#Source: Terry Pratchett

[danganronpafakes]

Himiko: A wizard without a hat was just a sad man with a suspicious taste in clothes.

Source: Terry Pratchett (“The Last Continent”)

[incorrect-niche-quotes]

Likh: The female mind is certainly a devious one.

Zoya: Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.

[abomination-unto-nuggan]

Discworld Incorrect Quotes #1

Moist: So, what, now I’m just supposed to do anything that Vetinari does? I mean, what if he jumped off a cliff?

Drumknott: If Vetinari was to jump off a cliff, he would’ve done his due diligence regarding the height of the cliff, the depth of the water, and the angle of entry, so yes. If you see Vetinari jump off a cliff, by all means, jump off a cliff.

Moist: You jump off a cliff!

Drumknott: Gladly. Provided Vetinari did first.

[quote-of-the-whenever]

"Humans need fantasy to BE human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. 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."

"But they're not the same at all."

"You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder, and siv it through the finest sieve, and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the order. As if there is some...some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

But...but people have to believe that, or else what's the point?!

"Precisely. You need to believe in things that aren't true.

How else can they become so?"

[prowl-mun]

Charlie: There are better things in the world than alcohol, Husk.

Husk:  "Oh, yes, Charlie. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

[theineffableoystercatcher]

Nie Huaisang: Do you think there’s anything to eat in this forest?

Jiang Cheng: Yes. Us.

[veganineden]

How I Came to Love Good Omens

The official Good Omens account asked to use my cosplay selfie for the recent, "Who is the Crowley to your Aziraphale?" posts on Twitter and Instagram to promote Season 2 (greatest moment of my cosplay career, that) and I was waiting to see if they would post it to Tumblr so I could sweep in with my fun Good Omens fan origin story and possibly get @neil-gaiman to chuckle but it has not yet happened, so we're going with the old-fashioned text post method.

In college I was an English Lit major. I had a few author-specific classes, including one on Sir Terry Pratchett. (Yes, I wrote academic papers on Discworld.)⁣ ⁣ Ever since, if I happened across a Terry Pratchett book on a shelf somewhere, I read it.

Late Spring of 2019, I was at my friend’s place and saw Good Omens wedged between a few other books in her collection. I vaguely recognized the title, saw “Pratchett,” and asked to borrow it.⁣ I zipped through it, finishing it on my train ride home from work later that week—and, this is the best part— all done, I checked my emails.

I am subscribed to Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s Word of the Day. There was the day’s word in my inbox:⁣ ⁣ Ineffable. ⁣

I cracked up loudly and then tweeted about it with the hashtag #GoodOmens, and was then VERY confused two little dudes popped up next to the hashtag. Why on earth was there an icon for a novel as old as me? ⁣ I clicked around and discovered a series was airing soon on Prime. I was very excited about it. No, I did not realize at the time how much it would come to mean to me, but I was tickled by the coincidence/fate of it all anyway.

[divinekangaroo]

Was amused by the description of pb as ‘the toxic masculinity show’ because like…yes? And also ‘the toxic relationship w one’s ethnicity’ show and ‘the toxic femininity’ show and and and….

I mean the description only makes me feel reactive because it comes across with pejorative and dismissive undertones, with a fair dose of simplistic binary moralising. It is a toxic masculinity show but the label’s about as useful as a fifth prong on a four-prong fork

[lonepower]

i can't do this again, man

[silelda]

Gov: Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos were lightning, then Florida would be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armor and shouting 'All gods are bastards.'

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Today, Prime Video announced that it has confirmed that the global, fan-favorite series Good Omens will return for a third and final season. They have confirmed, as follows:

• The third season will comprise of one 90 minute episode starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant who return as the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley, respectively. • Prime Video is delighted to bring its global customers a gripping conclusion to the ineffable journey between Aziraphale and Crowley. • Production is expected to begin in early 2025 in Scotland and the third season will premiere on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. • The forthcoming season will bring to life a serendipitous conversation from almost 35 years ago, between the late Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, where they mapped out “what happens next” to the wonderful characters in the world of their internationally best-selling novel. • The first season of Good Omens launched globally as a limited series on Prime Video in May 2019, and became a worldwide hit. This led to the series being renewed for a second season, which premiered in July 2023, and explored storylines that went beyond the original source material to illuminate the ineffable friendship between Aziraphale (Michael Sheen), a fussy angel and rare-book dealer, and the fast-living demon Crowley (David Tennant). • Rob Wilkins of Narrativia, representing Terry Pratchett’s estate, as well as BBC Studios Productions’ head of comedy Josh Cole will executive produce. Good Omens is based on the well-loved novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Sir Terry Pratchett and Gaiman. The new season is produced by Amazon MGM Studios, BBC Studios Productions, and Narrativia. • While Gaiman has contributed to the writing of the Good Omens series finale, he will not be working on the production.

my musings:

Shouldn't it have been a series of six episodes?

It should have yeah. It should have been 6 episodes so the seasons would make 666, now it's 661.

Is Neil Gaiman involved?

According to the press he will not be working on it as such though he "contributed to the writing", I mean the third season is based on what he and Terry had outlined together and he started to write into the scripts so I guess it couldn't be done without?

Tell me some good news

uuuuh, *racks my brain*

It is not cancelled completely (like OFMD for example :(), so we still might get the cottage?

Since there will be less of it then there will also be less post production and we might get it sooner?

Ta-da. (sorry)

And

[scarecloud69]

Terry Pratchett really knew how to make het ships, huh?

refs under cut

Vimes and Sybila: The bride and the ugly ass groom

Magrat and Verence: I trased this back to the future fanart (that is why it is so much better then rest lol) based on this meme ofc

Carrot and Angua: The source is this famous little mermaid comic but I was inspired by this dungeon meshi fanart

Adora and Moist: This ship dynamic post

[abomination-unto-nuggan]

Incorrect Discworld Quotes #2

Drumknott: An office is a place to live life to the fullest, to the max, to… an office is a place where dreams come true.

[catsvrsdogscatswin]

I started reading Discworld earlier this year –because I figured it's a cultural treasure and I may as well get around to it by now– and like, I knew something about Terry's ability to sneak underhanded puns into the texts –I've seen the posts. I'd also read Good Omens, even if at that point I couldn't disentangle who was writing what.

So I entered the books fully like the Stay back, slut meme, except regarding wordplay. I was reading with a fine-toothed comb. I was squinting at every name and testing every phoneme. Not necessarily because I don't like puns or didn't enjoy the idea of getting caught by surprise, mind you, just that I'd heard very good things about Terry Prachett's humor and I didn't want to miss any of his jokes and with wordplay stuff if you don't catch it, you'll never know it existed.

I caught a lot of stuff, and even when I didn't get some of the references (the series stretches across a lot of decades I wasn't born in) I could still at least tell when he was making them. I made it out of my grand read with a pat on the back and a certain pleasure in the knowledge that I had enough pop-culture and etymological awareness to not let Terry pull a fast one on me.

In classic Pratchett fashion, turns out I was dead wrong.

I was rereading Soul Music, because even if I'm late to the party I still enjoyed the Discworld books immensely, and I got to the scene where a bunch of schmucks with no music knowledge (or talent) are infected by the spirit of rock n' roll and descend in a horde upon a guitar shop. The owner starts off trying to sell them decent instruments, but, soon realizing his new flow of customers couldn't play a triangle and are more interested in the look of the thing anyways, he promptly starts pulling out his scrappiest, crappiest pseudo-instruments (Ankh-Morpok, amiright) and sticking a bunch of paint, glitter, and ankh-stones on them for the look of things before selling them at marked-up prices.

Ankh-stones were first mentioned in Sourcery, I think, and were used in the creation of the fake Archchancellor's hat. They get mentioned in other books on and off as a source of bedazzlement that's pretty clearly meant to be a riff on rhinestones. First time I read about them, I went "oh what a nice little bit of worldbuilding, of course some gems would get named after local stuff" and thought no more on it. But like…

Ankh-stones.

Rhinestones. Rhine-stones.

The infamously nasty River Ankh that flows(?) through Ankh-Morpok, and the River Rhine, a real river that exists.

I just about swore and hit the table when I clocked that one, because I went into the series ready for it, I was looking for it, and Terry still fuckin' got me good.

[prowl-mun]

Lucifer: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom?

[theineffableoystercatcher]

Lan Sizhui: Wei Wuxian says, when life hands you a mess of spaghetti, just keep pulling until you find the meatball.