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A Guide to Being a Fangirl
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A Guide to Being a Fangirl

The fangirl culture is one that is definitely undermined, we all have an inner fangirl/fanboy inside of us. Whether you hate to admit it, you cannot deny that whenever your ‘fave’ uploads a new selfie on Instagram a little bit of you dies inside. Among the students at Royal Holloway, there lies a few fangirls and I guiltily consider myself one. Even though I have learnt to keep my cool at university, I cannot speak for when one of my faves play at TOAST on a Monday evening, and my inner fourteen-year old self comes out and I lose all my chill. When someone mentions fangirl, a 12-year-old Directoner comes to most minds. However, experience has told me, waiting outside a hotel for 19 hours, you’ll find a 33-year-old now and then. I’ve even seen mums bring along their children to ‘stalk...
Review: Vernon God Little
Culture & Literature, Theatre & Performance

Review: Vernon God Little

On November the 19th I attended The Student Workshop’s second performance of ‘Vernon God little’, what I didn’t know is that I would be transported into the shoes of an almost 17-year-old teenager from Texas. The murder mystery follows through the eyes of Vernon; he is wrongly accused of being an accessory to a school massacre which we find out was committed by his best friend. This later becomes the talk of the local town in which by the end reaches national news. The further Vernon runs, the more he is assumed to be a serial killer which lands him on a reality ‘I’m a celeb get me out of here’ kind of show, in which people have to vote for the next life to be ended on death row. We learn no one is who they really seem to be, the local TV repairman may be an on-the-spot TV reporter a...