#Terry Pratchett

[dr-graf]

[cynicalclassicist]

Discworld just always knows how the world works. It's a fantasy, but real.

Discworld is so delightful because you get lines like "When banks fail, it is seldom bankers who starve" except it's spoken by a 7 foot tall sentient clay statue named Pump 19 and directed to a man whose name is Moist von Lipwig

[your-average-mess-on-all-fronts]

Honestly, the fact that terry Pratchett has experience around nuclear power makes so much sense once you realize what magic is standing as a metaphor for in the discworld. Like, look at this fucking quote from going postal:

"That's why [magic] was left to wizards, who knew how to handle it safely. Not doing any magic at all was the chief task of wizards—not "not doing magic" because they couldn't do magic, but not doing magic when they could do and didn't. Any ignorant fool can fail to turn someone else into a frog. You have to be clever to refrain from doing it when you knew how easy it was. There were places in the world commemorating those times when wizards hadn't been quite as clever as that, and on many of them the grass would never grow again."

Like... It feels incredibly obvious what he's talking about once you know the context.

[imkeepinit]

[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

[archmagetolvan]

"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn’t that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn’t measure up."

[offonaherosjourney]

What no one warned me about when I got into Discworld is that Terry Pratchett would completely ruin all my future footnote experiences. Now, whenever I read a book (even if it is an academic text!!) and see a superscripted number, my monkey brain makes my eyes drop to the bottom of the page asap, expecting a funny, poignant, memorable, and potentially life-altering little treat, and instead I get hit every time with the soul-crushing disappointment of McFarthy, G. et al. (1997)

[philosopher-under-the-sea]

"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought on myself as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

Terry Pratchett in "Jingo"

Truly hate the way "did this person do something that actually harmed someone" and "do they deserve to be unpersoned for it" are considered the same question

[gcballet]

Also, why did nobody tell me that Reaper Man has the wildest B plot. The A plot is like this deeply moving, intensely aesthetic meditation on mortality and time, but the B plot is the wizards get sent to the Backrooms

[hollow-head]

the turtle moves

It's finished! The Great (small) A'Tuin porcelain planter for succulents.

I took many beauty shots:

I started making it because I couldn't decide whether to make a pot shaped like a turtle or shaped like an elephant, so I did both. Partway through I realized that next month it will be 10 years since the world lost Terry Pratchett, so now I think of this as a commemorative fanart of my favorite author.

It was a lot of fun to sculpt. The glaze firing got screwed up so some parts are painted with acrylic and varnish. I think the faux floating disc effect turned out pretty good. I am proud of how I figured out how to make it self draining. The holes on the inside drain into the flippers. It's 3.5" tall, 7" long, and the interior of the pot part is 3.75" wide. I'd like to try to make another one at some point.

You have permission to repost this to other social media for Terry Pratchett commemorations. I put it on my instagram that I really never use,

[captainfantasticalright]

Again, by no means a complete meta. I do find it quite interesting to delve into the meta aspects of the book itself within the show and what that implies for both Aziraphale and Crowley as authors of their destiny.

[theunvanquishedzims]

Turns out all those compliments about The Kindly Folk were sarcastic, in the grit-teeth smiley way you compliment the boot stepping on your child's throat.

Describing Terry Pratchett’s books is difficult. Someone asked me what the book I was reading was about, and I had to tell them it was about banking and the gold standard, but like in a cool way with golems and action. 

 I don’t think they believed me.

[nonightingalesinberkelysquare]

GOOD OMENS 3 SPOILERS + minor trigger warning for passing mentions of Neil Gaiman

WHOOOOOOOO LET DOON MACKICHAN OUT OF HER ENCLOSURE!?

In an interview released yesterday, Doon Mackichan, the actress who plays the Archangel Micheal in good omens, gave us one of THE biggest spoilers for GO3 yet!!!

I'll let you read for yourself, I'll highlight the important bits

☆ ARCHANGEL MICHEAL GOES ROGUE!?!? WHAT COULD IT MEAN!?!?

"Well, I've got - I've just finished filming Good Omens Series Three, but it's not a Series Three, it's six episodes that have gone down to an hour and a half so it's basically an hour and a half film. Because Neil Gaiman - I don't know if you've heard, but he's sort of up for allegations of... not great allegations around his name - so Amazon first cancelled it and then went, actually, we are going to do it, but we're going to do a cut down version. So the great thing about the cut down version is I've got a really, really good part of, of the angel... I play Archangel Michael in it, but I go... I go rogue, so it's... it's a great part for me because I've never had to play a complete psycho. So that's, that's fantastic. I'm not sure when that's coming out. They have to do a load of special effects, so I would think the autumn."

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See, now THIS is what I want to talk about because WHAT? WHY? It's totally unexpected, but I'm actually SO excited to see it!! I'll be honest it gives me a little bit of hope for the series finale too, which is always SO refreshing after what the fandom has expierienced over the past year or so.

But WHY? WHY do you guys think that they'll go psycho? My friend @aureliusssss seems to think that it'll be down to the fact that Aziraphale got the Supreme Archangel title instead of them, and I have to say that I agree! But we'll see if they really really really surprise us further with it (somehow!).

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PLUS! A release date!??! Much much much sooner than I expected to be honest but I'm pleasantly surprised!! AHHHH we might be getting them back THIS YEAR! How CRAZY is that!?!

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TLDR; Doon Mackichan tells us that her character, Archangel Micheal, appears in season 3 as "rogue" and "a complete psycho" and gives us a general release date!!!

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I'll insert the clip here <3

I'm so sorry about the quality, I have no idea what happened.

[theineffablecon]

🙋‍♀️ AUCTION ITEM! 🙋‍♀️

Thanks to Loomey look at this gorgeous Snake Crowley 😍 We’ll measure him, but: L O N G ❤️

The auction raises money for Alzheimer’s Research UK in memory of Sir Terry Pratchett.

Auction goes live at TIC 6 and is available online!

[foolfarseer]

My 2nd Discworld novel. Pratchett has already become one of my top favorite authors of all time.