One shipper’s feelings, doesn’t represent the feelings of the entire ship.

I’m saying this because people stereotype ships based on an individual’s actions far too often.

Examples:

• Klainer makes secret saying that (s)he only likes Blaine because he’s played by Darren, people take this as confirmation that all Klainers only like Blaine because he’s played by Darren
• Kummer says something rude, someone takes a screenshot and posts it, it goes around Tumblr and suddenly “ALL KUMMERS ARE VICIOUS AND VULGAR”
• Pirate says (s)he’d rather see Blaine die than to see him be with Kurt, “ALL KURTOFSKY SHIPPERS ARE VIOLENT AND ABUSIVE”

If I was to say right now that I only shipped Klaine because I have a hair gel fetish and seeing Blaine’s hair gelled down like it’s a freaking a helmet turns me on (this is not accurate in the least by the way :D) that wouldn’t mean that all Klainers ship Klaine because they want to ravish Blaine’s concrete hair.

I like Blaine because of a gazillion reasons I practically wrote essays on on this blog. It’s not because of Darren, because as I said earlier, I didn’t know who Darren was before I started shipping Klaine.

I’m not saying that the fact that Darren is playing Blaine has no relevance at all to why I like him, because that would be lying. Because some of the things that Blaine does are things that I’m pretty sure that Darren came up with. Like:

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Actors tend to bring a lot into their characters, and Darren does, too. He balances out the preppy Dalton school boy with goofy dance moves, and I love that. But, I should also add that part of the reason I love Kurt so much is because of Chris, part of the reason I love Rachel so much is because of Lea, and so on… Don’t deny that actors affect how much we care about characters, because they do. I’m sure that we can all agree that Glee would be much different if it was an entirely different cast.

I would still love and support Blaine even if he was played by someone else. Yes, there are people that love him only because of Darren, but that doesn’t mean that the entire Klaine subfandom feels that way.

And also, Klainers aren’t idiots. Kummers aren’t vulgar. There are Klainers that send death threats to Kummers, there are Kummers that send death threats to Klainers. There are assholes on both sides, so stop taking what one person does and using that to classify a ship.

(that gif goes with everything it’s magic)

And I know that no1curr but I’m just pissed at my dash…

So, I’m freaking fed up with all of the Blaine hate on my dash, so I’m making these posts about every episode Blaine has been in. This, is my Klaine-cap for 2x06 Never Been Kissed.

These are mostly from Blaine’s POV, but I have a reason for that. There was a time (2x12-2x14 to be exact) where I was very mad at Blaine and jumped the Klaine ship. Then, I realized that I was only seeing things from Kurt’s POV, because I’m a diehard Kurtsie, and once I looked at things objectively, I started shipping Klaine even harder than before.

“The Warblers are like rockstars”, and Blaine is the lead singer, so that makes me believe that Blaine is probably one of the most popular guys at Dalton. And considering the way that all of the Warblers practically worship him, I’m pretty sure that he’s used to always being complimented. 

Now, we introduce Kurt. Blaine has no reason at all to trust this boy, he is from a competing show choir, and he (by his own admission) is here to spy on them.  Now, if this was New Directions, and Blaine had come to spy on them, can you even imagine what their lead singer, Rachel, would have done? She would have practically murdered him. I guess we can’t know for sure what she would do, but it certainly wouldn’t be this

But Blaine, Wes and David are incredibly kind to him even though they have absolutely no reason at all to be. So, over coffee, Blaine realizes that he and Kurt have been through the same things, but since he is now free from the situation that is troubling Kurt, he decides to take on the role of mentor.

One more thing that is extremely important in this scene, to me, is that he recognized that Kurt was having troubles even though he had met him only a couple of minutes ago. He realized in a couple of minutes what it took Kurt’s friends at New Directions weeks to realize.

He gives Kurt advice, and there is no way in hell that he could have anticipated what was going to happen. The fact that people are pissed off at him for telling Kurt to “confront [Karofsky]” and to “refuse to be the victim” blows my mind.  Isn’t it what our parents tell us all the time? If someone is being mean to you, don’t just let them push you around, refuse to be bullied, refuse to be the victim. This is practically guidance counselor 101, and I’m sure that Dad of the year Burt Hummel has said the same thing to his son a gazillion times. “No one pushes the Hummels around”. Doesn’t that translate to refuse to be the victim? So why are you getting pissed at Blaine for saying the same thing?

“Courage”. This shows us that Blaine has been thinking about Kurt during the day, and that he is trying to encourage him to stand up to his bullies and do what he himself didn’t have the courage to do.  It might be brief, but they just met, so telling him his life story over text would probably be a bit forward.  It’s extremely considerate of Blaine to do this, because he barely knows the guy.  This should at least show that Blaine is a nice guy.

Karofsky kisses Kurt. Kurt is shocked, and they confront Karofsky together. Now before I get into the confrontation, the fact that Kurt called Blaine shows that for one, he trusts Blaine, which is extremely important, especially considering how hard it probably is for Kurt to trust people.

Now for the confrontation… Blaine is still seeing himself as this “cool mentor” type of person to Kurt.  I’m not going to deny that Blaine thinks very highly of himself, but to be honest he has every right to. Not because he’s this perfect character that some Klainers make him out to be, but because everyone at Dalton practically worships the ground that he walks on. If everybody at your school treated you like you were royalty, wouldn’t you get a little smug, too? So, he asks Kurt to “let [him] do all the talking”, because he’s used to everyone listening to him at Dalton. He’s grown used to the safe environment there. And he’s far from perfect, his speech was far from perfect, but you can’t deny that he had the best intentions in mind. He was trying to help Kurt, when most of his friends wouldn’t. So, he talks to Karofsky giving him another textbook “How to come out 101” speech, and of course it doesn’t work. But Blaine is just a boy, and while he thinks that he is, he is not equipped to deal with situations this major. So, the things that he says backfires, and suddenly Karofsky is shoving him against the fence.

At that point, Blaine freezes. Could he have tried to shove Karofsky? Yes, but he had been away from situations like this for so long. At this point, he was used to Dalton being this amazing place where everybody was his friend, and he hadn’t dealt with people like Dave for a long time. So, he freezes. And considering that from what we know, his past has been more violent than even Kurt’s, this is more than understandable.  It doesn’t make sense to hate him because he wasn’t able to do what Sam did. Sam is my hero for defending Kurt like that, but he doesn’t have the same past that Blaine has, at least not that we know of. So, in this instance, Blaine wasn’t able to defend Kurt like he should have, but that makes him human, not a jerk.

So, let’s recap. This guy that Blaine doesn’t even know comes to spy on him, but then Blaine completely lets go of the fact that he spied on the Warblers, and he tries to take Kurt under his wing. He goes all the way over to McKinley to help defend this guy, he gets shoved against a fence and is reminded of his violent past. But, still, when Kurt says that he’s upset because up until then he’d never been kissed, Blaine offers to buy him lunch.

Verdict: ASSHOLE.

And now, for our Blaine obviously makes Kurt miserable gif post of the episode:

argumentisinvalid:

WHILE HAVING DRUKEN ANAL SEX WITH STRANGERS AT A BAR

Uuuh.. So normally I reblog your posts with a really long explanation of why I disagree with you, but I’m just going to let this one speak for itself…

I guess I missed the episode where Blaine was having a drunk orgy

argumentisinvalid:

KURT SPENDING ALL OF SEASON ONE TRYING TO BE HIMSELF MEANS NOTHING

Ooh, it’s you, hi again :)

Let’s imagine what it’s like to be Kurt for a second, shall we? He had to leave school because of a closeted jock that threatened to kill him. Now, how much I love Karofsky and how much I want him to come out of the closet is neither here or there, because Kurt believed back then that Karofsky genuinely would have killed him if he stayed.  So, he had his life threatened, and left all of his friends to come to this new school.

This school is Dalton. Dalton, is a private school, where everybody wears uniforms and conformity is encouraged. Now, due to the zero tolerance bullying policy, nobody there would have hurt Kurt. But, if you saw Special Education, you’d probably realize that the Warblers (and probably Dalton in general) didn’t really take too kindly to Kurt’s individuality. When he made that adorable joke about coal mines and Pavarotti, Blaine was the only one who laughed, while the others were judging Kurt, and Kurt was obviously embarrassed.

Now, Kurt has no idea how this school works. He thinks that the Warblers are about standing out and being as loud as you can. But Blaine, who has been at this school for God knows how long, knows that individuality isn’t encouraged in Dalton. And, the only way that Kurt is going to fit in with the Warblers is if he “doesn’t try so hard”.

“Why should Kurt have to fit in? He’s amazing just the way he is” - Yes he is. However, this brings me to my point above, that Kurt has just left all of his friends back in McKinley, he’s going through a very hard time, and I’m pretty sure that the last thing he needs is to feel like an outcast at Dalton, too.

Blaine wants him to make friends, and he wants Kurt to adjust to Dalton (because it’s obviously a very difficult change), so he gives him tips on how he can be accepted in Dalton.

Once again, the key point here, is accepted IN DALTON.

Think about The Substitute, where Blaine and Kurt are gushing over Vogue and Patti LuPone. Did Blaine look like he was disapproving of Kurt’s individuality back then? Nope. This isn’t about Blaine accepting Kurt, this is about Blaine helping Kurt be accepted at Dalton.

Blaine has never discouraged Kurt from being himself, he has never told him to “tone it down”, he didn’t criticize Kurt for the things he struggled with in season 1.

Kurt’s struggles to be accepted by his father and his friends in season 1 is not related to Blaine helping Kurt adjust to a new school by telling him how things work there.

waytotheend:

This is generalizing because I’ve read lots and lots of comments that said, “Honestly? I love Darren Criss, I don’t care if Blaine is an ass I like him because he’s Darren’s character”. I’m not saying that everyone says this, but lots of people do. So to use sarcasms with this, is kind of pointless because it’s true, there are people that only like Blaine because he’s portrayed by Darren.

Yup. There are also people that only watch Glee because of Darren. Just like there are people who watch the show only for Brittana, or only for Finchel, or only for Will Schuester.  However, this doesn’t mean that the only reason one can possibly ever love Blaine is because he is played by Darren, and a lot of people are suggesting that every single person who likes Blaine only does so because he is Darren’s character, and that there is no legitimate reason to actually like him. And that, in my opinion, is not true.

I try to reply to messages in the other person’s ask box, because I don’t want to spam anybody’s dash, but since you’re one of the grey faced folk I’m just going to answer here.

I’m not trying to get everyone to love Blaine.  The purpose of this blog isn’t to show people how awesome Blaine is, or how perfect he is, or how he is the greatest character ever created in the history of television, because while some people worship Blaine, I don’t think that about him.  Yeah, I love Blaine, but he’s a new character who’s storyline kept changing due to public reception, so I don’t love him to the extent that some others do, mainly because I don’t know him enough to love him that much.

That being said, the day I started this blog there was A LOT of Blaine hate on my dash centered around Blaine being selfish, and Blaine being an asshole. Those were the things that I saw, and those were the things that I’m reffering to in this blog.

You are actually the first person I’ve seen to make the arguement that Blaine is too perfect.. People used to say that in the first couple of episodes that Blaine was in, but suddenly he went from being too perfect to being too flawed.

If you look at some of the Anti-Blaine blogs, I’m sure that you’ll see that the general consensus is that Blaine is a selfish asshole that doesn’t care about Kurt and clearly doesn’t deserve Kurt.

If you don’t like Blaine, or if you think that he’s boring, I’m completely fine with that. I don’t agree, because I think that in the Substitute the way he and Kurt interacted was adorable, and I think that we just haven’t seen that side of him yet, but that’s your opinion and I respect that. I just think that the arguements about Blaine being a horrible, selfish character are ungrounded, and I’m trying to respond to the mean things said about him and the Klaine subfandom in general.

I don’t know if any of this made any sense, sorry :D

argumentisinvalid:

REFUSE TO SLOW-DANCE WITH HIM, DISS HIS OUTFIT, AND SUGGEST THEY LEAVE

Hi again :)

First of all, thanks for trolling this blog, you’re the only one who’s spent the energy to do so, and tbh it’s far more entertaining this way.

Let’s start with “refuse to slow dance with him”.

When did Blaine EVER refuse to slow dance with Kurt?

“Excuse me, uh, may I have this dance?” - WOW BLAINE, AT LEAST LET HIM DOWN EASY, WON’T YOU?

They slow danced. And Blaine asked Kurt to slow dance, but if you’re talking about the Jar of Hearts scene, how do you know that Blaine refused to slow dance with Kurt? Are you secretly Ian Brennan? We don’t know why they weren’t dancing together, and you’re assuming that Blaine refused to dance with Kurt based on NOTHING, and considering that Blaine asked Kurt to dance merely minutes later, I’m assuming that that arguement is false.

Now, for the “diss his outfit” part.

Let’s travel to an alternate universe now. If Kurt was beaten up viciously at a school dance, and Blaine asked him to go to prom, wouldn’t you be calling Blaine insensitive right now? This isn’t implying that Kurt is insensitive or anything, he is actually the exact opposite, and he wanted Blaine to come to his prom so that they could work on his issues together, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was very, very hard for Blaine.  

So, I’m assuming that having the crap beaten out of you because of who you are isn’t a fun experience, and Blaine didn’t want a repeat of that. He also wanted to make sure that Kurt was safe, and he knew that the people at the prom wouldn’t be too friendly, so he was probably hoping that they could blend in as much as they could, and leave the prom unscathed.

But Kurt wore a kilt. Now, I’m really glad that he wore that kilt and showed everybody that he wouldn’t change for anybody, but how do you think the homophobes at McKinley would react to the only out gay student wearing a kilt? Blaine didn’t want to draw any attention, so he agreed with Burt. He didn’t say “Kurt, I don’t want you to wear that kilt” or “I don’t like that kilt” or “I won’t go to prom with you if you wear that kilt”. He said “We just don’t want to give anyone a reason to cause any trouble”. TO CAUSE ANY TROUBLE. He didn’t want Kurt to wear that kilt because he didn’t want him and Kurt to get hurt. 

When the preview first aired, I thought that Blaine dissapproved of the kilt and I was very, very pissed at him. But after seeing the episode I saw that he didn’t disapprove of the kilt. I’m sure that if it was just the two of them, he would have no objections to the kilt whatsoever. But he knew how the others would react. That’s why he told Kurt he agreed with Burt. But, I repeat, never did he say “don’t wear that kilt”, or tried to control Kurt and make him into something that he’s not.

“Suggest they leave”.

I’m sure that if your boyfriend was just humiliated in front of his own school that you would want to stay there forever and ever, right?

Kurt was in a horrible mood. He was angry, he was devastated, he was frustrated, and his prom night was ruined.  Is it wrong that Blaine asks him if he wants to leave? Once again, he doesn’t say “I’m bored, let’s go”, or “Come on I’ve had enough”. He says “do you want to leave?”

This isn’t a matter of Blaine being bored, it’s a matter of Kurt being upset and Blaine not knowing what to do about it. They had two choices, they would either leave, or they would go back in there. I, personally, would NEVER have had the courage to do what Kurt did (I’m assuming that a lot of you wouldn’t either), and I’m sure that if it was at his old school, Blaine never would have been able to do something like that. As he said, “he ran.” So he assumed that Kurt would like to do the same, he didn’t know that Kurt was strong enough to do what he himself couldn’t do.

The next time you have something negative to say about Blaine, I want you to reverse the roles. I want you to think about Blaine as Kurt, and about Kurt as Blaine. Think that it was Kurt who asked Blaine who was upset if he wanted to leave. Think that it was Kurt who warned Blaine that his choices might lead to violence, and that he didn’t want them to get hurt, especially after what  he went through in the past. Think that it was Kurt who attended Blaine’s prom even though he’s been beaten up at a school dance in the past, and tell me if you still think that Blaine is selfish.