BAIT: a queerbaiting podcast

Welcome back to another (highly requested) Bait, featuring special guest star Brian! In this episode, we discuss the procedural format, Ryan Murphy's reign of terror, and whether or not we'll have to issue a retraction for this episode someday. This episode's suggested pairing is Doctor Odyssey, get throuple baited. Note: this episode was recorded a few months ago (sorry!) so we may not be up to d...

Welcome back to Bait! In this episode, we discuss musical theatre girls, RPF, and how yuri is so back. This week's suggested pairing is BOY MY GREATNESS, Zoe's play which you can now stream on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/boy-my-greatness-101958042 NOTE: We're getting back into the swing of things, so the audio quality is a bit crummy this episode! Maj will scrounge up a microphone for n...

This is a bit of a different episode! Instead of covering one queerbait, we're touching on a few different ships that have been highly requested but that we wouldn't normally dedicate a full episode to, plus one special surprise ship at the end that may not be bait, and may never have been requested, but we just wanted to talk about it. This week's suggested pairing is the essay In Defense of Dead...

Bait's Back Baby! This week we talk about (what we believe) is Marvel's only True Queerbait. Join us as we talk about girlbossery, Carol "Deadbeat" Danvers, and the nature of superhero movies. This week's suggested pairing is Wandavision. You should watch it, it's fun.

Bait's official statement on Destiel, the end of Supernatural, and the future of queerbaiting. Yeah. There was no way to make this any shorter.

Welcome to our second annual straightbait special! This week, Zoe and Maj discuss how much we hate Game of Thrones and how much we LOVE Gwendoline Christie. This weeks suggested pairing is one of Maj's favorite fics from her high school days of yore and the only good game of thrones related media: https://archiveofourown.org/works/934161 Also be sure to check out Zoe's radio play: At the End of th...

This week, we cover the mastery of queerbait that is the homoerotic Mark Zuckerberg biopic. Join us as we discuss Andrew Garfield, The Last 5 Years, and whether or not this really counts as RPF. This week's suggested pairing is the Social Network but they're lesbians script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18fur2o-wpw2kwrSVKy-rZbxXIDPafsfL/view?usp=sharing  

This week, in the episode nobody asked for, special guest star Ari takes us on a journey through the terrifying world that was the one direction fandom. Join us as we unpack Babygate, real person queerbait, and the impact of Joni Mitchell. 

That's right folks. The Stucky episode is finally here. Join us as we discuss the unfortunate implications of The First Avenger, Superhero movies as a genre, and the sinking of a ship with so much potential. This weeks suggested pairings are the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, and Avengers: The Children's Crusade by Heinberg and Cheung.

For Sale: Finnpoe Bottles, Never Popped. In this episode, we cover the queerbait that Maj was really hoping we wouldn't have to. Plus: Zoe's cousin Jacob guest stars!

The audio quality is a little garbage this week, we're still adjusting to recording over Zoom! To kick of season 2, we're revisiting Destiel, and realizing just how much we didn't know about the greatest bait on the planet. Join us as we discuss fishing as queerbait, the canonical destiel child, and how insane Supernatural has gotten. Buckle up. It's a long one.  This week's suggested pairing is M...

We're back from our mini-technical difficulties-hiatus and talking about a highly recommended bait - Hannigram! This week, Zoe and I discuss how weird this ship is and how, and we cannot stress this enough, he eats people!  This week's suggested pairing is Killing Eve. Go watch it its on Hulu.

This week, special guest star Adelynn attempts to explain the homoeroticism of the scary clown movie to us and Zoe and I attempt to understand the appeal of Reddie. This week's suggested pairing is Adelynn's Reddie playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3E3jhj4IuX8CmWaIZQRW3N?si=DF1Tllg1QuySvn8M875LSA

Welcome to our very first straightbait special! this week, Zoe and I revisit our first ship, talk about how much we love Billie Piper, and argue that it is inherently lesbian culture.  This week's suggested pairing is the tenrose playlist that I made when I was 14: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dZObb1sMCmT3rMgSvgIQf?si=RS9UA58iSUq-kIDbqFtxZQ

Alright you guys. We did it. The hot new queerbait on the block. And Zoe and I unfortunately.......have a lot of very nice things to say about it.  This week's pairing is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoKhG7P7wA

This week's ship is a case study in the dangers of shippable twinks. Join us as we discuss how absolutely insane this ship is, how absolutely dead inside we both are, and how pegging is the only way to make james bond woke. today's pairing is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eq2oRpoq2s

In episode 4, we discuss why friends to enemies to lovers is the best trope, why Mitski's entire discography is just an extended sasunaru fanfiction, and I submit to the mortifying ideal of being known. Our suggested pairing for this week is my sasunaru playlist, which we discuss at length: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4bDJJ8D84qVvVZBWCmuoVq?si=cp7J5nc8Q9mXvM8pSJQ6YA

In episode 3, we finally talk about the queerbait that inspired this podcast and our love of queerbaiting in the first place: Destiel. Our suggested pairing for this episode is this youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L3EzoF1yGc

In episode 2, we tackle Johnlock, and all the bad writing, misogyny, conspiracy theories, and horrifying fanfiction tropes that go along with it. Our suggested pairing for this episode is the youtube video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM  

In our inaugural episode of Bait, we take off our tumblr-2013 colored glasses and tear apart the caviar of queerbait: Merthur.