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Discworld Quote, from Feet of Clay
“‘Do you think there’s something a bit … odd about Littlebottom?’
‘Seems like a perfectly ordinary female to me,’ said Angua.
‘Female? He told you he was female?’
‘She,’ Angua corrected. ‘This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We’ve got extra pronouns here.’”
On Brologue this week: this writer crosses over to the anthropology aisle to see what one David Graeber has to teach about characterisation. He never wrote any fiction (that I know of), but there's a couple of ideas he left behind that I think we could put to use...
Also: #TerryPratchett! #Discworld!
“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #3: Characterisation
https://brologue.net/2026/03/29/characterisation-workshop/
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
On Brologue this week: this writer crosses over to the anthropology aisle to see what one David Graeber has to teach about characterisation. He never wrote any fiction (that I know of), but there's a couple of ideas he left behind that I think we could put to use...
Also: #TerryPratchett! #Discworld!
“The…” Fantasy, As Yet Untitled – Workshop #3: Characterisation
https://brologue.net/2026/03/29/characterisation-workshop/
Please ❤ 🔁 if you like what you read!
GNU Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching fan-art
Sir Terry Pratchett.
It has been 11 years since death inexplicably refused to give you back.
You still remain the person who has had the biggest influence on me.
Nanny Ogg teaches me to enjoy life.
Granny Weatherwax teaches me to trust in myself, and not to treat people as things
Magrat teaches me that it is ok not to know exactly what I am doing all the time, but to do things I think are important, even if those older and allegedly wiser don't really agree.
Vimes teaches me about determination, family and justice.
There are so many more lessons I learnt from the world you created, and I would not be me without the Discworld.
Sir Terry Pratchett.
It has been 11 years since death inexplicably refused to give you back.
You still remain the person who has had the biggest influence on me.
Nanny Ogg teaches me to enjoy life.
Granny Weatherwax teaches me to trust in myself, and not to treat people as things
Magrat teaches me that it is ok not to know exactly what I am doing all the time, but to do things I think are important, even if those older and allegedly wiser don't really agree.
Vimes teaches me about determination, family and justice.
There are so many more lessons I learnt from the world you created, and I would not be me without the Discworld.
Dreamt I got gifted a secondhand pulpy paperback of the quasi-official 42nd #Discworld novel; I opened it, read the prose... and then I woke up because I had to ask myself if it was AI.
Discworld: "Martina, who has a passion for bookbinding and DIY, decided to take on this mammoth project as her very first mechanical build. Her idea was both whimsical and practical in the most Nerdforge way: she would bind all 40 Discworld books and arrange them around a massive wooden wheel."
https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/17/entire-discworld-series-turned-into-a-rotating-book-wheel/
Discworld: "Martina, who has a passion for bookbinding and DIY, decided to take on this mammoth project as her very first mechanical build. Her idea was both whimsical and practical in the most Nerdforge way: she would bind all 40 Discworld books and arrange them around a massive wooden wheel."
https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/17/entire-discworld-series-turned-into-a-rotating-book-wheel/
"you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong."
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Best Sam Vimes Quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Whilst living in a slum was often seen as proof of criminality, owning a street of them merely got you invited to the best parties. —Feet of Clay
Best Sam Vimes Quotes from Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Whilst living in a slum was often seen as proof of criminality, owning a street of them merely got you invited to the best parties. —Feet of Clay
Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett
Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.
Terry Pratchett, Snuff
#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett
Hello, my name is not Humphrey and I've joined c.im recently.
I've got a profile set up, so the next step apparently is an #introduction post.
I like #humour (note the u), #Discworld, #nature, #cycling and there's plenty of other stuff I'm in to that I think it is silly to try to reduce to a single word label when there's more nuance to it than that. (e.g. #music, but not the jazz or country stuff, or opera, but most other genres, but also more exceptions now I come to think about it, don't generally like reggae for example...) You see how just 'music' is... not enough?
I also like not doing too much, and I blog a bit. Still getting used to this Humphrey character. Can ramble on and possibly be a bit short too. …
Hello, my name is not Humphrey and I've joined c.im recently.
I've got a profile set up, so the next step apparently is an #introduction post.
I like #humour (note the u), #Discworld, #nature, #cycling and there's plenty of other stuff I'm in to that I think it is silly to try to reduce to a single word label when there's more nuance to it than that. (e.g. #music, but not the jazz or country stuff, or opera, but most other genres, but also more exceptions now I come to think about it, don't generally like reggae for example...) You see how just 'music' is... not enough?
I also like not doing too much, and I blog a bit. Still getting used to this Humphrey character. Can ramble on and possibly be a bit short too. Mood, you see.
Might just fizzle out though. I do that quite a lot too.
From the discworld emporium web shop today:
#writersCoffeeClub 27th of October: recommend a book that had an impact on your prose.
Not a single book, but an anthology. The Orcs: First Blood series is told from the point of view of orcs. Looking back, I think my attempts to portray more traditionally 'evil' species (orcs, snake-people, etc) in a more nuanced light comes from this.
The other contender is Night Watch from the #discworld books. Does PTerry need any further explanation?
#writersCoffeeClub 27th of October: recommend a book that had an impact on your prose.
Not a single book, but an anthology. The Orcs: First Blood series is told from the point of view of orcs. Looking back, I think my attempts to portray more traditionally 'evil' species (orcs, snake-people, etc) in a more nuanced light comes from this.
The other contender is Night Watch from the #discworld books. Does PTerry need any further explanation?
Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?
‘Yes. Yes, of course.’
Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #DiscDeath #SmallGods
Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.
And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.
Terry Pratchett, Thud!
For my 2nd full #TinyGlade I’ve had a crack at the Unseen University from #Discworld
I enjoyed the process a lot and learned a fair bit about Tiny Glade in the process. I still couldn’t pull off the Octiron Gate or the clock tower but I think that would be tricky even for someone with superior TG skills (although someone on YouTube made Minas Tirith so maybe not).
