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I just finished watching The Amazing Maurice (2022) and it made me want to go back and finish watching The Hogfather. It's been 2 years since I saw the first half,, bro I have the fattest girl crush on Susan if that isn't enough motivation to finish HF idk what is
#discworld#terry pratchett#amazing maurice threw me for a min because Keith is animated as Indian ethnicity in a british film#then i remembered#im an idiot#this is the discworld#its TERRY FRICKIN PRATCHETT#of COURSE there's ethnic diversity!!#i love diversity in films so i always get really annoyed w/ myself when that conservative right wing childhood comes through <3
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ok so hear me out
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The Paris Olympics insisting that athletes compete in the Seine is so absurd it feels like something Terry Pratchett would want to make fun of. Like can you imagine him writing a Discworld story about a mad Ankh-Moorpark city official deciding to put on some ancient extravagant game, creating havoc in the city by bringing in all these foreigners to compete, and insisting the Ankh river, which is so filthy it's basically solid, is perfectly fine to swim in, because that's what they did in ancient times so that's how they're going to do it now. I feel like it would be a Night's Watch story about the people hired to clean the river and all the friends and horrors they discover along the way.
Good luck to all the athletes swimming in the poop water.
#terry pratchett#discworld#2024 olympics#when people say take in the culture they do not mean swim in the poo river#the thieves guild would thrive
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happy glorious 25th of may
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What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
--Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
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Intro to the 1989 reprint of The Color of Magic the first Discworld book by Terry Pratchett.
“At least ten.” Lmao
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#polls#poll#pokémon#discworld#atla#one piece#land of ooo#naruto#avatar: the last airbender#lotr#oz#narnia#wonderland#harry potter#lord of the rings
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Dude this page is a lifesaver Google is really bad for working out the order to read them in
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Reading a Terry Pratchett book is literally just: Here's a funny little joke Here's something that you can tell is a joke but don't get and will only figure out five years later Here's a surprisingly cool fantasy concept Here's a unique and well written simile Here's a lil guy Here's something that has aged depressingly well into the modern day Here's something that has aged remarkably queer into the modern day Here's a character that you can barely understand what he's saying Here is the most terrifying and deeply disturbing concept you have ever heard, casually mentioned Here is the dumbest fucking pun you've ever heard but in the best way Here is a quote so profound that it makes you view morality and the world in a different way Here is a plot twist that you can't tell if it's genius or stupid Congratulations! You've finished the book! It has fundamentally changed you as a person and you will never be the same!
#discworld#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett#tiffany aching#monstrous regiment#terry pratchett watch
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Guards! Guards! was not the first Discworld book I read but it is the one that punched my angsty, edgy thirteen-year-old self in the face. I have never had a book hit me like that since. Nothing has ever picked me up by the scruff of the neck and shown me my own face in the mirror that way.
I was angsting around, all "the world is terrible" and "people are evil" and "humans are a blight upon the earth" and "everyone is stupid" and Vimes showed up and said, "Yeah, and?"
So what? So they're stupid and petty - save them anyway. So they're selfish - save them anyway. So it's all fucked and there's never going to be a happy ending - save them anyway. Do it anyway. You don't get to opt out of caring just because they're grubby and ignorant and reactionary and petty because so are you and that's all we've got.
No other book has ever changed my worldview in one blow before or since. I reckon that's something that can only happen to you when you're a teenager anyway. But I've never quite gotten over it.
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This badly cropped Terry Pratchett quote I found is here for anyone who wants it
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#gnu terry pratchett#terry pratchett#meme#created by yours truly#anniversary#discworld#discworld meme#good omens#good omens meme#neil gaiman#good omens the nice and accurate prophecies of agnes nutter witch
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Tiffany couldn't quite work out how Miss Level got paid. Certainly the basket she carried filled up more than it emptied. They'd walk past a cottage and a woman would come scurrying out with a fresh-baked loaf or a jar of pickles, even though Miss Level hadn't stopped there. But they'd spend an hour somewhere else, stitching up the leg of a farmer who'd been careless with an axe, and get a cup of tea and a stale biscuit.
It didn't seem fair.
“Oh, it evens out,” said Miss Level, as they walked on through the woods.
“You do what you can. People give what they can, when they can. Old Slapwick there, with the leg, he's as mean as a cat, but there'll be a big cut of beef on my doorstep before the week's end, you can bet on it. His wife will see to it. And pretty soon people will be killing their pigs for the winter, and I'll get more brawn, ham, bacon and sausages turning up than a family could eat in a year.”
“You do? What do you do with all that food?”
“Store it,” said Miss Level.
“But you-”
“I store it in other people. It's amazing what you can store in other people.” Miss Level laughed at Tiffany's expression. “I mean, I take what I don't need round to those who don't have a pig, or who're going through a bad patch, or who don't have anyone to remember them.”
“But that means they'll owe you a favour!”
“Right! And so it just keeps on going round. It all works out.”
“I bet some people are too mean to pay-”
“Not pay,” said Miss Level, severely. “A witch never expects payment and never asks for it and just hopes she never needs to. But, sadly, you are right.”
“And then what happens?"
“What do you mean?”
“You stop helping them, do you?”
“Oh, no,” said Miss Level, genuinely shocked. “You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant. Everyone's poor round here. If I don't help them, who will?”
"A Hat full of Sky" - Terry Pratchett
#Tiffany Aching#terry pratchett#discworld#If you're too young to read “Das Kapital” ready Tiffany Aching instead is2g#anarchocommunist icon Constance Level#Miss Level must be protected at all costs
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the whole Terry Pratchett vs Adaptations section of the book is brilliant, but nothing stands out as the whole ordeal between Terry, Tiffany Aching, and, I kid you not, Sam Raimi.
I cannot emphasize the psyche damage I took from that last sentence, I was completely unprepared:
he wasn't pleased with the script at all:
and you know shit just got real:
and its inevitable end:
all this put into perspective, however, an earlier quote in the chapter:
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