so when are we going to talk about how the majority of the Dean Parallel (or even just dean centric) characters are queer women? claire and charlie immediately come to mind as the most obvious and pertinent ones. dean’s best friend in the world is a lesbian woman. the girl who is a parallel to him in almost every way possible is a lesbian woman. even jody and donna, who are huge figures in his life, have a strong case of being queer-coded (two women who are LITERAL partners. who have the classic Dead Husband and Bad Husband tropes and never remarry a man). this can’t be a coincidence, right? that queer women flock to him like that? it could be another parallel or if you want it could simply just be that he’s a safe haven for these people to be themselves unapologetically and know they will be loved fully without question. i don’t know where i’m going with this it just makes me crazy that he’s surrounded by gay women.













