For me it started when for no reason in particular, I decided to google my last name. You see the thing is that my last name just so happens to be Weatherwax. So naturally many results were of course of Granny Weatherwax. So a few weeks later I borrowed Wyrd Sisters from my library and have been obsessed ever since.
Hello, I just finished my final performance as death in the hogfather play. This was my first ever discworld play along with my introduction to the series. I mostly just wanted to jump on here and say how amazing and wonderful this discworld universe was. I had an unbelievable amount of fun with death, he is a oddly silly and heartwarming guy, as well as the entire play. Even though it is not typical "hogswatch" time it was a incredible play that I found to have such a beautiful message. Hopefully reddit lets me attach a photo of me in costume, mostly because I was a really big fan of the costume :) Anyways all of this to say that I really loved this play which I was told is faithful to the books/universe. And I see now why there is such a big following to this whole universe which I fully intend on being engrossed into. Okay mini appreciation rant over bye bye!
Currently working my way through a full re-read, having read them all as they came out. Reached my signed copy of Small Gods and it raised a smile and memories. My Mum got me this signed copy. I’d just gone off to uni as this was released but she noticed that one of my favourite authors was doing a signing at a bookshop in our local city and arranged this signed copy for me.
Mum passed away a few years ago and this gave me a fond reminder of her and the many great things she did and how she looked out for us.
GNU Mum
EDIT: "Those Who Hunt Elves" is a 90 manga/anime comedic show.
The characters keep repeating "the earth moves" in reference to eliocentrism, really close to "the turtle moves"
I would like to go on record as stating that Small Gods is in fact, my favorite Discworld book.
I have given it due consideration. Weighing all evidence and admitting certain biases including:
My argument is that the last three chapters are probably some of the best writing ever and that there are more words to live by, wrapped up in those few pages, than in all the philosophical and religious books of all the ages.
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Fight me. 😂
In a 1951 radio interview, French playwright, Jean Cocteau was asked what one item he would carry out if his house was on fire. He answered "J'emporterais le feu." <I would carry out the fire.>
"She liked Borrowing birds best of all" - Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Pen and watercolour by me 😄
#disctober #disctober2026
So happy with my new tattoo, inspired by my favourite quote from the whole series.
Created and done by the amazingly talented WoodDarkness in London.
My wife's friend was running an edge painting workshop at a local book con.
Given the opportunity, I brought my favorite book. It was a struggle coming up with the design I wanted. For it, but after seeing the unimaginably wide variety of fine stencils she had available, I gave it a shot.
I like how it came out
Okay, not specifically a shower thought, I was stuck in traffic, but you get the idea.
The ending of Pyramids shows an old, tired Dios being thrown back 7,000 years in time to meet Khuft the camel header (I hear big things are on the horizon for this Khuft guy).
This isn't Dios's first rodeo. Hells, it isn't Dios's thousandth rodeo.
Dios does this forever (almost), and eventually Dios will bring the downfall of Djelibeybi.
See, every time Dios goes back to the beginning he brings with him all the knowledge of the kingdom.
The problem is Dios is tens of thousands of years old and even with the pyramid revivification his memory is being steadily worse.
Dios himself admits he struggles to remember scraps of information and technology and covers for the lapse of knowledge by inventing new gods on the fly for copper wire when there's already a god of the forge.
It can be speculated that there are multiple gods of the sun because Dios simply forgets he created Cephnet earlier and created Gil a few hundred years later.
Eventually Dios's mind will fail in some vital way and he'll forget something important like forging bronze properly or some vital bit of agricultural knowledge and Djelibeybi will steer off its normal historical course.
If this happens the country will no longer be able to properly defend itself from an upstart Tsort and Ephebe and get swallowed by one of its neighbor empires effectively killing the country.
Only then will Dios find peace and either die or continually live forever going to his pyramid nightly.
Yeah, it was a long traffic jam.
In my mind I always pictured the elephants standing trunk to tail on the Great A'Tuin's back and slowly walking turnwise. One rotation would take a year, and that's what gives the disc it's seasons and year. But in fan art, the elephants are depicted as standing still and facing outwards. Have I got it wrong all these years? Are the elephant's positions mentioned in any of Terry's works? If they are facing out and not moving, how did the fifth elephant stumble and fall off the disc? If they are stationary, then how does the disc rotate?
I decided to participate in the Ink October Challenge this year and to draw every prompt with some Discworld reference.
I need help for next prompts for day 5, 6, 10 and 11 so far.
If you have some ideas, associatinons - please let me know
It's coming to get you, Barbara.
Quiz for my databases unit at uni has some familiar names and places in it
Day 4. Cactus
Death's garden was big, neat and well-tended. It was also very, very black. The grass was black. The flowers were black. Black apples gleamed among the black leaves of a black apple tree. Even the air looked inky.
Terry Pratchett, Mort
#inkoctober2026 #inktober #terrypratchett #discworld
Also Cohens graphic novel, and a few mounted maps We had a nice tradition going at xmas when a book was always gifted, still sad that the fountain stopped flowing.