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canisalbus · 8 months

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the art you made of plushie machete and vasco is SO CUTE, would it be alright by you if i tried sewing them?? I’d tag ya if i posted pics of ‘em anywhere, of course ☺️

If you like them that much, sure! Tag me/send me pictures if you do, I'd love to see.

#a couple of people have expressed their interest in making their own plush versions of them #I don't have anything against that I think it's really sweet #this goes without saying but just try to treat them nicely they're very dear to me #answered #variousnumbers

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emotoothtiger · 5 years

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Somerset Maughan, Terry and DEATH ( with Rincewind )

Ohgawdblimey

In that speech, Pratchett mentions and recommends the story "An Appointment In Samarra." I googled it (as he suggested), and have just tweaked Somerset Maugham's version here to be a little more Pratchett-esque.

"The Appointment in Samarra"

(as retold by W. Somerset Maugham, 1933)

The narrator is Death.

There was a merchant in Baghdad who sent his servant to market to buy provisions and in a little while the servant came back, white and trembling, and said,

“Master, just now when I was in the marketplace I was jostled by a man in the crowd and when I turned I saw it was Death that jostled me. He looked at me and made a threatening gesture. Now, lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra and there Death will not find me.”

The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.

Then the merchant went down to the marketplace and he saw me standing in the crowd and he came to me and said,

“Why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when you saw him this morning?” “THAT WAS NOT A THREATENING GESTURE,” I said, “IT WAS ONLY A START OF SURPRISE. I WAS ASTONISHED TO SEE HIM IN BAGHDAD, FOR I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH HIM TONIGHT IN SAMARRA.”

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Very similar to what happens in the Colour of Magic when Death and Rincewind meet in Ankh Morpork. Death talks to Rincewind about having an appointment with him that evening.

Death: I WAS SURPRISED YOU JOSTLED ME. RINCEWIND, FOR I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEE THIS VERY NIGHT

Rincewind: "Oh no, not-" Death: OF COURSE , WHAT'S SO BLOODY VEXING ABOUT THE WHOLE BUSINESS IS THAT I WAS EXPECTING TO MEET YOU IN PSEPHOPOPOLIS

Rincewind: "But that's five hundred miles away!

Death: YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL ME, THE WHOLE SYSTEMS GOT SCREWED UP AGAIN, I CAN SEE THAT. LOOK, THERE'S NO CHANCE OF YOU--?

Rincewind; "Not a chance"

Death: I COULD LEND YOU A VERY FAST HORSE

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