#lu-tze

[alda-rana]

Reread Thief of Time recently, here are Lu-Tze and Lobsang!

#discworld #terry pratchett #thief of time #lu-tze #lobsang ludd

[ancientannoyance]

the one good thing about my bus home being delayed by five hours is that i had time to reread both Thief of Time and Hogfather, and they're still two of the all-time Discworld bangers

Bonus:

#thief of time #ok these drawings are mostly re: thief of time but IN MY DEFENSE susan sto helit and unity AND nanny ogg are in that book #discworld #terry pratchett #susan sto helit #unity #myria lejean #lobsang ludd #jeremy clockson #lu-tze #nanny ogg #gytha ogg #death of rats #gnu terry pratchett

[discworldquotes]

Lu-Tze listened to the senior monks, while leaning on his broom. Listening was an art he had developed over the years, having learned that if you listened hard and long enough people would tell you more than they thought they knew.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #Thief of Time #Lu-Tze

[aeshnacyanea2000]

‘The wise man does not seek enlightenment, he waits for it. So while I was waiting it occurred to me that seeking perplexity might be more fun.’

-- Terry Pratchett - The Thief Of Time

#Terry Pratchett #discworld quotes #GNU Terry Pratchett #quotes #The Thief Of Time #Lu-Tze #enlightenment #perplexity

[pratchettquotes]

"I really must respectfully protest, Your Reverence," said the acolyte. "We have practiced for just such an emergency as--"

"Yeah, I know all about practicing procedures for emergencies," said Lu-Tze. "And there's always something missing."

"Ridiculous! We take great pains to--"

"You always leave out the damn emergency."

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#lu-tze #acolyte #the abbot #thief of time #discworld #terry pratchett #history monks #emergency #emergency response #procedures #training #practice #something missing

[milfdarthrevan]

TIME MONKS BULLSHIT

I LOVE TIME MONKS BULLSHIT

#discworld #honor reads discworld #night watch #sam vimes #Lu-tze

[badgerwithagun]

If you know the fact that Wen had a child with Time, it really makes the opening read differently. I mean, with the benefit of hindsight, it is clear to me that Wen just got railed and is riding the high.

#thief of time #wen the eternally surprised #Time #Lobsang Ludd #Lu-Tze

[thedungeonmother]

For it is written: ‘I can’t be having with that kind of a thing.’

- Thief of Time, Discworld #26

Ah, the oldest anime trope. For real though, this character uses written scripture as an excuse. And I kinda read it less as something profound so much as he's trying to cold read someone. Like a psychic does.

#live reading #Discworld #thief of time #Lu-Tze

[unseenwizzard]

Finished thief of time so spoilers for that book (also queued a bunch of stuff)

There were a lot of great parts and characters in the book but my favorite has to be the fifth horseman. Literal chaos personified and he delivers milk products. Wonderful. Enlightened.

Kaos was the start of the universe. It created space for the rules to be challenged, changed. It's something so human that even after being written out of history, Ronnie still had enough power of belief to fight the auditors. It's a force so strong it can ruin a city. Or one can run on it.

Its no wonder he settled in Ankh, a city that's in a constant state of barely controlled chaos.

Not good, not bad, just. Kaos.

But something from the beginning of the book stuck in my head because of the whimsical image it gave me and when I went back and read it with context-

ARRIVED WITH THE MORNING MILK?? ANCIENT FORM OF CHARITY!!

HAS HE BEEN OUT THERE DELIVERING BABIES TO GUILD HALLS??!

HES ANKH MORPORKS STORK

HER #1 FOSTER PARENT

LOST CHILDRENS FIRST GUARDIAN

Ok. Im good

But am I wrong or reading into this? Because it absolutely reads like the anthropomorphic personification of chaos keeps getting handed babies? for some reason? and just has to complete a job placement interview with them on the spot

Do you want to steal or catch rats? Mix chemicals or make clocks? Biikitt?Alright then, assassins it is!

And to take it even further than that, I might go so far as to say that Lu Tze was one of the children Kaos delivered. Surely abbotts need dairy products? and a being that can enter their perfect moment in time?

Even if he isn't, he read the fifth horseman like a picture book and played him like a fiddle (thats being played by someone that's good at playing fiddles)

I wish there was more on here about this book though. The ronnie tag is almost as sad as the jeremy one

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #thief of time #ronnie soak #lu tze #guilds in ank are weird ok #og #lobsang ludd #kaos

[mywingsareonwheels]

Listening to the BBC radio adaptation of Pratchett’s Night Watch (which is great, incidentally, and I will link to below) and fully realising that not only is Vimes an influence on Endeavour’s Fred Thursday (that goes without saying and has been confirmed by Russell Lewis as well as being just obvious once you know both characters pretty well :) ), but a couple of Igor’s lines (ones definitely lifted from the book) are suspiciously close to the sorts of things Max says. I mean “I find that when I’ve got someone on the slab and had, you know, a rummage around...”... (We are talking about the young Igor working for the Watch, after all, and he’s pretty much a pathologist...) Russell Lewis, you are a beautiful Pratchett-obsessed weirdo. ;-)

Here’s that link. Not all the episodes are up yet, but the first three are. The first episode’s only up until 16th May 2023 so be warned... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b010ns42

(Night Watch is fantastic. It also comes with some content warnings especially for things concerning childbirth and political oppression. Also also it itself is partly an AU of Les Miserables which means that Thursday is based on a (heroic but very cynical) character who is both Javert and Valjean at different points in this story which is PERFECT because of course Roger Allam has played both, one in the musical and the other in the radio adaptation :D ).

#itv endeavour #gnu terry pratchett #night watch #sam vimes #fred thursday #igor #discworld #discworld igors #bbc sounds #also this stars #philip jackson #as vimes #and he's pretty good #also also i can't find an actually full cast list for this version anywhere but i have a suspicion that was anton lesser as ridcully #and possibly also as lu-tze who is just called sweeper here #he's definitely been involved with other of the radio pratchetts so it seems not impossible #but i'm not 100% sure because neither role is credited anywhere #les miserables #kind of #russell lewis #and his pratchett obsession

[fyeahcindie]

吾橋有水 FloodingBridge released their debut album last week, and this high-energy rocker is the most-played song so far.  =D

By the way, the full album is up on YT and Spotify.

Lyrics: 張元 Yuan Chang Music: 盧鈞右 Neon Lu (fr. 烘嗓音樂 Home Sound YT channel) Producer / Vocal Producer / Keyboards: 盧鈞右 Neon Lu Executive Producer: 李小天 TeddyRsLi (李小天 Teddy Li Photographer/Manager Co-Founder, Director @homesoundmusic) Arrangement: 吾橋有水 FloodingBridge Vocal: 莊蕎嫣 Faye.Z Electric Guitars: 李奎綸 Kui Lun Li (fr. 打倒三明治 Sandwich Fail) Acoustic Guitars / Bass: 林郡彥 Giu  (fr. Lazy樂團) Drums: 蔡信澤 Shin Tze Tsai Backing Vocals written / sung by: 書帆 ShuShu (沈書帆)

Links:  Instagram,  StreetVoice,  吾橋有水 FloodingBridge YouTube,  Spotify

Faye Links: StreetVoice,  Instagram,  莊蕎嫣 Faye.Z YouTube,  iNDIEVOX and she has done covers w/ 烘嗓音樂 Home Sound YT

#莊蕎嫣 Faye.Z #吾橋有水 FloodingBridge #李奎綸 Kui Lun Li #林郡彥 Giu #蔡信澤 Shin Tze Tsai #書帆 ShuShu (沈書帆) #盧鈞右 Neon Lu #張元 Yuan Chang #music video #taiwan

[wykart]

I’ve read enough Discworld books now that sometimes a guy will show up in a book you’re not expecting them to be in and it’s like hey!! It’s my guy!! He’s here!! My friend is here in this story!!

#anyway lu tze is here #sir there’s this scrungly filthy wet old guy at the door what do I do #and I’m like !! that’s my guy

[per-aspera-ad-aporia]

one of my batchmates just posted a video of a trip to a monastery in Dharamshala and i just realised

[Photo of prayer wheels in a Mussoorie monastery. Photo by Yohannvt, CC BY-SA 4.0]

this must be what pTerry looked at and said “oh. of course they’re meant to hold and store time.” God i love his brain.

#this references (mostly) the discworld novel #thief of time #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #lu tze #paaa

[noirandchocolate]

Discworld Fight Club 2023 Masterpost

Welcome to the biggest rumble the Disc has ever seen! Thrill as some of the turtle's premier brawlers, assassins, vampires, magic users, and tricksters face off in a five-round tournament to see who's the best of the best!

But first, please read the Rules:

Remember to vote based on who you think would win in a fight, not necessarily who is your favorite character. This is a tournament, not a popularity contest!

These fighters are good guys and shouldn't really bear any real animus toward each other, so consider this a more or less friendly event where no one is literally trying to murder anyone. So, when considering what weapons and techniques a character might use, think more in terms of how they'd incapacitate one another. That might involve using weaponry of course, but like, maybe Detritus shouldn't have access to the Piecemaker, is the kind of thing I mean, ha.

A contestant can win by knocking their opponent out, making them 'say uncle' so to speak, or even tricking them somehow! Think about the characters' strengths beyond, well, physical strength!

Successfully running away counts as a victory for the runner, not as a default win for the contestant left behind.

Reblogging and replying to the polls, especially with commentary on your reasoning for your vote, would be super fun and I hope a lot of people will do that! I tried to seed the bracket so the matchups are interesting, and I think there's some room for debate on a lot of them even at the start. Have fun!

So without further ado, let's have Discworld Fight Club 2023!

This will be updated as the rounds progress, with links to each poll. Winners on each match are in bold.

Round 1:

Part A-- Match 1: Commander Samuel Vimes vs. Maladict Match 2: Moist von Lipwig vs. Dr. Whiteface Match 3: Ghenghiz Cohen vs. Reg Shoe Match 4: Mrs. Erzulie Gogol vs. Rob Anybody Feegle Match 5: Detritus vs. the Dean of Pentacles Match 6: Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax vs. Susan Sto Helit Match 7: Mr. Nutt vs. Harry King Match 8: The Librarian vs. Queen Magrat Garlick

Part B--

Match 1: Lord Havelock Vetinari vs. Willikins Match 2: Adora Belle Dearheart vs. Mr. Pump Match 3: Gytha "Nanny" Ogg vs. Sergeant Cheery Littlebottom Match 4: Lu-Tze vs. Otto Chriek Match 5: Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully vs. Polly Perks Match 6: Jason Ogg vs. Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson Match 7: Sergeant Angua von Uberwald vs. Rincewind Match 8: Agnes "Perdita X Dream" Nitt vs. Sergeant Jack Jackrum

Round 2:

Match 1: Commander Samuel Vimes vs. Moist von Lipwig Match 2: Ghenghiz Cohen the Barbarian vs. Rob Anybody Feegle Match 3: Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax vs. Detritus Match 4: Mr. Nutt vs. the Librarian Match 5: Lord Havelock Vetinari vs. Adora Belle Dearheart Match 6: Gytha "Nanny" Ogg vs. Lu-Tze Match 7: Archancellor Mustrum Ridcully vs. Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson Match 8: Sergeant Angua von Uberwald vs. Sergeant Jack Jackrum

Round 3:

Match 1: Commander Samuel Vimes vs. Rob Anybody Feegle Match 2: Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax vs. the Librarian Match 3: Lord Havelock Vetinari vs. Gytha "Nanny" Ogg Match 4: Captain Carrot Ironfoundersson vs. Sergeant Angua von Uberwald

Round 4:

Match 1: Commander Samuel Vimes vs. Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax Match 2: Gytha "Nanny" Ogg vs. Sergeant Angua von Uberwald

Round 5:

Final: Esmerelda "Granny" Weatherwax vs. Gytha "Nanny" Ogg

Granny Weatherwax has taken the title!! Thanks for participating, everyone! It's been a really fun week of battles, just as I'd hoped! And it's all thanks to you guys, for voting and commenting some pretty insightful and funny stuff! I definitely encourage everybody to go into the match links above and check out the notes if they haven't been doing so all along.

And thus ends Discworld Fight Club 2023!

#terry pratchett #discworld #discworld fight club 2023

[aeshnacyanea2000]

‘Listen, he lived in a big old castle on a crag in Uberwald. People like that don’t need a reason apart from “because I can”. They have a nightmare and try to make it happen.’

Terry Pratchett - The Thief Of Time

#Terry Pratchett #discworld quotes #GNU Terry Pratchett #quotes #The Thief Of Time #Lu-Tze #human nature

[pratchettquotes]

"Okay, here are the rules," said Lu-Tze, walking straight past. "Word one is, you don't call me 'master' and I don't name you after some damn insect. It's not my job to discipline you, it's yours. For it is written: 'I can't be having with that kind of a thing.' Do what I tell you and we'll get along fine. All right?"

"What? You want me as an apprentice?" said Lobsang, running to keep up.

"No, I don't want you as an apprentice, not at my age, but you're going to be so we'd both better make the best of it, okay?"

"And you will teach me everything?"

"I don't know about 'everything.' I mean, I don't know much forensic minerology. But I will teach you all that I know which is useful for you to know, yes."

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#lu-tze #lobsang #thief of time #discworld #terry pratchett #monks #mentorship #apprentice #master #learning #education #useful information #rules #teaching #everything #discipline #self discipline #forensic minerology #for it is written #make the best of it