Closer

[tamakito]

Spoilers: Up to 2.22
Warnings: Homophobia, mentions bullying.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 8, 167
Disclaimer: RIB and FOX own everything ever.
Beta and dispenser of Samcedes wisdom: rdm-ation
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This prompt. Blaine doesn't think of himself as the jealous type, but Kurt has so many rad bromances.

Comments

[tamakito]

omg you impossible thing, look at you actually going and reading the whole bloody thing and commenting on it and shit

how did I get so lucky as to have you in my life you silly creature

anyway but lol yeah I'm glad you thought it was cute! also Rachel is just constantly flawless, I swear she's impossible to mess up, she channels herself through all writers into flawlessness

[prologi]

Oh, Blaine, you and your need to be needed and your dependence on received knowledge, I love you.

And Quinn! My heart. I think she genuinely has one of the most interesting, painful emotional arcs (or whatever) on Glee with her desire to be accepted, but mostly by accident, so what is inconsistent writing looks like conflict and depth. Like how the Sun and the Moon look the same size from the Earth so you get solar eclipses and I think I'm shutting up with this stupid nerdy metaphor now.

This was basically a perfect mix of touching and funny and sweet and just. Everything you touch turns to gold.

(Ahaha oh my god a creeper (the other kind)! Kurt defending Blaine against insulting nicknames! Puck being a Transformer! The entire Warbler council nursing sad straight boy crushes on Blaine! Quinn popping up everywhere out of nowhere like she's haunting them!)

[tamakito]

RIGHT THO, THIS BOY, he's actually just too fucking cute and perfect and keyboard smash of affection, man, he's just. A dream to get to write. Even though he does still give me more trouble than anyone but Mercedes. Legit tho the whole need to be needed thing is so fun to write.

...what is inconsistent writing looks like conflict and depth OMG I KNOOOOOW, Quinny my sweet bb, she is my boo, I adore her so much and her every single scene hurts my heart like what, and I am 95% sure that it is all a complete accident. The eclipse metaphor is probs the best one, lol.

SO BUT YOU KNOW, thank you for this comment, so muuuuuuch, I'm so super psyched you enjoyed this and thought it was funny and sweet and just omg, you sweet thing.

(Lolol oh god and my beta liked the creeper joke too and I am just so fracking relieved both of you got it, I can't tell you, because frankly I would not have gotten it were I you; I had to look up a shitload of crap about cars to write this thing

[prologi]

Haha, my dad is kind of a hobbyist mechanic, like we have way more cars than we need and whenever there's something wrong with one of them he fixes it. When I still lived in a place where having a car made sense, it was a 1980 Mini. I've turned up to friends' parties covered in grease because halfway there the coil in the starter engine got stuck and I had to bang about in the engine to get it going again.

[tamakito]

Oh god that is equal parts jealousy-inducing and horrific, I am so incapable of anything with cars and just madly intimidated by them lol.

[katia_chan]

I don't... I don't know how you keep dragging me into this stuff, or how you do things to me in every fic when I don't even know the fandom that well. Also I don't know why I keep reading your stuff in public, so I'm either giggling to myself or turning into a puddle of goo on the couch for the whole world to see

[tamakito]

HEY YOU

HUGS AND CUDDLES AND THINGS AND STUFF OMG GORGEOUS GIRL

So I'm all flattered and jumpy that you liked it, esp. even not being hugely into Glee

Lolol and Blaine is just. The Biggest Little Trier, basically, omg. And I'm super happy you left his complete and repeated failures with an it-was-good feeling because basically yeah. Bb just has to fail enough times to realize he ~never should have looked farther than his own backyard~ and stuff and stuff.

AND AND AND also I am glad you liked the little moments, and just so many heart-eyes for you, Blaine-watt heart eyes, the most powerful of them all.

[frumiousme]

oh quinn :(

[tamakito]

RIGHT THO

Quinn is my constant heartbreak button, I can't even.

[readfah_cwen]

I really loved this. How you included Quinn throughout the whole thing for her to be the +1, how you wrote Blaine and his attempts to be a part of those niches, the whole "persona" thing, but also how you showed what great friendships Kurt has. The final scene and line were perfect. Great job! ♥

[tamakito]

Oooh muchas gracias, I'm so happy you liked it! Also omg Kurt has the actual best friendships, when the show feels like it at least. I love writing them so much. And yeah so I'm psyched as hell you liked the persona thing and Quinn's thread and the last scene and line and in general you! make! me! feel like I'm living a ficcer's! dream! and just thank you.