Category is: Culture
Haunted highways, ghosts, goblins and grief
Strange sightings, inexplicable chaos-causing creatures, cities imprinted with echoes of loss: although we have all this weird shit close to home, there’s something about the crossover of Americana and the esoteric that I find forever fascinating.
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What’s your favourite scary movie?
Why are we so obsessed with being scared? What’s with this collective cultural fascination with fear? When it comes to horror, I’m a big nightmare-prone wuss and a jump-scare thrill-seeker, forever desperate to understand why gore-soaked tropes like monsters and mask-clad serial killers have such an enduring attraction, influence and impact.
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Notes from the Fringe
Last month, I packed a suitcase and boarded a train, heading back to Edinburgh Fringe for the first time since 2019.
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A weekend at Conwy Pirate Festival
Avast, ye filthy landlubbers. Time to shiver me timbers, set sail and walk the plank…
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The internet isn’t supposed to be like this
“I can see you as you are and love you sight unseen and be lonely with you on the other side of a strange and beautiful square of glowing plastic that contains nothing less than the future.”
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A queer punk day out at Jorvik Viking Festival 2025
Last weekend, I went to Jorvik Viking Festival for the first time.
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Loved list: 2024 💖
A compilation of the books, films and more that I’ve loved in the past year…
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NEVER EVER GIVE UP: In loving memory of Robin Guy
I’m heartbroken to be writing this. But I can’t not pay tribute to one of my favourite musicians of all time. At the end of last week, it was announced that Robin Guy had passed away, and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about him since.
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