Just finished listening to Guards! Guards! again and the scene with the Watch asking for compensation really hit me this time around. Vetinari does his big speech about the absolute evil and darkness in humanity and then Fred Colon and Nobby Nobbs, who we know are not heroes, are not particularly nice people, are not, in short, “good” and they ask for barely any money and a new kettle and a dartboard and they worry that they’re asking for too much.
And Vimes just laughs and laughs at all the upper crust diplomats and Vetinari who can’t understand it. Can’t understand ten dollars a month raise. Can’t understand a kettle. Can’t understand a dart board.
Sam Vimes always felt a bit like Clint Eastwood to me, because he was always grumpy. He’s really a big softy though and even though he’s resistant, he makes so many friends in all the stories. And it felt like I did too. Including a little dragon named Errol.
I devoured three Guards books in the shortest time for me, my god, i remember complaining about how I didn't grow up reading books by such great writers like Terry Pratchett ect. and here we are, thanks to my uni friend
Guards! Guards! Storyboards coming along... here are a couple of low res WIPS. Depending on how it goes I imagine the finished thing should go up next december?
Sometimes I feel good and then I remember that then it arose and struck Vimes that, in her own special category, she was quite beautiful; this was the category of all the women, in his entire life, who had ever thought he was worth smiling at. She couldn't do worse, but then, he couldn't do better. So maybe it balanced out. She wasn't getting any younger but then, who was? And she had style and money and common-sense and self-assurance and all the things that he didn't, and she had opened her heart, and if you let her she could engulf you; the woman was a city.
Another thing that Terry Pratchett does so well is describing how people move in their own unique way. Nobby's method of locomotion is "a kind of sidle, and the combination of stalking and sidling created a strange effect, like a crab limping". Adora Belle Dearheart walks up to Moist like "a snake trying to sashay". I mean...
I will never get over the way Sir Terry characterizes people by describing their rooms! Like he did with Sybil Ramkin's bedroom or Miss Flitworth's living room. Makes me think about how the way your decorations (or lack thereof) tell a lot about you
Looking at reading Terry Pratchett for the first time. People usually recommend I start with Guards Guards, but looking at the breakdown of the different sub-categories, I'm now wondering if I should start with The Truth and the Industrial Revolution collection. Does anyone have any recommendations between those two sub-series?
Bought this used copy of Guards! Guards! (thanks, Seattle Good Will and alibris!) and there is just one page with annotations, in the same color pen as the previous owner's name on the front cover.
I cannot figure out what this was intended to point out or emphasize.
Hey Discworld fans and followers, @modiphius has secured a license to make games based on Sir Terry’s Discworld! Super stocked I also sent them my art 🤷♂️ 🤞
But anyway, they seem really genuine and excited about working on this project and have a survey for Discworld fans so they can understand why people love the books as best as possible which I think is a beautiful way to make a game.
Between grad school and commission work, I'm working on a lil' series of animal-ified character sketches from Terry Pratchett's "Guards! Guards!"
First up is Lance Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch!
Please note that I have not yet had the chance to read the books myself - I'm basing these depictions mostly off of how myself and the rest of my cast played the roles in our theatrical production, so there are likely inconsistencies when it comes to costumes and such :)