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Nostalgia

90s and 00s memories, VHS-era television, and the formative pop culture moments that quietly shaped who we became.


The Teen Drama That Thought It Was Shakespeare

The Teen Drama That Thought It Was Shakespeare

Teen dramas always think they’re about something

Jan 7, 2026

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4 min read

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

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.

Dec 10, 2025

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6 min read

The Secret Queerness of Gilmore Girls

The Secret Queerness of Gilmore Girls

Coffee, fast-talking codependency, and why Lorelai and Sookie were basically sapphic co-parents

Nov 26, 2025

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5 min read

The CW Made Me Believe Love Was a 12-Episode Arc

The CW Made Me Believe Love Was a 12-Episode Arc

And Now I Expect Every Relationship to End Midseason

Nov 16, 2025

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6 min read

Every Mid-2000s Teen Drama Was Actually About Class Warfare and Daddy Issues

Every Mid-2000s Teen Drama Was Actually About Class Warfare and Daddy Issues

Exhibit A: The OC. Exhibit B: Gossip Girl. Exhibit C: Me.

Oct 22, 2025

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5 min read

Static on the Line: The Gay Panic Sitcom Episode

Static on the Line: The Gay Panic Sitcom Episode

How the 90s taught us queerness was fine... as long as it was the punchline.

Oct 5, 2025

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5 min read

The Alias Pilot Remains the Most Brutal, Beautiful Hour of Network TV Ever Made

The Alias Pilot Remains the Most Brutal, Beautiful Hour of Network TV Ever Made

Dead fiancé. Red hair dye. CIA reveal. Piano score. Jennifer Garner running through a parking garage like grief is chasing her. It’s art. It’s pain. It’s everything.

Sep 21, 2025

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4 min read

The Gay Who Could Come to Dinner: Will Truman and Acceptable Gayness

The Gay Who Could Come to Dinner: Will Truman and Acceptable Gayness

How Will Truman became the “safe” gay best friend for straight America.

Sep 7, 2025

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3 min read

Before the Algorithm: How We Found Ourselves in Media We Weren’t Meant to See

Before the Algorithm: How We Found Ourselves in Media We Weren’t Meant to See

A mixtape of late-night SBS smut, dial-up confessionals, Queer as Folk reruns at whisper-volume, and the merciless precision of the TikTok FYP.

Aug 24, 2025

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5 min read

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

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

Aug 17, 2025

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3 min read

Every Character in The Mummy Is Bisexual

Every Character in The Mummy Is Bisexual

Or come for the archaeology, stay for the bisexual energy

Aug 6, 2025

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5 min read

This Isn’t Just Camp — It’s Cathedral

This Isn’t Just Camp — It’s Cathedral

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

Jul 23, 2025

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5 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

Felicity Was Never Really About Ben or Noel

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.

Jul 9, 2025

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5 min read

Julian McMahon. Our Demon Boyfriend, Gone Way Too Soon

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.

Jul 6, 2025

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5 min read

Welcome to the Closet: A Tribute to the WB’s Queer-Adjacent Icons

Welcome to the Closet: A Tribute to the WB’s Queer-Adjacent Icons

Where the vibes were immaculate, the representation was MIA, and the fanfiction had to do all the heavy lifting.

Jun 23, 2025

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5 min read

Queer Vibes, Zero Representation: Dawson’s Creek, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Everwood, 7th Heaven, and the Small-Town Closet

Queer Vibes, Zero Representation: Dawson’s Creek, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Everwood, 7th Heaven, and the Small-Town Closet

WB’s small towns gave us yearning glances, emotionally charged sleepovers and zero actual queers

Jun 22, 2025

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4 min read

The Most Devastating Silences in TV

The Most Devastating Silences in TV

Or How Silence, Music, and Stillness Break Us More Than Dialogue Ever Could

Jun 3, 2025

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4 min read

From Teen Noir to Emotional Horror: How the Veronica Mars Revival Broke Its Own Legacy

From Teen Noir to Emotional Horror: How the Veronica Mars Revival Broke Its Own Legacy

Or an angry reflection on how a show built on survival and hope betrayed itself with a nihilistic ending no fan deserved

May 28, 2025

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5 min read

In Defence of the First Twilight Movie (And the Soundtrack That Had Me in a Chokehold)

In Defence of the First Twilight Movie (And the Soundtrack That Had Me in a Chokehold)

Or before the glitter jokes and TikTok rewatches, there was a soundtrack that went harder than it had any right to

May 18, 2025

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4 min read

Pop Culture Mums Who Raised Us (For Better or Worse)

Pop Culture Mums Who Raised Us (For Better or Worse)

A chaotic, heartfelt celebration of the mums, aunties, and mother figures who shaped us—from the soft, the unhinged and the downright iconic.

May 11, 2025

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4 min read

Goodbye to the Magic: On Betrayal, Grief, and Letting Harry Potter Go

Goodbye to the Magic: On Betrayal, Grief, and Letting Harry Potter Go

Or mourning the books that raised me — and reckoning with the monster who wrote them

May 4, 2025

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3 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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