Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast

Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast

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Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast episodes

  • Fallout: The Amazon Series

    The gang talks about the new Fallout series on Amazon. Bret is very excited and very focused on the lore. Marika hates Maximus. Cal is worried about potential queerbaiting. But, we all liked this show and its very faithful adaption of the video games. Should it be queerer? Who from New Vegas might appear in season two?

    Episodes We Mentioned:
    Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1
    Baldur's Gate 3: The Storytelling
    The Last of Us: Ep. 1-4
    The Last of Us: Ep. 5-7
    The Last of Us: Ep. 8
    The Last of Us: Ep. 9

    2 hr 12 min
  • Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1

    Marika finally makes the gang talk about Xena: Warrior Princess and the queerness throughout the first season. Did all 1990s television look like this? Was Xena good lesbian representation for the time? Is it subtext or is the text too strong to ignore the gayness?

    1 hr 33 min
  • Interview with the Vampire
    We wrap up vampire month by finally talking about Interview with the Vampire, mostly the AMC series, but also the book and movie. Cal did a lot of research into Anne Rice. We have a lot to say about Claudia and her gay dads. Trigger warnings for domestic violence, abuse, and suicide.



    2 hr 47 min
  • Castlevania: The Netflix Series

    Hyperfixation's vampire month continues with Castlevania: The Netflix Series, which Marika surprising liked and disrupted how the gang was going to cover the series. We have a very long conservation about sex. We talk a lot about how Dracula and Carmilla are adaptions in name only, how it started as a movie, and how much this show hates the Catholic Church.

    2 hr 45 min
  • Carmilla: The Web Series
    Vampire month continues with Marika making the gang talk about the first season of Carmilla the web series, the 2014 Canadian adaption of the novella of the same name. It was a very specific, very tumblr moment on the internet for Marika. Cal and Bret find it... fine. Cal makes comparisons to Baldur's Gate and Bret has seen as a lot of SyFy original programming.

    Episodes We Mention:
    Carmilla The Novella
    Baldur's Gate 3: The Storytelling

    1 hr 49 min
  • Carmilla: The Novella
    Hyperfixation kicks of Vampire Month with Carmilla by J. Sheridan La Fanu, the first lesbian vampire and a book that predates Dracula. Why were books from the 1800s like this? Why are vampires and horror always queer? And why won't Marika shut up about the web series?  

    1 hr 54 min
  • Kotor and Queerness in Knights of the Old Republic

    This week's hyperfixation for Cal is about Kotor and the queerness in the Knights of the Old Republic video games. Cal has a lot to say about Revan and how the character's gender is handled throughout the video games and various books. Bret knows things about video games and Marika is only bringing Xena comparisons.

    Episode We Mention:
    X-Men Blue Origins #1
    Baldur's Gate 3: The Storytelling
    Imperial Commandos: 501st
    Jedi: Fallen Order
    Queer Representation in Star Wars
    The New Mutants movie (No one cares)

    2 hr 1 min
  • Fallout: Pre-Nuke History

    Bret explains the Fallout universe and it's history before the nuke that dropped and created it because all of the gang is suddenly interested because of the upcoming Amazon Fallout Series. How does it alternate history compare to other alt-history narratives? Why does it parallel the current U.S. so closely? Is the Terminator future always a possibility? 


    1 hr 42 min
  • X-Men Blue Origins #1

    This week's hyperfixation is X-Men Blue Origins #1, which finally lets Mystique and Destiny be Nightcrawler's biological parents. Is it clear how much Marika cares about the X-Men? Why couldn't Mystique conceive a child? And why would Kurt be surprised by that?

    Episodes We Mentioned:
    Kate Pryde and Murder Wives
    Marauders (2019)

    1 hr 4 min
  • Baldur's Gate 3: The Storytelling

    This episode's hyperfixation is the storytelling of Baldur's Gate 3, but also kinda DnD in general. Cal mostly, but also Bret, give Marika an overview off the basics of Baldur's Gate 3.  How do you write a story this detailed? Why does everyone have so much trauma? How does Astarion think we don't know that he's a vampire?

    1 hr 32 min

About Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast

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Three family members of varying levels of queerness and with varying fandom interests gather to discuss their hyperfixations and fleeting passions. We started as Briikasak: A Mandalorian Podcast at…