Fancy Garbage Can

A vast collection of bullshit, pronouns she/her

[marleyssongbook]

THAT being said, i do think an underrated and very sweet aspect of early klaine is how much blaine just like?? very readily joins kurt’s world? like when kurt joins dalton he’s also good about inviting kurt into his world.

but like… it starts with blaine coming to mckinley to confront karofsky, and from there, he just? is so Around? like kurt makes a point of saying blaine asked Him to hang out, not the other way around, and got them tickets to rent. he goes to dinner with kurt and one of his other friends and tries to engage with mercedes! he goes to their championship game and a party with kids from another school, who he mostly doesn’t know very well! just like… even as a friend, blaine is so willing to both reach out/initiate things with kurt, but also be part of kurt’s world and not expect kurt to just come to him and be in his?

and it’s easy to see, tbh, how kurt might interpret that as romantic interest, but it’s also just like. Good Friend Shit.

the other side of this that’s interesting to me though is that?? blaine is SO open and ready to have kurt as a new friend when we don’t really get a sense of whether he’s particularly close with anyone at dalton? he says they’re his friends in season 3, and i think he means it, but when we see them interact in season two, it doesn’t?? really seem like he’s super close or hangs out with anyone else?

and honestly that probably comes down to blaine not Totally being a character in his own right yet. but it honestly kind of tracks with my read of him? like he, at this point, is not very emotionally honest with a lot of people. so my personal headcanon in that regard is blaine’s very “liked by everyone, known by few” at dalton. like people are nice to him!! it’s not bad there!! but people don’t really Know him - and i don’t think he means for that to happen? he puts on a front of knowing what he’s doing but the end result is people, like, buy it a little too well, so there’s always this barrier. but blaine is SUCH a people oriented person and then kurt shows up and needs a friend and is vulnerable with him and he shares like, the slightest amount of vulnerability back, and he’s just? a very ride or die friend from that point on? (until it turns into something else)

[marleyssongbook]

“our competition at sectionals are your classic stool choirs—great voices but they don’t move.” okay so will did NO actual research on the competition lmao. bc wdym the warblers don’t move???

[marleyssongbook]

i wanted to reserve judgment on this until actually watching it as part of the full narrative of the episode again but i’ve heard before that people think the criticism of kurt’s audition for a solo at sectionals at dalton is unfair. and on the one hand, i get it’s sorta frustrating — the writing toyed with the idea of kurt getting one in nd by having will say he had an idea for kurt for a solo at sectionals RIGHT before kurt announced he was transferring so it never really narratively was going to happen. the writing sorta gets to Say they’re gonna do it without any intent of follow through. which is genuinely frustrating if you care about his character, which i do!

(the rest of this is even putting aside also that while they invited kurt for a solo as a show of good faith, he was probably a lot less likely to get one just by nature of having Just transferred and barely practiced with them. i think a more realistic show probably would have had them wait for him to perform with them until after sectionals but i get why the show as it exists can’t really do that.)

anyway, narrative frustrations aside, i think, based on kurt’s audition, it makes sense kurt doesn’t get it? i’ve seen it said before that the warblers just didn’t appreciate an authentic emotional performance but i don’t think that’s it. like, the show (to me) intentionally writes him as not really internalizing what rachel tells him about picking something much more personal to himself? like she said that and then he immediately picks the song she sang as an example. that feels a little telling. sure, they have similar tastes in some areas, but why This song at This moment for Him, yk?

and it’s not that kurt doesn’t sound good! he genuinely does! but i do think there’s an element of this actually not being a very in-depth emotional authentic performance, but instead kind of… playing at one? compare this to “as if we never said goodbye” and the difference to me is Staggering.

and i know some have gripes with blaine (upon being asked his advice) say “don’t try so hard” and “if all you care about is getting noticed you’re never gonna make it with the warblers”. but i don’t think he means don’t put effort in or don’t care or don’t stand out? YMMV on this but that particular performance feels less like kurt’s being truly emotional and more like he’s trying to Prove how good and emotional he can be - which reads different, and i think what blaine’s trying to say is that’s how it came across and that it was holding him back a little. whether not one agrees with that mindset, i do think it makes sense with showing how blaine thinks about music and with how the warblers function.

(i think it doesn’t help that it’s a good song but sectionals doesn’t really feel like the right setting for it.) (in fairness neither does candles but that’s later)

[marleyssongbook]

that being said watching blaine’s reaction to kurt auditioning is so interesting? his smile is so telling — it looks both genuine and uncomfortable? and honestly i think that’s bc he really does see how talented kurt is, and that he also knows the council isn’t gonna pick him this time.

[gayfacewarbler]

I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you scene should have ended with Finn and Jesse kissing..

[ggarbagee]

happy pride month :] here's freddie and his cats

[falasta]

OKAY OKAY so I *just* had a dear friend from TWENTY YEARS AGO from the Queen fandom reach out to me and I was talking to her about how I'm in the Cats The Musical fandom and how crazy/fun that was and how FREDDIE WOULD APPROVE and I 1000% hold to that.

[namethat-i-oughttohavetoldyou]

@falasta

Freddie Mercury and his (Shiki) cats, 1986 ♡

[capacity2]

a question for you

Lay it on me mister fuckinyouhard0989

[capacity2]

He’s so shy he died

[bakerharrystyles]

The concept of closeted lesbian Quinn Fabray sleeping with her boyfriend’s best friend just to prove her “straightness” to herself only to get pregnant and have to carry around a reminder of it for months but a secret small part of her enjoying wearing the evidence of her straightness for all to see even though she’s dying inside

[porcelainvino]

i don’t even think i like samcedes i think i just like seeing mercedes being Loved 😭

[marleyssongbook]

i do get kurt’s perspective of it being a big deal that he finally has friend that can relate to/understand what he’s going through and how it can get easy to focus on that before anything…

but kurt buddy. you cancelled existing plans with a friend because your new friend asked you to hang out. you promised to make it up to her on friday night and then did the exact same thing again. mercedes doesn’t just “feel left out” you like. actually quite literally did leave her out, multiple times.

and the ep seems to overall agree with his stance that she, like, just needs to get a boyfriend of her own (even tho he and blaine aren’t even dating yet lmao) and she’s inappropriately jealous (and dealing with this via the really ridiculous and honestly fatphobic tot plot but whatever). but like?? can we not have sympathy for kurt AND also understand that he’s kinda being not a great friend to her in this moment? and that she has a right to feel upset about that??

also like - even blaine, when the three of them finally hang out Together, seems to know it’s a little weird for her and tries to be nice and bring her into the conversation? he asks her what she thinks of what they’re talking about and then says they should talk about stuff she’s interested in too… only for kurt to IMMEDIATELY follow it up with another thing that is much more geared toward his interests lmao.

and like, usual qualifier: he’s not evil for this! it’s like that when you’re 16 sometimes! my bigger gripe is that the show doesn’t even seem to think kurt owes her an apology by the end of this plot when he like, does? lmao

[kosmogrl]

[marleyssongbook]

aside from the blatant homophobia of acting like kurt shouldn’t sing with sam, i’m just like?? literally how will anyone outside of that choir room KNOW unless someone in the glee club told them, which i doubt they would? the show just has this weird habit of changing its tune on how much the other kids even know what goes on in glee club.

[onlytakingalook]

One of my favorite tropes in glee fics is when Blaine is ridiculously rich and just gives Kurt the most expensive stuff without a second thought

[marleyssongbook]

the show makes a point of having will say kurt’s been angry and acting out bc of the bullying but they don’t really do a lot to substantiate that? he yelled at schue about something completely unrelated in britney week and got annoyed about not being allowed to sing with the girls but… other than that?

and like! i don’t think that’s a bad or unrealistic depiction of how a teenager would react to the trauma of bullying. but they don’t? really show it? even tho i think they want the audience to believe it - he seems to really resonate with what blaine says about his own experience and a lot of it is about being so angry that he TRIED to speak up for himself and no one would do anything about it.

[marleyssongbook]

blaine casually easily friendly touching kurt (shaking his hand! fixing his lapel as he advises him not to forget his jacket wink wink (knows already he’s a spy, technically)) when so much physical contact has been mired by violence and bullying and he has to be so careful with his own touch lest he offend (or worse) someone. and then there’s suddenly this guy that’s just so open and offering it up freely!!

and the unbridled awe and shock and joy on kurt’s face that blaine is so unreserved in performances as kurt realizes he’s the lead soloist of the group they were just talking about (really buried the lead blaine lmao) and blaine like?? unabashedly gears SO much of that performance toward kurt?? he points at him at least once!

and the indescribable (but i’ll try) mix of emotions as kurt is just… so incredulous and very cautiously comforting (like he seems at once comforted and also like he can’t entirely trust it at first) by hearing someone finally, finally understand any amount of what he is going through.

like i understand why this was such a Moment. kurt getting a love interest (blaine is much more than that but yk, his narrative function at this point) probably always would have been, but they genuinely did real work to make this first meeting meaningful. it’s all very genuinely a Lot.

[imjunebitch]

"can mutuals dm" "can mutuals ask for your discord" girl, mutuals have an implied invitation to my wedding

[tartan-thermos]

In this essay I will

[itsineffhazbinle]

Man how I miss the fandom’s take on these characters, it feels like we were well and truly robbed…