Welcome to Unruly Folk
Unruly Folk is an independent entertainment site for people who care way too much about games, music, movies, culture, accessibility, weird little creative details, and the people behind all of it.
We’re neurodivergent, disabled and queer-led, and those perspectives naturally shape how we cover things. Not because every article needs to become a lecture about identity, but because who you are changes what you notice.
Sometimes that means spotting an accessibility feature somebody else skipped over. Sometimes it means understanding why a tiny bit of representation matters so much to the people seeing themselves reflected back. Sometimes it just means spending an unreasonable amount of time investigating why one particular song has set our neurons firing.
You know. Important journalism.
What We Do
We cover games, music, movies, events and whatever else has managed to grab our attention hard enough that we need to tell somebody about it.
That includes entertainment news, previews, reviews, interviews, opinion pieces and the occasional Side Quest into some fascinating bit of history or trivia we absolutely could have left alone.
We did not leave it alone.
Our reviews are subjective because of course they are. Art does not become objective because somebody slapped a score on it. We care much more about telling you what worked, what didn’t, who something might be for, and what the experience actually felt like.
Accuracy matters enormously to us. We research what we write, source outside information properly, correct ourselves when we get something wrong, and try very hard not to bullshit you.
You can disagree with us. Please do, respectfully. Half the fun of caring about media is discovering that somebody else has somehow developed the completely incorrect opinion about your favourite character.
We’re kidding.
Mostly.
Accessibility Matters Here
Accessibility is part of our coverage because it should be.
We want to know whether a game lets you remap controls. We want to know what the sensory environment at a festival is actually like. We care about subtitles, lighting, crowds, mobility access, quiet spaces, readability, camera movement and all the little details that can decide whether somebody gets to enjoy something at all.
And when someone gets accessibility right, we want to champion that too.
The bare minimum should become more bare minimum.
Nothing About Us Without Us
We believe people should have room to tell their own stories.
That means we welcome guest writers and contributors who want to share experiences, perspectives and expertise that are actually theirs to speak about.
We will always try to listen before assuming we understand somebody else’s community better than they do.
If you have something to say, a story you want to tell, or a subject you cannot stop thinking about, get in touch.
Seriously. We love a good rabbit hole.
Interviews, Features and Creative People Doing Cool Shit
Some of our favourite stories come from talking directly to the people making things.
Developers. Musicians. Artists. Filmmakers. Performers. Creators working out of bedrooms, tiny studios, massive teams, garages, rehearsal rooms and wherever else the magic is currently being assembled.
We care about the finished work, obviously, but we’re just as interested in why somebody made it and what it took to get there.
Passion is infectious.
Streaming
Streaming is coming too.
Eventually.
ADHD has entered the chat.
The Unruly Folk Shop
If you fancy supporting what we do and getting something fun in return, you can have a poke around the Unruly Folk Shop.
There is merch.
Some of it is extremely cute.
We regret nothing.
Thank You
This part gets to be sincere.
Unruly Folk exists because people read it, share it, contribute to it, send us things, tell their friends about us, buy our merch and generally keep showing up.
Thank you.
Genuinely.
Every bit of support gives us more room to cover interesting work, champion accessibility, give underrepresented voices somewhere to speak for themselves, and continue building the kind of entertainment site we wanted to see in the first place.
We’re still figuring things out. We’ll change our minds sometimes. We’ll probably disappear down unnecessary research holes. There will almost certainly be horrific puns.
But we’ll keep trying to make something thoughtful, useful and unmistakably human.
Stay unruly.
With love,
The Unruly Folk Team
