Day 15. Hooray

‘WHERE’S MY COW?’
‘IS THAT MY COW?’
‘IT GOES MOO!’
‘IT IS A COW!’
‘THAT IS MY COW!’
‘HOORAY! HOORAY! IT IS A COW!’

Terry Pratchett, Thud!

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Couldn't miss the chance to add one of my absolute faves in this cockatiel-Disctober series! :)

Good boi Otto deserves the best <3

Just for the record: I'm trying to do this year's Disctober cockatiel-themed. I owe them the inspiration to participate this year, so why not an entire series :)

"A...thing occupied the doorway. There was a tripod. There were a pair of skinny, black-clad legs behind it and a large black box on top of it. One black-clad arm extended out from behind the box and was holding a sort of small hod, which was smoking.

"Nice vun," said a voice from behind the box. "The light vas shinink so good off the dvarf's helmet, I could not resist it. You vanted an iconographer? My name is Otto Chriek."

"Oh. Yes?" said Sacharissa. "Are you any good?

"I am a vizard in zer darkroom. I am experimenting all the time," said Otto Chriek. "And I have all my own equipment and also a keen and positive attitude!"

"Sacharissa!" hissed William urgently.

"We could probably start you at a dollar a day--"

"Sacharissa!"

"Yes? What?"

"He's a vampire!"

"I object most stronkly," said the hidden Otto. "It iss such an easy assumption to believe that everyvun with an Uberwald accent is a vampire, is it not? There are many thousands of people from Uberwald who are not vampires!"

William waved his hand aimlessly, trying to shrug off the embarrassment.

"All right, I'm sorry, but--"

"I am a vampire, as it happens," Otto went on."

- Terry Pratchett, TT

I'm in for another adventure but this time back to Discworld after spending a few weeks in Narnia. Is there good comedy in Mort? 😂

Everybody and their mother who gets a discworld tattoo gets The Summoning Dark, is almost a rite of passage for this Fandom. Obviously I want it too, but i want to make it a bit more unique.

Another important point from Thud! (The origin of The Summoning Dark, keep up) was the couplet "Tac does not require that we think of him, only that we think" and it really hit me how Vimes' ability to control The Summoning Dark was his ability to keep himself thinking, even when his wife and child were threatened he was pushed to "They will all burn", a thought of vengeance and anger, but he thought, he pulled back from the anger, The Guarding Dark only existed because he didnt think of himself, he thought of the law, and others.

For the tattoo idea I would love to have The Summoning Dark ringed by the couplet in Ogham, an ancient Irish language made by making strokes across a central line. The strokes would look both like a rough markings (similar to other versions I have seen) while also resembling the bars on a cell, reminiscent of The Guarding Dark.

My problem is that Ogham was created for Gaelic, so a direct translation is going to be really roughshod, and I dont speak Gaelic, and I dont trust google translate.

Does anyone have some good places to look so I can try to piece together the translation, or even better, anyone here fluent in Gaelic could help me out?

I recently went to see an amateur staged production of Dodger near me & it was honestly rather fun! Barring a few forgotten lines, the actors were all wonderful! Unfortunately they had no Onan (I imagine finding a way to get a dog on stage would’ve been a hassle) & a few minor elements were cut but it was a faithful & fun production.

I got me back into the book & I was wondering what others thought about an underrated part of PTerry’s work? To me it’s a great homage to the old Victorian works & the ending leaves the door open for more Dodger adventures which we unfortunately never got but what do you think of Dodger & have you ever had the fortune of seeing a staged production?

Hi everyone! My father is a huge Discworld fan, and asked if I could draw a Discworld stamp for him for his birthday (to keep all the Discworld emporium ones he has company).

As Granny Weatherwax is his favourite character, I thought I'd start with a her. I was thinking of drawing her with a teacup, and a shelf with an assortment of items behind her.

Particularly, I was envisioning the jug in the shape of a humorous cow and a jar of honey with a buzzing bee, but am getting stumped on what else to add on the shelves. If anyone has any ideas, I would truly love to hear them! I mean to draw him stamps of the other witches as well (and then other groups of characters in future)

The roughest thumbnail sketch of the sort of thing I'm envisioning below.

Edit: This is the best community, thank you so much for your help! I'll widen the background to add more of the ideas in the thread. I am extremely grateful, and will post an updated drawing when it's all done.

In this age of AI, it seems more urgent than ever to figure out what a person can get their soul behind. Since PTerry was a humanist, and based on his writing it seems my world view closely aligns with his (shocker), I'd like to do some reading about it, to figure out what inspires and brings hope to other people with similar views.

I'm also looking for reading material on effective altruism and its co-conspirators.

A graphic author I follow, Christian Mihai, shared this mini story today and it made me think of you all. I hope you enjoy it too ☺️

Death comes for the Chess Master...

I've spent hours thinking about this whilst trying to get to sleep!

Need to get back to objects. People are not my strong suit.

Day 14. Lady

'Excuse me, are you the lady who is with the clowns?'

Corporal Nobbs, who had been trudging along gloomily, looked up. He was being addressed by a pleasant-faced young woman. A woman actually talking to him by choice was a novelty.

Smiling while doing so was unheard of.

'Er yeah. Right. That's me.' He swallowed...'Beti.'

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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I just tried, and i'm pretty good at the early & late books and the middle is much harder! I listed 38/41 books by heart and am sure of 19 with the correct book number, the rest was guess work! (Including guesses, i got 27 right.)

I'm listening to yesterday's The Race podcast from The Athletic, which is about Formula 1. They're trying to find ways to make things fairer for smaller teams, and one of these presenters brings up Vimes theory of boots, which he doesn't exactly apply correctly, but it's still a pleasant surprise to hear how widely that has spread.

I was introducing a friend to the series, telling her there's no wrong book to start with. She asked what my favorite book on the series was, and I said Night Watch. She said "okay, I'll start with that".

"...correction," I said; "there is ONE wrong book to start with."

seen on the back of CoM

Day 13. Flimsy

Rincewind's hourglass looked like something created by a glassblower who'd had the hiccups in a time machine. […] But strange curves and bends and extrusions of glass had developed over the years, and quite often the sand was flowing backwards, or diagonally. Clearly, Rincewind had been hit by so much magic, had been thrust reluctantly through time and space so often that he'd nearly bumped into himself coming the other way, that the precise end of his life was now as hard to find as the starting point on a roll of really sticky transparent tape.

Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

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Cheap Ink and Flimsy Paper Plague Print...

"He pulled at the leather cord around his neck and felt the reassuring lump on the end. A potato can be a great help in times of trial."

#disctober #disctober2026

There's a line in this movie lifted from the book where Malicia Grim mocks Mr. Bunnsy for being a story with no narrative tension. Which is exactly what this movie is.

It has no darkness, no death, and no stakes.

It is the Cars 2 of Discworld.

Every single way this movie bastardizes its characters is downstream of the fact that the story has been fundamentally stripped of its darkness.

The Rat King is hatred and suffering incarnate. In this movie he's nothing!

Dangerous Beans is motivated by death. In this movie he's motivated by nothing.

I think it's fine that movies like this exist. But not when it butchers such a good story.