wlw media so often feels fake and wo love and wo passion and thats bc its usually directed by men and acted out w straight actors and it just fills our screens with plastic women with dead eyes and gaping mouths who looks at her love interest like shes a paycheck.
there wasnt love in carol and there wasnt love in blue is the warmest color and there wasnt love in the handful of movies where the lesbians arent even the focus theyre just a sidenote.
at best we get one lesbian or bisexual actress. one girl trying her hardest and pushing for this romance and trying to represent what she needed to see when she was younger, but theres literally only so much you can do when youre just one person.
like when i say i want passion i dont even mean fighting or evilness or unhealthy dynamics or angst bc thats been done over and over again and none of it has love inherent in it.
i want to see a girl on screen look at another girl and feel like she couldnt breath before she met her. i want to see girls who would burn the world down for the other. who would die and become gods if it meant they could stay together just minutes longer. i want romance where a confession feels like salvation. i want love that changes you from the inside out, where there wont be another one, where you cant afford to squander this one, where you walk to the ends of the earth and beyond just to kiss a girls hand and to feel her embrace.
passion and devotion and conflict and trust and love that feels like heartbreak.