Best Beloved

[tamakito]

Spoilers: Up to 2.16
Warnings: Mild homophobia.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5, 289
Disclaimer: RIB and FOX own everything ever.
Beta: rdm-ation
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This prompt. Being read aloud to is for little kids, and Finn is making a concerted effort to grow up, so he definitely doesn't indulge in it. Much. Well, Kurt has a nice voice, okay.

Comments

[slashtintedglss]

This was sweet enough to give a person cavities. And I loved every minute of it. Once again, amazingly in character. I love how you were able to fit deeper insecurities about growing up and responsibilities in a light fic that is on the surface about (some well overdue, IMO) brotherly bonding (and some of my favorite children's stories too?! Bonus points!). I've always loved the dynamic between Kurt and Finn who are very obviously different in terms of maturity and responsibility, but are both very much children at times. (I'm not making much sense. I'm sorry. Maybe I'll try to be more coherent in the morning. Uh...Later in the morning.)

Also, you gave me Mechanic!Kurt and Hudmel brothers working at the garage together. So I am now obligated to love you forever. Sorry.

Basically. I'm squeeing like a fangirl and you should never stop writing the Hudmels. Ever.

And now I have an irrational and inexplicable need for audiobooks read by Chris Colfer...

[tamakito]

Oh wow, you as well are just like right here to make everything better, omg. You peach! I'm so psyched you liked it and felt it was in-character! And my standard Aw Shit Son Slap Some Insecurities on That Fluff technique, oh god. I swear that is what I always end up doing; I take some totally innocent fluffy prompt and at some point during the "okay why am I telling this story" process of wringing a theme out of it... INSECURITIES.

OMG ME TOO THO. JSS and PP were huge parts of my childhood. Huge. Me gustan.

Also Kurt and Finn's weird mature/v. childish ways of behaving legit do the most interesting things together. Because like Kurt's more grown up, really, but... he can be so incredibly self-involved and Finn can be very aware of others and such a caretaker in this odd way, and just. It's a thing.

YOU MUST LOVE MEEEEE /evita

pls do though I love being loved it is superb

THAT WAS THE WORST PART OF WRITING THIS. I now need Colfer audiobooks and what are the odds of that happening?! But I NEED THEM

[slashtintedglss]

How did I not get a notification for this LJ!?!

I'm so so sorry for the late reply on this.

But anyway, I may or may not follow you on Tumblr (of which I am still a terrible, terrible noob, and don't really understand. I'm there for the beautiful, beautiful gifs. And the cool people that seem to just populate the dang place!) so I got the update when you posted it. And I don't sleep sometimes so the internet keeps me company at four in the morning

Insecurities are my fluff. Secretly. Just don't tell friendship or family; they'll just get jealous. XD

Oh themes. You haunt me. I was just writing a 5 +1 relationship piece and I snuck in an underlying general theme of "communication". I think this "theme" thing was ingrained by a childhood diet of children's television shows and Disney. It was obviously inevitable. That's why all our literature and media these days ends with so obviously and conveniently spelled out moral lessons, no? JSS were so much love. I wrote so many kiddie book reports on those stories in elementary school.

[tamakito]

Lol bro whut - I don't think this counts in any world as late! Especially not my world, where I am often weeks late with comments.

THE INTERNET IS BEST FOR 4 a.m. COMPANY THO. Omg also okay who are you on tumblr, so I can follow back?! Because there are at least two people I can think of that it's like - I want to follow them back judging from the little that's there, but they've only posted two things and have no bio so I don't know that they're groovy. But if it's you then I do know you're groovy so.

COMMUNICATION IS MY FAVORITE THEME EVER

EVER

Also lol I should think a steady diet of any fiction worth its salt would instill a need for theme; it is pretty pointless to have fiction without a theme. I think the difference between, you know, most stuff and... Disney and whatnot is in subtlety, is all. That and - like. I think a good theme should be an observation, not a solution? You know? Like good stuff tends to have a theme like "war hurts people" whereas something more childish turns it from a theme into a moral and is like

[slashtintedglss]

I'm so used to all these super saavy tech people who reply nearly instantaneously on there iPhones and what not that I forget that a few days is reasonable time. (Not to mention, I feel bad about neglecting a poor little comment for so long. All alone. In the cold. My heart!)

Heh. Well, you kinda already follow back. (And social awkwardness strikes again!) Actually, I believe we exchanged comments, or reblogs, or whatever those things are called. (All this new lingo: I try, but I cannot). I try to post quite a bit but I'm not really used to what I'm supposed to say and I feel...weird? talking about myself all the time. And I frequently abuse the English language with my improper grammatical structures and punctuation. My English teachers would cry. Alas, I was born this way And I still feel generally "fail"-y because it took me a lot longer than it should have to figure out gifs and tags and the like. And ask boxes. Head meet desk. You two should get acquainted. I'm digitonicelectronic over there because I have a thing for pointless

[tamakito]

Lol oh god the phone people. I was convinced for ages that one of my friends was psychic because she always pokes me back on Facebook INSTANTLY. Well really I was convinced that she was on Facebook an unhealthy amount. And I finally asked and she was like "lol Adi you ditz it's called a phone" and DUH. So that happened.

OOOOH YOU MINX. YOU ARE NOT IN FACT NEWBIE-LIKE. YOU ARE MAD QUALITY. Deceitful person!

Ooh, I gotcha. Bad school experiences, man. I was spared this sort of tomfoolery by way of homeschooling followed by some awesomecakes college classes.

SLASHES ARE AWESOME THO

THEM AND SMALL

I JUST REALLY LIKE THEM OKAY