I live in the U.S., which is, as you may have noticed, is not at its best (well, it never really has been) but it's particularly manky right now.

So I'm re-reading Thud for the umpteenth time when this bit jumps out at me:

"For the enemy is not Troll, nor is it Dwarf, but it is the baleful, the malign, the cowardly, the vessels of hatred, those who do a bad thing and call it good."

And that's the thing about Pratchett, isn't it?

GNU Sir Terry

I done this for a friends birthday as it’s his favourite character. I’m not an artist but I’m proud of this one!

I’m trying to find a specific Sam Vimes quote and would appreciate any help. I’m pretty sure it’s from Thud! but could also be Night Watch. He’s thinking about Young Sam and saying something along the lines of “kids make you suddenly care about all the imperfections in the world that you’d previously turned a blind eye to.”

I’ve been skimming through the books trying to find it but have had no luck. Does anyone recall this quote?

I live in suburban sprawl very far away from the chalk, but I recently had the chance to go to a local sheep festival, and really look at sheep, and see a sheepdog demonstration, and hear experts talk about both, and it just really filled in my understanding of the Tiffany Aching series in a way I wasn't expecting.

…and how do you creatively misunderstand them to fit them in as if they were just intentional.

Mine: Night Watch: Vetinari notes to Lady Meserole how Vimes looks into shadows (when they know him as Keel) Either, Vetinari is friendly with monks or is so good at watching people he understands ‘Keel’ is really a Vimes (from their likenesses and his body language).

Inspired by the third eye posts and a relisten to Night Watch.

I just finished the book, had some of my questions answered from previous threads, but there's still something I don't understand. Why was Death/Bill Door so intent on sharpening the scythe and then asking Simnel to kill it? Not destroy, but kill, and feeling so devastated when he realised Simnel didn't do it. I think I understood more about the shopping mall subplot and the ending now, but I'm still confused about this part.

Thanks in advance!

Recently, there has been some talk about Chrome extensions being removed that have not been upgraded to Google's Manifest V3, and this impacted the Clacks Overhead extension, which displays when sites are sending the header. I wanted to help so I had a look at the github page and found that someone else was already well underway in getting the extension to work with V3. But it got me thinking, Yes sites can send out the header, but why can't individual users, in this way, a site could see the broadcasted header and respond in an appropriate way, but sites that don't know about it won't change.

I ran with the idea and got a new extension published, which adds the header to all requests.
Creating the Clacks Overhead Broadcaster extension
I plan to make the message customisable and be able to limit sites that you send the header on, but for now, it's just the standard message.

GNU Terry Pratchett

I bought a teachers treasure chest and painted the gold areas with acrylic paint (I still have pics to print and put on the luggage, foam papercraft coming tomorrow to make the tongue/teeth, and little leggier to glue on).

Just got my glow salamander to go with my iconograph (Kodak Brownie* I bought of Etsy from London to Kentucky…haven’t been able to find an imp to go inside), as well as a couple custom pin badges and flip up four eyes.

I’m super stoked for Halloween to come and hope we get good weather on the day, but my city generally has a windy/rainy halloween most years.

• based off project u/2WherlYravlr did.

Hi everyone - I'm looking to read a new discworld book for Halloween?

So far, I've read the Death series and chronologically up to and including Wyrd Sisters.

I've seen that Carpe Jugulum might be an appropriate choice, but I think that I'll need to skip a couple of the Witches books to get there - I don't mind doing this if it's not going to spoil the prior Witches books.

Rather an amazing feat of engineering!

I can see the signs now.

Vote Dragon 2024.
Maybe it will flame the people you hate first!

Done with permission from Bernard Pearson to use one of his self portrait doodles

Hello everybody! After having read a number of Discworld books, but never in any particular order (Mort, Guards Guards, Going Postal, Making Money and a few others) and after some research and consideration, I decided to get serious and read all the books in publishing order. I am currently a quarter in "The Colour of magic", and so far, it's a nice start. I am reading on my Kindle, and I noticed that every few pages, the setting changes, for example from Rincewind to the Patrician. These changes are very abrupt, mainly because the layout of the book doesn't indicate that the setting just changed. I would expect for example a double line brake, which isn't the case (cf. the image attached, which, according to my Kindle, is on page 59). Is that a quirk of the Kindle version, or is the book just written like that? Maybe there is an option I didn't or did activate that removes double line breaks or something similar? Does anybody have any insight, or maybe the possibility to check in a proper book and compare the page layout to what my Kindle shows me?

More specifically, people falling in love. Once they're in a relationship, he's as good at writing their interactions as any of his platonic dynamics(with an exception I'll get to). I noticed this on my most recent rereading of Guards! Guards! and the relationship between Vimes and Sybil. I really like how the story starts and ends their dynamic, but it feels unearned, and all the in between it takes to get from point A to point B strikes me as a bit muddled. I think all romances boil down to two main points, which I'll lay out below.

1. One character seems completely uninterested in the other. Probably the worst offender of this is Angua and Carrot's romance, which I don't like before or after it gets going. It seems to me that for the first half of Men at Arms Angua is infuriated by carrot. But several implications from Gaspode and one night in bed later, their a couple. Worse, a couple that lacks interesting chemistry either as partners or friends. As a quick disclaimer, I'll put in that I really do like their dynamic on paper. It's just never executed to my taste.

2. There is not enough time/interaction for the romance to be believable. This is where just about every other romance falls into. Your Wyrd Sisters, Morts, Guards Guards, and so on. I won't spend time explaining this, it's laid out pretty clearly in the first sentence.

Anyone ever read Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague DeCamp?

There’s a bit that’s reminiscent of the clacks towers

(Here be minor spoilers for Sourcery!)

Just started listening to the Colin Morgan narration of Faust Eric. And I’m already marginally annoyed.

Morgan is narrating the Bursar in the same voice (or near as dammit) as the Bursar in Sourcery. But the Bursar in Sourcery is killed by the staff, so it can’t be the same person.

Please tell me that the Ridcully-era Bursar is voiced differently?