Fic: Falling Is Like This - Chapter 5 of 5

Chapter title: Friday, and the World Is Clear
Characters: Kurt/Blaine pre-dating, Rachel
Rating: PG-13 (entire story)
Spoilers: 2.14 (Blame It On the Alcohol).
Warnings: language
Word count: About 18,000 overall, 1,772 this part
Summary: The fact the he enjoyed kissing Rachel at the party is confusing for Blaine. But what's more confusing is Kurt.
Chapter Summary: Blaine makes a discovery: lips that taste like Cherry chapstick are not all they're cracked up to be. Kurt's glad of that.
Author’s Note: Thank you, verdandil, for your beta-ing and pretty-sobbing.
 
Omigawd, guyz, I can't believe it's over. This chapter is short, and now I want to add like 3,000 words to drag it out, but I won't, because that's not what the story wants. Mean, mean story. Thanks for all of your love and I promise, I will just keep playing with these boys until they make me stop. Which is not gonna happen anytime soon. They told me.

Oh, yeah. The complete author's notes, which include song links and lots of meta, are here.
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( Chapter 5: Friday, and the World Is Clear )

 
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Fic: Falling Is Like This - Chapter 5 of 5

Chapter title: Friday, and the World Is Clear
Characters: Kurt/Blaine pre-dating, Rachel
Rating: PG-13 (entire story)
Spoilers: 2.14 (Blame It On the Alcohol).
Warnings: language
Word count: About 18,000 overall, 1,772 this part
Summary: The fact the he enjoyed kissing Rachel at the party is confusing for Blaine. But what's more confusing is Kurt.
Chapter Summary: Blaine makes a discovery: lips that taste like Cherry chapstick are not all they're cracked up to be. Kurt's glad of that.
Author’s Note: Thank you, verdandil, for your beta-ing and pretty-sobbing.
 
Omigawd, guyz, I can't believe it's over. This chapter is short, and now I want to add like 3,000 words to drag it out, but I won't, because that's not what the story wants. Mean, mean story. Thanks for all of your love and I promise, I will just keep playing with these boys until they make me stop. Which is not gonna happen anytime soon. They told me.

Oh, yeah. The complete author's notes, which include song links and lots of meta, are here.
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( Chapter 5: Friday, and the World Is Clear )

 
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Falling is Like This - Author's Notes & Meta

(If you're looking for the story Falling Is Like This, you can find it here.)

Acknowledgements
Again, thanks to the encouragement of stoney321, who looked at this story early on and told me to get into Blaine's head more. And mountains of indebtedness to the amazing verdandil for gently guiding me on the right path, laughing at the parts I thought were funny, getting choked up at the parts I thought were sad, and telling me I write sexy French. Thanks also to mary_flanner and nielrian who, just by doing what they do on LiveJournal, got me writing again. I love you all.
 
My interpretation of Blaine in this story was probably more than a little influenced by nielrian's Personality Typing Kurt and Blaine. And Blaine's identification with Ali McGraw in Love Story was influenced by a discussion in the comments section of one of mary_flanner's journal entries. I'm betting rm started it, but I'm not sure.
 
And thank you to anyone and everyone who has ever read or commented on my work, with criticism or praise, here or in another realm. It makes me certain that words matter and gives me the courage to write.
 
Song Credits
Fic title is from "Falling is Like This" by Ani DiFranco; Chapter 1 title is from "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure; Chapter 2 title is from "On Tuesday" by Men Without Hats; Chapter 3 title from "It's Already Wednesday" by Freya; Chapter 4 title from "Thursday's Child" by Eartha Kitt; Chapter 5 title from "Friday Street" by Paul Weller.
 
I really wanted to call this story "Man He Looked Good When I Fell Down and Fucked Up His Hair" after a line in "On the Porch in the Rain" by Ben Connelly, because he is the best songwriter ever. The song is kind of perfect, because it's about the morning after a drunken party. But the title was a little too, um, specific, so I didn't. Sorry, Ben.
 
Why I Could Not Refrain from Writing This Story
( includes references to later episodes, including 3.05 )

Falling is Like This - Author's Notes & Meta

(If you're looking for the story Falling Is Like This, you can find it here.)

Acknowledgements
Again, thanks to the encouragement of stoney321, who looked at this story early on and told me to get into Blaine's head more. And mountains of indebtedness to the amazing verdandil for gently guiding me on the right path, laughing at the parts I thought were funny, getting choked up at the parts I thought were sad, and telling me I write sexy French. Thanks also to mary_flanner and nielrian who, just by doing what they do on LiveJournal, got me writing again. I love you all.
 
My interpretation of Blaine in this story was probably more than a little influenced by nielrian's Personality Typing Kurt and Blaine. And Blaine's identification with Ali McGraw in Love Story was influenced by a discussion in the comments section of one of mary_flanner's journal entries. I'm betting rm started it, but I'm not sure.
 
And thank you to anyone and everyone who has ever read or commented on my work, with criticism or praise, here or in another realm. It makes me certain that words matter and gives me the courage to write.
 
Song Credits
Fic title is from "Falling is Like This" by Ani DiFranco; Chapter 1 title is from "Friday I'm in Love" by The Cure; Chapter 2 title is from "On Tuesday" by Men Without Hats; Chapter 3 title from "It's Already Wednesday" by Freya; Chapter 4 title from "Thursday's Child" by Eartha Kitt; Chapter 5 title from "Friday Street" by Paul Weller.
 
I really wanted to call this story "Man He Looked Good When I Fell Down and Fucked Up His Hair" after a line in "On the Porch in the Rain" by Ben Connelly, because he is the best songwriter ever. The song is kind of perfect, because it's about the morning after a drunken party. But the title was a little too, um, specific, so I didn't. Sorry, Ben.
 
Why I Could Not Refrain from Writing This Story
( includes references to later episodes, including 3.05 )

Metabation

I have decided that every post containing my mental masturbation about meta must now be tagged with "metabation."

Because it's the right thing to do.

Metabation

I have decided that every post containing my mental masturbation about meta must now be tagged with "metabation."

Because it's the right thing to do.