Fic -- I Left a Small Town for the Apple in Decay 2/2

[emoryems]

Author:emoryems
Rating: R
Pairing/Character(s): Kurt, Blaine, Mr. Schuester, OCs, New Directions.
Spoilers: 2.22: NY
Warnings: possibly triggering for anxiety; talk of past non-con (flashback detail as well)
Word Count: part two (7,122); total (12,219)
Summary: a follow up to Your Sins Into Me and In The End based on THIS angst meme prompt. While it is

Comments

[mimiheart]

Well, Schue, if you actually spoke with Kurt rather than AT Kurt half the time, maybe things like this wouldn't happen. *sigh* The man frustrates me.

This was a wonderful fill. Great job.

[emoryems]

I thought that writing from Schue's POV would make me like him more. But nope. :P

Thank you :)

[mimiheart]

There was an AU fic that I started to like him in. Well, it was a many-AU fic. One of the AUs had Burt dying when Kurt was younger and Kurt being in foster care, and Will ending up as a Kurt's foster father. (Terri was dead for some reason.) That Schue didn't make me want to strangle him...

I just don't understand why he does what he does most of the time. The only kids he does right by are Puck (sometimes) and Finn (sometimes). And even then he ends up being almost creepy with his behavior towards them. Even with Rachel, who he no doubt adores, he doesn't handle her in a way that is conducive to her ever actually doing well in life. *sigh*

[emoryems]

Hey I remember that fic... but have seemingly lost it. Oh how I miss the days when I used to keep my delicious account up-to-date. The recent lack of Kurt-angst (is it just me?) have left me a wee bit despondent and without the drive to keep it up.

It's almost like the man doesn't see beyond himself -- like he thinks that everything he says is right, regardless of anything else. I really must agree with you on all of those points. I mean honestly, Schue, open your eyes!

[mimiheart]

Yeah, everything is Blaine angst now, which seems odd to me. It's not that I don't like it, I do. I just like Kurt angst a bit more. IDK why.

My ex is a sound engineer, and one of the movies they worked on a few years ago had Matthew Morrison in it. My kids wanted to watch it, and so I threw it in, completely forgetting he was in it. And I was watching, and then I laughed because the character he was playing was almost exactly the same with the not-looking-past-his-own-immediate-issues bit. (His girlfriend got pregnant, and he says, "Why should our lives be ruined because you had a moment of weakness?" or something to that effect.) Then I wondered if they did that on purpose.

I'm a teacher, and I'd have fired myself many times over for some of the crap he's pulled. Just from the pilot!

[emoryems]

I have the worst way of being in fandom -- I don't know why, but I always get attached to ONE character in each fandom. In Glee that happens to be Kurt. I don't mind reading about other characters, but I tend to stick to anything Kurt-centric. When I inevitably run out of things to read, I switch to another fandom.

I love the Glee fandom and I've stayed in it the longest out of any... but it's getting harder to find Kurt-centric work. D:

Oh geez... I'm so happy I've never run into any teachers like him. And you're a teacher? That's so awesome :) I really want to do some teaching (beyond taekwon-do; I do sometimes teach that), but I absolutely LOVE archaeology/anthropology, so it'll likely be at the university/collage level.

[mimiheart]

I'm usually the same way. I know in the past I've pretty much latched onto on person. I've branched out a bit more for this fandom, though... at least I'm okay with a whopping two out of a huge ensemble cast getting h/c and angst. (Big step for me.) I still prefer Kurt, though.

I'm a teacher. I don't think I've ever had any teachers that are quite as bad as him all rolled into one, but I know I've worked with some that have turned a blind eye to whatever's going on. I worked with one last year who just walked out of the classroom because it was the last day and there was only an hour left and she wanted to go home. I took over the class and called the head of school because, really? I've tried to block out middle and high school from my memory. High school wasn't as bad as middle school for me. I don't know if any of the teachers watched or knew what was going on. I'm sure they must have seen some of it, though.

[emoryems]

I've had some pretty inspirational teachers, ones that definitely helped me find my way to where I am now. I still keep in contact with some of them. But then I had a few who didn't like to look beyond appearance -- there are a few incidents that I wish I could erase from memory. I do have to admit that we had an... interesting... ensemble of teachers in middle school. Two of them used to have water fights in the halls during class time, another would do raunchy mad-libs with us, and our band teacher had a break-down and threw textbooks at the class. That's the tip of the ice-berg. The year after I moved on to high school some big switch happened, and all but two of the teachers left.

I really wish I could get attached to another character :( I try to read the Blaine angst, or the Puck angst, but then I find myself scrolling through, skimming, trying to find the Kurt parts.

This obviously means I need to stalk the angst meme and fill some prompts. ;)

[mimiheart]

There was one a prompt a couple weeks ago involving Carole comforting Kurt after he had been sexually assaulted. I thought that would be an interesting take. (I'm writing another one with a slightly different premise on the same page. If I ever actually write it. I'm not doing so good on the writing in this fandom part.)

I've had some great teachers too. But I don't keep in touch with any from middle school. (Which is what I now teach, oddly enough. Though I have students who I had starting in seventh grade who keep in touch with me... and my oldest group is in college now.)

[mimiheart]

Mr. Schue generally talks at everyone, now that I think about it.