DorksAndDiscourse

A monthly podcast featuring two nerds (Marcel Alonzo & @OnBearFeet) thinking way too hard about nerd topics and drinking way too many nice cups of tea.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

We can't record while we're quarantined separately, but if you want to hear Kat react to classic literature in real time, you can vote on what she has to read!

[Kat Beaufort is trying to write, dammit @OnBearFeet]

If I can get my shit together, I want to start a reading pod this week. Just me, reading stories, doing the voices. I'm working on writing my own material, but until then, I've got public-domain stuff from my bookshelf. Should I read...

[Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz]

1952: Salk refuses to patent the polio vaccine, because he wanted it to be available to everyone

2020:

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Our next episode is delayed. Apparently when we got new equipment that would make us NOT sound like we were recording in a gas-station bathroom, we underestimated how long it would take to learn to use the kit. We're working on it!

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

This.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

There is SO MUCH TEXTING between Kat and Marcel right now. And only like 10% of it is jokes. It's looking like we'll be making another Star Wars ep.

But don't despair. It'll probably be like 40% Marcel howling in agony while Kat cackles, and 60% Baby Yoda.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

How Kat wants every one of our recording sessions to go. (They never do, but everyone needs a dream.)

[Kat Beaufort is trying to write, dammit @OnBearFeet]

You might be cool, but you'll never be "warm from-scratch blackberry vanilla scones with Road to Hana tea in a hand-painted Captain America tea set while the rain whispers outside" cool.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

For those who listened to the most recent ep about how to un-cancel yourself...we're just gonna pretend Mark Hamill heard it too. :)

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Retweeting for the daywalkers. This episode includes us spilling our darkest secrets, if anyone's looking for blackmail material!

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

New episode! How to Cancel Your Cancellation: Atoning For Your Sins in the Court of Public Opinion.

In this one, we talk about Harvey Weinstein, James Gunn, and "cancel culture". We also air enough dirty laundry to cancel ourselves! On purpose! https://t.co/pihU2SfTJ3

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

New episode! How to Cancel Your Cancellation: Atoning For Your Sins in the Court of Public Opinion.

In this one, we talk about Harvey Weinstein, James Gunn, and "cancel culture". We also air enough dirty laundry to cancel ourselves! On purpose! https://t.co/pihU2SfTJ3

[Undine @HorribleSanity]

This just might be the greatest holiday card ever.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Kat's bad at D&D but pretty good at fucking with the DM, so that's gotta count for something, right?

[Kat Beaufort is trying to write, dammit @OnBearFeet]

My little shit paladin's big contribution to D&D last weekend was distracting minotaurs by interviewing them about edible plants for her herbal.

I don't think I've quite got the hang of D&D, but I'm definitely enjoying using my little-shit-writer chops to fuck with the DM.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

@gwenckatz *applauds*

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

(She also sells other critters at https://t.co/dmIikbrVcD , so we suppose you could order one of those and yell at us to use those proceeds to improve our audio, too. Er...many of them are machine-washable? Does that help?)

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

It's officially #SmallBusinessSaturday and Kat has some special items for sale in her online shop--custom teddy bears! If you order a bear from this link, all proceeds will go to buying better audio equipment. No character is too weird or obscure! https://t.co/6opweKVGF7

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

New episode (belatedly tweeted)! This conversation started as Marcel going, "Hey, can we look at how there's NO MEANINGFUL SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE video games cause violence, but people act like it's a thing?" and Kat going, "OK, but I'm talking about Nazis." https://t.co/MvkWKbD1s1

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Willy Shakes: King of the Butt Jokes (and also the Yo Mama Jokes)!

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

Hard to account for Shakespeare’s unpopularity among high school students in light of gems like this.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

@gwenckatz Yeah...I keep in mind that pretty much every story and character of theirs that I love, they didn't create. And mythology is not for the owning anyway, except in the shortest of terms.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Also, Kat asks that if you're going to make her a parasocial character, please make her one you're willing to punch Nazis for. Let's have some standards.

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Wait, does this mean we have to add "murder boots" to the list of T-shirt ideas, after "Eat salad with chopsticks, live your best life" and "Willie Shakes: King of the Butt Jokes"?

[Kat Beaufort is trying to write, dammit @OnBearFeet]

Two friends sent me this screenshot 15 minutes apart. They don't know each other. I guess I'm a meme now. #murderboots

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Kat adds:

Spider-Dad
Spider-Dad
Fixed the shoelace
Not too bad!

[DorksAndDiscourse @DorksNDiscourse]

Once again, this month's episode will be late, but until then Kat presents this snapshot of a cosplay family at #LAComicCon2019 who are officially Doing It Right. #intotheSpiderVerse