I’ve seen some weird dynamics in the kind of nebulous “alternative” scene, personally and anecdotally heard others talk about their experiences in pop-punk/emo scenes in particular. I can’t really speak for more mainstream clubs, because my goth-adjacent-later-alt.rock ass would have got kicked in them, or they…

Hobesity (and sadly) I don’t believe that’s entirely true. Alternative scenes can have a lot of sketchy people in them with weird and unhealthy power dynamics and too few people ready to call out about the “creaky stair” in the scene for fear of causing drama. I’m seriously often more concerned for female friends…

Going by how this website seems to skews older millenial, and how many of us were likely in the first major wave of message board users and grew up in the era of post-irony, I'd be very surprised if any of us didn't have something embarrassing floating out there. I know I flirted with dumb shock stuff, but I also know…

Sure, but the “and this, on International Women’s Month, how dare you” angle is kind of lame. I’m in two minds about this, but I think there is maybe some implicit slutshaming in the joke, but equally I’m not sure that it even suggests that having multiple partners is a bad thing, just that it’s something Swift was…

I’ve been wondering about this, and can’t help but wonder if it’s a combination of huge NDAs on those Marvel movies and the fact that it’s never been clear (to me at least) why he was off the films after Age of Ultron. 

Yeah, I think it’s really reductive and kind of ahistorical to file stories about Italian-Americans, particularly in his early work, under “white dudes”.

Star Wars has (for better or worse) been a lot more than movies for a long time. My biggest bugbear with Star Wars is it’s tendency to just not let a bigger universe exist in the viewer’s imagination and fill in the gaps in ways that are doomed to be unsatisfying (how much cooler was Boba Fett when he was a silent…

My partner had never seen a Star War, so we watched them all recently after they enjoyed the Mandalorian. We were both awed at how the prequels are terrible, but so weird and singular they are kind of entertaining, while the sequel trilogy is technically better on every conceivable level but also kind of boring. 

I don’t think she’s particularly bad as Jane Foster, she just has very little to do. The first Thor in particular is a very bizarre film.

As long as the skeleton has no minor fractures or major injuries, the sound shouldn't be diminished. 

Yeah, when I read an interview with a modern rock band that catches my ears these days, I’m surprised how many are like “Oh, I was studying jazz at such and such college and we met at this party and he played in this other jazz programme...” kind of stories. I guess there’s not really the kind of scene where you can…

I’ve never thought of them too highly, although “Everlong” is one of the best singles of the 90s.

I guess I just don’t get the mindset of a Foo Fighters fan. Like, do they check out Sunny Day Real Estate or Nirvana based on the Foo’s membership and think “Well, yep, definitely back to sports highlight montage rock…

It always bothered me more when punk acts did it, because it felt like a petulant, decadent dad rock thing. Like, if you don’t want it, chuck it to the ground, someone will give it a good home.

It’s one of those things that’s contextual: it depends on who is doing it, where they’re doing it and why for me.

Further to that, Billy and Tommy are showing signs of abilities, but not their comic book abilities as Wiccan and Speed (magic and super speed respectively) - maybe they need to see their mother and uncle at work to draw inspiration for their own power sets.

He tasered himself in the balls metaphorically, and that's good enough for me.

“Phoebe Dynevor, who plays Daphne Bridgerton”

>Adds new row to the “Phoebes with Bridges” spreadsheet.

This is a good post and I agree with most of it, but I think it’s something of a falsehood to claim that everyone who objects to “cancel culture” (a phrase that has become totally poisoned by chuds) objects on the grounds that they want carte-blanche to say shitty things.

There’s plenty of perfectly valid objections to…

Its typically used to denote someone, usually white and economically privileged, whose feminism is in support of maintaining a neoliberal status quo but with, like, more women CEOs (for example) rather than dismantling harmful systems.

This is a pretty good list, loads of stuff that I’ve enjoyed in there and a couple I missed that I’m curious about. I do think Special Interests ‘The Passion Of...’ is criminally absent, however.

Yeah, in my old Twitter days I remember Corden being snarky about superhero movies being juvenile (which... yeah, okay, but not a particularly hot or insightful take in 2013 or whenever) and I asked him how grown-up he felt LVK was. I don’t know if he’s “known” for it though, it felt like a fairly late entry into the…