The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they’d be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armor.
(Guards Guards)

"Another thing Bethan had learned was that there was no real point in trying to understand anything Twoflower said, and that all anyone could do was run alongside the conversation and hope to jump on as it turned a corner."

Terry Pratchett
The Light Fantastic
#SundaySentence #TerryPratchett #bookstodon

‘Do you think there’s such a thing as a criminal mind?’
Carrot almost audibly tried to work it out.
‘What ... you mean like ... Mr Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, sir?’
‘He’s not a criminal.’
‘You have eaten one of his pies, sir?’ (Men at Arms)

Only a mile away from the shepherd and his flock was a goatherd and his herd. The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans, was a shepherd and not a goatherd. They have quite different ways of looking at the world, and the whole of history might have been different.
For sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led. (Small Gods)

‘Yes, yes,’ said Magrat. ‘Sorry.’
‘Right,’ said Granny, slightly mollified. She’d never mastered the talent for apologising, but she appreciated it in other people.
(Wyrd Sisters)

It's the last day of sunshine!

So I'm taking the opportunity to start reading The Last Continent

Rincewind opened his mouth to reply but felt the words huddle together in his throat, reluctant to emerge into a world that was rapidly going mad.
(The Colour of Magic)

NEW INTRODUCTION! After 3 years, some of my interests pivoted and some are just not on fedi.

I'm a one man company that mostly does 2D computer animation but I also do interactive writing and co-creating the first ever video game completely about larp!

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« The Light Fantastic », 1986

by Josh Kirby (British artist, 1928-2001)
Cover illustration for Terry Pratchett's "The Light Fantastic", Colin Smythe, 1986

Food as an aphrodisiac was not a concept that had ever caught on in Lancre, apart from Nanny Ogg’s famous Carrot and Oyster Pie.*
*Carrots so you can see in the dark, she’d explain, and oysters so’s you’ve got something to look at. (Lords and Ladies)

‘How will I get back?’ he said.
‘Same way you went. We’ll find you and bring you out. With surgical precision.’
Rincewind groaned. He knew what surgical precision meant in Ankh-Morpork. It meant ‘to within an inch or two, accompanied by a lot of screaming, and then they pour hot tar on you just where your leg was.’ (Interesting Times)

‘I never look back,’ said Rincewind firmly. ‘One of the first rules of running away is, never look back.’
(Eric)

Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl. He found his fingers wanted to make a sign to ward off the evil eyeshadow.
(Wyrd Sisters)

‘It’s not what you’ve got that matters, it’s how you’ve got it.’ (Lords and Ladies)

Rincewind had always assumed that the purpose of running away was to be able to run away another day. (Interesting Times)

Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?

My take on Death of Rats

Attacking a dangerous enemy who isn't there is one of the more attractive forms of warfare ...
(Jingo)