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A quotation from Terry Pratchett

They were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it’s not murder if you do it for a god).

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 13, Small Gods (1992)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8504…

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Happy World Chocolate Day! Who makes a Chocolate Delight with Special Secret Sauce, and what are (usually) its effects on those who eat it?

(Psst. If you have a #GalaDinner ticket, please make all your food and drink choices by Friday 10 July!)

#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #WorldChocolateDay #Chocolate #TerryPratchett

Happy World Chocolate Day! Who makes a Chocolate Delight with Special Secret Sauce, and what are (usually) its effects on those who eat it?

(Psst. If you have a #GalaDinner ticket, please make all your food and drink choices by Friday 10 July!)

#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #WorldChocolateDay #Chocolate #TerryPratchett

As far as I can tell whoever I choose I will be rescued, so the real question is who do I most want to hang out with 🤔😁 And that is a toss up between Vimes, Susan, and Esme...

@fantasy @bookstodon @books
@[email protected] @[email protected] @aiop

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Pratchett #SpeculativeFiction #FantasyBooks
#FantasyMemes #Fantasy #Meme #Memes #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Comedic
#Novel #Books #Bookstodon

I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!

This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th

With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.

I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.

Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.

I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt

I hope everyone is having a lovely and Geekly Proud Glorious 25th of May and knows where their towel is. This mermaid does!

This is really a case of fandoms colliding, what with #MerMay and #TowelDay and #GeekPride and the #glorious25th

With love to #DouglasAdams and #TerryPratchett both sadly missed.

I never met Douglas but I did meet Sir Terry a few times, and he was a lovely, lovely fellow.

Anyway, appropriatedly enough, this beautiful ink from Diamine and it's called Icy Lavender, and is strong in its chameleon shimmer.

I used the Kakimori nib. I am so tired.

#MerMay #MerMay2026 #DrawingWithoutANet #FantasyArt #FountainPenInk #DipPen #NoAI #Mermaid #TraditionArt

happy glorious 25th of may to all who celebrate.
#Glorious25thOfMay #Glorious25th #GNUPterry #TerryPratchett

happy glorious 25th of may to all who celebrate.
#Glorious25thOfMay #Glorious25th #GNUPterry #TerryPratchett

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld, Book 18, Maskerade (1995)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8413…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #authority #belief #credulity #credulousness #gossip #gullibility #naivete #sources #trust #whispers #maskerade

The Unfranked Man

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
Corgi, 2005 (2004).

‘Yes, well, you know what we used to say: you do have to be mad to work here!’ said the Worshipful Master.

Chapter Five

The phrase which inspired the title of this novel refers to a distressing period in the US postal service when certain disgruntled postal workers were involved in mass shootings of colleagues and the public: ‘going postal’ meant resorting to extreme violence to express resentment, frustration or mental disturbance, though now it’s casually used as the equivalent of ‘going mad’ in a social situation.

In Pratchett’s hands the phrase becomes a way to focus his anger through critiquing a number of societal ills – the decimation of public services, for example, and corporate greed – while using his trademark humour not only to satirise corruption but also to portray those who might otherwise appear to be social inadequates instead of as individuals worthy of respect and admiration.

But our attention is focused on Moist Von Lipwig, a petty fraudster in his twenties (“I’m Moist!”) who is offered, by Lord Vetinari no less, a chance to redeem himself as the newly appointed Postmaster in Ankh-Morpork. The question we ask ourselves is, will – echoing Herodotus and the inscription on New York’s 1914 Post Office – neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stop him fulfilling his brief?

As usual in the Discworld the plot is twisty and witty – and there’s even a kitty involved – but it basically boils down to the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief. Lipwig’s nemesis turns out to be Reacher Gilt, the apotheosis of every asset-stripper you can think of, a pirate of the high ds (that’s Ankh-Morpork dollars to you). Not only is he visually and punnily a compound of Edward Teach alias Blackbeard and Long John Silver but he has a mercenary cockatoo which screeches the percentage equivalent of “Pieces of eight!”

Reacher has control of the Discworld’s equivalent of the internet, a web of semaphore communication towers with Tump Tower at its centre. And in common with many such men he has pared the system to the bone, reducing efficiency and endangering lives while ignoring the principle which our conman Lipwig belatedly comes to recognise, the proposition that profit needs “to spread around the whole of society.”

Pratchett expertly keeps the story bubbling over, with an initiation ritual for Lipwig as the Unfranked Man, the surprising revival of the moribund institution, and a crisis almost precisely at the two-thirds mark. There’s a love interest for Lipwig, the chain-smoking Adora Bella Dearheart (who seems to embody the enterprise of Amelia Earhart and the intellectual shrewdness of Ada Lovelace), but though he’s infatuated with her we wonder if she comes to be merely fond of him. There are also the remnant post office workers Tolliver Groat and Stanley Howler, golems galore, a banshee, and a pair of tough coachmen whose forenames curiously echo the late Victorian writer Henry James. In fact, this in many ways is a 19th-century novel, with prefatory chapter synopses and a paucity of Pratchett’s otherwise familiar footnotes.

For me, athwart the serious messages Pratchett embeds in his stories are the quiet in-jokes that the former regional reporter fits in. Take as just one example the god Blind Io, which seems to puzzle many fans on Pratchett forums: just south of Bristol is the wonderfully named river Blind Yeo which whenever we drove over it we’d cry “Yeo-oh!” When working for Bristol’s Western Daily Press Pratchett would’ve crossed over the same bridge many a time, and the name will have stuck in his memory just as it still does in ours. This ranks as merely one of the many instances of the author “funning around” amidst engineered catastrophes and grocer’s apostrophes and sly literary references to Tolkien, Rowling and others.

And it turns out that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night – nor indeed fire and malice – can stop letters and words getting through in Discworld, thanks to the Unfranked Man.

Read for Kristen of WeBeReading,com’s #MarchMagics and as March’s title for Adam of RoofBeamReader’s #TBRyear10 Challenge. First posted 28th March 2023 and then for #MarchMagics2026.

The Unfranked Man

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.
Corgi, 2005 (2004).

‘Yes, well, you know what we used to say: you do have to be mad to work here!’ said the Worshipful Master.

Chapter Five

The phrase which inspired the title of this novel refers to a distressing period in the US postal service when certain disgruntled postal workers were involved in mass shootings of colleagues and the public: ‘going postal’ meant resorting to extreme violence to express resentment, frustration or mental disturbance, though now it’s casually used as the equivalent of ‘going mad’ in a social situation.

In Pratchett’s hands the phrase becomes a way to focus his anger through critiquing a number of societal ills – the decimation of public services, for example, and corporate greed – while using his trademark humour not only to satirise corruption but also to portray those who might otherwise appear to be social inadequates instead of as individuals worthy of respect and admiration.

But our attention is focused on Moist Von Lipwig, a petty fraudster in his twenties (“I’m Moist!”) who is offered, by Lord Vetinari no less, a chance to redeem himself as the newly appointed Postmaster in Ankh-Morpork. The question we ask ourselves is, will – echoing Herodotus and the inscription on New York’s 1914 Post Office – neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stop him fulfilling his brief?

As usual in the Discworld the plot is twisty and witty – and there’s even a kitty involved – but it basically boils down to the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief. Lipwig’s nemesis turns out to be Reacher Gilt, the apotheosis of every asset-stripper you can think of, a pirate of the high ds (that’s Ankh-Morpork dollars to you). Not only is he visually and punnily a compound of Edward Teach alias Blackbeard and Long John Silver but he has a mercenary cockatoo which screeches the percentage equivalent of “Pieces of eight!”

Reacher has control of the Discworld’s equivalent of the internet, a web of semaphore communication towers with Tump Tower at its centre. And in common with many such men he has pared the system to the bone, reducing efficiency and endangering lives while ignoring the principle which our conman Lipwig belatedly comes to recognise, the proposition that profit needs “to spread around the whole of society.”

Pratchett expertly keeps the story bubbling over, with an initiation ritual for Lipwig as the Unfranked Man, the surprising revival of the moribund institution, and a crisis almost precisely at the two-thirds mark. There’s a love interest for Lipwig, the chain-smoking Adora Bella Dearheart (who seems to embody the enterprise of Amelia Earhart and the intellectual shrewdness of Ada Lovelace), but though he’s infatuated with her we wonder if she comes to be merely fond of him. There are also the remnant post office workers Tolliver Groat and Stanley Howler, golems galore, a banshee, and a pair of tough coachmen whose forenames curiously echo the late Victorian writer Henry James. In fact, this in many ways is a 19th-century novel, with prefatory chapter synopses and a paucity of Pratchett’s otherwise familiar footnotes.

For me, athwart the serious messages Pratchett embeds in his stories are the quiet in-jokes that the former regional reporter fits in. Take as just one example the god Blind Io, which seems to puzzle many fans on Pratchett forums: just south of Bristol is the wonderfully named river Blind Yeo which whenever we drove over it we’d cry “Yeo-oh!” When working for Bristol’s Western Daily Press Pratchett would’ve crossed over the same bridge many a time, and the name will have stuck in his memory just as it still does in ours. This ranks as merely one of the many instances of the author “funning around” amidst engineered catastrophes and grocer’s apostrophes and sly literary references to Tolkien, Rowling and others.

And it turns out that neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night – nor indeed fire and malice – can stop letters and words getting through in Discworld, thanks to the Unfranked Man.

Read for Kristen of WeBeReading,com’s #MarchMagics and as March’s title for Adam of RoofBeamReader’s #TBRyear10 Challenge. First posted 28th March 2023 and then for #MarchMagics2026.

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
 
* This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics, and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8226…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #eric #amazons #battleofthesexes #chores #genderroles #household #males #masculinity #men #trope #women #jungle

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

   Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
   Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8103…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #character #forthrightness #frankness #goodnature #honesty #simplicity #straightforwardness

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

   Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
   Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8103…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #character #forthrightness #frankness #goodnature #honesty #simplicity #straightforwardness

Pratchett, monopoli, individualismo

https://scartafaccio.net/pratchett-monopoli-individualismo/

For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed. Sometimes they need to help some poor soul through the final hours, help them to find the door, not to get lost in the dark.

Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #TiffanyAching #TheShepherdsCrown

For a witch stands on the very edge of everything, between the light and the dark, between life and death, making choices, making decisions so that others may pretend no decisions have even been needed. Sometimes they need to help some poor soul through the final hours, help them to find the door, not to get lost in the dark.

Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #TiffanyAching #TheShepherdsCrown

Die oberste Gewalt im Staat: Die Bürger selbst - In einer Demokratie: In Gewaltfreiheit verbunden 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LbPXbflEXE

#gewaltfreier #Staat #crazy #onlyfans #Pornhub #politics #democracy #party #newparty #parties #Parteien #Partei #NeuePartei #TerryPratchett #Theorie #PolitischeTheorie #Demokratietheorie #Staatstheorie #Verfassungen #Verfassungstheorie #Verfassungsreformen #Losdemokratie

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

It was a five hundred mile journey and, surprisingly, quite uneventful. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, “Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 8, Guards! Guards! (1989)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4969…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #banditry #bandits #journey #travel #uneventful

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

It was a five hundred mile journey and, surprisingly, quite uneventful. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, “Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 8, Guards! Guards! (1989)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4969…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #banditry #bandits #journey #travel #uneventful

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

It was a five hundred mile journey and, surprisingly, quite uneventful. People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, “Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 8, Guards! Guards! (1989)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/4969…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #banditry #bandits #journey #travel #uneventful

#terrypratchett #grannyaching #tiffanyaching #climatejustice #socialjustice #decolonize

#terrypratchett #grannyaching #tiffanyaching #climatejustice #socialjustice #decolonize

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

“You’re not one of us.”
“I don’t think I’m one of them, either,” said Brutha. “I’m one of mine.”

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Small Gods [Simony] (1992)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8119…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #terrypratchettquote #discworld #ingroup #independence #other #othering #outgroup #usvsthem

And a Glorious 25th of May.

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”

― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

(artwork via yoodi on deviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/yoodi/art/Night-Watch-Teaser-Poster-12-33484431)

#Glorious25thOfMay #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Quote #Quotes #books #Bookstodon #GNU

And a Glorious 25th of May.

“That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.”

― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

(artwork via yoodi on deviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/yoodi/art/Night-Watch-Teaser-Poster-12-33484431)

#Glorious25thOfMay #Discworld #TerryPratchett #Quote #Quotes #books #Bookstodon #GNU

Help! My library has two versions of #audiobook for the #terryPratchett novel The Wee Free Men (first #TiffanyAching book, or so I understand). Both say they’re unabridged but one is two hours longer than the other. I guess the longer one has a full cast but it blows my mind that that would add and entirely two hours. Which one should I get? #bookstodon

#terrypratchett #fascism #GoodGuys #BadGuys #deportation #dueprocess #14thAmendment #ICE

#terrypratchett #fascism #GoodGuys #BadGuys #deportation #dueprocess #14thAmendment #ICE

@bsmall2

In Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series, the rock trolls' counting goes "One, two, many, lots", so that tracks almost perfectly.

#TerryPratchett #Pratchett #Discworld #Detritus

@bsmall2

In Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series, the rock trolls' counting goes "One, two, many, lots", so that tracks almost perfectly.

#TerryPratchett #Pratchett #Discworld #Detritus

La reputación de Neil Gaiman está en la mesa de debate así que Amazon no le dará más que un episodio de 90 minutos para concluir la historia de Good Omens que empezó con Terry Pratchett.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/10/good-omens-will-wrap-with-a-single-90-minute-episode/

#series #amazon #PrimeVideo #neilgaiman #terrypratchett #goodomens #buenospresagios

La reputación de Neil Gaiman está en la mesa de debate así que Amazon no le dará más que un episodio de 90 minutos para concluir la historia de Good Omens que empezó con Terry Pratchett.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/10/good-omens-will-wrap-with-a-single-90-minute-episode/

#series #amazon #PrimeVideo #neilgaiman #terrypratchett #goodomens #buenospresagios

La reputación de Neil Gaiman está en la mesa de debate así que Amazon no le dará más que un episodio de 90 minutos para concluir la historia de Good Omens que empezó con Terry Pratchett.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/10/good-omens-will-wrap-with-a-single-90-minute-episode/

#series #amazon #PrimeVideo #neilgaiman #terrypratchett #goodomens #buenospresagios

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

I shamelessly stole that quote from a random post I saw on here. It perfectly captures my online existence and what I think about the current state of it.

I've been online since the mid 90's, usually through friends computers at first, before that I'd been tinkering with computers since I was about 12yrs old, from things like Commodore 64's & Amiga's as well as Atari ST's. I got my first PC with a modem in 98, I've been building my own PC's since 2000, but I'd been upgrading systems in some way since at least 91.

I remember the hope and promise it held and how that's been ripped away from everyone for lies, tracking, privacy invasion and a subscription to everything. If they could force you into a subscription service to breathe... they would.

I've been on Masto for 3yrs or so now. I deleted facebook in 2011, twitter in 2018 (not that I really ever used it) and shunned all others with the exception of G+ when that was good between 2011-2015.

Mastodon is my only social media platform now. I switched to beige.party because my previous instance went through a period of instability and was constantly down for a day or two at least 2 or 3 times a month.

Things that interest me or I post about.

#Humour
#Sarcasm
#Comedy
#Innuendo
#UnintendedInnuendo
#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Firefly
#Farscape
#FinalSpace
#scifi
#fantasy
#Tolkien
#TerryPratchett
#Discworld
#TheExpanse
#JamesCorey
#grunge
#metal
#indie
#alternative
#Goth
#Rock
#80sMusic
#90sMusic
#ISwearALot
#Fuck
#Shit
#Cunt
#Dogs
#RockMusic
#Technology
#Equality
#HumanRights
#Disabilities
#ActuallyAutistic
#HighFunctioningAutism
#Cycling
#EBikeRides
#FridayRockShow
#PCMasterRace
#Gaming
#RetroGaming
#SolarUpdate
#GoingGreen
#BadPicsOfFood #NomNomNom
#DIYDay

Some people like to put fancy letters after their names, so I thought I'd do the same.

BSC = Bronze Swimming Certificate
SSC = Silver Swimming Certificate

If you got the joke, yay!

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

I shamelessly stole that quote from a random post I saw on here. It perfectly captures my online existence and what I think about the current state of it.

I've been online since the mid 90's, usually through friends computers at first, before that I'd been tinkering with computers since I was about 12yrs old, from things like Commodore 64's & Amiga's as well as Atari ST's. I got my first PC with a modem in 98, I've been building my own PC's since 2000, but I'd been upgrading systems in some way since at least 91.

I remember the hope and promise it held and how that's been ripped away from everyone for lies, tracking, privacy invasion and a subscription to everything. If they could force you into a subscription service to breathe... they would.

I've been on Masto for 3yrs or so now. I deleted facebook in 2011, twitter in 2018 (not that I really ever used it) and shunned all others with the exception of G+ when that was good between 2011-2015.

Mastodon is my only social media platform now. I switched to beige.party because my previous instance went through a period of instability and was constantly down for a day or two at least 2 or 3 times a month.

Things that interest me or I post about.

#Humour
#Sarcasm
#Comedy
#Innuendo
#UnintendedInnuendo
#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Firefly
#Farscape
#FinalSpace
#scifi
#fantasy
#Tolkien
#TerryPratchett
#Discworld
#TheExpanse
#JamesCorey
#grunge
#metal
#indie
#alternative
#Goth
#Rock
#80sMusic
#90sMusic
#ISwearALot
#Fuck
#Shit
#Cunt
#Dogs
#RockMusic
#Technology
#Equality
#HumanRights
#Disabilities
#ActuallyAutistic
#HighFunctioningAutism
#Cycling
#EBikeRides
#FridayRockShow
#PCMasterRace
#Gaming
#RetroGaming
#SolarUpdate
#GoingGreen
#BadPicsOfFood #NomNomNom
#DIYDay

Some people like to put fancy letters after their names, so I thought I'd do the same.

BSC = Bronze Swimming Certificate
SSC = Silver Swimming Certificate

If you got the joke, yay!

Empfehlung: "Catch 22" von Joseph Heller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkYKS0wSKC4

#StrukturellerPazifismus #Wahnsinn #Krieg #Überleben #Subversiv #Subversion #Wehrkraftzersetzung #SozialeSysteme #SystemischesDenken #StrukturellesDenken #Frieden #ThomasHobbes #Gefangenendiemma #Verrückt #Verrücktheiten #Begeisterung #Militär #Armeen #Kriegsuntauglichkeit #Techniken #Chancen #Egoismus #Kopplung #Entkopplung #TerryPratchett

Diane Duane - @dianeduane - is a SF/F novelist & screenwriter, best known for her Young Wizards series. A friend of STP’s, she has been a frequent guest at Conventions & we are delighted to welcome her back this August!

See all our Guests here - https://www.dwcon.org/the-convention/verra-important-persons/guests/

#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #ConventionGuest
#GuestSpotlight #TerryPratchett #DianeDuane

Wishing a very happy birthday to @dianeduane! We are looking forward to seeing you at the Convention this August!

#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday
#DianeDuane #TerryPratchett

Wishing a very happy birthday to @dianeduane! We are looking forward to seeing you at the Convention this August!

#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday
#DianeDuane #TerryPratchett

The Mended Drum is a Discworld-themed Mastodon server for anyone who remembers Sir Terry Pratchett and his works. Also welcomes fans of @neilhimself, Douglas Adams, @cstross, @dianeduane and more.

:Fediverse: https://mendeddrum.org

For more info see https://mendeddrum.org/about or contact their admin @patrick

#FeaturedServer #Discworld #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #NeilGaiman #DouglasAdams #CharlesStross #DianeDuane #Books #Fantasy #SciFi #SFF #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

The Mended Drum is a Discworld-themed Mastodon server for anyone who remembers Sir Terry Pratchett and his works. Also welcomes fans of @neilhimself, Douglas Adams, @cstross, @dianeduane and more.

:Fediverse: https://mendeddrum.org

For more info see https://mendeddrum.org/about or contact their admin @patrick

#FeaturedServer #Discworld #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #NeilGaiman #DouglasAdams #CharlesStross #DianeDuane #Books #Fantasy #SciFi #SFF #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

#MarchMagics2024 wrap-up: what have you read of #DianaWynneJones' and #TerryPratchett's work this month? #bookstodon
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My roommate asked me to do a guest spot in his #DnD campaign as a Nac Mac Feegle, from the #TerryPratchett book the Wee Free Men, so I reread the book for the first time since middle school. Not sure if anyone else has read it and remembers it, but the main character is a very ordinary girl, aside from the fact she thinks more than she feels, she asks exacting questions when other folks just want the vagueries.

"Yes! I’m me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don’t understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That’s the kind of person I am!"

And when she does feel... she feels everything. The climax of the book had her tapping into a level of sensory awareness that she realized she would need to block out to maintain going about her life.

She was oft accused of being selfish, and her taking on the mantle of her duty was her recognizing that yes, she was selfish. Everything in her world was hers, and when something is yours you have an obligation to it:

“Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine! I have a duty!”

Tiffany Aching is frequently described as a hero written for ordinary girls, by which they mean the ones who will never be drop-dead gorgeous and/or astrophysicists, the girls who will need to get through life with common sense and resourcefulness... But the only folks I've known in my day-to-day with that level of Hag to them have never been ordinary, or at least we are the ones painted by the world as "divergent." And of course, as much as all the talk around the book describes Tiffany as a "normal girl," in universe, she isn't. All of these things set her apart. She's a witch. And while things do go all right for Tiffany, others accused of witchiness in this world find themselves ostracized, and shunned, and left to die in the elements.

Pratchett thinks he wrote a hero for normal girls, but I think he missed the mark by fair bit, and it's not a bad thing. I think he wrote a hero for the kind of kid I was.

#discworld #TiffanyAching #BookReview #TheWeeFreeMen #Witch

My roommate asked me to do a guest spot in his #DnD campaign as a Nac Mac Feegle, from the #TerryPratchett book the Wee Free Men, so I reread the book for the first time since middle school. Not sure if anyone else has read it and remembers it, but the main character is a very ordinary girl, aside from the fact she thinks more than she feels, she asks exacting questions when other folks just want the vagueries.

"Yes! I’m me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don’t understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That’s the kind of person I am!"

And when she does feel... she feels everything. The climax of the book had her tapping into a level of sensory awareness that she realized she would need to block out to maintain going about her life.

She was oft accused of being selfish, and her taking on the mantle of her duty was her recognizing that yes, she was selfish. Everything in her world was hers, and when something is yours you have an obligation to it:

“Protect them! Save them! Bring them into the sheepfold! Walk the gale for them! Keep away the wolf! My dreams! My brother! My family! My land! My world! How dare you try to take these things, because they are mine! I have a duty!”

Tiffany Aching is frequently described as a hero written for ordinary girls, by which they mean the ones who will never be drop-dead gorgeous and/or astrophysicists, the girls who will need to get through life with common sense and resourcefulness... But the only folks I've known in my day-to-day with that level of Hag to them have never been ordinary, or at least we are the ones painted by the world as "divergent." And of course, as much as all the talk around the book describes Tiffany as a "normal girl," in universe, she isn't. All of these things set her apart. She's a witch. And while things do go all right for Tiffany, others accused of witchiness in this world find themselves ostracized, and shunned, and left to die in the elements.

Pratchett thinks he wrote a hero for normal girls, but I think he missed the mark by fair bit, and it's not a bad thing. I think he wrote a hero for the kind of kid I was.

#discworld #TiffanyAching #BookReview #TheWeeFreeMen #Witch

@astatide

I don't want a grimdark Smurfs, but I would buy an entire console to be able to play a Nac Mac Feegle tactical mission game

It would be a combination of Katamari Damacy, the Smurfs, and Braveheart and now that I've thought about it I'm obsessed

#TiffanyAching #TerryPratchett

@astatide

I don't want a grimdark Smurfs, but I would buy an entire console to be able to play a Nac Mac Feegle tactical mission game

It would be a combination of Katamari Damacy, the Smurfs, and Braveheart and now that I've thought about it I'm obsessed

#TiffanyAching #TerryPratchett

"It’s the White Horse," said Tiffany.

"Why do they call it that?" said Miss Tick.

Tiffany looked at her.

"Because the chalk is white?" she said, trying not to suggest that Miss Tick was being a bit dense.

"No, I meant why do they call it a horse? It doesn’t look like a horse. It’s just... flowing lines..."

*that look as if they’re moving*, Tiffany thought.

"’Ain't what a horse looks like," said Tiffany. "It’s what a horse be."

#BadHorseSaturday #Discworld #TerryPratchett #TiffanyAching