i can’t take new age glee stans seriously and it’s not their fault it’s just that. to get the FULL experience of glee you had to watch it when it was airing. it doesn’t matter if you’re taking it seriously or as a joke because if you weren’t there in 2010 you will never understand. it wasn’t just a show it was an interactive art piece and we were all simply pawns in the insane chess game that RIB were playing. and none of this revisionist history about how we all knew how ridiculous it was at the time and loved it because of that. we took that shit seriously and you all know it. if you didn’t take it seriously at the time then you weren’t a true gleek either. you don’t Get the show if you weren’t genuinely mad in early 2011 because the warblers were the ones to sing Raise Your Glass when they would never understand what it was like to be an outsider the way the new directions did. fuck you if you didn’t lose friendships over the discourse that came from artie calling brittany stupid and finn’s habit of kicking chairs. you can say all you want about it now but back in the day we were regularly saying “nobody hates glee more than the fans of glee” but still tuning in every week. even rewatching it lacks something and that something is the madness that came from getting an insane dosage of a campy singing teen drama once a week before going to our tumblr dot com blogs and writing essay length meta posts instead of the essays we had to hand in for eighth grade english the next week. i don’t say this often but the thing about glee was that you quite literally had to be there.

oh you started watching glee AFTER it finished airing?

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i think my age group is just going to have to live with the fact that half of us are always going to be burdened by the glee covers. we’re never going to be able to listen to a bunch of songs without thinking of the glee version. i envy those who don’t have this curse. those who don’t hear rachel berry and finn hudson singing together in the background of so many songs, while mercedes hits a high note and kurt or puck sings a verse with one of the unholy trinity. those who can hear jump without thinking of the mattress commercial. those who can listen to a song as iconic as bohemian rhapsody and don’t have flashbacks to vocal adrenaline performing it at regionals intercut with shots of quinn fabray in labour. who don’t close their eyes at night and hear “this one’s for you artie!” vogue by madonna is forever tainted by “will schuester, i hate you.” i’m never going to willingly listen to run joey run but if i ever heard it in public i know that the only thing i’d be able to thing about is rachel’s terrible music video. there are people out there who are able to listen to rumour has it without hearing naya rivera as santana lopez cut in with lines from someone like you and you know she keeps glancing at brittany s pierce played by heather morris as her life falls apart. walking on sunshine played on the radio the other day and i was surprised when i didn’t hear halo mashed up with it and ALSO ANGELS. don’t even get me started on faithfully, any way you want it/lovin’ touchin’ squeezin’, let alone don’t stop believing. this show and all it’s covers are burned into my mind and i envy those who don’t face my struggle.

BRITTANA: SHUT UP AND DANCE

the final product… ENJOY!!!

A random reblog because I’m still really proud of this video...

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Does anyone else find it kinda… disappointing that wlw are generally really supportive of mlm centric lgbt movies and tv shows but mlm never seem to give two shits about wlw movies

The biggest lol in history is Glee trying to convince us that Blaine can dance at all.

Kurt: effortless grace

Blaine:  toddler doing the wee-wee dance

This is an accurate appraisal.

Second only to Glee trying to convince us that Rachel was a huge triple threat when she could barely walk across a level surface without tripping over her own feet.

I think with a show like that, if they can’t get what they need from the cast they have to tell the story they want (i.e. this person is a phenomenal singer/dancer/actor), then they need to change the story they’re telling. Maybe it starts out being about how Rachel has been ambitious since the womb, and desperately wants to be a star, and needs to work REALLY HARD on her dancing to get it up to snuff. Or maybe she CAN’T, and it holds her back, and she has to modify her dream.

Or maybe you change the story so it’s about this new guy who shows up, thinks he’s the best, but cannot back it up. Maybe his singing works with an all-male choir, or the dancing is acceptable according to their choreo, but it’s not up to the standards of the new school. Then the story becomes about the struggle, whether to stay (supposedly for love) in an environment where you’re outclassed and working as hard as you can and still can’t make it, or you’re working harder than you ever have before, and you can see how far you have to go, or you decide you’d rather be the big fish in a little pond, and decide being a star is more important than love.

Or you change the story so that the true underdog, the kid that nobody but his father believed in, the one who works his ass off and has a natural gift for singing, dancing, and a flair for acting, is given the spotlight, and defies expectations. He becomes the star. He’s got the talent, he’s put in the work, and he’s just as ambitious as the others; he just doesn’t expect the world to be handed to him on a silver platter because that’s the way it’s always been.

Any one of those (ahem) new directions would have told a better, more entertaining, more relatable story, that a larger part of the audience could probably relate to. How many people in the viewing audience have mediocre talent, yet get everything they want? How many are amazing in one area, perhaps, but not really good enough in others, but still get everything they want? And how many struggle against the odds, against what everyone around them is telling them, that they’re just not good enough, that they’ll never be good enough, because no matter how much work they put in, at the end of the day they’re still “too gay” or “too black” or something else they can’t control is holding them back?

Look at the successful movie franchises. Their heroes begin as ordinary people with extraordinary gifts, who have to work to get what they want. They have to overcome challenges. I can’t think of a single hit movie where the hero or heroine just got everything they wanted without really having to work for it or go through any obstacles to get there. That’s because most people cannot relate to that. Sure, we like to see people succeed and do well, but we want the encouragement that it’s something we could do, too, because it’s as much about the work and personal growth, as it is about the natural talent.

Rewatching S3 is torture bc I know that Kurt’s hard work never pays off, he’s never treated better (unless a brick comes flying at his head, and then it doesn’t last), and no matter what happens, he’s always going to be in a constant state of proving himself and having a slew of people around him insulting his every feature.

By this point in the series, they started giving Santana more. By all rights, they should’ve shifted the series to focus on Kurt, Mercedes, and Santana, and current trends suggest that this WOULD have kept an audience. By deciding from day one that they were going to marginalize the marginalized characters, they set themselves up for complete failure. By determining from the beginning that X character would always end up with Y character no matter what they do to each other, they short circuit the logic of character growth and kill all suspense they may have had. Rachel was arguably most likeable in S4 when she stopped being a dick and started really struggling (maybe s2?) but it never lasted because they LIKED her as a selfish diva. They LIKED Blaine as this huge, manipulative dick.

And they sucked all the interest out of the show and gave us no reason to root for them, period. You can’t expect people to just believe what you tell them when their eyes and ears are sending a different message. It’s like trying to convince us that Kurt is shorter than Blaine. Are you fucking serious? He’s just NOT. Stop trying to circumvent reality and just write with what you have.

The majority of stories aren’t going to work if things just come effortlessly to a character. They just won’t. That means that things happen, but there’s no conflict or tension, except for what the character creates him/herself by being an asshole.

And that’s what you missed on Glee.

And that’s why people stopped watching Glee, by the millions. They started watching a show about underdogs, working hard to prove themselves, and it ended up being about the popular kids, the ones the show was more contemptuous of in the beginning. Way to lose ¾ of your audience, show. They didn’t pick up nearly as many new viewers as the ones they chased away.

Sometimes I underestimate how bitter I still am about this.

It SUCKS that in order to write an in-canon post-s5 Kurt I need to write him as traumatised, disillusioned and depressed, constantly wary of praise, success or affection, because he has learned that it will be taken away or ruined anyway.

I never signed up for this! All I wanted was all the good things for s2 Kurt. Kurt‘s turn!

But no…

The sad thing is that Klainers still perpetuate all the crap they were fed s4-6; Blaine is the most successful little sweetcake (despite all the canon proof we were given) and Kurt is forever his doormat.

…And that‘s what nobody but some DC stans wanted on Glee.

I don’t think I will ever get over the bitterness I feel over the treatment of Kurt. I can’t even think about it without getting angry.

He started off as such a strong and powerful character. Yes he was an underdog, yes people second guessed him and pushed him around. But he was fierce and determined and knew(thought) that things would get better once he was finally out of Ohio.

But then DC got introduced and the show went to shit. I blame him and the writers completely for the destruction of the show that had so much potential.

And I really don’t think I’ll ever be over it.

I find it really difficult to watch this show now, even for scene clarification. Every time I see a scene I originally loved, I’m struck by the painful knowledge that it will go nowhere or end badly - usually on behalf of propping up either Blaine or Rachel. I recently spoke with someone who just binge-watched the whole series for the first time and I suppose it must be more in line with ripping off a band-aid than the sustained torment of being an original real-time viewer. For me, it was basically like this:

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Yeah… this sums it up pretty well. I have nothing more to add.

it’s 2018, can we all just admit that rachel berry was the fucking worst and santana was the real hero of the show?

i think my age group is just going to have to live with the fact that half of us are always going to be burdened by the glee covers. we’re never going to be able to listen to a bunch of songs without thinking of the glee version. i envy those who don’t have this curse. those who don’t hear rachel berry and finn hudson singing together in the background of so many songs, while mercedes hits a high note and kurt or puck sings a verse with one of the unholy trinity. those who can hear jump without thinking of the mattress commercial. those who can listen to a song as iconic as bohemian rhapsody and don’t have flashbacks to vocal adrenaline performing it at regionals intercut with shots of quinn fabray in labour. who don’t close their eyes at night and hear “this one’s for you artie!” vogue by madonna is forever tainted by “will schuester, i hate you.” i’m never going to willingly listen to run joey run but if i ever heard it in public i know that the only thing i’d be able to thing about is rachel’s terrible music video. there are people out there who are able to listen to rumour has it without hearing naya rivera as santana lopez cut in with lines from someone like you and you know she keeps glancing at brittany s pierce played by heather morris as her life falls apart. walking on sunshine played on the radio the other day and i was surprised when i didn’t hear halo mashed up with it and ALSO ANGELS. don’t even get me started on faithfully, any way you want it/lovin’ touchin’ squeezin’, let alone don’t stop believing. this show and all it’s covers are burned into my mind and i envy those who don’t face my struggle.

Naya’s opening scene in Step Up: High Water S01E10

Hayley Kiyoko.

As we give thanks today for all that is Brittana let us remember that there wouldn’t be Brittana without Heya and in saying so let’s also remember that one of the few brilliant things the writers ever did was to include Outkast’s Hey Ya in Brittana’s reception. That is all.

Naya’s opening scene in Step Up: High Water S01E10

1. Season 1

2. Season 2

3. Season 6

4. Season 3

5. Season 5

6. Season 4

How i would rank the seasons. Season 3 is incredibly overrated in my opinion. And after rewatching some of season 6, it’s not awful. And the only reason season 5 isn’t last is because of 5x03, 5x12, and 5x13. Everything else about that season was god awful. And season 4, well, is season 4.