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Listen to my favorite gilded episode yet: on gooning

We‘ve greatly improved our audio quality and we went a little crazy in the amount of preparation we did for this one… hope you enjoy! ❤️ Spotify | Apple Topics covered:  Dr. Hole and Ariana’s favorite and least favorite fucked up films, feat. disturbing classics like The Notebook and The Human Centipede 2; supernatural horror vs. gore; horror as a haven for social outcasts and the fine line between horror fan and gore gooner. Fruit Chan’s Dumplings and the extremes women are pushed to pursue beauty; Dr. Hole's findings as a budding data scientist on lip fillers/Botox; the Brazilification of America, body dysmorphia, and going into debt for cosmetic procedures.  Porn’s impact on beauty standards; parallels between porn and images of extreme images of violence by way of Sontag; Mondo films as well-meaning educational content, then as propaganda; porn tropes and Lana Del Rey shaping women’s sexual experiences. Sex as power; Salò as Marxist critique of fascism and consumerism, and as possible admission of Pasolini’s Boy Lover mind a la SmartSchoolBoy9; artistic value vs. gratuitous shock content of exploitation cinema; why every pornsick freak needs to watch A Serbian Film.  Gooner cultural anthropological analysis; the social pressure of women to accept increasingly extreme pornography; is Lana del Rey the ultimate pick-me goonette? The evolution of Japanese erotica from woodblock prints to the eroguronansensu movement; the impact of Allied occupation and censorship laws on pornography and the birth of Pinku films; a case study on porn’s societal impact on public harassment, and deep-seated child exploitation issues in Japan.  The post-COVID increase of street harassment; the interconnectedness of war, violence, and sexual exploitation of women; and our own radical grey demi asexual identities.  Finally, we read a listener-submitted spooky story about a shadowy visitor as a teaser for our upcoming Halloween event, Gilded Fireside Tales. Please submit your stories here!

@taterhole

Sep 27, 2024

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ON MY MINA LE RESEARCH ERA

I’ve been deep in JSTOR and haunting my local library to prep for my femme-horror podcast debut “Not In Distress” where I’m diving into cosmetic surgery in horror films. First up: “Helter Skelter.” Gave it 5 stars on Letterboxd and it’s in my top 5 fav films of all time, right up there with “Perfect Blue.”🦋💉🩸 Pod Art by my bestie: Kawaii Suga💝

@lesshurt

Apr 6, 2025

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Join us around the fireplace for our Halloween episode of Gilded!

Topics covered: cultural skepticism of ghosts and the supernatural, Ghost Whisperer aka Gilmore Girls for slightly goth bitches, our first horror movies, our shared strange spooky experience at a desert makeout point, Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, Hat Man and its potential psychological or paranormal implications, Robert the Doll, Gef the Mongoose, the Bell Witch, the Swiss folk tale Sennentuntschi and Dr. Hole’s pitch for a modernized American reimagining thereof, El Cucuy, Kuchisake-Onna (the slit mouthed woman), near-death experience auditory hallucinations, aliens as a cover for nefarious government activities, Elon Musk’s pork skin, the CIA vampire psy-op in the Philippines, Mokele Mbembe, and North Sentinel Island. We read the following listener-submitted ghost stories, interspersed with discussion: Studio City Haunting, A Haunting in LA, and The Woman in the Walls.

@taterhole

Oct 27, 2024

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Starting over

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.” — Anaïs Nin This is uncharacteristically raw and personal, even for me, and pretty heavy! I know many of you have seen me posting through it and I feel safe to talk about it openly now that I’ve safely landed at the start of my new life. It’s honestly even a little bit embarrassing but I think it’s important to share. I’ve never publicly mentioned it on here, but I have a husband; as of Friday, we’d have been together for 11 years, and we’ve been married for 3 years as of 2/22. I realize now that I wanted to explore what I looked like outside of my relationship with him because I had lost that. This is why PI.FYI has been so meaningful to me as a space to express myself and connect with people—to rediscover my voice. I had been living a lie this entire time, to others but worst of all to myself. He’s been verbally and emotionally abusive, physically but without touching me, to the point that every day I spent with him I was in danger. I’ve been shrinking myself and walking on eggshells to avoid making him insecure and provoking his casual put-downs and fits of rage, while hanging on for dear life to the threads of good I could see. I’ve wanted so badly to leave, more than anything, but I felt like there was no way out and that this was just something I would need to endure indefinitely—but someone who is so very dear to me helped me see that I have wings to fly, not by acting as my savior but by reminding me of my own power. The emotional safety they built and the gentle care they showed me made me feel like I could open up to them. With their encouragement I was brave enough to tell the truth to my friends, my family, my boss, and they have received me with warm, loving and open arms and rallied to support and protect me. The financial and  logistical aspects were the most intimidating to me and it’s going to be tough for a while but I’m going to be better than okay! Now I’m opening up to you. This isn’t the only abuse I’ve suffered in my life, and my old therapist told me she believed it was my mission to share my strength and light with others to inspire them and show them that change is possible. I hope that by sharing this, I can reach even just one person who is going through something similar and show that they are not alone, and they are not weak. People with certain backgrounds may be more vulnerable to abuse, but it can happen to anyone. It thrives in darkness, shame, and isolation—and breaking that silence is the first step toward freedom. Leaving is the scariest thing I have ever done but I have so many angels around me, and I am endlessly grateful. Thank you for being here with me 💌

@taterhole

Mar 16, 2025

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Never changing

My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌

@taterhole

Feb 23, 2025

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Finally Quitting the job that you hate

Schedule sent my resignation email for the morning, effective immediately ✅💅

@taterhole

Feb 27, 2025