Post #1742441
2026-04-28 09:26 UTC
Replies (18)
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@Odaeus@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-28 14:53
I shouldn't be surprised that Mastodon is comprised of a large number of Pratchett fans, but I am touched. 💜
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@jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 2026-04-28 10:34
@Andrew France his works brought joy and comfort to myself i fully agree!
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@capnthommo@c.im 2026-04-28 10:50
@Odaeus I raise a glass of bananana dakry (laced with a drop of finest scumble) in his memory #pratchett #TerryPratchettDay
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@bernard_433@cupoftea.social 2026-04-28 11:02
@Odaeus Yes, it does feel odd to miss someone you never met, but nevertheless, I do as well !
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@ravensrod@mstdn.social 2026-04-28 11:04
@Odaeus
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@ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-04-28 12:25
@Odaeus And footnotes, don't forget the footnotes #speakhisname
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@violanders@mastodon.nu 2026-04-28 12:27
@Odaeus There is also the Glorious 25th of May which also happens to be Towel Day. My wife, however, insists that my towel isn't lilac at all.
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@revk@toot.me.uk 2026-04-28 13:42
@Odaeus Wish I met him, even once.
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@misaimed_brain@mas.to 2026-04-28 13:45
@Odaeus I had the privilege to meet him once, after seeing him speak. He was great.
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@kaasbaas@social.oevents.co.za 2026-04-28 15:02
@Odaeus He is missed.
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@PeryleneBleu@eldritch.cafe 2026-04-28 15:03
@Odaeus I started (re-)reading the whole Discworld series (in order of publication) last year. I'm about halfway through and this was such a good idea. I had read some when I was younger but I was very depressed at the time and my brain was not functioning properly. Plus I read them in French and now I can read the original text ! It's quite different ! I'm having the greatest time. The reading was prompted by my discovery of The Annotated Files (on L-Space), which was mentioned in a very very long Tumblr post about Vimes/The Watch and the Witches, similarities and differences. Also I'm now old enough I think, to really get what Sir PTerry was putting in his books. The DEPTH. A French artist/writer, Jacques Deval, (from whom I have read or seen absolutely nothing) said that "A good book is one which we always find full after emptying it". I think these are truly books you could read and read and read again and every time you'd notice something new, or understand something in a new way. A marvelous gift.
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@aminorjourney@insearchofportlandia.com 2026-04-28 15:07
@Odaeus @WizardOfDocs I was lucky enough to meet him once. An amazing man who was always surrounded by a bunch of enthusiastic neurodivergent people. Never felt so welcome then or since.
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party 2026-04-28 15:27
@Odaeus I like your hat, Sir Terry. Happy birthday. Bong Hits 4 Jesus.
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@moranaga@literatur.social 2026-04-28 16:05
@Odaeus And Footnotes.¹ 😃 ¹ Lots of them.
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@TimWardCam@c.im 2026-04-28 18:30
@Odaeus I met him. In a field which almost certainly wasn't that one but looked very much like it. With the hat of course.
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@simonf@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-28 19:33
@Odaeus Does a book-signing count as meeting?
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@spoon@freeradical.zone 2026-04-28 20:23
@Odaeus GNU Terry Pratchett http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/genclacks.php
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@tuban_muzuru@beige.party 2026-04-29 11:28
@Odaeus Everyone who came to love Terry Pratchett was shaped thereby. It's not hard to tell, this is a person who knows and has opinions about Granny Weatherwax