Whooooo'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? 

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1. Mort

2. Equal Rites

3. Sourcery

4. The Light Fantastic

5. The Colour Of Magic

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THE TIKTOK VIDEO WE FREAKED OUT ABOUT AT THE END:

https://www.tiktok.com/@beatingthebinary/video/6917309538865515782

"JOXXER THE MIGHTY" FROM XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, LINKED HERE TO AVOID COPYRIGHT ISSUES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnMCh2aXitg

Howdy-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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THE AFOREMENTIONED CLAIRE KEANE CONCEPT ART FOR A MORT DISNEY FILM ADAPTATION:

Have 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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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! 

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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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THE ARTICLE JUNE MENTIONED ABOUT TERRY PRATCHETT'S OBLIVION MOD:

Our 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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