The creator of Clarissa Explains It All has published some fan fiction about her grown-up life. Plus: An essay on what fandom can mean to women in their 30s, some witchy story recommendations, answers to your TV questions, and a fic news round up!

“i swear to god i thought hanna was about to come out in this episode” – Forever Intern Grace

It’s official: Jane the Virgin is the best! Plus, an update on our queer contestant on Top Chef and some rundowns of a handful of webseries you should be watching during the winter TV hiatus.

Everyone: ALI NO
Ali: ALI YES

The recap in which I realize everything that’s wrong about the fact we’re only watching this show for the queers and not the content.

“We wrote more obituaries for murdered trans women in 2015 than TV recaps for any single show we cover.”

Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.

Amazon releases Transparent early, Lucy Lawless is lesbian-ing again, Carmilla bids adieu to season zero, and Pippy and TMI almost break up on Rosewood.

Here’s another episode in which the Liars find themselves lying.

While we await new episodes of our favorite regular season shows, we thought it would be a good time to address the thing you really care about: Which lesbian/bisexual TV characters would be the best to U-Haul with?

Annalise can’t stop dreaming about little Wes-shaped babies on HTGAWM, Meredith faces ANOTHER traumatic disaster on Grey’s Anatomy, and Clarke and Lexa begin their post-fealty lives.

In which we learn that the last two seasons of Pretty Little Liars was actually nothing but dyke drama.

“Faking It” returns August 31st, and everybody is still lying, just about different stuff. (Also: SPOILER ALERT)

Santana and Btittany join the circus! Paige and Emily traverse the Wild West! Carmilla and Laura are princesses!

Kim and Sugar. Camilla and Jocelyn. Alice and Dana. A look at the legendary duos that lived the nightmare and sometimes came out alive.

We’ve finally arrived at a place where we have enough queer characters on TV to fight about them. What a time to be alive!

It’s Gal Pal Week on Autostraddle.com! Let’s kick it off by counting down television friendships we adore!

Brenna kisses her best friend on Chasing Life, Audrey gets interrogated on Scream, Gretchen continues to be a superhero on Complications, and I Am Cait really is great.

Survivor’s Remorse’s second season ends in tragedy, Jane the Virgin continues to be the best show on TV, and American Horror Story: Hotel is bloody as hell.

Alana gets one step closer to getting murdered on Hannibal, Stef and Lena are finally okay on The Fosters, Caitlyn deals with the family fall out of her Vanity Fair interview on I Am Cait, and more queer TV you may have missed!