GNU Terry Pratchett

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

[beecher-arts]

Here's a little scene of my favorite bit from The Hogfather by Terry Pratchett!

Happy Hogswatch Holidays, everyone!!!

[neil-gaiman]

This is lovely. I wish I could send it to Terry.

Good Omens: An Antidote to Toxic Christian Apocalyptic Fiction

Good Omens has this seminary professor hooked. It's an antidote to toxic Christian apocalyptic fiction in an absurd world.

[stellarmeals]

Inktober day 2 - The Librarian “Oook!”

[parkayquarts]

don't hesitate to leave 🖤

[georgiacooked]

“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.” ― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[dimity-lawn]

[quasi-normalcy]

Sometimes I think about how Esme Weatherwax desperately wanted to be the evil twin, but the logic of narrative causality constrained her to be good after Lilly turned evil.

[kshaar]

#and she hates it#she hates it so godsdamned much#she’ll do it but christ alive#and iirc when she finds out that lily didn’t try to have *fun* being evil she absolutely snaps#which kills me because it’s like ‘i had to become your narrative foil and you didn’t even have fun???’#‘i would be ruling the world if i was the evil twin and you didn’t even have fun?????’#‘what the hell were you doing it for if not for fun??? get down here i’ll maul you’ (via @thestuffedalligator)

[quasi-normalcy]

Even worse, Lilly was convinced that she was the good one.

[roach-works]

weatherwax family trait: no fun allowed

[leagueofaveragefolk]

"average witch has fun" factoid actualy just statistical error. average witch has 0 fun per year. Nanny Ogg, who is currently blasted on scumble & is leading a sing-along about the delights of buggery, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[parkayquarts]

when the regiment is monstrous

[songthursh]

Alright, I will start with this one then - everything starts with the glorious revolution and everything starts with the night watch 🌸

[fibvlaa]

I wanna draw more discworld ;; Maladict was the first character i’ve ever perceived in a book as transmasculine/ftm just like me ✌️ maybe im just picky with portrayals lol

[discworldtour]

“But sometimes you can’t help wondering: what would have happened if I’d done something different–” “Like when you killed your wife?” Sweeper was impressed at Vimes’s lack of reaction. “This is a test, right?” “You’re a quick study, Mister Vimes.” “But in some other universe, believe me, I hauled off and punched you one.”

– on alternate universes | Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

[parkayquarts]

YES GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

[parkayquarts]

he changed his style in a way that was lovely

[higgsbison]

don't mind me I just slapped a rain filter on the vimes and it made it rly nice and moody

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[potato-lord-but-not]

you appear familiar, dear! (you look just like my bathroom mirror)

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

The entire original discworld audio book catalogue

[neil-gaiman]

Hi! My mum and I had a conversation in the car where I mentioned how funny I found this bit, because I had read it as Anathema thinking that she had, in fact, just been run over by a very campy gay couple, and a campy gay couple wouldn't harm her. But my mum read this as Anathema, who she thought could feel that Crowley was a demon, realizing that she was also in the presence of an angel, and an angel wouldn't harm her. And I guess I just wanted to know which was the intended message?

The version that Terry and I had in mind when we wrote it was the former.

[neil-gaiman]

Reading the comments I realize that things that were perfectly obvious to readers in the UK 33 years ago don't land the same way now.

If anyone has been in any doubt about what Anathema was thinking the line that would have made it utterly clear would have been..

...the "two consenting bicycle repairmen".

In the UK the 1957 Wolfenden Report recommended that 'homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should be no longer a criminal offence'. And the phrase "consenting adults" became a euphemism for gay men once the recommendations of the report were put into action and male homosexual acts were decriminalized. (It took a decade and happened in 1967.)

So, yes. She thinks they're gay. And she was safe.