#an abomination unto nuggan

[pratchettquotes]

"Well, er, wearing men's clothes is an Abomination unto Nuggan--"

"Why?"

"It just is," said Shufti firmly. "But--"

"--you're wearing them," said Polly.

"Well, it was the only way," said Shufti. "And I tried them on and they didn't seem all that abominable to me."

"Have you noticed men talk to you differently?" said Lofty shyly.

"Talk?" said Polly. "They listen to you differently, too."

"They don't keep looking at you all the time," said Shufti. "You know what I mean. You're just a...another person. If a girl walked down the street wearing a sword, a man would try to take it off her."

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#polly perks #shufti #lofty tewt #monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #soldiers #women #men #gender #gender roles #clothing #cross dressing #perception #respect #expectation #mysogyny #they listen to you differently #you're just another person #an abomination unto nuggan

[dimity-lawn]

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #the gods #nuggan #nuggan: abominations unto #abominations unto nuggan #borogravia #monstrous regiment

[valeroyeaux]

booty shorts that say "abomination unto nuggan". is this anything

#discworld #monstrous regiment

[stickandthorn]

Booty shorts that say “Abomination Unto Nuggan” on the ass. They’re blue, of course.

#discworld #monstrous regiment #terry pratchett

[autisticfiend]

Why are you an abomination and how can I become one too?

Hi! Sorry if my answer is late - I wasn't as present here recently. Good news, if you use Tumblr, you probably already are an abomination unto Nuggan!

Nuggan is a Discworld deity. His Abominations vary from girls in men's clothing to chocolate and umbrellas.

(I consider myself one mostly due to rigid gender norms in Nugganism.)

Also, read Discworld. I cannot recommend it enough. If you are interested in Nuggan, exploration of gender and queerness, you can start with Monstrous Regiment.

#discworld

[kvothbloodless]

Okay biologists and wildlife fans, if you could choose a clade for petty reasons to wipe from this Earth without any repercussions, which would it be? Put it in the tags.

By "for petty reasons" I mean that you can choose mosquitos because every time you step outside you get eaten alive, but not because of all thr mass death they cause.

Anyways, Im wiping Syngnathiformes off the map. Those fuckers are abominations unto Nuggan.

#this is all in good fun plz do not somehow turn this into discourse #you are Not allowed to make decisions based on what would help the world #this is Only about clades you personally think should not exist #also you are not allowed to say “none i love wll animals” #yes so do i pipefish are insanely cool #i dont care this is just for fun

[anna-neko]

aight @sol-draws-sometimes, I'm just gonna slap a bunch of words here before forget We gonna be keyboard smashing back and forth a bit

so yeah.. Jackrum is most complex on the genre spectrum, every nuance and then some

A big strong farm girl went to war; she buried that metaphorical part of herself with William's corpse but clearly she didn't remain in the Army because of big He ambitions. She saw other girls (many, obv far too many) scrambling to enlist for So Many Desperate Reasons & decided to stay in his position to help them. Just like all the rest (all the girls in the squad) she isn't here for reason as basic as "i wanna be a guy" like... not in that way

but but but but, remember all those times Sarge says "upon my oath, I am not a swearing man" (or violent, or shouty, or other adjective) Technically always a true line, innit.

If pressed to fill out a form post-war sarge would probly scribble down "Abomination Unto Nuggan" and leave it at that

ALSO WHILE IM HERE isn't it interesting how Shufti is other side of that coin!??!?! So similar yet opposite to Jackrum Girl followed guy into war, guy she thought loved her..... and it turned out terrible, but at least in her case she could proudly leave the Army, have a child, get a widow's pension and even found another guy who def seems to care about her

ANYWAY, while my book [HarperCollins ebook] does keep the final Sarge kitchen line with the "around her", when Polly is meeting new potential recruits she does say "Oh, you can join as men if you want. You get better swearwords" ... maybe it was just your audiobook gettin a bit too snip-happy with the abridging?

Because the rest of the pronouns game was on point! Especially keeping it "he" with Maladict after everyone else admits to being girls BUT MAL TECHNICALLY HASN'T YET (and won't until what, almost the end??? when they've met Angua!! Pages and pages after it's been obvious)

Lofty & Tonker have no use for men, clearly. but also... like... after the Magdalene Laundry Bad Girls School.... i may be in minority here, dont see them as gay either. Clutching at each other as found-family sisters, absolutely! Manic violent revenge-and-retribution seeking sisters

ditto for Wazzer. She's such a good pious girl, she's got too much of the Dutchess in her head to notice anything else

and now that this is done and you'd like to find ALL the literary in-jokes: https://www.lspace.org/books/apf/monstrous-regiment.html Stuff like very specific War references, or Songs parodies

All the lil oral puns & footnotes is why Sir pTerry in audiobook format is most impossible for me. I need to be flipping pages following all those lil asterisks (and repeating a line to myself for ages trying to figure out WTF the joke is. "the day is A Great Big Fish" haunted me for months!!)

PS: what font changes?

#bookclub #discworld #monstrous regiment

[cannibalcaprine]

You're doing a lot of Pratchett posting. You've read Monstrous Regiment, yes?

I just had an insight. The Christians that think that other people's gender and sexuality are some of their business are basically Nugganites. They've latched onto a rule and are following it because it's a rule without examining whether it serves a purpose. All that matters is that the Book of Nuggan declares it an abomination unto Nuggan.

i have not read monstrous regiments! I've only read the one about a steam train and making money

[thestitchsofar]

Advent calendars that don't give you an extra large chocolate on christmas eve are an Abomination Unto Nuggan

#discworld #monstrous regiment #nuggan #gnu terry pratchett

[shalem-things]

Periods are an abomination unto Nuggan

#discworld #rant #help #monsterous regiment

[pratchettquotes]

"What was all that about?" said Tonker.

"He was talking about the theater," said Maladict.

"What's that?"

"An Abomination Unto Nuggan, of course," said the vampire. "It'd take too long to explain, dear child. People pretending to be other people to tell a story in a huge room where the world is a different place. Other people sitting and watching them and eating chocolate. Very, very Abomidable."

"I would like to eat chocolates in a great big room where the world is a different place," mumbled Lofty sadly.

Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

#tonker halter #lofty tewt #maladict #monstrous regiment #discworld #terry pratchett #theatre #theater #the arts #blasphemy #another world #escapism #pretend #chocolate #sounds nice #an abomination unto nuggan #a great big room where the world is a different place

[dimity-lawn]

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #meme #discworld meme #created by yours truly #monstrous regiment #nuggan #nuggan: abominations unto #abomination unto nuggan #abominations unto nuggan #the office #the office us

[marmotsomsierost]

I have constructed An Abomination Unto Nuggan certain to earn the enmity of southern cooks, canadian cooks, and midwestern cooks, if i phrase the description right.

Behold

biscuits and poutine casserole

(biscuits and poutine casserole in case this combination of font and color is Bad for you, helpfully providing an alternative so Everyone can Suffer)

#i need you all to know that it took me four tries to physically type that out #i am fully deeply aware that this is not poutine nor biscuits and gravy and casseroles have PASTA DAMMIT not TATER TOTS #however #if you're gonna make someone make the shocked-hampster.jpg face at you #make EVERYONE make the shocked-hampster.jpg face at you #bring it bitches #i will be at the front of the line to kick my own ass #AND i didn't even set the fucking smoke detector off while cooking over 425 #did this require opening the window and setting the giant box fan on the counter and revving it up to max? yes. shut up.

[mybookof-you]

Known Abominations Unto Nuggan

Chocolate

Garlic

Mushrooms

The colour blue

Babies

Crop rotation

Girls in men's clothing (whether the other way round is an Abomination, too, remains unknown)

Girls knowing how to write

Pictures of living things

Cats

Dwarfs

Barking dogs

Oysters

Shirts with six buttons

Cheese

Messages in the sky (Clacks and carrier pigeons) as prayers may bump into them

Rocks

Ears

Accordion players

Theatres and similar

The smell of beets

Wiki

#Pratchett

[autisticfiend]

this isn’t an ask so much as a compliment on your “abomination unto nuggan”… 😄 it is a phrase i use daily at things.

Haha thanks!

Clarification - it's from Discworld, Monstrous Regiment specifically. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

[running-on-narrativium]

Ramona with one of her favorite illusions in a dress from a drawing meme from a while back. And what she’s wearing is likely an Abomination Unto Nuggan.

#Discworld OC #sweet as sugar and everything nice: ramona #iconographs: mun art