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Rachel and Quinn’s Seven Best More Than Friends Moments on “Glee”

The Glee hiatus keeps rolling on, which means we’re back with another countdown!

This week we’re looking at Rachel and Quinn’s Seven Best More Than Friends Moments. As I’ve said about ten million times now, I’m a big fan of people crafting their own narratives inside of fictional worlds. Every time I write about subtext shipping, though, I get a lot of angry comments about how if we cheer about subtext, TV writers won’t give us main text, and so subtext ruins hard-won visibility. Which I suppose could be a valid argument if Faberry shippers had, in any way, caused Glee‘s writers to stop producing the absolute queerest show on TV. And they haven’t. If anything, Glee is trying to set a new world record for out-gaying itself every week. I know lots of lesbian ladies who get lots of joy from Rachel and Quinn’s relationship. And I think that’s worth celebrating.

So, here you go: 

“I Feel Pretty/Unpretty

Still one of the most listenable songs in the entire Glee song canon, it’s just a bonus that it features Rachel and Quinn singing about their own personal insecurities and the toxicity of the male gaze and how both of them think the other one is so, so gorgeous.

Prom Queen & Queen

If your boyfriend gets kicked out of prom, should you find out what the heck happened to him and make sure he’s OK, or canoodle in the bathroom with the girl who got him kicked out and then return to prom as her date? That second thing if you’re Rachel and Quinn.

The Blossom of Secret Love

Rachel: Girls like Quinn – you don’t want to do anything that’s going to distract from their face, so ask for a gardenia with a light green ribbon wrapped around it to match her eyes.

Come on, that quote doesn’t even need context to prove its point.

Quinn Draws Her Own Faberry Fan Art

Rachel: You don’t think people whisper about me in the lunch rooms or draw pornographic pictures of me on the bathroom walls?

Quinn: That was me, actually.

She probably got the idea from Googling “Faberry.” (If you want an eyeful of cartoon boobs, go ahead and Google “Faberry.”)

Pink Is The New Black

How many New Directions members has Quinn dated? How many New Directions members are her best friends? But when she was on the actual rails, it was Rachel who went calling after her. Well, Santana tried. But in the end, it was Rachel who got through. ‘Cause true love gives you special ears for hearing.

“Kind Of” Friends

After being trapped in the worst storyline in history – which is saying something about a show that spent a full season on a FAKE BABY story – Rachel pulled Quinn free from her kidnapping schemes. They say they’re “kind of” friends when it’s all said and done. By which they mean: “Kind of friends, kind of way more.”

Wedding Crasher

Clearly the victim of a Confundus Charm, Rachel agrees to marry Finn. Only the spilled blood of her Soul’s True Mate can break the evil curse, and so Quinn flings herself into traffic and prays to Sappho that her body will remain unbroken. Nah, I’m making that up. But Rachel would not get married without Quinn by her side. And Quinn never showed up by her side. So: Wedding Off! (Hopefully.)

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