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War of the Foxes
It’s one of my favorite quotes. here: Someone has to leave first….
An AU of the Klaine break up, S5/S6
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Young Parisian corset maker Sylvain Nuffer began cutting, stitching and boning corsets for men four years ago and now sells 30-odd standard models a year at 500 to 600 euros (650 to 775 dollars) a shot, 40 percent more when made to measure.
“I felt frustrated by the lack of choice of clothing for men,” he told AFP. “I made one for myself and they kind of multiplied.”
Wearing jeans with a gray silk corset of his own making over a shirt and tie, Nuffer, who learnt the complex trade with his corsetiere mother, stands tall, waist nipped in, shoulders wide, back straight.
Corsets for men have a history, he said, worn by medieval horsemen to protect the spine, adopted by bikers today for the same reason.
But the real inspiration behind Nuffer’s corset - laced up the back with a clip-open busk at the front - dates back to the heady days of the 1789 French Revolution.
Male followers of utopian philosopher and economist, Count Claude Henri de Saint-Simon, at the time adopted the corset precisely because it was impossible to lace up alone. Having to help each other with the ties symbolised the humanitarian helping-other ideals of the Saint-Simonien movement.
Critics derided Nuffer’s early creations, however, saying a garment stiffened with a multitude of bones and stays would be uncomfortable.
Not so, said one adept, Laurent Renaud, who teaches at a fashion school and wears his everyday. “I wear it over a shirt or under a sweater,” he said. “I use it as daywear or to go out at night.”
“The problem,” he added, “is you get so used to it keeping you straight that it gets difficult to go without.”
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Silver?
“Why on earth would you paint yourself silver?” Finn whispered, standing in the doorway of the bathroom as Sam rubbed frantically at his face with a washcloth, silver face paint covering him from the top of his forehead and down to where his V-neck tee, a light grey, started. “Did you use permeant marker or something?”
“It won’t come off,” Sam cried, trying to stay quiet. The Humdel parents had been kind enough to let him stay for the school year, he didn’t want them knowing he’d snuck out for a midnight screening for a double-viewing of the Fantastic-Four movies. He also didn’t want Mr. Burt to see him covered in silver. He knew the man was very kind and accepting of pretty much anything, but he was sure the man didn’t appreciate his bathroom getting covered in silver paint. “Finn!” He whispered, a bit frantic. “Help me!”
“I don’t know what to do!” Finn cried back, stepping into the bathroom to look at Sam through the mirror. “Maybe we should wake up-”
“No.” Sam interrupted, his eyes wide with fear. “Waking up Kurt is the last resort.”
“Why?” Finn asked. “Kurt will know what to do to get the paint off.”
“You really think waking Kurt up-your brother, who bit you when you woke him up from a nap to ask him where the coffee grounds were-will appreciate being woken up to help me de-silverfy?” Sam shook his head, and groaned when another swipe at his face with the wash cloth barely removed anything. “No way.”
“Well,” Finn shrugged. “It’s either I go and wake up Kurt, or you are silver until he wakes up in the morning.”
Sam wiped again at his face. He looked in the mirror, and whimpered a bit: he’d been cleaning up for an hour, and he was still mostly silver. He still didn’t want to wake Kurt.
“I’ll just be silver forever,” Sam moaned.
“What are you two-Sam?” Kurt stepped into the bathroom doorway, drawing back in surprise when the pair whipped around to stare at the smaller teen. Kurt was gaping at him, eyebrows upturned as he took in the situation. Finally, after a few moments of awkward silence, Kurt deflated, shaking his head in obvious disappointment. “Sam,” he groaned, rubbing a hand over his eyes. “I told you not to paint yourself silver.”
“Ohhh,” Finn said, registering why Sam didn’t want to wake Kurt. “You didn’t want to wake him, because he told you this would happen.”
“Yes yes yes,” Sam looked to Kurt desperately. “You can lecture me in the morning. Please help me,” Sam begged. He clasped his hands-also silver-and made puppy-dog eyes at Kurt. Kurt, for his part, just looked at him through tired eyes, and sighed again.
“Fine,” he said. “Wait here. Finn, grab the extra washcloths from the cabinet so Sam doesn’t turn this whole bathroom silver.” Kurt strode out of the doorway, Finn tossing Sam a few new washcloths with his order. The pair waited a few minutes, Sam feeling so tired he wondered if it was just best to sleep in the bathroom and wait until morning to clean, just as Kurt reentered, holding a jar in one hand a glass of water in the other.
“Coconut oil,” Kurt told him, setting the jar on the counter and opening it up. “Put this on your skin, wet a washcloth, and it will come off. I suggest taking a shower after since you’ll feel very slick and gross, even if you won’t be silver anymore.”
“Thank you,” Sam replied, relieved. “What’s the water for?” Finn stood from his seat on the bathtub rim, leaving Sam to finally wash off his mistake.
“Me,” Kurt replied. “It’s why I was up.” Before he could stop him, though, Kurt raised his arm, and quickly took a photo, having hid his phone in his pajama pants pocket. “Thanks for not waking me up. Goodnight Sam, Finn.” With that, Kurt quickly, and somehow quietly, dashed back down the hall to his room, before Sam could grab at him.
“Night dude, Finn said with a laugh. “Have fun. See you in the morning.” Sam could only watch, still too silver for retaliation, as the taller teen left him alone. Groaning for what felt like the 100th time that night, Sam stared back at himself in the mirror.
He was never going to paint himself again.
Fantastic-Four be damned.
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Okay so I’m sure all of you have seen this before but I just found about it and it is sending me! They actually used Chris’s version of Le Jazz Hot! And they looked so good!!
Alli’s Glee Songs Ranking
(Day 62)
Season 3 Episode 18 “Choke”
8th Place: The Rain In Spain (Noah Puckerman, Finn Hudson, Blaine Anderson, Artie Abrams, Mike Chang and others)
7th Place: Don’t Rain on My Parade (Rachel Berry)
6th Place: The Music of the Night (Kurt Hummel)
5th Place: School’s Out (Noah Puckerman)
4th Place: Cell Block Tango (Mercedes Jones. Tina Cohen Chang, Santana Lopez, Brittany S Pierce and Sugar Motta)
3rd Place: Cry (Rachel Berry)
2nd Place: Shake It Out (Santana Lopez, Tina Cohen Chang and Mercedes Jones)
1st Place: Not the Boy Next Door (Kurt Hummel)
We need a little christmas always makes me kinda cringe. And I love Chris’s voice so much but the like really high short speak-sing lines he has come off as really sharp? Idk I like most of their Christmas stuff and I’ll still listen to the song I just kinda only like it for the boppiness
I had to go back and listen to this one -- it sounds like the entire song was sped up to make it sound more childlike, which is... weird. And you’re right, Chris is straining again. Eesh. It’s not good. C- at best.
HOWEVER YOU REMINDED ME OF THE SONG THAT I WILL THROW THINGS AT THE TV IF I HAVE TO EVER LISTEN TO IT AGAIN AND THAT IS.... THE CHIPMONK SONG.
Good god, I hate that song.
Apparently, other people don’t mind it. I don’t know, lol.
But back to your thoughts -- it leads a longer conversation about Chris’s voice -- and how sometimes, a high song he can just soar on, and other times, when it’s in that awkward middle range of your voice, he can seem like he’s straining a bit. The thing, though, that people don’t seem to talk about is that Chris’s voice did drop during the show, and his gorgeous lower register wasn’t used as often as I would have liked it. But also, sometimes I don’t think they knew how best to use Chris’s voice when in group numbers.
How did that get in there?
Okay man in the mirror I love and lot and all but I hate watching it. I can listen to it fine but when I watch it I just am forced to see every boy (except for Rory and Mike) even ones who joined after season 1 AND ARE JUNIORS get solos and front spots and Kurt is forgotten. Then glee tries to say he dedicated his final song in the club to the men. HA
ABC is so amazing and exactly what glee is supposed to be! They are all having so much fun and making everyone else have fun. The choreo isn’t overly complex but it looks clean and good and the split solos are so much more accurate and fair and beautiful sounding. If they had just did this from the beginning uggggg
I need an AU where the TroubleTones win and we get Tina and Quinn and Kurt go to the trouble tones because everyone else is too proud or has other outside issues and Rachel is there until she tries to take over and I need this
Honestly forgot the amount BOPS of this ep, mostly I end up remembering the Shelby Quinn Puck storyline but I’m choosing to ignore that this time around.
🎶STAND BACK BUENOS AIRES🎶
Oh my god it’s the Gerber baby
Oh wow sometimes I forget the height difference between Cory and Darren it’s so cute
“Something like that!”
“Cute!”
And also the cute disappointed look on Kurt’s face!! He’s wearing the sweater from the first time and he wanted his boyfriend to do body rolls for him
Kurt’s faces of “why am I friends with these people” “Blaine? Blaine don’t you-”
Why am I attracted exclusively to himbos?
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
YOU SMELL LIKE CRAIGSLIST
I will forever be mad about this not being a full number with Kurt’s verse in ep, but man do they all look so adorable in this number, I think about this number daily
Okay but does anyone else think about the fact that Kurt’s so “woefully thin on extracurriculars” because of all the bullying and cry themselves to sleep
Like Rachel and Kurt can match them vocally but this is a tap number and thus by the laws of musical theater automatically slaps
It’s the Gerber Baby The Current Elphaba of Broadways Wicked
Aghjkllgsrudaaa
The way they smile in this scene!! It’s so in love and adorable and oooop here we go
ITS NOT UNUSUAL—
Me after DDTWID
“Okay Hummelberry can have some rights, as a treat.”