⋆✩ introducing culture vulture: a new newsy ✩⋆
essays on pop culture & the internet that make u feel like it might just all be okay
hi angels!!! it has struck me over these past few weeks as i’ve been writing my little diaristic musings on life and pop culture for you (see: on being a teenage girl in my 20s and the dudes are tay-baiting & tay-trapping) that i would like a place to semi-regularly do this, in a slightly less routine area than the daily newsy (which i still love to death and will NOT be changing, don’t worry!)
so! i’ve set up a new newsy called culture vulture (not to be mistaken for our excellent podcast of the same name) where i’m gonna write about pop culture, the internet, how we fuck with these things & how they fuck us right back, in a sort of… low presh/ low stakes way.
so if you like those pieces of mine, or want to hear me talking more about things like fandom, panopticontent, and the peaks and pits of being a #womanonline, i would love to have you come hang out. and, as any chill girl on the internet often quips, no worries if not!
Listening to the pod right now, and I’m here to say that culture vulture is my comfort person.
Guys. Do we think that there’s a distinction between comfort things, and crisis things? I reckon there’s heaps of overlap but I also think there’s some different flavours there. Like for me I’m obsessed with Gilmore Girls and Shits Creek for comfort. I feel so warm and calm and reassured, and entertained let’s me honest. But The Martian, for instance, is my absolute go to crisis film. I watched it almost daily (or half listened to it in the background) when I was finishing my psychology internship. If Matt Damon can survive on Mars, I just know I can get through whatever it is that’s too much in the moment.