#thief of time

[pratchettquotes]

Susan was sensible. It was, she knew, a major character flaw. It did not make you popular, or cheerful, and--this seemed to her to be the most unfair bit--it didn't even make you right.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#susan sto helit #thief of time #discworld #terry pratchett #character description #sensible #reasonable #reason #popular #cheerful #right #unfair #character flaw

[discworldquotes]

It was a mystery to her why Death had started using the place. Of course, he did have many of the qualities of a gentleman: he had a place in the country--a far, dark country--was unfailingly punctual, was courteous to all those he met--and sooner or later he met everyone--was well if soberly dressed, at home in any company and, proverbially, a good horseman.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #Thief of Time #Death

[alda-rana]

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

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

[petite-ursus]

Most of the overstuffed chairs in the library were occupied by contented lunchers dozing happily under tented copies of the Ankh-Morpork Times. Susan looked around until she found the copy from which projected the bottom half of a black robe and two bony feet. There was also a scythe leaning against the back of the armchair. She raised the paper.

GOOD AFTERNOON, said Death. HAVE YOU HAD LUNCH? IT WAS JAM ROLY- POLY.

'Why do you do this, Grandfather? You know you don't sleep.'

I FIND IT RESTFUL. ARE YOU WELL?

'I was until the rat arrived.'

YOUR CAREER PROGRESSES? YOU KNOW I CARE FOR YOU.

'Thank you,' said Susan shortly. 'Now, why did-

' WOULD A LITTLE SMALL TALK HURT?

Susan sighed. She knew what was behind that, and it wasn't a happy thought. It was a small, sad and wobbly little thought, and it ran: each of them had no one else but the other.

There. It was a thought that sobbed into its own handkerchief, but it was true. Oh, Death had his manservant, Albert, and of course there was the Death of Rats, if you could call that company. And as far as Susan was concerned... Well, she was partly immortal, and that was all there was to it. She could see things that were really there, she could put time on and off like an overcoat. Rules that applied to everyone else, like gravity, applied to her only when she let them. And, however hard you tried, this sort of thing did tend to get in the way of relationships.

It was hard to deal with people when a tiny part of you saw them as a temporary collection of atoms that would not be around in another few decades. And there she met the tiny part of Death that found it hard to deal with people when it thought of them as real.

Not a day went past but she regretted her curious ancestry. And then she'd wonder what it could possibly be like to walk the world unaware at every step of the rocks beneath your feet and the stars overhead, to have a mere five senses, to be almost blind and nearly deaf...

THE CHILDREN ARE WELL? I LIKED THEIR PAINTINGS OF ME.

'Yes. How is Albert?'

HE IS WELL.

... and not really have any small talk, Susan added to herself. There wasn't room for small talk in a big universe.

THE WORLD IS COMING TO AN END.

Well, that was big talk.

#thief of time #all of this just because #i adore that he not only visited her classroom #but that he like their paintings of him #:') #terry pratchett #Susan Sto-Helit #Death

[oakys-sideblog]

Terry pratchett will name a character anything

#does the fact that the main characters name is Lobsang mean anything here #thief of time #discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #oaky reads discworld

[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

[asmuchasidliketo]

Susan Sto-Helit in her classroom, by Marc Simonetti

Source

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #Thief of Time #Susan Sto-Helit #I love her no-nonsense attitude #And I love how the kids love her teaching #And what she teaches them

[largehyphencollider]

I feel seen.

#Thief of Time #terry pratchett

[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

[pratchettquotes]

"Just a minute," said Lobsang. "Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a schoolteacher running around?"

"Best kind of person to have," said Susan. "We don't like silliness. Anyway, I told you...I've inherited certain talents."

"Like living outside time?"

"That's one of them."

"It's a weird talent for a schoolteacher!"

"Good for grading papers, though," said Susan, calmly.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#lobsang #susan sto helit #thief of time #discworld #terry pratchett #teachers #grading #silliness #time travel #family business #meet cute #unexpected #useful #practical #talents #context #who are you #best kind of person to have

[need-grows-teeth]

#web weaving #parallels #religious trauma #cinema #neon genesis evangelion #devilman crybaby #phoebe bridgers #matt maltese #czeslaw milosz #the hollow men #t. s. eliot #terry pratchett #thief of time

[sithbelle]

Thief of Time is a story that just sang to me. Playing with time has always been one of my favorite story elements, and this book offered a really fun approach to it.

Some things I noticed in the story:

There is no way the name Jeremy Clockson isn't intentional. I'm not sure of the release year, but surely "Top Gear" or one of its predecessors was out by then.

You can tell Pratchett is really enjoying writing Igors in this phase of the series, and I really enjoy reading about them. He does a great job of putting the voice in your head with his spelling, and my mental image will always be Eye-gor from "Young Frankenstein":

I also like that Miss Susan has been given the dark Miss Frizzle treatment as a teacher. It suits her, and I'm sure there's some kind of fanfic where the two of them going on adventures together.

It's also nice to see a Nanny Ogg cameo in the Death arc, especially as Death nearly always pays a visit in the witches arc.

Oh, and Qu as a fun analog for James Bond's Q was a nice touch, too.

And don't even get me started on Lobsang and Lu-Tze. I could read an entire series on them alone (and it was nice to see Lu-Tze's return and have him be the focus instead of a background character!)

And finally, as an auditor in my day to day life, I find it really funny how they're the Big Bad of the Discworld universe. I've known some colleagues who could absolutely fit the bill. As for me, I'm probably more like Unity...

All in all, this might be my new favorite so far; if not, it's top 2. Next up, we move on to The Last Hero!

#gnu terry pratchett #terry pratchett #discworld #thief of time

[syl-stormblessed]

alright guys i’m about to start reading Thief of Time so i gotta know……..

#so far my favorite is reaper man for sure #idk what it is about that book #it just. it really hits. #vin speaks #discworld #discworld death #mort #reaper man #soul music #hogfather #thief of time #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #gnu pterry #susan sto helit

[solarcicada]

Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett is such an amazing book to me. What if you were insane and kind of a bad person and you brought about the end of time (literally), though did so without any bad intentions, without meaning to hurt anyone, without meaning to stop time, only wishing to make something perfect because you feel that that’s what you’re meant to do and it’s the absence of that perfection that’s driving you mad in the first place.

What if another version of you who is both intrinsically, inherently, genetically you but so vastly different to you due to the vastly different lives you two have lived-completely ignorant of one another’s existence despite both of you living in the same city your whole lives-was somehow destined to stop you and save the world, pulled away from his old life due to talents he didn’t know he had and often couldn’t control and frustrated to no end at the seemingly ever-growing incompetence of his trainer.

What of as a result of this, the two halves of You became one whole person and yet lose almost the entirety of your collective humanity and now have to leave behind the person you love to fulfill the task that you were always meant for since the moment of your birth, and you have lost so much and you cannot go back to your old life because you can hardly keep yourself tethered to the present moment when there is all of time out there calling to you and it saddens you but you can see through time and it’s indescribably beautiful and infinite.

What if you were the unintentional villain and the reluctant hero and lost your humanity to become one of the inner workings of the universe itself.

#I’m normal about this book guys #I want to eat it with my big strong teeth #thief of time #also can we talk about the title drop near the end. masterful. #like yes he is the thief of time. my god. #didn’t even mention Susan or unity or death in this post but they are also my favorite guys. #books that have me thinking about what it means to be human and make me restructure how I view the passage of time #discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #Terry pratchett is a master and a genius writer #books #fantasy

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

Susan Sto Helit is, as an adult, the most relatable Discworld character because she just wants to be left alone. He chief motivation in Hogfather is to *get the plot over with* and in Thief of Time she has a normal job and wants nothing to do with her Grandfather and his metaphysical fuckery.

#discworld #susan sto helit #hogfather #thief of time

[bibliophilecats]

28 October 2023: National Chocolate Day

#auditors amiright #terry pratchett #thief of time #discworld #book photo challenge #fundaybpc #dragonbadgerchallenge