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openingyourselfuptojoy2012-03-11 11:13 am
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Sunday fun-day!
Good morning, comm! Or good afternoon, probably. (Those of you in the US, don't forget to turn your clocks ahead today!)
We're going to try something a little different this Sunday. While we are still 100% open for all the business of your most wacky and fun ideas, stories, gifs, random ramblings, etc, your mods are going to institute two new additions to this week's post.
Fun New Thing Number One: It's time for our very first Make Our Comm Pretty contest! We've been all decked out in Symbolic Colors since we opened, but really, we're a Glee comm, and it's time we had the banners and backgrounds to celebrate that. So, it's up to you guys, oh lovely and talented fans that you are, to make us some! Drop your entries, or a link to them, in the comments here. We'll run this for at least a week, or longer if we decide to, because we get to be capricious like that.
Fun New Thing Number Two: It's also time for our very firstopeningyourselfuptojoy One Sentence Meme! The rules are fairly simple: post a short prompt (in the thread below that I'll start for those purposes), and other people will come by and attempt to answer it in one sentence. They'll likely fail and end up with something that spans five comments, but it's the thought that counts, right? :D
Have at it, my lovelies! And have fun.
We're going to try something a little different this Sunday. While we are still 100% open for all the business of your most wacky and fun ideas, stories, gifs, random ramblings, etc, your mods are going to institute two new additions to this week's post.
Fun New Thing Number One: It's time for our very first Make Our Comm Pretty contest! We've been all decked out in Symbolic Colors since we opened, but really, we're a Glee comm, and it's time we had the banners and backgrounds to celebrate that. So, it's up to you guys, oh lovely and talented fans that you are, to make us some! Drop your entries, or a link to them, in the comments here. We'll run this for at least a week, or longer if we decide to, because we get to be capricious like that.
Fun New Thing Number Two: It's also time for our very first
openingyourselfuptojoy One Sentence Meme! The rules are fairly simple: post a short prompt (in the thread below that I'll start for those purposes), and other people will come by and attempt to answer it in one sentence. They'll likely fail and end up with something that spans five comments, but it's the thought that counts, right? :DHave at it, my lovelies! And have fun.
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Brittany+Kurt: her laryngitis outfit
Finn + Britt, "well at least we didn't die"
The brainiacs + Blaine
The band dudes + Jacob ben Israel
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Re: The brainiacs + Blaine
Brittany gasped. "Could we? Guys, I know how we are going to win Regionals. We're gonna be superheroes."
Tina twirled in her chair and glared at Artie. "This is the guy you want to replace Mike? Really?"
"What? Blaine's smart." Artie argued weakly, trying to ignore Blaine's conversation with Brittany over whether purple spandex would intimidate their competition, or just make them look silly. Also whether or not bowties were acceptable superhero accessories. "Really."
(In the end, it was Blaine and Brittany won the competition for them, and Tina owed Artie ten bucks. Who knew an encyclopedic knowledge of cat diseases and art history would send them back to Detroit for the third year in a row?)
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Re: The brainiacs + Blaine
FILL
"I know sweetie."
"It's not fair to kill them!"
"I know. I know."
"I'm sure that if it would just let me talk to them we could work something out!"
"I'm sure you could."
"It's just so SAD!"
"I know, I know, shhhh, come here. There. It's alright. It's just a video game."
Finn rolled his eyes. "Dude, if you can't kill the grunts, maybe we should just play a racing game instead. Kurt hid them when he kept losing, but I bet he'd let *you* into his closet to look for them."
Re: The band dudes + Jacob ben Israel
Jacob still wasn't used to Blaine's sounds, but he'd put up with weirder before. Lauren Zizes' manic giggles as she'd examined her Koala Yummies and discontinued Twilight t-shirts. (Size XXL.) Sam Evens and his body glitter. Matt Rutherford brought to his knees by -well best to not think too hard about what Matt had wanted.
The new ones were always so easily swayed.
“Please,” Blaine begged, his tea colored eyes large and full of shame. “Please don't ever tell Kurt about this, Jacob. He'd be so disappointed.”
Jacob Ben Israel had a fine working knowledge of shame, and he sympathized. He did, but he couldn’t let that show. He had information to gather. College transcripts to beef up. California paparazzi internships to win. A shitty town to ditch.
“Of course I won't,” Jacob said.
“Can I look at them while we talk?” Blaine asked.
“You always ask that, and I always say yes,” Jacob responded shifting from foot-to-foot. “You don't always have to ask that.”
Blaine shoved a hand into the bag, and dug around before emerging with a dark red bow-tie. The light rippled across the silk, and the tiny gold foxes that decorated it seemed to grin at Jacob hungrily.
“They're so pretty,” Blaine cooed. “How do you find such pretty ones? I can never find the ones you have.”
“You know I can't tell you that Blaine,” Jacob said patiently. Leaning over he put a hand on Blaine's shoulder.
And you wouldn't believe me even if I told you, he thought.
“Now tell Uncle Jacob all about what's happening in glee club.”
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Blaine as a dream [spoilers for Fight Club]
"Sometimes I feel we haven't had much development for Blaine because I don't think he's supposed to be treated like a real character--he's just a dream instead. How many times has the dream motif come up with Blaine? The first song he ever sings is Teenage Dream. Kurt says Blaine is as dreamy as ever. He sings like a dream, and Finn gets mad every time he opens his dreamboat a capella mouth. I know Blaine is sort of in limbo--not really alive or dead--but how much of him simply isn't real?"
It occurred to me that Kurt also said about his relationship with Blaine: "I can't believe I just made it all up in my head." AND in addition to that, Blaine said he started Fight Club. The person who started Fight Club is imaginary.
So I started thinking about reworking scenes with Kurt acting out all Blaine's parts. This was ruined when I remembered that Blaine met Dave in the first episode he was in, and Dave said "Hey Lady Boys. This your boyfriend, Kurt?" So clearly Blaine can be seen by other people, and has been from the beginning. Sad. But before I realized this, I had already started planning a scene in my head. Here goes:
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Kurt walked into the garage looking around, like he wasn't familiar with the place. He was casual, hands in his pockets, coat undone. "Need a hand?" he said.
Burt knew this wasn't his primary personality, the one that answers to the name Kurt. His posture, his tone of voice, everything gave it away. But which one was it? "Yeah, why don't you hand me that carburator?"
Kurt correctly identified the carburator and handed it over. Dr. F. had said Kurt's personalities would have different skills and memories, so...
"How'd you know which one it was?"
Kurt chuckled. "My dad and I rebuilt a '59 Chevy in our driveway two summers ago. One of his uh, many attempts at bonding." He crossed his arms and leaned against the table. He looked so comfortable in his own skin. Nice that he'd linked dads and cars in his little backstory.
"You here looking for parts?"
"No actually. I uh, wanted to talk to you about Kurt."
Burt tensed. "Is he ok?"
"Have you ever talked to him about sex?"
Burt cut him off. "Are you gay? Or straight, or what?" Who am I even talking to?
"I'm definitely gay."
"Ok, good." Less confusion for him if he's not going after girls half the time. "I mean, you know, whatever. But uh, you know, good for Kurt. He needs someone like you..." to be. "to talk to."
"Well that's kind of my point. I've tried talking to him but he basically puts his fingers in his ears and starts singing."
Burt smiled, bemused. "Well, when he's ready, he'll listen."
Kurt looked concerned. "I'm worried that it might be too late. You know Dalton doesn't even have sex ed classes?" Dalton. So, that Blaine person Kurt's been raving about. "Most schools don't and the ones that do almost never discuss what sex is like for gay kids." Kurt paused and collected his thoughts. "Kurt is the most moral, compassiate person I've ever met."
Burt retrained himself from laughing out loud. Nice that Kurt has such a high opinion of himself. "Well he gets that from his mother." Will you remember this when you're yourself again?
"And I am blown away by your guys' relationship. You think my dad built a car with me because he loves cars? I think he did it because he thought getting my hands dirty might make me straight."
There's more to this dad character. Assigning traits from other people? "He talk to you about this uh, kind of stuff?"
"No. I had to go find it for myself. The internet is great and all the information is out there, but I went searching for it. Kurt won't." How does that work? If Blaine has the information, doesn't Kurt have it too? "And one day he'll be at a party and maybe have a few drinks and, then he'll meet some guy and start fooling around, and he's not gonna know about using protection, or STDs..."
This is what Kurt thinks is in his future? Random hookups with strangers? He's going to have to talk to Kurt about this.
"I don't have the relationship with my dad that you have with Kurt. I think it would be really cool if you took advantage of that." Kurt ducked his head and a line appeared between his eyebrows. "I'm sorry if I'm overstepping."
Burt thought about how he would react if another person had asked him to talk to his son about sex. "You are." But this was Kurt, asking on his own behalf. He watched Kurt hesitate, like he had something else he wanted to say before leaving. Burt watched him go with confusion, and a little pride. Parts of Kurt's mind are fine with searching things out online, and he's inventing confident gay kids to relate to, but in the end, he still just wants his dad.
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(The solution is OBVIOUSLY to just do another one :D )
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I'm pretty sure Kurt will ALWAYS let Blaine into his closet. *bg*
PROMPT: Kurt will ALWAYS let Blaine into his closet.
PROMPT: Kurt will ALWAYS let Blaine into his closet.
Fill - Mike Chang dances with a ghost
Only the ghost part wasn't entirely planned on.
-
When you're Mike, you can't help but notice things.
Like,
boys sitting at the side of the lake when it's way past curfew.
Since no one else was around, he went up to the boy.
(Mike figured this boy was also a supervisor, sine he was about Mike's age. So he wouldn't have to scold him. And. Maybe he had a good reason for sitting outside after curfew.)
As much as the boy was there, he mostly just looked like a shade of himself. (And later in the year his heart would still start pounding whenever he saw Quinn.)
Mike didn't really know what to do: words weren't something that came easily to him.
Let alone when he wanted to speak to a stranger.
(a very sad stranger.)
So instead, he offered his hand
and as the boy took it,
he pulled him back on his feet.
"Want to dance?"
(Mike was pretty sure the boy's entire body glowed with smile)
-
Afterwards, he didn't see the boy around anymore.
So.
It wasn't until sectionals that things fell into place.
Fill - Finn + Britt
"What are you doing?"
Finn jumped when Brittany leaned over him to watch the computerscreen he was working on.
"Just, I was just playing a game."
The character Finn was playing with managed to make it through a long tunnel, and a wall popped up behind him.
The point of no return.
"I was kind of concentrating since this seems like a difficult boss."
Brittany peered at the screen, as the big black blob shot at Finn's character.
"So... can you hit him?"
"Well, I tried but..." he trailed off when he tried jumping up the staircase on the side of the screen.
"Dude, awesome, I have fire!"
Brittany stood up and said
"Finn, you've gotta kill the monster, not put yourself or your surroundings on fire.
What will happen when you do, huh? Who will save the forest creatures?"
"There are forest creatures?"
"And I'm pretty sure that even in games there are laws against unicorn hunting!"
"There are unicorns?"
The flame went out, and Finn let out a breath. Good. He would not be killing innocent animals today.
Quickly he closed the page, he'd just go back to shooting people on his Xbox360. Far less risky.
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Every time I look at that (and I've gone past this tab like five times now) I automatically start singing "WHERE THEY AT? WHERE THEY AT?" etc :P
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