Morgan Sung writes about female Tik Tok users making videos mocking “alpha male” podcasters and vloggers using the “bearded cutie” filter (among other things). She includes some videos for your enjoyment and as an entry into the rabbit hole! Start here.
Hey, check out these swank bingo cards designed by @SweetEmmyCat for her Kung Fu Saturdays livetweets!
I remember reading a book when I was a kid about a perfect android child who is unexpectedly delivered to a family’s doorstep in a giant metal can. He’s all dried out but comes with a nutrient solution that they use to reconstitute him. He was designed to […]
The Japan Foundation is holding it’s annual Japanese Film Festival online this year and it is free! Check out the films here. (Thanks, G. G.!)
At LitHub, Summer Brennan writes about Meat Loaf and “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That).” “When I saw Meat Loaf’s iconic “I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)” for the first time on MTV, I had just finished eighth […]
At Slate, Evan Urquhart writes about Meat Loaf, Butch Lesbian Icon. “Gay and queer aesthetics are known for stepping outside of stereotypical categories for male/masculine and woman/feminine, but they often they make that step in one fairly predictable direction that we call androgyny. Androgyny is an aesthetic of […]