dinojay replied to your post: Oh, and because I totally meant to send you an ask earlier - what’s your headcanon on what Blaine wants to do in the future, job or college wise?
We definitely have similar headcanons for him then :) And I have the same lit thing, but with history-learning!nerd Blaine just seems so perfect, like he used it as an outlet that made his parents happy but grew into more. Which Uni should he be at?I think it depends on where he and Kurt decided to venture for school - in NY I could see him at NYU or Columbia, UCLA or Berkley in California. I really like the idea of him going to Berkley - lots of artsy people there - but I think they’d end up in NY so I’d say either of the first two :) What do you think?
I’d say either Columbia (I just have this image of him as a history major there that I can’t shake, or as a psychology major with a minor in music/music education). I have a lot of music major friends, and watching them suffer through music theory 1-4 makes me think that Blaine would be more of a music therapy/education/performance kind of guy - not obsessed with theory, but instead with teaching kids how to make music, you know? I think the theory stuff would really bog him down (because ugh ughhhh who doesn’t it bog down?). I could also see him at Fordham (if his parents wanted a Catholic school - mine did, and repression and Catholics go hand in hand trust me lol, I know the Catholic Symptoms and Blainers has ‘em all). One of my good friends from high school actually went to Fordham for a year, and I can see poor Blaine getting food poisoning from their cafeteria so easily poor dear :(
I see Kurt at Parsons for fashion, or FIT. I don’t know why, but I always think of him as having a career in fashion rather than music. I think the music performance world gets a lot more cutthroat as time goes on, and though he is a rarity as a countertenor and is more appreciated in NYC than in Ohio, he still doesn’t get noticed like he quite wants to. He likes private performances much better now after time with Blaine, you know, just the two of them singing together while making dinner or cleaning the house. I have this headcanon that he did that with his mom a lot, and it’s really nice to do it again. He didn’t like it when music became all about screaming to let your voice be heard; he’d much rather perform, later on, through his fashion shows.
I also have this story setup where Kurt isn’t successful straight out of college, but instead spends a few years working in clothing shops in the Village making trendy hipster garments but not really getting a name for himself. Then Blaine urges him to get on Project Runway and he does and he doesn’t win but gets second place because he’s much more about men’s fashion than women’s, and he gets a line deal soon after, and during his time at the show he’s actually engaged to Blaine who shows up every so often and people kind of fall in love with the two of them, and suddenly they’re popular figures and they don’t know how to deal with it
tl;dr i just have a lot of headcanons about new york okaySorry to butt in, however I would like to have Kurt find his own success independently and not because his friends and family lead him to it.
I think Kurt gets it entirely on his own, he just doesn’t think that Project Runway is the thing for him at first (because it’s about female fashions, for the most part,) and Blaine urges him to try out for it because he hasn’t really had something to challenge him in that sort of way since college, and because the two of them don’t really have the funds as postgrads to afford to make coture clothing on their own so Kurt just has all of these absolutely beautiful designs and no way to see them fully formed. I can also kind of see Kurt overshadowed while in college, because he didn’t have the exposure to lesser known fashion designers while in Ohio that other New York Fashionistas were able to get. So he arrives at Parsons and does well, but doesn’t come out first in his class or anything, because he’s sort of coming from behind in the whole thing. The trendy hipster garments he’s making are nice, and all, but not really his style, and are mainly for 30-something women, where he wants to make these high fashion gorgeous gender-neutral outfits that he really doesn’t have the funds to create. He’s really surprised when he gets on Runway, and it takes him a while to get used to the idea. He doesn’t do as well in the first few challenges, but then he and one of the other competitors (who reminds him a lot of Tina and is kind of a fashion genius, and who ends up winning,) pairs up with him for a challenge and they totally knock it out of the park, and it’s all uphill from there. Blaine really only pushed Kurt to try out; all the rest is on him, and slowly but surely he becomes one of the most popular on the show as people start seeing him for more than just the gay kid from Ohio, now of New York, and instead as the wonderfully complex person he is. The audience is introduced to Blaine via their phone calls and a segment where Kurt’s ipod shuffles to a version of teenage dream that everyone kind of loves, and they really like this side of Kurt that’s not a hardened fashionista but an honest artist who’s in love with his high school sweetheart and just wants to change the fashion world. And after the show is over, his name really gets put out there, and his work starts getting really popular so suddenly Kurt (and by extension Blaine) is kind of in the public spotlight, and he just starts CHURNING out line after line, and Kurt starts getting the recognition he deserves and yes.
so, um, I kind of want Kurt to get things on his own too? and Blaine wants that as well and so he isn’t afraid to push him towards great opportunities, because sometimes Kurt kind of doubts himself and Blaine is there to help him back up again and TL;DR I HAVE A LOT OF FEELINGS.
We definitely have similar headcanons for him then :) And I have the same lit thing, but with history-learning!nerd Blaine just seems so perfect, like he used it as an outlet that made his parents happy but grew into more. Which Uni should he be at?I think it depends on where he and Kurt decided to venture for school - in NY I could see him at NYU or Columbia, UCLA or Berkley in California. I really like the idea of him going to Berkley - lots of artsy people there - but I think they’d end up in NY so I’d say either of the first two :) What do you think?
I’d say either Columbia (I just have this image of him as a history major there that I can’t shake, or as a psychology major with a minor in music/music education). I have a lot of music major friends, and watching them suffer through music theory 1-4 makes me think that Blaine would be more of a music therapy/education/performance kind of guy - not obsessed with theory, but instead with teaching kids how to make music, you know? I think the theory stuff would really bog him down (because ugh ughhhh who doesn’t it bog down?). I could also see him at Fordham (if his parents wanted a Catholic school - mine did, and repression and Catholics go hand in hand trust me lol, I know the Catholic Symptoms and Blainers has ‘em all). One of my good friends from high school actually went to Fordham for a year, and I can see poor Blaine getting food poisoning from their cafeteria so easily poor dear :(
I see Kurt at Parsons for fashion, or FIT. I don’t know why, but I always think of him as having a career in fashion rather than music. I think the music performance world gets a lot more cutthroat as time goes on, and though he is a rarity as a countertenor and is more appreciated in NYC than in Ohio, he still doesn’t get noticed like he quite wants to. He likes private performances much better now after time with Blaine, you know, just the two of them singing together while making dinner or cleaning the house. I have this headcanon that he did that with his mom a lot, and it’s really nice to do it again. He didn’t like it when music became all about screaming to let your voice be heard; he’d much rather perform, later on, through his fashion shows.
I also have this story setup where Kurt isn’t successful straight out of college, but instead spends a few years working in clothing shops in the Village making trendy hipster garments but not really getting a name for himself. Then Blaine urges him to get on Project Runway and he does and he doesn’t win but gets second place because he’s much more about men’s fashion than women’s, and he gets a line deal soon after, and during his time at the show he’s actually engaged to Blaine who shows up every so often and people kind of fall in love with the two of them, and suddenly they’re popular figures and they don’t know how to deal with it
tl;dr i just have a lot of headcanons about new york okayI don’t really have much to add because basically I agree with everything you’ve said - I think Kurt would end up in fashion, too - although I have this bizarro head canon I’ve touched upon before where I think he’s actually quite a talented artist (which you have to be, really, sketching clothes and designs) and he might find unseen unexpected success simply in drawing and creating (which he does in his free time when he’s not sketching designs). I always have this image that there are dozens of little doodles of Blaine in that notebook he wrote Blaine <3’s Kurt — maybe a little awkward but also horribly romantic, really. I just love the idea that Blaine would be continually in awe of Kurt when he finds out how truly artistic he is (beyond singing and picking out outfits). I like to think Kurt needs a bit of encouragement to expose that side of himself - he’s unsure of his talent.
I also think Blaine is an incredible writer and could be a novelist, too.
Obviously we both have a lot of feelings about Kurt/Blaine in New York.
Haha we really do have similar headcanons! I think Kurt would make an excellent graphic/interior designer but his passion is for designing clothes, and he’s extremely good at designing but sometimes the craft of it gets away from him a little? So he’d prefer to stick with his markers and paper and lets others handle the craft once he makes it big.I can see him squirreling away his art supplies in lovely well-designed boxes, correctly labeled, and Blaine kind of marvels at the organization of it all, and how ingenious and artistic Kurt actually is.
Something tells me that if Blaine was a novelist he would handle, like, historical fiction or something equally nerdy, and that he puts in equal numbers of pop culture references and obscure literary ones. I don’t think he would do novels full-time though - he’s been too trained by his family to value a steady job and good money for that. I keep trying to make his father a bankruptcy lawyer, but that just feels too self-serving since that’s what my dad does lolol so I generally place his father as a businessman, or as a corporate or property lawyer, something where he would kind of disdain at his son’s liberal hippy-ness and where they would get along less and less as Blaine realizes how different they actually are. I also think Blaine’s the middle child - one older brother, married and living far away (I’m thinking London, for a short while,) and a sister who’s kind of a bitch and who only fuels the arguments between Blaine and their Dad.
We definitely have similar headcanons for him then :) And I have the same lit thing, but with history-learning!nerd Blaine just seems so perfect, like he used it as an outlet that made his parents happy but grew into more. Which Uni should he be at?I think it depends on where he and Kurt decided to venture for school - in NY I could see him at NYU or Columbia, UCLA or Berkley in California. I really like the idea of him going to Berkley - lots of artsy people there - but I think they’d end up in NY so I’d say either of the first two :) What do you think?
I’d say either Columbia (I just have this image of him as a history major there that I can’t shake, or as a psychology major with a minor in music/music education). I have a lot of music major friends, and watching them suffer through music theory 1-4 makes me think that Blaine would be more of a music therapy/education/performance kind of guy - not obsessed with theory, but instead with teaching kids how to make music, you know? I think the theory stuff would really bog him down (because ugh ughhhh who doesn’t it bog down?). I could also see him at Fordham (if his parents wanted a Catholic school - mine did, and repression and Catholics go hand in hand trust me lol, I know the Catholic Symptoms and Blainers has ‘em all). One of my good friends from high school actually went to Fordham for a year, and I can see poor Blaine getting food poisoning from their cafeteria so easily poor dear :(
I see Kurt at Parsons for fashion, or FIT. I don’t know why, but I always think of him as having a career in fashion rather than music. I think the music performance world gets a lot more cutthroat as time goes on, and though he is a rarity as a countertenor and is more appreciated in NYC than in Ohio, he still doesn’t get noticed like he quite wants to. He likes private performances much better now after time with Blaine, you know, just the two of them singing together while making dinner or cleaning the house. I have this headcanon that he did that with his mom a lot, and it’s really nice to do it again. He didn’t like it when music became all about screaming to let your voice be heard; he’d much rather perform, later on, through his fashion shows.
I also have this story setup where Kurt isn’t successful straight out of college, but instead spends a few years working in clothing shops in the Village making trendy hipster garments but not really getting a name for himself. Then Blaine urges him to get on Project Runway and he does and he doesn’t win but gets second place because he’s much more about men’s fashion than women’s, and he gets a line deal soon after, and during his time at the show he’s actually engaged to Blaine who shows up every so often and people kind of fall in love with the two of them, and suddenly they’re popular figures and they don’t know how to deal with it
tl;dr i just have a lot of headcanons about new york okay
katiescarlettd replied to your post: in which jay blabs incessantly about her muse!verse clearly the tau are the only ones who have their shit together, iverre doesn’t sound so good…
HAHAHA YEAH WELL PRETTY MUCH
The whole thing is that Iverre makes a ton of money due to mining and trading and there’s all this established gender heirarchy shit that Lorrie and Fee are entrenched in, and Fee is really passionate about changing things whereas Lorrie doesn’t realize there’s a problem until he’s on a boat with four people who know otherwise and aren’t afraid to tell him so? As I wrote in my thesis journal a few days ago, En Route could be re-titled “The Story of How Lorrie Got That Stick Out Of His Ass and Figured Out His Culture Was Populated By Douchebags (and that he was one too)”
And the Tau have been villified over the years for having near-mystical powers and all this cultural bullshit because their lands are starting to be appropriated by this company (which is the real villain of the story, Skarter Corp,) and there’s all this myth/legend/rumor surrounding their tribes and their partnership with they’re muses because they have some pretty radical ideas about gender/orientation/muse relationships that most of the rest of the world deems as weird as shit. Like, the Tau actually don’t use matchmakers for Muse bonding, they have a shaman of their tribe who actually sends children on their seventh birthday for a year-long journey to the Spirit World to discover and train with their own Muse, where they execute the bond themselves, and then the bond is solidified by the Shaman again when they come back on their eighth birthday, considerably more powerful and connected to their partner than most other cultures get. But since the Tau lands are fairly small (it’s a collective of tribes scattered across a bunch of islands with one large main island) they try and keep their population relatively controlled, so they’re just fine with non-heterosexual couples because otherwise their population would boom and they’d run out of land and supplies. Most Iverrians in particular have the same mindset about the Tau that early white Christians did about Native Americans way back when, only the Tau have had complete mastery over their lands in the past which has kept them useful to the rest of the world. There isn’t really any way between continents other than by Tau guides through the swamplands or by sea barge which is RISKY and dangerous because the technology to manage huge frigates over the choppy seas isn’t really there yet.
TL;DR AGAIN THE TAU ARE GREAT BUT MISUNDERSTOOD AND IVERRE IS OVERRATED AND I HAVEN’T FIGURED OUT ENOUGH ABOUT DAGON TO WORK ON IT YET IN DETAIL SO. YEAH. and i haven’t even gone into the university city yet and oh god you need to hear about amadeus and cornelius because they are the cutest damn relationship in this thing, like they give arino and fee a run for their money ugh
I know that a lot of people wanted Kurt/Closeted Hunk Jock Of Choice, but I’m SO glad that Kurt got Blaine. Kurt was just…so desperate before, and 2nd hand embarrassment ahoy, and Kurt is able to love A PERSON rather than the IDEA of someone yknow?I just don’t dig it. And this book I’m reading now is just frustrating.
Coming out story seems to always be a cliche and a go-to storyline…so I find it far more interesting to see Kurt and Blaine as an out couple and dealing with the problems that come up with that.
I mean, that doesn’t mean Kurt couldn’t fall in love with Closeted Jock of Choice. Because he could’ve fallen in love with that person and not just the idea etc., etc. But I’d hate to see him hurt by that person’s actions. I mean, I guess if that was an actual storyline they were going with we would be meant to feel sympathetic for Closeted Hunk Jock of Choice but it would be more natural for the audience to feel for Kurt, I think. So it would’ve just come off as a bit…depressing from that angle. Other people have explained this far better, by the way.
Of course, RM was also saying “we’re not going to do the hiding-in-the-shadows” thing so who the fuck knows. Seems they were in between having them be a big out and proud power couple and the closeted jock story. Or maybe closeted jock would’ve morphed into out and proud power couple? WHO KNOWS. WE MAY NEVER KNOW.
It’s not even that the coming out thing is cliche for me, even though it is cliche. It’s just that Kurt is the type of person who not only can’t hide out for the closet - he’s never really had that option (his father knew he was gay when he was three and his classmates never even questioned it - they never assumed he was straight) - but he also won’t stay in the closet, because he’s proud of who he is. I think that Kurt is the type of romantic who needs someone to be out with him. In some ways, I think he wanted a boyfriend because he longed for that kind of close companionship with another person, which was why he went after Finn so badly. Kurt was, in my opinion, that much less desperate with Blaine because he already had that kind of companionship with Blaine, just not of a romantic nature. Kurt has matured a lot in Season 2. I really don’t know how his character would have changed given the CJOC storyline, but I think it would have been much closer to misunderstanding!angst!Kurt of much of season 1. Coming out is a long and delicate process (trust me, I should know - still in the process of coming out to people and I’m a senior in college, and there are some people who I know I’ll never come out to). I feel like the closeted jock in said storyline needs to come to terms with his sexuality and come out on his own, a la Karofsky, rather than as part of a pair. I’m sorry, but thinking of coming out in high school as a jock in a small town in Ohio would be hard enough - adding another person to please to the list, particularly a person like Kurt who’s so adamant about things sometimes… well, I know I couldn’t do it.
Thinking about the characters on both sides of that couple breaks my heart a little. Kurt, having to repress his want for grand romantic gestures and open love and prom and pride rather than shame.Closeted Jock Of Choice, toeing that balance between loving Kurt, and being happy with him, and the shame of being gay, and the fear of losing his family and friends, who (unlike Kurt) assumed he was straight and now need to be told otherwise - that’s a very different situation. And, though it’s always good to show glbtq relationships on tv, I think that Kurt and Blaine’s relationship is inherently more meaningful to me, at least (not saying that the Kurt/CJOC ISN’T, because it is, just not necessarily to me) because it shows a relationship between two men that isn’t about fear (because coming out in real situations like this is all about fear, absolute terror, because you never know how people are going to react,) but is instead about falling in love, the same as any other couple, straight or gay, on the show. GLBTQ couples don’t get romantic comedies. They don’t get action movies, where the two main characters kiss and ride out into the sunset. They don’t get fairy tales where the prince and the prince fall in love. Instead, they get Brokeback Mountain. They get Rent. They get Philadelphia. They get every movie so full of homoerotic angst, but nothing concrete. On the whole, they get storylines about coming out, and being beaten, and living with disease, and keeping their relationships a secret for fear of pain and shame and rejection.
That’s why I love Kurt and Blaine - it’s just like prom- they’re not about fear. They’re about joy. About finding your other half and rejoicing in it, singing it from the rooftops and holding hands in the hallway and texting during class and dancing at prom and equally supporting each other. The same way any other couple would. That is so, so rare a find in today’s media, and I am SO glad that it’s a story someone’s finally telling. GLBTQ kids can find happiness. They can find joy. They can be in a loving relationship with another person without having to hide. And even if Klaine doesn’t last past next season (though I REALLY, REALLY hope they will,) I’m just so glad that they’ve told this storyline for the world to see. When’s the last time a couple, a kiss, a scene between two gay males amongst a cast of primarily straight high schoolers got awarded and lauded for best scene, for best couple? People love them, because it’s a story they’ve never really seen before, and that is so powerful. It tells parents of gay kids that their life isn’t going to be full of disease and shame and misery, but can be just the same as any other child.They’re going to have problems like any other couple. They’re also going to be treated somewhat differently than other couples - they’re going to have exterior forces at work that others won’t. But as a mutual, loving, respectful out couple? They can also do fabulously.
And yes, coming out is an extremely difficult process and something that needs to be shown on television - but Dave and Santana are kind of covering just how difficult that is right now, aren’t they? Because those characters are handling it in a very real way. But just like all those GLBTQ kids in the audience, those kids like me to be honest, they can see Kurt and Blaine and see a relationship that’s real, not just a dream upon some star but something obtainable. And that’s why I love them so fucking much.
Sophomore!Blaine: Youngest, Eldest (A Backstory)
So I was thinking about the possibility of Blaine being retconned in order to be in Season 4, and was trying to come up with a backstory for how. It came out a lot sadder than I intended. (Fair Warning: triggers for homophobia, fairly severe beating, general sadness). (And another warning? I don’t usually write fic. And I wrote this one in under an hour. There isn’t even cute art in this to help balance it out, sorry guys.)
Blaine Anderson was born at midnight on August 23rd, 1994. This put him squarely in between Virgo and Leo - which, though he pretended to not hold much stock in astrology, made some kind of sense to him in those secluded moments when he was trying not to think about anything harsher.
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What if we get a Blaine voice-over next season?
What. if.
“Kurt is so cute in his cute pants and his cute clothes and ohmygod his hair looks really nice today hey I wonder if there will be donuts at lunch hopefully the glazed kind we never had donuts at Dalton but the lattes were nice I wonder if Brad will let me play his piano?”
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“Maybe I should give Mr. Schuester some recommendations on product since his hair is looking rather tragic today hmm but maybe not since he keeps sticking me next to Finn in the group numbers and he keeps bumping into me and that’s annoying why can’t I stand next to Mike that would be nice not that I don’t like Finn he’s great but the boy is not coordinated better yet why can’t I be next to Kurt he wouldn’t step on my feet because he’s graceful like a deer oh wait that makes me think of Bambi’s mom scratch that way more like a gazelle none of the gazelles in The Lion King died I don’t think just Mufasa oh god thinking about that scene and Simba’s face I just made myself sad oh wait there’s Kurt at my locker now I’m happy again this is going to be the greatest day!”
hahaha so basically everyone’s headcanon is that Blaine is a puppy yes
I have to say though, I think that Blaine would sound like a dignified!puppy in his voiceover. I really want a Kurt voiceover (FINALLY) before a Blaine one - and my only exception for this would be if Blaine had a voice over all about how crazy he found the new directions, where he wondered how they ever got work done:
(The scene is in the choir room, which is in absolute chaos. Rachel is shouting over everyone’s heads about how she should have the solo because her voice was created purely for the part of Wendla, which causes the rest of the choir room to erupt in (loud) arguments and opinions over what songs they should sing/who has the solos/what they will wear (Kurt is currently bearing down on Mercedes over her neon-green biker jacket)/how they should leave the song uncut to appear “more badass.” Blaine is the only one left seated, stunned, in the back row, as even Mike has joined the fray.)
“When Lindsey Lohan compared public school to the African Savannah in Mean Girls, I thought she was exaggerating. I mean, it couldn’t be that bad, right? Right? Wrong. In my last two weeks at McKinley, I’ve seen four near-physical fights, three bitch-outs, a food brawl, two sex riots, and a whopping six cheating allegations, just within Glee Club. I was under the distinct impression that this was a singing club, but it’s become quickly apparent that members far prefer to sing their feelings out loud - to themselves? - outside of the choir room, like the “If Life Was A Musical” portion of Whose Line. Man, that show was awesome. Whatever happened to the tall guy and the bald guy? And isn’t Wayne Brady on that singing show now, where the contestants have to remember all the words? Is that show still on?
Speaking of remembering all the words - how do these guys know the words and harmonies to every song, ever? There’s no practicing involved for any of their performances, as far as I can tell. Kurt keeps telling me that’s how they’ve always done it, but I can’t help but be skeptical. Even the Warblers’ “Impromptu Performances” were meticulously organized and scheduled. The largest “fight” that ever broke out at a Warblers’ meeting was debating whether or not Nick’s family’s cat, Purrissa, had eaten Pavarotti’s predecessor, Wunderlich. Things got pretty heated, but not nearly as heated as when Mercedes called Santana’s new Jared belly button piercing “tacky”.
Anyhow.
Somehow, in the midst of all this craziness, I need to find something to sing to Kurt.
Something that he won’t hate me for afterwords.
Which is harder to do than I thought.”
(and then we get an episode about blaine testing out serenades on people in glee club for approval before singing to kurt and kurt is bewildered because blaine is really “busy” all of a sudden, and is he ignoring him because he did something wrong? and then it all turns out happy in the end when both of them admit to being nervous about disappointing the other and sweet things like that).
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