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karofsky · 3 years

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Definitive “Furry or Not A Furry” Ranking of Every Glee Kid

Yeah.

Rachel - used to be a furry when she was younger and was looking for a community. grew out of it, thinks it was kind of cringey of her but appreciates the online friends she made

Finn - not a furry, but not super weirded out by them. would absolutely be a Bag Bitch at a con if Kurt and Sam needed help

Kurt - became a mild furry after Sam introduced him. he's not a suiter or artist but he sews suits/parts and accessories and makes bank selling. has a fursona (it's some kind of cat) that he commissioned Sam for

Mercedes - not a furry. does not understand furries. supports Kurt and Sam anyway

Tina - 100% a furry, but on the DL. she has a lot of online friends and gets sucked into drama in communities a bunch. sparkle dogs were made for Tina

Artie - furry by proxy. he likes to say he's into monsters and creatures but that's not true

Quinn - not a furry, thinks it's weird and gross bc she's uninformed, and even after she still is kinda like "eh..."

Puck - not a furry but reads furry nsfw comics. unfortunately probably one of the most informed on everything furry, even more than the actual furries

Santana - 0% furry.

Brittany - 100% furry. she’s obsessed with suiters and has a ton of OCs

Mike - not a furry, kinda uncomfy by it but in like, a normal "i just don't get it" way

Sam - the biggest furry. didn't have a lot of friends growing up, was really into niche sci fi and fantasy things, found solace online. fell into furry community easily, met a lot of LGBT people across the world (which is why he's so comfy with it). got big into art because of it, now a pretty well known artist. has a fursuit and plans to start making and selling them as a main source of income. he and Kurt table at cons together

Lauren - not a furry. furries are gross

Blaine - another former furry, basically in the same boat as Rachel. doesn't like to talk about it but still has a few friends from the community. 100% read Warriors. when he and Rachel "dated" the secret came out and they spent 2 hours ranting about the books and never spoke of it again

Dave - not a furry initially. had 0 idea what furries were actually. still not super a furry but in his attempt to be informed during the short PFFLAG stint Kurt brought it up, he got researching into it. he follows a few artists on twitter. he also commissions a fursona from Sam and has a small folder of fursona art now bc he wants to support people. fully embraces the community and likes that it’s a positive source of LGBT content and friendships for youth

Jesse - not a furry but like Puck, knows a surprising amount. thinks Rachel's past is endearing and encourages her to get back into it

Becky - former furry, definitely self-hating furry now. I think once she graduates and is out of a toxic environment w/ always being around Sue she would casually get back into it. 100% still checks on her Neopets

Rory - not a furry but his brother is so when he and Sam become close, Rory is really into talking about it.

Sugar - Schrodinger's furry. I literally can't tell if she's fully against furries or is an obnoxious furry

Joe - not a furry but "jesus didn't say anything about furries" so he doesn't care. maybe just don't yiff

Unique - furry! Unique started as a fursona when she was 10-11 and the persona carried on after

Sebastian - makes fun of furries until he realizes he can't be a good person and also bully a bunch of 12 year olds. still kinda gives Dave shit for it, but in a friendly way

Marley - not a furry but she was in a lot of creative communities so she was furry adjacent. doesn't really care, thinks their art and suits are cute

Jake - no.

Ryder - has a fursuit from when he was 12-13 that he begged his parents for. still can't get through holidays without his entire family roasting him. he definitely knows who Sam is and has been an avid follower

Kitty - NOT a furry. she cannot stress enough how much she is not a furry. she loves HORSES.

Brody - zero knowledge about furries. Rachel begs Kurt to not tell him about her past because she doesn't want him to know. Kurt continuously drops hints that go right over his head

Adam - learns about furries from Kurt. definitely teases him, lovingly Elliott - Not a furry but knows of them. Always loved the passion people put into it, and like Dave appreciates that it was always an LGBT friendly space for others

Dani - 0% furry. Probably made fun of them, actually. Santana kinda shuts that down eventually bc she saw how happy it made Britt

Roderick - doesn't really know much about furries and is kinda of "meh" because of it. would probably feel uncomfortable around a fursuiter but is nice enough to kinda just let people live

Jane - another former furry. Warrior Cats girl. she still gets emotional thinking about feathertail's death. she never got into the "furry" community but was definitely involved in a lot of Warriors and wolf OC roleplays

Mason - furry adjacent, because:

Madison - aggressive furry. constantly getting in drama online and off. she and Tina have definitely fought before online. though she is very active in calling out scammers and abusers so people forgive her aggressiveness because she also does a lot of good. she has like 70 characters

Spencer - not a furry, but much like Roderick, lets people be. slightly more skeeved, definitely will make uncomfortable jokes about it

Alistair - doesn't know much from furries other than general memes and stuff, will kind of joke about them but thinks they don't deserve as much hate as they get

Myron - idk honestly he's just a fucking wildcard

#glee #as a furry these are all 100% accurate I will take no criticism #mine

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bronanlynch · 4 years

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hamlet, much ado, CORIOLANUS, henry the fifth (guess which one I had to c&p)

tbh I assumed u were just really really excited abt coriolanus which like. valid and mood

HAMLET: Do you have any specific/creative ideas on staging a production of Hamlet?

oh boy do I........ ok first of all I would def borrow some of the set/lighting stuff from the production that I saw a few months ago (the one with ruth negga as hamlet) bc there was a lot of really really cool stuff w doors and silhouettes that I thought was super effective. also extremely a fan of having hamlet played by a woman or a transmasc actor bc like. ok. I don’t think trans!hamlet was necessarily what that production was going for but that’s how it came across to me, a transmasc person like. I’ve seen hamlet played by women in a way that felt like hamlet’s a woman in that version, regardless of how much or little they change the script/pronouns. the ruth negga version was like. oh. hamlet is trans and also even if that wasn’t what they were going for it’s still the only portrayal of a transmasc character that’s ever resonated with me personally. not to get into gender stuff but I very rarely feel like I recognize myself in fictional depictions of trans people but something abt this specific hamlet just. really vibed w me y’know? something about the mannerisms and the costuming and the way his depression isn’t specifically abt his gender stuff but that sure doesn’t help (all the layers of being referred to/referring to himself as unmanly, talking abt hating femininity contrasted w how much this version of hamlet clearly cared abt ophelia+gertrude, another reason for everyone to disapprove of his relationship, etc)

anyway tl;dr my ideal production would make hamlet trans, also I’ve been kinda vaguely considering what the costuming might look like if u set it further back in history like. more like the time that the sources shakespeare was working on were from bc then I could use the stuff I learned for my dissertation abt early medieval clothing for something

also I hate how every single production I’ve ever seen has done ophelia’s ~madness so I wanna do a version where she’s playing the same game hamlet is of like. pretending to ~go mad~ so that ppl won’t see her as a threat except it doesn’t work bc there’s a moment when she’s like. giving out the flowers and too much of her anger comes through at claudius. when she leaves the stage for the last time claudius gestures for one of his guards to follow her out with the implication that he’s having her killed (later, when gertrude comes back to say that she’s dead, so does that guard and claudius nods like. yeah good job u did the thing). also laertes tries to follow ophelia when she leaves but claudius stops him, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t play it like that he can’t just let her go like that

also also if hamlet doesn’t die in horatio’s arms what’s even the point, from a narrative perspective as well as a homoeroticism perspective. also in general horatio needs to be present throughout and like. important? bc too many production neglect horatio but like. he’s the one who makes ppl care abt hamlet anyway I’m gonna stop now before I go into an entire essay

wait no that reminds me of the actual academic essay I did write abt generational conflict in hamlet and why u gotta cast the parent generation as like. obviously older than hamlet’s generation in order to get that across. also bc lots of productions cast hamlet & gertrude closer in age than hamlet & ophelia which. hmmmm. don’t love that

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: Go off about the best female character.

beatrice muchado is a strong contender but also everyone already loves her so I have less to say that hasn’t already been said, I would be tempted to say viola twelfthnight if I weren’t so firmly on team viola/cesario is trans, I love ophelia a lot but I hate the ~madness scenes, most of my favorite women in shakespeare productions I’ve seen have been women playing male roles like please I would love to talk abt the all-female julius caesar where brutus was a butch lesbian, or like. gwendoline christie as titania in midsummer except titania and oberon’s roles were swapped (which I have mixed feelings about bc the oberon/nick bottom stuff is played as a joke which like. to be fair that’s how titania/bottom is usually done and I know the joke isn’t actually just ‘haha they’re gay’ it’s abt the weird magic shit and the fact that puck and titania are messing with them but. y’know. the experience of being in an audience laughing at two dudes kissing did not make me personally feel great. however I fucking loved pretty much everything else about the production so it balances out to still being the best midsummer I’ve ever seen and also one of the best plays I’ve ever seen full stop)

also best is such a vague and subjective thing like. Idk I love a lot of them for different reasons, y’know? I do think beatrice and maybe juliet are the ones I would say are the best written, gertrude is a close third bc it really depends on how she’s played in any given production but one of my favorite parts of hamlet is in the last scene when she drinks the poison if it’s framed as her knowing exactly what’s going on and daring claudius to stop her and admit his own guilt

CORIOLANUS: Which gay pairing has the most evidence? (Conversely, which pairing do you wish had evidence?)

cesario/viola+orsino is canon send tweet. but really like. usually the cross-dressing heroine changes back into women’s clothing at the end to restore heteronormativity or whatever and I know that viola does say “hey I’m gonna go change” but never actually does and orsino still calls them cesario after that in one of his very last lines so like. I’m just sayin

brutus and cassius’s deaths are basically the same as romeo and juliet’s, and are therefore also a pyramus and thisbe retelling, in this essay I will

HENRY V: What is the best monologue/soliloquy? in general I’m not that into king lear but edmund’s “now gods, stand up for bastards” monologue is extremely good and sexy, somewhere there’s a recording of riz ahmed doing it that’s just. chef’s kiss

as a hamlet stan my favorite hamlet soliloquy is his first one, the one that starts with “oh that this too too sullied flesh would melt,” and ends with “but break my heart for I must hold my tongue” which not to be a basic bitch but that’s one of my favorite lines in anything ever

also antony’s funeral speech for caesar gets me (almost) every goddamn time. the one singular exception to this was the shakespeare in the park production a few years ago where they were trying to do shallow modern political commentary that really didn’t work and actively undermined the themes of the play

#sorry that this ended up being so much #me namedropping various productions I've seen but listen. I miss live theater so much #thanks!#girlfriendsofthegalaxy #answered #dreaming.txt #about me #shakespeare

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spaceorphan18 · 6 years

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Finding Kurt Hummel: New Directions (5x13)

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5x13: New Directions

Welcome to the series finale of Glee… wait, this isn’t? Oh. Well okay then. ;)

While this feels very much like a finale, and in a sense, it is an ending, in a way, to the main series, I’m glad it’s not. Because Kurt’s story and Klaine story really isn’t finished - nor does it get any more acknowledgement (well more than the previous episode), so I’m glad this isn’t the final wrapping up of the story. But it did make me think – I think one of the sadder things about the later seasons is the lack of real arc for Kurt as an individual character. Klaine will get a couple of arcs, but Kurt’s story post-Swan Song is very episodic – having beats here and there, but not a whole lot about his life individually. And while I love the Klaine stuff and love a lot of what we got, I am sad that there isn’t more to it.

I think also, Kurt feels like he falls through the cracks a little bit in these couple of episodes. The previous episode highlighted all of the old characters, except Kurt gets shuffled to the side lines cause he didn’t fit into the bigger narratives outside his own going on in season 1-3. And then he doesn’t fit in this one as much either, this being about the seniors and the group as a whole. There are a lot of great Kurt moments in this episode, but there’s no story – and as a fan, I am a little sad to see that. But I do wonder if, part of that, is because Kurt’s story always kinda existed outside of what Glee originally intended to do.

CHUMS

Ah - the set up for Tina’s delightful fantasy sequence. Blaine and Kurt run in to say they have good news – to which Sam replies that they got married and adopted Russian twin babies. Um, wtf Sam?!? – I love the expression on Kurt’s face. Though, man, I think an eloping story line probably would have been more fun than what we got. No – Blaine just got into NYADA. And Kurt, and everyone else, is super excited for him. I kinda like the idea that Blaine opened his letter with Kurt first, and then they told everyone else.

Tina is excited that they’ll all be going to New York together. Sam is even more excited and whacks her with a trophy, and then we get one of the best fantasy sequences since they body-swapped.

Well, damn Tina. I don’t even care what this says about your subconscious, I am here for this. ;)

We’re now in sitcom land that stars Tina, and the cold open has her walking in on Kurt and Blaine making out on the bed – something that we’ve sadly never seen up to this point. Thanks, Glee, for finally giving us that ;)

I find it absolutely hilarious that Kurt covers himself up (even though he’s dressed) as if he’s demur or something – when in reality (based on 414 and 514) we know that if you interrupt Kurt’s sexy times, he’s more likely to cut a bitch than act scandalized. Sitcom Tina acts as though it’s gross – but let’s be real – she’s probably as turned on as the rest of us.

Also, as a random aside, I enjoy the number of bunkbeds that are now in this version of the loft.

So – we get our opening title sequence of CHUMS – the blatant Friends knockoff that stars Tina as Rachel Green. I mean, they even recreate the opening sequence of Friends and I love everything about this – I wish there had been more, I wish they had done the names of the entire cast there. Man, I just want to revel in this.

This is one of those split second images that they flash through – and I just had to include it because I thought it was hilarious. Anyway – sitcom!Kurt is having a ton of fun. I’m guessing that was a great day of filming on set. I mean c’mon.

This particular sitcom doesn’t really have any plot – other than twenty somethings living in New York. Huh – just like the real Friends!! It’s also complete with kinda lame jokes complete with laugh track:

Rachel: I’m never coming out of here. Kurt: That’s what I said when I was a sophomore in high school **canned laughter**

I do, however, love the running gag of Sam forgetting his clothes.

The scene shifts to the diner (which was always a Friends-esque rip off) where Rachel laments about spray tans, Tina wishes she had Mike back, and Mercedes, Brittany and Puck show up to join them because now everyone works at the diner! And Sam still doesn’t have clothes. Man, I wish the show had done more fantasy sequences – or even a fantasy episode. It would have been a lot of fun.

I Am Changing

Can we take a second and just really zero in on these pants? I mean – these may be the tightest pants Kurt has ever worn, and that’s saying something because he got himself into those gold lame pants that showed pretty much everything.

Anyway… the point of this scene is essentially Mercedes and Kurt trying to show Rachel and Santana that they can put old differences behind them. And they do so by bringing up something that happened way back in season 2…

Earlier that day, Kurt and Mercedes were eating in the school cafeteria. Dudes. Why? Y’all are adults now. Don’t eat that crap. Anyway – Mercedes gets tots and just like but not really anything like season 2, Kurt tells her the tots are the greatest idea – and Mercedes shuts him down. I find this moment freakin’ hilarious – because not only does it totally miss the point of the original episode - The Substitute - but the exchange between the two of them just cracks me up. It’s still a shame that Mercedes and Kurt just don’t have much post-season 1.

Also hilariously is when Kurt is recounting the event – he gets all excited about it, and over exaggerates – stating that they were at each other’s throats! I mean, we don’t know how long this tots argument went on, but I think it’s safe to say that Kurt is being adorably hyperbolic.

I also love that Mercedes says she’s glad no one was there to see it – only for Artie to say that he was right behind them, and then Kurt goes on about how it’s horrible to see people you love fighting, and Blaine looks totally confused for a second, like – hey are we fighting? Oh wait, no this is about Rachel and Santana.

So, they sing I Am Changing as a way to demonstrate that while you may be going different places in life, you can still rely on those good friends you’ve always had. It’s blatantly there to show Rachel and Santana – yes, the two of you can still be friends. ;) But it’s also a nice sentiment for Kurt and Mercedes, who have changed a lot in the past three years – and yet, their friendship, while very much in the background, is still firmly intact.

So. Um. Here’s what I’m gonna say about this. Amber kills this song – it’s from Dreamgirls, this is totally her wheelhouse, and we all know she’ll later slay in this musical. Chris, um…well, I don’t think this is his best song. It’s interesting that – over the course of the show, his voice has dropped a little, and while he can still do all the high resister, I don’t think it’s as natural as it once was, and feels like it’s sitting in that awkward break place between low and high, and idk guys, sorry, I think had they changed the key lower a little, it’d have been fine. I will say that when it goes into being a duet, and Kurt takes the lower harmony, it works pretty well!

And, overall, I’m sad that during the show, the two of them had only two duets – cause their voices mesh pretty nicely.

So yeah… I’ll mention that during the song, Rachel looks sad and pensive cause she knows what they’re doing, but Santana looks pissed. Man, she hates the meddling, lol.

Beach Foam Party and Other Background Moments

So – I’m going to skip over the context of this, which is basically Holly finding absurd ways to bring music into the classroom, as well as tastelessly offensive impressions, and just talk about this random grouping of characters that they decide to be in this number. It’s Kurt, Blaine, Rachel, Mike, Quinn, Puck and Will. What do these characters have in common…uh, they were on set that day? I mean, there really is no reason for this grouping of characters, lol. Whatever…

I really question whether or not we needed Gwenyth Paltrow leading an 80′s-esque dance club number, but we did get Kurt and Blaine hilariously horrible dad dancing, so it’s partially worth it. ;)

I do kinda love that most of the high school students are standing on the sides going – wtf?!? Cause yeah…

Oh and more foam…

Continuing on – the show wraps up a plot that I don’t think anyone outside the writers room, or the tabloids, cared about – and Rachel and Santana make up and decide to sing a song about it.

It’s a nice song, and I like it. So do Kurt, Mercedes, and Blaine who are jamming in the background.

Everything’s gonna be okay, guys!!

Or maybe it’s not….

Bypassing all the Puck and Quinn stuff – cause Kurt doesn’t have that many reactions, cause I don’t think he cares all that much (neither do I Kurt!) – Will goes on to say that that number is probably the last one to happen in the choir room. It’s okay guys, it’s really not ;) But everyone is sad thinking about the end of glee club.

And it’s weird, though, really – cause I mean for those in it, like the newbies, I think it’d be harder on them. I feel like for Kurt – it’s like, okay this thing that gave me the only joy I knew in high school is gone, would be a little sad, but seriously, in real life – he’d probably have never come back in the first place….

The Time Capsule

Hey! It’s the cast of The New Normal!

So, the kids all make Will (or Will’s son) a video talking about how great he is. It’s kind of an eye-roll worthy premise, but despite it being about Will, I really kind of love everything about the video.

Kurt’s little bit in the video is about how Will (or Glee Club) saved his life. And here’s where I have slight conflicting feelings. We’ll learn in 2009, and it’s been implied other places, that Kurt was suicidal before glee club started. And I don’t doubt that the glee club did save Kurt’s life (and it’s nice to have canon confirmation of that). The bit about Will being a big part of that…. eh, technically yes – he did create that space, so I’ll give that. But I am ever so slightly eye-rolly at the idea that Kurt Hummel has any kind of lingering attachment to Will Schuester – especially when Kurt spent most of his glee club years looking at Will in disdain. But, this moment plays nicely within the context that it’s given.

On top of that – we learn that Kurt does want a family! I do think the names being Hepburn and Tracey (nods to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracey) is a bit of a joke, but I do think Kurt’s sincere in his admission that some day he’ll have kids. And of course – there’s Blaine as his husband and… Quinn as the egg donor? I mean why not, it’s a hilarious beat. And overall, I love this little sweet moment – of Kurt looking back and saying he’s got a pretty good life ahead of him.

This is from the introduction of the video - where Rachel and Kurt are setting up that this is a video for Will’s kid, but I wanted to talk about the other stuff first…

Kurt mentions that kids don’t know their dads until they’re older, and worn down with life, and I think it’s an interesting statement – and maybe it’s a slight nod to Kurt’s own relationship with is father, and about how as a teen - it’s strange cause it’s that time you are first learning your parents are really people, and that they may have been young once, too, and you can see first hand how weary life can make you. Idk, just a lot of abstract thoughts in there.

So. We get our final reprisal of Don’t Stop Believin’. And you know what? This my favorite version. Kurt comes out, second to Rachel, and sings the lines that Finn originally had. And it’s not only a nod to Finn, but it’s nice to see just how far Kurt has come. He was once another background player doo-woping with Mercedes, Artie, and Tina – and now he’s become (more or less) the male lead of the show. Oh, bb, how time have change.

I really do love everything about this song, though. I like how they come out in cast order, starting with the originals, and expanding from there – and how everyone seems to get a little bit of the song. And it feels as though it’s a song for all of them, and much more inclusive than the awfulness of the final scene in the previous episode. This is, in a sense, a final curtain call (and the actual series finale, I think, reflects this moment).

But I think, also, that this song, and these final few scenes, are really what makes this episode feel like a series finale. A lot of loose ends are tied up, everyone is – forgive me for saying it – going in new directions. This is the end of… season 4, of the show as it once was, and of what the show used to be. And I’m okay with that. The stuff that’s left – the Klaine story, Rachel’s career, etc, etc, is stuff for the two codas – those being the NYC arc and season 6.

Glee as you knew it is done now.

Graduation

But wait, there’s a little more!

After 84 thousand years, Blaine is finally allowed to graduate? (Remember the joke that Brittany spinning during DSB finally turned time back on? Can you believe it’s only been, technically, four months since I Do?!?) And like us, Kurt is excited that his fiance is finally going to be joining him in the other place that is New York.

And while one story ends, another begins - and I’m a little sad that that second story was so short… But moving on… ;)

#finding kh #Kurt Hummel

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