#Terry Pratchett

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In the meantime, Rob on Twitter

I love this man!!

[the-lincyclopedia]

[ID: A screenshot of a tweet from Count Mysterioso @/MysteriosoX that says,

"Oh my God.

"'In Pratchett there are two noble families who are bitter enemies: The Selachii, and the Venturi.

"'Selachii is the taxonomic name for cartilaginous fish including Sharks.

"'Venturi is the physical effect that makes jet engines work.

"'The Sharks and the Jets.'"

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Y'ALL

[pratchettquotes]

"He's started catching fish," said the Senior Wrangler. "That means he'll come over all smug and start asking what plans we've got for making a boat at any minute, you know what he's like."

The Dean looked at some sketches he'd made on a rock.

"How hard can it be to build a boat?" he said. "People with bones in their noses build boats. And we are the end product of thousands of years of enlightenment. Building a boat is not beyond men like us, Senior Wrangler."

"Quite, Dean."

"All we have to do is search this island until we find a book with a title like Practical Boat-Building for Beginners."

"Exactly. It'll be plain sailing after that, Dean. Ahaha."

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

[crowleysgirl56]

Good Omens season 3/finale thought of the day:

I’ve seen a lot of worried people talk about how they’re scared the finale is not going to give our Ineffables a happy ending. That somehow, they’ll just be parted again like in the end of season 2, or they’ll have their memory wiped, or they’ll be destroyed, or they’ll become human (which is apparently the worst of all for a lot of people).

I promise you all, I highly doubt that any of the above will happen. I look at this from the point of view as someone who has read a LOT of fanfiction. Because there is always one thing almost every single fanfiction has in common regardless of its AU or canon compliant:

1) The Ineffables fall in love/have a slow burn.

2) There is a conflict that parts them.

3) They resolve that issue.

4) They fully declare their feelings

5) The live happily ever after.

It’s romantic comedy 101.

So here’s how I believe the structure of the finale will go down:

1) Aziraphale and Crowley are not talking. Conflict for at least the first quarter to third of the film. Think of this as act 1.

2) They are forced to come together to stop the second coming. Middle part of the story, finalising act 2.

3) They talk/reconcile/forgive one another, and possibly declare their feelings (or come close to declaring their feelings). This would be just after act 2.

4) They stop the second coming. Beginning to middle of act 3.

5) Something something Heaven and Hell gets changed/defeated yadda yadda yadda (insert here climax/threat that Crowley or Aziraphale or both may be destroyed, and they rescue each other), forms the end of act 3.

6) Epilogue: South Downs.

I’m almost positive that these will be the story beats that will be hit for the finale. If tens of thousands of people can write this exact structure for some damn good fanfiction, then whoever they get to finish writing the script for real should be able to handle it.

[strokeofserenity]

Terry Pratchett, “Hogfather.”

[sunmontuestuffilike]

Anyone else think of the Wee Free Men? Nac Mac Feegles? Pictsies?

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

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A wee GO doodle

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[jurijurijurious]

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

--Terry Pratchett, Going Postal

[certified-bozo]

Terry Pratchett did this with gods, if you just didn't believe in them they stopped existing.

ghost hunting team that keep a nonbeliever named steve around as an emergency supernatural suppressant

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

[akboro]

[sighed-the-snake]

The Paris Olympics insisting that athletes compete in the Seine is so absurd it feels like something Terry Pratchett would want to make fun of. Like can you imagine him writing a Discworld story about a mad Ankh-Moorpark city official deciding to put on some ancient extravagant game, creating havoc in the city by bringing in all these foreigners to compete, and insisting the Ankh river, which is so filthy it's basically solid, is perfectly fine to swim in, because that's what they did in ancient times so that's how they're going to do it now. I feel like it would be a Night's Watch story about the people hired to clean the river and all the friends and horrors they discover along the way.

Good luck to all the athletes swimming in the poop water.

[childofthefireandthestorm]

@darkespeon11

This is the highest compliment I can bestow, but Dungeon Meshi reads like it was written for, if not by, Terry Pratchett.

Oh, you have a dungeon with monsters and adventurers? How does it work? Who pays? How do you get enough supplies? People will eat anything when hungry; do they eat the monsters? People will cook feasts from rotten meat and weeds; what feasts can you make with monsters?

By the way, here is a terrible pun about soup.

You want heroes to have peril, but also to live? Easy! Just have a ressurection spell. Well how does it work? What's the point? What would people give to live forever? What would people give to die?

Here's a dwarf whose magical shield is a wok.

And if they come back, it still hurts right? Do people remember? What happens if they forget that, outside of the dungeon, they can't come back? What if the thing that brings them back also ties them to the dungeon more and more, changes them, makes them different without knowing why.

Whilst you were thinking about that, the halfling founded an adventurers guild. It's an actual union with dues etc. btw he's a deadbeat dad apart from this.

The dwarf from earlier carries familial trauma that will haunt you for the next decade. The protagonist holds his sister's skull as the first proof that there is anything left of her. The two female leads share a love so deep that giving it a name would pollute it. The protagonist's sword is a mollusc.

[travellinghopefully]

Happy Hogswatch