been so horrible to each other. In general, and particularly during the course of this season. Mercedes smashing the Navigator's windshield due to ill-advised crush! Kurt encouraging disordered eating last season! Mercedes shoving Jesus at Kurt despite his explicit wishes! Kurt telling Mercedes she is eating her feelings because she needs a boyfriend and setting her up with one of the only black guys in the school! SO BAD.

Seriously, I'm having a hard time thinking of positive moments; they've been amazingly bad friends to each other lately. So I'm going to go with pretty much the only good thing I can come up with right now.

Favorite Mercedes-Kurt moment: "Four Minutes"

(Dear gif makers: please make more gifs starring Mercedes. We will not discuss how much of my lunch break trying to find even this crappy one took.)

Oh, come on, do I really need to explain this choice? I mean, I guess I must have enjoyed other stuff about their friendship in season one, and I loved the moment in "Never Been Kissed" where Kurt starts dancing up on Mercedes during the boys' performance as she busts out laughing, but "Four Minutes" was epic. I love their combined front and their determination to be stars, and how fierce they are. I was going to embed the performance, but I cannot find it anywhere on the internet; Sony/Fox must have seriously cracked down on this one. All I've got is the USC Trojan marching band rehearsing for it.

BONUS GIF! (I miss when Kurt was a Cheerio. Even if it brings me back to the whole "Mercedes picks up an eating disorder and is cured of it by the healing power of Christina Aguilera and Quinn's Sudden Maternal Wisdoms, within the course of one episode" ... thing.

Poor Amber Riley, man. She gets the shittest plot points.)

"Okay, what is going on?" Mercedes demands, stopping in her tracks. She thinks it's a pretty reasonable question, given that Kurt had insisted -- via text -- that she immediately come to the gym and she has just arrived to find him standing in front of the full William McKinley High School Titans marching band. He's smiling as he comes forward (a real smile, not the tense ones she's gotten used to seeing this year).

"No," Mercedes says, staring at him, and his smile turns into a full-on Hummel smirk.

"For old times' sake," he says, spinning on his heel, tucking his arm into hers, and pulling her with him toward the band.

"Kurt, this is really weird--" she points out, laughing and letting him drag her across the gym floor. Nobody's in uniform; the musicians are all in jeans and T-shirts and Kurt's still wearing the totally insane kilt-and-strappy-shirt outfit he'd rocked in glee this morning, and Mercedes herself looks fabulous, naturally.

The absence of a wall of obnoxious red-and-white makes her feel a lot better about what she's pretty sure Kurt is proposing here.

And then the band lifts their instruments and they blast the unforgettable opening bars of "Thriller," and Mercedes's smile stretches enormously even as Kurt lets go of her.

"I know I've been busy lately," Kurt shouts over the wall of sound, and Mercedes knows how to read between the lines. "So I thought--" He gestures vaguely at the trumpets, who are sliding to the left all in a row, just behind them.

"You're ridiculous, boy," Mercedes tells him fondly. "You know that, right?" She can't even imagine how he managed to rope the band into doing this, or how long it took to get them to learn a Michael Jackson song.

Kurt arches an eyebrow perfectly and lifts his fingers to tuck his bangs back. One side of his mouth has tilted upward. He knows, alright.

"Apology accepted," she says, rolling her eyes at him, and she laughs when Kurt sidles to the side, perfectly in time with the beat, and hands her a microphone.

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I would just like to point out what greeted me on my Google home page this morning.

You know, you know, that the second I move next fall, the forecasts are going to swap, right?

I JUST WANT SOME FUCKING SNOW IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK.

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I feel like I'm accidentally stalking you (first TWOP and then I refreshed my flist, haha).

I hadn't realized how terrible Kurt and Mercedes have been to each other (or it hadn't registered to what extent) until you started listing off all the incidents. D: Wow, I guess my brain just usually associates Kurt/Mercedes with little cute moments like 'And I'm Telling You' and S1 "Over the Rainbow' finale.

I like how Kurt apologizes with grand gestures. (My head-canon, he takes after Burt and he usually tries to apologize with gifts. It's well-intentioned, but horribly awkward because Kurt doesn't realize how awkward he's being.)

HAHA! I was really confused when I first read this comment; I was like, 'TWOP? what does she mean...' and then I clicked 'post' on the comment I'd been working on over there and realized that you'd posted just above me. I finally caved and got an account there; I've been reading the Blaine thread for a while, since somebody linked it at

kurt_blaine. It is just so civil! And everyone writes intelligently and maturely and has really interesting things to say! It's blowing my mind a little. I forgot the internet could be like this.

How disillusioned I have become with their friendship: I honestly don't even remember either of the parts that you're talking about. D: Oh, wait, yes I do. In "Over the Rainbow," they're being all cuddly with each other and Quinn! I don't remember what Kurt does in "And I Am Telling You," though. The writers have pretty much taken a wrecking ball to their relationship lately.

I can totally see that! I just figured that we've seen that Kurt is a plotter and a big fan of overkill; I can see him going for over-the-top gestures.

I'm shameless in incorporating meta/lampshading stuff in my fics. I find TWOP discussions to be very interesting, but I have to admit I usually have my Kurt and Blaine goggles on. :( (I also tend to love everyone except maybe Mr. Schue, Artie, and Puck when they're being jerks. And even if I don't like their characters, I adore the Glee cast.) So some of the discussions depresses me.

I was thinking of Kurt's reaction shot during "And I Am Telling You" when he looks so proud of his girl and claps a hand over his heart. :) An entire common room full of girls d'awwed over that when we watched it. :D

Oh, I do not venture outside the Kurt and Blaine threads. That's pretty much my mantra in general, when it comes to Glee discussion. There is so much Kurt/Karofsky "omg they would be so cuuuute together!!!11" creepery and epic Kurt hatred in the fandom (I mean, stuff going way beyond "I don't particularly care for the character") that I don't dare stray far into general discussions. So I am all about the Kurt and Blaine goggles!

OH. Is that what the hand-over-heart gif is from!! I've seen it around and I remembered that it was directed at Mercedes, but not what the specific scene was.

Ahahahahah yeah they have been TERRIBLE friends to each other. The tots thing and the 'eating your feelings' thing was just. Awful. And the way in which Mercedes just feebly accepted Kurt's criticism was just. Urgh! Stupid white male writers! *hits them*

My greatest wish is that they hire more writers and that said writers are not more white dudes. I think Glee's is a writers' room that could really, really use some diversity.

Second greatest wish: that they worked on episodes together instead of each guy writing his own and totally ignoring what the other two are doing.

I could deal with the "you are setting me up with one of the only black guys in school" thing, because Mercedes totally called Kurt on it and gave him the disapproving side eye! I definitely could not deal with the way that the show treated Kurt's horrendous final speech like it was gospel truth, though. aks;fnjsddg. I like to pretend that this fic is reality; as absurd as it is, I prefer it to what the show did.

... I think I'd prefer it too! It honestly makes more sense than anything the writers did.

I JUST WANT SOME FUCKING SNOW IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK.

YOU WILL LAUGH AT HOW INSTANTLY THE WHOLE COUNTRY GRINDS TO A HALT. FFS.

*Sent home from work*

I KNOW; I FIND IT VERY ENDEARING. It takes about six inches, falling very fast, for anyone to even consider closing schools/workplaces here. Even then, if a foot fell on Sunday, we'd usually have school on Monday. But you guys don't have the infrastructure to deal with it! So I get it. I can't mock.

I am seriously going to kill the weather if I arrive in the country next year and it has stopped snowing like this, for the record!! I will want snow days!!

Edited 2010-11-30 19:28 (UTC)

OKAY so my internet just came back after a day and a half and I will totally comment on all the fic you've posted tomorrow, but I just wanted to say this about tonight's ep:

The Dalton storyline gets a lot less depressing if you picture the omitted scenes in which Blaine is like
"OH MY GOD GUYS
WHAT IF KURT DOESN'T FEEL WELCOME
WE SHOULD LET HIM AUDITION FOR A SOLO
THAT'S OKAY RIGHT
RIGHT
RIGHT"

And the other Warblers just go "OH MY GOD, FINE. The things we do to get you laid, bro."

I just rewatched the episode and bawled (with "oh my god this is horrible" feelings) at the "hey, it's okay, DON'T WORRY, YOU WILL BE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE SOON AND IT WILL BE GREAT" post-"Argentina" scene.

MY SADNESS AND DISILLUSIONMENT CANNOT BE ASSUAGED

Although I want a million fics of your scenario. Immediately.

God, I know. Kurt just killed me the entire episode, he was trying so hard to make things work. I hope they let him be happy there next week at least.

I totally can't stop thinking about Blaine, though. If I read him right, they could do some interesting things with his characterization, but I don't know if the moments I'm honing in on were DC's acting choices or what. I will probably end up babbling about it to you later.

I think what made me saddest about the whole thing is that he didn't seem to have a real connection with one single person at Dalton other than Blaine. The closest we got were those two high fives. No one ever smiled at him, or really even looked interested when he sang; they just stared at him attentively (kind of blankly, I thought) and then politely applauded. It made me want to bundle him back to McKinley immediately.

The whole thing with Blaine read to me like he has pretty ruthlessly squashed his own identity in order to be a part of the Warblers, and like the real Blaine is the one who dorks out while performing ("I'm so gangster, I'm so thug" faces!!!) and happily gushed with Kurt at Breadstix. I actually like that and would be really interested in an exploration of Blaine slowly realizing that. But I'm just like ... did the writers intend that? Will they ever reference this stuff again? Will Blaine ever get more lines that are not serene metaphors (I did like that they lampooned it a little bit with Kurt asking if he has any sage advice)? I would actually be pretty uncomfortable if the two of them hooked up, at this point; I was hoping for some we-are-equals moments in this episode, but the power dynamic was still pretty heavily skewed.

YESSSS let's babble.

I KNOW. D: He seemed more lonely than ever. Whereas the McKinley kids, by contrast, were still incredibly warm to him, and he clearly wanted to be on stage with them. I know it makes sense dramatically to lure him back, but dammit, y'all, let him be happyyyy.

OKAY BABBLE MODE ON. I am not sure if I am just making things up or if the writers are even this smart or what, but we are totally on the same wavelength yet again. Blaine was clearly totally enthralled with DCFMA - he looked like he was about to start crying - but then he modulated his reaction to jive with the team's. I felt like DC even reads his lines differently depending on the context: normal!Blaine is more dorky, but mentor/team player!Blaine has a flatter, more practiced delivery. It makes me think of the difference between, say, an actor's delivery as a superhero and his secret identity. (Would his superhero name be "Bad Advice Blaine," I wonder?)

But anyway. In this scenario, Kurt has ample room to switch their positions and step into more of a "mentor" role. He could point out to Blaine that he seems much happier when he's not moderating himself to match the group, and help him embrace his dorky side. It would actually end up being more like the storyline RM initially teased: Kurt meets boy, helps boy embrace who he is, and they fall in love in the process.

BUT I THINK I AM REALLY JUST MAKING STUFF UP

I was like FOR GOD'S SAKE BLAINE JUST HUG HIM, EVEN PLATONICALLY, I DON'T CARE; JUST DO IT

His superhero name should be Bad Advice Man; he gives the WORST ADVICE EVER, SERIOUSLY. Also what up Bexie, because that was totally my next thought -- that if we are right and this is where they're going (which I'm dubious of, because that would mean the writers are doing something kind of subtly and are planning in advance and writing a character with continuity in his characterization), Kurt is going to wind up helping Blaine like Blaine tried to help him.

And God help me I want it. I want it so bad. THEY CAN LEAVE DALTON TOGETHERRRR. Or, like. Kurt can leave, and then Blaine can turn up at McKinley in September.

KURT NEEDS SO MANY HUGS AND IT TOOK A HEART TO HEART WITH RACHEL TO GET ONE. Don't let Rachel Berry steal your thunder, Blaine. Even if they ARE the most adorable BFFs ever to grace my TV screen.

It's funny, because I didn't want Blaine to leave Dalton for McKinley, but now I think McKinley!Blaine would be pretty damn adorable. I am just picturing him being SO STOKED that he and Kurt are going to be badass and fight the power and so on. That episode would doubtlessly end with Blaine, like, dramatically taking a slushie for Kurt or something. (And Kurt, even more dramatically, would then treat it as if Blaine actually took a bullet for him.)

omg omg omg I was so happy with the Kurt/Rachel stuff YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW, I WANT THEM TO BE BFFS FOREVER (except totally still violently competitive when Kurt comes back).

I didn't want him to leave Dalton either, but now I am like OH MY GOD PLEASE GET OUT OF THERE, I LIKE YOU SO MUCH LESS WHEN YOU ARE THERE. I would die of happiness and laughter if your idea happened. It would be so right!!! What I would love more than anything is the two of them walking through the front doors together (possibly after a cute scene out front), proud and happy and adorbs, hand in hand -- and then, out of nowhere, two slushies to the face.

Blaine looks a little stunned; Kurt just expertly flicks slushie out of his eyes and says, deadpan, "It's so good to be back."

(glee!)

LOVE THEM, LOVE THEM SO MUCH. Rachel jumping to her feet after their performance (and forcing everyone else to follow suit) = EXCELLENT AND AMAZING.

HAHAHAHAHA YESSS, I totally want a scene like that. I need this scenario in my life, Lexie!! And then they can bring back the Kurt who forces the jocks to hold onto his haute couture before throwing him into a dumpster, and Blaine can make adorable smitten faces at what a BAMF his boyfriend is.

YES!!! I loved that Mercedes and Quinn were the second and third on their feet, too. BFFS FOR LIFE

kjsdjkgdg yes please yes yes yes. I want to see Blaine as a fish out of water SO BAD.

/eloquent comment is eloquent

I read something once about how if you have a group of people watching a show, they will all be watching a different show that depends on what they're focusing on.

Point is, I think The Bexie Show is better than everyone else's show. IT ARE FACT.

FACT FACT FACT

A PICSPAM

KNEES

TAKE HIS HAND

I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHICH ONE I AM TALKING TO JUST DO IT

I watched this happen last night, though I saw it, was unsure, went back and screencapped today.

Definitely saw it.

1) Eyes on Kurt's face
2) Eyes on Kurt's eyes
3) Eyes on Kurt's eyes
4) MOUTH GLANCE

(It's more obvious when you see it in motion; it's a definite downward flick.)

JITTERY BUTTERFLIES

Then there is silence for a couple seconds, and it looks kind of awkward on Blaine's part, and then he takes a quick breath and says his abrupt "Warblers practice at 5, okay?" line.

(I am doing this and pretending that the post-DCFMA scene did not shake my shipper's heart.)

Edited 2010-12-01 16:07 (UTC)

I am legitimately trying not to giggle at work. He may be a little messed up, but he is clearly into Kurt and I think he was totally considering a kiss there. GET IT, BLAINE!

I totally think the thought crossed his mind and then he was like NO WAIT AHHH WHAT AM I DOING WHAT DO I TALK ABOUT UH OKAY WARBLERS

Words cannot describe how much I want the suave facade to slip next episode, because I think he's got it so, so bad for Kurt.

I just choked on my lunch because I tried to chew sausage and stifle an instinctive squealing noise at the same time. I WANT THIS!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sure I will still be charmed by the song, but I'll be so, so disappointed if Blaine Rico Suave's his way through BICO next week, seriously. I JUST WANT SOME AWKWARD FUMBLING OKAY.

Edited 2010-12-01 16:48 (UTC)

YESSSS. I would like to see the conflict between "Kurt really needs a friend right now" and "OH MY GOD I CAN'T TAKE IT HE'S SO CUTE ;;"

OMG BECKY

THE WARBLERS ARE DOING BILLS BILLS BILLS BY DESTINY'S CHILD IN 2x12.

I AM CRYING

... SHRIEKING. SHRIEKING HYSTERICALLY. OH GOD.

I WANT TO EMBED THIS BUT I WON'T IN CASE SOMEBODY SOMEHOW STUMBLES ACROSS THIS ENTRY AND DOESN'T WANT SPOILERS

CHECK IT

SobbingsobbingSOBBING this is ridiculous and yet amazing

WHAT IS THIS SHOW LEXIE

The other tweet that came in from the Warbler who leaked the song just before he dropped the song title: here.

If they were watching the DC (and I don't mean Darren Criss) video for this song because they are approximating any of its dance moves I WILL DIE. *just finished rewatching the original video. HOWLING*

Edited 2010-12-03 00:50 (UTC)

WARBLERS, I HAVE HOPE FOR YOU YET.

OMFG LEXIE. The BICO video is up on ew.com. The player they're using doesn't work on my phone so I have to wait for YouTube and I am TERRIFIED.

I HAVE WATCHED IT FOUR TIMES

IS IT AMAZING?!

IT IS --

I am going to stop with the capslock because otherwise this entire comment would be in it, hahaha.

It is very fun and funny and flirty and sweet, but playfully so; not, like -- romantic-seriously so. They cut the lines about Kurt's lips, which made me sad, but Blaine follows Kurt all around the commons and they gesture at each other and smile and keep winding up touching, and it's super adorable.

Watch Blaine's face on "I thrill when you touch my hand," when you see it; he's turned away from Kurt and it is a REALLY REALLY GENUINE FACE. He is so into Kurt, dude, it is ridiculous.

Edited 2010-12-03 15:16 (UTC)

Oh my God. The waiting is going to kill me. If I had known it'd come out I seriously would have called in sick today.

hahahajfksdg I love you

Also: Kurt's coy faces are adorable. He mostly looks like he's playing around to me (if a thrilled-to-be-singing-a-flirty-song playing around), but Blaine has a couple moments where he kind of breaks character and watches Kurt pretty wistfully. It's not as overtly romantic as I'd half-hoped it would be, but it's really darling.

Okay I got a YT link...

...

Holy crap. Blaine has got it SO BAD.

"I thrill when you touch my hand" gets me EVERY TIME.

Between that longing look, the dorktastic dancing, and Kurt being adorably coy, I am officially in love with this pairing again!!!

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