#wintercreek

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

We All Write Our Own Endings (and we all have our own scars)

Author:  wintercreek

Rating:  G

Status:  Completed in January 2012

Word Count:  5,399

Summary: It's not enough that he looks like Blaine; of course he has to sound like him, too. But there is no way Blaine Anderson is running a café in Arizona. No way.

Tropes/Genre:  one shot, future!fic, reunion fic, restaurant owner!Blaine

Lynne’s review:  I found this alternate version of their future very, very interesting. Really cool one shot.

Read at:  AO3

[rainbowrites]

I sometimes wish that I was more ‘in’ fandom like I used to be with Glee, where I had a posse and wrote fic and was pretty much just... constantly around yelling at people and being yelled at and yelling about everything. Lots of yelling. It was Glee fandom after all. 

But as much as I like things (I often REALLY LIKE things) nothing has really... enflamed me, reached out and yanked my heart out of it’s chest and demanded that I interact with it the way Glee did. I got into Glee fandom when I was traveling for a year with my family, half a world and many hours away from anyone else I knew in real life. As is the by now old story, I didn’t have friends in the physical world, so I developed friendships in the online world. This kept going even after I came back from traveling, when I went to college. But after Glee, I drifted away from directly interacting with fandom. I still do sometimes, such as when I leaped into @wellntruly DS9′s fandom. But it’s no where to the level I was before, and I don’t often do things like that anymore. Similarly to how after college, I drifted away from people there. I still talk to some, I still sometimes do alumni things, but it’s not my life anymore. It’s not that it wasn’t important, and that I didn’t love so many parts and people from it. But it was a part of my life that is over now, even as I still keep an eye on them sometimes.

I haven’t even really watched Glee since it stopped. It was a special, perfect thing for me at that time. There’s a part of me that’s afraid that it won’t hold up if I watch it again, that I won’t like it anymore. That I won’t watch it and have it grab my whole heart in it’s perfectly imperfect hands.

I’m not sure what this is. I just, for some weird reason, decided to go back through my rainbowrites tag to see old conversations and remembered all over again how much Glee fandom meant to me. How those friendships buoyed me when I was down, intrigued and inspired me, and over all developed me as a person. I learned so much. About how to analyze shows and also how to just lean back and let the story enchant you motherfucker. About lives and situations and perspectives other than my own. About history and feminism and queerness and disability. About writing and editing and characters and stories. About how to think. About me. I

I guess this is a bit of a wistful love letter to the person I was then, and the show and fandom that meant so much to me. I’m not that person anymore, but I wouldn’t be the person I am NOW without them. I sometimes wish I was still that person, still had that drive and connection to fandom. But overall I like being a bit more of a lurker now, content to just enjoy things without saying too much about them. Maybe that will change. Maybe it won’t. But for now, I like who I am, both in the internet and physical world. And part of who I am now is all the people who helped make me along the way. So....

thanks guys <3 you’re amazing

particular shout outs to @luckyjak @sarahexplosions @mzminola @penroseparticle @into-the-weeds @soundingonlyatnightasyousleep @multsicorn @hedgerose @wintercreek and a million others. I originally didn’t tag you but I do want to throw my love not into the void but actually AT YOU so <3 Thanks

[friendofhayley]

fics that ruined me [42/?]

Singing the Journey by @wintercreek; 82k, read it on ao3

Blaine takes a job as Music Director at a Unitarian Universalist church to pay for grad school. Kurt is uncomfortable with this but finds his own way of fitting it into their lives. A story of liberal religion, complex relationship negotiation, family, music, marriage and a year in the lives of Kurt and Blaine.

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

for the anon asking for deep cuts — I really loved Singing the Journey (it has SLIGHT religious elements but I’m very atheist like Kurt and still loved it !!) , The Goggles Do Nothing (more Furt sibling dynamic with background klaine), The Life and Times of Author BA Dalton (one of my FAVORITES), and literally anything by Flaming_Muse (ik Near Misses is iconic but I have almost all of their fics bookmarked) !! sorry this is very long winded I just really love deep cut fics!

Thanks for the suggestions. I also loved “Singing the Journey”. - HKVoyage

Singing The Journey by wintercreek

Blaine takes a job as Music Director at a Unitarian Universalist church to pay for grad school. Kurt is uncomfortable with this but finds his own way of fitting it into their lives. A story of liberal religion, complex relationship negotiation, family, music, marriage and a year in the lives of Kurt and Blaine.

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The Goggles Do Nothing by lls_mutant

When you get right down to it, Burt and Carole are still newlyweds, and hardly celibate. But there are two kinds of people who never have sex: your parents and your children. When Finn and Kurt catch them at it, they're desperate to forget.

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The Life and Times of Author BA Dalton by DaybyDay

Blaine Anderson is a novelist in LA when he meets Kurt Hummel. Aptly nicknamed the Writer!Blaine AU

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Near Misses by @flamingmuse

Kurt and Blaine could easily not have met on a staircase in high school. They could have met a few years later in college instead.

[hedgerose]

wintercreek replied to your post: blergh okay is there anyone who can read something...

I can! You still have my email, yes?

oh bless you.  I’ve sent it.

[sarah-hawkins-unlimited]

More earthworks. This is the beginnings of a dam wall that will hopefully enable us to retain some of the water from the winter rains and provide driving access to the back paddock.

[hedgerose]

I GOT IN!!!!!!!!!!

[hedgerose]

If I was dating you... we would attend A LOT of concerts. :D

SO MUCH VIENNA TENG, OKAY. :D :D :D