The BBC Entry for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest

the-truth-shall-make-ye-fret:

We were absolutely delighted to speak to Drs Pat and Jan Harkin about Pat’s status as Terry Pratchett’s pathology advisor, the gargantuan collection of Discworld memorabilia, the research behind the soon-to-be-published A Stroke of the Pen, and many Pratchettean anecdotes.

Listen to the full interview now wherever you usually find podcasts :)

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

just7frogsinapeoplesuit:

skarabrae-stone:

just7frogsinapeoplesuit:

wondersmith-and-sons:

theygotlost:

theygotlost:

now im imagining what pride events in ankh morpork are like

there will EXCLUSIVELY be kink at the ankh morpork pride parade

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(Tags via @romanceyourdemons)

Extremely correct response, leaving out the inevitable debacle over citizens declaring counterfeit genders in order to have rarer pronoun pins to sell to collectors in the underground pronoun market.

Dibbler, only mildly discouraged, eventually realizes he can sell embellishments for your pronoun pin, which he claims will upgrade your gender.

Also of note is that there are no cops present at Ankh-Morpork Pride. This is not because they aren’t welcome (everyone knows Nobby is as kinky as they come), but because the festivities include throwing bricks at the City Watch building and they are busy trying to make sure they still have a place to work the next day. The Night Watch prepares each year with a barricade, and pre-marriage Vimes always collects the good bricks so he can save for a house. Nobody is really sure where the tradition came from, but it’s good fun and usually nobody gets hurt too badly.

The bricks are provided by Vetinari, who considers it a good test of city infrastructure and training for the Watch.

• Cheery would 100% march in the parade. She’d get Nobby to go with her, but Nobby would be completely oblivious as to why (he assumed she just wants company).
• Moist von lipwig would have pride-themed stamps made; these would inevitably have some kind of issue, which would create some outrage and ultimately make the stamps more valuable as collectors’ items.
• I don’t get the impression that Ankh Morpork ever had anti-sodomy or crossdressing laws, so I don’t think the queer community’s history with the police would be the same as it is in the real world. Especially because Cheery Littlebottom literally started the Dwarf trans/feminism movement as an officer of the Watch, with the Watch’s support.
• Dibbler would totally sell pride flags with the wrong colors (and then insist it was the “new, updated version” if anyone questioned him)
• The nobility are all scandalized, meanwhile the Seamstresses Guild has a float in the parade
• Adora Belle Dearheart is deeply involved with at least one queer organization and is one of the main organizers of the Pride festival, but refuses to answer any questions about why
• Ridcully decides the wizards should be involved, and Ponder Stibbons should make a float and organize the refreshments for them to eat while riding on the float. Ridcully’s concept of allyship is loudly saying, “Well done, that man!” and pointing at anyone he thinks is exhibiting particularly queer behavior.
• Madam Sharn and Pepe release a whole new line of Pride-themed chainmail
• Bengo Macarona is embraced as a gay icon
• Reg Shoe decides the main pride event is too corporate, and organizes an alternative pride parade for the same time and place; this immediately gets subsumed by the main pride event. Some Omnians show up to Pride to protest and Reg is delighted to have someone to fight with.

More from the tags, I love all of you

The Assasins Guild have a float for queer youth dealing with unsupportive parents that has a banner that reads “Over their dead body? WE CAN HELP”

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discworldquotes:

“‘You are armigerous, Nobby.’ Nobby nodded. ‘But I got a special shampoo for it, sir.’”

— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

hopeless–geek:

This is perfection

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reallyndacarter:

ALT

Sadly relevant.

chainchomping:

i was ready to accept ‘we are now approaching leeds’ as the screenshot of despair

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dduane:

cincinnatiburgoo:

I can’t stop laughing at this 🤣😂🤣

…We’re lucky to have this man, you know? (For certain values of “have”.)

neil-gaiman:

dragonwars2601:

Um excuse me Neil this is a star wars

WHY ARE YOU BACK IN MY FALAFEL

I am peculiarly ubiquitous.

inkwell-god asked:

Potato facts please

dduane:

facts-i-just-made-up:

A potato is an mysterious chthonic being that lurks beneath the surface, growing ever more eyes. These eyes are poisonous to humans and can curse us with wrath of the tuber, or “tuberculosis.” Potatoes are directly responsible for the killing of over one million people in Ireland alone. They can also be turned into Vodka, which is directly responsible for the killing of over 45 people in the frat next to my old USC dorm alone.

The true name of the potato grants power to those who master it, but failure can be costly- Merely attempting to write the name of the potato on a blackboard ended the career of Vice President Dan Quayle. Writing the name of the potato in Enochian resulted in the fall of Rome, the collapse of the Dollar, and if I did it correctly, the inside-outing of Donald Trump by his own private jet’s toilet.

Potatoes contain every known protein and nutrient needed to sustain human life, even on Mars, but they contain no fat and must then be augmented with Butter, another eldritch thing. Even alone though, the potato can be boiled, mashed, stuck in a stew, turned into chips, turned into french fries, which some call chips, and chipped and stuffed into fried pancakes, which are for some reason called Latkes. Latkes can only be eaten during the month of Kislev, which means people using the Gregorian calendar are doomed never to taste them.

The song Forty Six & 2 by the band Tool is about the chromosome count of the common potato, their first (and only) song not to be solely about butt sex.

…Hard to know what could be added to this that could possibly make it any better. :)

goodsirs:

Ahsoka
1.01 “Master and Apprentice”

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