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The Disc-Course
by Your Local Cryptids
Holly and Julie, known Discworld lovers, discuss Terry Pratchett's magnum opus series with Mark and Jess, who've never seen a Discworld in their lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Episode 55: Greebo Eats a Vampire
Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of racism and antisemitic tropes, firearms, animal death and abuse, physical and mental abuse, medical anxiety, and alcohol As we continue Witches Abroad, the witches are...abroad! Y'know, going boating, seeing the sites, getting day drunk,...
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Episode 54: Podcasting is a Witches' Sabbat
Content warnings for this episode include: human and animal death, brief mentions of abuse, homophobia and the TERF wizard author, Who's ready for vacation? As our hosts begin Witches Abroad, we follow everyone's favorite witches who love and hate each other as they hit the road for the city of...
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A 2004 Webcomic About Gamers: The Disc-Course Year 2
Hey everyone, you ever forget you have a podcast for like 10 months? Yeah...anyway please enjoy some goofs and follow our new cohost account at ZlorfFlannelfoot! We'll be back with Witches Abroad on August 9th, see you then! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 53: Mr. Death Goes to Oblivion
Content warnings for this episode include: racism, body horror, queerphobia, suicide, and mentions of terminal illness As we wrap up Reaper Man, kind and empathetic order is restored to the Discworld once again, but I can't help feeling like we're forgetting something... This week in the...
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Episode 52: Release Bill Door
Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of insects and spiders, head injuries, and child murder, and discussion of ableism, body horror, fascism, racism, and antisemitism As we reach the dramatic climax of Reaper Man, our friend Bill Door defeats the new Death who's a real jerk, and…
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Episode 51: Happy Spooky Season
Content warnings for this episode include: racism, transphobia, and animal violence As we continue Reaper Man, chaos ensues in Ankh-Morpork as the harmless snow globes turn out to not be harmless at all, and the future is now as our friend Bill Door meets the Combination Harvester. This week in…
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Episode 50: Death's Slut Era
Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of severe bodily harm, animal and child death. As we continue Reaper Man, the gang are introduced to the members of Undead Anonymous, and our bony blorbo saves a child and prepares to face down whoever took his job. This week on the Disc-Course:...
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Episode 49: Terry's Bones
Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of transphobia and queer trauma, being buried alive, parental abuse, racist stereotypes, and misogyny. As we continue Reaper Man, the wizards of Unseen University try their damndest to end their friend's life, but Windle Poons decides he's got…
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Episode 48: Ultra Instinct Poons
Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of racism and cultural appropriation, body horror, death and the undead, ableism, slavery and forced labor, and suicide. Like the changing seasons from summer to fall, the gang begins a new book: Reaper Man. Death is fired for coming down with…
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Episode 47: Moist Good Movies
Content warnings for this episode include: magical compulsion/mind control, building explosions, animal death, body horror, suicide, and discussion of implicit racism. In our blockbuster finale, Mark is back, and we say goodbye to Holy Wood, once again wishing for better things for Terry's female...
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Episode 46: Ancient Animal House
Content warnings for this episode include: mention of animal dismemberment, climate anxiety, school shootings, gun violence, racism, fatphobia, also a little discussion of right wing politics in India and nationalist myth making therein. Nearing the grand finale, the gang goes to the grand…
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Episode 45: Terry Pratchett Predicted Foodfight
Content warnings for this episode include: the racism of Hollywood and Holy Wood, magical compulsion/mind control, and brief mention of CSA This week the gang finds a spooky cave :) This week on the Disc-Course: spoilers for Gone with the Wind, paint Pseudopolis green, troll nephew, McHarga's,...
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Episode 44: Good Girl Holly
Content warnings for this episode include: magical compulsion/mind control, brief description of gross food, mentions of animal death and the racism inherent in the movie industry As we continue Moving Pictures, our protagonist is determined to do nothing with the information he has obtained thus...
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Episode 43: June of Jess
Content warnings for this episode include: violence, creature abuse, discussion of racism and colonialism, and magical coersion/manipulation Victor and Ginger get back down to the business of moving pictures, and the spirit of Holy Wood grows stronger every day. Meanwhile a thousand elephants are...
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Episode 42: Best Picture
Content warnings for this episode include: creature abuse, magical compulsion/manipulation, brief talk of bees and big spiders, and discussions of bad transphobic celebrities As a heads up Holly's audio is a little weird; I cleaned it up the best I know how but wanted to let folks know in case it...
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Episode 41: Ankh-Morpork's Funniest Home Videos
Content warnings for this episode include: discussion of irreality, explosions, and mind control/magical compulsion. This week we start Moving Pictures, just taking them off the wall and putting them somewhere else; also we're reading a new book! A new media craze is sweeping the Disc, but nobody...
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Episode 40: Disrupting the Damnation Industry
Content warnings for this episode include: implications of child abuse, the inherent racism and misogyny of being a white British man, and human sacrifice and torture. This week, everybody's favorite rat man Rincewind is back; now he and a young demonologist go on a time and space adventure and...
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Episode 39: Schrodinger's Big Wife
Content warnings for this episode include: animal body horror?, exploding buildings, violence (police and otherwise), drowning, and plummeting to ones death. There are a million stories of short kings and big wives in the full frontal city of Ankh-Morpork, and this is just one of 'em. This week…
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Episode 38: Rage Pee
Content warnings for this episode include mind control, animal abuse, immolation, and abduction. As we continue Guards, Guards, so too does the dragon king of Ankh-Morpork continue his ruinous reign, and progress demands sacrifice. Human sacrifice to be exact! And y'know what, as long as it's...
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Episode 37: Nobby Pussy Indulgence
Content warnings for this episode include: immolation, police violence, animal abuse, discussion of antisemitic tropes, and racism. This week, as we continue Guards, Guards, RIP to the Elucidated Brethren, RIP to Vimes' career, and I for one welcome our new dragon overlord. This week in the...
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Episode 36: Dragon Eye Joe
Content warnings for this episode include: animal abuse and violence and alcohol use At last all the pieces are coming together, and it's time for the great showdown between the dragon and the "rightful" king and--Oh, that's it? Over just like that? This week in the Disc-Course: tired and horny,...
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Episode 35: Ankh-Morpork Ruined My Life
Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol abuse, burning and exploding buildings, police violence, minor bodily harm, very brief mention of worms in food, animal death, and brief discussion of real life bombings This week as we continue Guards, Guards, the people of Ankh-Morpork are…
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Episode 34: Noir Detective to Wife Guy Pipeline
Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol abuse, fantasy racism, police violence, and immolation As we continue Guards, Guards, the gang's all here: Vimes, the saddest man in the world, Colon, the bumbling second in command, Nobby, just a little guy, and Carrot, the new guy who is doing...
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Episode 33: Send in the Guards
Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol abuse, death, mentions of domestic and police violence, and immolation. We did it; we finally got to Guards, Guards: The Vimes Factory. Unfortunately, not a lot of Vimes in this first installment, but we do get to meet the Disc's strongest himbo:...
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Episode 32: Afterlife of the Author
Content warnings for this episode include: mild existential dread, violence against animals and people, reanimated corpses, war and dying in war, body horror, explosion of a building/city, and discussion of misogyny and implied incest. As we conclude Pyramids, uuhhh Teppic kills a pyramid, and...
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Episode 31: The Kingdom Owners' Association
Content warnings for this episode include: mentions of organ removal, death, and discussion of animal abuse. After a mostly unhelpful trip to the symposium, Teppic reunites with an old friend from Kill a Guy school and resolves to save his Kingdom while the armies of Tsort and Ephebe march to…
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Episode 30: Introducing Topics of Amusing Discourse
Content warnings for this episode include mentions of animal abuse, guns, body horror, incest, murder, castration, mob violence, and real world politics if you'd rather avoid it. Now that the Old Kingdom is gone forever definitely, Teppic and Ptraci (and the greatest mathematician on the Disc)…
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Episode 29: Fine Counterweight Continent
Content warnings for this episode include discussion of stroke, amputation, racism, animal and human sacrifice, suicide and gun violence, imprisonment, blood, and implications of incest. As we continue Pyramids, Teppic struggles to get his reign of the Old Kingdom started while Dios is determined...
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Episode 28: Spend Less on Pyramids
Content warnings for this episode include: alcohol use, death and death related customs (autopsies, embalming etc.), we also do that real close talking to the mic thing a couple times if you don't like that Following the death of the old king, Teppic returns home to the Djel to take his rightful...
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Episode 27: Dad I'd Like to Pity
Content warnings for this episode include violence, accidental suicide, and brief discussion of dementia/alzheimers. We're back for Pyramids, where we're introduced to our hero Teppic, heir to the Old Kingdom, as he takes his final exam at Kill a Guy School. This week in the Disc-Course…
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In Defiance of Terry's Will: The Disc-Course Year 1
Hi everyone, thanks for your patience during our little break; please enjoy some good stuff from the past year of episodes :) We'll be back starting Pyramids on October 13th, see you then! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 26: Granny's Final Smash
Content warnings for this episode include brief violence, death, alcohol use, and animal attacks As we finish Wyrd Sisters, the Duke's play comes to a farcical conclusion, Lancre gets a new king, and everyone lives or dies happily ever after. That's it. That's the book, goodbye. Today in the...
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Episode 25: Timothee Charlemagne
Content warnings for this episode include [fantasy] racism and brief implied trans/homophobia, brief physical violence, mentions of insects, and pandemic discussion (if you'd rather avoid it) The gang's all here this week for the penultimate chapter of Wyrd Sisters where *Kronk voice* Oh yeah…
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Episode 24: Unrelated Clown Mugging
Content warnings for this episode include self harm, physical and verbal abuse, falling from great heights, and [fantasy] racism. This week, the gang continues Wyrd Sisters sans Holly; Big City Granny does some big time magic, and we catch up with Tomjon on the mean streets of Ankh-Morpork. Today...
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Episode 23: A 26 Year Old Mall Goth
Content warnings for this episode include child abuse, self harm and mental instability, spiders and wasps, threatened physical torture, and sexual harassment. We continue Wyrd Sisters and reveal the Fool's tragic backstory; also Nanny Ogg is taken prisoner by the Duke but she's not too worried...
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Episode 22: The Huffel Figurine
Content warnings for this episode include discussion of self-inflicted wounds and body horror. In our sophomore section of Wyrd Sisters, Duke Felmet continues on the road of "Witches are ruining my command of this country that I hate" while the witches discover that the country hates the duke so…
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Episode 21: Witchery Science Theater 3000
This week our hosts start Wyrd Sisters; we're reintroduced to Granny Weatherwax, this time joined by Nanny Ogg who fucks and Magrat who doesn't know what fucking is. The witches have a baby foisted upon them, the son of a murdered king; and things are downright Shakespearean. This week in The...
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Episode 20: Carpooling to the Apocralypse
This week Sourcery comes to a close, Rincewind and co. narrowly avert the Apocralypse! The four horsemen are there, the ice giants are there, the things from the dungeon dimensions are there, but unfortunately our hosts were less than thrilled. This week in the Disc-Course: We've never been…
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Episode 19: Luggagequest
As we continue Sourcery, Rincewind and his rag-tag squad must face a deadly prank tunnel and escape the crumbling palace as the Mage Wars 2.0 start up. Meanwhile Sconner and the Boys try to burn down the library. This week in the Disc-Course: Weird story perverts, Making up a guy to get mad at,...
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Episode 18: The Dark Ians
As we continue Sourcery, Coin's(?) reign of terror continues over the university, and we say goodbye to some beloved characters. Meanwhile, Rincewind and Conina say hello to the mismatched orientalist caricature that is the land of Klatch. This week in the Disc-Course: Happy birthday Grandma,...
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Episode 17: Mark's Not Home
This week we're starting Sourcery, in which a young boy has unimaginable power bestowed upon him to exact his father's revenge on Unseen University. But more importantly, our wizzerd boi Rincewind is back, and he's here to babysit a hat on a globetrotting adventure! Today in the Disc-Course: a...
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Episode 16: Disctale
Well that's all folks! Time to say goodbye to Mort who accidentally Became his boss; you hate to see it, and then had to Fight his boss; you love to see it. Also the reality warping dome thing gets resolved. Today in the Disc-Course: fizzing veins, our wizard listeners, a hint of Keli, The…
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Episode 15: Commotion Lotion
As we continue to love and treasure Mort, our knee boy tries to dig up out of the hole he's gotten into; meanwhile, Death tries his hand at having Fun. Today in the Disc-Course: Soul Shitter, aurora borealis, FEAR, Big Dog Theses, the keychain business, Citizen Keli, Love?, garbage fit, land...
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Episode 14: Erotic Biographies
At the halfway point for Mort, things are really picking up! Our young apprentice does some reaping and doesn't tell the boss about how he fucked up!! A Simpsons quote Every 30 seconds or your money back!! Today in the Disc-Course: Werther's Estroriginals, college radio, foxy grandma, Buster…
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Episode 13: Callout Post for Death
This week we begin Mort and are introduced to.....Mort! A bumbling kid adjusting to a position in the oldest profession--no, the other one--soul reaping. Today in the Disc-Course: the first 70 pages of Mort (again), the lifetimer room, mid-eternity crisis, no beans, oboeshoes, fat cotton crisis,...
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Episode 12: The Gender Fluid
Today we say goodbye to Equal Rites; in the thrilling conclusion, Granny and Archchancellor Cutangle must brave the grody river Ankh to recover Esk's staff; meanwhile, Esk and Simon face off against the creatures from the dungeon dimensions and learn that with magic, as with gender, the only...
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Episode 11: Quantum Magics
This week, we continue Equal Rites; Esk finds that the university isn't as great as she'd hoped, and Granny learns that big city living isn't as horrible as she assumed. Today in the Disc-Course: the jeggings of podcasts, character descriptions, a take so bad, crone-credibility, frog livers and...
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Episode 10: Assigned Staff At Birth
This week we continue Equal Rites as Granny and Esk head out to the Big City (read: town with more than 12 people). Esk breaks out on her own for some magical hijinks and meets a professional Liar. This week in the Disc-Course: Show me an egg, big grandma energy, stuck on pumpkin, illiteracy,...
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Episode 9: Glocky Weatherwax
As we begin Equal Rites, a wizard seeks to pass on his power to a new generation, but wait *record scratch* he gives his powers to a girl?! *Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays * Anyway, here's what four trans people have to say about a cis man's gendered magic system! Today in the Disc-Course:...
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Episode 8: Raw Turtling
This week, we bid a fond farewell to our funny wizzerd lad and tourist boi, as they narrowly avert the Disc-ocalypse, which turned out to not be horny, contrary to what Holly had led us all to believe. Today in the Disc-Course: Seal of disapproval from beyond the grave, magical refractory period,...
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Holly and Julie, known Discworld lovers, discuss Terry Pratchett's magnum opus series with Mark and Jess, who've never seen a Discworld in their lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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