The Brunch round-up: The week and how it made us feel

Fortnite’s Sabrina Carpenter skin has pop girlies and guys a little too excited. Players are getting together and dancing in the game when they should have been completing missions. Others are fed up and are threatening to quit the game. Such drama! Then, Deadpool joined in for a dance sesh too. That’s how to be a fan!

Coachella 2025 is on in California. Usually, we’d be dying of FOMO. But India’s own concert calendar has been pretty epic: Shawn Mendes, Hanumankind and Ed Sheeran this year. Three of Coachella’s four headliners have already played in India: Green Day (Lolla last month), Post Malone (2022), and Lady Gaga (2011). Travis Scott lands in Delhi in October. Indio = No. India = Yes.

Gorillas take direct eye contact as a threat and tend to attack zoo visitors. So, Rotterdam Zoo hands out cardboard specs featuring images of eyes looking sideways. OK, we need these for non-gorilla situations. Like when your boss scans the room for a scapegoat. Or when you’re eyeing a hottie.

Netherfielders assemble! Netflix’s cast for its Pride and Prejudice series includes Emma Corrin as Lizzie, Jack Lowden as Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs Bennet. The 1995 BBC miniseries had Colin Firth, dripping wet; the 2005 movie had Matthew MacFadyen’s hand flex. What will the new Mr Darcy give us? Hope he’s... tolerable.

George Clooney had a tequila brand, Brad and Angelina jointly ran a French winery. Glen Powell’s side-gig: Sauce. Smash Kitchen serves eight flavours, including ketchup, mustard and mayo. Weird. But not as wild as Eminem’s Mom’s Spaghetti restaurant in Michigan (Yes, after the Lose Yourself lyrics).

Last week, the Studio Ghibli trend was all over our Instagram. This week everyone’s posting AI-generated action-figure kits of themselves. But here’s the thing: Nobody asked for a cartoon version of you, especially if your job and hobbies don’t set you apart from the herd. Can we train the Roomba to clean our feeds?

Merriam-Webster called out Pitbull for posting this: “The word impossible says I’M POSSIBLE”. The prefix “im”, they smugly replied, means “not”. Thus, impossible means not possible. Nice flex, nerds. What about flammable/inflammable, valuable/invaluable, and ravel/unravel, which mean the same thing? Let him cook.

Remember when the only sexual tension in K-dramas was some awkward hand-holding that showed up in episode 5? Or an indirect kiss that left the characters beet-red? The historical erotica A Scandal in Chunhwa is changing that. It embroils Princess Hwa-ri in a sex scandal, and there are some graphic scenes. Finally, some gochujang in our rice bowl!