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Everything is hard and wrong right now, so I watched several episodes of Happy Endings, because new and undemanding TV is how I self-medicate. (Well, that and all the actual medication.) I tried a couple other shows first but they had zero queer content and apparently that's an actual breaking point for me now? At least in new shows it is. My future entertainment prospects sure do look bright. Anyway, it turns out that Happy Endings swings wildly back and forth between "yes this for me always" and "jfc quick somebody step on it," in terms of what I personally enjoy/loathe in my media. Plus there's gay shit, and three faces I really like looking at. And the gender stuff is socially fascinating even when it's poisonous. So I will be watching more of it, although hopefully not too much more too soon because that means I'm not doing anything else, and I have two deadlines looming right now, one of which actually matters.

(I don't necessarily fully approve of how all the gay shit is playing out, but I don't really feel like getting into quibbles because it's THERE, it's not just 100% relentless heterosexuality all the time which apparently I literally can't handle any more, like my skin starts to crawl and eventually I just want to punch every character in the face. There's queer stuff and I can actually make a resolution to only watch shows and be in fandoms with queer stuff and then--with effort, and without nearly enough genre for my liking--KEEP it. Eighth grade me can't even handle the world I am living in right now.)

Meanwhile, there are bugs in my walls and I can hear them clicking around the sink. This is a non-positive development in my life.

--whoa whoa whoa, back up the train, AO3, are you seriously telling me that there is no porn about Happy Endings? It's in its third season and nobody's given me anything to look forward to? What the hell, fandom, y'all have failed me so hard today.

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because it's THERE, it's not just 100% relentless heterosexuality all the time which apparently I literally can't handle any more, like my skin starts to crawl and eventually I just want to punch every character in the face

Oh, that's exactly the feeling! I recently read Adaptation by Malinda Lo, and while it certainly wasn't Greatest Book Ever, it was just so relaxing to have gay and bi characters just casually being major characters. Then I read something else and didn't bother finishing it because I wanted to punch everyone, through no particular fault of the characters.

Happy Endings is not always perfect at this--the gayness is a Thing fairly often for the purpose of jokes, only some of which are the kind of "lol gay" jokes I'd make myself. (The black guy being black is also a comedy Thing sometimes, although thankfully less as the show goes on.) Also they're being very slow to give him a romantic and/or sexual life on par with the other characters--I'm told this will happen, but it's taking a while, though unlike fifteen years ago he gets to have a vibrant offscreen sex life and talk about it. And there's a lot of other problems with the show, but there's a gay character who's a main character and feels like a real person, and that really is just incredibly important to me.