My Current Queer Masterlist of Sapphic- and/or Trans- Focused (Mostly) Fiction Media (Tragedy Can Go Suck Eggs)
Are you sick of bleak, heartwrenching, violence-filled, bury-your-gays queer representation in media? I am.
For the last few years I put myself on a queer media diet: I tried to consume mostly sapphic media (and over the last year I also branched out into media with trans characters and/or creators) with happy endings, or at least endings that are not completely wrapped up in turning the queer characters into devastating cautionary tales.
The main reason I started this was because my teen years were spent on the hunt for any hint of queerness I could find and a lot of the narratives that cropped up were tragedies. Side note: Anyone else still scarred from watching Boys Don't Cry waaaay too young, or thinking about Piper Perabo jumping off a roof?
My depressed teenage self felt very alone and negative about the future; I was in dire need of seeing non-tragic queer futures modelled in media. So now that I'm older I'm collecting those stories.
Here's what I have so far:
Notes: I don't necessarily agree with absolutely everything from each of the following movies, TV shows, podcasts, or books. The list is a map of my search for non-tragic queer stories, not an endorsement.
I've starred (*) my favourites and I've added a superscript 1 (¹) to indicate that I included an item for trans/genderqueer factors that made my little heart go pitter-pat.
Movies:
*¹Nimona
The Half of It
*Do Revenge
Bound
Anne + the film
*Dating Amber
*Desert Hearts
*Carol
Saving Face
But I'm a Cheerleader
D.E.B.S.
*Fried Green Tomatoes
The Handmaiden - the director's cut
The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
*A New York Christmas Wedding
Better Than Chocolate
Gray Matters
And Then Came Lola
*Nina's Heavenly Delights
*Summerland
So My Grandma’s a Lesbian
A Secret Love
The World Unseen
*¹Shinjuku Boys (documentary, 1995)
¹Mutt
*¹Runs in the Family
¹Beauty (documentary, 2018, Christina Willings)
¹MnM (documentary, 2023)
¹3 Generations
*¹I Saw the TV Glow – Not really a happy ending, but so amazing I added it anyway.
The Fear Street trilogy from Netflix (all 3)
Girls Like Girls
Heard these movies are great but haven't watched them yet:
The World to Come
Christmas at the Ranch
Watermelon Woman
TV shows:
*¹Heartstopper
*Steven Universe
*She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
The Legend of Korra
Tales of the City (the new one with Elliott Page)
*¹Sense 8
DC’s Harley Quinn
Atypical
The Owl House
Trinkets
One Day at a Time (the newer one)
*San Junipero from Black Mirror
Tipping the Velvet (BBC, 2002)
¹Wayward
Podcasts:
*Alice Isn’t Dead
*¹Within the Wires
Cruising
¹Travelling Light - I haven't finished this yet but so far I'm enjoying it!
*¹The Silt Verses - Has some tragedy but said tragedy is not centred on queerness, well worth any pain it may cause imo.
Books:
*I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
Carmilla – J Sheridan Le Fanu - Not a happy ending but absolutely iconic.
*High School – Tegan and Sara
*Gideon the Ninth, #1 in the Locked Tomb series
*Harrow the Ninth, #2 in the Locked Tomb series
*Nona the Ninth, #3 in the Locked Tomb series
*Tipping the Velvet
Fingersmith
¹Pet
*One Last Stop
*The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry
*The Priory of the Orange Tree
Malice, #1 of the Malice duology
Misrule, #2 of the Malice duology
The Luminous Dead
*The Colour Purple
The Vagina Monologues
Sweet & Bitter Magic
To Break a Covenant
She Who Became the Sun
*The Last True Poets of the Sea
The Lost Girls
Who I Was with Her
¹Detransition, Baby
*The Falling in Love Montage
Wilder Girls
*Into the Drowning Deep
The Dark Tide – Alicia Jasinska
Honey Girl
*We Set the Dark on Fire, #1
*We Unleash the Merciless Storm, #2
The Midnight Girls
¹I Wish You All the Best
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The Never Tilting World
*Written on the Body
Of Fire and Stars
*Stone Butch Blues
Crier’s War, #1
Iron Heart, #2
All The Things They Said We Couldn’t Have: Stories of Trans Joy
Orlando
*Legends & Lattes
Our Wives Under the Sea - Okay the whole book is reeeeally sad in tone, but the tragedy isn't directly related to the queerness.
Chlorine
*Sunburn
Her Name in the Sky
This Poison Heart
*We Are Okay
Triple Sec
Big Swiss
Mrs. Victoria Buys a Brothel
¹What Moves the Dead
¹What Feasts at Night
¹What Stalks the Deep
¹Hell Followed with Us
Upright Women Wanted
This is How You Lose the Time War
¹A Psalm for the Wild-Built
¹A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
*¹Light From Uncommon Stars
*Mrs. S
*¹Idlewild
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
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Hi, I’m Erica, and this is your weekly roundup of Feel Good News — handpicked to brighten your day.
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5. 10-Year-Old Ukrainian Gymnast Wins Gold After Losing Leg In Russian Strike
In 2022, Oleksandra Paskal lost her leg following a Russian missile strike on Ukraine’s Odesa region. She was just six years old. Following months of intense rehabilitation, she learned to walk with a prosthesis – and made a remarkable return to rhythmic gymnastics.
6. Amazon canopy bridges enable 15,000 safe wildlife crossings with zero roadkill
Biologist Gabriel Falquetto, while monitoring wildlife along Brazil’s ES-164 highway, encountered a critically endangered buffy-headed marmoset that had been killed on the road. This incident highlights the impact of human activities on biodiversity, especially given that nearly 9 million mammals are killed on Brazil’s roads annually. In contrast, in Alta Floresta, efforts to mitigate wildlife-vehicle collisions have been more successful since the installation of canopy bridges in 2024, which have allowed 15,000 safe crossings for arboreal animals without any recorded roadkill. The program, known as Projeto Reconecta, aims to enhance wildlife connectivity and reduce roadkill through further installations and collaboration with local stakeholders.
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......suddenly struck by the idea for a piece of worldbuilding of "fae don't like iron bc it is the most stable element*"
*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all
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Even in the darkest of times, your personality, thoughts and feelings will ALWAYS illuminate your way back to the light and humanity of reality once more... 💖
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one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard (for myself, at least) is that if you're in a terrible mood and NOTHING is helping, then start doing the chores/responsibilities/job stuff/etc that you've been putting off. Will it put you in an even worse mood temporarily? Probably, but you're already pissed off, so you might as well double up on it at that point 😭 there's no loss. It's not like finally getting around to cleaning the house and scheduling appointments is going to ruin the good day that you aren't currently having to begin with 💀 And then, when the bad mood passes, you'll have gotten shit done and you'll feel a lot better later, even if in the moment you're having The Worst Time Ever about it.
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Got stoned and fell asleep watching The Bear last night, just saw that apparently I searched for "are chicago people ok" "which state most depressed" "chicago mental health" and "parsley dimensions"
