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#121
08-15-2007
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No Rest For the Wicked - it's a brilliant webcomic. It's really dark, but very good. I love the whole warped-fairytale geanre. Thanks! I've got to go right now, but I'll post it later! <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley1.png'> 
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#122
08-15-2007
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I'm back from the dungeon dimension, it would be better off for all of us if you didn't look into my eyes from here on out.
Sorry for the long break, I've been writing about Nothing and a guy named Sable Meridian, a girl named Dawn Nusquam, a angel transformed into a spider cursed by the theater and multiple personality disorder, and a girl named Iris Phantasmagoria. Don't worry though, they deserve their names. Edit: oh yes, and can't forget the two stories of Lazarus and the dishonorable discharges in the heavenly army. And for god's sake, don't give a man with a god complex and magical powers a book of Nietzsche's complete works. Kumquat, your avatar pwns, wish the webcomic would be updated more often, and yes Red is one of my favorite characters. Anyways, on topic how many think the character of small gods will return for more comedy. And on a sadder topic note, Terry Pratchett said he wouldn't be writing as darkly as he did, he said he wanted to write more lightly, which imo might be a little worse for the satiric department of his writings. Double edit: wikipedia making money link Link for you lives And nice to see this thread has been kept alive, or at least partially zombified in my absence. Triple edit: just to make my post longer, congratz on 5 pages. We've officially beat the other literature threads with our semi-ontopic posts. Give yourself a pat on the back and an illegally acquired draft of Making Money.
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#124
08-15-2007
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Your reliance on Luck saddens me, I try to get on the good side of Fate. Very fickle fellow.
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#125
08-16-2007
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It's Out Next Month? WOOOO! So next month I need that Book and Halo 3.... Though Halo3 comes out at the end of the month, so it will be coming out the month after that's paycheck...
So Lipwig is becoming a series character now, rather than a one off who occasionally reoccurs... Hhhmmmmm If I were to predict things, I would say the Newspaper crew will probably get another book, where they investigate something abroad.... Wait a sec, it's in AM! So The City Watch are bound to make an appearance! Yay! And Yeah, I'm a Lucky Brit.
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#127
08-16-2007
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Kumquat made a mistake, it's .Net not .com
..... Wait a sec.... Kumquat seems a familiar name to me.... Like a MSN name of someone who I used to know from another forum.... ...... or was it a webcomic I was... no that was Mangos..... ......... ..... When are we going to see Susan again?
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#128
08-16-2007
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does anyone else here write fantasy and reference Terry Pratchett, I'm just curious, I tend to use the philosophy in small gods a lot.
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#129
08-17-2007
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#130
08-17-2007
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[sarcasm]Susan falls in love with everybody, bet you she has a crush on the death of rats. Seriously though I doubt Terry Pratchett would end such a successful saga as Susan's like that.
I don't copy his stuff either, I just write fantasy with a touch of humor based on the fact that philosophers rule everything. Nietzsche ftw, although Socrates runs a close second, and the Laws of Thermodynamics are key players too. I just use his works as a part of making fun of the gods. And resurrection is always possible, never know when some stray necromancer will say to himself. "Hey, there's a mighty fine lookin' corpse over yonder, I'm a thinkin' that a little mumbo jumbo might well be in order." Yep. [/sarcasm]
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#131
08-18-2007
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'm not the most coherent with philisophy. I think each person sees the world differently, after all, no two people are the same. I suppose when I write I have philosophy, I could say what I believe, but I don't know how to catorize it. Though I have problems understanding the idea of taking someone else's mindset and using it as your own, if someone who knew something about philosophy looked at what I do, they would probably be able to catoragize it easily. I think nature and nurture both play into the type of person you become, (though I can't help but think there's something more) and I've got a few pet theories, on existance, most of which sound really, really stupid when I try and discuss them. Oh, and do you need a photobucket account to upload a picture? I hope not, I don't want to go through all that trouble for one badly drawn picture of a monkey. -___-
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#133
08-19-2007
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lol the m-word.
My name is Philo but you can call me sopher so. That's right its the reality rap, yo. I'm an atheist of surroundings, shapin, changin, the nature through the enviroments. People are made, and broken by the æthers, the betters. At least that's the lie they try to tell me, at least that's the truth they try to force me. Can't stop me, all of reality, bends to me and my belief in gods of atheist. Gods of truthsayas, and doomsayers. That's right its the reality rap, yo. Ok I'm done, and I personally consider myself better than a snowflake. I'm sure there's another way to upload pictures, although I'm not quite sure how. But you should make an account anyways, it's all for the good ol' librarian.
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#135
08-25-2007
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Anything is available somewhere, and building on previous posts of mine. Who here would vote for Teatime being included in another novel, perhaps as an English teacher.
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#138
09-09-2007
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The carpet people! READ IT! Its a great book! Terry Pratched wrtoe it when he was seventeen and re-published it when he was forty.
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#139
09-11-2007
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i read it. . . .it was very interesting, both as a piece of fiction and as a way to kind of see how Terry Pratchett got started in satire. its very much similar to his diggers series, but much more based around "traditional" fantasy, than his later books. :)
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#140
09-15-2007
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Love those books! I can hardly narrow my favorites to a top five! They're just all so good.
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#142
09-18-2007
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I love Terry Pratchett (As evidenced by my name.) and have read 34 Diskworld books. When I say the Literature category, I clicked into it intending to start a Terry Pratchett thread!
I have yet to see a reference to Terry Pratchett in Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series, are there any I have missed?
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#143
09-30-2007
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Ah, Pratchett. It's like food for your sense of humor.
I've read too many to keep track. As far as my favorite quote goes...I can't decide ;_; Currently, it's from Theif of Time. "One of Igor's former masters had made a tick-tock man, all levers and gearwheels and cranks and clockwork. Instead of a brain, it had a long tape punched with holes. Instead of a heart, it had a big spring. Provided everything in the kitchen was very carefully positioned, the thing could sweep the floor and make a passable cup of tea. If it wasn't carefully positioned, or if the ticking, clicking thing hit an unexpected bump, then it'd strip the plaster off the walls and make a furious cup of cat."
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#144
09-30-2007
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Back from the dugeon dimension yet again, inquiring Jackalknights wish to know from those that have read Making Money if it is as good as it should be. Should be being the being of being awsome.
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#145
10-01-2007
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Just finished it, and I [ ADORE IT! I rarely laugh outloud while reading books, but Pratchett gets me everytime, especially this one. I've been passing it about my household, so frequent bursts of laughter are apparent. I was afraid it would be too similar to Going Postal (sort of the same idea with a BANK ) but it was really, really good! I loved mr. Fusspot and Hubert, actually, one of my favorite things about it was that C.M.O.T. Dibbler ACTUALLY stood for Claude Maximillian Overton Transpire Dibbler. That one made me laugh. For a new favorite quote, I'm tempted to go with Vetinari's "I do believe it is pineapple." Or Moist's "Look out! He's got a Daisy!" or even just Drumknott and V on the way home:
V: (About Moist) And loyal? Drumknott: He took a pie for you sir. That whole affair, while completely ridiculous, was just ingenious. I loved the whole book. ^___^ Oh, speaking of Vetinari, somewhere on this it was mentioned he had an all girl fanclub (which prieviously, was probably true.) Now we can just add Cosmo Lavish to their ranks. XD ] In other matters on the Patrician's sucession, I'm thinking Moist could be a canidate. They've got similar minds. Then again, Moist's still a crook, and I'm sure Veti would rather have him under thumb than running loose. Even though he trusts him, Moist in controll of the city is a frightening idea. Ah, and for Ankh Mopork itself, am I the only one who sees it as resembling 16th century Florence? Pratchett has said it was based of NY/London, but I can't help thinking otherwise . . . Oh, I pray LK does include a Pratchett referance. At least I hope he's read Pratchett, anyone aspiring in humor should. If he ever meanders onto this thread, I reccomend he starts with Going Postal or Mort. ^_^
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#146
10-23-2007
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<3<3<3 PRATCHETT HAS TO STOP BEING SO GOOD. *not really*
There's actually a really good artist that does a lot of Pratchett stuff; found here. www.nocturnalsoldier.org/Tealin/xhp/disc/index.html :3 She's really good for the most of 'em.
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#148
11-15-2007
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http://www.nocturnalsoldier.org/Tealin
That should be better? There's, all the way at the bottom, an icon that says 'The turtle moves!' and that should link to the Pratchett!art. Hope it works.
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#150
07-26-2008
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