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Years of fandom, years of fic! It’s so easy to forget old favourites or losing links to things you haven’t reread in a while. 

That’s why we have been working on a BIG KLAINE FIC INDEX for the past few months.

We are @alianne, @mailroomorder, @lilyvandersteen, @hkvoyage, @oldboldsellsword, @dashingduo, @jillypickle, @weightofwater, with the help of @dont-stop-believin-in-klaine, @hearteyesanderson, @jadejedi, and @lallagoglee.

The site is a constant work in progress and will be updated continuously. There is a lot of fic in this fandom and we know this index isn’t complete - please be patient with us while we keep working on adding more fics.

The AP’s standards blog just posted a piece about how to use the term ‘alt-right’ when writing articles. Considering the Associated Press provides the style guidelines for newspapers and magazines nationwide, this clarification is a big deal. Here’s the sweet and succinct “usage” section.

“Alt-right” (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the “self-described” or “so-called alt-right” in stories discussing what the movement says about itself.

Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist.

Here’s a little teaser for my upcoming KHBB fic, Hot For Teacher.  The real trailer by @47mel47 will blow your minds - it will come out with the fic (on A03 on Dec. 7).

When dreamy new orchestra director Blaine Anderson shows up at Mountain High, an arts school near L.A., Kurt doesn’t plan on having much to do with him.  Kurt just wants to keep his head down and do his job, heading up the choral program and making sure Rachel doesn’t go overboard with her drama students.   It’s hard enough admitting that he needed a break from his acting career without adding failed romance to the equation. But when Rachel recruits Blaine to help with a charity event, Kurt decides to see for himself what Blaine is like.

*****

… Kurt decides to bite the bullet.  It’s downright weird that he and Blaine haven’t yet had a real conversation. It’s some kind of combination of Kurt’s natural reluctance to get too close to adorable straight boys and jealousy of Blaine’s seemingly effortless ability to endear himself to everyone around him, but Kurt is fairly self-aware, and he knows he’s being a little ridiculous.  Blaine is a member of his department, he’s got the students excited about music, and there’s no reason to keep avoiding him.

 Kurt makes his way down the hall towards the orchestra room.  They have an opportunity for a gig at a fall festival in a few weeks, and he thinks that maybe the jazz combo could take turns doing sets with the Glee club. They might even try to work out a joint number, teach the Glee kids “Summertime” (Anita could definitely pull it off) or something else the jazz group has been working on (he thinks he heard “Girl From Ipanema” coming from the auditorium the other day – a classic).

 The door to the rehearsal room is propped open, and Kurt is just about to go in, when he hears Blaine’s voice.

 “No, it’s fine.  I get it.”  Blaine’s words are clipped.  “Obviously that’s more important.  It’s not like we planned this weeks ago or anything.”  

 Kurt hears the squeak of a chair scraping against the floor, and then Blaine speaks up again.

 “Whatever, Cooper. I’ve got work to do.  You go do you.  I’ll see you when you get back.”  

(Let’s ignore the fact that we have no control over what NPR reports on, and that, in my estimation, our station news team is absolutely professional and fair-minded in their local reporting.)

The percentage of these people who are or were members? 0%