I would legit paint it up to have teeth and dangly little legs.
okay but considering that Pokemon Go often shows me suddenly sprinting about 3 blocks away from where I really am and then sprinting back about 9 blocks in the opposite direction and only occasionally getting within 100 feet of where I actually am, I can anticipate one or two problems with this
Same.
Also I get really worried about losing my stuff or being distracted and having it stolen, so while it does look cool as hell I am going to say “no thank you”, personally.
Terry Pratchett started his career as a crypto-monarchist and ended up the most consistently humane writer of his generation.  He never entirely lost his affection for benevolent dictatorship, and made a few classic colonial missteps along the way, but in the end you’d be hard pressed to find a more staunchly feminist, anti-racist, anti-classist, unsentimental and clear-sighted writer of Old White British Fantasy. Â
The thing I love about Terry’s writing is that he loved – loved – civil society.  He loved the correct functioning of the social contract.  He loved technology, loved innovation, but also loved nature and the ways of living that work with and through it.  He loved Britain, but hated empire (see “Jingo”) – he was a ruralist who hated provincialism, a capitalist who hated wealth, an urbanist who reveled in stories of pollution, crime and decay.  He was above all a man who loved systems, of nature, of thought, of tradition and of culture.  He believed in the best of humanity and knew that we could be even better if we just thought a little more.
As a writer: how skillful, how prolific, how consistent.  The yearly event of a new Discworld book has been a part of my life for more than two decades, and in that barrage of material there have been so few disappointments, so many surprises… to come out with a book as fresh and inspired as “Monstrous Regiment” as the 31st novel in your big fantasy series?  Ludicrous.  He was just full of treasure.  What a thing to have had, what a thing to have lost.
In the end, he set a higher standard, as a writer and as a person.  He got better as he learned, and he kept learning, and there was no “too late” or “too hard” or “I can’t be bothered to do the research.”  He just did the work.  I think in his memory the best thing we can do is to roll up our sleeves and do the same.
This post seems to be making the rounds again so here it is on the word blog
Every time I recommend Discworld to someone, I get asked “where should I start?” There are several reading order guides floating around the internet, but they just give the order of each series, they don’t give you any information on which to base a choice of starter novel. For that, use this handy (and very biased, okay, I admit it) flow chart!Â
it’s a comic based on a scene from a book called “the hogfather” it is a novel by terry pratchet in the diskworld series wherein santa (the hogfather) is being audited, so to keep people believing in irrational but symbolic constructs death takes over for him and isn’t very good at it, but he does his best.
@fialleril you’ve probably seen this before, but I can’t take the risk that you haven’t.
What is Hogfather?
The only holiday book that matters, tbh.
@the-last-hair-bender Vin’s kind of education, up to a point. Brian, of course, approves of his daughter’s method, given that it’s kind of his own too.
Steel Phoenix Studios 
