#(minor pedantic note about the pedantry of ''desert''... it's typically ''precipitation'' not ''rainfall''

[bostonbakeddeans]

Hey! I wasn't sure who it might be good to send this to, but I did a video essay talking about Terry Pratchett and I actually got into the discworld series in part bc you kept reblogging stuff about it haha. If you wouldn't mind, I'd really appreciate getting some more visibility to my essay. Thank you!

My post about the video: https://whydidoth.tumblr.com/post/692527594093133824/so-i-promise-i-actually-am-working-on-that

The video: https://youtu.be/fVF89_AXW78

Hooooooly shit y'all, everyone who follows me who likes insightful commentary and deconstruction of media, Discworld, excellent voice acting, or dunking on Christianity and colonialism should go watch this video immediately if not sooner. Top tier jokes, excellent review and deconstruction of Small Gods (one of my personal favorites in the Discworld series), a picture of Michaelangelo's David colored as a Feegle, background kitty noises; *chef's kiss* this video has everything. I have never been prouder to have gotten someone into Discworld, hot damn.

This reminds me very much of Shaun's videos, particularly his video on Terry Pratchett and Hijacking the Dead (Shaun is referenced in the video; the video referenced is his refutation of The Bell Curve, which is also very good). Both have a very even tone, a dry sense of humor (delightful), and a thorough understanding of the works they deconstruct - both their flaws and their strengths. (Also dunks on Audible and encourages the support of libraries, which is based as hell.)

Seriously. This is incredible. Go watch this. It's 38 minutes and worth every second. It's about deserts and Christianity and how what we believe affects reality (and how it doesn't) and satire and colonialism and orientalism and damn. DAMN. Thank you for making this, thank you for sharing it with me, just thank you.

#Discworld #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #small gods #holy shit y'all seriously this is so gooooooood #i am delighted and astounded #this is so so so good #also 👀👀👀 vetvimes fic hello?????? watching this space (op's blog) for that #the video demonstrates a deep understanding of and love for the material (the good and the bad!) which bodes well for fic #vetvimes is a particular love of mine #oh man its just *fist clench* so fucking good #its abt the devotion not to each other but to the city and the ''greater good'' #but also to each other #and the respect and affection and ''dear gods i could throttle you right now'' #its so GOOD and i am *chinhands* abt a potential fic #from the creator of this brilliant video #also ur voice is very soothing i should NOT have listened at 11pm i am so so sleepy now (in the best way) #definitely going to watch again and just absorb everything #(minor pedantic note about the pedantry of ''desert''... it's typically ''precipitation'' not ''rainfall'' #which is why places like Antarctica are still a desert; it's too cold to snow - let alone to rain! but places that get more snow #than they get rain still might not qualify as deserts bc theyre getting enough precipitation to disqualify them from being a desert) #(yes i was an annoying kid in class don't @ me; op pls forgive my pedantry ur video is no less brilliant for it)