Dominus Podcast

@dominuspod.bsky.social

Coming Soon to the Rusty Quill Network

Horror podcast voice acting opportunity! Canadians preferred due to Toronto Arts Council funding, but any VA can apply. 📢 Looking for a Spanish speaking/accented voice actor with a lower register voice for Dominus, a Catholic Horror Podcast! 📢 More details below🧵

July Announcement (I'm off to the UK!) 🇬🇧 You might have already heard that I'm gonna be in the UK for friends and family from July 15-Aug 2 and will be unable to work on new Hi Nay episodes while I'm there. I'll be seeing family but also seeing some Hi Nay and Dominus VAs! 🧵

Me: It's so tiring and daunting to write this gay Catholic horror podcast, if only I could find something to inspire me again. Pope Leo telling me I need to finish writing my gay Catholic horror podcast for the sake of humanity and God:

Excerpt from the vatican website:

Furthermore, writing is an act of humanity. As the ancient author Terrence observed, “I am a human being, and I do not regard anything human as alien to me” (The Self-Tormentor, I, 1, 25). Literature, then, encompasses the full spectrum of human experience, so much so that Pope Francis highlighted its formative value: “Reading a literary text places us in the position of ‘seeing through the eyes of others’ [C.S. Lewis] thus gaining a breadth of perspective that broadens our humanity. We develop an imaginative empathy that enables us to identify with how others see, experience and respond to reality. Without such empathy, there can be no solidarity, sharing, compassion, or mercy. (Letter on the Role of Literature in Formation, 34).

When you write stories and develop your characters, you identify with them; you grasp their points of view, their emotions, their feelings, their attitudes. This is the great training ground of humanity that you allow your readers to experience, because, in a sense, readers “live” many lives in addition to their own. This helps us to discover different perspectives, to avoid treating our own views as absolute and to piece together, as in a mosaic, the outline of that truth which always transcends us.

Finally, writing concerns God. It may seem a bold claim to make, but several theologians have reflected on and written about the harmony between the art of writing and the revelation of the biblical God. It is the very structure of Revelation that gives us the authority to do so.  As Cardinal Radcliffe wrote, “For Christians, nothing human is alien to Christ. Every attempt to grapple with the fundamental questions of our lives — how to love, how to be just, how to be free, how to face suffering and death — helps us to understand Christ, the one who is most human of all.” (T. Radcliffe, Alive in God. A Christian Imagination, London 2019, p. 15).

Working with Filipino artists is great because while I do 90% of my thoughts in English there are certain Tagalog words that I simply refuse to replace with the English equivalent because they do not capture the essence of what I'm trying to convey

Discord message that reads: If you want to get started on that you can! They'll be slightly buhaghag but in their normal priest clothes like you drew them in in the official art

Just fresh off TCAF and ALREADY I'll be at another TWO wonderful weekend artist events! 🌈SATURDAY JUNE 13 - JUST ZINE THINGS at Interesting Things Kensington! 🏳️‍🌈SUNDAY JUNE 14 - QUEER ZINE AND BOOK FAIR at Glad Day Lit, 32 Lisgar St FREE ENTRY FOR BOTH! SEE YOU THERE 🌸😘 #Toronto #comics

Text reads "It's Zine Season! Eat Sleep Meep and Interesting Spaces presents JUST ZINE THINGS!", with an image of a bunch of cute animals reading zines Text reads "GLAD DAY LIT QUEER ZINE & BOOK FAIR SUNDAY JUNE 14 FREE ENTRY" with a list of artists. It also says 1pm-6pm 32 Lisgar St. Toronto

EXCITING NEWS! I'll be tabling at #TCAF Toronto Comic Arts Festival this year AND I'll be moderating a panel on Filipino Komiks! I'll also be doing digital pre-orders of the new Pinoy Monster Horror Anthology and giving away preview booklets to those who pre-order at my table under "Motzie Dapul".

12:15-1:05 PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 7
Jet Ice Lounge ⋅ 4th Floor
Filipino Komiks Creators

Moderator: Motzie Dapul
Panelists: Jeff Estrella, Keet Geniza, Arley Nopra, Chelsea Oleta

With so many Filipino stories in the spotlight for the last few years, it's time to focus on one of the most underrated yet powerful mediums of storytelling that revolutionized Filipino representation: komiks, and its amazing creators, the "Komikeros". Featuring artists from the Philippines and Canada and representing multiple comic book genres, with Jeff Estrella (BALIKBAYAN), Keet Geniza (Kimiko Does Cancer, Arsenal Pulp Press), Arley Nopra (The Baby-Sitters Club, Scholastic) and Chelsea Oleta (The Graveyard Shift), moderated by award-winning queer Pinay-Can showrunner and artist Motzie Dapul (The Hi Nay Podcast, The Pinoy Monster Lover Anthology comic series).Pinoy Monster Horror Anthology preview booklet

Bad News y'all, no new episode tomorrow! Good News; I've got the next episode AND a bonus unscripted episode explaining the cultural context of Hi Nay next week! Can't wait to share both and thank you for your patience! Drop by the 18+ section if you're at Anime North this weekend 😈🔥

Me, reading the Dominus grant details: I just realized I only need to complete the grant project after 2 years! That means I can release the show in 2027! Also Me: JK I already promised to release it in October 2026 The thousands of people waiting for Dominus to release in 2026: #audiodrama

the meme of the girl saying "oh, so it was a joke" with the second panel showing her dropping a stone with the caption reading "Saying this, she casually threw aside a large rock"

I've also been working on the Hi Nay comic after needing time to complete the Dominus Kickstarter. I'll upload inked pages here once they're done, and we plan to do a digital preorder of the full Pinoy Monster Horror Anthology (which this comic is part of) in May or early June.

We're also coming closer to the very end of Act 3, which means we need extra time to write and record upcoming episodes with a couple more actors than usual! So we won't be uploading anything tomorrow, but we'll resume next Sunday with the B Sides, and the Sunday after that with the following ep.

⚠️1 week hiatus + important info about Hi Nay comic⚠️ Hi everyone! A lot's been happening behind the scenes. Our editor experienced a death in the family and needed time to recover. My week has also been intensely overwhelming, so we had no time to record the B Sides. 🧵