#bc this

Yes. They are. Because they're not actively being cared for! Talk therapy doesn't mean much when they put the patient right back into a cage with all the other patients just an inch of glass away, and yeah I'm getting mad at a fictional institution again.

its been a hot second so i had forgotton it was the 'make an assumption' and for a minute there i thought you could read minds O_o

and then she’s reaching for the button on his jeans, a breathy “okay.. okay.. ill take care of you” leaving her as she tugs at the zipper

Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez gave a generation of queer people a role model. That sounds so serious and stodgy — “a role model for a generation” — for a character whose lines in any given episode included from one to 27 instances of her verbally dressing down any person who dared get in her way or under her skin. But that’s why she mattered so much. She was human. She fucked up. She was just as much gay icon when she was in the closet as she was when she was out of it. She made it okay to know that you were queer but also know that you were frustrated and scared and angry and, sometimes, hopeful about being queer. She loved deeply and openly and grew, all of which is a testament to the gentle care and energy Rivera put into playing her. She existed on mainstream television in a time where looking for queer women on television yielded incredibly limited results. That was more than enough. She was, well, like never before.

@prfxxor