#gnu terry pratchet

[terrypratchettappreciation]

Happy Birthday, Terry

I have never been as fulfilled professionally as I was when I worked with Terry on his amazing books. 

“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”--Reaper Man

I miss him every day, and I’m so grateful to all of you who help to keep his name alive. Thank you.  

#GNU terry pratchet #Discworld #Speak his name

[tiodolma]

Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy... but sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

The citadel had a lot of underground. There were the pits and tunnels of the quisition. There were cellars and sewers, forgotten rooms, dead ends, spaces behind ancient walls, even natural caves in the bedrock itself.

-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

...........

This book has the most raw and striking metaphor and smoothest transition to the layout of the city istg. Amazing.

#small gods #discworld #terry pratchet #gnu terry pratchet #discworld: small gods #heli and discworld #gives me goosebumps #this is nuts #i like small gods a lot

[firstofficerrose]

Vetinari plays Scrabble. Of course he does. Poor Colon, having to play Vetinari at Scrabble.

#havelock vetinari #fred colon #jingo #discworld #gnu terry pratchet #guards novels #rose rambles #rose reads

[pourablecat]

Wippage... 👀

#discworld #discworld fanart #fanvid??? #animatic #gnu terry pratchett #samuel vimes #william de worde #terry pratchet #carl davis #when will ankh-morpork get a radio station... #these eight seconds took me a whole day!

[grinning13]

I was reading an old article from 2006 where someone is interviewing Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and look at this bit:

Remind y'all of anything?

#:( #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchet #neil gaiman #david tennant #michael sheen #staged #good omens #they're just good friends taking the piss with each other

[whimsicallywiddershins]

I was re-reading some Discworld books, and it really struck me how different the endings of The Wee Free Men and Harry Potter were.

Harry Potter is all about how death is a nice thing, a good thing, that it's ok to lie down and die. And that is a good thing to know. But. But The Wee Free Men takes such a different approach.

Tiffany fights to live. It's a very selfish thing, and that's ok. That's the point. You have to want to live, so want. And the Discworld books don't make you fear death. Death is a major character. There is an entire book on why Death is important, is needed.

But when JK Rowling teaches children to die for other people, Terry Pratchet teaches kids how to live for themselves. And that's important.

#terry pratchet #gnu terry pratchett #tiffany aching #the wee free men #discworld #harry potter #jk rowling #fuck jkr #books #book analysis

[candispice]

When Mrs. Gaiter had tremulously asked her how one addressed the second cousin of a queen, Susan had replied without thinking, "we called him Jamie, usually," and Mrs. Gaiter had had to go an have a headache in her room.

Terry Pratchet, Hogfather

#Terry Pratchet #gnu #hogfather #quote #queen

[dduane]

What does GNU terry pratchet mean?

It's a phrase many of us invoke every now and then, in memory of an old friend. Detailed explanations here:

#GNU Terry Pratchett

[purumuhugr]

I am watching Good Omens because my girlfriend is a Terry Pratchett Junkie and an slight Neil Gaiman Junkie AND I LOVE IT SO FAR SO EFF IT, YULS AZIRAPHALE AND PURUMU CROWLEY Thanks @neil-gaiman for amazing series and GNU Terry Pratchet qwq

#digitalart #digital #art #fanart #cute #lgbt #gnu terry pratchett #neil gaiman #good omens #good omens s2 #ineffable idiots #trans girl #nonbinary #trans

[eight-legged-pest]

[Image Description: a black background. In the centre of the image is a stylised image of a sprig of lilac blossoms, some in full bloom and others still flower buds.]

"The scent rolled over him.

He looked up.

Overhead, a lilac tree was in bloom.

He stared.

Damn! Damn! Damn! Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn't want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days..."

Terry Pratchet, Night Watch.

GNU Terry Pratchett

[gen-is-gone]

It's the Glorious 25th, and the world is in crisis. I'm too tired and out of sorts to do a reread, or even reblog a bunch of Discworld quotes and art. So I guess I'll just repost a quote of my own, deeply cynical and tired, often misunderstood.

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."

It's not the most popular line in that book by any means, but Pratchet was always wise and always deeply, deeply suspicious of people promising easy answers, or claiming to be able to single-handedly fix what poisons us all. Revolution is fast, and ugly, and violent, and rarely brings about the change and perfection revolutionaries claim. Change is hard, stupidly slow, also ugly, fueled by shitty compromise and selfish interests and someone will still be left behind, because someone always is. Harm reduction will never be as satisfying or as glamorous as the idea of a violent uprising, but it also gets a fuck of a lot more done in terms of positive change than insidious internet moralizing ever has.

#GNU Terry Pratchet #Discworld #Sam Vimes #Night Watch #the glorious 25th of may #megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace #GNU

[eruvadhril]

Johan found some fun relics in the computer cabinet today.

#discworld #terry pratchet #gnu terry pratchet #all about me #i love my wonderful dorky boyfriend

[tiodolma]

"No. Men should die for lies, but the truth is too precious to die for."

Terry Pratchet, Small Gods

.............

this one is very interesting. I need to sit on this first.

#discworld #small gods #terry pratchet #gnu terry pratchett #discworld: small gods #brutha #heli and discworld

[firstofficerrose]

Oooh, the Watch is going to get an Igor! Exciting!

#the fifth elephant #guards novels #discworld #gnu terry pratchet #Igor #rose reads #rose rambles

[ichosepoorly]

BACKPEDALING TO CATCH UP ON THE BOOKS I MISSED BRING US TOOOO ~~

MEN AT ARMS MEMES

#discworld #discworld memes #discworld men at arms #men at arms #discworld the watch #samuel vimes #sam vimes #commander vimes #vimes #carrot ironfoundersson #angua von uberwald #detritus #the watch #ankh morpork #ankh morpork city watch #lord vetinari #havelock vetinari #discworld death #terry pratchet #gnu terry pratchett

[asthe-crow-flies]

“the average witch is responsible for 8 villages” factoid actually just statistical error. the average witch is only responsible for about 2-3 villages. Tiffany Aching, who is responsible for the entire Chalk, is an outlier and should not have been counted

#please get our girl some sleep #i know this is an incredibly old meme but it popped fully formed into my head at 1:30 am and i decided to queue it right then and there #note: i did not do any math for this #there is not enough information to do actual math for this #i just guessed a random number bigger than 3 #tiffany aching #discworld #i shall wear midnight #wee free men #gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchet #witches