“This I choose to do,” she croaked, her breath leaving little clouds in the air. She cleared her throat and started again. “This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.” It wasn’t a spell, except in her own head, but if you couldn’t make spells work in your own head, you couldn’t make them work at all.
– this I choose to do | Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
1: a hand-operated kitchen utensil used for beating, stirring, or whipping; especially : a rotary device for these purposes
2: helicopter
also known as an “egg whisk” ie one of the class of gadgets that get stuck in kitchen drawers causing much rattling and cursing which is as praise to the ex-volcano goddess turned patron of hopeless causes whose world-weariness is a pun on her name (or else the other way round) bc sympathetic magic (x)
To all the weird little girls. Stay weird. Stay strong.
“This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This i choose to do.”
It wasn’t a spell except in her own head. But if you couldn’t make spells work in your own head you couldn’t make them work at all.
a bunch of Tiffanys. Tiffanies? Anyway my partner and I just finished listening to I shall wear midnight so you all know what that means…. shepherds crown is next. I’ve still not listened to raising steam so I’m going to make sure I listen to that myself first so that when I listen to my final final final discworld book I have my girlfriend there for emotional support . Might seem like overkill but I’ve planned it this way ever since I started rereading the series a few years ago and got her to start listening to some of them together too. I just know I’m going to be super emotional so this is the best way!
I hope this isn’t too much information but our discworld audiobook time has been priceless during 2020. Every Friday we run a bubble bath, pour some prosecco or gin, leave our phones in another room and just soak and listen to the books. It means we have been getting through the Tiffany books at about 40 mins a week so a bit of a snails pace, but it’s honestly the only time of the week I feel completely relaxed, and with not going out and working from home it’s given the week some structure. Highly recommend weekly bath night or at least weekly ‘lock the phone away and listen to something nice for an hour’, we’ll sometimes listen to a musical album instead. Really helps with the ol’ mental health.
