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

Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

LGBTQ+ Culture

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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

Weapons, Queer Intimacy, and the Horror of Being Made the Weapon

Film Review

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Weapons, Queer Intimacy, and the Horror of Being Made the Weapon

On possession, proximity, and when love is turned into the site of violence

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 3, 2026

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6 min read

I’ve Reread and Rewatched Heated Rivalry Too Many Times—and It Still Isn’t Enough

Heated Rivalry / Game Changers

I’ve Reread and Rewatched Heated Rivalry Too Many Times—and It Still Isn’t Enough

On obsession, repetition, and living inside the Game Changers series

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Feb 1, 2026

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5 min read

The Gravity of Wanting More

LGBTQ+ Culture

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The Gravity of Wanting More

On Atmosphere, recent history, and the quiet cost of loving anyway

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 31, 2026

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5 min read

The Evolution of Trans Allegory on TV: From Metaphor to Humanity

LGBTQ+ Culture

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The Evolution of Trans Allegory on TV: From Metaphor to Humanity

How television learned, slowly, to write transness as human

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 29, 2026

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8 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Mad Men Without Bewitched

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Mad Men Without Bewitched

Don Draper and Darren Stephens don’t seem like they belong in the same conversation

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 25, 2026

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3 min read

Love, Lies, and Lavender Politics: Why Fellow Travelers Wrecked Me (In the Best Way)

Pop Culture Commentary

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Love, Lies, and Lavender Politics: Why Fellow Travelers Wrecked Me (In the Best Way)

Because apparently I only cry over spies and queer repression now

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 21, 2026

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6 min read

The Quiet Gravity of Pillion

LGBTQ+ Culture

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The Quiet Gravity of Pillion

On restraint, desire, and what happens when a film trusts the body more than words

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 19, 2026

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4 min read

The Soundtracks That Taught Us Heartbreak

Pop Culture Commentary

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The Soundtracks That Taught Us Heartbreak

The songs that made heartbreak and longing feel universal (even when the stories weren’t ours)

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 18, 2026

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5 min read

Main Characters Who Should’ve Been Background Extras

Pop Culture Commentary

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Main Characters Who Should’ve Been Background Extras

Or a list of leads who should’ve lost their speaking privileges

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 14, 2026

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3 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The X-Files Without Moonlighting

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The X-Files Without Moonlighting

The truth is out there, and it’s that Mulder and Scully are just David and Maddie in trench coats.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 11, 2026

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4 min read

The Teen Drama That Thought It Was Shakespeare

Pop Culture Commentary

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The Teen Drama That Thought It Was Shakespeare

Teen dramas always think they’re about something

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 7, 2026

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4 min read

Let Them Sing: A Defence of TV’s Most Chaotic Musical Detours

Pop Culture Commentary

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Let Them Sing: A Defence of TV’s Most Chaotic Musical Detours

Why musical episodes, even the disastrous ones, deserve your respect and possibly a standing ovation.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Jan 4, 2026

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5 min read

The Essays That Stayed With Us

Pop Culture Commentary

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The Essays That Stayed With Us

Essays About Queer Representation That Resonated

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 31, 2025

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6 min read

2025 Was the Year Pop Culture Stopped Pretending It Didn’t Want Things

Fandom Culture

2025 Was the Year Pop Culture Stopped Pretending It Didn’t Want Things

Or a year of wanting without apology

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 30, 2025

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6 min read

The Queer Melancholy of Friday Night Lights

Pop Culture Commentary

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The Queer Melancholy of Friday Night Lights

Football, cornfields, boys crying in locker rooms — masculinity undone under stadium lights.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 28, 2025

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4 min read

Heated Rivalry Just Dropped One of the Highest-Rated Episodes of All Time on IMDb And Woah

Heated Rivalry / Game Changers

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Heated Rivalry Just Dropped One of the Highest-Rated Episodes of All Time on IMDb And Woah

A cultural event that personally targeted me and I will be seeking damages

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 24, 2025

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5 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Succession Without Arrested Development

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have Succession Without Arrested Development

From Bluth to Roy: generational trauma, but make it prestige TV

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 24, 2025

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4 min read

The New Christmas Movies Era: A Field Report

Pop Culture Commentary

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The New Christmas Movies Era: A Field Report

From shirtless snowmen to former heartthrobs doing charity through abs.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 21, 2025

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4 min read

Every Streaming Algorithm Thinks I’m in a Situationship

Pop Culture Commentary

Every Streaming Algorithm Thinks I’m in a Situationship

Because apparently my watch history screams ‘emotionally unavailable but trying'

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 17, 2025

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have True Blood Without Days Of Our Lives

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have True Blood Without Days Of Our Lives

From daytime drama to nighttime fangs—it’s all about who’s sleeping with whose undead ex

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 14, 2025

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5 min read

He Wasn’t the Villain, He Was Just Hot and Misunderstood

Pop Culture Commentary

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He Wasn’t the Villain, He Was Just Hot and Misunderstood

Because every generation has its toxic crush curriculum. Ours just happened to be broadcast in HD.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 10, 2025

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6 min read

Buffy Summers Invented Emotional Labour

Pop Culture Commentary

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Buffy Summers Invented Emotional Labour

I think I learned how to overfunction from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and my mum)

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 7, 2025

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5 min read

To The Cluster That Raised Me

LGBTQ+ Culture

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To The Cluster That Raised Me

Desire, kinship, chaos, and the strange comfort of seeing yourself in eight strangers.

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 6, 2025

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5 min read

The Gayest Year in Film Was 2004 (and I Can Prove It)

Pop Culture Commentary

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The Gayest Year in Film Was 2004 (and I Can Prove It)

When repression, bisexual lighting, and Natalie Portman’s wig ruled the box office

BY Nathan Triffitt

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Dec 3, 2025

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4 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.

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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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