my dad never read discworld series
*I* never read discworld series

going to the library

"They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually _say_ anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...

No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man."

Latest find in my first attempt reading "House Of Leaves" is a proper #Pratchett style match cut in literary format.

This week's Terry Pratchett quote:

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.
- Jingo

Updating a service to write a heartbeat out to say its still alive & its getting hard to resist making the string "I ain't dead yet!" #pratchett

The poll spoke and I listened: I now also ship to the UK and (even though it's really expensive) to Canada!
For the occasion, I looked for the most British photo possible and I couldn't find anything better than Tiffany Aching, one of my favorite Pratchett characters, in the rain. Yes, it's a cliché, and no, I'm not ashamed. :)

EN website here: https://www.inkdustrielle.fr/en
Photo: Synelune

A Terry Pratchett quote from Snuff, for no particular reason...

“I’ll ask my colleague and an expert on Quirmian law whether he knows of any local edict that makes it legal to tie up somebody who has committed no crime and drag him onto a boat and send him to a questionable distant location against his will.”

Today's featured post is magic, at least it would be if he weren't so bad at it.
https://matildaslab.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/rincewind-aleiodes-rincewindi/
#scicomm #biology #pratchett #discworld

This qoute popped into my head for some reason:

‘The riot was over the price of bread, I understand.’ No. The protest was over the price of bread, said Vimes’s inner voice. The riot was what happens when you have panicking people trapped between idiots on horseback and other idiots shouting ‘yeah, right!’ and trying to push forward, and the whole thing in the charge of a fool advised by a maniac with a steel rule.
#pratchett

I was passed a signed first? edition of a #Pratchett book today because it's original owner had died, their daughter didn't want it but wanted someone who would be chuffed by it to have it and my wife had mentioned in passing that she had made a shelf for my full Discworld collection which apparently means I'm the kind of guy who should have it.

Which is nice all round if you ask me.

Thought for the Day: the anthropomorphic personification of death for soap bubbles is a 3-year-old child
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113433
#death #pratchett

Thought for the Day: the anthropomorphic personification of death for soap bubbles is a 3-year-old child

From observation.

Daughter and wife bought me this.

So I'm still on FB (there are reasons) and every now and then someone comes onto the Discworld pages I follow and say things like

"Hey I saw they made a tv show about the Watch, is it any good?"

Ahhh the rage

This week's Terry Pratchett quote:

"It is important that we know where we come from, because if you do not know where you come from, then you don't know where you are, and if you don't know where you are, you don't know where you're going. And if you don't know where you're going, you're probably going wrong."
- I shall wear midnight

I realized tonight that the reason Night Watch is my favorite of the Discworld books is because it’s Pratchett as his peak wokeness, writing about capitalism, oligarchy, corruption, police brutality, and facism, all at once.

The man understood so much, and he laid it out so clearly. This is my third time reading the book and I’m still finding new layers to what he was laying down.

It is not physically possible for me to disagree more with the 'in what order to read the #Pratchett books?' piece in the Times from a few days ago. It's absolutely unhinged. And yes I am putting my own opinion up as the arbiter of correctness here. #bookstodon #fantasy #books

Terry Pratchett’s Best Books

#TerryPratchett #Pratchett #Discworld

https://www.nytimes.com/article/terry-pratchett-best-books.html