I had to split my list into two parts – the first part had the best. The second part has movies that I also adore in the sapphic world/genre and wanted to share my love for.

I don’t have as much to share as an interlude to this blog post, as most of the intro is in part 1, so let’s just delve in, shall we?

1. Bottoms

Bottoms is a funny movie. A unique comedy built within the teen raunchy comedy circle; a movie similar to American Pie, Superbad – however it has a lot more heart. It follows two lesbian best friends, who are known as the losers of the school – and decide that their senior year will be the year that they will share experiences with their fellow female students. When attempting to gather the attention of their fellow female peers they decide to start a school fight club, only all hell breaks loose when the club explodes and everyone finds out they did it, only to sleep with girls. The movie however has a lot of heart – as it shows that PJ just wanted to be loved and accepted, with a lust for popularity after being the loser for so long. Josie, all she wanted was to find love and for her peers to not look down at her. It’s one of those movies that sound completely ridiculous when you tell people about it, or try to explain it but it’s great when you watch it in its entirety.

Fun Facts:

1. During the final battle with Huntington High, the sword that is dropped by the Viking mascot is a replica of Anduril, Flame of the West. This sword was wielded by Aragorn in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003).
2. A major plot point in this film is Nicholas Galitzine’s character Jeff being allergic to pineapple. In real life, Ayo Edebiri, who plays Josie, is allergic to pineapple.

2. Gray Matters

This coming of age comedy is quite humorous, has a large amount of heart, and depicts a solid storyline of discovering your sexuality later in life – which happens to many people. Gray and her twin brother Sam have always been close in life; best friends growing up, and now roommates. They share their love of movies, music, and dance. When Charlie enters their lives, they both fall head over heels in love. Sam realizes it right off the bat, but Gray has the realization like a slap in the face – after she and Charlie share a drunken kiss – the night before Charlie and Sam’s wedding! The rest of the movie revolves around Gray battling her sexuality, her discovery, her true self – and gathering the courage to tell her bother. In the end she is able to move on from Charlie, who simply becomes a stepping stone in how she discovered her sexuality, and in the end – instead of having her wind up with the girl (because Sam and Charlie remain happily in love) they have her fully accept herself and begin her journey. The ending was great, the humour was spot on and Gray was a funny and adorable character. I love this movie, because I like the character, and I enjoyed watching her story. I spent the movie rooting for her thanks to the amazing writing of this loveable main character.

Fun Facts:

1. Tom Cavanagh and Heather Graham have both appeared on the US sitcom “Scrubs”–separately, and they never share any scenes.
2. Heather Graham and Alan Cumming also both appeared in the film “Boogie Woogie”

3. Under The Christmas Tree

Charlie is a tree whisperer, who happens to work for the Governor of Georgia. Charlie goes to Maine, with the task of finding the perfect tree for the tree lighting ceremony. When she locates the perfect tree, she find out that it belongs to a family who live, breathe and eat Christmas. The family owns a Christmas holiday store, and the tree in their backyard that she wants has been in the family for over 100 years – along with the house. Alma, who loves Christmas and will take over the company, refuses to let her chop down the tree and sell it to them. The romance between the two steal the show, as it starts with Charlie only needing to be around to convince her to sell the tree, but she soon falls in love with Alma, and luckily for her Alma returns those feelings. After some angst, as something drives them apart, they come back together, with a beautiful kiss at Alma’s families tree lighting event they host every year, with the tree she did not want to sell. I personally enjoyed this movie – and enjoy watching it, even when it’s not the Christmas season.

Fun Facts:

1. Lifetime’s first original movie focusing on a same sex romance.
2. Movie stars Elise Bauman, A Canadian Actress, whose claim to fame was the Canadian, LGBT, web series Carmilla.

4. I Can’t Think Straight

Another movie by filmmaker Shamim Sarif (the same driving force behind Polarized). Much like most of her movies – it follows two women Tala and Leyla, who come from different backgrounds – different upbringings and monetary class – and find themselves drawn together. Once they meet, their hearts intertwine and they find it’s impossible to let go of one another. That bond develops into a romantic affair. Tala can’t face the thought of coming out, Leyla wants nothing more but to be herself. Their torn feelings cause them to part ways but each woman takes a different path before coming back together. Leyla breaks up with the man she was supposed to marry, comes out to her parents – who don’t take it well – and starts living her truth. Tala gets close to following through with her marriage, breaks it off the day of because she can’t force herself to do it, goes after Leyla who dismisses her, but decides she’ll stop at nothing to get her woman back. Leyla’s novel becomes a best seller, and Tala shows up at her signing, apologizing, confessing her love, and they find themselves back to one another, and the movie ends on such a high note of the two of them finding a happily ever after. This move is a typical formulated rom-com, and it has some jokes that land, some that aren’t overly funny, but all in all it’s a light-hearted film with a happy ending!

Fun Facts:

1. Second movie where Sheetal Sheth and Lisa Ray play two women who fall in love with each other, the first one was The World Unseen also directed by Shamim Sarif.
2. In the book pile on Leyla’s desk, that her sister Yasmin notices while talking to Leyla, the book at the bottom is Writer/Director Shamin Sarif’s novel “Despite the Falling Snow”.
3. Shamin Sarif is also responsible for the movie Polarized (which was on part 1 of the list).

5. Looking For Her

Looking for her is another Christmas film, that I actually enjoyed. It uses the fake girlfriend trope, a popular fictional trope in lesbian fiction, and to be honest I usually hate this trope, but this movie does well with it. Taylor, who feels pressured into bringing her partner to her family Christmas, agrees that she will bring her girlfriend, the only issue: she and her girlfriend broke up. Taylor then decides to post an add in the classifieds to hire a fake girlfriend. She ends up hiring Olive, who is desperate for the payout. However, falling in love was not in the plan, but it is a cute little love story, with a happy ending.

Fun Facts:

1. Alexandra Swarens (Olive) and Olivia Buckle (Taylor) also starred in City of Trees together, as love interests.
2. Alexandra Swarens has made a large career out of writing, and producing independent WLW films for Tello Entertainment.

6. You Can Live Forever

This movie made me hesitant at first, as I didn’t want to delve into a movie about a religious family who hates their gay daughter, and I watch that person go through hell, only for a heartbreaking ending. However, I gave it a chance anyway despite my apprehension. It ended up being a very good movie, with an open ending that fit the story, and fabulous performances from both leads, and supporting cast. Jaime, after the death of her father causes her mother to have a mental breakdown, goes to live with her aunt who lives in a Jehovah’s Witness community. There she meets Marike, the daughter of the head of the community. As their friendship deepens they begin to develop romantic feelings for one another, and they enter into a secret romance. Times are good, for a small amount of time, until Jaime’s uncle sees them kiss and reveals their romance to Marike’s father. They are forced into separation. Marike then comes up with an idea to please everyone, get married to a man from the church that her father has selected, and keep a secret romance with Jaime. Jaime hates this plan, as that sounds like heartbreak and secrets that she is not willing to commit to. Jaime says goodbye, and ultimately decides to go back home to her mother (who at that point had completed recovery, and had asked Jaime to come home – she was only just saying for Marike). The ending is a time skip, where Jaime returns back to the community when she’s out and proud, to visit her aunt, and Marike picks her up for the train station. There they see each other, share small talk, and the move ends with them staring into each other’s eyes, sharing a cry.

Fun Facts:

1. This film is Canadian.
2. This movie is set in the 1990’s, hence the early 90’s fashion, and lack of technology.

7. City of Trees

City of Trees does not have a huge budget, it’s incredibly independent, and yet it was a fantastic film, that made the story feel incredibly authentic. Ainsley returns to her hometown, which she hasn’t visited for a very long while, to spend Christmas with her family. When she gets back home, she finds out that Sophie a popular girl from her high school, that she never really got along with, has been working for her mom, taking care of her plants. Since time has gone by, she allows herself to get to know Sophie, since she’s been helping her mother. While they get to know one another, a bond begins to form, and soon they find themselves falling in love. While unexpected, and encountering a tad bit of turbulence when Sophie wants to attend the high school reunion and Ainsley doesn’t due to her negative experience in school, they soon work it out and the movie ends with a neat little bow, wrapped on a cute little romance.

Fun Facts:

1. The first time Alexandra Swarens and Olivia Buckle worked together.
2. “City of Trees” is a nickname associated with Sacramento, California, due to its extensive tree canopy and commitment to urban forestry. 

8. A Holiday I Do

A Holiday I Do, is typical Christmas Rom-Com formula, down to the letter. It’s predictable, mildly campy, adds the mid break angst for the romantic couple, and of course the happy ending with the cherry on top. However, all of that works in its favour. It’s just a feel good movie, that’s enjoyable and throws some holiday cheer into the mix. the online summary for this movie sums it up perfectly “When a single mom and country girl falls for her ex-husband’s beautiful and sophisticated wedding planner, she’ll need some Christmas magic to fix the chaos that ensues.”

Fun Facts:

1. This film’s a Tello film, Tello is known for wlw content; they usually release a Christmas movie every year.
2. Lindsay Hicks also starred in The List, which also streams on Tello.

9. Snapshots

This movie is such a strong, powerful film. A mix of angst, happiness, tragedy, and coming of age. The movie starts off with a woman in her twenty’s named Allison – who is currently struggling with her boyfriend – and her mother going to visit her grandmother. When they get to the house at the lake, where her grandmother Rose lives, family ties are tested as Allison confesses to her grandmother that she doesn’t want to marry her husband, may be pregnant, and is having an affair with a woman; She admits she’s secretly gay. Her grandmother ends up confiding in her as well as Allison’s homophobic mother, that she too was in love with a woman. The movie is told in present day, and flashbacks as we see Allison’s journey with self acceptance and Rose’s story of her love affair with Louise. The movie is emotional, and while the story ends on a happy note with Allison – who finds her way and ends up with the woman she loves, it ends in tragedy when Rose explains that she lost the love of her life, to an illness that took her too soon.

Fun Facts:

1. This movie is based on a true story
2. This film has a lot of parallels to the film Titanic. The main character’s name is Rose – and the film follows her story in flashbacks as she tells the story. Both Rose’s lose their soulmate tragically, and have a granddaughter as a central part of the story. Both movies have the Rose character credit their lover, for loosening them up, and making them feel alive.
3. Emily Goss also stars in Season of Love

10. Four Faced Liar

The four faced liar is a romantic drama, with comedic undertones. The story centres around four characters, Bridget, Trip, Molly, and Greg. The four of them bond at a bar, which the movie is named after, and soon form a strong friendship. Greg and Trip become good friends, and Bridget takes Molly under her wing, as she does not have a lot of female friends since she and Greg just moved to the city. As relationships are tested, so are friendships. The movie centres around all different types of relationships, which is another reason the movie is so compelling. We watch as Greg and Molly’s relationship crumbles. We see Molly and Bridget fall in love, and drown in their affair. We see Trip and his girlfriend blow up – and the heartbreak that Trip faces for making a huge mistake. We see Trip and Bridget who are best friends get ripped at the seams as he catches Bridget and Molly in their affair, and feels betrayed and torn between Bridget and Greg. Despite all that drama, it’s a story that ties all the characters together, and their stories are told extremely well. The movie also has a happy ending, which is something to celebrate in WLW film culture.

Fun Facts:

1. Marja-Lewis Ryan (who played Bridget) is the writer of The L Word: Generation Q.
2. Todd Kubrak’s (Trip) only acting credit, before he shifted into producing.
3. Emily Peck (who play Molly) guest starred in her friends Marja’s (and co-worker in this film) tv show The L Word: Generation Q.

11. Friends & Family Christmas

One of the most popular tropes in lesbian fiction is “fake dating and then falling in love”. This movie dives right into that trope. Amelia and Dani’s parents want both of them to find love and settle down, and decide to set them up on a blind date. After meeting, they decide to give their parents what they want – to see them in a happy relationship. They decide that they will fake it to please their parents. Only during their friendship, as they get closer, they fall in love which neither of them expected. The angst comes when Amelia finds out that Daniella’s (Dani) art is going to take her to another country where she’ll get to live her dreams and experience art on a whole new level. Amelia ends their charade and says it was great while it lasted, but now their game is over and they can let each other go and move on. Dani, who wanted to tell her how she felt, is heartbroken and goes home – wondering how the situation got this messed up. In the end she performs a huge grand gesture to win her back, and express her feelings. All of this also happens while celebrating the Christmas season! it’s an enjoyable watch, and a solid addition to the Christmas genre.

Fun Facts:

1. Hallmarks first lesbian Christmas film, and first film where the main couple are two women.
2. Humberly González (Who plays Dani) is Canadian; and also stars as Sophie in Ginny & Georgia.
3. Humberly González proudly represents her community as a queer woman, in this film.

12. I Hate New Years

Another Christmas, well holiday to be exact, movie for the list. I’ve never been big on holiday movies, but I fell in love with a lot of holiday movies when I discovered some of these on this list (and part 1). This movie is different, unique in its plot. Superstar Layne Price returns back home, after being on the road for a long while, and visits her best friend Cassie, who she is currently staying with. Layne yearning for her writers block to break, tries everything to break it, and she finds herself at a psychic in hopes that something can tell her how to break the block inside her mind. The psychic informs her that she needs to confront the love she has for someone with a first name that starts with C. She starts to believe she is still in love with her ex, who’s name starts with a C, and she and Cassie spend the movie trying to track her down, going on small adventures as they travel through the city. In the end, after she speaks to her ex, after Cassie and she have a small rift, she realizes the girl in question has been Cassie all along, and that’s where her heart lies. This friends to lovers story sounds insane as I type it, but I can say that despite how crazy it sounds, it was fun and charming.

Fun Facts:

1. Dia Frampton (who played Layne) sang all of her characters’ songs in the film.
2. Dia Frampton’s 3rd appearance in a Tello Film. She appeared in Christmas at the Ranch as a receptionist; she starred in Christmas With Love (AKA Merry & Gay), and starred in I Hate New Years.

13. But I’m A Cheerleader

This movie shot queer icons Natasha Lyonne (who is a very strong ally of the community and has played many LGBT characters) and Clea Duvall (Lesbian actress and director – responsible for creating Happiest Season) into superstardom. But I’m a Cheerleader is a ridiculous comedy, that falls under the same slapstick teenage comedy as Bottoms, and movies like The To Do List, and American Pie. Megan, a cheerleader who is believed to be gay by her friends and family is sent to a gay conversion camp, that focuses on forcing men and women to becoming straight, claiming to cure them. The program is where she meets Graham, a fellow woman sent there by her parents to cure her sickness and become normal and straight again. As their friendship grows, so does their feelings, and soon they embark on a forbidden roller coaster of first love. Their relationship gets discovered, and Graham who is scared to come out and lose her parents, remains in the program and blames Megan for the indiscretion and Megan gets kicked out. Megan then goes to a safe house, run by a gay couple who lives close by that they had met on a night out. The couple’s goal is to shut down the camp. There she sees a boy that was kicked out of camp as well, and they bond over their homosexual tendencies and that they realize they can’t change, because they are how god made them. Megan decides to show Graham how much she loves her, and shows up, to win her back – which turns out to be successful. The whole movie is stupid, ridiculous but so freaking funny and It’s a great time.

Fun Facts:

1. The day before shooting Natasha Lyonne (Megan) had gotten drunk and was tattooed on her back shoulder; which would impact her scenes as she had to film in a sports bra. When asked “How could you do this?” by the director, Natasha said, “I don’t know what happened!” which fits her character perfectly.
2. The start of Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall’s friendship and professional partnership.

14. Portrait of A Lady on Fire

This time period drama is so well written, the filming locations are beautiful and the acting is quite good. This independent French film, was quite a surprise to me. I was not expecting much going in, but it shocked me with how good it was. Marianne, a painter is hired to paint Héloïse, a high lady’s portrait. Héloïse, who has been suffering slight melancholy, and Marianne wind up bonding during this experience and fall in love. During this time era, their relationship would be strictly forbidden but they travel down that road anyway, which of course does not end happily, but their journey was worth watching, even if it ended with a sad ending. Nobody died, so that was a bonus, however it does end with Héloïse marrying and Marianne seeing her from afar at an opera, and choosing to watch her but not approach. It was quite heartbreaking, but the films as a whole is great. I’m not going to say too much more, because it is one of those movies that if you describe it, it sounds stupid, but it is quite the opposite.

Fun Facts:

1. Adèle Haenel ( Héloïse) is also a lesbian in real life.
2. Netflix had wanted to buy this film before Neon succeeded as the winning distributor.

15. Hollow in the Land

This Independent Canadian thriller is such a beautiful film. It has a small small budget, lhas ocal Canadian filming and landscapes, solid acting performances from Canadian superstars Shawn Ashmore, and Rachelle Leevre and American actress Dianna Agron, and a well written story make this movie worth watching. Alison (Diana Agron) and her brother Barndon live pay check to pay check, barely scraping by, doing all they can to survive while their father is in prison and their mother is non existent. Alison takes care of both herself and her brother as if he is her own child. Unfortunately for them, the crimes their father committed has tainted their name, and they must live with that hatred that the small-town they live in delivers to them daily. A year after their father’s crime, a body shows up in a nearby trailer park, and Alison’s brother goes missing. Alison tries to convince police who won’t believe her and has pegged him as a suspect because ‘like father like son’ has to takes matters into her own hands, and starts her own investigation. The more Alison investigates, the more people turn up dead and soon she finds herself as the number one suspect. She almost gets killed as she continues to run to evade police, all while the killer closes in. Once she pinpoints the killer, and he knows she knows, Her girlfriend Charlene is put in danger, when the real killer shows up, and Allison not only saves her girlfriend and her girlfriend’s daughter, but takes down the killer, and clears her brother’s name. It’s a fabulous movie, that I wish had gathered more attention but it is a solid mystery, and while it’s not a heart pounding thriller, it is still thrilling enough to keep you on the edge of your seat wondering who the killer is. Alison and Charlene’s relationship is a side story, but it works well; and shows us a more vulnerable side of our main character who we mostly see as a hard shell badass.

Fun Facts:

1. Filmed in a small Canadian town (Castlegar, British Columbia). The director chose to film in his hometown as well as having the movie take place there. People he knew in the town, were extras for the film.
2. Shawn Ashmore and Rachelle Leevre are both Canadian.
3. Scooter Corkle is also Canadian, and not only directed the film but wrote it as well.

Honorable Mentions:

This movies are great but did not make the list.

1. Kill For Me:

This horror film focuses on a romance between Natalie and Hayley, only their romance takes a dark turn when Hayley kills Natalie’s abusive ex-boyfriend, and in return demands that Natalie kills her abusive dad to return the favour, so the cops won’t blame her. This movie star Katie Cassidy of Arrow fame, who is famous for playing Laurel Lance.

2. Lets it Snow:

This film is a Christmas film that has a love actually feel to it, only for a younger adult audience. It focuses on a mix of characters, as they navigate love, friendship, and finding themselves in the journey that is life. Dorrie and Kerry are two woman, that are trying to navigate their feelings for each other, while coming from different social groups – one being the nerdy waitress, and the other being the popular girl.

3. Ammonite

Kate Winslet stars in this movie about Mary Anning, the historical overlooked fossil hunter. The movie is about her, and her work, along with her affair with Charlotte, a married woman who she is tasked to look after, to break her of her melancholy.

4. Mean Girls (2024)

While women love women relationships are not the main focus of this musical movie, you can’t help but view it as a legendary queer movie. In this film, Janice is publicly out, a proud lesbian (unlike the original – where it was used for laughs), Damian is gay and proud of it, and Regina – while a straight character – oozes queer energy thanks to Renee Rapp, a lesbian actress who stole the whole damn film. Aulii Cravalho (Janice), Jaquel Spivey (Damian), and of course as mentioned Renee Rapp (Regina George) are all part of the community outside of the film.

One thing I didn’t have growing up (okay, they existed, they just weren’t easy to find and weren’t as mainstream as they are now – we didn’t have access to them via commercials, YouTube, or word of mouth – unless you went digging for them. {that makes me seem so old, when I am only 34.} ) While the sapphic community, and LGBT community as a whole still isn’t 100 percent accepted, and great changes still need to come, and hate is still heavy, it’s a lot more prevalent in media than it once was, and hell, it is a lot more accepted than it was when I was younger. Small progress is being made, sometimes it feels like 10 steps back, but other times it feels like we jumped ahead, but I’m not writing about politics or acceptance in this blog, so I’ll continue with the point. Because I am proud of who I am, which took me a long while, and because I love seeing my sexuality and woman who also love woman represented on screen, I wanted to share my favourite WLW (Women Love Women) films.

Not all of these films are fluffy, cheesy, or happy. Some have sad endings, some a tad tragic, two themes that are often prevalent in WLW films – although it’s slowly changing. It’s great to be getting more films that have happy endings, and fall under the same rom-com formula that a classic straight romance would.

I hope I can introduce people to some great films, no matter your orientation because I think anyone, straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc. can enjoy these films. A good film is good based on storytelling, performance, and something that compels you, draws you in. All of these films have that for me.

I have so many favourites (and this just scratches the surface of WLW films, there are so many out there – and I am sure I will discover many more) that I had to split my lists in half. This is Part 1; Part 1 will feature the best of the best in my opinion, like usual this is based solely on my own opinions, and part 2 will feature my other favourites that deserve lots of love as well.

1. Imagine Me & You

Imagine Me & You is a rom-com and has the typical rom-com formula; just switched to two women instead of a man and a woman. For this rom-com, a woman see’s the other woman from across the room, and their world is changed forever. Despite being married to a man, love has no bounds and she falls deeply; and she must choose between the woman she fell in love with, who is her soulmate, or the man she married. It sounds cliche, and it sounds like an overused plot but Ol Parker (Known for films like Mama Mia, Ticket to Paradise, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) made an amazing movie – and made it unique, charming, and a film in it’s own caliber – despite it’s basic sounding plot. When I first saw this movie, I was struggling with my own sexuality, realizing I was drawn to women, even though I had boyfriends and was supposed to like men. Rachel falling for a woman, and her whole world being turned upside down showed me that love happens when you least expect it, and it cannot be stopped, and that it’s okay if it’s with a woman. This movie helped me accept myself, but also was there for me, to understand me when nobody else did. People like me were represented on screen, and I was enthralled. Imagine Me & You had become a staple in my life, It’s my go to comfort movie when I’m sad, my go to comfort movie when I just need something to watch to have a good viewing experience or when I need a laugh (The British comedy is good in this one). It was and is such a huge part of me, that I represented it in a tattoo, by using the strongest and most impactful line in the whole movie – one that makes the movie excellent. That scene – will always be my favourite scene in a movie – ever. If you want a touching rom-com with a solid happy ending, I recommend giving this a watch.

Fun Facts:

1. The title of the movie was taken from the first four words of the song ‘Happy Together’ by The Turtles – the song played over the end of the film, when our two women finally get together.
2. Lena Headey & Piper Perabo also starred in the movie The Cave together, in the same year – filmed before this movie.

3. The movie was originally going to be called Click to represent the love at first sight connection. However, they had to change the name due to Adam Sandler’s movie of the same name.

2. Season Of Love

This movie is essentially the lesbian version of Love Actually. It is a Christmas movie that centres around three different couples, 6 different characters, all with their own story lines. Iris & Mardou are two woman who are drawn together when Iris’ fiancé, who happens to be Mardou’s brother leaves her at the alter. Their time spent together, and Iris’ time spent healing and leaning on Mardou creates a love story that will alter their lives forever. Sue & Janey are a couple that’s been together for a while, have loved one another since high school, and have been brought back together after Janey has been in the army and away for quite a while. Their romance is rocky, but in the end of the movie after some turbulence they come back together. Lou & Kenna are two women who at first don’t see eye to eye, but come together after bonding in the workplace, and fall in love. It’s a feel good, holiday movie, with some angst and it’s a good watch. When I am sad, it is another movie I love to put on because It just leaves me feeling good, and happy.

Fun Facts:

1. Dominique Provost-Chalkley starred in Wynonna Earp as Waverly Earp; Dom’s role in this show, and it’s popularity, drove the marketing of this film to focus heavily on Dom’s casting; the character, while still a main character, has some of the least amount of screen time, compared to other characters/couples.
2. This movie is a Tello original. Tello is a streaming platform geared toward woman who love woman, as a safe place for them to enjoy love stories involving two women.

3. Polarized

A stunning film created by Shamim Sarif, a famous name in Women Love Women cinematic history, being responsible for many films. Polarized is a film that centres on Lisa and Dalia. Two women who are from different cultural backgrounds, upbringings, and beliefs. It takes place in a small rural town in Manitoba. The film begins with Lisa packing up the last of her items from her farm, which was foreclosed and the audience soon sees that she now has a job at Dalia’s farm. At first the two women butt heads, Lisa makes a racist remark, gets fired, and there is a rift formed between the two women. Lisa however, realizes she needs the job and cannot stay home with her overly religious mother, and ill father, so she goes back to the farm and apologizes to Dalia. They come to an understanding and she gets her job back. As they work together, and begin to bond, their relationship grows. The only issue – their families and the beliefs they hold. Dalia’s parents expect her to marry a boy of their culture, and she is expected to settle down, and have a child. Lisa’s parents want her to marry Ben, a family friend from the church, who she also happens to work with, and their faith looks down on Lisa’s sexuality which she has been hiding her whole life. After Dalia and Lisa share a kiss, their worlds are ripped wide open. Lisa’s world spins as she is forced to accept that she likes women, and Dalia is forced to realize that she does not love the man she is supposed to marry and loves a woman instead. When Dalia’s family buys Lisa’s old farm, it creates a new rift between the two women, and during that time Lisa’s dad dies of his cancer, Dalia marries Omar (her fiancé), Lisa’s family performs an exorcism on her due to her dalliance with Dalia, and Lisa then flees the little farm town to the big city. They reunite after Lisa comes back home, for something as simple as a reference letter for employment. By That point Dalia ripped her world apart by separating from Omar because of her love for Lisa, and exposing that to her family, causing her to be kicked out of her family farm, as well as the family home. The movie ends with them sharing a kiss, and leaving the small town behind, together. It’s not a feel good rom-com by any means, it’s an angsty drama, with some feel good moments tossed in but it’s worth a watch. I watch it quite frequently, and every time the writing and storyline just grips me, and leaves its mark on me.

Fun Facts:

1. The movie is Canadian, and was filmed in Manitoba. The two main stars of the movie are also Canadian. Maxine Denis (Dalia) was born and raised in Dubai, but moved to Canada, became a Canadian citizen and now resides in Montreal. Holly Deveaux (Lisa) was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario where she still resides.
2. The movie went through circulation at TIFF (the Toronto International Film Festival)

4. D.E.B.S.

DEBS is funny, spoofy, packed with action, romantic, and all around fun. It’s a movie that does not take itself seriously, and if you’re looking for something lighthearted, comedic, with a splash of terrible yet charming action sequences, then this is the movie for you. DEBS is about Lucy Diamond, a villain, that everyone from the CIA to Homeland Security want in custody. In that group is the DEBS – a division of spies – who also want to take Lucy Diamond in and make her pay for her crimes. Amy Bradshaw the DEBS pride and joy, what they call the perfect score, has a run in with Lucy, and the minute they meet there is a spark. Amy was already pulled to Lucy’s story, as she had chosen to do her thesis on her in spy school, and meeting her – while she knows it’s not a good idea – pulls her toward the villain, craving answers and a cure to her curiosity. This movie while it makes fun of other crazy action movies, also has a lot of its own charm, and is in a league of its own. Amy and Lucy, while forbidden, wind up coming together when Amy runs away with her, disguising it as a kidnapping, they wind up enjoying time alone and together. Once caught however, Amy’s career is at risk, and Lucy has to hide out from the DEBS who are after her with no remorse. Lucy decides to win back her woman, and interrupts the DEBS homecoming celebration, breaks into the building, and goes after Amy. In the end they escape, Amy’s best friend Max who is also part of the DEBS lets them get away, and the end of the movie sees them drive into the sunset – literally.

Fun Facts:

1. D.E.B.S. Stands for Discipline, Energy, Beauty, Strength.
2. Jordana Brewster (Lucy Diamond) is the biggest star in the movie, who when DEBS was released (2004) had broken into Hollywood as one of the stars of The Fast and The Furious 4 years earlier in 2001.
3. Devon Aoki (Domonique) also starred in The Furious Saga – in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Jordana and Devon never interacted in The Furious Saga as Jordana was not in that film in the series, and they did not directly interact in DEBS either.

5. Last Exmas

This movie is about two exes who broke up in high school, and are reunited 10 years later when both women come back to their small hometown for the Christmas holidays, and find themselves drawn to one another, despite hard feelings, anger and a rough break-up. After they run into one another, they start off fighting, and doing everything they can to avoid one another – however when Maggie requires a job to make ends meet while she is back home for the holiday’s she gets a job at Jules’ family diner, and is working along side the ex that she was never able to let go of. Jules on the hand, finds her feelings that also never faded, slap her full force. Just as they are about to rekindle what they once had, after a kiss they shared, Maggie’s most recent girlfriend (who had broken up with her right before she returned home) shows up to win her back, and Jules must fight for the girl she does not want to lose again. Unfortunately Maggie makes an error that hurts Jules’ feeling, and she must prove that she loves Jules, and does not want to hide what they have, not like she did when they were teenagers when she was ashamed to be with her. This is a solid rom-com, and has a very typical rom-com formula; including the quirky meddling best friend who brings all the comedy, but I throughly enjoyed this movie – more than I expected to.

Fun Facts:

1. Last Exmas is a Canadian film, which has released worldwide!
2. Last Exmas premiered at the Buffer festival in Canada, on December 01 2024.

6. Gridiron Grind

Football and I usually do not mesh well – in fact I don’t even understand the game, so normally northing with football pulls me in, and at first I avoided this film, thinking it would be soaked in football, that I wouldn’t be able to stand it. Luckily for me I gave it a chance. Riley is a football player who previously played on the men’s team, however she quit after a run in with one of the boys on the opposing team, that left her defeated after he cornered her and made inappropriate comments. After a while, she starts to miss football, and when a new coach starts at the school, she decides she is going to try out again – at first she is not welcomed to the team by her teammates, the coach who is supportive but apprehensive runs her extra hard to make sure she can withstand it and believes as much as he wants to give her a chance, she won’t make it. Paige, the coaches daughter and team medic, also classmate of Riley – offers to help her train since she has keys to the gym, due to her being the team’s assistant/medic. Riley agrees and they begin to bond, and soon that bond turns into a romance that just as it almost starts, unravels when Paige hears Riley joining in on hookup talk with the boys, and making inappropriate comments about her. Riley then goes to talk to her, only to catch Paige with another girl. After their fall out – both parties miss the other and find their way back to one another. It’s a low budget movie, but it works and it has a lighthearted story, with a happy ending.

Fun Facts:

1. This film is a Tubi Original, Tubi is a free streaming platform, that does not charge for programming due to revenue from ads. This is one of many Sapphic films from Tubi’s original catalog!
2. “Gridiron Grind” is inspired by the true story of Jade N. Richard-Craven, who played high school tackle football as the only girl on her team. 

7. Happiest Season

Happiest Season was the first lesbian Christmas movie (not including Christmas movies that included a lesbian character, but was not the sole focus). It was a very popular movie, that brought light to lesbian Christmas movies – and entered into mainstream media. With a star studded cast. Kristen Stewart, who by this point learned how to act again after Twilight destroyed her. Dan Levy, who is one of the funniest actors out there. Aubrey Plaza who stole the movie with an eyebrow raise, cheeky grin and a suit. This movie wasn’t a typical feel good Christmas romance, it had a lot to do with acceptance, shame about one’s sexuality, and the consequences of telling your family who you really are. When it comes to acceptance, it’s an important movie for anyone struggling with coming to terms with their sexuality, and with coming out to family and friends. Me personally, I had no problem with watching Harper struggle with self acceptance and gathering the courage to come out but I did have a problem with the fact that she was a horrible person; Manipulative, uncaring of her partner’s feelings, self centred and all around a deplorable person. Harper and my dislike of her did not ruin the movie for me. I actually loved the movie – however Riley (Aubrey Plaza) would have been a better fit for Abby (Kristen Stewart) and I was a tad shocked that the film did not go with the typical romance movie trope: the current partner treats the main character like garbage, and then another character sweeps them off their feet, and they realize how love should be. That’s what I expected, but it took a different twist and showed that sometimes once a relationship overcomes a hurdle – it can survive. All in all it was a very solid film, and I do enjoy watching it. After all, it’s on my list.

Fun Facts:

1. One thing Clea Duvall (Director and Writer – and famous lesbian) wanted was actors who not only represented queerness on screen, but off screen as well. Kristen Stewart identifies as Queer – and married a woman. Dan Levy is famously gay. Victor Garber is gay. Aubrey Plaza is bisexual (interested in woman and men).
2. Clea Duvall asked Aubrey Plaza – who happens to be her good friend – to join the cast and play Riley. After Aubrey read the script she told Clea Duvall that she’d accept the role but would play Riley as being romantically interested in Abby, and that Riley was coming for her. Clea shrugged that off, thinking it would not impact anything, and that audiences would root for Harper and Abby anyway. Unfortunately, after the movie was released, love for Riley and Abby and wishes from fans wanting them to end up together, caused Clea Duvall to comment that she was wrong.
3. Mackenzie Davis (Harper), Dan Lavy(John), and Victor Garber (Ted) are all Canadian.

8. Concerto For Abigail

This movie was very touching; and was a solid story that focused on personal struggle and romance, and how they tie together. Samantha a famous piano player, who has moved back to her home town and picked up a recurring gig in the bar she first started in, finds out she is going deaf – rather quickly. Her doctor doesn’t know the direct cause, but she finds out her hearing loss is in stage three, and slowly creeping to stage four, which is complete deafness. During this personal struggle she meets Abigail a huge fan of her work, who she clicks with and love begins to bloom. She must juggle new love with finding a new purpose in life, as well as coping with her new identity. It’s a low budget, independent film, but that does not stop its stellar storyline, and phenomenal finished product. It was a movie I throughly enjoyed.

Fun Facts:

1.  Concerto for Abigail won three awards at the New York International Film Festival.
2. Concerto for Abigail is streaming for free on Tubi, and is also available on Tello – a streaming service that focuses on sapphic only films & TV Shows.

9. Crush

Crush is a beautiful young adult film, about the journey of crushes, love, and how everything you thought you knew was wrong. Paige has had a crush on Gabby (the popular track star) since she was young, and all she could see growing up was Gabby. All she ever wanted was Gabby. When Paige is accused of being the school vandal due to her love of art and artistic talent, the punishment she recieves is joining the track team due to low numbers so they could qualify for the tournament. Paige sets out to prove she is not the vandal, but in the meantime she needs to excel on her new sports team which is quite difficult due to her lack of abilities and skill. The coach partners her with AJ, Gabby’s sister, for training – while Paige wishes it was Gabby she was partnered with, she grows close to AJ and soon, her small childhood crush shifts and she begins to have feelings for AJ – causing a confusing love triangle. In the end she finds love with the girl she didn’t expect, and Gabby becomes a childhood crush, and nothing more. It’s a good movie, has solid humour, and I was along for the ride. Oh and Spoiler Alert!…….in the end Paige finds out AJ is the vandal all along and is willing to take the fall to protect her, but AJ steps forward – to protect Paige from being punished for something she didn’t do.

Fun Facts:

1. Both actresses who play our main couple are queer in real life. Rowan Blanchard (Paige) has expressed that she identifies as queer because she is open to love whether it is a woman or a man, and doesn’t label herself. Auli’l Cravalho (AJ) identifies as bisexual.
2. Original title was ‘Love in Color’ due to both main characters artistic ability and love for art.

10. Below Her Mouth

This spicy movie is an erotic drama that surrounds a womanizer named Dallas, who struggles with finding love, and has a habit of using girls for one night stands, and nothing overtly serious. However when she meets Jasmine everything changes, and she is thrown into a tailspin, and falls head over heels. The only problem, Jasmine is engaged – to a man. After their spark ignites, they share a kiss, which turns into a full blown affair both physically and emotionally and soon, Jasmine must face a difficult decision – to follow her heart, or follow the expectations that society has placed on her and marry the man that she’s spent a chunk of her life with. In the end, after Jasmine and Dallas get caught, she leaves Dallas, because she feels as if she can’t leave him. When she and her fiancé attempt to reconcile their relationship intimately Jasmine breaks down, and tells him she can’t do it, because her heart still belongs to Dallas. The movie ends with Jasmine and Dallas winding up together. Going into this movie, I did not know what to expect. I’m not usefully a fan of highly explicit movies in a sexual sense – but despite some racy scenes – this movie goes beyond that and holds onto a lot of emotion and a very solid love story.

Fun Facts:

1. Dallas’ career is a roofer, who owns her own roofing company. To prepare for the role, Erika Linder (Dallas) apprenticed as a roofer with the screenwriters’ sister’s roofing company for two weeks before shooting the film. She fooled one of their customers into thinking she was actually an experienced roofer after meticulously finishing their roof by herself.
2. A Canadian Film, starring Canadian Actress Natalie Krill who had her breakout role, on Wynonna Earp – a Canadian Series.

11. Booksmart

Booksmart is a comedy that stands out from other raunchy teen comedies. Booksmart has one thing a lot of them lack – deep heart. Booksmart is about two lifetime best friends Amy and Molly. Molly & Amy have spent most of their lives preparing for college, and in high school that meant studying, extra circulars for applications, and focusing on IVY League schools. Everything they did was about school. When graduation looms over them, Molly finds out the same stoners, jocks, and partiers are getting into IVY League schools, and did not even focus on their studies. Molly realizes that they never partied, or experienced any fun – and decide that it’s time. She convinces her best friend Amy to go to the huge graduation party that their schools most popular jock is throwing. Amy, is our lesbian character, who during all of their experiences, realizes her crush is not into women, and connects with the school’s mean girl and realizes there may be something there. at the party, Molly pushes things a little too far, and she and Amy have an explosive fight. They come together, and make up, and realize that going forward in life can be about school and fun. In the end of the film their friendship remains strong, even stronger than before, and Amy gets the mean girl to give her a chance – even after throwing up on her at the party after they hook-up. It may be a comedy, but I love the heart that rests at this films core.

Fun Facts:

1. Olivia Wilde’s Directorial debut.
2. Delta Air Lines has removed several scenes from their movie’s in-flight version, specifically those containing same-sex interactions. After fans of the movie brought this to Olivia Wilde’s attention, she fought for the uncensored version to be shown on flights, as the characters’ sexual orientation was a huge part of the storyline. Delta Air Lines eventually relented and no longer plays the censored version.
3. Olivia Wilde encouraged Kaitlyn Dever (Amy) and Beanie Feldstein (Molly) to spend time living together to build up a rapport between them – in the short time needed to form that deep friendship bond. The two ended up being roommates for 10 weeks.

12. Fear Street Trilogy

So normally I don’t include a series as a single entry, but in this case I have combined them as you can’t have one movie without the others. If you sit down to watch the films you have to watch all of them back to back to experience the full story. Fear Street is a Horror/Slasher/Supernatural film based off of R.L. Stine’s novels of the same name. The film centres around our two main characters Deena & Sam – who start the movie off as exes. Deena lives in Shadyside, the falling apart town, and a town known as cursed due to the strange homicidal incidents that have happened for centuries. Sam has transferred to a school in Sunnyvale the rich, perfect town just beside Shadyside and due to the shift in dynamic, it caused a huge rift between Deena & Sam. A masked killer starts causing terror in the town, and soon Deena & Sam become the main targets. The film follows them as they race for their lives, rekindle their romance, and learn about the curse of Shadyside, how it started, and that the witch that is said to have cursed the town, did no such thing, and is actually trying to protect them. In the end, they defeat the evil, and take down the man who made a deal with the devil to make Sunnyvale the prevailing town, sacrificing people in Shadyside, making it a terrible town. The film was very good, and a huge part of the slasher genre. It packed the thrills, corniness, and romance. In my opinion it’s one of the best horror series I’ve seen (Not topping Scream though – nothing can).

Fun Facts:

1. The first film pays tribute to many iconic horror movies. The First kill is an homage to Scream. The camera work and even the way he catches and stabs the girl mirrors the opening murder from Scream – with some minor differences. When the killer with the axe is trying to break through the door the camera is placed on the floor exactly like Stanley Kubrick did in The Shining. The scene near the end where they go to the supermarket is an homage to Intruder, in which a character gets killed by a meat saw. The difference is in this movie it’s a bread slicer. At the end of the film, when Sam stabs Deena, the scene is a shot-for-shot re-creation of Lucius Hunt being stabbed by Noah Percy in The Village.
2. Maya Hawke (Heather – Fear Street Part 1) and Sadie Sink (Ziggy – Fear Street Part 2) also appear together in the Netflix Original Series Stranger Things.
3. The “Fear Street” trilogy has been praised for its candid and groundbreaking approach to queer representation, which is often a rarity in horror films. When horror films do include LGBT characters, most of them meet gruesome demises and don’t survive, let alone become final girls/boys. Deena and Sam are now considered Final Girls, within the horror genre, which is huge for LGBT representation.
   
   
   

13. Christmas At The Ranch

This movie was sweet, mildly corny (ha corn…get it…it’s a ranch….anyway), and centred on the opposites attract trope, that exists in all forms of media. Haley Hollis returns to her family farm, which she rarely visits due to the haunting memories of her parents who she lost when she was young in a traffic accident. She meets Kate – the ranch hand that is her complete opposite. Haley is a corporate professional, who has always dreamt of the big city, is more serious than loose, and when she comes back to her family farm to save it all she sees is the option to sell. Kate is zen, goes through life one day at a time, loves freedom, ranching, and the life in the small city, she’s more chill, has little stress, but will stop at nothing to save the farm that she works on. Together Kate and Haley try to bond, try to share their love for the farm, and slowly Kate breaks down Haley’s walls. However, after memories of her parents break through her armour, Haley tells them to sell, gives up and flees. Leaving the farm and Kate behind. When she returns to the big city, closing a huge deal at her business, she gets enough money in her bonus to save the farm, and decides to return to her family, Kate and her small town to help run the farm, and to go back to the woman she fell in love with. This film feels like a hallmark film, which isn’t necessary bad, but it has the formula of one. It’s a Tello film, and I quite enjoy watching it – even if it’s not Christmas at the time.

Fun Facts:

1. This is Laur Allen’s (Haley Hollis) second LGBT movie, and second Tello movie. First being Season of Love where she played Mardou.

2. The soundtrack for this movie included songs by Dominique Provost Chalkley, who starred in Tello’s Season of Love.

14. More Beautiful for Having Been Broken

This movie is a little heavier than most of the entries on this list – so far. Max an FBI Agent is running from the loss of her mom, which she’s been grappling with and can’t let go of. Due to the loss, she made a wrong move in her job, and was suspended pending investigation. While her suspension takes hold, she heads to a small countryside town that she and her mom used to visit when she was a child, to help clear her head but also feel closer to her mom. While there, she befriends Sam – who dislikes her at first – and Sam’s son Freddy who has Fanconi Anemia, and due to that is special needs. Max and Freddie bond first, pulling her into their circle, and soon Sam finds herself falling for this woman, who is there for them, loves Freddie, and goes through all the difficulties his illness brings. Drama unfolds however when Sam finds out that Max had a previous encounter with her mother, AND that she lied about her occupation – and that Max is really an FBI agent who was suspended. After time passes, Sam’s mom chases down Max and urges her to come back and fight for Sam because Sam and Freddie need her. Max does just that, and the two make up and get back together. The end of the movie, Sam has found her life partner with Max, and Freddie’s illness gets the best of him and at 20 he decides it’s time to finally let go, because now her mom is happy and has Max. The ending is sad – but the journey of the movie, and the beautifully written story is worth the watch, and the movie’s run time.

Fun Facts:

1. The film is based on a true story
2. The director, and writer Nicole Conn is famous for Sapphic films – creating some of the films that impacted sapphic film.

15. Time Cut

Back to the Slasher/Horror genre, Time Cut brings sapphic romance to the forefront – however it was unexpected. This Netflix original film was not marketed as LGBT, no signs of a woman love woman romance, which was fine. I enjoy all sorts of movies, especially slasher movies so naturally I tuned in for the movie – ready to watch a killer go on a killing spree of older teens, while they unravel the mystery of who the killer is, like the formula usually pans out – only with Time Cut we throw in time travel, and science. Lucy goes back in time – to meet her sister (who was a victim before she was born) and stop the killer. When she goes back and meets her sister Summer, she realizes that Summer will do anything to protect her best friend Emmy, who midway through the movie we find out Summer was in love with and had a secret relationship with. After that twist was thrown in, we have the twist of who the killer is, plus Lucy in the end decides not to go back to her current time, and stays with her sister – and the movie ends on a happy note. I will say this, it was a good slasher for a Netflix original, I just wish the kills were a tad more brutal.

Fun Facts:

1. Totally Killer – an Amazon Original Film – and Time Cut – A Netflix Original Film – are heavily compared as they both involve a young woman who goes back in time to save someone they love from being killed. Totally Killer came out first, and Time Cut has been heavily regarded by fans of the genre as a rip off. In reality Time Cut was written, and filmed first but its release was delayed due to the writers strike, causing Totally Killer to come out (with no press tour due to the strike) first – meaning that Totally Killer in actuality should be considered the rip off.
2. The movie establishes that several branches of a timeline can exist simultaneously, meaning that in the original timeline Lucy disappears and her parents will have lost two daughters on the same date (but in different years) in the same location.
3. Antonia Gentry (Summer) also stars in Netflix’s Original Series Ginny & Georgia, where she plays Ginny.

16. The Miseducation of Cameron Post

This film left a lasting impression on me. Once I watched it, it stayed in my head for days. I loved the film, but I could not shake it, it reached into my chest and gripped my heart, squeezed it, and refused to let go. This film is filled with pain, but hope for these characters, that you instantly grow an attachment to. Cameron is caught with another woman that she’s secretly dating, and being under 18, her religious guardians ship her off to a convention camp – where they attempt to make gay kids straight again (p.s. those camps don’t work – because gay kids are born that way – according to science). Cameron meets Jane and Adam who become fast friends with her, and are there for the same reason; Their parents shipped them off to make them better. The counsellors treat them terribly, they are not allowed to have any fun, they do chores and work all day, and then practice therapy in the evening. One of the kids attempts suicide, due to the pressure and depression the place brings, and Cameron, Jane and Adam come together to decide to escape even if they have no place to go, because they’d rather suffer on the streets and be who they really are, then suffer in a conversion camp that will only break them until they too would rather wish they were dead. This movie is something I think everyone should watch; it not only helps LGBT teens realize they can embrace who they are regardless of the situation, but it teaches those who hate, that all you’re doing is creating unhealthy environments and a rise in suicide in LGBT youth.

Fun Facts:

1. Won the Grand Jury Prize (Dramatic) at the Sundance Film Festival
2. Chloe Grace Moretz came out shortly after this movie released – and has now happily married another woman.
3. Every reputable American medical association has condemned the practice of “conversion therapy” and the idea that sexual orientation can be changed as false and medically and psychologically harmful.
4. Based on the book of the same name by Emily M. Danforth.

Honorable Mentions

This movies are great but did not make the list (They did not make part 2’s list either).

1. Addicted to Fresno

A movie about two sister Martha (Natasha Lyonne) & Shannon (Judy Greer), who have to cover up an accidental murder. Martha, falls in love with another woman named Kelly played by Aubrey Plaza.

2. Love, Classified

A Romance novelist returns home to reconnect with her children who are finding their paths to love. Taylor & Frank, two women, are the main love story in the film. The films stars Katherine McNamara, Adrienne Mandi, and Melora Hardin.

3. Castaways

In a post-apocalyptic world two women are shipwrecked on a deserted island. They must work together to survive and experience a bond in ways they could never have imagined: Love.

Fletcher saved my life. Her music made me feel like I was normal, like my pain was seen from someone else. That my sexuality was seen by someone else. Her music got me through my dads illness and death, her music got me through the passing of my very young kitten who died too soon, within all of that she also helped me through some massive depressive episodes, and is now getting me through a journey with my heart health.

But I needed to get some stuff off my chest in regard to her new journey, and her new song that just came out.

When I first heard the song Boy (a song about her falling for a man) I felt numb. 

I realize, as a fan of Fletcher for so long, that Fletcher has always identified as Queer. Queer is a large umbrella – and I knew in Fletcher’s case she leaned more towards women, and people who had feminine traits. All her public relationships were about women, all her songs were about women. As time went by, the possibility of her liking boys as well – due to her identifying as Queer, and sexually fluid- slipped my mind. I was so used to her sapphic expression, and open and honest sapphic love, and appreciation for women, that I always forgot the one tiny detail that Fletcher could one day also fall in love with a man. 

When I listened to the song, that numbness that I felt had taken over. MY chest hurt, my heart hurt, and I truly felt lost after following her sapphic songs for so long. I viewed her as my representation I yearned for in music when I was growing up. She was someone I felt understood what it was like to love a woman. I found music that centred around a woman loving a woman. Then, boy was released and suddenly it felt like that person I leaned on – suddenly was no longer that person. Just another straight girl loving a straight guy. 

I felt like the representation I had; the connection I had due to that representation, was ripped away from me. I was gutted. I perused comments on her instagram posts, and saw some pretty hateful ones – which was not okay. People accused her of queer baiting this whole time. People accused her of lying to the lgbt community for a quick buck. Some people went as far as to tell her she shouldn’t have announced her new found love with a boy during Pride month because it was disrespectful to the community. The hate is not okay. And those reactions was what she was scared of, 

Then, I saw other comments like how I was feeling. People who were just numb at losing that constant, that representation, a woman singing about a woman. I felt validated with other fans, and I knew my feelings were not just mine- but a lot of people felt that way. 

I started thinking. Obviously I am still gutted, I feel numb and maybe even a little depressed – because you’re still loosing that representation on a certain scale, especially if her new music does not centre on love with a woman/or the breakups of love with a woman. But as I started thinking I came to realize that she never said the word lesbian. She has always stated she was Queer, and has always leaned more towards women, and has dated more women than men in her life. She has stated she loved feminine energy. She has always embraced being part of the community. I realized that she is still a form of representation. Love and queerness comes in all shapes and forms. She loves a man now, but that doesn’t negate the music she has released about women. It doesn’t erase her love of women, her past with women, her sexual experiences with women. It doesn’t erase possibilities of her relationship to a man were to end, of future love with women. It does not erase her love for HER community. A community that is suppose to be welcome of every letter in the queer alphabet; but based on the comments I read on her instagram, is anything but welcoming. They immediately tore her apart, and basically kicked her out of the community because she’s a woman dating a man. It made me realize that Bisexual human beings probably go through the same thing – and maybe I am a little to blame based on my thoughts I had when I first heard the song, and my immediate thought was – well so much for representation so much for being a part of the sapphic community. I may not have posted anything about it, but I was just as guilty in writing her sexuality off and kicking her sexuality to the curb because she was a woman with a man. 

All those comments telling her that she should not have announced this/released this song during pride month- at first I wanted to agree. I was upset, and said to myself how dare she say “fuck you” to the sapphic community that supported her. After my anger fleeted, and only the numbness and confusion remained, I realized that telling her not to release it is not fair. Pride is for all sexualities that do not fall under the heterosexual sexuality. That includes Queer, Pansexual and Bisexual – both of which involve same sex or opposite sex love; and those sexualities deserve representation too – which is what she gave them on Pride. She even posted a whole Pride post wishing her fellow queers a happy Pride. Those sexualities always get left out at pride because people brush them off because they could be in a traditional relationship, but that does not negate that they are also attracted and have dated people of the same sex. 

I have thought back on the song, and chose to give it another listen – because the first time I was too taken aback, too hurt for lack of a better word. The song in itself is a very vulnerable diary entry. She explains how she and this boy wound up drawn to each other – shortly after her tour had ended at the end of last year. She explains how she never saw it coming, since she is usually with girls. She admits in the song she doesn’t know how to label it, that she’s just following her heart, and that she knows people will call her the hypocrite. She explains in the song that she knows it’s not what fans want to hear, how it wasn’t on fans bingo card, and it definitely wasn’t on hers. She explains in the song that she is scared of what people will think of her, and that she doesn’t know if she’ll ever like boys again in the future, or if it was just him, but that she is obviously shocked by the revelation herself. She chose  to open up her heart to her fans, even though she knew people would judge her. She chose to be vulnerable and tell people her vulnerable feelings, and knew that she could be disowned by her own fletchfam (her fans), disowned by the community. She opened up herself because she’s always been an honest artist – and I realized she was so fucking brave. Now people are doing exactly what she was terrified of, and ostracizing her because of her queerness, all because she fell in love with a boy. Everyone in life goes through their queerness differently. Fletcher is no different, the only difference is she is in the public eye. 

I am still sad. I am still numb. I still feel a miss of her sapphic swag and representation. I feel like I’m grieving a huge part of myself, with losing that portion of her music. But then I realize releasing a song about the boy she loves, doesn’t mean we won’t get more queer love songs, just means she has found love. 

The only down side of this – is it will be the whole subject of cis straight men saying “see they just haven’t met the right guy yet”. Because since she was in the public eye for liking women, just like me, they will forget that she is queer/fluid – and now it will be all about gay girls can become ungay. I think the more she talks about it and discusses it things will simmer down, and I think people will grow to understand where she is at in her life. And how her queerness fits into it. 

In her recent rolling atonement interview she mentions that she is still 100% queer and dating a man won’t change that. 

Anyway. I’m not here to talk about speculations, rumours, theories. I am just here for Cari. I love her, all the same. She is still Fletcher – she is still Cari; but I still feel sad – but I will listen to her new album as it progresses – and I will follow her into any journey. She deserves to speak her truth, just like anyone else. 

Fletcher. Cari. Whatever side of her she wants to express, still saved my life and for that I will always cherish every part of her music, new and old.

(Sorry for any spelling errors I did not spell check this)

(The Ranking of the best looking male celebrities in the eyes of a lesbian)

A misconception that has existed for many years is that women, who are strictly interested in other women cannot find men good looking. The thing is, beauty can be recognized regardless of what gender you are romantically/sexually attracted to. Many straight women have stated “that woman is so pretty” and many straight males have said “You look good” to a male friend once in their lifetime.

What gave me this idea for this blog, was I recently watched a video from a content creater that I follow, Brianne Worth, who made a video titled “Lesbian Rates Sexiest Man Alive” and I thought to myself ‘there are some male celebs I think are so pretty, that it’s insane how pretty they are.’ I did however notice one thing people said in the comments of that video was, “how can a lesbian find men attractive?”. One thing most people don’t know is it’s not necessarily attraction, attraction is a word that is often misused. According to the dictionary attraction means the action or power of evoking interest, pleasure, or liking for someone or something. Obviously attraction isn’t the right word when it comes to a gay woman, finding a man beautiful. BUT anyone can admire someone’s looks, because beauty exists everywhere. There has always been a difference between simply finding someone beautiful, and wanting them in a romantic way/crushing on them.

For me, being a gay women, I am comfortable enough to admit that yes some men are beautiful – not in the same way woman are, but good looks are hard to ignore.

I decided, because I was inspired by Brianne’s video, to make my own list of Best Looking Male Celebrities; Mind you my list isn’t filled with Hollywood A-listers, but who needs them anyway? they always get all the glory (Sorry Leonardo DiCaprio, your ship has sailed – no pun intended).

1. Machine Gun Kelly

Profession: Musician, Actor

Okay, in all seriousness, how can a man be this good looking? He is your typical blonde hair, blue eyed, dimpled cheek, lopsided smile male, that most women are generally attracted too, but he tops it all of with a feminine flair, badass tattoos, and a punk-rock flare mixed with a mild hip-hop vibe. His style suits him, and I personally think it helps with smoothing out his look. To me, the part about this beautiful boy that I find the most appealing is his hair. His chiseled cheeks, and bright blue eyes, are a close second. His hair though – Like I can’t – it’s always perfect, whether it’s blonde, pink, black, tied back, shaggy, mildly short, this man sure knows how to draw everyone’s eyes to his hair. Going further into this man’s looks, he has a toned body, which while I may not want to put my hands on it, because that does not excite me ( hence the lesbian part), I can appreciate that he looks good, and I appreciate his tattooed torso. Megan Fox (now if you want to talk about attraction…) is one lucky girl (wait, are they on or off – ugh who can keep track).

Claim To Fame: His debut album Lace Up, put him on the map

Most Popular Albums: Mainstream Sellout, Tickets to my downfall, Bloom

Most Popular Movies: Nerve, Midnight in the switchgrass, Good Mourning

2. Stephen Amell

Profession: Actor, Producer

This Canadian actor is definitely a sight for sore eyes. He would fall under your “Ruggedly Handsome” label, as well as the “Boy next door” label. He’s handsome, and anyone, unless blind, could see that. Symmetrical face, perfectly tamed scruff, and bright blue eyes that are impossible not to notice, thanks to his dark hair which makes them pop. Stephen first came into my orbit when I tuned into Arrow; which shot him to fame, and made many straight girls, and gay guys swoon. The most appealing thing about this handsome man, is his blue eyes and signature closed lip smile. The cherry on top is that this fella is also very sweet in person, which adds to his charm. This family man, will find success in late 2025 with his new TV Show Suits:LA

Claim To Fame: The television series Arrow put him front and centre

Most Popular Projects: Arrow (TV Show), Code 8 (Film), Heels (TV Show)

3. Nick Carter

Profession: Musician

When I was younger, I was pretty much in love with this man. He was what I thought a first crush was supposed to be, and I grew up memorizing every lyric to every Backstreet Boys song, and plastering my wall with Nick Carter posters. As I grew up, and found out who I was, obviously it wasn’t what I thought it was, but I definitely admired him, and knew he was attractive. He’s very pretty and throughout his career he definitely cemented his heartthrob status. His career started when he was young when he joined the most famous boyband in the world, and not only was he the most talented in the band, but he instantly became a teenage heartthrob, with girls throwing themselves at his feet, screaming, crying, every time he went anywhere in public. Nick’s baby blue eyes, and his blonde hair whether it’s short, long, or shaggy, are my favourite aspects of his looks. It’s definitely what provides that heartthrob status. Nick has aged gracefully through the years, and even now, is still quite good looking. This boybander still excels in music today with his band, and solo music, keeping his fame on point.

Claim To Fame: A little boyband called Backstreet Boys yanked him from the backstreets and placed him in the centre of the music scene

Most Popular Projects: Everybody…Backstreets Back (Album, Song, Music Video), Millennium (Album)

4. David Boreanaz

Profession: Actor, Producer

This 55 year old still holds onto the handsome title, even after graduating Buffy as the vampire that captured Buffy’s heart. When I was younger, Angel and Buffy dominated television screens, and ended up being the most talked about will they won’t they television couple. David captured girl’s hearts everywhere, thanks to his appearance on the show, and soon became a household name. His looks weren’t the only thing he had going for him, as his talent speaks for itself. After Buffy he went on to star on Bones for a solid 245 episodes, and then went on to star on Seal Team, which has been an international success. David’s best feature that feeds into his handsome demeanour, is definitely his lopsided smile, and his ability to have the perfectly tamed facial hair in the world. I’m sorry, but it definitely suits him. I feel that after Seal Team, he’ll continue to dominate television, until his retirement.

Claim to Fame: Buffy The Vampire Slayer gave him the ability to dig his fangs into Hollywood

Most Popular Projects: Buffy/Angel (TV Show), Bones (TV Show), Seal Team (TV Show)

5. Andy Biersack

Profession: Musician

Andy Biersack, whose stage name is Andy Black, is the lead singer of the Rock band Black Veil Brides, and has his own solo career as well. Andy has the “bad boy” look perfected, along with a small side of James Dean. His features are beautiful, from his chiselled cheekbones, to his bright striking blue eyes. He’s one of the current faces of the hard rock scene, and his band has not only blown up the charts, But have brought hard rock back to the fore front, introducing new generations to the emo like music that got me through high school. Andy’s raspy singing voice matches his look, and while many people may find his bad boy look off-putting, he is actually known to be a very sweet guy, and extremely loyal to his fans. I feel that without his bad boy image, rock and roll hair, tattoos, and edgy look, he wouldn’t be as stunning – just my opinion.

Claim to Fame: His bands album Set The World On Fire, shot him to fame, leaving a blazing trail behind him

Most Popular Projects: Set The World On Fire ( Black Veil Brides Album), Black veil Brides ( Black Veil Brides Album), The Shadow Side (Debut Solo Album)

6. Cody Carson

Profession: Musician

Cody has made his footprint in the pop-punk scene as the lead singer of the band set it off. Set it off first captured my attention with the song Killer in The Mirror, instantly drawing me into the world of their music, but also recognizing both Cody’s talents, and beauty. This man knows how to bring the old fashioned punk, emo look to today’s society, which makes me feel like he’s still living in the early 200’s look wide, but it works for him. It’s become his trademark style, and without it, he wouldn’t be the good looking man that he is. Cody’s vocals however, blow his looks out of the water, as his voice is the first thing that anyone would fall in love with. Cody’s best features are his wicked, mischievous smile, and the bad boy look that he always has in his eyes.

Claim to Fame: Set it Off’s song Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing, put him on the map, and put the taste of revenge in listeners mouths.

Most Popular Projects: Duality (Set It Off’s Album), Midnight (Set It Off’s Album), Their Joint Tour with Canadian Rock Band Simple Plan opened them up to more international audiences.

7. James Marsters

Profession: Actor

James Marsters did age well, however as blunt as this sounds, he’s not as beautiful as he once was. His Buffy days, his golden years of being a heartthrob is where his true beauty lies. Every time I watch Buffy, I see how pretty he was, and how beautiful Spike is. The Bad Boy appearance, black nail polish, and peroxide hair, created a fad back in the day; a popular look among teenagers in the late 90’s and early 200’0’s because of him – something Billy Idol did before him. Unfortunately I find that the peroxide hair suits him more than his original brunette locks. I had to include him, based on his impact on the bad boys are in fad, the way his beauty radiates off of the screen on Buffy, and the fact that even today, he looks good for his age, even if that heartthrob status didn’t remain. I think the best feature this man has, is his chiseled cheek bones which could definitely cut glass.

Claim To Fame: Buffy The Vampire Slayer helped him show the world that Evil Vampires were cool

Most Popular Projects: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (TV Show), Angel (TV Show), Marvel’s Runaways (TV Show), Smallville (TV Show)

8. Cameron Monaghan

Profession: Actor

Cameron started as a child actor, scaring people as a child killer in Criminal Minds, starring in Adam Sandler’s Click, and making appearances in multiple shows. He eventually stole hearts in the American Version of Shameless, where he skyrocketed into fame. This red haired, freckled face man, is quite handsome, and could capture your attention with his boy next door smile. His critically acclaimed performance in Gotham, as the shows version of the Joker, shot him to higher fame than his previous role in Shameless, and he has now been regarded, behind Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson, as one of the best actors to portray the crazed psychotic villain. Cameron’s best facial feature is his eyes, and his smile. His character is one of the reasons Shameless is so good, his addition to Gotham helped turn the show into it’s own instead of strictly a take on batman, and his talent is getting ready to soar to greater heights.

Claim To Fame: Shameless showed that troubled teens like his character, could turn their life around.

Most Popular Projects: Shameless (TV Show), Gotham (TV Show), Star Wars (Video Game – Voice Acting)

9. Matthew Gray Gubler

Profession: Actor, Author, Visual Artist, Magician, Model (Former)

This lad brought Special Agent Spencer Reid to life on Criminal Minds, and showed the world that nerds, and geniuses were in. That was his most notable acting role, but how could you deny that Spencer is a handsome man. Between his hair, and his goofy smile, he’s got something going on. Matthew also made a name for himself when he released his first book, with his illustrations, and stepped into the art world when he shared his art, and began to release his drawing, sketches, and paintings. He’s also a magician, which he incorporates into his role in Criminal Minds. He was previously a model, back in the day as well. Matthew is very talented, which adds to his appeal, but his boy next door, nerd vibe definitely makes him an adorable cutie.

Claim To Fame: Showing the world that smart people are cool in Criminal Minds

Most Popular Projects: Life With Beth (Film), Criminal Minds (TV Show), Rumple Buttercup (Book)

I’m back with more blubbering on about things that I love. This time I settled on my favourite fictional characters from television and movies; I didn’t include books because that’s a whole other ballgame.

The characters I selected as my favourites are a mix of old and new. Some are characters that I have loved for years, and no matter how much time passes I cannot stop loving them, some characters are fairly new and the moment I saw their story play out on the little or big screen, I knew they’d now be a part of my life in a fandom, pop culture type of way.

There are many things that draw me to a character. The way they are written, and the complexity of them. I dislike characters that have no depth and just feel like someone splashed some writing on a paper to create someone for us, the audience to follow around. I like to go deep into a character, their highs, their lows, their struggles, and the fact that they are not perfect; if a character is perfect, it’s a farce. No human is perfect, and the troubled, layered, deep characters that you can peel back, are the ones worth watching. It’s a mix between good creation, writing on the writers end, and performance from an actor. That is another thing that is incredibly important, performance. If the person playing the character isn’t immersive, or giving it their all, or becoming that character when you tune into the show/movie, then they’re not going to captivate anyone. Sometimes, even the simplest of characters, for instance a nice girl, who wants to win the heart of the other protagonist, can be amazing based on the actors performance, or become boring if the actor is just going through the motions.

My favourite actors, a list I have not made yet, have become just that because of their talent and what they bring to the table. Are all my favourite characters also my favourite actors? No, but I will always respect the craft that they brought to that character to make me love them; especially actors who improvise and are allowed to use their own creative freedom to become their character (looking at Aubrey Plaza for that one, as that is typical with most of her roles). A character’s love story is part of their characters, and you can’t fully believe that arc if the actors can’t hold chemistry, and it’s the same with a main character’s villain. Every protagonist has to have chemistry with those around them. I have watched several shows where I wonder why they decided to go down the road that they did, when two performers don’t flow well together, and yet the project continues, and in the end it falls a little short.

Fictional Characters are just that, fictional, but that does not mean they cannot make a mark in your life. You take the time to watch a piece of art, whether it’s two hours in movie form, or countless hours over the span of a television series. You dedicate parts of your life, precious time, to watch their story unfold. Whether it be a supporting character, main character, or a guest character that appears only once or twice, they all can make an impact. You can resent with them, look up to them, find yourself in them, relate to the struggles they go through, be pulled to them, amongst other things, and if their powerful enough, that sticks with you. Sometimes it may stay with you temporarily, maybe permanently. Our love for a character is the reason why, if your favourite character dies, you grieve. I have looked into the research behind this, many times in the past, when I grieved fictional characters, thinking I was crazy because they are not real but it is perfectly normal. It’s because we grow attached to these people, while fictional, who we watch day in and day out in our lives, and have grown an attachment to. A lot of times it comes down to phenomenal writing to draw you into the character, an intense performance from the actor to keep you invested, and a dramatic tragic scene to rattle your emotions; and sometimes it can haunt you for a few weeks – some people have even reported never being able to get over a fictional characters death and avoiding re-watching that show or movie to avoid it.

Grieving a loss of a favourite character can come from character death, but also from the loss of a show. Movies can be rewatched several times and you know, unless there is a sequel that the story is over. One of the worst feelings is dedicating your time and energy to a show, loving a character, and seeing that show get cancelled with no rhyme or reason, and you never get closure for your story or the characters story.

Anyway, I could rant on about all of this for a long time, but really I just want to share with you characters that have wormed their way into my heart, and how some have had more effects on me than others, how some altered my very emotions, and others made me feel better on a bitter day.

If you made it this far, thanks and I hope you enjoy my list and my opinions; because as you know I love sharing what I like, and of course my opinions with the world -which in this day and age is a dangerous game.

Favourite TV Show Characters

1. Buffy Summers

TV Show: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Actor: Sarah Michelle Gellar

There is no way that I could make this list without Buffy. That would be damn near impossible. She has been my favourite character for a long time; over 15 years which makes me feel old. Buffy as a character broke the mold. A feminine heroine that could save the world, fight her own battles, and show other women that they too can be strong and powerful. Watching Buffy’s story is entertaining, not just because of the action, and dramatics but because her story is so captivating. She’s a girl, pushed into something so life threatening at just the ripe age of 16, and faces unspeakable things, friends getting killed, watching monsters kill people, being exposed to everything that goes bump in the night, and even facing her own death all before she is even an adult. Not to mention regular teenage duties on top of that; I can’t even figure out how I manage to remember to work, eat, sleep, drink, write, and feed my cats in the same day. Watching her strength, her struggles, her courage, her bravery, her depression, her romances, her heartbreak, her grief, her struggles, fighting evil, remaining good hearted when life has torn her down, it’s all a magical experience and she’s a character that has made an permanent impact on my life. Of course, the performance Sarah Michelle Gellar gave us was perfected, and the blood, tears and sweat she poured into the role makes Buffy who she truly is.

2. Rio Vidal/Death

TV Show: Agatha All Along

Actor: Aubrey Plaza

A new character that recently entered my life with the phenomenon that is Agatha All Along, quickly soared my ranks to place her above other characters I have loved for years and secured her in the second spot – she almost beat out Buffy, but I felt my loyalty to the show changed that. When the show was first announced, I was interested as I watched it’s predecessor and while WandaVision was entertaining, I didn’t start feeling the excitement grow until Aubrey Plaza was announced, and I was instantly hooked. Anything that woman does turns to gold, and I knew her addition meant we’d be gifted with a messed up character that was crazy, yet lovable, and that’s exactly what happened. Rio steals the show the moment she walks into detective Agnes’ office (In reality Agatha’s home) and takes her sunglasses off. Rio is known as a secondary main character, alongside Billy, while Agatha is our main; yet she completely steals every scene she is in. Rio is a ball of chaos, from attacking Agatha, to making an entrance through the dirt, to skipping through the witches road, to cackling on her broom, to reading magazines on a couch while the curse is attacking, to stating the curse is mad while playing the drums, to wanting to cause damage with her scythe knife, to preparing to fight Agatha’s mom’s ghost, to eventually attacking Agatha and Billy. The fact that Rio was Death was completely fitting, and the reveal was done beautifully. Rio is neither good nor bad, as she is the natural order of things, and takes the people she needs to, and unfortunately taking the love of her life’s son, has weighed heavily on Rio since the day it happened. Rio shows that despite having to have a tough armour, and does her job, she too has feelings and Agatha has destroyed her heart just as much as she destroyed Agatha’s. Rio spends the whole series not giving up on the woman she still loves, and it rips at my heart when Agatha steals Death’s powers during their kiss, which kills her and watching Rio stand over her fallen ex-lover hit me in the gut. At that point I was so attached to Rio, that I could feel her pain. Death experienced her own guttural loss; and Agatha was the first one she buried, and mourned herself. Rio was never one to openly show emotions to anyone but Agatha and seeing her hide behind her death persona, while letting Billy go, and having to disguise her voice because she is broken, was just super powerful. Rio was a beautifully written character, and Aubrey nailed the performance.

3. Agatha Harkness

TV Show: Agatha All Along & WandaVision

Actor: Kathryn Hahn

Agatha, a villain in WandaVision is hard not to love. Her eccentric personality, dry sarcasm, psychopathic tendencies, layered personality, wit, humour and her radiating purple magic, made Agatha a character that was quite lovable. Agatha was a character I was drawn to in WandaVision, but we didn’t get to know her as her main role was Wanda Maximoff’s advisory. When I found out we were getting a spin-off of this hilarious woman, I was ready. I wanted to know about this quirky, fun, villainous witch. Much to my surprise Agatha All Along surprised me, a solid television show, her story both funny and tragic, and its writing surpassed its predecessor. Agatha was much more developed, and she became a solid character, that I just want to constantly see on my television screen. I can always expect Agatha to get herself in a crazy situation, an adventure worth following. Then of course there is the humour. The way a simple line can make me laugh; even just a facial expression. A lot of that humour is from the actresses’ delivery, but without Kathryn there would be no Agatha. Agatha is a ball of chaos and fun wrapped into a perfect package. I love that Agatha isn’t just a funny character, invented for laughs. She has depth, emotions that are valid, pain that runs deep, and a scarred heart from betrayal, and lost love. The pain she experienced at losing her son, the betrayal she felt when her lover Rio took her son, the serial killing she delved into to gain power but to also cope with the loss of her son, and to keep her ex-lover at bay. It all draws me in, and it’s so tragic. Agatha also has a bravery that definitely stands out; she fought against death itself; and had no fear or hesitation to do so. Her strength is definitely something to admire. I can’t wait to see more of Agatha Harkness in the MCU, and to see what ghost Agatha and Billy are going to get up to next.

4. Lena Luthor

TV Show: Supergirl

Actor: Katie McGrath

Lena Luthor, a captivating presence in Supergirl. I feel like the show wouldn’t be as nearly entertaining without her. While she’s a minor character in most comics, she stole the television show. This multi layered character was only meant to appear for three episodes, but Katie’s performance, and the character stole the hearts of audience members and show runners, and they knew they had to keep her around. It was worth it, because Lena’s journey was a roller coaster ride that I quite enjoyed. Lena is from a villainous family, and that is a permanent stain she carries, and she constantly has to prove that she’s better than them, that she’s good, that she’s not a villain. She has to constantly force herself out of their shadow, and that’s a hard task to do, but she starts by becoming allies with Supergirl, and friends with Kara Danvers – a CatCo reporter. Lena does loose her way, as she does not take it well when Kara’s identity is revealed, and she is broken hearted, betrayed, and lied to and unfortunately for a little while we see Lena go down a darker path, but lucky for us she gets through it and comes out on the other side, once again realizing that Supergirl’s brigade is the side she wants to be on. It’s a ride just watching her story unfold, and how she overcomes everything that is thrown at her, the preconceived notions, the betrayal she goes through which is a tough thing for Lena as everyone in her past has hurt her, and in the end, Lena is the hero we need. A hero who is human, does have a darker side at times, does make mistakes, has regrets, and does not have a perfect tract record by any means. Sometimes when shows develop heroes, they try to make them perfect with little flaws but I loved that Lena had multiple flaws, and the show embraced that. Lena was a hero that many girls could relate to, could feel like they could become, because she was real.

5. Abigael “Abby” Jameson-Caine

TV Show: Charmed (Reboot – 2019)

Actor: Poppy Drayton

I am not sure what is with me with chaotic, sometimes villainous witches but obviously I have a type of character I am drawn to. While the show is not my favourite by any means, entertaining yes, but that’s as far as it goes, the character on the other hand is so alluring. She is the reason I continued watching the show, and the characters/actress’ departure in season 4 , is why I didn’t return, along with many other fans making the ratings tank so fast, that it got cancelled after the fourth season. Abigael Jameson-Caine a half witch-half demon is an enigma the moment we meet her. When we first meet her we feel as if there is something more to her than just a witch in trouble, and it turns out she’s the demon overlord, a powerful villain who controls the underworld, yet protects the Charmed Ones by directing the demons not to attack them. While she becomes a constant thorn in The sisters’ side; she never attempts to kill them, and instead slowly starts to develop a connection with Mel, the middle charmed one/sister. Her connection to Mel helps Abby connect to her witchy side, and embrace that part of her. Abby is mischievous, dark, sarcastic, a tad sadistic, caring, emotionally closed off, beautiful, dangerous, and whatever is happening, she is usually guilty. In season 2, when we first meet her, she’s our core villain, but as the series progresses she becomes an anti-hero with villainous moments. We begin to see how she became that way, how terrible her demon father was, how her witch mother abused her which scarred her for life and developed her hatred for her witch side. Her story was layered, and well written and every episode I just wanted to tear another layer off of her story, and see what was next. Her slow burn romance with Mel was just icing on the cake, too bad it ended before it could fully begin with Poppy’s departure. Abby will always be a character that I cherish, and when I re-watch the show it will be for her, and her alone.

6. Lexa

TV Show: The 100

Actor: Alycia Debnam-Carey

Warrior. Leader. Troubled. When I think of Lexa, those are the words that come to mind. Lexa is the commander of the grounders. The first commander to unite all 12 grounder clans, and rule among all of them. In the words of Clarke, Lexa was special. She had a way of uniting those that usually would not fall in line, she had an intense loyalty to her people, and would do anything to save them – which she proved when she betrayed Clarke to do so. Lexa had rarely thought about herself, her needs, her wants and focused on those she protected, and the war with the mountain men. She had multiple layers, a commander that had once loved before her lover was murdered. All emotions afterward became a weakness, especially love. She then meets Clarke who opens her heart again, and while she still remains loyal to her people, her people begin to question her as Lexa’s loyalties also begin to rest with Clarke, the women she loves. We see Lexa however still prove she is the ideal leader, and proves as such in a battle to the death with a challenger which she wins, and allows him to live. Lexa was only in 16 episodes spanning between Season 2-3, was mentioned in 19 episodes following that, the loss of Lexa when she dies haunted Clarke the rest of the series. Lexa was a lesbian, which isn’t why she is amazing, but her sexuality was never questioned in the show, never delved into, she was just gay from the beginning, and in this apocalyptic world it was more accepted than it is in our world. The only thing her people didn’t accept, wasn’t that Clarke was a woman but was from the sky – thus not being one of their people. The writing they put into Lexa, even for the short amount of time she was in the series made her memorable, and made fans of the 100 hang onto her even after the series ended.

7. Theodora “Theo” Crain

TV Show: The Haunting of Hill House

Actor: Katie Siegel

Theo, the woman gifted with a supernatural gift that tears her life apart. The Haunting Of Hill House is a beautifully written horror show. It’s definitely my favourite horror show on television after recently watching it, and the writing, the twists and turns, and this wonderful character are the reasons why. The whole Crain family lived in Hill House, a haunted house that messed them up as children. We follow that story in flashbacks and then their current lives after leaving the house and what they have turned into. Theo, when she was a girl had a power that she had gotten from her mom, the ability to feel with touch. When she touched you, she could feel emotion, feel everything you felt, feel if something bad was happening to you, feel death even, and it destroyed her. She now wears gloves on the day to day, a trick her mother taught her to protect her emotions. She is a child therapist, and the one time she does not wear gloves is with the kids, to get a better understanding for their traumas. There is one girl at one point where she feels something troubling, and finds out the girl is seeing a smiling figure in her basement, after she goes to check out the basement, she touches the couch where she feels the pain the little girl went through on it; and finds out the man was molesting the girl; and she saved her. That was a small plot of how caring and amazing Theo was in the show. Theo is also very stubborn, hard, strong, and hides her emotions behind an internal brick wall. She doesn’t open herself up, she distances her emotions from her family except from her big sister who she lives with, and swears off love. When she was a child, we see her at Hill House and she was the child that was the skeptic and didn’t believe in what others were seeing until that all changed. In the present time Theo, and the other Crain’s loose their sister as she returned back to the house where she ultimately died. When Theo has a moment alone with her deceased sister Nel (Her oldest sister lives in a funeral home, and her younger sister’s body is there) she lightly touches her and feels this deep, dark despair of nothing. We find out later that it consumed her and all she could feel is this dark, deep depression, which she finally gets pulled out of after making a big mistake and trying to kiss her eldest sister’s partner. Theo is not perfect by any means, she is a complete mess, but that’s why I love her. The scene she shares with Shirley, her oldest sister, is so moving, I almost cried myself and that rarely happens with me. Watching Theo break down, crying, nose running, Knees collapsing on the ground, telling her sister she felt nothing and couldn’t escape it, apologizing profusely and explaining that she wasn’t her, wasn’t in her right mind, and didn’t even know what she was doing, she was just gravitated to someone who was light and had no darkness, broke my heart and the performance from Katie in that scene was stunning. The moment I met Theo, I was hooked. I was pulled into her dysfunctional, messy, imperfect, slightly alcoholic life. In the end, After they defeat Hill House and the ghosts that still haunted them, Theo gets her happy ending. She removes her gloves, embraces that side of her, ends up with the girl she was falling for, and finally is able to move forward. It was a pleasant ending for a horror show.

P.S.: I don’t like to brag normally, but I can’t help in this instance. I met Katie at FanExpo and she is so sweet, and nice and I embarrassed myself by saying she was really pretty and then scurrying away, making her giggle. Her autograph hangs proudly on my wall 🙂

8. Kara Danvers/Supergirl

TV Show: Supergirl

Actor: Melissa Benoist

Supergirl is definitely one of my favourite DC heroes as a whole; but this show really brought the character into the spotlight. While the original Supergirl television show was good in it’s own right (I assume from what I’ve heard – I have not seen it) and Smallville had a lovely version of Supergirl, none of them can compare with this wonderful character that was fleshed out in this CW Superhero-Drama. The writing behind this show wasn’t always perfect, but it did spit out some phenomenal characters (See Lena above). A lot of versions of these Superheroes have them flawless, perfect, with little depth. This was different. I love that Kara was a mess. Kara Danvers stumbled over her words, was clumsy, did not know how to flirt, was incredibly goofy, and an all around nerd. Supergirl was strong, confident, powerful and rarely doubted herself. It was definitely interesting to watch as both those sides of her came together to form one person, especially at the beginning when she created her Supergirl persona, and worked on how it would fit into her life and how she would become this hero that all eyes would be on. I found her journey fun, and I love that sometimes I wanted to smack her for her decisions, because that reminded me that yes even Superheroes make mistakes; and Kara made many of them. What was important was that the character learned from the mistakes, instead of making the same ones over and over again, becoming annoying which is another thing some writers tend to do. I feel any future iterations of this character are going to be hard for me to accept because this version was done in the best possible way. Melissa will always be my Supergirl.

9. Emma Swan

TV Show: Once Upon A Time

Actor: Jennifer Morrison

Once Upon a Time was definitely a fantasy show that was unique and one of its kind; a story of unlikely heroes, and fairytales that were real. Emma Swan was one of the many reasons the show excelled. Emma was powerful, strong, in pain from her past, and much like watchers at home, unbelieving in magic, or fairytales. Emma represented us regular women, in a story that held onto a lot of unrealistic elements. Emma was that grounding force to pull it back to reality, to prevent the show from becoming too ridiculous. Emma Swan, daughter of Snow White, was raised in foster care, walls around her heart, and a short temper, and a harsh attitude. She wasn’t just an innocent hero, without a bad streak, to be honest growing up Emma was a heathen. Always stood out, marched to her own beat, and fell into it with a guy that framed her, landing her in prison. Emma had so much pain, and yet she kept trudging along, surviving. Watching Emma overcome that throughout the series, was gripping. I also appreciate that the hero was a woman; showing that we can be strong too. We have too many shows where a male dominates the heroic character. Emma always delved headfirst into a situation, not always thinking of the consequences, her strength full force, and her emotions compartmentalized. She was also one of the only characters that held onto little fear when it came to Regina/The Evil Queen. Knowing she could take her, and wouldn’t back down from a fight, she had no problem going toe to toe with the shows main antagonist (eventual also hero later on in the series). Emma was also persistent. She never stopped fighting to get back into Henry’s life, never stopped fighting to weasel her way into Regina’s good books, never stopped fighting the villains they had to face, and rarely gave up. Emma had some grey aspects to her morals, but that’s what makes a true hero; heroes aren’t cookie cutter perfect, especially if they are human – and Once Upon A Time showed us that with Emma.

10. Morgana Pendragon

TV Show: Merlin

Actor: Katie McGrath

Morgana was a perfect example of “evil isn’t born, it’s made.” That’s what makes the watcher attached to Morgana, and feel for her. In the first season, Morgana was sweet, caring, and a gentle woman, and seemed like one of the good guys. As the show progresses, Morgana is slowly changed into the main antagonist. Merlin tried to poison her, breaking all of her trust. Uther was her biological father, but denied her her whole life so she grew up as his ward, treated well but not as a daughter. It continued to snowball for Morgana, and soon she was the villain that we could not help but love. She’s brutal, evil, uncaring, and devilish in the best ways. The way the magic would sparkle in her eyes, the evil in a look, the way her jaw clenched when she was angry, the evil smirk – all brought to life perfectly thanks to Katie McGrath who nailed every ounce of this troubled witch. Morgana is a villain Merlin fans love to love, which makes her hold a deep impact on the fan base. Most shows, villains usually go two ways – They become redeemed, so that people will like them or people can’t stand them, and eagerly wait for the hero to kill them off. Sometimes you will get that rare villain that people like, even when they’re bad to bone, much like Morgana. Maybe not the easiest character to necessarily relate to, but it does show that even the best of people can be pushed to their limits and change into a shell of themselves, a more dangerous version.

11. Cat Adams

TV Show: Criminal Minds

Actor: Aubrey Plaza

For a fictional character that only appeared in four episodes of the show, she sure made an impact. Cat Adams was one of the BAU’s most challenging killers. The team refer/mention her 21 times between season 11 – season 15. With over 200 victims, she was one of their most dangerous foes. Cat was a misandristic (hate toward men and boys), psychopathic, narcissistic, prolific serial killer, who also happens to be available for hire as a contract killer. In the show she is also referred to as Miss .45, and The Black Widow Killer. Due to her psychopathic tendencies, she was the only hitman from the network she was apart of that needed to kill up close and personal, instead of at a distance like most hitmen. She killed men, and rarely killed women – she even turned on three clients when they wanted to hire her to kill their wives, because the targets were women. The BAU and Cat cross paths, and they send Reid in to lure her in; only Cat developed an intense obsession toward him, and later on in the series when she returns, she spirals Reids life out of control, even setting him up to land him in prison. Cat Adams, while the show did not delve too much into it, other than a brief mention of a romantic relationship she had shared with Lindsay, (one of her hit women she lured into her web) was the first bisexual character on criminal minds; making history for the cop drama. Cat while 100 percent evil, with no chance of redemption, was such an alluring character, that I’d wonder how someone could not love this character. She may have been evil, heartless, and psychotic, but she wormed her way into my heart.

12. Sara Lance/White Canary/Black Canary

TV Show: Arrowverse (Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Supergirl)

Actor: Caity Lotz

Hero. Assassin. Villain. Legend. Canary. The perfect words to describe Sara Lance. Sara gripped me the moment we met her in Arrow, when we first heard of Sara she was a misguided teenager, that carelessly had an affair with her sister’s boyfriend. She turned into a badass, who survived the boat they were on, saved by Nyssa al Ghul, turned into an assassin after falling in love with her, became quite lost when returning to star city as the black canary, and soon becoming a hero who aligned herself with Arrow’s group of heroic vigilantes. Her death, was one of the moments in television history where it shocks you because it comes out of nowhere, but pisses you off and makes you want to yell at the writers. lucky for us (after fans caused a riot because she had become such a popular character) she was written back into the show, brought back to life by the Lazarus pit. After that poor Sara battles with the concept of right and wrong, and blood lust, which makes her yearn for the kill. With time Sara overcomes it, and becomes a hero leading The Legends, a group of misfits that were chosen to save the world by stopping/preventing abnormalities in time. With the Legends, is where she becomes the White Canary; a hero worthy of the title. Her constant journey, her climb in and out of metaphorical hell, her strength, it’s all magnificent to watch. Her journey is powerful, that is for sure. Her one-liners, sarcastic wit, humour and kick ass fight scenes are also worth watching, and definitely helped lure me into loving her.

13. Oliver Queen/Arrow/The Hood/The Green Arrow

TV Show: Arrowverse (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman)

Actor: Stephen Amell

Oliver Queen is everything I love in a comic book hero. I love that he has no special powers, is grey morally, imperfect, and has made so many mistakes that he could probably write a novel about them. In a nutshell Oliver started out as a careless playboy, but the Oliver we see, and what he evolves into is far from the backstory we know. He grows into a good man, that falls in love -faithfully, and wants to make his city a better place. While he grows and evolves, he still remains troubled, makes plenty of mistakes, and sometimes that grey moral compass shines through. Watching his journey is what made Arrow one of the best superhero shows on television. He wasn’t just a perfect man – with extreme powers – that continuously saved the day with little effort. Instead, he started his brigade by killing those that had done wrong, and soon that evolved into simply turning them over to the police when he realized what he was doing was wrong. He grew from a loner, into a leader of a superhero team, that did everything they could to stop the bad guys. In the end, Oliver Queen died a heroes death, so that the other heroes he viewed as better than him (Supergirl, The Flash) could live. His self sacrifice, proved what a good heart he had, and that while Oliver had a tendency to be selfish when he was young, he grew into a selfless man. A true hero.

P.S. I mentioned it for the last actor that played a favourite character, so I just had to get this out there, mostly because I can’t believe it happened. Meeting Stephen Amell at Fan Expo was a phenomenal experience. He was so sweet, so Canadian in every way, and seeing that smile was even better in person.

14. Spencer Reid

TV Show: Criminal Minds

Actor: Matthew Gray Gubler

Spencer was my favourite character on Criminal Minds since the beginning (until I met Cat Adams) and it’s because he is so innocent, so loveable, and so brilliant. I love the way his innocent heart is introduced into the show, as the youngest member of the BAU and as the show transpires, his innocent heart starts transforming into a wise, guarded heart, that knows that the world is a nasty place. He is a good person, an awkward person who doesn’t always pick-up on social cues, and spouts a ton of facts throughout the show, that it is entertaining. The actor perfects Spencer’s more emotional moments, like when he’s kidnapped by a serial killer, when his girlfriend gets killed by an obsessed serial killer, when an obsessed serial killer throws him in jail, amongst other moments. Criminal Minds, honestly isn’t Criminal Minds without Spencer, and that’s why it’s been so hard for me to get into the newer seasons, with him not there.

15. Daenerys Targaryen

TV Show: Game of Thrones

Actor: Emilia Clarke

The last one on my list; this character is a force to be reckoned with. Honestly the show started with a naive, innocent character with her, but she soon blossomed into a fierce, powerful, strong woman. Her journey was amazing to watch, and the only down fall was the pathetic season 8, and how they finished her story arc. The way they had her lose her mind in a singular moment, and then killed her off – but while I hold that against the writers, I will never hold it against this beautifully created character. This character though is a force, she’s brilliant, and she should have had that spot in the iron throne.

Honourable Mentions:

I always like to include honourable mentions when I make a list; because sometimes I have love for a character, but I just don’t think they have a spot on my main list, but think that since they had an impact on my life, they deserve a brief mention.

Laurel Lance/Black Canary: Another hero from the Arrowverse, originating on the show Arrow. A hero, that had an incredible story with a death that came too soon. This character is played by Katie Cassidy.

Wednesday: The title character from the television show Wednesday. The character is interesting and pulls me in, making the show a solid watch. This character is played by Jenna Ortega.

Saskia De Merindol: One of the main characters from Secret Bridesmaids’ Business. This troubled soul is entertaining to watch throughout the show. This character is played by Katie McGrath.

Lucy Westenra: One of the main characters from Dracula. A gentle, naive soul. This character got dealt an unfair hand. This character is played by Katie McGrath.

April Ludgate: This dry, sarcastic, witty, non-caring character is from Parks & Recreation. I have not finished the whole show but I knew instantly she had my heart. I am sure the more I watch the show she will be bumped to the list above. This character is played by Aubrey Plaza.

Favourite Movie Characters

I watch movies a lot less than TV Shows; I never quite figured out why; but that doesn’t mean I haven’t watched a good number of films; resulting in finding favourite characters within those films. Usually a film that harbours a character that I’ve grown attached to, is one I have seen many times, or throughly enjoyed that it stuck with me in a permanent sense.

1. Riley Johnson

Movie: Happiest Season

Actor: Aubrey Plaza

Riley isn’t the main character, she is a supporting character at best but still manages to steal the whole film. She’s the type of character that you’re pulled toward, want to learn more about, and wish was more front and centre. The fanbase for this movie, wound up liking her so much they fought for a sequel focusing just on her (it never happened – unfortunately). Most fans of the movie also mentioned she was a much better match for Abby (the main character) than Harper, which is Abby’s love interest. Riley was so caring, gentle, kind, and supportive, as well as protective. She instantly developed a bond with Abby, growing protective of her, and the way Harper treated her. I really wish we had gotten to see more of Riley, and did get that sequel that the fan base begged for.

2. Mardou

Movie: Season of Love

Actor: Laur Allen

This is probably my second favourite movie, as it has shifted higher up my list after I have seen it for the tenth time. I simply adore this movie, and Mardou is the main reason why. Her relationship with Iris is beautiful, and I love the way she treats her. Mardou had been in love with Iris for a long while; but she ignored her feelings because Iris was her brother’s partner. Even when Theo (her brother) leaves Iris at the alter, all she forces herself to be is Iris’ friend; which she knows is what Iris needs. As they get closer, the feelings develop on Iris’ side, but Mardou still does not make a move until she finds out that Theo and Iris are completely over. It shows that Mardou not only does not want to be a rebound, or the other woman, but she does not want to steal someone else’s woman. Mardou is kind, sweet, caring, and a gentle soul. She did have a past with alcohol, and used to be a player, and party girl but she has definitely come along way, and left that in the past.

3. Ghostface

Movie: Scream Franchise

Actors: Multiple Actors, Roger L. Jackson (Voice)

So here is the thing. Ghostface is the name given to the killer in each movie, based off of the mask; now the reason I selected the portrayal of Ghostface as a whole, instead of the person behind the mask is because Ghostface is the icon of the horror franchise, and to me it doesn’t matter who is behind the mask. The character is iconic, you can’t pass the mask in a store without knowing who it is, and who it belongs to. Ghostface is fun to watch, and each character that is behind the mask is unique in their own way, if I had to pick my favourite character that was behind the mask, it woulds be Billy Loomis, but I decided to just focus on Ghostface and the idea of this mysterious killer, that we don’t know the identity of until the end of the movie. The reason Ghostface is my favourite horror movie villain, is because Ghostface is a slasher with no supernatural entities, can actually die – instead of those pesky ones we can’t get rid of, and is legitimately human, and is always someone different behind the mask in every film. It’s also entertaining to watch Ghostface and Sydney’s ongoing battle, and the back and forth, and always wondering if Sydney will finally be rid of this serial killer tormenting her.

4. Sidney Prescott

Movie: Scream Franchise

Actor: Neve Campbell

Sidney in my opinion is the ultimate final girl. She is a badass, whose strength is admirable, and unmatched. Regardless of what she has been through, she constantly tries to rebuild her life, does everything in her power to not let Ghostface ruin her life, and will do anything to fight back when attacked. She is resourceful, and uses whatever she can as a weapon against Ghostface, and will do anything to win in a fight against the serial killer. Aside from being a strong, independent woman, she is fierce, stands up against those that put her down (punching Gail being a selling point there), and does have a good heart, despite being a tad jaded. She’s a character you can’t help but root for, because she’s sweet, kind, and a woman you actually like. In the first movie, she is young, innocent, and you wonder how she will defeat this serial killer that is tormenting her and her fiends, but she does not disappoint and earns her title as a final girl. She is also one of the only final girls to actually wear a killers mask, and attack in the serial killer’s costume (something they mirrored in the 6th movie with Sam).

P.S. Neve Campbell is Canadian, which as a Canadian myself; I love. Also, I had the pleasure of meeting her at Fan Expo, and she is so sweet, kind, and genuine. Her trademark half smile, is even more breathtaking in person.

5. Lucy Diamond

Movie: D.E.B.S.

Actor: Jordana Brewster

First of all, everyone likes a bad girl, a rebellious woman with a hard shell, but a soft inside. Lucy is the villain of the movie, as she is a criminal who steals money, is involved in organized crime, etc. She is beautiful, rough, tough, but has a soft heart, and cares for those she loves. Her reputation is worse than she actually is, as people think she is a psychotic killer, who is dangerous, and belongs in jail. However she spends most of her criminal career involved in petty crimes, mostly stealing money. Her villainous streak starts to end, as she falls in love with Amy, a D.E.B (a spy, who takes down criminals like Lucy). All she ends up wanting is to be with the woman she loves, and decides that that is more important to her, than her life of crime. She winds up following her heart, and turning her life around.

6. Venom

Movie: Venom, Venom:Let There Be Carnage, Venom: The Last Dance

Actor: Tom Hardy (Voice)

I love Venom and Eddie Brock as characters, but The portrayal of Venom in these films makes him the reigning champ out of the two of them as a favourite character. Don’t get me wrong, Eddie is great and his bond with Venom is beautiful; and most people have the misconception that Venom and Eddie are the same person, but this trilogy reminds us that they are two different entities; and just bonded together. I will admit that in these films, they would be simply nothing without each other; but Venom is a wonderfully written character in these films. I love Venom’s sense of humour, his love for Eddie, but also his want to protect his kind, while also not wanting the world to end because of his species’ enemies. His loyalty to Eddie is beautiful and their friendship makes half of his character, but his humour adds something to the film, making Venom hard not to love. Also, seeing that Venom isn’t strictly evil, and has many layers is great. Saying goodbye to Venom in Venom: The Last Dance, was excruciatingly hard. I did not expect to go into that movie just to cry at the end. The reason I love the portrayal of Venom in this film is how layered he is. Venom isn’t just a monster and Spiderman’s villain; he has a heart and genuinely loves Eddie, and cares for the people Eddie cares for, and will do anything to save Eddie, and help him.

7. Sarah Fidel

Movie: Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Actor: Aubrey Plaza

I was actually shocked with how much I enjoyed this movie. Action/Crime movies aren’t usually my thing, but I quite enjoyed the storyline, and the movie as a whole. Sarah was the best part; as a hacker that joins the group in recovering a piece of tech that can crumble the world; she’s resourceful, and a much needed asset of the team. She is blunt, sarcastic, and her friendship with Orson (Played by Jason Statham) is entertaining. They start off butting heads, and soon enter a friendship full of teasing, and perfect one-liners. It was nice to see a strong woman in an action movie that didn’t just look good, and offer a small fight scene here and there so that she can kick someone with a slit dress to show a little leg, and a heel for men’s eyes. It’s was nice to see a woman in an action movie be smart, and be the brains behind the computer to figure out a lot of stuff, and assist the team and lead them. I enjoyed Sarah as a character, and wish I had gotten more of her, and found out more about her backstory. I wish the movie had a sequel.

Honorable Mentions

As mentioned above, I always like to include honourable mentions. They may not be my top favourites, but they deserve a mention, because they still wormed their way in my heart, even if it is in a smaller capacity than the ones above.

1. Jules Daly: Jules is an everyday woman, thrust into a royal setting, and falls in love with a prince in the move A Princess for Christmas. Jules is played by Katie McGrath.

2. The Carpenter Sisters: Sam and Tara Carpenter are two amazing final girls in the 5th and 6th instalment in the Scream franchise. They brought new life into the series. They are played by Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega respectfully.

3. Luce & Rachel: The main characters from the film Imagine Me and You; good solo characters but better together. They are played by Lena Headey and Piper Perabo. This is my favourite movie ever, by the way!

4. Haley Hollis: Hailey is a country girl, who moved to the city for a big time job, only to return to her country roots when she has to save her family farm, and falls in love with a ranch hand named Kate. The movie is Christmas at the Ranch. Hailey is played by Laur Allen.

I decided to give myself, what felt like an impossible task going in, of counting down my top 20 Fletcher songs. The reason this was hard for me, is because I love her whole discography. She is the first artists where every single song she has created, is a song that I like. I don’t dislike any of her songs, in fact when listening to her on Spotify I rarely skip a song, and if I do skip a song, it’s because I want to listen to another one more, not because of dislike.

One thing that pulls me to Fletcher, besides her voice, and her gay lyrics (being gay myself, and finally being able to relate to music like that), and the catchy tunes is that her emotion shines in every song, she writes her own music, and you can really feel what she went through when she wrote that specific song. It’s beautiful art when it comes down to it.

When I created my list, it wound up being incredibly easy. I thought like I mentioned, I’d struggle because I love all her music, but when I went through and isolated ones that I enjoyed the most; it became quite easy and I actually think it’s because I love every song, that it was easy to sit down and say “yes this one speaks to me just a little bit more” or “yes this one always puts me in a good mood” or even “This one is perfect when my depression is kicking my ass.”

Side note: It’s also easier to relate to a singer who is the same age as you (separated by three years) and sometimes that can be difficult to find, but I’m so lucky my YouTube suggested Fletcher to me at random one day.

Anyway, below I will introduce you to 20 amazing songs, my favourite Fletcher songs, and I hope maybe you will listen to a few of them; and if not that’s totally fine; everyone’s musical taste is different. I will start from 1, the best of the best, and land on twenty; instead of counting down to one, because who has the energy for that?

1. Ego Talking

Explicit Warning: swearing, sexual references

Ego Talking is beautiful in its own right. The play on words, the frustration brought into the song, the pain, and the journey of letting pride rule how you feel after you break up with somebody.

This song, is about going through a break-up and saying ‘Wait, she’s not as good as me; I’m better, and you’ll never find someone as good as me.’ but as the song states “It’s just my ego talking” Ego is a huge factor in moving on, and letting someone go, and sometimes it can get in the way, and impact the healing process. Sometimes you tell yourself you were the best person for a woman/man that you loved; and know deep down that that is not true and it’s just your ego telling you that; and this song just captures that perfectly.

2. For Cari

Explicit Warning: swearing

This song is so deep and personal and sometimes when I listen to it, I feel like I’m reading Fletcher’s diary. It’s a deeply personal song, and you can hear it with each word; each hit of the note, and each mild shake of her voice.

This song is essentially about loving yourself, ignoring the bad, negative emotions but also embracing all the negative emotions at the same time. It’s about toasting the person you are, embracing the pain you feel (for example in the song: missing your parents, feeling lonely, etc.), and letting go of all the hard times that have haunted you. It’s also about saying “Hey, This one is for me” toasting the person you are, good and bad.

The lyrics to this one has always hit close to home; and I feel that she encompassed my feelings, with her own, which she usually does.

In case you’re wondering: Cari is Fletcher’s first name (She decided while starting her career she’d use her last name – and drop her first).

3. Maybe I Am

Explicit Warning: swearing

Maybe I am is an anthem, basically saying “F*ck you” to all the rumours that surround you everyday. Fletcher has always dealt with people putting her down, people commenting on her posts tearing who she is apart, calling her names (those of which she has included this song), and one thing haters love to tell her is she ruins things on purpose, and that she’s toxic. Instead of trying to let it pull her down into the abyss of her mind, and allowing those negative comments to build on her depression, she created a song that essentially said “Fine maybe I am those things” embracing it all, instead of letting everything eat at her. In a nutshell the song is a big screw you to everyone who puts her down, as she tells them their insults can’t bother her, as she just shrugs them off, says maybe I am what you say I am, pushing the irony onto them, and saying doesn’t bother me.

Honestly, I could have used this in high school; it makes me feel so good after a day of work; because of certain people who put me down in my day to day. A lot of times, it’s my go to song to decompress.

4. On Fire Again

This song appeared on the soundtrack to the movie To all The Boys: Always and Forever (which I’ve never seen by the way)

This a beautiful song. It is double layered, in a brilliant way that I feel only Fletcher’s song writing could perfect. It’s a mix of a love song, and I need to chase my dreams song. It’s a song about letting go of the person you love the most, to chase dreams that you can’t let go of, even if it means sadly leaving that lover behind.

It would be a perfect example of a song that has such a happy, dance like beat to it, that you miss the sadness that the lyrics can hold; and then when you realize that sadness behind the words, it hits you in the gut.

5. Butterflies (With MAX)

This is the collab I never knew I wanted. MAX wrote this song about his wife Emily Cannon, and pulled Fletcher into the project, which was a good decision on his part because their voices gel well together; and her verse is a perfect embodiment of how she carriers her emotions and views on love and it all just fits together so wonderfully.

This song is a classic love song, and is simply about loving someone that you are going to spend forever with. It’s about continuously feeling that love for that person, no matter what comes your way, and it makes my heart feel happy every time this soft song comes on.

Love songs aren’t really Fletcher’s thing, most of her songs are about heartbreak, and pain, but this gem slips through the cracks and makes up a very small percentile of love songs by Cari.

6. Pretending

Explicit Warning: Swearing

Pretending is a song about heartbreak, that comes from unrequited love. It is one among three other songs (total of four Lead Me On, Pretending, Joyride, Two Things Can Be True) on her sophomore full length album, that has to do with loving someone that does not return the feelings (as Fletcher herself has said, falling in love with Straight girls who can’t return that love). This song in particular though, shows that there was some hope, but alas heartbreak still wins out, and things will go on as normal because of well…pretending.

It’s a catchy pop song, her third single off In Search Of The Antidote, but I think it may also fall into the, happy sounding beat, sad lyrics type of design; but the journey she takes you on in this number, is worth the listen.

7. F*ck You For Ruining New York City

Explicit Warning: Swearing (I mean…it’s in the title…)

This song is so hauntingly beautiful. It’s deep, personal, and her heartbreak seeps through the lyrics as she sings them with strong painful emotion; and the way you hear her voice crack…

The song is about falling in love, living through heartbreak (the kind that rips her up inside) and that heartbreak follows you around the place you live, and the city you love, which now tainted by that pain, and relationship that haunts her as she walks down the street, go to the store, get a drink, and all I can think is how much that must have gnawed at her heart in that point in her life, and how long it must have taken her to move on, and get over that part shattering pain that you can tell she felt, just in the lyrics, and tone of her voice alone.

Despite the language, I highly recommend this song. It’s just so beautiful, so raw and it’s truly one of my favourite songs about a broken heart, beating out other artists. I don’t mind swearing in songs, but some people do, and if it truly bothers you, then maybe skip this one.

(I attached the censored version below)

8. If You’re Gonna Lie

Explicit Warning: Swearing

This song is sad in its own right. The truth that people hold on to people they love, because they can’t bear to say goodbye, even if they’re breaking your heart.

This song is something she went through, which is unfortunate, but the song is about loving a woman (in her case – but if you relate to it, you can change the gender to fit you of course) who is having an affair. Despite the affair, that Fletcher indicates in the song is aware of, turns her back to love the woman anyway; and would rather be with her, and feel intimacy with her, instead of losing her completely.

The pain however, seeping through, and the want to keep the person hurting you creates an unhealthy toxic situation, because goodbye can be too hard. Fletcher sings about that beautifully in this song; and it’s a song that gripped me the moment I heard it. While I cannot relate to this song, at least the way it plays out (We’ve all had our own versions of unhealthy relationships) but I can feel the sadness, and the terrible situation that she pulls from.

9. War Paint

This song has two meanings. You can kind of delve into what side you want. Both interpretations below.

On one level, it became an LGBT anthem. The way LGBT individuals face hate toward their love, or face what they may feel as a battle to even be in love, is embodied in this beautiful song. Something Fletcher, being in the community has most likely felt herself.

On that level, It’s a song about fighting whatever obstacle is in your way; to love the person you are in love with. As Fletcher sings “Bring the big guns out, shoot now. I’ll make the drums beat harder for you. Red on the ground, bleed out. I’ll rub the colors on my face to prove. I’ll sing it like. Whoa-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh. Watch me put my war paint on, my war paint on.”

The second takeaway from this song, is a war between the couple as they fight their issues as a couple, for their own love, and will do anything to save it.

The most common takeaway of this song is the first, but I don’t mind the second either, because regardless it’s a beautiful single; and it’s the song that catapulted Fletcher’s career; it was her first single and it’s a perfect debut single. Might I add, the music video is quite beautiful in an artistic way itself (I’ve attached it, instead of a lyric video, below)

10. Eras Of Us

Explicit Warning: Swearing

This song was her first single off her second full length album, In Search of The Antidote. Fletcher never hid the meaning, a song about a previous relationship, and looking back at the relationship. A simple song, but a meaningful one.

Fletcher stated that Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour inspired the name of the song, as she ran into her ex at the tour, because they attended the same show, and she had the inspiration for the song.

11. She Said

This song is off of the Love, Victor TV Soundtrack.

This song is a simple song, not too deep, not a lot of emotion involved behind the lyrics, like most of her other songs. The song itself, is about meeting a girl, and enjoying the girl’s company; in a fling like capacity.

The reason I like this song, is because of the way her voice shines in the song, but also the stupid beat does not leave my head, and it’s incredibly catchy.

12. Becky’s So Hot

Explicit Warning: Swearing, Sexual references

Becky’s so hot is messy; not the song, but the meaning behind it. Of course, everyone’s heart hurts after a break-up and it hurts even more when the person that broke your heart moves on. Fletcher’s heart was torn apart (ha, that rhymed) and this song was born. A song about the new girl in her exes life, how beautiful she is, how Fletcher hates the beauty but loves it at the same time, and how jealousy can get the best of you, but at the same time so can your ego as you believe you were better than the new hot girl.

It’s a fun song, that wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously, unfortunately when the song came out it broke TikTok….oops…because she used the real name of her ex’s new partner, and it may have started a mild whirlwind.

This song also gives everyone an important lesson, if you’re going to date a songwriter, you may end up painted in a non-pleasant light, and so will those close to you, if you break their heart.

The songs super catchy though!

13. Healing

Explicit Warning: Swearing

This song has helped me, especially on my worst days. It reminds me to just keep breathing, you’re healing, and everything will one day be okay. This song represents her struggles with her own emotions, depression, and repairing herself, and her daily journey to heal. When I first heard this song, I literally felt like the world stopped as I found a song that truly connected with me on an emotional level, and really poked at my depression. Everyday with depression is a new day to heal, and this song is the perfect masterpiece for that, it’s so touching and beautiful and it has been known to turn my downest days into better ones with just a simple listen, a reminder to just breathe, and even if you aren’t healed, you’re healing.

The best lyric in the whole song is “Breaking down, don’t mean I’m broken. Losing hope, don’t mean I’m hopeless.” That lyric, when I first heard it, I could feel down to my soul.

This song is just so beautiful.

14. One Too Many

Most people wish they could look at a person that screwed them over, broke their heart, and tell them that you want terrible things to happen to them because of what they did to you. Well, that’s what this song is about, wishing the worst for someone that hurt you, and blaming your words on one too many drinks. It’s a fun song, and you can’t take it too seriously. It’s catchy, and a fun time.

15. Better Version (With Kelsea Ballerini)

Explicit Warning: Swearing, Sexual References

This song is a sad ballad, about how the next person will get the better version of the person you used to love. That people grow and change, and you’ll lose the person you had, they will grow and evolve into a better person, and that better person will go on to be happy with someone else. The worst part is you healed that person, made them better, and now you will loose them, and they will go on to be better for someone else; leaving all you did to help them behind.

Fletcher brought in country singer Kelsea Ballerini, who wrote her own verse of the song based off of her divorce she had gone through, while Fletcher’s verses were written about her past relationship that broke her into bits and pieces.

This song is hauntingly beautiful; there’s sadness and pain, but there is also growth and the journey of moving on.

Kelsea and Cari’s voices’ connected beautifully on this song, as they complement each other, proving the country vocalist was a perfect addition to this song.

(I attached the censored version below)

16 . Bitter (With Kito)

Explicit Warning: A lot of Swearing, A lot of Sexual References

This whole song is basically a past relationship leaving a bitter taste. Fletcher sings about leaving behind a bitter aftertaste, that her ex will not be able to shake.

It’s a pop hit, definitely good for a club like setting, catchy, simple and despite its raunchy lyrics, I enjoy it, but it definitely won’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

(Shout out to my wife who loves this song, and it’s her favourite Fletcher song.)

17. Lead Me On

Remember how earlier, when I wrote about the song Pretending, I mentioned a selection of certain songs on her album, about loving someone who won’t love you. Well here is one of those four songs. Lead me on is about loving someone, who won’t return the feelings, and you just want some sliver of them, so you’d sacrifice your own pain, just to get a taste of what they can offer, and how if they lead you on, gave you some sense of hope, it’d be better than nothing at all.

Song is an upbeat tune, with a pop/rock vibe, and sad lyrics when you delve deep enough into them.

18. Girls Girls Girls

This song is about Fletcher’s own experience on how she came into her sexuality, how she realized liking women wasn’t a phase, and how she likes women and she’s okay with that; but also how that revelation didn’t actually surprise her.

It’s a good song for LBGT youth that are struggling with their own sexuality, to listen to, and have it as a reference, to show them it is okay. If only songs like this existed when I was younger.

19. Forever/Forever (Stripped Version)

There are two versions of this song, with the same lyrics, one is the pop version – the regular radio single, and the other is a slowed down piano version. Both versions are equally amazing, so I lumped them together. The pop, dance tune, is bouncy, fun and catchy. The stripped down version is slow, puts more meaning behind Fletcher’s message, and her voice shines.

This song is about having a girl in your life that you love, but not being in the right place to commit, because you’re at a place in your life where you want to be young, free, and experience life, and focus on yourself. Despite the meaning, it is not a sad song, but an important song. Most people aren’t willing to admit they aren’t ready for commitment, but Fletcher comes in strong, not being afraid to admit that at this point in her life she wasn’t ready.

(Both Versions are below)

20. Doing Better

Explicit Warning: Swearing, Sexual References,

Doing Better is a song about where Fletcher was at that point in her life. A mix of an apology to her ex for writing Becky’s so hot, but at the same time, stating that she also doesn’t care, a mix about both of those emotions swirling around. It’s about how she isn’t completely okay; she hasn’t healed; but she is doing better. I enjoy it because it’s just fun to listen to and jam out to; and it’s catchy. And because I love the lyric, “Smilin’ on the outside, dyin’ on the inside. You would never know, I’m posing with my good side. I’m doing better, I’ve been lookin’ for my center. But my tummy still hurts, why does better feel worse?” How true is that lyric, I feel that singular lyric most days.

Fletcher has said that Fletcher (The side of her who is more blunt, rough around the edges, rebellious) wrote the versus, while Cari (the part of her that is more quiet, mild, and tame) wrote the chorus.

I always find it fun to gush over Celebs. Most human beings, no matter your age, enjoy celebrities, whether that be their looks, skills, films, tv shows or their music. Psychological speaking, it is said we follow celebrities due to our human instinct of needing to look up to an authority figure; over many years celebrities have become the replacements of those authority figures, as those figures used to be Kings, Queens, and Religious Leaders. Psychology states that we crush on Celebrities, because it is a form of escapism, and our natural attraction to their beauty.

Celebrity crushes happen at any age, most likely from puberty well into adult hood. They’ve been reported to exist in age groups from 12, to even 70. Celebrities are not people we have in our actual personal life, but we see them regularly and sometimes humans can’t help but be drawn to them. Sometimes celebrity crushes come from admiration of their talent, other times strictly their looks, but many times it is a mix of both. Most people are fans of a celebrities work, before they develop a celebrity crush.

Let’s get one thing straight. Celebrity crushes are not the same as real life crushes. Most people (in rare cases Erotomania can occur – that is the psychological condition where someone suffers a delusion where they believe a famous person returns their love) who hold onto a celebrity crush, are aware nothing more than unrequited admiration and attraction will happen. They are a way for our mind, to idolize something from afar, and for some reason humans are usually pulled toward people of high status or status’ higher than their own (as mentioned above).

Most celebrity crushes start after discovering a celebrities music, or acting performance. Their performance and talent draws you in to becoming a fan, and then the term celebrity crush comes into effect. Most people who have an attraction to a celebrity but do not follow that celebrities career will have a fleeting attraction, and it will fade. Most people who start off as fans of the celebrities they are attracted to have been known to keep the same celebrity crushes for years; if not a lifetime.

On the whole, science has studied the phenomenon, and celebrity crushes are harmless. A crush is another word for attraction and admiration. When it comes to celebrity crushes, it isn’t much different, only it’s an admiration of talent, and an attraction to their appearance; however the admiration is at a distance and their talent is enjoyed.

Not all fans crush on the celebrities they follow or idolize, but if they do, it’s not a bad thing. Hunan brains know the difference between a celebrity crush’s and for lack of a better term, real crush. Celebrity crushes do not create love, nor leads to it; whereas real crushes can.

For me personally, my celebrity crushes usually happen after I discover their music or acting, enjoy their work, and also find them attractive on top of all of that. I am fans of celebrities without holding crushes on them, however when it comes to the celebs I crush on, I am a fan of their work.

The reason I wanted to make this post is for fun, as like I said in previous blogs, sharing my opinions is something I like. Also, like I said in the first paragraph celebrity crushes are fun, and who doesn’t like gushing over them. This post is just a light hearted post, but also maybe I can introduce some great talent to you, my wonderful reader.

These are my celebrity crushes, some information on their work, and a few facts for the fun of it. I myself enjoy reading facts, which is why you see some facts pop up, in past posts. It’s alway cool learning new things!

1. Katie McGrath

It’s obvious that Katie is not only my favourite actor, but my celebrity crush; after all I dedicated a previous blog completely to her, and the role’s she had played. Katie McGrath is an Irish native (how amazingly attractive is her accent…) from Ashford Ireland. Her acting career began by chance. Acting, as she has stated was never her original chosen career. She went to college in Dublin, where she studied and graduated with a degree in History. She wound up working in fashion journalism and eventually shifted to becoming a wardrobe assistant on the set of the television Tudors, where she was informed to try acting. She guest starred on the show and soon took smaller roles before being cast in Merlin as Morgana Pendragon, the series’ villain. Morgana became Katie’s break-out role, and catapulted her to fame. She attended many comic-cons and grew a large fan base. The series came to an end after season 5, where she then moved on to other television shows. She stared in a TV mini series titled Labyrinth, where she also played the villain, followed by TV Film A Princess For Christmas. Afterward she made an appearance on the episodic show Dates, and then secured a starring role on Dracula as Lucy, Mina’s best friend, who happened to not only be in love with Mina but a lesbian who had to hide her identity due to the time period. After Dracula, she starred in Slasher, a Canadian horror show, before nabbing the role of Lena Luthor on Supergirl – filmed in Canada – which made her a worldwide name. She guest starred on Canadian show Frontier during her first year on Supergirl, and the Australian show Secret Bridesmaids’ Business, which she filmed while on hiatus from Supergirl. After Supergirl concluded she played the villain on The Continental: From The World Of John Wick. Fans, including myself, are now awaiting her next project, which has now been announced as a starring role in season two of British thriller, The Ex-Wife.

Katie is known for her trademark look – pale skin and raven black hair, as well as her rare eyes which are two different colours, one blue and one green. A condition known as Heterochromia. When it comes to her craft she is known for playing powerful women, who are strong, independent, and defy female stereotypes. Her characters usually have a villainous streak, even if it’s only temporary. Katie is someone who plays emotions exceptionally through facial expressions, and body language.

Katie is very private. She loves her fans, and enjoys meeting them at conventions however she does not have social media, or interact with them over the internet (mainly because she states she does not know how to work the internet or most technology). She is very private and does not speak about her personal life to the press, and did not even want her birthday released, just her year, for age purposes.

I first discovered Katie when watching Slasher; afterward I realized she was the woman from Supergirl, which I had not seen the season she was in yet, but heard of Lena and her place in the show. I then realized afterward she was also in Merlin, which I heard of, but had not watched. Afterward I watched her other projects, and she quickly became my favourite actor as well as a celebrity crush.

2. Fletcher

Cari Fletcher (who has used her last name as her stage name), a New Jersey native, wanted to be a singer since childhood; she started vocal lessons at only 5 years of age, and attended NYU: Tisch School of the Arts, where she graduated (She shares that with another woman on this list!). Fletcher began her journey on The X-Factor in the United States, she was placed into a girl group on the show named Lakoda Rayne, and mentored by Paula Abdul. The group was eliminated from the show, released one country single and then disbanded. Fletcher went on to become a solo artist and released her debut EP titled Finding Fletcher, independently. Her first hit being War Paint. The song went viral on Spotify and she was placed on Spotify’s spotlight list. She was signed to Capital Records and soon released her other albums: You Ruined New York City For Me, The S(ex) Tapes, Girl of My Dreams and quite recently In Search Of The Antidote.

Fletcher has been open about her sexuality for a long while, and explains her experience in Girls,Girls,Girls one of her most popular singles. While it wasn’t her first song about a female love interest/loving women, it explained her experiences with a woman, realizing she loved girls, and that it was not a phase. Fletcher’s most popular song to date is Becky’s so Hot, which was her lead single off of her full length album Girl of My Dreams.

Most of her songs are written about past experiences with heartbreak, self-love/healing, break-ups and pain. Much like Taylor Swift, who she idolizes, she writes all of her own songs, and is often compared to her when it comes to writing about past relationships and the heartbreak that followed them.

Fletcher, being part of the LGBT community, uses her music to show people that women loving women is not a negative thing, and should be considered just as normal as a woman loving a man. She does not shy away from who she is, and she publicly supports GLAAD, The Trevor Project, and It Gets Better – all LGBT organizations.

I discovered Fletcher, because I’m a fan of Kelsea Ballerini, and because of her collaboration with Fletcher on the song Better Version, that song popped up in my recommended on Youtube. I listened to it, and immediately loved her music and of course thought she was stunning. I then listened to all of her other music, and have liked every album from start to finish. She is the first musical artist I have liked, that I have loved every single song she has released; not even Taylor Swift or Kelly Clarkson had that honour.

3. Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega is a recent addition to this list, which is probably a good thing as while she is in her 20’s she is the youngest on my list.

Jenna, a California native began her career at a young age, and got her start on the Disney Channel in the sitcom Stuck In The Middle. She then ventured away from Disney and found success voicing Brooklyn in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. She then starred in the movie The Fallout, which depicted a school shooting. X, a horror movie followed that film, and it was the first movie that began her horror status. Scream 5, American Carnage, and Scream 6 followed behind, cementing her as a modern day Scream Queen in the horror genre. Her lead role in the TV show Wednesday, helped push her to superstar heights, and cemented her Scream Queen title, and she will continue playing the title character in the season 2. This year audiences will also be able to catch her in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Jenna has stated she’s always been interested in horror/dark projects, and as audiences have learned it definitely is her speciality. When asked what it was like playing Wednesday, she stated it wasn’t that difficult as she and Wednesday are very similar. Jenna, who has always acted older than her age, also stated that she’s been watching horror movies since she was young. She would get made fun of when jump scares would not scare her, and she frequently wondered while passing people on the street how many murderers she has walked by.

She is close friends to other horror icons, and even those she has not had the opportunity to befriend have given her their respect. Sarah Michelle Gellar the Scream Queen before Jenna earned the title, has praised her performances and showed her respect.

I was a fan of Jenna because of the Scream Franchise, and her performance in Scream 6 completely blew me away, and while I adore seeing her in other projects that are not horror, it is obviously her niche and very fitting for her, and her personality and skill set. I can’t wait to follow her future career, because I know it’s going to continue to soar.

4. Machine Gun Kelly

I may be a woman, who likes woman, (I personally hate labels but for everyone who is obsessed with labels, I suppose the word lesbian or gay could be used?) but I am not oblivious to his beauty; the man is absolutly stunning. Before his beauty was even something my eyes recognized, his music was what drew me in.

Colson Baker, who goes by the stage name Machine Gun Kelly, has been involved in rap, punk-rock, and rap/pop musical genres, and has even dabbled in acting. This Texan native, who was raised in Cleveland, Ohio, started his career in 2009 when his performances won at the Apollo Theatre, and he recorded his own music at his home studio which he called the Rage Cage. Afterward he began releasing more music, but despite his climbing success he still worked at Chipotle to afford rent, and soon after became a father shortly after high school concluded.

His musical career continued, and his album Lace Up gained success, launching him into success. His album Bloom, catapulted his career, where he worked with big names like Camilla Cabello and Hailee Steinfeld. Hotel Diablo followed suit. He veered into a different musical genre when he released the album Tickets to My Downfall where he entered into a Punk-Rock era, he continued the genre on his next album Mainstream Sellout. He has since stated he will be returning to rap, will also continue with punk, and dabble in country (which he proved when he released Lonely Road with country artist Jelly Roll).

When it comes to acting he has appeared in multiple films. He made his acting debut in the film Beyond the Lights. That was followed by The Land which he starred in and served as an executive producer. He was in the film Nerve, and had a recurring role in the tv series Roadies. He followed those projects up with Bird Box, The Dirt, and Project Power. He then starred in the movie Midnight in the Switchgrass where he met Megan Fox, who he has been in a relationship with since 2020 (while their engagement was called off in 2024 – they have still remained in a romantic relationship).

Machine Gun Kelly recovered from multiple addictions. He had sought treatment for heroin, alcohol, cocaine and adderall. he has been clean since 2020, however he does still smoke weed as it aids in his depression. He has shown great strength in his fight, and in his want to be clean.

He has a great reputation as being sweet and kind to his fans, as he views them as family, and he goes out of his way to make his tours special, as a time to spend with his fans.

Machine Gun Kelly has been involved in several charities, and supports many communities. He has aided veterans by donating surplus meals. The diamonds he wore at the billboard awards were sold and proceeds were given to his Alma mater high school in Ohio. He also supports LGBT rights, and vocally announced his upset over “idiotic homophobes” who thought it was okay to spray paint a homophobic slur on his tour bus.

It’s hard not to have a celebrity crush on Machine Gun Kelly.

5. Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michele Gellar has been a staple of my life since I was a teenager, for almost 15 years. She started off playing a character I greatly admired, a humanized hero, strong, struggling woman that we could all relate to. Buffy represented something most girls wanted to be. Teenagers related to her depression, bullying, heartbreak, and while she had physical strength, she showed that we all could be strong in different ways.

Crushing on the fictional character was easy, Buffy is amazing and beautiful, but it felt nearly impossible to not have a crush on the actress behind her as well.

Sarah, a New York native, broke into the acting scene when she was a young child. Her first claim to fame was a Burger King commercial that stirred up a lot of controversy, that she found herself caught in. The character she played in the commercial said the competition McDonald’s by name, causing a lawsuit and a ban from the McDonald’s restaurant’s for many years for the young starlet. Once that was settled she went on to claim her fame, and won an Emmy award for her role in All My Children. Sarah went on to an amazing career, known as a Scream Queen due to her roles in Buffy, along with other horror movies like: Scream 2, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Grudge, The Grudge 2, The Return, Possession, Wolf Pack and soon The Dexter prequel series. Her other film that shot her to box office critical acclaim came in the drama Cruel Intentions which at the time was considered an edgier role for Sarah, as her character was a villainous master manipulator, drug addict, and overtly sexual. Children grew to know Sarah as Daphne from the live action Scooby Doo movies, and became the face they placed to the character.

Sarah is also known for her Activism and philanthropy. Being heavily involved in charities for Breast Cancer, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity, and CARE. Sarah helped habitat for humanity build homes, delivered meals for AIDS patients through Angel Food, and worked with Make A Wish to meet sick children who wished to meet the actress behind Buffy. Sarah also supports the LGBT community, and embraces Buffy being a gay icon for the LGBT community, despite the character herself being straight.

Sarah’s beauty makes it hard not to notice her, but her heart, her love for her fans, and her amazing talent prove there is more than beauty to the actress. I mean the woman does most of her own stunts, and learned multiple martial arts which were applied to her multiple roles, which we got to see in Buffy. I always look forward to her next project!

6. Hailee Steinfeld

Hailee’s been a star since her Oscar nominated role in True Grit, back when both she and I, were just children. I had no idea who she was back then, I learned of her years later when she lit up movie screens in what is known as her claim to fame, in the Pitch Perfect series. Thanks to that movie series, teenagers/young adults were introduced to not only a solid actress but a beautiful singer. Just as her singing career began to take off, she scored the lead role in Dickinson as Emily Dickinson.

Dickinson is further proof that this woman can act. Her scenes were emotional, real, and was the reason I kept watching the show. Even when a scene was not about her, and she was just there, the scene was hers and she stole it. After Dickinson she went on to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) as Kate Bishop/Hawkeye in the TV Series, Hawkeye which catapulted her into a different level of fame, suddenly her name was everywhere, she was the talk of the MCU and a new female superhero phenomena was born. Her strength, wit, and flawless performance added to an already strong universe. Fans of the universe are hanging onto possible news of a second season; or future film with Hailee as Hawkeye.

Hailee has been involved in good deeds since her time on the True Grit set. While filming the movie she created a swear jar, and collected money from cast and crew every time profanity was spoken, and donated it all to an Alzheimer’s foundation. She also donated to the homeless in New York City, as well as working with the make-a-wish foundation, and No Kid Hungry, helping prevent childhood hunger. Hailee also openly supports the LGBT community, and embraced her role as an icon in the community thanks to her performance of Emily in Dickinson.

Hailee is definitely the complete Hollywood package, and I continue to follow her career, and look forward what she has to offer in the future.

7. Poppy Drayton

First of all, who doesn’t love a British accent? When I first saw this gem on TV, her beauty, her eyes and her Surrey accent made me swoon. I was introduced to her thanks to the Charmed Reboot, however the rest of the world had known Poppy thanks to a popular fantasy show called The Shannara Chronicles; a TV show that took off running and was quite the hit during it’s two season run. She followed that up with some film roles, including successful hallmark films, and then landed her role as Abigael Jameson-Caine, a kick ass Witch-Demon hybrid, who starts off as the main antagonist in season two, and soon settles into a dysfunctional relationship with the charmed ones and soon becomes an anti-hero. Poppy’s acting, while it shined in other projects, was really showcased in Charmed, as Abigael’s evil side, emotional tornados, her struggle to be good, and her deep love for Mel was felt through the screen thanks to the portrayal that Poppy provided. She nailed the sarcastic wit, the sharp comebacks, the facial expressions and something as simple as a raised eyebrow at the right time.

Unfortunately, Poppy decided to leave Charmed for greater pastors, thus taking one of the best anti-hero’s on television with her. She has since taken a small break from the limelight, taken time for herself, and has been documenting her travels around the world on instagram, where she holds a large following of dedicated fans.

Poppy has a secretive personal life, preferring to keep it out of the limelight (which she is completely entitled to), however she has shared that she graduated from Arts Educational School in England, where she learned and perfected her craft.

Poppy had climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, for children in Africa, who suffered with feet deformities making it hard for them to walk, and raised money for their cause through a just giving fundraiser. She has been a strong voice, for people in the Ukraine during the war, and has supported many medical organizations through the country’s time of need. She’s an LGBT supporter, and has previous played two characters who fell into that community, in Charmed as well as the film Writers Retreat.

She has a great reputation with her fans, and has solidified herself as a sweetheart toward them, as well as those in the business who have worked with her.

While she may be taking a small break from Hollywood to share her travels and what she learns during those experiences, I am excited to see her grace my screen again and hope she comes back soon.

8. Aubrey Plaza

Sarcastic, Blunt, Direct, Dark Humour, and Comedic fits this beauty perfectly. Aubrey captured her fans hearts by being herself, being genuinely honest (regardless of how it comes out), yet incredibly sweet. Most people in Hollywood find themselves fitting into some kind of mold, but Aubrey beats to her own drum, which pulls you toward her. She mastered her craft thanks to NYU: Tisch School of the Arts, and went on to steal peoples hearts in her first major role in the sitcom Parks and Recreation. Thanks to that performance, a comedic legend was born. That had catapulted her into other comedic roles, such as movies like Scott Pilgrim, Dirty Grandpa, Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates, Ingrid Goes West; among many other films. She dipped her toes in horror with Child’s Play (2009), and more serious roles in movies such as Emily the Criminal, Black Bear and Megalopolis.

When it comes to television, as mentioned above, she catapulted to fame due to Parks and Rec, but continued into a magical TV journey with a mix of different genres. She voiced Eska in The Legend of Korra, played the villain everyone can’t forget on Criminal Minds for a nail bitting episode ark over different seasons, starred in the superhero show Legion, was nominated for her first Emmy due to her role in The White Lotus, and will soon be gracing TV screens in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Agatha all along, where she plays the Emerald Witch/Green Witch. Not much is known of her role in that specific show, as it has not premiered (as of this blog post) but in the comics/animated series of the Prime Reality, the Emerald Witch had a romantic history with Agatha, lost her son, and turned into her enemy after she realized that Agatha sacrificed their son’s life, for powers. Aubrey excels in every role, no matter how silly, how stupid, how serious, how dark, and I cannot wait to see her enter the MCU (Fun Fact: she is best friends with Elizabeth Olsen, who starred in Wanda Vision, the precursor to Agatha All Along, and are both now part of the MCU)

Aubrey also has played multiple queer roles, which is important to her as an out bisexual actress. She played the jilted lover in Happiest Season, one half of a twisted romance in Spin Me Round, and guides a queer teenage version of her character, as her characters future self, in My Old Ass. She spoke openly about how ignorant the film industry is for their response to limiting Gay Rom Coms, and has expressed her interest in making a Happiest Season Sequel. She was quite vocal that Riley should have wound up with Abby (played by Kristin Stewart) in the end and that Riley has so much more to offer. She never shy’s away from voicing her opinions, regardless of others and their feelings, and not caring if what she says will fit into the Hollywood mould.

Aubey acts because of the craft, not the fame, and could not care less if people love her; but that makes it impossible not to love her.

Honorable Mentions:

celebrities that I don’t currently “crush” on, but had to mention.

Dianna Agron – a celebrity crush that slowly started fading away; but I will never forget that she brought Quinn Fabray to life, and she of course is still radiant to this day.

Kelly Clarkson – A singer I used to crush on, without realizing it was a crush, before realizing a woman crushing on another woman was okay. Overtime, she’s turned into more of an admiration, than an attraction.

Nick Carter – before I found myself, and my orientation, I was obsessed with Nick. His singing voice, and his blonde hair that parted in the front, and his innocent demeanour. His boyband was my childhood.

Michelle Pfeiffer – I loved Grease 2 for a reason, she was the reason. Once I reevaluated my life after figuring out who I was, and where I belonged in this big giant world, I realized she was probably my first ever crush on a female celebrity.

Caity Lotz – Sarah Lance was the first queer superhero that was represented on network television. It felt great for someone like me, for women of our orientation. Caity is hot yes, but Sara Lance, her character will always mean something to me, in ways other characters won’t. Nobody thought they’d ever see a gay superhero on TV.

Katie Cassidy – Beautiful. That’s it, that’s all. Plus she did play Laurel lance/The Black Canary in Arrow and I always enjoyed watching her character kick ass. (P.S. The Arrowverse has a lot of attractive Katie’s – mini shout out to Katherine McNamara)

Hello, to wet my whistle and get back into writing (let’s just say because of everyday life, work, and trying to fit other things into my free time, I have let writing slip away from my life) so have decided to start a writing prompt series on my blog.

I will be following prompts given to me from either my wife, google, or other sources, and completing them.

Prompt definition (for those who haven’t heard the writing term before): A topic meant to centre and guide your writing content. The main idea is to give a writer a topic to focus on when they write. Many writers use them an exercises to sharpen and practice their writing.

I wanted to do this so I could share my writing with the world, but also for my own personal stimulation to get my brain back on the gas pedal, my imagination driving and put my talent back to good use.

Without further ado; here is my first post.

Please note: All mistakes are my own. I do not have a professional editor. Also this work is copyrighted, and owned solely by myself. Do not redistribute, repost or copy.

PROMPT: Write a scene from a killers POV

The nighttime air was moist, thick with wetness from the falling rain. The moon was hidden behind the clouds, making the sky dark and the forest hard to see. Luckily for me, I know this forest like the back of my hand. Every twist, every turn, every hiding spot, every root placement, every tree stump, if it’s got it, I know about it. In these woods, as large as they may be, loosing my prey was impossible. 

The part of the forest, where the hills were steep, the trees were wild in the wind, and the leaves piled up at your feet, was my favorite place to hunt. Hikers, campers, teens who came out for a quick fuck, there were plenty of people to choose from. Once I get them running and the chase begins, my adrenaline spikes and the game is on. 

See the hunt is the best part, sure the kill is exciting but the chase – that’s what gets my heart pumping. The cries, the whimpers, the fear, I hear it all and it pulls on something inside of me, I’m not sure how to explain it, but it’s why I keep coming back for more. 

The woman I’m chasing now, her rained out campsite far behind us, is scared. I can smell it, I heard it when I cut through her boyfriend’s stomach, spilling his guts on the ground. I never understood love, when I was five I watched my father beat my mother, until she couldn’t breathe anymore. I watched as he did it to every other woman he brought home, who claimed they were going to be my new mother. One day, I had enough. One of the ladies, she was real sweet, and I felt bad for her. She was too young for him, early twenties, and didn’t know what she was getting into. She was so desperate it was disgusting, all she wanted was love, which was obvious when at a ripe age of seventeen, I attempted to comfort her and it was my bed she woke up instead of his. I’m not an affectionate kind of girl, feelings are fleeting, and love is a lie, but I still saved her life, for a split second that is. 

When that bastard stormed into my room, wondering why there was no more booze in the house, because he was too dumb to realize he drank it, he saw her in my bed. He lunged at me, at her, I’m not sure which. He probably wished he never did, after all, he was my first kill, and it felt bloody amazing – pun intended. I had dreamt of doing it for so long, when it happened it was stunning. My knife which I always stored under my pillow, went right into his chest, and I watched as blood seeped from his mouth. I thought of my mom, probably the only person I ever did love, and I pushed it deeper, and higher, until it slit from his sternum to his chin. It was so exhilarating. Of course the girl screamed, of course she saw me do it, crappy luck. Naturally I couldn’t let her go, not after that, so I had to take her out. 

I got away with it, police bought the whole murder-suicide bullshit story, and I was free. Hunting grew easy after that, and meeting people like me, was easy thanks to the internet. The web is a wild invention, full of marvellous minds who have great ways to rid the weak from the world. I’ve shared my insight with many, and in return I’ve learned about them, and the way they accomplish their kills.  

The police, they’ll never find me, some of my kills have been discovered in lakes, but they’ve already misgendered me, labelled me incorrectly like I knew they would. They think I’m some white man in my forties, killing girls because I’m unable to perform sexually, that I’m a narcissist; at least that’s what their percentiles would tell them, and they’d stupidly believe it. I Learned that in my criminology class, which I aced by the way, and I’m already smarter than most in the criminal catching profession, for lack of a better word. My old professor, who has no idea what the hell he’s talking about thinks he knows everything, news flash, his mind is a wasteland. As a former detective, he thinks he’d be able to pick, what they call serial killers, out of a group of people just by judging their behaviour, well he never figured me out. He didn’t know I spend hours tracking, chasing, hunting, and the most fun part of all – killing. If they keep going down the road their on, trying to find me, I’ll become the new Jack the Ripper, never to be caught, haunting them in their sleep, dreams, until they wish they had caught me. Sometimes tormenting law enforcement, is just as fun as tormenting my prey. 

The woman I’m chasing trips over a root, rookie mistake. Right from a horror movie, the human species is predictable and incredibly stupid. Her blunder gives me time to catch up to her, but I don’t want to capture her yet, I want to torture her. I vanish from behind her, cutting down a small path I know will lead me in front of her. The action will cause her to believe I have given up, or that she has gotten away. As soon as she believes that, she’ll let her guard down, they always do. 

Almost right on queue, I hear her release a sob of relief. Her panic eases, I can sense it from the trees. I can see her from my path. As she wipes the tears from her face, and looks around, wondering if I’ve left for good. She can’t see me, so she begins to walk cautiously, slowly, but also her relief continuing to stick to her like glue. If you think the person has left, don’t slow down, keep running, get the hell out of there. 

I avoid a root as I cut quickly from my path to hers, and to her shock, I cut her off. Soon, my hands are around her neck and her eyes are wide as they look at me in shock; that relief she was feeling, is replace with fear. I’m not a strangler, I hate it, it does not consist of enough blood. You squeeze, they die quickly, the only benefit is you know it’s painful as their lungs yearn for air but can’t get any, and pain is good. However, I prefer messy and bloody, but only enough to tickle my fancy, not enough to leave a large mess to clean up. 

Before blondie knows it, her back is against the tree, I may be strong but sometimes using what surrounds you for aided support isn’t a bad thing. Besides, the forest could use a little bit of decoration. Wait until the cops find this, Officer Summers, a fresh detective from the east coast will wish she could pull my hands behind my back, and wrap her cuffs around my wrists. Then again she’s already touched me, a little too intimately. I’m sure if she were to find out, she’d throw up. I may not do love, but I have needs, and she was new in town, at the bar. I was just coming down from a kill, I needed somewhere to put my excess energy. Colour me surprised when I found out who I had spent the night with, but it did not phase me, she doesn’t scare me. 

The girl in front of me, wails, screams, tries to get me to release her. Instead I push her harder into the tree bark, which is sharp and cuts into her arms. The moment I see the blood, I’ve lost it, it creates a need in me, and sometimes I can get impulsive when the red fluid comes into view. She begs me to let her go, tells me she has a family back home, a sister, a brother, parents, like I give a shit. Most people do, that doesn’t mean I care. I squeeze her neck harder until she struggles to breathe and her face turns blue; I watch as the colour drains from her face, but I don’t want her to go out this way. I loosen my grip, she’s disoriented but starts to kick at me, scream at me. Her fight or flight instincts are kicking in, i don’t know what she will accomplish, she’s too weak to do much of anything. Her movements soon cease to exist as I stab my knife deep into her chest, right underneath her ribs, in the centre, close to the diaphragm. There’s no bones to block my knife and it slides in elegantly. I can hear the sound it makes, I can see her eyes widen, and I loved it when she screamed in pain as it stabbed through her flesh. I slip the knife back out, her chest is still moving with shallow breaths. Sometimes I like to torture them, play with them, make them squirm. She wants to ask me why I’m doing this, I can see the question in her eyes. I picked her because she was weak, her boyfriend was tearing her down, walking all over her at the campsite and she let him do it. Pathetic, just like my mother, who should have fought back. The world doesn’t need pathetic people and if you are pathetic you don’t deserve to be in the world. 

I stab her three more times in the chest, each time closer and closer to her heart. I watch as the blood soaks through her white tank top. Who wears a white tank top in the middle of the wilderness while camping anyway? My hand is wet, and warm, covered in her blood. I’m not keen on making myself a mess during a kill, but I love the way it feels. Her body is limp, her breathing has slowed, and her pulse is weak. She’s beginning to die; I smirk as I watch her eyes water, a tear stream down her cheek. I don’t speak, I never talk to them, they aren’t worth my words. Her bottom lip quivers and she’s beginning to give up. I let go of her, her weak body slips down the tree, leaving blood streaks on the brown bark. I bend down, and with a quick movement, I slice her neck. The blood gushes from her pulsing arteries and she’s gone. Her eyes stare up at the sky, lifeless and sometimes I wonder what they see. 

I stand up straight, and decide I’ll leave her here. A little present for Officer Summers. The woman didn’t get her fingernails in me, or touch me enough for my DNA, and it will be a cold day in hell when my knife is ever left at a crime scene. 

I can’t wait to see her face when she sees the body, after all I always enjoy studying her, watching her while we’re out on the field. I am her trainee after all; oh did I forget to mention that? I suppose that’s another reason I know they’ll never catch me, I’m one of them. 

I take in a deep breath, the rain picks up and I can feel the water drip down my face, soaking my hair, washing all of the blood off my hands. My mind travels back to Officer Summers, or Sydney, as she allows me to call her. I decide after I clean up, I’ll pay her a visit, after all, I need some human contact. I’m not soulless. 

Hello, welcome back to my blog. As I mentioned, because it is Pride month I have decided to make a few blogs, highlighting characters, couples, performers themselves etc who are part of, or represent the LGBT community.

I believed, even before I had figured out my own orientation, that representation matters and the best place to find it, is in television shows and movies because they reach people worldwide. Everyone watches something, and it can reach a large audience and some people out there in the world need someone they can see represent them, someone that they can relate to, it could help them accept themselves, come out to those around them and it may even save their life. 

Today, the topic I chose to write about is yet another opinion piece because let’s face it, every human being likes to talk about their own opinions and I am no different. I have decided to write about my favourite couples and ships that fall into the LGBT bracket; now I will say before I begin that all these couples will be two women who have fallen in love, or who should have, because let’s face it you relate to what you yourself are. 

I will be discussing couples who are canon and those who are popular ships. Before I continue, some of you who are reading may not know what that means. I’ve explained it in previous posts, but I’ll explain it again just in case. 

Canon: A canon romantic pairing, is a couple who were together in a TV show or Movie. Sometimes a romantic couple who confessed their feelings, but had not gotten together can also fall under the term Canon, because their feelings were intentionally expressed and written into the show (Also not everyone uses the word Canon, sometimes the terminology Sailed Ship is used as well – which means the relationship has set sail, it began.)

Ship: Well in the dictionary it is a mode of transportation. However, as terminology regarding fictional relationships in television and movies, it was first coined in 1995 by x-files fans who wanted Moulder and Scully to enter a romantic relationship. The word derives from the end of the word Relationship, and picked up popularity as other fanbases for other shows began to use it. Fans of TV shows and movies can ship both canon couples, and non-canon couples; However most people refer to shipping when it comes to non-canon couples, two characters that have romantic chemistry but the show/movie never took it in a romantic direction. When a ship does not become canon by a series end or movies conclusion they are referred to as a “sunk ship” but fans continue to support them, and can now find fanfiction, videos, and artwork online about the ships they love. 

Well, now that all of the terminology is explained, I shall begin writing about the topic at hand. Let’s begin; I am going to start with Canon Couples; and then I will follow with Ships.

Also, if I have made a video for specific couples, I will add it in my article. (Self promoting and all that good stuff, but also showing how beautiful these couples are). If you wish, feel free to scroll past the photos and videos for the couples that have them.

Canon Couples:

1. Clarke & Lexa

Show: The 100

Clarke and Lexa, while short lived due to Lexa’s untimely death, were quite beautiful. They loved deeply, and forever as the show showed us when Clarke never got over her death. Clarke spent the remaining seasons grieving, missing Lexa, and not being able to move on. In the end, when she was judged by a higher power, that judge took the appearance of her greatest love, Lexa. Clarke and Lexa’s connection started quite quickly after meeting, however at first a romance wasn’t expected. Lexa was the reason Clarke had to murder her ex-boyfriend, Lexa betrayed Clarke when they allied for war to save her own people, and despite all of that pain, they found their way back to one another, and their love which they buried within was out in the open. They got a short moment of happiness before a stray bullet took Lexa away from Clarke, ending what could have been, making the storyline that much more tragic. Clarke spent the rest of the series, as I mentioned above, grieving Lexa and protecting the small square gem, known as the flame, that held Lexa inside of it. The actresses’ oozed the perfect amount of chemistry needed for this intense ride of a couple, and Eliza Taylor (Clarke) also did a wonderful job with her portrayal of a broken hearted woman, after losing Lexa. The creator of the show, stated that Lexa was Clarke’s greatest love, the love of her life.

Bonus Trivia: The first scripted line in the series was spoken by Clarke. The final scripted line in the series was spoken by Lexa (In Judge Form).

Extra Bonus Fact For Fun: 3 seems to be their number. Clarke saved Lexa’s life 3 times, Lexa saved Clarke’s life 3 times. They shared their first love scene in the 3rd season. Lexa dies in Season 3, in an episode titled “13”.

P.S. As my number one choice, I have added two of the videos I have made for this couple below.

2. Luce & Rachel

Movie: Imagine Me & You

Luce and Rachel are from my favourite movie of all time. Their relationship starts of forbidden as Rachel is married to a man, unaware of her sexuality, and yet as she and Luce grow close after meeting at Rachel’s wedding, They begin to fall in love. Their relationship as time goes on grows, and eventually Rachel has to make the most difficult decision: uproot her whole life and end her marriage with her best friend and follow her heart, or stay with him and be miserable. In the end her husband leaves, stating Rachel is feeling the unstoppable force, and he has got to move. It was a touching story, and the actress’ who are best friends in real life, put their all in the roles and their chemistry made the couple believable.

Bonus Fact: Piper Perabo (Rachel) is part of the LGBT community, and has represented it twice, one of those times being this film.

3. Lucy Tara & Kate Whistler

Show: NCIS: Hawai’i

Lucy & Kate started off the series as two characters who had slept together in the past, holding a one-night stand, tension filled, history. Kate Whistler shows up again in Lucy’s life when she starts working with the NCIS team, as a DIA agent. Their tension grows, and they attempt to put their past behind them, only for their feelings to rekindle and a romantic relationship to start back up. Their relationship starts off rocky, as Kate assumed her girlfriend knew she broke up with her, but the girlfriend assumed they were still together and showed up, making it seem as if she cheated on her girlfriend with Lucy, and in return cheated on Lucy with a girl she had back home. Kate tries to explain, and the rest of the first season has Kate trying to make it right, Lucy trying to get over Kate and the hurt she caused her, and trying to ignore the fact that she can’t get over her because she loves her. Eventually everything works out, Lucy accepts Kate’s apology, and in the second season their relationship grows beautifully, as Kate joins the FBI, and is assigned to work with Lucy’s team on a permanent basis. In season three, which is the final season of the show, they remain happily together. Kate and Lucy are wonderful representation, as their relationship was bumpy, but wound up being the healthiest relationship in the whole show.

Bonus Fact: Lucy and Tara are the first main couple in the NCIS franchise, that consisted of two women.

Extra Bonus Fact For Fun: There is a significant height difference between Yasmine Al-Bustami (Lucy) and Tori Anderson (Kate). Casting had started during the pandemic, and the show was casted over zoom. Due to this the producers didn’t see the difference until production began. Due to the height difference, Yasmine had to stand on stools for some of their kissing scenes, and the couple had a lot of sit down scenes.

4. Emily Dickinson & Sue Gilbert

Show: Dickinson

Emily & Sue were an interesting ride, in this 30 minute, 30 episode, 3 season series. The show is based off of poet Emily Dickinson. It was a fictional take on the poets life, and the romance between her sister-in-law Emily, which historians believed to have happened-although forbidden-due to Emily’s journals, which they have studied inside and out. In the show Emily starts off already in love with Sue, and the show delves right in as they share their first on screen kiss in the series premiere. The show takes us for a ride, as we watch their love bloom, Emily have to watch as Sue marries her brother to survive, and once that happens, in season two Sue drifts from Emily because she can’t take how intently she feels for the other woman. It all comes to a head in season two’s finale when Emily confronts Sue, and Sue confesses that she too is in love with her. In season three, their secret affair continues, and their love blossoms and despite it being in secret the couple ends on a happy note, as the series comes to a close; which is a change of pace as many historic movies and shows with two woman in love, end with heartbreak or tragic deaths. Hailee Steinfeld (Emily) and Ella Hunt (Sue) have great chemistry, and it helps make the couple believable. Hailee and Ella had one of the most powerful scenes between a couple on screen, when Sue confesses how she feels to Emily, and Emily’s anger takes over, and it’s pure magic. Hailee was robbed of and Emmy for that scene, and the scene definitely helped their relationship hit a tipping point in the right direction. This couple, while forbidden and had to remain hidden because of the time period, was beautiful and the writers did very well at showing a beautiful, yet tragic, love story.

Bonus Fact: In several episodes some of the dialogue is based on real statements found in letters by, or referring to, Emily Dickinson.

Extra Bonus Fact For Fun: Ella Hunt is part of the LGBT community, and her role as Sue helped her discover her own sexuality. Despite fans wanting to know, Hailee Steinfeld has refused to discuss her orientation for privacy reasons, which despite some fans disappointment is her right, as nobody is entitled to know.

5. Lucy Diamond & Amy Bradshaw

Movie: D.E.B.S

Amy and Lucy’s story is an enemies to lovers, rom-com tale. Amy is a spy, an agent that catches bad guys, as part of an organization called the D.E.B.S. Lucy diamond is a criminal, that has evaded capture, and went underground. Lucy resurfaces, gathering the D.E.B.S’ attention, only to square off and go head to head with Amy, who she has instant chemistry with and vice versa. Lucy goes after what she wants, and in that moment it was Amy, so she tracks her down, and after they go out for the night, staying away from each other seems harder, as both women begin to want to be around the other. They create a fake kidnapping, so Amy can be with Lucy, and when she gets discovered, the D.E.B.S force her to lie about her love for Lucy, put the criminal behind her, and become the best agent they have ever had. In a twist of events, Amy refuses mid speech at a large event, and runs off with Lucy. The rom-com is a standard rom-com formula, with a spy spoof added in but it was a fun ride, and their chemistry was on par, and the love story was sweet, and ended happily; and that’s all I can ask.

Bonus Fact: Jordana Brewster (Lucy) wants to do a sequel and has attempted many times. Quite recently, she roped in her co-star Sara Foster (Amy), who is interested in seeing where Lucy and Amy ended up.

6. Abby & Mel

Show: Charmed (2018)

Abby and Mel were the prime example of a couple that was only marked as Canon because Abby expressed how she felt for Mel, as well as the writers/creators expressing that the plan was to have Abby and Mel end up together. In the beginning, before that confirmation, when they first announced the reboot of the original series, the creators mentioned that there would be three main relationships that mirrored the original. A human and witch, a demon and witch and a white lighter and witch. When the show first began, many viewers – including myself- thought the demon was going to be Parker and the witch was Maggie as they shared a brief romance that went up in smoke, but to our surprise, the couple they were talking about was actually Abby and Mel. Abby was the demon overlord, the exact description of a charmed one’s enemy, and Mel was a charmed one, a hero, who took out Abby’s kind. Somehow, Abby and Mel grow close as Abby gets roped into the Charmed ones lives, after she inserts herself in their world when she gets Macy (A charmed one, Mel’s sister) to save her. At first it seems like her interest isn’t Mel at all, but is Harry- their white lighter- as you get to know Abby, you can see that her interest in Harry was to get under Macy’s skin and while she did care about him, she didn’t have real romantic feeling for him. Instead, she starts getting closer and hanging around, because her interest is in Mel. As time goes on, and Abby fights her demonic side with Mel’s help, has her ups and downs with the charmed ones, and almost gets herself and them killed multiple times, and saving Mel’s life without a second thought, and even willing to stay in an alternate future with Mel, so she doesn’t die (even though if Abby stays, she dies from the sickness she has at that point). Eventually after all of that is dealt with and time moves on, Abby is forced into admitting her feelings for Mel during a trial, while under truth serum, to prove she doesn’t deserve to be in a jailed dimension; the trial was tun by Maggie, another charmed one, who although she dislikes Abby knew she didn’t deserve to be locked up. The show ends with a farewell hug, as Abby leaves to go be with her sister. However, that was not the original plan as they had Abby and Mel bid their farewell because Poppy Drayton (Abby) decided to leave the show. To give fans hope, the baby Mel finds out she has in the future, has another female parent, and although Abby joked it was hers before she left, Mel never denies it can’t be, and as an honour of what was going to become of their relationship, writers decided to never reveal the other parent.

Bonus Fact: This was Poppy Drayton’s (Abby) second time playing an LGBT character, her first time being in the thriller movie Writers Retreat.

P.S. The video I made of Abby & Mel which I added below is my favourite video that I ever made!

7. Maggie Lin & Sydney Katz

Show: Saving Hope

Maggie & Sydney took me by surprise in a good way. Maggie was the heart of the show, the loveable goofball, who wanted to save lives, be a good doctor, and spent most of the time being Alex’s (our main character) rock . Maggie, despite her carefree personality, and wearing her heart on her sleeve, had gone through so much before meeting Sydney. Her heart was broken by Joel, who she later mourned when he died. She miscarried her and Gavin’s baby, essentially ending their relationship, and then after she was beginning to heal she met Sydney, her advisor and boss. Maggie was now the resident under her supervision. When they first met, they butt heads and did not get off on the right foot, however Maggie warms up to Sydney and her rough edges, and Sydney begins to fall for Maggie, and a part of herself that she was denying for years comes back to the surface. After sharing their first kiss, Sydney panics. She comes from an orthodox family, who instilled in her that being gay was wrong, and she fights it for a chunk of time, but Maggie helps her see that it is not wrong, and they share an intimate night before Sydney coils into herself once more. As time goes on Sydney decides to embrace herself, and leave the hospital to fully embrace who she has become. She returns in season 4, and Maggie has been injured, she spends the whole episode fighting with Alex to make Maggie better, and worrying what will happen to the woman who got away. Alex then states to Sydney that she must really love Maggie. Despite loving her, she leaves again, having to return back to where she visited from. Maggie spends the rest of season 4 and the first few episodes of season 5 miserable, yearning for love, specifically love from the woman she had wanted for a long while. Sydney does return, and they do wind up back together, and the series ends with Maggie going with Sydney to England; as she can’t let her go again and Sydney can’t leave without her. This story was fresh, and gripping, and it felt real. people struggle with feelings, sexuality, and sometime it takes a while for your emotions and head to come around, and be with the person that is meant for you. The actresses’ did well in their roles, and the chemistry they shared helped make the relationship believable and it played out on screen.

Bonus Fact: Julia Taylor Ross (She goes by Julia Chan in newer projects – one her mother’s name and the other her fathers’) has played an LGBT character a second time on Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene.

Extra Bonus Fact For Fun (because I’m Canadian): Julia has spent a large part of her career on Canadian shows, despite being from/living in England. She was on Canadian shows Rookie Blue, Saving Hope, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Republic of Doyle, Schitt’s Creek, and hosted The Great Canadian Baking Show with Dan Levy. She also starred on Gotham, And Katy Keene which filmed in Canada.

8. Dalia & Lisa

Movie: Polarized

Dalia and Lisa was another classic trope of enemies to lovers. They start off on a rough path after Lisa makes a racist remark against Dalia at work, and Dalia fires Lisa in response. After Lisa comes back, begging for her job and explaining that while it’s no excuse her father has cancer, and her family farm went under so she hasn’t been herself. They quickly begin to bond, and soon their friendship turns romantic. Add in a forbidden romance, due to their opposing religion and cultures, the fact that Dalia is going to be married, and that Dalia is Lisa’s boss. Along the way however, they climb the walls that want to keep them apart and find a happily ever after in each other.

Bonus Fact: A successful Canadian Film, which won awards at Canadian film festivals. The film was created by the same woman who created I Can’t Think Straight, another LGBT film.

P.S. The video I made of this couple, is my highest viewed video. I have posted it below.

9. Casey Gardner & Izzie Taylor

Show: Atypical

Casey and Izzie started off on the wrong foot. Casey comes to a new school due to nabbing a spot on their track team, and immediately clashes with team captain Izzie. After a fight on the track, they are forced to work it out in the coaches office, where they talk and bond, thus leaving their rivalry behind and becoming friends. With time Izzie and Casey become best friends, and she begins to battle with feelings for Izzie, despite having a boyfriend. Izzie however, jumps head first into her feelings, and when she confesses them to Casey is heartbroken when her best friend avoids her, believing she has ruined everything. She then confronts Casey on the track, when she’s practicing, telling her she never would have told her how she felt if it would ruin their friendship. They share their first kiss, her feelings and the romantic moment leading Casey to break up with Evan and confessing to him that she kissed Izzie and has feelings for her. They get together and remain together, until Casey’s dad convinces Izzie that she is the cause of a panic attack that Casey suffered on the track during a tournament, and manipulates her to break-up with Casey. It however gets sorted out quickly, causes a riff between Casey and her father, and Izzie and Casey make-up, and end the series together, chasing their dreams to both go to UCLA when they graduate that year.

Bonus Fact: Brigette Lundy-Paine (Casey) is part of the LGBT community, and the show helped her discover her sexuality/identity.

10. Waverly Earp & Nicole Haught

Show: Wynonna Earp

When it comes to Waverly and Nicole, I just have to say that they are the best version of representation that television has ever seen. Their relationship was healthy, despite some setbacks which happens in all relationships. They began in Season 1, shortly after Nicole Haught a newcomer to the town, and a new police officer, meets Waverly Earp. Waverly and Nicole grow close, sharing their first kiss in episode 9, and making their relationship official the same episode. Their relationship continues to grow, as Nicole begins to help the Earp sisters fight literal demons. The creator/writer/director Emily Andras stated she created Waverly and Nicole so that the LGBT community could have a healthy dose of representation, and she promised fans in season one that she wouldn’t kill either character off, as it happens too often, and by the end of the series she had upheld her promise. Waverly and Nicole, were one of the rare – at the time – gay couples that married on primetime television.

Bonus Fact: Both Kat Barrell & Dominique Provost-Chalkley are part of the LGBT community. Kat had known her sexuality long before the show, however the show helped Dominique discover her sexuality and she has spoken openly about it.

11. Ashlyn & Maddox

Show: High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

I was happy to see how much Disney had grown when they had an LGBT couple in one of their teen comedy/drama shows. Ashlyn’s self discovery was a large part of season 3, and Maddox, her friend that she met at camp had fallen quickly for Ashlyn; however they did not come together until season 4. These teen characters battle with their feelings, wondering if expressing how they feel, would be worth potentially ruining a solid friendship. In the end they took the plunge and wound up ending the series together. One of the things I loved about this couple was the realism of it. Most teenagers go through what they did when they fall for a best friend, and I loved that they delved into it. Ashlyn and Maddox are great representation for teens, and I wish I had a couple like them when I was a teenager, there were some, but nothing quite like these two.

Bonus Fact: Julia Lester is part of the LGBT community, and her girlfriend was a writer on the show, until the show concluded.

Ships

1. Lena Luthor & Kara Danvers/Supergirl

Show: Supergirl

It wouldn’t be a favourite ship list, if these two characters weren’t leading the reigns. Kara & Lena would have been the perfect couple. Katie McGrath (Lena) & Melissa Benoist (Kara/Supergirl) had amazing chemistry. The writers paralleled them to Clarke and Lois. Their friendship break-up was written more like a romantic break-up, especially with the amount of heart break both women endured. Kara tries to rewrite past and present, to have Lena be in her life again, and when it fails she is broken hearted and resigns herself to accepting their temporary friendship split. When the two come back together, their bond grows and season 6 shows us an intense closeness between both girls. An almost kiss presents itself when Supergirl is brought back from the phantom zone, and upon the end of the series DC and The WB (The Parent of The CW network which it aired) both made statements that they were not the reason their romance did not come to fruition, as they gave the okay. DC proved this by releasing a comic issue where Supergirl (who is bisexual in the comics) enters a brief fling with Wonder Woman. And certain strings of The WB stated they believed Lena and Kara would end up together. It was later assumed that the writers chickened out, as it was implied heavily, including both Katie and Melissa believing as such, that they were originally supposed to end up together in the series finale. Lena and Kara was an opportunity missed, and would have been the perfect slow burn, friends to lovers, friends to enemies to friends to lovers, and Luthor and Super romance.

Bonus Fact: Lena Luthor was not originally going to be a main character, the character was only supposed to be in three episodes, after Katie’s successful portrayal the character was so popular, that they kept her on and promoted Katie to a series regular.

2. Regina Mills/The Evil Queen & Emma Swan/The Saviour

Show: Once Upon A Time

Regina and Emma were one of the most popular ships from this fantasy drama. They were often referred to as Swan Queen. Fans supported this paring from the first episode, and to be honest as a fan myself, it was hard not to. Jennifer Morrison (Emma) and Lana Parrilla (Regina) have amazing chemistry and worked off of each other well. The characters stood for the ultimate enemies to lovers trope, and the way their story was written had been compared to a slow burn romance. While I shipped them, and hoped they would happen. I was completely fine with them ending the television show as friends, as I find if they had made them Canon something tragic would have happened and at least this way, they’re both happy and healthy. It helps that Regina ended the series finding herself, without a love interest, and that Hook was not a horrible romantic interest for Emma.

Bonus Fact: Jennifer Morrison was a leading character on both the medical drama House, and the fantasy series Once Upon A Time. She departed both series in their 6th season. She left House in the 7th episode of Season 6, and departed Once Upon A Time after season 6 concluded.

3. Wednesday & Enid

Show: Wednesday

While they had given both Wednesday and Enid other love interests in the show; a ship quickly developed for Enid and Wednesday. I started sensing the chemistry, and after reading about the show online, I found out that a large portion of the fans want Enid and Wednesday to become a romantic pairing. Unlike the other ships on my list, Wednesday and Enid do have a chance, as the show is not complete and Season 2 will be airing sometime next year. Wednesday and Enid are polar opposites, one is gloomy and depressed and the other is upbeat and colourful, and yet they connect. Throughout the series Enid spends most of it trying to get Wednesday to open up to her, and despite a rift between them midway through the season, they grow closer and soon Enid is the one person Wednesday can truly trust with all her heart. The final scene between the two, when after the final battle, Enid looks for Wednesday and when they see each other they embrace. At first Wednesday pulls back as she does not do hugs, and yet it lasts two seconds before she delves into the hug, gripping her bloodied friend close, closing her eyes and revelling in the human contact. The hug between the two women was the most intimate scene in the whole season.

Bonus Fact: Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) supports a romance between Enid and Wednesday and wants to see it happen.

4. Alex Danvers & Lena Luthor

Show: Supergirl

I knew this ship existed, and at first I didn’t understand why people would want Lena with anyone besides Kara, especially Kara’s sister of all people, but as the show progressed, it made sense. Both Alex and Lena have scientific/medical interests, both are strong women, and both are not afraid to be a little grey when it comes to their moral compass. Chyler Leigh (Alex) and Katie McGrath (Lena) shared great chemistry in the scenes they did share; Chyler’s crush on Katie (which she has been vocal about) most likely helped in the chemistry department, and although Chyler asked writers if Lena and Alex could at least share one kiss, it unfortunately never happened. As someone who believed Kara and Lena belong together, I would not have been opposed to Alex and Lena.

Bonus Fact: The ship first started with fans when Lena saved Alex’s life at the L-Corp ceremony, followed by their official meeting at Kara’s apartment.

5. Alex Danvers & Samantha Arias

Show: Supergirl

When we first met Sam, she was introduced as Lena’s friend and co-worker however the show became less focused on that friendship (until the Reign storyline), and started focusing on Alex and Sam’s friendship. Alex and her current girlfriend at the time, (when Sam is first introduced) have hit a rough patch because Alex wants kids and Maggie does not. Many fans, not just myself, thought that Sam was being introduced as the love interest that could give Alex what she wanted, Sam had a daughter named Ruby, Alex formed a close bond to the child, and grew close to Sam, all the while growing away from Maggie, during all of that I as a fan at home was waiting for the day they would end up together, but it never happened. Because it didn’t happened, the show missed out on a perfect pairing, and perfect opportunity. Also, Sam was a phenomenal character and I hated that she was written off, essentially because her storyline was over and they didn’t have a place for her, they would have if they ended up pairing her with Alex.

Bonus Fact: Odette Annable (Samantha) was flattered by the pairing and stated that Sam was single, and she wouldn’t rule out a pairing between Sam and Alex. Unfortunately despite her support, the ship never came to be.

6. Quinn Fabray & Rachel Berry

Show: Glee

I am not going to delve too much into this one, because before there was Lena & Kara, before Emma & Regina, there was Quinn & Rachel. The way the show wrote them, teased the audience, and gave us false hope always stung. Quinn and Rachel’s relationship in the show was not your typical friendship, nor your typical rival relationship. They chased one another down, they focused heavily on the other, sometimes in an odd obsessing nature (I.E. Rachel was obsessed with Quinn’s beauty), and all Rachel wanted through the whole series was for Quinn to notice her, and be her friend. The chemistry that Dianna Aaron (Quinn) and Lea Michele (Rachel) brought to the characters when they interacted made it hard not to ship them, and the writing and situations between the two, and quotes as simple as “You’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever met.” and “Do you not know how much you mean to me?” and “you are singing that song to Finn and only Finn…right?” made it hard not to see something more, among other lines between the two. Alas they never happened, and it sucked. However the writers would have ruined it if it did, much like everything else in the show, so it was probably a good thing that it didn’t happen.

Bonus Fact: Quinn and Rachel won a poll, when glee was on its third season, for best romantic ship on television. The actresses celebrated their win by taking a photo together for social media, holding a stuffed red heart. Thanking fans for voting.

Honorable Mentions

I decided to add a few honourable mentions, below are couples I completely adore; and thought they deserved a shout out.

1. Dani & Gigi

Show: The L Word: Generation Q

Dani & Gigi were the healthiest couple in the whole entire L Word universe, including the original show. The show-runners/writers ruined the show when they had Gigi leave Dani for her ex; as it was out of character at that point in time, as she was completely over her ex and head over heels in love with Dani. The actress who played Gigi was leaving the show, but it turns out fans would have rather they killed Gigi off, than have her leave the way she did. Honestly, I stopped watching the show after the couple parted ways, it was not worth it.

2. A.J. & Paige

Movie: Crush

This couple was sweet, sappy and all good things that are needed in a teen-romcom movie. It’s a great example, of first love, real love, and misunderstandings all wrapped up in one little bow. The actress’ did well bringing the couple to life, and honestly there isn’t anything bad to say about it; other than a sequel movie would be a great to see where these two ended up. It’s a great representation for teens today going through similar issues – and I wish I had movies like this when I was younger.

3. Jean & Sydney

Show: Gypsy

Gypsy was an interesting show, a take on a psychologist getting too involved in their patients life; and taking an interest in the woman her patient talked about, to the point where she had to meet her. Upon meeting her, an unhealthy affair begins, and before Jean knows it she’s become a different person, lying to keep her cover of who she really is, and yet falling in love. This relationship was heavily toxic, since Sydney didn’t know Jean’s life, or any truth when it came to her husband or child, yet they loved one another. The chemistry was palpable, and in the end, even when Sydney found out, she still smiled at Jean and if there had been a second season, I’m sure the affair would have continued between them, just with even more angst than the first season.

4. Jamie & Dani

Show: The Haunting of Bly Manor

Going into what you would assume is a scary horror show, the last thing you expect is a touching love story, but that’s what you get. The Haunting of Bly Manor is more of a love story than anything else, and it centres on the love Jamie and Dani have for one another, and the journey they go through while Dani handles her possession. This couple despite the supernatural problems they faced, were another good example of a healthy couple portrayed on screen. The tragic ending doesn’t take away from their love story and it didn’t take audiences off guard as it was implied in the beginning that their love would always end that way.