Queering the Guillotine

It's our first ever music episode! Specifically, returning guest Maya Barbara leads a discussion of the K-pop industry: its history, parasocial relationships as a business model, what artists we do and don't stan, and more.You can find us and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Podcast Addict!Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that makes frequent use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode features mention of suicide and the abuse of minors.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

Time for a giant-sized X-Men episode! We're discussing HOXPOX, aka House of X and Powers of X. These series relaunched the X-Men line back in 2019 and, frankly, gave us the best X-Men content in at least fifteen years. Mutantkind has now found refuge on their own sentient nation state of Krakoa, and their relationship to humankind and the implications of the mutant metaphor have been turned on their heads. We dive into our histories of both love and frustration with the X-Men franchise thus far, what makes HOXPOX work, and our hopes (and anxieties) for the X-books going forward.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

In the spirit of Episode 15 we've recorded yet another two hour love session to our favorite things. This time around the topic is our favorite western comics. We each picked five which we dissect, discuss, and just generally gush about as we remember why we ever got into comics in the first place.

 

Alex's picks: New X-Men (Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, Chris Bachalo, Marc Silvestri, etc.), The Woods (James Tynion IV, Michael Dialynas), We3 (Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely), JLA (Grant Morrison, Howard Porter), & Mech Cadet Yu (Greg Pak, Takeshi Miyazawa)

 

Trevor's picks: Black Bolt (Saladin Ahmed, Christian Ward), Batman: Arkham Asylum (Grant Morrison, Dave McKean), Batman: The Court of Owls (Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo), Batwoman: Elegy (Greg Rucka, J.H. Williams III), & Snotgirl (Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung)

 

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Content warning: We're a fairly NSFW podcast that makes frequent use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. Beyond that we discuss spoilers for the series listed above, and topic-wise we discuss blood, gore, body horror, violence including violence against animals and sexual violence, bigotry, and problematique depictions of mental health-related issues.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

This week we're fulfilling another Patreon request, this time for the 2020 isekai anime My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! We discuss genre tropes, our favorite and least favorite harem members, overall thoughts on the series thus far, and our hopes for season two. 

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Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode includes major plot spoilers for the anime's first season and touches on the topic of sister complexes with adopted siblings, as well as physical violence against women.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

It's Patreon request time! This week we're covering the 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. It's fair to say it's different from anything else we've ever covered, and probably anything else we've ever seen to boot. But did we actually like it? Well, the set design is certainly beautiful.

 

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Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode includes full spoilers for the film, as well as discussion of fascism, suicide (specifically seppuku), and misogyny.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

Soraya the Great is back for another group discussion, this time about art, capitalism, social media, and all their depressing yet infuriating intersections! We share our queerpinions on:– Higher education, aka SCAMS– Instagram as a tool of commerce and as a poorly designed hellhole– The struggle of trying to make money without being an immoral monster

You can find us and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Podcast Addict!Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode includes mentions of suicide and lots of long talk about the sad realities of how capitalism screws with art, ethics, and virtually everything else to boot.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

We've reached our fiftieth episode! We usher in the milestone and the new year with guest Maya Barbara who leads us in a discussion of shojo manga: what series we love, how marketing shapes our perceptions, and where localization has failed or come through for us. We share our queerpinions on:

 

– Our first exposures to shojo– Stereotyped perceptions of the genre– How incompetent shonen manga is at crafting intentional romantic tension as opposed to accidental homoeroticism– Recommended grooming strategies for men, featuring a transgression about the ending of We Never Learn

 

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Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode contains discussion of misogyny and plenty of very lewd sex talk.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

Merry Jingles! It's holiday season, which means of course that we're discussing...more Junji Ito works. Hey, it's always fun. This week we discuss No Longer Human and Remina and share our queerpinions on:

 

– Ito's adaptation choices in No Longer Human– Narratives about sad abusive men that center their misery over the results of their actions– Themes in Ito's work, and the degree to which they're intentionally developed– The camp aesthetics of a planet with various body parts

 

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Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode contains major spoilers for both aforementioned books, as well as their contents and themes of suicide, violence against women, torture, body horror, death, and chidlhood sexual abuse.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

Another week, another Patreon episode! This time around we dip our toes into children's fantasy with a discussion of Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea. It was both of our first times reading the novel, and we share our queerpinions on:

 

– Subversions of fantasy genre conflicts and racial archetypes– Le Guin's diction and worldbuilding styles– Man versus Self taken to its utmost literal potential– The intimacy of sharing a true name

 

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Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs. This episode contains major spoilers for A Wizard of Earthsea, as well as discussions of war, physical disfigurement, and fantasy racism.

Our podcast art is by Jessie Kraemer (@jkraem on insta)

This week's episode is a little different from usual. Rather than a deep-dive into one specific topic, we had a two hour discussion with guest Soraya the Great about gaming and gayming as identity (or not). Join us as we bounce around and share our queerpinions on:

– Perceptions of gaming culture and fitting into it (or not) – Complexity of character in Animal Crossing: New Horizons– Playing solo versus playing as part of a larger community– What we look for in games– Toontown!

Follow Soraya the Great on instagram @theexperimenthouse and check out the latest EP from Rosy Copacetic on Bandcamp!

You can find us and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Podcast Addict!

Content warning: We’re a fairly NSFW podcast that includes use of reclaimed homophobic slurs.