Ex-Tumblr Girls

WELCOME BACK FROM THE GRAVEEEE (a couple months off)!! We return to the ex-tumblr girl community to talk zombies - the most iconic moments in the zombie genre, what they represent (baseless claim styl...

1 Nov 20241h 8min

Happy Friday the 13th! Today we bring you two archetypal ghost stories: the long-martyred (until she's hated) dead white girl and the present-in -their-absence ghost who haunts the narrative. We dig i...

14 Sep 20241h 6min

Do YOU remember the Summer of 2020? It was a time when a tax-evading raccoon put us all in bell debt just to have friends who were proud of us and a reason to wake up (turnips). This fanthropology, Ca...

5 Sep 20241h 20min

In the next iteration of fanthropology, we bring it back to a high school obsession: Skam Norway. Tori rehashes four seasons of European high school drama that for ONCE is dealt with empathetically an...

18 Aug 20241h 19min

This week in our never-ending string of fanfic discourse, we're getting into sentence-level atrocities committed on tumblr dot com. Comma splices, pet names, paragraph breaks and our very first bleepe...

3 Aug 20241h 9min

In this essentially nothing but tangents episode, we list off all the things we think we could do but have little to no evidence or proof. Could Tori do a blood transfusion? Could Carly run for presid...

23 Jul 20241h 18min

TERFS DNI! DUH! Because this week we're finally getting into terfs, how to spot them, why we hate them, how they've ruined tumblr and tumblr's own role in treating trans people horribly. Terf-blocker ...

6 Jul 20241h 31min

Even though everything in our lives comes back to tumblr, even more of it comes back to New Jersey. As it's fandom leaders, we talk about our favorite NJ lore (the shore, the smelly part of the turnpi...

18 Jun 202459min