so she'd be the witch and know things

Miranda, 23, American, physics phd student, she/her. This blog is mostly Discworld, but Harry Potter and LOTR will also appear.

[thedaughterofprospero]

I’m visiting my parents for Thanksgiving and they have a surprise new kitten! My dad found her in the woods and brought her home. Her name is Eleven, which works on multiple levels because she’s our eleventh cat (total, not all at once. she’s the fourth one in the house right now)

[discworldtour]

Unfortunately, there wasn’t. She was going to commit an act of extreme bravery and no one would know if it all went wrong. That was frightening, but also… annoying. That was it – annoying. This place annoyed her. It was all stupid and strange. It was the same feeling she’d had when Jenny had leaped out of the river. Out of her river. And the Queen had taken her brother. Maybe it was selfish to think like that, but anger was better than fear. Fear was a damp cold mess, but anger had an edge. She could use it. They were herding her! Like a–a sheep! Well, an angry sheep could send a vicious dog away, whimpering.

– on anger well used | Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

[ankhmorporkuniversity]

[sator-the-wanderer]

Yes please! @ankhmorporkuniversity Rincewind and Ponder

[thethreehares]

Should’ve posted this ages ago! Commission for the wonderful @degenezijde of Polly and Maladict from Monstrous Regiment.

(mm.. coffee…)

[elvencantation]

The thing about witchcraft, is it’s not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterwards you spend years finding out how you passed it. It’s a bit like life in that respect.

Mistress Weatherwax (Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett)

[godsquito]

this is the only finished thing I’ve drawn in a while lol

[judasisgayriot]

Has to be one of the best passages of a book I’ve read in a long time

[xekstrin]

​it’s not an understatement to say I think about this all the time

[discworldtour]

The period of time it takes a pictsie to go from normal to mad fighting mood is so tiny, it can’t be measured on the smallest clock.

– somewhere Jeremy Clockson cracks his knuckles | Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

[exploringcastleoblivion]

The Discworld Emporium has socks now! (Sorry, on mobile so I’m not sure how to create a link to their website) Maybe a Christmas gift to myself lol

[hargashouseofribs]

https://www.discworldemporium.com/clothing/416-discworld-socks 😍

[romans-art]

“You know how stuff runs in families? Blue eyes, buck teeth, that sort of thing? Well, Death runs in my family. I remember things that haven’t happened yet and I can TALK THAT TALK and stalk that stalk and…if he gets sidetracked, then I’ll have to do it. And he does get sidetracked.” 

-Susan Sto Helit

[alwaysalreadyangry]

Valkyrie’s character arc of self-redemption is a common one in action films: she cleans up her act and returns to the battlefield. But the nuance of her portrayal speaks deeply to the experience of indigenous peoples, and Waititi marks this very clearly. Valkyrie has lost her bond to Asgard and its people, losing her cultural identity and eventually losing her sense of personal and even moral identity – burying the trauma of loss in alcohol and even taking a job as a slavetrader. When she regains her history she regains her true identity, and returns to her defend her homeland and people from an oppressive force. She also shows up in a spaceship in the colours of the Aboriginal flag, amid massive fireworks show, because why be subtle when you can be awesome instead.

Dan Taipua, Thor and his magic patu: notes on a very Māori Marvel movie

[ermintrude-fanshaw]

Nac Mac Feegle by Paul Kidby, 2010: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTluureBJ_k/?taken-by=paulkidby

I love how he draws the Feegles!

[siverwrites]

Death With Cat Plush | Terry Pratchett's Discworld | Plushies

Death has never been so cuddly! Official Discworld plushy featuring Terry Pratchett's ultimate anthropomorphic personification, complete with scythe & cat!

I just slightly hurt my throat with a near silent squeak slight squawk. It’s SO SILLY. I need.

[bookhobbit]

meant for this to be art of that moment in Sourcery where Rincewind discovers the burnt library but it turned into a weird mock cover illustration idk 

[caffeinebooks]

What's your least favorite part about being in grad school?

I’m not a fan of the façade we tend to put on as students that brings so much shame of who were are. We need to be “grown ups.” We need to be “serious.” We need to be “respectable.” I’m 5′2″. I have an accent. I speak and laugh too loud. Everything is against me being a Serious Academic, no matter how good my work may be (and I don’t even have that many strikes against me: I’m not markedly non-White; I’m not queer; despite my accent I am considered fluent). Dying my hair with bright colors was a way of taking a stance in my own way: I will wear pink hair and go to a conference and talk to professors unashamedly because my hair doesn’t do the thinking. My tattoos don’t do the thinking. My lipsticks and my t-shirts and my Vans don’t do the thinking. 

But my least favorite part of being in grad school–as a PhD candidate in the US–is the never-ending sense of feeling guilty all the time. Guilty of not being so productive as I could be, guilty of taking the day off after spending hours traveling to and from a conference. Guilty of being more supportive of my friends and peers, of asking too many questions or taking too much time.

[terrypratchettparadise]

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters (via terrypratchettparadise)

[vonlipvig]

the discworld is a bottomless barrel of relatable characters, and this victor fellow is no exception