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hawkeyequeerce · 3 days

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I don't know how Terry managed it. There's just nothing on this earth like a Discworld book. I'll be listening to a book I've read countless times over and suddenly, a single line I've never even really noticed before will tear me open. They just reach right inside me and open my ribcage to expose my very heart.

Tonight, it was Hat Full of Sky and Granny Weatherwax saying, "The world is unfair. Be grateful you have friends." On their own, the words are unremarkable. But juxtaposed together, with the context they are operating in....they had tears flowing down my face before I knew what was happening. The world is unfair; sometimes, the wonderful happens when it shouldn't (and/or when you feel you deserve a divinely wrathful torment) because you have friends. The world is unfair. That doesn't just mean that the horrible happens when it shouldn't. It means that the beautiful does too. Be grateful you have friends. They are the hub on which that beauty spins, turning the theft into gold.

A lot of people I've introduced to these books haven't liked them — they find them too silly, or preachy, or nonsensical, or even puerile. I am never upset or really disappointed when they don't like them. To each their own. But I will never understand it. They are baked into my being in a way that few things are and I am better to myself, to other people, and to the world because of it.

Sir Terry, you were a gift nonpareil. Thank you for your words and for shaping my world.

#gnu terry pratchett #in the feels tonight my friends #discworld is a vital part of me and frankly the witches series most of all #it shocks me sometimes how much i can get out of a relisten #even when ive heard and read the book countless times before #theres truly nothing on this earth like a discworld novel #discworld #tiffany aching #granny weatherwax

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macksartblock · 1 month

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i'm working at 'em lol remember to vote Terry

#i should finish up requests by tomorrow-ish but yknow idk depends how i feel after work lol #dndads #dungeons and daddies #terry jr stampler #hermie the unworthy #scamster #jodie foster dndads #scam likely #lark oak garcia #idk what era im in that winds up with me drawing dilfs/dilf-adjacent dudes shirtless and/or slutty #i will actually blame you Baba for this #my artwork

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daily-crowley · 6 months

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Crowley Of The Day: Happy birthday @neil-gaiman 🥳🎉 thank you for all the wonderful gifts you have given us throughout the years that have shaped our lives in one way or another 💖

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idliketobeatree · 6 months

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Crowley was God's most dramatic creation.

She was also feeling particularly bitchy and gay that day, and thus, Aziraphale was made.

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keepin-it-on-the-d-l · 11 months

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You know what, no! I don’t want Terry jr and Terry to bond actually. I want Terry to try to hug Terry Jr and for Terry Jr. to be like “this is not my daughter what happened give her back. This is NOT my Scary.” I want him to love the version of Scary she chooses to be, not the one that gives him the most affection.

#no bc if he reacts too positively to Terry I fear it’s gonna have the Spinel effect from Steven Universe #where scary feels like he cares more about the ‘insane’ version of her than who she really is #and it would make me sad #ALSO A SCENE WHERE SCARY TURNS BACK INTO HERSELF AND TERRY JR IS LIKE ‘oh thank god’ AND SCARY IS LIKE ‘??? YOU LIKE THIS VERSION BETTER???’#WOUKD BE TOP TIER WHOLESOME PLS #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndaddies #dndads s2 #dndads season 2 #dndads quest #terry jr #terry stampler #scary marlowe #terry marlowe #dndads spoilers

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andromeda3116 · 8 months

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gah now i'm getting On My Shit about the discworld again and like i've said what i want to say about the witches and the watch but there's also small gods like i will never be over small gods i finished it and i was like... has this... has this healed some of my religious trauma?

if you've never read it, the plot is thus: on the disc, gods get their power from belief. therefore, the more believers a god has, the more powerful they are. and so, there is this god -- om -- who has risen in power, who has a country devoted to His worship, which hunts down and slaughters heretics and infidels, to whom people pray multiple times a day and make pilgrimages to His holy city, which has a huge citadel and huge structure of a complex religion devoted to his worship. and, on a whim, He comes down one day to see how things are going.

and discovers that he has no power.

that, in this country of millions who profess to worship Him with all their hearts, there is only one person left who actually believes in Him.

and there's a lot of meat there, and a lot more plot to delve into, but the core theme ends up boiling down to this:

can you forgive your god for how they failed you?

and do they deserve that forgiveness? how can they earn that forgiveness?

because ultimately, the forgiveness that the messianic archetype is embodying is not that of the god's grace, but of the people's -- to forgive their god his absence. to give their god another chance to be their god.

and whether or not you, in the end, can forgive, it gives you the language to realize that this is what you were asking for with your last prayers. whether or not you can ever go back, whether or not there have been other reasons since that have convinced you further, it gives you the language to accept that your god failed you. and it is not your fault.

this book speaks loudest, perhaps, to those of us who left our church with grief, not with anger. with hurt betrayal, not with the fires of defiance.

it didn't change my lack of religious belief, but it helped me conceptualize my feelings about the church, the things that went deeper than intellectual arguments. about that sense of betrayal, that hurt, that twisted-up knot within me that it had built, and it gave me the mirror within which i could see that i had been failed by my beliefs. it wasn't that i hadn't believed enough, it was that my belief had been betrayed by the absence of an answer.

there have been other reasons since then that have cemented my atheism, but small gods made me stop hating the church i used to love, because it made me recognize why i hated it so much and said "you're not wrong, it didn't have to be this way. you were betrayed and you were failed and you can let it go, now."

#discworld #gnu terry pratchett #small gods #religious trauma #i won't pretend it fixed everything because it's not that simple #but it gave me the language to understand the core of my emotions coming out of that awful place #and that was a seismic shift #i was steadily veering towards the Angry Atheist archetype but it unraveled that anger within me #i'm no less an atheist and this book never tried to change that - sir terry was a secular humanist and this is very much not one of those #preachy christian books like it is *aggressively* not one of those preachy christian books #it's about religious trauma and working through it and dealing with your complicated feelings about your religion #and having that mirror to recognize that what i was feeling *was* trauma. it *was* betrayal. and i wasn't wrong to feel it.#shifted something deep within me

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p4nishers · 4 months

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can u believe this was published in 1999

#PTERRY WROTE TRANS PPL IN THE 90S!! CAN U GET THAT IN UR HEAD BC I CANT #god but like this book has got me SO emotional about cheery like the scene where a dwarf calls her a slur and she starts shaking and doesn't #stop and the way she doesn't feel at home in her own home bc traditionalist asshole make her feel shit about herself and and #1999!!! DID U GET THAT?? DO YOU UNDERSTAND???#the fifth elephant #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #sam vimes #cheery littlebottom #trans #transgender

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thefloatingstone · 4 months

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Not to be like "haha I'm better than you guys!!!" or elitist or anything because that very sincerely is NOT the point of this post.... but I never really understood people extremely love for Harry Potter.

I read them as they were coming out. Most of the time they came out soon enough that I was the same age as Harry. I liked them. They were cool. Goblet of Fire was my favourite and I was always happy to see what story the next book would bring but that's all it was. Interest to see the next story whenever it came out. Like a sitcom you enjoy but you didn't set your tv to record for you in case you missed it.

And then the word "Chosen one" was uttered and, just like that, I fucking lost all interest. Honestly there was "Chosen one" talk in the 4th book and already I was like

Honestly I think I liked Goblet of Fire the most because there was no friggen Quidditch. And there was less focus on the SCHOOL part of Harry Potter and more this weird Video game Quest setup which just appealed to me more.

In retrospect, I think that might be a big part of why I enjoyed it but never LOVED it like other people.

Like

"Oh boy my absolute biggest most favourite fantasy! THE BRITISH EDUCATION SYSTEM!!!!"

The fact that the books take place in a school seemed like a default to me because, well, most teenage focused cartoons and shows I watched had the main characters at school. Because they're teenagers. But the school wasn't why I enjoyed the books. The school was just a location. No I didn't want to go to Hogwarts. No I didn't want to get attached to a specific school house (although I feel it worth mentioning that when I was 13 I did the online house quiz thing on the official site and it said I was Hufflepuff so make of that what you will).

I really disliked whatever the one was that came after Goblet of Fire. So much so that it completely killed any and all enjoyment I had in the series. Which, considering I was only mildly entertained by them wasn't a massive loss or anything.

I know I read whichever book it was where Dumbledore died but I very genuinely cannot remember one single thing that happens in that book whatsoever. I read half of the Deathly Hallows after coming back from College and gave up because I wasn't enjoying any of it and I never picked the book up again.

I saw the first movie in theaters when I was 13 and I did not like it. It was visually very very dark and gloomy and just... extremely uninteresting to me. Idk how to explain it. The first book just felt so much more vibrant than what I was watching on screen.

I know I saw the 2nd movie although I have no memory of where or why. And I... THINK I saw the third one??? I think??? I'm actually not sure. But that's about where I just stopped and completely lost interest.

Because it wasn't very good.

They just weren't very good books.

They weren't TERRIBLE or anything like that but they were just so.... blah. The earlier ones 13 year old me enjoyed the one time I read each of them but I don't think 13 year old me had the best taste considering I also disliked the Princess Bride at this age.

But I was reading other books because I was a kid with ADHD in high school who desperately needed something stimulating to stop myself from going insane. And frankly, there were just far better books out there. Books I actually re-read. Books I borrowed from friends which ere just... so much better and more interesting.

So I just don't understand this insane appeal so many people have for it, even if they have severed that connection due to Jowling Kowling Rowling's bufoonery and showing herself to be a withered old crone with a shrivled heart and mind every time she opens her mouth.

I grew up with these books the same way as a lot of people. I was the exact age to go through the series' highest popularity and I just did not click with them despite reading them.

So seeing so many people my age or a little younger try and do their best to re-analyse and de-tangle what the books actually are and that... maybe.... just maybe.... they might not have been very good?? Maybe?? is very weird to me because I'm just like.

"Yeah they're overrated as hell and not that interesting."

It's a very weird thing to live through because it's like looking into a bizarro version of the world you remember living through... but not like THAT. I remember the Pokemon craze and yes, it was like that. I remember when anime started to become big and yes, it was like that. I remember DBZ airing and yes, it was like that.

But this insanity around Harry Potter while it was releasing?

Yeah I don't remember it being like that at all.

They were just mediocre books I read because I needed something to occupy my attention and eventually they got worse and worse and I just stopped reading them. That's all.

#I'm watching a youtube essay on the weak writing in the HP books #and it's like looking into an insane alternate reality where people really were THIS obsessed with this franchise #It's a very uncomfortable feeling #Like your memories don't line up with everyone else's despite knowing you were there #text post #cw #Harry Potter #JK Rowling #rambling #For context I grew up reading Terry Pratchett #I read my first Pratchett book when I was 11 #14 year old me groaning at the concept of a chosen one probably says a lot about my media criticism even as a child

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querulousmegapode · 25 days

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Rereading Hogfather and MAN I’d forgotten how good it really is.

#Susan is Really Badass #and Teatime is just unhinged and brilliant #it never fails to amaze me that pterry has managed to populate his world with so many brilliant characters #all of them feel fleshed out #all of them feel like real people #anyway Hogfather is great #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #rambles

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risetherivermoon · 4 months

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terrick's ship dynamic is just "stupid & stupider" thats all i have to say

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prettyupsetnerd · 7 months

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(her mom was her best friend)

#dndads #scary marlowe #but ACTUALLY #terri marlowe #or however it's spelled #her story will always be so tragic to me even if it's not winning oppression olympics or whatever female characters need to justify their-#-complex feelings #anyway lookout to the scary watches the barbie movie comic I've been working on #maybe putting the idea out there will finally force me to actually bring it to life #also sorry to redhead scary truthers i know i made it look like it but she's actually a blonde to me #she used to dye only some strands of it #and when her rebellion first hit she just used what was already there and went nuts on it

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manicpixiedreamcrowley · 3 months

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planning on writing good omens meta soon, so:

#chanposting #good omens #neil gaiman #crowley #terry pratchett #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #good omens 2 #ineffable divorce #good omens meta #poll #the philosophical one would be the longest for sure but i would go absolutely crazy on it #also feel free to suggest meta ideas #lmk if these dont make sense tbh #giving it a week because itll give me time to brainstorm anywYs #if you see typos please please ignore them ive tried to draft this like 4 times but my wifi went out and i lost it. then it turns out #if you save a poll as a draft you cant edit it

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ineedlelittlespace · 7 months

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Me: I love rereading the Witches arc! I feel so seen, Esme and Magrat and Agnes are all so relatable---

Also me, when something Uncomfortably Introspective happens: ow

#tell me how sir terry knew exactly what it feels like to be a Magrat Garlick girl #discworld #wyrd sisters #lords and ladies #witches abroad #carpe jugulum #granny weatherwax #agnes nitt #magrat garlick

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chirpsythismorning · 5 months

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Lonnie's last appearance in The First Shadow [source]:

"It wasn't me. I didn't do it!"

Lonnie's first mention in the series (1x01)

Which reminded me...

Kate Trefry talking about The First Shadow [source]:

We always try to go back to the original pilot and say, what more is there to learn about this moment?

Based on the leaks out there, there seems to be very few Lonnie scenes in the play, and yet it also sounds like he's gotta be the most consistently portrayed when compared to his character on the show, more than anyone else, even down to this very line, this concept of him having nothing to do with it. This tells me that with what little they were willing to give, there is a major significance to it and what it means for his character and for his role in the story overall.

So what is it? What does Lonnie have nothing to do with?

In s1, it's about Will and his disappearance. But clearly it's more than that because they made a point to have Joyce say it twice, to trust her on this.

If Lonnie has nothing to do with this, and that's a theme they want to carry out in this play in a way that quite literally juxtaposes his first mention on the show, taking us back to the very beginning, what does that mean?

Idk. Maybe it just means he has nothing to do with this. Maybe it means he has nothing to do with Will more than we realize...

It's giving

#stranger things #the first shadow #st the first shadow #lonnie byers #will byers #lonnie. you are NOT the father!#not the father of will at least #he has nothing to do with this. trust me!#dido joyce #he's a red herring folks #just like terry 'hey mama it's me jane i'm home' 'no.' ives #lonnie (i didn't do it!) terry (no)...#are you seeing a trend here?#the way they treat lonnie like a one off not even worthy of rehashing outside of maybe 1 or 2 mentions post s2 #the way they treat terry's scenes like an easter egg hunt still yet to be solved all going back to el's birth...#you'd think if lonnie and terry were actually will/el's parents they would be given more importance to the narrative than they are #and there's probably a reason for that...#bc we are being led astray!#hopper peaking in the corner prominently on the poster with the focus on lonnie from that scene saying he has nothing to do with this...#idk i feel like hopper might have something to do with this...#willel twins #willel literal twins #joyce + hopper = willel twins

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graveyardbong · 3 months

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What if Adora Belle Dearheart is actually a drag name and we've been sleeping her being a Drag Queen the whole time

#terry pratchett gnu #discworld #adora belle dearheart #im putting this in the tags because its probably farfetched as fuck but like #she advocates for the golems who are big and kinda clunky and i can see a lorge drag queen feeling kinship to them because of that?#the golems just want to be accepted for what they are #sound familiar?#tell me to shut up if im way wrong

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hermanunworthy · 10 months

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be careful what you wish for...

#my brain put 'ill be watching you from the stars' and 'i got what i wanted' together and came up w this #i imagine this would be the night before terri made her change into scary #sorry about this one guys i love angst #expect even more scaries from me soon ive been thinking about and drawing her a lot lately #not the biggest fan of this drawing tbh i feel like i drew her kinda wonky #scary marlowe #scary marlowe fanart #terri marlowe #terry marlowe #dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndads fanart #my art

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