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two Glee recs
May. 31st, 2011 09:34 amOn Centrifugal Living
I can't really describe for you how hard I found this story to read. I didn't, at first, realize this was going to be that sort of story, which is part of the art of it. But it, more than most things in the fandom, gets how the queer thing and the bullying thing underlies everything whether you want to be that poster-child kid or not. This hit me in a pretty terrible personal place that I didn't realize I could (still) be hit in in quite that way.
A Long Road Ahead
While Glee has acknowledged in passing that Blaine's not actually just some white dude, and I've long wanted someone to do some fic that addresses the degree to which I feel like Blaine is performing white/WASP identity at Dalton (the hair, the hair!), I never anticipated someone would grab at that idea like this. But they did! It's actually about Blaine's mom, and it's amazing. This story is, like the one above, also difficult.
I can't really describe for you how hard I found this story to read. I didn't, at first, realize this was going to be that sort of story, which is part of the art of it. But it, more than most things in the fandom, gets how the queer thing and the bullying thing underlies everything whether you want to be that poster-child kid or not. This hit me in a pretty terrible personal place that I didn't realize I could (still) be hit in in quite that way.
A Long Road Ahead
While Glee has acknowledged in passing that Blaine's not actually just some white dude, and I've long wanted someone to do some fic that addresses the degree to which I feel like Blaine is performing white/WASP identity at Dalton (the hair, the hair!), I never anticipated someone would grab at that idea like this. But they did! It's actually about Blaine's mom, and it's amazing. This story is, like the one above, also difficult.
