It is important to look at this character death and the LGBTQ+ fan reaction through the lens of the queer experience. I keeping seeing people in the comments here say how we should be less sensitive or how we shouldn’t try to stifle an artist’s creativity (which: that’s a straw man argument, y’all; no one is…

I’m trying to think of a better way they could have killed her off. A blaze of glory wouldn’t have been right, I think. Because not only did she take a steadily more pacifist stance throughout the season, and not only was her death by the hands of one of her own people foreshadowed for weeks, but... well, her dying in…