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lps spiders 🕸

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Pinterest I really don't think that's a good idea

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Feeling mischievous today, might as well be a nuisance in the fandom 😈

Go ahead, no one will know what you voted for anyway.

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Bumble(bee moth)

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What I like about Pratchett’s mysteries — because Pterry could write a good mystery and I stand by that — is that they’re almost never whodunnits.

Because we — and usually the characters — know instantly whodunnit. It’s the smug bastard who smiles too much and is dramatically diabolical all the time. We know from the beginning of Feet of Clay that Dragon King of Arms is somehow responsible for the death of Father Tubelcek and Vetinari’s poisoning. We know that the werewolves are somehow behind the disappearance of the Scone of Stone. We see Teatime get hired to kill the Hogfather.

So because whodunnit isn’t a question, the mystery is finding out how they dunnit. The really interesting thing about Hogfather is that in the original book, the method of how Teatime is trying to kill the Hogfather is a twist that shows up late in the book (which was kinda lost in the movie, which as a visual medium couldn’t fall back on the trick of hiding the murder weapon outside of the narration).

And I find this to be sort of like the Columbo “howcatchem” structure. Discworld mysteries are “howdunnit.” “I know you dunnit and once I figure out how ooo you’re in trouble.”

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I wonder if he's read Creepy Pair of Underwear! by Aaron Reynolds.

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no london because that's the capitol obviously but this broadly corresponds to the ONS regions

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where can I get your blood?

it’s free but you have to catch me

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Do you think there are limits on what books libraries should carry?

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Has it snowed already this year in your area?

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Red Bed

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it's my birthday today, so soft xiyao sketch, 100%, absolutely canon

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Gulmp.

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