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The only time I’ve ever seen using fantasy races work for talking about racism work is Discworld because it doesn’t try to make the case that We’re All Equal And Should Be Treated As Such when you’ve got some people who have life spans like 10x longer than everybody else and other people who are always strong and stupid. It makes the more intelligent point It’s Not Always Easy But We Can Get Along And Enrich Each Others Lives No Matter How Different We Are.
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
– Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
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“I expect you’re upset about leaving the Chalk, aren’t you?” she said as the cart rattled on.
“No,” said Tiffany.
“It’s okay to be,” said Miss Tick.
“Thank you, but I’m not, really,” said Tiffany.
“If you want to have a bit of a cry, you don’t have to pretend you’ve got some grit in your eye or anything–”
“I’m all right, actually,” said Tiffany. “Honestly.”
“You see, if you bottle that sort of thing up, it can cause terrible damage later on.”
“I’m not bottling, Miss Tick.”
In fact, Tiffany was a bit surprised at not crying, but she wasn’t going to tell Miss Tick that. She’d left a sort of space in her head to burst into tears in, but it wasn’t filling up. Perhaps it was because she’d wrapped up all those feelings and left them on the hill by the potbellied stove.
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
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Ysabell - Mort (Discoworld by Terry Pratchett)
Last year, @mirtadraws and I, we started to read together, to each other, because I’m really bad for reading for my own, but reading for her is so nice and funny 💕
For a long time I wanted to read something by Terry Pratchett and fortunally Mirta is a huge fan than wanted to read again the books with me and we started with Mort!
I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!
I didn’t spect how fucking funny it is and all the horrors at the same time that a moderm reference appears with a gigant note. That has caught me a lot, i didn’t spect that I will love so much Terry’s writtings!! I’m really glad that to now enjoy everything at the same time that I’m sad to not read all his books before 😩
I want to draw more of this funny and silly characters!
Please NO SPOILERS , I just read Mort , Maurice and now I’m with The Colour of Magic , thanks so much :’-)
Special thanks to @albaharu to lend me all the books!!!
Posted on April 5, 2025 via Nayvi's Art with 34 notes
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Havelock Vetinari is literature’s most dangerous tyrant.
Astute, learned, and wickedly clever, there are no ends the man will not go to in achieving his goals. There is no one he will not manipulate, no one too important to remove by a variety of means, and no one so powerful as to threaten his position.
And this applies, most importantly of all, to himself. Who watches the Watch, after all?
But Vetinari is literature’s most dangerous tyrant because he is at once, yes, a tyrant, but ALSO literature’s most dedicated civil servant.
He cares for the city. And ONLY for the city. It is from this position of being the man who truly only cares for Ahnk Morpork that he derives his authority. After all, who cares as much as he does?
Vimes? Perhaps, but he’s a married man and a father with private concerns that should take his attention as well (even if Vetinari has to constantly remind him of that fact). He has other things to worry about, but good job that man for sticking to his lane: a sledgehammer sized scalpel for repelling threats and keeping the peace.
Carrot? Certainly, but Carrot cares more for the PEOPLE than the CITY. His mind is on the present, keeping the ones who are alive upright and breathing and getting justice for those tragically cut short. He is not concerned with the welfare of the CITY, as such. Not with the future the next generation shall inherit.
The guilds? Self-interested fools who were happy to take what Havelock gave them: stability and a piece of the pie no sane person would eat. They are content to squabble over portions of nebulous power, and all of them recognize that if Vetinari were gone… well, it doesn’t much bear thinking about, really.
The nobles? Self-interested fools who are UNhappy with what Vetinari has given them: a slow walk to total obscurity and an eternal life in the back catalogues of Twerp’s Peerage. Besides, they tend to only be effective when they can convince others to foolishly do their bidding, and the market for such men has seen a suspicious dearth in supply as late.
The wizards? Certainly not. Tried that before, thank you, and everyone seems much happier when gravity remains consistent and no one randomly becomes newts. Let them remain in their university, fat, happy, and most definitely NOT doing any bloody magic.
Lipwig? Maybe. In time. If he is convinced that it is in his own self-interest and things remain… interesting. But he also has Spike and the Bank and the Post Office, and a man can only juggle so much before suddenly there’s a chainsaw in the front row and an awful lot of screaming. Best to keep him in practice of course, but… no. Not yet.
Vetinari uses all of them. They are tools in his box as he tunes and fixes and cares for the Disc’s greatest city. The Turtle moves, but so does the Patrician, and it is a close contest on who shifts greater mountains. It is easy to imagine more than a few of the gods on Cori Celeste are keeping an eye on him and wondering what he’s up to.
Except for the smart ones. They are doubtlessly taking notes.
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How dare he try to bribe me, thought Moist. In fact, that was his second thought, that of the soon-to-be wearer of a gold-ish chain. His first thought, courtesy of the old Moist, was: how dare he try to bribe me so small.
– Terry Pratchett - Making Money
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Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum - UK paperback, hardcover, and the illustration by Josh Kirby.
Hardcover spine from Source link below
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“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” -Terry Pratchett
Art: John William Waterhouse, Pandora -1896.
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The problem is that we think the opposite of funny is serious. It is not. In fact, as G. K. Chesterton pointed out, the opposite of funny is not funny, and the opposite of serious is not serious. Benny Hill was funny and not serious; Rory Bremner is funny and serious; most politicians are serious but, unfortunately, not funny. Humour has its uses. Laughter can get through the keyhole while seriousness is still hammering on the door. New ideas can ride in on the back of a joke, old ideas can be given an added edge.
– Terry Pratchett - A Slip Of The Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction
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