Kurt/Blaine fic recs

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An incredibly short list at the request of a few people on Twitter.

First, I'll say that the share of awesome and decent stories on kurt_blaine is much better than in most fandoms I've been in. Also, it's about the NICEST fandom community I've ever run into. So you can go digging there without getting too frustrated.

wordplay is writing a series of loosely linked stories that are future!fic set in college (I didn't find hers until I'd already written two of mine -- hers are very different). You can read them all or you can just read the most recent one, which I kid you not is the hottest thing I have ever read in any fandom EVER. Although, it might also be hitting a particular nerve with me right now that will be obvious once you read it. HOTTEST THING EVER, PEOPLE. Also, story (and series) gets bonus points for avoiding heteronormativity and attempting to actually locate itself in gay culture.

sotto_voice wrote a Star Trek AU. I tried not to read it. I just thought it wouldn't work for me, or whatever, although I grew up on Trek like anyone and did sort of love the reboot movie. Okay. THIS IS PURE AWESOME. It also hit some personal buttons that are far too complicated and embarrassing to explain. Just trust me, there's this moment 20% of the way into the fic where I was like "Oh no you didn't!" If you're one of the people who's known me long enough to know why this made me laugh my ass off at myself, you're not allowed to share.

rayslady wrote some RPF. This is not the post where we discuss the moralty of RPF. If you don't like RPF, you really won't like this. It's also about a lot of people being really drunk a lot of the time, which may also be a squick. However, I think the very idea of Glee RPF is fascinating (think about it: fictional backstage stories about the real people/personas creating a fictional backstage story -- this is made even odder in the case of Glee once you factor "A Very Potter Musical" into the whole thing. It's just... MUST WRITE SERIOUSLY ON THIS SUBJECT) and complicated. This just masters the art of the run-on drunken thought in a way that made me very fond. Also makes me realize that the RPF I am the most all over is RPF about people connected to fiction that is in itself a backstage story. That might divulge on odd secret of mine, if so, keep it to yourself.

rachel_riot90 wrote us a fic centered on the fact that the Warblers have a lot of rules. Blaine and Kurt _finally_ getting together means they might need some new ones. Funny, and the voices are spot on.

lookninjas wrote an awesome piece about Burt trying to be a father figure to Blaine. She makes deductions it wouldn't have occurred to me to make, but that strike me as dead on. The voices are fantastic.

parsnips wrote a fic that actually takes us into the official relationship if it had happened in direct response to the disaster at the GAP. I can hear Kurt's every word in this perfectly. She also writes his body language really well. Blaine gets a fab speech too. I love this massively.

devonwood wrote some bondage porn. I've read a lot of bondage porn, and being a kinkster myself I tend to have a lot of opinions about bondage porn. This is perfectly acceptable bondage porn that's remarkable in that it reads pretty plausibly for these two pretty screwed up kids. But I'm actually rec'ing it for one fairly innocuous six word segment that's just the loveliest little moment to me. I'm not telling what it is, but I think it jumps off the page, and I think you'll see it too.

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Kurt shows up at Dalton meet because he's fucked up from the Karofsky thing. Clearly, the meek shit is going away, we saw that in the last episode.

And I think Criss is fucking fantastic. He's exactly right for the fucking part. Not subtle, but woah, this show is not about naturalism. I've also noticed a bit of "evil elitist Dalton" and "Blaine's too perfect" in the little bit of crankiness I'm aware of, which was basically like saying to me, "here, this is the character you want to defend." And sure enough.....

Thre's a spoiler going around about Sam, but no one is sure if it's real. It's making me a little verklempt. But the Blaine/Kurt chemistry is so bright, I imagine they won't soap opera us on it for a little bit.

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I'm hoping Murphy will let us enjoy this for a little bit before throwing us for a loop. We all know how he likes to treat the couples on this show. It would just be so refreshing to see a healthy relationship - not to say it would be perfect. But without the break-ups every other week and then getting back together.

At the beginning I could see why people would have looked at Blaine as this perfect character - but I think they've done a good job at giving us bits and pieces of his character since he's been around. Bits that show that he isn't perfect and there's much more to him than we know, and I hope we find out more (with Kurt by his side).

To be honest, I thought they were going in that direction with Sam in the first few episodes he was in. Lots of questions about him being gay - hell, when Quinn exclaimed that he was, he didn't even look her in the eye when he said he wasn't. I think they teetered over whether or not to go there with him. Then Blaine showed up and BAM - they couldn't ignore the chemistry between the two.

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Yeah, it just works. When you get that you _have_ to write to it.

I think their relationship stressors are going to be necessarily different than those of the other couples, so I think it's going to be less of the breaking up and getting back together and more of the "is this just too hard?" and possible parent drama and prom drama and stuff like that.