#ptraci

[travelling-my-little-pony]

Silver Glow went to see the "Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld – 30 Years of Paul Kidby’s Illustrations" exhibition at Weston Museum.

In Somerset, England.

[alda-rana]

The Pyramids post as promised! Teppic and Ptraci are a bit flat and underwhelming as main characters, but as a Classicist I'll always have a soft spot for the Ephebian philosophers and their paradoxes (and Endos, their Listener!) Dios is also an interesting character but mostly comes off as a first draft of the much better-realised Vorbis in Small Gods...

[unseenlibrarycardholder]

Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby

[pratchettquotes]

Ptraci glared at him from kohl-ringed eyes. "You mean you don't know? You were going to take me into the desert and you don't know where water is?"

"Well, I rather expected I was going to be able to take some with me!"

"You didn't even think about it!"

"Listen, you can't talk to me like that! I'm a king!" Teppic stopped.

"You're absolutely right," he said. "I never thought about it. Where I come from it rains nearly every day. I'm sorry."

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

[andreai04]

“She has refused to take the potion, sire.”

“Sorry, I thought you said it wasn’t compulsory, Dios.”

“Yes, sire. It is not, sire. It is entirely voluntary. It is an act of free will. And she has refused it, sire.”

[dimity-lawn]

Teppic about Ptraci:

[batteryfisher]

“Can I have my bangles, please?'

Teppic shrugged, and fished in his pouch. The bangles were mostly copper, with a few bits of chipped enamel [….] [Ptraci] took them and slipped them on.

"[...] What do you need them for?"

"I told you. I don't feel properly dressed without them on."

- Pyramids, Terry Pratchett

[ansatsu-sha]

Ptraci dutifully cast around for a new topic of conversation. Introducing Topics of Amusing Discourse was also part of a handmaiden's duties. She'd never been particularly good at it. The other girls had come up with an astonishing assortment: everything from the mating habits of crocodiles to speculation about life in the Netherworld. She'd found it heavy going after talking about the weather.

Terry Pratchett / Pyramids