Latest Lgbtq friendly Podcast Episodes
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Part 2
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - July 12, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHyperfixation finishes their conversation about the queerness in the second season of Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena and Gabrielle fight a god with Callisto. They are basically married and Xena almost confesses her love to Gabrielle. And then the season ends on a chaotic episode that Cal did not w...
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Ep. 1-4
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - July 05, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe gang returns to the messy queerness of Interview with the Vampire talking about season two episode 1-4. Again we spend a lot of time talking about Claudia and the recast. Cincinnati is mentioned and we go on multiple tangents about the Midwest. Full spoilers for episodes 1-4 and minor spoile...
Transness in Video Games
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 28, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCal's Trans Pride Month ends with a talk about transness in video games. After a (very) brief history of early characters, the gang discusses character creation, the treatment of various trans characters, and the ability to create your representation, whether it is in The Sims or Baldur's Gate. ...
Nimona
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 21, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCal's trans pride month continues with Netflix's Nimona from 2023. For an animated kids movie, it has a lot of great queer representation, a lot to say about queer solidarity, anarchy, fascism, the police state, and being a modern trans kid. Episodes We Mention: Queerness Through Xena: Warrio...
Mulan
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 14, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCal's trans Pride Month continues with the gang watching 1998's Disney's Mulan as a trans narrative. Amid all the silliness and memorable songs, this movie has a lot to say about masculinity, femininity, gender performance, feminism, and gender role.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 07, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor this week’s trans pride month episode, we talk about the queerness in Dragon Age: Inquisition. Cal mostly wants to talk about Dorian, but Krem and Maevaris get featured too. This game had a lot of queerness for being from 2014 and we have a lot to say. Episodes We Mentioned: Baldur’s Gate 3...
The Matrix
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 31, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDuring the first episode of our trans themed Pride Month, Cal attempts to convince Marika and, to some extent, Bret that The Matrix (one and four) are trans narratives. Cal succeeds on some level so we all get very emotional about queer and trans issues, our own coming out experiences, and what ...
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Part 1
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 24, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Hyperfixation gang returns to Xena for the second season, which upped the gay. Gabrielle marries a man and is widowed within minutes. Gabrielle voices her love for Xena and they kiss, but people still argue that they are not gay. They are basically married now and we are only halfway through...
The Sandman: The Netflix Series
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 17, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCal has the gang talk about the first season of the Netflix adaption of The Sandman. Everyone liked its interesting levels of queerness, how much it feels like a comic book adaption, and the interesting updates its does to its original 1980s time period. Episodes We Mentioned: Mutant May: Mar...
Fallout: The Amazon Series
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 11, 2024 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe 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 mig...
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 03, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMarika 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?
Interview with a Vampire
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 26, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe wrap up vampire month by finally talking about Interview with a 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.
Interview with the Vampire
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 26, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWe 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.
Castlevania: The Netflix Series
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 19, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHyperfixation'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 starte...
Carmilla: The Web Series
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 12, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVampire 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 Ba...
Carmilla: The Novella
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 05, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHyperfixation 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?
Kotor and Queerness in Knights of the Old Republic
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - March 29, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis 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 bring...
Fallout: Pre-Nuke History
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - March 15, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBret 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....
X-Men Blue Origins #1
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - March 01, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis 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...
Baldur's Gate 3: The Storytelling
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - February 16, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis 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...
Ahsoka: Season One
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - February 02, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHello! Welcome to Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast, formerly Briikasak: A Mandalorian Podcast. We are in a transition period, away from Star Wars. It is not Ashoka's fault, but our conversation about season one of Ashoka will hopefully make you understand our desire to pivot. The Ahsoka ser...
Aftermath: Life Debt Part 3
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 23, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Briikasak gang channels their inner Sinjir and drunkenly covers the end of Aftermath: Life Debt. The team is separated. Temmin gets shot by his father, Rae kills her only friend, and everything goes to shit on Chandrila. Episodes We Mentioned: Aftermath: Life Debt Part 2 Aftermath: Life De...
Aftermath: Life Debt Part 2
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 16, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Briikasak gang returns to Aftermath: Life Debt with Norra and the crew. They bump into Han Solo. Sinjir is tortured about being a torturer. Jom is blowing up his life for casual sex. Rae is probably autistic and Norra isn't all that happy about her husband being back. Episodes We Mentioned:...
Aftermath: Life Debt Part 1
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 09, 2023 05:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHappy Pride from Briikasak! We revisit the Aftermath series with book two Life Debt. Sloane is the head of the Empire, sort of, and Norra and the crew are working for Leia and the New Republic. Jas and Sinjir are not here to make friends, apparently, and everyone is having an identity crisis. ...
Mutant May: New Mutants: The Vita Aliya Run Part 2
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - June 02, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe gang finishes the Vita Ayala Run of New Mutants with Issues 19-24. The two teams unite to defeat the Shadow King and free Amal Farouk. Rahne's storyline is still bad, Karma gets a girlfriend that isn't Dani, there are jarring artist changes, and we get frequently sidetracked. Happy early pri...
Mutant May: New Mutants: The Vita Ayala Run Part 1
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor the second episode of Marika Mutant May, the gang chats about one of Marika’s favorite New Mutants runs. Cork and Bret are forced to deal with Rahne’s poor writing again. Dani and Karma should be gay. We have no idea how old Anole is and struggle to understand mutant religious practices. E...
Mutant May: New Mutants: The Vita Alaya Run Part 1
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFor the second episode of Marika Mutant May, the gang chats about one of Marika’s favorite New Mutants runs. Cork and Bret are forced to deal with Rahne’s poor writing again. Dani and Karma should be gay. We have no idea how old Anole is and struggle to understand mutant religious practices. E...
Mutant May: New Mutants: Dead Souls
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - May 12, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMarika was able to pull Cork and Bret away from Star Wars Jedi: Survivor long enough to talk about New Mutants: Dead Souls from 2018. Everybody is a monster, Rahne is poorly written, Illyana should have more piercings and tattoos. Cork makes some very good Star Wars parallels and Marika struggle...
Star Wars Celebration 2023
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 28, 2023 05:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe gang chats about what was announced at Star Wars Celebration 2023 about and not about The Mandalorian. Is Cork's theory about the Yuuzhan Wrong right? Will Marika be able to follow Ahsoka without watching all of Rebels? Will we be seeing Din and Grogu in a movie someday? Episodes we mentio...
Chapter Twenty-Four: The Return
Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast - April 21, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThe gang chats about the finale of season three "The Return." The Mandos retake Mandalore. Moff Gideon is defeated. Grogu is officially adopted and he and Din settle down at a house. This could be the end of The Mandalorian and we are kinda okay with that. Episodes we mentioned: Dark Saber Hi...
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