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OKAY SO, I’m reading all of Discworld atm and just finished Sourcery and moved on to Wyrd Sisters. I’ve been enjoying it so far but imagine my surprise when out of nowhere I read THIS

ITS THE MEME, THE COME HITHER FOOL MEME! I had no idea that was from Discworld and it doesn’t matter at all but now I possess this knowledge and I needed to share it with anyone who didn’t know.

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This quote from Guards! Guards! hits real hard right now.

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“We are here, and this is now.” Constable Visit, a strict believer in the Omnian religion, occasionally quoted that from their holy book. Vimes understood it to mean, in less exalted copper speak, that you have to do the job that is in front of you.

--Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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quote of all time

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Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. I read all 41+ discworld novels on company time

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sad today. my favourite part of the feet of clay's conclusion is vetinari clearly trying not to show how amusing he finds vimes's comments

also some bonus interactions i found funny in the same convo

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Death is the poorest little meow meow

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can these guys quit it.

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This might be a very controversial take but Sybil being fat with no hair and Adora being weird about golems and Granny being old and a virgin and Magrat being ugly and Agnes being fat and Nanny being Nanny and Cheery existing does more for feminism than 90% of intentionally "feminist" media produced in the past 5-10 years actually

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The one Discworld thing that lives rent free in my brain is how military generals would observe which military uniform Nobby Nobbs was wearing throughout the battle to determine who was winning

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???

they are flirting with each other.

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sometimes you can just feel terry smirking

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"We've always been privileged, you see. Privilege just means 'private law.' That's exactly what it means. He just doesn't believe the ordinary laws apply to him. He really believes they can't touch him, and that if they do he can just shout until they go away."

-- Terry Pratchett, The Truth

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JRR Tolkein: so this fellow is known to most of the characters as Gelladir but the elves know them as Dìrolarië and to the dwarves as Tûlganûn and to the rohirrim they're known as Éogol and they go by the nickname Wanderer for the first 50 pages after you first meet them and they have several other names you have to remember like Cielga-Tór or Nirreancadil or Windtongue so you have to constantly check the glossary at the back of the book to figure out who on earth anyone is referring to half the time.

Terry Pratchett: **points** that's Mr Broccoli and his friend Sergeant Sevenpuddle.

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my other favorite bit was Terry Pratchett vs. Sean Astin

in spite of loving LOTR, Terry was against casting Sean as Twoflower

just as I was wondering how serious Terry was about his threats...

TERRY!!!

But Sean Astin proved again he had been the perfect cast for Samwise by doing one of his moves and simply winning Terry over:

several chapters later, in a passage that occurs several years after the Colour of Magic movie, this happens:

:') Uncle Terry