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Just a little rant for me
As someone who has mainly consumed slash fan fiction and media almost exclusively since my college years, it's really disheartening for me to watch typical shows that feature literally no LGBTQ+ characters. Especially when there's an ensemble cast and every slice of life/relationship scene is of a heteronormative couple with not even a hint of slightly mentioned bisexuality or pansexuality, not even a dip of demisexuality.
I didn't really watch anything during the pandemic, just read a lot. I watched The Nanny a bit for some nostalgia. It seems like everything I watch these is so painfully straight I don't know how to function. I say this as someone who identifies as pansexual but presents heteronormative in my daily life. It's just so painful. I'm not a huge fan of fantasy or anything. I really just want stories of LGBTQ+ people living normal lives. One of my favorites is Handsome Devil, that movie set in Ireland. LGBTQ+ people have day-to-day monotony, they have feel good stories.
I just find it so frustrating that not one person in an ensemble cast that has had changes over the years and not one is canonically gay. Maybe I'm talking about Criminal Minds. I stopped watching while in college because I'm a binger and I wanted too keep myself accountable. I never continued during the pandemic but I recently got started again from where I left off and all I get at the end is some hints that two characters were LGBTQ+ coded/planned but CBS wouldn't let them. Obviously they aren't the only ones that are guilty of it but I grew up watching Criminal Minds and it's sad I won't be represented in one of my favorites TV shows after 16 seasons.
That's it, that's my spiel. Goodnight.
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