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[bookshelfpassageway]

What are your favorite Discworld running jokes/motifs that, no matter how many times they’re used, never get old?

I’ll start:

• Quantum physics
  
• the Ankh being such an abused river that it’s practically solid
  
• Being reminded that the Death of Rats exists. Which is exactly like regular Death, except it is small and caters exclusively to rodents
  
• “It bodes…” “What does it bode?” “It just bodes”
  
• Bloody Stupid Johnson breaking all known laws of reality through really incompetent inventions
  
• When you come across an absolute storm of shameless puns that are as deft as a block of lead but somehow brilliant in their shamelessness
  
• The hedgehog song

[nerdwingblogs]

•Death trying to be human and failing

•Any time a character writes a letter home

• it’s a Pune or a play on words

•Characters who are so logical and no-nonsense that it becomes nonsensical (Susan and Granny Weatherwax)

•Dwarves taking everything literally (Carrot and Cheri)

•Death trying to cheer people up or destract them from whatever terrible thing might kill them

[mangaluva]

“The world is your clam/shrimp/crab/lobster/mollusc of choice/banana”

[earlgreysoul]

Vetinari asking Vimes/Moist etc a question, them not quite answering it, and having a whole real convo that’s just significant looks and eyebrow movements.

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People mistaking a ‘geas’ for a type of bird.

Every city on Earth having its own version of CMOT Dibbler

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[prokopetz]

The ultimate power move in a vampire/fairy rivalry would be the fairy inviting the vampire over for tea. The vampire has natural dominion over anyone who invites them into their home, the fairy has natural dominion over anyone who violates the laws of hospitality, and neither can refuse the appointment without showing weakness, so it’d just be a constant headgame of the vampire trying to manoueuvre the fairy into a position where the obligations of hospitality allow the vampire to eat them, and the fairy trying to trick the vampire into doing something that would allow the fairy to declare them a poor guest.

[lynati]

You know EVENTUALLY they’re going to get hit with the magical equivalent of being snowed in together, right?

[guardiankarenterrier]

is

is that not the point

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Anyways, here’s hoping that Discovery continues along the TNG trajectory, where the first season is a bit weird and kind of embarassing, the second is a dramatic improvement, and then the third and up are some of the best television ever made.

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[likefreedominspring]

Where to Number One?

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They should give them a series now that Discovery is way the hell in the future anyways.

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deannatroibolton:

starsfelllikerain:

Things I realized tonight that I very much appreciate: Pike’s entire bridge crew is a jab at the rejected pilot. One (1) man other than Pike on the whole bridge – and he’s the communications officer. The alien gal with the spiky red face looks hella demonic – far more so than Spock’s original design.

goes to cemetery and digs up 1960′s network executive, yells down into grave: WHAT’RE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT IT

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[racheldotgov]

ppl managing to live where they grew up is really bizarre to me

[hakushokuwaisei]

Hi! Croatian here. As an inland country, I found a job processing uranium. We have a lot of it.

[mediumsizedboy]

God I wish I was processing uranium in Croatia

[theocseason4]

I think about this post every day

[tardis2101]

Hey, another Croatian here! Croatia has a coastline and I can’t find a single mention of uranium in Croatia. I don’t know what kind of paralel universe this person is from.

[hobgoblinhero]

one croation speaks only the truth, the other croatian speaks only lies, you must ask them one question to determine which is which, and apparently it can’t be about geography or uranium

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[africanaquarian]

me, learning about the greek pantheon in elementary: wow, I love athena, so brave and smart

me, after reading about the story of medusa: athena is a spiteful, dumb bitch who can’t direct her anger at the right people! wack ass hoe

[indicativeof-sideways-escalation]

Me, after learning than Medusas head was used as a sign of safety and female autonomy in women’s spaces because it was seen as a gift from Athena, to allow Medusa never to be harmed that way again: oh dope, Athenas on our side. Kill a man who dares to look upon you with possession in his heart.

Me, after learning that Athena holds herself to the ‘not like other girls’ standard and usuallys sides with whatever the nearest dick-toting diety says: what the fuck what a fake bitch

Me, after learning that most of the media depicting Greek Gods by the ancient Greeks that survives today was commissioned, designed, and made by men, and therefore does not depict female interpretation or telling of the myths, and is probably extremely biased towards a misogynistic portrayal of a strong woman: the canon Athena was in our hearts all along.

[buckmebuchanan]

Me, after hearing the myth about Athena cursing Arachne into the first spider because she beat the goddess in a weaving contest: What a bitch ? The Arrogance.

 Me, after hearing there are three versions of the myth, and the others have Arachne hang herself in shame so Athena brought her back to life as a spider and the third version having Zeus curse the loser to never touch a spindle wheel and when Arachne lost Athena took pity on her and transformed her so she could weave without breaking her oath: Goddess just wanted this fine artist to weave forever, doing what she loved. she ain’t that bitch

[biggest-goofiest-fish]

In conclusion: We stan

[cipheramnesia]

Finally someone gets me.

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[slut4rihanna]

Please watch Michael Che’s Netflix special

[slut4rihanna]

Since y’all keep missing the fucking point

[margauxawill]

Lmaaaooo

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Here’s a hint: in general, when someone says that they like a villain from a work of fiction, they don’t mean “I think that this villain’s actions are morally praiseworthy and that we should all seek emulate their behaviour”, so much as they mean “this character is interesting to read about and/or has an interesting effect on the story”

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Okay but have you considered: what if the Klingons are *also* a post-scarcity utopia and the whole “constant warfare” thing is just because they would get bored otherwise?

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So humans deal with boredom by doing science and performing concerts and fucking around on the holodeck whereas Klingons deal with it by headbutting some dudes until they join you for a good knife fight.