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SO as I am currently on a newsies kick, I have had a realization. The reason I would never suggest for OG ND to do newsies is because of the very few girl parts, it would not go well. BUT season six ND have 3 girls and like 15 guys
YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS
“And they live happily ever after”
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I don’t like this how many chapters are left— OH GOD NO IM 23/24 THIS IS IT THIS IS NOT.A. DRILL I REPEAT NOT A DRILL
“After all, what were the odds that his stalker would be attending such an exclusive event?”
SIR
So I’m reading some of the “fandom classics” at the moment and let me just say that Not Like the Movies by Knightlycat has made me have to stop, flap my arms, and repeat the word “babes” over 6 times now because I love this and I love how Klaine is portrayed so so much. But also if the stalker is who I think it is then I called it during the scene he was introduced and almost posted about it as receipts.
Come take my very scientific poll to determine what season Kurt and Blaine were the ‘hottest’!
An analysis on Finn Hudson and “what the hell house is he in” -prompted by @grouchycritic7794’s comment on my Kurt post
First off there isn’t a chance in all of the nine circles of hell that this boy is a Ravenclaw. Not because he’s dumb, but because he doesn’t see any value in wisdom. And I’ll be the first to admit that S4 Finn was (mostly) wise. But our boy has no wit or care for knowledge. So Ravenclaw is the easy out.
Slytherin is another easy out in my opinion. His entire S3 struggle was about how he wasn’t as ambitious as Rachel and early S4, had it been given the proper dedication, would have been him accepting that that’s okay. That he doesn’t need to have insanely huge dreams to be of worth. Some might claim, “But Lo! By your definition he admires ambition so he should go in Slytherin!” (Yeah let’s be real most people aren’t saying that, but) This is true, I do say that they need to have the traits of the house in high regard. However, they need to hold it in the same regard that they would try to act on it in their own life. The perfect example being Neville, who admires the bravery of others and uses their example to build himself. So, in the case of Finn, Slytherin is out.
Now onto the harder decisions. Yes Finn is very brave and chivalrous. Most of his character arcs revolve around him choosing the untraveled road, the path that takes more bravery. And he was fairly chivalrous with various people in his life. Not the best but not nearly the worst of Glee. However I see his bravery as a subset of his larger character growth, I would even go as far to say he was only brave in defense of the people he was loyal to...
Hufflepuff. So I know there are going to be objections. Objections about how he is lazy and unkind and doesnt fit the soft puff mold. I will never agree with many of the words and decisions Finn has said and made, however Glee was always trying to show that he was learning. Glee was just somewhat bad at their jobs. He was a kid who had been with the wrong crowd for years, he was the standard American way to look into this group of weirdos and learn how to empathize and accept them. Sometimes they did it right and he came off as a good man and a hero. Sometimes they did it wrong and he came off as trite and even worse than before. But at his core he was a child learning who he should be loyal to. He was loyal to the jocks until he realized that they didn’t deserve that loyalty and then he mostly committed to glee club (rewiring everything you’ve ever been loyal to is a hard process). When Quinn is having his baby he is trying his best to be hardworking so he can support the family he thinks he’s going to have. And after the anger at Puck they still make up, it takes time because as a Hufflepuff who’s loyalty has been tested he’s going to have troubles trusting them. As a teacher at McKinley he shows the best of his Hufflepuff qualities with his dedication to those kids, and though he had stumbles along the way I truly believe he is a Hufflepuff.
Quinn Fabray in every performance ↳ We Are the Champions
I made a uquiz that you can take here to find out which terrible glee plot line you are because I was bored.
Throwing my two cents into the Kurt Hummel hogwarts house debate...
I’ve always treated the house one is sorted into as the house whos characteristics the child values the most. Hence Harry asking for Gryffindor (thus proving he valued bravery more) and Draco (who isn’t particularly cunning or ambitious) who values Slytherin as that is what he has always been told is supreme. And the most obvious example being Hermione with her literal quote in book one about how knowledge is not as valuable as bravery in her eyes.
Slytherin, my own house, is what for a long time I believed Kurt was. But then I started writing this post. Kurt is very ambitions and cunning, however his value on those traits? Very little. In fact I would go as far to say his values would place him in Hufflepuff before Slytherin. Kurt sees how Rachel and Santana (both absolutely Slytherin no arguments) treat others around them and doesn’t always agree or like it. When Blaine tells the warblers that Kurt will be the duet partner without audition Kurt immediately asks about others having a chance. No Slytherin would do that. Kurt may love Rachel but when he is fighting her it’s usually over her ambition going too far. In Audition he and Mercedes are horrified by how Rachel scares off sunshine. He doesn’t value the deviousness of her plan even to object to the content of it. Kurt hated how Sebastian acted and treated others around him (very unslytherin of him because us Slytherins can appreciate our enemies plans even when we hate them so much) and even refuses to take action with Santana.
Kurt is so so brave. He faces that school and everyone who has hurt him every day with determination. And he doesn’t just value bravery in others, he expects it. During prom Queen he expects Dave to use the opportunity to come out because that’s what he would have done. He never really understands that his level of bravery is not common. Until Blaine showed up he had trouble finding someone who would be “just as brave as you are” (Burt Hummel Duets). He stands up to authority (Britney/Brittany, Bad Reputation, and others) and is somewhat disappointed when others around him don’t do the same. Not to mention the chivalry demonstrated by letting Sebatian off the hook. If you look at most of the series he seems like a cut and dry Gryffindor.
However I acknowledge that no one is a cut and dry anything. Kurt is ambitious, but he refuses to even put his ambitions above his family (Wheels). I think Kurt would be a particularly tough placement for the hat. I could go even as far as to say a hatstall. You can legitimately make an argument for any of the houses. But I do think that “Better be... GRYFFINDOR!”
You are literally a genius of the highest proportions
So I have to ask who fills what roles in the DEH, Kurt Carson and Blaine story you came up with because it sounds amazing
Blaine is Evan, Kurt is Zoe, Carson is Connor, Rachel is Alana, and Santana is Jared. Those were my ideas on that, what do you think??
this is the post they are referencing
25 Days of Glee - Day 6: Favourite Solo - Not The Boy Next Door
A foray back into art, I know the bow tie makes no sense, I have no clue how a bow tie works.
OKAY SO, I am no expert on Broadway Auditions and will be ignoring the absurdity of a completely open audition for a well off revival of a critically acclaimed show like Funny Girl. But I cannot ignore the buffonary of Don’t Stop Believing as an audition song. The fact that she gets the part instead of being laughed right off the stage is ridiculous honestly what even was this show??
Klaine!AU Kurt has a big crush on badboy Blaine
more klaine AUs here! :)
You are absolutely corrrect, season 3 warblers do Newsies, season 6 do Book of Mormon
Forgetting the restraints of reality and the time continuum, I will forever be upset that we didn’t get the Dalton boys doing a number from Newsies
A Sugar Motta Rewrite
So let’s be real I’m probably just projecting a ton, but I think that with a few adjustments Sugar had potential as a character. So this is my Sugar Motta rewrite, inspired by @kurthummeldeservesbetter
So about the Aspergers… by this time aspergers was already no longer an medical term, it would be on the autistic spectrum. But the thing is with the way they did it it just came off like she was pretending to be neurodivergent to get away with saying things? I don’t think that is good rep and for this rewrite I’m going to say she isn’t on the spectrum because I wouldn’t know how to write that correctly and glee sure didn’t.
Now on her singing (this is where the projecting comes in). I think that a really good use of her would be to have this girl who loves to sing and loves to dance. But doesn’t realize that she’s really not that great at it. Her dad tends to spoil her and he doesn’t want to hurt her by telling her that she’s not good enough. So when she auditions for ND she still has that air of superiority and still does terribly. When Mr Schue doesn’t let her in the club she’s heartbroken. This is the first taste of reality she’s gotten about her own voice. So the troubletones still happen (but I would totally send different people over there, much more similar to @kurthummeldeservesbetter’s). When the ex New Direction members show up they realize that this gatekeeping they participated in, towards someone who so obviously cares about music was really just hurting the arts at their school.
It’s around this point that I would want Sugar to get a number, that isn’t perfect, but shows that she’s a quick study and is trying really hard at this. When the Troubletones fold back into the New Directions it would be great to have a plotline where Sugar is worried that she still won’t be good enough for them. And then someone (preferably Kurt because I’m a sucker for him mentoring and protecting the newbies) would give Sugar a pep talk about loveing the music and working hard and how they were wrong.
Idk I feel like this would have been a good use of Sugars character? To provide some juxtaposition to the main club who all came in and could sing like professionals, having someone work towards that goal is really important to me. It also would have given her a plot line beyond the Valentine’s Day episode and then maybe people would have liked her enough that she wouldn’t just disappear all the time in the next two seasons. And then Sugar could be a really interesting character to look through the eyes of in 4x01. With them bullying everyone? Idk I thought this would be cool.
So purely on vibes I matched ND members with musicals I’ve seen in person (included high school productions because I needed more shows). There is no real reason to any of these I just went with what felt right, in order of when I saw the shows...
Wicked - Kurt Hummel
Aladdin - Mike Chang
Anything Goes - Santana Lopez
Cinderella - Finn Hudson
Hamilton - Noah Puckerman
Lightning Thief - Sam Evans
Kinky Boots - Blaine Anderson
Anastasia - Tina Cohen-Chang
All Shook Up - Artie Abrams
Chicago - Quinn Fabray
Les Miserables - Mercedes Jones
Phantom of the Opera - Rachel Berry
The Drowsy Chaperone - Brittany Pierce
Forgetting the restraints of reality and the time continuum, I will forever be upset that we didn’t get the Dalton boys doing a number from Newsies
I’m in a Lover mood again so it’s time to combine it with my other current hyperfixation, Glee. I’m sure this has been done before but here is how Glee would fit each song (by each song I mean only the ones I listen to) from Lover into their plot.
I Forgot That You Existed
This is the one song that I’ll give entirely to Rachel. I straight up want Rachel to sing this when her and Finn are breaking up/fighting. I don’t know which one but I’m thinking something also involving Jesse would be good. Ooo It could even be Rachel saying a personal goodbye to Jesse after the egging? Idk I just want Rachel to sing this about one of the boys she’s been with.
Lover
This would be a finchel duet and it would be cute but I actually want it to be a quartet. I am Klaine trash so this could be really cool to have in The First Time. As you’ll be able to tell from this list I really like Don’t Speak and The Scientist so the couples having mirror storylines and singing in quartets is like crack to me.
The Man
This would either be a girl Power mid episode number Ala Madonna, or a really weird decision for Unique. But RM constantly was making sketch choices so I could absolutely see him pulling something like that. Could be girl number at one of the few points they were all single??
I Think He Knows
I want Quinn to sing this. I have no idea what the context could be? Maybe when she’s cheating on Sam with Finn could work pretty well. Yeah let’s go with that.
Miss Americana And The Heartbreak Prince
This one would probably never be covered but I think it would be a good Quinn song. Quinn for season 1 when she’s having problems with Finn. It could be a good dream sequence song type in Preggers.
Paper Rings
I, like most of the Klaine fanbase am obsessed with the Box Scene. I want this to happen the episode after the box scene so it doesn’t intrude on the Christmas of it all and be a number with Klaine Tike and Finchel. This could also be the number that prompts Finchel to get engaged. It would be so cute.
London Boy
Season 4. Kurt and Adam get a song. That’s all. It probably in the snowed in episode where we got come what may we get Adam prompting Kurt to get a song for them and this comes on and they just laugh. In terms of staging it’s very intentionally very similar to Cold Outside. All in all the mid game New York romances needed more development so that when we got rid of them people cared. We also needed them to have flaws and to see the relationship not working out so when we got the original pairings back it didn’t seem like people were settling.
You Need To Calm Down
This would be a big walk down the hallway all glee club number and Kurt would get the line, you all know the line, and we would all debate it’s merits but listen to it a lot because this is right up the alley of Loser Like Me and Don’t Stop Believing for that young hopeful Glee sound. It would probably end the episode.
Me
OKAY BUT THIS AS A KLAINE DUET WITH DARREN SINGING BRENDON URIES PART. Okay so I know that’s not going to happen, but it would be so good for Klaine. In real glee it would be a Finchel duet and it would fit pretty well but I want it to be Klaine. As a Klaine song this would be really good if they had done an episode in season three addressing the schools reaction to having a gay couple in the hallway. Cause with as much flak as Kurt got on his own it would be an interesting arc if they actually addressed the fact that pda is dangerous for them. That would have been a much better use of episode time in season 3.