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A growing vault of feelings, fandom logic, questionable rewatches
and the characters we still haven’t recovered from.

From Subtext to Text: What We Lost and Gained

LGBTQ+ Culture

Queer Subtext

From Subtext to Text: What We Lost and Gained

Queerness on screen before and after it was allowed to speak.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 5, 2026

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3 min read

Books Like Charmed

Pop Culture Commentary

Nostalgia

Books Like Charmed

For readers who know the magic was always the least interesting part

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 4, 2026

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3 min read

Books Like Veronica Mars

Pop Culture Commentary

Nostalgia

Books Like Veronica Mars

For readers who understand that solving the case was never really the point

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 4, 2026

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3 min read

Books Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy

Nostalgia

Books Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer

For readers who already know that power isn't the same as safety

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 4, 2026

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3 min read

Books That Feel Like Your Favourite 2000s TV Shows

Pop Culture Commentary

Nostalgia

Books That Feel Like Your Favourite 2000s TV Shows

The shows you grew up on were building something underneath the plot. These books are working in the same structure.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 4, 2026

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6 min read

The Closet of Prestige TV

Pop Culture Commentary

Queer Subtext

The Closet of Prestige TV

Prestige TV Was Art. Unless You Were Queer.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 1, 2026

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5 min read

In Honour of a Complicated Character

Buffy

Nostalgia

Queer Subtext

In Honour of a Complicated Character

Xander Harris, the yellow crayon, and what we do with love that doesn't simplify.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 31, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Glee Without Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Buffy

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Glee Without Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Both are monster-of-the-week shows: Buffy slayed demons, Glee slayed Journey ballads. Camp lineage is real.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 29, 2026

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5 min read

Deadloch: A Feminist Noir Comedy with a Body Count

LGBTQ+ Culture

TV Review

Deadloch: A Feminist Noir Comedy with a Body Count

Coastal charm, lesbian detectives, and the darkest comedy to come out of Tasmania since... well, probably ever.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 26, 2026

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3 min read

A Love Letter to Heartstopper

LGBTQ+ Culture

Heartstopper

A Love Letter to Heartstopper

Or The Bittersweet Gift of Seeing the Story I Needed at Fifteen

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 25, 2026

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7 min read

The Men Who Built Our TV Dreams (and Poisoned Them Too)

Pop Culture Commentary

Fandom Culture

The Men Who Built Our TV Dreams (and Poisoned Them Too)

Joss Whedon, Mark Schwahn, Brad Kern — the showrunners behind Buffy, One Tree Hill, and Charmed built the TV worlds that raised us. Here's what they did behind the scenes.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 22, 2026

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2 min read

Jack McPhee Walked So the Gays Could Kiss in Hallways

Nostalgia

Queer Subtext

Jack McPhee Walked So the Gays Could Kiss in Hallways

Before Kurt Hummel, before Nick Nelson & Charlie Spring, there was Jack McPhee.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 18, 2026

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4 min read

Frank Underwood Was Gay, They Just Didn’t Have the Guts

Pop Culture Commentary

Queer Subtext

Frank Underwood Was Gay, They Just Didn’t Have the Guts

Netflix almost gave us a queer Machiavelli, then chickened out.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 15, 2026

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4 min read

When Fandom Becomes Surveillance: Parasocial Culture and the Heated Rivalry Moment

Heated Rivalry / Game Changers

Heartstopper

When Fandom Becomes Surveillance: Parasocial Culture and the Heated Rivalry Moment

How online fandom crossed the line from celebrating queer stories to policing the private lives of the actors who bring them to life

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 12, 2026

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4 min read

Closets in Sci-Fi: Space as the Last Hiding Place

Queer Subtext

Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Closets in Sci-Fi: Space as the Last Hiding Place

Or why queerness thrived in starships before it did on Earth

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 11, 2026

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5 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Sopranos Without The Flintstones

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Sopranos Without The Flintstones

Or The Evolution of the Angry Provider, Now with Prozac and Waste Management

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 8, 2026

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5 min read

Brothers, Rivals, Lovers (Relax, It’s Subtext): Nathan and Lucas Scott’s Homoerotic Energy

Nostalgia

Queer Subtext

Brothers, Rivals, Lovers (Relax, It’s Subtext): Nathan and Lucas Scott’s Homoerotic Energy

Two brothers, one basketball, and enough queer-coded energy to power mid-2000s TV

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 4, 2026

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3 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Fleabag Without Looney Tunes

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Fleabag Without Looney Tunes

Because breaking the fourth wall started with a rabbit and a bad attitude

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Mar 1, 2026

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4 min read

Loving Scream While Side-Eyeing the Industry Choices Behind It

Pop Culture Commentary

Film Review

Loving Scream While Side-Eyeing the Industry Choices Behind It

Why Loving Scream Feels Complicated Right Now

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 25, 2026

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3 min read

I Measure My Life in TV Seasons

Pop Culture Commentary

Nostalgia

I Measure My Life in TV Seasons

Because emotional milestones make more sense in 13-episode batches

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 22, 2026

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4 min read

The Kalinda Sharma Effect: Queer, Complicated, Unforgettable

Pop Culture Commentary

LGBTQ+ Culture

The Kalinda Sharma Effect: Queer, Complicated, Unforgettable

She walked so every morally ambiguous bisexual on TV could run.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 18, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Crown Without Keeping Up With the Kardashians

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Crown Without Keeping Up With the Kardashians

A tale of two dynasties. One has tiaras. The other has contour.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 15, 2026

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6 min read

Queer Villainy as Self-Protection

LGBTQ+ Culture

Queer Subtext

Queer Villainy as Self-Protection

Or why I found myself in Ursula’s cackle, Scar’s eyeliner, and Jennifer Check’s hunger long before I saw myself in any hero

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 11, 2026

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4 min read

The Closet of Superhero Cinema

Queer Subtext

Fantasy and Sci-Fi

The Closet of Superhero Cinema

Or latex, subtext, and the franchises still afraid of us

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 8, 2026

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5 min read

Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

LGBTQ+ Culture

Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

Or why every epic sword fight somehow ends with our bodies on the ground

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 4, 2026

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5 min read

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ABOUT THIS SPACE

Where queer millennial nostalgia settles in. Part diary, part TV debrief, part late night spiral about the scenes that shaped us. A place for the characters we held close, the crushes we could not shake, and the moments that linger long after the credits fade, usually turning up again when we least expect it.

ABOUT THE WRITER

Nathan writes about TV as memory, queer adolescence as folklore, and the tiny moments that shaped who we became. He lives in Naarm with his cat, Captain.

FOR THE RECORD

Always in support of queer rights, trans lives, and a free Palestine.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF COUNTRY

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia and pay my respects to First Nations peoples, past and present. Their stories, knowledge and care for Country continue to shape this place, and I’m grateful to be writing on lands where storytelling has always mattered.

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