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GOOD MORN AFTERNOON EVENING (I have officially been writing this entry forever), LIVEJOURNAL. I think I have pink eye. It is very charming and well-timed, considering that my eye doctor's office is not open. I feel monstrous! This has been my overshare for the day.
It's a snow day! I didn't wake up that long ago, so my current plans are to continue with my rewatch of Glee season 1 and then to watch Darren Criss on Ellen later in the afternoon. I am full of surprises. (Yeah, I've been working on this entry all day and watched Ellen earlier; SO CHARMING.)
We are currently snowed the hell under and it's due to keep going until well into the early hours of the morning. All in all, there's going to be something like 35 inches on the ground once it finally stops, and now the weather people are saying to look for another 6+ inches on Saturday, and yet another storm next Tuesday/Wednesday.
Best Christmas gift ever? Best Christmas gift ever.
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 that you wish hadn’t
Day 26 - Something that hadn’t happened but you wish had
Day 27 - Your idea for a future Glee character
Day 28 - Your idea for a future Glee episode
Day 29 - Your idea for a future Glee performance
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Oh God, I don't even know. Continuity? Character development? I don't ... actually have anything in mind for this question. Most of my wishes for the show going forward tend to be broader, you know? Less specific. Uh.
Guys, I seriously don't have anything to say.
I mean, I would like Will to get called out on generally being a pretty shitty teacher and putting more time/energy into reliving his glory days than into being there for his students, but I already wrote that. I'd like to see Brittany/Santana treated with some legitimacy. Mercedes has never had a storyline that doesn't revolve around Kurt or food, and I want that to change. As I've mentioned, I'd like to see Rachel's dads, who have been weirdly absent.
I feel like I am not fully understanding today's question. (It's just so awkward; do they mean something that hasn't happened but I want to see happen in the future? something that didn't happen but I wish had?) I want Karofsky to transfer/graduate so I can stop getting creeped out every time poor Max Adler is on my television. I want to see signs of the actual seasons changing in Ohio.
Actually, wait, if I take this as "something that didn't happen but should have," I've got one.
Day 26 - Something that hadn’t happened but you wish had: Finn and Carole talking in "Theatricality"
(I couldn't really find any Carole gifs. >:( )
I always want more Carole Hudson/Hummel. Carole is the bomb, and I think she really receives the short end of the stick when it comes to the Hudmel family dynamics; I wish Romy Rosemont got to appear more often. I especially felt her absence in "Theatricality" last season. It really, really felt like she had had scenes that got cut. From what I remember, we only see her in the "WE ARE SUDDENLY MOVING IN TOGETHER, FINN, AND I AM TELLING YOU IN FRONT OF BURT AND KURT WITHOUT GIVING YOU ANY KIND OF A SAY IN THE MATTER" party scene, and then that's it for the rest of the episode. I mostly ignore the random shitty parenting moves that Carole occasionally makes; all of them have struck me as lazy writing more than things that were meant to be actual mistakes or character flaws.
One of those moments was ... basically everything in "Theatricality," for me. Like I mentioned, I thought that the whole "we're moving in together! SURPRISE!" thing was stupid and didn't seem very Carole (she has always seemed like a better mom than that!), but I really felt her absence in the rest of the episode. She wasn't involved at all when Burt threw her son out of the house they were all supposed to be living in together? And then we had no idea until "Grilled Cheesus" whether she and Burt were still together or what. Plus: you know Finn Hudson did not make that Gaga outfit by himself.
The first thing that Carole says when she walks in the door and finds Finn sitting on the empty living room floor of their little old house is, "Oh, honey." All of the speeches she'd planned in the car, on the way over from Burt's house, fall right out of her head.
Finn's head comes up fast, his eyes widening. He is 16 years old and almost six and a half feet tall, but he looks much smaller tucked in on himself; he looks so, so young. "Mom--" he chokes, starting to scramble up, and Carole holds out a hand to tell him to stay there, she shuts the door behind herself, and she crosses the room to crouch in front of him. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to--" Finn croaks, panicked.
"Finn, what happened?" Carole asks, laying both her hands on his upraised knees.
"Burt didn't tell you?" he asks warily, and she shakes her head.
"He did, but I want to hear it from you," she says, as calmly as she can manage.
Finn looks tremendously ashamed, and the story pours out of him in fits and starts. By the end, when they've talked about crushes and expectations and a word that she never would have expected to hear out of her son's mouth, Carole is sitting beside him, their backs against the wall and their shoulders pressed together. "Oh, boys," she says, pressing a hand to her face, and she can feel Finn sink down even lower beside her. "Finn, you have every right to be uncomfortable with someone having a crush on you and being pushy about it, but what you said-- I raised you better than that."
"I didn't mean to," Finn says, again, his voice low, and he sounds a little less panicked this time but no less wretched. "I didn't think about it." (You never do, Carole thinks.) "But -- Burt was totally right, wasn't he? I did call Kurt a..." He stops, and glances sideways at her, face full of shame, and he doesn't repeat the word. "When I said the room looked ... like that."
"Well, yeah, honey," she says frankly. "You did. And you also told Kurt he should be somebody other than who he is, right?" Finn is suddenly very interested in watching his hands twist on his knee. "He's never going to fit in with most of the boys your age who live around here, Finn, and if he's okay with that, we need to be, too." He still doesn't look up. "I know you got freaked out, and from what you just told me, I can see why, but that doesn't excuse any of what you said."
Finn nods with the barest amount of motion. "I know," he says, and they're quiet for a few seconds.
Carole makes sure he's looking at her when she says, "I am so sorry," and she watches his face twist into confusion.
"But -- you didn't do anything," he says, clearly bewildered.
"Exactly. I should have talked to you about moving before we sprung it on you." She shakes her head. "I can't believe I didn't know about any of this stuff that's been going on with you and Kurt."
Finn looks distressed. "It's okay--" he starts.
"No," she says firmly. "No. I've been really preoccupied lately, and that's not fair to you."
"Thanks, Mom," Finn mutters, and she squeezes his knee. They sit quietly together, watching the sun set behind the house across the street.
"It was too soon," Carole says into the stillness, and she glances sideways in time to see Finn start to furrow his eyebrows. "And that's not fair to any of us, but especially you boys. I talked to Burt and we agreed; I'm taking the house off the market."
"Mom--"
"It's okay, honey," she says gently. "It's what's going to be best, for all of us. We can start moving back tomorrow night; I've got some things in the car already." It's okay, she thinks, projecting it as hard as she can. It's okay, it's okay. Finn doesn't need to know that she and Burt argued. That's Carole's and Burt's to deal with, and they'll get through it. She hopes.
She doesn't miss the look of panic in Finn's eyes. "I don't think Kurt's gonna want me in his room," he says. "Even if it is to get my stuff out of his way."
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Carole says firmly, but Finn's wretched expression doesn't let up in the least.
"He won't even talk to me," Finn explodes, spreading his arms open wide, and Carole glances up from where she's unpacking the contents of a box on the dining room table. "He said I'm just like all the rest of the guys!"
Carole thinks of the quiet, fiercely proud boy with red-rimmed eyes who she'd seen -- and hugged -- when she went by the Hummels' house last night, and she thinks of the way that Finn had squirmed when he'd told her what happened, and she's a little lost for what to say.
"I really like him," he says miserably. "Not -- you know, like that, but -- Kurt's cool, you know?"
"I know," Carole says, setting a stack of plates on the table. "Have you thought about showing Kurt that you're not like those boys who say things to him?"
Finn stops pacing long enough to stare blankly over at her. "How?"
"I'm pretty sure it wouldn't mean as much if your mom thought of it," Carole says wryly, and Finn's confused face slowly morphs into a thoughtful one.
A little while later, Finn says, "Hey Mom?"
"Yeah?" Carole calls from the kitchen, squeezing plates into the too-small cabinets.
"Can you come here for a second?"
She sighs heavily, brushing her hair out of her face with the back of her hand, and she counts to five, and then she steps out of the kitchen. Finn is hunched over his laptop at the dining room table, intent face back-lit by the screen. As she comes in, he glances over hesitantly.
"Does it still count as cheating if you help me with it?" Finn asks, and he turns his computer toward her.
Carole stares at the picture of a blonde in a giant red dress, and then she says, "I think the shower curtain could do the trick."
* * *
Basementgate was pretty controversial in fandom, from what I remember, and my take on it is pretty much what Carole said more diplomatically here. Finn said some shitty, shitty stuff (honestly, I was more bothered by the "why can't you just fit in" horseshit than the use of "faggy," since I think that the former is more insidious and just as damaging in its own way) and way overreacted (Kurt was a 15- or 16-year-old boy with a starry-eyed crush, not a sexual predator), but Kurt's behavior creeped me out. Singing to Finn while Finn was clearly tremendously uncomfortable is one thing; that's the kind of behavior that we see from couples on the show all the time. But the staring at Finn and Burt through the Hudsons' glass sliding door, setting his dad up with Carole just to get closer to Finn, and orchestrating the move so he gets to share a room with Finn? That was weird, even by the show's standards, and I was frustrated by how martyred Kurt was in "Theatricality"; that's why I was pleasantly surprised to see the topic brought up again in "Duets." I think that "Theatricality" went too far in blaming Finn and "Duets" went too far in blaming Kurt, and that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
ANYWAY the point of this is: Carole is a bamf.
It's a snow day! I didn't wake up that long ago, so my current plans are to continue with my rewatch of Glee season 1 and then to watch Darren Criss on Ellen later in the afternoon. I am full of surprises. (Yeah, I've been working on this entry all day and watched Ellen earlier; SO CHARMING.)
We are currently snowed the hell under and it's due to keep going until well into the early hours of the morning. All in all, there's going to be something like 35 inches on the ground once it finally stops, and now the weather people are saying to look for another 6+ inches on Saturday, and yet another storm next Tuesday/Wednesday.
Best Christmas gift ever? Best Christmas gift ever.
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 that you wish hadn’t
Day 26 - Something that hadn’t happened but you wish had
Day 27 - Your idea for a future Glee character
Day 28 - Your idea for a future Glee episode
Day 29 - Your idea for a future Glee performance
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Oh God, I don't even know. Continuity? Character development? I don't ... actually have anything in mind for this question. Most of my wishes for the show going forward tend to be broader, you know? Less specific. Uh.
Guys, I seriously don't have anything to say.
I mean, I would like Will to get called out on generally being a pretty shitty teacher and putting more time/energy into reliving his glory days than into being there for his students, but I already wrote that. I'd like to see Brittany/Santana treated with some legitimacy. Mercedes has never had a storyline that doesn't revolve around Kurt or food, and I want that to change. As I've mentioned, I'd like to see Rachel's dads, who have been weirdly absent.
I feel like I am not fully understanding today's question. (It's just so awkward; do they mean something that hasn't happened but I want to see happen in the future? something that didn't happen but I wish had?) I want Karofsky to transfer/graduate so I can stop getting creeped out every time poor Max Adler is on my television. I want to see signs of the actual seasons changing in Ohio.
Actually, wait, if I take this as "something that didn't happen but should have," I've got one.
Day 26 - Something that hadn’t happened but you wish had: Finn and Carole talking in "Theatricality"
(I couldn't really find any Carole gifs. >:( )
I always want more Carole Hudson/Hummel. Carole is the bomb, and I think she really receives the short end of the stick when it comes to the Hudmel family dynamics; I wish Romy Rosemont got to appear more often. I especially felt her absence in "Theatricality" last season. It really, really felt like she had had scenes that got cut. From what I remember, we only see her in the "WE ARE SUDDENLY MOVING IN TOGETHER, FINN, AND I AM TELLING YOU IN FRONT OF BURT AND KURT WITHOUT GIVING YOU ANY KIND OF A SAY IN THE MATTER" party scene, and then that's it for the rest of the episode. I mostly ignore the random shitty parenting moves that Carole occasionally makes; all of them have struck me as lazy writing more than things that were meant to be actual mistakes or character flaws.
One of those moments was ... basically everything in "Theatricality," for me. Like I mentioned, I thought that the whole "we're moving in together! SURPRISE!" thing was stupid and didn't seem very Carole (she has always seemed like a better mom than that!), but I really felt her absence in the rest of the episode. She wasn't involved at all when Burt threw her son out of the house they were all supposed to be living in together? And then we had no idea until "Grilled Cheesus" whether she and Burt were still together or what. Plus: you know Finn Hudson did not make that Gaga outfit by himself.
The first thing that Carole says when she walks in the door and finds Finn sitting on the empty living room floor of their little old house is, "Oh, honey." All of the speeches she'd planned in the car, on the way over from Burt's house, fall right out of her head.
Finn's head comes up fast, his eyes widening. He is 16 years old and almost six and a half feet tall, but he looks much smaller tucked in on himself; he looks so, so young. "Mom--" he chokes, starting to scramble up, and Carole holds out a hand to tell him to stay there, she shuts the door behind herself, and she crosses the room to crouch in front of him. "I'm sorry; I didn't mean to--" Finn croaks, panicked.
"Finn, what happened?" Carole asks, laying both her hands on his upraised knees.
"Burt didn't tell you?" he asks warily, and she shakes her head.
"He did, but I want to hear it from you," she says, as calmly as she can manage.
Finn looks tremendously ashamed, and the story pours out of him in fits and starts. By the end, when they've talked about crushes and expectations and a word that she never would have expected to hear out of her son's mouth, Carole is sitting beside him, their backs against the wall and their shoulders pressed together. "Oh, boys," she says, pressing a hand to her face, and she can feel Finn sink down even lower beside her. "Finn, you have every right to be uncomfortable with someone having a crush on you and being pushy about it, but what you said-- I raised you better than that."
"I didn't mean to," Finn says, again, his voice low, and he sounds a little less panicked this time but no less wretched. "I didn't think about it." (You never do, Carole thinks.) "But -- Burt was totally right, wasn't he? I did call Kurt a..." He stops, and glances sideways at her, face full of shame, and he doesn't repeat the word. "When I said the room looked ... like that."
"Well, yeah, honey," she says frankly. "You did. And you also told Kurt he should be somebody other than who he is, right?" Finn is suddenly very interested in watching his hands twist on his knee. "He's never going to fit in with most of the boys your age who live around here, Finn, and if he's okay with that, we need to be, too." He still doesn't look up. "I know you got freaked out, and from what you just told me, I can see why, but that doesn't excuse any of what you said."
Finn nods with the barest amount of motion. "I know," he says, and they're quiet for a few seconds.
Carole makes sure he's looking at her when she says, "I am so sorry," and she watches his face twist into confusion.
"But -- you didn't do anything," he says, clearly bewildered.
"Exactly. I should have talked to you about moving before we sprung it on you." She shakes her head. "I can't believe I didn't know about any of this stuff that's been going on with you and Kurt."
Finn looks distressed. "It's okay--" he starts.
"No," she says firmly. "No. I've been really preoccupied lately, and that's not fair to you."
"Thanks, Mom," Finn mutters, and she squeezes his knee. They sit quietly together, watching the sun set behind the house across the street.
"It was too soon," Carole says into the stillness, and she glances sideways in time to see Finn start to furrow his eyebrows. "And that's not fair to any of us, but especially you boys. I talked to Burt and we agreed; I'm taking the house off the market."
"Mom--"
"It's okay, honey," she says gently. "It's what's going to be best, for all of us. We can start moving back tomorrow night; I've got some things in the car already." It's okay, she thinks, projecting it as hard as she can. It's okay, it's okay. Finn doesn't need to know that she and Burt argued. That's Carole's and Burt's to deal with, and they'll get through it. She hopes.
She doesn't miss the look of panic in Finn's eyes. "I don't think Kurt's gonna want me in his room," he says. "Even if it is to get my stuff out of his way."
"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," Carole says firmly, but Finn's wretched expression doesn't let up in the least.
"He won't even talk to me," Finn explodes, spreading his arms open wide, and Carole glances up from where she's unpacking the contents of a box on the dining room table. "He said I'm just like all the rest of the guys!"
Carole thinks of the quiet, fiercely proud boy with red-rimmed eyes who she'd seen -- and hugged -- when she went by the Hummels' house last night, and she thinks of the way that Finn had squirmed when he'd told her what happened, and she's a little lost for what to say.
"I really like him," he says miserably. "Not -- you know, like that, but -- Kurt's cool, you know?"
"I know," Carole says, setting a stack of plates on the table. "Have you thought about showing Kurt that you're not like those boys who say things to him?"
Finn stops pacing long enough to stare blankly over at her. "How?"
"I'm pretty sure it wouldn't mean as much if your mom thought of it," Carole says wryly, and Finn's confused face slowly morphs into a thoughtful one.
A little while later, Finn says, "Hey Mom?"
"Yeah?" Carole calls from the kitchen, squeezing plates into the too-small cabinets.
"Can you come here for a second?"
She sighs heavily, brushing her hair out of her face with the back of her hand, and she counts to five, and then she steps out of the kitchen. Finn is hunched over his laptop at the dining room table, intent face back-lit by the screen. As she comes in, he glances over hesitantly.
"Does it still count as cheating if you help me with it?" Finn asks, and he turns his computer toward her.
Carole stares at the picture of a blonde in a giant red dress, and then she says, "I think the shower curtain could do the trick."
* * *
Basementgate was pretty controversial in fandom, from what I remember, and my take on it is pretty much what Carole said more diplomatically here. Finn said some shitty, shitty stuff (honestly, I was more bothered by the "why can't you just fit in" horseshit than the use of "faggy," since I think that the former is more insidious and just as damaging in its own way) and way overreacted (Kurt was a 15- or 16-year-old boy with a starry-eyed crush, not a sexual predator), but Kurt's behavior creeped me out. Singing to Finn while Finn was clearly tremendously uncomfortable is one thing; that's the kind of behavior that we see from couples on the show all the time. But the staring at Finn and Burt through the Hudsons' glass sliding door, setting his dad up with Carole just to get closer to Finn, and orchestrating the move so he gets to share a room with Finn? That was weird, even by the show's standards, and I was frustrated by how martyred Kurt was in "Theatricality"; that's why I was pleasantly surprised to see the topic brought up again in "Duets." I think that "Theatricality" went too far in blaming Finn and "Duets" went too far in blaming Kurt, and that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
ANYWAY the point of this is: Carole is a bamf.
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Housemate D and I had to take Housemate J's jeep to work because it was so icy we could not get out of the driveway even after shoveling to the point where you could see ground. It was a good thing we did, too, because the streets were FLOODED. Like, "line of broken down cars on the turnpike ramp because of huge puddle" flooded. Now everything is a sheet of ice.
CAROLE. Oh, how I wish Finn and Carole had the kind of talk you depict in your fic. What a wonderful mom. SHOWER CURTAIN DRESS. ♥ Re: Kurt's crush on Finn, I couldn't suspend my disbelief long enough to be truly weirded out by Kurt's behavior. The writing and direction was just... not good. And I did appreciate a hugely popular show saying "fag" is unacceptable, even if the situation was much more complicated than Burt's reaction.
I just do not understand the appeal of Kurt/Karofsky. Nothing says "meant to be" like sexual assault.
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You had to go to work?? UGH. We didn't wind up getting as much snow as originally forecast, but I was very happy not to have to be on the road today.
I had a hard time buying ... pretty much everything in relation to Kurt's crush on Finn, which is why I hated it so much. I am BEYOND GLAD that it is over and done with and gone forever, even if it was handled like ass the whole way through.
I can't understand it. Normally, I'm pretty "ship and let ship"; if somebody wants to ship something and I'm not into it, it's no skin off my back, but this is one case where it freaks me the hell out. Just watching those scenes in "Never Been Kissed," "The Substitute," and "Furt" makes me short of breath; I know it's fictional but I have really visceral reactions to it, and it totally freaks me out that people can take Karofsky's brutality and Kurt's very clear disgust/horror and somehow spin that into a magical land where the sky rains rainbows and puppies and Dave is so misunderstood and they are In Love. Darkfic about them is one thing -- one thing that is absolutely not my cup of tea -- but it's all the "Karofsky is a giant teddy bear" shit that really makes me wig.
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Also, while Kurt/Karofsky shipping bothers me, too, I am 100% okay with what they've shown of him so far. The spoilers re: him have me worried that they're going to lose this all in the third act of his arc, but I will defend to the death that it's a perfectly valid story to tell. For every kid who can identify with Kurt or Blaine or even Brittany or Santana, there's one who can identify with Karofsky, too. I know people who lived like him. I've seen it first hand. And I'll defend showing that story to the world to the death. (That said, I'm terrified they're going to fuck this up in the third act, so I am currently only defending what we've seen so far. To be clear.)
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I don't have a problem with what has been shown of Karofsky so far! I can't rewatch his scenes due to how much they bother me, but, like you said, it's a valid story to tell. The story itself is disturbing, but what I'm really bothered by are the people who are taking said disturbing story and trying to turn it into a fairy tale. If the show actually goes there, I'll be done with it. I've stayed through a whole lot of stuff that I didn't find acceptable, but that would be it, for me; I'm watching the storyline very warily, based on the handful of spoilers that have been released about Karofsky's role in upcoming episodes.
So basically, I think I agree with everything you just said!
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GLEE RETURNING SOON OMG what are we going to do with ourselves
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I AM GOING TO FLIP MY LID. I'm seriously so bored at this point in my life that I half feel like I'm just sitting on my ass and biding my time until Glee comes back. Fandom what have you done to me.
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I think that "Theatricality" went too far in blaming Finn and "Duets" went too far in blaming Kurt, and that the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
THIS, OMG, SO MUCH. I have never been more frustrated with the writers' tendency to deal with things in extremes than in this instance. First everything was Finn's fault, then everything was Kurt's fault, and never was there any in-between. (Although I like that they eventually did make up; that dance at the wedding was pretty much adorable.) SUBTLETY, GLEE HAS IT NOT.
I think that's the part of the B9 I liked the least. It took the perfectly relatable crush of Kurt's that we'd seen in "Ballads" and twisted it into this creepy stalker thing that completely took over the show and turned a lot of people off of Kurt as a character. I actually saw a fandom secret somewhere, posted by a gay man, who'd never had problems dealing with his straight guy friends before until said straight guys watched Glee and began to worry that he was into them - and would manipulate them - like Kurt did with Finn.
ANYWAY, MY POINT IS that everything in that above ficlet should definitely have happened and I am very disappointed that it did not. Can we just get you to write for the show already? YOU CAN HELP THEM MASTER THE ART OF SUBTLETY! :D