Everything's Connected, If Only You Can Feel It (fic)

[wowbright]

Title: Everything's Connected, If Only You Can Feel It 
Characters/Fandom: Kurt/Blaine, Stoner Brett
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~5,500
Spoilers: 4.03, “Makeover"
Summary: Blaine takes up a new hobby in hopes of becoming closer to Kurt, despite the distance between Lima and New York. Stoner Brett turns out to be a surprisingly erudite, if flawed, mentor.

Comments

[wowbright]

Thank you! This means a lot because I love your fic so much and (also regretfully) have not commented on it nearly enough. Everything you say about this little fic is true about In a World of Silence, just so you know.

[nidea]

I can't read it yet because I'm not caught up, but I wanted to note that I will always read "betaing" as "be-TANG".

[wowbright]

This is intriguing. It sounds like something I should have sung a lot in the background when I did a capella.

[gleescape]

This was beautifully, achingly painful.
"I was shutting down there. I wasn't myself".
This to me, really explains where Kurt's head was during their Skype call in 4.03. He's coming alive again, and it's everything he dared to hope for, and everything Blaine wanted for him, but there's a price, and Blaine is unable or unwilling to tell him.

And we know, as observers, that they need to have an honest discussion about this, where Blaine tells Kurt what he needs, and Kurt explains that he doesn't mean to sideline him, and that he needs Blaine to speak up when he's feeling neglected.

But it's all so easy looking in from the outside! They are teenagers, in love and separated by distance, and they have to figure shit out for themselves.

Thankyou so much for this, it will stay with me for a long while.

[wowbright]

Thank you for your comments! It is so hard for me to write stuff like this (and to watch 4.03), because I just want to shake them and say, "Talk! It won't kill you!" But I remember a time when I didn't even realize that was a potential solution, or I didn't know how to say what I was feeling, and SIGH that's where Blaine appears to be. I wish Ms. Pillsbury would notice all the activities he's throwing himself into and talk to him about it; Blaine is very good at convincing others that everything's OK until it's not. I have hope that both Blaine and Kurt will eventually learn to be better at this.

[mander3_swish]

Ohmygod! This was fantastic!
Lol stoner brett fic!

(Eek less than 12 hours til 404!!!!)

[wowbright]

Thank you!

I am really torn between wanting more Stoner Brett on the show, and worrying that if he becomes a full character, he will be nothing like the guy in my fic :)

I am counting down ...

[vanessawolfie]

I really, really, really enjoyed this. In that heartbreaking way Blangst make you feel. But I mean, Brett is amazing here. He's like the mentor Blaine needs right now. Because as horrible as it sounds, Blaine needs to find himself and do something else than focus on what Kurt has now. *stops before she continues her 1500+ word reaction meta from her journal*

What I mean to say, really, is lovely. This, you and Brett.

Nessa.

[wowbright]

I read your meta and really enjoyed it and had lots of thoughts but wasn't able to respond at the time. Maybe this is part of my response.

I strongly believe that Blaine needs to find himself. I don't think that's horrible at all. In my experience, it helps a person be able to bring more to a relationship. I think it will eventually make his relationship with Kurt a lot stronger.

Thanks so much for your kind comments!