while they did live happily ever after

I don't read Glee fics so I can't talk about trends, but as far as the character goes, I can actually kind of see that. Puck might be the biggest physical bully of the Gleeks (I'm thinking Quinn beats him hands down in the emotional/psychological bullying, or at least she did back when she was on top of her game and not randomly playing mommy to half the cast), but I feel like it's just something to do for him, whereas Quinn deliberately chooses her victims and her words are meant to hurt them specifically. If that makes sense? I was about to say that Puck's bullying is more about maintaining an image, but it's not even that because that would imply he cares about the way others perceive him - which I actually guess could be true, given how upset he was re: Quinn's Lima loser comment, but that might also be because he cares about her specifically. I am rambling POINT BEING, Puck just goes around throwing kids into dumpsters because it's the thing to do and he's bored and he can and he doesn't really seem to think about it too much. And the thing about Puck "letting the girl be who she wants to be" is really just Puck not caring. It doesn't matter if you're loud and obnoxious or a self-righteous bitch or get your entire wardrobe from Hot Topic because he's the last person in the world who should be judging anyone, and he knows that, so he doesn't. It's not accepting, exactly, just kind of letting things be, maybe because he just doesn't care (especially if he's getting some from a reasonably attractive girl) or maybe because he recognizes that in himself and in others. I don't know. I feel like Puck is accepting, but his version of accepting isn't an active sort of accepting (which is funny because he seems like an active sort of guy in general) rather than just seeing things for the way they are and being able to deal with it, instead of trying to fix it or improve it or pretend to be in a musical where you can just sing all your problems away, like everyone else in the cast. Dear God, this made sense in my head, I swear, but I've been hopped up on cough syrup all week.

Basically what I really wanted to say was I actually ended up reading that fic and holy shit am I kind of in love with it. It kind of makes me think of what my writing style wants to be, with the present tense and snarky asides and Capitalization For Emphasis, except it's actually well-written.