Cappuccino and Croissant [English version]

About Cappuccino and Croissant [English version]

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.

Publisher

Harmonie de Mieville

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jul 2025

Latest episode

26 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Dolly Parton and the Power of Being Underestimated

   Dolly Parton was instantly recognizable: towering blonde wigs, rhinestones, a Tennessee accent, self-deprecating humour and an image so familiar that generations of people felt they knew her. But familiarity was never the same thing as access. In this special episode of Ink & Acid, released following Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, Harmonie de Mieville examines how one of country music’s most underestimated women learned to use that underestimation to her advantage, while protecting her work, her image and her independence. From The Porter Wagoner Show to her refusal to give up a share of the publishing rights to “I Will Always Love You” for an Elvis Presley recording, from Whitney Houston’s monumental interpretation to the women at the centre of Dolly’s early songwriting, the episode traces the decisions that allowed her to remain the author of both her catalogue and her public persona. It also explores “9 to 5,” women and labour, Dolly’s carefully non-partisan politics, her relationship with LGBTQ+ audiences, Dollywood and the Imagination Library — and what happens when celebrity is turned into institutions designed to survive the person who created them. An episode about country music, power, ownership, femininity, labour, money and a woman who understood exactly what people saw when they looked at her — and how much of herself she was actually willing to give them. Read the companion article, explore the sources and discover more from Ink & Acid at Maison de Mieville. A note on the English version: I’m French, and while I speak English, I’m still not entirely confident recording a full-length episode in my own accent. So, for now, the English edition uses Artlist’s dubbing technology for the spoken voice. The dubbing is the only part that is generated this way. The entire script is written by me, including the research, structure, analysis, arguments, jokes and editorial choices. Nothing about the content itself is outsourced to the dubbing tool; it simply gives the English version a voice while I work on becoming more comfortable behind the microphone in English. And yes, I know: having an accent is perfectly normal. My brain has simply not yet signed that particular peace treaty. Music in this Episode: Eath the Rich (Glitch, Harmonie de Mieville) I am the Fire (Glitch, Harmonie de Mieville) Apocalypse With a Side of Toast (Glitch, Harmonie de Mieville) Who Am I (Glitch, Harmonie de Mieville) [Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton legacy, Dolly Parton podcast, country music, women in country music, I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston, Elvis Presley, Porter Wagoner, 9 to 5, Jolene, songwriting, music publishing, music copyright, music industry, women in music, sexism in music, celebrity image, pop culture analysis, Dollywood, Imagination Library, Appalachia, Ink & Acid, Harmonie de Mieville. ]

2. 

   16 Apr 2026

   False dissidents and the ego of being “Against” everything.

   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 Ink & Acid universe (https://www.maisondemieville.com/) on my website: books, essays, music, and full episode scripts. Keywords 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

3. 

   14 Apr 2026

   We love propaganda stories—Especially when we don’t think we’re part of them.

   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 Ink & Acid universe (https://www.maisondemieville.com/) on my website: books, essays, music, and full episode scripts.Keywords : 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.

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