I’m obsessed, a group of beautiful anti-capitalists making industrial music while wearing BDSM gear is something ripped straight from my teenage fantasies.

I find the erotic exchange between the writer and readers in fanfiction really interesting. AO3 did a survey a few years ago which showed that the single largest user group by gender and sexual orientation was bisexual women and girls. I know that when I was writing fanfiction as a teenager, there was a certain kind…

I am in two minds about real person fic (RPF). I’ve recently become a fan of Hatari, the Icelandic BDSM synth-punk band who played Eurovision - if that doesn’t sound great to you, I don’t know what to say - and that has meant engaging with a kind of fan culture I haven’t been involved with since I was a teenager,…

Much as I can’t judge having not seen the movie, multiple brutal rape scenes in the first thirty minutes sounds like standard rape/revenge exploitation fare rather than anything “incredibly sensitive”. On that note, one of the most interesting films I saw last year was Revenge, which is a take on the rape/revenge…

We all knew she wasn’t a superstar. Maybe the tabloids hyped her up, but the average British person hadn’t heard of her before she was dating Harry, or if they had, knew her from Suits which is not a big deal over here (or anywhere, as far as I know). In a weird hall of mirrors thing, I don’t know where Americans got…

What you’re doing isn’t orthorexia though. Orthorexia doesn’t just refer to healthy eating, it is when “healthy” eating gets to the point of being a debilitating obsession, as you say. Also, I’ve put healthy in quote marks there because usually what people engaged in it are doing bears no actual resemblance to a…

Yeah, surely by her logic, as a multi-millionaire she should be shagging an impressionable 19-year-old by now.

Her Wikipedia says she’s been married since 1987 so that can’t be right.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Sounds like the only way you could have fun reading that book.

I am a fan of Joey W Hill’s books, but she is a terrible offender for this. One of her heroes is called Mac Nighthorse. But then I consider her novels as taking part in some kind of parallel universe because they are often completely bonkers.

When I worked in a bookshop, I picked up Fifty Shades and flicked to a random page thinking “I’ve read plenty of poorly written smut and still enjoyed it, how bad could it be?”, saw Anastasia exclaiming “Holy cow!” during a sex scene and immediately put it down again. That this seems like it’s even worse is quite a…

I’m not usually a fan of Jameela Jamil, but it is so refreshing to see a woman openly say that she doesn’t regret her abortion, that it wasn’t heart-wrenching or difficult - it was the best decision to make, and she’s glad she did. That’s how a lot of women (most?) experience abortion, but even the pro-choice side…

Yeah Lisa Hanawalt is the production designer and a producer on Bojack - Tuca and Bertie is her own show.

I’m pretty sure he makes her boring. He broke up with her when she was being really OTT and she’s been a lot more restrained since they got back together. I hope it’s genuinely what she wants rather than just a limit she’s put on herself for the sake of keeping him. Like, if she’s grown and changed, fine, but if she…

Fair enough (and thanks for the correction on the year) but I still think it’s weird to show up to this event in an outfit which is immediately going to make people go “Didn’t x wear the same thing?” which is what all the comments I saw on Zendaya said. It just seems a bit unoriginal.

Everyone thinks Zendaya copied Claire Danes’ Met Gala look. I was so surprised when she turned up wearing that, and it’s a rare misstep from her stylist. I honestly don’t know how that decision was made. Either those involved weren’t aware of Claire Danes’ look, which seems unlikely when every random schmuck like…

Ah well, I mis-remembered it then. I was thinking of this bit: “I’ve just been getting a lot of wild/threatening/phishing messages and am also becoming creeped out by other publications referring to me as a (British?) journalist (which I am not, and was literally featured in my Twitter bio)“ She did also clarify in…

She said in her newsletter that the way that particular thread got out of hand - with her complete speculation on the matter being cited by shonky news sites as fact - made her get off Twitter so she didn’t have to continue to be involved.

I totally agree, and all the vegans I know do try and educate other people about how to be healthy as a vegan and that it shouldn't be about calorie restriction. The "making fun of" thing was about articles online and reporting rather than people actually dealing with eating disorders, sorry if that wasn't clear. I'm…