#Terry Pratchett

[evelynhewett]

[elena1701a]

Amazing details!

My miniature Terry Pratchett Discworld novel library!

Made from an Altoids tin, Popsicle sticks, cardstock, copy paper, and a whole lot of patience. All of the miniature books open and have real printed pages you can leaf through. And the insidevof the lid has a sort-of-3D scene of the UU Library.

Contains the novels from The Color of Magic, all the way through Raising Steam

[suburbia-and-brentwood-market]

Do you think Aziraphale ever forgives himself

[pratchettquotes]

Now it was Ginger's turn to wave her hands. "I like trolls," she said. "As trolls, that is. But you can't seriously mean me to do a romantic scene with a, a, a cliff face."

"Now look here," said Rock, his voice winding up like a pitcher's arm. "What you're saying is, is OK for trolls to be shown bashing people with clubs, is not OK to show trolls have finer feelings like squishy humans?"

"She's not saying that at all," said Soll desperately. "She's not--"

"If you cut me, do I not bleed?" said Rock.

"No, you don't," said Soll, "but--"

"Ah, yes, but I would. If I had blood, I'd bleed all over the place."

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

With this having made it out into the world courtesy of the Orange Fucker:

Let me just bring back the words of one of my favorite authors:

Fight. Resist.

No kings.

[lightofraye]

Sir Terry Pratchett understood the pen is a sword in its own right.

Y’know an awful lot of Terry Pratchett’s books are concerned with how powerful women are when they get angry and how important anger is as a driving force to defend what is right and to tackle injustice. 

A lot of his most interesting and most deeply moral characters are angry ones. Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching. All are to a large extent driven to do good by anger.

And that honestly means a lot to me.

[thischristianguy]

Nac Mac Feegle

“Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

[lost-carcosa]

20 February 2025, Love Your Pet Day

[gcballet]

Sourcery (1988) Terry Pratchett

[meg-megbanom-ezt]

pictures you can hear

An embroidery piece of the luggage from the Discworld series, ivory teeth, lolling red tongue and almost two dozen legs included. I somehow also managed to make it seem like it's grinning. Took me two months with two-thread embroidery. 😂

[zenfier]

I feel as if this describes the Hex computer in disc world perfectly.

[carucath]

There was an interesting thread on Bluesky dissecting Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's relationship

TL:DR - It seems like Gaiman has been exaggerating the level of closeness between them for YEARS

[ineffable-writer]

There’s a reason he uses a scythe. What can the harvest hope for, but for the care of the reaper man?

Grim Reaper holding a scythe must have been a much more potent symbol when scythes were in common, everyday use, when people had actually used them on crops, sharpened them, felt the grains falling by the thousands in a single swift sweep. The scythe still exists as a symbol, sure, but it's one that has little visceral meaning to the people that look at it.

[dreamingdormouse]

Okay so this is a big deal

To me, and to a significant subset of Sir Terry's fans (including most of you who've found this by the tags), his writing is serious commentary on the human condition - politics, prejudice, self-control, revenge vs. justice, religion, idealism, faith in people vs. cynicism, and more - dressed up with fantasy settings and a hefty leavening of humor to make it fun to read. And it is WILDLY fun to read, actual laugh-out-loud or at least a snicker averaging about every page.

But there's this common idea among the "important literature" people that fun and funny books are not also worthwhile or important in the same way.

This is a Discworld book being released WITH ACADEMIC COMMENTARY and AS A PENGUIN CLASSIC. That's a HUGE amount of recognition.

[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