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Hello! Every Thursday I post a "Will Hot Boi Appear in Tonight's Episode" post on tumblr as a joke. May I use your "Welcome to the Mighty Nein" gif from the liveshow last week for said post with credit tomorrow? I will post a link to your original gif as well as credit you. :3
I’m love you for asking. Of course you can!
Do you know of any fics where it’s explicitly mentioned that Blaine is half filipino? or maybe any where one of his parents are filipino?
There are loads of fics where Blaine is half Filipino. I tried to focus on Klaine fics where Blaine’s race is the subject of the story. - HKVoyage
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Sweet DREAMers by perry_avenue
Blaine Anderson is a business major at Baruch College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Blaine came to the United States from the Philippines on a tourist visa with his mom when he was three years old and since then, has lived in Woodside, Queens with his mom and cousin Marco. As a gay, undocumented student, he has the questionable good fortune to belong to two marginalized populations. One day, while at his part-time job at a book store, Blaine meets Kurt Hummel, a theatre major from Ohio attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and begins a tentative friendship. Before it has the chance to bloom into more, Blaine’s immigration status is revealed, creating issues for both of them.
Note: Part 1 of The Sweet DREAMers ‘Verse
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Beneath the Surface by flaming_muse
When Blaine was in sixth grade, he was pushed around in the school hallway for being Asian for the first time. Ironically, it was because he brought some leftover Chinese dumplings in his X-Men lunchbox from his family’s take out dinner the night before. A story of race, undercurrents, and growing up Blaine.
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The Long Road Ahead by smithie_speaks
The story of Blaine’s mother and why Blaine doesn’t call himself Pinoy.
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Début: Allow Me to Introduce by penscratching
Blaine’s childhood is full of cotillions. You could even say they were formative from age five to Kurt. (Blaine-centric, Kurt/Blaine)
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what kurt knows by @luckyjak
Three times Kurt assumed Blaine was white, and one time he didn’t.
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stretch until the point of nearly breaking by mysilenceknot
“We live in a world where this shit matters, where this shit can make or break us. If it didn’t matter I’m pretty sure you and your boyfriend would be having a disgustingly sappy Saturday night like you usually do.”
Note: Part 2 of the All We Are? series
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Unconditional by @luckyjak
A parent’s love for their child should be unconditional. Moments in the life of Blaine Anderson, as told by the two men who loved him long before Kurt ever did. Gen. An Anderson family fic.
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The Pan-Asian Association by missgoalie75
In which Wes finds a group for only those of Asian origin; Kurt finds amusement in Blaine’s misery; and the Asians unite for about five minutes before everything falls apart, due to not-so-Asian people showing up at the meeting anyway.
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A Beautiful Mistake by scarlettfire
Kurt must learn to adapt to a whole new set of rules when the unexpected occurs. AU
I sometimes wish that I was more ‘in’ fandom like I used to be with Glee, where I had a posse and wrote fic and was pretty much just... constantly around yelling at people and being yelled at and yelling about everything. Lots of yelling. It was Glee fandom after all.
But as much as I like things (I often REALLY LIKE things) nothing has really... enflamed me, reached out and yanked my heart out of it’s chest and demanded that I interact with it the way Glee did. I got into Glee fandom when I was traveling for a year with my family, half a world and many hours away from anyone else I knew in real life. As is the by now old story, I didn’t have friends in the physical world, so I developed friendships in the online world. This kept going even after I came back from traveling, when I went to college. But after Glee, I drifted away from directly interacting with fandom. I still do sometimes, such as when I leaped into @wellntruly DS9′s fandom. But it’s no where to the level I was before, and I don’t often do things like that anymore. Similarly to how after college, I drifted away from people there. I still talk to some, I still sometimes do alumni things, but it’s not my life anymore. It’s not that it wasn’t important, and that I didn’t love so many parts and people from it. But it was a part of my life that is over now, even as I still keep an eye on them sometimes.
I haven’t even really watched Glee since it stopped. It was a special, perfect thing for me at that time. There’s a part of me that’s afraid that it won’t hold up if I watch it again, that I won’t like it anymore. That I won’t watch it and have it grab my whole heart in it’s perfectly imperfect hands.
I’m not sure what this is. I just, for some weird reason, decided to go back through my rainbowrites tag to see old conversations and remembered all over again how much Glee fandom meant to me. How those friendships buoyed me when I was down, intrigued and inspired me, and over all developed me as a person. I learned so much. About how to analyze shows and also how to just lean back and let the story enchant you motherfucker. About lives and situations and perspectives other than my own. About history and feminism and queerness and disability. About writing and editing and characters and stories. About how to think. About me. I
I guess this is a bit of a wistful love letter to the person I was then, and the show and fandom that meant so much to me. I’m not that person anymore, but I wouldn’t be the person I am NOW without them. I sometimes wish I was still that person, still had that drive and connection to fandom. But overall I like being a bit more of a lurker now, content to just enjoy things without saying too much about them. Maybe that will change. Maybe it won’t. But for now, I like who I am, both in the internet and physical world. And part of who I am now is all the people who helped make me along the way. So....
thanks guys <3 you’re amazing
particular shout outs to @luckyjak @sarahexplosions @mzminola @penroseparticle @into-the-weeds @soundingonlyatnightasyousleep @multsicorn @hedgerose @wintercreek and a million others. I originally didn’t tag you but I do want to throw my love not into the void but actually AT YOU so <3 Thanks
Thank you for being a positive force and providing amazing fic to read while canon sorts itself out! You are a bright spot in an otherwise dim world. :D
one smut at a time, friends
Top five Star Wars fanfics?
I run pretty old school, still, so:
1. Spirit Warriors of Angharad, by ophelia (Sorry, her stuff is either no long online, or lost to the pits of TFN. I do, uh, have it, though.)
2. The First Four Days, by ophelia. Absolutely adorable and sad take on the post-TPM relationship between Anakin and Obi-Wan while they try to adjust to each other.
3. Stuff, by gheorge2. Classic. If you want to know why Luke/Mara is a thing, but don’t want to slog through a trilogy of military scifi, here you go! It does obviously reference a lot of EU events and a lot of characterization notes for Luke may not ring true if you have not read the wringer the EU put him through, but absolutely worth it even if you have only seen the movies.
4. Samizdat, by Shura4 (I admit that I haven’t reread this one since I was a teenager, but it was utterly haunting.) Disturbing dark take on Luke and his Academy.
5. Black Mirror, by @darthnickels, which is the reason I decided to wage a campaign to befriend her on tumblr. Plus, space hyenas. Vader, body horror, and lots of emotional confrontations. Excellent writing and characterization, to the point where she made me care about the Rebels characters.
Star Wars thought
I blame @luckyjak - not for any particular reason, but it seems like a good idea.
Anakin should never have been Vader.
Anakin falls to the dark side, sure - he’s full of pride and fear, which makes him easy to manipulate, but he is overall driven by love. Not love of power or love of country or any other large, idealistic love, but love of specific, and few, people.
His love of his mother drives him to vengeance, his love of Obi-wan drives him to deception, his love of Padme and their unborn children drive him to hubris. All these things make him easy to manipulate, make him easy to turn.
Too easy, really. So easy, in fact, that he fails on what is essentially his first mission as a sith - he ends up broken, on fire, and abandoned. His wife dead at his hand, his brother turned from him, and everything good in his life ripped asunder by his own doing.
“I loved you Anakin” is the last thing he hears - but Obi-wan can’t kill him. Instead of leaving him to die on the shores, he should have brought him back - if not to save him, then to at least to make him answer for his crimes. Obi-wan’s greatest strength was always his belief in others; surely justice could have been found.
He brings Anakin back to the ship, where he lays in a hospital bed and watches Padme die - not of a broken heart, but because you can’t get the shit kicked out of you followed by a hard childbirth with twins and not have your body say “Fuck you” - and this is where he dies, of a broken heart. Anakin, ultimately, is weak; far weaker than the Jedi, who gain a brittle strength from ignoring their feelings, and light--years below that of Padme, whose strength comes from embracing and accepting and using her emotions to get what she wants and what she needs. His last act is to implore Ben to take the kids, to hide them away from the Empire.
Obi-wan buries his family that day in simple stone cairns, and leaves into self-imposed exile to fill their dying wishes.
And that’s when Palpatine comes into the picture. He ignores Anakin - a useful pawn, but ultimately a failed experiment. No, what he needs is someone like him - sneaky, conniving, strong enough to do what is needed without worrying overmuch about the “rules” that dictate what they can do, but still able to operate in that society without arising suspicion.
And, moreover, he needs control.
In a universe with midichlorians and cloning technology, where the supreme ruler now suddenly has a large amount of corpses from which to gather and use said midichlorians, the Emperor comes for his new apprentice.
Padme still gets the name, and the suit - though now, the suit not only keeps her battered body alive, but also provides the reservoir of power. This is why Vader rarely does more than choke an upstart lieutenant or general - it’s been 20 years, and the midichlorian tanks are running out. Vader is still evil supreme, but now is colder, more calculating, and completely dependent on the Emperor not only for her life, but also her powers.
@luckyjak replied to your post: I just finished the Umbara and Zygeria arcs. I was...
23 hours a day of sadness? What does he do with the remaining hour? Surely you aren’t implying that Obi-Wan gets One Decent Hour of sleep a night, are you? XD
LOL, OK FINE: I just didn’t want to confront the obvious fact that he is sad all day! *sobs* I thought I could maybe give him 60 minutes of...I don’t know? Relative peace? Like, is he full of sadness and regret even when he’s trimming his beard? Showering? Surely as he aged he got at least a good 20 minutes out of going outside and petting his bantha friends, right? RIGHT???! *sniffle*
luckyjak replied to your post: welp I haven’t actually SEEN it, but the fact that...
I’m not pissed. I really enjoyed it. But I totally get *why* people are mad though
that does make me feel better, thank you! There’s a difference between being upset at an upsetting story and being upset at a SHITTY story so it’s nice to see at least one vote for ‘not shitty’
