"Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a *proper* exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean."
Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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"You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look."
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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It would be nice to say that the tiny frogs thought long and hard about the new flower, about life in the old flower, about the need to explore, about the possibility that the world was bigger than a pool with petals around the edge. In fact, what they thought was: "._._.mipmip._._.mipmip._._.mipmip".
Terry Pratchett, Wings
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Lancre operated on the feudal system, which was to say, everyone feuded all the time and handed on the fight to their descendants.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
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"Did any of them kids have some space alien with a face like a friendly turd in a bike basket?"
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
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Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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Having never been to a Discworld Con before, I'm reading through the traditions page on the website to familiarise myself with some of what to expect.
This entry is lovely:
Silas T Firefly
Sir Terry Pratchett was always happy to engage with his fans and attended the DWCons when he could, usually as Guest of Honour. Before becoming a famous author, Terry was a fan himself and understood how Conventions worked from both perspectives.
This led to him fostering a good relationship with his fans and when he could, he would sit with folks in the bar, or other communal spaces of the hotel and chat casually with anyone and everyone. There was respect on both sides, but (whisper it not!) even famous authors get tired and need personal space.
When Terry felt the need to be left alone, he would subtly indicate this by switching his badge to one that read Silas T Firefly. It was made common knowledge that if you were to meet someone around the hotel who had this badge that it might look like Terry Pratchett, but this was a completely different person. A very private individual who just wished a little peace…
The name may be a reference to the Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly in the 1933 movie Duck Soup.
In memorandum, one Convention membership and badge is left free each year under this name.
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There's a lot of wisdom and truth to be found in Sir Terry Pratchett's writing, and I think that this quote is so indicative of that, and so effective at getting the point across in the simplicity of what Granny Weatherwax is saying.
It's also characteristic of how, even at his wittiest and most caustic, and even when he was writing his most grumpy and no-nonsense characters, he never succumbed to cynicism and misanthropy. There are a lot of things making the Discworld books special, and the amount of heart that can be found in those stories and characters is probably at the top part of that list. #GNUTerryPratchett
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- "What shall I do?"
- "Well, if you see anything crawl out of the sea and try to breathe, you could try telling it not to bother."
Rincewind and Eric at the Beginning of Time Terry Pratchett, Eric
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NEXT WEEK on #ThePlaylist
I'm off to Discworld Con in a couple of weeks, so next week I think it's only fair that the theme should be:
The Discworld
Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers?
Sling them this way using #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and together we'll spend two hours attempting to make the memory of Sir Pterry proud.
// https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK //
// https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ //
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"Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave," said Vorbis.
"So I understand," said the Tyrant. "I imagine that fish have no word for water."
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
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It's time for our first Server Spotlight!
We want to help people find their communities across the #fediverse so we're featuring servers here on this account.
First up: The Mended Drum, a home for fans of all things Sir Terry Pratchett.
It is said that if you stay on The Mended Drum long enough, you'll meet every hero on the server: https://mendeddrum.org/directory
(keep an eye on your horse, though 😉)
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"It's got three keyboards and a hundred extra knobs, including twelve with '?' on them."
The Unseen University Organ, as designed by B. S. Johnson
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
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A still relevant eulogy for one of the kindest author we ever had.
The Emperor had all the qualifications for a corpse except, as it were, the most vital one.
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
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[...] Vimes's grin was as funny as the one that moves very fast towards drowning men. And has a fin on top.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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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, Diggers
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They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.
Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
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Very entertaining movie experience, Minions and Monsters. Now have to reread Moving Pictures… #gnuterrypratchett