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on this terry pratchett day. i am gently reminding everyone that terry wrote 41 whole books that weren’t co-authored by a rapist. most of them are even good

#theres also something to be said abt how terry talked about the writing of go and how ge wrote 70% of it #vs ng waxing poetic abt hiw they were besties and terry asked him to finush it on his deathbed or whatever #despite terry having all his unfinished work run over by a steamroller after his death #but anyway.#read discworld

I think Tumblr, loving pathetic men and wizards, should appreciate Rincewind more.

#the scrunkly #read discworld

Lord Vetinari was not a man who delighted in the technical. There were two cultures, as far as he was concerned. One was the real one, the other was occupied by people who liked machinery and ate pizza at unreasonable hours.

The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett

#trust me im an engineer #i was disappointed in Vetinari but he is one of my favourite #eat pizza at unreasonable hours #morituri nomulus mori #pizza #lord vetinari #leonard da quirm #the turtle moves #discworld #the last hero #terry pratchett #GNU Terry Pratchett #Speak His Name #havelock vetinari #read pratchett #read discworld #sir terry pratchett #what i read

Hey! This is a drawing I started a few years ago to show all my huge appreciation of sir. Terry Pratchett´s Discworld. Still had not knew a lot of its books and characters, so I put on it the characters that I knew the most at the time.

It is clearly not finished but I don´t know if I can finish it someday. But I still like it.

More amazing characters of Discworld: Tiffany Aching

#Read discworld #I repeat read discworld #go on read it!#Tiffany aching #discworld #disc world #Tiffany aching discworld #witch aesthetic #aesthetics #aesthetic #witch #moodboard #mood board #harmless-hobbit #Terry Pratchett #pratchett

i was just thinking that i generally gravitate more towards more “realistic” books and stories, and like i don’t mean that as strictly set in the real world about real things, but y’know, the going-on-a-big-magical-quest isn’t my preferred cup of tea...

but like then again discworld is basically my favorite series of books, and that’s 100% fantasy. but then again again...it’s always been so rooted in reality that you kinda forget that you’re surrounded by dwarves, werewolves and the such.

like, that’s what terry was going for. it is satire, and it definitely feels like our roundworld, and i think that’s just so amazing. of course, i also tend to go for the books from the watch series, or the industrial revolution series, which are obviously the most “realistic”, if you want to, but even with rincewind’s books or the witches’, you still have that familiarity.

i just love discworld, man.

#and this is not meant to bash fantasy fantasy is amazing #but it's not what i tend to go for so that's whats so interesting for me #read discworld #juli's mundane life

What is your absolute favourite ship?

“She smiled at him.And then it arose and struck Vimes that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful; this was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. She couldn’t do worse, but then, he couldn’t do better. So maybe it balanced out. She wasn’t getting any younger but then, who was? And she had style and money and common-sense and self-assurance and all the things that he didn’t, and she had opened her heart, and if you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city.And eventually, under siege, you did what Ankh-Morpork had always done – unbar the gates, let the conquerors in, and make them your own.”

Sam Vimes has been in love with the City forever.

So he gave, and gave, and gave and Ankh-Morpork, being Ankh-Morpork took. Took until all that was left of Sam Vimes was cynicism, cheap alcohol and cardboard-soled boots.

Lady Sybil Ramkin was the City finally giving back.

Even then, the way the City gave was so, so, so selfish: All the places Vimes couldn’t go before, he could with Sybil. All the shadowy, golden rooms where the Rich and Powerful sat, where they could carelessly disregard the lives of the “unimportant people” for Greed and Convenience, cozy in their knowledge that they’re Above the Law, were now available.

And Vimes, actual personification of Justice Sam Vimes, brought the Law with him.

By giving Sam Sybil, the City ensured that, for the first time in a long while, someone would clean up the muck that floats at the top of society.

The fact that two middle-aged loners came out of it happy and in love, well, that’s just there to make it a story.

#discworld #sam vimes #sybil ramkin #gnu terry pratchett #Terry Pratchett #bet you all expected zutara #like #don't get me wrong #it's a close second #but ultimately #zutara is a ship of wasted potential #the vimeses just plain make me happy #also #read discworld #Anonymous #m memes #m asks

plus side of of carpal tunnel: tons of free time, spent on the nth Discworld rereading

minus side: want to draw everything, can’t

#when will my wrist return from the war #its been weeks you ungrateful appendage #I know I barely ever post about dw but its right up on that fav thing throne with soulsborne #i think about it sometimes and do the whole misty eyes&clench fist thing #read discworld #but not the first two books #search for a reading list