Hyperfixation: A Queer Fandom Podcast
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.
Episodes
130 episodes since 2020
Yellowjackets Season 2
The Hyperfixation gang talks about the second season of Yellowjackets. Topics include if there is actually anything supernatural going on or if it isjust group psychosis, cannibalism, Frodo, adult Tai and Van reuniting, and Shauna and Jeff bein...
September 06, 2024
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2:29:38
Yellowjackets Season 1
After mentioning it maybe 100 times, we are finally talking about Yellowjackets. We cover the first season with Jackie and Shauna's homoeotic relationship, the numerous 1990s queers, possible supernatural elements, and excellent high school gir...
August 23, 2024
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1:31:25
Deadpool and Wolverine
We all saw Deadpool and Wolverine and Cal needed to talk about it. There is a collection of cameos, queerbaiting, not a lot of plot, and odd jokes and body issues. But despite all that, Marika is glad Dafne Keen is back as Laura.Episode...
August 16, 2024
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2:35:34
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Ep. 7-8
Hyperfixation concludes their talk about Interview with the Vampire season two. Fuck you, Armand! Claudia has some badass moments, Louis realizes the last 70 years have been a lie, and Daniel should not have stayed in the apartment with Armand....
August 02, 2024
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2:30:46
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Ep. 5-6
The Hyperfixation gang discusses episode five and six of season two of Interview with the Vampire. The flashback episode to the original interview is Cal's favorite episode. Claudia gets a girlfriend and everything is different now that Marika ...
July 26, 2024
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2:08:02
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Part 2
Hyperfixation 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...
July 12, 2024
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1:17:38
Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Ep. 1-4
The 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 Midw...
July 05, 2024
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2:26:29
Transness in Video Games
Cal'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 represen...
June 28, 2024
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1:20:01
Nimona
Cal'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.
June 21, 2024
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1:17:03
Mulan
Cal'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...
June 14, 2024
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1:54:27
Dragon Age: Inquisition
For 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...
June 07, 2024
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2:26:45
The Matrix
During 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 tra...
May 31, 2024
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2:12:27
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 2 Part 1
The 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 b...
May 24, 2024
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1:34:13
The Sandman: The Netflix Series
Cal 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 ti...
May 17, 2024
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2:34:08
Fallout: The Amazon Series
The 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...
May 10, 2024
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2:11:06
Queerness in Xena: Warrior Princess Season 1
Marika 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 t...
May 03, 2024
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1:32:20
Interview with the Vampire
We 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 ...
April 26, 2024
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2:46:45
Castlevania: The Netflix Series
Hyperfixation'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 an...
April 19, 2024
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2:44:09
Carmilla: The Web Series
Vampire month continues with Marika making the gang talk about the first season of Carmilla the web series, the 2014 Canadian adaption of th...
April 12, 2024
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1:48:49
Carmilla: The Novella
Hyperfixation 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 shu...
April 05, 2024
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1:53:12
Kotor and Queerness in Knights of the Old Republic
This 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 kno...
March 29, 2024
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2:00:32
Fallout: Pre-Nuke History
Bret 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-his...
March 15, 2024
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1:41:13
X-Men Blue Origins #1
This 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 s...
March 01, 2024
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1:03:30
Baldur's Gate 3: The Storytelling
This 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 eve...
February 16, 2024
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1:31:37