Kurtofsky
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[edit]Kurtofsky
- (fandom slang) The ship of characters Kurt Hummel and Dave Karofsky from the television series Glee.
- 2013 May, Hannah Ellison, “Submissives, Nekos and Futanaris: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Glee Kink Meme”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 10, number 1, page 117:
- By drilling down further, the results reveal that half of those are Klaine stories and a third are Kurtofsky (the pairing of Kurt with his bully turned secret admirer)
- 2017, Mandy Rita Stewart, "Digital Literacies And 'glee': The Role Of Fan Fiction Virtual Writing And Social Commentary In Response To Bullying Themes With Adolescent Writers", dissertation submitted to Wayne State University, page 1:
- On the fan fiction site, participants began writing “Kurtofsky” (Kurt/Dave pairing) romances in response to this plot twist, which I read avidly to see the participant reaction to this unexpected pairing.
- 2015, Alice Casarini, “Chorus Lines–Translating Musical Television Series in the Age of Participatory Culture: The Case of Glee”, in Jorge Díaz Cintas, Josélia Neves, editors, Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock, page 216:
- Besides discussing the series and rooting for specific, slang-labelled twosomes (such as the heterosexual duo nicknamed "Finchel", Finn and Rachel, or the same-sex couple of "Kurtofsky", Kurt and Karofsky), fans have contributed to the diffusion and re-mediation of the show so much that the Glee phenomenon has been defined as "a user-generated musical epidemic" (Zaccone 2009; online, my translation).