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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.
* * *
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.
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.
* * *
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 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.
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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.
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Holy crap. Blaine has got it SO BAD.
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