I have spent so much time trying to feel represented, when I watch a show and two girls or two boys with some chemistry look at each other a certain way, I think maybe they’ll do it! And then I get attached, and they grow a fandom, and we all think maybe next episode! maybe next season! But it never happens and the writers tease and the actors joke about it. And I think maybe It’ll happen next time. But it never does. Its never more than subtext or a joke. And then I watched Star Trek discovery episode 5 and all the sudden two men were standing in matching pajamas brushing there teeth in there shared quarters and worrying about each other because the love each other! And it was normal. And I just felt so happy they’re in love and it’s just normal. Not a joke, not subtext, no waiting, no hoping, just a normal moment. And that made all the difference for me. Because it made me feel a little more normal, a little more comfortable in my own skin, thinking, gee, maybe I’ll hold my girlfriends hand in public today.
Feeling represented, makes so much of a difference knowing you aren’t alone, you aren’t weird, or wrong, it can make all the difference.
