Apr 7
WHOOOHOOOOO HELL YESSSS I LOVE YOU ESK I LOVE YOU DISCWORLD I LOVE YOU TERRY PRATCHETT YESSSSSSSS
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WHOOOHOOOOO HELL YESSSS I LOVE YOU ESK I LOVE YOU DISCWORLD I LOVE YOU TERRY PRATCHETT YESSSSSSSS
I think that the Tiffany Aching books, for all of the crazy Nac Mac Feegle antics, have at least as much that hits hard and makes you think as the main Discworld series. It's crazy that these are children's books, except really it's wonderful that there are children's books like this.
"Ye ken how to be strong, do ye?" "Yes, I think so." "Good. D'ye ken how to be weak? Can ye bow to the gale, can ye bend to the storm?" -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
"We dinna mourn like ye do, ye ken. We mourn for them that has tae stay behind." -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Actually in large part that's what we mourn for too)
"Ye'll find the way if ye tak' yer time. Just don't stamp yer foot and expect the world to do yer biddin'." -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices." -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
She wasn't being brave or noble or kind. She was doing this because it had to be done, because there was no way that she could not do it. -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
I've been given something for a while, and the price of it is that I have to give it back. -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
He just looked like someone who'd been frightened for so long, it had become part of his life, like freckles. -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
But you had to start small, like oak trees. -- Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men
I am re-reading I Shall Wear Midnight, and it is pointed out that Tiffany wasn’t born a witch, she chose and worked for it. Just like Granny Weatherwax wasn’t chosen, she chose for herself, and worked for it.
I love that message of choice. It speaks to me a lot more than the “chosen one” narratives. The chosen one narratives, the destiny narratives, make me feel like there is no point, everything is decided from birth anyway.
Terry Pratchett is all about choice, and I love him for that too.
Listening to a history podcast on the history of printing in England and they mention this guy as being 1, one of the first printers in England, and 2, having the best name for a printer
And I'm like...that sounds familiar...only as William de Worde, which is of course this guy
I see what you did there Pratchett
It's been 10 years today
10 years ago I sat on the computer scrolling through tumblr and a picture of Terry Pratchett appeared. Shaking death's hand while the black desert awaited him
10 years ago I was crying my eyes out hysterically
GNU Terry Pratchett
Lost World Literature vs Lucian's Library Winners
This is the winner of the Lost World literature poll and the Lucian's library never written literature poll. Which would you rather have? You may have a babel fish in your ear to translate.
Written down lost folklore or mythology of which nothing else survives.
The Books Terry Pratchett would have written if he hadn't gotten sick and died
What if Adora Belle Dearheart is actually a drag name and we've been sleeping her being a Drag Queen the whole time
Wee Free Men - An Unprofessional Diagnosis Of The Characters
alright, this is likely going to be a long post and likely going to be an unfinished post, but I’m a firm believer that Terry Pratchett was neurodivergent and has projected his neurodivergency onto every character in discworld, so I’m going to be making headcanon diagnosises for every character, starting with Wee Free Men because I’ve been reading Tiffany Aching and fuck chronological order.
Note- I’m only doing the neurodivergent traits from THIS BOOK because I’m not combing through the whole mini series, I’m may be stupid but I’m not an idiot.
Tiffany Aching
starting off strong with our main character. I believe she’s definitely autistic and I’m going to just list autistic traits she shows with quotes to support them.
Not knowing what was socially acceptable, the unspoken rules. ‘she’d read the dictionary all the way through. No one told her you weren’t supposed to’ ‘I buried her cat […] someone had to’
word association that based on sensations ‘sussurus […] Tiffany liked the taste of the word. It made her think of mysterious people in long cloaks whispering important secrets behind a door’
not having the “correct” emotional reactions to things ‘I ought to be scared, but I’m just angry’
Being ignored or left out of things ‘People tended to leave Tiffany alone’
taking things literally (~measuring a soup plate after being told Jenny had eyes as big as soup plates~), ‘a girl was as beautiful as the day is long. Well, which day? In midwinter it hardly ever got light’
Lacking a proper understanding of danger ‘she used her brother as bait’
being very blunt in her speech ‘are you a witch?’
noticing things that others don’t, being observant (~do I really need examples? It happens so often~)
questioning things generally accepted because they didn’t make sense to her ‘The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: where’s the evidence?’
I’ve come to the horrible realisation that I’ve gotten 9 autistic traits from only 2 chapters of this 14 chapter book, and only one character too. This may be a much larger task than I initially thought.