Mine was The Colour of Magic because it was one we had and was the first published, and I thought I should start at the start.
Sometimes I wonder if these books are, as a collective series, some kind of eldritch abomination with a mind of their own.
Silly idea, really, because it's so obviously true. Books are magical, even if they don't look it. You can tell because looking at them makes people do and feel and see all sorts, conjuring mental images through the refractive lens of the mind's eye or giving them the desire to make things or even convince people they can make things they can't yet but given a page or two more and suddenly the whole universe is opened up and, despite having only looked at some arbitrary symbols on a thin wavy tree sliver, suddenly they can.
This is 1:50 in the morning. No idea if I'm lucid or mad. Probably a mix of both and some fatigue for seasoning. Good morrow.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, you do not decide which discworld book you're going to read first, the universe does. It's whichever one accidentally makes its way into your immediate vicinity, whichever one is the only one on the shelf at the library when you were actually looking for something else. It will find you when it's Time, it has something to do with wossname... quantum
To be fair, Largo goes through that anyway.
I've written Largo into enough of a genuinely mentally harmful situation over the past day that I think it's only fair I draw him all snuggled up and comfy at some point too. Give him a break.
i can't believe terry pratchett created the Community pizza gag back in 1989
I like to tell my brother what's going on in Aurora and after these last couple pages he said "when you have this much hubris and hate yourself this much I can only say not everything is about you"
Going to try and isopod while running. No idea how, but I'll give the guy a shot.
Had a dream that I saw this ad in a paper
Do you guys think the reason so much fanart exists for the voices is not because of them being great characters (all the characters in STP are), but instead because we spend more time in our own heads than we ever will with a version of the princess?
I get it. They're inherently relatable because they reflect our previous actions through any route and set the tone of each chapter. They bicker with us and are able to see every option we take.
But, maybe the princesses are underrated. As in, she's always an outsider. How quickly would she be more beloved if the voices would shut up and let us do our stuff, or if they were seperate from us?
How then would we judge the impulsive contrarian, the weak-willed hero or the depressed cold? Would we appreciate paranoid were he more than a life support?
Ask yourself that, and ponder it awhile. Don't say it to anyone. Just an hour of your independent thoughts, clear of little voices.
Reblogging for uncool Will.
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) IMDb Trivia
Let's get you in the box, fish. It might be a squeeze but I'm sure you can manage.
put me in the 1 inch x 1 inch x 1 inch box coach!!! I'm all fired up, I'm ready!!!!!
When it comes to artistic personification of the deadly sins, Lust is usually the ONLY ONE ever designed to be the OBJECT of the sin rather than the sinner. Greed? They tend to design some one who LOOKS greedy. Sloth? Lazy person. A lot of these design choices kinda reveal how the creator views people in general (wow you made Gluttony or Greed fat, how original, so groundbreaking) but LUST? Lust is usually just… a hot chick. Who makes OTHERS lust but she herself often isn't running around acting inappropriately horny or anything. She's just kinda there. Maybe a bit flirty but otherwise the whole intent is to make the AUDIENCE feel attraction and that's how they associate it with lust. The Greed character won't make the viewer feel greedy but by god with Lust this is all we GOT. (Before you ask, I only half-count the FMA versions of these characters since they had these names but their origins were more complicated than Being Literal Sins)
I want all or nothin' here. Make the personifications ALL like Lust, maybe! Make it so their designs are only hinting at these things but the MAIN THING they can do is make OTHERS feel these things. Greed? He's a crypto guy who can manipulate people into screwing over others for easy cash. Sloth? The dude commenting "lol who cares, no one cares, just chill" at even the most horrible tragedies in the news (We can also change this one to Apathy and throw THAT deadly sin in, I just like that concept as a sin), make Wrath a reactionary podcaster or something. Make them make OTHERS sin.
Or, go the other way, and have them all LOOK like the sinners, and include Lust IN THAT. Just design some gooner who hasn't seen a real woman in six weeks and comments on every selfie they see online judging them for not looking like an anime waifu.
COMMIT TO THE BIT, PEOPLE, this mixed-up message is WEAK