I don't know how Terry managed it. There's just nothing on this earth like a Discworld book. I'll be listening to a book I've read countless times over and suddenly, a single line I've never even really noticed before will tear me open. They just reach right inside me and open my ribcage to expose my very heart.
Tonight, it was Hat Full of Sky and Granny Weatherwax saying, "The world is unfair. Be grateful you have friends." On their own, the words are unremarkable. But juxtaposed together, with the context they are operating in....they had tears flowing down my face before I knew what was happening. The world is unfair; sometimes, the wonderful happens when it shouldn't (and/or when you feel you deserve a divinely wrathful torment) because you have friends. The world is unfair. That doesn't just mean that the horrible happens when it shouldn't. It means that the beautiful does too. Be grateful you have friends. They are the hub on which that beauty spins, turning the theft into gold.
A lot of people I've introduced to these books haven't liked them — they find them too silly, or preachy, or nonsensical, or even puerile. I am never upset or really disappointed when they don't like them. To each their own. But I will never understand it. They are baked into my being in a way that few things are and I am better to myself, to other people, and to the world because of it.
Sir Terry, you were a gift nonpareil. Thank you for your words and for shaping my world.
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my martha knight au in a nutshell:
Danny/Martha: see up here?
Danny/Martha: *taps skull*
Danny/Martha: intense psychological damage
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Danny/Martha: *upon finding out she's pregnant*
Danny/Martha: oh my god i cant be a mom, I'm fifteen and homeless--
Danny/Martha: im going to be a terrible mother--
Danny/Martha: i live in a cAR--
Danny/Martha: what if the baby inherits my powers? Oh no--
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Danny/Martha post giving birth: i've only had Bruce for a minute and a half but if anything were to happen to him i won't even need to fuse with Vlad, I'm razing this goddamn planet to the ground myself
Danny, to Baby Bruce: you are the last remaining thread of my sanity. I'm going to give you the world :)
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Danny/Martha prior to getting pregnant: Fuck it, if everything in my life has led to this moment, i'm allowed to make one stupid decision. I'm getting drunk and getting laid
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Danny/Martha while Bruce was a toddler: i swear to fucking god i am going to kill the next person who talks to me--
Bruce: hi mommy!! i brought you something!!!
Danny/Martha, immediately flipping on a dime: hi baby!! what do you have?
Bruce, a weird child like his mother: a spider :)
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Danny/Martha, talking to Falcone after he made an unsavory comment at her and Bruce: If you ever come near me or my son again, I will dig up your shithead father's corpse and make you eat his skin.
Danny/Martha: do you understand me
Falcone:... crystal, ma'am
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Danny/Martha new in Gotham: *getting mugged*
Danny/Martha: *grabs man's arm*
Danny/Martha: I AM GOING TO BREAK YOU IN HALF LIKE A TWIG, FUCK BOY, DO YOU HEAR THE WORDS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH--
(she then proceeds to terrorize Gotham's night life for the next extended period of time, mostly unintentionally)
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Danny/Martha: Danny Fenton?? No. you must be mistaken, my name is Martha Knight.
Danny/Martha: this here is my littlest knight, Bruce.
Danny/Martha: I made him all by myself :]
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A funny and crackish (?) soulmate au that came to mind is
Soulmate AU with Lilia Vanrouge but it’s the one where you share the pain of your soulmate…but in this case it’s everyday aches and pains (I mean we can go deeper with wounds and injuries but I’m trying to be comedic 😂)
You arrive to this world of twst and you find out soulmates are real.
And damn, do you find out the hard way, your body aches.
It ranges from day to day but it’s there and you weren’t like that before, after thorough check ups from Professor Crewel, he concluded it’s your soulmate.
Goodie.
So, here you are, half sprawled across your table with the first years trying to help.
You: Once I find them, they are going to pay for the hell I’m going through.
Ace: It can’t be that ba-okay, yeesh! Don’t give me that look!
You: My body aches. What the hell is my soulmate doing? 1000 Push-ups? And who hurts this bad? Almost every day? Are they ancient or something? Argh.
Also You: My aching back uwaahh, their posture probably sucks too.
The first years try to comfort you as best they could.
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,. andd what’s worst of all.. i got a girl at home — and my baby loves me moreee..!
im banging my head against a counter my internet is slower than a fucking snail WHICH IS A common metaphor and to be frank snails are FAST but put that thing in a marathon!! That’s me!! That’s me that’s me!!!!! ANYWAYS that was really corny.
I used a reference for this’n!! I don’t like hiding things, not like there’s anything TO hide but, here!!!! Very nice! Pretty even!
fought between using Tory Lanez , Issac Dunbar, and NoGuidnce for this stupid thing. I wanted a more. Orange??? Vibe and they really do make me feel that. I MEAN A LOT OF ARTITSTS do but then in particular. Not like it matters now BUT but…!!! war is over (there was no war to begin with)
I love you!! now take care, know that u matter!
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shoutout to all the fellow disabled people who spread awareness and advocacy even when they have no energy to do so, I see you, I love you, and you are so deeply appreciated. your story has the potential to be someone else's survival guide.
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