We don't really have many shows that are just about queer women existing. Obviously both the original and this reboot were highly dramatised and unrealistic at times, but they were at least rooted in reality and a sense of community. I know that representation in media has improved a lot in recent years and I'm glad to see it happening, but it's still at a point where we're mostly being added into stories. Like a lot of queer women on tv are still surrounded by 90% straight characters, or they're in stories where they're fighting for the fate of the world and things like that, so we rarely get to see their everyday stories. There's nothing wrong with these stories, but I'm not generally drawn to them, I tend to prefer stories that are rooted in 'the real world' (for lack of a better phrase).

Part of what I love so much about The L Word is that I could sit and watch these characters working everyday jobs, complaining about little niggles, moving house, finding friends with people like themselves, finding family, using certain language or references that are specifically related to our community.

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Cut your food into small pieces, make the font size 30 on your e book, use straws to drink, get a pen that’s comfortable to hold, take more naps, walk slowly, eat another cookie, buy velcro shoes, re-watch the part you couldn’t understand the first time, write things on your hands so you don’t forget it… whatever you want and/or need

Oh..this hurts so much more now. Now that we actually know who Riley was, and how much she meant to Ellie...

And honestly, kind of a dick move on her behalf to bring up Riley like that so soon. It seems like the fireflies just rescued Ellie from the mall a couple of days ago. Ellie just lost possibly the only person she really cared for, and Marlene just threw that in Ellies face.

No one's to blame / 'Cause we called all the angels to save us / Called them by name / But I guess they got lost / Star-crossed

i have something to say to that as a moroccan muslim girl born and raised in belgium I’m Yasmina and Yasmina is me our stories are very similar, i also once had a group of friends that consisted of mostly white girls. there were no problems until there were problems (if you know what I mean) To make a long story short, I eventually dumped them all and I started hanging out with girls that looked like me because ultimately it was easier Because I didn’t have to apologize and explain myself all the time

so to come back to the reality of yasminas story, yes okay it is realistic but that is not what i want to see in a fictional series I dont have to see it on a screen to know that i already have enough expierence  from my own life to know that islamophobia and racism is still very present in belgium 

the writers missed the mark to write a nice story about a good group of friends made up of different people who despite the differences stand up for each other and care about each other and about how a young girl navigates life and tries to deal with new and unknown feelings that have surfaced because of a boy i was looking forward to Yasmina’s season because i finally wanted to see someone on tv who looked like me and practically is me. I wanted her to have a good season but the racist writers said no 

i don’t watch series to see reality i watch series to escape it