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'80s girl-band show 'Jem' is being made into a live-action movie
If you grew up in the '80s, you likely remember watching Jem, the animated series about Jerrica Benton and her musical alter ego. She was sort of the anti-Barbie, leader of the glam-rock band the...
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How an Alt Lit villain trolled the Tournament of Books—and won big anyway
Months after the Morning News announced its bracket for the 2014 Tournament of Books but just days before his raw, Appalachian novel Hill William was slated to square off against faux-Victorian tome...
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Why 'My Husband's Stupid Record Collection' matters
I’ve learned a lot about music from men. I came to know obscure bands, essential albums, and heavy chapters of musical history through friends and lovers. Men have been an important part of my...
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This stunning 'Game of Thrones' fanart will make your blood run cold for...
What do we say to the god of death? More fanart, please! Or so HBO proclaims with its Game of Thrones countdown website, Beautiful Death. The website, hosted on Tumblr, is celebrating the remaining...
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Here's proof 'Seinfeld' was really a show about nothing
Seinfeld comes closer than perhaps any other television show to expressing the foibles and often-hilarious anxiety of modern life. But apparently one Tumblr user has taken the famous dictum that the...
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Here are the Web's worst April Fools' jokes
The first day of April used to be an occasion on which you were shocked that mom didn’t taste all that salt you poured into her coffee. Now it’s a day to distrust the Internet more than usual, as...
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Yahoo researchers try to understand the mythical Tumblr
The vast amounts of information collected by social networks have raised many concerns among privacy advocates in recent years. Drilling into the data willingly forked over by users, researchers have...
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Here's where everyone's making fun of your boring Secret posts
Hot new blog coming through: Shmecret is just a few posts old, but it has the potential to become an indispensable archive of all that is trite and not worth mentioning online. The lesson is...
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Mom outs her transgender son on Facebook—and it's amazing
Jodi Gholson Oliver loves Peanuts (the comic), Starbucks, and her family. Her Facebook is full of all three. So when her 19-year-old son, Jes, came to her and told her that he was going to be living...
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'Brozen': Is there really a 'Frozen' fandom for bros?
You may be a bro, and you may like the movie Frozen, but let's be clear: “Brozen” is not and will never be A Thing. Thanks to the recent influx of bro-nouns (“brogurt” isn’t a real thing either,...
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Here's why it's time to take Wattpad seriously
You might want to start paying closer attention to all those One Direction fics. They could be the new YouTube of the Internet.Wattpad is the sleeping giant nestled at the back doors of both digital...
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Apparently, rappers get their style inspiration from pre-16th-century art
Rappers often posture themselves as kings, gods, or reincarnated deities, and their aesthetic mirrors those assertions. But what if there was a deeper parallel? Say, between rappers’ aesthetics and...
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People are playing their cats like instruments for 'Cat Band'
What if we used cats as musical instruments? It sounds like an idea born on night of heavy drinking. Only unlike most of those terrible ideas, this one actually make it Tumblr by way of "Cat-band.”...
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Boyfriend Twin isn't about ego—it's about the need for belonging
Of all the benefits of a same-gender relationship, the biggest perk has got to be the increased clothing options. If you’re queer and dating someone around your size, you immediately have doubled your...
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The TL;DR Wikipedia is a glossary for the ultra-lazy
Here’s a brilliant new Tumblr that’s way too funny not to be the work of a professional: TL;DR Wikipedia, which makes fake, abbreviated Wikipedia entries that even the laziest reader has time to...
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How to stop the Internet from ruining 'Game of Thrones' for you
The Internet is dark and full of spoilers. You could have never seen an episode of Game of Thrones in your life, but you probably already know what happened Sunday night. You could probably even name...
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Why is it OK for teens to use hookup apps?
Right off the bat, let’s get one thing straight: Teens should absolutely be making out, hooking up, whatever they prefer to call it. They should be messily frenching in public, to the revulsion of any...
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Time Is a Flat Circus shows us the real origins of 'True Detective'
In retrospect, we always knew all those images of a peaceful happy family were masking a dark Lovecraftian horror. The new Tumblr parody Time Is a Flat Circus has taken True Detective's mystical...
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Kid writes the best poem ever about how much poetry sucks
A fifth-grader participating in an “Adventures in Creative Writing” session with the literacy non-profit Open Books was none too enthused about the prospect of penning some slam poetry. Nevertheless,...
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Here's what movie posters might look like with 1-star Amazon reviews
Reviews on movie posters are their own strange poetry, wrought from impossibly positive reviews by possibly fake critics vomiting amber waves of praise on blockbuster films. The mission of...
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