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“We can’t, I can’t make you do this. You won't survive on Earth, and I won’t survive here and we both know it. I didn’t want to believe it, but we don’t choose who we are, Zargenta. We belong in different worlds, and it breaks my heart that we’re not meant to be, but I’m better for loving you. And if you even feel one percent the same way that’s enough for me.”

For days I have been looking for the words to talk about my feelings about the new Netflix show, Everything Sucks. It’s been surprisingly difficult. The thing is, I have a LOT of feelings about the show. But the main things that I keep circling back to are sad, and unbelievably happy. • I was sad for sad queer teenage Breann. Who might she have been if she’d had characters like Kate and Emmaline to look up to? What possibilities might have opened up for her? Who might I have become as a result? These questions are staggering and heavy. They bring out a strange sort of sadness in me. When I was in high school I didn’t have a lot of popular representation of queer girls, let alone girls my age. I think Ellen DeGeneres was the only lesbian I knew. That lack of representation made it profoundly difficult (and thus, took much longer) to recognize, acknowledge, and accept my queerness. But see, that’s also why Everything Sucks also makes me so fucking happy. When I think about all the queer girls sitting at home watching Kate and Emmaline and know that they get to feel seen... it makes my heart sing. They deserve this. They need this. I’m glad we could finally give it to them. • • • #everythingsucks #netflix #lgbtq #queer #queergirls #representation #representationmatters #visibility #personal #kemmaline #katemessner #emmalineadario