Hogfather - Blog Posts

Me saying and doing the stupidest shit imaginable just to get my friends attention.

Merry Hogwatch everyone! (Roundworld calander edition)

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and remembered to leave out some sherry and meat pies for the Hogfather last night. Maybe even some turnips for those hard working hogs that pull his sleigh?

Conclusion: someone at the UU ships toxic yaoi. Probably the Senior Wrangler.

(From what we know about wizards, any possible couple that might find themselves under mistletoe will inevitably be toxic)

"Tell me, Senior Wrangler, we never invited any women to the Hogswatchnight Feast, did we?"

"Of course not, Archchancellor," said the Senior Wrangler. He looked up in the dust-covered rafters, wondering what had caught Ridcully's eye. "Good heavens, no, they'd spoil everything, I've always said so."

"So why, every year, do we hang a damn great bunch of mistletoe up there?"

"well, er... it's... well, it's... it's symbolic, Archchancellor."

(scenes from Hogfather feat. the Senior Wrangler NOT beating the allegations)

the only reason I remember the formula for the volume of a cone is that Susan Sto Helit used it to count baby teeth in a big pile in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather

Philosophy cut to the bone

All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need ... fantasies to make life bearable.

No. Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meet the rising ape.

Tooth fairies? Hogfathers?

Yes. As practice. You have to start out learning to believe the little lies.

So we can believe the big ones?

Yes. Justice. Duty. Mercy. That sort of thing.

They're not the same at all!

Really? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you act, like there was some sort of rightness in the universe by which it may be judged

Yes. But people have got to believe that or what's the point?

My point exactly.