CHAPPELL ROAN At Bonnaroo On June 16, 2024

A super and A Luthor. Destined to hate each other but fell in love.

(This is a redraw from a drawing I did back in 2020) 

brittana and their physical touch

Glee (2009-2015)

every time i remember that the quinntana hookup is canon, 10 years is added to my lifespan

i'm sorry unique and WHO

The Ultimate Glee Ship Tournament: Round 2 Match 19

red wine supernova, fall right into me

do i love you, my oh my <3

Reasons why Rachel Berry is bisexual and in love with Quinn Fabray:

She wore a sweater with the colors of the bi flag while singing about getting the attention from both boys and girls. Take me or Leave me is a song from the musical Rent performed by a bisexual female character (it’s a duet with a lesbian and a bi woman, but Rachel performed the part of the bi character)

Even though at first her admiration for Quinn was platonic in a “I wanna look like you” kind of way, it evolved into something more. No straight girl talks that amount of times about how pretty and beautiful other girls are. Rachel literally says Quinn is the prettiest girl she’s ever met and there isn’t a single ounce of jealousy in her tone. Rachel is definitely attracted to Quinn and often looks like she’s pining after her

She asked Finn what it was like to kiss another girl (Quinn)

Even though Rachel has every reason to hate Quinn she never hated her. She even gave her panties to jbi to not divulge Quinn’s pregnancy and she did this for Quinn: Quinn is the one who would lose her reputation, her parents, her popularity and her spot on the Cheerios. Quinn is the one who would be hurted the most if the truth came out, not Finn. Rachel did this to protect her. During the first seasons, we often see Rachel trying to support/help Quinn (another example is when Rachel tries to reach out to Quinn when she was a skank)

Was Rachel in love with Finn ? Yes, he was her first love, but around mid season two and the beginning of season three she started to develop feelings for Quinn too

Rachel seems often sad and defeated when Quinn dates men

She suggested to Finn to get Quinn a gardenia for the prom: the gardenia means secret love, of all the flowers that exist in this world Rachel specifically picks the gardenia. This can’t be a coincidence

The way she looks at Quinn, ma’am just say you’re in love with her and go

In this scene from the pilot she touches Tina’s boobs

She has sexual chemistry with every woman she interacts with, especially with Quinn during the first seasons and Santana during seasons 4-5. Her duets with Santana are often emotionally charged and full of chemistry: in “so emotional” it’s almost like they’re singing to each other and there’s a heavy romantic subtext, in “every breath you take” pezberry look like two exes who had a rough break up, but they still aren’t over each other. This song can be interpreted as “i’m obsessed with you so I’m gonna watch you every step you take” or “I’m so in love with you I always wanna be close to you”. Both keys of reading are valid

She went through Santana’s panty drawer, I don’t need to say more

She’s constantly teased by Santana and other characters about her sexuality, it’s curious that she never denies being gay. It often seems like the show is dropping hints about her attraction to girls

Sequin smile, black lipstick

i just really needed it to exist

santana lopez has adhd (part 2)

^the adhd lesbian flag^

(*disclaimer: i have adhd myself and work in education/educational psychology, which is the basis of this post in which i get wayyyyy too analytical about a fictional character; however, i'm not a psychiatrist or doctor and am not qualified to diagnose real people with adhd or anything else ... seriously, our only representation is cis white boys whose adhd is an explanation for them being the class clown and treated as a joke so please don't get salty at me for claiming a fictional character that isn't a cis white boy as part of the adhd gang)

(credit to @dojasrivera on twitter for making the og adhd!santana thread; i unfortunately wasn’t able to see it as i only found out about it after their original twitter account got suspended but there may be some overlap between their thread and this post)

sup homies, as you know, tumblr cut me off so i had to make a part 2. (here's part 1)

ambitious but lacking in direction - noted terrible educator will schuester describes santana as being "unfocused" in 3x16.  she's indecisive about college in the latter half of season 3, initially says she wants to go then flip-flops, and then goes to louisville (fun fact: donovan mitchell also went there) for a short period of time then drops out.  after that she has a bunch of projects and career goals that never really go anywhere. (partially thanks to the lazy writing on the show)

fear of failure - santana wanted to go to new york after graduation but initially wanted to stay behind when she found out brittany wasn't graduating (like immediately), then chose to take the scholarship to louisville despite brittany and quinn both pointing out that she had the cash from her parents to pursue her dreams in new york (brittany was a lot more supportive and less judgy though). she did end up going after unpacking her anxiety around it with britt though.

low self-esteem, anxiety and/or depression - season 2 is what i like to refer to as "santana lopez's sad gay era", however i'd also argue that season 4 until mid season 5 (when she reunites with brittany) is kind of a low period for her as well.  the break-up is painful for both of them.  they're one another's safe people so when they don't have each other in close proximity, both of them experience depression.  i would also consider her demeanour at the beginning of 5x09 as an example of her exhibiting signs of depression. santana also experiences a lot of anxiety around her interpersonal relationships (pretty much all of season 2, 4x16, 5x09-5x13); in 5x18 it's very apparent that she's scarred by the experience with auditioning for rachel's understudy part and doesn't want to intrude on mercedes (thankfully, mercedes is awesome, we love mercedes jones here, themostrandomfandom does a great job of analysing this storyline here). it's also worth noting that despite how clumsily she goes about things, santana lopez is the most loyal, ride-or-die person on this damn show (she's definitely a gryffindor or hufflepuff who thinks she's a slytherin despite my less than positive thoughts on the transphobic lady's book series, or - in the context of the superior book series - a mary anne who thinks she’s a claudia) but the only acknowledgement she gets is shame, so she internalises it to give people an "out" ("I'm numb to people's feelings", "I have no heart").

can be easily distracted (while also hyperfocused on other things) - has a tendency to zone out of conversations (credit to @santanaslawyer on twitter) and couldn't remember her locker combo around brittany (although some of that could have also been santana being in her sad gay era and pining over britt)

narrow window of tolerance - santana was completely done with everyone's shit like all the time

strong sense of justice - homegirl uses her bitch powers to protect the people she cares about (see 2x17, 3x11, 5x18). other people aren't allowed to make fun of her mates, that's her job, dammit! she's also proactive in reporting mr schuester's lack of efficiency as a spanish teacher not because she dislikes him (which she doesn't; she might roll her eyes at him all the time but she does actually like him as a person) but because his teaching promotes offensive stereotypes, harms her and negatively affects everyone's education (and to her credit she is way more patient and charitable to him than he deserves when he literally chastises her in front of everyone for doing it). she will also challenge authority in situations where she is being held to a different standard to others. in 3x07, when figgins is considering suspending santana, she pushes back against it (rightfully so) because she doesn't understand how there isn't a zero-tolerance policy for violence when finn and puck get into it in the middle of school, or when the glee club get slushied, or when kurt is repeatedly physically assaulted by karofsky, but she slaps finn (after he outed her) and this policy suddenly exists. same applies in 3x13 when finn and rachel are allowed to have very graphic PDAs at school with no complaint from the authorities, but santana and brittany have one chaste peck and it's the end of the world, and she rightfully tells figgins that there's a double standard.

(really random) hyperfixations - it's a popular glee headcanon that santana spends a lot of time researching random shit on wikipedia (which she probably did the night before her wedding so she could explain to britt about the superstition around the bride/groom not seeing each other before the wedding) based on the absolute batshit cultural references she comes out with. she makes the most random cultural references (e.g. comparing rory to the great gazoo, which is a really random side-character from the flintstones), and has somewhat of a fascination with lizards (2x04, 2x12).  she also just randomly made an entire voodoo doll of rachel berry just for shits and giggles, like … wtf

lack of spatial awareness - so this one's mostly just naya rivera's physical comedy, but ... in the nicest possible way ... santana's a tad bit unco, isn't she? (see: her very charming wacky inflatable arm-waving tube person dancing in 3x08, the scene where she literally walks headfirst into a balloon in 3x22 and the scene in 5x17 where she gets attacked by pigeons).

hyperactive - santana's abuela put her in ballet classes because she was "such a tomboy and it really pissed [her] dad off"; obviously we know she had a mullet and dressed up as uncle jesse from full house for halloween (and she knows how to tie a tie, thanks again sarah) - those are obviously aesthetic things but "tomboy" can also be code for "hyperactive" in afab people (particularly if santana's grandmother was of the "children should be seen and not heard" generation).