#colour of magic | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tenaciousgeckos · 10 months

Text

#terry pratchett #discworld #A'tuin #harry potter #hogwarts #colour of magic #mort #rincewind #twoflower #luggage #humour #satire #jokes #scifi #fandoms #funny #quality fiction #book recs #books

1K notes · View notes

ley-med · 3 months

Text

I finally got my hands on Terry Pratchett's Colour of Magic, as my intro to the Discworld, and I've read and heard that it's not his best work, not so good, why start there, etc... But honestly? I already love this. Written in a very similar tone and with similar characters as my youths' favourite books from my favourite authors, and I'm all sold. Maybe it's not his best? Fine I believe it, since I have no way to agree or disagree yet, but as for the first 50 pages, it's instant love

#colour of magic #terry pratchett #reading #i kinda realise over and over again how much i love reading #also finally a good translation #good quality writing even in Hungarian #which is a rarity nowadays #but so comforting to read

75 notes · View notes

modstin · 4 months

Text

Discworld Project - 1

Colour of Magic

This book is a parody of sword and sourcery up to and including its style of writing, being set as a compilation of novellas rather than a contiguous story.

While never really laugh out loud funny, the jokes and humor have a way of consistently being entertaining. The overall structure of the book is unappetizing, but as a seed that would grow into the tree that is Discworld as a whole, there's a lot worse you could do.

A fairly good book featuring a pretty novel premise that, while not perfect, definitely is still worthy of being a Discworld novel.

I give it a solid C.

--

This is the start of a project I'm doing to read all of Discworld once more and do an art piece for every single novel, stylized as a book cover!

If you like this, why don't you read my Webcomic here! or Here as a Playlist on Newgrounds?

#Discworld #Terry Pratchett #Colour of Magic #Rincewind #Twoflower #The Luggage #Discworld Art #My Art #Fanart #Discworld Project

29 notes · View notes

yarn-dragon · 9 months

Text

UC Celebration Day 3!

Favourite Character: Annie Wintersummer

Spellcasting

#unprepared casters #unprepared casters fic #annie wintersummer #arc 3 #gonna raise hell #uc celebration 2023 #I think about Annie Wintersummer a normal amount #colour of magic #Iight angst #character study #spellcasting

16 notes · View notes

thenightling · 5 months

Text

The mini-series adaptation of the first novel in the late Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld book series is available to watch for free on Tubi for those of us in the US. The Colour of Magic. It's set in Sir Terry Pratchett's fantasy world known as The Discworld and this particular story mostly deals with the misadventures of the incompetent wizard, Rincewind. It features David Jason (The original voice of Danger Mouse and Duckula) as the incompetent wizard, Rincewind. It also features Sean Astin, Christopher Lee, and Tim Curry. It may not be the best Discworld story but it is the first.

#The Color of Magic #The Colour of Magic #Colour of Magic #Color of Magic

7 notes · View notes

inthemoodformoodboards · 6 months

Text

#moodboard #request #xerohourcheese #octarine #discworld #terry pratchett #colour of magic

11 notes · View notes

tresca · 3 months

Text

More Discworld Rambling

I finished Mort last week and I was gonna jump into the next chronological book and realized it was another Wizard book (Sourcery). So instead today I jumped back to Colour of Magic which I had only gotten halfway through before jumping ahead to Equal Rites.

It’s better so far, maybe because audiobook instead of paperback? (Although I’m disappointed there was no audio indication that names like Li!ort’s have an exclamation point- which I only discovered by going to find the below quotes)

Anyhow I’m not sure I’m gonna make it through 3 wizard books in a row now but so far it’s been worth it if only for things like the brief glimpse into roundworld plane dragon descriptions. And these quotes too..

Rincewind is growing on me but I will not be surprised if I skip back up to the witches after this one.

Also anyone else kind of hate Spotify’s audiobook controls? I’m so used to the ones on Libby, but these are available without waiting on Spotify so I’ve been using my monthly premium hours, but ugh - twice now it has put an audiobook on random. Why?! No one would ever do that.

Would they?

#gnu terry pratchett #discworld #rincewind #colour of magic #quotes #spotify #audiobooks #technology is dumb sometimes #libby app #libraries are the best

5 notes · View notes

illustoryart · 2 months

Text

GNU Sir Terry Pratchett ❤️‍🩹

#discworld #terrypratchett #gnu terry pratchett #my fanart #illustration #discworld death #the colour of magic #mort #good omens #fanart

5K notes · View notes

jazzymini · 1 month

Text

flower power! ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚.

3K notes · View notes

captainfantasticalright · 2 months

Text

In 1985, one of the only persons interested in an interview with a “new” writer called Terry Pratchett, after his publication of the Colour of Magic, was one Neil Gaiman. Neil Gaiman was writing for Space Voyager at the time. "The Colour of Pratchett" was the name given here:

It ran exactly one page inside the June/July issue of that year. The interview took place in a Chinese restaurant in London.

Here is Neil many years later holding that issue. You can see it here if you want. Warning: extremely emotional video.

Neil arrived wearing a grey homburg hat. “Sort of like the ones Humphrey Bogart wears in movies” he later wrote. (Before saying that in fact he did not look like him, but like someone wearing a grown-up’s hat). Terry Pratchett, photo courtesy of one @neil-gaiman, was in a Lenin-style leather cap and a harlequin-patterned pullover. At this point, Terry was already a hat person, although not that hat.

Terry offered Neil this : "An interview needn't last more than 15 minutes. A good quote for the beginning, a good quote for the end, and the rest you make up back at the office"*. (Terry Pratchett had worked many years in journalism by this point ).

But the meeting went terribly well. The two of them realized they had "the same sort of brains". So well indeed, that in 1985, Neil had shown Terry a file containing 5282 words, exploring a scenario in which Richmal Crompton's William Brown had somehow become the Antichrist. Was a collaboration in the cards as of that moment? Not really. But Terry found in Neil someone to whom he could send disks of work in progress and to whom he could pick up the phone sometimes when he hit a brick in the road of his writing.

Terry loved it and the concept stayed in his mind. A couple of years later, he rang Neil to ask him if he had done any more work on it. Neil had been busy with The Sandman, he had not really given it another thought. Terry said, "Well I know what happens next, so either you sell me the idea or we can write it together". **

And as you know, unless you’ve been living in Alpha Centauri, the rest is history. That was the beginning of what would become William the Antichrist and later would get the name Good Omens:The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. (Title provided by Neil Gaiman and subtitle by Terry Pratchett).

From the introduction to William the Antichrist: “In the summer of 1987 several odd ideas came together: (..)I found myself imagining a book called William the Antichrist, in which a hapless demon was going to be responsible for swapping the wrong baby over, and the son of the US Ambassador would be completely undemonic, while William Brown would grow up to be the Antichrist, and the demon would need to stop him ending the world. The unfortunate demon, whom I called Crawleigh, because Crawley was a nearby town with an unfortunate name, would have to sort it all out as best he could.

It felt like a story with legs.

Terry took the 5,000 words, and rewrote them, calling me to tell me what he was doing and what he was planning to do. The biggest thing he was going to do, he told me, was split the hapless demon into two characters – a would-be-cool demon in dark glasses (which was, I think, Terry’s way of making fun of me, a never-actually- cool journalist in dark glasses) who had renamed himself Crowley, and a rare-book dealer and angel called Aziraphale, who would embody all the English awkwardness that either of us could conceive.”

William the Antichrist being a direct inspiration of the 1976 film The Omen. If the baby swap had just been a little bit messier and the kid had gone off somewhere else he would have grown up as somebody else. “And then there was a beat and I thought, I should write it, it will be called William the Antichrist” says Neil. ***

“The first draft of Good Omens was a William-book. It was absolutely in every way it could be a William book. It had Violet Elizabeth Bott, it had William and the Outlaws, it had Mr. Brown”.

Over time they realized that they would have more creative freedom if they in their own words filed off the serial numbers. William and the Outlaws becoming Adam and the Them.

But the spirit of Just William was never far away.

The joy for Neil was to construct “perfectly William sentences”. The one when Anathema tells Adam that she has lost the Book, and he tells her that he has written a book about a pirate who became a famous detective and it is 8 pages long… that’s “a William sentence”.

Good Omens was also inspired by a particularly antisemitic moment in The Jew of Malta and John le Carre's spy novels. (Neil’s ask)

“When we finished the book we estimated that the words were 60% Terry’s and 40% mine, and the plot, such as it was, was entirely ours.”

(Here are some slides of mine where I go into some other details concerning the origins of Good Omens).