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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Misplaced Lens Cap
Product Placement
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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I need a Thank u Mr Terry tag
#thank you mr terry#thinking something isn't doing it and doing is all people see#and deep down it means that when the ugly thought reared its head to be realized#you stood up in front of that ugly hurtful thought and said 'sit down'
Pardon me, but I needed to read your tags tonight.
The savage bitch, that is Sister Michael, is back and better than ever
Describing Terry Pratchett’s books is difficult. Someone asked me what the book I was reading was about, and I had to tell them it was about banking and the gold standard, but like in a cool way with golems and action.
I don’t think they believed me.
welcome to the club
It is so, so difficult to explain to people that your favorite book is about transgender feminist dwarves, Nazi werewolves, and the mystery of a missing piece of really old ritual bread. And Opera saves the day.
yes, give us those sweet, sweet, terrible descriptions
A tortoise who’s really a god, finds an allegory for Jesus and they go on adventures in an ancient greece like place and then a desert
The chief of police averts a rerun of an ancient war, partially despite and partially because of being possessed by a dying dwarf’s graffiti
It’s like Les Miserables but Javert is the good guy and also there’s time travel.
Macbeth but it’s about the witches
Chapter one, the protagonist is hanged. Then he’s put in charge of the post office. Yes, in that order.
it’s like mulan if there were way more mulans in mulan and also pratchett is extra irritated that too many people missed the point of jingo
The bureaucrats of the universe get annoyed at the paperwork humanity causes so they decide to steal Christmas. Replacement Christmas is done by Death and replacement Death is done by goth Mary Poppins, who is also in charge of the investigation.
these are all nice and accurate reasons to read discworld if you haven’t yet
Romeo and Juliet football AU but the other team is wizards
Hollywood????
An entire clan of tattooed, hairy, kleptomaniac, alcoholic Scotsmen decide a little girl is their new best friend whether she wants to be or not and she rescues her absolutely worthless brother by discovering the power of selfishness.
@cosmictwobyfour
Someone is dying, journalism is being invented, and part of Pulp Fiction is going on in the background.
The universes burocrats want to measure everything so they pay a man to imprison time so everything will stop and they can measure things in peace. Goth mary Poppins saves the day, the fifth horseman of the apocalypse is the best Milkman in the world, and chocolate saves the day. Also someone was born twice.
Classic dynastic machinations are happening in fantasy China, to be completely overturned by a gang of elderly barbarian heroes and the world’s worst wizard and best sprinter
I keep seeing posts about how the old Superwholock fandom basically makes up the new base for GO and…
I’ve only ever been in the ‘Lock’ bit of Superwholock so I can’t say exactly what percentage of that fandom discovered Good Omens, but one thing I know for certain.
For every ex-Superwholock, there’s a Discworld fan howering in the shadows, rubbing their hands and twirling their moustache, muttering something along the lines of ‘they have seen the Way, in a month we shall have them!’, ready to go full Constable Visit if given the slightest chance, armed with explanatory diagrams as to where you should start the series.
It would be more correct to say that there are ALWAYS sixty-four signs in the Discworld zodiac BUT also that these are subject to change without notice. Stars immediately ahead of the Turtle’s line of flight change their position only very gradually, as do the ones aft. The ones at right angles, however, may easily alter their relative positions in the lifetime of the average person, so there is a constant need for an updating of the zodiac. This is done for the Sto Plains by Unseen University, but communications with distant continents (who in any case have their own interpretations of the apparent shapes in the sky) are so slow that by the time any constellation is known Disc-wide it has already gone past. This does at least mean that astrology on the Disc is a dynamic thing and not a repository for some rather unimaginative mythology, but it does rather reduce the science to something on the lines of ‘Look! There! No, THERE! Where I’m pointing! THERE! Doesn’t that look like a crab to you? Oh, too late, you’ve missed it.’
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, “Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion So Far” (via noirandchocolate)
Good Omens: *is a huge success*
Every Single Discworld Fan: Oh? Oh worm?
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Nobby Nobbs drinks respect women juice but he shoplifted it
GOOD OMENS MUSICAL TRAILER
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BONUS:
Something I think about sometimes from Discworld
So in The Truth, William de Worde is this cool protagonist guy, writing all the news, kickstarting the newspaper industry, exposing sinister plots, meeting new friends and loved ones.
But then, when he shows up again in another book as a cameo, Pratchett does something kind of neat that I feel like I don’t see very often. The protagonists of that book (I forget which it was - maybe Monstrous Regiment or Making Money?) see him and describe him as a silly, stuffy, self-important kind of man.
Granted, Discworld’s ability to do something like this has to do with its structure and how it tells a lot of different stories with a lot of different viewpoint characters. But I’d like to see this done more often because at times it’s really meant a lot to me.
In short, it’s the idea that the world isn’t divided into cool, magnetic, universally-likeable people who everyone wants to be around and awkward downers and disappointments who nobody does. You can be the hero of one person’s story and the mildly-unlikeable background character of another’s. And that’s really important - especially for someone with a big, hot pile of social anxiety and internalized self-loathing over trans and autistic stuff.
Things Terry Pratchett Did
Made fun of the “unnecessarily naked/scantily clad woman,” “sacrificial virgin,” and “sexy heroine” tropes in his first two novels. The first was described as being the most powerful of her clan of dragon-riders and the nakedness was properly treated as unnecessary in a clear parody. The second turned out to be one of the more level-headed (while not well-educated) members of the party after her initial introduction, and also had a spine and knew (and got) what she wanted. The third was described as wearing sensible clothes, was pretty but not sexualized at all, and was practical and smart.
Wrote an entire novel to critique the unequal treatment of “men’s magic” versus “women’s magic” in the fantasy genre. Portrayed witches as just as if not more capable than wizards (when it comes to actually helping people, in particular), and also generally having more common sense than them. Nevertheless created a little girl character with wizard powers, and had her decide neither wizard nor witch magic was sufficient and develop a new kind of magic all her own.
Included sex workers in his worldbuilding. Made jokes about them the same way he did every other kind of person of any profession, but was also highly respectful and never critical of these jobs. Described the head of the ‘Seamstresses’ Guild as one of the most influential people in the biggest city in the world. Never showed or described in detail any sexual violence, including against these workers. In fact, made sure to say that anyone in the city who harmed a sex worker would be dealt with painfully, embarrassingly, and/or lethally by two fearsome elderly ladies. Even his more ditzy stripper character quickly smartened up and learned some true self-respect–not by quitting her job but by realizing she didn’t have to take any shit from men.
Included strong female friendships aplenty. Included female enemies who were enemies over things other than men. In general constantly passed the Bechdel Test and not only that, left it in the dust and had way more meaningful and realistic representation.
Five words: Dwarf Women Are All Trans. More words: And there’s no way to know if some of them were trans in the way we Earth humans would understand it, too, and he clearly didn’t think that sort of genitalia-based gender labeling mattered. Did not turn his trans dwarfs into a joke, but treated them simply as people–including a scientist/forensics officer in a police department, a prominent fashion designer, and the literal King of all dwarfs (who subsequently came out as Queen). Portrayed transmisogynists as unequivocally wrong, and had protagonist characters stand up for and protect their trans colleagues and friends. See also: had genderfluid characters in two of his books and at least one trans man, as well as confirming canonically that there are gay wizards, one of whom is really good at football.
One of his mainest of main characters was a blunt, bad-tempered, prideful old woman who is also good to her core. Didn’t gloss over her unfriendliness or excuse it, but made her complex and interesting and overall likeable despite all that. Also had a very amiable old lady character who also had a temper and would throw hands with anyone who’d mess with her family or best friend. In general, steel-souled old ladies, wow. Also steel-souled young girls.
Said he was incapable of writing a weak, wilting female character, and honestly I can’t think of a single one in any of his books.
Please feel free to add to this list with other Things Terry Pratchett Did because I definitely didn’t say them all!
I will forever be grateful for the sentence “Lady Ramkin’s bosom rose and fell like an empire.“
Who remembers the story about how Death helped save Christmas with the aid of his granddaughter?
Just the kind of thing to come from the imagination of the late great Terry Pratchett and his Discworld book: Hogfather!
Susan Sto Helit, the daughter of Death’s late human apprentice and Death’s adopted daughter, must help grandad Death save Discworld’s Christmas and unravel the mystery of the disappearance of it’s Santa: the Hogfather.
from Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett (1996)
“Ah, well, yes, you see, one of the things that makes folks even more jolly is knowing there’re people who ain’t,” said Albert, in a matter-of-fact voice. “That’s how it goes, master. Master?”
NO. Death stood up. THIS IS HOW IT SHOULDN’T GO.
—Death doesn’t believe in trickle-down economics and neither should you (from Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett)
oh! Also I should take this opportunity to air my crack theory about Night Watch, to wit: Ned Coates is a time-traveling grown-up Young Sam.
My evidence:
Ned is the only other Watchman who is new to the squad, and new to Ankh-Morpork.
He is supposedly the only person who knew the real John Keel, but he never calls Sam out for it. If there ever was a real Ned Coates, and he really knew John Keel, we only have Ned’s word for it.
When he and Sam spar, he fights just as dirty as Sam does, and claims John Keel taught him the tricks Sam uses himself.
He’s protective of Vimesy, moreso than other Watchmen though he’s known them all for the same length of time.
He is clearly up to SOMETHING; Sam thinks he’s one of the real revolutionaries plotting to overthrow Winder, but none of the other revolutionaries interact with him or seem to know him that I can recall.
When Sam admits he’s a time traveler, he’s unfazed; his question “From how far back?” would make perfect sense as “from how far back in my timeline, where you are my dad?”
He supposedly dies in the last fight, but Sam doesn’t see it, and Sam supposedly died in that fight too.
Lu-Tze is 100% good enough to have two time-travelers operating at the same time without breaking the timeline; he does, however, worry about the unusual strain he’s creating.
So, let’s say an adult Young Sam has a time-travel accident. Possibly after some sort of major falling-out with his dad, one that’s got him still pissed off at him. And now he’s stuck in a vastly more shitty version of the city he grew up in, and the versions of his dad he has met so far are a) a dumb kid and b) kind of a dick. He is not having a great time. He really, really wants to go home, but first he has a revolution to see through.
Viewed that way, Ned Coates makes a lot of sense.
I forgot to reblog this for the 25th! Well, here it is anyway, a few days late.
“They needed to be three again. Things got exciting, when there were three of you. There were rows, and adventures, and things for Granny to get angry about, and she was only happy when she was angry. In fact, it seemed to Nanny, she was only Granny Weatherwax when she was angry.”
— Terry Pratchett, Maskerade (via discworldquotes)
hello uk friends, it’s your friendly neighbourhood european and fellow uk resident jules. i can’t physically drag you to the polling station, but please know that there are thousands of people in this country (including me) whose futures will be affected by the outcome of this election who desperately want to vote but aren’t eligible to. so. yknow. USE YOUR VOTE.
