Ink & Acid is a sharp, witty podcast exploring pop culture, media, identity, and the beautiful mess of modern life. Hosted by Harmonie, it blends cultural analysis, storytelling, and unapologetic commentary to unpack the trends, obsessions, and contradictions shaping our era. From K-pop and digital culture to books, branding, ambition, and collective anxiety, Ink & Acid cuts through the noise with insight, irony, and zero tolerance for emptiness. For listeners who want substance, style, and thoughts that actually leave a mark.
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Cappuccino and Croissant [English version]
Claim This Podcastby Harmonie de Mieville
54 episodes
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Podcast Overview
Ink & Acid is a sharp, witty podcast exploring pop culture, media, identity, and the beautiful mess of modern life. Hosted by Harmonie, it blends cultural analysis, storytelling, and unapologetic commentary to unpack the trends, obsessions, and contradictions shaping our era. From K-pop and digital culture to books, branding, ambition, and collective anxiety, Ink & Acid cuts through the noise with insight, irony, and zero tolerance for emptiness. For listeners who want substance, style, and thoughts that actually leave a mark.
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7/18/2025
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Recent Episodes
April 16, 2026
False dissidents and the ego of being “Against” everything.
<p>In this episode of Ink & Acid, Harmonie explores the figure of the false dissident: the person who claims to resist dominant narratives, not to think more freely, but to impose a new orthodoxy of their own. Through social identity, confirmation bias, cognitive dissonance, groupthink, and the logic of social media, this episode unpacks the difference between real dissent and performative opposition. This is not an attack on critical thought. It is a sharper question about what happens when rebellion becomes identity, certainty becomes status, and being “against” turns into its own moral theater. Start with the main episode already available, then come back to this extension of the analysis. To go further, explore the full <a href="https://www.maisondemieville.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Ink & Acid universe</a> on my website: books, essays, music, and full episode scripts.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong></p><p>Wicked, Wicked analysis, Elphaba, Elphaba analysis, Wicked movie, Wicked explained, Wicked themes, social discipline, labeling theory, deviance, stigma, social stigma, gender bias, women and leadership, respectability politics, symbolic violence, conformity, social conformity, collective psychology, sociology, propaganda, narrative framing, social order, moral comfort, hypocrisy, pop culture analysis, film analysis, cultural criticism, feminist analysis, media analysis, Ink & Acid, Harmonie</p>
April 14, 2026
We love propaganda stories—Especially when we don’t think we’re part of them.
<p>In this episode of Ink & Acid, Harmonie explores why audiences love stories about propaganda so much—especially when they can consume them without feeling implicated. Using Wicked as a mirror, this episode unpacks the third-person effect, confirmation bias, moral licensing, social media dynamics, and our collective obsession with morally legible victims and villains. This is not just an analysis of propaganda in fiction. It is a sharper question about how often we participate in the same narrative mechanisms in real life while imagining manipulation only happens to other people. Start with the main Wicked episode already available, then come back to this extension of the analysis. To go further, explore the full <a href="https://www.maisondemieville.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Ink & Acid universe</a> on my website: books, essays, music, and full episode scripts.<strong>Keywords :</strong> Wicked, Wicked analysis, Glinda, Glinda analysis, Elphaba, Wicked movie, Wicked explained, respectability, likability, femininity, halo effect, conformity, social conformity, normative conformity, social psychology, gender bias, likability penalty, women and power, soft violence, charm and power, political technology, social capital, moral psychology, cultural criticism, pop culture analysis, film analysis, character analysis, Ink & Acid, Harmonie.</p>
April 9, 2026
Glinda, respectability, and the soft violence of being likable.
<p>In this episode of Ink & Acid, Harmonie explores Glinda as more than a beloved blonde archetype or a soft counterpoint to Elphaba. Through Wicked, this episode unpacks popularity, femininity, respectability, the halo effect, conformity, and the unsettling way charm can help unjust systems remain socially acceptable. This is a closer look at how softness becomes political, how likability becomes power, and why being loved by a system is never as innocent as it seems. Start with the main Wicked episode already available, then come back to this extension of the analysis. To go further, explore the full <a href="https://www.maisondemieville.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Ink & Acid universe</a> on my website: books, essays, music, and full episode scripts.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Keywords :</strong> Wicked, Wicked analysis, Glinda, Glinda analysis, Elphaba, Wicked movie, Wicked explained, respectability, likability, femininity, halo effect, conformity, social conformity, normative conformity, social psychology, gender bias, likability penalty, women and power, soft violence, charm and power, political technology, social capital, moral psychology, cultural criticism, pop culture analysis, film analysis, character analysis, Ink & Acid, Harmonie.</p>
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