Thursday, February 18, 2016

22 Podcasts You Really Need To Subscribe To In 2016

Rebecca Hendin / BuzzFeed We asked the BuzzFeed Community and BuzzFeed staff to tell us about the best podcasts they have been getting into in 2016 so far. Here are some of their great suggestions. Chat 1. Guys We Fucked — Comedy duo Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson ostensibly have this anti slut-shaming podcast to talk about sex, but in practice, they use it to talk...

9 Things I've Learned Writing Fan Fiction

Smut sells and misery is gold. Ship to your heart’s content! My audience has grown since my first forays into creative writing; in 2013, I shared half a million words of fiction across fandoms including Merlin, Sherlock, and The Musketeers. My best-known story is probably Torchlight, for the Elementary fandom. Chelsey Pippin / Thinkstock / BuzzFeed Fanfic thrives on peril:...

13 Things That Will Definitely Maybe Happen In "Game Of Thrones" Season 6

For the night is dark and full of spoilers. Jon Snow WILL come back from the dead. There's no point beating around the weirwood tree. We can talk all we want about who will or won't ride dragons, or whether Gendry will ever get off his fucking boat, but the first thing anyone wants to know about Season 6 is whether or not our curly-haired Lord Commander is coming back from...

13 Reasons "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" Is Obviously The Best

It’s time for us to have a serious discussion, Potterheads. Harry Potter fans, we need to have a serious discussion about something. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is the best Harry Potter book of all time. ALL TIME. Warner Bros. / Twitter: @Marximillion_ Firstly, while Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets are obviously great, they undeniably still feel like...

Meet The Women Behind Nigeria's Most Subversive Novellas

Photographer Glenna Gordon spent months capturing female Muslim writers whose books are among the dozens of cheap, pamphlet-style novels popular across markets in northern Nigeria. A woman reads a Hausa romance novel using the flashlight on her cell phone as a train traveled through Nigeria. Glenna Gordon Known as “littattafan soyayya” – meaning “literature of love” in northern...

Should You Go To Hogwarts Or Xavier's?

Either way you are a very special teenager with incredible powers...
Who said Muggles can’t do magic?! Trey Bagley is a senior at Duke University who used his knowledge as a Computer Science major to create a real-life, digital version of the magical clock from the Weasley's house in Harry Potter. Trey Bagley / Via imgur.com As all Harry Potter fans know, the Weasley's clock that was located at the Burrow helped keep track of where the individual...