MarikaFromCincy

Callisto is what happens when the person who slaughters your family and traumatizes you for life is also the cause of your gay awakening.

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.

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 being a straight couple we actually like https://www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/15704579-yellowjackets-season-2

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 basically married now and we are only halfway through season two https://www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/15126594-queerness-in-xena-warrior-princess-season-2-part-1

Marika finally makes the gang talk about Xena: Warrior Princess and the queerness throughout the first season. Was Xena good lesbians representation for the time? Is it subtext or is the text too strong to ignore the gayness? https://www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/14910687-queerness-in-xena-warrior-princess-season-1

Vampire 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 Baldur's Gate and Bret has seen as a lot of SyFy original programming.

Hyperfixation kicks of Vampire Month with Carmilla by J. Sheridan La Fanu, the first lesbian vampire and a book that predates Dracula. Why are vampires and horror always queer? And why won't Marika shut up about the web series?  https://briikasakpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1371367/14569111

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 surprised by that?

The Briikasak chats about the second arch of Andor on Aldhani. There are subtle lesbians, there is a rebellion manifest, there is a possible clone Leia. We get rather sad and real about how much this show relates to current American society. We are sorry on so many levels. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1371367/12168079-andor-the-aldhani-arch