When Pratchett died in 2015, his long-time friend Gaiman announced that there was no way a Good Omens adaptation would ever happen without him. “Absolutely not,” Gaiman recalled saying during a well-attended 2016 memorial for Pratchett. “Terry and I had a deal that we would only work on Good Omens things together. Everything that was ever written—bookmarks and tiny little things—we would always collaborate, everything was a collaboration. So, obviously, no.”

But Pratchett, perhaps anticipating that his friend would have this attitude, arranged for a letter to be sent in which he urged Gaiman to finish the adaptation without him. “At that point, I think I said, ‘You bastard, yes,’” Gaiman announced to the cheering crowd at Pratchett’s memorial. So expectations around this particular adaptation are, as you might imagine, unusually high. Very few TV series involve a nearly 30-year wait, the death of a beloved co-author, a posthumous wish, and the work of a devoted friend.

–https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/09/good-omens-cast-michael-sheen-david-tennant-jack-whitehall-michael-mckean

Things I Learned From Sir Terry Pratchett And His Marvelous Worlds (A Necessary List)

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1. The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.
   
2. “[T]he innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.”
   
3. Help when you can, lift when you can, work as you can, but never be afraid to ask ‘will I get paid for this?’
4. Everyone’s got hidden depths.  Some people have beautiful hidden mountain glades filled with adorable doe-eyed bunnies.  Some people have black oubliettes filled with nightmares and worse. Endeavor to be the sort of person that has both sorts of depths as neighbors.  Plumb them with caution.
5. Find a place to call home, and know it so well you can tell what street you’re on by the feel of cobblestones through your boots.
6. You can always come home again, but that doesn’t mean you’re moving backwards.
7. There is never a bad time for a pun.
8. There’s also never really a good time for a pun.
9. You might as well just stay braced for a pun at all times, and ride them when they come with as much grace as you can manage.
10. The fact that you can replace ‘pun’ with ‘disaster’ in the last three rules says a lot about the human race.
11. Many people can survive absolutely anything as long as they know where their next meal is coming from. Others can not survive much, no matter how many meals they know about, and there’s no shame in that, nor admitting that, nor leaning on others to get there.
    
12. You can protect children and you can teach children, but never perfectly in either case.
13. You may not be able to change the world, but that doesn’t mean you have to stand for any sort of nonsense in your personal life.
14. Everybody has somebody.  It could be a friend, a lover, a spouse, a writing partner, or even That One Person You See At The Coffee Shop each day.  Sometimes they exist to comfort you.  Sometimes they exist to drive you absolutely mad.  Be open to either as a form of self-improvement.
15. Death comes to us all, but memory is long and time is tricky.  The end for you is, most likely, not really the end for everyone else.  
16. If you know the end, if you can see the end, there’s no need to be resigned.  Keep walking on cheerfully, whistling right up to the precipice, and let people remember you by the beautiful song you leave in the air.

Thank you, sir.  You will be missed.

aniceandsharpcat-deactivated202 asked:

I forgot you liked Pratchett's work! Which book is your favourite?

What a question.

Okay. Probably Small Gods, because Brutha and mythology and throwing new light on a life spent in Christianity and irreverence as reverence.

But hell.

How does one choose?

I have found that kindness lasts a lot longer than love.

Terry Pratchett, Dodger (via randombrethren)

It was almost impossible to know what he was thinking about and no one ever asked. The most obvious reason for this was that Vorbis was the head of the Quisition, whose job it was to do all those things that needed to be done and which other people would rather not do.
You do no ask people like that what they are thinking about in case they turn around very slowly and say “You.“

Small Gods, Terry Pratchett (via herrissyvoo)

Things just happen. What the hell.

The great philosopher, Didactylos.

Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett

(via crazypangolinlady)

But Rincewind felt he knew holy architecture when he saw it, and the frescoes on the big and, of course, impressive walls above him didn’t look at all religious. For one thing, the participants were enjoying themselves. Almost certainly, they were enjoying themselves. Yes, they must be. It would be pretty astonishing if they weren’t.

Sourcery by Terry Pratchett

Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.

Terry Pratchett, “Lords and Ladies”

For some reason Lady Sybil, keen of eye in every other respect, persisted in thinking of Corporal Nobbs as a cheeky, lovable rascal. It had always puzzled Sam Vimes. It must be the attraction of opposites. The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving

Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett.

Dock-a-loodle-fod!

Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett