#Mort

[negreabsolut]

El Rei de ferro caigut, per ArtfulExpCHC. [font]

[illustoryart]

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett ❤️‍🩹

[themortaldraw]

how it feels trying to win the music box in echoes of wisdom

[longearedhare]

It has been said before but it bears repeating: if you are struggling to divest yourself of the Harry Potter franchise, may I suggest getting into Discworld, not as a replacement but as an UPGRADE? Perks of Discworld include, but are not limited to:

-41 books (no, you don’t have to read them in any given order, most work as standalone although there are some that are arguably part of a series)

-specifically British charm

-magic (including different systems of magic and not just one poorly explained type)

-funny af

-author isn’t a transphobic POS

-golems (including an arguably transgender golem named Gladys)

-EXTREMELY expansive world building that takes place over a long time, covering different populations, the Industrial Revolution, magical AND non-magical groups, and even a whole section of “science” books which discuss the physics, biology, and so on

-well-written female characters

-nuanced moral messages

-death is a cat person

[officialspec]

played around a lot recently with character designs and fashion, heres a taste

[dr-graf]

[thehatofthehatter]

'So let's just say that Ankh-Morpork is as full of life as an old cheese on a hot day, as loud as a curse in a cathedral, as bright as an oil slick, as colourful as a bruise and as full of activity, industry, bustle and sheer exuberant busyness as a dead dog on a termite mound.'

Mort, Terry Pratchett

[jengrayart]

More Mort stuff ⌛️

Finally attempted drawing He for whom the Caps Lock

[plaguery]

before i start hogfather again heres my old mort & ysabell art from 2021

[urfavssins]

mort from the madagascar franchise and spin-offs

i secretly hate this little fuck

[dk-thrive]

There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, looking past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world.

— Terry Pratchett, Mort: A Novel of Discworld (Harper; January 29, 2013) (via Alive on All Channels)

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40th Anniversary Discworld stamps, art by Paul Kidby

[themortaldraw]

when you've only used the life spell on yourself but the family pet gets bitten by a lizard

[stupidphototricks]

Mort was one of the first Terry Pratchett books that I ever read, in the early '90s, and it definitely gave me an appetite for reading more of them. I had a significant other (reader I married them) who at the time owned these five: Sourcery, The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, and Mort. I was a little meh on the fantasy genre but I would pretty much read anything that wasn't nailed down, and these books (especially the last two) grabbed me.

The thing that I loved the most, well the thing that I actually loved the most was the humor. But it was almost as good how Sir Terry could twist a familiar concept around and make you look at it a new way.

Mort can move absentmindedly through walls and drink neat widowmaker soberly not because he is turning into a ghost, but because he is becoming dangerously real.

-- Terry Pratchett, Mort

I mean of course if you imagine that there are ghosts, you can imagine that ghosts can walk through walls. Because ghosts aren't really there, not in the same way as the walls. But what if walls aren't the realest thing possible? What if it's a continuum? What if you can keep moving along the reality axis and become so real that walls look unsubstantial compared to you? Why did I never think of this??

It takes a particular kind of genius to find a way of looking at something that is, at the same time, startlingly original and completely obvious. That's Terry Pratchett.

[tenaciousgeckos]