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Nathan Triffitt

Writer of queer essays, TV nostalgia & pop culture hot takes. Searching static for hidden signals.

Queer Subtext

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The Best Friend Who Wasn't

Aug 23, 2026

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9 min read

The Best Friend Who Wasn't

On the women who loved too hard, the men who never recovered, and the friendship that survived both

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Last of Us Without Finding Nemo

Aug 19, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The Last of Us Without Finding Nemo

Grieving man crosses a hostile landscape to protect a child who keeps asking questions.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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Every A Was an Argument

Aug 9, 2026

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9 min read

Every A Was an Argument

On gifted-child syndrome, intelligence as moral currency, and the wit I developed when the marks stopped being enough

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn't Have Parks and Rec Without The West Wing and Golden Retriever Energy

Aug 5, 2026

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7 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn't Have Parks and Rec Without The West Wing and Golden Retriever Energy

A woman sincerely believes government can improve people's lives. Terrifying concept.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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Alias Was a Show About a Woman Dissociating in Wigs

Aug 2, 2026

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9 min read

Alias Was a Show About a Woman Dissociating in Wigs

On Sydney Bristow, identity fragmentation, and the spy who never knew which self was real

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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The Older I Get, the More I Understand Piper Halliwell

Jul 29, 2026

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6 min read

The Older I Get, the More I Understand Piper Halliwell

On the middle sister and the invisible work of holding everything together.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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Without The Speech

Jul 26, 2026

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8 min read

Without The Speech

On 'Love, Simon', the father I didn't have, and the speeches that found me anyway

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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I Thought I Was Ready to Say Goodbye to Heartstopper. Turns Out... Nope.

Jul 24, 2026

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6 min read

I Thought I Was Ready to Say Goodbye to Heartstopper. Turns Out... Nope.

On the future queer millennials were never taught to imagine.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The White Lotus Without Gilligan’s Island

Jul 22, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn’t Have The White Lotus Without Gilligan’s Island

The castaways had coconut radios. Tanya had a kaftan and a fragile grip on reality. Same island. Better cinematography.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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The Heartstopper (Forever) Pipeline

Jul 19, 2026

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4 min read

The Heartstopper (Forever) Pipeline

On how a sweet teen romance sends you spiralling into devastating queer cinema

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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Not Represented. Seen.

Jul 15, 2026

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4 min read

Not Represented. Seen.

What a Threads post about Heartstopper and Heated Rivalry accidentally uncovered

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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Saltburn Was Never About Whether Oliver Quick Is a Villain

Jul 12, 2026

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6 min read

Saltburn Was Never About Whether Oliver Quick Is a Villain

On how the discourse arrived before most people had finished watching it.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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The Spice Girls and the Feminism We Received at Seven

Jul 8, 2026

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7 min read

The Spice Girls and the Feminism We Received at Seven

Girl Power was thin as political theory. The installation was permanent.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Recommendations

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

Jul 6, 2026

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2 min read

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

For readers who needed to see that being loved could become ordinary.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Unhinged TV Family Trees

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn't Have Big Little Lies Without Melrose Place

Jul 5, 2026

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4 min read

Unhinged TV Family Trees: We Wouldn't Have Big Little Lies Without Melrose Place

Overdressed trauma. Workplace sex. Catastrophic monologues. Now with better real estate.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Recommendations

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

Jul 2, 2026

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2 min read

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.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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What the Uncut Version Showed

Jul 1, 2026

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7 min read

What the Uncut Version Showed

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

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Recommendations

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

Jun 28, 2026

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2 min read

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

For the stories where nothing explodes and everything accumulates

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Recommendations

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

Jun 28, 2026

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2 min read

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

For the stories about people who mistake survival for purpose

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Pop Culture Commentary

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Sexistential, by Robyn

Jun 28, 2026

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3 min read

Sexistential, by Robyn

On not dancing through it anymore

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Buffy

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

Jun 24, 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

On what was always simmering underneath our dreams.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

Heated Rivalry / Game Changers

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Track One, So Fresh: Hits of Winter 2003

Jun 21, 2026

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5 min read

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.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

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

Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

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.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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

Jun 14, 2026

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4 min read

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

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt

LGBTQ+ Culture

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Something in the Desert

Jun 10, 2026

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8 min read

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

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
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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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