Okay so this is a big deal

Sir Terry Pratchett's Night Watch to become Penguin Classic | Terry Pratchett

Sir Terry Pratchett's iconic Discworld novel Night Watch, featuring Commander Sam Vimes, to be published as a Penguin Classic.

Terry Pratchett|Heather McDaid

To me, and to a significant subset of Sir Terry's fans (including most of you who've found this by the tags), his writing is serious commentary on the human condition - politics, prejudice, self-control, revenge vs. justice, religion, idealism, faith in people vs. cynicism, and more - dressed up with fantasy settings and a hefty leavening of humor to make it fun to read. And it is WILDLY fun to read, actual laugh-out-loud or at least a snicker averaging about every page.

But there's this common idea among the "important literature" people that fun and funny books are not also worthwhile or important in the same way.

This is a Discworld book being released WITH ACADEMIC COMMENTARY and AS A PENGUIN CLASSIC. That's a HUGE amount of recognition.

tenarutervayn

@thebibliosphere

thebibliosphere

Oh, I’m about to tear up. I had to fight so hard to do my thesis on Pratchett because the university didn't like what they considered pop culture being studied as literature and this is just... Existing. 🥹

#fuck yeah #discworld

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higgsbison

chechula

I got two requests for Moist and Adora dancing so here they go! (of course, Adorada is leading! )

#art #discworld #THEY

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slightlysal

twofoursixohjuan

Flashbacks to that time I directed Monstrous Regiment on stage:

Jackrum and Polly attempting to do the Jackrum Reveal sequence in Igor's lisp
all the old ladies thinking our Blouse, my younger brother, was lovely and that he looked like a young Michael Caine (he doesn't)
Maladict attempting to seduce Polly the entire time
that time the lights came up on the wrong section of stage and caught Vimes looking terrified
our Polly, a little slow on the uptake, asking "hang on, does that mean Jackrum's gay?" during the first run, and our middle-aged cis-male Jackrum chiming in immediately with "oh no, he's definitely trans!"
Prince Heinrich popping out his monocle for comedic effect
the epic bromance of General Froc and General Kzupi
our nearly-six-foot Wazzer successfully making herself look small... right up until the Duchess sequence
Igor's scars appearing in different places every night
Carborundum, fifteen and five-foot-two, passing herself off as a massive stony troll by dint of sheer willpower and a Liverpool accent
Lord Rust's flamboyant purple-and-yellow ensemble
Tonker, as ocker as they make them
Otto never failing to bring down the house with "Mr Nice Coffee Drinker Guy"
William de Worde, about a foot and a half shorter than Blouse, intimidating him off centre stage by sheer force of personality (and then physically hauling him back again)
Major Clogston, played by a bearded man who suddenly realised that he shouldn't really have a beard and shaved most of it off, leaving only the world's fakest-looking moustache
diehard fan Vimes sneaking cut book lines back into his dialogue, aided and abetted by Maladict
the dreadful trouble I had trying to get our Lofty, the sweetest girl imaginable, to be terrifying. ("Come on, please! You're a double murderer!") Giving her a box of matches did the trick.
several months later, selling in my front-of-house capacity a can of Pepsi to the girl who played Igorina. I made some kind of remark that our biggest seller is generally Coke, and she looked me dead in the eye and said, "Coke...tathteth of horthe pith."

petermorwood

"Giving her a box of matches did the trick."

Oo-er.

Method Acting or Hidden Depths?

#discworld

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deezmrnutt

Mr. Nutt's Mic Drops, Part One: "Come on, if you think you're hard enough."

And this was a literal 'mic drop' too (though the mic was technically megaphone).

#discworld #I'vebeen re-listening to unseen academicals and it's been growing on me #esp. nutt

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dr-graf

“And the new day was a great big fish”

#art #discworld

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slightlysal

faniacmag

TROLL BRIDGE | The Moving Picture - YouTube

Subtitulado vía YouTube.

TROLL BRIDGE is a love-letter to Terry Pratchett and Discworld. It exists because an awful lot of people thought it ought to. The film is adapted from the short story 'Troll Bridge.

petermorwood

IMO this is one of the best, if not THE best adaptations of a Discworld story.

#discworld #HELLO??

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higgsbison

snippit-crickit

GIRLS NIGHT1!!! Angua and Cherri, oh gods i love this duo theyre adorable,,,

i also tried doing a disco elysium and discworld fake screenshot,,, (( i suck at thinking of cool names for things so i took the skills names from @higgsbison post where they did an interactive disco elysium and a discworld crossover !! )) aand some more character interactions, sam and sybil this time

^ ( inspo'd by this post i saw ))

#art #discworld #gorgeous gorgeous

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ursminor

snippit-crickit

colored sketch of angua from discworld,,, i love werewolves so much theyre awesome AWOOOOOOO

go girl,,,

#art #animation #discworld #YES!!!!!!

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5qui99l3

snippit-crickit

recently i read Guards!Guards! by Pratchett and it brings me great joy to draw out the characters, i will now proceed to throw these at you

Colon!

Sybil,,, i love her, how can i not love a crazy dragon lady ((thats also a big lady))... I like the idea that her brows are tiny because they get burnt by dragons so often