Honestly, I’d call him the deuteragonist of the Watch novels. He’s front and centre in The Fifth Elephant and The Last Hero, and holds the b-plots of Men at Arms, Feet of Clay and Jingo. His whole deal is sublimating his amazing ability to inspire people and his troubling talent at making them bend at the knee into…

I have been sidestepping the “which book first?” question on behalf of my friends for a while now by just buying them the book I think they’d like best and shoving it in their hands. I am the Constable Visit of Pratchett Fandom.

Only in a literal sort of sense.

This was the blog post that convinced me that these guys are simply pulling shit out of their asses as far as "how it was in the good old days."

What's more, the oldest female protagonists in fantasy anyone was able to come up with in that thread was 35

AGATHA HARKNESS, WHERE ARE YOU NOW THAT WE NEED YOU?

"Under wraps"

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I recently moved to the Seattle suburbs from the east coast. Essentially from a place with 4 seasons to a place with 9 months of overcast drizzle and 3 months of beautiful summer... Seasonal Affective Disorder is totally legit. I recently lost my good leather belt and decided to…

But one doesn't drink tea simply for the caffeine. One also drinks it for the flavor. An excessively short steep might provide more caffeine and yet taste like an overly diluted cup.

Right now I would be willing to call this truly outrageous, but truly, truly outrageous may be a bridge too far.

"I said, she said" seems destined to become, "I'm all, she's like".

It had retained many of its roots, but also greedily consumed plenty of French (and later Arabic) words in the intervening years.

Swift may have had better luck if he'd suggested an English Academy before A Modest Proposal. By that point, people were on to him. "Oh, Swifty, you're having one over us again! English Academy. Ha! Next you'll be saying that Mars has moons!"

April 3, 2022...

wait until it gets retconed into speedichlorians

Someone needs to write a new Christmas song titled "Shit, it's Christmas."

Putting together species that existed millions of years apart? With no regard to zoogeography, morphology, ethology and ecology? I'll go with every dinosaur movie ever made.

Inconceivable

Scott Waugh is finalizing a deal to direct the $120 million Inversion. The film follows a Chinese scientist and an American expat "in a race against the clock across the globe to save Earth from an apocalyptic threat — a reversal of gravity causing civilizations to uproot and plummet into the sky."