It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.

#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’

I absolutely think it is

I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.

I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.

Terry was a comedic genius

#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)

god DAMMIT

When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.

...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.

*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*

get out here Terry I just wanna talk

Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.

In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u. 

The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.

OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW

I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.

...And you could be sitting talking to him and something like the above would come out of his mouth, absolutely deadpan—and the conversation would continue just as it'd been going until suddenly the joke would land on/in your previously unsuspecting head. And you'd look at him and go "...?!!" —and his eyes (which you then realized had been glinting a little as he waited for you to get it) would crinkle and he'd just keep going.

The king of comic timing. Absolutely without peer. And to do it on the page as well? Genius.

Another throwaway joke: two noble families in Ankh-Morpork who intensely but very politely loathe each other are the Selachii and the Venturi.

The Sharks and the Jets...

(Oh, and Vetinari's school nickname was, for a double, "Dog-Botherer"; not just veterinary but god-botherer reversed.)

Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!

happy too tired July everyone

I just saw a story on AO3 tagged "pet p!ay"

TIK TOK MUST BE STOPPED BEFORE IT DESTROYS LANGUAGE

Ok, unless something's going on I'm not aware of (extremely likely), I gotta point out the term "Pet Play" is significantly older than Tik Tok, or most of its userbase for that matter.

Yeah, I'm not mad about using the term "pet play". That's a perfectly fine term. I'm mad because they didn't use that term: they used "pet p!ay", a censored version

Oh. Oh gawd I missed that. Objection withdrawn, that is objectively terrible.

To anybody who is new to posting on ao3, if you’re using a tag you have to use the correct spelling of that tag. People aren’t going to type in every version of a censored word to hide or look for your content 

For everyone new to tumblr, the same rule applies to tumblr too.

You cannot censor your tags! Censored tags cannot be block or filtered. Censoring tags HARMS your audience, it does not protect them

One important thing that you should do as a queer person is to find another queer person whose brain works just like yours (romantically or not) and then adopt a cat together and then finally steal that fucking Pikachu and make it big

Got his ass together in three words

David Szymanski is like the funniest game developer I have seen I swear

I think now that queens dead they should have her stuffed and put on display in Cairo for the next 150 years.

BLAZE REJECTED MY POST WOW LOL

We'll make sure at least 100k people see it for free then.

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

Just don't fly too close to the sun.

Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant

every time i see the word peonies without context

I MAY NOT KNOW MY FLOWERS

BUT I KNOW A

This is a marigold:

This is a peony:

And this is a bitch

there aren’t enough posts going around about the swedish cryptid known as the skvader which is a rabbit with pheasant wings and also a very good boy.

like this one dude just made a fake taxidermy and spread it around as a hoax for a good ass while and it lead to this really cool fantasy creature and i am genuinely dissapointed that it never gets used in anything

THE BOY

Rabbirds, by the amazing @tkingfisher/Ursula Vernon (source).  

The lack of skvaders is particularly frustrating when you realize it forms the third point of a wonderful cryptid trifecta.

You got the jackalopes, which are rabbits with antlers.

And you got the wolpertingers, which are rabbits with antlers and wings.

And then… what? Do you escalate? That’s unbalanced, those two rabbit cryptids don’t have the same number of extra things, the wolpertinger is clearly the jackalope But More.

BUT with the skvader on the other side, balance is restored. Antler rabbit, winged rabbit, winged antler rabbit. It’s a classic Venn diagram of imaginary lapine beasts, and it’s only complete if you acknowledge the fucking skvader.

Good thing Ursula’s got our back, at least.

This is a really excellent point and I applaud your advancements in Cryptid Theory.

Gentleman, if I might add:

yes you may add this

I think balance in crypdids is VERY IMPORTANT.

if its called final fantasy why are th

why are ther

wh

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gotta share @telesilla’s tags -

#that was (give or take) around the time of the bronze age collapse #crete was no longer a major player #and the known world was kinda in turmoil #and yet someone planted an olive tree #i’m not saying there’s a direct parallel #but you know…systemic collapse thanks to many things including climate change #and it sucked for a lot of people #but they still needed olive oil #and idk man…maybe plant a tree #because the world has ended so many times #but the tree is still here #and so are we

the world has ended so many times but the tree is still here and so are we

Hey! Question for writers. How do you do that

Most of the time, no damn idea.

It’s the Caterpillar Idiom thing. Once you figure out your own version of the basics, you go forward and don’t pay more attention than you can help to what your legs are doing.

Unless I’ve got it wrong it’s not caterpillars (hunting-wasp food anyway) it’s caterpillars or millipedes.

Don’t think about how something that complicated works - that it works at all is enough for now, or at least until second draft.. :->

Sometimes two brilliant writers will both fail to write the word centipede and write the word caterpillar instead. This only happens when you start asking them how they do the thing they do.

Take this as a lesson.

Although the thing that centipedes and millipedes do is pretty explicable. The thing that caterpillars do, where they make a cocoon and then digest themselves into a liquid caterpillar soup and then use the protein-rich soup to build a butterfly that somehow still remembers things the caterpillar learned. That's weird, and probably more like what writers do. Which, I am certain, is why both Diane and Peter went there. Also both words begin with C.

heartbreaking: none of artist's other songs are as much of a banger as the song I discovered the artist by

In a world where everything is monthly subscription play to win ad break commercial break sponsored by product placement social media ad campaign tiktok viral trending I like to trawl thrift shops for CDs DVDs cassette tapes and VHS like a post apocalyptic space age survivor scrounging twinkies and powdered kool-aid from the wreckage of a demolished gas station, rifle slung over my shoulder and a bandanna over my face to keep the fumes out while my loyal stray dog companion watches our backs for Roach People and nomadic biker gangs

something about "I paid money for a tangible thing that nobody can take away from me that I can watch a bazillion times if I want to, that belongs to me until it is stolen or I break it" is very comforting, and not something I expected to appreciate when I was a small child imagining the future

the worst thing abt gay peers my age is that i cant tell who im allowed to say faggot around and who will go on tiktok and make a video about me saying faggot around them

my bad TW: tiktok

Thank you for this one actually

a weird amount of Fandom People but internet leftists in general seem to be completely unable to separate discomfort from harm

there’s like zero consideration for what the scale or context is or if the discomfort is based on anything objectively harmful it’s just one person saying “i’m uncomfortable” with whatever motivations they might have and suddenly it’s causing grave harm to an entire group of marginalized people and anyone who doesn’t agree is a bad malicious person

this is how we get people banning depictions of pre op/non op trans people from trans zines bc one person is Uncomfortable with it and then it gets phrased as like. we are banning anything but the most perfect of cis passing trans people as a way of Combating harmful trans fetishizing and we are eternally grateful to this one guy who was uncomfortable with anything else. this is a real example btw

People should be uncomfortable occasionally. It’s good for you.

one time another trans guy accused me of trans fetishization because i drew a trans man who, quote, “looks like a girl”, and it was making him dysphoric, when the character in question was a self-insert based on the way i look irl

"this makes me uncomfortable" and "this is bad" are two ENTIRELY SEPARATE STATEMENTS and it is honestly STUNNING how many people conflate the two.

Even if something is upsetting to you that doesn’t mean it is harming you.

going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise

Just realized my married friends can never commit the sin of premarital sex again how fucked up is that

Sad! Oh well, there’s other sins.

Name 5

I can name 7

Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.

@coyotecure your tags have me cackling omfg

Mystery dog…

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

The Spanish: Look at this animal we brought with us.

Native Americans: oh that’s a uh. Weird fucking dog you got there.