Comments | flaming_muse: Glee writing meta: "Yes, and" and the changing paradigm of writing Kurt/Blaine

flaming_muse

Glee writing meta: "Yes, and" and the changing paradigm of writing Kurt/Blaine

Mar 17, 2013 10:56

( Well, that's a pretentious title for a short post of me babbling off the cuff about writing Kurt/Blaine, generally spoilery through the current aired episodes )

tv: glee, character thoughts, writing thoughts

Comments 21

lissysadmin March 17 2013, 15:05:46 UTC

I will always be happy to know that you can align your "inner muse" with the currently so-problematic Kurt-Blaine dynamic, selfishly, because it leaves open the hope and anticipation of MORE MUSE! So, yay! for this.

flaming_muse March 17 2013, 16:56:31 UTC

:D

I don't know how to stop writing them. There may come a day when I can't, but this? This stuff is tough to watch and to feel but still interesting to write.

boro_girl March 17 2013, 16:52:21 UTC

It's almost funny because what they are now - which you have so eloquently stated here - is what I write for them. Throughout "Vows", "Try The Swing", "Collision" et al, they thought a lot and said very little and it kept a divide between them. It was only when, towards the end of the fic, they opened up and trusted each other with their deep and dark secrets, issues and problems, that they found their way towards each other. I always felt like I was writing them on their way to being what they were during S2 & 3.

And now that I'm seeing it on my screen? I'm understanding more and more why people were yelling at me...!

flaming_muse March 17 2013, 16:59:15 UTC

Oh, yeah, I wrote them not communicating openly through much of "Near Misses," and it was so different to write at the time. The whole shift in the middle where they slowly become friends and do open up to each other and enjoy each other is in many ways the most important part of the story for me.

But I feel a bit bad for my readers, now, for having made them live in the limbo for a month last summer when I was posting, since the limbo and disconnect in the show is so painful to watch. (At least with me, they could be sure of a happy ending!)

boro_girl March 17 2013, 17:15:26 UTC

And with me! (For the most part anyway ( ... )

flaming_muse March 17 2013, 17:29:32 UTC

Oh, as much as it hurts to watch, I think that they needed to go through this process. I might have written it differently, but if I'd been in charge of the season their journeys would have been basically the same. Blaine needs learn to stand on his own two feet and sort himself out on his own, and Kurt needs to feel desired and strong without Blaine and wanted for being himself. This is, ultimately, good for them both, even though it is so painful for them. I was so relieved for them when they started to reconnect as friends; the loss of each other in that regard is the biggest one of all of them both ( ... )

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idoltina March 17 2013, 18:52:35 UTC

A+ post.

flaming_muse March 17 2013, 21:52:58 UTC

Aw, thank you! :) I could have gone into a great deal more depth and nuance, but I'm glad it was interesting as it was. :)

theromanticnerd March 17 2013, 19:06:42 UTC

I am BLOWN AWAY by how incredible your imagination, empathy and insight is.

I am really thankful to everything and anything that you are a presence in this fandom and you are willing to share these (for me) wall shattering posts.

flaming_muse March 17 2013, 21:53:56 UTC

Oh, gosh. Thank you. <3 <3 <3

theromanticnerd March 17 2013, 21:55:56 UTC

(so blown away I apparently start sentences and forget about them :D regrets: )

EDIT: nope disregard this. I just forgot how to read for a second there XD

flaming_muse March 17 2013, 21:59:43 UTC

LOL! <3

anonymous March 18 2013, 01:00:11 UTC

Wow! such great insight ! You help us see Kurt and Blaine as two strong individuals so beautifully. Being in the 'Klaine' fandom, we get do invested in the coiple aspect of the two that we tend to forget what actually made most of us drawn to this Fandom.That being two very strong yet warm individual personalities connecting together as friends and who also happen to be attracted to each other. Sure their romance is the key part to them being 'Klaine', but theres also how much Kurt can be Kurt and Blaine can be Blaine when together, whether as friends or as a couple. How two people can appreciate each other's truest selves. Ok i dont know if i was able to express exactly what i wanted to, i am not eloquent as you all, but i hope you still get the point ( ... )

flaming_muse March 20 2013, 23:50:27 UTC

I love their romance, but I love their friendship even more. I mean, I want BOTH for them, but I want them to be strong friends who are in love. That's what makes them for me, because they get each other and know each other and love each other in so many ways.

I haven't re-watched that scene, but my initial guess not having done so is that it probably didn't have much to do with Kurt. She had a problematic relationship with him; she used to stick up for him and listen to him while also mocking him, but last season she was a lot less friendly (I'm thinking in particular of trying to get him to wear a dress). But when I get a chance I want to watch it again with that idea in mind. :)