#koraxasami

[pseudofuish]

I think i’m gonna start writing some fics! I wanna do bakudeku, korra x asami, or ellie williams, lemme know if anb has any requests/things they wanna see!😅

[keptonice]

Why Korra and Asami is so Important

I've identified as bisexual since I was 16 years old and had my first crush on a girl. By that point I'd liked boys plenty of times but this was the first time I'd had a girl show an interest in me, and the first time I'd felt like it was even a possibility for me.

Even now, 8 years later, my sexuality is something I have to defend constantly. My brother is gay, and I would not for a second say I have faced the same opposition he has, however I have felt a lack of understanding from him and from my parents, who are both extremely accepting people. 

Ever since I came out as bisexual, I have been told I'm confused, going through a phase, or being attention seeking by both friends, family members and, most damaging, my own therapist who suggested that my liking women was some sort of symbol of psychological confusion. It didn't help that every girl I had been with identified as gay, rather than being bisexual like me. I was even told by one of them that it made sense that lesbians wouldn't date bisexuals, given the 'risk' we'd revert back to straightness. 

Doubting that part of myself has ruined more than one relationship for me, and caused me to hurt people I truly care about. It's made me jump into relationships I wasn't ready for, and end ones that meant a lot. I was constantly doubting myself, and didn't trust my own feelings at all. 

The closest I had to seeing someone like me on television was Willow from Buffy, though that was not ideal as despite her relationship with Oz, Willow identified with being a lesbian from Season 4 and onward. 

Showing Korra and Asami being together, having seen them both in hetrosexual relationships, and having the writers themselves say that they are both bisexual, almost made me cry. This was odd, as I had stopped watching the show after season 1. But it did mean something. It meant so much. And I cannot stress enough how much it can help kids to see a character like this, to understand that they're not confused or messed up for being attracted to men and women, that it isn't necessarily a phase, that they're not greedy or indecisive, that it is a legitimate sexuality.

Never EVER again underestimate how important representation is, or how important it is to use the word. I'm bisexual, not 'I just like people'. Bisexual. Bi-fucking-sexual, and proud.