Ammi

Grey background with two wizard outlines in the bottom corners. It has this text in white: Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students. Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times Hiding my tags here, screen readers can ignore: #Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #InterestingTimes #UnseenUniveristy

Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students.

Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

Red background with the quote in white text: Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? ‘Yes. Yes, of course.’ Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG. Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE?

‘Yes. Yes, of course.’

Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #DiscDeath #SmallGods

OK, this is a test to see if the internet can help my mum. Can you identify a comic rhyming monologue my mum performed at school in the 1960s? She has been blurting out lines at random as long as I've been alive, but can't remember who wrote it, and internet searches bring nothing up. Ahem:
1/?

Stock background image with a out of focus clock and an in focus hourglass. The image is overlaid with a quote: "Just a minute," said Lobsang. "Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a schoolteacher walking around?" "Best kind of person to have," said Susan. "We don't like silliness. Anyway, I told you. I've inherited certain talents." "Like living outside of time?" "That's one of them." "It's a weird talent for a schoolteacher!" "Good for marking, though," said Susan calmly. Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

"Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's a schoolteacher walking around?"

"Best kind of person to have," said Susan. "We don't like silliness."

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #ThiefOfTime

My favorite suggestion was to go out into the world (library, bookstore, yard sales, etc) and whichever you find is where you should start.

In case you think this is a joke

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

A background with a dark blue top blending into a black bottom. There is a quote: "The end of times?" said Nanny. "Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished. Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

Look, Tiff, Esme tol' me to say, if you want to see Esmerelda Weatherwax, then just you look around. She is here. Us witches don't mourn for very long. We are satisfied with happy memories - they're there to be cherished.

Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown

#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

This is a perfect joke, even as a still. I love Carol Burnett so much.

Black background image with greenish blue smoke and the quote: Anyway, that's what I'd be, if I really believed. And I don't think that's fashionable right now, 'cos it seems that if you sees evil you have to wring your hands and say 'oh deary me, we must debate this.' That my two penn'orth, Mister Oats. Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum

Anyway, that's what I'd be, if I really believed. And I don't think that's fashionable right now, cos it seems that if you sees evil you have to wring your hands & say 'oh deary me, we must debate this.' That my two penn'orth, Mister Oats.
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

In December 1961. the British fascist, Oswald Mosley, sent Bertrand Russell two of his books. Mosley wrote of 'the two root differences between us' in international politics, and subsequently invited Russell to lunch. On 22 January 1962, Russell declined the invitation in these terms. Dear Sir Oswald, Thank you for your letter and for your enclosures. I have given some thought to our recent correspondence. It is always difficult to decide on how to respond to people whose ethos is so alien and, in fact, repellent to one's own. It is not that I take exception to the general points made by you but that every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, compulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism. I feel obliged to say that the emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us. I should like you to understand the intensity of this conviction on my part. It is not out of any attempt to be rude that I say this but because of all that I value in human experience and human achievement. Yours sincerely, Bertrand Russell

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Grey stone background with the quote: Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive. And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden. Terry Pratchett, Thud!

Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.

And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.

Terry Pratchett, Thud!

#Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

An image of the side of a house between the house and the cars. There is a large black Halloween decoration that is a hellhound. There is a small white dog on the end of his leash trying to "meet" the hellhound statue.

The house with the Halloween black cat decoration has added a large black hellhound. Cirrus no longer cares about the cat, there is a fellow dog to play with. He just needs to convince it.

#dogsOfPixelfed #boloDogs #bologneseDogs #adventureDogs
#wanderPups #CirrusMcFluffington #McFluffs #Halloween

“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“

Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea

I'm in this description and I don't like it.

Who's solving the Louvre robbery?

Right answers only.

AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #Hogfather #Death #DiscworldDeath #SusanStoHelit
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YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE & GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER & SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE & THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY.

― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #Hogfather #Death #DiscworldDeath #SusanStoHelit
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Purple stock background image with purple fantasy looking clouds with the quote: “All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable." REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE. "Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—" YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES. "So we can believe the big ones?" YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING. "They're not the same at all!" YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED. "Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—" MY POINT EXACTLY.” ―T Pratchett

Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #Hogfather
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Plum background color with the quote – "Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

Esk, of course, had not been trained, and it is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #EqualRites

I support the Vimes family attitude towards kings.

The Independent Man atop the Rhode Island State House looms over an estimated crowd of 32,000 for the No Kings protest in Providence, RI

#NoKings in Providence, Rhode Island #nokingsri

Blue background with the quote – "History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders." Terry Pratchett, Jingo

History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett

A black background with a skeleton in face and hand in one corner, with the quote – "The Death of the Disc was a traditionalist who prided himself on his personal service and spent most of the time being depressed because this was not appreciated. He would point out that no one feared death itself, just pain and separation and oblivion, and that it was quite unreasonable to take against someone just because he had empty eye sockets and a quiet pride in his work. He still used a scythe, he'd point out, while the Deaths of other worlds had long ago invested in combine harvesters." Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

He still used a scythe, he'd point out, while the Deaths of other worlds had long ago invested in combine harvesters.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #DiscworldDeath #LightFantastic

Blue background with the quote – "She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind." Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #EqualRites

An image with a basket of small puppies in the bottom right hand corner. There are three puppies in the basket. The image also has the quote: "There had been a time when the continents were different, Rincewind understood, and then they'd sort of shuffled more comfortably together like puppies on a basket." Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

There had been a time when the continents were different, Rincewind understood, and then they'd sort of shuffled more comfortably together like puppies on a basket.

Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUTerryPratchett #Sourcery

Green background with a quote and the periodic table sign for Uranium (92 – U) – "Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm." Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

"Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm."

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

#GNUTerryPratchett #GythaOgg #Discworld

Have u ever really watched him? bet hed found out everything about Jabbar by the time hed talked to him for ten minutes. bet he knows the name of every camel. And he'll remember it all. People don't take that much interest in other people, usually' Her fingers idly traced a pattern in the sand. 'So he makes you feel important. 'Politicians do that' Vimes began. 'Not the way he does, believe me. expect Lord Vetinari remembers facts about people" Have you ever really watched him? bet he'd found out everything about Jabbar by the time he'd talked to him for ten minutes. bet he knows the name of every camel. And he'll remember it all. People don't take that much interest in other people, usually' Her fingers idly traced a pattern in the sand. 'So he makes you feel important. 'Politicians do that- Vimes began. 'Not the way he does, believe me. expect Lord Vetinari remembers facts about people" 'Oh, youd better believe that!' Carrot takes an interest. He doesn't even think about it. He makes

'-but Carrot takes an interest. He doesn't even think about it. He makes space in his head for people. He takes an interest, and so people think they're intesting. They feel... better when he's around.'

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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Real background with dark text reading – "When you break rules, break 'em good and hard". Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard. "

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

This quote goes so well with another favorite quote –

"Get in Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble"

John Lewis

#GNUTerryPratchett #Discworld #EsmeWeatherwax #GythaOgg #GoodTrouble #JohnLewis #NecessaryTrouble

I got the Wacom One with a pen. It's great. I've done some cartoon styles, but I'm not great at it.