Izzy's arc this season has made me realize that I'm not interested in queer romances; I want queer stories that aren't about romance. I've read so many gay romances, because I wanted to read about characters like me and I figured that's all there was, and I was pretty invariably disappointed by them. When it came to stories that had gay characters, but weren't romances, I figured "if they aren't doing anything gay what's the point?" And there are a lot of stories out there where a character being queer is just a biographical detail that doesn't actually affect their story.
But seeing Izzy find a place among the crew of the Revenge, and do it in a way that's so undeniably queer, is the exact kind of thing I'm looking for. There's so much more to queer life and queer culture than romance (not that I'd be opposed to Izzy having a romance, obviously, with all the shipping I do) and I love how that was represented in this show.
















