#mormon!klaine meta
Text
@honeysucklepink Blaine thinks Imagine Dragons is pretty cool, but since he doesn't have a crush on the lead singer, he's not quite into them as much as he is into Neon Trees.
He also likes The Killers but wishes they had a more peaceable name.
#mormon!blaine#mormon!klaine meta#neon trees#the killers#imagine dragons#mormon bands#mormon stuff#ask#mormon!klaine#mormon celebrities
12 notes
·
View notes
Note
So at this point in the story - chapter 24/25, Blaine still doesn’t realise he’s gay - is that right? And that l realisation is still to happen? So he had some sort of awakening when he watched the dance competition on tv when he was a teenager, but is still uncertain? I’m enjoying their interaction and the slow burn of it all.
There are way more than 25 chapters. Like 70, maybe--but I don't have an exact account which is why I haven't put one on ao3. (The story is longer than Lord of the Rings, I know that.) On ao3 it should say 24/?. If not, my cat must have logged into my ao3 and fucked shit up (which is absolutely possible, especially since my computer can be controlled not only by keyboard and trackpad, but also by head movements / eye tracking and dictation--and although my cat cannot talk, sometimes the computer decides that random noises are words or numbers). I'll go check.
Blaine has been having a very slow awakening, but no clear realizations. In the scene you're referring to, had a physical reaction to Benji Schwimmer, but he didn't assign meaning to it. This Blaine takes a long time to put words to his feelings. So we can read about his experience and say, "oh, that's sexual attraction," but he hasn't figured that out yet.
4 notes
·
View notes
Note
If you had to insert a fictional character based on your real self into your Mormon!Klaine story, how would you want to interact with or meet the boys?
I mean lets be honest almost every version of Kurt I write has a lot of me in it, but especially this one. One example: we both like our kitchen cupboards organized in a certain way.
Otherwise, maybe I'd meet Blaine in a cat rescue, but that wouldn't be while they were on their mission.
2 notes
·
View notes
Text
Glee character who, in the right circumstances, would be stoked to become Mormon?
Can't be canonically queer or Emma Pillsbury.
#i could just use an oc#but thought it might be fun this way#i was trying to think of a glee adult who wasn't unhinged#but that was hard#maybe terri's sister lol#mormon!klaine meta#mormon!klaine spoilers#crowdsourcing
25 notes
·
View notes
Note
How the hell did you make me like Cooper Anderson?  Also Laura his wife sounds awesome!
I don't know how I made *you* like Cooper Anderson, but I know how I made *me* like him.
And I bet you weren't expecting an essay in response to this, but you are getting one! Because I have so many thoughts about (post)Mormon!Cooper. So many, in fact, that they are going under a cut.
I dictated this. Please excuse typos.
(Oh, and from the timing, I feel it's safe to assume that your ask is in response to the mormon!Klaine vignette Don’t Be a Dumbass.
Canon Cooper is a divisive character. Great for comedic relief but, if he were an actual person in real life, not very likable by most standards. I remember when “Big Brother” came out. Now, memory is a tricky thing and very biased, but as I remember it, before the episode aired, people were headcanoning him as an awesome brother and writing fics about him being super supportive and helping Blaine through tough times in their youth. Because Matt Bomer! Who wants to hate Matt Bomer?
Well, that's not the character we got in the episode. I remember I ticked a lot of people off after that episode aired because their relationship dynamics reminded me of my own relationship with my older brother. I have written vaguely about that relationship elsewhere on Tumblr (probably in the #metabation and/or #gpoy tags), but the short version is that it was abusive and traumatizing (like, PTSD levels of traumatizing for me), and we are pretty much estranged. I brought that experience to “Big Brother” and was like, “oh, you know how we always assumed that Blaine was fucked up because of his parents? Maybe it's his brother!”
I have no interest in forcing that interpretation on anyone else, though. We all bring our own baggage to any text, and that is mine. So I can also see Cooper i as not actually a jerk, but instead somebody who is terribly vain and unaware of how he affects others.
However, that still makes him difficult to turn him into a supportive brother in fic. Some writers neglect or diminish those aspects of Cooper's personality to make him someone Blaine can rely on, and that's fine. It’s fic, and when canon throws us crap, we are free to ignore or change it.
But I am kind of ... unhealthily obsessed with canon characterization? So I wanted to take the vain, unaware Cooper we know from the show and see what a Mormon upbringing followed by a faith crisis might due to his personality. (And yes, I had the ulterior motive that I wanted Blaine to have at least one family member he knew he could rely on for support before he comes out—which is a very big ulterior motive, and can definitely lead me to making him nicer than canon or my universe actually justifies. Unlike mormon!kurt, I’m not perfect.)
I'm going to say something that hopefully nobody will find shocking at this point: Mormonism/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/faith is complex. It can be damaging, and it can also be a literal lifesaver for a lot of people. But I think, for someone like Cooper, growing up in the church could do a lot of good:
His vanity would be tempered in childhood be going to Sunday school every week and learning about being kind to each other.
His self importance might swell a little too much when he got the priesthood, but in my headcanon, he has adults in his church who see that going on and try to counter it. (Some of them tell him off, and others take a gentler approach by showing him how to develop humility.)
His mission would throw him into an environment where he really knew nothing and would, with a modicum of self-awareness, start seeing his shortcomings.
I mean, really. If all he ever did was talk about himself and how great he was, every single one of his companions would hate him. And Cooper might be OK with that at first, but he also craves accolades and approval, so he’d start adapting.
Through his companionships, his mission would also expose Cooper to a lot of different ways of “being Mormon” and “being a family.” He would talk about his family with his companions and realize that not everybody has a completely distant dad, and that generosity and concern for others comes naturally to some people and is not a weakness or something to be feared.
And then comes his faith crisis, which I see as starting sometime in his mission but coming into full bloom at BYU (Brigham Young University, aka “the Lord’s university”). Here’s the thing about BYU: Never-Mormons can attend, but if you are a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and decide to leave, you are automatically expelled. It could be the day before graduation, and if the administration finds out you don’t believe the teachings anymore, you are out of there. Want a degree? Find another school that will accept most of your credits, then pay for one or two more years of college to finish somewhere else.
Under U.S. law as currently interpreted, this is entirely legal. It’s also entirely terrifying to anyone experience a crisis of faith while attending BYU.
Plus, Cooper loves the BYU drama department. (From everything I've heard about it, it's a good drama department.) He doesn't want to leave a place where he's actually getting better at acting and start over somewhere else.
Also, would his parents even continue paying for his college, paritcularly arts college, if he left the church? He honestly doesn't know.
So he hides his true colors.
Such an experience doesn't necessarily make someone develop sympathy for others in similar situations. But this is my fic, so it does. Cooper doesn't know what it's like to be gay, but he does know what it's like to hide. He knows how taxing it is on your soul. He understands the fear. He understands the very real possibility of rejection by people who profess to love you.
In short, he develops sympathy for people in all types of closets.
And then I gave him a healthy romantic relationship that brings out the best in him. That helps, too. (Laura is down-to-earth and has a solid head on her shoulders. Cooper loves that. She’s attracted to Cooper’s boundless energy and his penchant for dreaming. She finds his self-absorption both cute and irritating.)
Cooper is still self-centered a lot of the time. But he is aware of that aspect of himself. And while he can't completely get rid of it (and shouldn't—his career requires self-confidence), he has much more sympathy for others than he used to have. He uses his self-centeredness to understand others (being in situation x hurt me in y way; maybe it's the same for so-and-so and I can use my experience to help them through it). And when he feels his self-importance/self-centeredness getting in the way, or has it pointed out to him by people he trusts, he tries to do better. He leans on his arsenal of less developed personality traits and skills and tries to strengthen them.
So ... Is that how I made you love Cooper?
13 notes
·
View notes
Text
I guess I should've sketched out the timeline for this part of Mormon!Klaine BEFORE I started writing, not a year+ into it.
#But also I know I'm not going to learn from this#because i hate outlining#and to be fair to myself#I knew the general order of things#but now I'm mapping them to specific weeks and ARRRGH#mormon!klaine meta
8 notes
·
View notes
Note
How do you think Elder Hummel and Elder Blaine would handle the pandemic? What about Elder Clarington?
As missionaries?
As missionaries, they really wouldn't have much choice as to how to deal with it. They would be told to follow whatever their leaders told them to do. During COVID-19, some missionaries have been sent home or switch to a different mission, particularly overseas missionaries who were serving in places with complete lockdowns. For missionaries who weren't sent home, much of the work switched from door to door and in person proselytizing to proselytizing over the internet, for example, through social media or by chatting with people on the Church's "talk to a missionary" chat service.
The current policy as I understand it is that missionaries who aren't vaccinated cannot serve abroad. So if you are from the US, you can serve your mission in the US, but not outside the US. And whatever country you're in, you are expected to follow that country's laws--so if there is a mask mandate or you have to show a vaccine card in order to enter public buildings, etc, the church expects missionaries to comply by those rules. (This is a general statement. There might be instances where missionaries get pressured to bend the rules. But I would not expect those instances to be common.)
As people outside of their mission? Neither Kurt nor Blaine have a faith that is hostile to science or scientific inquiry, neither of them are particularly prone to conspiracy theories, and they are both very concerned about "loving thy neighbor." So they would mask up and get the vaccines.
Elder Clarington? He believes in the Dream Mine, so he could also be vulnerable to conspiracy theories. I think he might also have a tendency to think that if he is virtuous, God will protect him from the virus. He's also an individualist, and thinks that anything bad that happens to people is either their own fault or a lesson to them from God, so ... He might not take it upon himself to try to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
That said, he adamantly believes in doing what your superiors tell you to do. And a few(?) months ago, the church leaders came out and publicly encouraged their members to get vaccinated, so unless he had gone super deep into conspiracy theories by that point, I think he'd buck up and do it.
But he would also go to in-person church rather than Zoom church whenever he had the chance, and he probably wouldn't be too careful about making sure the mask was over his nose (or even on his face).
If your question is how would they deal with it emotionally, well, that's complicated and would require many, many more thousands of words of fanfic.
11 notes
·
View notes
Text
Sometimes I wonder if Blaine's dad can really be so awful at parenting when he's apparently functional enough outside of the home, but then I remember my grandparents and I'm like, "Well, duh."
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
As I am revising Mormon!Klaine for AO3, I am of course finding little inconsistencies (like Blaine expecting Chandler to show up at English group before they even tell him about it) and things that need a bit more explanation/context. I'm working on these, but I could miss some. If there are any that you noticed that you want to point out to me or have questions about, please let me know.
#just be nice about it#I know that the part between the mission conference and Blaine coming out need *a lot* of work#so maybe focus comments on the earlier parts lol#mormon!klaine news#mormon!klaine meta
3 notes
·
View notes
Note
Saw this and thought of Mormon Kurt and Blaine
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZML6DY7dX/
Ha! This is Chandler.
2 notes
·
View notes
Note
Answering your reblog question about the scene that stands out in my mind from something that you wrote:
I don't want to give spoilers for you Mormon!Klaine verse so I'll try to be vague. Peeps/Packages/Tackles and the other is Blaine crying/banging his head on his quad when he realizes what he has to go do and he finds the courage to pray and then go do it.
I mean there is another OBVIOUS one, but spoilers!!!! ♥
Aww thanks! I really enjoyed writing those scenes. (Or who knows, maybe I was actually miserable writing them, I very rarely remember the misery parts of writing after I'm done.) The headbanging one was always in the outline in my head, but the Peeps one more or less happened as I wrote it. There were a couple emotional beat that I needed to hit in the outline, and one of them was actually supposed to happen *after* the mission conference, but sometimes the characters disagree with my plans so that's what happened. Kurt surprised me a little. I'm so proud of him.
I think I know which one you mean by OBVIOUS. I'm glad it's memorable for you. It certainly is for Kurt and Blaine. 💕
#ask#anon#meme#my stuff#mormon!klaine meta#sort of#not really#but I don't want to make 8 million mormon!klaine tags#oh wait yes it is meta but just in a different sense#it's meta analysis of the writing process!
0 notes
Last Seen Blogs
ticklefurrv2
Untitled
amishanda
Amishanda
sweettranshoney
Nsft Sexual Paradise X
kanlungancolumbaryph
Kanlungan Columbary, Chapels, and Crematory
crazyinterestsguy
Random Bullshit