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Blaine looked so incredibly introspective during this scene, in the little we saw of him. I was honestly expecting him to say something - anything - in response to the situation, to the bullying that led to it, or to Schuester in general. Particularly in that first gif, and in the third one. Then I realized that, tbh, it would be out of character for him to admit that kind of personal vulnerability to the ND group at large. It took him months of knowing/dating Kurt before he told him about the Sadie Hawkins dance, and it was clear from that conversation that Blaine hadn’t talked about his past bullying with Kurt in detail before, since Kurt was shocked by its extent. He wouldn’t have told the group about his past experiences with bullying in a group setting like this, as much as they needed to hear that this sort of shit happens to people they know, as powerful as it would have been. He keeps it close, and for good reason.
I just felt some definite deeper feelings there. I don’t think Blaine has ever experienced suicide ideation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he suffered anxiety or depression before or after his attack.
#ugh darren just plays blaine’s particularities so well #make me feel things from two seconds of passing footage why don’cha
The characterization, and the integrity with which the writers stuck to it and used it to dictate the plot even in ways that made things murkier, really stood out to me this episode.
I need to write a thing about it. Guh.
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Feeeeeels.
Seriously.
While I realize the gays are probably done with their major storylines for the seasons…can this PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE me addressed and discussed? It has been brought up, mentioned or used in this way TOO many times for it to just be a minor ~thing.
There are serious issues concerning passing and femininity vs masculinity that keep coming back to these two. It’s been an issue for Kurt his whole life. Blaine has been able to pass as straight, but he is in love with a man who can’t - how does he handle his sort-of privilege but also the assumptions that he is the ~masculine~ one in the pairing and Kurt is the “girl” (because he’s seen Kurt naked, and unless health class was REALLY wrong, Kurt is alllll boy).
Back to the Blaine gif…I think that line hurt so much because it came out like Kurt resented Blaine for that. Because being with Blaine was a chore due to his tendency to attract attention from others. To Blaine, he failed HARD somewhere along the line if Kurt feels this way.
Along the lines of Blaine’s heart breaking because he’s just as gay as Kurt is… Kurt may see him as the “alpha gay” and he may be able to pass for straight. Yet it still didn’t prevent him from having the shit beaten out of him after the Sadies Hawkins dance. It didn’t prevent his dad from trying to make him straight. It probably doesn’t prevent him from getting bullied at McKinley too. He’s just as out and proud as Kurt, his boyfriend, the beautiful man he loves, is.
And while we’re in the thick of all the feels, can we talk for a moment about the locker room scene? How Blaine is ‘one of the guys’ even though we’ve basically seen him interact with Mike, Finn, and Kurt? How Kurt was not present in that scene and that wasn’t even questioned? How at least two people in that room used to bully Kurt and even last year suggested he wears dresses? How does Kurt feel about that? Does he care? How does Blaine feel about that? Does he care? Does Blaine go around, post-argument, secretly wondering if Kurt cares about things like that? Does Kurt secretly wonder about these discussions that happen between ‘the guys’? Glee will never tell us because that would be a discussion for a better show.
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Does anybody know who this adorable like guy is?
So here’s a story for you all. So I was at Theo Katzman’s show on Friday & was hanging around wait for the show to start. Started talking to the girl next to me, we start talking about Glee. We’re talking about Darren (of course) and she goes, “A client of mine was actually in the Big Brother episode.” Intrigued I ask the obvious, “Who?” Her answer, “The little boy who played Young Blaine.” Turns out they didn’t actually ‘white wash’ Blaine, the little boy is mixed race, Native American & Japanese. And at one point they actually asked if he was willing to perm his hair!
This girl actually represented little ‘Cedes & little Santana too!!
idk I just got a bit verklempt ‘cause it’s really fucking hard out there for people of mixed heritages and it’s nice to have any kind of actual representation.
It’s early in the morning, sorry.
(via lettersfromtitan)
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I Want You Back - Deleted Scene
- Sebastian you suck.
- NONE OF THAT WAS CLASSY.
There are good reasons why Artie is here:
- Dalton does not have access accommodations. Some haven for lost boys (omg Dalton is Never Land).
- Artie has always been the leader.
- ND brings the right people along even when it’s inconvenient for them. We see several shots of the kids helping Artie up and down the steps here, and we never see people helping Artie unless the show is making a point.
- Basically, this scene is hammering in that the Council has fallen and ND has the moral high ground.
- So many Michael feels right now… remember, when Santana returns later, without former Warblers and the de facto leaders of New Directions, we get “descending into Hell” imagery.
- Sebastian, don’t touch Santana. He’s a bit of a creep to Rachel and Blaine, but the way he tweaks Santana’s chin, combined with Smooth Criminal, is terrifying.
- Kurt is trying to kill Sebastian’s soul with his eyes again, but whoops, they’re in fairyland now.
(via mzminola)
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Kurt, your tact is impeccable.
He’s trying to recreate Un homme et une femme. He’s just making sure Dad and Carole remember their lines.
(It’s a French movie about two widowers who meet at their children’s boarding school. He and Brittany make out to the soundtrack two episodes later. Just, FYI.)
Oh that’s awesome. I haven’t seen the movie so I didn’t catch that. But, of course he is. Kurt gets so many of his understandings about how the world works from movies.
I just realized the PTA meeting they’re at is in the Astronomy Classroom.
Doesn’t that room get used by couples from Glee for private conversations like…a lot?
Oh, it is! And I may be remembering this wrong, but didn’t Burt say he brought Carole back to the room they met in to propose?
Are there, like, pheromones in the air in that classroom or something?
HE DID. Oh my gosh. I think Sam gave Quinn that Promise Ring in there too, in that case. Wow.
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So, I didn’t grow up with siblings, and the brothers I know also tend to be rough physically with each other as part of their dynamic, but seeing all this back to back is still pinging as “wow, Cooper is physically aggressive with Blaine a lot.” I think more so in this scene than in others, because it’s a competitive performance moment? But that’s its own kind of disturbing, given the age gap and how much it’s suggested that Cooper pushed Blaine into performing with him.
In my head, this is all mashed up with Blaine’s dad and the car and “trying to make him straight” and ends up with Cooper’s attitude toward Blaine as some kind of complicity with their dad’s attempt to butch him up. I’m not sure if that’s because that was text and I actually forgot (I haven’t rewatched much of anything this season) or if it’s just this, but yeah. Anybody remember?
Blaine’s also not pushing back at Cooper, which is what makes it unsettling. He’s mostly trying to get away or get a different type of affection/attention.
Alternate explanation, from Cooper’s POV (which doesn’t necessarily change how it is for Blaine):
Cooper’s trying to act like brother’s he’s seen on TV/in movies. It’s not exactly natural for him, either.
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Cut Blaine speeches
- Blaine: Did you know that real Warblers won't sing alone? It's true - if a Warbler loses it's flock or is caged seperately it sits silent until another one shows up. (He looks at Kurt). It's not that he doesn't have a beautiful voice - it's just that without a companion he just doesn't feel like singing anymore.
- Blaine: There is a moment, Kurt. There is always a moment when suddenly a lightbulb goes on. A moment when you look at someone differently... When your heart expands, when you say to yourself - 'oh, there you are! I've been looking for you forever.'
- Blaine: To always love you. To defend you even if I know you're wrong. To surprise you. To always pick up your call no matter what I'm doing. To bake you cookies at least twice a year and to kiss you whenever and where ever you want. Mostly to make sure that you always remember how perfectly imperfect you are. I know it's not something Elizabeth Taylor would've worn---
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Elsje and I were watching season four again and we came to a few realizations.
1) Every sex worker on Glee is male. Puck, Sam, Brody. Blaine has that “bath house circuit” comment during Sue’s fantasy about what the New Directions would get up to without the Glee Club. Sue snarks at Finn that while in Georgia, he probably engaged in “plus-sized male prostitution”.
2) Everything we know about Brody is more meaningful after the reveal in “I Do”. No girl has ever cooked him dinner before? Because he’s a prostitute, and doesn’t stick around after sex. Seniors took him under their wing and introduced him to the gym? He used his newly-gained 6% body fat to become a prostitute. He broke up with his girlfriend six weeks after moving to New York City? And then he became a prostitute. He was forty-five minutes late getting to Rachel and Kurt’s apartment? Because he was with a client, not because of a delayed train. He has a thing for ingenues? Yeah, that factoid’s has even more potential to be creepy now.
3) Rachel doesn’t like her doppelganger during “You’re the One That I Want”. She doesn’t like her any better during “Torn”.
4) After Finn calls Robin Sylvester a slur word, Sue makes it her mission to sabotage the Glee Club (booking the auditorium during the rehearsal period for Grease, taking the choir room after Sectionals and destroying everything in it). Kitty is likely following suit in her quest to gaslight Marley.
5) We first see Kitty gaslighting someone when she gets Dottie to believe that everyone has been Rapture’d. The smile on her face when everyone comes back to witness her handiwork is downright evil and sadistic.
6) Kitty sings to Robin. Jake doesn’t need the Glee Club to take music seriously—he stays up three nights perfecting his audition, and he sings “Crazy / U Drive Me Crazy” with Marley before joining.
7) Marley is manipulated into believing she’s expanding exponentially due to a “circus fat gene”. She starves herself until she faints onstage. Finn is constantly the victim of weight-based comments from Sue (as he was previously, at the hands of Santana). He starts dieting and is noticeably thinner when Rachel sees him before the failed wedding.
8) Brittany, Finn and Blaine encourage, allow and help Santana, Rachel and Kurt to leave Lima. When they’re left alone or discover their loved one has moved on, Brittany, Finn and Blaine all feel victimized anyway. This isn’t framed as bad or hypocritical, just sad and inevitable, being Lima is terrible, but so does making the transition into the rest of the world.
9) This show caters to the female gaze a lot. More often than it caters to the male gaze, I should say. It’s a very bisexual sort of show. This might be related to the ALL THE MALE SEX WORKERS thing.
10) Artie rearranged the script of Grease. The show unambiguously begins with “Beauty School Dropout” [head canon: Artie wants his golden boy Blaine to get the opening number]. This is followed by a scene in which neither Marley/Sandy or Ryder/Danny is included. “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” should be followed by “Look At Me, I’m Sandra Dee (reprise)”, but Marley is already in her leather catsuit as Santana finishes her solo, so either the latter number is excised or Artie changes its placement as he does with Blaine’s. How the audience followed the show and enjoyed it is an exercise left to the viewer (although I feel compelled to add that Grease as it is doesn’t really possess any narrative integrity). Oh, and everybody talks backstage, which is the biggest no-no imaginable.
11) Marley and Jake both feel guilty for making their mothers work harder to pay for special privileges (therapist sessions for Marley’s eating disorder and Jake’s dance classes).
these are good thoughts.
