#Also have I watched Ru Paul’s Drag Race and Project Runway (for years) which also do a lot of emotional manipulation

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Sorry Athena, but that’s actually American Pie.

American Gods is actually a 2000s reality show singing competition, the og of the modern version of this genre. That actually spawned several singing careers but more interestingly spawned an absolutely horrible 2003 movie, a logistically improbable theme park attraction, and a interactive DVD extra for Shrek 2.

My dad is making me read American Gods… So like, what’s it about? The copy of the book we have has no dust jacket, therefore, no summary.

It's about three American Dogs who have to travel home from California to Maine. It's a long journey, but they face down a bear and several other dangers, including dogcatchers.

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The admins of MTG are pleased to announce that KAT has been accepted to play the role of KURT. Please follow the steps on the New Member Checklist, and we look forward to having you in the group!

OUT OF CHARACTER

Name: Kat Age: 26 Timezone: EST Activity Level: RFP Past RP Accounts: RFP

IN CHARACTER

Character Name: Kurt Hummel Date of Birth: May 27, 1993 Occupation: Working at Vogue.com, auditioning for musicals Current Location: New York City Relationship Status: Married to Blaine Anderson Ships: Chemistry Anti-Ships: No-Chemistry Face Claim: N/A

QUESTIONS - please answer in character

What is your biggest regret? If you went back in time, would you change it if you could?

If I could go back in time and change anything I wouldn’t. As tempting as that is I doubt I could or would be the man I am today without all those hardships and decisions. Every decisions you make in you life has some sort of impact on the person you grow to become. There’s a lot I would be tempted to change, that’s for certain, but it would be selfish of me to do so because it could fundamentally change who I am now, and I am a good person. At least, I try to be. Is this a corny answer? Yeah, it’s a corny answer.

Are there any guilty pleasures in your life? Please share, this is a safe space!

This is going to sound crazy because it’s a Beatles song, how can anything from The Beatles be regarded as a guilty pleasure. Well, when you have a song that was widely regarded as one of their worse songs then you can see. The song I am referencing is You Know My Name (Look Up The Number). This song is just funny and is my go to for when I need a little bit of cheering up and a laugh.

What is your favorite television show and why?

That would be Grey’s Anatomy. I have been watching it for years, and still continue to do so. I love other shows like Project Runway, Ru Paul’s Drag Race, and what not, but there’s just something about Grey’s Anatomy that has stuck with me for all these years. Even with everything that has happened and the character changes I still find myself coming back to this show time and time again.

Biography

There was a honeymoon period, the back and forth, the happiness for Kurt was almost short lived and every insecurity he had going into it started to build back up. They were young, too young, and they hadn’t even tried being in a relationship again to make sure it still worked. He knew he wanted it to, but the insecurities ran rampant in the back of his head. He could, and he did, push them to the back of his head, plastered on a fake smile, and pretended to be one hundred percent happy, because Blaine seemed to be. Plus, he figured given time that they would go away.

He knew a big reason for it all could be because his schedule still wasn’t a light one. He was still in school when they got married, doing well, and still working at the diner so he could make sure that he had food and a roof, especially since at that point in time he was living alone in New York. So he blamed everything he was feeling on the fact that he was still extraordinarily busy. And when he graduated from NYADA, well, he got to be around Blaine more and that part of his fear still itself for a while, and he was happy. But he likes working, likes being busy, that’s who he is. It’s always been who he is, he’s a Hummel, and he is used to working for everything he has. He likes working for what he has.

Straight out of NYADA he was going to audition after audition, not getting picked which made him increasingly discouraged and extremely hurt. However, he used that and put on a brave face and just surged ahead. The increasingly fake smile plastered smile on his face becoming more and more noticeable for anyone that knew him. He wasn’t truly happy, he felt incredibly discouraged, and it was just harder and harder to feel the need to get up and continue on. But he did, each day, got up and persevered even though the world continuously kicked him in the ass. But as Sonheim said in Follies, “I’m Still Here” and he was. He was determined to make his presence known.

However, then came the time when he realized he missed working with Isabelle, but he knew that he couldn’t just accept an unpaid internship all over again. He already did that and wasn’t about to go through that again, as much as he loved it. He needed the money and did not want to keep working at the diner. So, with his tail between his legs, he went and talked with her. His condition for rejoining was to design something that wows her. Well, that was definitely a challenge, one that he was looking forward to.

It took him a few days, closer to a week and a half, but he was sure he had designed and made something that would wow Isabelle. Bringing it to her, however, was nerve wracking. In the end though, he was right, she was wowed. They talked for a while, a pretty good while, while she critiqued his design and he nervously pulled on his fingers, but his eyes alight with excitement as they spoke. An hour later they were talking and negotiating pay and about twenty minutes later he was walking out of there as her paid assistant, making enough that he was comfortable quitting his job at the diner. And you bet that was the first thing that Kurt did. He made his way home, grabbed his work uniform, and went to the diner. He walked in with a small smile, walked up to the counter, and placed his uniform on the counter with the words “Tell Ronny that I quit” and left, decidedly not looking back as he walked out.

He is now still a busy bee, working hard and often. However, he stopped going to auditions, instead he is attempting to write a part. You can only hear the same thing time and time again before it wounds you. He knows he should go back to auditioning but he just can’t bring himself to pull himself up from that slump of failure that he is feeling after being rejected so many times. Besides, he figured that he could take this opportunity of licking his wounds to write his own musical. Something his dad has said nagging in the back of his mind as he works. His long hours at Vogue.com however to make it hard to give him time to write. So when he’s not working there he’s either writing or designing, and maybe, just maybe, he finds himself designing more than writing. He’s pouring a hundred and ten percent of his effort and time into work related stuff more than he does for his personal life, and he feels almost as if this is having an effect on his marriage, but he also feels like it’s nothing new and he’s not sure how to fix that. He’s almost feels unsure of everything nowadays and it’s not an easy feeling to have.