Drive by Glee rec: Closer
Oct. 17th, 2011 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
out_thereCloser by adi_rotynd - Kurt/Blaine, set at the end of s2 but not spoilerific. The premise is simple: Blaine has a strategy for cementing friendships and that's to find an interest to share. He tries to apply this approach to his relationship with Kurt but it doesn't work.
What I loved about this story is pretty simple, too. Firstly, Blaine's characterisation worked for me (now taht I'm watching a bit of YouTube I'm starting to get it. Darren Criss is clearly a big hyperactive dork in real life -- adorably sweet and lovely, but overgrown five year old, seriously -- and that's bled into fanon-Blaine a little). It's not that this Blaine has it all together, but he's certinaly putting the effort in to seem that way. He's trying to be the confident, together guy he wants to be known as.
Secondly, I loved that this story points out that the glee club kids are so different -- different personalities, different social groups -- and yet they've all formed friendships with each other. Where the Warblers seem relatively similiar (all different shades of blue, perhaps), New Directions is a rainbow of colour. Everyone has their different things going on and Kurt already has a bunch of different friends that he connects with in different ways.
I also loved the Kurt/Blaine vibe in this story. It's sweet and supportive and at times, adorable. I don't want to spoil anyone on the happy ending, but this is a story that to be a great boyfriend, you don't have to get one thing in tremendous detail, but you need to get a whole bunch of things generally.
What I loved about this story is pretty simple, too. Firstly, Blaine's characterisation worked for me (now taht I'm watching a bit of YouTube I'm starting to get it. Darren Criss is clearly a big hyperactive dork in real life -- adorably sweet and lovely, but overgrown five year old, seriously -- and that's bled into fanon-Blaine a little). It's not that this Blaine has it all together, but he's certinaly putting the effort in to seem that way. He's trying to be the confident, together guy he wants to be known as.
Secondly, I loved that this story points out that the glee club kids are so different -- different personalities, different social groups -- and yet they've all formed friendships with each other. Where the Warblers seem relatively similiar (all different shades of blue, perhaps), New Directions is a rainbow of colour. Everyone has their different things going on and Kurt already has a bunch of different friends that he connects with in different ways.
I also loved the Kurt/Blaine vibe in this story. It's sweet and supportive and at times, adorable. I don't want to spoil anyone on the happy ending, but this is a story that to be a great boyfriend, you don't have to get one thing in tremendous detail, but you need to get a whole bunch of things generally.
