'Glee' Recs. & Darren Criss Squee
OK, I literally cannot contain this any more. I will have some kind of fangirl explosion if I don't have a bit of a rant at you guys, so I apologise in advance. I'll try to be vaguelly normal for at least part of this post - the rec. part. Because that's important, and I do want these fics read, because they are so good. Sooooo good.
SPOILERS for Glee S2E6 ('Never Been Kissed') onwards throughout. If you haven't seen it (or the subsequent episode) yet - what the hell are you doing here?! Go and watch it right now! There's an awesome cover of 'Teenage Dream' for you to listen to!
Following 'Never Been Kissed' (S2E6), I for the first time gave in and did a search for Glee fic. (Yes, for Kurt/Blaine slash. Shut up. It was adorable. I couldn't help myself. *grumbles*) Here's some of what I've found thus far and been enamoured with enough to put in my memories, along with reasons why it deserves a place here.
All of these contain Kurt, Blaine, or some kind of mashup of the two (be it friendship or romance). Some of them may be epically fluffy. Please take your diabetes medication before perusing this list. :P
Title: It Might Be Love
Author: it-mightbe-love
Rating: High PG
Summary: Kurt thinks Saturdays will quickly become tradition...
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: #1 -- Happy!Kurt. #2 -- This was the first fic in this entire fandom that I put in my memories. That makes it kind of special to me, and gives it a place on this list. It's not the best fic of its type that I've found (those come later), but it warms the cockles of my heart nonetheless. :)
Title: Happy Again
Author: spawn_hell
Rating: 12
Summary: The natural procession of Kurt and Blaine’s relationship, as seen through Burt’s eyes.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Um. See summary? :P No, seriously - the author has Burt's voice (and motivations and reactions) down perfectly. And the progression of the relationship is adorable.
Title: take me by the hand and tell me
Author: preromantics
Rating: 12
Summary: First kiss fic featuring movies, car singing, picnics, and Brittany's ninth sense.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: I love the way this fic progresses kind of slowly. Which is lovely. Also, there's a picnic and funny cameos from Brittany and Santana.
Title: How to Break the Spell
Author: sotto_voice
Rating: 18
Summary: Kurt knows he should really get home after an entire afternoon spent at Blaine's house, but Blaine can be pretty persuasive when he puts his mind (and his guitar) to it. SPOILERS for a (widely-known-in-the-fandom) song in the Christmas episode.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Well, you all we had to get to the porn eventually, right? :P Also, they sing a duet. At Christmas. In the snow. <3
Title: I Can Be Whatever I Want To Be
Author: sotto_voice
Rating: PG
Summary: Before Burt can even take off his coat, Kurt has announced that he's going to be Cinderella for Halloween.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Let's have a short break from Kurt&Blaine. Everybody needs more adorable little!Kurt in their life. :) If this doesn't warm your heart, you are clearly a soulless automaton and belong in Vocal Adrenaline. :P
However - before you read the fic, go and read this real-life blog post, which is Totally Awesome in itself (as well as being the basis of the fic).
Title: Why Kurt Hummel Hates Facebook
Author: byham_rory
Rating: 12
Summary: Kurt really, really should have just de-friended Jesse while he had the chance...
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Every rec. post needs a little crack - and this delivers. It's crack without being silly. (In fact, I wouldn't even class it as crack, really - more of an excellent humour fic.)
Title: I'll Be Your Valentine Part I, Part II, Part III
Author: fabrisse
Rating: 15 (18 in Part III)
Summary: The set up to, execution of, and follow-up to the following prompt: "Blaine goes to Dalton, so he must be pretty loaded. So - he takes Kurt out to one of those insanely expensive restaurants, with the Michelin Star chefs and where an entree costs £50."
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: I'm a little bit in love with the idea of Blaine being a complete charmer, who's prepared to sweep Kurt off his feet. (Goodness knows the boy deserves it!) This fic does that. Perfectly.
Title: Well I'm Sorry I Can't Afford a Ferrari, But That Don't Mean I Can't Get You There
Author: kay-lee-p
Rating: 12
Summary: Kurt doesn't have everything. So he can't afford to go to Dalton. Well, shit.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: I'm posting this one entirely for the last line. And the general awesomeness that is the Dalton Boys. Because both those things made me flail with joy.
And finally - my favourite 'verse in this fandom:
Author: infraredphaeton
In the following order --
Title: How To Make Friends And Influence People (Without Using Katy Perry lyrics)
Summary:Dalton Academy is filled with dorks.
Title: It Isn't Kidnapping If They Say Yes (And it Involves A Duck)
Summary: The Dalton boys are dorks when they're at McKinley, too. Blaine just wants a date. Rachel protects the sanctity of the New Directions setlist. Not that she needs too.
Title: There ain't no party like an LAN party
Summary: Blaine sulks. The Warblers are a little bit crazy. Kurt plays videogames.
Title: It Reminds Me Of Victor And Rolf
Summary: Minific on Kurts fondness for fashion in video games. :P
Title: Red Spah in the Blu Base
Summary: Rachel is a better spy than Kurt. Eric might be gay. Kurt and Blaine go to a drive-in, and totally fail to make out.
Title: This is Madness
Summary: Blaine wears short shorts. Wes and David don’t spy. Kurt goes to a soccer game.
Rating: 12
Why These Fics Are Totally Awesome: OK, where to begin? *goofy grin* Basically: welcome to my personal headcanon.
To quote the author's note on the first in the series: "I made Dalton an IB School. This means nothing in the grander scheme of things, but yeah, I thought it fit with the no harassment policy and exorbitant fees. Also, until somebody proves otherwise, these boys are giant nerds who like video games, and Blaine worships Katy Perry like Kurt loves Gaga."
This series of fics never fails to put a smile on my face. (They are what I retreated to today, after having a fairly crappy day, to make me feel better. They worked.)
The Dalton Boys are complete dorks and I love them. I love the dynamic of Wes and David and Blaine - they are such boys, and such great friends. (Also, the Warblers feature in most of the fics, and they're great too. I'm particularly fond of Eric. :P) There are (subtle-ish) VPM references and video-game references (Team Fortress 2 FTW!) and it's just generally awesome.
There isn't any Kurt/Blaine (yet) - but there is Kurt&Blaine and they are predictably adorable together. And you know what? I freaking love that these fics aren't shoving them together in five minutes flat - the slow-build is wonderful and realistic.
Finally, a confession - it's because of these fics that I got stupidly nervous about watching S2E7 - because I was terrified that the new episode would break this verse by making the Dalton Boys so ... not like this. I want them to be like this. I do not want my headcanon breaking, KTHX. ;)
Also, more generally, about the fandom itself -- which can be found mainly at Kurt_Blaine -- because I feel the need to promote it and drag you people in ... The Dalton Boys' dorkiness and the seemingly-endless VPM references have become fandom tropes already. (As has the 'snowed in together' storyline. :P) The fact that we even have tropes, after just two episodes (one of which had all of five minutes of Blaine in it, so essentially one episode) is just ... so good for my soul right now. It makes me happy. And the fandom is small and friendly and loveable and I love it so much. :D
Right. Recs. are done (for now!). I now am going to have to have a bit of a squee over Darren Criss because he's Darren Criss!
So, after S2E6 aired, I google-image-searched 'Darren Criss'. (Can't remember quite why. I think I was trying to decide whether to find him pretty or not. XD) And a screenshot from A Very Potter Musical came up.
Cue flail over Twitter because OMFG, NO WAY, Darren Criss was Harry Potter in VPM ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I then did some googling and yes, Darren Criss - who now plays Blaine in Glee - was one Harry Potter in A Very Potter Musical. UM.
It was around about that point that I fell for him. :P (As if the Dalton Warblers cover of 'Teenage Dream' wasn't enough ...) I prefer him as Blaine - mostly because the mass of curls doesn't really do it for me, sorry - but I think the geek-core side of me really deeply appreciates the fact that he was involved in VPM. And that's fuelling between 40% and 60% of my massive Darren Criss crush. :P
Basically, the more I find out about this dude, the cooler he becomes. I mean, I kinda liked him as Blaine. Then I found out about VPM. Then - and this was really the final thing for me - I found out that he does covers of Disney songs on YouTube. (Songs like 'Belle', 'Part of Your World', and 'I'll Make A Man Out Of You'. XD)
UM. <3
WHY does he have to have such a lovely soothing voice? I keep getting the Warblers' cover of 'Teenage Dream' stuck in my head. (Funny Fact: I had not even heard of 'Teenage Dream' before it came on 'Glee', let alone heard it played. Now, I honestly can't imagine a woman singing it. XD) I really want to hear the rest of the Warblers' set - they're sort of awesome. *is going to half what to root for them at Sectionals* But seriously, it's massively distracting having Darren Criss sing about skin-tight jeans in my head at all hours. Complete with Suggestive Eyebrows and Grin #8: Epic Levels Of Cheese ...
Also, if Kurt/Blaine doesn't become canon, I will WEEP LIKE A CHILD. (No joke, I really will. It will be even more upsetting than the fact that Artie and Tina broke up over the summer over Mike. I mean, Mike?! He's nice, but - MIKE?! WHAT?! D<)
The only thing that would upset me more would be Kurt/Karovsky - but I seriously doubt that that'll happen. I mean, he threatened to kill Kurt. Because of that, I feel that it's way more likely that Kurt's going to get the shit kicked out of him by Karovsky. Or at least, get rescued from a beating at the last second.
Both of which will also make me cry, but it'll be better than Kurt/Karovsky. By about a million miles. I'd rather see him in a coma than voluntarily sucking face with Dave Karovsky. The people who say the dude's a teddy bear? NO. WRONG. He's a bully, and he smacks Kurt around. Kurt deserves way better than that. Also, Kurt's stated quite clearly that Karovsky's not his type - and I doubt he was just saying that, given the other people he's liked (Finn and Sam - niceguy jocks who treat him like a human being, not chubby dickhead jocks who treat him like a human punchbag).
Right. Squee and speculation over.
Time to go and get the next 1000 words of NaNoWriMo so's we'll be on track. Personally, I hit 30K today! \o/
PS: This is probably my favourite of all the icons I've ever made ever. (With the possibly exception of my Madness Within icon.) Because it amuses me greatly. :P
EDIT: Just when I think that's it, my love for Darren Criss can't get any more ridiculous, he does something else. Today, I found out via his Twitter that he referenced Back to the Future on the 55th annivesary of time travel (5th November). <3 ... Not that I'm a stalker. It's normal to follow awesome people on Twitter. :/
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SPOILERS for Glee S2E6 ('Never Been Kissed') onwards throughout. If you haven't seen it (or the subsequent episode) yet - what the hell are you doing here?! Go and watch it right now! There's an awesome cover of 'Teenage Dream' for you to listen to!
Following 'Never Been Kissed' (S2E6), I for the first time gave in and did a search for Glee fic. (Yes, for Kurt/Blaine slash. Shut up. It was adorable. I couldn't help myself. *grumbles*) Here's some of what I've found thus far and been enamoured with enough to put in my memories, along with reasons why it deserves a place here.
All of these contain Kurt, Blaine, or some kind of mashup of the two (be it friendship or romance). Some of them may be epically fluffy. Please take your diabetes medication before perusing this list. :P
Title: It Might Be Love
Author: it-mightbe-love
Rating: High PG
Summary: Kurt thinks Saturdays will quickly become tradition...
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: #1 -- Happy!Kurt. #2 -- This was the first fic in this entire fandom that I put in my memories. That makes it kind of special to me, and gives it a place on this list. It's not the best fic of its type that I've found (those come later), but it warms the cockles of my heart nonetheless. :)
Title: Happy Again
Author: spawn_hell
Rating: 12
Summary: The natural procession of Kurt and Blaine’s relationship, as seen through Burt’s eyes.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Um. See summary? :P No, seriously - the author has Burt's voice (and motivations and reactions) down perfectly. And the progression of the relationship is adorable.
Title: take me by the hand and tell me
Author: preromantics
Rating: 12
Summary: First kiss fic featuring movies, car singing, picnics, and Brittany's ninth sense.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: I love the way this fic progresses kind of slowly. Which is lovely. Also, there's a picnic and funny cameos from Brittany and Santana.
Title: How to Break the Spell
Author: sotto_voice
Rating: 18
Summary: Kurt knows he should really get home after an entire afternoon spent at Blaine's house, but Blaine can be pretty persuasive when he puts his mind (and his guitar) to it. SPOILERS for a (widely-known-in-the-fandom) song in the Christmas episode.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Well, you all we had to get to the porn eventually, right? :P Also, they sing a duet. At Christmas. In the snow. <3
Title: I Can Be Whatever I Want To Be
Author: sotto_voice
Rating: PG
Summary: Before Burt can even take off his coat, Kurt has announced that he's going to be Cinderella for Halloween.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Let's have a short break from Kurt&Blaine. Everybody needs more adorable little!Kurt in their life. :) If this doesn't warm your heart, you are clearly a soulless automaton and belong in Vocal Adrenaline. :P
However - before you read the fic, go and read this real-life blog post, which is Totally Awesome in itself (as well as being the basis of the fic).
Title: Why Kurt Hummel Hates Facebook
Author: byham_rory
Rating: 12
Summary: Kurt really, really should have just de-friended Jesse while he had the chance...
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: Every rec. post needs a little crack - and this delivers. It's crack without being silly. (In fact, I wouldn't even class it as crack, really - more of an excellent humour fic.)
Title: I'll Be Your Valentine Part I, Part II, Part III
Author: fabrisse
Rating: 15 (18 in Part III)
Summary: The set up to, execution of, and follow-up to the following prompt: "Blaine goes to Dalton, so he must be pretty loaded. So - he takes Kurt out to one of those insanely expensive restaurants, with the Michelin Star chefs and where an entree costs £50."
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: I'm a little bit in love with the idea of Blaine being a complete charmer, who's prepared to sweep Kurt off his feet. (Goodness knows the boy deserves it!) This fic does that. Perfectly.
Title: Well I'm Sorry I Can't Afford a Ferrari, But That Don't Mean I Can't Get You There
Author: kay-lee-p
Rating: 12
Summary: Kurt doesn't have everything. So he can't afford to go to Dalton. Well, shit.
Why This Fic Is Totally Awesome: I'm posting this one entirely for the last line. And the general awesomeness that is the Dalton Boys. Because both those things made me flail with joy.
And finally - my favourite 'verse in this fandom:
Author: infraredphaeton
In the following order --
Title: How To Make Friends And Influence People (Without Using Katy Perry lyrics)
Summary:Dalton Academy is filled with dorks.
Title: It Isn't Kidnapping If They Say Yes (And it Involves A Duck)
Summary: The Dalton boys are dorks when they're at McKinley, too. Blaine just wants a date. Rachel protects the sanctity of the New Directions setlist. Not that she needs too.
Title: There ain't no party like an LAN party
Summary: Blaine sulks. The Warblers are a little bit crazy. Kurt plays videogames.
Title: It Reminds Me Of Victor And Rolf
Summary: Minific on Kurts fondness for fashion in video games. :P
Title: Red Spah in the Blu Base
Summary: Rachel is a better spy than Kurt. Eric might be gay. Kurt and Blaine go to a drive-in, and totally fail to make out.
Title: This is Madness
Summary: Blaine wears short shorts. Wes and David don’t spy. Kurt goes to a soccer game.
Rating: 12
Why These Fics Are Totally Awesome: OK, where to begin? *goofy grin* Basically: welcome to my personal headcanon.
To quote the author's note on the first in the series: "I made Dalton an IB School. This means nothing in the grander scheme of things, but yeah, I thought it fit with the no harassment policy and exorbitant fees. Also, until somebody proves otherwise, these boys are giant nerds who like video games, and Blaine worships Katy Perry like Kurt loves Gaga."
This series of fics never fails to put a smile on my face. (They are what I retreated to today, after having a fairly crappy day, to make me feel better. They worked.)
The Dalton Boys are complete dorks and I love them. I love the dynamic of Wes and David and Blaine - they are such boys, and such great friends. (Also, the Warblers feature in most of the fics, and they're great too. I'm particularly fond of Eric. :P) There are (subtle-ish) VPM references and video-game references (Team Fortress 2 FTW!) and it's just generally awesome.
There isn't any Kurt/Blaine (yet) - but there is Kurt&Blaine and they are predictably adorable together. And you know what? I freaking love that these fics aren't shoving them together in five minutes flat - the slow-build is wonderful and realistic.
Finally, a confession - it's because of these fics that I got stupidly nervous about watching S2E7 - because I was terrified that the new episode would break this verse by making the Dalton Boys so ... not like this. I want them to be like this. I do not want my headcanon breaking, KTHX. ;)
Also, more generally, about the fandom itself -- which can be found mainly at Kurt_Blaine -- because I feel the need to promote it and drag you people in ... The Dalton Boys' dorkiness and the seemingly-endless VPM references have become fandom tropes already. (As has the 'snowed in together' storyline. :P) The fact that we even have tropes, after just two episodes (one of which had all of five minutes of Blaine in it, so essentially one episode) is just ... so good for my soul right now. It makes me happy. And the fandom is small and friendly and loveable and I love it so much. :D
Right. Recs. are done (for now!). I now am going to have to have a bit of a squee over Darren Criss because he's Darren Criss!
So, after S2E6 aired, I google-image-searched 'Darren Criss'. (Can't remember quite why. I think I was trying to decide whether to find him pretty or not. XD) And a screenshot from A Very Potter Musical came up.
Cue flail over Twitter because OMFG, NO WAY, Darren Criss was Harry Potter in VPM ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! I then did some googling and yes, Darren Criss - who now plays Blaine in Glee - was one Harry Potter in A Very Potter Musical. UM.
It was around about that point that I fell for him. :P (As if the Dalton Warblers cover of 'Teenage Dream' wasn't enough ...) I prefer him as Blaine - mostly because the mass of curls doesn't really do it for me, sorry - but I think the geek-core side of me really deeply appreciates the fact that he was involved in VPM. And that's fuelling between 40% and 60% of my massive Darren Criss crush. :P
Basically, the more I find out about this dude, the cooler he becomes. I mean, I kinda liked him as Blaine. Then I found out about VPM. Then - and this was really the final thing for me - I found out that he does covers of Disney songs on YouTube. (Songs like 'Belle', 'Part of Your World', and 'I'll Make A Man Out Of You'. XD)
UM. <3
WHY does he have to have such a lovely soothing voice? I keep getting the Warblers' cover of 'Teenage Dream' stuck in my head. (Funny Fact: I had not even heard of 'Teenage Dream' before it came on 'Glee', let alone heard it played. Now, I honestly can't imagine a woman singing it. XD) I really want to hear the rest of the Warblers' set - they're sort of awesome. *is going to half what to root for them at Sectionals* But seriously, it's massively distracting having Darren Criss sing about skin-tight jeans in my head at all hours. Complete with Suggestive Eyebrows and Grin #8: Epic Levels Of Cheese ...
Also, if Kurt/Blaine doesn't become canon, I will WEEP LIKE A CHILD. (No joke, I really will. It will be even more upsetting than the fact that Artie and Tina broke up over the summer over Mike. I mean, Mike?! He's nice, but - MIKE?! WHAT?! D<)
The only thing that would upset me more would be Kurt/Karovsky - but I seriously doubt that that'll happen. I mean, he threatened to kill Kurt. Because of that, I feel that it's way more likely that Kurt's going to get the shit kicked out of him by Karovsky. Or at least, get rescued from a beating at the last second.
Both of which will also make me cry, but it'll be better than Kurt/Karovsky. By about a million miles. I'd rather see him in a coma than voluntarily sucking face with Dave Karovsky. The people who say the dude's a teddy bear? NO. WRONG. He's a bully, and he smacks Kurt around. Kurt deserves way better than that. Also, Kurt's stated quite clearly that Karovsky's not his type - and I doubt he was just saying that, given the other people he's liked (Finn and Sam - niceguy jocks who treat him like a human being, not chubby dickhead jocks who treat him like a human punchbag).
Right. Squee and speculation over.
Time to go and get the next 1000 words of NaNoWriMo so's we'll be on track. Personally, I hit 30K today! \o/
PS: This is probably my favourite of all the icons I've ever made ever. (With the possibly exception of my Madness Within icon.) Because it amuses me greatly. :P
EDIT: Just when I think that's it, my love for Darren Criss can't get any more ridiculous, he does something else. Today, I found out via his Twitter that he referenced Back to the Future on the 55th annivesary of time travel (5th November). <3 ... Not that I'm a stalker. It's normal to follow awesome people on Twitter. :/
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