https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on

What a beautiful article to honour #SirTerryPratchett on his death anniversary.

"Nah," he said, eventually. "I've looked at the colours on flowers. They're definitely built-in."

Terry Pratchett, Diggers

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People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.

Terry Pratchett, alt.books.pratchett

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"I can bite your leg if you like."

Gaspode the wonder dog
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

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Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like a red flag to a bu-- was like putting something very annoying in front of someone who was annoyed by it.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

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‘I thought, in Nature, the defeated animal just rolls on its back in submission and that’s an end of it,’ said Vimes, as they clattered after the disappearing swamp dragon.

‘Wouldn’t work with dragons,’ said Lady Ramkin. ‘Some daft creature rolls on its back, you disembowel it. That’s how they look at it. Almost human, really.’

(from Guards! Guards!)

As castles went, this one looked as though it could be taken by a small squad of not very efficient soldiers. For defence, putting a blanket over your head might be marginally safer.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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"It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse."

The Four Horsemen of the Apocralypse encounterunexpected difficulties
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

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Every time I read a Pratchett book I'm overawed by his use of language. For example, from The Truth:

"[The dog] walked with a limp and also in a kind of oblique fashion, as though it was trying to insinuate its way through the world."

That's an incredible sentence.

God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who *smiles all the time*.

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

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I missed the 10 year anniversary of Terry's death, but the #gnuterrypratchett hashtag is a great way to find good people on the fediverse, so there's that.

I am reading "Jingo" for the first time as it is a way to avoid doomscrolling through my lunch break and if I ever needed reminding, Tez was spot on about everything all the time.

Hello fellow Pratchett fans. I got a question from a discord I'm in and thought it could be an interesting discussion for here as well:

Chrysoprase: liverpudlian, or italian?

I can see both myself. In the old animation he's definitely more Italian coded but some things definitely leans towards a more homegrown British background.

Ideas? Thoughts?

10 years already since Sir Terry heard „IT IS TIME“. I wonder how that exchange went.

How lucky we are to have been born in his lifetime and be welcomed to his world.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/terry-pratchett-10-year-anniversary-death-b2713775.html