It is wearying to rarely see People Like Us in media, for whatever value of Us you might identify with, and it's arguably worse to see us portrayed badly/unrealistically than to not be seen at all. You'd think that after all these years I'd be used to the invisibility and denial of fundamental aspects of my identity and lived experience in media, but I can't help wishing for the occasional realistic (or even realistic-ish) representation in my reading and viewing material. It's refreshing to get explicit acknowledgement of QUILTBAG people's existence in popular media, and not in some shiny, pink, magical ghetto or dark, x-rated virtual alleyway, but in the same world that everyone inhabits. Ditto for people of color, people with disabilities, and others. It's a remarkably diverse world, with so many stories. When media producers and distributors ignore and erase that diversity out of fear that they won't be able to sell it to white, cisgendered, straight men, they impoverish us all. This is a major reason why I still love fandom and its creativity in re-envisioning corporate-owned media properties and its generosity in freely sharing those visions (despite the problematic aspects of some manifestations of fannish culture), and why I dance a li'l fanboy jig when I come across stuff like Wonder City Stories that features a much more diverse cast of characters than corporate-controlled media provide. So yeah, this is me joining you (and your other commenters) in both cheer-leading awesome stuff that depicts the diversity of humanity more completely and realistically, and shaking my fist at the frustrating monolith of normativity in media. Grawr!