#S: Discworld

[incorrecttendershippingquotes]

Ryou: You can’t give her that! It’s not safe!

Bakura: It’s a knife. They’re not meant to be safe.

Ryou, exasperated: She’s a child!

Bakura: It will be educational!

Ryou: What if she cuts herself?

Bakura: That will be an important lesson.

[harveywritings92]

[Random magic au: Witch! Reader summons Reaper! Ghost to give a brief  explanation about immortals after Soap showed up at her door panicked, Simon appears in her livingroom looking sheepish while holding a cookie.]

Ghost: I was at a party y’know

R/n: oh, sorry. We’ll be quick, I need your help.

[Ghost perks up as Soap explains a theory that a former enemy of his, Graves; who he thought was dead. May be immortal and wandering the earth after supposedly seeing him around town the night before...]

Ghost, to Soap: There’s no such thing as true immortality, for humans anyways, He’d have to be very well versed in the old magic, or have some sort of pact with a god or demon….(to R/n) May I go now?

R/n: Oh, er, yes! I hope it’s a good party.

Ghost, gives her his cookie: Hmm, I think it might go downhill at about midnight…

R/n, nibbling on said cookie: Why?

Ghost: that’s when they’ll be taking my mask off…

(He calmly lifts his mask up and there’s flash of lighting showing Simon’s true skeletal face under the glamor spell he’s wearing, R/n nods and snaps her fingers teleporting Ghost away.)

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{R/n and Ghost have such a pact, Apparently contracting with a god or demon has both it’s perks and consequences. While under the god of death’s protection they’re essentially un-killable and can use high leveled magic. The down side? If she gets hurt severely then the pain from said injury is much worst than average. Let’s say that R/n broke her legs? Well good news! It’ll heal almost instantly, Bad news? Every step she takes after that feels like the bones in her legs are breaking all over again. So, yeah.. She needs to be very careful when out doing jobs. ]    

[dimity-lawn]

Friendly reminder for tomorrow!

[helendamnationx]

The thing about Equal Rites is, it's not just a book about how girls can do anything boys can do, and the only thing trying to stop her is meanie old men. It's about how girls can do anything boys can do, I suppose, if she really must, though I* can't see why she wants to.

It's about shaking off gender essentialism, not deciding who someone can and can't be as soon as you see their newborn baby genitals, and adults not telling kids to be who they "should" be instead of who they really are... while also being really super clear that the traditionally male-dominated path isn't inherently better, it's just better paid.

It explores Granny's position of trying to hold Esk back from becoming a wizard, stemming not from thinking that girls aren't smart enough or that they should only be wives and mothers, but from a contempt for the flashy and self-important ways of wizards and belief that the more domestic and practical sphere of witchcraft is more important and better. It's a pretty accurate depiction of the way some older women enforcing gender roles think.

I suppose the book is more of a critique of the whole women's intuition/men's intelligence nonsense dichotomy, as well as a reminder not to cling too eagerly to the patriarchy's priorities in the search for equality.

Men aren't better at "jommetry" than women. But "jommetry" isn't more difficult or important than Granny Weatherwax's practical, rural skills - herbcraft, midwifery, caring for and understanding goats and bees, managing people, and so on.

Sir Terry never got on with the assembly lines of formal education, which is probably an important thing to bear in mind when reading this book.

*Granny Weatherwax

[mildlybizarrecorvid]

Get Isekai'd lol

[coffeeastronaut]

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) Dir. Daniels | Witches Abroad, GNU Sir Terry Pratchett | Severance, 1x01 - Good News About Hell / 1x09 - The We We Are | Good Omens, GNU Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman | We Are Lady Parts, 1x06 - Sparta

Self-determinism baby!!

[lileiv]

no worries

[tuilere]

I finished Going Postal!!

[harveybwabbit92]

Gento, about Akari's ax: You can't give her that! It's not safe!

Seven: It's an ax. It's not meant to be safe.

Gento: She's a kid!

Seven: It's educational.

Gento: What if she cuts herself?

Seven: That will be an important lesson.

[andromeda3116]

"One day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald, I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I'm sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged onto a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature's wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior."

--Lord Vetinari, Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

[2readiscworld]

I'm doing crazy things to Colon and Nobbs in my Spotify playlists

[harveywritings92]

R/n: What’re your squad up to?

Price: I don't know.

R/n: You're the Captain though?

Price: I don't like to ask them questions.

R/n: Why not?

Price: They might give me answers.

[dimity-lawn]

[battywitch]

Top 5 Discworld novel 😀

Unfortunately, I'm not a Pratchett fan 🫣 I keep trying and trying and hoping and praying and begging to universe to let me enjoy his work, but I haven't succeeded yet, so I've only managed to finish one book for sure so far (Equal Rites, but I might have read one or two when I was younger, before I knew who Terry Pratchett was).

[dashiellqvverty]

love to check the ao3 for something on a whim and find out that plenty of other people ARE wearing the same goggles as me. anyway.

🫡🫡🫡

[deborahocarroll]

Wrapup! March Magics 2024

(Gandalf gif: A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins, nor is he early. He arrives *precisely* when he means to.) Yeah. Um. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. *cough* Okay, it might be a liiittle much posting a wrapup about March in August, but hey, at least I’m doing it?? It’s more for my own personal look-back since I enjoy having it in my blog archives. 😛 I got real busy and not very…