no offense but “family is the people you choose to surround yourself with and love you dearly” will literally ALWAYS be a better theme and a better concept than “love the family you were arbitrarily stuck with because they’re related to you”
Without legal ties, families of choice are likely to drop you like a hot potato.
It seems to me that the lesson of much of LGBTQ experience is that families with legal and/or blood ties can still drop you like a hot potato. Families of choice are the ones that won’t drop you because they’re bound together by genuine love and acceptance rather than by something as arbitrary as genetic relationship.
The expression “blood is thicker than water” is actually a truncation and misunderstanding of the proverb “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” Several interpretations have been offered of the “blood” in question: it might be the blood that soldiers shed together in battle, or the blood that two people ceremonially mingle when they form a “covenant,” or a contract, of “blood-brotherhood.” The point, though, is that bonds forged either by choice or by shared experience are stronger than the connection involved in having shared a womb.
Loki is the Philosopher King 