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Pluribus is About a Life as a Closeted Queer Person
Cishets kinda feel like hive mind sometimes.
Like, honestly, this is usually the part where I say the show is trans-ish to game the algorithm or some shit but it isn’t.
The main character, Carol, IS a lesbian though.
And she’s closeted.
She’s a romance author and her manager, Helen, is her secret girlfriend. She doesn’t tell the fans of her book that she’s a lesbian though and the main character of her romance series is a man, but was originally supposed to be a woman.
In the first episode of the series, its like there’s these two problems for Helen, she has to pretend to be a straight woman in a job that’s consistently about writing straight romance and quasi-erotica. Like, she’s LITERALLY a lesbian writing steamy romance novels for straight women.
But there’s also this feeling that she feels she could do more or have more.
I kinda get that.
I’m a closeted trans woman. I’m a lesbian but can’t even say it because I’m not out as a trans woman.
I also write…but I’m not all that good at it really so I feel like a failure all the time.
