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id: end credit art from the dungeon meshi anime. it shows marcille and falin running to catch up with shuro, laios, namari, and chilchuck. /end id

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anyway...i’ve recently started watching one day at a time. i heard there was a lesbian character (elena), and it seemed fun, so i tried it out. and it’s SO GOOD.

and the character elena, specifically, made me think. characters like elena in media i watched when i was younger (like, 8, 9 to 11) made me think i was straight. i used to relate heavily to the bookish, studious girls a bit older than i was, because that’s how i was. a big example here is avery from “dog with a blog” - i used to watch that show a lot when i was around ten. and eventually, those characters would get crushes on boys. and the thing wasn’t only that they would date boys and such, but it was that it was scene as a marker for a passing of time - a female character’s first crush on a boy was important. she was “becoming a woman”, or whatever. it wasn’t just her personality trait - it was her destiny.

and that’s why i thought i was straight. i thought i was crushing on boys, because i thought that Had To Happen, that it was the only option for people like me.

and then...elena. i desperately needed a character like elena was younger, to be honest. she gets to be a smart girl and she’s a lesbian, and they intercept and the show doesn’t shy away from it. because you can be both!

and what’s also so beautiful i didn’t really touch on earlier is that one day at a time made elena a younger character. she’s fifteen, but her lesbianism isn’t any less valid. victor claims it is, but penelope defends elena, telling him that she didn’t choose to be gay.