Painted Susan Sto Helit (Death's granddaughter in Discworld) this morning.
Three different types of black (grey cloak, purple skirt and corset and sharp highlights on the boots) with three highlight layers. Two or three highlights on the skin. And two highlights on the white hair. The black hair, metal and wood only got one highlight.
“Lancrastians liked clocks, although they didn't bother much about actual time in any length much shorter than an hour. If you needed to boil an egg, you sang fifteen verse of 'Where Had All The Custard Gone?' under your breath. But the tick was a comfort on long evenings.”
Terry Pratchett; Carpe Jugulum #Discworld#EasterEggSunday#ClocksChanged#SpringForward 🐣🥚⏰🐇
Finished up #Sourcery by #TerryPrachett , and it's already jumped up the list as one of my favorite #discworld books. Love the discourse on identity and its relationship (or lack thereof) to skill. So fun!
It's the first day of spring which means that the Morris will be danced up in the Ramtops today. Which Discworld book starts with the words “The Morris dance”?
"…only in one place have they got it right. It's a small village high in the Ramtop Mountains…
There, the men dance on the first day of spring, backwards & forwards, bells tied under their knees, white shirts flapping.”
“A thinking tyrant, it seemed to Vetinari, had a much harder job than a ruler raised to power by some idiot vote-yourself-rich system like democracy. At least he could tell the people he was their fault.”
Terry Pratchett; Going Postal #Discworld#Putin#Tyrant#RussianDemocracyInAction
“He'd heard rumors - who hadn’t? - that working in the Watch was the rightful king of Ankh-Morpork. He’d have to admit that, if you wanted to hide a secret heir to the throne, you couldn’t possibly hide him more carefully than under the face of C.W. St.J. Nobbs.”
Terry Pratchett; Feet of Clay #Discworld#RoyalRumours#WhereIsKate#WilliamsRose
I came to Terry Pratchett via Good Omens, and then went on to read Thud! which was just out in paperback. I continued to devour Discworld, and eagerly awaited each new book. The Shepherd's Crown made me weep when I read it, knowing it was the last.
The past two years and more, I've read to my wife every night, and we've been making our way through Discworld together. We laugh, we weep, we clutch each other in suspense. We're treated to a world we wish was ours.
He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?"
While waiting for the official Discworld RPG to drop, Dicebreaker takes a look at a wonderful fan-made Discworld RPG called "A One in a Million Chance at Adventure" it's loosely inspired by the old GURPS based Discworld RPG, but attempts to stay rules light, lighthearted and silly.
I've been a huge #Discworld fan since my teenage years. They were some of the first English books I ever read voluntarily and I still regularly make my way through them one way or another.
Ever since #SirTerry left this world 9 years ago I've been doing my part in keeping his name in the ether, as every single OctoPrint instance out there contains an X-Clacks-Overhead header in its responses with the value