Liminal Queens

You better watch out, there’s quicksand about! In Part 1 of this series on Millennial Fears (yes, there are so many, we had to break them up into parts!), we’re deep diving into the plethora of natural hazards which seemed to be a real and present danger during our childhood – we’re talking volcanoes, tornados, acid rain, and the infamous quicksand! How much truth was there to the reality of these...

Remember when you were ten and suddenly responsible for keeping a tiny pixelated creature alive? This week, we’re revisiting the Tamagotchi craze — that weirdly intense moment when every kid became a round-the-clock carer for a digital pet. We unpack how this pocket-sized obsession swept the playgrounds, spawned knock-offs, got banned from classrooms, and somehow taught us about responsibility, gu...

Liminal Lite is our bite-sized bonus series — quick reflections under 10 minutes, recorded when the world throws a pop culture curveball that sends us spiralling back into childhood memories. These are little brain dumps, triggered when today's trends echo something oddly familiar from the '80s, '90s or early 2000s. In each Liminal Lite, we explore the cyclical nature of culture — how things retur...

Before the App Store, before Steam, and long before anyone had heard of “indie devs,” there was shareware — a scrappy, trust-based model that had kids loading mysterious floppy disks into family computers and hoping for the best. In this episode, we boot up a deep dive into the weird, wonderful world of shareware gaming. From Commander Keen to Duke Nukem , we explore how these games spread through...

In this first episode of Liminal Queens , we launch straight into one of the most formative and unshakable phenomena of millennial childhood: alien panic . Why were we — a whole generation of kids — so afraid of being abducted by aliens? Why did we lie awake at night convinced there were UFOs outside our windows? And how did that specific, bug-eyed alien face end up burned into our collective memo...