It is true anon, you may cry on my shoulder if you would like.

>>38649163

https://twitter.com/terryandrob/status/576036888190038016

Forgot link but I'm crying like a motherfucker

>is kill

I just saw the notification from his Facebook account. Sad, but not unexpected.

I wonder if he finally did it like he planned years ago: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/12/pratchett-starts-process-to-end-his-life

(I wonder if we could still preserve his brain?)

>>38649163

I am just here looking at his books in my bookshelf. Somebody please post the screenshot

>>38649163
A legend has passed. An era is gone. The world is less, now.

Farewell, and may the end of the desert be kind to you.

Was it youthinasia?

So what do we do now /tg/?

How do we commemorate him?

>>38649245
By learning important lessons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

Hope you've avoided the rush sir.

>>38649163
"All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up?
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise heads up, heads up, heads up, they rise heads up, heads up high!"

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:<

>>38649245
Leave copies of his books scattered about town, in the hope that people will pick them up and read them.

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>>38649806
There.

I hope he took out a life in sewer ants poly sea

>>38649245

4chancup player

>>38649187
According to the BBC, no. It was in bed with his cats and family though.

>>38649944
You got me.
Now let's have a good clean thread about the nuts and bolts of how that game is played, not the fluff or who wrote it.

>>38650061
Fuck off. Tolkien mythos is cross examined every hour of every day and he didn't even assist in the making of an RPG.
This is temporary, we all know it. Just.. Just give us a couple of days and a few threads.

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>>38650061
I've played it once, broke the GM's game using L-Space Theory and I think he never GMed anything ever again.

Godspeed Mr. Pratchett. Godspeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03qBqP2I4p8

>>38649806
I bet you bitched when Jacques and Williams died too.

And the threads went on.

I forget who this guy is.

>>38649163
I'm shocked.

I knew he had health problems but hell...something has to end one day.

Still it got me all of a sudden.

>>38649245
We do an epic paper RPG based off his works.

>>38650504
>>38649944
Nevermind...

Dammit, that last tweet.

AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER

I am feeling terrible...

>>38649163
Wait, didn't he die already? I forgot that he was still alive!

>>38650566
Nah, he was just bloody much ill.

>>38650092
>muh fallacies
How's middle school treating you?

Fantasy literature has been a part of this board for ages probably before those 5 years of yours, you internet cred whore, getting the occasional thread once in a while. Not so much off-topic when it's ingrained into the goddamn board.

Why couldn't we be having this thread about autist anon's death instead of Pratchett's? Proof there is no just or loving god.

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>>38650839
THERE IS NO JUSTICE
THERE'S JUST ME

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I'd normally bitch about how this shit was off-topic, but goddamn, I can't do it today.

>>38650963
>offtopic
Unbelievable

>>38651052
If Tolkien had died today you'd find people bitching about off-topic threads.

FUCK

just

FUCK

>>38649245
I'm planning on finding a sprig of lilac to wear.

>>38651086

Hell, if Dave Arneson had died today, you'd have jackasses whining about "off-topic."

Farewell, Terry, you'll be missed.

>>38651301
If Matt Ward died, we'd all dress up like munchkins and sing, "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead."

>>38651361
And people would still be complaining about off-topic.

>>38651361
>Still thinking matt ruined anything
Fucking deluded.

>>38651505
>Thinking the person talking about dancing around in a munchkin costume was at all serious.

>>38651639
There's an autist who thinks he's a santa elf held captive by pikachu then the faggot who dresses up as a munchkin can too.

>>38651505
Warhammer Fantasy Battle.

The man should never be allowed near the core rules.

>>38650880
Best representation of death ever, and the best character IMO.
The embodiment of the inevitable, uncaring march of time, and he has heart enough to adopt a daughter, and save Christmas-surrogate#6351.

/tg/ full of hate.

Come to the /co/ storytime.

>>>/co/70206684

>>38651842

One or two faggots is not "full of hate."
It's a regular Thursday on 4chan.

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>>38649180

noooo...

>>38650296
So did he.

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>>38651934
Boy I sure like to see that joke again today.

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>>38651934
Pun/10

>>38649163
-10 hp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4oxrTSRkC0

>>38651934
B-but that wasn't the kind of Alzheimer's he had

>>38649245
Build an effigy in his honor?

We need mourning music. /k/ got moscow nights when Kalashnikov passed, Terry needs something too.

What was the deal with his sword again? Something about a treasure hint?

>>38652077
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczjCi73So8

>>38649163
For fucks sake, I'm really sad. I spend a good part of my childhood and teen years reading his books. Why couldn't that smug fat bastard Martin have died instead of him

>>38652169
Who?

So I guess that I'm the only one who doesn't really give a fuck about his passing?

>>38652195

He means George R.R. Martin. I think he's trying to start a nerdwar for some reason.

There are actually terrible authors out there who keep writing terrible books, there's no need to pick on GRRM.

>>38652195
GRRM

>>38652229
The series is becoming a goddamn chore to read.

>>38652229
Oh. I see.

>>38652208

No, we have a whole corner roped off for the edgelords to go stand in, and tell each other about how cool and hard they are.

>>38652249
>The series is becoming a goddamn chore to read.

Would you prefer if Kevin J. Anderson wrote the ending?
'Cause that's what you're asking for.

>>38652229
He probably picked Gurm because there's little hope he'll keep churning out aSoIaF even if he stays alive a bit longer.

>>38652208
I imagine basically everyone who has never read any Discworld wouldn't care.

>>38651270
We could wear one every 12 of March and if ever we pass on the street, we will know. Question: do lilacs bloom in March?

>>38652318
Yes, but those are subhuman wretches who may only hope to be one day enlightened. We don't care about them.

>>38649944
That's such a cool cover.

>>38652350
Only in places with very early springs. They're apparently a mid-spring to early summer flower.

>>38652350
They generally bloom in may.

And unfortunately the vast majority of the US' climate sucks for it.

Like I live in Louisiana, and it's impossible to get Lilac to grow here without a cooled greenhouse type set up because the summer is too long and humid and hot, and the winter isn't cold enough nor really long enough.

The wrong Terry got ill and died. Should have been Goodkind, not Pratchett.

I feel sad and angry but mostly sad.

>>38649163

Who?

>>38652208
>I'm the only one
Yeah just you buddy. Wear your special button today to show what a unique individual you are

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>>38651934

Newfag here,who was this guy?

>See the news
>TFW my first thought was "Thank god his suffering and deterioration is over"

>>38652256

Yeah, it's called /lit/.

>>38652477
Son, odds are you're in for a treat.

Dead faggot.

>>38649163
sorry man.

ITS TRUE.

Goodnight sweet prince, may your embuggerment bugger you no more.

>>38652477
Discworld author.

>>38649245
Same thing you should do when any beloved /tg/ celebrity dies.

Construct an altar to him and spill the blood of the innocent upon it on the anniversary of his death in the hopes of summoning him and plunging the world into a thousand years of darkness.

If there's any anons with a copy of The Last Hero
Page 22 and 23
See it in person

24-25 in the pdf
http://folk.uio.no/andlia/pratchett_the_last_hero.pdf

This was the best I could do >>38652238

>>38652527
He wouldn't want you to be tryhard BBEG.

>>38649187
Already have preserved it through the best means available anon.
Seventy books.
Each time you read them, remember.

>>38649630

All the little angels rise up, rise up,
All the little angels rise up high!
How do they rise up, rise up, rise up,
How do they rise up, rise up high?
They rise arse up, arse up, arse up, they rise arse up, arse up high!

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>>38652482
That's... a better thought.
Carry on anon.

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>>38652477

A writer of fantasy and satire. Wrote a long running series called Discworld which is among the funniest fantasy series ever written. Got knighted by the queen. Was generally a cool dude.

I recommend starting with Guards! Guards! The Rincewind novels are a bit weak, but the Watch, the Death series, and the Witches are all great.

However, if you only read one book of his ever, make it Small Gods.

>>38652511
Hopefully he'll be reborn as a hedgehog, and thus never have to worry about this again.

>>38652077
How about this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bfEUBJLZSHw

>>38652577
I read Small God and don't see why it's held in such high regards compared to the other books.

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>>38652577
That guide is old. Here, take this.

>>38652581
For the hedgehog can never be buggered at all.

I never even met the guy, but I can't stop fucking crying. He was so influential on my sense of humour and outlook on life, and it's just plain not fair. Why does somebody like pTerry get this but not some hack like Myres?

>>38652527
Well, we won't be short of virgin sacrifices around here.
I like your plan sir, let's make it happen.

>>38652639

Well, YMMV, but most people think it's among his best.

>>38652482

Agreed. I was worried he thought it was time, but upon reading the article, I was somewhat comforted that he passed naturally and at home, surrounded by family instead of doctors.

I encourage everyone to try to sit through Choosing to Die. It's one of the frankest, most honest looks at assisted dying around. It was challenging to watch when Sir Terry was alive, and I can't even make it through the intro now that he's gone, but please, try.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnu340_terry-pratchett-choosing-to-die_shortfilms

>>38652527
So he's Amork?

>>38652610
>>38652077
Best I've heard today are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQcUyhoxTg

and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

Which is apparently what he wanted played in the background while he died

>>38652639
Don't quote me on this, it's entirely unsubstantiated opinion, but I think it's more loved in the Americas than it is in the UK.

For Americans, that kind of deconstruction of religion is more tittilating because religion is a much bigger part of US culture than the Church of England is to the UK. Not to mention they take it much more seriously in general than Brits do.

>>38652394
>>38652415
That's what I figured. I suppose we could wear it on the 25th of May then

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Time to get drunk and marathon his bbc movies. Moving his books to the top shelf.

>>38652736
>those american covers
I feel for you :( I have an entire set of the british ones, EXCEPT Jingo and Pyramids.

tbh I hope we don't keep talking about him as long as we did for Robin Williams.

I mean here in the following weeks. Of course his wok deserves to be known in general.

>>38652542
I was thinking of an other two-page spread.

>>38652697
UKfag here, I love it. It's up there with Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment as my favourites.
>>38652694
Oh Jesus, I feel like crying now. Those songs are just so perfect and so sad.

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>>38651781
>best representation of death ever
Thems fightin' words.

>>38652773
>Of course his wok deserves to be known in general.

Agreed. Say what you will about his writing, especially the last few books, but you have to admit the man could make one hell of a stir-fry.

>>38652660
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=othxGLWIYSw&t=7m17s

>>38652773
Why did you remind me of him? http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/678508-op-is-a-faggot

>>38652831
Discworld's Death's a lot more fleshed out.

>>38652350
It's Friday the 13th here in New Zealand. A sign.

>>38652660
Like the tall thin guy with a broken caps lock would probably tell you...
‘No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away…’

Or something like that.

Life isn't fair, it's just life.
Whether it's happy or sad has as much to do with the person as the events that happen.
Focus on the parts you treasure still, not what was lost because those parts are still with you as long as you hold on to them

>>38652736
It's time to watch Hogfather again, I think. I need that, I think.

>>38652860
Ironic.

>>38652477
An overrated author. He is mildly amusing, but to hear most nerd he's the god-king of comedy.

>>38652812
Which one?
THAT IS NOT MY COW?

The entire discworld dead always kind of struck me

>>38652813
>Monstrous Regiment
Ech, I was never a fan.

I think that's (one of) the wonderful thing(s) about the Pratchett books though, beyond Night Watch, everyone has different favorites. And no one is really wrong. They're all pretty damn good. Even the bad ones.

I don't have anything clever to say, just fuck. Fuck.

>>38652831
Their collaboration was a thing to behold

>>38652694
How about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb9NgIciBaU

>>38652350
Could get a lilac clothing to wear for 12 of March each year

>>38650927
>https://data.archive.moe/board/vg/image/1426/17/1426177913746.png
Overflowing with feels up in here.

>>38652860
Sandmans death is allot more Likable
I actually haven't gotten around to reading terry pratchett yet, so I have no idea what I'm talking about, but this thread has me itching to get started now.

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>>38649163
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31858156

It's true anon. It's true.

>>38649163
He taught me as much as my father. I'll miss him like a family member.

>>38652831

Gaiman himself will tell you he owes a good chunk of his career to Sir Terry.

>>38649163
we lost one of the giants today, not just a funny writer but a wise one.

“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.”

"I rage at the imminent loss of my friend. And I think, “What would Terry do with this anger?” Then I pick up my pen, and I start to write."
Gaiman said it a year ago. What are you writing because of it, /tg/?

>>38652935
You should man, you should.

I wouldn't recommend starting with The Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic, but they're all pretty good.

>>38652935
Get started as soon as you can. Read Discworld. It's worth your time and attention.

>>38652935
Sandman's death you want to be friends with/cuddle.
Discworld's death you want as a granddad or uncle.

>>38652963
To quote his blog -
>Thirty years and a month ago, a beginning author met a young journalist in a Chinese Restaurant, and the two men became friends, and they wrote a book, and they managed to stay friends despite everything. Last night, the author died.

>There was nobody like him. I was fortunate to have written a book with him, when we were younger, which taught me so much.

>>38652963
I'd love him to tell me that, but the talk he is giving nearby where I live sold out of tickets before me and my dad learned it was happening.

>>38649753
Will do. I still remember the first time I read the carpet people... then I re read it three times. I want to share this with the world.
Who is with me?

>>38652882
For some reason, the (I think) most well-known of all: Cohen and Io. Kinda accurate too.
But yeah, seeing the dead Disc was, not shocking but... made me feel a bit weird.

>>38652581
Still crying.

But smiling now, too.

I'm not really bothered. Dude got old, it happens.

>>38652831
I suspect Neil Gaiman disagrees

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman

Terry was truly one of us. Filled with anger and vitriol. He just made that anger work for him, instead of letting it consume him.

>>38652971
Stupid shit and flippant quotes on the internet.

I think I should aim a taste higher.

Am I crazy for being thankful for the fact that at least he left Ankh Morpork less of a shithole than it was?

Gaiman's Death is more often seen from the outside, she's an enigma, a motif in the larger world he created.

Pratchett's DEATH actually becomes more personable as the series goes on. You get to know the character inside out.

>>38652971
Thanks. I needed this.

>>38653096
He left a lot of things a little better than when he arrived.

>>38653005
I am. In Belgium and with french versions (which are really really good, by the way), but I am.

Fuck that's really young

>>38649163
I don't think I've actually read any of his books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9pQUKV9MuM

>>38653096
You know, I got the feeling in his later books he was setting up as close as that beautifully honest city could get to a happy ending.
Making his creations comfortable and giving them blue skies ahead.
Well...
polluted, hazy with stench from the river that in summer more slouched than ran through it, but still blue.
Blueish.

Just... I don't know.
Making sure they were all okay for when he had to leave them, I guess.

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>>38653128
>tfw Gaiman dies and we get fan art of the two Deaths meeting

>>38653224
I noticed that too... sort of from Snuff onwards he seemed to be writing Conclusions. Even Judgement Day has a happy ending of sorts.

>>38653092
I will not write anything, for I have not the skill. This is the quote from that Gaiman interview:

>He will rage, as he leaves, against so many things: stupidity, injustice, human foolishness and shortsightedness, not just the dying of the light. And, hand in hand with the anger, like an angel and a demon walking into the sunset, there is love: for human beings, in all our fallibility; for treasured objects; for stories; and ultimately and in all things, love for human dignity.

>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/24/terry-pratchett-angry-not-jolly-neil-gaiman


I think it's better to do one small thing to make the world a less shitty place however you can than try to emulate his chosen art.

>>38653184
Didn't they insert a La Grande Vadrouille reference in one of them?

>>38653224
I think it's more like he wanted to get away from the social status quo that permeates a lot of fantasy settings.

The city is a lot different at the end of the series than at the start.

>>38652880
literary critics basically consider him to be shakespear's successor. So yeah. He's the god-king of comedy.

>>38653013
You know, with the dice and such, that's probably the most /tg/ of all his books.

Though I doubt any fa/tg/uy has gotten a 7 on a 6-sided die

>>38653267
Huh.

That's a bit hyperbolic. Probably not true either.

>>38653267
I like (liked...) Terry Pratchett as much as the next guy but literary critics absolutely did not consider him to be shakespear's successor, c'mon now.

>>38652808
So we should start reporting the haters?

Is that what I'm getting here?

Because I'm all for it.

>>38653295
Well, with modifiers...

>>38653224
Same here.

>>38652272
That's...terrifying.

>>38653344
Okay, Cohen's modifier was a sword, but it wasn't a +1 sword or anything.

>>38653318
>>38653310
The man wrote on point political satire disguised as comedy that became incredibly famous within his own lifetime and played a significant role in the formation and transformation of the way we do satire and comedy in the modern novel. Hyperbolic or not, it's an apt title.

>>38653337
I don't think that's what we should be doing.
I mean, I know this is 4chan, and people are overcome with the compulsive need to hate on things they could otherwise safely ignore, but...

I get the feeling that if we start lashing out at haters, we'd be - in some way - letting down Pterry. You know?

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>>38653337
That was from the era of a bad mod that threw bans for not liking what he liked. He also was guilty of trying force memes, it was believed he posted the Kromgol character sheets as he banned anyone who questioned their veracity due to the rules irregularities and general incomplete nature of them.

>>38653404
I swer on me mum "Pterry" sound retarded as heck

>>38653404
True enough. We'll let the mods decide it.

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6 years ago I had the honour to by absolute chance meet, and know Terry Pratchett through one of my many projects, he joined as a beta tester two days after I signed up as a dev, i had no idea who he really was until a few days after his knighting ceremony, ended up trying some of his books and now have a fairly large collection of his books that i've been slowly reading through since.
There is supposedly a nod or two to the project including a bug in the project's cooking system in one of his newer books which spewed massive amounts of potatoes out of the cooking fires at Sir Terry.
But my favourite memory of him is not relating to his book, but rather his demonstrations at 60 years old he built himself a forge, in a muddy field, fueled by sheeps dung, and spent much time fossicing small bits of iron from that field, and made himself a shortsword from all those tiny bits.
I wish I still had the photos, and I wish I started his books years before meeting him.
I'm sure he's in good hands though, he got to meet one of his most popular characters.
All the best Terry

>>38653432
It's literally just pronounced Terry.

>>38653251
Yeah.
It's a bittersweet day, anon.
Can't help but remember all the joy along with the loss.
Can't consider Pratchett without thinking of all those good times in those dusty old novels up on my shelves.
Sad as I am, I'm catching myself smiling a hell of a lot.
There are worse ways to be remembered all things considered.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnu340_terry-pratchett-choosing-to-die_shortfilms

I cry every time.

>>38653418
>the angry man reaction maymay

Straight up kill yourself immediately. Your opinion is shit, your taste is shit, everything you do is shit, now and forever, amen. Now die.

>>38652542
I'm enjoying this an awful lot. Rereading it is very comforting. Thank you very much.

>>38652762
I have all the british ones.
Two are variations, but still british.
It's great if to order british books in english from german amazon, but with american ones you probably end up with the british covers.
I don't even want to know how disgusting the german covers look, the title translations alone make me puke.

>>38653378
It turned a roll of 6 into a roll of 7. It is, quite literally, a +1 sword.

>>38653267
A quick google search finds nothing of the sort. The closest is Brandon Sanderson, the author of the Mistborne Trilogy doing it.

>>38653261
Probably. I can't really tell you... There are lots of references in all the books. The french translator made an awesome work in keeping the.. I don't know, mood? of the Discworld by often re-inventing puns and wordplay that were, as is, untranslatable, and sometimes totally transforming elements because the references Pratchett made would have been un-understandable by french reader, or at least not as fun.
Best exemple, in my opinion, is for teh Wee-Free Men. Making them talk with a scottish accent, or in a scottish dialect wouldn't have had the same impact on french readers than it had on english readers. Making them speak picard and translating their name to "Ch'tis Hommes Libres" isn't something all translators would have thought of. Most would probably have translated it to "P'tits Hommes Libres" (closer to "Li'l Free Men") and would have had them simply rolling their r's.

RIP, Pratchett. You were one of my favorite authors, and I can only hope that if there is anything after death, it's kind to you.

>>38652577
don't forget he got a sword made out of iron from meteorites to go with the knighthood
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/when-terry-pratchett-was-knighted-he-forged-his-own-sword-out-of-meteorite-10104321.html

"Where's the Dean ?"

"He died years ago, Archchancellor. You talked at his funeral, remember?"

"Oh. The Bursar ?"

"Him too, I'm afraid."

"The Senior Wrangler ? The Lecturer in Recent Runes ? The Chair of Indefinite Studies ?"

"...Them, too."

"Oh..."

"..."

"Surely that good old Rincewind is still around ? Not a man to let himself get caught by anything, especially not Death."

"He passed away in his sleep two years ago, Archchancellor."

"Oh...

"..."
"... Mustrum? I'm sure he made it. I remember him giving me his hat like if it was yesterday!"

"... It was forty years ago, Archancellor Stibbons. I'm sorry."

"Oh..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"Where's the Dean ?"

"... I'm sure he won't be long, Archchancellor. You'll see him soon. Him and the others"

seeing as >>38650214 is on page 9 at the bump limit I'm copying it over

I just hope he remembered to bring his potato.

>>38652077
Moot's gone. Nobody else would dare fuck around with boards like he used to.

>>38653656
ifyou're interested I might be able to find the posts where he discussed making it although the pictures he posted were long since taken off his web server

>>38653656

That's pretty badass.

>>38653725
That would be awesome.

>>38653717
I miss him so much.
And it has only been a few months.

>>38653544
He also translated the lyre/liar joke in Soul Music as "de cithare"/"de si tard".

>>38649977
Because a bunch of the /tg/ user base cares. I don't see the problem if it's kept to one or two threads. It won't be a recurring issue seeing as this is the only time he'll die. Some things are more important than rules.

>>38653767
Also, it would have stayed in one thread if we'd actually gotten a sticky like /lit/ and /co/ did.

>>38653767
>Some things are more important than rules.
What a Pratchett thing to say.

>>38653780
Peter O'Toole didn't get his /tv/ sticky, don't count on them too much.

>>38651917
This fucking year, man.

Better he died now than lived long enough for the Alzheimer to completely destroy his mind.

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>>38652880
You take that the fuck back.

>>38652831
Too bad in reality it's the bag, fuckface

>>38653851
The truth hurts, doesn't it.

>>38653871
>this shitty meme outlived Pratchett
I hope you're proud of yourself.

>>38653404
Eh. There's a difference between "I always thought Pratchett's work was overrated" and "hurr durr fedorashit edgy hurr durr".

The former at least *could* be expressing an honest opinion. They're fine. Let 'em argue, if they have arguments. Let 'em opine, if they've opinions.

The latter aren't arguing; they're just throwing shit. Rule 3 violation; report, hide, and move on.

>>38653825

We lost Robin Williams, we lost Leonard Nimoy, and now we lost Terry Pratchett...

Considering the great age of a lot of other celebrities, we're going to be losing a lot of greats in the next years. It's gonna be rough.

>>38653899
Yes, which explains why your words just kind of seem to be bouncing off ineffectually.

It's like being lightly patted with the world's softest pillow.

"He'd never been keen on heroes. But he realised that he needed them to be there, like forests and mountains... he might never see them, but they filled some sort of hole in his mind. Some sort of hole in everyone's mind."

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>>38653899

>>38653310

Either you're trolling or you've never read Pratchett.

His genius was taking complex ideas - political and philosophical themes, literary references etc - and presenting it in a very accessible writing style (which is also really hard to do and something he honed by working as a journalist and PR guy) It's what fantasy is always meant to be - BIG IDEAS.

On his death, he had (IIRC) seven honorary university doctorates in literature (he liked to introduce himself to doctors as "dr dr dr dr... Pratchett") and a knighthood from Her Majesty The Fucking Queen You Gobshite for services to literature.

So, greater authorities on the topic than you seem to disagree about whether or not he was a great, important writer. His worst sin in a literary snob's perspective, though one that was largely forgiven by the end of his career, was writing in a genre and daring to blur the lines between popular writing and literature, or perhaps for showing that the distinction was a largely false one.

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>>38653749
considering all the stuff hes done he was a very humble person

for years I had no idea the reason he made the sword, I thought he was just having fun with it.

>>38653902
I enjoy both.

>>38653950

Wow, the picture even looks like him.

>>38649944
Double dubs reveal the true method to honour him to me.
I will play this game for the first time. I will try to make it the best game it can be.
If I find a party, that is.

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>>38653899

>>38653656
>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/when-terry-pratchett-was-knighted-he-forged-his-own-sword-out-of-meteorite-10104321.html

Whomsoever pulleth this sword from the stone shalt have their fanfiction henceforth deemed canon

>>38654002
Tell me you live in London.

>>38654026
Why did I never think of using this as a reaction image?

>>38653960
I enjoy questioning the highbrow/lowbrow distinction as much as the next guy and Pratchett was good at turning astute social and philosophical commentary into solid stories but I doubt there's anybody alive who "literary critics" agree is the successor of fucking Shakespeare. It's way too big a compliment to be given by anyone serious. And Pratchett won't have a tenth of the influence Shakespeare had, come on now.

>>38654056
I don't know. It was the first thing I thought of when it was first spoiled.

>>38650171
A fine choice, sir.

Very fine, indeed.

>>38654071
That means nothing to me, because I think that if Shakespeare was born again right now, no one would say he is the new Shakespeare, thats how we praise the past and attack the present authors.

Yes, thats an opinion.

Besides that, I understand he is no Homer. He is still a goddamned great author, and more, a a great person.

>>38653899
Nah, it's a pretty good book.
Might hurt if I got hit in the face with it

>>38654071
I would tend to agree, but unappreciated as he was by the 'highbrow literary critics (and fuck those pretentious cunts anyway) it would not be unfair to call him the Dickens of the age

>>38654273
Except that Pratchett's books are enjoyable to read, and will therefore never be included in an English class curriculum.

Every time I start thinking about picking up one of his books, the fanboys make me reconsider.

>>38654303
Join us. It's quite cozy over here, we have tea and everything.

>>38652229
I like his non-SoIaF books better.

>>38654052
No, sorry.

>>38654303
Ignoring the fandom is a vital skill for any connoisseur of popular works.

>>38654222
>>38654273
I get where you're coming from.

But shitting on critics as a whole always struck me as anti-intellectualism. A whole literary tradition doesn't exist just to be smug, even if it may seems so at times.

And comparing authors from different era seems a bit nonsensical. It's like calling Bush the Clovis of the modern era. It means nothing because the context is different.

The old man looks up, smiling, through them… And then sees them. For once, the smile on the hooded figure’s skull is genuine.

"I… I remember you. The anth… ant…"

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION.

"That, yes. We knew each other?"

ONCE. AND WILL AGAIN. SIR?

He so rarely said it, and these feelings… Remembering the young apprentice, and his beloved daughter. The beautiful child they have…

"There… Is a girl, yes?"

SHE IS SPEAKING TO THE AUDITORS, SIR. THEY ARE UNWILLING TO LISTEN.

"Well then. You know what they say. Two things you cannot avoid. Taxes and." Those eyes, and he becomes aware.

SQUEAK.

"Quite right. Is it time already? I have much to do?"

YOU HAVE GIVEN ALL YOU CAN SIR.

"No, not cancer. Alzheimers."

I AM AWARE.

"So, where is the boy? I remember a boy."

CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.

"Ahh. Never much trusted cars. Or horses."

THEY GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.

"Must I?"

SOON. BUT WE MAY SIT AWHILE.

SQUEAK.

DO YOU HAVE ANY BISCUITS?

"No, shame really."

YES.

"Is it truly turtles?"

ALL THE WAY DOWN. I HAVE SEEN THEM.

"Ahh. I would love to see it. Perhaps a small trip before?"

IT WOULD BE MY PLEASURE.

"The light is slower there. And there is a monkey…"

ORANGUTAN. SAME PRINCIPLE.

"Yes. Will they. Remember me?"

SQUEAK.

"What was that? I could not hear you."

HE SAYS WE WILL SIR.
"I never much liked the trouble people had with you. You seem a nice fellow.

I HAVE MY DAYS.

"Don’t we all?"

SOME LESS THAN OTHERS.

"Is it quick?"

YES. AND I BROUGHT THE SWORD. CEREMONY DICTATES IT.

"Ahh. How about a cup of tea?"

I WOULD ENJOY IT. DO YOU PLAY CHESS?

"No. How about checkers?"

And so they sat, two old friends regaling each other. Though he could not remember all of the details, He filled him in when he needed.

"Well. Until?"

I WILL STAY HERE SIR.

They shook hands then, and both sat in a comfortable chair, watching a last sunset together.

>>38654303
You are as bad as those who read something because everyone else is reading it, ala Twilight. Dont pick them ever, you'll do us a favour and fuck yourself, which is pretty much what I would like right now.

But it's not what Sir Terry would want of me, so pick a book and start. If you don't like the first book go direct to book 4, you can go back anytime, the series change a lot. Most of them doesnt need you to have read other books.

>>38654071

>Pratchett won't have a tenth of the influence Shakespeare had

Debatable; we could only really make that comparison centuries after Pratchett's death and even then "influence" is going to be difficult to prove one way or the other. Certainly he's been hugely influential on the face of modern fantasy.

But it's safe to say that DURING THEIR RESPECTIVE LIFETIMES Pratchett reached a far wider audience and had far greater success. This isn't entirely fair, true, due to the nature of the times in which they were working. But then, if Pratchett can be said to have unfairly prospered in the comparison due to the more advanced literacy and media consumption, Shakespeare also prospered in standing out by having much less competition relative to Pratchett.

>>38654385
I think we are agreeing. Aren't we suposed to disagree?

>>38654222
>>38654273

Shakespeare's own work was considered lowbrow trash by the /lit/ folks of his day. The equivalent of soap operas or mass-market fantasy paperback today.

One notable critic was derided by his fellows for daring to call the plays "works" which implied they were art. Everyone knew "art" was reserved for stuffy books written by people history would forget, not some uneducated playwright and his dirty pun filled stage shows!

That Shakespeare comparison doesn't look so far off to me.

>>38654298

Shakespeare's hilarious if you learn his lingo. The fact that they're so old is kind of a stumbling block, but in their day they were definitely fun.

>>38654303

Actually, I once saw a paper on the Discworld fandom by an Australian sociologist (well, it included them among other fan groups like footie fans etc) that was presented at a Discworld convention and Discworld fans are, as fan groups go, balanced and normal. You could do worse if you're judging media based on the surrounding fan communities.

>>38654413
>This isn't entirely fair, true, due to the nature of the times in which they were working. But then, if Pratchett can be said to have unfairly prospered in the comparison due to the more advanced literacy and media consumption, Shakespeare also prospered in standing out by having much less competition relative to Pratchett.
Thank you, that's a good example of what I was getting at talking about context in >>38654385

>>38654435
Nah, it's cool that way.

;_;7

>>38654446

EVERYBODY'S work was considered lowbrow trash by the lit crowd of the day. Quality is something that isn't bestowed upon a work until it's author has died and often it largely has to do more with the circumstances of the author's death than the actual quality of the work. Look at David Foster Wallace. Shit but he killed himself so we have to act like every word is sacred.

YES.

I knew this day would come sooner rather than later. i just wish it never had.


Tell me which audio book of his should i listen too?

>>38654303

Judge a work by its own merits. Ignoring something because a few assholes enjoy doing the same thing is no way to live.

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>>38649163
“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”

― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

>>38654539
I mean the sticky.

>>38654550
Guards Guards

>>38654564
Should have stickied this one:
>>38650607

>>38653660
Oh you dick.
I'm feeling feels now.

>>38654564
I wasn't the only one who saw "Thread is now a sticky" message, right?

>>38654579
The first one I ever read. how appropriate. thanks anon.

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>>38654387
damn, this pasta gets me every time.

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Okay /tg/, I haven't actually read any of Terry Pratchett's books. But I was aware of his struggle with Alzheimer's through the wider sci-fi/fantasy fan community (including fa/tg/uys) and found myself saddened yet inspired by his journey as he tried to live with the disease as best as he could. My father has early-onset Alzheimer's and, at the age of 56, is pretty much completely gone. It's a fucking cunt of a disease and I admire that Mr. Pratchett was able to fight through it as long as he did.

Hug your parents if they're still around.

>>38652808

I once got banned for disagreeing with the "Jon Snow is a Targaryen" theory, so sometimes mods can't be trusted..

>>38654510

Not necessarily so. Plenty of authors are lauded by literary circles before they die. But you're right in that who's good and who's not usually takes a good century to really shake out. Which is exactly what I was getting at.

A poem from the Reddit megathread about his death, and if you want to be a faggot about the source, then fuck off.

>The sun goes down upon the Ankh,
>And slowly, softly fades -
>Across the Drum; the Royal Bank;
>The River-Gate; the Shades.

>A stony circle's closed to elves;
>And here, where lines are blurred,
>Between the stacks of books on shelves,
>A quiet 'Ook' is heard.

>A copper steps the city-street
>On paths he's often passed;
>The final march; the final beat;
>The time to rest at last.

>He gives his badge a final shine,
>And sadly shakes his head -
>While Granny lies beneath a sign
>That says: 'I aten't dead.'

>The Luggage shifts in sleep and dreams;
>It's now. The time's at hand.
>For where it's always night, it seems,
>A timer clears of sand.

>And so it is that Death arrives,
>When all the time has gone...
>But dreams endure, and hope survives,
>And Discworld carries on.

>>38654446
The comparison was Pratchett to Dickens.

Thud! Terry Pratchett is dead. Media vita in Mort sumus. He was truly The Last Hero, one of the Small Gods of modern day life's Maskerade. As he goes into The Light Fantastic let us, his brothers and Wyrd Sisters in humanity, remember the Sourcery of his writing - he gave us a glimpse at The Colour of Magic, gave our collective imaginations great Moving Pictures and Interesting Times. Let us not forget the unique Equal Rites of his magical wizards and Witches Abroad. Now, sadly, he is victim to the Thief of Time. He has gone to the Reaper Man, The Last Continent where he listens to the Soul Music. By Jingo! The Truth he was one of the world's Lords and Ladies of talent and deserves to be laid for his mortal Night Watch like royalty, in the Pyramids.

You might feel right now that you're not up to Snuff. Like you have Feet of Clay in the wake of this news, or maybe you feel like you're Going Postal. You might feel like calling Guards! Guards! at this terrible Theatre of Cruelty or like Faust Eric, cruelly tricked by the awful bargain of fate. Try to remember the great things Terry Pratchett brought into out lives and that each of us is just a small part of The Sea and Little Fishes. Try to keep on Making Money and Raising Steam -- humanity is a Monstrous Regiment, for sure, and though we may have suffered a loss today (all of us, from the famous to the unseen labourers and Unseen Academicals) the warmth and laughter that Terry Pratchett created will continue long after him. It does no good to worry about Death and What Comes Next. Pick yourself up and remember - Carpe Jugulum!

>>38654648
>I once got banned for disagreeing with the "Jon Snow is a Targaryen" theory

You had it coming.

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>>38649163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqCbOJc6RU

I was on the fence about Raising Steam, but now I guess I'll buy it.

>>38654697

Well, the second one was. And yeah, Dickens is a good pick.

>>38654684
>a shitty poem from Reddit
Literally leave 4chan right now please.

>>38654710
Winter?

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>>38652736

Fun fact: the crowd scenes had Discworld fans as extras! I was in Colour of Magic as one of the Star People and Going Postal as well.

>>38654446
That thing about Shakespear's language, it's great

Much Ado About Nothing

and this exchange

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: I mean, my head upon your lap?
Ophelia: Aye, my lord.
Hamlet: Do you think I meant country matters?
Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord
Hamlet:That’s a fair thought to lie between maids' legs.
Ophelia: What is, my lord?
Hamlet: Nothing.

Get so much better when you know "Nothing" means pussy

Hell, even Rowling uses the language drift (Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure)

>>38654711
It was pretty good. A bit shorter than I expected.

>>38654742

It's not the "nothing" part of that which means vagina, it's "country" - "cunt-ry" matters.

>>38651505
Go away Matt. You're being disrespectful

>>38649245
Honour his deeds in death as we celebrated them in life.

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>>38654737
I wish there was some way to prove, or that I could ask you to prove, but fuck it.
I want to believe, and faith has a power all of its own

>>38654796
You're retarded. Like yeah, it's cuntry, but anon is also right and you apparently didn't second guess yourself for one even tiny fraction of a moment before making a 'nuh-uh' post.

You must be one arrogant shitheel IRL.

>>38654387
holy fuck, tears are actually welling up

>>38649163
Stat.. Granny Weatherwax

Does this mean I can pirate his books without feeling bad?

>>38654796
It's both.

Much Ado About Pussy
And the entire thing after country.

And given that this is now a sticky, I'll say that I'll post the Soul Music film in all its shittily-animated glory in about 3 hours when it's finished uploading

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>>38654811

Here I am again, in the hat. This was in Hungary in the summer. Shit was HOT. (Keep an eye out in the scenes where Moist is going to the gallows, the scene where the race begins and the scene with the big scrying orb.)

Now, who will Stephen Baxter doom next?

>>38654873
You can pirate and still feel bad, you know.

Except in cases like VTM:Bloodlines, I guess.

>>38654879
the animation is poor but the voice acting isnt.

>>38654796
In any given shakespeare dialogue half the words can safely be assumed to be a reference to lady parts.

>>38654910
I don't get it.

>>38654811
>>38654909

And this is taken during one of the rehearsals; note me in the left there. The Going Postal shooting had fewer fan extras since they moved filming to Hungary for budgetary reasons, so half the extras were Hungarian. They actually just told the English speaking fans what to do and then had the Hungarians figure it out from watching us.

>>38654303
most fans are about the discworld series but his other books are good too, Terry once told me he'd never write another book as good as Nation

>>38654941
or dicks. he liked a good dick joke as well

>>38654796
No, the "nothing" references vaginas.
Because, in that context, if there's "nothing" between the legs, that specifically means no penis. And if there's no penis, then there's a vagina.

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>>38654976

Woops, good job anon, forgetting to attach the picture.

>>38654909
I find it hard to watch going postal seriously because it's Jeff, the man with two legs.

>>38654943
Go take a look at the list of authors Stephen Baxter has collaborated with. Then check when those books came out.

>>38654981
Everyone fucking loved dick jokes back then, the Internet just doesn't compare.

>>38654980
I'll have to reread it first.

Here's something directly relevant to both /tg/ and Discworld that I found a while ago: http://warhammer-empire.com/theforum/index.php?topic=37887.0

I thought some of you anons might enjoy it..

>>38655003
Is the black guy supposed to be Nobby or Visit?

>>38655003
Angua off to the side there

I wonder if that Watch TV series will ever happen

>>38655011

I know, I loved Coupling and half the funny was sucked out when Richard Coyle left. He's a good actor though, just kind of doesn't get good roles very often. Remember when he was in the Prince of Persia movie? Ech..

>>38655046
Isn't Nobby short?

>>38655046
Nobby was in Hogfather and I saw that one
might be Visit.

>>38654980
Nation was very much written after Pratchet knew he was going.

>>38655065
>>38655046
Visit was in Hogfather too. He was the guy with Nobby in the department store.

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>>38655046

Visit, I believe.

This is my hat now. You can't make me give it back.

>>38655059
I seriously hope not. Remember Mr. Pump in Going Postal? Now imagine the Dragon, Errol, Dorfl, the island of Lesp, and all the gargoyles being done with the same quality and care, because it'd be a BBC serial.

>>38654981
That would be the other half.

>>38654298
Never underestimate the power of English teachers to ruin a perfectly good book.

>still no City Watch TV show

>>38655124
The Watch series wouldn't be an adaptation of the books, and the characters from the books would probably largely be cameos.

>>38655124

Be fair, Going Postal was done by an independent film company and financed primarily by Sky, not the BBC.

>>38654980
You almost never see people mention The Dark Side of the Sun, with reference to his other books, despite the fact that it was excellent. That his most obscure works (such as that, Strata and the Carpet People) are still very readable is a testimony to Pratchett's skill.

>>38649163

First Gary, now him.

I don't want to live in a world without all the writers that made our adventuerers possible in the first place!

>>38655124
Radio plays are the best medium for Pratchett works, anyway.

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>>38655139
I'm sure now that he's dead, this will start to be more and more relevant.
They don't do this kind of shit until the author isn't around anymore to call them out on it.

>>38655027
I sure do.

>>38655059
They fucked Angua up so hard in that movie. She was being so brutally unsubtle about being a werewolf, and they even got her werewolf form wrong.

>>38655229
It happens, slowly but surely.
We're getting old...
In a few years no one who saw WWII will be alive!

>>38655154
They're supposed to be focused around the Watch though. It's not like they'll just focus Constable Ping and Constable Visit-The-Ungodly, with occasional appearances by Detritus and Littlebottom as cases go up the ladder. I mean, that'd be like Law and Order without having any prosecutors or judges.

>>38653086
>"Do not underestimate this anger. This anger was the engine that powered Good Omens.”

I would have shit my pants.

>>38655139
Truly English teachers are the greatest enemies of getting people to read.

>>38655245
Discworld books' subtexts are usually pretty clear though.

There's an obvious will to examine serious themes in them.

>>38655286
I work in a retirement community.
It's sad to watch them go one by one.

>>38655124
Actually no.

I assume he was pretty shit though, because I remember Nobby in the Hogfather, for example

>>38655179

Strata is a cool Pratchett riff on Larrry Niven, instead of a ringworld they find a flatworld.

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>>38651934
Fuck.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

FUCK
I AM LITERALLY CRYING RIGHT NOW
FUCK

>>38654711
It is a good book. Some people say the characterization is a tad off, but it did not bother me

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Here's a screencap of the original pasta.

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>>38655356
He was a man in a rubber suit.

What Gaiman thinks:

Terry Pratchett is not a jolly old elf at all. Not even close. He’s so much more than that. As Terry walks into the darkness much too soon, I find myself raging too: at the injustice that deprives us of – what? Another 20 or 30 books? Another shelf-full of ideas and glorious phrases and old friends and new, of stories in which people do what they really do best, which is use their heads to get themselves out of the trouble they got into by not thinking? Another book or two of journalism and agitprop? But truly, the loss of these things does not anger me as it should. It saddens me, but I, who have seen some of them being built close-up, understand that any Terry Pratchett book is a small miracle, and we already have more than might be reasonable, and it does not behoove any of us to be greedy.

I rage at the imminent loss of my friend. And I think, “What would Terry do with this anger?” Then I pick up my pen, and I start to write.

>>38655687
Seen this posted several times.

Not sure what pissed Pratchett off the most in tne real world though.

>>38655687
Didn't terry already announce he was going to stop writing anyway?

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For Terry, /tg/.

>>38653660
Don't do this to me. I've just stopped crying I can't start all over again.

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>>38655555
>55555
>dem quints

>>38655731
I'm watching that as well.

Going to re-read all of the Discworld books too.

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>>38649163

Nothing like this sort of news in the morning to leave you despondent for the rest of the day.

I'll start a read of all Discworld this evening.

Rest in peace, Sir Terry.