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I have such mixed feelings when it comes to wlw media. On one hand, it’s often amazing and makes me want to believe in humanity and the power of love the way I did when I was a child.
On the other hand, 90% of the time some homophobic big-shot comes along and cuts it short and/or makes it so the creator has to wait til the last minute to make it canon so it doesn’t get cancelled early.
Or worse yet, wlws are used as a side character who are killed off as a plot device or their entire character is their sexuality and they have no personality otherwise.
I want the media and I will eat up every morsel, but I’ll hold back out of fear of it getting ripped away or ruined and I hate it.
Every time I listen to We Don’t Talk About Bruno and remember that Camilo’s VA played Alex in Marvel’s Runaways I’m reminded of how absolutely ROBBED we were that we didn’t get a karaoke night episode in that show.
Nico and Karolina doing a romantic duet?
Gert and Alex doing a song together?
Chase singing a love ballad for Gert?
Molly rapping in Spanish?
We. Were. Robbed.
ADD as a lesbian is trying to decide if I should try to revamp my Utena hyperfixation, try to revamp one of my older queer hyperfixations, try to find a new one, or just keep doing nothing.
I’m rewatching Marvel’s Runaways with my friend because they’ve never seen it and Deanoru changed my brain chemistry for several months the first time I watched the series, and I have to say I dislike how they handled Gert’s anxiety a lot more than I thought I did.
Like, I remember at the time appreciating that I had never seen a character confirm that they have anxiety on screen and take medication for it.
However.
I really really don’t like how they handled it, particularly in the episodes with Topher. Like, the Topher episode was more focused on Molly, but it also compared Topher and Gert’s “addictions”. Don’t get me wrong, I take anxiety meds, and they can be incredibly helpful. But I don’t think I’ve ever needed them so badly that I would risk getting my family caught not once, but twice.
Idk, I just feel like it would’ve been a much more compelling storyline to have her slowly learn coping mechanisms to help her deal with her anxiety rather than treating her almost like an addict who is just a complete jerk to everyone around her because she can’t get her meds.
Anyone know any good teen TV shows or movies with wlw characters? Preferably TV-14 (ace, sorry 🤷♀️💜)
So far I have watched (and love):
- Marvel’s Runaways
- Everything Sucks
- Degrassi: Next Class
- Never Have I Ever
- Brooklyn 99
- She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (not teen, really)
- The Owl House (also not teen)
- The Fosters
I’ve also been told that I should watch Glee and Supergirl…
Any others? :)
I want more soft wlw showsssss 🥺🥺😭😭
I just finished season 2 of The Owl House (which is being canceled btw 👿😭) and Luz and Amity are just SO CUTE and I need morreee 💖💖🌈🍄
Does anyone have any suggestions of shows with lesbian (or at least queer) characters that are teenagers? And, like, mostly fluff?
(Some of my favorites that I have watched are She-Ra, Marvel’s Runaways, The Fosters, and Everything Sucks)
“Yeah, and there’s a lot going on with me too, not that you would even notice.”
“Yeah, and there’s a lot going on with me too, not that you would even notice.”
