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Reread Equal Rites recently. I used to think it was about feminism and little girls getting the same opportunities as little boys. Which, it isn't not about that. But ALSO.

It's about an intersex kid.

It's about a little girl born with a staff.

And that's Not Right.

The adults in the room- her father, the 'medical professional'- attempt to remove the staff, by blade and by fire. The fresh little baby SCREAMS. So they agree to pretend it doesn't exist. She'll probably grow up just a regular little girl.

right?

But just around the onset of puberty..... it becomes apparent, not to her, but to the adults, that she's not going to be Regular.

The medical professional tries again to rectify matters. She tries to destroy the staff while the girl is unconscious. The girl screams. The adults give in. They aren't monsters.... but life will be so much harder, so much less foreseen, for this strange little girl....

They try to raise her 'right'.

If she won't be a conventional woman... maybe an unconventional woman. A Powerful woman- in the way that women can be powerful. Are permitted to be powerful.

But she's not a woman- she's a child. What will she be, when she's grown? A Witch. A Wizard. She can't be either. She can't be neither.

(The term 'warlock' is repeatedly invoked and scoffed. The etymology of 'warlock' is 'breaker of oaths'. Counter to the covenant. Rulebreaker.)

Right.

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Jason Ogg pulled Magrat aside. “Our Sean read to me in the almanac where there's all these fearsome wild beasts in foreign parts,” he whispered. “Huge hairy things that leap out on travelers, it said. I'd hate to think what'd happen if they leapt out on mum and Granny.” Magrat looked up into his big red face. “You will see no harm comes to them, won't you,” said Jason. “Don't you worry,” she said, hoping that he needn't. “I'll do my best.” Jason nodded. “Only it said in the almanac that some of them were nearly extinct anyway,” he said.

Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett

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One of my favorite things about Terry Pratchett's books is their unique relationship with used bookstores. Particularly because they are difficult to find, for three reasons. The first reason is that they aren't there. Books in used bookstores were once owned by other people, people who decided to let that book go in the hopes that it will find someone new who will love it. It's very difficult to let go of a Terry Pratchett book. The second reason is that, if they make it into a store, they never stay there very long. They're usually purchased less than a few days after their arrival.

The third reason is my favorite: if they made it to the bookstore, and remained unnoticed, it's because the spine is worn. It's been read and loved so much it's almost unrecognizable from the spine. I've never found a used Terry Pratchett book without a cracked spine, and I love it. Cracked spines, stained pages, worn covers, these are the physical signs of love that we leave on our favorite books, and every Terry Pratchett book I've found in a used bookstore has been loved, dearly.

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Has anyone with more skills than me made an "accidentally became important at work and it's ruining my life" meme for Moist?

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Oh, by the way, there are already 10 covers!

Witches are next

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an Angel

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"This is Ankh-Morpork, you know. We've got extra pronouns here." from “Feet of Clay” is such a fucking baller line to drop

Angua Von Überwald really said trans rights and took her new bestie to a gay bar

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The trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.

Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett

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Sir Terry Pratchett awakens. A skeleton stands at his bedside, wearing a long black robe. He sits up. “Well, hang on, let me get my hat,” he tells it.

The skeleton reaches into its robe. From abyssal depths it produces a heavy book bound in sheets of lead and night. It is the kind of book that gets stolen by a rugged adventurer from a temple with more spike-traps than the average house of worship contains. It is the kind of book to which the word “tome” might properly be applied. Frost forms on its pages from the lingering chill of the void. 

The skeleton coughs once and holds the book out to the man sitting on the bed.

WOULD YOU SIGN THIS? it asks. BIG FAN.

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If Pratchett were alive, he'd make a thing about Troll boba tea, which would literally contain marbles, getting really big, and all of the dwarves being too embarrassed to admit they like it

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"What will happen when we hit the ground?"

"That depends if I can find some soft rocks," said Granny in a preoccupied voice.

"The broomstick's going to crash! Can't we do anything?"

"Well, I suppose we could get off."

"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."

Eskarina Smith and Granny Weatherwax, Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett

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Happy Glorious 25th of May.

Here's to Truth, Justice, Reasonably-Priced Love and, if we can swing it, a Hard-Boiled Egg.

It feels like the 25th came early this year.

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A glorious 25th of May to all of you.

Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!

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Also, why did nobody tell me that Reaper Man has the wildest B plot. The A plot is like this deeply moving, intensely aesthetic meditation on mortality and time, but the B plot is the wizards get sent to the Backrooms

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“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

Sir Terry Pratchett

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Posts that are PTerry coded

A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.