The mystery of the "medium" part of Blaine's coffee

[wowbright]

While googling the definition of "glasz" the other day (because I had read it in a fanfic and had never seen the word before, and I'm a professional editor for Pete's sake), I found this great Tumblr meme of the tag glasz. I say "great" because the first entry is a hilarious, if short, diatribe on the author's least favorite Kurt/Blaine fanfic tropes, including the idea "that a medium drip is a specialty drink.  It’s drip coffee.  In a medium cup.  Seriously." (You can see the author's Tumblr page here, but I warn you, it is a spoiler-rich zone.)

But I also was disturbed by the diatribe because I always though the "medium" part of "medium drip" meant "medium roast." And I've been in love with that idea because I hate dark roast, and the fact that a character would specify something other than dark when he orders his coffee just made me so happy.

Am I the only one who thought that? Is the Lima Bean too small of a shop to offer at least one each of a light, medium, dark and French roast on a continual basis? Alternatively, is it too hoity-toity to name its coffees by the degree of roast? Would it instead name them by country of origin? Would it follow the stupid marketing trend of giving coffees totally meaningless names like "Thanksgiving Blend" and "Celebration Blend" and "Summer Roast"?

Please tell me I am not the only one who thought that Blaine drinks nothing but medium-roast drip coffee – well, and maybe a light roast when he's feeling daring. It is such an integral part of my headcanon; I don't think I can ever let that idea go.

(Oh, and if you want to know my least favorite Kurt/Blaine fanfic trope, it's calling Kurt a countertenor in a context unrelated to his singing. Like, he's practicing at Glee rehearsal and gets called a countertenor – awesome; he's in the middle of making out with Blaine and "The countertenor ran his hand slowly down the curly-haired boy's bare stomach and really, really did not want to stop at that &%^*ing waistband" – well, you've just distracted me in what was otherwise a totally hot make-out scene. Just write Kurt and Blaine please, and I will be so so happy.)

Comments

[likeasouffle.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen it very much, honestly it may have only been one or two stories, but it stuck with me as a "why would you even do that" example of how not to write.

Hm, I think I agree that Puck isn't very religious, but he did try to have a streak of singing only songs by Jewish artists, so I think it means something to him beyond just using it to make people like him. And he talked about how every year girls at his synagogue show up with nose jobs, which means he still goes. And he said he went to temple with his Nana to pray for Kurt's dad.

I didn't actually know I knew this much about Puck with regard to religion, LOL.

[wowbright.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I forgot about the Jewish artists thing. I remembered about him going to synagogue and praying with his Nana (oh, those last four words just make me gush). My headcanon about him not being religious comes from when he was locked in the portapotty for 24 hours and didn't think he'd get out so he finally decided to pray to every god he could think of without discrimination. Of course, I was forgetting the part where he decided it was the God he grew up with who sent him rescue in the form of Lauren Zises (sp?) So maybe he's actually more religious now then he was in S1 or the first part of S2. Which I totally get; people's religious status is rarely stagnant.

My headcanon on Puck gets more and more complex by the minute!

[likeasouffle.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I forgot about that. "God, Allah, Satan, help me!" And then "Are you an angel?"

Based mostly on praying for Burt, I have decided Puck is kind of religious, but also uses it to connect with people, like you said.

And wow, this went off on a tangent, LOL. In conclusion, names are good. People should use them.

[wowbright.livejournal.com]

Amen!