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Have you ever seen Ukrainian Discworld books?

this time, I would like to show you what books Ukrainians read.

it was...2017 (?) when Pratchett's novels appeared in Ukrainian; in 2019, I met these books for the first time.

I am not going to comnent the design (though I love it so much, it is cute and have minor spoilers for the content), but the useful point OUGHT to be mentioned.

as you can see, at the end of the books (I think... starting in 2021, this thing appeared at the end, in 2019 it definitely didn't) there is an infographic (?) that shows the number of series of the Discworld, their sequence and not yet translated novels (they are white, although I have already seen "Small Gods"...mmm ok).

is the translation good, btw?

honestly, I was surprised it is; however, there are remarks that sometimes report the impossibility of direct translating certain Pratchett puns.

and the last...it normally costs 10 dollars (which is expensive, honestly...but buyworthy).

While I generally agree, I am going to go against type and share one thing that did always bug me about the Discworld: a lot of the ordinary protagonists turn out to be scions of important families. Vimes is first introduced as an alcoholic cop, but by Feet of Clay he's the descendant of the man who led the revolution against monarchy and killed the last king. Angua is an "ordinary" werewolf in Men at Arms but the daughter of one of the three most important families in Uberwald by The Fifth Elephant. Even the Weatherwax family is several times referred to as one with a lot of innate power (I am excluding Carrot from this because the fact that he is The One True King was always the joke).

It doesn't mean that there aren't characters who are, in fact, common folks. Or that these changes aren't very interesting directions for the characters. But it's definitely a pattern.

I think that the real reason that Terry Pratchett is my favourite fantasy writer is that he’s the only one who really centres working people in his stories. I mean, Game of Thrones is almost entirely about the antics of rival aristocrats; Harry Potter is heir to two family fortunes and the subject of a prophecy and goes to an elite boarding school; even the Hobbits (save Sam) in The Lord of the Rings are minor gentry. Meanwhile, who are the main protagonists in Discworld? A recovering-alcoholic cop; an old peasant woman who lives in a cottage; a conman who was forced to take over the post-office. Pratchett writes entire novels about classes of people that other writers treat as background characters. He’s not condescending in his depictions; he’s willing to show enlisted soldiers as people, rather than arrow-fodder; and he’s aware that even ‘simple peasants’ know detailed information about things that wizards and knights can’t be arsed to care about; that everything about the world takes a hell of a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes and that most people never see, And he makes sure that you know this, too.

The way slurs are censored in Disco Elysium reminds me of this gem from Mort.

I hadn't played Disco Elysium when I first read this so re-reading it now feels like bonus content.

Discworld Elysium Masterpost

Since I can't edit polls to retroactively link parts together, here's a masterpost of them all, updated as it happens.

Vote to solve a thrilling mystery of assassination and intrigue, or at least to eventually discover if the body in front of you is actually dead or not, that bit has been taking us a while.

PART 1

PART 2

PART 3

PART 4

PART 5

PART 6

PART 7

PART 8

part 8.5 alternate universe pain edition

PART 9 active pol

The Shepherd's Crown, Lords and Ladies, and Don't Be Afraid, Just Start The Tape.

I have been trying to remember what Armand's death monologue was reminding me of and it's the elves in the Discworld.

he just does things sometimes

Funtimes at the funfair?

Practicing animating emotions with my favourite pathetic wizzard!!

(He’s so cuuuttteee 🤤🙏🙏)

I was in the mood for tomfoolery...

More sketches of the Discworld coven. I still haven’t read the Tiffany Aching series yet. But I do love my witches.

According to my cards, you are a moron...

I can say this without cards.

Do you ship...

playing his dress up games

They're up to no good :D

No context

fuck terry pulling no punches in this one

my favorite thing about Corporal Carrot is that he’s a romantic hero plopped right in the middle of the greediest cesspit of a chaotic neutral city ever to debase the pages of literature, and yet instead of having his shining idealism destroyed by an uncaring reality, he makes reality embarrassedly put down the weapons and agree to make nice, and then mutter an awkward “Good morning” whenever it passes him on the street.

Well, it’s finally finished.  It was a genuinely satisfying project. I present you Ankh Morpork in the guise of Google Maps.

The Utena hair-pull... do punish me for my sins

im in bed, sick from whatever the hell stuck to me at the soup store, and i find a random Sam Vimes horny doodle in my sketchbook

Just so you know, Vimes addressing his letters to Vetinari with ‘My Lord Patrician’ does Things to me.

Ponytail Vetinari. Is that a thing?

Please:

- in voting for anything except the first two options, count cameos however you want;

- talk about who your fave is in the tags;

- reblog this

Lord Havelock Vetinari / Carrot Ironfoundersson

So back in the day on my old blog I made this sci-fi Discworld witches AU, here's Witches Abroad in the same setting

Three godmothers an' a crown