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princessmuk · 4 years

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Things I want to see more of:

• Guys who have interests and personalities that don’t match up with traditional masculinity who are straight

• LGBTQIA+ rep that doesn’t fit into stereotypes

• LGBTQIA+ rep that is treated just as naturally as a straight person/relationship would be

• Male friendships that are strong and emotional and healthy, and stay as friendships

• Male friendships between an LGBTQIA+ male and a straight male that are strong and emotional and healthy, and don’t involve one-sided romance

• Ace and Aro representation, together and separately

• Bisexuals who would never even think of cheating on their S.O.

• Disabled characters whose storylines don’t revolve around their disability

• Lesbian representation that isn’t all about sex

• wlw representation in teenagers

• Healthy poly relationships that don’t involve a breakup storyline

• Romance novels and movies from the guy’s perspective that are healthy and not creepy or sexist

• Non-binary characters existing in peace

• Trans characters played by trans actors

• Bisexual/lesbian relationships

• Ace relationships where the Ace person never has sex and the other person is okay with that

• Ace relationships where the Ace person, of their own accord and because they want to, have sex with their partner

• Introverts who are still introverted at the end of the story

• Aro rep that stays Aro

• Ace rep that stays Ace

• Teenagers playing teenagers in movies and TV

• Women who have personalities and develop, no matter what stereotypes they may play into

• Girls who are feminine and who happen to fit into society’s view being potrayed as smart and kind (or even as mean or strong or blunt or anything, literally any personality trait) instead of being the popular girl who follows every trend because she has no identity

• Girls who like pink but it doesn’t define their personality

• Straight guys who like pink

• LGBTQIA+ allies who wear pride merch

• LGBTQIA+ allies who don’t really care if people think they’re gay

• Fashionable boys

• Girls who don’t wear makeup and don’t feel the need to

• Girls who don’t wear makeup even though there’s pressure for them to

• Girls who are insecure about their looks but realize their looks don’t define them

• Girls with body hair

• Interracial relationships with no drama centering around it being interracial

• Interracial LGBTQIA+ relationships

• Characters with Tourette’s who don’t swear all the time (or maybe even ever)

• Characters with a neurological disorder that don’t get diagnosed for a while because their symptoms aren’t as noticeable

• Characters with a neurological disorder that was never officially diagnosed

• Autistic characters who are fleshed out and don’t fit into stereotypes

• Autistic characters who fall in love

• Deaf characters who only use sign language and can’t lip read well

• Mute characters

• Parent/child relationships that are healthy and full of love

• POC in roles that combat their stereotypes

• Characters who speak many languages

• POC in the fantasy genre

• Historical dramas featuring LGBTQIA+, POC, disabled, mentally ill, etc. characters

• Realistic sibling dynamics

• Realistic portrayal of teenage relationships (I.e. not sexualized but also not acting like high schoolers only ever hold hands or smth)

• Potrayals of emotionally abusive relationships that seem okay at first

• Men being abused by their female partners and it being taken seriously

• Characters from the South who are liberal

• Characters from Appalachia who are intelligent and rich with personality, yet still have their accent and way of life

• Female spies and assassins who get what they want without seducing men

• (But also: Female spies and assassins who seduce women instead)

• Media where the main cast is all POC

• Middle Eastern representation that doesn’t fit into stereotypes or imply they are evil or terrorists

• Muslim characters who aren’t potrayed as evil

• Muslim girls who wear hijabs in media

• Media where the white guy is the villain

• Indian characters who don’t fit into stereotypes

• Characters from West Asia

• Black female characters who don’t play into stereotypes

• Black male characters who wouldn’t hurt a fly

• Black characters as doctors, lawyers, politicians, mayors, presidents, royalty, etc.

• Vegitarian/vegan characters who aren’t potrayed as annoying and who respect the lifestyles of others

• Villains who have tragic backstories, but are held accountable for their actions

• Stories without a villain

• Nerd girl x hot popular dude but they both have personalities that go beyond their stereotypes and the nerd girl never gets a transformation scene

• Nerd/jock dynamics, platonic and romantic, straight and gay

• Conventially attractive guy with a personality x girl who isn’t conventially attractive and also has a personality

• Characters getting called out on their privilege and realizing their mistakes

• Women who save their S.O.

• Giggles during confessions and kisses

• Men who confess in cheesy, awkward ways

• Men who confess to a woman and are rejected, but move on and stay friends with the woman

• LGBTQIA+ characters who confess to someone also LGBTQIA+ and are rejected, then move on and stay friends with that person AND have an actual relationship with someone else later

• Women who confess to men, ask them out, take the lead in the relationship

• Characters not forgiving someone who hurt them, even if they have become a better person, because they are still hurting

• Characters in abusive relationships who break up — later they meet up again and the abusive one has changed into a better person, but they don’t get back together

• Relationships (platonic or romantic) in which both characters treat each other badly and both are called out for it

• Characters with last trauma getting better but still having their trauma affect them in small ways

• Characters with PTSD being potrayed accurately

• Sociopaths and psychopaths being potrayed accurately and not as killers

• Characters with learning disabilities who are still intelligent

• Characters who are intelligent but have a hard time expressing it

• Characters with ADHD who still have personality and are potrayed accurately and are fleshed out

• Characters with OCD who potray lesser-known parts of OCD

• Characters who have triggers (not just triggers like guns or smth either, like a certain smell or the taste of a certain kind of bread or green socks or smth set them off)

• Characters who smoke but quit

• Characters who turn to drugs but find healthier ways to cope

• Poor characters spending money on themselves once in a while

• Depressed characters who are less creative when they’re more depressed or off meds

• Characters with anxiety who stay anxious but still overcome their fears

• Characters who take medicine and pills taking them and getting better

• Doctors who ignore problems being called out

• Characters being on their periods and it not being treated as a joke

• Characters who get injured and face a long path of recovery, but it isn’t the main storyline

• Characters with scars still being seen as beautiful, and not just to their love interest

• Aro characters who aren’t completely disgusted by love

• Characters who don’t want children but still are kind to them

• Couples getting married and never having children

• Adoption being normalized in media

• Characters who fit into more than one box (e.g. she’s a musical lover who also draws, and loves math, or he plays basketball but wants to be a politician)

• Nerdy men who don’t get the girl and are okay with it

• Nerdy men who respect women

• Nerdy women who are beautiful

• Nerd characters who don’t gatekeep when another character mentions they like the thing they’re nerdy about

• Male/male presenting characters who wear makeup

• Male/male presenting characters who wear makeup and are straight

• Characters being investigated by police who are innocent but still use their rights (don’t let the police search their house, don’t talk during the interrogation w/o a lawyer present, etc.)

• A man and a woman who dislike/hate each other still not liking each other by the end of the story (or, they’re friends in the end but not in love)

• Exes who are still friends and don’t get back together

• Exes who live together and don’t get back together

• A group of friends living together

• Characters who eagerly learn about a new culture and respectfully join in on an activity

• Single characters who stay single

• Characters who question their sexuality

• Characters who don’t use labels and just do what they want to do

• Twink/twink dynamics but they’re still both developed, multi-faceted characters

• Bear/bear dynamics but they’re still both developed, multi-faceted characters

• Twink/bear dynamics but they’re still both developed, multi-faceted characters and neither of them are referred to or act like the “male or female of the relationship”

• Butch/butch dynamics but they’re still both developed, multi-faceted characters

• Femme/femme but they’re still both developed, multi-faceted characters

• Femme/butch dynamics but they’re still both developed, multi-faceted characters and neither of them are referred to or act like the “male or female of the relationship”

• Love triangles that end in polyamory

• Love triangles that end in gay

• Love triangles that end in no couples at all

• Pedophilia being called out and punished

• A storyline that features grooming and punishes it

• LGBTQIA+ POC characters

• Medical dramas that are medically accurate and aren’t all about sex

• Characters will moles on their faces not being described as ugly

• Characters with big noses not being described as ugly

• Characters or different religions who practice their religion and celebrate their holidays in the story

• Stories about indigenous people

• Characters who aren’t conventionally attractive who aren’t defined by that and are still respected and loved

• Characters with tattoos that are just normal people and not part of a gang or smth

• Characters who change an opinion that has long defined them because of something they see, experience, or realize

• Teenage characters who don’t have much free time

• Teenage characters who have to ask permission before they go out and do things

• Black characters with natural hair

• Characters with dyed hair that are still very professional

• Stories that pass the Bechdel test

• LGBTQIA+ couples with kids, adopted or conceived with their genes or bodies

• Trans Female/Trans Male relationships

• Gay men and lesbian women in relationships with trans males and trans females respectively

• Stories that take place in modern day Africa, South America, Central America...

• Characters who are strong but not in skinny yet muscular way

• Overweight characters who are healthy that love their bodies

• Overweight characters who love their bodies but aren’t healthy and who try to treat their bodies better

• Overweight characters that love their bodies, period.

• Skinny characters who aren’t healthy and try to treat their bodies better

• Characters with realistically proportioned bodies

• Characters with freckles

• Female veteran characters

• Characters who are ignorant to their privilege and learn better

• Characters who are ignorant to their privilege despite trying not to be that learn better

• Christian characters who aren’t racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, etc.

• Feminist characters who are men

• Female feminist characters who still fit into many traditional roles

• Female feminist characters who are empowered in other ways than sexually

• Men who are called out on objectifying women and change their behavior (and, if called out by a woman, who don’t get with the woman that called them out!)

• Characters with brown eyes having their eyes complimented and spoken poetically about

• Realistic female armor

• Elderly characters learning from young characters

• Romance for elderly and past middle aged characters

• Stories about older characters that aren’t about sickness or crazy mid-life crises

• Couples with children who divorce but stay friends and raise the children

• Divorce storylines that aren’t 100% angst and have a happy ending other than the parents getting back together

• Male characters who cry and aren’t viewed as less of a man for it

• Male characters who express their emotions healthily

• Characters who learn to express their emotions healthily

• Female characters who are strong and empowered yet still cry and have emotions

• Child characters that act like actual children

• High school dramas with actual high school drama

• Superhero movies and comics with female leads

• Groups of friends with a 50/50 f/m ratio

• Guy characters who are friends with lots of girls and see them as sisters

• Girl characters who are friends with lots of guys and see them as brothers

• Sisters protecting brothers

• Wives/girlfriends protecting husbands/boyfriends

• Femme characters protecting butch characters

• Twink characters protecting bear characters

• Traditonally feminine characters (female or male) who are still strong and can kick ass

• Feminine female/female presenting characters who don’t shave

• Male/male presenting characters in skirts and dresses

That’s all I can think of off the top of my head... definitely didn’t get everything or include everyone, so please add on if you think of more!!

And please, if I said anything problematic by accident, tell me!! Anything I said I wanted to see more of that featured a group I’m not a part of was based off things I’ve seen and heard people in those groups discuss. If I said anything that played into negative stereotypes or just doesn’t sound right, please do tell me. The point of this post is to be positive and fresh, not to say anything discriminatory or offensive. If I said anything that wasn’t my place to say, also please tell me. Anything problematic will be removed from the post.

If there’s anything you want me to explain why I want it, feel free to ask ^^

Edit: changed “ftm” and “mtf” to “trans males” and “trans females”.

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