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Kurt: You know Britt gives Santana flowers everyday? You could do something like that.
Sebastian:* the next day shoving flowers into Santana's hands*
Santana: What's the occasion, Beanpole?
Sebastian: Girl, fuck if I know
Kurt: Are you a strained relationship with parents gay or a surprisingly healthy relationship with parents gay.
Sebastian and Santana *doing finger guns*: Yes.
To this day Glee is one the few shows that managed to feature queer characters of color with actual depth in their personalities and become a mainstream phenomenon , that didn’t get fucking cancelled or have to kill of it’s queer characters, or have to settle for queerbaiting it’s audience for seven seasons only to give them a two minute confession and a last minute kiss, yeah Glee isn’t perfect but show me a show that did better.
I’m just really tired of the Glee hate I always see both inside and outside the fandom. Like there’s a lot of posts making the show into a meme of sorts nowadays, but people seem to forget how much it meant back in the day
I mean where else could the gay kid with a dad like Burt come out and be told that he’s still just as loved, and be supported unconditionally by said father every moment afterwards? How many shows are there like that now?
Where else could the hot cheerleaders make out and it’s not just queer bait or fan service? Where there’s actually a genuine, emotional, heart felt story surrounding it? How many shows do you know like that?
Part of Glee’s whole thing was subverting stereotypes. Yes, you’ve got the sassy black girl, the gay who loves fashion, the bitchy cheerleader, the ditzy blonde, the asshole jock. But those characters are so much more than that. Even though they fell into said stereotypes at times, I think the show spent much more time showing the characters behind the clichés
Mercedes could be vulnerable, and soft, and loving. She didn’t always have to be the Strong Black Woman that didn’t need no man
Kurt could be serious, and tough, and masculine. He didn’t always have to be the sassy gbf
Quinn could be selfless, Brittany could be smart, Puck could be kind.
And right out of the gate, the cast of characters was so diverse. The only main characters that actually fit the bill of a cis, straight, white, able bodied male were Will and Finn. Sam and Ryder were both dyslexic. I guess you could count Mason later on, but even he was on the Cheerios, which I’d argue was a good way to subvert the typical image of masculinity
For six years, we got to meet and fall in love with multiple gay, lesbian, trans, and bi characters. Characters that were black, Asian, Latina, and mixed race. Characters that were Jewish and atheist, as well as several denominations of Christian. Characters with anxiety, OCD, depression, dyslexia, down syndrome, bulimia, paraplegia. And most of the characters can check off multiple boxes
Glee gave us dozens of characters that we would have never found anywhere else. It gave us happy endings for characters that usually don’t receive them
We got to see the big black girl with big dreams get everything she ever wanted. We got to see the broken Cheerio learn to love herself, and let others in, in the process. We got to see a gay and a lesbian couple go through the same highs and lows typically afforded to any average heteronormative high school relationship, and end with the gayest double wedding ever aired on television
You don’t have to preface every shred of positivity about the show with “Glee wasn’t perfect but…”. Every show has its flaws. It’s redundant to keep rehashing that point when there’s other things to talk about. Glee tried harder in 2009 than a lot of shows do now. Glee did more for unheard voices in 2009 than most of the shows out there now
No one is accusing this show of being perfect, trust me. But it tried. Maybe sometimes they tried too hard, or maybe sometimes things got a little crazy. But the heart was always there. People today don’t seem to know, or seem to have forgotten how revolutionary this show was. It changed representation in a big way. And no matter what, I’ll always be grateful for it, and I’ll always love the wonderful characters the show has given us over the years
S2 Santana was like
I just don’t get it Blaine can attempt sexually assault people , Santana can tear down people unprovoked, Rachel can send a girl to a crack house for being more talented than her, Sue can date rape a guy for blackmail.
But its Kurt who deserves to have every single insecurity he has thrown into his face by someone he'd grown to trust and love because he tried to look out for her after w he fucking watched his ex date a man who threatened to kill him after sexually assaulting him.
Puck can exploit Quinn’s insecurities and get her drunk to fuck her, and yet Kurt doing a little match-making so he can spend time simply hanging out with Finn is creepy.Great.
The New Directions when Kurt left: If I could get Kurt back I'd be a Hero!
The Warblers when Blaine left: Where is gay cyclops? Still trying to stumble his way in?
Notice how unlike the rest of the main s1 cast there was no Dollar Store version of Kurt in s4 or 6. That’s right hoes my boy is One of A Kind. Rest of yous is basic.
All Kurtana had to do to destroy Sebastian is give him a solo that was supposed to go to Rachel and watch in horror as she tore his eyes out.
Sebastian Smythe is the lovechild of Sugar Motta and Santana Lopez, and Adam Crawford is just British Sam Evans
No screw this why do poc women have to live on the white main character’s scraps , why does Santana getting solos have to mean less solos for Mercedes , literally every scene that would flesh her as a character more were cut so Rachel could do some boring screechy number, her duets and storylines with Mercedes were abandoned in favour of Pezberry, what even was that. Why did a perfectly iconic and talented character like Tina have to be shat on every two seconds for no real reason, whereas Rachel hears the truth for a second she’s a victim of bullying it’s her against the world, she’ll rise above and succeed but for others all this unnecessary bullying is just ,,a fact of life? Don’t blame a cast member for being talented, blame the writers for not knowing how to do their jobs
people don't really acknowledge it, because Rachel is the more obvious culprit, but Santana becoming a main character absolutely had a big part in Mercedes not getting the amount of solos that she used to. by season three, Santana ended up taking solos that Mercedes would've probably had, had Santana remained a background character.
Adam: Hello ,people who don't live here.
Sebastian and Santana: Hey!
Kurt: Guys we gave you that key for emergencies.
Sebastian: It was an emergency! I couldn't sleep.The penthouse is lonely.
Santana: Boohoo I'm too rich to be happy:(
Kurt: What about you, Santana?
Santana: Britt's out of town.
for the girls gays and theys
Santana Lopez did not deserve to have three seasons worth of character development thrown away so the writers could create drama for their boring ass protagonist / insult cast members they hated.
the warblers during Bad
do gleeks not know all the gay and poc characters were there simply to give rachel makeovers, offer contructive criticism , undying support and oppose her for the sake of drama to keep her life interesting? how dare they demand better treatment for their faves.
i’m a seb stan but like,, she wanted to beat the shit out of him the first time she met him she deserves to let her rage out because he’s one of the few people who’d deserve it
you know what i want? a fic where santana beats sebastian up. no plot just. absolutely decking him
glee covers where rachel berry lurks in the shadows without any vocals, chef’s kiss
why all the good gays be having the same damn hair on glee
wlw mlm solidarityyy
favorite glee friendships (and couples)
Day 2 - Samtana 🤍 friends
I love them so much
i love that watching glee is like
character I like comes onscreen: I love this homosexual.
character I hate comes on onscreen: I hate this homosexual