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Janet
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120 Shades of Black!
Tea-drinking T-Rex
Cat lady
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Admin of Kushiel's Legacy RP forum
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A picture of Sir Terry Pratchett's busy, against a grey curtain backdrop. Overlaid in white text is: Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there'll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years', thirty years', ten years' time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia. Almost always Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
May 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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A photo of Terry Pratchett, looking at the camera with his head resting on his hand. Overlaid with white text is: "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorant." Terry Pratchett
April 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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A post by Josh Kirby art depicting a quote from Terry Pratchett on the left and Josh Kirby's art on the right. The quote is: "What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." TERRY PRATCHETT The art depicts, from L to R, DEATH, Angua, and Captain Carrot sat at a long desk with their respective nameplates in front of them.
April 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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A screenshot of a post by persephinae "Pratchett went back to older throwaway jokes (like dwarves being apparently unisex) and used them as metaphors to discuss social change, racial assimilation, and other complex issues, while reexamining the species he'd thrown in at the margins of his world simply because they existed at the margins of every other fantasy universe. If goblins and orcs and trolls could think, then why were they always just there to be slaughtered by the heroes? And if the heroes slaughtered sentient beings en masse, how heroic exactly were they? It was a long overdue start on redressing issues long swept under the rug by a parade of Tolkien successors who never thought of anyone green and slimy as anything but a notch on the protagonist's sword, and much of the urgency in Pratchett's last few books seemed to be related to them. 'There's only one true evil in the world,' he said through his characters. 'And that's treating people like they were things.' And in the last of his 'grown-up' Discworld books, that idea is shouted with the ferocity of those who have only a few words left and want to make them count. Goblins are people. Golems are people. Dwarves are people, and they do not become any less people because they decide to go by the gender they know themselves to be instead of the one society forces on them. Even trains might be people, and you'll never know one way or the other unless you ask them, because treating someone like they're a person and not a thing should be your default. And the only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don't even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone." John Seavey, The Evolution of the Disc (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
March 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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My new T-Shirt has arrived! ❤️🏳️‍⚧️
A grey t-shirt spread out on a desk. The writing on the t-shirt reads: Read books. Drink tea. Protect trans kids.
February 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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My reading companion the other day 🥰 he's just so beautiful.
Picture of a tabby and white cat, lying on a grey blanket and looking at the camera. His white tipped paws are resting in the crease of an open book
January 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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"There's no greys, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..." Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
January 15, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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A photo of Sir Terry Pratchett with text that says: Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. Terry Pratchett English humourist, satirist and author (1948-2015)
January 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Pictured: quote from Terry Pratchett stating “JRR Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Sometimes it’s big and up close. Sometimes it’s a shape on the horizon. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is, in fact, standing on Mt. Fuji.”
December 16, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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Beautiful sky tonight. The sun is setting and the clouds have turned a range of colours from mauve to orange against a pale blue sky
Beautiful sky tonight. The sun is setting and the clouds have turned a range of colours from mauve to orange against a pale blue sky
December 15, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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Quote from 'Going Postal' by Terry Pratchett. “Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!" "Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm. "What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?" "I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly. "I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!" "No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.
December 6, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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Percy is my boy~ He started living in my overgrown back yard, in all weathers. We decided to catch him, as he looked matted and skinny, with the intention of taking him to the vet and seeing if he belonged to anyone. Percy had different ideas, as he would hiss and bolt even if 6ft away. 🧵1/
A long haired tabby cat is lying on a woman, face turned to the camera, eyes closed as she scratches his chin
December 3, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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Serenity, a Firefly class vessel, from the TV series 'firefly' and movie 'serenity'
A space ship pictured against a backdrop of a blue and white world below it
November 29, 2024 at 8:30 AM
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I have a cat that looks just like this 🥰
Tabby and white cat, sat on an ironing board
November 24, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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2020 Vs 2024 🥰
Long haired tabby cat eating food off a plate. His fur is matted and he looks scrawny and unkempt Long haired tabby cat, looking off to the side of the camera. Looking bright eyed and well cared for
November 24, 2024 at 2:03 PM
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Could have sworn this was my Carrie then 🤭
Tuxedo cat lying on a bed washing a paw. Tuxedo cat lying on a bed, belly exposed, paws tucked under her chin, looking at the camera
November 23, 2024 at 11:44 PM
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Happy caturday from Lord Percival
November 23, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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Love Percy's bed head
Long haired tabby, just woken up, peeking over a grey cushion. Fur pointing in all directions
November 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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My Carrie adores zipties. Occasionally, as a treat, I'll get a fresh one out of the packet, loop it and toss it to her 🤭
November 23, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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This. Right here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Quote from a Discworld Book "Carpe Jugulum" by Sir Terry Pratchett: "There's no grays, only white that's got grubby. I'm surprised you don't know that. And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is." "It's a lot more complicated than that--" "No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts." "Oh, I'm sure there are worse crimes--" "But they starts with thinking about people as things..."
November 23, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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More Freddie spam
Tabby and white cat asleep on a dark green bedspread, looking like he's smiling Close up picture of Tabby and white cat asleep on a dark green bedspread, looking like he's smiling
November 23, 2024 at 10:52 AM
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Freddie spam
Video showing a tabby cat licking a pair of dirty socks and a tux getting petted Tabby and white cat sat on an ironing board with a spaced out expression Tabby and white cat sat on an ironing board with a spaced out expression Tabby and white cat sat on an ironing board with a suspicious expression
November 23, 2024 at 10:50 AM
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Cozy in the library
Tuxedo cat perched on a cat tree, looking towards the camera with a large globe in the foreground and bookcases off to one side Tabby and white cat looking towards the camera whilst laying on a grey fuzzy blanket, bookcase behind him Long haired tabby cat looking up at the camera in a room with lots of books
November 22, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Getting out of bed was a struggle this morning...
Photo of a tabby cat sprawled across someone in bed
November 22, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Percy, Freddie, and Carrie ❤️
Long haired tabby cat in a cardboard box Close up of a short haired tabby and white cat asleep A tuxedo cat, with wide pupils looking at the camera on a floral bedspread
November 20, 2024 at 6:16 PM