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That evening the men were practicing archery on the green. Bill Door had carefully ensured a local reputation as the worst bowman in the entire history of toxophily; it had never occurred to anyone that putting arrows through the hats of bystanders behind him must logically take a lot more skill than merely sending them through a quite large target a mere fifty yards away.
It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
#bill door#DEATH#reaper man#discworld#terry pratchett#fitting in#making friends#male friendship#reputation#pretend#undercover#psychology#group dynamics#skill#archery#logically#bad enough to be funny#amazing
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Something about Pratchett villains.
There's a lot of Pratchett villains who share one common thread: they're unromantic. They rip the charm and soul out of things.
Reach's service sends messages 'as warm and human as a thrown knife'. He himself 'kills people by numbers'.
Teatime is literally trying to kill Santa.
The Magpyrs turn the Gothic-vampire-novel style of the Old Count into industrial blood-harvesting.
Similarly, Wolfgang exchanges the traditional Game for just straight up killing people, and seeks to implement a werefascist regime to boot.
The Auditors are, by definition, made of unromantic. They are objectively unromantic.
And I think the idea of ripping apart the whimsy of things ties back to the idea of believing the little lies to believe the big ones. If you can't see charm and warmth, the dreams and imagination, you'll fall into what STP says is the biggest sin of all: treating people like objects.
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if Hayao Miyazaki wants to come back out of retirement one more time Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett is right there
#reaper man is basically BEGGING for a miyazaki ghibli movie#i mean come on#it’s perfect#the mix of life changing soul altering segments (the Death plot) and the funny silly elements (the wizard side plot) would be perfect ghibli#psa hayao miyazaki go read reaper man right now#sorry had to get that out there#vin speaks#discworld#studio ghibli#hayao miyazaki#reaper man#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett
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Every once in a while I randomly remember
LORD, WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT FOR THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?
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LORD, WILL YOU GRANT ME JUST A LITTLE TIME? FOR THE PROPER BALANCE OF THINGS. TO RETURN WHAT WAS GIVEN. FOR THE SAKE OF PRISONERS AND THE FLIGHT OF BIRDS.
and for a few moments I just stop and contemplate my life or think about Sir Terry or cry or need to share them, hence this post. Truly some of the greatest lines I've read in modern literature ever
#terry pratchett#discworld#reaper man#someone cry about this with me I know you're not over it either
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"Reaper Man" cover :>
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Terry pratchet really went “hey what would happen to death if he was loved? What would the memory of being human do to him?” And the answer was get a pet rat
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Reaper Man / The Shepherd’s Crown / Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
#inspired by that post about terry giving us so many frameworks to think about death#discworld#reaper man#the shepherd's crown#going postal#*#feel free to add on other instances of this theme this was just off the top of my head
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Some say "Merry Christmas". From the world I come from, we say "Happy Hogswatch"!
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“IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
#discworld#hogfather#hogswatch#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett#ankh morpork#death of rats#squeak#death#deathdiscworld#the grim squeaker#reaper man#grim reaper#happy hogswatch#merry christmas#dont fear the reaper
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#Ridcully unintentionally being a really good archchancellor will forever be hilarious#He sasses the Busar so much#it's brilliant#terry pratchett#discworld meme#discworld#reaper man#moving pictures
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Havelock, Lord Vetinari, ever careful to provide enrichment for people.
There was a crash from above. A chaise-longue cantered down the stairs and smashed through the hall door.
‘I think perhaps the guards are still trying to free the Patrician,’ said the High Priest.
‘Apparently even his secret passages locked themselves.’
‘All of them? I thought the sly devil had ’em everywhere,’ said Ridcully.
‘All locked,’ said the High Priest. ‘All of them.’
‘Almost all of them,’ said a voice behind him. Ridcully’s tones did not change as he turned around, except that a slight extra syrup was added.
A figure had apparently stepped out of the wall. It was human, but only by default. Thin, pale, and clad all in dusty black, the Patrician always put Ridcully in mind of a predatory flamingo, if you could find a flamingo that was black and had the patience of a rock.
‘Ah, Lord Vetinari,’ he said,
‘I am so glad you are unhurt.’
‘I will see you gentleman in the Oblong Office,’ said the Patrician. Behind him, a panel in the wall slid back noiselessly.
‘I, um, I believe there are a number of guards upstairs trying to free—’ the Chief Priest began.
The Patrician waved a thin hand at him. ‘I wouldn’t dream of stopping them,’ he said. ‘It gives them something to do and makes them feel important. Otherwise they just have to stand around all day looking fierce and controlling their bladders. Come this way.’
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I love how they don't even attempt to address the whole parasitic city thing.
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People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiraling in a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
#gods#reaper man#discworld#terry pratchett#discworld pantheon#belief#reality#creation#cause and effect#dieties#greek gods#wish fulfilment#manifestation#projection#smiting#like lumps of clay
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The first time I read Reaper Man I very sincerely thought I was reading too deep into Death and Renata Flitworth’s relationship, and I kept my opinions to myself because I thought people would think I was weird for saying that Death loved Renata.
And benefit of hindsight. The last thing Death does in the book is present Renata with the biggest, cheesiest, most disgustingly opulently romantic display he could possibly make, which is the most Deathly thing he could do. Is it romantic love? Who’s to say. Is it how Death would show someone he loved them? 1000%
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Reaper Man
Terry Pratchett's writing is the kind that I come back to every now and then. He was, with no exaggeration, the literature of my teenage years. I have read all of the books of discworld over and over. More times than I can count, the early ones most often because my Dad would read them to me and my brother in the evening and I wasn't allowed to skip ahead. I cried when I finally got to the last one, knowing that that was it. That there wouldn't be any more discworld to read.
There is a quote that my brain goes back to every now and then. It's nestled in the novel Reaper Man. A book that is so incredibly excellent, with the most heartfelt stories nestled within a scathing critique of market consumerism and rationalisation.
"LORD WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?"
Death implores AZRAEL, the Death of the Universe, for a little extra time. To tie up loose ends. We have seen a marked shift in Death's behaviour throughout the series, as His humanity flourishes within him. There is a predisposition, I think, to think of the world as uncaring. It's very easy to see all of the pain and terror and plain wrongdoing that happens and fall into nihilism. We seek to rationalise the world and explain away our connections to things as they are in themselves. This isn't always wrong to do, it can be important to understand and observe, but sometimes we have to think right? Because in the end what we'll want is just a little more time and what we'll want is to be cared for.
GNU Terry Pratchett
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Wizards don’t believe in gods in the same way that most people don’t find it necessary to believe in, say, tables. They know they’re there, they know they’re there for a purpose, they’d probably agree that they have a place in a well-organised universe, but they wouldn’t see the point of believing, of going around saying, ‘O great table, without whom we are as naught’. Anyway, either the gods are there whether you believe or not, or exist only as a function of the belief, so either way you might as well ignore the whole business and, as it were, eat off your knees.
Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
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the best scene in reaper man in my opinion
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