I was just reminded of some feeling I had in 2016 that I’d forgotten about.
I was listening to Good Morning Night Vale episode 100 and one of the fan comments talked about how WTNV was the first piece of media they’d seen where the queer characters got to live and be happy.
I remembered being 16 and listening to the 100th episode of WTNV and sobbing because I was so happy they were getting married but more than that, I was crying because I’d hardly ever seen queer characters get married and be happy in any other kind of media. So many of them were killed off at that time that it was kind of revolutionary to have Carlos and Cecil get married.
I know this is old news for most people and I know a lot of us had similar feelings at the time but I’d completely forgotten about it and I wanted to add my two cents. I had maybe a handful of good queer examples at the time, both in and out of real life, and WTNV became one of my foundational queer examples. It lives in my heart as an example of what my life and lives like mine, can look like.