Hyperfixations

Put on your mask and let's get into itThis week, Caleb Zane Huett, children's author, and one of the founders of Haunted Table Games - the company behind the ultra successful Triangle Agency, sits down with Ally and Nigel to discuss the world of immersive theatre. In this episode we discuss creating...

It's time for some slept on fantasyTrigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, misogyny, transphobia, NazisThis week, Nick joins Ally and Nigel to talk about Ursula K. Le Guin's classic series Earthsea. In this episode we discuss daoist philosophical influences, the dif...

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody elseTrigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, arson, negligence, drowningThis week, Jenny Maguire sits down with Ally and Nigel to dive headlong into the insane worl...

It's Christian allegory at its ham-handed bestTrigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of religious abuse, religious trauma, historical religious abuse, sexism, ableism, homophobia, racism, genocide, sexual trauma, sexual abuse, rape, Islamophobia, slavery, child death, child s...

Sonic is dead and we have killed himTrigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of Adolf Hitler, queerphobiaDev joins Ally and Nigel for a murder mystery investigation. Who's dead, you ask? Sonic the Hedgehog! In this episode, we discuss the game's surprising links to the philosop...

There is no such thing as the canonTrigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of sexual assault, misogynyEllen returns to the pod to discuss her passion: fairy tales. We talk about iterative cycles of myth, being terrified as children, how there is no one true version of myths an...

Our frontal lobes aren't even fully developedTrigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of labour exploitation, child exploitation, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, medication, psychosis, predatory behaviour towards children, method acting, Jared Leto, Harvey Weinstein, sexism, misogyn...

There are only a finite amount of story ideas, but infinite permutations.Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of drug use, alcohol use, sex and porn, gorePhoebe A. Xavier is a sci-fi comic book writer, and today joins Ally and Nigel to discuss her recently released short st...

Have I read Animorphs? Yes yes yes yes.Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of lgenocide, war, child soldiersLet it never be said we can't be both serious and silly. Floyd brings us Animorphs to discuss this week, and what starts off as a fairly innocuous chat about some ch...

Return to the world of Priory...Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, sexismSamantha Shannon is the author of the bestselling The Bone Season series, and the smash-hit Priory of the Orange Tree, and joins Ally and Nigel to discuss its upcoming prequel, A Day of Fa...