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catscraftsandcommentary: Terry Pratchett, you goddamn genius wordsmith. The world is poorer for your absence.

lj-lyall: “I commend my soul to any god that can find it” is such a metal line I wish it didn’t come from a character whose full cannonical name is Moist von Lipwig

A flaw in dwarfish nature from a human point of view is their tendency to take things literally. This is a result of their subterranean life. In an environment where there are things always ready to explode or collapse it is vitally important that information be passed on clearly and honestly. The human language, with …

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agardenandlibrary: Magic has a habit of lying low, like a rake in the grass. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

pinkskadan: Me reading this on the Libby app on my phone, imagining Pratchett thinking this up or just hearing it from a friend and then chuckling as he found someway to shoehorn it in and make his audience read this joke and then squint and say “hrmmmm”

bitchwannatryme: randomslasher: writing-prompt-s: Image prompt “Gary, I realize it’s your first day, but we do have a dress code.” I literally can’t tell who is talking to who, and I don’t want to change that for a second. Mort, Terry Pratchett, 1987

subsequentibis: i have the biggest, gayest crush on adora belle dearheart Source: subsequentibis

“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”

This isn’t actually a Discworld post, it’s a Warhammer post, but you know how the Stormcasts are gradually losing their memories from each death and reforging in their endless war against evil? But also you know how most of them are the last survivors of cultures that have been extinct for centuries, an endless number of …

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leona-florianova: Spike and Mr. Sunshine *posting again because the oh so clever me deleted the original post instead of the next day reblog Source: leona-florianova

leona-florianova: “But…well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.” Source: leona-florianova