Kurt Hummel's so bright I gotta wear shades

Season 3, Episode 5, below the cut.

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My very brief thoughts about tonight's episode are below the cut.

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Warnings: What I would call a pretty insignificant mention of something that happened in Season 4 Episode 4, and mention of something that might have happened in the preview for Season 4 Episode 5.

I am completely beside myself. I haven't been able to get FOX with my antenna for a couple of years now, and none of my neighbors or RL friends watch it religiously, so I generally have to wait until each episode goes up somewhere on the internet. (It wasn't so bad when Hulu posted 24 hours afterward, but they switched to an 8-day delay this season. Enough time to get everything spoiled.)

I'm fed up with the arrangement. So I spent this evening after work and before Glee moving the televison from place to place in the house until FOX came in consistently. 3 minutes before airtime, it happened! Okay, so the TV was on a dresser and I was sitting on a pillow on the floor, wedged between a cat tree and a closet door, but I got to watch the episode as it aired. That was so exciting in and of itself that I have absolutely no idea what happened during the entire episode, except when Kurt and Blaine danced together during "Last Friday Night."

Oh, and the preview for next week. Was there an actual lip-lock, or was I just getting carried away in my own imagination?

(If anyone actually reads this and chooses to comment, DO NOT tell me what happens in next week's episode. You can mention what happens in the preview ad, but otherwise this is a NO SPOILER ZONE. Thanks!)

So, if you read my first fanfic, you know that I'm a sex-positive type when two people are in love. So I was so glad to find this lovely story the other day by flaming_muse called One Saturday Night. It's about Kurt and Blaine's first time, told from Blaine's perspective, and Kurt is so seductive in it – mostly with his eyes, because that's just how Kurt is. It's sexy but it's not porny (IMHO) and it stole my heart. I've since been reading through lots of flaming_muse's stuff and it's all wonderful. (Also, don't miss flaming_muse's Ties if, like me, you were caught offguard by Blaine's ensembles the first episode of this season. It explains a lot.)

One that I've read multiple times this week is On a Summer's Day by what_larks. It's summary is "Kurt’s summer, told in four months and four senses." It's short, basically a prose poem, and it is sensual and vivid and gah unf (even though what_larks is a self-proclaimed prude and does not write about sex). Read it and faint with gladness.

I've been working on an angsty, angsty Klaine fic on and off for the past month to resolve some of the issues I have with Blame It on the Alcohol. (And who doesn't have issues with that one?) I was a little obsessive about it this weekend so I planned to take a break today. And as I was innocently going about other things, a sentence popped into my head and I sat down to type it. 2,500 words later, I have an almost-finished nice piece of Klaine fluff. Well, fluff by my writing standards. Which means the characters spend less than 20% of the time sobbing.

So, this leaves the question of how to post this story. I could do it as a regular journal entry, but I've also seen where people just put the title and summary in their journal and it links to another page without all the distracting sidebars. So, if anyone reads this and wants to explain to me how that is done, you will win the title of "awesomesauce supreme."

I have been listening to nielrian's Glee podfics obsessively for the past week. It started last Saturday with mary_flanner's Scholars and Gentlemen. I had been reading a lot of fan fic last week because I had the flu and only one book out of the library, and on the last day of bed rest (Friday) I discovered mary_flanner's Sally Meets Harry and just couldn't stop reading. I stayed up until 1 a.m. reading it, which you really aren't supposed to do when you're sick; and when I woke up on Saturday, I wanted to run right back to the computer to start reading again.

But I was also feeling healthy enough to work on processing the two or three bushels of apples that sat in my kitchen the whole time I had the flu, waiting for me to put them up for the winter. And I thought that moving around would probably be good for me after being so sick.

I remembered seeing in the comments section a back-and-forth between mary_flanner and one of her readers about a recording the reader had done of some of mary_flanner's work. So I went back and found the link and downloaded the entire series. I spent all day peeling and chopping apples and laughing and crying and feeling my heart torn out and then put back in again. Seriously, I don't think I've felt so many intense feelings in so short a time span since I fell in love with my partner four years ago.

I haven't listened to podfics before this, but I listen to a lot of audiobooks and nielrian is right up there with the best of the readers. I am currently also listening to Evelyn's Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, which is read by Jeremy Irons, and I can say without a doubt that nielrian's reading is much better that Jeremy Irons'.

I spent Sunday re-listening to the Scholars and Gentlemen stuff and then also started downloading nielrian's other Glee podfics. I've been listening to them for the past week; her selections are awesome and her reading is spot-on. Alas, I came to Chapter 5 of aelora's Together We Are the Oceans and realized that was it.

Now I'm stuck listening to only Jeremy Irons.

So I suppose it may be time to expand my podfic universe and check out other readers. I wonder where to start.
If anyone ends up reading this and has recommendations, I'd love to hear them.