#glee fandom stuff

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I was just trying to find something in my google drive and scrolled past a doc simply titled “blerkoff”. I am both proud of and horrified by my past self for this titling choice.

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y’all remember when we tried to ship quinn fabray with hermione granger and thought it was okay

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So a podcast I listen to was discussing the origins of “on fleek” and they said that apparently back in the day (and obvs totally separate to current usages of the world) “fleek” was a word some people used to mean a “fake gleek” does anyone remember this happening because this concept is deeply hilarious to me?

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HALLO (for the fandom meme, I figured the L is a question you could answer twice)

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., tv shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)

Oooooh gosh. I’ve read more different TV fandoms, though for a long time I couldn’t imagine being in one because I was so tired to a book fandom, now dipping into comics as the source. My heart is saying books though, as canons they seem easier to get your head around the whole thing, and are easily searched? But I am pretty happy with my mixed-media existence.

A - Your current OTP(s)/OT3(s)/OTX(s)

Gosh, ok this feels tough. There are a lot of ships I love but I don’t know that I’m in a really OTP place with any, I take OTPing seriously. Klaine and Samcedes are possibly closest to there? HP trio and Steve/Peggy and Yitzhak/Hedwig and and and but I do multiple ship most things at least somewhat?

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves (chars you’re neutral on are fair game, as are chars you dislike)

Jesse really did seem to be making Rachel happy in the future in Dreams Come True.

L - Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves (chars you’re neutral on are fair game, as are chars you dislike)

Wahhh this is hard from multiple directions okokok ummm… Rory’s voice was perfectly suited for the sorts of ballads they liked to give him.

O - Choose a song at random, which ship or character does it remind you of

8 Easy Steps - Alanis Morisette. Quinn absolutely. I briefly thought Santana but this song has Quinn all over it I mean… I can’t even quote a lyrics because there’s too many. 

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This week has been completely hellish and I really want the fic equivalent of comfort food type variety, but I’ve read all the go to’s I can think of too recently. I kind of want friends-with-benefits!Klaine because I kind of am a sucker for that but I’ve plowed through all the ones I can think. Anyone got any favourite fun, silly, smutty Klaine fics? Doesn’t have to fit the above trope at all, just what’s your go-to?

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I’ve been given a severe case of feels so I’m going to write something.

I’ve talked about my Glee journey a lot before, but I’ll do so again. I loved it from the beginning, but became somewhat disengaged with it late s3/early s4. A lot of this was because the friends I knew who watched it and the blogs about it I read almost all had either quietly given up on it or developed a huge vendetta. I was so torn apart because whenever I enjoyed something and went to find people who agreed I was told I was wrong and HERE’S WHY.

I have so much to thank @canuckjacq for, because Deconstructing Glee was my bright spot of thoughtful Glee meta and looking at the show with love rather than hate. Even so, I very clearly remember at the end of Diva Santana walking into the Bushwick Loft and thinking “ok, in this case I won’t quit the show” (there was SO MUCH PRESSURE to do so as a Jonathan Coulton fan at that point after the Sadie Hawkins drama omg). Also around this time someone mentioned to me they read Glee fic, which I mostly didn’t think much about, but planted a seed. I suspect that was part of the same conversation where I said I really liked following just 1 glee blog on tumblr, it was exactly the right amount.

The the next episode of Glee was I Do. And honestly I have said it before, and I feel it’s important I say it because much as I love the whole kit and caboodle and many ships, yup being Klaine trash made me look. Because I watched that episode and thought their stuff was hot (which is not a thing I think often about... anything woop woop demisexuality) and the concept of glee fic had been introduced to my brain so off to AO3 I went. And golly gosh did I find fic, which I devoured. I am fairly certain I read 100k words of glee fic a day for months there.

I had stopped working when I had something akin to a breakdown a few months before when my Dad going diagnosed with cancer. And the thing was, I didn’t just read the fic, I read the meta, and while both have been integral to my experience that is what made it communal, and made me wake up my brain in a way it hadn’t been.

I made so many friends! And I started contributing thoughts! And writing fic! and I really felt I just wasn’t at all a writer any more by that point which was so sad for me, but now even though I’ve not been writing really for a year I know that I can get it back again, because I have before.

I have made so very many incredible friends through this fandom. And met up in person with a shocking number of them! I have been to Disneyland in Anaheim, Paris, and to New York on amazing trips because of this fandom. I’ve gotten more into theatre than ever before, last year I saw so many shows! Including.... 4 different shows with Glee people in? I’ve got to see one of my very favourite actors from the show perform 2 concerts and also a theatre show (that I saw 3 times) and even had a few little conversations with him (I think 4? The one that wasn’t in person by far the most successful for me I suspect). This year I will see more amazing shows including getting to see one of my other utter faves tear up the stage in my home town.

Really, I need to emphasise, the friendships have been the thing that is the most wonderful and important to me from this fandom (god I’ve barely even mentioned the show and that I got to fall so completely in love with it again and I am so glad I managed to move out of that awful jaded path! but anyway). I am lucky to have many wonderful friends from a range of spheres, but something that has kept me together through a time that has been unfathomably hard so often is having Glee here for me. I cannot express how much it means, even as it shrinks and shifts and all of that.

Hugs?

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Sometimes I feel like @threepwillow spent years in Glee fandom writing Klaine phone sex fic in some way just knowing that one day I would eventually come to this fandom and need all of it.

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Between the Glee auction, Glee forever, @todaydreambelievers, @showchoirblogs, and working on the @kurtbigbang I have so much glee in my life lately and it is so awesome. So great to see the fandom so active again after a bit of a hibernation the first few months post-show.