As morning frost curls over the leaf litter, and we gently turn our smart metre display units to face the wall, we have reached one of the best times in the year for curling up with a good book by some variety of heating device. But which book? There’s so many to choose from! Well fear not, gentle readers, for Chriz is here to provide six (well technically seven) recommendations for whiling away these chilly evenings.
Read MoreI’ve never been an Irish farmer living in Civil War Era Ireland, but it’s easy to empathise with everyone on screen; in fact, this is the first film I recall that so accurately captures the unique heartbreak of a friendship breakup.
Read MoreSometimes, men are okay, and it’s okay to show that with material goods! Happy Capitalism Season everyone, here’s the official Boshemia Boy Gift Guide TM.
Read MoreUntranslate is primarily meant for the vast number of people who grow up outside their state or country and often lose the privilege of being immersed in their native languages and cultures.
Read MoreIt’s our favourite time of year, but the true spooks aren’t the witches and nice ghosties that walk among us – it’s the everyday hauntings that are the most terrifying of all.
Read MoreYou don’t need to be in the same room as somebody to give them an orgasm anymore.
Read MoreCottagecore is dead. Synth pop reigns in Midnights.
Read MoreBlonde is pure trash that both hates and lusts after the central character. If Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame had access to a Hollywood production team, this is the kind of garbage he’d create.
Read MoreThe Queen is dead. The big question is, how long do we have to wait before it’s no longer “inappropriate” or “too soon” to talk about ditching the Monarchy?
Read MoreApart of nature, I shed the skin I have outgrown, Refusing to be restricted by things that have lost their purpose.
Read MoreWHERE is the MELANCHOLY?!
Read MoreAn ambitious and thought-provoking collection of poems, Melanin Sun (-) Blind Spots mixes the many reverberations of a biracial identity with a complex poetics of ambiguity.
Read MoreSoftbois — men who spend time illustrating themselves as respectful of women — are often less respectful than those who let their actions speak for themselves. // art by @chalametinart
Read MoreStranger Things 4 showed that, while mind flayers and Demogorgons are all terrifying, there’s nothing scarier than a white man on the hunt.
Read MoreYou were always waiting for that piece, that final slice of inspiration that would finish the story you claimed would change the world. But the inspiration never came, and your story sat in your notebook, unattended, like a corpse in a coffin.
Read Morenestled in the soft bit of skin between her neck and jaw,
it’s sprouted just out of her range of vision [. . .]
Read MoreMen (2022) is a film about victimhood, trauma, and guilt—the ways in which we survivors can sometimes fail to move on, projecting our worst, embodied memories onto strange men around us, but also the strange men around us who truly do have the potential to be dangerous because they are men and they sniff out and exploit our vulnerability.
Read MoreThe three of them sat together outside the library in that little dark crevice of the universe, watching the lights in the sky, whilst a song about home wafted in the air. Tallis glanced over their shoulder for a moment at the building behind. Eleison’s library was still nowhere near as grand as a good chunk of those Tallis had seen. But it didn’t need to be. It had books.
Read MoreIt’s finally happened to you; you’ve woken up in a Netflix Original Rom-Com. You just woke up and you’re inexplicably wearing mascara, brow gel, lipstain and a little eyeshadow in the socket. You suddenly have a manicure. Your antidepressants have disappeared, but strangely you’ve got the energy to go on a five mile run in the morning? Who are you?
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