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Heartstopper

Essays on Heartstopper as a rare portrayal of queer softness, where tenderness, consent, and emotional safety are treated seriously.


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

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

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

Jul 6, 2026

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2 min read

The Riot and the Release

The Riot and the Release

On pride, possibility, and the things queer people inherit

Jun 4, 2026

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9 min read

Joy, Smut, and the Shape of Queer Want

Joy, Smut, and the Shape of Queer Want

What Heartstopper and Heated Rivalry are really offering us

May 27, 2026

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3 min read

A Love Letter to Heartstopper

A Love Letter to Heartstopper

Or The Bittersweet Gift of Seeing the Story I Needed at Fifteen

Mar 25, 2026

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7 min read

When Fandom Becomes Surveillance: Parasocial Culture and the Heated Rivalry Moment

When Fandom Becomes Surveillance: Parasocial Culture and the Heated Rivalry Moment

How online fandom crossed the line from celebrating queer stories to policing the private lives of the actors who bring them to life

Mar 12, 2026

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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.

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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