#A'tuin

[reluctanttree]

my small collection of Discworld merch

[miellez]

Presenting great A'tuin to the world ! I made this one for my friend @fuckyeahgoodomens as a birthday gift. Making the Disc was a challenge as I know a bit of nothing of discworld 😳

[tenaciousgeckos]

[technicallyburningalpaca]

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

"The Turtle Moves!" (art by Joe McLaren)

[nondanya]

[akboro]

got adult money did childish stuff:)

can't wait for summer to be able to show it off 24/7

A'Tuin from Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld

[northwyrm]

Weird that Steven King's books have Maturin the world turtle vs Pratchett's A'tuin the world turtle - I know great cosmic turtles are a thing in mythology but it's the Maturin and A'tuin are very similar words. If you mumble them together like Ma'tuin no one would know which turt you meant. And I just checked, the turtles in mythology are called things like Akupara, Chuckwa and Ao so there's no need for the two most famous fictional turts to have such similar names.

Like if there was a world turtle in mythology called A'turin or something I would go "oh both these authors are riffing on the same mythological turtle" but no they just both decided to go for A'tuin/Matuin.

[tyrnn]

DracariOctober #27

Looks like we've arrived just in time to give poor ol' A'Tuin a much-needed break from carrying the entire Discworld and all four Elephants around! They're taking full advantage of the help today for a well earned day off! This year we're supporting the South Sound Reading Foundation in honor of Mondomonger/Axelroo. Thank you for being there for me for a decade! https://www.southsoundreading.org/ This year's interactions are going to be a little spicier! We're only going to be increasing heights by a little bit per interaction, but Donations will begin to exponentially compound the results! The earlier the bigger, the better, and borkier! Voting will be for the next day's theme! Since we're supporting a Literacy Foundation this year, I'll select four possible literary worlds to draw our Derggo into at their given height! Each one will only appear once, so vote carefully! So how do we make this Dracario bigger? You can help! Right now, here's how much Interactions are worth: Likes = 151.606km Retweets = 379.017km Voting in the Poll = 151.606km Explosive growth in the final week of DracariOctober! We're bigger than most of the literary WORLDS we're going to visit! What are we going to do? GROW BIGGER!! Every $1 donated will exponentially begin to increase these values per day, compounding +0.1% per dollar. That means the earlier you donate, the more growth it will compound down the line, and if my math checks out, he could be getting pretty huge, but will they stay on Earth? Only your donations will tell! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=H6ZB8M7EJ4QKE I will be counting Likes as Liking on Twitter or Favoriting on FurAffinity. I'd like to do more sites but I don't want to spend too much time collecting data when I could be doodling Derggo! Retweets will count both Twitter and Bluesky! Voting will count from the Twitter poll attached to the thread, or by visiting StrawPoll here: https://strawpoll.com/2ayLkKeLeZ4

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[fourdiagnosesinatrenchcoat]

I'm half an hour late my time but happy birthday Sir Terry Pratchett!

(this is my upper back)

[drhoz]

#2829 - Psephophorus terryprachetti - Pterry's Giant Pturtle

A very large, extinct, leatherback turtle from the Eocene, named after beloved author Terry Pratchett. He was pleased about this, saying that anybody that wasn't delighted about getting a species named after them was clearly a Pod being from the Planet Zog.

The first fossils from the genus were discovered by German Paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1846, but all he had were the dermal plates (not that different from the fossil above, really). That's probably why even by 1879, they still weren't clear on what it actually was - British paleotologist Harry Govier Seeley thought they resembled the armour of an armadillo.

The Pturtle was discovered in New Zealand in the 1990s. It would have been 2.5m long, in life.

Sadly, there's only one Dermochelyid turtle left in the world - the Leatherback Dermochelys coriacea, which is critically endangered in some areas. Leatherbacks are unique compared to other modern sea turtles because they lack a bony shell; instead, its carapace is covered by oily flesh and flexible, leathery skin. They're also the deepest-diving and fastest reptiles in the world, swimming down to over 1200m depth, at speeds of up to 35kph. Their constant activity and internal adaptations lets them run at a surprisingly high internal temperature - 18C above the surrounding water.

The biggest threat to leatherback survival is, unfortunately, humanity - hatchlings can be confused by artificial light and head inland instead of towards the water, older turtles are easily caught in fishing nets, and they can confuse plastic bags floating in the water for the jellyfish that form the bulk of their diet.

Otago Museum, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.

[beryllineart]

World Turtle Day

May 23rd is World Turtle Day, so I painted a picture of my favorite world turtle, the Great A'tuin from Discworld!

[calamitaswrath]

I have feelings about fantasy worlds

[ID: The "shoutout to women, gotta one of my favourite genders" meme edited to say "shoutout to unconventional fantasy world shapes, gotta be one of my favourite settings. I fw individual fantastical areas too if anyone was wondering". Several drawings and screencaps are edited in, such as the Discworld, Laputa from the Ghibli film Castle in the Sky, and the titans Bionis and Mechonis from Xenoblade Chronicles in the upper half. The lower half of the meme has has screencaps from Satorl Marsh and Valak Mountain from Xenoblade Chronicles and Sylvalum from Xenoblade Chronicles X edited in. End ID.]

[justafterjericho]

Here's my discworld folder for music sheets. À la - what I did during my summer singing camp at the and of August. But hey it did wake up my artistic soul, even though not the type it was arming at xD.

[pratchettquotes]

"I told you, I never made the world," said Om. "Why should I make the world? It was here already. And if I did make a world, I wouldn't make it a ball. People'd fall off. All the sea'd run off the bottom."

"Not if you told it to stay on."

"Hah! Will you hark at the man!"

"Besides, the sphere is a perfect shape," said Brutha. "Because in the Book of--"

"Nothing amazing about a sphere," said the tortoise. "Come to that, a turtle is a perfect shape."

"A perfect shape for what?"

"Well, the perfect shape for a turtle, to start with," said Om. "If it was shaped like a ball, it'd be bobbing to the surface the whole time."

"But it's a heresy to say the world is flat," said Brutha.

"Maybe, but it's true."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[hiihavebrainrot]

Honestly, flat earthers are so half-hearted.

If you're gonna claim we live on a disc, at least mention the four elephants (Berilia, Tubul, Great T'Phon, and Jerakeen) and the turtle (The Great A'Tuin). Come on now. And better give a nod to Ankh Morpork whilst you're at it.

[disgustiphage]

some of my old discworld paintings :D with the top two being based off the old cover for mort and one of the illustrations in the last hero