#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

[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.”

[dimity-lawn]

Teppic about Ptraci:

[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

[imperatorcaesaraugustus]

A Brief Book Review of: Pyramids by Terry Pratchett

i just finished reading Pyramids, the seventh novel in the Discworld series of fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett.

for some time i have been working towards the goal of eventually reading every Discworld book (doing so mostly in order so as to ensure i do not miss any, as opposed to the very scattershot method in which i read them when i was younger). Pyramids was the next entry in that quest for me.

on account of this being a Discworld book, i am holding it to quite a high standard, one which i do think it occasionally fails to meet up to. the thing that rubbed me the wrong way throughout much of the book, especially the beginning, was the way it does base itself upon a very time-flattened pop-cultural understanding of ancient egypt as being One Thing throughout its existence (a notion that, to my eye, carries an undercurrent of orientalism).

that being said, the book did gradually win me over, and i was enjoying it quite a lot by the end. one of the things that stands out the most in hindsight is that it took quite a while for me to realize what the book was actually going to be about, as the story goes through plots about assassins in Ankh-Morpork (which i thoroughly enjoyed) and Pteppic's* frustrations with kingship (which was the part of the book i liked least) before really settling in to the Great Pyramid and its effects. Dios made for a compelling antagonist, at times both aggravating and imposing. and i thoroughly enjoyed the character of Ptraci*, most of all at the very end.

overall, i did enjoy the book and would recommend it, but if you were choosing between a different Discworld book and this one, i would probably recommend the other.

*edited for spelling, as i listened to the audiobook and would not have predicted in a million years they were spelled this way

[gcballet]

Also - last thing talking about Pyramids - I had the audiobook for some portions and the narrator doesn't clock the silent P consistently in Djelebeybi names and pronounces Ptraci as Peh-trah-chee... mate, her name is Tracey, that's the joke. There was a princess called Keli - Kelly - in Mort, you read that one, I heard you do it.

[colbiecaillats]

colbiecaillat: Along The Way came out almost a year ago 🍂 photo shoot with @ ptracy @ jessicacmua @ kemosabe1990 🤎 

[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.

[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

[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

[cognitiveinequality]

listening to the audiobook of Terry Pratchett's Pyramids, and the reader just pronounced Ptraci as ''Puh-TRASS-ee'', and I'm going to kill someone with hammers

[radedneko]

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

[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

[angeluslupus]

Glod Glodson

Casanunda

Ptraci

Magrat Garlick

Cohen the Barbarian

Hodgesaargh

Foul Ole Ron

Herrena, the Henna-haired Harridan

Gaspode the Wonder Dog

Denephew Boot

Binky

Absolutely obsessed with the names Terry Pratchett gives to his characters

“You Bastard”

“Moist von Lipwig”

“Cut me own throat dibbler”

“Medium Dave”

“Carrot Ironfoundersson”

Like, ok king

[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