We are not the happiest about this movie. A couple with some pretty fundamental communication issues goes home to see the parents but it turns out she's still in the closet. Lots of holiday "fun" ensues with a ton of fundamentally annoying and miserable people. It still boggles my mind why this is called Happiest Season when most of the movie is sp…

It's the end of the year! We're talking about the songs, shows, movies, games, books, and podcasts we loved this year. Also Chloe takes a side on Barbenheimer. Val fails at describing games. We both bemoan that we haven't read enough books this year. Check out the description for the spotify playlist. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZPFGMQy9ZfWU…

HOLY MOLY IS THIS SHOW IS GOOD. Watch it and then come listen to this episode and geek out with us! Scott Pilgrim is an amazing tribute to anime and video games and 90s nerd culture. Chloe and Val both loved it and didn't argue about anything at all. Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.red…

This week we were lucky enough to have a chance to sit down with Lambda Literary Award-winning author Lianyu Tan to discuss her dark vampire love triangle novel: The Wicked and the Willing. Both Chloe and Val loved the book so of course we're here to give you a wonderfully chaotic interview with the author. Chloe rambles about ergodic literature an…

Uh oh someone's pushed the button and this spy thriller from 2017 is blowing up. One of Chloe's favorite movies, Val is nevertheless here share quite the bombshell theory on the relationships in this movie. And we actually remember to talk about the music for once! Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmediales…

It's time for a Val episode. That's right Val is here today to try to convince Chloe to play one of her favorite games: Little Nightmares. It's not very queer but it's got cannibalism and wet rats so we're halfway there. Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit.com/r/inmedialesTumblr: th…

Jousting! In Space! With Lesbians! Graphic novel! What more could you ask for really? (Despite the title of this episode it is actually a very YA-targeted graphic novel and not smut! Check it out!) Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit.com/r/inmedialesTumblr: thepodinmediales.tumblr.c…

Ok this isn't queer but it's got a bunch of queer icons in it so it counts! We're ending Spooktober with this Halloween classic that we adore. We discuss just how much we love Bette Midler. Val and Chloe also talk about the Disney channel, other holiday specials, and generally our Halloween traditions. What are your Halloween faves? Did we miss an …

NO SPOILERS FROM ACT 3. Aside from maybe some vague allusions to themes and/or location. Spoilers for Acts 1 and 2 as well as the plots of the previous games. We're back with act 2! This narratively and thematically-focused act stands in stark contrast to this episode where we're all over the place. Still, I think this is a fun one where Chloe desp…

NO SPOILERS FROM ACT 2 or 3. Aside from maybe some vague allusions to themes. Spoilers for Acts 1 as well as the plots of the previous games. Who knew Chloe could instaneously recite the entire plots of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 from memory? Everyone. Everyone knew that. Chloe and Val have BG3 fever. Chloe caught Val playing 30+ hours per week. Val did…

Chloe is eating crow on this one. She assumed she wasn't going to like this book and boy was she wrong. Pour yourself a cup of your favorite hot beverage because today we're discussing this wonderful comfy novel. Topics of discussion: how anthropomorphic ratkin should be, cinnamon roll cravings, what exactly a Hob is, and also a bit of Baldur's Gat…

Back to school means homecoming, the fall football season, and of course cheerleaders! This week we're talking about the 90s cult classic "But I'm a Cheerleader" directed by Jamie Babbit. Chloe digresses heavily into a random story about an opossum. Val tries to keep Chloe on task, failing miserably. For a 90s queer film, this movie holds up! You s…

Resisting the urge to just make the description the lyrics to Cyndi Lauper's song. Ok so we're no Bigloas Dickolas Wolfwood but we are still recommending this unique suitcase of memories to all our faithful listeners. We once again connect everything back to the story of the Garden of Eden. Chloe sends Val her old poems but is too embarrassed to ac…

Ah ah ah yeah Val and Chloe went and saw the movie and they have thoughts. Mostly good ones. It's a brilliant movie, despite Val being unable to sit still for most of it. We talk about the movie and also the 2023 movie going experience in general. Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit…

We're talking about those good, good boys who played D&D as a goof and it turned into one of the most emotionally moving experiences of all time! This episode is us reminescing over one of the first things we bonded over as friends. Val has a controversial favorite arc. Chloe's tastes run more conventional. We try to figure out just why Balance arc…

It's here! The movie of Nimona is finally out after years in development purgatory and we have thoughts. Well Val has thoughts. Chloe is just feeling those dog days and is a little ambivalent about the movie. Woof. Please feel free to reach out to tell her why she's wrong. Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @in…

Val has problems with this book, Chloe has problems with her mic. We apologize for the graininess on her end, but Val is the star of this episode anyway. We're talking Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust which is a pretty good sapphic fantasy novel inspired by Persian folklore. Val has some ideas on how to make the main character more likab…

Inside you are two wolves: one wants to listen to this podcast. The other also wants you to listen to this podcast. That's right this tired meme is actually on theme for today's episode as we discuss the confused but watchable The New Mutants, a weird haunted house superhero "horror" film with a rather good cast but some weird accent choices. Also …

Pride month continues and this week we're coming out of the closet with our fan fiction faves! Something we were both a little nervous to talk about since reading it feels like something that's just between us, our computers, and the NSA agents who monitor our communications probably. Chloe comes prepared with a list. Val is a bit more freeform. We…

Happy Pride! There's a movie coming out soon so we figured we were overdue to check out this web comic turned graphic novel that Val read years ago but Chloe just read for the first time. Val and Chloe take turns interrogating each other with tricky questions for some reason. Val bamboozles Chloe with a She-Ra comparison. Chloe forces Val to fancas…

Maybe we should have posted this in like January but it's summer game preview season and that's got Chloe and Val thinking about THE FUTURE. We're talking about the new games, books, movies, shows, and whatever else that's coming soon that we're hyped about. What are you excited for? Come join our Discord and tell us! We mention a dinosaur comic in…

Is it just me or do we spend a lot of time on this podcast talking about Ashly Burch? She's great but she seems to come up a ton! Anyway, we're talking the surprise (or at least it was surprising to me) smash hit open world robot dinosaur apocalyptic hunter game Horizon Zero Dawn made by the studio who brought you... Killzone??? It's a good game--C…

Watch out! The Phantom Thieves are here to steal your heart to make you pay for your wicked deeds! And Chloe is here to convince you (and Val) to play this excellent video game that is probably the best turn-based JRPG ever made. Chloe succesfully predicts Val's waifu. Val connects everything to Little Nightmares, a game in a completely different g…

Here we go--the final episode of the final season of The Owl House. It's the best we could have hoped for, though we're disappointed the series wasn't given more time to really bring things to a proper conclusion. Also we digress a bunch and talk about anime for some reason because we can't help ourselves. Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.com…

This episode has an accompanying Spotify playlist! We're talking music we love(d). Come listen to us as we recount the music that made us the queers we are today. Join our Discord server!www.inmediales.com Twitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit.com/r/inmedialesTumblr: thepodinmediales.tumblr.comMusic by tatianagladetsk Find ou…

This movie is really good! It's also not very queer! But despite that we still enjoyed it! Hugh Grant is a delight (as are all the other characters--Chloe just likes Hugh Grant). Also Chloe gives Val the like publication history of tieflings at length because for some reason she has some extremely specific knowledge of how devils, demons, and tiefl…

Chloe goes on an extended tangent that involves a rundown apartment, a light that will never turn off, and a listicle maintained on tumblr. Val didn't completely finish reading the comic. Oh and Chloe had audio issues due to airplane traffic :(. But BUT dear listeners I think this might be our funniest episode? Or at least we were thoroughly entert…

Move over Baru because Zhu Chongba is here as our new problematic anti-imperial fave. Let's watch her take the Mongols (and anyone else in her way) down a peg. Chloe is sick and on cold medication. Val is not sick or on cold medication so what's her excuse? www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit.com/r/inmedia…

We talked episode 3 but we were so enraptured by the entire season that we had to do another episode now that it's finished. We talk common criticisms of the first season (though we mostly disagree with them), Critical Role cameos are mentioned, Val is enraptured that Chloe enjoyed it as much as she did, and Val has to bite her tongue to not spoil …

Black is the new black in this teen murder mystery and Val and Chloe are on the case but well it's not really that hard of a case. Topics of discussion: is this really just Riverdale? (Kinda.) Do we want more Riki Lindhome? (Definitely.) Does Val call Danny Elfman "the Spider-Man soundtrack guy"? (Yes she does.) www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedial…

Chloe and Val are talking recent media they're enjoying that maybe we aren't going to do a full episode about but still think is very enjoyable. I promised to link all the media we mentioned but there's so much and I'm lazy so just google it, ok? And if you can't find anything let us know and we'll figure it out together. We love you and appreciate…

Sadly one of our favorite animated series is drawing to a close soon and Val couldn't wait for the final episode (release date when?) to talk about it. Discussion includes the Collector as a villain, Val's love of a good mean girl, and how much we love Luz's mom. Val confuses Star Trek for Battlestar Galactica. For shame, Val, for shame. I wonder h…

A new season of Harley Quinn! We love Harley but we do discuss how we miss other characters like King Shark and Dr. Psycho. Chloe's cat purrs loudly. Val has had it with Clayface. The Valentine's Day special is a minefield of explicitness that we dance around to discuss. www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit…

This episode destroyed us. How could we not do an episode on what has got to be one of the best single queer episodes in a show since San Junipero? We digress a lot and talk about differences from the game and I think we forgot to name the cast like we usually do, but still all we want to do is talk about this more! Sorry about the sound of Chloe's…

Last week's Clexa discussion inspired us to look more generally at the trend of killing LGBTQ people for the sake of story. Val reads a long list of queer women killed for the sake of their story. We eventually give up reading them all because there are so many. Stop killing so many queer characters, dangit! www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesIn…

Clexa! Clexa, Clexa, Clexa. Clexa? Clexa. www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit.com/r/inmedialesTumblr: thepodinmediales.tumblr.comMusic by tatianagladetsk Find out more at http://inmediales.com

Is it just me or does a disproportionate amount of queer media take place in haunted houses? Also is anyone surprised to learn that Val likes the antagonist? Is it appropriate to tell a lengthy horror story with multiple deaths at a wedding rehearsal dinner? Is Rahul Kohli's mustache game on point? (Yes to that last one!) www.inmediales.comTwitter:…

We are disrupting the podcast industry by doing an episode about the movie that nearly every movie/media podcast has done an episode about already probably. What do you mean that's not disruption? But how can we resist Daniel Craig's Cajun accent in a Clue-esque murder mystery party with an all-star cast? And there's some queerness in it so it coun…

"That's a lesbian!" Val, the moment the single gay character appeared on screen. We're talking the 2017 zombie musical Christmas movie Anna and the Apocalypse. Chloe gets on a musical theater movie adaptation soapbox and Val is just along for the ride desperately searching for a way to change the subject. Both of us struggle with how the British ed…

"It's really good but too short!" is our verdict this week. Val helplessly tries to stop Chloe from derailing into talking about one of her favorite game series. Chloe can't stop talking about Dragon Age 2 and why it's good actually. We practice self-restraint and manage to mostly save the best character (it's Qwydion) for last. www.inmediales.comT…

Val bamboozled Chloe with this one in what is probably our messiest episode ever. There's hardly any queerness to speak of and instead it's just kinda a good zombie film which is FINE. It just wasn't what she expected. Val interrupts Chloe a thousand times while failing to convince her of her argument. The essay Chloe mentions: https://www.revenant…

Buckle up because we're not really fans of this one so we're gonna dish! An interesting animation anthology series is derailed by just how much violence towards women it showcases. Chloe tries to make Val remember physics class. Pinky and the Brain and the Simpsons come up. Content warning for discussion of violence against women. www.inmediales.co…

This might be the goofiest episode we've ever done. Chloe and Val decide to discuss how every Overwatch character is canonically queer. IT IS CANON. WHAT WE SAY IS 100% THE TRUTH. Believe us. Ok we don't talk about this artist enough in the episode but their work is amazing: https://twitter.com/nesskain www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagr…

Oh no Val and Chloe have a bit of an argument in this one and it's about a straight couple no less. Still, this series is an overlooked gem where (spoiler alert) every member of the team is some shade of queer. Chloe has to refrain from talking about West Coast Avengers. They both are a bit confused about Oubliette as a character entirely. www.inme…

A little more than a year ago, Val came to me with the idea of starting a podcast. And I said, "Sure. Why not?" And now 52 episodes later, here we are. We spend this episode talking about our favorite piece of queer media (ourselves), what motivated us to start In Media Les, and our first media crushes. www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagr…

This week our two maidenless hosts are taking time to praise the sun, line their brains with eyes, and find the Albinauric woman. Chloe outlines the subtle queerness of these challenging video games while Val makes excuses not to play them. Don't worry, dear listener, I am forcing her. www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesRed…

This is it, ghoulfriends and goblesbians: the last episode of Spooktober 2022 and we're hear to talk a tripleheader of wonderful 90s nostalgia horror films: The Fear Street trilogy! Chloe and Val debate which of the three is the best, compare notes on where they know Gillian Jacobs from, and demand more horror-light horror films for babies like the…

This is an episode of revelations about our hosts! One is a Kevin Bacon fan! One is a scaredy cat who has to watch horror during daylight! Which is which and which is worse? Listen, dear reader, and find out! Oh yeah and we talk about this oddly tame slasher film set at a conversion camp. www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmediales…

Featuring special guest star our dear friend Sarah who is probably the world's foremost Locked Tomb expert (step aside, Muir)! Val is wrong about most things. Chloe asks mean questions. And of course once again we all fail to pronounce names correctly. www.inmediales.comTwitter: @inmedialesInstagram: @inmedialesReddit: www.reddit.com/r/inmedialesTu…

Spooktober continues! This week we are traveling to the sleepy university town of Sharrowford where the hallucination-haunted college student Heather Morell learns that the creatures she sees are real. Val discusses wet rats. Chloe pontificates on the difficulties of depicting Lovecraftian horror. Both talk exhaustively about how much they love Eve…