that's watercolor season

Maybe an artist, maybe a piece of bread ru | eng

[rincewinds-hat]

got a new rinceflower fic idea, be prepared in the following 6 months or so... Im pretty damn slow but i have several ideas and one may or may not be a long fic... Shhhh don't think about my other three almost abandoned long fics shhhh this one is different

[xylophone888]

things that come in pairs are lucky in chinese culture. twoflower is TWOflower. red is a lucky color in chinese culture. rincewind wears red. when him and flower are around eachother they go through wild shit but survive and change the world for the better. when they're apart you could argue rincewinds regular torture is a lot more fruitless (albeit he's still a driving force for change, his chinese red is fighting the childrens hospital red) & twoflower well. twoflowers wife died but i don't think that was the universe because if it was that would be highkey giving fandom misogyny. anyways im derailing. tl dr its lowkey cosmic. cosmic yaoi for autistic middle aged men

[bulbulwizz]

Rincewind and Twoflower in The Colour of Magic and Interesting Times

[thewizzardwithin]

guys I wish I could articulate how much I love the rinceflower ship because genuinely its personal for me

like imagine you’re someone who is not very good at the one thing you know you’re meant for and everyone around you doubts you could amount to anything but you keep going because otherwise you would be nothing

and then here comes somebody who is so kind and willing to listen to you and believes you are worth something despite overwhelming evidence you are kind of just mediocre, and maybe deep down they are aware that you’re not all you claim to be but that doesn’t matter to them because they believe in you so deeply. nobody has ever cared about you like that before and it’s a lot to handle up until you find their absence had come much too soon. can somebody resuscitate me

[porcelain-mayhem]

And that same someone who treat you with kindness is sorta kinda the reason for most of your troubles. His love for the world is. You quickly learn you can not change him, so the only way is to change the world instead. You think it is impossible but do it, mostly by accident, but still

[porcelain-mayhem]

A gentle kiss

[science-is-witchcraft]

I’m fond of these two.

[porcelain-mayhem]

I love them!! And whatever is happening between them

[porcelain-mayhem]

Really like this WIP

[thewizzardwithin]

regarding the state of my Jonathan Teatime WIP cosplay. audio is from the Hogfather movie, & the “dog” in this video was looking at birdies outside the window lol

[latveriansnailmail]

Yo my Discworld people, how to you parse it in your head when Throat Dibbler's name is shortened to CMOT Dibbler?

How do you sound CMOT?

see-mot

k'mot

C-M-O-T

I say the whole thing, Cut-Me-Own-Throat

I just shorten to Throat like it's sometimes written

I don't because of reasons like nonphonetic reading

the name is handled differently in the language I read in (do share)

other (please share)

I'd show the results but that's cutting me own throat

Voting ended onJul 8

[circusheart]

If I keep practicing I might even be a person soon

[elle-thereafter]

These are important things I have learned about writing fiction. I know these things, but sometimes I need a reminder. So I am writing them here, both as a reminder for myself, and as a reminder for all those who, like me, sometimes forget.

Characters must make choices.

Characters should often make bad choices before they make good choices.

Character choices should drive the vast majority of the plot. Characters reacting to having random stuff thrown at them is far less interesting than characters reacting to the stuff they've thrown after it's ricocheted around and comes bouncing back toward them.

If a character refuses to make a choice, there better be consequences for that too, and you better have a damn clear way of showing those consequences to the reader and the character.

Nearly every time I'm struggling with writing something, taking a step back and thinking about these 4 things usually helps get me unstuck.

[bellisima-writes]

Reblogging for my fandom crew as well.

[science-is-witchcraft]

In my personal opinion, walking away was the most cowardly thing Rincewind ever did. Everything else he did because he wanted to live. He let Twoflower leave because he was scared he didn’t deserve him.

[unchronology]

Tee-hee. This is a little bit fun.

[thewizzardwithin]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

JET LAG CHAPTER 2 IS OUT! Rinceflower Roundworld AU fresh from the kitchen... come get ya juice....

[porcelain-mayhem]

Everyone, go read it NOW

[w0rms-w0rms-w0rms]

Concept: a version of Havelock Vetinari with some kind of lifelong chronic pain condition. Hear me out.

A lot of elements of Vetinari's character could be explained and actually made more interesting by chronic illness. At least in my experience, living with chronic pain forces you to develop a degree of control over your body (e.g. not freaking people out around you by visibly being in pain all the time through facial expressions / voice tone), it can give you a ridiculous pain tolerance, and for some people puts you in a position where you end up with a strong internal fortress which is relatively unshakeable by inconveniences of the physical world, similar to Stoicism in its original ancient philosophical sense -- even when your body is completely going to shit with a million symptoms, you are still Yourself, and you remain rational.

Basically, in short, some people react to chronic pain by becoming a rock in almost all situations.

Now, Vetinari is a man who can be calm when being imprisoned and theoretically having his life in danger; he is able to remain rational and make reasonable decisions when having literally just been shot; and he is able to tolerate the discomfort of being poisoned whilst not allowing the inability to care for himself to affect his internal sense of self. His reactions could for sure be the result of years of training and immense self-discipline (which is the textual implication), but I think it adds a layer of something interesting if he has built up a tolerance to physical and situational discomfort through being in agony for the majority of his life. If this is the case, then I think it's really cool that his disability would actually make him a better Patrician.

As an added bonus, I think this interpretation gets extra fun when you bring in the fact that he's very pale and skinny (pain and other chronic symptoms can affect appetite, and the paleness is kind of self-explanatory), and the fact that he doesn't sleep much (pain-somnia).

Idk. I find it fun to imagine that not only is he resilient and level-headed in the face of crisis because that's the kind of person he is and has trained himself to be, but that he has been forced to become that way by a body which doesn't give him any other choice, other than to simply give up.

[fantomber]

Rincewind in the clothes of the postman

[robotslenderman]

I love how Pterry has this habit of writing middle class professionals as deciding that they're going to go utterly feral