This week, Disney announced that their new action-remake of Beauty and the Beast is to feature its first ‘exclusively gay moment’ in a Disney film. The moment is said to be between Le Fou and Gaston, but this isn’t the first time that Disney have got our hopes up of having LGBTQ representation. Rumours had […]Read More
Like the song title suggests, Jellyskin’s latest single ‘She Sung Oceans’ is a beautiful concoction of minimalist guitar chords and wistful vocals that wave in and out of consciousness. Like the ocean, the song begins by gently rippling at our feet before building to create a tide that is enough to submerge us the band’s […]Read More
Being a teenager can be stressful, emotional, and so so wonderful. As a girl with only seven months left before I’m 20, I feel that I can look fairly objectively at the past six years of my life, which I would consider the most important years of my life so far. I’ve realised that there […]Read More
Valentine’s Day is all about love. But when love is so complex, so intense, so soul-encompassing, how are mere mortals like ourselves ever meant to be able to express our love? Fortunately for us, ‘love’ is a topic that writers have been making into an art form since literature was still in its foetus form. […]Read More
Asti-Loren’s voice has a dreamlike quality that means her cover of Marina and the Diamonds ‘Blue’ is transformed into an intimate expression about the conflict between the need to move on and the comfort of the past. With her debut album set for release this spring, she brings a refreshingly intimate yet bold take on […]Read More
Unlike most wannabe Literature students, I didn’t get into Literature until a relatively late age. While yeah, I’d always enjoyed reading, my book collection had never strayed far beyond A Series of Unfortunate Events and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. However, this all changed at the tender age of thirteen. It was at this age […]Read More
I am not a film person. It’s not like I don’t want to not be into films, but I just don’t have the time (nor the concentration capacity to sit down for two hours without making some sort of sarcastic comment). My parents were never into films either, meaning I am possibly the only teenager […]Read More
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