Edgy (but like make it) Gay

Hi, hello, guten Tag, it's been a long time. Here's a special episode of me recollecting and reflecting on a very eventful year and a half. Got hitched, broke down half the closet door, and birthed a PhD thesis, all in 2023. Photo description: The husband and I walking down the stairs while being greeted by some stray, aesthetic bubbles.

Thousands of languages in the world, yet not enough time to learn them all. This episode, I'm joined by my favorite polyglot, Ramil, to talk about languages, slang, and accents among other things. Photo description: 8-year-old me at my first speech competition.

Just because women can wear jeans now, doesn't mean that the story of feminism is over. In fact, it is far away from it. In this rather dense episode, Swati is back again to talk about the image, alongside our perception and views, on feminism. Photo description: A photograph of a random girl with a NERF gun, not a TERF gun.

Is talking about poop unhinged? Maybe. What about butt-stuff? Wouldn't the world be a better place if we're just a little bit more honest, deranged, and poop-tolerant? Kevin is back to have a chat with me about poop and but-stuff. Photo description: It was the year of my poop incident and I was sitting in front of the infamous desktop computer.

Blue for boys and pink for girls? Pfft. That's not just outdated, that's lazy and tired. Here, we talked about gender identity, pronouns, and, just generally speaking, being people who are just a tad more mindful. Photo description: Indonesian is a genderless language, the word for he/she/it/they (singular) is "dia".

Sometimes, the hardest thing for us to do is to admit the things that we do alone behind closed doors, when the only witness that we have to the things we do alone is ourself. Let's reflect upon that. This episode, a confession of the things that I do alone. Photo description: Me digitally attempting to perform a Chidori in secrecy.

I used to be addicted to not just the gaming aspect of World of Warcraft but also its sense of community. Some may even say that I was not a player, I was played. I invited Damiano this time around to talk about the seen and unseen layers of (mostly video) games. Photo description: Tyrande (top) and Sylvanas (bottom), Damiano's and my favorite WoW characters respectively.

I've always thought being anti-religion is edgy, but the more I think about it, it's not edgy at all. If anything, rejecting religion is sane and it makes sense. Mike is here with me again to discuss/bash religion. Photo description: Little Andy during a bible-reading competition.

There's always this great divide, at least in my mind, when thinking about straight boys. So I challenged myself to talk to presumably the only straight boy who'll ever appear on this podcast about masculinity and straight sex. It's gonna be so fetch, bro. Photo description: I love swords since they're so cool and manly.

My grandmother passed away earlier this year which got me thinking a lot, again, about death, loneliness, and idleness. It's sometimes way too easy to constantly ask myself, "Why are we living when we will all ultimately die?", so let's talk about that. Photo description: My grandmother's hand when she was hospitalized in 2017.