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The Ninth Year: The Haunting of Swill House

The Miniature Nightmare of Inside No. 9

You know, sometimes, I just feel the need to watch something fucked up.

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Doctor Who: Terrifying Adversary Returns to Distress Itinerant Scribes

Before we begin this week, I’d like to draw your attention, in adjacently relevant form, to the Patient Centurion, the Doctor Who writings of perhaps the only bigger Doctor Who fanatic on this corner of the internet than my dorky behind. I always love reading different takes on the Whoniverse, especially when they come from people with a real passion for the show, and this blog totally fits that bill.

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Movie Review: Underwater

If you’re going to do Lovecraft, do it, you know?

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The Aspirational Teenage Bullshit of Skins

Hey, you want to feel old?

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Movie Review: Birds of Prey

Strap in, this film is all I’m going to be talking about for the next year

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Not Like the Other Girls

You remember that Not Like The Other Girls phase? That time you spent, however long it lasted, where you were just convinced that you were that one specimen of femininity who didn’t, quite, fit?

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Movie Review: Parasite

Finally, the film I wanted won!

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Doctor Who: Trauma! And Ruthless Deities Infiltrate Subconscious

Sometimes, you’ve just got to take a second and send your entire cast to a group therapy session, you know?

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Influencer Culture, Eating Disorders, and the Promise of Wellness

Wellness has a nice ring to it, right? There’s something soothing about that term. Calming. Wellness, like it’s all about shifting your life into some soft-focus place of warm, pillowy goodness. You just want to be well. It’s simple, isn’t it? Really?

Trigger warning for discussions of eating disorder behaviours.

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Bojack Horseman, Suicide, and Sad, Happy Endings

Ever since Bojack Horseman came into being, people have been trying to predict just how it would end. Spoilers ahead, for the final season and finale.

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