#munstrum ridcully

[thefollower17]

"The Archchancellor polished his staff as he walked along. It was a particularly good one, six feet long and quite magical. Not that he used magic very much. In his experience, anything that couldn't be disposed of with a couple of whacks from fix feet of oak was probably immune to magic as well."

-Sir Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

[higgsbison]

just a question, not a request, but have you ever drawn ridcully? i'm really curious how you imagine/interpret him

I was originally gonna just answer by saying that he's a mix of official art and "that one picture of Peter Freuchen" to me

but then I remembered I DID actually draw him once when I spent like an hour thinking that him seeing Gandalf Big Naturals meme and feeling intimidated would be super funny

[mendedrum]

There are thousands of good reasons why magic doesn't rule the world. They're called witches and wizards, Magrat reflected, as she followed the other two back to the road.

It was probably some wonderful organisation on the part of Nature to protect itself. It saw to it that everyone with any magical talent was about as ready to cooperate as a she-bear with a toothache, so all that dangerous power was safely dissipated as random bickering and rivalry. There were differences in style, of course. Wizards assassinated each other in draughty corridors, witches just cut one another dead in the street. And they were all as self-centered as a spinning top. Even when they help other people, she thought, they're secretly doing it for themselves. Honestly, they're just like big children.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (via Magrat Garlick)

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this was just so funny to me. I like that Pratchett never fails to emphasize that these social classes of characters aren't inherently good nor bad. They have their flaws and different ways of dealing with each other and the world. It's very human and therefore very grounding and entertaining.

[tiodolma]

god.. granny weatherwax just had ridcully and cutangle falling over for her, didnt she.

THAT'S TWO ARCH CHANCELLORS?!!?!?!

ridcully was just inexplicably smitten with her in their youth

while cutangle had a one sided crush in their middle age

jesus fckng christ.

[mendedrum]

Ridcully casually making gay puns (that only he understands) abt Professor Macarona though. He definitely knows where it is at 😂 Ridcully is token bisexual and deserves respect 🫡

[mendedrum]

Anyway, in my opinion, there is not enough love in the world. Besides if you didn't like the company of men, you wouldn't come here in the first place!

-Munstrum Ridcully about Unseen University

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I love how Terry Pratchett wrote wizards to have natural homosexual tendencies as a result of being in an exclusively all-male environment. It's slightly similar to how he wrote the dynamics in Monstrous Regiment.

The line was said after Ridcully learned that Foreign Professor Macarona got involved in a divorce battle coz he had an affair with a married man and the wife got angry. -> (at least this was how i understood Macarona's situation ^_^; pls feel free to correct me)

[mendedrum]

Nobody told me that Unseen Academicals is just ArchChancellor Ridcully's and The Dean's divorce arc.

[mendedrum]

before

Universe: has a disturbance The Wizards: Let's summon Death

now

Universe: has a disturbance The Wizards: let's just ask Hex

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