Bonus Episode: Birdsongs and Tea Sounds

Magical Girls and Gender Feelings with Elle

This week, eden sits down with their friend Elle to talk about magical girls as a locus for gender thoughts, expressions, and feelings. They talk about Elle getting into Tokyo Mew Mew and Sailor Moon at a young age, how the overt femininity of the magical girl allowed them to think about their own gender and how they wanted to engage with it. eden gushes about how Elle needs to watch Revolutionary Girl Utena. Lots of talk about moving through the world as a non-binary person and how you choose gender expression and presentation.

Tea, Coffee, Music, and Health Insurance with John

This week, host eden sits down with their friend John over some bowls of an ancient tea tree black tea to talk about all sorts of things: our coffee orders, our tea habits, the 2025 War of the Worlds movie, how John got into both playing and listening to music, 60s TV like Bonanza and more.

Accessibility in Video Games with Luna

Welcome back to season 2 of Devo-teas! Today host eden sits down with their friend Luna over some bowls of bi luo chun jasmine green tea to talk a lot about video games: how are they made accessible to players, how does tutorialization work, and what attracts us to different game types. Some other fun things that come up are cheat codes (eden remembered after the fact that the money cheat in Starcraft was, of course, "show me the money"), DePiglio, the podcast Abnormal Mapping (go listen to them!), and achievement hunting.

Bonus Episode: Birdsongs and Tea Sounds

Hi Devo-teas listeners. We're still on a short break between seasons one and two, but in the meantime: my dog Jack passed away last week, and there are few things he liked more than hanging out in the yard and listening to the bird sounds. So here's some bird sounds, recorded in my backyard, on a nice sunny morning last week, alongside the occasional sounds of a few good steeps of tea in Jack's honor. Feel free to kick back and listen, maybe while enjoying your own cup of tea, and think about the world around you. Hear what surrounds us. Feel the breeze on your face. Think a little about life, how it is fleeting, and how we should cherish it. See you in two weeks for season two.

Artemis II with Mike

This week, eden sits down with returning guest Mike to talk more about space and specifically: the Artemis II spaceflight mission, which passed the moon just yesterday. They mostly talk space exploration, what the Artemis project's long term goals are, and why people want to put humans on Mars, but there are the usual digressions and conversational culs-de-sac you've come to expect from an episode of this podcast. Important announcement: this is the last episode of season 1 of Devo-teas! I initially planned this podcast to be biweekly to give me a bit more breathing room and prep time to record conversations, edit, and everything else, but the response was positive enough that I decided to release episodes weekly instead and move to a seasonal model. So the podcast will be taking the next four weeks off for a chance to rest, recuperate, and perhaps build up a backlog of new conversations, and we'll be back with a new episode on 05 May. See you then!