Say That Something

[tamakito]

Spoilers: Up to 2.03.
Warnings: Homophobia, mentions bullying, family illness.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 5, 300
Disclaimer: RIB and FOX own everything ever.
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This prompt. If Kurt can't hold his father's hand, he can - for what it's worth - hold everyone else's.

Comments

*stalking powers in work*

[jyusan]

Re: *stalking powers in work*

[tamakito]

OMG

IS THIS REAL LIFE, OR IS IT FANTASY

A review with an adorbs .gif in it, you're just... intent on brightening my entire life up, aren't you.

SO: I am over the moon you liked everyone's characterizations - I loooove doing whole-ensemble fics, but I haven't done much in this fandom because I really don't have a handle on Tina, Mike, Artie, Brittany, Mercedes, Quinn... they're just way harder even than the people I usually write. I'm just glad Matt wasn't still there; sadly, he'd be even harder than Azimio.

Quinn and Mercedes need to reunite for great justice. I really want to writers to pretend this was on purpose and give them some kind of fight they had over the summer, because then they could have an epic blowout followed by a painful duet and then they, together with Santana, would make up and rule the school again. I also want Finn and Puck to make up. OH, THESE CRAZY DREAMS.

Yeah, you know, Mike - I love fanon!Mike SO HARD. But the fact is, in the show, we don't really get much of that. He nods along to Puck's violence-

Re: *stalking powers in work*

[jyusan]

*gasp* You've figured out my evil masterplan! There goes my "taking over the world one person at a time" life goal. (I'm so happy I can give back just a tiny bit of happiness from what you give to me by writing all these

Re: *stalking powers in work*

[tamakito]

I shall keep it just between us, that you may continue to employ your evil methods unrestrained.

Yeah, I think - the bigger characters can be more confusing and contradictory, but the more minor characters are way worse for me because there's less to work with. Tina in particular is hard for me because everyone else is an overblown stereotype at base - they're complex, but there's also that baseline stereotype to write from. Tina's a pretty normal person, compared to Rachel or Finn or Kurt, and that's... harder to do. Mercedes and Artie are the other banes of my existence, Artie for the same reason as Tina and Mercedes because her baseline stereotype is so far outside my experience

[tamakito]

Duuuude why you so flipping good to me. I'm v. glad you liked all the characters here, because the ensemble on Glee is a lot harder than I'm used to and I do so love doing ensemble fics. And - thank you very much for all of this, man, just thank you v. much.

[poire_gourmande]

I know I spent the night telling you I love your Finn (and I stalked you so much, I'm sorry! And now it's almost 3AM and I should really go to bed), but now I see you write perfectly all the other characters too!
I especially loved Tina, because we don't really know her, and you characterization was spot on, it really fit with the little we know about her.

[tamakito]

Oh my god, don't be sorry for commenting, dude, I luuurve comments and yours are sweet as hell. I am sorry I kept you up so late, though, omg. Anyway, thank you so much for this, especially that about the characters and extra-especially Tina because, yeah, they're all hard to do and she's like one of the top-hardest ones for me - I hate writing characters I don't know much about, I feel like I'm always messing it up no matter what, and... yeah. So thank you!

[tamakito]

Ooh, thank you~! I'm v. happy you liked them, especially Brittany. Lol and oh sweet god, the Karofsky thing is all kinds of funny now, isn't it? Like I wrote that way before NBK, so... yeah. And it's actually pretty weird that I used Karofsky instead of Azimio; before NBK I think Azimio was the bigger character, and I'm surprised I didn't use him instead. No idea why I used K-Money. BUT IT PLAYED OUT WELL BECAUSE SICK BURN. Also am v. glad you liked the Schue part, since as established my wee little teacher-worshipping heart is SO DEEPLY INVESTED in Kurt and Schue getting along sometimes.

Plus yeah, it totes was a pretty significant breakdown - kind of like the one with Mercedes and Quinn, it wasn't the knock-down blow-out he needs, but it was pretty damn important and definitely worth Finn trying.

YOU CONTINUE TO LIGHT MY LIFE BB. Beautiful reviews everywhere.

[tamakito]

Lol yeah - you can pretty much always tell when I wrote something just because I am incredibly lazy about how I warn for spoilers, and usually just warn for up to the last episode I saw. I think the only real exception is "It's the Fear", just because that was about "Furt" and "A Very Glee Christmas" so I knew right off those were the only episodes to worry about

[sweetiepebbles]

Hey :) Just currently making my way through your master list!
I love this one (well I love all your stuff, but this one is extra cute). Just have to tell you how much I love the Artie part and the Puck one made me laugh. :D
You really have the voices for these characters down pat, especially Kurt. I'm off to read more of your stuff (and probably leave gushing comments on them too!!)

[tamakito]

AND I AM FULL GLAD YOU ARE, omg. Two new comments from you=my day is made. I'm v. happy you liked this and thought it was cute! And that you liked Artie's and Puck's parts. Though the Puck part I can't really take credit for; that "just keep walking" thing was an addendum to the prompt, not my idea. And I'm flattered as hell that you liked the character voices! They are tricky little thangs to write, so yeah, I'm just psyched they read well to you. Thanks for all of this!