[ghastmaskzombie]

i think terry pratchett captured a very salient point in the clash between science and religion when he had a character say "they’re always telling folk how much better it’s going to be when they’re dead. we tell them it could be pretty good right here if only they’d put their minds to it.“ unfortunately, i can never recall the fellow’s name.

[iamshadow21]

I just realised something, and it took reading The Last Hero for the first time and seeing an illustration of Carrot with a crew cut and bare face that startled me. All along, I’ve been picturing Carrot as kind of a ginger Chris Evans/Chris Hemsworth at their best comedic straightman thing, like Chris-playing-Loki-playing-Cap, or Hemsworth from Ghostbusters, but more intelligent. Or Paul Gross as Benton Fraser from Due South. Buff, noble, and smart but a bit of an adorable bonehead. But it has occured to me - I’ve been imagining Carrot as clean-shaven, which is a conventionally HUMAN form of neat and tidy grooming, which Carrot is renowned for. But Carrot is culturally a dwarf. There is NO WAY he’d be clean shaven. Somehow, this changes EVERYTHING. Not just scruff but proper beardy length. Special beard care products. BRAIDING AND SHAPING THAT HAS CULTURAL MEANING. Carrot identifies as a dwarf, and his facial/head hair would definitely reflect that.

[thedoubteriswise]

in seriousness, if you liked good omens, give discworld a shot. terry pratchett was a remarkably observant and funny writer who excelled at character design, world building, and processing his anger at the world’s many injustices into some of the most compassionate stories I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. It’s one of those things I recommend to anyone who’ll listen.

[july-19th-club]

Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you’re going to die. So they’ll talk. They’ll gloat.
They’ll watch you squirm. They’ll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar.
So hope like hell that your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

- Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

No one knows why Death started to take a practical interest in the human beings he had worked with for so long. It was probably just curiosity. Even the most efficient ratcatcher will sooner or later take an interest in rats. They might watch rats live and die, and record every detail of rat existence, although they may never themselves actually know what it is like to run the maze.

But if it is true that the act of observing changes the thing which is observed, it’s even more true that it changes the observer

Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

[rainydaydecaf]

The switcheroo scene: The real angst comes from Aziraphale looking at the holy water and Crowley looking at the hellfire, and both of them thinking the exact same thing.  “My God, what if we hadn’t figured out the prophecy?  What if it was him standing here instead of me?  This is how he would have died, alone and in agony and surrounded by people who hate him.”

[ladyyatexelart]

@tinsnip was in need of a new Good Omens avatar and commissioned this based on photos she provided!  

[tinsnip]

Ahhhhhhhhh~~~~~~~

[nesy-art]

all my thoughts now is only jooster, bye 

cosmictuesdays asked:

Wait, what's going on? Where's the sleek Cardassian lady? WHO ARE YOU?

~~~I’m Annaphale~~~

My angelic presence has asserted itself~~~

Or perhaps I’m just being borrowed?

[sameshork]

a bunch of demons and a smattering of angels