#ptraci

[pratchettquotes]

Ptraci glared at him from kohl-ringed eyes. "You mean you don't know? You were going to take me into the desert and you don't know where water is?"

"Well, I rather expected I was going to be able to take some with me!"

"You didn't even think about it!"

"Listen, you can't talk to me like that! I'm a king!" Teppic stopped.

"You're absolutely right," he said. "I never thought about it. Where I come from it rains nearly every day. I'm sorry."

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

[dimity-lawn]

Teppic about Ptraci:

[aeshnacyanea2000]

'You've got advisers,' said Teppic mildly. 'I didn't mean that,' she snapped. 'Anyway, there's only Koomi, and he's no good.' 'You're lucky. I had Dios, and he was good. Koomi will be much better, you can learn a lot by not listening to what he has to say. You can go a long way with incompetent advisers.'

-- Terry Pratchett - Pyramids

[andreai04]

“She has refused to take the potion, sire.”

“Sorry, I thought you said it wasn’t compulsory, Dios.”

“Yes, sire. It is not, sire. It is entirely voluntary. It is an act of free will. And she has refused it, sire.”

[ansatsu-sha]

Ptraci dutifully cast around for a new topic of conversation. Introducing Topics of Amusing Discourse was also part of a handmaiden's duties. She'd never been particularly good at it. The other girls had come up with an astonishing assortment: everything from the mating habits of crocodiles to speculation about life in the Netherworld. She'd found it heavy going after talking about the weather.

Terry Pratchett / Pyramids

[sjolldorei]

Sooo.

This is Ptracy. My new Goblin boy.

He's cuuute 🥴

[lydiablackblade]

Okay, this is actually the most dangerous plan to tear the fabric of time and space. Pyramids AND library, together? In the same place, at the same time? Even You Bastard won't have enough computing capacity to save us.

I heard that when you pass away us Tumblr users will all be buried with you. Can you confirm or deny this?

You'll do fine without me.

[deathdecayglitter]

Pyramids is a good book some of y'all just didn't have an Egyptian Mythology Phase

Anyways justice for Ptraci

[dragons-locator]

Trick or Treat!

You get a small origami dragon! Its name is Ptraci.

[takofukkatsumi]

Just. Pterry. Like, fully pronouncing the "pt", like in "optimal". But then again, the same goes for "pterodactyl" in my native language, and the (new to me) fact that "p" is silent in it in English suddenly explains the whole (P)Teppic thing.

[pratchettquotes]

"Where do you come from?"

Teppic looked miserable. "Where I come from is Ankh-Morpork. Where I started from is here."

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

[incomprehensiblelentils]

Week 9 (as week 8 was another off week for us) was Pyramids! This one, I’m sorry to say, is the first one I think was Just Okay. The plot’s pretty thin and it kind of all hinges on 3 jokes, which IMO don’t justify an entire novel around them. My friend has a theory that Pratchett had a draft of this one from around the same time he wrote Colour of Magic, and then he found it and updated it slightly - it reads like a much less skilled novel than Wyrd Sisters or even Mort. A few scenes are great fun, especially the one with the sphinx, and I do like Ptraci a lot. Some of the really good jokes are too long to include (You Bastard is a very fun character) but here’s one that did amuse me.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

‘What you’re saying is, if the worst is going to happen to you anyway, you might as well not bother any more,’ said Ptraci. ‘If the Soul Eater is going to get you whatever you do, you might as well avoid the crocodiles, is that it?’

-- Terry Pratchett - Pyramids

[book-quotes-and-moodboards]

Ptraci didn’t just derail the train of thought, she ripped up the rails, burned the stations and melted the bridges for scrap.

Pyramids (by Terry Pratchett)

[klinefelterrible]

Sam and Sybil? Nope! Carrot and Angua? Well... Moist and Adora? No. Verence and Magrat? Mm-hm! Mort and... Ysabell? Sort of. Teppic and Ptraci? Nooo! Detritus and Ruby? I don't think so.

It was Magrat and Verence. 100%

If there's one thing about Terry Pratchett, he sure knows how to write a romance between World's Lamest Dude and Woman With Autism

[batteryfisher]

“Can I have my bangles, please?'

Teppic shrugged, and fished in his pouch. The bangles were mostly copper, with a few bits of chipped enamel [….] [Ptraci] took them and slipped them on.

"[...] What do you need them for?"

"I told you. I don't feel properly dressed without them on."

- Pyramids, Terry Pratchett