#quinntana asks

[tuiyla]

if you could rewrite s1 and make santana a prominent main character from the get go, how would you have gone about her reaction to quinn’s pregnancy and their dynamic that season? there’s some potentially interesting stuff that could have gone down between those two that season but we get absolutely none of it because santana’s a background player 😭

Told myself I really need to prioritize older asks so yes, hey, hi Anon. Sorry it's been a while.

First, let's establish that what we do have in canon is largely the result of Santana not starting off as a main character. What I mean by that is her and Brittany both, nay, Brittana and Mertina all being little shits about Quinn's pregnancy on occasions like the Glee girls rehearsal scene in Vitamin D. But we understand that the point of the scene is to elevate Rachel and demonstrate that, despite her feelings towards Finn, she's the most compassionate about Quinn's situation. And you know that's well and good, but so often the only way Glee can make its point is by throwing other chs and relationships under the bus.

It becomes jarring when Brittana become main characters and the Unholy Trinity is, well, at least pretended to be a friendship trio that the two weren't there for Quinn at all during her pregnancy. It's something that annoys me personally very much. Whenever I write fanfic in my head at 2am that will never be written down, and I think of Quinntana, I imagine different variations of a Santana apology. Because it just sucks so much to think that she wasn't there for Quinn at all. The Santana of later seasons is ride or die for Quinn and it's just, ahh, frustrating.

But you didn't wait three weeks just for that answer. I suppose, if I were to rewrite Glee, I'd have it be a messy dynamic in season 1. I wouldn't sugarcoat it because as much as I'm a firm believer in die hard friend Santana, this is 15 year-old Santana deep in the closet and in her most cutthroat era. So her initial reaction upon hearing about Quinn's pregnancy (or rather, when she figures it out) is shock that manifests in cruelty. I don't think the gravitas of the situation hits Santana or Brittany at first. It's just so ridiculous to think that uptight Quinn would put out ONCE and boom, get pregnant. And yet. So it doesn't sink in for Santana.

And then, slowly, it does. When Quinn gets kicked off the Cheerios and gets kicked out from her home and sure, Santana's on top but it comes with a gigantic sinking feeling. God, I hate season 1 so much for not driving it home enough just how dire Quinn's situation was. Glee give a shit about your girls challenge, difficulty: impossible. But it does sink in for Santana, she just doesn't know what to do. It's such a fucked up situation and she feels like Quinn wouldn't want her help. Becomes this miserable self-inflicted hell of neither wanting to reach out while Quinn quietly drowns and Santana represses her guilt. They still, like, hang out in public. By which I mean sitting together in Glee Club. And Brittany starts asking Quinn about the pregnancy and it's almost as if things are normal between them. But nothing will ever be normal again, will it?

That's the thing, I don't think they'd talk about it. Even if Santana was an actual character in season 1, I don't think it'd be this huge show of support or active conversation. Because she's a stupid kid who couldn't possibly fully understand what Quinn is going through. And, as much as they move past that eventually, I think Quinn resents her for it, for a while. Which is why she's willing to throw Santana under the bus in season 2. That's the only way Quinn can move past it, if anything goes. Because Santana was all too happy to take her place and head Cheerio in season 1 so only seems fair.

I'm sorry, this is such a weird reply. I really wanted to do a proper Glee-rewrite, as proper as I ever do, but I think changing too much would have such consequences for the rest of the show. And really I'm just remembering how little Glee cared about Quinn's pregnancy, even outside of Santana, and it pisses me off so much. That things like getting solos were treated as issues of equal weight. And yeah yeah sure Glee had a different tone back then and it was ~satirical~ but fuck, just admit they didn't care about Quinn's story. And so just making Santana a main character wouldn't change that, it would maybe just give us a moment of her climbing to the top on Quinn's back and living to regret it.

I know a sad Quinntana dynamic isn't exactly fun, but I just don't see a version of this where Santana suddenly becomes some Mother Theresa supporting Quinn in everything. That's just not the story Glee was willing to tell. Maybe there's a quiet understanding between them, and maybe Santana does on occasion bark at people for dissing Quinn post-fall from grace. That's what I realistically see happening, Santana caring "in secret" and in her own way. But because she's bad at it, she will make fun of Quinn to her face and come up with pregnancy-related nicknames.

It's a messed up situation and a messed up dynamic. Truly sorry that after three weeks this is what the reply ends up being but I thinking about Quinn's pregnancy is just so depressing to me so I find it hard to think of a version where Santana's role wouldn't also be depressing. I know some fix-it-fics have the UHT be super supportive and sticking together and god I wish we had that instead. Or even something complicated like Quinntana's later relationship. But season 1 comphet peak bitchiness without introspection Santana just wouldn't be the best friend to Quinn.

#wow i'm not even sure there's an answer in there i'm sorry anon #you see why i sometimes take so long lmao #guess i shouldn't be the one to rewrite the pregnancy story #or i'd just need to change SO much it'd be rendered unrecognizable #glee asks #anon #quinntana asks #not quite a gleewrite so maybe doesn't get the tag #<--- stolen from another post but god most deffo does not get the tag #this ain't worthy #ah well hope you're having a nice day anyway

[amazonworrier]

AU game!! Quinn and Santana interacting after their hookup. Minimal angst plz😭

What do you MEAN no angst? Do you understand who I am?? Okay fine I’ll be nice…

Quinn texts Santana when she gets back to Yale. Nothing significant. Just ‘home safe.’ Santana responds with ‘So?’ They both smile like idiots over the exchange for a lot longer than they should.

After the wedding, their texts become more frequent but remain totally innocent. That is, until Santana gets wine drunk with Berry one night and ends up sexting Quinn while she’s studying in her dorm. Quinn plays along and things get… heated. The next morning they act like nothing ever happened (they sext again the following weekend).

When Santana starts dating Dani, she calls Quinn immediately and they have one of those beautifully angsty, subtext-ridden conversations where Santana pretends to be asking for advice on how to tell Brittany and Quinn pretends to give advice. ‘If Brittany still cares about you at all, she’d want you to be happy.’ ‘Does she? Care about me, I mean.’ ‘She couldn’t stop if she tried.’

They don’t talk for months after that.

The first time they interact in person again is weird. Quinn drops by New York to visit everyone one weekend, and walks into the loft to find Dantana going at it, half naked on the couch. Quinn finds herself unexpectedly flustered and immediately puts her foot in her mouth.

Quinn: *trying not to look at Santana* There’s a sight I never thought I’d see again.

Dani: Oh, you must be Brittany.

Santana: No, this is Quinn. She’s my… other best friend.

Quinn: The non-ex girlfriend one. Although truth be told we have also had sex.

Santana *panicking*: It was like, a one time thing.

Quinn: Until we decided to make it a two time thing.

Santana: But that was all.

Quinn: Of course. Unless you count sexting, which we did a lot of for several months afterward.

Santana: Quinn!

Quinn: What?

Dani: Wow.

#quinntana #santana lopez #quinn fabray #ask game #writing things

[favberrys]

What would you do if you’re a Showrunner/writer on glee?

I don't think i have the abilities and qualifications to write a tv show, but i notice when the writers are becoming lazy and when there are flaws in the writing bc these flaws arrive at the spectator who watches the show. One the first things i would do is make faberry canon like it was intended in the first script of glee (there was a script before the pilot in which the popular cheerleader fell in love with the girl loser of the school, but the idea/project was abandoned). I would give more space to wlw pairings bc while the mlm rep in glee was diverse and deepened, the wlw rep was okay thanks to brittana but had too little screen time. So i would make two wlw pairing (faberry and brittana) have more development and space in the show. I would defo treat quinn's character arc way better than ryan murphy, i wouldn't have throwed that character in the trash after s3, i would have developed her personal story more and her relationship with rachel. Quinn is a very queer coded character, so i would have prob given more space to her journey of coming to terms with her sexuality (prob would have made her a lesbian who struggled a lot with comphet in highschool bc of her rigid catholic upbringing). I also would not make quinn end up with her r@pist (puck got her drunk to have sex with her even though she didn't want to, the consent was basically nonexistent and pretty dubious so that's why i consider him a rapist).

Another change i would make is give more performances to characters like santana and mercedes bc as much as i love rachel, i feel like amber's and naya's talent were underused. I would have given less solos to kurt and more to them.

I would also make rachel bisexual cos there's no way that girloser does not like women, and what i would do is make her "experiment"/have a sort of friendship with benefits with Santana in s4 cos before they broke apart they were pretty close and had a nice intimacy and chemistry, Santana had broken up with Brittany, so i think a thing between them in which rachel full blown realises she likes girls too (and later realises she had always been in love with quinn/had a crush on quinn since highschool) and Santana trying out different bonds with girls before understanding she wants brittany only, would have been nice to make both characters grow and mature.

I would keep the quinntana one night stand bc i feel like that was really important for quinn to finally accept she liked girls and therefore that rachel had always been the one she really wanted. But how would that work if you plan to make Santana bang both rachel and quinn ? Well i would simply make rachel a thing with santana at the end of s4, after santana and quinn's one night stand (it doesn't even have to be necessarly sex or a physical relationship, but a bond in which rachel starts to see santana in a different light and finds her really hot and starts questioning herself and santan teases her about it but also gives her a wake up call "you're bi gayberry" or something like that, these are the two options).

I would keep kurt and blaine as they are but i wouldn't have made blaine have a thing with karosfky, that was just foul.

Also less performances from mr. Schue bc what the fuck was blurred lines.

#that's all #tv show #glee #quinn fabray #rachel berry #faberry #quinntana #pezberry #santana lopez #glee santana #brittana #ask #queque #q&a #q&a time

[cryscendo]

for the ships grid:

- quinn & santana

- artie & kitty

- kurt & sam

feel free to do these as platonic or romantic >:))

all really good choices omg. i’m gonna default to romantic unless specified otherwise

quinntana: i actually really enjoy these two!! i love that they hooked up in i do and it’s probably my fave quinn ship.

wildebrams: an unconventional choice maybe, but i appears thought they were cute. they’re two of my problematic faves so i guess it makes sense. i like it better than some other kitty ships with og glee clubbers *cough cough*

hevans: anyone who knows me knows that i ride the “hevans deserved better than they got” train. they were always so sweet to one another but finn had to go and ruin it. also sam made macaroni art of kurt?? if that’s not love then what even is really

send me more ships!!

#nochu-monnie #ask game #glee #my stuff #quinn fabray #santana lopez #quinntana #artie abrams #kitty wilde #wildebrams #sam evans #kurt hummel #hevans

[dufrau]

For the ship ask:

Faberry

Britanna

Quinntana

Pezberry

(no pressure but our relationship hangs in the balance)

Oh god the pressure. Okay.

Faberry: Makes sense and compels me. I was not a Faberry shipper but it makes sense and I read a lot of fic for them even if they weren't my ship.

Brittana: Makes sense but does not compel me. I loved them on the show! But I think they ran their course and getting them back together was kind of a copout tbh. I like Brittana and I am thankful for the existence of Brittana because I met a lot of very good friends through Brittanacon back in the day, but they do not compel me.

Quinntana: Doesn't make sense and doesn't compel me. IM SORRY. I think it makes sense in the way it happened on the show, which I love and support and was screaming about when it happened. But beyond that I just don't see it. Maybe in a show where there was no Rachel, and Quinn and Santana's rivalmance had more space to take up I would feel differently, but their relationship always felt less interesting to me than either of their relationships with Rachel so I am not compelled beyond that beautiful two-time thing.

Pezberry: Makes sense and oh boy does it ever compel me. They were my first real ship! Whatever happened in the last couple seasons of Glee should never have happened, once they moved to New York it should have been the Rachel and Santana show. Their "Every Breath You Take" duet remains the gayest experience of my life. I understand that Lea Michele is a garbage human and by the end of the show her and Naya Rivera couldn't stand to be in the same room together BUT they still should have wound up together I'm sorry it was the most interesting character dynamic on the show. Plus their voices together? Oof. I need to reread Eyes Closed to Fingers Crossed.

Also to be clear the aesthetics of all of these ships are extremely good and I respect and understand shipping any of them.

#asks #glee posting #im sorry because i think i remember you maybe saying you were a quinntana shipper? #please dont hate me bro

[boltgunkiller-archive]

👀 GLEAM!!!!! please tell me more about gleam i LOVE glee scream aus and how different they can be –hevanderson

OMG YESSS I LOVE SCREAM AUS FOR ANYTHING. they’re so fun. i talked a lot so i’m putting it under a read more just in case!!

okay my favorite scream movie is scream 5 so it’s primarily inspired by that one (i’m sure you can guess why. my tamber phase was so insane. i love lesbians). it’s not exactly alike but that was my main starting point for this au LOL

anyway so. the main cast/relationships for this au are: quinn & santana (best friends.. kind of), rachel & finn (dating), brittany (dating santana ofc), mercedes & sam (both single! but mercedes kinda likes quinn and sam??? idk yet), and i’m thinking like. i wanna include tina, puck, and artie. i just haven’t really figured out exactly how they’ll be in it/what their roles will be 💀 but i do know that artie def has a crush on brittany? he’d be kind of like wes but less weird because him and puck have some straight boy yaoi situation going on icl. And then obviously klaine!!! is there too 🫵

sooo for quinn & santana i think they’d be the ghostfaces!! and honestly as a duo, i think they’d balance the kill/call life because they’re both very skilled in both departments if that makes sense. like i think it’d mostly come down to whether or not one of them have more of a problem with their victim or not, because otherwise i think quinn would prefer phone calls whereas santana would prefer handling the kills. they’re best friends in this universe as well, but they’re similar to mindy and amber in my eyes where they kinda act like they hate each other/they argue a lot (just as quinntana does in the show 😭 you know) but everyone knows they’re just messing around and simply have diff view points etc etc. they fake accuse each other a lot to solidify that they don’t even trust anybody much less e/o (even though it’s THEM. you know.) so that they seem wayyy less guilty than they really are. basic stuff. also brittany’s another ghostface i forgot to mention but mostly i think she’d be like back-up. like she’d keep watch kind of. does that make sense. the whole 3 ghostface thing always has that one fake-out ghostface that ends up ACTUALLY being a ghostface too and it confuses everybody. so that’s basically what she is here.

(oh also i debated on having one of the ghostfaces be mercedes but i think she’d fit more of a tatum type of character. but she’d survive is the thing LOL.)

ive deliberated over a lot of different options but i think rachel would be the opening kill (quinn’s work 💕💘💗) and then of course finn. like at the same time. probably because they were hanging out together.

thennnn everyone would be on edge! quinn would be picking fights with santana now, but just little things. like “how do we know what you were doing last night? we all know how you felt about them both…” to which santana would defend herself with stuff like “you’re one to talk. you didn’t like them either, so how do i know you’re not just pushing the blame onto me?” etc etc stuff like that. brittany would try to stop their argumentss. typical unholy trinity dynamic. blaine would be super anxious about everybody and kurt would be suspicious of people, tina would be really scared and honestly just try to get away from all of it and mercedes would try and stay level-headed about everything but protect herself especially too. (and she’d be concerned about quinn). puck’s the biggest suspect because he’s puck and everything about that is suspicious xx. and artie is there but i haven’t figured out his deal i think he’d be freaked out and sorta just leave the whole group like give up on all of them which may result in him being the second kill actually. because he does what you’re not meant to do: Go Be Alone.

(and since artie kinda likes brittany and he’s sort of in wes’s position in the fifth movie, the second kill result for him kinda makes sense to me)

after finchel and artie are gone i thiiink puck for sure is the biggest suspect. there’s a memorial party for artie obviously and puck’s throwing it 🫵 which doesn’t really help anybody believe that he didn’t do it. and he’s also just being stupid like girl.

once it’s the whole party thing , i think kurt and blaine would go outside and try and chill and then get attacked (killed? unsure guys.), party’s still going on but mercedes noticed that some people are missing so she just tells quinn and then quinn’s faux scared. tells sam probably and sam goes out looking for klaine cause they’re all besties #kublam) and the rest after this i’m still trying to figure out

honestly that’s all i think would happen so far i hope it makes sense?? i had some other ideas but NGL i’m blanking sooooo. anyway. if you have any questions let me know because i do have a vague idea/main points for parts of the story (even ones i didn’t mention) sooo yeah.! i hope you think this glee scream au is cool too:)

#this is so long and honestly probably scatterbrained i’m so sorry #but i love thinking about this au it’s so fun #i’ve been slowly working on it for a while now #open to answering any questions!!!! #i realize this is like the most unclear way i’ve ever explained this au im so sorry LOL #also the unholy trinity as ghostfaces is kind of a new addition. initially it was just quinn and santana #idk if i wanna go back to just gf!quinntana and have brittany be more like a tara character #but for now they’re all 3 ghostfaces because the idea of quinntana conspiring against people without britt #just kinda seemed mean to me LMFAOO #anyway. yes. this is it #ask tag #austen 🐾 #gleam #gleeposting

[angelhummel]

for the ship grid: finchel, st berry, quinntana, marley/unique?

Lord knows how much I dislike Finn and that leads to me not wanting him to bother Rachel. They never worked as a couple for me and they only compel me in the sense that they make me mad and I have a lot to talk about with them lol which isn't nothing so I had to put them up there a lil

St Berry theoretically makes more sense but I also never got a lot out of them. They're both dramatic theater nerds and that's about it. I don't like them and they bore me lol

Quinntana totally makes sense as it's presented in canon. If Quinn was gonna hook up with anyone, it was going to be Santana. That makes sense and I'm glad it happened like storywise lol so that's that

Marlique I love! They're totally girlfriends. I mean Marley wasn't canonically queer so we got what we got in canon but. We know they're gfs. And they're like my otp for those characters so they do compel me <3

send me a ship!

#glee #anti finchel #st berry #quinntana #marnique #marlique #compels me ship game #asks #my thoughts #anonymous

[unholy-fabray]

quinntina quinntana tincedes quinncedes for the grid 🛸

WOOO I love this (is anyone surprised by my answers? probably not)

#what can i say. i'm a simple man #only reason quinntana doesn't compel me more is because i don't think they'd ever be more than a hook-up/fwb personally #asks #ask game #glee #🧛‍♀️

[wild-mangonada]

I love to shit on glee as much as the next person but with that season five Toxic performance…………. they are completely redeemed for their crimes i’m sorry. I’m sorry, what else do y’all want me to say. They did that for all the queer women of the world and for that i must thank them, i’m only human.

#glee #dianna agron #santana lopez #quinn fabray #brittany s pierce #brittana #AND #quinntana #sick and twisted tbh #i’m not made of stone #if someone asks me what my sexuality is i just show them that performance #if someone asks me about my gender #it’s Dianna Agron in the Just Another Girl music video #but that’s another story #very sick and twisted as well #i’ll go read the Bible while taking a cold shower bye

[rocketkit]

obsessed with how you draw santana. request for quinntana in the hookup episode pleaseeeee?

tell quinn 2 stoP

#please go off anon for requests 😋 #there’s a better chance that i’ll get to them quicker #glee #asks #requests #quinntana #quinn fabray fanart #quinn fabray #santana lopez #santana lopez fanart #my art #reblogs appreciated! #quinntana fanart #lesbian #bisexual #pride month #pride art #i did NOT do santana justice here but i was too far in to redo her 😭 #rocket answers

[tuiyla]

I came late to the glee fandom I never knew Diana and Naya was so close until I saw loads of Halloween pictures from different years of them and it makes me sad they didn’t use that chemistry for friendship (or relationship if you ship them). Instead we got loads of padding that went nowhere

Oh man Rivergron had such awesome chemistry and they used it for what, mainly conflict here and there and one hookup. At this point I'm just grateful for what we did get but those two could have been so much more on the screen. I've long advocated for a proper midgame Quinntana ship and it pains me that so, soooo much of their friendship is lowkey and hidden in subtleties in their acting. They have such an interesting season 2 plot, for example, but it's very much in the background.

I love the way Dianna and Naya talked about each other in real life though. No shipping real people over here, that's not what I mean, just Naya gushing about Dianna in her book and Dianna speaking about Naya with such adoration in every interview. It's very wholesome. As tumultuous as the Quinntana relationship was, Rivergron seem like they were in pure awe of each other.

#quinntana is perhaps THE greatest lost potential of glee #i said what i said #glee asks #anon #quinntana asks #glee cast #naya rivera #dianna agron #rivergron

[amazonworrier]

Any chance for snixmas we can have head cannons of santana and quinn in the future and how their jobs intersect with their relationship?

Merry Snixxmas!

*Since there are sooooooooooo many possible Quinntana futures out there I’m going with a personal fave: Publicist Santana and Author Quinn get together as adults after not seeing each other for like ten years. I also made this up as I went along & accidentally spun it into a mini fic rather than just HCs which is totally not what you asked for sorry sorry sorry…

Their jobs are actually how they reconnect again. Sort of. Santana’s at an event for one of her clients (asshole actor) and Quinn happens to be dating said asshole actor. Santana does not realise this at the time, because the actor is an asshole and failed to tell his publicist he was dating someone new (a famously devout Christian author, at that!) before bringing her to a highly publicised industry event. It’s a whole thing. Quinntana end up squabbling in front of the press and a picture of them yelling at each other makes the tabloids.

They meet up to do damage control. Asshole actor (let’s call him Adam) is a no-show. Quinn is impressed by Santana’s entourage of assistants and how far she’s come in the ten years since they lost touch. Santana reluctantly admits the same of Quinn, even if she’s not buying the whole ‘born-again’ religious thing. Quinn neither confirms nor denies that she’s using her religion to make a name for herself as a writer. They make peace once Santana explains why she reacted the way she did, make a plan to manage the bad press, then end up going out to lunch afterwards to catch up.

The plan goes out the window immediately when another photo of them at lunch makes the tabloids - specifically, of them hugging goodbye for a little longer than they probably should’ve. Speculation abounds for different reasons this time…

Adam is not happy. He tries to fire Santana over it, which gets her into trouble with the higher ups because he’s a major account. She goes to his house to make amends but Quinn opens the door and they get snapped by the paparazzi again. What a mess.

Adam is stupid and believes all the rumours. He breaks up with Quinn, drops Santana as his publicist and outs Quinn to the media as a lesbian. Quinn is shook. Particularly when it jeopardises the upcoming book tour for her latest novel: ‘Straight & Narrow: My Journey Back Into Faith.’

Quinn’s publisher is furious, but at Quinn’s insistence they believe her when she says it’s all a big misunderstanding. Santana meets with the publisher to assure them that Quinn is telling the truth and offers her services pro-bono. They reject her offer and make an obtuse, incredibly offensive comment about her sexuality in the process. Santana looks to Quinn, but Quinn doesn’t defend her. They have a very tense goodbye and stop speaking after this.

Meanwhile by sheer coincidence, Quinn bumps into Rachel Berry, of all people, at another writer friend’s birthday party. They too have not seen each other in years but Rachel is promoting her new autobiography ‘Barbra and Me: How a Legend Inspired an Icon’ so they have friends in common again. Rachel pretends not to see Quinn at first (in a very obvious Rachel way where she absolutely DID see her), and when Quinn finally catches up with her admits that Santana is actually her publicist and she knows all about what went down between her and Quinn. She’s firmly on Santana’s side in all of it, and politely informs Quinn that straight women don’t have sex with their female friends on Valentine’s Day. Let alone twice. Quinn is floored.

Life goes on. Quinn’s book tour is a success but she very quickly begins to feel like a fraud. During a bookshop Q&A someone asks her what it’s like to be mistakenly associated with someone ‘like Santana,’ and when she realises what they’re getting at something inside her snaps. She outs herself this time. Owns her sexuality for the first time in her life, says she’s been with a woman, that the woman was Santana, and that she had such a great time they did it twice. She voices her regret about a lifetime wasted on the Adams of the world to a room full of press, then walks out. Book sales be damned.

Obviously, Quinn’s publisher drops her. But she doesn’t care. She starts writing a new book almost immediately, an honest one this time. A fiction piece about a girl from a Christian household who spent so long trying to be good she lost sight of what good really was. Good is integrity, good is kindness, good is… a made up word determined entirely by the subjective opinion of the individual. It’s also the working title of her new book until she thinks of a better one.

Santana hears about Quinn’s Q&A epiphany through the grapevine (Rachel) and is quietly impressed. That is, until she hears another rumour that the new work Quinn is shopping around to publishers heavily features a lesbian character from the wrong side of the tracks who serves as both best friend and antagonist to the main character. Seeing red, Santana has her executive assistant secure a copy of the manuscript at all costs.

Santana doesn’t have time to read, so she has her assistant do it for her. What she doesn’t expect is to walk into her office the next morning to find said assistant sobbing over the final chapter. He tells her it’s something she should read for herself, and between that and all the crying Santana is sufficiently disturbed enough to decide she will ABSOLUTELY avoid reading it altogether. She snatches the manuscript, tracks down Quinn’s address and ambushes her after work that night instead.

Quinn gets an offer from a small independent publisher for a limited print run, which she celebrates by opening a bottle of wine and drinking alone in her apartment. When there’s a knock at her door, the last thing she expects is to find Santana standing there, red-faced, waving her own manuscript in her face. She lets Santana rant for a while about betrayal and exploitation and the like, then politely requests that she read the book before passing further comment. Then, she closes the door in Santana’s face.

Santana goes to see Rachel that weekend, who is surprised because honestly Santana never makes social calls anymore. She then sits there while Rachel reads the book all day instead (Rachel actually had other plans that day but you try telling an angry Santana that...). When she reaches the final chapter Rachel starts tearing up, and when Santana asks her WHY, begins reading aloud. It turns out Quinn’s book is a tale of lost love, of the ‘could’ve been’ - of a brief moment in time with the one that got away, and the years long struggle that followed the main character as she continued to deny the truth of who she was and who she loved. By the time Rachel finishes reading it is abundantly clear that the ‘one who got away’ is based on Santana.

Santana goes to Quinn’s apartment again. This time, she’s furious for a different reason. How dare Quinn misrepresent their friendship like that. How dare she misrepresent Santana??? She says Quinn is just as much a fraud as she always was - she’s just swapped manipulating Christian readers for sales to manipulating vulnerable teens instead. Shame on her, she says. Shame. On. Her. Quinn shuts her up by kissing her.

They start dating, slowly at first because Santana is still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Six months later, they finally make it official. Quinn’s book is a hit, in part thanks to the whisper campaign Santana sets up in her spare time because her publisher can’t afford to promote it properly and Santana simply cannot sit idly by while the best book she’s read in years flops. They become a bit of a power couple after that - Santana continuing with her day job as a publicist to the stars but using her skills and connections to quietly support Quinn’s career wherever she can too. Quinn holds her own just fine though. She carves out a lovely little niche for herself as a YA author, and is a regular guest at talks, panels and fan conventions across the country.

It’s a good life. Their careers are adjacent enough to one another for them to have things in common but far enough apart not to make their world feel too small. Some (Rachel) may say the situation still gets a little chaotic at times. After all, Quinn has and always will be Quinn, and Santana remains Santana. There’s going to be some bad in amongst the good... But they soon determine that being good all the time doesn’t matter as much as being honest with each other; as being kind even in those moments when it’s easier to be cruel. And by that definition their relationship is good. It is. Always. It’s so good in fact, that Quinn will probably write a book about it one day.

#anon #quinntana #this is soooo long omg I’m sorry everyone else but hopefully whoever asked for this enjoys it at least #santana lopez #quinn fabray #writing things

[inlovewith-icecream]

Do you have any glee fic recommendations? Preferably multi chapter or insanely long one shots. Thank you!

Warning: Insane amounts of Pezberry

Oh I most certainly do.

The Math Of Love Triangles

Santana Lopez is brash, infuriating and incredibly difficult to love. Quinn and Rachel both pursue her anyway.

Author: AmazonWorrier (AO3)

Main Characters: Santana, Quinn, Rachel

Pairings: Quinntana, Pezberry

Chapters: 3

Word Count: 20550

Status: Complete

God Only Knows (What I’d Be Without You)

In the aftermath of Finn's death, Santana is too busy helping Rachel to notice her own life falling apart in front of her. It takes a village to help put it back together.

Trigger Warning: R*pe, S*xual Ass*ult

Author: AmazonWorrier (AO3)

Main Characters: Santana, Brittany, Quinn, Rachel

Pairings: Brittana

Friendships: Pezberry, Quinntana

Chapters: 31/32

Word Count: 184917

Status: Ongoing

A Change Of Plans

What if Rachel had a different idea to get back at Finn for sleeping with Santana?

Author: RedYellow11 (FF.Net)

Main Characters: Santana, Rachel

Pairings: Pezberry

Friendships: Brittana, Pucktana

Not Friendly Towards: Finn

Chapters: 16

Word Count: 59K+

Status: Complete

Honey

Quinn and Santana as more than a two-time thing.

Author: tellmeagain (AO3)

Main Characters: Santana, Quinn

Pairings: Quinntana

Chapters: 6

Word Count: 15335

Status: Complete

Soda Pop

At no point in her life had Santana ever imagined she would be in her kitchen, laughing and flirting with Tina Cohen-Chang.

Author: thefantasmickah (AO3)

Main Characters: Tina, Santana

Pairings: Santina

Chapters: 1

Word Count: 5496

Status: Complete

#icepost #glee #asks #anonymous #pezberry #quinntana #brittana #santina #glee fic #glee fanfiction #glee fic recs

[mdverse]

What are some of your favourite Glee ships and why? I'm thinking like... top five? Or more if you feel like it :)

ooh this is a fun one because anything after my top ship can and will change at the drop of a hat lmao

1: brittana

hopefully this will come as a shock to no one aksdjhfsk,,, brittana is actually a ship i found out about before i watched glee. like i would see all of these compilations on youtube of glee moments out of context, and idk how exactly but it led to seeing clips of brittana. i remember being salty bc some of my friends at the time had seen glee and not a single one of them told me that there was a wlw relationship i would've liked lol.

but yeah there's just something really compelling about getting to see these two girls who start out as background characters with funny one-liners grow into an actual couple that gets happily married in the end. especially because i don't remember really seeing any wlw relationships get any kind of focus or open acknowledgement before brittana? at least not any relationships that lasted more than a couple of episodes? and maybe i just wasn't watching the right shows bc i only started watching glee less than 2 years ago lol but their development on the show, while very flawed thanks to the writers, was just super special for me. and it still is. i have a lot of love for them and even though i haven't drawn much brittana lately, i'd like to think that my love for them shows in some of my older art :)

also? wanting to draw brittana is what got me out of months-long art block and depressive episode where i just did not have any inspiration or motivation to draw anything, and it quickly became the catalyst for so much of the artistic growth i've made over the past almost 2 years. idk if that means much to u guys but to me it really means the world and i don't think i even have the words to explain it asksdhfk i just. i love them a lot.

2: hevans

ok listen to be completely honest, i don't think about hevans that much but once in a while i think about s2 hevans and how that would've been so nice? like,,, s2 sam was so refreshing because he arrived at a time where i was used to seeing the glee boys (finn and puck in particular) being like "oh we get called gay for being in glee club and associating with kurt, a gay kid :( and that's bad :( we don't like the idea of being seen as gay :(" and sam just did not care. he didn't care that singing a duet with another guy might be seen as weird, he didn't care that he might get bullied for it, he just cared that kurt had a lovely voice and he wasn't gonna go back on his promise to sing with kurt. and then we got rumours and kurt not even hesitating to keep sam's secret, even though his friends immediately accused him of cheating on blaine. idk hevans just had this bond in s2 that wasn't explored enough after that, and then sam was dumbed down in s4 and onwards and ugh i miss s2 sam goddammit fuck the writers for turning him into whatever the fuck we got in s4-6

also hevans makes me consider an artist!sam x model!kurt au? like when i drew kurt as the boy with a basket of fruits i could picture sam being a painter and having kurt as his model/inspiration, and i have a second very unfinished wip based on another painting in the same vein. lowkey veering into a picture of dorian grey moment now lol but is that not compelling??? i can't believe i only thought of that just now aksdjhf i love that book,,, also there's yet another painting i'd like to redraw as hevans but who knows when i'll get around to it

3: quinntina

i don't think the writers were ever gonna give us quinntina and idk if there are even many quinntina moments in the show aside from like,,, teeny tiny background moments here and there. also the show butchered them both so i'm not basing this ship in canon at all. i just think they would have an interesting dynamic i guess? popular girl quinn fabray and shy tina cohen-chang possibly wishing they could switch positions for a while because quinn is exhausted from all the pressure she puts on herself and tina wonders what it would be like to be in the spotlight? slowly bonding in glee club because tina realises quinn isn't the bitch tina assumed she'd be, and quinn finds it refreshing to be around a sweetheart like tina? indulging each other's dramatic moments but also keeping each other grounded? the mental image of tina helping quinn dye her hair pink? that time in s6 where we got half a quinntina duet in jagged little tapestry, which for the record, i think would've been a mashup of so far away and ironic? (also, vb au quinntina sharing the brain cells of the friend group?) idk i think it would've been nice and i am once again cursing the writers

4: wildebrams

i don't have much of an actual explanation as to why i like wildebrams because it feels like i haven't seen s4-5 in forever, but iirc their relationship allowed us to see a much softer side to kitty and i really loved that. like,,, kitty being nervous about committing to a relationship but then opening up to the glee club about her feelings for artie? wholesome shit i love it

i can't think of anymore ships rn because i'm not deeply invested in any ships besides brittana but this feels like a solid mini list. i feel like im forgetting a lot of the big ones so feel free to specify any other ships you'd like me to talk about :)

#ask md #backslashdelta #glee thoughts n opinions #brittana #hevans #quinntina #wildebrams #also honourable mentions to the following ships for piquing my interest a bit: #puckurt; partie; quinncedes; marlique; quinntana; potentially others i can't remember rn #oh and kelliott #thank u for the ask bella! twas fun to think about :)

[hydesjackiespuddinpop]

Kurtbastian AND quinncedes for the ask game!!

ship: ew / nonono / maybe / ship it / aww / otp / MY HEART 

#married

ship: ew / nonono / maybe / ship it / aww / otp / MY HEART 

i miss these bitchy gfs

#answered #tthankstoyou #otp: smirky meerkat #ship: a two time thing #i think it was their banter that drew me in #or the humor vid #and quinntana for a while i could only see them as besties but found their one night stand hot #but now i'm pretty into the as a midgame when their both adults and got their shit together #thanks for the ask! #ana 🎂

[randomcanbian]

also bc I am Curious: quinntana, shoni, leatin 👀

QUINNTANA

I love the potential of them so much, but Glee absolutely wasted them 😭 Brittana is my fluffy, they're-so-good-for-each-other, they'll-make-each-other-the-happiest, endgame-of-endgames type of ship; Quinntana's my complex-feelings, i-see-the-worst-of-myself-in-you, loving-you-will-give-you-the-keys-to-destroy-me type of ship 🥲🥲🥲 I could see them ending up happy and content with one another, but they have the tendency to feed each other's worst habits so it would take a lot of energy and work to get to that point :') (sometimes it's just fun to think of them self-imploding and later on they reconcile as friends / platonic soulmates)

(I gave them one half-heart because I do ship them, but I also want to put them in a jar and study them; the other half-heart is because the thought of them did drive me crazy at certain times but I'm a lot more chill about them now ahaha)

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SHONI

Let me explain that I think they're a good ship!!! Great even!!! I'm just not super invested in both their characters, and I think they're more interesting with their platonic relationships with other people? The "mixed feelings" heart is more about how tired I am of the fandom, like The Wilds is a great story with such complex characters, and with Shelby specifically her story about that internalized homophobia, that insane need for perfection and control, and the enormous guilt she carries with her made her so compelling and interesting, meanwhile with Toni her deep-seated anger and abandonment issues were so visceral in a way that I rarely see on TV and I was looking so forward to how they'd unpack it, and then both these took a backseat to their romance? Also like the fandom are so focused on them that my faves like The Reid Sisters, Martha, and Dot are often an afterthought/thought of in relation to the fair-skinned, conventionally attractive sapphics???

Like they would be great as the side couple, but I'm sort of sick of them being the forefront of almost every fan-related content.

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LEATIN

Eve. You are so cruel 😭😭😭

(Leatin shippers, please don't be offended I'm so sorry 😭 They're a valid ship and if Dot wasn't in the picture I'd probably appreciate them more)

Sort of the same explanation as Shoni, but I actually actively dislike it because I'm a big Dotin fan and I am forever bitter of the writers going with Leatin. I think Dotin complement each other much more, and I think that they're the best for each other and would make each other the happiest. I literally cannot understand why Fatin would fall in love with Leah instead of Dot HAHAHHA. I also think that their romance would be so easy and chill that they could also focus on their personal growth, and that they'd be able to help each other grow and support each other. (Not that Leatin wouldn't be able to do that but I just think...it would be so much easier for Dotin? It doesn't make Leatin a lesser ship, but Dotin just makes so much more sense to me. The only way I don't see them happening is Dot being straight.) I also actively dislike it because Fatin is my favorite character, and it is literally killing me that the fandom now sees her as Leah's keeper, and with the way most sapphics think about their ships they will try to have Fatin's whole world revolve around Leah. I'm tired of my faves being reduced to their romantic interests. I'd rather her be single and constantly fuck boys but be happy and content with a great relationship with all the rest of the Unsinkables and a healing relationship with her family and her music.

#ask meme #glee #quinntana #i am not tagging the w*lds i would be drawn and quartered i think HAHHA #once again no offense to l*atin shippers this is all down to personal tasted i suppose #i did really casually ship sh*ni but then i got into the fandom in s2 and my feelings on them sorta soured...they're still good tho i just #wish some of the attention they have could be given to the other girls