The Kurttany friendship is my favourite ever, because Brittany is exactly what Kurt would need sometimes to tone him back or take him down a peg or just, well, make him get real. And I think Kurt probably admires her bluntness too, and lord knows he'd have fun with that bedroom. My headcanon is that they actually hang out all the time and dress each other and Kurt gets on really well with Lord Tubbington and... augh, it's just such a nice, drama-free friendship.
(Have you read crown-of-weeds' Brittany fics? There's a lot of Kurttany friendship in them and they are ridiculously awesome :D)
And her reactions in PQ break my fucking heart, oh god. <3
I love you to death for reccing crown_of_weeds to me. Also, your headcanon is my headcanon, although I think Kurt is maybe a little too picky about cat hair to be total besties with Lord Tubbington. But otherwise, yes.
(I bet Kurt was thrilled when he found out Brittany was going to be out of uniform for the rest of the school year. Outfit schedules for all!)
Isn't she just brilliant (and I realise she'll probably see that I just said that because she's magic and sees all)? :D
Ah, see I feel like Kurt's become a lot less picky about his clothes this season, now that he's realised he doesn't need them as protection so much anymore--but I can see how his Type A personality slight anal-retentive-ness could make him antsy about cat hair (I just want Kurt to have a cat though, so so badly).
I can imagine Kurt having a fit at Britt wearing Rachel's clothes in Comeback. "Why, Britt, why, you have such lovely, fun taste and now you're dressing like a colour blind grandmother with an animal fetish!" and Britt just saying "Yeah but I make this crap look good..."
(Sorry, I was away reading all of your fics and adding them to memories, as you do -- seriously, how have you not been in my life before this meme? I just want to gather all of your words together into a pile and roll in them for a while.)
To be honest, although I have a lot of feelings about Brittany, I haven't really attempted to turn them into coherent thoughts before this meme. I have no doubt that some of the opinions expressed in the early days of this project will at the very least be shifted and refined as I go along, if not outright changed. That might well be one of them. But I'm not gonna lie -- the stork thing seriously bugged me. And it's not that Brittany herself creeps me out; I definitely phrased that badly, and I do apologize. But there's something about those moments like that, where I look at it from the perspective of "What were the writers thinking when they wrote this" and... I don't know. Because I can't not think about things from that doylist perspective, trying to puzzle out why the writers chose to
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I dunno. I....I'm developmentally disabled myself? Autistic, which Britt isn't, but a lot of things she says, things that might read as "we need someone to say something stupid here," are things that I say and do on a daily basis.
The stork thing? I never got any sex ed--most of us don't, turns out. I found a book when I was ten. Brittany apparently didn't know her alphabet until sophomore year.
What I'm trying to say is...I don't think any of the kids, on the show, are written as plot devices. That would not be a show I would want to watch.
I think it's more like...
Each character is an archetype, right? A stereotype. The writers say so themselves. And as the episodes progress, we get to delve down into what being that archetype means. We see it most obviously with Kurt, and it turns out that being a battered gay boy means that you are a hero, but it's there with the rest--Finn, the dumb joke who can't quite keep up, Rachel, who needs applause to live, and Britt, who's stupid.
Except being stupid means things. It means you get
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I always love the little moments of the kids behind the main action, and the Kurt/Brittany stuff is some of my absolute favorite. She's so playful with him, and he gets playful back. Especially early on, that's incredibly valuable to Kurt, and he treats her actually pretty respectfully in return (apart from the whole dating thing, but even in that he asked her questions about kissing boys he wouldn't have dared asked anyone else in the world). I'd love to see more real character moments with the two of them now.
I know she's written as humor and not a person a lot, but at the end of the day I just really like her. I think she's a good, sweet person.
To be fair, I think he was way more respectful to her when they were dating than most other boys were or have been. They were oddly adorable; I still get happy when someone writes fic with the two of them and he calls her "Boo." I thought that was so precious.
The thing is, too, that I really feel like as the season went on, Brittany got really fleshed-out. Post-"Sexy," especially -- we've seen hints of that maturity with her before that, but she's really grown into herself in those last episodes. I loved her saying that she was going to focus on herself (and dancing with everyone else's boyfriends) during "Prom Queen." And I kind of still think that she's not back together with Artie -- they're just lulzy friends who write awesome songs together.
I utterly love you for posting this; you are one hundred percent right. This is something me too, I spotted while rewatching Glee lately, but I couldn't possibly say it that well. (Even in my native language
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The Kurttany friendship is my favourite ever, because Brittany is exactly what Kurt would need sometimes to tone him back or take him down a peg or just, well, make him get real. And I think Kurt probably admires her bluntness too, and lord knows he'd have fun with that bedroom. My headcanon is that they actually hang out all the time and dress each other and Kurt gets on really well with Lord Tubbington and... augh, it's just such a nice, drama-free friendship.
(Have you read crown-of-weeds' Brittany fics? There's a lot of Kurttany friendship in them and they are ridiculously awesome :D)
And her reactions in PQ break my fucking heart, oh god. <3
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(I bet Kurt was thrilled when he found out Brittany was going to be out of uniform for the rest of the school year. Outfit schedules for all!)
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Ah, see I feel like Kurt's become a lot less picky about his clothes this season, now that he's realised he doesn't need them as protection so much anymore--but I can see how his Type A personality slight anal-retentive-ness could make him antsy about cat hair (I just want Kurt to have a cat though, so so badly).
I can imagine Kurt having a fit at Britt wearing Rachel's clothes in Comeback. "Why, Britt, why, you have such lovely, fun taste and now you're dressing like a colour blind grandmother with an animal fetish!" and Britt just saying "Yeah but I make this crap look good..."
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We should talk about Brittany sometime!
Also, um. 2:5, Rocky Horror. Scene starts with Kurt asking Brittany what she's gonna be for Halloween.
(But I guess you're going at it from a Brtitt-->Kurt perspective for the meme? There's a ton of Kurt-->Britt too in the show!)
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To be honest, although I have a lot of feelings about Brittany, I haven't really attempted to turn them into coherent thoughts before this meme. I have no doubt that some of the opinions expressed in the early days of this project will at the very least be shifted and refined as I go along, if not outright changed. That might well be one of them. But I'm not gonna lie -- the stork thing seriously bugged me. And it's not that Brittany herself creeps me out; I definitely phrased that badly, and I do apologize. But there's something about those moments like that, where I look at it from the perspective of "What were the writers thinking when they wrote this" and... I don't know. Because I can't not think about things from that doylist perspective, trying to puzzle out why the writers chose to ( ... )
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The stork thing? I never got any sex ed--most of us don't, turns out. I found a book when I was ten. Brittany apparently didn't know her alphabet until sophomore year.
What I'm trying to say is...I don't think any of the kids, on the show, are written as plot devices. That would not be a show I would want to watch.
I think it's more like...
Each character is an archetype, right? A stereotype. The writers say so themselves. And as the episodes progress, we get to delve down into what being that archetype means. We see it most obviously with Kurt, and it turns out that being a battered gay boy means that you are a hero, but it's there with the rest--Finn, the dumb joke who can't quite keep up, Rachel, who needs applause to live, and Britt, who's stupid.
Except being stupid means things. It means you get ( ... )
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I always love the little moments of the kids behind the main action, and the Kurt/Brittany stuff is some of my absolute favorite. She's so playful with him, and he gets playful back. Especially early on, that's incredibly valuable to Kurt, and he treats her actually pretty respectfully in return (apart from the whole dating thing, but even in that he asked her questions about kissing boys he wouldn't have dared asked anyone else in the world). I'd love to see more real character moments with the two of them now.
I know she's written as humor and not a person a lot, but at the end of the day I just really like her. I think she's a good, sweet person.
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The thing is, too, that I really feel like as the season went on, Brittany got really fleshed-out. Post-"Sexy," especially -- we've seen hints of that maturity with her before that, but she's really grown into herself in those last episodes. I loved her saying that she was going to focus on herself (and dancing with everyone else's boyfriends) during "Prom Queen." And I kind of still think that she's not back together with Artie -- they're just lulzy friends who write awesome songs together.
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