#engaged!Klaine

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Of Sadness and Soup

Author: fictionescape0822

Rating: M

Status: Completed in March 2024

Word Count: 4,378

Summary: "He hadn’t wanted to crowd Kurt in the choir room earlier, so after an initial reunion at his locker, he’d given him space, and he just has no idea if it’d been the right thing. And then Kurt had texted, asked him if he’d come over, and of course he wants to be with him right now, but—"

A 5x03 fill-in in which Blaine is an unsure lil muffin.

Tropes/Genre: one shot, reaction fic, grief, engaged!Klaine, Kurt angst

Lynne's review: Really, really good one shot. Well written. Hits you hard. First fic by this author for our fandom - I really hope there's more!

Read at: AO3

#fictionescape0822 #klaine fanfic #klaine fanfiction #Rated M #Less than 5K #complete #one shot #5X03 #reaction fic #grief #engaged!Klaine #Kurt angst #Finn Hudson #March 2024

[klainegifs]

#it's ok blaine i'm also engaged and find it hard to shut up about my fiancee #blaine anderson #klaine #glee #blaine #s5 #blaine s5 #~

[homosandhomies]

look i’m a klaine stan but it’s my personal opinion that if you’re not able to live together than you’re not ready to get married

#that sits wrong with me #i mean since they called off the engagement they clearly weren’t ready #but even though they get married in season 6 i still don’t think they’re ready lol #the older i get the more aware i am of the fact that these are CHILDREN #we just let them get away with it bc they looked like adults with mortgages and taxes #i mean it’s television so we can be delulu for a lil bit #glee #queue wanna be a loser like me #klaine #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #summer says stuff

[backslashdelta]

Hi! Could you explain your thoughts more on Klaine, I believe you said they’re (your thoughts) are complicated?

Hey anon! I’ll be honest, I don’t want to get too into the specifics, but I can explain my feelings a bit broadly, and hopefully this will answer your question.

I want to start off by saying that Klaine is a very well-developed relationship, especially for Glee, so there is a lot to consider there. I really like their story, I think they’re both interesting as individual characters, and their relationship with each other is also interesting. They’re in my top 3 ships, I’ve written fic and made gifsets about them, I just generally have a lot of love for them.

All that being said, because they have so much development and screen time, that also leaves more opportunities to find problems with their individual characters and their relationship. And I think we all know that the writing on Glee wasn’t always the best, so there were issues there, but there were also issues between Kurt and Blaine just by virtue of them being human and having flaws and those flaws sometimes clashing. That actually makes them more interesting to me, because complex and nuanced characters and relationships just give you so much more to think about, so I’m certainly not saying that I wanted their relationship to be picture perfect, nor am I saying that any relationship should be picture perfect, because everybody is going to have issues sometimes.

However. With Klaine in particular, I personally think that they were different enough to be ultimately incompatible – or at least, not compatible enough to make it worth being with each other. I think the effort they would need to put in to make their relationship work isn’t worth what they’d get out of it after all that time, they would spend most of their time being unhappy, and I don’t think they should have been endgame. And to be clear I think that this is on both sides; it’s no secret that Kurt is my favourite, but I’m not trying to put all the blame on Blaine here, I think there are reasons on both sides that make it ultimately not the best relationship for either of them.

Now, obviously canon disagrees with me, because they got therapy and they grew and learned to be happy together and got married and were having a child together five years later. They love each other and that is, canonically, enough for them to be able to make it work and it’s worth it. I’m not really interested in that argument because this isn’t about what is or isn’t canon, this is about my personal interpretation of and feelings about what’s presented on screen. I’m not here to tell people they’re wrong for thinking Klaine are meant for each other or anything, and like I said earlier, I love the ship, I’m a content creator and Klaine is the focus of a lot of the things I’ve made, so I’m not trying to say they’re a terrible ship. I just have complicated feelings about them because of how much screen time they have and what was shown to us of their relationship, and that’s not something that really becomes and issue for any of my other main ships since they aren’t canon and don’t have anywhere near the amount of screen time.

Another thing I suppose is that in general I’m not a huge fan of the “high school sweethearts” trope. I find it unrealistic. Obviously it does happen sometimes in real life, but I just think it would have been a more interesting story (to me personally, not necessarily objectively) for them to be each others’ first in so many ways, but then as they grow up they aren’t a good match anymore, and they move on to new people who are a good match. But at the same time, I also recognize that this is not real life, it is a television show, and sometimes you want to keep your characters together and have a happy ending, or you just plain don’t want to bring in new characters for something like that, or whatever other million reasons they could have for ending it the way they did. So, again, I’m not trying to tell anybody that I’m correct, it’s just how I personally feel about it.

I just have really strong, really conflicting feelings about them, and if I started getting into all of the details I would never post this answer, and even if I did I’d probably get hate for it and I don’t really want to deal with that. It’s actually the reason I got into fandom; I finished watching Glee, and I was so pissed off about Klaine that I started reading Klaine fanfiction to try to fix the issues that I had with them. And of course that led me to the larger fandom community, and I started writing, and well, here we are. So, maybe that will give you a hint as to just how strong those complicated feelings I have are!

#hiding the rest under a cut because I want to draw as little attention as possible lol #this really is just personal opinion I'm not trying to convince anyone they're wrong I'm just sharing my thoughts because I was asked #and so I'd like to ask that nobody tries to convince ME that I'M wrong either please #this is fiction and we are all entitled to our own interpretations and this is mine #the way I interpret this show brings me a lot of joy and that matters to me more than interpreting it the 'right' way #especially since there is no one true 'right' interpretation #anyway I guess I should tag this #it's not really anti but I would like to be safe so: #anti klaine #normally I would tag something like this with the characters but I don't really want it showing up in either of the tags #and it's not anti either of them it's just saying I don't think they should be together so I don't think it warrants anti character tags #so I guess I'll just not use any character tags. please let me know if you think I should for filtering purposes #glee #ask #mine #anonymous #my opinions #also I turned anons off again because I don't want to deal with potential hate for this even though I think I'm being pretty reasonable #if you genuinely want to have a discussion in good faith you can send me a non-anonymous ask #but I won't be engaging with anyone who is trying to change my mind #simply because I participate in fandom because it brings me joy and that conversation would not #this is a lot of disclaimers I'm sorry #but also when I originally started drafting this answer I had two paragraphs straight of just disclaimers so. I think I did pretty well

[daltonblaine]

you know the analysis of the line “sometimes you just don’t know the answer / ‘till someone’s on their knees and asks you” from champagne problems by taylor swift where it’s that people typically go on one knee to propose but the plural use of knees means that they’re on both knees begging them not to leave . blaine's proposal to kurt in season 5

#i can't believe i'm saying this but i'm a s6 breakup defender THEY NEEDED THAT !!! well. maybe not in the way they did it #but that s5 proposal/engagement couldn't have been their happy ending there was too much left unsaid #klaine #shh sapphire #blaine anderson

[book-tease]

very weird rollercoaster of moods tonight… simultaneously binge reading blam fics for the first time in my life to writing out all the lore for my sim ocs in a google doc… im an insane person

#mia rambles #typed 1500 words of oc lore that i’ve had in my head for 4 years #and only stopped bc i’m sleepy #and simultaneously reading fics for a ship i hadn’t considered until now… #tbf i’ve never watched past like. idk what seaosn i tapped out #i never got to the britanna wedding or the klaine engagement or marriage #i have watched the britanna wedding tho dw!! i’ve watched their moment post wheni stopped watching on youtube lol #klaine… i did not #i found out from a recommended youtube video that karofsky and blaine dated???? i did NOT get to that like HUH #anyways #my tiktok fyp is gonna be permanently damaged from this #i don’t want a ton of glee videos uhhh #i just couldn’t help myself there was an edit for sam to MIRRORBALL

[theghostofashton]

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#didnt wanna rant in my meta post so im just gonna do it here #if you don't wanna see me being angry about 6x04 and 6x05 don't read lol #but god i hate the hurt locker #and not only bc it's making fun of a section of fans #that's fucked and gross and idc i just find it so cruel to use sue in all of this #and turn everything into a joke that shames fans and makes them seem obsessive in a bad way #the optics of that absolutely suck esp when it's a queer ship that was so important to so many people #it's cheap and unnecessary and just......i hate it i'm sorry #but also my other big issue is that all this feels manufactured #especially knowing how they do 6x08 #it feels so lazy of the writers #they wanted to do a second breakup a huge blowout break off the engagement #they wanted the dramatics of that #but they didn't want to commit to it and actually see the story through oh no #we can't do that that actually requires work lmfao #instead we're gonna call the fans out through sue and make people feel bad for being invested #that's what this is #it's lumping all the klaine fans together and making a joke about their investment in the ship #and it's just cruel lol #from writers that spent six seasons exploiting actors' insecurities to insult their characters or creating insecurities for the actors #i see this as nothing but cruelty #and it really rubs me wrong and i am very glad these eps are over lmfao #also in regards to this but also so many people on here lol i am so tired of people using 'it's just a joke'!! to invalidate people #'it's just a joke i found it funny it's not that deep' okay......to you? other people may not find it funny lmfao #so many people use that as a justification to be downright cruel bc ofc it's not cruel if they're just 'joking' #and i hate it #it is genuinely not that hard to respect people who have different perspectives than you at least i thought it wasn't #but being online makes me wonder if that's actually true #delete later

[uwmspeccoll]

Indigenous People's Day

DR. HENRIETTA MANN Cheyenne

On this Indigenous People’s Day, we are featuring Matika Wilbur’s recent publication Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, published by Ten Speed Press in 2023. Wilbur (b. 1984) is a visual storyteller and member of the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington. She holds a degree from the Brooks Institute of Photography alongside a teaching certificate that has shaped her style of educating through narrative portraits.  

Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America, a book born from a documentary project of the same name, resolves to share contemporary Native issues and culture. In 2012 Wilbur set out from Seattle to visit and photograph all 562 plus Native American sovereign territories in the United States.

Wilbur’s engagement with the communities she visited resulted in the creation of hundreds of dynamic portraits and documentation of conversations about “tribal sovereignty, self-determination, wellness, recovery from historical trauma, decolonization of the mind, and revitalization of culture.” She refers to her portraiture approach as “an indigenous photography method” that includes several hours and sometimes days of interaction with the participants, an exchange of energy and gifts, and asking sitters to choose their portrait location. The outcome is a stunning collection of Native narratives and portraits.  

GREG BISKAKONE JOHNSON Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians

HOLLY MITITQUQ NORDLUM  Iñupiaq

J. MIKO THOMAS Chickasaw Nation

MOIRA REDCORN Osage, Caddo

HELENA and PRESTON ARROW-WEED Taos Pueblo/Kwaatsaan, Kamia

STEPHEN YELLOWTAIL Apsáalooke (Crow Nation)

LEI'OHU and LA'AKEA CHUN Kānaka Maoli

ORLANDO BEGAY Diné

KALE NISSEN Colville Tribes

GRACE ROMERO PACHECO Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians

ISABELLA and ALYSSA KLAIN Diné

NANCY WILBUR Swinomish

DR. JEREMIAH "JERRY" WOLFE Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

RUTH DEMMERT Tlingit

MARVA SII~XUUTESNA JONES Tolowa Dee-Ni' Nation, Yurok, Karuk, Wintu

Matika Wilbur will be speaking on UW-Milwaukee's campus Thursday, November 16 from 6-7p.m. in conjunction with her exhibition Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Voices of Native American Women on view at the Union Art Gallery November 16 through December 15, 2023. 

-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

We acknowledge that in Milwaukee we live and work on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, and Menominee homelands along the southwest shores of Michigami, part of North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee, and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida, and Mohican nations remain present.

#indigenous people's day #matika wilbur #project 562 #Ten Speed Press #Native Americans #holidays #UWM Native American Literature Collecton

[klainepolls]

#glee polls #glee #blaine anderson #kurt hummel #klaine

[caramelcoffeeaddict]

After Work Drinks [Klaine Fanfiction]

Relationships: Blaine Anderson/Kurt Hummel Characters: Blaine Anderson, Kurt Hummel, Original Characters Chapters: 1/1 [Complete] Word Count: 2,100 Rating: Teen&Up Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Established Relationship, Engaged!Klaine, Bets & Wagers Summary: Blaine and his new coworkers go out for drinks after work. One of his coworkers makes a bet that Blaine can't get the phone number of the good-looking guy sitting alone at the bar not realizing that the guy is Blaine's fiancé, Kurt. Author Notes: this fic just sort of…happened. I didn't have a plan or anything for it, nor did I spend a lot of time on it, so I apologize if there are plot holes or inconsistencies or whatever. it's just a little self-indulgent gift I wrote for myself for my birthday. but I hope you enjoy it :) Original Post Date: October 2023

READ ON AO3

#comments and kudos make great birthday gifts 😉 #klaine #klaine fanfiction #klaine fic #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #glee #glee fanfiction #kiwi's writing #fic: awd

[faberrypolls]

Faberry Polls!

Hi!

I'm Lucy, and my main blog is @rachelberryy, some of you may follow me there already. My pronouns are (she/her) and I've been in the fandom since roughly 2019.

This is a trend that's been going around the fandom for a while now (see @pezberrypolls, @quinntanapolls, @quinntinapolls, @klainepolls, @brittanapolls and probably some others that I've forgotten about) and, despite Faberry once upon a time being the biggest, most popular ship in the whole fandom - by some metrics even surpassing the mighty Klaine - I haven't found a poll blog for them yet so, as Miss Tina Cohen-Chang would say, I've decided to be the change I want to see in the world and go ahead and make one myself. The ask box is open for submissions, which I always welcome.

Please reblog this, I'd love to have this be as engaged with as possible. And if a blog like this has already been set up, I do apologise for missing it, just let me know!

Lucy xx

P.S., some of these polls may veer into nsfw territory and will be tagged as such, so please exercise your discretion!

#glee #polls #rachel #quinn #rachel berry #quinn fabray #faberry

[klaineccfanficlibrary]

do you know any fics where after the proposal, kurt gives blaine his own engagement ring to wear? thanks!

Here are some to start, I'm sure there are others if anybody would recommend. ~Jen

November by quizasvivamos

Blaine comes home after classes to a surprise from Kurt. A celebration of 4 years of Klaine.

Perfect to me by whatstheproblembaby

Kurt takes it upon himself to give Blaine an engagement ring of his own. Can a perfect proposal happen twice?

Maybe not a ring....

Symbols of Love by CoffeeAddict80

One-shot in the Desperate Times ‘Verse. You should probably read that story first. This takes place the day after the conclusion of the story/epilogue))

The rush of emotions Kurt gets every time he looks at his shiny new engagement ring makes him feel a little guilty that Blaine doesn't have a symbol of their new relationship status. So he decides to change that.

#klaine fanfiction #fic finder #engaged!klaine

[klainegifs]

#how bout some commotion for the engagement hug? #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #klaine #s5 #s5e1 #klaine s5 #klaine s5e1 #~ #glee

[polvmetis]

look ok i know it just came out but i am def proposing the new chappell roan single as the next seblainer anthem like (not-so) casual FWB seblaine in the worst situationship in the entire midwest especially with commitment issues seb throughout

i mean just check out the excerpts

✨AND THIS BRIDGE!!!✨tell me its not giving miserable klaine engagement <3

c'mon this is IT!!! its also bouncy and danceable as hell so it fits!!!!

#seblaine #listen i am literally on the bus right now so i am so sorry for any weird formatting errors in this post #i finally got around to obsessing over chappell roan JUST IN TIME for this track drop too #immediate bop certified too #cringe is dead im gonna post #chappell roan

[wowbright]

Fic: Paper Boats

Fandom/pairing: Glee, Kurt/Blaine

Event: December Klaine Fanworks Challenge 2023 (sail)

Words: ~ 1350 words                                        

Rating: Teen and up

Summary: After Kurt returns to the United States, Blaine has trouble adjusting to a new companionship.

Notes: This is part of my Mormon!Klaine universe. It takes place after Out of Eden, which I am still in the process of posting to AO3. It’s among the likely possibilities for their future. Warning for situational depression, but the story ends on a hopeful note. Elder Nixon is Warbler Trent.

* * *

It had started as a beautiful, sunny day at the park, but now enough clouds had rolled in that the sun was blocked and the whole place had a gray, overcast vibe, which was not helping Blaine's mood at all. Just as bad, the floods of people walking through the park had slowed down to a trickle, which meant Blaine couldn't distract himself by striking up a new conversation with a stranger every few minutes.

He sat on a stone ledge a few meters away from the water fountain. There were a couple of kids walking around it, taking turns dragging a toy boat along the edge of the artificial pool by a bright yellow string. Well, he thought, that was one good thing. When the sky grew dark like this, colors grew more saturated. The chalk drawings he and Elder Nixon had made this morning with shades that looked almost pastel in direct sunlight were now full of deep, rich color. He stared at their depiction of the pre-mortal world lit by a rainbow sun. It was almost as bright and beautiful as an actual sunset. Blaine wished he was there now. In the pre-mortal world, he had never had to be apart from Kurt.

This mortal world sucked.

“Did you ever have one of those things?” Elder Nixon asked. He stood next to Blaine, nodding at the kids with their tugboat.

“No,” sighed Blaine. “There wasn't much water in Mesa accept for the reflecting pool at the temple, and I wasn't allowed to play in there of course.”

“We had a game we liked to play in the inflatable pool when we stayed at our summer cabin in Minnesota. Have you ever heard of Viking funeral?”

“I've heard of Vikings having funerals. Didn’t the rich ones get buried in their boats?”

“Maybe? This game may or may not have had its origins in actual Viking traditions. Basically, we’d make paper boats— Hey. Want to make some paper boats? We’ve got plenty of paper.” Without waiting for an answer, Elder Nixon sat down on the ledge next to Blaine and set the flyers he’d been holding in his hand between them. “There's more here than we can possibly give out. You learned to make paper boats, right? Even if they didn't let you float them in the reflecting pool?”

“Yeah,” Blaine said sullenly. “Not sure I remember how, though.”

"Well, I do. Here—" Elder Nixon demonstrated the first fold, and refused to proceed until Blaine copied him, and so on with the next and next, until each of them had a little paper boat with a stout triangular mast in the center. Blaine felt the memory reawakening in his muscles, so he made another one and then another one, each more crisply executed than the last.

“Now we to set them to sail,” Elder Nixon announced.

“Is that how you play Viking funeral?” Blaine asked, following Elder Nixon to the edge of the fountain. The kids were no longer there, having abandoned their toy boat in favor of dragging their grown up to follow a duck with them to the top of a grassy knoll.

“Not exactly. I don't have all the supplies for Viking funeral, and anyway, I'm pretty sure we could get in trouble for playing it here.”

“Oh?” Blaine’s interest was genuinely piqued. It was a feeling that had grown unfamiliar in the preceding weeks. He had managed to feign interest plenty, of course, and a few times he had almost managed to convince himself that he was genuinely engaged in talking to someone or learning something new. But then the black cloud would creep back in, and his brain would get foggy, and everything felt fake and unreal and pointless again.

“You put a birthday candle in the top of each boat and light it,” Elder Nixon said, recreating the motions on one of his paper boats before launching it on the water.

“Oh.” An image of dozens of paper boats floating at night on the same fountain, each topped with a single candle, popped into Blaine’s head. “But that sounds beautiful. Like Japanese water lanterns.” He set two of his own boats on the water.

“It was,” Elder Nixon said. “Except that's not the part we got excited for. Because when the candles burn down, all that's left to burn is the paper. So that was the fun part for us, seeing our entire fleet go up in flames. We would launch our boats toward each other’s to speed the process along. Oh, the beautiful destruction!” Elder Nixon chuckled at the memory.

And, for some reason, Blaine felt himself chuckling, too. He could imagine miniature Elder Nixon and his chubby-cheeked siblings, all looking like little blonde cherubs from the front of an old Victorian greeting card, standing around a poofy plastic pool and cheering on the firy demise of their entire fleet. Maybe it was the incongruity of it. Elder Nixon was so kind and sweet. It was hard to imagine him setting things ablaze for kicks.

“Hey,” Elder Nixon said with a fond smile, “you're laughing.”

“I guess I am,” Blaine said, and stopped.

“Oh no. I ruined the moment.”

“No, you didn't.”

“Yes, I did.”

"No, you really didn't,” Blaine said. There was something inside him that kept tugging him back to a baseline of gloominess, no matter what the people around him did. "None of this is your fault. I mean, I know I have a reputation as a ray of sunshine, but I can't shine all the time. Everything's just been so hard lately.”

“Since I became your companion,” Elder Nixon said.

“Not because you're my companion," Blaine said. “You help make it better than it would be otherwise. You’re patient and kind and you don't judge me. And I want to be more cheerful. I really do. And I thought I would be. But …” Blaine couldn't keep it a secret anymore. It was making everything worse—made him feel like he was sneaking around and had something to hide, and those things felt too close to shame to be any good for Blaine's mental health. He hadn't wanted to put this burden on Elder Nixon—but then again, why was Blaine thinking of it as a burden? Elder Nixon could do what he wanted with it. He could let it bring them closer together as friends, or he could report Blaine to the mission president. It was up to him. It was out of Blaine’s hands. “I just—” Blaine felt tears pushing against his eyes. That was probably a good thing. He hadn’t let himself cry in front of another person since Kurt left. “I miss Elder Hummel a lot.”

Elder Nixon put a hand on Blaine shoulder and gave it a solid pat. “I know. It's tough when a companion you really click with leaves.”

Blaine shook his head. “It's not just that, though. I miss him because I'm in love with him.” And then, because if he was in for a penny, he was in for a pound, he added with urgency, “I'm gay and I fell in love with my companion, and he loves me back, and half the time I just feel really stupid for staying here and not following him to Ohio. And if you need to tell the mission president, you can; I mean, I'd rather it be my own decision, but beggars can't be choosers—and anyway, I don't want to be a burden to you, and I feel like I have been, the whole time we've been working together.”

“You're not a burden, Elder Anderson,” Elder Nixon said, and he hugged Blaine, which was not a thing missionaries usually did in public, but they weren't supposed to have emotional outbursts in public either and, besides, the kids and their grown up were nowhere to be seen right now. “You're my friend. And I'm so glad you told me, because now I can be a better friend to you.”

#december klaine challenge 2023 #day 8: sail #mormon!klaine #wowbright writes fic #klaine fic #klaine fanfic #klaine fanfiction

[i-miss-faberry]

Group chat with Faberry, Brittana and Klaine

Santana: Guys I think Quinn might be gay

Quinn: What?

Kurt: So you see it too? She’s totally into girls.

Quinn: I am literally in this group chat.

Blaine: Right?? I’ve thought that for a while. Glad I’m not the only one who sees it

Quinn: Everyone “sees it.” I am gay. I came out years ago. Stop ignoring me.

Rachel: I think you guys might be right. I’ve been getting a feeling for a while that she likes me a little.

Quinn: We are literally engaged.

Brittany: Aw Quinn has a crush on Rachel ❤️

Quinn: I hate you all.

#quinn fabray #rachel berry #santana lopez #brittany pierce #kurt hummel #blaine anderson #faberry #brittana #klaine #glee incorrect quotes #glee