FlamingDiskord's Blog

The history of lesbian representation on television is rocky — in the beginning, we seemed exclusively relegated to roles that saw us getting killed/attacked or doing the killing/attacking. And until the last five or so years, lesbian and bisexual characters seemed entirely unable to date an actual woman or stay alive for more than three episodes, let alone an entire run, of a show. Gay and lesbian characters are so often murdered on television that we have our very own trope: Bury Your Gays. We comprise such a teeny-tiny fraction of characters on television to begin with that killing us off so haphazardly feels especially cruel.

I also noticed a disturbing trend of deaths that were due to their orientation, such as characters dying because they came out to someone who reacted badly and it caused an accident, or due to jealous exes (or exes of their same-gender lovers) murdering them/causing accidents. Together these made up 16% of all deaths. Two other themes I noticed were pregnancy-related deaths and death just after a major happy moment for the character.

IDK ABOUT YOU GUYS , BUT THIS ONE HURT ME A LOT

I said hey whats going on

NO PLEASE…THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING…

kids these days

no

what do we say to the god of death

the skeleton war isn’t for everybody. some skeletons just want to dress up as meat products and direct you to the pharmacy and that’s okay

Artwork by Chris Gugliotti [webcomic | tumblr]

I haven’t been feeling well, but I have been feeling Halloween. I had a lotta fun and made a huge mess making this Bro pumpkin [mspa scene].