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Celebrating Terry Pratchett Day.
On what would have been Terry's 76th birthday, we are filling today with Pratchett joy and invite you to join us.
We'd love to see your routes through Discworld on the #terry pratchett day tag - you can download images to share your favourite books and recommended place to start in Discworld via terrypratchett.com.
You can also find recipes from Nanny Ogg, templates to recreate your own favourite Discworld cover, and ways to get involved for all ages. Whether online or offline, we hope your day is full of Pratchett magic!
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Today is Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday. So, why not celebrate with some of the easter eggs we have in Good Omens that are all about him.
Mind how you go.
#good omens#crowley#terry pratchett#aziraphale#neil gaiman#ineffable husbands#good omens fun facts#good omens 2#easter eggs#michael sheen#david tennant#gnu terry pratchett#discworld#terry pratchett day#sir terry pratchett
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Neil Gaiman, co-author of Good Omens:
My first encounter with Terry Pratchett was The Colour of Magic, as read on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. I was a young journalist and I reached out to his publisher for an interview, and thus became the first journalist to interview Terry Pratchett, in Bertorelli's Italian restaurant, in Gower Street. (We remembered it as a Chinese Restaurant in Goodge Street, demonstrating either the fallibility of memory or our fondness for Chinese food.) We became friends.
I was lucky enough to read Terry's books as he wrote them, to become one of his beta readers, and then to collaborate with him. Terry had a brilliant eye for the places where reality and narrative tradition intersect: he had a science fiction writer's mind, let loose on a fantasy world, and he loved to explain and show how things came to be. The last time we saw each other he told me I had to read a book about feeding Nelson's navy – and I still wonder, had he lived, about the Discworld novel he would have written, about ships, and naval battles and all, and the lessons he would have taught us. Because at his best, Terry was a teacher. The kind who makes you laugh while simultaneously realising that everything you have taken for granted so far is utterly wrong. I miss him.
#good omens#terry pratchett#terry pratchett day#happy birthday terry#gnu terry pratchett#speak his name#terry and neil#btb#fun fact#interview#neil interview#neil about terry
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how jingo went
close ups on his face, bc i like when hes holding on by a thread
#discworld#my art#samuel vimes#sam vimes#look i know he didnt plan anything but if he did#gnu terry pratchett
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Professor Doctor Sir Terence David John “Terry” Pratchett OBE BM (Blackboard Monitor), 28th April 1948 - 12th March 2015.
GNU Pterry.
Mind how you go.
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"The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues."
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#terry pratchett day#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett#moving pictures#discworld#@terrypratchettestate
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I like to do this thing every now and then where I compare my old artworks to my new ones, because I find it fascinating to see my progression over the years. I'm always struck with how much about it has changed, yet how much has stayed the same. And Sam Vimes is the perfect subject for this, because I just don't quit drawing him. XD
Here's to many more years of art to come!
Also, today happens to be Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday! As he himself wrote: "A man is not dead while his name is still spoken". Thank you Pterry for sharing your passion, humor and imagination with us through your books. It means the world.
#GNU Terry Pratchett#Terry Pratchett#Sam Vimes#Commander Vimes#Samuel Vimes#discworld#fanart#city watch#art progression#mind how you go
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As a little Terry Pratchett tribute today I wanted to draw the two fictional men that have inspired me to create more than anything has in a long time.
And also a little tribute to the community surrounding these books that makes me want to share my creations instead of hiding them away. It's meant more than you know.
#sam vimes#vetinari#discworld#Terry Pratchett day#gnu terry pratchett#lord vetinari#Night watch#the glorious 25th of may#And if you squint#vetvimes#Just a couple of guys on an evening stroll#What of it#Or maybe this is us strolling along and talking about Characters like we're ancient philosophers
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Basing on an enormous feedback of likes and reblogs that I am gathering at this post I decided to try drawing another version of Vimes among dragons. Once again I am forced to apologise for my colouring
#discworld#gnu terry pratchett#samuel vimes#mr vimes#captain vimes#vimes#sam vimes#commander vimes#vimes with dragons#last minute I gave him a little smirk Ihope you enjoy it#baby dragon#dragons#fancy swamp dragons#elite of reptilehood#swamp pets#I have time to observe my rats so they must resemble their looks at least somehow
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Shout out to Siobhan for the Terry Pratchett reference, and as always: GNU Sir Pterry
#dropout#dimension 20#a crown of candy#siobhan thompson#terry pratchett#the wee free men#gnu sir pterry
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Happy Birthday Terry Pratchett!
Every year for Terry Pratchett’s birthday, I like to celebrate by reading one of his books and talking about him.
Terry Pratchett is one of my favorite authors. I first found out about his books in 2012 right after reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I was looking for other books similar to it and Terry’s Discworld series was recommended along with Good Omens by both him and Neil Gaiman.
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away"- Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
I read Good Omens in 2013 and fell in love with it instantly. At the time, I promised myself that I would read the Discworld series some day but put it off because of its size (it had 39 books at that point). I didn’t start the series until 2017 and finished the final novel, The Shepherd’s Crown in 2022. Over the years, it went from being one of my favorite series to my favorite series. I cannot recommend it enough. It's incredible.
Terry has been an inspiration of mine ever since I first picked up one of his Discworld books. I read the series mostly in publication order and I personally recommend doing so if you plan on reading the entire series. There are so many ways to get into it. The only book I read out of order was Hogfather because I wanted to read it at Christmastime that first year. It's one of my go-to rereads every year.
Even though I didn't find myself loving the first couple of books, they still had me wanting to read more from this brilliant man. Terry’s writing style is one of a kind and I will never be able to get enough of reading his work. I have read 60 of his books and I plan on reading every single piece of literature he has written. They are insightful, funny, and so damn clever.
Today, I am going to start The Science of the Discworld that Terry wrote with Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. It is the first book in a four-part series that has Discworld stories mixed with science. I’m interested in seeing what happens and how the wizards accidentally create the Roundworld. The Unseen University books are a mixed bag for me. Sometimes, I really love them and then other times I don’t. Though, I am looking forward to seeing what trouble those old fools cause. I cannot wait to get to the second book because it deals with Shakespeare.
Some of my favorites of his books are: Hogfather, Witches Abroad, Night Watch, Thief of Time, The Wee Free Men, Going Postal, Wyrd Sisters, and Good Omens.
Thank you for the words, Terry. I wish I could have met you. Your ripples will continue on for a very long time. Happy Birthday.
“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.” Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
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#terry pratchett#discworld#good omens#favorite authors#favorite series#discworld lover#discworld quotes#favorite quotes#terry pratchett day#sir terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett
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These two were across the street from each other at the market today!
It’s like a Good Omens AU trying to manifest on this, the birthday of Terry Pratchett…
I also note it’s Divine DOUGHNUTS and Unholy DONUTS
😈😇
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Pratchett trying to shoehorn in a romantic partner for Drumknott at the end of Unseen Academicals is honest very funny in retrospect because the lad shows up two more times before the series concludes and is still romantically unattached which implies that despite Vetinari and Margolotta’s best efforts to play matchmaker something must’ve gone so wildly wrong that it made the two of them not want to engage with each other any further.
So because of this oversight, my headcanon is that when Drumknott and Miss Healstether had their little rendezvous they argued over who had the better filing method which ended in Vetinari and Margolotta having to physically separate and restrain them to keep them from killing each other. It’s the first and only time Vetinari ever had to reprimand Drumknott in his entire career all because he bit Margolotta’s librarian during the altercation. However, deep down he was more than a bit amused watching two mild mannered individuals throw hands over a ring binder so it was more of a halfhearted, “don’t do it again,” kind of scolding.
#discworld#unseen academicals#rufus drumknott#havelock vetinari#lady margolotta#miss healstether#gnu terry pratchett#Drumknott definitely got his ass beat by Healstether but he put up a valiant effort#lots of hair pulling/scratching/roundhouse kicking/biting#miss healstether doing more of the kicking in this instance#Drumknott’s fighting style is more screaming and flailing much to the chagrin of his boss#Vetinari probably ordered some of the dark clerks to start self defense training with Drumknott#meanwhile lady Margolotta is disappointed her librarian beat the snot out of another guy she tried setting her up with#miss healstether has no regrets#mp
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A dream fanfic by NaturallyTeal ~ 10th Day
Happy Terry Pratchett’s Birthday (28.04.1948) everyone!!! 🎈🎁🎂💐❣️
Summary:
The Secret Dream Diary of a Good Omens fan (anonymous, he) who contracted a severe case of the fandom-typical brain rot from watching S1 & S2 too often, reading too much fanfic on AO3, and spending altogether too much time engaging on tumblr, digesting gifs, fanart and meta.
He dreams about Good Omens every night.
Short dreams, daily.
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10th Day: The Long Globe
I dreamed that Terry was sitting in his armchair in the bookshop, reading to me from “The Long Earth”. I was spilled over the couch like a Crowley, listening in reverence. The doorbell chimed and Joshua hurried in, greeting Terry like the old friend he naturally was, and telling him we had to get a wiggle on, the Second Coming wouldn’t summon itself. Adam, the young one, would be waiting for us at the Globe in the seventh universe to the right.
Terry donned his hat and scarf and took the white marble bust of Adam under his wing.
[previous day]
I’m planning to post one _short_ dream daily, for 20 days. If you like, subscribe on AO3!
There’s also a “mailing list” (tagging in the replies) here on tumblr, let me know if you want on it! 😇😎
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Credit: Here’s the original foto I used in the dream picture above:
#gnu terry pratchett#terry pratchett#whatever i like best#good omens fanfiction#good omens brainrot#good omens dreams#daily#shorties
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Granny Weatherwax wasn’t popular with anyone much – except when they needed her. When Death was standing by the cradle or the axe slipped in the woods and blood was soaking into the moss, you sent someone hurrying to the cold, gnarly little cottage in the clearing. When all hope was gone, you called for Granny Weatherwax, because she was the best.
-- Terry Pratchett - Wintersmith
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