hermitmoss

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my blog is a safe space for me. the rest of you are in danger i think

#misc txt #q

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Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #meta #q

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dusthides except they're even balder and wrinkly

#CUUUTE #flight rising #art #q

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listening to my prof talk abt how strictly allegorical readings lose pieces of the text/full context of a work/specific details by pretending one situation in a work is a 1:1 for something else and im sitting here like man. this is Exactly why i get so mad abt trying to force tdp's dark magic into any irl allegory because nothing fully fits and accounts for every part of it and so you have to just engage with it on the story's own terms and i feel insane when it gets watered down/pushed into being something it's not because you have to break pieces off to make it fit and we got this weird polarization in fandom where I'm now like well I can't talk abt this with Anyone then

#YEAH #the dragon prince #meta

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i wanna say fuck you to anyone who shame disabled, chronically ill & neurodivergent people, especially homebound folks, for "spending too much time on their phone/on the internet/etc." when it's the only (Somewhat) accessible way for them to experience the world. many people don't get to get out much even if they want to because of their disabilities. shaming someone for trying to connect with the world, make friends and engage with hobbies in ways that are accessible to them is beyond cruel and unnecessary

#yeah #disability

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God loves you but not enough to save you

#the raven cycle #art #ronan lynch #q

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#yeah okay #minecraft #q

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"I do not understand the question."

#star trek #my friend spock #q

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how jingo went

close ups on his face, bc i like when hes holding on by a thread

#discworld #sam vimes #art #q

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I AM THAT IS

#redwall #art #q

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Pick a guy that just really loves his wife!

#an extremely endearing result #polls #q #tolkien

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persisting despite it all !

#art #friend tag #all of you.. #rach #nym #mack #cats

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i tried

#leia organa #art #star wars #ot #q

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a gathering, a murder

#art #corvid tag #q

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#polls #thrice..so far .. #save me somebody

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you should be able to say "line" if you don't know what to say in a social situation

#Y E S #might actually start doing this #misc txt

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sun / moon

#star wars #art #q #pt #anidala #anakin skywalker #padme amidala