Discworld

May 25th Challenge

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:36:13 -0400

So this Saturday will be May 25th, and so we’ll try make the posts running up to it themed, somehow.

If anyone wants, they can enter things in our submissions box to “commemorate” the day - art, fic, poetry, videos of yourself singing How do they Rise Up, photos of lilacs, tiny models, anything really.

Just something to get people talking this May 25th.

"Oh, obvious,” said Granny. “I’ll grant you it’s obvious. Trouble is, just because things are obvious..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:47:42 -0400

““Oh, obvious,” said Granny. “I’ll grant you it’s obvious. Trouble is, just because things are obvious doesn’t mean they’re true.””

- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters (via serendipitousrainbows)

"Write. For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day...."

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:45:52 -0400

““Write. For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If for some reason, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. I also did a hell of a lot of editing afterwards but the point was there was something there to edit. I had a more than full-time job as well. I hate to say this, but most of the successful (well, okay… rich) authors I know seem to put ‘application’ around the top of the list of How-to-do-its. Tough but true.””

- Terry Pratchett (via mystmoon)

"‘We’ve lost them,’ she said. ‘Stop shaking. You’re safe now.’ ‘What, you mean I’m all alone with a..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:26:33 -0400

“

‘We’ve lost them,’ she said. ‘Stop shaking. You’re safe now.’

‘What, you mean I’m all alone with a female homicidal maniac?’ said Rincewind. ‘Fine.’

”

- Sourcery (via fuckyeahrincewind)

fyterrypratchett: Reaper Man by ~violinsane

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:41:07 -0400

fyterrypratchett:

Reaper Man by ~violinsane

fyterrypratchett: Reading Terry Pratchett by ~kazuwacky

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:54:23 -0400

fyterrypratchett:

Reading Terry Pratchett by ~kazuwacky

"Nothing’s louder than the end of a song that’s always been there."

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:11:36 -0400

“Nothing’s louder than the end of a song that’s always been there.”

- The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett (via goldshitter)

"If you didn’t find some way of stopping it, people would go on asking questions. The teachers were..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:09:09 -0400

“

If you didn’t find some way of stopping it, people would go on asking questions.

The teachers were useful there. Bands of them wandered through the mountains, along with the tinkers, portable blacksmiths, miracle medicine men, cloth peddlers, fortune tellers, and all the other travelers who sold things the people didn’t need every day but occasionally found useful.

They went from village to village delivering short lessons on many subjects. They kept apart from the other travelers and were quite mysterious in their ragged robes and strange square hats. They used long words, like corrugated iron. They lived rough lives, surviving on what food they could earn from giving lessons to anyone who would listen. When no one would listen, they lived on baked hedgehog. They went to sleep under the stars, which the math teachers would count, the astronomy teachers would measure, and the literature teachers would name. The geography teachers got lost in the woods and fell into bear traps.

People were usually quite pleased to see them. They taught children enough to shut them up, which was the main thing, after all. But they always had to be driven out of the villages by nightfall in case they stole chickens.

”

- The Wee Free Men, Terry Pratchett (via catefrankie)

"Everything that exists, yearns to live. That’s what the cycle of life is all about. That’s the..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 07:31:21 -0400

“Everything that exists, yearns to live. That’s what the cycle of life is all about. That’s the engine that drives the great biological pumps of evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the very top - which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all that effort.”

- Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett (via herrissyvoo)

"Death sat on a mountaintop. It wasn’t particularly high, or bare, or sinister. No witches held naked..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:00:28 -0400

“Death sat on a mountaintop. It wasn’t particularly high, or bare, or sinister. No witches held naked sabbats on it; Discworld witches, on the whole, didn’t hold with taking off anymore clothes than was absolutely necessary for the business in hand. No specters haunted it. No naked little men sat on the summit dispensing wisdom, because the first thing the truly wise man works out it that sitting around on mountaintops gives you not only hemorrhoids but frostbitten hemorrhoids.”

- Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett (via herrissyvoo)

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) | Quizfarm.com

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:06:00 -0400

Which Discworld Character are you like (with pics) | Quizfarm.com

"I believe in freedom, Mr. Lipwig. Not many people do, although they will, of course, protest..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:41:55 -0400

“I believe in freedom, Mr. Lipwig. Not many people do, although they will, of course, protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based.”

- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal (2004)

koulrophobia: discworld: The Apprentice by ~TeaBeforeWar “Dᴇᴀᴛʜ...

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:28:23 -0400

koulrophobia:

discworld: The Apprentice by ~TeaBeforeWar

“Dᴇᴀᴛʜ ɪs ᴡʜᴏᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴅᴏᴇs Dᴇᴀᴛʜ’s ᴊᴏʙ” - Mort

Photo

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:08:17 -0400

Happy Birthday, Sir Terence David John Pratchett (otherwise...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:07:48 -0400

Happy Birthday, Sir Terence David John Pratchett (otherwise known as Terry Pratchett/Pterry)

28th April 1948

"I can blow anything,” said Glod. “Realllly?” said Imp. He sought for some polite comment. “That must..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:27:54 -0400

““I can blow anything,” said Glod.
“Realllly?” said Imp. He sought for some polite comment. “That must make you very popular.””

- Terry Pratchett, Soul Music (via slythwolf)

You need a special kind of mind to rule a city like...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 14:27:44 -0400

You need a special kind of mind to rule a city like Ankh-Morpork, and Lord Vetinari had it. But then, he was a special kind of person.

- Guards! Guards! , Terry Pratchett

whatdiscworldtaughtme: 586. Free advice often turns out to be...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:08:18 -0400

whatdiscworldtaughtme:

586. Free advice often turns out to be expensive.

"Things were simpler then,” said the Count. “And also very, very stupid."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:00:52 -0400

““Things were simpler then,” said the Count. “And also very, very stupid.””

- Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum (via fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin)

"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 09:32:58 -0400

“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.”

- Terry Pratchett, Mort (via quotebook-notebook)