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i hate it here

lyrics from the song is "I Hate It Here" by Taylor Swift. I litsened to it and immediately thought of him.

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thinking about their peaceful morning in the cottage

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Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy.  

The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved - loved - civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.   He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) - he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.

As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.

In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.

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Guess who’s back. Back again.

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

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Formless Oedon

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OOOH!!! I've seen many of the extras and documentaries for that, but I'm not sure if I've seen this one yet, thank you so much for sharing!!

I'm curious, for shows, when is the score recorded? Sometimes it seems like the music is matched exactly with the beats of a conversation or line. I'm wondering if that's because it's lined up in editing or if the music is done close to last and it's conducted to match the show, or a combination. Thanks!

The music is normally written after the picture is "locked". So the composer can and often does score the music around the conversations.

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This is crackpot, but what if Maggie is an agent of Heaven,

and she's deliberately trying to get Aziraphale to forgive her, or to see what else he'd do?

And then when he does forgive the rent, and he leaves, she's happy because yay! Aziraphale clearly is still on their side?

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adult hood is just

*buys a half gallon of milk* *uses it all within a few days* *decided to buy a gallon of milk to not run out before next shopping trip* *uses a teaspoon of milk that week and it goes bad somehow* *buys a quart of milk instead so it won’t go bad* *uses it in one day* *buys a quart and a half gallon of milk because the gallon was too much but the half gallon was not enough* *only uses the half gallon* *gives up on milk for a few days in general* *buys a gallon of milk again just to tempt fate* *somehow uses all of it without realizing and then has to eat sad cereal with like the 5 drops of remaining milk*

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"Trust me"

Episode 1, 19m50s: "Either call on the phone to talk or appear mysteriously, don't do both." "Why not?" "ngk, trust me"

Episode 2, 37m30s: "Do exactly what I say, trust me" (Crowley to Sitis)

Episode 3, 33m43s: "Trust me, if Hell noticed that little display, I'd already be - "

Episode 4, 30m30s: Aziraphale to Crowley before bullet catch

I haven't had a chance to comb through episodes 5 and 6 yet, but it feels significant to me that this phrase is used once per episode (so far).

Thoughts?

PSA/reminder to not ask Neil about this or any meta!

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Ooh interesting, thanks for sharing!

Yes, I've performed with orchestras for musical theater, so that's what got me thinking it could be very exact like that. The conductor gives cues based on what's on stage, so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary that something similar would be happening with TV as well! Just without the actors having to follow the conductor too lol.

I'm curious, for shows, when is the score recorded? Sometimes it seems like the music is matched exactly with the beats of a conversation or line. I'm wondering if that's because it's lined up in editing or if the music is done close to last and it's conducted to match the show, or a combination. Thanks!

The music is normally written after the picture is "locked". So the composer can and often does score the music around the conversations.

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Thank you! Very cool 💜🎶

I'm curious, for shows, when is the score recorded? Sometimes it seems like the music is matched exactly with the beats of a conversation or line. I'm wondering if that's because it's lined up in editing or if the music is done close to last and it's conducted to match the show, or a combination. Thanks!

The music is normally written after the picture is "locked". So the composer can and often does score the music around the conversations.

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All it means when people say “you’re speaking from a place of privilege” is that you’re likely to underestimate how bad the problem is by default because you are never personally exposed to that problem. It’s not a moral judgement of how difficult your life is.

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we need more dials and knobs and levers again. this world is lacking in dials and knobs and levers. it's one of our biggest issues.

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🙄 okay y'all I'm from a cold climate and I like it cold. 60 is not "warm", come on. smh

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