who asked for this
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internet studies
May 10, 2021
25 Edits That Define the Modern Internet Video And create the vocabulary for an absurd, ingenious art form.
in the stacks
Mar. 19, 2021
How the Strand Lost Its Workers The bookstore’s owner says it’s hanging by a thread — and staff say they’re the ones paying the price.
The Receipt-Keeper of YouTube D’Angelo Wallace is the foremost chronicler of online celebrity. Now he is achieving fame in his own right.
dinner with the kushners
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This Was Me Trying, Says Karlie Kloss The model and wife of a Kushner would like you to know she tried.
2021 preview
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46 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2021 With new novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Rachel Cusk, and more.
unruly heart
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The Prom Isn’t the Gift to Queer Teens It Thinks It IsThe Netflix version is a straight person’s imagining of a gay love story for a straight audience … made by a gay person? Make it make sense.
way too close reads
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Thank You, Taylor Swift, for Making My Sad Yuletide Gay(er) With “dorothea,” Swift revives the same narrative device she employed on “betty.”
A Brief Recounting of Me Watching Ammonite on My Couch At least hanging a giant mirror with my girlfriend during intermission felt queer, unlike this movie.
the quarries
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The First (And Dear God, It Better Be the Last) Quarries In which we award the most original, absurd, scrappy, and ingenious works that shaped our year in quarantine.
Mary Steenburgen’s iPad Is the Real Star of Happiest Season It’s the one element of this film that is absolutely, unimpeachably perfect.
happiest season
Nov. 24, 2020
How Does One Make the Yuletide Gay? Happiest Season isn’t a perfect LGBTQ Christmas movie, but does it need to be?
the crown season 4
Nov. 16, 2020
Your Burning The Crown Historical Questions, Googled I looked up season four’s biggest “wait, really?”moments so you don’t have to.
lingering questions
Nov. 13, 2020
Every Question I Had Watching Dash & Lily You’ll laugh. You’ll probably not cry. You’ll ideally feel some joy. And you’ll have questions. So many questions.
we have arrived
Nov. 6, 2020
People! Are! Worth! Saving! We have arrived. We have arrived.
extremely online
Nov. 4, 2020
Kimberly J. Brown Answers Every Question We Have About Halloweentown On riding brooms with Debbie Reynolds, dating her Disney movie co-star, and how the writers changed the ending at the last second.
Judge Drops New York City Ballet From Nude Photo Lawsuit The lawsuit began two years ago when ballerina Alexandra Waterbury discovered nude photographs sent without her consent.
trailer mix
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must reads
Sept. 18, 2020
Here Is the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction Long List The winner’s will be announced at a (virtual, duh) awards ceremony later this fall.
Booker Prize Shortlist Announced, Noticeably Short on Hilary Mantel The six authors up for the prestigious literary award are the most diverse group in Booker history.
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Sept. 8, 2020
extremely online
Aug. 31, 2020
Bella Thorne Broke OnlyFans (No, Not Like That) The often NSFW platform suddenly placed caps on creator earnings, a change many are linking to Thorne allegedly scamming her followers over a nude.
oh bless the lord my soul
Aug. 31, 2020
Prepare Ye, a Stephen Schwartz Documentary Approaches Defying Gravity chronicles the life’s work of the artist behind shows like Wicked and Godspell .
Trump Will Be Hearing From TikTok’s Attorneys The company is suing the Trump administration.
Elaine Hendrix Answers Every Question We Have About The Parent Trap The actress talks memories of Natasha Richardson, the cut scene she still thinks about, and the secrets she keeps about that lizard scene.
look at you strawberry blonde
Aug. 18, 2020
Tess Holliday Doesn’t ‘Give a S - - -’ About Wearing the Strawberry Dress First “As much as I’m tired of talking about this, I realize I still have a lot of work to do.”
Jenna Marbles and Julien Solomita to End Podcast The YouTuber announced earlier this summer that she was stepping away from her channels and her tens of millions of subscribers.
moose murders
Aug. 12, 2020
George R.R. Martin Accused of Racism, Generally Sucking After Hosting Hugos He repeatedly referenced John Campbell, an editor so problematic an award formerly named for him was renamed just last year.
extremely online
July 31, 2020
Florida Man (Teen) Arrested for Twitter Hack The 17-year-old is being tried as an adult for allegedly breaching accounts including those of Kanye West and Elon Musk.
existentialism
July 29, 2020
Taylor Swift’s Songs Can Be As Gay As You Want Them to Be That’s the savviness of her songwriting, fully realized on folklore.
history lessons
July 24, 2020
way too close reads
July 24, 2020
Taylor Swift’s ‘betty’ Is Queer Canon. I Don’t Make the Rules. Longing. Unrequited love. Skateboards. Gender bending. Rumors. A harmonica! Everything about this song screams queer.
Folks, It’s Folkin’ Time to Listen to Taylor Swift’s New Album, folklore The entire album was written in isolation, in case you weren’t already feeling bad about being lazy in quarantine.
my single is dropping
July 24, 2020
Wrap Yourself Up in Taylor Swift’s ‘cardigan’ Music Video Swift wrote and directed the video and everyone on set wore masks.
kaylor forever
July 23, 2020
Karlie Kloss, You Trying to Tell Us Something? We are most definitely not out of the woods yet.
extremely online
July 23, 2020
TikTok Launches $200 Million Creator Fund for, Uh, Something It’s unclear who will be eligible and how much money they will receive.
The Hottest Burns on the Chicks’ Gaslighter The thing is literally called Gaslighter . What else did you expect?
The Bold Type Made a Last-Minute Finale ChangeThe episode aired one day after star Aisha Dee called out the show for writing her character into a romance with a “privileged conservative woman.”
like never before
July 14, 2020
What Naya Rivera’s Glee ‘Songbird’ Performance Meant Santana Lopez gave a generation of queer people a flawed, deeply human role model to remember.
Bari Weiss ‘Self-Expels’ From the New York Times The controversial writer and editor joined the newspaper in 2017.
superlatives
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