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Unfinished drawing of one of my favorite Discworld antagonists: Cosmo Lavish. He's a little under the weather.

(Yeah, I've been mentioning him more and more recently. So what?)

Talking about women and gender expression in Discworld for my midterm. Dude, it's a shame that The Watch sucked so much because Joe Eaton-Kent was such a cool choice for Cheery. I thought it was really cool that they explored aspects of her gender and "coming out" as female that was mostly just subtext in the Original stories.

(A slide from my visuals)

Planning out my speech. I love yapping about my passions to a room full of captive classmates.

When will there be official art of my pookie?

I mean, it's kinda hard to make a dude into a different species, expecially when you have the budget of exactly 23 cents. Even if you know what it's suppose to look like.

Every time I see an orangutan in media I have to wonder if the creators have ever seen an orangutan.

Exhibit A, Dr. Zaius:

But I can’t complain too much, I mean; can you imagine THIS GUY trying you for heresy?

I'm making a sideshow for my boyfriend about Discworld and why I like it, and for this slide I will explain how I became an instant Pratchett fan but why it took me a bit to warm up to Gaiman's writing.

Also I'm going to introduce him to my favorite characters:

1. "No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...The span of someone's life is only the core of their actual existence." (Reaper Man, shortened)

2. "Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?" (Going Postal)

Happy Birthday Terry Pratchett 🎂 🥳

First off, the first Discworld book I read was Reaper Man, so I would totally suggest reading that one first.

Along those lines, I think my favorite (main) character is...Death!! He's such a dork I love him.

Lastly, my favorite book has got to be Making Money. It was the third Discworld book I ever read, and it has my favorite character interactions in it. Also, my favorite side character Cosmo Lavish!!

(I don't care what anyone says, my man did nothing wrong.)

Pov: You're Otto Chriek and the Ankh-Morpork Times is writing a puff piece on the Patrician. You need a photo for the occasion, and you've just told Vetinari to pose in any way he feels like.

Our RA's planned an activity where we make Vision boards. I was trying to show everything I'm currently about.

Oscar Awards and VHS' because I'm a film major.

Ankh-Morpork post office and Reaper Man quote because of my never ending obsession with Pratchett.

VFD quote and a match because of my resurgent interest in Series of Unfortunate Events.

And other things that represent my background and interests!

Me saying and doing the stupidest shit imaginable just to get my friends attention.

Alrighty, it's been about a year since I've joined Tumblr and half of that year has been with this blog, so I guess I'll make an "introduction" post.

Hi! I'm Lizardwoman (or Becca if you're really brave) and I like things.

Film and TV history (I'm a film major in college and I'm really digging learning about the history of everything)

Discworld and all things Pratchett

Columbo

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Series of Unfortunate Events

Jeffrey Combs

Doctor Who

And about a billion things more. If somethings not listed, that doesn't mean I'm not a fan it just means I have a really sucky memory.

One of my New Year's resolutions is to interact in some fandoms more and overall just put myself out there and be more confident. (This will most likely include poorly drawn fanart, so this is your one and only warning.)

Overall though, all of my social media's are dedicated to messing with friends. This means if you see me bickering with two art blogs, don't fret.

Okay thanks 😘

Same. Reaper Man was the first Disworld book I read and my brain will always come back to it if I think I can worm it into a Discworld conversation.

I’ve been thinking about creating content for the Discworld fandom but most of it is rambling about Reaper Man.

Merry Hogwatch everyone! (Roundworld calander edition)

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and remembered to leave out some sherry and meat pies for the Hogfather last night. Maybe even some turnips for those hard working hogs that pull his sleigh?

JOSH KIRBY, TWOFLOWER DOESN'T LITERALLY HAVE FOUR EYES!!!! TERRY MEANS TO SAY THAT HE WEARS GLASSES!!!!! JOSH, DON'T DRAW HIM WITH TWO SETS OF EYES!!! JOOOOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, but what does Vetinari do during Hogwatch? Does he go on business as usual? Do the clerks?

Because I feel like some otherworldly entity with villinous things in mind for Ankh-Morpork try to do an evil version of A Christmas Carol on him. Like, every year they try and every year he scares them away by just not putting up with it at all.

And Drumknott is the complete opposite of Bob Cratchett in every way.

I really like Cosmo Lavish as a character and I'm glad he got a somewhat happy ending.

I doubt anyone will actually care about my reasoning for this opinion, but I thought that now would be a good time to say it since I've got nothing better to do as I wait for my class to start.

Everytime I read one of Lipwig's books, I have to gaslight myself into believing that he was never referred to as Alfred Spangler at the beginning of Going Postal.

"Alfred Spangler? Never heard of him. Now Albert Spangler on the other hand..." over and over again in my brain. Surely it'll stick one day.

Y'all...

The new set of audiobooks for Discworld just dropped, including Richard Coyle's narration for Going Postal, Making Money, and Raising Steam.

Can you guess what I'm doing right now?

There's a really cool point in this if you will bear with me, okay!

Peter Serafinowicz voices Death in the new audio books and in the new The Amazing Maurice, right? He's kind of like the new official Death in productions now like Christopher Lee was.

BUT guess what other show he was on that is a complete tonal shift and I didn't even realize it was him? He was The Tick in the Amazon Prime show!!! I absolutely LOVED this show!

(The bastard hid his britishness)

And now get this!

Sir David Jason played Rincwind in the Colour of Magic adaptation, okay? Well he also played Albert in the Hogfather Adaption!

There were a few other actors that where in both as well.

My point is:

Actors play in different things and everytime I discover this I get really excited for no reason 🙃.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.

I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that Vetinari and Death are scary people. In my book, scary people don't leave dog biscuits on their animals grave every week for over a year. They also don't try to pick up a book that's so big it crushes them and they have to call their roommate servant for help.

They're just little dorks that have to throw their weight around sometimes for the greater good.

(I woke up thinking this and had to share. What has my life become?)

I had the weirdest dream last night, so I thought I'd share it here before it's completely gone from my mind.

It was set in Ankh-Morpork and there were two people from the future. One was a dude who was a private detective, and one was a woman who was the patrician. The city had moved out of the Victorian Era style and now everyone was dressed like it was the 1920's.

So, these two people travel back in time and they're like "cool, we can meet the people who made this city great". So they meet Sam Vimes and he follows them around since they are acting strange.

They make it to the Patrician's palace, and the woman is in awe about every little thing. Birdbaths, benches, everything.

She makes it to the Oblong Office, and a woman opens the door. The time traveler asks if she can meet Lord Vetinari, and then everything loses sound as this other woman (who I guess is a nurse?) mouths that Vetinari has just died. The future patrician walks away in slow motion as cameras click like it's an emotional scene in a movie. She's wide eyed and in shock.

And then it ends with dude doing a Benjamin Button and aging backwards until he dies for some reason. Kind of weird considering I haven't watched that movie since I was in 9th grade but whatever.

Fin

Were orcs ever mentioned again after Unseen Academicals? Like, we got to see golems and goblins civil rights expand throughout multiple books, but I don't remember orcs ever making a return appearance. Granted, I still haven't read every book in the series, but still...

Similarities between Columbo and Vimes:

Always finds the criminal(s)

Absolutely love and worship their wives

Cigar addicts

Always investigating/mingling with the rich, but doesn't fit in with that crowd.

Later has other, younger detectives following them around and introducing new ideas and techniques.

Short little guys.

Not to mention that Pratchett wrote something along the lines of "Being investigated by Vimes was like being nibbled to death by a duck." (I couldn't find the exact quote, but I know it exists somewhere.)

Which is a play on Peter Falk's quote about Columbo:

"Being chased by Columbo is like being nibbled to death by a duck."

This was fun. Thanks for bringing it up!

Vimes and Columbo have so much in common it's crazy. (They're both coppers and are completely devoted & worship their wives)

4/6 of the way through Good Omens 2. I'm avoiding spoilers, but in the safe places I look nobodies talking about the C.M.O.T Dibbler reference in episode 3 on the Laudanum bottle.

I hope these last two episodes are good, 'cause I am loving this season. Everything about it is so perfect.

(I saw a few other Pratchett stuff, but once I've watched the whole thing I'll go back with a fine-toothed comb)

I was looking up Susan's family motto (for reasons), and I had forgotten just how many puns are in the dog Latin stuff Terry Pratchett does. Things like:

Quod Subigo Farinum as the family motto for the baker, translating to "Because I knead the dough."

Almost all of the guilds except for the MOST prominent ones have a joke as a motto. Reading the Plummer's Guild one was really funny.

One of Albert's line in Mort being Sodomy Non Sapians = Buggered if I know.

Like, I went looking for one thing and ended up reading the entire wiki article for Discworld's Latatian.

Idk, it's almost like he was a professional, knowledgeable, and talented comedic writer or something.