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Terry Pratchett: here’s this funny incompetent cowardly wizard who keeps getting into trouble, not much depth to his character b–

me: my son and also me, he’s acespec, he’s arospec, he’s bi, he’s trans, probably autistic, also those traits you meant to be funny? symptoms of mental illness, I have an intricate web of headcanons for his backstory and his future, my city now

poorlydescribedpterrybooks

“One of the traditions of the fantasy and science fiction genre is communication…Authors who write popular series find that readers are not passive receivers: they take the view that the author writes the script but the movie is played out in the reader’s own head, and therefore the enterprise is in some ways a collaboration or interactive one in which the reader has rights, if only the right to an opinion. This sort of thing has gone on for years in a private kind of way (“Dear Miss Austen, I think it would be really cool if one of your heroines were to fall in love with Napoleon…”). It’s probably healthy.”

~Terry Pratchett, “Wyrd Ideas”

professorsparklepants

Also I should mention that yesterday I said “Ankh-Morpork’s favorite son” and then went “oh my god, Young Sam is Batman” and then wrote it down in all caps so I wouldn’t forget, as Meghan pointed out that this probably only lasts 2-3 weeks in a fit of teenage rebellion while his parents are on vacation before Vetinari calls him into the office and threatens to tell his dad he’s been fighting crime as a vigilante. Dragonman only exists for less than a month and nobody (other than Jenkins, the Patrician, and probably Angua) ever know who it is.

tanoraqui

within that three weeks, half a dozen “supervillains” start operating - the Jester, the Puzzlemaker, the Rare and Strangely Monochrome Flightless Waterfowl Found on the Ice Floes Rimward of Fourecks. A plucky urchin lad whose parents were killed in a freak circus accident attaches himself to Sam’s side with the determination of a born sidekick (at the end of the book, he will - well, he will end up adopted by someone and signed up for a decent school, but he will vow to either join the Watch one day, or help Sam birdwatch in the afternoons. Dibbler starts selling Dragonman action figures.

Dragonman fades once more into the night, just in times for the Duke and Duchess of Ankh to return and never hear about it. But the legend never dies…

professorsparklepants

The Fool’s guild has to issue SEVERAL pamphlets reassuring the public that the man known as “The Jester” is not and never has been affiliated with their guild in any way, shape, or form.

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

Tooth Infection: Can literally kill you and wreck your overall physical health. United States: Dentistry is a frivolous cosmetic luxury which we should bar the poor from having. To even have access to a dentist should be a sign of affluence akin to some forms of plastic surgery. How else will we laugh at the poor and their disgusting toothless mouths which showcase how inferior and uneducated they really are in comparison to our pearly-smiled perfection?

lizziebeth157

Like honestly?! I’m a nurse on a cardiac surgery unit. Do you have any idea how many patients I see every year have to go through open heart surgery to get a valve replacement because they got a tooth infection that caused endocarditis and vegetation on the heart valves? It’s appalling that people have to go through such a traumatic surgery when it could have been prevented by routine dental care.

I also once had a patient lose his fucking EYE because a tooth infection migrated into his sinuses and then his eye. And of course he had shit insurance so he didn’t get seen until it was too far gone for us to be able to save his eye. We did save his life but he was left without an eye and I can only imagine how much debt for that hospital bill.

The US healthcare system is so fucking broken.

harperhug

Dentistry was the first form of medicine that humanity invented. That’s how seriously bad dental health can ruin someone’s health.

fenrirfenrir

Prehistoric humans practiced dentistry. Specifically I know of cases of preemptive tooth removal, mainly to combat lockjaw but other teeth may have been removed too. Removal of teeth somehow rarely leads to infection, unlike cavities/caries!

Likewise, the collection that I work with has a large number of people that died from dental problems! Dentistry is fuckin important yo

nestofstraightlines

My name is Vimes And wen its nite, and wen I tuck yung Sam up tite I moov the urth to keyp my vow. I rede the buk. Where Is My Cow?

rodnt

i’m supposed to feel bad for the military? i don’t

xlilmochi

No ones saying you have to feel bad but respect would be nice…

But that’s just me.

rodnt

i’m supposed to respect the military? i don’t

whenidiehallelujahbyandby

all things considered i think golf is actually the most vile & colonialist sport

tomiride-deactivated20200606

What about cricket or croquet

whenidiehallelujahbyandby

both also terrible but i don’t think either can hold a candle to the massive swaths of land cordoned off and exterminated of their ecosystems so that they can be held as private property and used only selectively by the rich

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

saethwr-blog

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

coto524

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

coto524

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

sithofren-blog

(quietly cheers in support of the Welsh, and your language sounds beautiful, too)

tiocfaidharlulz

drag them, wales!

lizimajig

Go Wales

thebaconsandwichofregret

the thing people need to get through their heads is what the original statement is:

W is a vowel, and LL and FF are single letters not two Ls or two Fs. Saying LL is two letters is as dumb as saying W is two letters just because it looks like two Vs.

We have a different alphabet, it just looks a lot like the english one.

systlin

Welsh is, in addition, one of the oldest surviving indo-European languages. It dates back as far as 4,000 years and is one of the few surviving Celtic languages.