Fic: "The Right Words"

[pilgrimkitty]

Title: The Right Words
Author: Elora
Disclaimer: I don't own Glee, and I make no money from this short work of fiction.
Summary: Blaine's trying to find the right words to describe who Blaine is.
Rating: G
Word Count: About 480
Notes: Just a little ficlet I wrote on Tumblr.

Comments

[likeasouffle]

Awww, it's so fluffy! I'm glad you acknowledged Kurt's apparent biphobia from BIOTA. I'd like to think he was just lashing out too, and doesn't actually think that way about bisexuality. And I'm glad Kurt asked about pronouns. And I LOLed that Kurt's first reaction about Chaz Bono is that his suits aren't flattering enough. Heh. Nice work!

[pilgrimkitty]

Aww, thank you! I really think Kurt's biphobia was more about anger at Blaine kissing Rachel than genuine biphobia.

I loved it when somebody asked Chris Colfer what he thought about the controversy of Chaz Bono being on Dancing with the Stars and his reaction was something like "Why is there controversy? He's a star, he's dancing!" It was just perfect, and I wanted to give that reaction to Kurt.

I'm really glad you liked it. Genderqueer!Blaine is taking up residence in my head. I love mtf!Blaine too, but I've been dealing with discovering my own genderqueer-ness lately, and this was a little helpful to me. Though I don't mind female pronouns at all.

[likeasouffle]

Yes! I loved Chris' reaction too!

You're giving me thinky-thoughts about genderqueer Blaine. I'm thinking starting at Dalton and having to wear very male suits every day, and having no choice of what clothes to wear, could have gone one of two ways: A) a relief, that because the decision has been taken away from Blaine, they don't have to worry about their appearance or what people think of them anymore, or B) extremely uncomfortable and a huge burden, because they have no way of representing their real self through their gender expression.

Based on canon it seems like it was the former, and that Blaine completely embraced both ties and bow ties. (And suspenders, and hats, and belts, and even pocket watches.) Every male way of accessorizing possible. I'm curious how much your Blaine meshes with canon Blaine.

[pilgrimkitty]

I'm thinking similarly about the clothing. I think that wearing such masculine clothing was a bit of armor for Blaine. They didn't know where they fit, male or female, but going to an all-boy school forced him to pick a role and play into it. And at McKinley, they continued to play into the role both out of the safety of familiarity, and because Blaine was afraid to admit to theirself that they weren't really a boy through and through. I imagine that after coming out to Kurt, Blaine's wardrobe will start to change some, in subtle ways.

I have a feeling that Blaine's father plays a big role in Blaine pretending to be a boy so hard for so long, because Blaine doesn't want to disappoint Mr. Anderson. I don't think Mr. Anderson is a bad man, but I definitely think he's proper, and has instilled the whole "fifties mentality" into Blaine. In my head, Mr. Anderson has a very large dose of heteronormative conservativism, and wants Blaine to "be a man."

I don't know for sure I'm going to write more of this, but I may.

[tristanpaulus]

Chaz Bono is Cher's son who was born Cher's daughter Chastity Bono and is a female-to-male transsexual ;-)

[pilgrimkitty]

Okay, I'm gonna point you a few places. The first is my own community Glee-genderplay There's not a huge amount of stuff there, but there's some. The next place I'm going to point you is the tumblr tags. There are several people on tumblr writing trans stuff

[samueljames]

Interesting and enjoyable read.

[starkid_gleek]

Awww <3 this is so lovely <3 I wish there were more stories about this kind of thing because it's so nice to see someone being accepted for who they are.

[pilgrimkitty]

*squees wildly*

You're freaking amazing and I love you. Thank you for thinking I'm awesome!

[pilgrimkitty]

Yay!