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This 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 immersive spaces, how to find personal experiences in theatres, how to ensure everyone in a TTRPG has a similarly enjoyable time, the world of the Triangle Agency, and we sleep no more.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

You can can find our guest Caleb can be found on Twitter @czaneh and Instagram @czaneh

Haunted Table Games can be found on Twitter @HauntedTable, and on Instagram @hauntedtable

You can visit their website here, join their discord server here, and sign up for their newsletter here

Haunted Table are currently fundraising for their TTRPG The Triangle Agency, check out the campaign and the various rewards on offer at their Kickstarter page now

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

It's time for some slept on fantasy

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, misogyny, transphobia, Nazis

This 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 difficulty in adapting the series successfully, the long tradition of boy wizards, being moved by beautiful language, and we read scathing blog posts.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

You can can find our guest Nick cannot be found, but encourages you to read Earthsea

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, arson, negligence, drowning

This week, Jenny Maguire sits down with Ally and Nigel to dive headlong into the insane world of RuPaul's Drag Race. In this episode we discuss the staggering amount of Drag Race shows, the ways Drag Race sidelines minority groups, the difference between positivity and action. and we our amazing business idea lands us all in jail.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

You can can find our guest Jenny can be found on Twitter @jennymaguir, and on Instagram @jennymaguir

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

It's Christian allegory at its ham-handed best

Trigger 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 sexual abuse, transphobia, slaughter of innocents, ultra-conservative Christian values, crusades, colonialism, religious grooming, magical versions of being stripped of your will and identity, sexual coersion, drug abuse, the Holocaust, acts of terrorism, torture, denial of necessary healthcare, stigmatisation of mental health, police brutality, state-sanctioned violence,

Warning: This episode contains spoilers for the entire Dragon Age series

Aaaaand we're back folks, hope you missed us. We're back with a bang, as our guest this week is the multi-talented Ella Watts.
Ella Watts is a Director and Producer who specialises in audio drama. She's best known for her work on Doctor Who: Redacted, Marvel Move and Eliza: A Robot Story. She's also a tabletop game designer. You can buy her queer fantasy game, Upriver, Downriver from MacGuffin and Company. In this episode we discuss studio interference, the lack of access to the original two games, multiple ways of dealing with trauma within the world, extended media in the Dragon Age franchise, and our thoughts on Dreadwolf. and one of us reveals we are immortal.


If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

You can can find our guest Ella can be found on Twitter @gejwatts, and on Instagram @gejwatts

Download Zombies, Run!, the app Ella makes content for from the Apple App Store, or Google Play today

Buy Ella's game Upriver, Downriver from MacGuffin and Company today

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

Sonic is dead and we have killed him

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of Adolf Hitler, queerphobia

Dev 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 philosophy of Friedrick Nietzsche, whether games should be fun, the Sonic fans' relationship to the franchise, and the power of nostalgia.

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

You can can find our guest David can be found on Twitter @tincanaudio

Visit their website tincanaudio.co.uk for more information about their shows Anamnesis, The Tower, The Dungeon Economic Model, Middle:Below, Folxlore, and Love & Wards

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339

There is no such thing as the canon

Trigger warning: this episode contains mentions or discussions of sexual assault, misogyny

Ellen 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 and fairy tales, and whether we have seen Snow White (and is that important)

If you liked the episode, please feel free to tell us about it! You can send your comments and suggestions to our podcast Twitter (@HyperfixationsP), or our Instagram (@Hyperfixationspod), and join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/NQJFFHgpgf

You can can find our guest Ellen can be found on Instagram @bunnymoon77, and her art account can be found on Instagram @ellen_farr_art

And your hosts can be reached individually here:

Ally - Twitter: @alleykat_, Instagram: @ally_k_keegan

Nigel -  Twitter: @spicynigel

If you would like to come onto the show to discuss one of your Hyperfixations, please feel free to reach out at any of the aforementioned social media.

Thank you so much for listening, you rock!

Intro/Outro Song: Strollin Along by David Renda, find it here - https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/strollin-along/339