Special thanks to Jester for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon. Hmm, a 2000s-era supernatural love triangle YA novel by a Utah-raised author with a lot of extremely unfortunate implications baked into the lore….this all sounds familiar, but we can’t put […]
An academic specializing in fan studies and a trans media critic walk into a Harry Potter fanfic. Chaos ensues. Special thanks to Ceslatoil for commissioning this episode! You can find out more about commissions on our Patreon.
You know that feeling when you can tell a book really means well and is also fucking up so hard?
This essay was commissioned by Anne. You can find out more about commissions here. All vampires worth talking about are queer. While various popular works of the genre might elide it, this fact is buried in the genre’s roots. In 1816, Polidori publishes The Vampyre, a thinly veiled […]
This series is made possible by a commission from Frank Hecker. You can find out more about commissions here. Intro / Previous Go for Broke! “To risk everything in the hope of having great success.” Origin: American, from the gambling game craps (y’know, like Guys & Dolls? No? Just me?). […]
This series is made possible by a commission from Frank Hecker. You can find out more about commissions here. Intro / Previous It has been a hot minute—DOUBLE DECKER has come, gone, and been soul-crushingly disappointing, and there’s still neither hide nor hair of the supposed second season we were […]
This essay was commissioned by Wendy Cannan. You can find out more about commissions here. “Bad on purpose” is an extremely difficult sell. It requires a much higher level of shared knowledge than straightforward comedy—both because the creator must know how to replicate the hallmarks of amateurishness while still […]
This series is made possible by a commission from Frank Hecker. You can find out more about commissions here. Intro / Previous
This series is made possible by a commission from Frank Hecker. You can find out more about commissions here. Intro / Previous A Good Beginning Makes a Good Ending “Being well-prepared and focused at the start of something often leads to success.” Origin: Middle English, from the South English […]
This series is made possible by a commission from Frank Hecker. You can find out more about commissions here. Intro All’s Well That Ends Well. “if the outcome of a situation is happy, this compensates for any previous difficulty or unpleasantness.” Origin: possibly in the middle ages, with […]
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