About Magpie

You can call us film fans, but we never felt it fair to be reduced to our cinephiledome, especially when our film taste is influenced by the books we read, and the music we listen to.

We started Magpie as a tracker of cultural journey, a place where you can record the works you've interacted with and share with the world which ones impacted you most.

We believe that the current landscape of online discourse needs a platform for people to discuss and share their current cultural musings. We know which memes and reels our friends like for a few seconds, but we may never know the books they read for hours, which end up shaping their perspectives. Or the music that gives them goosebumps, or the movies that they wish they could tell everyone about.

In our ideal world, Magpie would lead to more offline memories, more bookshop finds, overpriced concert beers shared, and "what did you think?" questions while pushing the doors on the way out of the cinema.

This starts by changing our reflexes from typing "youtube.com" or opening TikTok, to wondering which book will be our next read, which older film we should revisit after work, or which album we should try on the commute back home. The way we burst the bubble of instant gratification is with curiosity that leads to discovery.

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