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Disc Coverers33: Going PostalMAIL CALL!!!! Welcome back to DISC COVERERS, dearest discettes! This episode is one I KNOW a lot of you have been waiting for: we're covering GOING POSTAL, the first book starring fandom babygirl Moist von Lipwig and a towering polemic against the privatization of the telecommunications grid. From stamp collecting to civil infrastructure to the finest of vintage hacker jokes, this book is jam-packed with goodies for the most hyper turbo of nerds, and friend, if you're thirty-three episodes deep into a Discworld review podcast, chances are high you're one of those nerds. Neither snow nor rain nor glo...2025-04-281h 39Disc Coverers32: A Hat Full Of SkyHELLOOOOOO, discettes and discerati! Our latest episode of DISC COVERERS is all about A HAT FULL OF SKY, the second novel in the Tiffany Aching YA series and the deepest look we've gotten yet into the interpersonal lives and careers of witches. Is the concept of "mean girls" an omniversal constant, like gravity or hubcaps rolling out of vehicular collisions? When you turn someone into a frog, where's all the extra meat go? And do you think Ms. Level ever... y'know... with herself? (She must've, right? Shemust have. I know it's the first thing I'd try.) Just click play...2025-02-091h 06Disc Coverers31: Monstrous RegimentThis is the episode a lot of you gender criminals have been waiting for: on this installment of DISC COVERERS, we're covering MONSTROUS REGIMENT! Special guest MOSS aka "BEATINGTHEBINARY" joins us on a no-expenses-paid trip to tiny, war-torn Borogravia, where we follow and dissect the worst gal pal road trip on the history of the Disc. What geopolitical conflict was Terry thinking about when he wrote this in 2003? Does gender equality within the armed forces really count as a civil victory, or is it just an excuse to recruit more warm bodies? Most importantly, WHY does this book alone...2025-01-122h 06Disc Coverers30: The Wee Free MenBAAAAAA! It's DISC COVERERS time again, discettes and discerati, and this time we're covering THE WEE FREE MEN, the first book in Sir T to the P's Tiffany Aching subseries of young adult novels! Will we find stuff to be gay and nasty about in this idyllic ramble through a pastoral countryside? Are the Nac Mac Feegle an offensive cultural stereotype? Why don't I have a pair of cool lightning dogs? I gotta get a pair of super cool lightning dogs. It's frankly ridiculous that I don't have them already.
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1. Night Watch
2. Feet...2024-11-241h 19Disc Coverers29: Night WatchDid you miss us?? Back from the Summer of Surgery, DISC COVERERS presents a very special episode: for the first time ever, all four of us are recording face to face! And we're covering the book people have been asking us about since we started the show, NIGHT WATCH! Sam Vimes has come unstuck in time, and now he's trying to prevent a massive criminal paradox in order to get BACK... to the FUTURE. What does it mean to be a "good" cop? What did Terry think it meant? What do we think it means? This is a heavy...2024-09-301h 33
Disc CoverersBONUS: The Amazing Maurice (film review feat. Nero Villagallos O'Reilly)First off, that's way too many teeth for a cat to have.
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IRIS JAY: https://irisjay...2024-06-1123 minDisc Coverers28: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated RodentsSqueakings and salutations, discettes and discinos! On this episode of DISC COVERERS, we're exploring Terry's first venture into young adult fiction: 2001's THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS. We're admittedly less familiar with the YA end of Discworld, so this book's nuanced themes and dark subject matter took us by total (positive!) surprise. What does it mean to be a true "person"? Are we ultimately defined by our base survival instincts, or our struggle to become something more? Most importantly, why aren't there more books about tiny-size animal societies living in a people-size world? I NEED more rat...2024-06-101h 26
Disc Coverers27: The Last HeroDISC COVERERS is back, and it's time we took this podcast to the last place in Discworld untouched by capitalism... SPACE! On this episode we cover THE LAST HERO, a short novella about elderly barbarians and wizard hijinks that mostly exists as an excuse for Paul Kidby to paint some really phenomenal illustrations. If you were a kind of swamp dragon, what kind of swamp dragon would you be? Is Cohen anyone's favorite Discworld character to read about? Do you think Hex could, with enough subtle and tactful suggestion, crack Ponder Stibbons's egg? (We do.) It's time to say...2024-04-091h 06
Pratchat - a Terry Pratchett and Discworld book clubA Monstrous Delay (IWD bonus mini-episode)Our Monstrous Regiment episode won’t be ready until later in the month, but we didn’t want to let International Women’s Day pass without some kind of comment. So here’s a mini episode in your feed recommending some other Pratchett and Discworld podcasts hosted by women and non-binary folks.
Here’s a list of the Discworld podcasts Ben mentioned:
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret, hosted by Francine Carrel and Joanna Hagan. They covered Monstrous Regiment over three episodes in April 2023: “[REDACTED]”, “The Implication of Hippo” and “Gender is a Fake Drug”. You can support them on Pa...2024-03-0705 min
Disc Coverers26: Thief of TimeTICK TOCK, DISCERATI... It's DISC COVERERS time again, and on this episode we're covering 2001's THIEF OF TIME! The Auditors are back on their bullshit again. They want to shatter time itself, and one of their number walks among the humans of the disc in mortal form. Only veteran History Monk sweeper Lu-Tze and his peculiarly gifted sidekick Lobsang-- plus special returning gal we love to see, Susan Sto Helit-- can avert this reality-shredding catastrophe! Is this the least Discworld-like Discworld book? (Maybe!) Are all the kung fu moves and time slicing shenanigans in this book a result of...2024-02-131h 07Disc Coverers25: The TruthExtra, extra! Read all about it! DISC COVERERS returns for another enthralling episode, and this time we're covering THE TRUTH, Sir T of P's jaunt through journalism. In a world where free speech is an urban legend and accountability for the aristocracy is a joke, what drives someone to start reporting news? Who, exactly, are news publications for, anyway? Is there a difference between not being a bad person and being a good one? All this discussed, PLUS an extended tangent on the intense polyamory potential of William, Saccharissa, and Otto. Don't miss out! Also send us your fanfics!
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Disc Coverers24: The Fifth ElephantGhoulish greetings, discerati! DISC COVERERS is back in time for spooky season, and this time we're covering THE FIFTH ELEPHANT! Special guest host and werewolf expert KEL MCDONALD joins us to talk about this dark, thrill-packed political potboiler that also, coincidentally, just happens to be a Discworld novel. Why is this the only werewolf-centric Discworld book? Could prime-era Bruce Willis pull off a convincing Sam Vimes? How are we STILL debating whether Nobby Nobbs is a non-binary icon? We paws to reflect on all this and more in this extra-long super episode!
CURRENT RANKING:
1. Feet Of Clay
2023-10-082h 20Disc Coverers23: Carpe JugulumAhhh, the creatures of the night... what beautiful pods they cast... DISC COVERERS is back, and this episode we're sucking harder than ever! CARPE JUGULUM is the finale of the Witches novel series (...sort of), and holy smokes, there's SO much going on with this book that just calling it "the one about the yuppie vampire family" feels like selling it short. Is it a treatise on upper-class neo-fascism and respectability politics? Is it a compassionate exploration of plurality? Is it a stealth sequel and semi-rebuttal to Small Gods? Is it just Lords And Ladies, but done better? Don't...2023-08-211h 56
Disc Coverers22: The Last ContinentG'DAY, MATES! Disc Coverers is BACK, and on today's episode we're reviewing the last (sort of) and best (technically) Rincewind novel, THE LAST CONTINENT! This book is aggressively just fine-- it's not blindingly offensive like the last Rincewind book, but it also doesn't have a ton of Incredible Sociopolitical Commentary or anything in it, so we spent most of this ep kicking back and talking about jokes we liked. Come for the furries (and you know I do, dear listeners), but stay for June's podcast-within-a-podcast queer cinema review of the film "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"!
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Disc Coverers21: JingoWell, Discettes and Discinos, here we are at the exact midpoint of our journey through Discworld. I wish we had a better book to celebrate the occasion. If Terry had just released this one before Hogfather, or if the "Science Of" books and short stories were included in the Official Discworld Reading List, maybe we could've avoided this. Unfortunately, it pains me to inform you: We done got JINGO'd. And now, should you deign to click "Play" on this episode, so will you. It's a good episode, but holy Toledo, this book had problems that we didn't even expect...2023-05-251h 30
Disc Coverers20: HogfatherHAPPY (slightly belated) HOLIDAYS, DISCITES! 2023 has been off to a bit of a hectic start, but we're BACK with the Discworld series' most (unfortunately for us) time-sensitive installment, HOGFATHER. Someone has killed the spirit of Hogswatch, and it's up to Death to fill in-- and up to his granddaughter Susan to figure out what the hell is going on. What is the true benchmark of sentience, and is it really up to us to decide with our limited human perspectives? Can Sir T To The P get by on a primarily vibes-based Discworld book this deep into his career...2023-03-131h 34Disc Coverers19: Feet Of ClayGreetings, disc-istas! Tonight's episode of DISC COVERERS is a reeeeal good one... we're covering FEET OF CLAY, another Watch book about mechanized labor, arsenic, rat hunting and gender that might actually be the most cyberpunk Discworld novel we've yet read. Who decides who gets to be a person? What happens when we put too much faith into one person, or one idea? Are there ANY cis people out there who identify with werewolves on a deep personal level, or is it exclusively a trans thing? We DISC-cuss these questions, and much much more...
Also, apologies for getting this...2023-01-081h 52Disc Coverers18: MaskeradeSING!! SING FOR ME, DISCETTES AND DISCINOS!!!!! We're back, and this month we're returning to the realm of actual decent literature with the operatic 18th Discworld novel, MASKERADE! Great news if you like the Witches, terrible news if you don't have a backlog of historical opera knowledge. Is Perdita X. Dream a trans icon, despite being cis? Are there any recipes that Nanny Ogg can't turn into brain-liquefying aphrodisiacs? And is ANYONE gonna hurry up and drop that damn chandelier already?
OUR CURRENT RANKING:
1. Small Gods
2. Reaper Man
3. Men At Arms
4. Lords and Ladies
2022-11-241h 15Disc Coverers17: Interesting TimesWell, listeners... we did it. We finally found a worse Discworld book than Eric.
OUR CURRENT RANKING:
1. Small Gods
2. Reaper Man
3. Men At Arms
4. Lords and Ladies
5. Guards! Guards!
6. Mort
7. Soul Music
8. Witches Abroad
9. Wyrd Sisters
10. Moving Pictures
11. Equal Rites
12. Pyramids
13. Sourcery
14. The Light Fantastic
15. The Colour Of Magic
16. Eric
17. Interesting Times
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GRACE LOVELACE: http://princess.software / @bestgirlgrace on Twitter / @bestgirlgrace@social.illegalpornography...2022-10-111h 17Disc Coverers16: Soul MusicDiscettes, discinos and assorted discerati... are you ready to ROCK?! Today on DISC COVERERS we blow your hair to the back of this auditorium with our discussion of T.P.'s 16th DW outing, SOUL MUSIC! In this episode, we dig into the HEAVY questions, including: Can you really write a resonant story about popular music removed from its real-world cultural context? Why is there a horn section in the Discworld's first rock group? And can Susan Sto-Helit possibly be any more of a gender? (Yes. Just wait.) This wasn't THE BEST Discworld book by any means, and didn't...2022-09-101h 28
Disc Coverers15: Men At ArmsHello hello hello, Discos, Discettes and Dischesas! DISC COVERERS is back, and we're covering MEN AT ARMS, the second novel in the Watch subseries and (arguably) the first one where the characters do actual fantasy policework. In this episode, we tackle such important questions as: What does policing mean in a fantasy society where protecting capital has been privatized? Are guns inherently cosmically horrific? And is having a sword pulled on you by your sexual partner after turning into a werewolf very very bad or very very horny? (Or maybe both?) We answer, or at least somewhat address all...2022-07-241h 56
Disc Coverers14: Lords And LadiesGreetings and salutations, Diskettes! (Yes, we finally have a proper name for all you fans! Thank goodness, frankly.) On this, our newest episode of DISC COVERERS, we're covering LORDS AND LADIES, Sir Terry's fourteenth Discworld book and a bit of a thematic outlier-- scrape off its thin topcoat of comedy, and there's a legitimately creepy horror novel underneath. Plus: More tactical witchcraft action! Casanunda comes back, for very little reason! The wizards are here, also for very little reason! And Magrat finally stops being a wet hen and starts being a girlboss. You GO, girl! We also get hornier...2022-05-291h 17
Disc Coverers13: Small GodsMay the Disc be with you (and also with you)! This episode, DISC COVERERS discusses SMALL GODS, an incisive critique on theocratic corruption and the ephemeral nature of the divine, as well as just a really well put together book. It has a beginning, a middle AND an end! Sir Terry wasn't phoning it in with this one! We also discuss our various traumatic experiences with Christianity, some alternative concepts of Heaven, and what it'd be like if birds had big swinging dicks and balls. This episode might have the most discussion of Real Shit out of any we've...2022-04-201h 40Disc Coverers12: Witches AbroadPack your bags and don't forget your toothbrush, Disc-heads! In this episode, DISC COVERERS tackles the twelfth Discworld novel, WITCHES ABROAD! While any time spent with Granny, Nanny and Magrat is a treat, we ultimately had a lot of mixed feelings about this book and its seemingly well-meaning but misguided portrayal of a real, actual religion. However, we also get snake women, Catboy Greebo and Pansexual Ethical Slut Nanny Ogg in this book as well, so it's not ALL bad. Give your broomstick a running start and let's get going!
OUR CURRENT RANKING:
1. Reaper Man
2...2022-03-031h 43Disc CoverersBonus 01: Johnny And The DeadFun trivia factoid! Did you know Sir Terry P wrote books.... other than Discworld novels? It's true! Join us on our first ever DISC COVERERS BONUS EPISODE, as regular host June and special guests Zoe and ▓▓▓▓ dive into JOHNNY AND THE DEAD, Pratchett's post-Thatcher critique of economic austerity measures (for kids!) that's set in real, actual England! In OUR world! Wild! We'll also be re-examining REAPER MAN through an anti-capitalist lens, so if you just finished listening to that episode (or even if you didn't!), consider this episode a graAaAaAave companion. Because they're both about death in some way! Get it? ...2022-02-201h 37Disc Coverers11: Reaper ManAsk not for whom the bell tolls... it tolls for DISC COVERERS! This week, we're dead excited to discuss the eleventh Discworld book in the series, REAPER MAN-- a title about everyone's favorite bone daddy Death getting fired from his eternal supervisor position, and making a new life for himself afterwards. Also: FLESH MALL. Can an entity who exists outside of the normal flow of time grow to appreciate the terrible, fleeting beauty of mortality? Is Windle Poons the Discworld's first trans protagonist? Have shopping malls ever NOT been unsettling on some base level? Join us around the bonfire...2022-01-091h 43Disc Coverers10: Moving Pictures
LIGHTS... CAMERA.... PODCAST! Your personal favorite Discworld podcast DISC COVERERS is back, and this episode we're covering the tenth book in the series, MOVING PICTURES! Join us as we follow handsome gadfly Victor Tugelbend to the glitz and glamour of a little town called Holy Wood. Are movies inherently super duper evil? Who the hell is Uncle Osric? Will June be able to get through an entire episode without referencing Night Watch? (No.) Will Iris be able to get through an entire episode without referencing the oeuvre of Hideo Kojima? (Also no.) Grab some banged grains, find your seats...2021-11-291h 37Disc Coverers09: EricON THIS EPISODE OF DISC COVERERS: Know what's more impressive than summoning demons? Summoning the patience for a whole hour's worth of discussion about the worst Discworld book we've read so far, ERIC (or, more accurately, "(strike)FAUST(/strike) ERIC")! Why does this book feel like a dumping ground for a series of limp, cynical bureaucracy gags? Why's Rincewind being such a weird, pissy little jerk to this teenage boy? Did Sir Terry just have a REALLY awful experience at a Best Western once? These questions are... vaguely addressed in this episode. Also we talk about a LOT of...2021-10-241h 08Disc Coverers08: Guards! Guards!Right, what's all this then? It's a new episode covering the eighth Discworld novel and the first in its beloved Watch series of stories, GUARDS! GUARDS! Is this the most anti-monarchist Discworld book we've read yet? Do the Watch really count as cops, despite technically being police officers? Are the four hosts of this show too hoplelessly lesbian to view Lady Sybil Ramkin with an objective critical eye? (Yes. God, yes.) Buckle your protectives, folks-- there's a lot going on in this one.
OUR CURRENT RANKING:
1. Guards! Guards!
2. Mort
3. Wyrd Sisters
4. Equal Rites2021-09-111h 53Disc Coverers07: PyramidsHey buddy, wanna buy a scenic river kingdom with over 7,000 years of history? In this episode, we slather on the sunscreen and wander out into the seventh book in the Discworld series, PYRAMIDS! Are there better book ideas secreted away inside this book? Does the fictional Kingdom of Djelibeybi actually bear anything deeper than the most superficial resemblance to ancient Egypt? Are we bad people for finding a pantheon sexy, or did Sir Terry goof up by not making his pantheon sexy enough? And can we just give the whole razor blade thing a rest already? We discuss all...2021-07-261h 12Disc Coverers06: Wyrd SistersBy the pricking of my thumbs... something Discworld this way comes! This month we're covering WYRD SISTERS, book that was released the same year as Sourcery and yet stands on its own as a far funnier, more pleasantly competent read. Hop on your souped-up broomstick and join us as we discuss Sir Terry's discovery of character chemistry, whether the Duchess was a girlboss, what the hell "nuncle" means, and which Shakespeare play this book is supposed to be a parody of. (Kiiiiind of Macbeth? But also kind of Hamlet. It's complicated.) Plus: Greebo!
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2021-06-021h 33Disc Coverers05: SourceryWhooooo's excited for another book about Rincewind?! ...Okay, fine, who's tepidly willing to tolerate another book about Rincewind? In this episode we're tackling D-world Book 5: SOURCERY, a book with some interesting things to say about the corrupting nature of power. Unfortunately, this gets buried behind pointless characters, dangling plot threads, and a really, really ill-conceived visit to the half-baked orientalist Seriphate of Klatch. On the bright side, though, we get more Librarian action than we've gotten in any book before, so that's fun. Plus: Is Rincewind Trans?
OUR CURRENT RANKING:
1. Mort
2021-05-061h 24Disc Coverers04: MortHowdy-hoo and how 'bout you, Discheads! Today we're tackling the fourth book in the Discworld series and the first one to finally yank attention away from wizard shenanigans, MORT! What's it like to be the anthropomorphic personification of Death? Can princesses really piss through a whole stack of mattresses? What the hell is jugged ham, anyways? All these questions and more are... well, if not answered, then at least explored in a vaguely thorough manner. This was a genuinely good book and we're very excited to share our disc-coveries with you!
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1. Mort (NEW...2021-03-291h 25Disc Coverers03: Equal RitesHave you heard of... genders? We're back with a streamlined new show format and we're taking on Sir Terry's earliest attempt at a Girl Power-ed Discworld novel, Equal Rites. Does he succeed at this? ...Ehhhhh. Is it interesting to read? Sure! We also talk about pizza jokes from the 1980's, dick pills for boner problems, and our unashamed total lack of knowledge regarding British royal lineage. Come have a listen!
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1. Equal Rites (NEW leader!)
2. The Light Fantastic
3. The Colour Of Magic
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...2021-02-211h 15Disc Coverers02b: The Light Fantastic (Part 2)We continue our gripping analysis of The Light Fantastic, and discuss troll taxonomy, dental accessories, a good bit of The Genders, and more jokes that I'm sure were real corkers to Brits during the 1980s but which are like transmissions from an alternate universe to us North American scum. Plus: The Worst Joke In The Book!
CURRENT RANKING:
1. The Light Fantastic (NEW leader!)
2. The Colour Of Magic
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http://hypnovir.us / @bestgirlgrace o...2021-02-011h 46Disc Coverers02a: The Light Fantastic (Part 1)Our second episode and first of the year! Analyzing The Light Fantastic ended up taking longer than we expected, so we split this episode into two parts, the second of which we'll upload two weeks from now. IN PART ONE: Does Rincewind suck any less in this book? How practical ARE harmonically tuned squeaky floorboards? Do druids have tech support for their megaliths? And did Sir Terry manage to get An Actual Woman to read this manuscript?
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GRACE L...2021-01-111h 23Disc Coverers01: The Colour Of MagicOur first episode! Aaaaa!!! We get a little jazzed and end up digging into our talking points before we summarize the plot, instead of after, so get ready for that. Does Terr-bear's first Discworld book deserve the bad rap that it gets? Does Rincewind suck, or is he secretly cool? Which jokes still hold up, and which were definitely, painfully written in the early 1980's? Why is Death acting so weird? And for the love of A'Tuin, why does the Luggage have meaty little human feet? (I STILL HATE THAT IT HAS HUMAN FEET.)
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