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Fantasy and Sci-Fi

Genre storytelling through a queer lens, from witches and starships to monsters, mythologies, and speculative worlds.


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

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

Or why queerness thrived in starships before it did on Earth

Mar 11, 2026

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5 min read

The Closet of Superhero Cinema

The Closet of Superhero Cinema

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

Feb 8, 2026

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5 min read

Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

Why Fantasy Keeps Failing the Gays

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

Feb 4, 2026

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5 min read

He’s Just My Rival (And I Want Him to Ruin Me)

He’s Just My Rival (And I Want Him to Ruin Me)

On Angel, Spike, and the homoerotic tension Buffy never had the guts to name

Nov 12, 2025

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5 min read

Eric Northman, Bisexual Disaster King

Eric Northman, Bisexual Disaster King

A Love Letter to the Pettiest Viking on TV

Nov 5, 2025

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4 min read

All Dead, All Gone

All Dead, All Gone

On Game of Thrones and the queer problem fantasy still refuses to solve

Oct 26, 2025

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5 min read

In This House We Worship Angry Queens (Nesta) and Soft Himbo Warlords (Cassian)

In This House We Worship Angry Queens (Nesta) and Soft Himbo Warlords (Cassian)

Because healing looks better when you're holding a sword and a himbo is ready to throw himself into the void on your behalf.

Sep 3, 2025

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3 min read

The Breaking of Charmed, and the Moment TV Got Real

The Breaking of Charmed, and the Moment TV Got Real

On Prue Halliwell, an ending nobody planned, and the moment a show became something else

Aug 27, 2025

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6 min read

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

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.

Aug 20, 2025

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5 min read

They Actually Like Each Other

They Actually Like Each Other

On the Fantastic Four and why sincerity feels radical when the rest of the franchise forgot how to mean it

Aug 7, 2025

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5 min read

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

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.

Aug 3, 2025

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6 min read

Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power

Grief, Guilt and the Cost of Power

On what Charmed understood about consequence that most fantasy television doesn't

Jul 27, 2025

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4 min read

Hope, Capes, and One Very Good Boy

Hope, Capes, and One Very Good Boy

On the Superman we've been waiting for, and why sincerity hit harder than I expected

Jul 24, 2025

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4 min read

From Charmed Trauma to Wheel of Time Triumph

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

Jul 20, 2025

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5 min read

Mother, Machine, Messiah: Sci-Fi’s Obsession with Reproductive Control

Mother, Machine, Messiah: Sci-Fi’s Obsession with Reproductive Control

Why Sci-Fi Keeps Putting Women’s Bodies at the Centre of the Apocalypse—and Who It’s Really Serving

Jul 16, 2025

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6 min read

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

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

Jul 13, 2025

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3 min read

The Charmed Ones, But Make It Evil: A Definitive Ranking

The Charmed Ones, But Make It Evil: A Definitive Ranking

Because every chosen one needs a little villain era, right? RIGHT?

Jul 2, 2025

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5 min read

Fifteen Seasons and a Cosmic Joke

Fifteen Seasons and a Cosmic Joke

On Supernatural, Destiel, and how queerbaiting became a business model

Jun 29, 2025

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3 min read

She Saved the World (Again), and All We Got Was This Broody Vampire

She Saved the World (Again), and All We Got Was This Broody Vampire

A Love Letter to the Women of Angel Who Bled for Someone Else’s Redemption Arc

Jun 18, 2025

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4 min read

The Hot, Queer, Telepathic Orgies That Made Sense8 a Masterpiece

The Hot, Queer, Telepathic Orgies That Made Sense8 a Masterpiece

An unapologetic celebration of the show’s bold, body-positive, and fluid depictions of sex and intimacy across gender, sexuality, and culture.

Jun 4, 2025

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4 min read

Power, Punishment and Phoebe Halliwell

Power, Punishment and Phoebe Halliwell

Revisiting “Morality Bites” and why it’s the darkest, smartest episode Charmed ever gave us

May 6, 2025

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5 min read

Where Sass Meets Assassin

Where Sass Meets Assassin

On Throne of Glass, YA obsession in your thirties, and being done with embarrassment

May 5, 2025

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4 min read

Mentally, I’m in Season 3 of Charmed

Mentally, I’m in Season 3 of Charmed

Or pop culture breakdowns from a gay millennial raised by witches, aliens, and VHS tapes.

Apr 28, 2025

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3 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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