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HorrorHorror
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The Final Girl: How Horror’s Ultimate Survivor Became the Perfect Metaphor for Womanhood
Aug 20, 2025

The Final Girl: How Horror’s Ultimate Survivor Became the Perfect Metaphor for Womanhood

She runs. She bleeds. She lives. And in doing so, she tells the truth about what it means to be a girl in a world that wants you gone.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Holy Gay Awakening, Batman: Chris O'Donnell's Robin Ruined Me in the Best Way
Aug 17, 2025

Holy Gay Awakening, Batman: Chris O'Donnell's Robin Ruined Me in the Best Way

Or how one sidekick in spandex unlocked my entire personality

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pedro PascalPedro Pascal
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A Fantastic Reset: Marvel’s Kindest Team Returns
Aug 07, 2025

A Fantastic Reset: Marvel’s Kindest Team Returns

Or Four Heroes, Zero Cynicism, All Heart

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Frodo & Samwise sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...
Aug 03, 2025

Frodo & Samwise sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g...

Best friends going on a hike to destroy some jewellery? Yeah, right.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Bury Your Gays: The Deadly Cost of Queer Representation
Jul 30, 2025

Bury Your Gays: The Deadly Cost of Queer Representation

Or how your fave came out, found love, and then died 20 minutes later. Coincidence?

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power: How Charmed Devastates with 2-Parter 'Awakened' and 'Astral Monkey'
Jul 27, 2025

Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power: How Charmed Devastates with 2-Parter 'Awakened' and 'Astral Monkey'

Or when Piper nearly dies, magic intervenes—and everything breaks.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
James GunnJames Gunn
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Hope, Capes, and One Very Good Boy: Superman (2025) Gave Me the Feelings I Didn’t Know I Needed
Jul 24, 2025

Hope, Capes, and One Very Good Boy: Superman (2025) Gave Me the Feelings I Didn’t Know I Needed

This is not your gritty reboot. This is the Superman we’ve been waiting for.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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This Isn’t Just Camp — It’s Cathedral
Jul 23, 2025

This Isn’t Just Camp — It’s Cathedral

Why Jawbreaker, Cruel Intentions, and Wild Things Deserve the Criterion Treatment

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
The Last of UsThe Last of Us
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From Charmed Trauma to Wheel of Time Triumph
Jul 20, 2025

From Charmed Trauma to Wheel of Time Triumph

A gay millennial’s emotional audit of the messy, magical women who raised us—and the ones finally allowed to thrive

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Queerbaited by Aliens: How Mulder and Krycek Made Me Question Everything
Jul 13, 2025

Queerbaited by Aliens: How Mulder and Krycek Made Me Question Everything

Or how I came for the aliens, but stayed for the longing stares and trench coats

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Felicity Was Never Really About Ben or Noel
Jul 09, 2025

Felicity Was Never Really About Ben or Noel

The cult college drama that made feeling lost look cinematic—and gave a generation permission to not have it all figured out.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
Pop Culture CommentaryPop Culture Commentary
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Julian McMahon. Our Demon Boyfriend, Gone Way Too Soon
Jul 06, 2025

Julian McMahon. Our Demon Boyfriend, Gone Way Too Soon

From Cole Turner to Christian Troy, Julian McMahon gave us chaos, queerness, and the ache we didn’t have words for.

Nathan Triffitt
Nathan Triffitt
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