#gloompun

[nivq87]

@gloompun

Sorry for all the pings as I try to figure out wtf I wanna do formatting wise.

I’m uncertain what your starting knowledge of it is so forgive me if I’m rehashing stuff you’ve already heard. Discworld is a set of books written by the late Terry Pratchett, and they’re all fantasy (which is more or less relevant depending on the book), comedy, and satire that riffs on a bunch of topics. Reccing a starter book is always a fun and tricky time because if you ask literally any discworld fan for a reading order you’ll get a very long answer and it’ll be different from the next guy because we’re all Very enthusiastic to get people to read it and Very opinionated on the ideal path.

That’s because with one exception (sorta), every book really does just stand on its own? There’s a bunch of mini series that do have continuity, but knowing what happened before is nice but really important because each book deals with what it’s about and he’ll tell you any important context as it comes up. Like I honestly read them first in whatever order I could borrow them from my library and what I found in stores or on amazon (back when they primarily just sold books lol) and that really does just work fine. I’ve got more to say but if you wanted to just stop reading here with my blessing to go crazy go stupid and just read blurbs until something vibes that’s A okay.

That said I would steer clear of the first 2-3 books he wrote for discworld, not because they’re bad (I like them quite a lot!) but because they’re not really representative of what the series becomes. He’s still very noticeably figuring out what he wants to do with this space in the first two, and is more firm on it through the third. By the fourth book, Mort, the foundations of the world are a lot more defined and it starts the voice of the books that carries until the last couple books when his health went on the decline. So like, if come bell or high water you decide to follow him through his process from the beginning because starting in the middle feels too off putting, you Can go for The Colour of Magic which is immediately followed by The Light Fantstic, but just know that the vibes’ll change. But it’s about this wizard named Rincewind who very much wishes things would stop happening to him and the disc’s first ever tourist Twoflower who Loves when things happen so he can take a picture of it and remember it for his memoire. Meanwhile Rincewind is trying his very best to not let them die.

If you wanted to start where I did, you can start with The Wee Free Men which is YA, and since most of them are not, it like, doesn’t have much to do with anything else going on for the first couple books in the Tiffany Aching series. The first book is about the coming of age of Tiffany, who recently decided that she wanted to be a witch because she likes knowing things, and the people in her community somewhat recently killed this old lady for being a witch, but was really probably just old and lonely in her isolation. As she’s making these resolutions a faerie queen steals her younger brother and she takes issue with that, and with the help of some funny little blue men that really like to test the age rating of this book, go on An Adventure to get her brother back.

If you want a lot to chew on afterwords as far as fanfic goes, you can start with the city watch series in Guards! Guards! and follow Samuel Vimes on his road to recovery from his alcoholism as he tries to live up to his ideals of what a watchman should be and oh gosh oh fuck oh beans why the hell is a dragon here burning shit? Better consult an expert, except that expert is a lady who breeds dragons but those dragons are a sneeze a way from a messy alchemical explosion and the group of ladies whose hyperfixation this is are like if quilting groups were horse breeders. I’m sure this won’t be relevant. Tumblr girlies love love love shipping vimes so if fan content is something you want to be sure of, this is a good pick. The city watch books also happen to be my personal favorites.

Speaking of tumblr girlies, everyone seems to be big into Monstrous Regiment again? Very fun one off (not part of a series) about Polly who is trying to recover her brother who went off to war, and basically mulans it to figure out where he is if he’s still alive. Except whoops! The new recruits she’s trying to fake it amongst are Also women who joined up for one reason or another. There’s a lot of queer and trans vibes here honestly which is pretty cool for something that was published in 2003. (Although not what I would argue is the first, that one is in the city watch books and I’ll expand if you want.

If the Tiffany books seemed interesting but you’re not in the mood for YA, then the witches series is like that but more mature, where Wyrd Sisters is a comedic riffing of hamlet and macbeth. (Technically the second book in the witches series, but the first is Equal Rites and is pratchetts third book that I mentioned is somewhat tonally different from everything else.)

In a similar vein if Rincewind trying to survive sounded fun, but you’re deciding to not start at the Very beginning like most advise, then Sourcery is the third book in the Rincewind series, someone too OP to exist hits the scene like a brick in a sock to the face… and Rincewind copes by… running away. Except there’s problems literally everywhere? Maybe more running will save him?

There’s more than 40 books, and that’s some starting points, but if you wanna click around and maybe get spoilers if you scroll too far, there’s also the wiki (which isn’t fandom blessedly) most of these have lil blurbs on em and quite a few have plot synopsis so if that’s territory you’re willing to tread here’s Literally Everything lmao. The only things on here I haven’t read at least once are The Science of Discworld mini series, so if there’s anything you want further opinions on feel free to dm me or something.

https://wiki.lspace.org/Bibliography

[heresylog]

i’ve enjoyed reading through your different posts contemplating extraterrestrial life, i was curious if you had any thoughts about artificial intelligence/robots/cyborgs?? i’m esp curious about theseus’s ship type things, if there’s a point of robotic-ness would opinion could change

Hi GloomPun,

Thank you for reading through my aliens tag. The robot/AI question is hard to decipher. It’s hard to know when something is imitating emotions and morality or actually experiencing it.

I suppose I would say if it gets to a point where AI is able to create and adapt its own code: it is alive.

[letpapersleep]

who are you really by mikky ekko for the song thing

couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ✨ok i really like this | downloading immediately✨ | already in my library

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@gloompun and i both got 4's on our Ap Studio art exams and i'm so so so extremely proud because that class was ASS and i'm so happy that we got CLOSE TO PERFECT SCORES LIKE WTFFFFF!!!!! YEZZZ

[gloompun]

truereset replied to your post “anyway on that note dimple sexe dont @ me”

@gloompun​ you fuckrer i trusted you

fuck you and heres why

1. i am a monster fucker. we know this. idr if we reconnected before or after venom but obv that shit was hot as fuck. nonhuman????? vaguely potentially malicious but not actually????? yes 

2. possession. listen. sexy concept from the get go like consensual possession is the hottest thing ok for so many reasons. like 1 you can look like whoever u want whenever you want (WITH the signature cheeks its just good design baby) AND if you’re possessing ur ~*lover*~ or whatever imagine the care. the emotional support. the stability. im a lonely system with a few complexes leave me alone. this is also why venom big sexe. 

3. security gaurd aint that ugly but its for cowards. at times, i am a coward. 

4. in my mind??? nonbinary icon??? like how could u just be free floatin like that for so long and reasonably have a typical mortal understanding of gender and sexuality. dimple is the lgbt community. 

5. hes essentially a divorced dad and like come on

6. my stance, and i cannot stress this enough, has nothing to do with my kins. this is purely a me-now issue. dimple big sexe and id raw him daily. maybe even let him raw me. watch him raw someone else. 

[marksarthell]

Yo! Request for @gloompun !!!

[rekincarnation]

ohh!! i should mention!! i follow from my main, gloompun!!

[nivq87]

>:3c

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[nivq87]

I am being NERFED @gloompun

[nivq87]

guessing thing; age 28??, pronouns they i think and i think nonbinary, sssagitarius or capricorn, nah for romance, eye color hazel, wow hobby, innnntroveted?, wwinter or spring

Pretty close on a lot of that! Pretty flattered I come off as a bit older than I am.

[letpapersleep]

@gloompun baby me went hard as hell i once dug a hole under a fence & slipped thru it