meta! (icon apporpriate only for how I've been spending my time)

[jade_sabre]

sadly not by me, but still awesome.

I think I am avoiding posting about how my days have been going because, um, if I did I would have to start thinking about how I'm graduating, and then I would cry all over my laptop. So instead we are all being WEIRDLY MOODY and getting UPSET ABOUT RANDOM THINGS like HOW FLIPPING CASTLE/BECKETT IS BEATING PUCK/RACHEL HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE ANY CHEMISTRY

as we were saying, Castle basically relies on the success of other shows (e.g. Bones and The Mentalist), which doesn't make it bad, but doesn't make it compelling to those who are fans of the other shows (especially if the other shows actually have chemistry, see Bones). Anyway vote for Zutara, etc. etc., show Usagi/Mamoru (Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask) some love because they are hurting. I think so far those are the only ones I'm really worried about (not that there aren't other ships in there that I love, but so far everyone is doing okay.)

(Having to pick between Mulan/Shang and Tiana/Naveen based on hotness is pretty cruel though. Both couples are pretty smoking.)


Anyway! On the subject of Puck/Rachel, which is my Glee OTP (although I am really fond of this Jesse/Rachel thing that's going on because Rachel just looks so happy. Also I am really fond of the last two episodes of Glee because, aside from Will, it's actually been...watchable). Ariel has been sending me links to fic as rewards for finishing my homework (one paper left!), and with a link to this one (haven't read yet, have to hang up Disney pictures first...and then probably, like, color more...), she sent me the following meta:

[note: this was clearly written while under the influence of lots of Puck's POV fic. Just sayin'.]

In other fanfic news, the other day I read a Puck/Tina fic. One of my authors recommended it and I was like what the heck sure. I find it interesting that the one quality that everyone seems to attribute to Puck, whether they be Puckleberry, Quick [really, Quinn/Puck shippers? or, better response, LIKE THEIR SEX LIFE], or Puck/Tina shippers is that Puck always lets the chick be who she really is when she's with him. Rachel is fuckin' crazy, Quinn is a self-righteous pregnant bitch, and Tina is well we're not as certain what Tina is as she's a side character on the show, but Puck definitely doesn't mind that she's all emo and shit. I just find that Puck having that quality to be intriguing since he's the biggest bully of the Gleeks on the show. Puck isn't known for his tolerance. But he did walk down the halls of school with Rachel on his arm that one week he and Berry were dating. And he did quit football for her. While Finn punked out (both in the football vs. glee thing and the glee yearbook photo thing) and Artie flat out told Tina she needed to change if they were going to be together. Well, I actually can't reflect on this anymore right now because I have to get to lab...

Ariel

P.S. Also the chick is always represented as the one girl that can put up with Puck's badassness and see through his shit. Are the characters really that similar or is this just a necessary quality for a woman who's going to be with "the Pukerone"?


SO, fellow watchers-of-Glee/sellouts-like-me, thoughts? Anyone else notice these trends in Puck fic? Anyone more familiar with the first nine episodes than I am want to let me know what we see of Puck's character? PLEASE, DISCUSS.

Comments

[spellcoats.livejournal.com]

/voted for Ed/Winry over Usagi/Mamoru :|

Mulan/Shang is better than Tiana/Naveen because Tiana and Naveen only sing and dance. Mulan and Shang sing and kick ass with kung-fu. Be a man!

[keestone.livejournal.com]

Castle relies on being totally awesome. (And Nathan Fillion of course.) Even if the two "main" characters had no chemistry together (which I think they do, if mostly because they're having so much fun), it would still be fine when everybody is so awesome. :) If they'd had this kind of character interaction and sheer fun for The Dresden Files, it would have been the great show it could have been instead of a flop.

Glee has been watchable? I may have to try again. I'd given up.

[farens.livejournal.com]

Firstly, I agree that Mulan/Shang pwns because honestly they are just better and they bicker more (which clearly means they like each other more) and really, although Tiana/Naveen was nice, I feel like it went too quickly and there just wasn't enough time for their relationship to develop enough to be believable. AND Naveen is a womanizer, and I'm not okay with that. Shang has some dignity.

Also, on the topic of Glee, um I pretty much caught up with what's been going on since early April on my lovely IMDB...and I'm sort of like wtf, I mean...i'm really not okay with this Will thing. He's being an idiot. I'm okay with Emma, but WILL? And wtf, IDINA MENZEL was on and that made me happy except for randomly making out with Will...and oh, yeah, I'm NOT NOT NOT OKAY with Jesse. Sorry. I'm a Finn/Rachel lover. Jesse seems too good to be true. What I don't get is how she was so freaky and obsessive when dating Finn but we don't get a lot of that with Jesse...I don't know. Also...Puck hasn't been getting a lot of time lately...I don't know, he's there but not nearly as important. Ohh...and Kurt being all "let me set up my dad and Finn's mom because OH THEY HAVE DEAD SPOUSES AND I SECRETLY HAVE A CRUSH ON FINN" was a bit awkward but I think it's sweet that Finn has a father figure in his life now. Honestly, I'm not a huge Glee fan but I have been procrastinating (four more days of senior year left XD) and that was something available to watch at my leisure. So yeah. Let me know what you think...

[kayefierch.livejournal.com]

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.