Issue #12

Does it spark joy?🍅🖼️

There’s a new trend sweeping its way across TikTok - fridgescaping.

Now this isn’t the typical food organisation videos you see floating around social media. This takes it a step further. Fridgescaping involves decorating the inside of your fridge like it’s any other room in your house.

Not only does this involve decanting your food into various pleasing containers, like putting your asparagus in a vase, put some people are even putting picture frames and figurines in their fridges.

Personally, I feel this kind of thing only works well if a) you always have enough food in the fridge and b) don’t mind the complete inconvenience of having to carefully manoeuvre whatever food you want around your decorations.

That being said, if it makes you happy, why not do it? It’s your house (and fridge), so what harm does it do if you find joy in it?

Wow…fake fan much?🎫🤷‍♀️

If you haven’t heard about the Oasis reunion tour by this point, I don’t know what you’ve been doing. Personally, I have no interest; I’m not old enough to have been there for Blur/Oasis the first time, I’ve never really listened to them, and neither of my parents really listened to them although, after I forced them to pick, they both said Blur.

But, there are plenty of people my age (mid 20s) who do love them. This, apparently, is a huge problem for the middle-aged men who want to relive the 90s next summer. What is it about men that makes them think that just because someone (normally young women and girls) weren't around for the beginning of something (Oasis in this case) that they can’t be a huge fan of it?

It’s a common problem; women are consistently pushed out of fan spaces by men because they are viewed as not ‘proper’ fans for whatever reason. Two fandoms I’ve experienced this in are Star Wars and Doctor Who. For whatever dumb reason, most ‘nerdy’ things (they’re not, but let’s just go with the term for now) are seen as having a predominately male fanbase - probably thanks to the stereotypes in film and TV. This is, of course, not the case but this view only facilitates the sexism and misogyny within these fandoms.

Currently, there’s someone on Twitter (will not be calling it X) who is just getting into Doctor Who for the first time because they saw Matt Smith in House of the Dragon. She’s started watching the show from Matt Smith’s first appearance which is the first episode of S5 of NuWho. It’s been joyous collectively watching her discover the show and make connections, despite not having the context of all the stories that have come before. But, while the majority of us are having a great time interacting in this little community, there are a few people (most of whom are men) trying to spoil the show and engaging in other unkind behaviour.

The same is unfortunately true for Oasis. Men have been crawling out of the woodwork on Twitter to slate women they’ve made up for scenarios they’ve made up.

And also, so what if someone isn’t a die hard fan? Maybe they like the atmosphere of concerts, or they know a few songs and want to see them live? I certainly didn’t have a problem with casual fans attending the Eras Tour, so why is it different for Oasis? Concerts are for everyone, let them enjoy it whether they know the deep cuts or not.

And that’s that on that🫡

xoxo curiosity curator👀