I think I’ve finally figured out why the fact that Blaine is cheating actually bothers me so much, outside of the ‘THIS IS CONTRIVED BULLSHIT, A CHEATER ALWAYS CHEATS, EVERYTHING IS BLOOD’ or it all.  

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the problem with being emotionally invested in blaine anderson is the fact that I so want him to have his own substantial, character building, emotionally satisfactory storylines that involve him actually having personal agency

but I also don’t want to let the glee writers anywhere near him, because whenever the writers decide to invest significant focus in their “main” characters they generally end up either a) constantly beaten down for not adhering to the very societal standards glee presumably fights against  or worse b) they become reinforcements/mouth pieces for those problematic social standards

which means I’m stuck in the ultimate catch-22. 

I honestly have no speculation on why/what episode it is that Kurt is in NYC but here’s what I’m fairly sure of:

• he’s not just visiting rachel
• he’s moving to new york

and that’s literally it

don’t get me wrong, my beef with glee at the moment and in the foreseeable future will always be large and full of bitterness, and I know better than to get my hopes up

but since all of the NYC stuff being filmed right now is (apparently) for content in the first four episodes, I’m not even going to try to guess how kurt’s departure will coincide with whatever episode, and if him leaving in an earlier versus a later episode will effect whether or not he gets a goodbye scene with blaine and/or burt 

and I’m also not going to try to guess at why kurt’s in NYC.  I honestly don’t think anybody knows at this point (and I’d say not even the writers if they weren’t filming all this shit right now) whether he’s going to NYC because Rachel dislikes her roommate, or because he’s got an internship lined up, or if the narrative will show him going more for himself or more for rachel or if it’s 50/50 or WHATEVER.  

and I don’t think we wil know for a while, so I can’t get worked up about it either way.  I’m thoroughly ‘meh’ about everything BESIDES the fact that chris and lea look gorgeous, the fact that darren will likely be filming tomorrow, and the fact that kurt hummel will be getting out of lima ohio.

I’m not actually worried in the slightest about whether Kurt and Blaine will end up ~together in the end~ (the end meaning the end of Glee and/or when their characters leave for good which - who are we kidding - will be at the end of Glee) because I know they will.  I know they won’t break up Kurt and Blaine and then pair them off with someone else for good.  

What I am slightly worried about (and I say slightly because I’ve found myself in a zen ‘I will reject the reality of Glee for my own about instances that I find to be out of character’ mode lately) is how they get to that endgame.  Because a break-up or uncertainty in their relationship isn’t inherently something bad - it’s just when you pair it with the character ruining tendencies the writers seem to fall back on when it comes to relationship drama that it becomes something with the potential to be horrible. 

fuck what kurt hummel might have ‘in the future’ aka ‘in season four’ or ‘hey guys calm down chris is going to be on glee next year and we know both kurt and rachel will have their mentors in NYC storyline’

I don’t give a flying fuck

because once again

kurt hummel dared to want something, to have a dream, to persue that dream WITHOUT changing himself (supposing we forget his transformation into pod!kurt for a few episodes there - which I am willing to forget if you are)

and once again he was told ‘no’ and that he couldn’t, even after nailing his audition 

so, ergo, I don’t care what he ‘might get in the future’ because the future involves dealing with the same creative team that gave us what we got tonight.  and I’m just not interested in that. 

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is it weird that, out of all the horrible things glee has done, the show springing a KURT SUDDENLY DECIDES TO GO TO FASHION SCHOOL BECAUSE HE POTENTIALLY DOESN’T GET INTO NYADA (my gross spoiler speculation based upon the fact that the writers like to see Kurt cry) OR BECAUSE HE GIVES HIS SPOT UP TO RACHEL (which would ALSO rub me completely the wrong way for reasons I won’t get into right now) OR BECAUSE HE WAS REALLY MORE PASSIONATE ABOUT FASHION ALL ALONG (…), might be the thing that actually pushes me to give up on glee?  

that after all the bullshit, misogyny, embracing of the white male cisgender able bodied SAVIOR DICK, limiting of queer kid agency, ‘VERY SPECIAL EPISODE’ representation, finchel ridiculousness, blaine being a junior, and butterscotch creys of this season (and series, lbr), this might be the one thing that makes me go ‘I give up!  I can’t watch this stupid crap anymore’?

because I swear to you it just might, and I know that sounds so ridiculous, but it really just might.  and I know I’m out of step with many people on my dash about this, but HONESTLY what was the point of the NYADA storyline, west side story, the presidential election (from this season) of it all?  besides making really strange and really problematic points about queer performativity and ‘passing’ and how kurt can’t do it because he’s not just ‘gay’ he’s ‘GAY!!!!!!’ with sparkles and embellishment and someone. just. punch me in the face.  was everything this season just created to kick kurt under the bus again?

and this isn’t even really about kurt going into fashion since canonically it has been something that has been extremely important in his life/for his character.  it just hasn’t been billed as his passion in the same way.  it’s also the last minute of it all that is pissing me right the fuck off - because they could have easily included storyline’s or even THROW AWAY LINES about kurt making all the costumes for west side story, or the various glee competitions, etc. etc., but they didn’t and decided to make his crowning moments of triumph happen (in all three seasons re: Laryngitis, As If We Never Said Goodbye, and Not the Boy Next Door) after elaborate Broadway inspired singing performances. it’s just the handling of the whole thing that despite me usually going ‘lol it’s glee so what else can we expect’ is pushing me over the edge of what I can usually deal with.

littledust:

trionerd:

littledust:

trionerd:

I’m actually so angry about the bullshit reason the writers created to keep Mercedes from singing lead with the Troubletones during Nationals that I would legitimately pick up my chair and throw it through my window, if fixing the damage wouldn’t cost me money that I don’t have.  

My Internet stopped sucking enough to load the clip and adksfjl;afda. What the FUCK is wrong with the writers? How did I know that their explanation for a Mercedes-less “Edge of Glory” would be the grossest thing ever? SHE’S THE FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE TROUBLETONES. It SHOULD be just as important for her to solo as Rachel from a narrative POV, but the narrative doesn’t give a damn about the Troubletones.

brb picturing a world where “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” has Kurtcedes leads. >:( I think that’s the best Cory has ever sounded and Lea sounds flawless on her part, but you know what? They already HAD their song moments. Finn is the lead on that Nationals song that I didn’t like, right? He can have that one, because God knows ND has better singers but I’ll concede to the ridiculous state of the narrative on that one.

if Paradise was a Kurtcedes song the world would be a beautiful place, and not just because they freaking MORE than deserve to HAVE that lead, but because it would help complete a wonderful narrative arc for both the Kurt and Mercedes as singular characters and for their relationship in general.  

But god forbid Kurt be given a song that is typically sung by a heterosexual male performer, or Mercedes actually get a moment this season where she’s allowed to shine without being painted as ‘selfish’ or a ‘diva’ with ‘impossible and unrealistic dreams.’  

Because like, I love Rachel Berry, but this whole NYADA storyline has always been BS, and the continuation of it up into Nationals is even BIGGER BS.  If they at least wanted to pretend like Glee is an ensemble show where the ‘Glee club family’ (which I don’t buy, btw) is the heart of the show, then college stuff should have been OVER episodes ago and the last few episodes could have been solely about these kids and how they’re processing moving on/this change in Glee club.   Instead of taking this episode as a time to reaffirm again that the outcomes for Finn Hudson and Rachel Berry take precedence over everyone else. 

UGH YES. Why should Kurt and Mercedes have any lead parts in Nationals when one has been accepted to THE performing arts school and the other is on the verge of becoming a YouTube sensation?

Ack, I should also clarify that when I talk about narrative precedence I’m talking about three seasons establishing Rachel and Finn as THE main characters, not the stupid NYADA plot. I’ve spent this season fast forwarding through pretty much every Finchel scene. HOWEVER, since Finn and Rachel are the show leads, it would be a bizarre narrative choice for them not to have big Nationals moments, regardless of how vehemently I disagree that Finn is star show choir material and that NO ONE ELSE can ever sing lead except for a token concession to the Troubletones. Really, why does Finn’s big moment happen onstage, writers? HE’S NOT A PERFORMER IN THE SAME WAY THAT KURT AND MERCEDES AND RACHEL ARE.

I actually agree, re: Finn and Rachel having a moment at nationals.  I think you’re right - for as much as I’ve hated what FInchel has become this season, if Finn and Rachel didn’t get their ‘moment’ during this episode it would be strange even to me.  But the fact that they (especially Finn) have to keep on HAVING THE MOMENT OVER AND OVER AGAIN - MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE SAME COMPETITION EVEN, not just this season?  Is what makes me see red.

And, like you suggested, forcing Finn’s moment to happen on stage (when his Sectionals moment during season 1 was definitely happening offstage) is something that they really didn’t need to do.  Why are they pushing performer/actor Finn?  It honestly doesn’t make any sense.  I would have been one hundred times happier with this season if Finn decided to help Burt out with their Tire Shop.  Because what’s so wrong with that Glee?  Especially if he’s good at it and it makes him happy? Just because someone’s dream isn’t to be a famous Broadway performer or celebrity, doesn’t mean it’s any less worthy of a dream, and that’s what I’ve felt has been implied in this show which…is another thing that makes me mad.  

homopotamus:

Now, the actors themselves going ‘It’s a bro-scene! All of the bros are here!’ in the BTS videos is going to make me side-eye them. No, all the bros are not here. Despite Kurt pushing the gender norms in the most fantastic ways possible, he’s still canonly identified himself as a man. As a ‘bro’. So yes, it is a bro scene but they are all not present. :p 

No.

Look, I understand what you’re trying to say here, and it’s very valiant? of you. I guess?

Bro =/= Male/Boy and conversely, Male/Boy =/= Bro

Bro, as I have come to understand since hearing the term almost a decade ago, is slang for a type of person who ACTS a certain way. They are not always “men”. I’ve been called bro before, yet I identify as female. Are they wrong because I present myself physically one way and yet act “differently” in other ways?

I have no doubt in my mind that the boys of glee club consider Kurt a friend. A very good friend and, in some cases, even closer than that. But he does not bond with them in ways they consider “bro” ways, I’m sure. 

And there is nothing wrong with that. 

The fact that Kurt isn’t considered a ‘bro’ is not what I’ve seen most people have a problem with.  Most people (that I follow at least, so I could be ignorant to a wider range of sentiment) understand that the term ‘bro’ does not unequivocally equal a male identifying person. 

And while I have some slight pushback that Kurt doesn’t bond with the boys in ‘bro’ ways (those being the snippets of friendship I’ve seen between Puck and Kurt, and the fact that I think, unfortunately, Kurt’s ability to even have a certain types of friendship with the Glee boys has been tempered by their initial social positioning at McKinley), I understand what you’re saying in your last point.  I agree, as well, that there’s nothing wrong with Kurt, for example, wanting to hang out more with the ladies of Glee club than the guys (as Chris Colfer said of the ‘Summer Nights’ song with Sam and Mercedes - Kurt would much rather gossip with Mercedes than the guys).  

The problem I did see people having with the BTS video was the fact that the actors (Harry, I think, in particular) explicitly said: “it’s a bro scene.  All the guys are here” which IS, in fact, a statement that attaches a gendered definition onto the term ‘bro’ that was never present before.  Because, no, not all the guys ARE in the ‘Rain in Spain’ scene.  Kurt, despite not being a ‘bro’ is still a guy (as he has echoed numerous times before) and the fact that the statement ‘all the guys are here’ was said about the scene IS problematic and worthy of critical attention.  Because it’s wrong, and just seems to reinforce the unfortunate sissyphobic tendencies this show has notably employed in the past. 

substantialityou:

Good. I hope he’s mad because he transferred away from a GOOD school so Kurt could have a magical final year yet he will have to spend his ALONE. At a shit school he doesn’t even have to go to. I hope it’s this. Because that’s rage inducing.

I mean

I’d see how it’d be rage inducing if Kurt doesn’t appreciate the fact that Blaine did make a sacrifice in order for them to go to school together

but why is it automatically rage inducing in this context? Blaine is his own person.  He decided to transfer, Kurt didn’t force him too.  And even though Kurt did ask him to transfer so that they could be together, Kurt never once went ‘if you don’t transfer I’m going to break up with you’.  I’ll agree, Blaine being a Junior sucks and I’m mad about it too, but that’s more the fault of shitting writing than anything else.