#Great A'Tuin

[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.]

[iconuk01]

40th Anniversary Discworld stamps, art by Paul Kidby

[gillyburnsthings]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Turtles All the Way Down would have been a perfect title for a Discworld book

[pratchettquotes]

"You know, I never meant for people to believe in the Turtle," said Didactylus unhappily. "It's just a big turtle. It just exists. Things just happen that way. I don't think the Turtle gives a damn. I just thought it might be a good idea to write things down and explain things a bit."

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[haaaaaaaaaaaave-you-met-ted]

Discworld by Josh Kirby

[dragon-inc]

[fiction-quotes]

Great A'Tuin the star turtle, shell frosted with frozen membrane, pitted with meteor craters, and scoured with asteroidal dust. Great A'Tuin, with eyes like ancient seas and a brain the size of a continent through which thoughts moved like little glittering glaciers. Great A'Tuin of the great slow sad flippers and star-polished carapace, labouring through the galactic night under the weight of the Disc. As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.

Actually, the philosophers have got it all wrong. Great A'Tuin is in fact having a great time.

Great A'Tuin is the only creatures in the entire universe that knows exactly where it is going.

Of course, philosophers have debated for years about where Great A'Tuin might be going, and have often said how worried they are that they might never find out.

They're due to find out in about two months. And then they're really going to worry...

  —  The Light Fantastic (Terry Pratchett)

[phageinoculum]

oh yeah i meant to share this before and forgot lol

turtle....

(i didn’t really try to reference the world map very carefully lol)

[siphersaysstuff]

So mom got me this for mah birthday...

I think she understands me.

[justafterjericho]

Discworld box. The colouring is still very much unfinished, but I have to say I'm already quite proud how it's turning out as a whole. Now I just have to not mess up the rest xD.

[cirruscastle]

Discworld

[approximateknowledge]

ok so ive been thinking for a while about a homestuck x discworld crossover (there's a remarkable amount of overlap), and i had a

thought

so, great a'tuin, right? the big turtle carrying the disc. where is it *going*, really. well, we know it's not particularly sentient; fundamentally it's a turtle. so what motivates it? why would it travel so far?

i see 2 options

-to find a mate

-to find food

and what do sea turtles eat?

jellyfish!

a'tuin is swimming to the edge of the universe, to pierce the skin of the frog, and gorge itself on the biggest jellyfish in all of paradox-space

a'tuin eats horrorterrors

it's their natural enemy! the one reality-bending impossible existence above them in the food chain. this narrative black hole that devours the eldritch for litteral lunch

[henryleinart]

The great A'Tuin.

[pratchettquotes]

There was no analogy for the way in which Great A'Tuin the world turtle moved against the galactic night. When you are ten thousand miles long, your shell pocked with meteor craters and frosted with comet ice, there is absolutely nothing you can realistically be like except yourself.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

[theroguescientist]

apparently, it’s a thing.