Trash & Treasures

Yes, the actual name of this anime is either "My Sexual Harassment" or "Boku no Sekuhara," but we wanted our title to briefly capture the extremely mangled naming convention from the height of this title's memetic fame. Because anime fandom is, has always been, and will always be an embarrassment. We're looking at you, "Boku no Hero" people.

For this year's horny Valentine special, we dove into the infamous yaoi OVA and how its creation in the 90s and popular English-language distribution in the 00s ended up having a ripple effect on how Western fandom conceives of BL even up to today.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, dubious consent, graphic sexual descriptions, and queerphobia

Minotaur's Sex Tips for Slash Writers: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Sex_Tips_for_Slash_Writers

Gentlemen Behold, Corn (AMV Hell): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GTo1zyQXmQ&ab_channel=amvhell

Twittering Birds Never Fly: https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/twittering-birds-never-fly-is-engrossing-gay-yakuza-melodrama/

1:00 Content Warnings and Production History

15:00 Bone Your Way to the Middle

28:30 Behold, Corn

32:30 Bad Porn Physics

38:30 Trailer Porn

45:00 Generational Market Shifts

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We made it to the end of season one! And then they left us with a cliffhanger! Rude! There continue to be Vibes we did not request. But on the bright side, John Glover came back to chew some more scenery, and that's always a fun time.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of police brutality, sexual assault, racism, incest

1:30 Bite-Sized Summary

4:00 Monsters of the Week

30:00 Wisdom from Pa Kent

34:45 Heart of the Show

40:30 And That's Terrible

54:00 The Jukebox

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Our intro is "Slow Burn" by Kevin McLeod.

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Our holiday gift to you, our dearest listeners, is a second bite at the meme, the myth, the legend: that terrifying dead-eyed snowman puppet animated by the trapped soul of Michael Keaton. And also a microbudget slasher. We figured we'd watch one basically watchable movie and one deeply uncomfortable one, and that's sure what we got!

Also feat. cameos by all of the Zappa children, for some reason.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, existentialism/morbidity, graphic depiction of car crash death, grief, parental neglect, body horror/gore

"Jack Frost" Fangoria Interview (Pages 34-37): https://archive.org/details/Fangoria_221

1:00 Battle of the Budgets

7:00 Absent Dad Films

14:00 Never Try, Kids

21:00 Best Bully Ever

26:00 The Sweet Release of Death

31:00 When Camp Fails

41:00 Framing and Audience Expectation

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An academic specializing in fan studies and a trans media critic walk into a Harry Potter fanfic. Chaos ensues.

In which we unpack the different structural needs of fanfics versus standalone works, the problem of only thinking through the implications of your bad guy twist halfway, and why all the most interesting characters are dead.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of racism, queerphobia, transphobia, JK Rowling (the redundancy is noted), misogyny, ableism, and domestic abuse

Russell Howard Reads 50 Shades of Gray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb1i0SD5mJk

Ursula K Le Guin Roasts JK Rowling: https://twitter.com/ldrinkh20/status/1307519066001879040?s=20

Racism in Eleanor & Park: https://www.nupoliticalreview.com/2018/10/31/the-problem-with-eleanor-park/

1:00 The Harry Potter Connection

6:00 Drinks!

8:00 Limited Scope of Fandoms Highlighted

21:00 Our Off-Brand Cast

30:00 Ladies and Queer Stuff

38:00 “The Worst Chosen One”

45:00 It’s About the Implications

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In which two Star Trek fans -- one casual, one Deep -- reckon with a Star Trek movie made for people who hate Star Trek and pay homage to all the good fanwork this movie spawned before digging into the messy postmortem of the project itself.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of genocide, homophobia, and misogyny.

Star Trek by Apple (the Dyson hand dryer shot): https://vraik.tumblr.com/post/632060689598562304/star-trek-2009-looked-like-this

Choice AMVs

Tik Tok: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWaWrvJ7nA

Hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX-cXtmxAs

So Close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCVMD5j0uY

1:00 Trek History

12:00 JJ Abrams, Avowed Trek Hater

15:30 The AU Angle

22:00 Our nuCast

30:30 Enterprise by Apple

35:00 Insert Emotions Here

43:00 About Vulcan

48:00 Compliment Sandwich

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In which an extra-large basket of episodes brings us dead little brothers, sex pollen, and the show somehow pulling out another shockingly decent plot about toxic masculinity.

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of euthanasia, sexual assault, suicide, sexualization of minors, incest, grooming, child abuse, and misogyny.

2:00 Bite-Sized Summary

5:00 Monsters of the Week

29:00 Heart of the Show

37:30 And That’s Terrible

44:00 Wisdom From Pa Kent

50:00 Knock-Off Brand

51:00 The Jukebox

55:00 Best/Worst

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Our intro is "Slow Burn" by Kevin McLeod.

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For our final October outing into horny horror (and if this movie isn't horror, we don't know what is), we looked at beloved cult classic and infamous banned film The Devils, which has been unavailable in its complete, uncensored form more or less since its filming in 1971.

Buckets of criticism, including multiple books, have been written on the film, so we tried to tackle a subject we hadn't seen discussed much: how the women of The Devils are treated, both the actors and the historical figures on whom the film is supposedly based. We read books for this one!

CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of sexual assault, sexual harassment, misogyny, religious abuse, torture, ableism, medical abuse, body horror.

Hell on Earth documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeg1yIvalSo

1:00 To Set the Scene

4:30 A Possession at Loudon

12:00 Father Grandier, Shithead

17:00 Content Warnings

20:00 About Those Horny Nuns

26:00 And the Women Who Played Them

31:00 The Acceptable Masculinity

37:00 Legacy and Witchcraft

44:00 The Femur

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Back in 1943, a queer screenwriter penned a film about a woman struggling with her fear that she had unnatural urges waiting to reveal her as a monstrous beast. Forty years later, Paul "The Canyons" Schrader decided the best way to tackle reinterpreting that hidden gem would be to add incest and a lot of full frontal. It is, to say the least, A Lot.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of sexual assault, child abuse/child sexual abuse, animal cruelty, incest, racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and body horror/gore.

"Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" (Filming on The Canyons): https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html

1:30 The Theory of Remakes

6:00 What is a Cat Person (40s Edition)

13:00 What is a Cat Person (80s Remix)

16:00 Siblings, You Say

22:00 WERE Animals Harmed?

27:00 Sexual Anxieties

33:00 Back on the Remake Rails

39:00 Schrader’s Work

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We celebrate four years of podcasting with the reunion of our favorite horror dream team--Stuart Gordon, Jeffrey Combs, and Barbara Crampton--for their even more cult Lovecraft adaptation. It's weird, it's horny, Crampton gets to play the mad scientist this time, there's bi lighting everywhere...it's wonderful.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of body horror, grooming, unethical kink, sexual assault, sexualized violence, medical abuse, ableism, racism, misogyny, homophobia

1:00 Gordon and Crampton and Combs

19:00 Mad Science Shenanigans

26:00 Implication by Casting

30:00 Horny vs Sleazy

36:00 Medical Horror

39:00 Queer Subtext

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This week's episode was chosen by listener poll, and y'all did us a solid by choosing the post-quarantine horror film HOST. Everything about it is so deceptively simple that we predict a lot of imitators, but who knows if they'll be able to capture this hour-long film's charms.

CONTENT WARNING for discussion of suicide, pandemic stuff, parental sexual abuse, ableism

"Dawn of the Deaf" short film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cziqkD7iO-g

1:00 Background

4:00 Dawn of the Deaf

6:30 Zoom Horror

12:00 Séance Etiquette

16:00 And Then There Were…

24:00 Platform Hierarchies

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