GormenCast returns!

Come with us on an intensely confusing journey through the castle’s twisted halls, as we lose our minds over part 1 of Gormenghast!

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I am so very, very clever

Oh no I’m playing Dragon Age again

3: Gender on the Discworld (Affirmations on a Postcard from Scritz) YouTube video by The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret podcast

Apropos of nothing (and certainly not a trailer dropping) quick reminder that Terry Pratchett was fucking great, and consuming media made by bigots is a shit thing to do!

Also last year we did an episode about Gender on the Discworld with lovely messages of trans inclusion from some great people.

If it’s the famous lot this is going to have serious implications for the ginger beer industry

Screen grab of a local newspaper headline: “Five on the run after man stabbed on town estate”

It’s sad to see this happening to a treasured boyband from my youth.

It’s time to get back on my bullshit.

Finally, I’ll be reading Gormenghast.

If I’d had a bigger word count on this book the supernatural chapter could easily have had 10,000 words on how poorly the show treats its women (and I don’t think the fandom is to blame)

I saw! It’s going in the post tomorrow :)

American Teen Dramas When teenagers emerged as a unique television audience in the early nineties, the way stories were told on screen changed forever. Overnight vampires became about…

And that’s all! Buy my book (please) and support women’s wrongs!

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Finally, Riverdale.

This is another everyone-is-bad/the-show-is-the-villain and I’m still not clear on wtf happened despite writing about it at length.

So let’s go with Michelle Gomez as Lilith from the Sabrina spin-off, because…it’s Michelle Gomez.

Next: Once Upon a Time

This is the one that made me such a staunch supporter of women’s wrongs. THE villain.

Lana Parilla as Regina, the Evil Queen. Every single (Enchanted Forest) outfit was ridiculous. 10/10 no notes.

Vampire Diaries time and Katherine Pierce!

The icon, the legend, the evil, the delight every time she turned up (and the way I thought “yay, they got that actress back” even though it was the main actress in a wig)

Nina Dobrev should have been paid SO MUCH MORE

Unfortunately now it’s Glee, and the real villain is the show itself.

But Naya Rivera was amazing, and Santana deserved the world. (Chaotic bisexuals all deserve the world.)

Next: Supernatural (or; fuck me women were wronged on this show)

But Rowena was the most delightfully charming queen of hell I ever did see. 10/10, would let her wrong me in a heartbeat.

Gossip Girl:

Everyone is a villain in this show but Michelle Trachtenberg (RIP) as Georgina Sparks was a masterclass in scenery-chomping, unhinged evil. I support almost all of her wrongs.

Next up: The OC

Autumn Reeser came on this show in season three, after the rest of the cast had pretty much given up, and made Taylor Townsend the most charming, neurotic villain I’ve ever seen. I love her.

Next up: Gilmore Girls.

Look, Emily Gilmore is the ✨worst✨ BUT
“Only prostitutes have 2 glasses of wine at lunch!”
“Then buy me a boa and drive me to Reno because I am open for business!”

Is a truly great exchange.

A screenshot of Faith (played by Eliza Dushku) from the Buffy episode “Faith, Hope and Trick”

First up Buffy: it has to be Faith. She does so many terrible things and I love her. Also that boob window was formative for me.

(Honorable mention goes to season 1 Cordelia)

A hardback book: American Teen Dramas from Sunnydale to Riverdale

Happy International Women’s Day! I’m woman-adjacent at best, but I’ve written about a lot of women in my book on American Teen Dramas (www.joannahagan.co.uk)
Here’s a thread of my favourite “I support women’s wrongs” characters from each show in the book.

It was!

A white plate full of food: sliced steak, green beans, chips, and a red wine sauce over the lot

A white plate for dessert: panna cotta in the middle, saucy fruit (honey-roasted plums) on one side, caramelised biscuit crumbs on the other

I’m not particularly romantic but I am very willing to find any excuse to cook steak and a fancy dessert*

*triple-checked that spelling after a lot of cock-ups in the @makeyefretpod.bsky.social episode plans

THANK! ❤️

(The eloquence has left my body)

As of a few minutes ago, I have a complete draft of my next book!

Is it any good? Questionable! Is it way too long? Definitely! Do I still have a LOT of work to do? Absolutely!

But now there is A Draft.

And now I’m gonna go watch Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 for the 1000th time

An oral history of the Dawson crying GIF and its outsized legacy How Crying Dawson ascended to “the Mount Rushmore of GIFs.”

Really sad news about James Van Der Beek, so I’m sharing one of my favourite stories about the cultural legacy of Dawson’s Creek: a history of the Dawson crying GIF

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Catch me on BBC radio across East Anglia at about 9:20 - proving I’m a TV expert (or not, I might fail horribly)

American Teen Dramas - From Sunnydale to Riverdale (Hardcover - Signed) — Joanna Hagan When teenagers emerged as a unique television audience in the early nineties, the way stories were told on screen changed forever. Overnight vampires became about more than just horror, soap operas go...

(Also I wrote a whole teen dramas book with a big OC chapter where I talk about things like that amazing Phantom Planet song being used as the theme)

CALIFORNIAAA

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Finished Wonder Man and when I say that Phantom Planet needle drop in the last episode activated me like a sleeper agent I’m being entirely serious.

(Anyway Wonder Man is great, immediately leapt very high on my fave Marvel TV shows list)

Screen shot of a part word document, purple text on a white background. Text reads “[THIS IS BORING AND YOU ARE A BAD WRITER]”

I leave myself the cutest lil messages in my drafts