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Born in 1975. Ask me anything. Support me at http://patreon.com/paulidin

[paulidin]

#Birthday #Help I am poor/low-income and I'm pretty sure 99% of my friends and acquaintances could also be labeled anything from lower class to low income to poor depending on how you measure such things. So I usually don't ask for much besides their company. But it's my 48th birthday today and I will ask a little more. Santa Paul Needs A New Sleigh! (as pictured here)

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My gas-powered 2012 Chevy compact car that I've used for making Christmas deliveries for a decade is starting to show signs of age. It's out of all warranties, the cloud-connected services have all been shut down by GM, and it's started to shake. I need a new ride soon! How soon, I don't know. I want to replace it with at least a hybrid (@kiausa Niro) or even better an EV (@chevrolet Bolt), but those things cost money. I'm living on mostly ramen and rice and saving my own money, but would love some help. Whether it's $1 or you're a secret millionaire and you want to give $10,000, please donate to my car fundraiser! https://fundly.com/santa-paul-needs-a-new-sleigh-1

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My gas-powered 2012 Chevy compact car is starting to show signs of age. It's out of all warranties, the cloud-connected services have all be

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[kayacomsin]

I've enjoyed not knowing what day it was.

[dduane]

Okay, I was supposed to find out by *myself* that Patrick Stewart was doing Yorkshire Tea ads??

FFS. :)

[msboutofcontext]

[spacefinch]

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

[katestewartt]

"I used to know your grandad, Wilf. I loved that man."

[thesuperheroesnetwork]

[ruffboi-mags]

"And then Phil, my learned friend Phil Collinson, just went 'Are you mad? Of course, he’s alive off-camera, of course, he’s still here, he’s alive forever – around the corner.' And I just went, 'You’re so right'."

[thestuffedalligator]

It’s been said before but it bears repeating that Discworld is science fiction wearing the skin of fantasy.

Discworld tells science fiction plots and builds them from the material of fantasy. Feet of Clay is about robots and the ethics of artificial intelligence. Lords and Ladies is an alien invasion story. Moving Pictures and The Truth and Raising Steam are about the impact of new technologies on society.

Going Postal has hackers. They hack telegraphs, but they’re explicitly hackers.

Hex is made of magic and bees and ram skulls, but it is a super-computer. Discworld is built out of fairy tales and myths and swords and sorcery and a big hearty helping of Tolkien, but somewhere, deep down in its bones, it has a core of science fiction.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The age old sci-fi question, what if xenomorph eggs were snowglobes, facehuggers were shopping carts, and the queen was a living mall?

[dduane]

Just adding here that Terry knew as well as anyone else in our business that all science fiction, even at its hardest, is fantasy. (As, to varying extents—when you take it apart and examine its innards—is all fiction of every genre whatsoever. But mostly the writers of same are too embarrassed to confess to / admit it.) 😏 And though this observation’s hardly original with me, every now and then it bears repeating.

The discussions of whether in the Discworld the SF wolf is wearing the fantasy sheep’s clothing, or the SF sheep the fantasy wolf’s, will still be going on long after we’re all gone. But that doesn’t matter. Terry would cheerfully argue both sides against the middle (if you tried to pin him down on one side or the other of his meta as regarded genres or tropes) and afterwards just sit there smiling. He was a storyteller, plain and simple*, and readily grabbed whatever paradigm suited him and his subject at a given moment to get the story best told.

In my experience, anyway, he wasn’t one to worry too much about the labels. He wasn’t writing SF or fantasy as such. He was writing Pratchett.

*Except not simple at all.

[rochalil]

Happy Turkey Day y’all!

Nothing like some quality family time playing board games 🥰

I made this illustration for the Hexes and Os zine Secret Santa as a gift for Qureppi on Twitter last year (:

[mizgnomer]

David Tennant and Michael Sheen on Crowley and Aziraphale’s relationship

[aeshnacyanea2000]

The river slunk sullenly in the bottom of its bed, like a student around 11 a.m.

-- Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms

[paulidin]

I'm starting to get levels of reach and engagement on Threads that I once got on early twitter.

I'm scared.

[levil0vesyou]

[levil0vesyou]

Sorry to make an MCU joke in 2023 but

[everythingsbetterunderthestars]

Please please please I know we all love Friends and Chandler was our favourite character and Matthew always put a smile on our faces and that’s all amazing but can we please please please talk about this:

“I've had a lot of ups and downs in my life. I'm still working through it personally, but the best thing about me is that if an alcoholic or drug addict comes up to me and says, 'Will you help me?' I will always say, 'Yes, I know how to do that. I will do that for you, even if I can't always do it for myself! So I do that, whenever I can. In groups, or one on one.

And I created the Perry House in Malibu, a sober-living facility for men. I also wrote my play The End of Longing, which is a personal message to the world, an exaggerated form of me as a drunk. I had something important to say to people like me, and to people who love people like me.

When I die, I know people will talk about Friends, Friends, Friends. And I'm glad of that, happy l've done some solid work as an actor, as well as given people multiple chances to make fun of my struggles on the world wide web...

but when I die, as far as my so-called accomplishments go, it would be nice if Friends were listed far behind the things I did to try to help other people.

I know it won't happen, but it would be nice.”

- Matthew Langford Perry

(August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)

[paulidin]

Zelda Williams and Diablo Cody's upcoming #LisaFrankenstein set in the 1980s and starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse looks amazing and like it checks off a lot of my boxes!

[only-tiktoks]

[bevsi]

I’m not canonically autistic but it’s strongly implied

[sonseulsoleil]

dear god please just give the pirates their quiet seaside inn and the angel and demon their little cottage in the south downs before I lose my mind completely

[dduane]

It’s probably worth reassuring people that, by and large, those of us who’re currently engaged in putting our characters through ever-increasing levels of TERRIBLE SHIT really are looking forward, just like you, to the time when it’s finished at last and we can just give them those [cottages on the Downs / inns by the sea / chosen Places or Conditions of Rest and Solace / and one another] to enjoy in peace.

But the Shit has to come first, or it’s all valueless.

…So, back to it! (wanders off rubbing hands together in anticipation)

[unbearable-swagger]

I will be like "I'm fine" and then another fucking event will occur