Don’t Fight The Klaine Romance

Kurt & Blaine

Could you also make a Sebastian Smythe moodboard for one of your best friends lol?

here you go chris i hope you like this one too hehheeh!!! <3

one of my favorite quinn moments in all of season two is her being so upset and hurt and angry that she slaps rachel, but also, her eyes immediately fill with tears and she seems genuinely HORRIFIED with herself as she apologizes. she (and really this is a constant back and forth between them) thinks she wants what rachel seems to have and feels as though rachel has Taken Something From Her. and honestly, i think a lot of her frustration is very valid, even if that aspect of it isn’t entirely fair or true. rachel doesn’t decide what finn does—he jealously confronted jesse on all his own.

and while i maintain i don’t think her feelings for finn are one hundred percent inauthentic or just about popularity/status, i do think those things are inherently tied together for her. she thinks one will get her the other, in both directions, and she thinks she *should* want finn at this point, even though she previously chose sam over him before he dumped her, bc she sees him as a good guy, and that seems like as much success and happiness she can imagine for herself at this point: staying in a hometown she doesn’t seem to like very much, working a passionless job in real estate, and marrying someone she at least believes is a Good Guy she Should Be with, who her feelings for are ambiguous at best. that’s not fair to finn, but it’s not particularly fair to herself either.

so it’s easy for me to feel sympathy for her/what i think they were going for in quinn’s character this season (i don’t know how well i think it was executed on a writing level, but diana worked well with what she was given). but it still doesn’t make it actually justified—rachel hasn’t *done* anything to her, not really, and certainly not this ep. and even if she had, it doesn’t justify violence.

in many ways, she’s backslid a lot, and isn’t truthfully *in action* a much better person than she was last season, in which, lest we forget, prior to canon and for at least some of early canon, she was seemingly leading the charge in at least cyberbullying rachel.

except she *does* feel genuine remorse and horror with herself here. i can’t imagine the quinn of early season one apologizing so immediately and with the level of sincerity she does here! she seems to be at a real crossroads with how she’s acting vs. who she wants to be, and i don’t think that arc for her was ultimately handled well in season 3, but in the hands of writers who like…. maybe cared about her in a more nuanced way, it could have been fascinating!

'cause love, when it's the right kind well, it always points you home

"audrey hepburn" - maisie peters ❤️

i do think a LOT (and shoutout to @tanhands for mentioning this bc Yeah) about what blaine might have been wearing at sadie hawkins. we have no idea! we have no idea if he used to dress much more similarly to the way he starts to and is coming back to it in season 3+ onward or if that’s new to him.

and i do have to wonder if part of the appeal of dalton when he transferred was the uniform. because it means that in his day to day life, he doesn’t very often have think about what to wear or how to present himself or how he wants to present himself! it’s already decided for him!

note: this is not me saying i wanted that, bc frankly i don’t. bc don’t think there would have been a way to appropriately convey the horror of it without feeling gratuitous or tonally at odds with glee at this point in the show. even the karofsky stuff with kurt starts to toe that line for me in s2.

but i also think there are a lot of people who tend to forget this or handwave it off as not being important to his character because we don’t see it. (and, in fairness, bc glee sort of does the same.) like, we See the traumatic bullying stuff with kurt and with the other nd. so it’s easier to know and remember and think about how that plays into the way they’re acting and decision-making.

but that doesn’t actually mean the stuff with blaine isn’t affecting him. and i don’t mean to play trauma olympics bc it’s all bad, and the stuff with karofsky for kurt is legitimately terrifying, but it feels like the implication is likely that blaine was in the hospital, considering it was bad enough he and/or his parents felt the need to transfer schools. it’s not just like he got punched. so the fact that (some!) people can’t find it in themselves to have empathy for his position in the kurt-burt tux conflict is! frustrating to me. (and that doesn’t even mean i think he was right! i will have stuff to say about that)