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Your name is Charles. You are 19 year old who runs this blog. You're Australian, a serial shipper, have a massive addiction to works of fiction, and the fiction based off the aforementioned fiction and tend to ramble for way to long. You speak normally and love it when people talk to you. What will you do?

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Means so much to meeee

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All 90 (and counting) Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Female Characters On TV, And How They Died | Autostraddle

Over 85 women who've suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

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.

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When I first saw this headline it was 65. The number keeps climbing. That’s fucked up.

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Now it’s up to 108 (the headline says 103 but I counted them). Like any good psychologist, I had to graph the data. I coded them (very roughly as I haven’t seen the majority of the shows) based on the method used to kill off the character, and whether the death was murder, suicide, accidental, or illness related. I don’t have non-lesbian/bi characters to compare these numbers to, but here is what the raw data looks like: 

Gunshots, whether accidental or on purpose, are the leading cause of death for lesbian and bisexual characters. 

Roughly 64% of the characters were murdered. 

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.

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@lgbtviewersdeservebetter for the graphs

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According to the media we can only die violent deaths. Let’s tell them we’re not accepting that any longer.

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

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I said hey whats going on

[princessharumi]

NO PLEASE…THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING…

[kitkaloid]

kids these days

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no

[castrel64]

what do we say to the god of death

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now imagine if THIS was the last page we got before the gigapause

[egberts]

advice for every homestuck who hasn’t seen the update yet: don’t. save yourself now and quit homestuck. just stop. get out of here while you still can.

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WATCHING THE UPDATE LIKE

[catsizeddragon]

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

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this is the best thing that has ever been on tumblr radar

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There is also a death for the immortal jellyfish. He is very bored.

Artwork by Chris Gugliotti [webcomic | tumblr]

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death for cats is so funny

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ah yes the four seasons. wet, hot, halloween, and christmas

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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].

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You forgot one-

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steve’s face in the third gif though he’s like really sam? of course I eat fucking breakfast it is the most important meal of the day