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It's my OCs birthday today

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I finally sit down to write and my browser decides to not respond

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Fucking hell the more I think about this OC glee AU the most I give myself to write.

Do I write a whole separate fic focusing on New York and the changes I made there? Or do I do scenes within the relevent chapters/episodes like in the actual show?

I have the opportunity here to do what the show should have done and make a spin off

Honestly what I should write is the chapter for 2x13... Not wondering what to do for season 4 😂

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Somehow I've turned Comeback from Bieber-fever into a pop-punk tribute episode in my glee re-write

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Tryna find an alternative song to TikTok for Blame it on the alcohol for my rewrite

I think I've decided on How You Remind Me by Nickelback. Because Nickelback was a huge thing at the time if memed to high heaven (at least from what I remember in the UK) and the song works so much better as a deterrent to drinking than TikTok (though I love that cover and the costumes)

It feels like a song glee would cover, that or Rockstar (which I'm also debating for the meme of it) I'm mildly surprised that was never covered tbh

Oh and I can see Puck singing it, and being a Nickelback fan.

Though there are some country songs I'm tempted to use too, but I'll probably just have Sam suggest them lol

Like The More I Drink by Blake Shelton is kind of completely perfect for this but I can't see the glee club singing it at an assembly in front of the whole school 😂

Santana would suggest Rehab, of course

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C, F, and H!

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C: What character do you identify with most?

I identify with 3 main characters in Glee for different reasons. Kurt is the biggest one, i think. I've related to him since i first watched the show in Feb 2011, practically since i first saw him on TV, singing I wanna hold your hand and just continued to even more as we got to know him better. it was the bullying and how he felt like an outcast, how he dreamed to leave McKinley and start afresh. It was how even after he found a group of friends he was still the one on the outside, still not quite fitting into the group cohesively. I don't think i have all of his courage, but i like to think i have some of it, and as a teen I wished for my own Blaine to help me find that courage (one reason why i was such a klainer in my youth tbh) Then there's Sam, who is a neurodivergent himbo nerd. The only thing i'm kinda not, in that equation, is a himbo. I relate to his nerdiness and his lack of social skill, to his kindness and want to have everyone and everything be fair and equal. Also his craftiness/love of art/ability to play guitar. I'm an introverted, unathletic Sam... with anxiety. And finally there's Marley. Who just smiles through her pain, doesn't want to bother anyone with her own problems but helps others with theirs even if they don't always deserve it. I was a lot like that, I'm still like that, but I no longer trust like Marley does, I've been burned to often by Kitty's of my own for that. I see my teen self in Marley, and I wish I had her song writing abilities, or her drive. I'd say I'm a mix of these three characters most of all, which is definitely why they're my favorites in the show, and why I love writing Sam and Kurt so much!!

H: How would you describe your style?

Dude I have no idea 😂. I like writing in third person limited, switching up the way description is written based on the character POV I'm writing from. I enjoy getting into the head of characters, trying to find their voice (my fave POV to write from, so far, is actually Karofsky's! he's fun to figure out) It seems to depend on the mood i am when i start a fic if it's dialogue heavy or description heavy, but dialogue is usually easiest to me but also description is really fun sometimes... i guess it depends on the fic!

F: Share a snippet from one of your favourite dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it.

hmm, this one'll be a bit long so i'll shove it under a readmore I think.

this was the first thing that came to mind when I read this question and is from the Prom Queen chapter (Chapter 39) of One More New Direction (my OC centric fic (which has been updated up to Chp31 so far on AO3))

“It was meant to have stopped.” He whispered, sounding shocked, “The teasing stopped, the slushies stopped. I thought… I thought with Dave on our side…” He shook his head, his voice going bitter with a scoff, “I thought because no-one was beating me up, no one was throwing me in dumpsters or shouting slurs, that we had made progress at this school. I guess I was wrong.” “No.” Sam said, “You’re not wrong, Kurt. You’ve made so much progress at this school, I mean, I don’t know exactly what’s going on with Dave, but he was the biggest culprit of all of that, right? He and the Jocks, and even Puck and Finn before last year? But look at him, and Puck and Finn, now. You’ve made so much progress at this school, Kurt, so much.” “Obviously not enough.” Kurt scoffed, “Because all of them, in there, they wrote my name on those ballots. It’s still the same, it’s just moved behind my back instead of to my face. All that hate, that prejudice, they were just too scared to say it out loud.” Kurt let out a sob, hand going to his mouth. “I’m just a joke to them.” “You’re not a joke, Kurt.” Erin told him, “You’re not. You’re my best friend-” “Our best friend.” Sam interjected, and Erin lifted her eyes from Kurt to him. He was worrying his lips, and she could feel the nerves radiating off of him. It looked like he was trying to psych himself up to do something. Something big. “-and we love you, okay?” She continued, looking away from Sam. “You’re amazing and worth a thousand times more than anyone in that room. You’re talented, and kind, and smart, and funny. And you are so strong.”

“I’m tired of being strong.” Kurt sighed, “I’m tired of acting like it isn’t lonely being the only out person at this school, like it isn’t draining to be the only representation some of those people have.” “You shouldn’t have to be.” Sam said softly. “You shouldn’t have to be the only representation people have.” “Yeah, well,” Kurt scoffed out a humorless laugh, “I’m not sure Santana’s all that eager to come out.” “I wasn’t talking about Santana.” Sam breathed, and Erin looked up at him to see determination on every inch of his face. She smiled at him, and he smiled back with a nod. “Brittany coming out wouldn’t really shock anyone.” Kurt shook his head, and Sam huffed out a laugh, shaking his head. “Dude, I’m talking about me.” He said, as if he wasn’t saying something big, as if the confession wasn’t huge. “And you really shouldn’t assume things about Santana and Brittany unless they actually tell you.”

I'm not entirely sure why this came to me first, but I feel like i really got Sam and Kurt in this scene, like it feels like them to me and I'm proud of that, i guess. I like how it flows too. I guess that's all i want in dialogue, and I think I'm good at that a majority of the time. I always want to make it sound like the characters, make it flow like a real conversation. there are some characters I just can't seem to get right and that is why i avoid them (Santana is definitely one, Tina was but I think i'm getting her a bit more? Quinn too) But I feel confident writing Sam and Kurt (and my oc Erin too, obviously), because, as previously stated, I relate to them, I can get into their heads, I can imagine being in their position. I really enjoy writing dialogue, and I really enjoyed writing this - in fact i always enjoy re-writing the Prom Queen scene idk why exactly.

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OH NO DHEJE giving C! :0

I actually have multiple OCs with C names:

Catherine (Erin) Bailey, Ciaran Bailey, and Catherine Clarke

I think I'll pick Catherine Clarke

Nana Cathy is the maternal grandmother of my main OC Erin (from my OC glee rewrite One More New Direction) and lives on the outskirts of Lima, Ohio in a small small town called Ada.

She is around 70ish years old and a bit of a grump. She hates The Arts unless it's a sophisticated Shakespeare play or classical Literature (like Jane Austen novels).

She enjoys gardening and lives in a large Victorian house. On the grounds of the house is a barn that she and her husband rent out for weddings and events and they host Thanksgiving there every year with all of their children and niblings and grandkids and just like a whole lot of extended family.

She does not like Erin's dream of being a Broadway actress, and instead prefers Erin's brother's sporty nature, but like that Erin is also studious - when Erin goes to college for Musical Theatre she is very disappointed.

She is tall and thin with dark brown eyes. before her hair went grey in was a dark brown, almost black. she uses a cane to walk.

Does most of this really factor into my fic? nope. will it? probably not. Have I given this random character life within my head anyway? Hell yeah!

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I've been writing I've been writing I'VE BEEN WRITING!!

I haven't written for One More New Direction in fucking ages at least not anything i've needed to write to move the story along (as apposed to all the stuff I've written and daydreamed for future installments) and it feels so fucking good to go back to it and not writing way into the future and actually writing stuff in S2 thank fuck I got out of that funk! maybe I can start uploading chapters for it again now that I have a plan on where it's actually headed in this installment instead of focusing on SEASON FUCKING 4. yes, brain, the ideas you have for the 2012/13 school year are interesting but mean nothing when you've barely written anything for the last half of S2 yet

but now i have

and I'm loving it aghdaklgahl