#blaine meta

[blaintism]

feeling crazy about the first burt and blaine scene.. on the surface it’s a very strange and funny thing for blane to ask burt to teach kurt about sex, but with the longer character arcs. it’s a scene (the only one mind you) about blaine’s father and the lack of that relationship and the way in which he is a foil to kurt in that sense. the way he admires and wishes for kurt and burt’s relationship. the way burt will become a sort of father figure for him eventually. and even though he thinks blaine is a weirdo burt appreciates that he cares, and empathizes with blaine seeing what burt could do for kurt that his father didn’t for him. and also i wish the show was purposeful about this entire foil

#blaine anderson #glee #blaine meta #nothing awakens the beast in me like thinking about blaine's parents oopsie #text

[kurtsascot]

Reading your view of Blaine re Jesse. How do you explain Blainofsky?

omg a great question!!!!!!!!! kinda longwinded answer but

blaine, to me, has always loved kurt, even post season 6 breakup. like, its clear the entirety of season 6 that even though hes dating karofsky, he’s hung up on kurt.

i really do truthfully believe that blaines decision to date karofsky was a way for him to be close and “share” something with kurt even if they couldnt date if that makes sense? like, to date someone whos had feelings for kurt/from kurts past made him feel connected to kurt still in some way? i never think he fully moved on... i know not everyone has a “type” in regards to romantic partners but kurt and karofsky are soooo different thats the only way i can rationalize that relationship.

karofsky impacted kurt significantly, but kurt forgave him. and, i think that, because forgiving karofsky was obviously a huge step for kurt/something HE wanted to do, i think Blaine forgave him. he’s emotionally intelligent and recognizes that being hung up and hating someone that kurt has put the Work in to forgive would be detrimental to both kurt’s happiness as well as strain their relationship.

jesse on the other hand…his crimes against kurt were not as severe as karofsky. kurts the bigger person. hes going to forgive jesse and everyone else who was mildly mean to him. its not a challenge for him to do That.

but, like…blaine doesn’t have to forgive anyone for those things.

and i dont think blaine forgiving jesse or anyone else thats been rude to kurt is as important to kurt as blaine forgiving karofsky was. blaine can form his own opinions on people. and i do think blaine is the type to hold some ‘petty’ grudges, when appropriate.

#asks #i was actually just talking to caroline about this a couple days ago so my thoughts are so much more There #LOVE THIS QUESTION!!!!! #my glee opinions #blaine meta #anonymous #personal

[holisticfansstuff]

Meta: Silence, Solitude, and Sidekicks: Blaine in the Wake of the Breakup

#Blaine Anderson #Glee #blaine meta

[tarragonthedragon]

my izombie hot take is that liv should have told more people blaine was her evil twin

#izombie #liv moore #blaine debeers #meta #? i guess?

[dystopiandramaqueen]

I love quiet brooding men like Nick unlike talkative luke

a man of few words

I find it sexy 🥵

Our man of action 😎 and not words ❤️

Actions speak louder than words

And In the book - it’s exactly that comparison.

One man says don’t worry babe, I’ll keep you safe. I’ll handle your money. Don’t listen to your gut. We should stay and see what happens bc I will protect you.

One man says nothing and gets her the fuck OUT.

🤷🏼‍♀️

#notthesame

#nick blaine #nick x june #osblaine #one of these things is not like the others #beware sweet talkers #trust your gut above all else #even if it’s illegal #margaret atwood #the handmaid’s tale #asks #meta

[wowbright]

@honeysucklepink Blaine thinks Imagine Dragons is pretty cool, but since he doesn't have a crush on the lead singer, he's not quite into them as much as he is into Neon Trees.

He also likes The Killers but wishes they had a more peaceable name.

#mormon!blaine #mormon!klaine meta #neon trees #the killers #imagine dragons #mormon bands #mormon stuff #ask #mormon!klaine #mormon celebrities

[sometimesoliloquy]

“The high criminal court of Gilead, in a special overnight session, found you, Commander Putnam, guilty of apostasy, sins of the flesh.”

The use of  “apostasy" here (aside from Nick just making it somehow sound really sexy,) I found very interesting. At first read it’s merely official Gilead-speak for "you fucked up the faux religious Gilead rules, bro".  But on a deeper level, I think "apostasy" -- a falling away, a withdrawal, a defection; the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person, or embracing an opinion that is contrary to one's previous religious beliefs.--is really about Nick’s arc.

We know Nick' has been disillusioned with Gilead for a long time, if he was ever was a  true believer (in Pryce’s masked utopian image of it). But through the seasons we see the evolution of what he does with that disillusionment. In 1x03, he tells June "You can’t change anything about this. This is going to end the same, no matter what you do, so there's no use trying to be tough, or brave. Brave isn’t part of any of this. Everybody breaks. Everybody." The statement and the way he says it speaks of personal experience. We don't know exactly at what point or how, but somewhere along the way, the Sons of Jacob, Gilead, broke him. He believed that regardless of what he did nothing would change, and the only thing he had left was plain survival: the instinct to put his head down and keep going. Then he saw the consequences of Fred's abuse, and it drove him to become an eye, seeing the chance to maybe make a small difference. When he meets June, I think one of the reasons he's drawn to her is that she doesn't let Gilead break her. They knock her down but she keeps getting back up. He admires her strength, and it challenges and pushes him further.

She gives him something more to live for ("what else is there to live for?") and fight for: love, family. And he suffers for these connections he makes, like he was afraid of ("it's better not to form attachments") but they also make him braver, drive him to take more risks, to do increasingly more and more. At this point he's certainly facilitated the deaths of abusers and rapists, but actually killing Putnam is the most active roll he's taken, the first time that we've seen him really get his hands (or his face and shirt) dirty. He's growing more and more fed up, and we can see it on his face, in his actions. But the more active he becomes, and the more his mask slips, the more dangerous it also is. The irony is that the official charges Nick recites are the two crimes that Gilead would execute him for, that he is “guilty” of. And they're also the very reason he's here, doing this.

Nick’s apostasy is his renunciation of Gilead—this has already happened in his heart and mind, and yet he’s still stuck physically in Gilead: playing a role, trying to make those commander shoes fit and change what he can from the inside. However it seems he could be teetering on the precipice of completing his apostasy arc—the formal disaffiliation and abandonment of his Gilead life. Rose and the pregnant surely complicate this, but there is still a lot we don't know about her and about their marriage. In whatever form it comes in, personally, I think he just needs a little push.

#nick blaine #the handmaid's tale #the handmaids tale season 5 #june osborne #osblaine #meta #analysis

[slayernina]

Speculation Time: season 6

Season 5 had his highs and lows and surely it’s divisive among the fandom. For me, it has some of the best ideas of the show but badly executed. Since the fandom more or less agreed about how rushed everything was on season 5, what would you have changed in the case season 6 was green lighted? What would you have cut, or change, or rearrange, or extend from season 5 into season 6?

The episodes are separated into Plot A (Liv’s brains) and Plot B (what characters do outside the murder of the week, during the full season).

My ideas:

During season 5

From 5x01 to 5x06 everything is more or less the same, but most of scenes related to Plot As and Bs are separated and rearranged:

• Plot A. Rose McIver will continue to entertain us with her acting abilities and over the top brains, but the brains are used again to make Liv reflect on her undead life, like on season 1.

• Plot B. Instead of a terminal disease, Evan joins the Renegade team on 5x01. Liv and Evan work together and had all that deleted plot of Evan’s sexuality. He starts living with Liv, appears regularly and hangs out with the heroes during season 5 and 6. Evan could help Liv with a case and after an episode full of sibling banter, reveals his sexuality (and his boyfriend). Eva also appears mid season 5 a couple of times.

• Plot B. Martin should have been introduced earlier on season 5 and should have stood around more, both as Liv's dad and as an antagonist, so his murder was more impactful (and the fact he was the creator of Utopium too). He would have been killed around 5x11 anyway. In that episode, a Martin/Eva flashback of their relationship would have been good.

• Plot B. Enzo/Major are more or less the same as the real season 5, and both are expanded well into season 6 (their character arcs and ending are also the same). Justin is a frenemie during both seasons, but we see how he got into the Big Brother cult. There is also at least one Liv/Justin scene discussing their past relationship.

• Plot B. More Dale interacting with the heroes in all episodes until the end of season 6. She has Baby Olivia at the end of season 5.

• Plot B. More Darcy, at least one scene in half of the episodes. How she went so hard into Don E? Why she was so on board with Blaine’s gang? Introduce her formally as Don E’s girlfriend to the heroes and make them interact with her. Of the good guys, she only met briefly Major and he never asked why she was there, when clearly she wasn’t a zombie, a drug dealer nor a prostitute… The fact Blaine tried to hide Darcy in the basement with him can spark several fics itself lol. Maybe Liv or Ravi can brought up Isobel to her, and she reacts with “I’m not a sick angel or a placement goldfish” reaction. We could have had an exploration of another type of sociopath, or just how sick people =/= good. Her death and why she died would have happened around the end of season 6.

• Plot B. Until 5x10 aka the Noir Episode, more Candy. I just love her. We never really knew why she went on Blaine's side so willingly even when she was human, and given how she was the only "bad" zombie character surviving, she deserved more scenes. For those who watched Lucifer, the Candy of that show acted like a dumb bimbo but it was all a charade. At the end, this seemed to be her case.

• Plot B. Dolly Durkins is clearly the Big Bad of this season. She confronts Peyton in public over and over again and mess with Fillmore Graves in secret. At the end of the season, she has become Mayor because she spilled Peyton’s idea of how she got the budget for the HiZombie webshow. When she is about to take charge, one of Mr. Boss minions kills her on live TV.

• Plot A. Ditch Sporty!Liv, it didn’t add anything to the plot, the character and it wasn´t fun to watch (except the kegel exercises and the Pavi sex scene). Keep the scenes with the Death Enders and choose instead another brain.

• Plot A. Liv eating the brain of a drug addict. Let's watch the show from "the other side". Plot B could be an investigation at the Scratching Post, but following the everyday of the workers instead (this must happen before 5x10 aka the noir episode). Candy went from one scene Trivial Genie, to cosmetologist, to the only human at a brain zombie scheme, to mutineer, to Madame, to the only member of Blaine´s gang getting away (and surviving). Tanner was one of Major’s kids that went wrong and we never explored that. Darcy became Don E’s girlfriend. Why. I need more of those people. You know your society doesn’t work if regular people are better under someone like Blaine than having a normal life in “the system”. Blaine and the Eberhard twins could count this in regard to Mr. Boss, so a flashback or conversation of how they ended working for Mr. Boss could have been great. Bonus points if Tanner’s sister makes a cameo and is played by Julia Garner aka Ruth from Ozark (after all, Blaine’s accountant is called Marty XD).

• Plot A. Brain of a journalist. Liv investigates something and the episode brings back Steph (it’s a news camerawoman), Shawna (she is a blogger) and Rachel (she is a journalist and made a cameo on the real season 5). The three of them roast Ravi and Major together. Plus, Al Bronson is around that and joins the investigation and non-officially the hero group in the following episodes.

-Major trashes the place while Liv is hiding, drama with both Major and Justin.

-Clive (and somehow Ravi) spend a full episode learning to be a father with puppets, Dale is Liv´s investigator partner.

-A brief scene of Blaine, Don E, Darcy or Al going to the morgue for whatever reason, to find out it’s the afternoon shift instead and Liv and Ravi were on their free day XD. Bonus points if there is a girl like Liv and a boy like Ravi. More bonus points if Liv 2.0 is played by Kristen Bell and Ravi 2.0 is Raymond Ablack (there’s no budget and schedule limit for imagination lol).

• Plot B. Al is introduced like she was on 5x04, but she goes on a full relationship with Blaine. Meanwhile she “investigates for the article”, she helps Liv with cases since she has access to more information, and helps destroying some minor Blaine and Dolly’s business. It looks for the audience like she was sent as a mole by Blaine, but at 5x13, turns out she was destroying him, Liv, and all Mr. Boss enemies, and her real identity (and the article) is revealed.

• Plot B. Blaine spend season 5 living his best life, fluffy scenes with Al included. He got everything he wanted but at the end of season 5 he is annihilated by Mr. Boss and Al´s article and his last scene is going to prison.

Season 6

• Plot B. Call-backs to other seasons, after all is the last one. Make it feel like a big reunion. Bringing back characters like Johnny Frost, Johnny Frost's unknown wife (insert someone like Godess Gina Torres here lol), the lawyer, Jimmy, Vampire Steve, Pam, the group of superheroes… Also call-backs to past brains or jokes.

• Plot B. Evan betrays the Renegade group because Enzo took his boyfriend, but at the end of season 6 he is the one killed at the news station in a dramatic way after shooting Enzo instead of that what’s-his-name-teacher.

• Plot B. More Ravi (and Blaine, Don E…) reacting to brains. The brains used on other characters other than Liv was severely underused.

• Michelle is killed at the end too, but we get to see Clive-Dale-Michelle coparenting before.

• Plot B. 6x01. Season 6 would have happen during 2020, so this would have been one of the shows that got cancelled or halted because of the pandemic XD. I propose to use it for plot reasons. Seattle is fully safe because of the wall. People are dying outside everywhere, so Mr. Boss uses all those extra brains to feed the city. He is appointed as the new Mayor because people, humans and zombies alike, prefer to be feed and safe. Riots of people in favour and contrary to Mr. Boss ensue. Mr. Boss and Al are a powerful Evil Team, like Vaughn Du Clark and Rita were, but this people did love and care for each other. But around 6x10, Blaine goes on full berserk and kills everyone (they are just humans after all).

• Plot A. 6x02. Brain of a dull office worker ala Colin Robinson from What We Do In The Shadows. To compensate the boredom of the brain, the rest of the characters should be bonding. The show is severely lacking on terms of family bonding overall. Clive introduces Dale to his parents (or viceversa) and we discover they are amazingly embarrasing XD. Plot twist at the end of the episode: turns out the office worker wasn’t killed, it was a suicide. Liv and the other zombies reflects on how being undead have make them alive and make things they wouldn’t have done, retaking that Liv/Blaine conversation about being a zombie of 2x06.

• Plot A. 6x03. Brain of a housewife/househusband with vivid imagination, thus creating a musical episode. Liv eating Rachel Bloom's brain and not turning anything into a musical only in Liv's imagination was a waste of a brain. Plus half of the cast can sing/play instruments so… Insert here over the top Moulin Rougesque musical numbers. At the end of the episode, we discover the housewife used musical numbers as a way to cope with their abusive partner.

• Plot A. 6x04: Surgeon doctor in a hospital episode. A what if episode of Liv reflecting what she could have been. Plot B could be more exploration about the Freylinch kids. They were crucial but we only know "they are super cheerful, macabre kids". One of them was the victim and other was the murderer. Let's explore terminal diseases (yes, I watched The Midnight Club) and how that affect people and their caretakers. Darcy should take the centre of the stage here. Eva Moore helps with the investigation too.

-After the hospital episode, she joins the Renegade team. Cue to hilarious scenes in which a Karen follows all the characters (I would kill for a scene of Eva confronting Don E and asking for the manager XD). Despite everything, she is useful around, though.

• Plot A. 6x05. Religious zealot. Also bringing back some Brother Love fanatics, their ideology shouldn't have disappeared like that. Maybe Liv has to eat that brain in secret because the family didn’t want “the corpse corrupted” or whatever. In a show of undead people, I’m surprised the idea of souls/aftermath/etc only gets briefly explored in a couple of throwaway lines during a Chase/Blaine scene.

Plot B. Angus tried to play matchmaker with Liv and Blaine. Blaine and the Eberhard twins worked for Martin. Something must be done with this, please.

• Plot A. 6x06. Bridezilla. Liv eats a paranoid soon to be bride, and the episode is full of Lilymoore scenes. In the heat of the moment, bringing back her one night stand with Chase to create drama with Major. At the end, Liv and Major agree to get married… someday. We see Dale and Clive parenting, and Michelle on her own too. Pavi scenes. Ravi trying to introduce Peyton to videogames. Ravi and Peyton have an honest conversation, she doesn’t want to be a mother and they agree to be a childfree couple.

• Plot A. 6x07. Evil Mafia Lord. We have seen Liv eating a psychopath and being a racist asshole, but we have never seen Liv been truly awful. Like using her body to get what she wants, betraying her friends or killing someone in cold blood for her own interest because she is a serial killer or something. A plot dealing with the aftermath of her actions for several episodes could have been interesting. Blaine, Mr. Boss or even Don E making an insight about it and challenging her perceptions of what it’s right or not. Liv pulling off a Stocker piano duet scene with Blaine. After that conversation about being a zombie in 2x06 and their fist showdown on the noir episode, those two didn´t interact again with deep conversations. That could have been the moment in which Blaine could have brought up the fact Liv technically created him while pouring her drink at the boat party.

• Plot A. 6x08. Fanfic writer/tumblr/Reddit fan of Peyton's webshow. Another wasted opportunity for a thousand of internal jokes and a take at toxic/incel fandom. It could be great if the characters go to a Con in Zeattle and we have Clive and Ravi together nerding around (and being the investigator partners of the episode). Bonus: Ravi meets Henry Cavill and nerd over Warhammer.

• 6x09. Brain of one of the show writers. A meta episode explaining how they got pitched by the network despite this bonkers idea. Plot B: a full flashback episode. What the characters were doing before the boat party, and Freudian explanations about how they reacted to events later. We could have had Liv's mom pressing Liv and how her life was a Gone Girl/Luckiest Girl Alive scenario in which she tries to be perfect. How Lilymoore human ship really was and all the cracks under the surface. Ravi and his days at the CCDE, later expulsion. Peyton and her dull, boring boyfriend chosen by her parents who never challenges her and pressures her to be just a housewife and have babies (that could explain why she fell so easily for bad boy Blaine –twice- and why she didn't have any stable romantic relationship until that point). Blaine being a loser and everyone’s bitch, and his obsession with status and money. Scott E and Don E relationship with an insight about their home lives, including Scott E being so against being a father. Bonus points if they pull off a Lost flashback and all the characters cross paths (like sharing an elevator, waiting on the line at the supermarket…) but without interacting or acknowledging each other.

• 6x10. Brain of a rockstar or a groupie. I just want Rose McIver on rock/punk clothes, ok? Bonus points if it's a lesbian rockstar. Why this never was brought up (but in my mind everyone is bisexual until proven otherwise)? Lowell ate that gay brain… Plot B could be Peyton side plot as the producer dealing with all the shenanigans of her webshow. She has a road trip with Don E. She needs to get budget and sponsors outside Seattle, he smuggles her out. Turns out Don E used the road trip to visit Scott E’s child in secret. He admits to Peyton in a sincere conversation that he prefers the child is in foster care instead of his care (or his mom) because that would result in another Eberhard mess.

• 6x11. Also, since it was 2020, you have a cop show, and one of your protagonists is a black cop, #BlackLivesMatter. It’s impossible to not touch the matter. Liv eats the brain of a black guy killed by cops. In the other side, Cavanaugh is killed on service. Liv and Dale go on an investigation. Episode full of prejudices and a white guy as the real killer pulling off a Amy Dune strategy. Ravi, while being European and brown, can also have an input about how racism works in other countries (instead of the USA “hey a cop just shot me!”). Hopeful scenes of humans and zombies joining forces to catch the murderer of the week (all the call-backs mentioned earlier, reunited in an Avengers Assembly moment). That scene with everybody happily dancing at the Scratching Post always gets me T_T.

6x12 and 6x13 more or less as the original 5x12 and 5x13 but:

• Plot B. A darker plot for Blaine during the full season. He escaped somehow from prison on 6x01 (maybe the last good thing Don E did?) after a very, very bad time there (implied beatings and rape and everything). He stayed at Don E’s basement again, this time more depressed and deranged, but Don E ends fed up with his attitude (“I don’t want another junkie like Scott E living here!”) and throws him out. He ends homeless, addicted, alcoholic, pimping himself out for a shot, like he was while being human but way more insane and desperate. All the scenes in which he appears or interact with the heroes we see him more and more spiralling out of control. He kills Tanner and Darcy mid season 6, kills later Mr. Boss and Al. Insert a monologue ala Cruella because I think David Anders can pull off something like that in front of his grandfather’s tomb. Don E helps him to kidnap Peyton because he is afraid about the consequences of not doing what he wants. Thanks to an old chat founded on Darcy’s phone about Darcy and Don E hosting a rave at the McDonough Mansion, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are the ones guiding Liv there (that would be the explanation on how Liv arrived on the real 5x13).

• Liv arrives on time to have a final conversation/fight with Blaine, but Don E interrupts them throwing Blaine at the well while ranting his final speech. Liv abandons him instead of killing him to look for Peyton’s corpse (and happy reunion instead).

• I'm ok with the time skip to the future, but I would have prefer watch the characters doing stuff with Liv’s voiceover: we see Lilymoore hid at the island. The Babineaux-Bozzio family everyday, with online D&D sessions on full cosplay including Vampire Steve and Jimmy. Ravi working at the CCDE and Peyton as District Attorney (someone enters into Peyton´s office and she closes quickly a window with the Sims or COD lol). And Don E sits at the office of his club having a reunion with Mafia Lords and hinting he is the new Blaine/Mr. Boss. Even a shot of corrupted zombie Blaine at the well (but maybe that’s too much).

My other metas here

La maldición de las cuatro brujas here

Una novela romántica de esas con un macizorro sin camiseta en la portada here

Un romanzo rosa di quelli con un fusto a petto nudo in copertina here

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[backslashdelta]

Going a bit insane right now about how much it would have broken Kurt if Blaine had been dating Sebastian instead of Dave in season 6.

Like in both the season 4 breakup and when he finds out Blaine is dating someone in season 6, Kurt's immediate reaction is to think it's Sebastian. It's been YEARS, the boy helped Blaine propose to Kurt, and Kurt is still so scared that it's Sebastian.

Anyway if that happened I don't know how Kurt would come back from that. Like we see him break down about Blaine and Dave in the bathroom but I think that's more about Blaine moving on than it's about Blaine moving on with Dave. But if he were with Sebastian? I just think it would wreck him. It would be so much worse.

I wonder if Blaine still would have told him the same way. Would he have had Sebastian meet them there, without warning? At Scandals, the place that Sebastian introduced them to? The last time they were there together Sebastian was trying to steal his boyfriend and now he HAS and I just–

I don't know how he would have handled that. But I am so obsessed with the idea I cannot get it out of my head.

#god do I need to do a season 6 rewrite or something?? #I used to think Dave was worse but no. Dave is fine. Sebastian would be so much worse. #glee #glee meta #meta #my meta #oh god how do I tag this #if you see this in a tag you think it shouldnt be in please let me know and I can change it #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #sebastian smythe #klaine #seblaine #kurt why are you so obsessed eith him hm? hmm??? #david karofsky #blainofsky

[kitkatt0430]

Want some more rambling about Hartley Rathaway in S9?

Much as I loathe Mark Blaine, I actually really like the way Hartley has been set up as Blaine's foil thus far. I don't know if that'll get maintained, but here's hoping. (Just like I'm hoping for more Hartley and Khione friendship, but Ep3 did not deliver it so I may have to write it myself. *sigh*)

So far we have their similar stories. Hartley lost Roderick to a technobabble coma in the latest retconning of The Sound and the Fury, circa Season 6. And nothing Hartley did was enough to save Roderick, he could only stick him on ice in Mercury Labs (and somehow Tina was cool with this) while going on to apparently be a very good thief who made lots of ill gotten gains and got a reputation amongst Central City's Rogues.

Then Barry promised to help save Roderick in exchange for Hartley helping Barry with his pesky Godspeed clone problem. But Barry failed to help Roderick and Hartley was given a choice. He could keep doing what he was doing, which wouldn't save Roderick. Or he could help Barry with Godspeed, which still wouldn't save Roderick but it was right thing to do. It was something Hartley could do not just for Barry and Team Flash... but for himself. And so Hartley chose to set aside his resentment of Barry and the rest of Team Flash. He chose to save Barry. And in doing so, they discovered the missing ingredient needed to wake up sleeping beauty. Er... Roderick.

Blaine's story is something of an inverse to that. He gave up being the villain because he fell in love with Frost. And I don't want to debate his feelings or say that because he's a selfish asshole he didn't really love her. If he says he loves her, he loves her. But love doesn't always win. It shouldn't always win. Sometimes love isn't a good thing.

Becoming one of the good guys wasn't something Blaine did for himself. He did it because he wanted her. Joining Team Flash meant he could have Frost because she liked him too. But she loved her sister more than she loved him. And I have no doubt that he resented Caitlin for that. So he supported Caitlin's quest to resurrect Frost and it cost Caitlin her life. Instead of recognizing he'd fucked up... he doubled down and tried to take Khione's too. Against her will even, if he has to stuff her back in that stupid box himself. And Hartley stops him.

Hartley, who chose to save a life of someone who'd contributed to Roderick's comatose condition, knowing he'd get nothing out of it... got the miracle of his loved one back in his arms as a result. Mark, who was so blinded by his desire to have Frost back that he helped destroy the person she'd died saving.

The two of them as foils continues through the Rogues of War episode. Mark has probably already joined Red Death's crew by the time Barry and Hartley show up at the bar. Though it also fits that he may have joined up immediately after that scene, but it begs the question of the listening device getting to Barry & Hartley's meetup w/Goldface on time if Mark was having to negotiate with Red Death to get Frost back first. Was there enough time for him to do that and have someone get there ahead of time to bug the alley? *shrug* I guess it depends on how long it took for Barry to set up the meeting with Goldface.

Either way, by the time all the Rogues convene at STAR Labs to plan the heist, Blaine's already become the mole.

He's made a fool's bargain, but he doesn't realize it yet. Red Death doesn't care about saving Frost's life and odds are Blaine will figure this out too late. As it stands, he at least seems to realize he's in over his head and Red Death holds all the cards.

Both Hartley and Blaine are argumentative and kinda assholes to their fellow rogues. But where Blaine is in it for selfish reasons and destabilizing the group, Hartley is seeking new ways to protect his 'team' - Roderick and their employees at the club - and uses the arguing as a way to bring the rogues together by pushing Barry's buttons so they'd have a common adversary (of a sort).

And when Hartley is offered what Blaine presumably had to seek out - a place in Red Death's crew - he turns it down. It says a lot that while Fiddler and Boomerang both fight their opponents without question (well, okay, Fiddler and Jaco stop their fighting for a bit to flirt and it's hilarious), Murmur stops fighting Hartley to give him the choice of joining her side. Specifically it says lot about Hartley's skill as a thief and his reputation prior to settling down the Roderick. He's someone who fights well, even after being out of the game a while. I think Murmur really respects him as an opponent and genuinely hoped he'd do what she saw as the smart choice - join the winning team. Red Death's team.

And Hartley says no. Because he's been down that path and it doesn't lead anywhere he's interested in going anymore. But it's the path that Blaine is currently choosing to walk.

#the flash #season 9 spoilers #fandom meta #the flash meta #hartley rathaway #mark blaine

[blaintism]

blaine in blame it on the alchol has always been so interesting to me, and i wish that the episode was told more from his perspective. what always stands out are the things he says to kurt - it’s more confusing for him, and he’s trying to figure out who he is.

i wonder a lot about his journey with being gay to this point. perhaps he’s always had these questions, and came out before truly being sure of who he is, and if there’s one thing about blaine, he can fake confidence. it might be a degree of projecting, but i get this idea that, despite being “out and proud,” blaine still has a lot of insecurity about his sexuality, and, maybe just a little bit, is seeing if his attraction to rachel is real because of this insecurity. this seems very possible when, in the very next episode, blaine drops the absolute bomb that keeps me up at night that, at the very least in his mind, his father has tried to “make him straight,” and when later we learn about the sadie hawkins incident.

this is a kid who has been attacked for who he is, who believes his father doesn’t accept him, of course kissing a girl under the influence could give him these thoughts that maybe that is a possibility for him. his relationship with his dad could be better, it might make the world safer for him. but in the end he has to accept that that isn’t who he is. to me, that’s a much more compelling story than kurt’s side of things, and i think a really relatable plotline for someone like me who identified other ways for a long time because the idea of being gay was difficult.

and an aside: this could all work so well into klaine getting together in t-minus two episodes. what if blaine demonstrably sees how his feelings for rachel are not the same things he feels for kurt? what if the security this episodes conclusion gives him of knowing who he is makes him more ready to be with kurt? much to think about.

#blaine anderson #glee #text #gleewatching #since this all came off a rewatch #blaine meta #this plotline drives my brain crazyyyy #im a lesbian who identified as bi for about five years because i was in deep deep denial #so i see blaine maybe be in a bit of denial for like... 2 days #and am like omg... he just like me fr #obviously some people just geniuinely like. question and explore and thats a valid interpretation #but to me i can see how hes confusing and its really a lot for him #and blaines nothing if not deeply insecure #and theres so many ways the show couldve explored it more #a different post that could be made here about how hes the inverese of kurt whos known hes gay forever #while blaine might have realized not long before we meet him and just sort of immediately declared it to the world #and faced the confusion of that period of time while also dealing with the reactions #thats a headcanon though we know nothing about his coming out. sigh

[thnxforknowingme]

okay but like the PARALLELS between Kurt and Jane joining the Warblers!

Kurt transferring to Dalton because he was being ostracized for being too "different" at McKinley, and while Dalton offered safety and protection against bullying, the prep school ethos demanded that he stay in line, wear the uniform, and not "stand out" too much - exactly the antithesis of Kurt's unapologetic uniqueness. When he returns to McKinley, it's to perform Born This Way, to be bold and outstanding in a diverse group of misfits.

Meanwhile Jane wants to follow in her family members' footsteps, wants to perform, and wants to be given an opportunity to share her voice. But because she is too "different" as a girl, because her participation would be breaking Dalton's traditions, she's turned away. She too seeks out McKinley, to be part of a group of outsiders who are welcomed for their differences (in theory, at least - Glee is generally better at saying "inclusion" than performing it).

And Blaine as the mentor or gatekeeper in both cases! In Kurt's experience, Blaine tells him to try blending in, to conform to the ethos of the uniforms - because at this point Blaine has found comfort and fulfillment within Dalton's ivy-covered walls, and he wants Kurt to do the same. Whereas a few years later, a Blaine who has been radically transformed through joining the New Directions and growing into his weird, messy, unique self ultimately decides to side with Jane, to try to break tradition in the name of progress and inclusion. His efforts end up being futile, but he still made the opposite choice.

#these are half-formed thoughts but I wanted to write down the idea before I forgot about it #meta #kurt hummel #jane hayward #blaine anderson #dalton

[framboises-supremacy]

unpopular opinion perhaps but Blaine in glee annoys me sooo much

#like idk stop being so ugh #Kurt deserves better #i don't like blaine #blaine anderson #kurt hummel #glee #gleek #glee meta #glee club #new directions #glee show

[holisticfansstuff]

#huh #blaine meta #glee #abuse mention cw

[daltonblaine]

i saw your reblog of that "tested" gifset, and as someone who's always disliked that episode, i wanted to know how you weighed in on it?

this ask + my queue has funny timing i was actually talking about this ep with drew klaintina just the other day LOL

i like that episode, i just can't bear to see 99% of people's opinions on it 😭 because people make it into a klaine conflict when it's really a blaine conflict that happens to involve kurt. it feels thematically similar to "big brother" in the sense that blaine gets envious of a figure in his life (instead of boyfriend like in "tested," it was older brother) as a result of feeling inadequate in comparison — blaine's insecurities are given depth with the context of his relationships with other people, rather than the episodes being a direct commentary on either cooper or kurt themselves.

in the case of "tested" and klaine's conversation at the end, kurt defensively jumps to some assumptions and voices them, which blaine is quick to correct: it's proven within that same scene that i feel like a lot of people criticize, that blaine's issue isn't with kurt himself necessarily, but the Idea™ of kurt as his boyfriend that he feels so insufficient to in juxtaposition. and it's certainly something they need to communicate about & work on together (they are both works in progress!!) but to simplify that whole episode to blaine being pettily jealous and wanting kurt to be Worse—which is something the scene outright refutes anyway—is a shallow reading i think. even making the whole thing as Just Another Klaine Fight rather than foremostly being an insight into blaine's psyche takes away some of that interesting nuance to blaine's actions/mindset, but that's just my opinion !!

#maybe it's because i'm an analytic freak but i care more about insightful eps over a character's likability in certain scenes or w/e #like i understand why ppl wouldn't like blaine in that ep but personally he can be a little rotten and insecure ❤️ i don't mind #ask #anonymous #meta

[dystopiandramaqueen]

Pryce: "I need a spy"

Nick: *vibrating with excitement*

Pryce: "A SUPER SECRET Spy"

Nick: *oh GOD pick me*

Pryce: "And you have to black mail the Commanders."

Nick: *trying not to pass out*

Pryce: "Like a SUPER SECRET double undercover REBEL Spy Vigilante Assassin Kingpin who could take Gilead down from the inside in 10 years and become a legendary hero"

Nick: "Anything I can do to help, Commander Pryce?"

#cool as a cucumber #nick blaine #nick x june #osblaine #meta