#sacharissa cripslock

[roller-rink-haruno]

Okay, I am not pushing my Discworld agenda, but @dragonnarrative - look at this art. Look at the funky little vampire.

i really dont know how to caption this but The Truth changed wires in my brain and everyone should be reading it. Some hidden/obscured details in this under the cut!

william's notes, the iconographs that were originally going to be much more visible, and a unused vetinari. below is the article - a combination of the actual article from the book and some stuff i came up with. im sure you won't be able to tell the difference at all

[tea-time-with-frogs]

finished the truth. very fond of them

[potato-lord-but-not]

your power is too great.. whenever i see that you drew women i black out and wake up half an hour later kneeling on the floor scratching at my walls. can we see some women you have drawn lately please with a cherry on topp 🙏👏

I drew some girlies the day this was sent (like Sunday) and then forgot to post them oops anyway discworld girlies come get your women

[boughs-of-hollis]

i have once again created a quiz for my current hyperfixation (discworld this time) and you may once again take it at your own risk

[oracle-of-moon]

I'm happy to end the year with this Discworld fanart that I finally decided to redo and color! (The sketches are old ones)

These are the main protagonists of 'The Truth', 25th book in order of release, which tells the story of the emergence of the first newspaper on the Disc (similarities with real elements and characters are not mere coincidence).

When I finished reading the book, for some reason I had a good feeling of all the "actors" coming hand in hand to the stage and thanking the audience, then the curtains close. Because this one is a fantastic story, to tell you the truth.

[pratchettquotes]

"But since you raise the subject, Moist, what were you doing with your life before the citizens of Ankh-Morpork greeted you with open palms?"

"Surviving," said Moist. "In Uberwald the old empire was breaking up. It was not unusual for a government to change twice over lunch. I worked at anything I could to make a living. By the way, I think you meant 'arms' back there."

"And when you got here you impressed the gods so much that they led you to a treasure trove so that you could rebuild our post office."

"I'm very humble about that," said Moist, trying to look it.

Terry Pratchett, Making Money

[troubled-bog-witch]

Moist and Sacharissa is such an underrated dynamic. Guy who can't shut up around reporters even though he really, really should + reporter who visits him whenever things at the office are too quiet. He has this NEED to banter with her that is completely divorced from their reality where he has NOTHING to gain from talking to her and she has everything to gain from listening to him ramble. This always without fail results in him talking himself into his most insane corner yet while the people around them are like oh those are the two scariest grins I've ever seen. She's like if his muse was also his bully. They're so funny please

[stupidphototricks]

Sacharissa Cripslock is an underrated character and I love this intro description of her:

Now he could see her a lot plainer, mostly because she was advancing towards him across the room, and in the light-headed way of people who think they're just about to die he realized that she was quite good-looking if considered over several centuries. Concepts of beauty change over the years, and two hundred years ago Sacharissa's eyes would have made the great painter Caravati bite his brush in half; three hundred years ago the sculptor Mauvaise would have taken one look at her chin and dropped his chisel on his foot; a thousand years ago the Ephebian poets would have agreed that her nose alone was capable of launching at least forty ships. And she had good medieval ears.

-- Terry Pratchett, The Truth

[zagreuses-art]

a poster/cover for The Truth I designed in printing class. It uses risograph printing, relief carving, and typesetting.

[ID: a black and white relief print in the style of the illustrated police news. At the top inside the title "The Truth" is printed in bold . Below, in a room a photorealistic Gutenberg press is highlighted by a spunky halo of news print. Gunilla Goodmountain, a dwarf with a black beard and medieval style clothes, is standing with a hand on the press. His husband Boddony, another bearded dwarf, is holding a box of lead type. In the foreground William deWorde, a man with long-ish hair in a collared shirt, is sitting at a desk with a hand in his har, editing something with a pencil, he looks stressed. Sacharissa Crisplock, a woman with long curly hair in a vaguely Victorian dress, is leaning over the end of the desk with a sheaf of paper. Otto chreik, a dracula style vampire in a tailed waistcoat, is holding up an iconograph. At the bottom of the illustration "Pratchett" is printed in a border in smaller bold text. End ID]

Easter eggs:

- the printing press is a reconstructed Gutenberg press

- the news text behind it features an apology from the Oxford Gazette (arguably first newspaper) about the last edition being delayed due to The Great Fire Of London; a letter to the editor of the London Times by Charles Dickins; a page of ads from the 1800's; and a article from the Illustrated Police News about a 'orrible murder

- i based the art style on the Illustrated Police New's more cartoon-y illustrations

- I based Gunilla Goodmountains design on a illustration of Gutenberg

- I meant to have the text be in Boddoni (because that's the other dwarfs name) but I mixed up font trays and it ended up being Weiss I think, the "Pratchett" is in sestina I believe

- it was really hard to line up all three layers of this

[theygotlost]

fine tuning my designs for them .......

[flaggermousseart]

to Überwald and (hopefully) back again on AO3

[oftheseathings]

I’ve been reading a bunch of the discworld books by Sir Terry Pratchett lately. A couple of my faves are Monstrous Regiment and The Truth. I’d like to imagine this is what happened between those two books.

[pourable-cat]

They're up to no good :D

[potato-lord-but-not]

Draw the girls shirtless too

at first I was like can I even post that but the answer is yes. yes I can.

[zagreuses-toast]

The Times Trio, to me

[vectorofsins]

I'm sorry, the Ankh-Morpork Times crew just gives too much Team Rocket vibes lmao