Monday: Recs To Get You Through The Week

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Happy Monday (or Tuesday if you hail from the Land Down Under :D), all! Hope your weeks have all started well, and that they continue to be well. 

If not, then here: have some absolutely fabulous recs to get you there! 

You know what to do: if it has anything to do with Glee, rec it here and share the awesome. Fic, meta, vids, art, etc etc. 

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Some recs to get this party started (let's be honest, I love that I can surprise everyone with these when they wake up xD)

I know Robots ( robotsfighting )is on this comm now, but I am going to embarrass them by reccing Since The Day We Found You. Because it is incredible, and warm and comforting and beautiful, and the title comes from a Gotye song that literally never fails to make me sob. And everyone should read it and have tears and love for Blaine and the Hudmels.

And, if you're in the mood at all, some some very lovely and very NSFW Brittana art.

Aaaand, with that, I'm off to panic about French and the fact that I have about 600 lines of Virgil translation to remember in the next ten days. I HAVE THE POWER...

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It's never an embarrassment when someone says something nice! ♥ Thank you for the rec.

And, actually, although it has nothing to do with Glee, I recommend this specifically to you and Virgil: a shortish (40 min) audiobook explanation by Derren Brown of my favorite memory techniques. I never would have done so well in the classes for which I had to memorize long sequences of things if I didn't have that book. It's funny, and useful, if you like memory techniques. Which I kind of do. A lot.

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You are most welcome.

And thank you so much for your rec, I don't know what to say! I may listen to it on the bus, actually :D I do enjoy memory techniques, and anything that is going to help me pass this thing is more than welcome ♥

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I'm going to pimp my Glee 'verse so far with this. It's called the Gay Waffles 'verse (reason enough to read it), and it's Suck with secret-gay!Sam and i'm-not-gay!Puck and lots of h/c.

Lolixoxo90 does my favourite Faberry fan vids.

And have some random pretty things: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

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Rec Day is the best part of any week. This is my firm belief.

So since this place is relatively new, I'm going to rec ~*old things*~.

The Crazy Boys In Love Verse by parsnips LJ | AO3

This is a Kurt/Blaine verse, and the very definition of "jossed." It's from back when there wasn't much known about Blaine, and it explores his character as this fascinatingly broken person. Not "broken" as in having given up, or too hurt by circumstances to continue, but -- he's just developed these methods of dealing with things that are at once interesting, heartbreaking, and, often, that wonderful, miserable kind of funny. The whole thing balances humor and seriousness really well, and it's a pleasure to read, particularly the first in the series, Love (Makes You Do The Crazy). There are three stories, plus a wonderful podfic on AO3 called A story set in modern times, about something so much older.


I Bring My Better Angels To Every Fight by lls_mutant
Burt wanted to change the world for Kurt. He didn't realize that, by changing himself, he already had. Those years of struggling that it took Burt to figure things out.

This is my favorite Burt+Kurt backstory. It's written from the point-of-view of Burt, and it is absolutely breathtaking in the level of thought put into his journey from someone who would cringe at the thought of having a gay son, to the Burt we know in the show, who loves Kurt unconditionally. I love the voices in this story. Burt, Kurt, the original characters -- they're all fantastic. Actually, every single thing about it is wonderful, and you should totally just read it.


tamakito's Glee Masterlist

I am a major fan of tamakito, and go back pretty often to reread the things they have done. In particular, I'm a fan of anything they write with Finn, and the Hudmels. The Hudmels are my not-so-secret favorites. My personal recommendations are: Comfort Zone (Finn just really likes Kurt's bed; it's probably magic), Best Beloved (Finn begrudgingly likes it when Kurt reads out loud to him), Not While I'm Around (Of course Kurt gets stuck in an elevator with the two people who exacerbated his clausterphobia with dumpster tosses), Just The Way You Are (Slightly less lovely in theme, but no less excellent; Kurt is an awesome brother and Finn loves him, he really does. He just wishes Kurt weren’t gay.)

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Ooooh, if we're reccing tamakito, I'd add All In This Together which has some fantatsic Finn vs Britt content in the beginning and is just an excellent story all around. Very funny.

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See, my favourite by tamakito is Taking This One to the Grave, imagining what sort of conversations Azimio and Kurt might have while they're partners in french class.

I actually have a thing for stories about the tertiary characters! I am smitten with these two with Jesse St. James: The Pip with Pizzazz and it's sequel, Wizn't He Wonderful. The basic premise is that Jesse forces a friendship b/w himself and Blaine and it irritates Kurt et al. In the sequel, Jesse comes back to Lima after spending some time in NYC, and brings with him the original broadway cast recording from CrossRhodes, which is just hilarious/delightful/very April Rhodes.

This new one caught my attention: Stand A Little Taller. It's about the TroubleTones (who are awesome, of course) and the first chapter is written from the perspective of The Mack from the Skanks.