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Oooh, I hear you, girl

here 👏 for 👏 this

did i do something wrong? no, you didn’t. you’re doing great.

fine. you’ve got the gig.

happy birthday, @valenciaperez

yearbook award meme ↠ best hair (requested by @catty-words)

#gurlgroup4evah

the thing about all the media coverage ostensibly in favor of valencia’s coming-out story being as nonchalant as possible is that in all this time (one month), i’ve yet to see anyone explain why a nonchalant coming-out arc would make sense for the character. if you’re totally over the kind of storytelling where a character gradually realizes they’re gay, that’s fine! you don’t have to watch that media. maybe you’re better suited to watch something like the fosters (yawn) or the l word (yikes) where the self-discovery has happened offscreen before the show began. or maybe you’ll like the bold type, where there is some self-discovery but it’s all very superficial and happens very fast. that can be your thing, but you still have to acknowledge that out in the real world, there are many people for whom coming out isn’t easy, and we can’t just pretend we’re past that when it comes to media rep? to watch cxg and say that the BEST version of valencia’s coming out arc would have it be so understated that no one in the show’s universe even acknowledges that anything has changed in valencia’s world… it just doesn’t make sense? if coming out was easy for you, cool (it was for me too!) but you’re looking at this repressed character who has never let herself get to know women in her entire life and you’re saying there isn’t a story to tell about how she ended up in a relationship with a woman. that’s stupid, short-sighted nonsense and you’re looking past the forest for the trees.