So after what happened with 100, I’ve been seeing posts about the Bury Your Gays trope. It’s a very important conversation to have, and I’ve definitely seen people on my dash talking about how they are just completely done with queer female characters dying in media. I’ve largely missed out on queer representation in media growing up, so I haven’t been overexposed to this trope. 

But I have noticed black characters being killed off so much that I’ve been utterly done with the killing off of black characters in media in a similar fashion as I’ve seen people feel about the above trope. Does this have a trope name? And is there a similar list like there is with the bury your gays that I saw on my dash recently? I’ve been actually trying to find one to fully articulate how I’ve been feeling about that, but it definitely doesn’t feel like my place to make such a list… not to mention how large a task it is. 

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