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thoodleoo:
thoodleoo:
thoodleoo:
what showwriters think lgbt people want: gritty shows with unhappy queer people who find their attraction a struggle and are ultimately killed off for tragedy porn
what lgbt people actually want: a sitcom about ancient lesbos where lesbos’s famous lyric poets, sappho and alcaeus, are best friends trying to get girlfriends, and sappho is way better at it than alcaeus is
alcaeus, all alone in a bar with his lyre, plucking its strings sadly: it’s just so hard sappho. there just must not be any girls here looking for anyone today.
sappho, with her arms around two girls, on her way out the bar: what was that, dear
#OKAY EVERYONE IS SAYING SAPPHO WOULD DO BETTER #BUT REMEMBER SHE LITERALLY WROTE A POEM DESCRIBING HOW USELESS SHE IS WHEN SHE SEES A WOMAN?
fair point, but consider: the premise of the show is that even sappho ‘holy shit is that my crush ohhhh my gods oh shit did she look at my OHHHHH my GODS i am dying i am literally DYING’ of lesbos is better at getting a girlfriend than alcaeus is, and the show follows her trying to show him in increasingly ridiculous ways how to flirt with girls
he ends up getting a boyfriend instead
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thoodleoo:
thoodleoo:
thoodleoo:
what showwriters think lgbt people want: gritty shows with unhappy queer people who find their attraction a struggle and are ultimately killed off for tragedy porn
what lgbt people actually want: a sitcom about ancient lesbos where lesbos’s famous lyric poets, sappho and alcaeus, are best friends trying to get girlfriends, and sappho is way better at it than alcaeus is
alcaeus, all alone in a bar with his lyre, plucking its strings sadly: it’s just so hard sappho. there just must not be any girls here looking for anyone today.
sappho, with her arms around two girls, on her way out the bar: what was that, dear
#OKAY EVERYONE IS SAYING SAPPHO WOULD DO BETTER #BUT REMEMBER SHE LITERALLY WROTE A POEM DESCRIBING HOW USELESS SHE IS WHEN SHE SEES A WOMAN?
fair point, but consider: the premise of the show is that even sappho ‘holy shit is that my crush ohhhh my gods oh shit did she look at my OHHHHH my GODS i am dying i am literally DYING’ of lesbos is better at getting a girlfriend than alcaeus is, and the show follows her trying to show him in increasingly ridiculous ways how to flirt with girls
he ends up getting a boyfriend instead
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