1. Can we talk about gender in this, please please please? Has no one pinged on the Sadie Hawkin's dance thing and how Blaine took it upon himself to ask another dude? I'm still turning this over in my head.
2. OMG, prom song choice. I've known I was going to need to write a long thing about it for ages, now it's just finding the time.
3. Blaine is such the little fake-adult. He mimics all the right thigns so well, and sometimes they are awesome, and sometimes.... god. It was like so so so the characterization I'm working with in my fic and I was so so so pleased.
You know, I've been chewing on the Sadie Hawkins thing, too. I'm just not sure *what* it is I'm getting at yet. That Blaine sees himself as the one who should expect to be asked? That if the gender dichot and norms are being tossed out enough for girls to asks boys to a dance that he's probably a little safer? I'm so interested in what you have to say.
You know, we spend so much time, as a fandom, i think talking about Kurt's gender identity and performance and sense of self as related to gender, that we just sort of ignore Blaine's deal. Like, he's an attractive dude who can totally pass for straight but doesn't really try one way or another on that score, that we're necessarily aware of. But I think he's been shoved into this heteronormatively male role by the audience and maybe the characters within the show itself just because he's standing next to Kurt. Maybe that shit is not how he sees himself or interacts with desire. Hell, maybe that's why it took him so long to realize he was into Kurt, because the dynamic there isn't the one he usually fantasized about for himself. When he says to Kurt, "I'm crazy about you" there's a real note of disbelief there -- part of it is hey, has has someone and gets to be happy, that's new! but I think part of it is just how unexpected it is for him that it's someone like Kurt. I think the Sadie Hawkins thing in the clue.
Oh wow, yeah, it really does make an awful lot of sense re: Blaine taking a while to realize his feelings about Kurt.
I've long thought that Blaine performance of masculinity was just that--performance. He switches his "gayness" (in a stereotypical sense, not in an actual sense) on and off a lot through his inflection, what he talks about, etc. where he is much more pronouncedly stereotypically "effeminate" (again, as a stereotype he's playing) in the safety of, say, the Hudson-Hummel house, or the scene with Kurt and Mercedes in Breadstix. It would line up well with what little bit we got about his father's trying to "man" him up with the car thing. How that would shape his views of maleness and masculinity and "doing" gender.
I think I am physically incapable of functioning as an adult today because I am too busy having feelings. This fandom continues to be the best and worst thing to ever happen to me.
How am I so in love with them and how do I make it at least calm the fuck down for a little while?
But it won’t end here. We’re going to get a whole other season of this. And even when they have drama and they hurt each other, we’re going to have this episode.
I'm getting verklempt just thinking of this. So many feelings, I can't even.
I can't get over the fact that this stunning episode was written by Ian Brennan. The same guy who gave us the hot drunken mess that was BIOTA. Sir, you are forgiven.
BIOTA makes so much painful sense now. No, Blaine wasn't having a flip moment of drunken confusion. Blaine was quietly hoping for a day when he wouldn't get his ass beat, and he hoped Kurt, Kurt of all people, would understand.
But Kurt told him he was running, and he was, and he loved Kurt but couldn't get there because everything made it so hard to, and that kiss still felt good, and he needed, oh god, the feeeeeliiiings.
It so does. Taking this episode into account, the motivations for his actions in BIOTA are becoming so much clearer. I've been thinking that the whole situation there had to have been motivated by something in his past.
When Kurt - the one person he can relate to the most - didn't get where he was coming from, that must have really hurt. Especially with all those complicated romantic feelings hiding under the surface.
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2. OMG, prom song choice. I've known I was going to need to write a long thing about it for ages, now it's just finding the time.
3. Blaine is such the little fake-adult. He mimics all the right thigns so well, and sometimes they are awesome, and sometimes.... god. It was like so so so the characterization I'm working with in my fic and I was so so so pleased.
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I've long thought that Blaine performance of masculinity was just that--performance. He switches his "gayness" (in a stereotypical sense, not in an actual sense) on and off a lot through his inflection, what he talks about, etc. where he is much more pronouncedly stereotypically "effeminate" (again, as a stereotype he's playing) in the safety of, say, the Hudson-Hummel house, or the scene with Kurt and Mercedes in Breadstix. It would line up well with what little bit we got about his father's trying to "man" him up with the car thing. How that would shape his views of maleness and masculinity and "doing" gender.
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How am I so in love with them and how do I make it at least calm the fuck down for a little while?
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how do I make it at least calm the fuck down for a little while?
Summer hiatus? I honestly don't know how I'm going to survive.
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Argh, it's almost 2 pm, I must get sleep but I'm still so wound up...
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I'm getting verklempt just thinking of this. So many feelings, I can't even.
I can't get over the fact that this stunning episode was written by Ian Brennan. The same guy who gave us the hot drunken mess that was BIOTA. Sir, you are forgiven.
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But Kurt told him he was running, and he was, and he loved Kurt but couldn't get there because everything made it so hard to, and that kiss still felt good, and he needed, oh god, the feeeeeliiiings.
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It so does. Taking this episode into account, the motivations for his actions in BIOTA are becoming so much clearer. I've been thinking that the whole situation there had to have been motivated by something in his past.
When Kurt - the one person he can relate to the most - didn't get where he was coming from, that must have really hurt. Especially with all those complicated romantic feelings hiding under the surface.
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