Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast

Mar 06 2025 143 ep. 86 mins 11
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Three family members of varying levels of queerness and with varying fandom interests gather to discuss their hyperfixations and fleeting passions. We started as Briikasak: A Mandalorian Podcast at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have expanded to general fandoms, commenting with a queer perspective. 

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The Spectrum of Queer Representation in Movies

Mar 06 2025 118 mins  
A theme emerges eventually but for most of the episode enjoy Cal smashing two seemingly unrelated queer movies together, Alfred Hitchcock's Rope from 1948 and The Birdcage from 1996 starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane. Rope is fun and strange. We all have strange and conflicted childhood memories about The Birdcage, but we know Val sucks. Episodes We Mentioned: Interview with t

Song of Achilles

Feb 20 2025 146 mins  
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. Episode We Mentioned: The Priory of the Orange Tree Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1 Kaos A Day of Fallen

Castlevania: Nocturne Season 2

Feb 06 2025 112 mins  
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. Episode We Mentioned: Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1 Castlevania: The Netflix Series The Priory of the Orange Tree Inter

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Jan 23 2025 138 mins  
Marika finally makes the gang talk about The Priory of the Orange Tree, the first Roots of Chaos series book by Samantha Shannon but the second one the gang's read. The excellent world building continues. There's an old sad gay man, queer women Marika are obsessed with, and another ace/aro character. TW: depression, alcoholism, miscarriages, and mentions of suicide Episodes We Ment

A Strange and Stubborn Endurance

Jan 09 2025 96 mins  
Cal makes the Hyperfixation gang talk about A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows from 2022, a fantasy romance with the most trigger warnings. Marika and Bret find the audiobook bad, there is a rather violent rape rather early on, but eventually the books gets to good queer world building and fun fanfic troupes. Trigger Warning: Rape, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation

A Day of Fallen Night

Dec 26 2024 163 mins  
After mentioning The Priory of the Orange Tree about 100 times, Marika makes the gang talk about A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon, the other Roots of Chaos series book. We are here, we are queer, we are raising kids, and we are fighting wyrms. There are numerous sapphics, an ace/aro character, and some background gay bois. Episodes We Mention: Fallout: The Amazon Series Dr

Dragon Age: The Masked Empire

Dec 13 2024 128 mins  
The gang talks about Dragon Age: The Masked Empire, the tie-in book for Inquisition that also includes a lot of the lore that appears in Veilguard. This series is good at morally grey characters and interesting lesbians. Celene might be the average mainstream American Democrat at the moment and it makes all of us sad. MAJOR spoilers for Dragon Age: The Veilguard (because Bret would

Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 3 Part 2 (of 4)

Nov 28 2024 64 mins  
The Hyperfixation gang returns to Xena for some terrible ancient Chinese mysticism, but also a lot of very textual queerness in the two-parter "The Debt." Marika loves these episodes and Lao Ma despite all these problems. Cal is uncomfortable with the Asian mysticism and Bret had finally deiced to stop caring about history because it's Xena. Episodes We Mention: Dragon Age: Redempt

Kaos

Nov 14 2024 162 mins  
The wine appears, Cal's outline wanes, the family devolves, and chaos reigns! We talk about Kaos, the star-filled, pretty queer, already cancelled Netflix show that you probably haven't watched. It's good, but it would have been much better with other seasons. Episodes We Mentioned: The Sandman: The Netflix Series (Recorded before any allegations came to light) Queerness in Xena Wa

Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1

Oct 31 2024 97 mins  
The gang chats about Castlevania: Nocturne Season 1, a more diverse and slightly queerer entry into the Castlevania Netflix franchise. The animation is great. Everyone has childhood trauma. And we feel old about everyone being teenagers. Episodes We Mention: Dragon Age: Tevinter Nights Dragon Age: Inquisition Dragon Age: Redemption and Absolution Castlevania: The Netflix Series Car