we need more sapphic books and movies that are casually but also openly sapphic. characters who are in love and are confident in that love without having big identity crises. and yes, we do need stories of discovering sexuality and discovering you're sapphic and growing to be confident in your identity, but in my opinion the journey to accepting and being proud of being sapphic would be so much easier if representation of sapphic couples was treated as normal, as beautiful, and as valid. we need more couples like nina and dre from the chi, marla and fran from i care a lot. media where sapphics can just. be sapphic. and that's okay.
“We mimic our parent’s behaviors in relationships” got me thinking about how much of my behavior in relationships and in navigation of love fe in general is behavior that has been visually imprinted on me and not originally mine.
But overall we are a culmination of ideas and behaviors that have been imprinted on us, whether it be from characters from tv shows, movies, role models or any other source.
So I’ve been trying to become more aware of my behaviors and tracing those behaviors back to the imprinted origin
i started binge watching "The Chi" and the Christmas episode in season 5 got me in my emotions real good. Who ever is in the writers room for this show knows how to write found family real fucking well. I never think that representation in entertainment matters until I see myself in the media I watch and realize that I can be happy like them. I just don't have talented people writing my life and I have to find that happiness for myself (which is really fucking hard right now)