#discworld
We get, rightfully imo, pretty sad and somber and naval-gazey about Discworld and Sir Terry on the 25th of May but I need everyone who might be discovering this series through this annual outpouring of love and sadness to know that these books are mostly just really fucking funny. Like, they’re heart-wrenching and poignant but really they can only pull that off because they’re also the funniest books ever written. There’s a line near the end of Hogfather that, when I read it, made me feel more deeply connected to, like, the concept of humanity then I ever have before, but the book was only able to deliver that because the rest of it is about what if Santa Claus got kidnapped and a Big Skeleton had to take over his job? It’s a patently ridiculous series but that is absolutely also where it’s power comes from.
“The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new, gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.”— Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
“But here’s some advice, boy. Don’t put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That’s why they’re called revolutions.”
- Night watch: Sir Terry Pratchett
The villagers had said justice had been done, and she’d lost patience and told them to go home, then, and pray to whatever gods they believed in that it was never done to them. The smug mask of virtue triumphant could be almost as horrible as the face of wickedness revealed.
–Terry Pratchett, “Carpe Jugulum”
Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably Priced Love! And a Hard-Boiled Egg!
One day, someone posted a picture of Sir Terry seated, cleaning a sculpture of Great A'tuin. I could not help it. Immediately, the photo came to life in my head, and the image didn’t left me alone until I took it out.
So, I’m very happy to share the result with you people today, in celebration of Sir Terry Pratchett’s birthday! <3
Also, I like so much all of the Discworld Emporium’s jigsaw puzzles that I’m thinking of having this image turned into a puzzle and pretend in my private world that it’s official xD
He’d heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns, drinking champagne.*
(*This is, of course, absolutely true.)
FromSnuff, the 39th novel of Discworld, by Terry Pratchett
- this shot was so accurate, i couldn’t have done it without you, oh mysterious stranger who saved my life
- It’s my pleasure