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artbypontpilat · 2 days
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Blind Io. Character from the books "Discworld" by T. Pratchett.
Слепой Ио. Персонаж книг "Плоский мир" Т. Пратчетта.
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snippit-crickit · 6 months
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recently i read Guards!Guards! by Pratchett and it brings me great joy to draw out the characters, i will now proceed to throw these at you
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Colon!
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Sybil,,, i love her, how can i not love a crazy dragon lady ((thats also a big lady))... I like the idea that her brows are tiny because they get burnt by dragons so often
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Carrot i also love him
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+Big woman Sybil with no wig
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geopsych · 2 months
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A favorite passage from Terry Pratchett. Only a certain kind of person could write a paragraph that so beautifully captures a moment like this. 🐝✨🤍
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namislesbian · 5 months
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he commends his soul to any god that can find it or something..
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autisticfiend · 8 months
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Young Vetinari
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dearsamvimes · 1 year
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I love the way Terry Pratchett values people with all kinds of body shapes and of all ages, and even of all levels of intellect.
Sam Vimes (my beloved) is often acknowledged as "not the sharpest tool in the shed" but BY GODS does he get shit done and is the RIGHT shit.
Juliet Stollop is dumb as a box of rocks but it's her straightforward mind that says to (smart and clever) Trev Likely and Glenda Sugarbean "are you stupid? You're talking about Mr Nutt! Of course he isn't evil!"
Sybil Vimes is radically kind BECAUSE OF and NOT inspite of her size.
Junior Postman Groat is old and creaky and INVALUABLE to the post office!
Stanley Howler is young and a bit crazy but ALSO has his value recognised by Moist and given an important job, and he does it really well!
Sergeant Jackrum is massively fat and appears stupid but is so sharp that he saves the day and (redacted because I'd hate to spoil, even if the book isn't at all new).
I don't know it just makes me happy and wish more people read Discworld
PS I'd love it if others added their thoughts
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You ever stop to think about how Terry Pratchett wrote this world into being where no character is more defined by compassion than Death himself? How the most consistent feature of magic practitioners regardless of style is that they can see Death, and know the time of their own demise in advance? And then how he saw his own death coming far enough in advance to work through it in his writing? As if to say “I’ve cleaned my house, I’ve put the kettle on (not for me, but for a guest), I’ve had a nice comfortable lie-down,”
Terry Pratchett was a magician. And he conjured a just world, and aspirational one. I hope he got the comfort from Death that he wrote about.
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unrighteousbooks · 8 months
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Be Warned: An Impostor is Among Us
I recently finished reading Oliver Darkshire's book Once Upon a Tome. Mr. Darkshire is an antiquarian bookseller at Sotheran's Rare Books in London. While I greatly enjoyed the book, I was deeply disturbed to read this passage:
"Of all the nice letters I've ever received, the ones I hold particularly close to my heart were sent from a mysterious stranger masquerading as the bookshop-owning angel Aziraphale from the novel Good Omens."
I do not understand why Mr. Darkshire describes me as being "from the novel Good Omens," as though I were some sort of fictional character. Setting that aside, however, it is unnerving to realize that a complete stranger is wandering the streets of London, writing letters and pretending to be me.
I can offer no proof, but I believe that the likely suspects can be narrowed down to a very short list.
A few years ago -- well, I suppose it was actually many years ago -- there was a book called History of New York. It was subsequently revealed that the author of this book, one Diedrich Knickerbocker, did not in fact exist. Perhaps "Mr. Knickerbocker" has moved on from creating fictional personas, and is now hijacking the identity of legitimate booksellers such as myself. (Regular readers will recall that I have previously commented on Mr. Knickerbocker: https://www.aziraphale.com/post/143753123162/a-curious-bit-of-satire-in-an-unvisited-corner-of)
Meanwhile, I have also been informed that there is a man named Buster Poindexter who is notorious for falsifying his identity. I have it on good authority that Mr. Poindexter has openly confessed that he is suffering from a personality crisis. It should also be noted that the name "poindexter" is often used to refer to someone who is enamored of books. Coincidence? I think not.
Another likely suspect -- or possibly "suspects," plural -- is a person or persons going by the name Pratchett Gaiman, or possibly Gaiman Pratchett. Again, I have no proof, but I have lost count of the times someone in the shop has asked me about so-and-so Gaiman or such-and-such Pratchett.
Finally, I cannot completely discount the possibility that my friend Crowley might be playing some sort of elaborate prank. He insists that this is not his doing, but it is just the sort of device that he would employ to rile me. He knows that pranks are anathema to me.
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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.
-Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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aieaiedro · 10 months
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i've been re(re)reading discworld novels since last year, and recently reread the Truth so here is my favorite lil' vampire otto von chriek he's the best 🦇
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illustoryart · 3 months
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Still looking for loving home for these two artworks! 😳
If you want to own my signed original, this is your chance ❤️
ko-fi.com/illustory/shop
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artbypontpilat · 1 month
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Hello! Today is another character from the Discworld - Susan and the death of rats, of course. Always glad to hear your opinion.
Привет! Сегодня еще один персолнаж из Плоского мира - Сьюзан и смерть крыс конечно же. Всегда рад услышать ваше мнение.
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dearlittlebuttercup · 6 months
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Props to Sir Terry for finding a legitimate way of using the word "cluster-suck" in a book.
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grison-in-space · 1 year
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anyway I'm rereading Pratchett--the Moist von Lipwig books principally just now--and finding myself rotating two things in my head:
one, how much Pratchett seems to have enjoyed specifically small dogs, given that he preferentially references and makes characters of terriers, small poodles, and of course Mr. Fusspot, who I have always envisioned as a Pekingese. (More precisely, I have envisioned him as a specific Pekingese of my acquaintance, a pet-bred cream specimen with no two legs or eyeballs that pointed the same way. As I recall he was called, fittingly, Grunt.)
two, how the golems think about freedom, labor, and devising a purpose out of life, and how they make a fine foil to a character like Murderbot, who I expect would have extremely strong feelings about them it claimed not to exist.
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sophierathmannwrites · 4 months
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Okay, don't ask me why I was sobbing at the end of Monstrous Regiment, but also, please do? I am... better than I have ever been? Fundamentally not okay? Sitting here feeling as if something profound has been said on some sould deep level? Feeling nonbinary rage and validation and heartbreak? Please send help?
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autisticfiend · 9 months
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Vetinari being a cane user is ever so significant to me. He was an already beloved character I could feel seen in when I became physically disabled, he helped me to make the decision to get a cane in the first place, he helps me feel more confident and accepting of myself...
And of course, both him and Drumknott, my equally favourite character, have autistic characteristics. And that is also so, so important to me. It was one, though only one, of the reasons the duo became my favourites.
There is some love for yourself you can find through the love for characters you can relate to.
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