After watching many youtube reaction channels I've come to a conclusion...
Suggesting Iron Maiden the next track for someone to listen to is like suggesting the first Discworld book for somebody to read.
* there's a *lot* of the buggers
* you can narrow it down based on the person's hobbies & interests
* people often stick to suggesting their own favourite
* ultimately there's very few wrong suggestions
#IronMaiden #HeavyMetal #ProgRock #ProgMetal #DiscWorld #Pratchett #PTerry
Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
“I’ve never seen Death actually at work.”
“Not many have,” said Albert. “Not twice, at any rate.”
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 4, Mort (1987)
More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8191…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #mort #death #experience #fatality #lifespan #mortality #uniqueness
Hogfather was a treat. Lots of fun to read, capped off with some really poignant moments and social commentary.
Death trying to be the Hogfather (Discworld's Father Christmas/Santa Claus) led to lots of amusing misunderstandings as well as insightful moments. Susan trying to figure out what's going on was a solid adventure which kept my attention the whole way through. The various bad guys were interesting and fairly well fleshed out.
The climax was 😙👌 and had some choice quotes, including "Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." 👏
“They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”
Terry Pratchett; Guards! Guards!
#Discworld #TrumpsRacistMeme #KKKarolinePressStatement #TheWhiteHouse
#discworld
Having cover art for different markets adds a layer of annoying complexity to completing our set.
I like some of the other art, but only need one collection, and that needs to be the original art work thank you very much.
In this latest episode of I may have to grow older, but I don't have to grow up, the perfectly normal adult human adorns his backpack.
Naturally most of them are #Discworld pins
A lie can ACK around the World Wide Web before the truth has got its SYN on.
Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
“‘Whatever happened to integrity round here?’
‘I think you probably sold it to someone, Uncle.'”
Terry Pratchett; Moving Pictures
#Discworld #Mandelson #Epstein #BuyingFavours #StarmerIntegrityFail #MoralFailuresAllRound
Today’s #OneGoodThing must be a multiple.
I travelled to Cambridge safely, ready for the conference After Section 28: LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Censorship and Backlash.
I went for a long walk to the river Cam, and ended up in a bookshop, where of course, I bought another #Discworld novel (Carpe Jugulum).
In 1997, I first moved to Cambridge - a lifetime ago, and stayed until 2000 after studying at Anglia Poly uni (now Anglia Ruskin).
I’m staying in a hotel near to where I used to work in a #Queer pub called the Five Bells. It’s been demolished 😭
Now THIS is a Discworld pin badge that means business.
Six months to go until the curtain rises on the start of #DiscworldConvention! Is Nanny Ogg right about the types of opera? Which opera is your favourite?
#Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldQuotes #Maskerade #TerryPratchett
Terry Pratchett knew what was up. From “Witches Abroad”:
Mrs. Gogol could feel them among the trees. The homeless. The hungry. The silent people. Those forsaken by men and gods. The people of the mists and the mud, whose only strength was somewhere on the other side of weakness, whose beliefs were as rickety and home-made as their homes. And the people from the city—not the ones who lived in the big white houses and went to balls in fine coaches, but the other ones. They were the ones that stories are never about. Stories are not, on the whole, interested in swineherds who remain swineherds and poor and humble shoemakers whose destiny is to die slightly poorer and much humbler.These people were the ones who made the magical kingdom work, who cooked its meals and swept its floors and carted its night soil and were its faces in the crowd and whose wishes and dreams, undemanding as they were, were of no consequence. The invisibles.
"Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage."
Gaspode, of course
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms
"Life is just chemicals. A drop here, a drip there, everything's changed."
Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
#Discworld #TheEpsteinFiles #RichAndPowerfulGroomingGang #BringThemAllToJustice
Yanko Design: This Award-Winning Bookstore Looks Like a Portal to Outer Space
Imagine concentric rings and geometric forms inspired by celestial mechanics, all reimagined as bookshelves and display areas. The books themselves seem to defy gravity, positioned on these dramatic structures in ways that make you feel like you’re browsing a library floating somewhere in deep space.
While you're here, have a quote as a little treat. Context: The Fools' Guild is on fire.
