Megan Cox

So much Marvel news came out of Comic Con this past weekend! Marvel Studio’s much anticipated Phase 4 is beginning to take shape, and there were a lot of surprising reveals. Speaking as someone who was on the other side of the continent and a country away, I got the majority of my Marvel updates from our That’s Normal Twitter and Instagram feeds, and from a dear friend as I watched Chernobyl. It helped me from going down an anger and sadness spiral.

The first time that I heard Florence + the Machine was in a Sherlock Holmes fanvid (yes, I’m that kind of nerd). The song used as the musical backdrop to shots of Robert Downey Jr.’s Holmes and Jude Law’s Watson was gothic and spooky, dramatic and sweeping. My shipper goggles were officially on. But more than the very appealing visuals, it was the song that dug its hooks in my chest. It was impossible to watch and it not be taken over by the feels as the female vocalist crooned hauntingly.

Punk isn’t dead, it just sits in the balcony.” I felt extremely called out. At the ripe old age of thirty-three, I identify somewhat as an “aging punk.” In that mosh pits don’t really do it for me anymore, and nine times out of ten if an actual seat is an option I will take it. I was living in Vancouver at the time, and bought tickets to see PUP, Touche Amore, Sightlines, and Brass at the Vogue Theatre for a night of ear splitting punk jams.