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Glee geography, story blather
I've been fudging a bit of the geography in my story, some on purpose, some because my brain is direction dumb.
In the absence of more specific information from the show, it's hard to imagine Kurt commuting two hours to Westerville during S2, so I've assumed that WMHS and most of the kids are well to the east of downtown Lima, and, for the purposes of Blaine not having to drive 2 hours to get to WMHS, that Blaine's family lives to the west of Westerville.
I attended a rural high school near Pensacola, FL, and while we were about a 30 min drive from downtown Pensacola, we still considered ourselves to be, essentially, living in P'cola. So I'm hoping it's okay to make these sort of assumptions with Glee and geography?
I'm thinking about this partly because with the Finchel wedding at (one assumes) Lima City Hall/City Council Chambers, the kids are finding themselves in Downtown Lima, which honestly doesn't seem to suck quite as badly as one would expect. There's even a comic shop! I am thinking that it may be just a direction the kids rarely go? But, I retain license to artistic liberties.
I also screwed up geographically. I have a terrible directional/orientational/spatial sense. I can literally get lost while following a map (seriously, I will see I need to turn left, tell myself I'm turning left, and turn right instead), so even though I do look at Google maps from time to time for the purposes of writing this story, in my head I swapped Columbus and Dayton and plopped it on top of Cinncinnati (WTF). It's like spatial dyslexia (I call it dysduxia, but from what I've read it can be related to dyspraxia, which I don't have, or dyscalculia, which may be it since while I'm good at higher math (multiple variable calculus yay), I'm rubbish at arithmetic (long division boo)), and it's super irksome, so I have to go back and fix geographical stuff now, and I hate that, making such dumb mistakes. Stupid brain.
In the absence of more specific information from the show, it's hard to imagine Kurt commuting two hours to Westerville during S2, so I've assumed that WMHS and most of the kids are well to the east of downtown Lima, and, for the purposes of Blaine not having to drive 2 hours to get to WMHS, that Blaine's family lives to the west of Westerville.
I attended a rural high school near Pensacola, FL, and while we were about a 30 min drive from downtown Pensacola, we still considered ourselves to be, essentially, living in P'cola. So I'm hoping it's okay to make these sort of assumptions with Glee and geography?
I'm thinking about this partly because with the Finchel wedding at (one assumes) Lima City Hall/City Council Chambers, the kids are finding themselves in Downtown Lima, which honestly doesn't seem to suck quite as badly as one would expect. There's even a comic shop! I am thinking that it may be just a direction the kids rarely go? But, I retain license to artistic liberties.
I also screwed up geographically. I have a terrible directional/orientational/spatial sense. I can literally get lost while following a map (seriously, I will see I need to turn left, tell myself I'm turning left, and turn right instead), so even though I do look at Google maps from time to time for the purposes of writing this story, in my head I swapped Columbus and Dayton and plopped it on top of Cinncinnati (WTF). It's like spatial dyslexia (I call it dysduxia, but from what I've read it can be related to dyspraxia, which I don't have, or dyscalculia, which may be it since while I'm good at higher math (multiple variable calculus yay), I'm rubbish at arithmetic (long division boo)), and it's super irksome, so I have to go back and fix geographical stuff now, and I hate that, making such dumb mistakes. Stupid brain.
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My larger point is that anyone who really can't handle fudged geography would have given up on Glee ages ago, so you're probably safe. That said, I have nothing but respect for writers who attempt to make sense of Glee in ways the show refuses to make sense of itself.
Tangent: your swap of Columbus and Dayton now has me wanting a story where the boys take a field trip to Club Masque in Dayton. Hee.
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I Googled the club, and now I want that too. I mean, if Blaine thought Scandals was great?
My own headcanon is that Blaine's family lives in Dublin
That's where I've ended up, too. It looks the westernmost affluent, golf-course riddled area that's viable.
Hmm. I know you said you don't read much meta, and I cannot for the life of remember where I read the post, but I did encounter an interesting piece with the thesis that the warped geography does fit into Glee's hyper-realism and stylized imitation of Ohio, wherein Lima is not much like real Lima at all, it's a caricature of all the awful small towns that trap their kids.
So I am hopeful that you are correct and that there aren't any geography pedants reading my story and throwing their hands up in despair. They probably gave up on Glee ages ago. :D
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I know, right? I haven't been to Club Masque myself, but it's supposed to be one of the best clubs in Ohio; apparently people drive from Cinci and Columbus (which is where I kept hearing about it). To Dayton. Which... it must be a really good club, is all I'm saying.
...the warped geography does fit into Glee's hyper-realism and stylized imitation of Ohio, wherein Lima is not much like real Lima at all, it's a caricature of all the awful small towns that trap their kids.
Sure, that makes sense -- though one wonders, then, why on earth the writers picked the name of a real place rather than simply inventing one (as so many shows have done).