Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast

We talk about different representations of cloning and queerness in The Alters, Orphan Black, and We Are Legion. The Alters open up an interesting view on bisexuality, while Orphan Black fought against the main conception of queerness in the Born This Way era, and We Are Legion tackles robots. Episodes We Mention: Hansry Romance in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Our First Xena: Warrior Princess Episod...

Trigger warning for the India arc. We revisit season four of Xena. Marika really only likes one of these episodes, but they are important to Gabrielle's character arc. There is some queerness but mostly just bad stuff and controversy.  Episodes We Mentioned: Our First Xena Season 4 Episode Our Xena Episode about The Debt Part 1 and 2 Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1 Our First Xena Episode

Bret and Marika struggle through Cal's favorite Vampire Chronicles book, The Queen of the Damned. There is a lot of Devil's Minion, but also numerous new characters showing up to tell us about their backstories and so much philosophy talk. We also briefly discuss the movie, which is fun but a weird adaption. Episodes We Mentioned: Interview with the Vampire (season one and the book) The...

The gang revisits the Fox X-Men movies from the early 2000s. They are possibly the gayest the X-Men will ever be on the big screen. Iceman is doing a lot of closeted teen behavior, Ian McKellen plays Magneto gay, and the queer metaphor is strong. Spoilers for Spiderman: A Brand New Day Our X-Men Episodes: Deadpool and Wolverine Marauders (2019) Kate Pryde and Murder Wives Iceman (2018) X-Men Blue...

Lestat defends his life to Gabs and the Fledglings of Failure. Louis has to stand up to gremlin Armand and save Regina. We spend a lot of time at the long table. There are numerous interesting montages and thankfully we have learned that the series has been renewed for a fourth season.  Episodes We Mentioned: The Vampire Lestat: Montreal The Vampire Lestat: New York The Vampire Lestat: The Devil&a...

Louis and Lestat reunite and make a series of terrible decisions on one crazy night in Montreal. Lestat is preparing for his big concert, Louis might be acting out of character, and Claudia hates everyone but Madeleine.  Episodes We Mentioned: The Vampire Lestat: New York The Vampire Lestat: The Devil's Road The Vampire Lestat: Toronto The Vampire Lestat: Toledo The Vampire Lestat: Detroit In...

Lestat fakes his own death, starts working on an album, and awakes Akasha. Armand is planning... something. The band wants to be vampires. Louis has Lestat met Regina and he writes a fantastically sad song about Claudia.  Episodes We Mentioned: The Vampire Lestat: The Devil's Road The Vampire Lestat: Toronto The Vampire Lestat: Toledo The Vampire Lestat: Detroit Interview with the Vampire (se...

Armand is going on an apology tour, Lestat and the band write a dis track about it, Louis is being real weird in that diner, and Cal has made this a Devil's Minion podcast. Episodes We Mentioned: The Vampire Lestat: Toronto The Vampire Lestat: Toledo The Vampire Lestat: Detroit Interview with the Vampire (season one and the book) The Vampire Lestat (the book) The end of Interview with the Vam...

The Hyperfixation gang discusses this highly unsettling episode, which might be Cal's favorite. Lestat finally decides to open up to Daniel, Gabriella is unhinged, Louis is seeking revenge, and possibly Armand went to Trader's World. TW: Sexual assault, suicide, self-harm, and rape Episodes We Mentioned: The Vampire Lestat: Toledo The Vampire Lestat: Detroit Interview with the Vampire (s...

Also coming to you from Ohio, the Hyperfixation gang talks about the deeply weird second episode of The Vampire Lestat. Lestat's family sucks, Gabriella is very strange, the band is freaked out, Lestat is totally over this break up, and Louis is just worried because he cares. Episodes We Mentioned: The Vampire Lestat: Detroit Interview with the Vampire (season one and the book) The Vampire Le...

Interview with the Vampire is back with the first episode of The Vampire Lestat! Lestat is telling his own story through two framing devices, lots of drugs, music, sex, and a hopefully intentional misgendering. Episodes We Mentioned: Interview with the Vampire (season one and the book) The Vampire Lestat (the book) The end of Interview with the Vampire season two Carmilla: The Web Series

Returning to our roots, we discussed The Mandalorian and Grogu, the big blockbuster continuation of the TV show. This movie made some odd choices, Zeb is here but not included enough, and a lot of the charm of the original is lost. Episodes We Mentioned: Our first The Mandalorian episode Our first Andor episode Our first Rebels episode Our first Aftermath episode Our first Book of Boba Fett episod...

The gang joins two old gays and their six oddball children in The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. There is found family, fantasy racism, x-men parallels, fantasy bureaucracy, and campy themes.  Episodes We Mentioned:   X-Men: Marauders (2019) Our first Interview with the Vampire episode The Priory of the Orange Tree Our first Andor episode Camp Damascus

Hyperfixation returns to our Briikasak roots to talk about our predictions and fears for The Mandalorian and Grogu. Cal is worried it is going to be an Aftermath plot wearing a Mandalorian skin. Who knows if we need to know anything about what has happened in Star Wars lore in the last few years. Or it could just be a one off bounty hunter episode. Episodes We Mentioned:   Chapter 24: The Return C...

Hyperfixation returns to Xena, where there are centaurs, lots of gay touching, naked hot tubbing, and debates about morality and philosophy. Gabrielle has confused feelings about motherhood and Xena gets turned into a rabbit. It's a lot.  Episodes We Mentioned: Spartacus: House of Ashur Song of Achilles Our First Roots of Chaos Episode The Mandalorian: Chapter Nine: The Marshal

Hyperfixation watches the Spartacus what-if reboot, which is less good and less gay. It fits very well into Cal's theory of the decline of the Prestige TV Era and the lack of queer representation. We are burying our gays and not letting our lesbians meet.  Episodes We Mentioned: Spartacus (2010-2013) and the Prestige TV Era Our First Xena Episode Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle Our First Manda...

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.  Cal's Source Material Episodes We Mentioned:   Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess (Our First Episode) Interview with the Vampire C...

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.  Episodes We Mention: Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 4 Part 1 Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1 (Our first Xena episode) Dragon Age: Inquisition Interview with the Vampir...

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. Episodes We Mentioned: Fallout: Season 2 Part 1 Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Ep. 5-6 The Mandalorian: Chapter Sixteen: The Rescue Camp Damascus B...

Hyperfixation returns to the Fallout show, a fun video-game adaption that isn't that gay but we still like it. Bret absolutely loves it, Cal has come around an Maximus, and Marika likes all these guest stars.  Episode We Mentioned: Fallout: The Amazon Series (Season 1) The Last of Us Ep. 1-4 (The first episode of us covering the first season) Fallout: Pre-Nike History For All Mankind Yellowja...

Continuing our Chuck Tingle moment, we talk about his second book Bury Your Gays. It is also horror but very fun. We go off in a lot a tangents about 2015 queer fandoms, tumblr, and oddly the end of Stranger Things.  Episodes We Mentioned: Camp Damascus Our first Xena: Warrior Princess episode  Sunrise on the Reaping Our first The Mandalorian episode Patience and Sarah Our first The Interview with...

Hyperfixation reads Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle and you should too to understand this episode. We jump around a lot talking about this book's author, queer rep, autism rep, and it's take on common queer tropes.  Episodes We Mentioned: Those Fatal Flowers The Priory of the Orange Tree Patience and Sarah Song of Achilles

A Greco-Roman immortal man-hating lesbian crash lands into colonial America and gets into a Lavender Marriage in Those Fatal Flowers by Shannon Ives. Bret and Cal have a lot to say about the mythology elements while Marika is focused on gay feelings and time travel.  Episodes We Mentioned: Queerness Through Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1 Epic: The Musical The Priory of the Orange Tree Kaos Yellow...

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.  Episodes We Mentioned: House of Guinness The Priory of the Orange Tree A Day of Fallen Night Dragon Age: Inquisition Patience and Sarah The New...

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 with Olivia. Possibly more interesting in real life than in the show. Cal has a lot to say. Episodes We Mention: Castlevania: The Netflix Series Republic Commando: True Colors Part 1 Imperial...