i feel gross bc i can tell how much this shooting isn’t even affecting the straight people around me. the straight people that support me. they read about it and then close out and go on with their day bc they are hardly attached emotionally. lgbt+ people are going to be thinking about this for the rest of the day, for the rest of pride month. we’ll remember it next year, during next pride month, about the horrible act that was targeted at us because people hate us. out of all of the people around me i’m the only one mourning. the rest, straight people, are moving on and already forgetting about it because it doesn’t effect them. being apart of the community can feel amazing and welcoming, but also terrifying and incredibly lonely.
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When I was a youngling, I refused bisexuality (if that even makes sense).
I couldn’t ever think of dating a girl who was bisexual, but then a curious thing happened.
I became more educated, I matured, and the cherry on top was…I stopped being so f'n insecure, because truthfully that’s all it comes down to.
Point is, what matters most is not when we awaken, so long as we awaken at all.
After that, it’s our duty to stir the same in those around us.
I used to love going through the clexa tag, but now it’s just painful. 😢
It’s not even death that upsets me. It’s the lazy, void, writing with LGBT characters that really fucking gets under my skin
It’s the same shit with women and POC.
Is it too much to ask for, for you to put some fucking effort in your writing? They had the most amazing lesbian character I can ever remember watching on TV, and this is her end?
Death in my mind, for her particular character, was something I expected. And not because she was gay but because she was a warrior, at the head of battles.
A stray bullet. A fucking stray bullet, minutes after she finally lives bliss in her constantly fucked up life, is what ends her.
I knew she was going to die. It didn’t bother me. I would continue watching the show. But this death…is a fucking slap to the face. Fuck it.
And of course there will be straight people who simply do not understand.
Just like there are men who simply don’t understand women’s complaint of representation in media. Just like there will be white people who don’t understand POC complaint of representation in media.
Starting to see the pattern here?
I will tell you all this.
I am fucking DONE, with shows that queerbait, with shows that use us as props, with shows that write us lazily…doooone.
These people will never understand, so we have to hit them where it hurts. In their pockets. I will not help give them ratings. In this world,
Money speaks louder than words.
