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My home is currently an incubation chamber for paint fumes, drills, and death plague. I am somehow the sole healthy body in the house. This is the exact opposite way that this usually works. It's freaking me out, and I am basically at this point just waiting for the moment where I start hacking. Especially since, given the oncoming freight train of a blizzard, I am probably going to wind up locked in the house with the plague carriers all day on Wednesday.
If the power/internet goes out, I am going to die. My pre-ordered copy of the Pioneer Woman's new book (yessss Black Heels to Tractor Wheels) had best arrive post haste.
While I'm on the subject of death, with every fresh storm, my commute becomes more and more like a Jason Statham movie. The snow piles have gotten to the point where they're crowding parked cars out into the road, which is a particularly un-fun experience on the city's already-narrow streets, and where they are so high that you can't fucking see around corners. Taking turns has become an experience in ball-steeliness. I just gun it and hope that nobody hits me. I love snow, but I do not love careening through the city in it. (Actually, that is a lie. I would totally love careening through the city in it -- if there weren't any other cars on the roads.)
HAHAHA OH MY GOD NO MORE EIGHTIES SONGS. SERIOUSLY. NO MORE JOURNEY.
Be forewarned that there is a promo picture from an upcoming episode in this meme response! I really don't think it's very spoilery, but your mileage may vary. Also OH MY GOD, they released the Super Bowl episode songs this morning, and I couldn't give two shits about three of them, but I have been listening to the fourth all day. It is 100% absurd.
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
I'd really like to see more of the kids' home lives and their parents, especially Rachel's dads, whose absence just feels really glaring by this point, but I feel like answering this question with "I would like to see more of [x character] who we have never actually seen onscreen/who only exists in photographs" is kind of cheating. I would love to see more of Lauren, but it sounds like we're getting that; I would also love to see more of Mercedes. In both cases, I would really, really like it if their storylines did not revolve around food or a boy (as much as I ship Lauren/Puck and as much as I love Kurt), but I think it's kind of unlikely.
But I've really got two finalists for this question, and as it so happens, they're dating. I love Tina and Mike both together and apart, and I feel like they, more than anyone else in the New Directions, get very little screentime, storylines, and things to do. Pitting them against each other and picking only is REALLY REALLY HARD, but in the end, as charming as I find Mike's PUPPY FACES in the background of every scene, as much as I adore his dancing, and as much as I love what a sweetheart he is (and as much as I want to use that gif of him giving Beiste the eye from "Never Been Kissed"), I've got to give this one to his girlfriend.
(But seriously, LOOK AT THAT PUPPY FACE.)
I will not be swayed by the puppy face.
The character you would like to hear/see more of: Tina Cohen-Chang
Jenna Ushkowitz is very funny and her voice is stunning; she amazes me more with her versatility every time that I hear her sing, which is all too rarely. Tina is one of the only original New Directions I can think of who has, as far as I remember, never had an A-plot. If she has something to do, it's almost always in the background and in reaction to someone else (romantic conflict with Artie, showed-even-less-often romantic conflict with Mike, wearing Gaga clothes in "Theatricality" because Figgins is afraid of vampires, getting the West Side Story solo and having Rachel pitch a fit over it, etc. etc.), and I desperately want to see more of her. I love her feminism and her fierce-itude, and how she has steadily grown from being the girl who was so shy that she faked a stutter. I love her fashion sense. I loved that she was like, "You treat me like crap and Mike is sweet and really hot, so peace, Artie," and that in the relationship with Mike, she seems to be the one who's more into the physical stuff.
I just really, really want Tina to have a story of her own. I love her individuality and the flashes of her that we've seen (make-out enthusiasm! feel the righteous blade of her feminist equality! pretending she's a vampire and scaring Figgins into letting her wear her own clothes! the way she coordinates the streaks in her hair with her eye shadow!), and, seriously -- it's so fucking ridiculous how little Ushkowitz gets to do on this goddamn show. GIVE HER THINGS TO DO. WE WANT TINA C.
I somehow keep winding up writing about other students' dickrinse behavior at McKinley. I guess I am more frustrated with the unevenness of the handling of bullying than I thought I was! For the record, this is set at some nebulous point after Rachel sends Sunshine to the crackhouse (what the hell, writers), but before "Special Education."
Tina hears the way that people talk about her. She knows that "Hot Topic" is one of the kinder nicknames that get sniggered when she walks into class wearing her newest find from Lip Service or Heavy Red. She really doesn't give a shit what they say about her; she used to use her clothes as a way to keep hiding from people, pushing them away, but now she just wears them because she likes her style, and everybody else -- including anyone who thinks she's wearing a Victorian-inspired white dress with a wide leather belt and combat boots because she's into vampires -- can just deal with that.
She raises her hand in class now; today, she schools her fourth-period Current Affairs class on feminism 101, shutting down guy after guy who tries to say that it's a compliment if he stops a stranger on the street and tells her that she has to smile for him. She ignores Trenton Kendrick when he not-so-quietly mutters, "Bull dyke" after she causes a quiet burst of laughter that ripples through the classroom, and she both congratulates herself on getting to him and makes a mental note to warn Mike that Kendrick is probably going to be an ass to him in practice tomorrow.
After class, she takes the long way around to the chorus room; the route that avoids the hall that connects the gym to the main building (where some football players will be headed to pump iron in the weight room). The dress she's wearing today was a birthday gift from her parents, who haven't always approved of her style but have really come around in the last few months. It's white and lacy and pristine, just perfect, and Tina would really, really like it to stay that way.
"Girl," says Mercedes the second that she steps through the door, "did you really ask Trenton Kendrick if his mom dropped him on his head when he was a baby? In front of the whole class?"
Tina laughs gustily and nods, and Kurt claps his hands and proclaims her his hero.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," says Mr. Schuester, but Tina can see the amusement that he's trying to hide. She had Spanish with Trenton Kendrick last year; Mr. Schue definitely knows what a meathead he is.
"That was Ms. Gilley's reaction, too," she says, laughing, and as Mr. Schuester tries to get everyone into their seats so that they can kick off rehearsal, Tina takes the chair beside Mike and swings her bag down, and she shoots him a wry, slightly apologetic look. He's grinning broadly at her, and he shoots her an approving thumbs up. Tina feels a giddy laugh bubble up in her chest again and it takes a second to quell it; in the end, she just beams back at Mike and squeezes his knee.
"So," Mr. Schue is saying, "in the interest of mixing things up a bit--" And then she suddenly realizes that he is looking right at her. "Tina, what do you say?"
Tina raises her eyebrows in shock at the sheet music that Mr. Schue is holding out to her.
"Mr. Schuester," says an all-too-familiar voice from the row behind her, sounding equally stunned, "I really must protest; my voice is much more suited to the smoky power of Adele's performance. If this is a potential number for sectionals--"
"Rachel," sighs Mr. Schuester.
"Tina understands," Rachel insists. "It's for the goo--"
This is all too familiar, but this time, Tina doesn't have the patience to deal with it. She turns around in her chair and says, "Actually, I don't understand." Rachel's mouth opens in a perfect o of shock, like she hadn't even considered the possibility that Tina might argue. "I really like this song, I haven't had a solo since we did 'True Colors' last year, and I want to try it." Rachel shrinks back into her seat. She looks like Tina has just genuinely rattled her world; like she seriously had no idea that Tina never gets asked to try solos, and now she's trying to think back over the last year of performances and count solos in her head. From the back row, Santana gives Tina an approving, nasty-looking nod over the top of Rachel's head, but Tina ignores everything that's going on behind her and looks to Mr. Schuester.
"I say bring it, Mr. Schue," she says, and there's a burst of breathless laughter and a couple claps from all around her; somebody (almost definitely Artie) says, "Ooooooh, girl!"
Tina hops up out of her seat as the guitarist plays the opening notes of the song, and as she draws breath in preparation to sing her heart out, she thinks that next week, she might bleach her blue streaks and try red.
EDIT: [White-texted Glee spoilers for episode 2x15!!!]
akfskdjsdjgsdkjghjsdgmsdg SOMEONE COME DISCUSS THIS WITH ME, I'M FREAKING OUT A LITTLE.
If the power/internet goes out, I am going to die. My pre-ordered copy of the Pioneer Woman's new book (yessss Black Heels to Tractor Wheels) had best arrive post haste.
While I'm on the subject of death, with every fresh storm, my commute becomes more and more like a Jason Statham movie. The snow piles have gotten to the point where they're crowding parked cars out into the road, which is a particularly un-fun experience on the city's already-narrow streets, and where they are so high that you can't fucking see around corners. Taking turns has become an experience in ball-steeliness. I just gun it and hope that nobody hits me. I love snow, but I do not love careening through the city in it. (Actually, that is a lie. I would totally love careening through the city in it -- if there weren't any other cars on the roads.)
HAHAHA OH MY GOD NO MORE EIGHTIES SONGS. SERIOUSLY. NO MORE JOURNEY.
Be forewarned that there is a promo picture from an upcoming episode in this meme response! I really don't think it's very spoilery, but your mileage may vary. Also OH MY GOD, they released the Super Bowl episode songs this morning, and I couldn't give two shits about three of them, but I have been listening to the fourth all day. It is 100% absurd.
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
I'd really like to see more of the kids' home lives and their parents, especially Rachel's dads, whose absence just feels really glaring by this point, but I feel like answering this question with "I would like to see more of [x character] who we have never actually seen onscreen/who only exists in photographs" is kind of cheating. I would love to see more of Lauren, but it sounds like we're getting that; I would also love to see more of Mercedes. In both cases, I would really, really like it if their storylines did not revolve around food or a boy (as much as I ship Lauren/Puck and as much as I love Kurt), but I think it's kind of unlikely.
But I've really got two finalists for this question, and as it so happens, they're dating. I love Tina and Mike both together and apart, and I feel like they, more than anyone else in the New Directions, get very little screentime, storylines, and things to do. Pitting them against each other and picking only is REALLY REALLY HARD, but in the end, as charming as I find Mike's PUPPY FACES in the background of every scene, as much as I adore his dancing, and as much as I love what a sweetheart he is (and as much as I want to use that gif of him giving Beiste the eye from "Never Been Kissed"), I've got to give this one to his girlfriend.
(But seriously, LOOK AT THAT PUPPY FACE.)
I will not be swayed by the puppy face.
The character you would like to hear/see more of: Tina Cohen-Chang
Jenna Ushkowitz is very funny and her voice is stunning; she amazes me more with her versatility every time that I hear her sing, which is all too rarely. Tina is one of the only original New Directions I can think of who has, as far as I remember, never had an A-plot. If she has something to do, it's almost always in the background and in reaction to someone else (romantic conflict with Artie, showed-even-less-often romantic conflict with Mike, wearing Gaga clothes in "Theatricality" because Figgins is afraid of vampires, getting the West Side Story solo and having Rachel pitch a fit over it, etc. etc.), and I desperately want to see more of her. I love her feminism and her fierce-itude, and how she has steadily grown from being the girl who was so shy that she faked a stutter. I love her fashion sense. I loved that she was like, "You treat me like crap and Mike is sweet and really hot, so peace, Artie," and that in the relationship with Mike, she seems to be the one who's more into the physical stuff.
I just really, really want Tina to have a story of her own. I love her individuality and the flashes of her that we've seen (make-out enthusiasm! feel the righteous blade of her feminist equality! pretending she's a vampire and scaring Figgins into letting her wear her own clothes! the way she coordinates the streaks in her hair with her eye shadow!), and, seriously -- it's so fucking ridiculous how little Ushkowitz gets to do on this goddamn show. GIVE HER THINGS TO DO. WE WANT TINA C.
I somehow keep winding up writing about other students' dickrinse behavior at McKinley. I guess I am more frustrated with the unevenness of the handling of bullying than I thought I was! For the record, this is set at some nebulous point after Rachel sends Sunshine to the crackhouse (what the hell, writers), but before "Special Education."
Tina hears the way that people talk about her. She knows that "Hot Topic" is one of the kinder nicknames that get sniggered when she walks into class wearing her newest find from Lip Service or Heavy Red. She really doesn't give a shit what they say about her; she used to use her clothes as a way to keep hiding from people, pushing them away, but now she just wears them because she likes her style, and everybody else -- including anyone who thinks she's wearing a Victorian-inspired white dress with a wide leather belt and combat boots because she's into vampires -- can just deal with that.
She raises her hand in class now; today, she schools her fourth-period Current Affairs class on feminism 101, shutting down guy after guy who tries to say that it's a compliment if he stops a stranger on the street and tells her that she has to smile for him. She ignores Trenton Kendrick when he not-so-quietly mutters, "Bull dyke" after she causes a quiet burst of laughter that ripples through the classroom, and she both congratulates herself on getting to him and makes a mental note to warn Mike that Kendrick is probably going to be an ass to him in practice tomorrow.
After class, she takes the long way around to the chorus room; the route that avoids the hall that connects the gym to the main building (where some football players will be headed to pump iron in the weight room). The dress she's wearing today was a birthday gift from her parents, who haven't always approved of her style but have really come around in the last few months. It's white and lacy and pristine, just perfect, and Tina would really, really like it to stay that way.
"Girl," says Mercedes the second that she steps through the door, "did you really ask Trenton Kendrick if his mom dropped him on his head when he was a baby? In front of the whole class?"
Tina laughs gustily and nods, and Kurt claps his hands and proclaims her his hero.
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that," says Mr. Schuester, but Tina can see the amusement that he's trying to hide. She had Spanish with Trenton Kendrick last year; Mr. Schue definitely knows what a meathead he is.
"That was Ms. Gilley's reaction, too," she says, laughing, and as Mr. Schuester tries to get everyone into their seats so that they can kick off rehearsal, Tina takes the chair beside Mike and swings her bag down, and she shoots him a wry, slightly apologetic look. He's grinning broadly at her, and he shoots her an approving thumbs up. Tina feels a giddy laugh bubble up in her chest again and it takes a second to quell it; in the end, she just beams back at Mike and squeezes his knee.
"So," Mr. Schue is saying, "in the interest of mixing things up a bit--" And then she suddenly realizes that he is looking right at her. "Tina, what do you say?"
Tina raises her eyebrows in shock at the sheet music that Mr. Schue is holding out to her.
"Mr. Schuester," says an all-too-familiar voice from the row behind her, sounding equally stunned, "I really must protest; my voice is much more suited to the smoky power of Adele's performance. If this is a potential number for sectionals--"
"Rachel," sighs Mr. Schuester.
"Tina understands," Rachel insists. "It's for the goo--"
This is all too familiar, but this time, Tina doesn't have the patience to deal with it. She turns around in her chair and says, "Actually, I don't understand." Rachel's mouth opens in a perfect o of shock, like she hadn't even considered the possibility that Tina might argue. "I really like this song, I haven't had a solo since we did 'True Colors' last year, and I want to try it." Rachel shrinks back into her seat. She looks like Tina has just genuinely rattled her world; like she seriously had no idea that Tina never gets asked to try solos, and now she's trying to think back over the last year of performances and count solos in her head. From the back row, Santana gives Tina an approving, nasty-looking nod over the top of Rachel's head, but Tina ignores everything that's going on behind her and looks to Mr. Schuester.
"I say bring it, Mr. Schue," she says, and there's a burst of breathless laughter and a couple claps from all around her; somebody (almost definitely Artie) says, "Ooooooh, girl!"
Tina hops up out of her seat as the guitarist plays the opening notes of the song, and as she draws breath in preparation to sing her heart out, she thinks that next week, she might bleach her blue streaks and try red.
EDIT: [White-texted Glee spoilers for episode 2x15!!!]
The series will start to explore Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittany’s relationship on a deeper level. “A lot of my stuff is getting generally serious in a way,” Heather Morris says. “We just got a new script. … Santana and Brittany don’t want to talk about it because they’re in high school, but Brittany wants to talk about it because she has a boyfriend. Ryan Murphy really wanted to do that for the fans because all of the fans were like, ‘Why did you have them make out and not do anything else?’” But don’t expect more lip-locking anytime soon, Morris says.
akfskdjsdjgsdkjghjsdgmsdg SOMEONE COME DISCUSS THIS WITH ME, I'M FREAKING OUT A LITTLE.