#gnu terry prachett

[suckrose-and-akwa]

[pourablecat]

Have a very canon depiction of the beginning of Going Postal

[tir-far-thoinn]

Lilac embroidery I did for the Glorious 25th of May.

How do they rise up?

[twasjane]

Me: Ever think about the fact that Young Sam Vimes is born on the Glorious 25th of May so that whenever Vimes celebrates his son's birthday a little part of him has to think about the fall of The Glorious Republic of Treacle Mine Road?

The cashier at Lidl: There's half a dozen people waiting behind you and you have five items. You are the reason I drink.

[knight-watch]

Vimes' punchhole in the wall outside the Oblong Office but it has hearts drawn around it in glitter pen

[plutoprophecy]

Finished reading Reaper Man a while ago. Loved this creature

[godzilla-reads]

📚 Books and 🌸 Flowers

💚 The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan edited by Michael Wheatley

💛 Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett

💜 Only the End of the World Again by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Troy Nixey, and Matt Hollingsworth

[cartoonfanorwhatever]

Lord Vetenari will look at Vimes and immediately go: "put that man in a situation"

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't think Rincewind should have learnt magic, but I do think that he should have learnt headology.

[afteralmostdying]

posting this vimes sketch from my revision flashcards to see if people will still like me if i post my discworld stuff. pspspspsps pratchett enjoyers

[suckrose-and-akwa]

In Eric Rincewind encounters- while time traveling or parallel universe hopping or whatever- a soldier character implied to be a mirror of Rincewind

"- didn't look like a soldier at all. He had the armor, which was tarnished, and he had the helmet, which looked as though its plume had been used as a paintbrush, but he was skinny and had all the military bearing of a weasel. There was something vaguely familiar about his face, though. Rincewind thought it looked quite handsome."

This soldiers name is Lavaeolus - like 'lava' in Latin, to wash... or rinse ("Rinser of winds" is the translation given later in the narrative) As the dialogue goes on Lavaeolus is revealed to be a famed mythical figure mirroring Odysseus

"Lavaeolus was responsible for the fall of Tsort, on account of being so cunning... and then afterward it took him years to get home and he had all sorts of adventures with tempresses and sirens and sensual witches."

Which means Terry is showing us a comparison between Rincewind and Odysseus. Given that they're both characters constantly on long journeys away from danger and on adventures they don't want to be having, I just think that's a very clever and neat way to bend the trope.

[galemalio]

After reading most of the Night Watch series of Discworld and Going Postal (my first disc world book), I can’t wait to read Making Money. You mean to tell me that THE Sam Vimes is going to be Moist Von Lipwig’s obstacle? Sam has more than enough anger to snap him on his knee like a twig.

[pourablecat]

More Sailor Vimes for my depraved personal reasons.

[olfactoryventriloquism]

It’s been nine years since Terry left us. It’s hard to imagine having gone so long without his biting commentary on everything going on around us, without his fierce humanity. GNU Terry Pratchett. Mind how you go.

[twasjane]

It's so strange to reread old articles and descriptions of Discworld and seeing it described as "weird" or "whacky" or "strange" because... It's really not? It's one of the most down to earth fantasy series ever created. The world may contain fantasy creatures and settings but they're so well thought of, so grounded in experiences and a world either directly experienced by the author or one he read about that... It's not in the LEAST bit whacky?

I've been a fan since 1998 when I was a teenager and it ALWAYS struck me as a really ridiculous label stuck to this series. Clearly by people who'd never really engaged with fantasy as a genre.

And yeah, for years literary critics dismissed Pratchett's work because he owned the fantasy label and didn't shy away from his genre. He was a thoughtful, funny writer on par with Dickens- but he wasn't truly appreciated until the last few years of his life.

[headcanonsandmore]

After Terry Pratchett passed away in 2015, a petition was signed by 30,000 people. A petition that called for Death to give Terry back. 

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go cry.