#true terry stories

[cryoverkiltmilk]

So it turns out @cipheramnesia are in the same IRL D&D group. We didn't realize this until some weeks, if not months, into the arrangement.

Also didn't realize we were both the game-changers on the post about Friends of Eclair until just this week.

#true terry stories #cipheramnesia #the tumblr experience

[herwrittenuniverse]

Me: [Summarizing the first episode of S6 of TDP from NYCC] : ...and THEN, Claudia leaves TERRY, and walks away on the beach while he's screaming for her! Cousin: Ain't she down a leg? Me: Uhhh... Cousin: How she walkin'? Me: 😕 Cousin:🤨

#true story #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp spoilers #tdp s6 #tdp season 6 spoilers #tdp s6 spoilers #tdp claudia #tdp terry

[atlantic-riona]

hot take but I think a lot of current fantasy has lost the "what the heck" nonsensical vibes and that's why a lot of it is so bad

#people are so obsessed with 'being like tolkien' that they forget that a key part of fantasy #is the magic and wonder and inexplicable occurences #some things we need to accept on faith and move on #like you don't NEED to understand the mechanics of portals to other worlds or magic #or have a logical realistic fantasy realm #it's fantasy!! it's by definition UNREALISTIC and WEIRD and INEXPLICABLE #tolkien himself said something along the lines of 'if you explain how it works #it's not magic anymore' #(somewhere in on fairy stories I think) #but the point is that I actually could not care less about whether your fictional languages and histories etc etc #are realistic or sensible #if I wanted to read about a different culture or language or place I'd pick up a regular fiction novel #fantasy means that there's magic and things beyond our ken #lots of things will not and should not make sense #(logically. they should make sense in terms of fantasy) #(paraphrasing from sir terry here but it's unrealistic and nonsensical #for the third brother to succeed or for the sword to be pulled from the stone or for kindness and bravery to always win the day) #(but in a fantasy that is what makes sense; the illogical) #someday I'll write up my discord rant on modern fantasy as a true essay but it is not this day lol

[coolittleguy]

You tell your friend to watch good omens 🙂

They agree to watch good omens 😊

They watch good omens 🥳

They watch good omens 🫠

#good omen #good omen season 2 #based on a true story #this show ruined my life #this show ruined my friends lives #i love good omens #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #michael sheen #david tennant

[basofy]

i keep thinking abt the love aspect of lisa and rly wish the campfire conversations had more positive interactions /without brad in them/ cuz a common interpretation i see that i couldnt disagree more with is that everyone in lisa is an asshole when all the companions are so different in personality and morals and shiet so how come most of the interactions turn out wrong cuz the better guys are either paired with brad or getting trashed on by the meaner companions or just plain got nothing it just doesnt sit right with me 😔😔

#im all for showing that some of the ppl u recruit are awful on different levels cuz it's true #some are capable of ruining lives some are just annoying #what about the good dudes tho #wheres the convo where birdie cries his eyes out abt his sons #and bo and terry sing downtown by petula clark to him to calm him down #OK THAT LAST ONE is only cuz i rewatched that one movie today you know the one #i love the companions they invade my thoughts so much i want them all to have spotlight #pleaseeeee #lisa rpg #lisa definitive edition #funny how bo's 2 appearances are like #him realizing his bond with his bro isnt broken even if they cant see eachother and continues playing #and he partying hard with other dudes #my man's so full of love and unbeatable #i thibk it still fits into the story to have interactions where characters get along #becuz it shows how brad ruins this for them for either putting them in danger or killing them at the end #like imagine having a team of guys that are canonically friends and killing them DUDE #closest to that is carp bo and pink #lisa ramblings

[surpriserose]

geniunely cant tell if good omens season 2 is just aziraphale and crowley stuff because the whole season is legit just about them for yaoibait or is it just the fandom making it seem like its only about them also for yaoi reasons

#Like im a terry pratchett guy i like good omens i just hold the opinion that he wrote all the good bits true or not idc #And ive been against a second season the moment the first started airing for that reason so like #And because like as supernatural proved....if youre writing a story based around you know....the Christian (evangelical lol) apocalypse #Where do you go after youve prevented the end of the world like you already had the highest stakes imaginable.....

[pourablecat]

Monday morning procrastination comic with an unfortunately dry pen. A silly Wild West AU for The Sea and Little Fishes. Three panels in and all is quickly spiraling towards crack.

(Ooops, I uploaded it on the wrong blog! Here's the right one. Everybody hush about my actual main blog.)

#discworld #discworld fanart #the sea and little fishes #granny weatherwax #nanny ogg #comic #gnu terry pratchett #wild west au #I feel like an idiot after reading the story #this woman survived an attack from the metaphorical incarnations of insecurity #what made me think that letice earwig #out of all people #can hurt her? #strange its the first discworld story I cried for #maybe its the moment nanny thought granny would hurt pewsey #it's like her worst dream coming true(r) #what if even her bestie thinks she's a madwoman

[fandomiseverything]

I love that Maury Terry finally got what he always wanted, people to hear him tell his story, people to listen to what he believed in, even if he wasnt around to see it happen

And the fact that the one person he thought was responsible for the death of Arlis Perry, the security guard Steven Crawford, was actually found to be her killer in 2018

In my opinion I do believe that it is the entirely possible that his theory of David Berkowitz not being the only perpetrator of the Son of Sam attacks does have weight and merit

#david berkowitz #maury terry #sons of sam #theres a documentary on netflix called the sons of sam a decent into darkness #its a project headed by Maury Terry's family and people he worked the case with #its essentually the story of his journey to madness over the case #he took the case to heart and never let it go #even on his deathbed all he was concerned with was getting the truth for the families of the victims and the surviving victims themselves #along with trying to ensure that crimes like this would never happen again #i hope that not only his friends keep looking into the case but eventually that the NYPD will finally accept the POSSIBILITY its not over #i wish joseph borelli the lead detective a very big fuck you #a big big fuck you #you suck as a person #you tried to tear that man apart and ruin him #also you vehemently deny any possibility that there was other shooters #and say that the police investigated the possibility when they refused to even entertain the idea #and actively shut down every investigation attempt to see if it was true or not #i do think there were multiple people involved and i do think that it perhaps has ties to cult activity #but we may never know the truth because of the actions of joe borelli and the NYPD #fuck you guys #all you care about is politics #documentary #true crime

[mikasa-imadebiscults]

Hope Daniel got that email cause he sure as hell didn’t get that call.

#Ms Biscults speaks #Mika speaks #Daniel if you’re here #Terry from Morgan & Morgan called and said that she’ll send you an email with a note #lmfao #this is a true story #someone got the wrong number #lol as funny as this is I do hope everything’s alright

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Terry Pratchett about fantasy ❤

Terry Pratchett interview in The Onion, 1995 (x)

O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?

Terry: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.

O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.

Terry: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.

O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.

Terry: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus.

Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.

Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.

(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.

#terry pratchett #interview #terry interview #fantasy #terry on fantasy #fun fact #<3 #the onion

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Did I buy this bottle of 8yr spiced Dominican rum just because the bottle is shaped like a baseball bat? And nearly full size?

Yes.

#my photos #glassware #glass #bottles #true terry stories

[something-something-goodomens]

Thinking about when i was fourteen and i would get really hyperfixated on like somthing random. And then I'd execpect there to be a ton of media that was just the way I wanted it like no 14 year old me the people on fanfiction . net are not obsessed with terry serpico wtf are you thinking bitch

#true story actually i did have a terry serpico phase #i dont remember what show started it but is was terry serpico #and all my friends where talking about like ryan gosling or whatever and i was just thinking about fucking terry serpico #autism #adhd

[neil-gaiman]

Hello Neil,

I've had a discussion about Good Omens today, with a friend of mine. They say that Aziraphale and Crowley's relationship became what it is in S2 because of the love from all the fans, and it wasn't really intended to be that in the beginning (when you and Terry wrote the book, and also at the time of the first season). Now, I may be wrong, but I do recall you saying this was always the intended development to the relationship, is that true?

Did the love from the fans, as well as the meaning Aziraphale and Crowley undoubtedly hold for the queer community play a hand in what we've been shown in season 2?

I'm sorry if this is redundant, or repetitive, or if it's been asked a thousand times (it probably has). Thank you for your patience, and for writing such good stories.

Did your friend actually watch Season 1? We're in the same story we were in then. It hasn't changed. It's still heading to the same place that we were going in Season 1 -- the same place it's been heading since Terry and I decided how it ended, back in 2006.

I love you all, but no. It's the same story it was going to be.

[hiddenpop1023]

at work a chef said "hot pan" and i said "omg thats me!!" and then he stabbed me repeatedly

#true story #happened to my friend terry #i dont know anyone named terry

[sassysnowperson]

How Not to Read Terry Pratchett's Discworld Novels

With the very exciting fantasy books poll bracket going on Discworld and how to read it is in the zeitgeist again. I figured I would take a crack at adding to this important topic with a guide drawn from my own chaotic mess of a reading journey:

Learn that Terry Pratchett is a fantasy author that several people whose reading taste you admire enjoy. He apparently blends comedy, good plotting, and a world that is both grounded and satirical and you're a big fan of all those things.

Fabulous! Decide to read some of his work.

Go to your local library. Love a good library. You're new to the area, so you're also exploring the library for the first time, too.

You have found Terry Pratchett! Points to you! Pull a book off the shelf at random. It's called The Dark Side of the Sun.

Start reading. Realize that this feels more like sci-fi than fantasy. Sigh in smug superiority about people who get the two confused.

Realize about halfway through that this is not, in fact, a Discworld book.

Nobody warned you the guy wrote other things!

It's still good, tho. Maybe a little rough but this was an older book and the author clearly has potential. Let's try again.

Review his works. The vast majority are Discworld. You are highly unlikely to grab another non-Discworld book. Go back to the Terry Pratchett section of the library.

Oh hey he wrote a book with Neil Gaiman! You've hears of that guy!

Grab Good Omens off the shelf.

Take it home, realize, much sooner, that this is also not a Discworld book. Still enjoy yourself thoroughly. You should read more of this Gaiman dude, too.

But okay. For real this time. Go back to the library and don't leave without *CONFIRMING* you have a Discworld book this time.

Grab a book. Look at the cover. Read the back Discworld! Ha HA! You've done it!

It's called Thud.

You are utterly gripped by a story of a man wrestling with himself, his growing child, the political tensions of a city and extremism that echoes reality beautifully while still being entirely true to itself. It's a story of responsibility and love and building communities and Fantasy Chess. You are driven nearly to tears by the sentence *WHERE IS MY COW?*

You emerge from the book fundamentally changed as a person, and finally understanding what all the fuss is about. You are now a Terry Pratchett reader for life.

You realize Thud was in the middle of a series. That was a part of another series. That explains why there was a feeling that you were supposed to know some of these people already.

You finally find one of those flowcharts and figure out a more sensible reading order.

I always sort of laugh when people ask where to start reading Discworld, because Thud would be first on absolutely nobody's sensible Terry Pratchett reading order. I'm still tempted to recommend it though!

(My actual advice: Going Postal if you love con men being stuck doing the right thing, Wee Free Men if you like YA and smart angry girls owning their own power, Guards! Guards! *and* Men at Arms if you like crime shows with heart and are okay giving earlier work a try (the quality gets better and better, but I think it needs at least two books to get you into it), and Monstrous Regiment if you like gender and queer feelings, anti-war books told in the middle of a war, and/or would prefer a stand alone novel...and, you know, Thud if you want a great read and don't mind some chaos.)

#terry Pratchett #discworld #the worst reading order #gnu terry Pratchett

[metalmiez]

To the World - Good Omens Talent Contest Entry

Finally, after waiting so long, I can proudly present you my "Good Omens got true Talents" Contest piece.

"To the world - One big Miracle"

So, GO brainrot is real and i tried to incorporate (yes, this is a pun) my personal desired end in S3. For Aziraphale and Crowley to finally have their happy ever after, archieving this by conjuring the strongest, most massive miracle they can perform together. To save everything. Their earth. Humanity. Their home. Their "Us".

With this piece I won the 2nd place with less than a percent different to the 1st place in the Category "Digital Art", hosted by the wonderful @sendarya <3

This piece took me around 32 hours of drawing plus uncounted hours of reference/inspiration research. I really hope you like it!

Enjoy some detail shots:

And big thanks to @riathedreamer and everyone from the Footnotes Discord server, for staying up so long with me to vote for this entry and literally being my emotional support during the really stressfull voting <3

Happy that I've found you guys <3

Aaaand, I musn't forget the Masterminds behind this whole story, conjuring this insane amount of creative energy into the whole fandom, Sir Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman @neil-gaiman

#good omens #fanart #good omens fanart #good omens 3 #ineffable husbands #crowley x aziraphale #david tennant #michael sheen #good omens fancomic #neilhimself #ineffable idiots #art contest #happy ending #goodomenshappyending #aziraphale #anthony j crowley #crowley #turtleneck crowley