#themulticorn

well we’d know who you were talking about if you said tumblr people but it could get awkward i guess. who to name, who not to name. // and excellent choices ofc.

How I feel about this character - She’s gorgeous, talented, shy but stands up for herself, and is also hilarious. :D

All the people I ship romantically with this character - Marley, Ryder, Jake, Blaine

My non-romantic OTP for this character - Marley

My unpopular opinion about this character - It really suuuuper bothered me when she had that conversation with Coach Beiste and she kept mentioning surgery as if A) it’s just a given that Beiste is having surgery and B) it’s any of her business. :/

J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over tumblr.

Ummmm Dragon Age! I really enjoyed playing Dragon Age 2, but then Tumblr was what gave me feelings about Anders being the best ever.

N: Your favorite fandom (for the people; not the thing you're fannish over).

I’m not actually super familiar with that many fandoms. My two biggest fandoms in my life have been Glee and Buffy, and I have had negative encounters with fans of both. But before Buffy, I was in a tiny fandom for a little known 13-episode series called CyberSix, and those people were all fantastic. Everyone was friendly, supportive, artistic, and I’m still friends with some of them. Amazing!

P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).

Glee: AU where Kurt sticks with the flannel/Mellencamp/closeted/deep-voiced/hypermasculine thing from Laryngitis for years. 

Maybe he isn’t bullied as much and never transfers to Dalton. Maybe he dates Brittany long term. Maybe he finally starts really analyzing his sexuality in college and it’s very traumatic. Or very liberating. Or both.

b: maybe cause he’s just a nice guy, and those, being not great for ~DRAMA~, are not v common character types? & seems like it might appeal to you. L. the arrangement was your prompt? omg. :D

True, drama-free characters are awesome for me, that’s an excellent point. :D

your favorite of / thing about the new newbs?

My favourite of the new newbs is Jane! I have a lot of feelings about her fighting for her right to participate in a traditionally male-only space, while wearing a recognizable but feminized Dalton uniform with a skirt, and wearing her hair in a decidedly ungelled unstraightened style, and being sad about being rejected but not apologetic. And her singing is amazing and I love everything about her. <3 <3 <3

would you like to talk any more about what 'i've always felt like this' might mean?

Ooooh this is a good one because I get to talk about myself, LOL, which will make it pretty easy to write about. Thank you! 

I am transmasculine. I have not always been trans, in fact I used to identify as female, but have always felt "like this", where "like this" means "not at home in my skin".

I used to think of myself as a female person with gender issues. I didn't like my chest or my birthname. I pretended to be a boy during sex. I didn't like being described as a woman or a lady, which for a while I thought might have to do with internalized misogyny.

For the most part, I didn't think of myself as trans, or as "a boy in a girl's body". Sure, my chest made me uncomfortable, but maybe that was partially because female chests are so often the focus of unwanted sexual attention or something, it didn't necessarily mean I wasn't a girl.

As a kid I was very proud to be the first girl in the history of my school to join the rocketry club. I didn't understand why other girls didn't join, rockets are awesome! The next year, two other girls joined. It didn't occur to me until much much later that the reason no girls joined was because there were no girls already there. It looked exclusive and unwelcoming. It took someone doing it for other people to do it. My point is that at least at that time, I was totally fine with identifying as a girl, and simultaneously I spent a lot of my time associating with boys.

I was almost thirty before I started transitioning. It wasn't so much that my feelings about my body had changed. It was more that my identity had shifted from "female with gender issues" to "probably not actually female at all". I still didn't like my chest, I was still indecisive about haircuts, and I was still fine with my face. The bits of dysphoria I had always had about my body were pretty much the same as ever, even as my identity changed.

Coach Beiste says in 6x03: "Kiddo, I know this may seen sudden to you, but it doesn't to me. I've felt like this my whole life. Growing up, I was really confused. I thought I was just a tomboy. So I got into sports... No matter what I did, I never felt at home in my own skin. I never felt like my body fit who I was on the inside. I don't hate being a woman, and I don't regret the things I've been though."

YES… i think at least part of it is that we think faster than we (can) talk? or at least i sometimes do - also some parts are in words but some parts are NOT. i’ve never tried the recording thing, though, only thought about it.