I saw this on the day I finished Night Watch and...
It feels almost cathartic, in a way
Sir Terry has changed many lives, including mine, and I think he will continue to do so far into the future
It's an honor long deserved that he be added to this collection, and I hope this will give more people an opportunity to learn from his wit, humour, and everything else exemplified in his writing.
It feels odd, mourning a man I've never met, who died before I could have even dreamed of it, and yet I still do. Because stories are an immutable part of humanity and stories are timeless. We must rise up, march on, and continue singing, while remembering those who we're not singing with.
We have to use those emotions -the joy, the fear, the grief- to forge a new future
One Samuel Vimes would be proud of;
One Terry Pratchett would be proud of;
One we're proud of
So here's to Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and
a Hard Boiled Egg
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
We are thrilled to announce that Sir Terry Pratchett’s NIGHT WATCH is set to become a Penguin Classic, publishing in April 2025.
help me manifest blue pennsylvania
like to charge reblog to cast
they took the bookshop opening scene from us and i will never forgive them
“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Take these, spread them around
Reblog, copy paste, post on your own. Make your own! Let's see if we can get it trending?
Make some art, fics, edits, poetry and tag it with #save good omens 3 (or any variation) and #fire ne*l ga*man (if you want)
Shoebill
I absolutely agree
Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'
Groove-Billed Ani
Hoatzin
Pheasant Coucal
I get that people are in the thick of their emotions rn, but I hope they’ll chill and focus on the fact that the Rob, Rhianna, and others apparently pulled off a successful Orpheus-and-Eurydice caper. The show was cancelled. And now it isn’t. Instead of angrily tweeting at Amazon about the format change, or pushing petitions demanding a full season, it’s probably a way better idea to express our gratitude and support for this very unlikely compromise that all involved are putting their own names and money on the line in order to bring to us.
This is from the book, while Crowley is trying to talk Aziraphale into helping him stop armageddon, and does his drunken ramble about eternity. Apparently God enjoys The Sound of Music.
“You’ll enjoy it. You really will. You won’t have a choice.”
I feel like this line gets overlooked a lot. It’s an important line, for sheer horror potential.
Whatever the control mechanism is, clearly it isn’t running on every angel at all times, because if that was the case, a rebellion never would have happened. Aziraphale wouldn’t have six thousand years of doubts piling up to critical capacity. Gabriel wouldn’t have been able to escape.
But it’s also clearly very easily turned on, since they both accept that it would be used for something as petty as enjoying a movie. This lack of will can be rolled over angels at any time, for any reason.
Aziraphale clearly has some dread of this. *Crowley* knows it, and used it to convince Aziraphale to help him stop armageddon. But Aziraphale is very good at letting one part of his brain know something while another part of his brain denies it, so it’s not clear how much *Aziraphale* knows he dreads it, even as that dread shapes his character.
He’s never really broken free of Heaven. Even when he was being called a traitor, he wasn’t fallen, and so he was expecting to be called home eventually. And he’d be happy, of course. He won’t have a choice.
Aziraphale’s been trying to walk away from Heaven for at least six thousand years. He walked away from guard duty. He gave away his sword. He lied straight to God’s face about it. He lied to the archangels, and then straight up told Crowley he was ready to go to Hell. Several millennia of trouble-making and demon-fraternizing later, he stood in the middle of Heaven, declared he wasn’t going to fight in any war, then escaped via the demonic act of human possession. He is ready to GO.
And still his wings are snowy white. He’s just as angelic as when he first worried the pretty starmaker might get in trouble, and tried to protect him with a warning.
But he can’t escape. Heaven isn’t letting anyone else go. And he knows what his future holds. Eventually, no matter how many times they put it off, eventually he will be called back to Heaven.
And so, what promises can he make Crowley?
To stay with him always? Of course not. To love him? Can he even promise to love him? No. He’ll eventually be dragged back to Heaven, and he’ll be happy to go, and he won’t even miss him. *He won’t have a choice.*
And perhaps that’s the problem. He loves Crowley too much to make promises he can’t keep.
Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria is such a weird theory because it's like there's a very obvious explanation for why middle school kids who didn't have dysphoria before might suddenly have dysphoria. Like huh weird I wonder what very obvious and widely known change that could cause kids to suddenly become very uncomfortable in their gender or sexual identity starts in between the ages of 10 and 14. Guess we'll never know. Must be peer pressure to *checks notes* become the only gender minority in your whole school singling you out for harassment by your peers. Couldn't be puberty suddenly giving you new body parts/bodily functions that are wrong for you.
Hello! genderfluid Bow tie wearing Nerd; Ancient history is my jam; Huge Pratchett and GO fan; also love TMA; Queen; ROS; TOH; She-Ra; GF; basically anything queer and ND; I really don't know what I'm doing
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