Book #148 - The Truth by Terry Pratchett
(I feel like we as a society fandom don't talk enough about the Mothman reference.)
The guy with the printing press is called... he's called.... the dwarf is called......... he... he's called..... he's called Goodmountain.
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What's that joke, about screaming Terry's name to the heavens?
Anyway.
Love is stored in the conversation about dwarven weddings. (Listen, I love the dwarfs?? Every aspect of them? How their culture is portrayed as so distinct and nuanced and how it is having its very own March of Progress, but in a still distinctly dwarven way. How, in the midst of it, the dwarfs still keep in touch with their traditions and keep both spirit and practice of them alive, while also finding evernew ways of following them?? Has any dwarf before turned lead into gold via printing press? Probably not, but Goodmountain did it anyway! He did something new, so he could do something old. I love the dwarfs.)
Pin and Tulip are fucking terrifying and fucking hilarious. In general, this might be the funniest Discworld book (yet, to me, this is not a final judgement). They also contain so many references that half my notes are made up of yelling movie names at myself (I am particularly fond of the Les Misérables references, but I hope that goes without saying). And Pin's spiral towards the end is so damn satisfying, omg (make the rat squirm).
Otto is a dear, Sacharissa is a treasure, and William is their douchebag boyfriend who sucks but at least he's aware of it so it's fine.
Lastly, not to get analytical, but this is the first time that the thematic driving force, the uncanny thing that has changed the lives of Ankh-Morpork... didn't go back into its box in the end. Unlike Holy Wood, unlike the shopping mall in Reaper Man, unlike the gonne, the printing press and the newspaper are here to stay. This ever-growing thing that will constantly need to be fed for the forseeable and unforseeable future, has warped the city, and this time, it sticks around.
Like, it's the first time that that has happened, Idk. Just... interesting.
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So i just got to know charles used to like Palestinian support posts for pst couple of years until recent events and now he’s seen with that noah. I do t even understand whats charles got to do with that literal bitchass child.
Yeah that was odd, i've seen people saying because Ferrari's top people are supporting Israel so he was forced to unfollow the page, for why he would hang out with that guy i don't know
Disclaimer: i don't want to assume things but Charles is always been sketchy with these subjects (ex the BLM not kneel and all of that bullshit excuse) so who knows
I honestly don't want to open the discussion about who supports what in f1, i just hope them, me, you everyone are just getting informations and context about the situation so we can all form our opinion on facts and not propaganda
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