#finn asks

maybe if I ever finish writing chapter 5 I'll write vampire michie I want to so bad

ohhh no how tragic this is soooo bad that sucks for him (bite his tongue Richard)

nah, i haven’t seen it pup… promise…

(I live under a rock I'm sorry)

Often times on Rupaul's Drag Race they say "condragulations" instead of "congratulations" because y'know it's a show about drag queens🤭

Idk I find it hilarious

EEEE POPPYMOUSE !!!!!!!!

i mean... heh... hey mudkip :3

i have so many thoughts abt rarepairs all the time and u bet i have thoughts on this one (canon or not canon)

they are my little babies. they call for HOURS because mary loves talking to him but he gets nervous in person

peter fell first, mary fell harder

they send each other notes in class and giggle under their breath when they get caught. They spend mornings inside playing chess or reading after spending the night sneaking about the castle

they both are gryffindors to the core, they spend ever hogsmeade together at the sweets store, they share hot chocolate at breakfast

they werent the first in the friendgroup to have crushes on eachother, but they got together faster than ALL of them

mary helped peter with his history of magic homework, peter kept mary entertained when she was dreadfully bored, UGHHH THEY R SO CUTE I NEED TO TALK ABT THEM MORE

and if i said mary helped peter with sole gender identity problems what then...

oh ALSO for a bit of angst ;; poppyseeds have the ability to kill rats, yet some think they are alright for them.

when peter went off the rails, there was one person everyone turned to:

mary.

her and peter had just broken up, the war had gotten too stressful. they were fighting constantly, and peter had been worrying her.

they all assumed mary could get it under control, but in the strive to get peter back, they just drove them both away.

Hey Finn, How often do you and Shelly talk?

"Ehh, not REEL-ly often!! SEA did KELP me find Barnaby once, though! I guess she's not SHELL-FISH at least!!"

Yes this is rushed so sorry 💔

Is Mouse Jameson, or is he another character?

Mouse is Finn Schneider, the main character of Death Valley, which is a fic that touches on Jameson's story (Robert being one of Jameson's captors), but is wholly separate.

• I mean he said the F word to Kurt. Which was really bad and he should have known better, especially since they were friends.

• He outed Santana and he didn't think it was that big of a deal. I mean no matter what, it is never someone's place to out another person. I know that it's not real, but in glee universe he had no idea what her situation was. Her parents could have disowned her, her abuela did. I'm saying this because if someone did that to me then my life would be over, I don't know where I would live and I wouldn't have any support.

• Also, when Santana was insulting Finn his reaction was to basically say "yea well you're gay." That is his idea of the biggest insult he could have thrown at Santana. In my mind being gay would never be seen as an insult or ammunition to use against someone but he did. What does that say about him??

I think even Glee itself doesn't shy away from Finn's homophobic tendencies, at least in season 1, which is a refreshing bit of self-awareness. It doesn't last. The self-awareness, that is. The homophobia does.

So here's the thing, I think Finn was meant to represent this more lowkey but just as sinister type of homophobia where you're cool with gay people in theory and are more progressive than your mates, until it's time to actually confront your own socialization and make a stand. That's season 1, imo. Where Glee has enough of a critical eye turned towards Finn where they can elevate him from ~other boys~ who are more hostile and actively homophobic but also explore that not standing up against a system is also perpetuating it. In non-pretentious terms, Glee doesn't shy away from Kurt's crossing of boundaries in season 1 but also 100% acknowledges that Finn is too comfortable in his privileged position and too ready to abuse it. The infamous slur scene is Finn resorting to homophobic language because it puts Kurt down and elevates him. And Finn throughout the series season is caving in to peer pressure from other jocks because his own image matters more to him than actually being anti-homophobic.

That story works in season 1, imo, because Finn learns his lesson but with much, much more space for growth. The correct continuation would have been not him having to learn the exact same lesson with Kurt again in 2x08 Furt and not him getting a free pass for every subsequent homophobic action. Alas, he lost all my sympathy when he was centered again and again in queer narratives without learning his lesson, without giving up his privilege to enact real change, without understanding how his actions continued hurting people, without examining his own messed up homophobia that came from his social context. Sure, he and Kurt became brothers but it felt like the show just absolved him of all sins. And proceeded to have him out a Latina lesbian to a homophobic high school/conservative town. With zero remorse or even sign that he knew how messed up what he did was. Because make no mistake, as much as Finn just wanted to hurt Santana in 3x06, he chose to do it by attacking her sexual identity and threatening her personal safety. That's homophobia and a particularly insidious act of it, at that, because everything in previous seasons tells us that Finn should know better than to do that. And he does it anyway. That's not just ignorance, that's cruelty.

So. Is Finn homophobic? Well, I think there's a distinction between being homophobic and doing/saying homophobic things. Finn was meant to belong to the latter category in Glee and meant to evolve into someone who genuinely learns to do better and stand up in the face of homophobia. Glee thinks that's what they did with the ch but I beg to differ. I think Finn is a person who just doesn't grasp the gravity of things and doesn't know how to apologize. See the Sue and baby Robin incident. So even though he does a genuinely great job later on with Unique's situation, I struggle to say he's not still homophobic because he just didn't demonstrate he was capable of that kind of growth. And that's on the writers and their treatment of Finn as a golden boy instead of the messed up kid who makes mistakes and has to learn bit by bit, not just be portrayed as this inherently "good" guy. By painting him as inherently, instinctively good even when he screwed up big time - bigger than anyone else on the show if you ask me - they halted that growth and he remained homophobic.