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Happy first El WooWoo Wednesday of December. It's December. Wack.

And on the first of December, I posted the first chapter of my Gleecember fic, since I wanted to start it on the 1st... and then I didn't write anything for it anymore. Mostly because a) thesis and b) Hades 2. But I have been "writing things out in my head", as one does. Time to finally actually write it down. Not on paper. But in a Tumblr post. A lil recap: my Gleecember fic is just going to be a bunch of meet-cutes, although... maybe this one is meet-weird:

Blaine has no clue how he found himself here. Well, he does. He works here. He's been a life-guard at this pool for a while now, but he never thought he had to do this. He's here to keep an eye on people, not be facilitating dates! But that's what is happening. His colleague Rachel was inspired by the story of how her dads met at a swimming pool and suggested a new activity: swim dating! Basically, woeful single people can come to this event in the hopes of finding the love of their lives. "It's an alternative to all these tacky dating apps!" Rachel had exclaimed, and she's right there. But... this? Not only that, but when Blaine's working, most of the swimmers are elders who swim to keep their bodies working. And Blaine adores his loyal patrons, but he cannot stomach the idea of his dearest Bessie trying to be flirty, or even worse, sexy. And that's how he finds himself overlooking people in bathing suits striking up conversations in his pool about love. But Blaine has to give Rachel credit. This idea is more popular than he initially thought and there are even younger people here, including a very cute looking guy who's swimming on his own, despite wearing a swim date bracelet.

Apparently this swim dating thing is a real thing. I learnt of it and immediately knew I had to Klaine-ify it.

Speaking about turning everything into something Glee related, I snuck Glee into my thesis! I am very happy about it. Here are some translated sentences from my thesis:

Through these things, we also begin to have genuine feelings and become invested in [fictional characters'] well-being. Will the glee club win Nationals or not? Viewers sure hope they do![1] (...) Of course, there's a difference between my favorite Glee character and a deathbot: Kurt Hummel cannot talk back, but a deathbot can. Glee viewers cannot influence how Kurt acts, but deathbot users can influence how their deathbots act.

[1] Spoilers: they win Nationals in season 3 and 6, but lose in season 2 and 5.

My thesis advisor thought the footnote was very funny and thinks it can stay. He actually said it adds to the credibility of me writing this thesis myself, so yay. Thank you Glee and Kurt Hummel.

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#wip wednesday #tagged in #thesis lol #i initially tried to write my entire thesis about glee but that didnt work #so i am glad i snuck it in anyway #a remnant of what could've been #with more death

Hello, it's Thursday.... my dudes! Thank you @blackberrysummers and @artsyunderstudy for the tags.

On Sunday, I asked for some advice on how to end a fic and both @confusedbiqueer and @facewithoutheart gave some great advice, so I am trying to see how to incorporate that into an ending. I did, once, start an ending and disliked it so much that I, as I mentioned on Sunday, considered just not writing an ending. But here it is. It's a killed darling:

Baz and I are already at our usual table when Penny, Dev and Niall arrive. It’s been a weird couple of days, for all of us. To be fair to Dev and Niall, they loyally followed Baz’s commands for years, being under the impression that they were planning my downfall, and suddenly Baz and I announce that we’re dating and that Baz’s been in love with me for years. (For years!) Penny is more chill with it. She also thinks it’s a bit weird, but as she said earlier, it makes sense to her. She’s trying to be the voice of reason in this newly meshed-together friend group thing that we’re trying.

I want a lil epilogue of sorts. They've gotten together, now what? And that is what I was trying to do with that part: showing that they are now in a relationship and people react to that, but I thought it was too focused on the other people than on Simon and Baz, which is why it's on the cutting board. I have no other ending yet, but as I said, I am working on it while taking Lee and Christina's advice to heart.

Apart from that... I have been planning a Klaine Advent story and today it got announced that there won't be a Klaine Advent this year. I may or may not be very sad about it BUT I also fully agree as to why it's ending. I mean, I don't have time to take over (and yes, I have considered), since I am finally writing my thesis and my estimated deadline is January 4th, soooooo. Since people have liked my philosophy rambling before, I will tell you what I am writing about under the cut. Because first...

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Aka, my masterthesis. Yes, I did it. I published it on AO3 for the ones who are interested. I even made this funky banner!

The work is hidden from the search engines, but you can read it here! It is 13K words long, which includes the acknowlegdements and bibliography.

Tagging people who have expressed interest in it: @aroace-genderfluid-sheep, @cerriddwenluna, @redheadgleek, @cutestkilla, @wellbelesbian, @boyinjeans, @nightimedreamersghost, @sohereswhatyoumissedlastweek (surprise, I have been sharing stuff about my thesis on my fic blog), @vreniii (surprise as well!), @bifrostiron (surprise, surprise!), @when-kurt-met-blaine, @bitbybitwrites, @blurglesmurfklaine, @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @quizasvivamos, @coffeegleek, @larkral, @glowinthedarkparades, @facewithoutheart, @artsyunderstudy, @thnxforknowingme. If I missed anyone, then... oops. It’s free to read for everyone who has the link, and the link is up there!

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Hello folks! Happy Out of Touch Thursday. I am a day late, because yesterday I was out and about all day, so thank you @facewithoutheart, @confused-bi-queer, @wellbelesbian and @artsyunderstudy for the tags.

It is actually a great timing, because today I found out that I have passed my thesis! Guys, I think I just kind of graduated university. My advisor sent me this:

Not going to lie, I expected a better grade (I got a 6.5), but you know what, I accept it. I had a lot of problems with my thesis and I most of the time felt like I had no clue what I was doing, so I am glad that I made it. Not only that, but I had fun doing it, most of the time. The real grade is the friends we made along the way or something.

I will make sure y’all can read it if you want. As mentioned, I can put it in my university’s thesis repository, but then it’ll be in Dutch so I will translate it for my “international audience”. I do want to come back to this question: do you guys think it is allowed on AO3?

Anyway, the moment I handed in my thesis on Sunday I just started fic writing. I even made a meme about it, because of course I did. I’ll put the snippet under the cut with the weather.

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What’s poppin’ LGBTs! Happy “we should totally stab Caesar day!” to all who celebrate, but most importantly happy 12 year anniversary to Kurt and Blaine 😌.

Back due to popular demand (jk?): more thesis talk! As promised, I discussed with my thesis supervisor whether or not I can share my thesis and the answer is yes! I, of course, didn’t mention to her that I am currently sharing my thesis through snippets on my fanfiction Tumblr blog, but alas, wat niet weet wat niet deert. But once I have the finished version (hopefully end June, for pride month, how appropriate!) I can send it to people if I want to. It will still be in Dutch but again ask me in 4 months what to do for my international audience (so weird to say about a thesis).

But yeah to celebrate the news 🥳, have some more of the thesis, aka my WIP for the next couple of months. On Sunday we talked about possible reasons why there are more queer men than women in media (I also added a third reason: Bury Your Gays). I described how heteroflexibility complicates what constitutes as queer representation, since women who have relations with other women aren’t always portrayed as queer, but there’s also a flip side to this:

In Russo's (2014) article on queer female fandom, a distinction is also made between subtext and maintext. The subtext consists of homoerotic elements and the discourse surrounding it. Maintext is the explicit queer representation. The boundary between subtext and main text is not always clear (Russo, 2014). Queer female fandom consists largely of queer women and these queer interpretations stem from a combination of personal and political wishes (Russo, 2014, 2017). This makes the questions surrounding the representation of queer women more complex. Heteroflexibility ensures that not all women who enter into relationships with other women are queer (Annati & Ramsey, 2022; DeCeuninck & Dhoest, 2016; Diamond, 2005; Jackson & Gilbertson, 2009), but on the other hand, queer subtext ensures that that “straight” women are perceived as queer and sometimes fans are more enthusiastic about those characters than explicit representation (Ng & Russo, 2017). Often these "straight" women are also seen as queer representation (McNicholas Smith, 2020a). This shows that queer representation is more complex than previously thought.

(Dutch under the cut, together with the tags, for the few Dutchies who might prefer to read it in Dutch, since academics can be a bitch.)

Yes, this is technically about Faberry. Literally every paper on this phenomenon I’ve read mentions Faberry and a ship from Xena: Warrior Princess. It’s an interesting thing, because is a character like Quinn Fabray queer? (Fun fact, she also falls underneath the whole heteroflexibility mess after I Do.) I mean, I once had to write a paper on representation in Glee and it hurt me to call her straight (@blurglesmurfklaine remember the “Quinn is straight. Fans disagreed.” line?), but on the other hand it is questionable when straight characters sometimes get more love and recognition than actual on-screen canon representation. I also love pissing off straight people by claiming that Zuko is gay, but Korra is right there, amirite? I didn’t want to add too much text here in this post, but I did give a historical reasoning behind this phenomenon. This is just another interesting thing in a list of interesting things.

#starting this off because i have a lot to say lol #i actually have even more to say but i'll just cram that in the tags to avoid a super long post #but basically i do want to write more fic #i actually have some new thoughts about ljubim te and in my head i started plotting out the au please jack zimmermann character study fic #but again time time time #i am still on the fence about the dex fic because my mind is absolutely blanking there and it stresses me out #since this fest has a hard deadline #so i might drop the dex one but the prompt just amuses me so much #ah we will see #tagged in #wip wednesday #WOO WOO!!!#thesis lol

It’s bloody Sunday. Hewwo everyone and thank you @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @thnxforknowingme, @martsonmars and @larkral for the tags, hi back @cutestkilla and yes @caramelcoffeeaddict I am indeed tagging you!

To no one’s surprise, I have written nothing apart from my thesis. On Thursday I basically went “into the zone” (my teacher would apply the flow theory here) and I wrote for 3.5 hours and ever since Thursday I have been adding stuff, but it is mostly done. Mostly. I only need to do the more general theory on representation, but since it isn’t specifically queer, I care less lol. Basically right now my theoretical background is “Representation” (basic stuff), “Queer representation” (the consequences of queer rep, the history of queer rep, gay assimilation vs. queer liberation, queerbaiting, heteroflexibility, Bury Your Gays, intersectionality) and lastly “the queer gaze” (queer reading of texts, positive queercoding, queer female fandom).

But uhm, I am actually super duper proud of my work, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ have some stuff about why there might be more queer men in media than queer women:

First, gender is generally still portrayed in a skewed way: there are more men in the media than women (Daalmans et al., 2017; Gallagher, 2014). Second, intimate relationships between two female characters are more often seen as something platonic (Russo, 2014). As an extension of this, women who sometimes enter into relationships with other women are not portrayed as queer, but as heteroflexible (Annati & Ramsey, 2022; DeCeuninck & Dhoest, 2016; Diamond, 2005; Jackson & Gilbertson, 2009). This means that relationships between two women are portrayed as a joke, a phase, a party trick, or as a way to attract male viewers (Diamond, 2005). This heteroflexible portrayal is not necessarily a bad thing, as it can also promote the beginning of a discovery of a queer identity (Symes, 2017), but most often a heteroflexible storyline ends with a woman being affirmed that she is straight and therefore she is not a threat to the heterosexual order (Jackson & Gilbertson, 2009). This is also consistent with the 1990s “lesbian chic” movement, in which sexual relations between straight women were presented as a fun, provocative trend (Dow, 2001; McNicholas Smith, 2020).

These are actually six sentences. Original is under the cut.

Will y’all ever be able to read this? Who knows. People, both online and offline, have expressed interest, which delights me. There is a thesis repository at my university, but a) my thesis is unfortunately in Dutch and b) I am using a copyrighted cartoon. I actually have permission to use it from the cartoonist (fuck yeah), but I obviously only asked permission for the use within my faculty so I’ll have to e-mail her again.

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#i also got super ill over the weekend #yesterday was painful but today was fine and i decided to relax by playing stardew valley and reading #i finally finished magnus chase!!#also re: thesis i am sharing the shit out of this but obvs for *gestures around* privacy reason i assume i cannot easily share the results #and snippets of the interviews #actually.... i do not know the rules about sharing this kind of stuff #cause i do know that if you are a respondent you can always leave your e-mail address #so that i can send the final results #hmmmmmmm #six sentence sunday #tagged in #thesis lol

Hello and happy El WooWoo to you all. Thank you @aroace-genderfluid-sheep for the tag back and @you-remind-me-of-the-babe‘s tag just arrived in my activity box!

Surprise, it is Thesis Wednesday after all! I know I said last Sunday that it’s going to be thesis free here, but to my dismay I found another Darling That I Might Have To Kill:

As indicated earlier, the term "queer women" is used instead of "lesbians". This is because there are more sexual identities than homosexuality. Yet homosexuality is the most common depicted in media (Bond, 2015; Sender, 2011). Bisexuals and pansexuals are depicted less because they threaten binary ideas about identity. This is why bisexuality is often portrayed as “one or the other” (Allen, 2022). Bisexual women are still portrayed as prone to cheating (Diamond, 2005). Asexuals are almost completely invisible, or they are not taken seriously by the media (Chen, 2020). Most of the characters are cisgender (Nölke, 2018) and trans women who appear in the media are often victims of (sexual) violence (Abbott, 2022) or they’re seen as a threat to cis women (Gill-Peterson, 2023). There has been improvement in recent years, with TV series such as Pose, starring trans women of color (Joyrich, 2022), but several articles indicate that there is still much room for improvement and argue for intersectionality (Annati & Ramsey, 2022 ; DeCeuninck & Dhoest, 2016; Rodriguez, 2019; Yue, 2014).

Basically, like other Kill Your Darlings, thesis edition, I don’t have to fully get rid of it. I just need to shorten it. This has proven to be quite difficult, since I think all information is relevant. Same can be said here with this snippet. But I guess I will have to cut out all from “Bisexuals and pansexuals...” to “... media (Chen, 2020)”, so that the core still stands: other sexualities are underrepresented.

The conflicting thing is that on one hand my advisor tells me to trim most of my theoretical background down (I mean, it is indeed too long), but on the other hand I need to show what the literature says about the core statements that I am presenting. This conflict is bigger with previous snippets that I have shared, but ugh, that is the pain of being limited to a thesis format. Might fuck around and obtain a PhD after all, only so that I have more room to include stuff. (That is a joke, I am not sure if I want to do a PhD.)

Anyway, I have also started the interviews. I had two today. Two more tomorrow. Two more on Friday... and so on. I need to transcribe a lot but the good news is that I genuinely love it. I absolutely enjoy hearing other people’s opinions on it. The two interviews of today also felt, well, inspiring almost. It was so nice. Aaaah.

The Dutch version, + a fun gif + the weather under the cut.

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Hewwo, it is Sunday. I am kicking it off early, cause I have some ✨ thesis updates ✨ for the ones who are interested. And also, I will be out and about all day, hence the early post.

I didn’t write fic and I might not write some in a while, because yeah, I am back on my thesis bullshit. I finally got my long-awaited feedback on the draft version of my thesis and uhhhhh it is a lot. Like, more than I anticipated. I know I wrote a post about how it is fine, but it is not fine, actually. When I wrote that post, I didn’t really look in-depth at the feedback. It really is.... quite a lot.

I have four kinds of feedback, categorised by me:

The “Okay, yes, this makes sense. You’re so right. Thanks for telling me.” feedback.

The “Uh, why didn’t you mention this before? I guess it is easier to spot this mistake when you read the thesis as a whole, so I get it.” feedback.

The “Uh, why didn’t you mention this before? Really, there is no excuse for this to be mentioned in my last week before the deadline.” feedback.

And the “Hm. Can’t you read?” feedback.

Most of it is the second one. The fourth one sounds really rude, I am aware, but those are for feedback like “Where is the source?” and then I go “Literally in the sentence after this one.” To reiterate, I am not really mad at her. I am incredibly glad to have her as my advisor and I really think she cares. My advisor for my bachelorthesis was so terrible, so this is a welcome change. I would pick her again if I would have to. Also, she planned a meeting with me to discuss the feedback and so that she could answer my questions, so she in turn is also open for feedback on her feedback. So yeah, I am annoyed with the no. 4 (and also no. 3) category of feedback, but I am also aware that she has A Lot of theses to read right now. This will only increase, cause for the final grading, every thesis needs to be read twice (possibly thrice) by different teachers. Oh my!

Not gonna lie, though. I did feel very demotivated when I went through all the feedback. It kind of feels like all your hard work gets drop kicked in the ground. But I have been here before. This isn’t my first rodeo, so I also know from experience that this initial feeling will ebb away and once I actually apply the feedback, I will often feel pretty good about it. The initial... disappointment, I guess, just needs some time to go.

Anyway, the deadline is on the 26th. In the words of Eric Bittle, who is *cough* very familiar with thesis stuff:

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#six sentence sunday #thesis lol #im gonna go to a queer event and then to a party at the beach!#yesterday i was at a museum #tbh timing isn't great cause of the thesis but again eric bittle is right #this is partially why i hoped the feedback would arrive earlier but it is what it is #tagged in