aziraphaleishellagay
Colon drew himself up to attention again. “Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favour of unnatural things.”
Vetinari looked perplexed. “You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?”
“Sah?”
“Oh nothing, nothing.”
Terry Pratchett, “The Fifth Elephant”
saint-theophania
His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.
spacecapart
I wasn’t planning on doing anything for MerMay, but then (because I have Discworld on the brain right now) I was struck with the idea of how useful a mermaid officer would be to the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, so here’s a last minute contribution. She’d have to be pretty brave to risk swimming in the Ankh every day, but maybe with an aquatic officer backing them up the River Division would manage to keep their boat afloat for more than a day at a time! I don’t know if there actually are mermaids on the Disc, but I based her design on a river dolphin and figured a boat hook would be more handy than a truncheon. I don’t know what to name her, though. Thoughts?
saint-theophania
Lady Sybil Ramkin was toweringly big. Vimes knew that the barbarian hublander folk had legends about great chain-mailed, armor-bra’d, carthorse-riding maidens who swooped down on battlefields and carried off dead warriors on their cropper to a glorious roistering afterlife, while singing in a mezzo-soprano. Lady Ramkin could have been one of them. She could have carried off a battalion. When she spoke, every word was like a hearty slap on the back and clanged with the aristocratic self-assurance of the totally well-bred (…) Prehistoric men would have worshiped her, and in fact had amazingly managed to carve lifelike statues of her thousands of years ago.
skrankku
A small memorial to Terry Pratchett’s work in the window of the Science Fiction Bookshop in Stockholm.
benisasoftboi
TV Good Omens’s Death is actually the New Death from Reaper Man and that’s why he’s like that
demonicimagery
one thing i really love about terry pratchett’s work is he makes you see a fantasy world as normal. discworld is obviously supernatural, it’s literally balanced on top of a giant turtle that flies through the cosmos, but it doesn’t rely on a fascination with magic and fantasy to tell its stories. it manages to tell stories that are compelling and interesting, but does not rely on something being dramatic and cinematic, instead making you see discworld as as mundane as our own.
saint-theophania
[The dragon’s] eyes were the size of very large eyes, colored a smoldering red and filled with an intelligence that had nothing to do with human beings. It was far older, for one thing. It was an intelligence that had already been long basted in guile and marinated in cunning by the time a group of almost-monkeys were wondering whether standing on two legs was a good career move. It wasn’t an intelligence that had any truck with, or even understood, the arts of diplomacy. It wouldn’t play with you, or ask you riddles. But it understood all about arrogance and power and cruelty and if it could possibly manage it, it would burn your head off. Because it liked to.
slipgatetourist
“Love is a moment of weakness that allows someone to hurt you more than you ever thought possible.”
fishyfishyfishtimes
mallsharks
coworker told me he “hates all mollusks” today. and to each their own obviously but like… theres 100k species of mollusk… you really hate all of them bro? nautiluses and oysters and snails and nudibranches and chitons and thousands of animals youve never even heard of???? what did ammonites even fucking do to you
he hates sea bunny?
AND leaf sheep??
mxgicdave
