[glee] début: allow me to introduce

[satora_chan]

Date: 19 Jan 2010

Title: Début: Allow Me to Introduce
Fandom: Glee
Characters: Blaine, Blaine's family (OCs), Kurt, New Directions
Pairings: Kurt/Blaine
Rating: PG-13 for growing pains, language
Spoilers (If any): up to 2x10
Warnings (If any): light homophobia. at least one cavity.
Word Count: ~8,500

Summary: Blaine’s childhood is full of

Comments

[titacats]

I love this. Blaine's scenes with his mother in the kitchen and later on outside her door are just heart wrenching.

ngl this brought back lots of memories

[satora_chan]

Thank you very much for reading and commenting! My beta loved those scenes, too, and helped me fix them up a lot, so I'm glad that they're reaching out to people.

ahahaha, I had to keep going back while I was writing and SCRUBBING entire sections because I kept having author-bleed.

[satora_chan]

Thank you for reading and commenting! And a;lskdjf the balance of exploring culture in relation to a character without doing a complete shove-in-the-face-culture-dump was very difficult, and I'm glad you liked it.

[satora_chan]

I'm glad you liked Blaine's mother! I wanted to make her feelings towards Blaine and his coming out understandable to the audience, if not sympathetic (though, of course, we don't agree), so you saying it "felt very real" makes me very happy.

Thank you for reading and commenting!

[ashmole]

Well, you know how much I love this so I won't repeat it all in case it's embarrassing. XD

As was said in the conversation that kicked this off it just seems such a plausible but different explanation of where Blaine's coming from.

Really happy that you got this finished...Little Blaine still gets to me every time.

[satora_chan]

♥♥♥

LITTLE!BLAINE. He is such a force of adorable concentration.

ps: forgot to write in e-mail, but you were totally right about the over-analytical part of the lunch scene. thank you for pointing that out!

[burn_to_emerge]

Oh my God, I love this. Your Blaine backstory is so complex and lovely and fascinating. Blaine's coming out was heartwrenching, and so well done, and I love the way you framed the story around cotillions to show the way Blaine grew. Sunshine's cotillion, with Blaine as escort, is an adorable and hilarious image that I am dying to see drawn.

And I just had the biggest smile on my face at that last section. Diva of epic proportions, indeed!

[satora_chan]

The last section gave me twitches. While I was writing it, I kept thinking, "Oh God, this is so corny, oh God, I can't submit this; it's too embarrassing, crap crap maybe I need to add drama or tenseness" but then some other part of my brain would go, "BLAINE JUST HAD A CRAPPY COMING-OUT SCENE. HE DESERVES THE SCHMOOP. EVEN IF IT'S A TAD UNREALISTIC." So I'm glad my corniness actually gave people smiles! Makes me less anxious :)

I'm happy you caught the parallel of cotillions (which is all about growing up) and Blaine's own growth (if, uh, horribly sporadic due to the large time skips in the story). I was worried that I wouldn't be able to get the idea across.

I just want Asian Community shenanigans. Also, I have this vague idea of Emily taking the Corazons under her wing after the crackhouse incident, and Blaine going all MENTORLIKE on Sunshine.

[satora_chan]

ALSO:

Thank you for reading and commenting and basically inspiring this story.

a million inspiration credits for you.

[blipblopblork]

I'm on it! The drawing, that is. Can't promise I'll do the scene justice (actually, I'm fairly certain I won't - I'm pretty new to this art stuff), but I'll post it as soon as it's done. :-)