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

If You Loved Gilmore Girls: Watch, Read And Listen To These Next

Recommendations

If You Loved Gilmore Girls: Watch, Read And Listen To These Next

For people who know that home is the place that remembers every version of you, whether you're ready or not.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jul 2, 2026

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2 min read

What the Uncut Version Showed

LGBTQ+ Culture

Nostalgia

What the Uncut Version Showed

On Big Brother, Australian Idol, regional Tasmania, and the queer kids who watched with the volume at two

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jul 1, 2026

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7 min read

If You Loved Normal People: Watch, Read And Listen To These Next

Recommendations

If You Loved Normal People: Watch, Read And Listen To These Next

For the stories where nothing explodes and everything accumulates

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 28, 2026

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2 min read

If You Loved The Bear: Watch, Read And Listen To These Next

Recommendations

If You Loved The Bear: Watch, Read And Listen To These Next

For the stories about people who mistake survival for purpose

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 28, 2026

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2 min read

Sexistential, by Robyn

Pop Culture Commentary

Queer Anthems

Sexistential, by Robyn

On not dancing through it anymore

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 28, 2026

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3 min read

A Slayer’s Dreams and a Watcher’s Fear: ‘Restless’ as a Map of Buffy’s Future

Buffy

Episode Revisit

A Slayer’s Dreams and a Watcher’s Fear: ‘Restless’ as a Map of Buffy’s Future

On what was always simmering underneath our dreams.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 24, 2026

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3 min read

Track One, So Fresh: Hits of Winter 2003

Heated Rivalry / Game Changers

Queer Subtext

Track One, So Fresh: Hits of Winter 2003

Some songs get into your body before you have language for them. This one arrived in regional Australia in 2003 and never fully left.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 21, 2026

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5 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We wouldn't have Yellowjackets without Lord of the Flies and Survivor except more queer and more horny

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We wouldn't have Yellowjackets without Lord of the Flies and Survivor except more queer and more horny

Teen girls stranded. Civilisation collapses. One wins immunity. One eats the other. Same difference.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

The Queer Working-Class Love Story Prestige TV Still Won’t Give Us

LGBTQ+ Culture

Queer Subtext

The Queer Working-Class Love Story Prestige TV Still Won’t Give Us

How Shameless gave Ian and Mickey the messy, beautiful representation most shows won’t touch

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 14, 2026

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4 min read

Something in the Desert

LGBTQ+ Culture

Film Review

Something in the Desert

On Australian queer cinema, the risks it took before anyone was watching, and why we haven't given it nearly enough credit

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 10, 2026

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8 min read

All You Will Get From Me

Buffy

Nostalgia

All You Will Get From Me

On losing Anthony Stewart Head, and what Rupert Giles taught us about love without conditions

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 8, 2026

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6 min read

The Boys I Loved Through Someone Else

Nostalgia

Queer Subtext

The Boys I Loved Through Someone Else

On Wheeler, Tommy, Hunter, Jake, and the decade it took for queer desire to find the long way around

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 7, 2026

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4 min read

The Riot and the Release

LGBTQ+ Culture

Heartstopper

Queer Subtext

The Riot and the Release

On pride, possibility, and the things queer people inherit

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jun 4, 2026

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9 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Bear Without ER and The Muppets

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Bear Without ER and The Muppets

Yes chef. Yes doctor. Volatile leader. Chaotic ensemble. Workplace panic attacks disguised as competence porn.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 31, 2026

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3 min read

The Weight of What Was Never Said

LGBTQ+ Culture

TV Review

The Weight of What Was Never Said

Half Man is about violence. It's also about what happens when love is given no language, no future and nowhere safe to exist.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 30, 2026

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6 min read

Joy, Smut, and the Shape of Queer Want

LGBTQ+ Culture

Heated Rivalry / Game Changers

Heartstopper

Joy, Smut, and the Shape of Queer Want

What Heartstopper and Heated Rivalry are really offering us

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 27, 2026

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3 min read

We Grew Up on Sarcasm and Soft Sad Boys

Pop Culture Commentary

Nostalgia

We Grew Up on Sarcasm and Soft Sad Boys

On emotional repression, mid-2000s masculinity, and why we wanted men to feel quietly and then stop talking

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 24, 2026

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4 min read

The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It

LGBTQ+ Culture

Buffy

The Hardest Thing In This World Is To Live In It

On Buffy Season 5, secrets, and the television show that told me so at seventeen

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 22, 2026

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8 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn't Have The Boys Without Looney Tunes and Watchmen

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn't Have The Boys Without Looney Tunes and Watchmen

Cartoon physics. Moral collapse. One very tired coyote with a quarterly earnings report.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 20, 2026

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4 min read

ERotic Tension: Why ER Was Gayer Than Grey’s Anatomy

Pop Culture Commentary

Queer Subtext

ERotic Tension: Why ER Was Gayer Than Grey’s Anatomy

Doctors, corridors, frantic trauma bonding — every hallway smoulder was homoerotic.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 17, 2026

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4 min read

Before Representation, There Was Shipping

Queer Subtext

Fandom Culture

Before Representation, There Was Shipping

How imagining fictional couples taught queer audiences how to recognise love, longing, and themselves

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 13, 2026

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5 min read

Finn Loved Kurt. The Show Didn’t Know What to Do With That.

LGBTQ+ Culture

Queer Subtext

Finn Loved Kurt. The Show Didn’t Know What to Do With That.

On tenderness, straight panic, and the limits of allyship in Glee

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 10, 2026

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3 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Stranger Things Without E.T. and Dawson’s Creek Having a Baby

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Stranger Things Without E.T. and Dawson’s Creek Having a Baby

If small-town feelings and supernatural chaos hooked up behind the school gym, this is their offspring.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 6, 2026

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5 min read

I Didn't Watch "That's My Dog." I Survived It.

Pop Culture Commentary

Episode Revisit

I Didn't Watch "That's My Dog." I Survived It.

Revisiting Six Feet Under's most harrowing episode, and why its portrait of queer vulnerability still refuses to fade twenty years on

BY Nathan Triffitt

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May 3, 2026

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7 min read

What Australian TV Actually Knows About Queerness

Pop Culture Commentary

LGBTQ+ Culture

What Australian TV Actually Knows About Queerness

On thirty years of almost-seeing, and the distance still to travel

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Apr 29, 2026

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6 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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