#Terry pratchett vibes

[rueflower11]

I love this so much!

A Fantasy Story About Midwives Saying "Screw You" to Destiny by Bodhrán M.

Destiny is a woman.

There’s nothing much important about that particular aspect of Her. It wouldn’t make much difference to the world if the sparks that make up the goddess of human fate had decided that Her avatar should be male or genderless. After all, personality is more important than genitalia when you can shape them yourself and She would have been just as a much as an arsehole if She’d been a He.

The important part is that She made Herself a humanoid body and, with humanoid bodies, come humanoid thoughts.

Thoughts like, ‘I’m bored’ and ‘You know what might be fun?’

Gods aren’t worshipped here. They turn up too often and overstay their welcome: rather like that one friend at a party who didn’t bring any alcohol and is suddenly very insistent on trying out a watery interpretation of socialism. At best, the more conscientious ones get thank-you gifts. At worst, it’s a toxic relationship for whomever has caught their attention.

Priests tend to get friendly with the bottom of a glass by their third year in service.

Destiny doesn’t have priests. Contrary to popular belief, She doesn’t have much interest in everyday people either. If you were to be honest – preferably in the temple of another god She’d recently annoyed – Destiny’s plans are faint pencil sketches for most. Often, She gets bored and, apart from one or two big events, most people have blameless, simple lives.

But sometimes, She likes to leave a massive metaphorical rake across the lifespans of a significant number of people.

This is one of these times.

And here we meet Sandford Candles – Sand – riding towards the village of Westbank, blissfully unaware that it is going to be obliterated by the hand of fate before he has time to finish his residency.

He was a skinny, suntanned youth, old enough to grow a beard but so far completely unable to. His hair was the colour of wet straw and cut in the style of Not Able to Afford a Proper Barber. Stray tufts stuck up at irregular intervals and occasionally he attempted to flatten them with his hand, but since he had three out of five fingers, it was less successful than he obviously intended. He was clad in the junior uniform of the Royal College of Medicine – maroon breeches, cream tunic, sky-blue jerkin – which had never looked good on anyone who wasn’t colourblind and therefore did not look good on him.

It certainly didn’t look good after a few hours of being rained on, but it was telling that that hadn’t upset him. Sand moved through the world with the good humour of someone who has never yet had anything bad happen to him.

Besides, the last rays of the setting sun were shining down on him through the autumnal leaves, the birds were singing, and he could see signs of civilisation that suggested his destination wasn’t too much further. He was taking his first steps – or rather, Arta, his horse was carrying him – into the next chapter of his life and he’d be damned if he wasn’t going to make the best of it.

[cirr0stratus]

You fear tomorrow, and you've made your fear your god.

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heavily inspired by THIS post

[natnuszsstuff]

I'm almost 100% sure Neil Gaiman is allergic to cis hetero people. Can't blame him tbh

[somthingidk]

I want more people to know about Terry Pratchett. I love almost all of his books

He writes like sci-fi fantasy books that are really fun to read .

I just think he’s really neat with his hoard of 41 discworld books

^^^^ the discworld ^^^^

[virgillikethepoet]

Love the bit in Going Postal where a stuck up old lady asks Moist if the golems he employs are male or female and he goes “who cares?? There’s no difference, they just want to do their job” and she’s like “well I’ve found one cleaning the ladies bathroom! He could be doing… inappropriate stuff in there” And he asks the golem with him “uh, would a golem care if he was called Miss instead of Mr” and the golem is like “not one bit lol” and he’s like “do you think Gladys would work as a name?” And the lady is like “yeah sure, as long as she’s dressed properly” and he’s like “uh, well, okay never mind, great the matter’s been resolved” and everyone goes about their day

[mumblingsage]

Petty opinion but with a grain of earnestness in it: If you dislike something about a widely acclaimed artist's style or content or vibe, you should voice those aesthetic and craft-level complaints loud and early, rather than keeping them bottled up until (actually if) that artist is revealed to be a bad person, which is the worst, most useless and even cruelest possible time to voice aesthetic and craft complaints.

[keirashark]

Imagine if Studio Ghibli did an animated Discworld tv series.

Like…

Dude.

[pielickart]

little polly oliver (wip)

[knocking-on-peoples-non-doors]

reaper man from 2022.

[offonaherosjourney]

Not a day goes by that I dont think about how Terry Pratchett created a character with the most ridiculous name ever (Moist von Lipwig) and then had him fall in love with a character with the most beautiful name ever (Adora Belle Dearheart)

[goodgrammaritan]

"Blessings be upon this house," said Granny, but in a voice that suggested that if blessings needed to be taken away, she could do that, too.

Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett

[vamporilla]

Finding out that Terry Pratchett was an Oblivion modder has got me thinking about what an open-world Elder Scrolls-esque Discworld game would be like.

[ineedlelittlespace]

So, hear me out...I just reread Moving Pictures shortly after watching King Kong for the first time. Now, I can't unsee the image of Jack Black as CMOT Dibbler, and I want a movie adaptation with him in it right now immediately.

[zagreuses-toast]

My moist playlist! This man has energy and pizazz and a whole lot of stress. This is probably the Discworld playlist I listen to most cuz it's got lots of fun songs in it. Good for walking at a quick tempo to. Reasoning for the songs under the cut

Moist has massive massive ADHD (and keeps getting handed random drugs because everyone can tell he should be medicated but no one knows what with):

A Song for Joshua Hayward by Jessica Law

Senses Working Overtime by XTC

Hyperactive! by Thomas Dolby

Endicott by Kid Creole and the Coconuts (in the way that moist can't comprehend or function in a "normal" life very well)

Don't Stop Me Now by Queen

Limelight cover by Ninja Sex Party

Seven by Sleeping At Last

Applause by Lady Gaga

Moist and Adora vibes:

Sweet Tooth by Scott Helman

One Week by Barenaked Ladies

Mexican Wine by Fountains of Wayne

The Villain I Appear to Be by Conner Spiotto and Molly Pease

Death of a Bachelor by Panic! At The Disco

Voulez-Vous by ABBA

Once In A Life Time by Talking Heads

Take a Chance On Me by ABBA

Short skirt/Long Jacket by CAKE (massive adora vibes, truly)

C'mon by Fun.

Problems by Mother Mother

The Masochism Tango by Tom Lerher

Moist is also incredibly stressed and freaked out all the time:

I'm Scared by bill Wurtz

The Show Must Go On by Queen

Old Pine Box by TMBG

Money!!! :)))) and the fact that Moist doesn't really understand it even tho he's so good at getting it:

Stress by Jim's Big Ego

Why am I anxious? By Tom Cardy

Money by Bill Wurtz

Redesign your Logo by Lemon Demon

Selling Out by Tom Lerher

Money Money Money by ABBA

Money by Pink Floyd

How Bad Can I be from The Lorax (not gonna apologize for this)

Crime and cons!!! :)))) and it's consequences:

Black Friday by Steely Dan

Facade from Jekyll and Hyde

I Fought the Law by The Clash

Fox on the Run by Sweet

A Crow's Trial by Vane Lily

Sinnerman by Nina Simone

Smile! No One Cares How You Feel by The Gothic Archies

Moist avoids identity issues by not staying in any one identity long enough to become attached :

The Next Day by David Bowie

All Time What by TMBG

The Bidding by Tally hall

A Mask Of My Own Face by Lemon Demon

Grace Kelly by Mika

The Great Pretender by Freddie Mercury

Liar by the Arcadian Wilds

[theflikchic]

Last night, I dreamt that there was a LEGO Discworld game and I desperately wanna know how to make this happen.

[theineffableoystercatcher]

Nie Huaisang maintained his position for two reasons. One was that he never, ever changed his mind about anything. The other was that it took him several minutes to understand any new idea put to him, and this is a very valuable trait in a leader, because anything anyone is still trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so is almost certainly something they shouldn’t have been bothering you with in the first place.