Cal wrote an essay about the Starz Spartacus show and its place within queer representation within the Prestige TV era. Brought to you by the same people who made Xena, Spartacus has a lot of anti-imperial and anti-slavery messages and a lot of sex and violence www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Marika makes the gang return to Xena to talk about two very gay episodes in which Gabrielle gets girlfriends of the week. This season is saying, or maybe isn't, a lot about religion, morality, and war www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
The gang finishes out Fallout Season 2. We all love Lucy. We have varying opinions on Maximus. The Ghoul spends some time on the pole. Thaddeus is funny but also gross. Bret knows a lot about these games, but mostly we are just operating on vibes www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Continuing our Chuck Tingle moment, we talk about his second book Bury Your Gays. It is also horror but very fun www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
A Greco-Roman immortal man-hating lesbian crash lands into colonial America and gets into a Lavender Marriage in Those Fatal Flowers. Bret and Cal have a lot to say about the mythology elements while Marika is focused on gay feelings and time travel www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
As part of our Lavender Marriage theme, Marika finally gets Hyperfixation to talk about For All Mankind, an excellent alt-history, sci-fi space Apple+ show. A gay astronaut fake marries a gay engineer while carrying on a relationship with a gay bartender www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
We are starting a themed stretch around lavender marriages starting with Netflix's House of Guinness. Arthur Guinness is not the greatness queer representation but he had an interesting lavender marriage www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
We return to the Roots of Chaos series with the newest book Among the Burning Flowers by Samantha Shannon. It's the shortest, most accessible, but also the least gay book — through the bar is very, very high for this series www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Because Cal needed to, we discuss the romance in the Kingdom Come Deliverance games between Hans and Henry. It might not be historically accurate but it holds an important place in queer video game history and received a lot of weird backlash www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
New episode: Hyperfixiation starts the fourth season of Xena: Warrior Princess. Gabrielle is dead, Xena makes some wild choices, and so much plot and CGI spinning ghosts are introduced www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
New Episode: We revisit Interview with the Vampire with Cal making Bret and Marika read a book. Lestat has a boyfriend and a weird relationship with his mom. The book recons, sets up the universe, and numerous vampires show up to monologue about their backstories
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For anyone else as excited about Among the Burning Flowers as we are, we have episodes on both other Roots of Chaos books
Priory: www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Fallen Night: www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Throwback episode: We used to venture into the Star Wars Extended Universe to find any Mandalorian content we could. It led us to reading the entire Republic Commando series.
👇Our first Hard Contact episode
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The Hyperfixation gang wrap up our discussion of Xena's third season. Xena and Gabrielle are confessing their love to each other in a barn, being totally OK with dying for each other, and being too gay for a 90s genre show www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Thank you for attending Cal's Ted Talk about Dragon Age 2 and revolutionary media. We discuss the way Dragon Age 2 handles Anders choices throughout the game and compare it to Andor and that show’s view on rebellion and rebellious acts www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Coming to you from District 12 (probably), the Hyperfixation gang talks about Sunrise on the Reaping, the fifth Hunger Games book. Haymitch is much more chatty than Katniss was, the movie casting is great, and this book has a lot to say about rebellion and fascism www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
The gang finishes the Aftermath series. Sinjir and Jas don't spend that much time together as the Empire ends while Han and Leia take up too much time. Norra acts like a doofy child and Mon Mothma fits very well into her Andor canon www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
The Hyperfixation gang returned to Xena and finally reached Maternal Instincts and The Bitter Suite. It’s dramatic. And gay. www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
The Hyperfixation gang actually watches and talks about Brokeback Mountain, a movie we grown up hearing jokes about but never saw. Cal explains the historical context for the film, its Oscar snub, and the need for all types of queer representation www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
We talk about the fantastic end to Andor. Cassian and Melshi are roommates, the hairdresser on Yavin is terrible, Kleya and Vel might be gay, and nobody knows where Saw is www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
We’re talking about the Ghorman Arc of Andor. Fascists decide to fascist as Ghorman erupts into chaos, Cassian makes numerous hard choices, Mon flees Coruscant, Syril goes full incel, and the Hyperfixation gang decides to keep Liz around www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
After a brief pause and replacing Cal's spouse for Marika's, we are talking about the second arc of season two of Andor. This is a strange arc that started weird but stuck the landing very well despite what it did to Vel and Cinta www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
We talk about the first arc of season two of Andor. Cassian gets trapped by some disorganized rebels, which is saying something. Mon and our Ferrix crew are going through a lot. And we focus too much on our queer women and their limited screen time www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
In anticipation for season two, we’re re-releasing our episode about the Prison Arc of season one of Andor from when we were Briikasak: A Mandalorian Podcast. There isn't much queerness for how our podcast is now but Marika was still too focused on the lesbians www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
The gang expresses our views about musicals as we talk about Epic: The Musical, an online, musical adaption of The Odyssey. Cal and Marika make lots of connections to modern era musicals as Bret has extensive knowledge of The Odyssey and Greek Mythology www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
In a very lesbian episode, the gangs talks about Patience and Sarah by Isabel Miller from 1967, a historical fiction, feminist novel that we all feel should be better known www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
We support gays’ rights and we enjoy gays’ wrongs. Please enjoy The Spectrum of Queer Representation in Movies because Cal needed to talk about two seemingly unrelated movies www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
Hyperfixation continues our book club moment with Cal's favorite book Song of Achilles from 2011. These Ancient Greek gay boys are horny and fighting in the Trojan War. Cal and Bret know a lot about The Iliad and Marika was a lesbian about the Troy movie from 2004 www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...
The gang talks about the new season of Castlevania: Nocturne. Our hero team is mostly split, but the animation is amazing, Maria gets multiple dads, our straights get together, and we talk a lot about Olrox and Mizrak despite their incredibly limited screen time www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/epis...