Citizens of Tomorrow, Be Forewarned

CATS... CATS ARE NICE

A Discworld painting for art class.

Discworld witches for dear Ari ♥ Female characters are one reason why I love Discworld so much♥ Thanks, mister Pratchett for them, for writing just regular girls and ladies doing weird fantasy stuff ♥

The best They Might Be Giants joke ever is in Terry Pratchett's "Soul Music," which features a band called We're Certainly Dwarfs.

I love the scene in feet of clay where the mob is trying to kill the golem and carrot comes in and is like you can't kill the golem and they're like well it's not alive it's property, and he's like ok then I could charge you with destruction of property if you try to smash it, and they're like well I heard a golem killed an old man and he's like well if it's property and not a person then it can't kill anyone, see my sword? Couldn't blame my sword if I stabbed you. Either it's a person and destroying it would be murder or its a thing and it can't have committed murder. And then he walks the golem back to where it works, and the boss tries to turn it out onto the street because he heard that a golem had killed someone, and carrot is like if you do that then I'll charge you with littering. It would be malicious compliance if carrot could be malicious

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“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

it’s seasonal lads

IT’S SEASONAL AGAIN LADS

“IT’S A SWORD, IT’S NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.” My favourite scene from The Hogfather. ___ See how this comic was made here.

me when I go postal

the most accurate description of university life tbh

@vonlipwig is this your man

Discworld: Wyrd Sisters Director: Jean Flynn | Studio: Cosgrove Hall | UK, 1997

It genuinely upsets me that there are people who call this animation and voice acting bad, there’s so much heart and soul on display in just this clip alone

At first glance: ‘lol this is going to be one of those hilariously cheap animations’

30 seconds in: ‘…Oh my god this is fantastic’

“WHO DARES TO INVOKE WXRTHLTL-JWLPKLZ?” “Where were you when the vowels were bein’ handed out, behind the door??”

Okay but so much of the character of Sam Vimes is influenced by him being a former alcoholic tho. I don’t think it’s possible to discuss his unbreakable moral code without also discussing his addiction.

There is significant parallels between how he does not touch alcohol EVER starting from Men at Arms and every other ways that he holds himself accountable in the books.

One minute late to storytime with his child would be one minute too much, because once you excuse one minute late then you can excuse five, ten, and then fifteen minutes late. -> one drink is too many drinks because one drink « tends to arrive in five glasses ».

« If you do a bad thing for a good reason you’ll do it for a bad one », « If one part of the machine breaks down it all breaks down » and « who watches the watchman? Me. » are all different ways of saying that Vimes cannot allow himself to make even one exception in how he behaves. Will not, yes, and that’s very admirable, but this will not is the result of a CAN NOT because what would happen if he did is not, in fact, unthinkable. On the contrary, he knows very well what would happen if he did break one of his many rules, and this is exactly why he doesn’t break them.

« One drink is one too many » is basically the center of his character’s moral code. And it hits so hard because he’s not being rigid for the fun of it, he’s like that because he knows. It’s a sliding slope and he’s been on it and at the bottom of it and he KNOWS how quickly it slides.

And it’s so interesting to see how he applies that core concept to all other aspects of his life, cultimating into the guarding dark.

this bit makes me laugh out loud every time without fail

The Glorious 25th May, how do they rise up?

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This is just The Magnus Institute.

Nope.

They have a gas-based firefighting system instead of sprinklers for obvious reasons. It does lower the percentage of oxygen in the building, but not enough to kill anyone.

I found this by googling “Yale library fire oxygen.” It was literally the first result.

Fact-checking is your friend.

It’s true. It’s not the fire suppression system that kills you. The Librarians come and personally murder you for starting a fire in a library. But you didn’t start a fire you say? No matter. You are collateral damage. Everybody gets killed to show that arsonists have no chance of escaping justice

an orangutan traveling at non-euclidean speeds erupts from the aether to clothesline you into another dimension

god im trying so hard to decipher that last addition and im coming up empty

The last addition is Terry Pratchett. 

This is The Librarian. He was a human wizard once, but got turned into an orangutan and greatly prefers it that way. He can also make use of L-space, which is a dimension that connects libraries, making it possible for him to travel at non-euclidian speeds to erupt from the aether and clothesline you into another dimension.

Guess the next book

“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

Here it is: the core of his work. Everything else accretes around this, like pearl around a grain of diamond grit.