[lurrlonde]

its a heavy burden, having a heart as big as a city. and heavier still when it loves you back

prints

[onetobeamupart]

Corporals Detritus and Cuddy. Good luck in the meat packing district boys

[ansatsu-sha]

I meant to post this photo after completing my reread of Maskerade & before starting Feet of Clay, but I forgot.

I love that Sir Terry actually did a special author photo in honour of Maskerade's opera theme. More than you can ever imagine.

GNU Terry Pratchett.

[junorsky]

my attempt at vetinari number 2

[bloodydamnreaperofmars]

The Catalan Discworld edition is the best edition ever and you won't change my mind...

LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY ARE!!!

[creatureprofessor]

obsessed with this upcoming ikea storage box which looks like it's a cousin of a mimic, Luggage from Discworld and a labubu all at once

[littlesmartart]

tis the season for my annual highly weaponised spooky goths 💀🗡️ I wanted to draw something a little more dynamic this year!

[chechula]

I used my friend birthday as an excuse to draw Ankh-Morphork street for their living room ♡

[chechula]

I found lineart while cleaning old folders:

[zoenold]

playing dressup w world's most annoyed guy 💌💌💌

[zoenold]

saving mr. tiddles / saving the post

[hoerrrru]

Trust me

[blackboard-monitor]

discworld fans

i've read every discworld more than once

i've read every discworld at least once, some more than once

i've read every discworld exactly once

i've not read all the discworlds, but i've read some more than once

i've not read all the discworlds

i've not read any discworld but i should do that

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[chechula]

Monstrous Regiment fellows for Ari ♥

Carborundum, Polly ‘Ozzer’ Perks, Maladict, Igor, ‘Shufti’ Manickle ♥

[hoerrrru]

💙

[losershin-blog]

I decided to share my sketch of Sybil here as well. While reading "Guards! Guards!" I was truly impressed by her—especially the way she was described

[evilphrog]

When I first read Men At Arms, I assumed Vimes was giving half his pay to the families of men who died under his command. I thought he felt responsible for them because he was their commanding officer. But that isn’t it at all.

Men At Arms

Night Watch

Men at Arms

Night Watch

These men fought or died in the revolution. Two we know for sure wore the lilac. Curry had to have survived long enough to have a daughter, and Gaskin wasn’t one of the infamous seven names. But I would bet good money Scurrick was a victim of the Dolly Sisters Massacre.

And whatever happened to Gaskin sounds like it involved a mob coming after a Watchman, based on these parts of Guards! Guards!

Anyways, I’m just going to be here crying about this, and I thought you all should, too.

[agardenandlibrary]

add this one to the list of “Things I’ve Never Heard of Except in Books”

[e-b-reads]

Beyond that the gardens stopped. There was a drop of about ten feet down into a ditch, and after the ditch, the parklands began, rolling away for miles ahead of us.

“A ha-ha,” Christopher said.

“Nothing’s funny,” I said.

–Conrad’s Fate, Diana Wynne Jones

(This is followed by Christopher explaining what a ha-ha is, and Conrad (the narrator) being disgruntled and thinking he’s joking, so I guess even in books some characters have never heard of one!)

[agardenandlibrary]

At the end of the hall gardens, the ground gave way to a sudden drop that felt like the edge of the world. Below was a ditch full of nettles, which was called a ha-ha. Beyond that there were wide flat fields for miles, green and gold in the spring, red-brown earth in the winter.

The Quick by Lauren Owen

[volcanicmudbubbles]

After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again. “I must move,” said she; “resting fatigues me. I have looked across the ha-ha till I am weary. I must go and look through that iron gate at the same view, without being able to see it so well.”

Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park

[agardenandlibrary]

ID: a reply from @booksnpictures

just learnt from german wiki that we do, indeed, have ha-ha in german, also called aha, and that it’s a design element in gardening, replacing a wall or fence. never heard of this and i am a fucking gardener.

[linebetween]

From what is quite possibly my favourite play ever, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia (1993):

A theory of mine. Ha-hah, not ha-ha. If you were strolling down the garden and all of a sudden the ground gave way at your feet, you’re not going to go ‘ha-ha’, you’re going to jump back and go ‘ha-hah!’, or more probably, ‘Bloody ‘ell!’ […] In France, you know, ‘ha-ha’ is used to denote a strikingly ugly woman, a much more likely bet for something that keeps the cows off the lawn.

[the-grey-hunt]

can’t believe no one has added on that this was well known enough for terry pratchett to poke fun at in one of the discworld books

from the wikipedia page for Bloody Stupid Johnson, a character to built things extremely badly: “The Hoho:A cunningly designed ditch like a Haha, only the Hoho is 50 feet deep. Has claimed three Palace gardeners. Also once trapped Dr. Cruces, then head of the Assassin’s Guild.”

the actual quote from the book where it appears is much funnier, but I can’t find it

[agardenandlibrary]

An excellent addition! From Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett:

It contained the hoho, which was like a haha only deeper. A haha is a concealed ditch and wall designed to allow landowners to look out across rolling vistas without getting cattle and inconvenient poor people wandering across the lawns. Under Bloody Stupid’s errant pencil it was dug fifty feet deep and had claimed three gardeners already.

[agardenandlibrary]

And another!

“It was a splendid morning, bright and crisp. The snow had ended in the night, and the lawns before the Hall presented a smooth white sward marred only by the tracks of rabbits and other small creatures. The rougher grass of the sheep meadows on the other side of the ha-ha showed above the snow; the sheep themselves seemed almost yellow in comparison.”

Plum Duff by Victoria Goddard