#terry practchett

[iamafullyrealizedcreation]

I know it’s fun and all to have Crowley turn into his snake form or something to bask in the sun, but after he does it in the book to scare the business man with the paintball gun he says this. “I’m always afraid I’ll forget how to change back” to his human form, and that got to my heart

[shannananan]

GOOD OMENS IS EVERYTHING.

I think i manic giggled for six hours straight. what an absolute fucking delight 

[iamafullyrealizedcreation]

Can you draw Uriel ? In something sorta ancient Greek ? I feel like their gold leaf scales (?) Rlly would fit well with that

This was actually really super fun to draw. Thank you!!

[blackforestbasilisks]

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett

Execution: ⭐⭐⭐

Enjoyment: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Link, Amazon Link Key Descriptors: Terry Pratchett, humor, satire, wizardry

Premise: Where the journey first began... four elephants on the back of a giant turtle with a flat, disc-shaped world on top of their backs. The great city of Ankh-Morpork. Truly, this is a classic. 

In any case, the actual premise: a naive, innocent tourist with a very protective set of Luggage (complete with teeth and a bloodthirsty demeanor) visits a large city full of rather brutish adventurers. Along the way, he engages a wizard who knows only a single spell (which can’t be uttered lest he inadvertently end the world as we know it) as his rather intrepid guide. Mayhem ensues.  

Review: While this is certainly not the strongest in the Discworld series, it’s impossible not to be fond of this very first novel. If you’re looking for an introduction to Discworld and Pratchett, I honestly wouldn’t recommend The Colour of Magic given that it’s not representative of the collection as a whole. It has some major plot/pacing flaws, albeit some delightful characters. If you’re just wanting to start with Discworld, I’d recommend either Guards! Guards!, Mort, or Equal Rites depending on if you’d prefer to read about some excellent city guardsmen, Death himself, or a group of witches. 

Twoflower is such a dear - he’s incredibly optimistic and practical, even in the face of near-death. His approach is that if you’re going to die, well, you’d best try to get a good photo out of the deal while you’re at it! Worrying, of course, won’t do a jot of good. 

“Don't you understand?" snarled Rincewind. "We are going over the Edge, godsdammit!" "Can't we do anything about it?" "No!" "Then I can't see the sense in panicking," said Twoflower calmly.”

And the Luggage... arguably the best character in the book, really. What’s not to love about a sea chest that doggishly follows its master, forces reluctant wizards to help on pain of a very crunchy, awful death, and trots around on a hundred tiny legs? The Luggage always shows up just in the nick of time. 

Let’s not forget Rincewind! Rincewind is a character who will show up throughout the Discworld books. He’s a somewhat cowardly wizard who would really just prefer to live a quiet life without any attention being paid to him at all. Alas, that’s not to be: the powers over Ankh-Morpork have decreed that if anything happens to Twoflower, it could cause a bit of a political crisis resulting in a sudden lack of a head for Rincewind. 

“Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.” 

Twoflower is utterly determined to have a roaring adventure and meet some proper heroes and hasn’t the faintest concept of self-preservation. Thus does he end up kidnapped, in the bowels of a demon’s temple, and on the back of a somewhat imaginary dragon while breaking out of prison. 

The weakest point of the book is the plot/pacing. It’s a little all over the place with many small events occurring that could use a bit more continuity or focus. Let’s spend some more time on the semi-imaginary dragons! or perhaps the dryads ought to play a more prominent role continuing on throughout the book? Small things like that are the biggest flaws. It is very clearly a debut novel, but the seeds for what Discworld will ultimately become are definitely there and present. 

[a-spectacular-pigeon]

I’m certain I said it correctly 

An unconventional assassin - @tangentqueenofdragons okay technically I was probably supposed to draw something kind of bizarre and zany but unconventional assassin is always going to take my mind right to Mr Teatime. Ask anyone in the assassin’s guild, there’s something very off about him. 

yes, those are teeth that he’s holding. Childrens’ teeth, to be exact. That’s also what those rows of cases are filled with. He stole them from the tooth fairy, as part of his plan to kill the Discworld equivalent of Santa Clause whom he as hired by the auditors to assassinate. The Hogfather is a really wild ride, I would suggest giving it a read some time. 

This is not one of my best drawings; I definitely didn’t leave myself enough time for it. Mostly it’s just really, really plain. I hate making such plain drawings, it’s something I’m working. I think that hand turned out surprisingly well though. Not perfect, but better than I was expecting. 

[hubblegleeflower]

The Monstrous Regiment

The Monstrous Regiment is a reference to a diatribe, “The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women”, published by John Knox in 1558, railing against female monarchs, since being ruled by women (obviously) goes against the Bible. 

(Don’t ask me anything about it, my whole acquaintance with it comes from this Wikipedia article, of which I read and paraphrased the first paragraph.)

I only found it because I wanted to know if this comment had an origin other than the Terry Pratchett novel, also called The Monstrous Regiment and FAR more worth reading than the Knox polemic, in which a young girl disguises herself as a boy in order to join the army and find her brother. Standard folk story, until bit by bit you discover that every single soldier in her regiment is also a girl disguised as a boy, for a variety of reasons. And then they kick ass.

There is nothing at all whatsoever in this world you can say to convince me that Moftiss were not referencing Sir Terry in this comment.

Also, Sherlock reads Terry Pratchett novels. They’re his secret pleasure. Buried deep...

(with thanks to @loveinthemindpalace for the gif.)

[wicked-rainbow-gay]

To be the place where the falling angel, meets the rising ape.

The Hogfather, Sir Terry Pratchett

[wicked-rainbow-gay]

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Sir Terry Pratchett