#The turtle moves

[randomnessoffiction]

Happy Terry Pratchett Day! 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘🫓🌎🌌🌌🌌

[scribefindegil]

periodically I see posts going "Discworld is great but Terry Pratchett can't write romance--" Friend, that is a feature.

[dimity-lawn]

[oracle-of-moon]

In celebration of the 76th anniversary of the one who gave the world so many wonderful stories and characters (but sadly is no longer among us), I'd like to share this process video of an art I did with love a few years ago, to show my appreciation for every moment of joy and reflection and laughs and cry he provided through the amazing Discworld! :D

GNU Terry Pratchett!

[thewritehag]

A single Discworld book is a gateway drug, but books

[jelly-o630]

Spoilers for Terry Pratchett’s Small Gods

I’m about 3/4s of of the way through Small Gods en and I’m at the part where library is burning down and everyone’s trying to escape to Ankh-Morpork and in my head I was thinking ‘okey so they managed to save hundreds of scrolls using Brutha’s perfect memory and every character we care about is escaping to live in a safe city where Om can maybe become a big god again- okey I can see how this book is going to end, kinda bittersweet with the burning of Ephebe but the characters we like are free and there’ll probably be more wisdom about the nature of religion in this last quarter of the book which may very well be a slow ending about the characters we like having a happy ending’ BUT THEN they start taking about putting Vorbis on god damn TRIAL for what’s he’s done and Brutha being 100% precent for it and I’m just here like HoLy sHiT he’s actually gonna do it HOLY SHIT TERRY PRATCHETT IS GONNA HAVE HIS RELIGIOUS LEADER CHARACTER LOOK HIS ACTIONS IN THE GODDAMN EYE AND MAYBE NOT REALIZE WHAT HE’S DONE BUT HAVE MOST EVERYONE ELSE IN OMNIA REALIZE AND THEY WILL FINALLY BE FREE OF THE FAKE SURENESS AND FEAR OF THEIR LIVES VORBIS WILL FACE ACTUAL REAL CONSEQUENCES FOR HIS ACTIONS OH MY GOD OH MY GOD TERYY I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY KNIGHTED YOU

[carebearloveshp]

Happy World Turtle Day! 🐢

“The turtle moves.”

[box-keeper]

In the beginning was the Word.

And the Word was: 'Hey, you!'

Started listening to Small Gods last night at work! The Turtle Moves!

[weirdlet]

Hey Pratchett Fans! Go watch Strange World.  You won’t be disappointed.

[scribefindegil]

addendum to my ongoing "Reigen is a Discworld witch" agenda: Mogami is very specifically a Discworld witch who went bad

[dimity-lawn]

[oracle-of-moon]

"Professor Rincewind! Professor Rincewind! Some... I think it was a witch but the hat was the wrong color and it looked more like a wizard's hat except that she was a female and we've only ever had the one female that was a wizard and this was definitely not her but then again witches aren't always the same and I don't think there's actually a rule that says it has to be black and anyhow she had a dog but--"

"Calm down. (I can't believe I'm the one saying this.) What ever is the problem?"

"I... I think she stole your Luggage!"

"...Well, it's a nice thought, and a good try, but I'm really not looking to date anyone at this time."

This is a gift I made with love for a dear friend, who is a big fan of the Luggage, a maniac-homicidal item made from sapient pearwood from Discworld! :) 🐢🐘🐘🐘🐘

And the text above is an excellent comment / fanfic I received from Kencolt706 on Reddit and I'm gonna use it! 😁✨

[thewritehag]

Just goofing off making a tiny zine out of origami paper and the end measurements make me think of Discworld paperbacks (long and narrow), so I goofed off some more

I actually really like this idea and the covers were fun to make.

Not sure how to fill it, but it'll come to me.

I doubt anything will come of this, but if I ever did make a bunch to give out, they'd be free

[scribefindegil]

Hey, I got a whole bunch of Pratchett books in this digital book bundle, and I’m not sure where to start. I remember reading some of the Tiffany Aching books out of order a long time ago (and enjoying them despite my confusion), but where do you think might be the best place to start as an adult?

There are as many answers to this as there are Discworld fans, but for my money:

Small Gods if you want a standalone.

Otherwise, I recommend starting at the beginning of whichever sub-series most grabs you:

Wyrd Sisters if reading the Tiffany books made you want more stories about witches. Big themes about the power of narratives and doing the work that has to be done but that no-one will ever thank you for.

Guards! Guards! for the City Watch. Detective stories where the real crime is always the injustice of society.

Mort if you want to cry about the anthropomorphic personification of Death (you probably won't cry about him in this book. but once you're done you can read Reaper Man. and then you can cry.)

[deadheaddaisy]

HOLY SHIT this is EPIC!

This is part of my ongoing Discworld jacket embroidery project. Of course Great A'Tuin has to be on there. And of course it has to be the biggest one of them all.

I'm going to put the finished product in my masterpost, but I'm so proud of the thing that I have to put it in an extra post beforehand. Enjoy!

[thewritehag]

I've made the questionable choice to reference the "midwife" scene from Carpe Jugulum to two very indulgent and tolerant LDS ladies when citing the debate of a pregnant person's humanity being secondary to that an unborn child. These are hard decisions and, unlike in the book, the wrong people are making the decisions to prioritize the hypothetical potential of one over the autonomy of the other, even when it's not a viable pregnancy. The Granny Weatherwaxes of our world are also too pragmatic to get into politics, but at least they run (or will run) the underground planned parenthoods. These two ladies took it in stride.