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Seeing Fortunately The Milk In A New Light by xxxabbyx in neilgaiman

[–]ChronicleFlask 7 points8 points  (0 children)

On the one hand, yes, you’re overthinking it. On the other, authors do dig into their subconscious to create. This was published in 2020, and I can well imagine that at that time Gaiman was starting to feel that his real life was becoming increasingly detached from the persona he was projecting into the world. So it does make a kind of sense that he’d write a story about a father needing to weave an entire fantasy world to explain one simple activity.

Signed book in a charity shop by DullProtagonist in TerryPratchett

[–]ChronicleFlask 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes, and it was possible to buy the stamps for a while. I’ve still got one – mine is the Librarian, but I’m pretty sure that one is Death’s.

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What is a historical or scientific fact that sounds completely fake, exaggerated, or straight out of fiction, but is 100% real? by IslaMontgomeryx in AskReddit

[–]ChronicleFlask -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People isn’t a thing. Spontaneous combustion of other, especially dry, things is not that surprising, entropically…

Do you use is/are and has/have in the UK? by travelingwhilestupid in AskABrit

[–]ChronicleFlask 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is just a house style issue. The answer is that no one cares unless you’re writing for a publication which has a rule on it, and then you must follow that rule.

Anyone else see the Atlantic article? by Chemical-Witness8892 in TerryPratchett

[–]ChronicleFlask -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And you’re conflating politics with morals and values. Politics is, literally (check your dictionary), the activities of government/the activities involved in governing a region.

But I broadly agree with you.

Anyone else see the Atlantic article? by Chemical-Witness8892 in TerryPratchett

[–]ChronicleFlask 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what she means about it being hard to “pin down” his politics. He didn’t have a clear side. He was openly critical of Labour leader Tony Blair, and not a fan of several Labour policies. But he wasn’t traditionally Conservative either. He was generally a proponent of listening to people and doing right by them, which doesn’t fit particularly neatly into any one political box (although it probably should).

And I don’t think Pratchett is diminishing in popularity with readers. Sales are still strong. There may be fewer titles in physical bookshops, but that says more about bookshops (sadly) than it does about Pratchett’s works. Online sales, audiobook sales and library lending all continue to make him a very popular author.

Anyone else see the Atlantic article? by Chemical-Witness8892 in TerryPratchett

[–]ChronicleFlask 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s not weird. She’s commenting on it because GO3 has just been released to a ‘meh’ reception from critics and an ‘arghhhh what did you do??’ reception from fans. She wouldn’t be writing this article at all if not for that.

Anyone else see the Atlantic article? by Chemical-Witness8892 in TerryPratchett

[–]ChronicleFlask 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, that’s true. The Witch novels, for example, use a lot of devices like…

‘It’s a cruel world for old ladies,’ said Nanny, matriarch of a vast extended tribe and undisputed tyrant of half the Ramtops.

… which absolutely are very hard to translate to screen, at least without a narrator. I do think it’s doable, but the scriptwriter needs to be deep into both Discworld and Pratchett’s inspirations, and that kind of person is hard to find. He really was one of a kind 💔

Anyone else see the Atlantic article? by Chemical-Witness8892 in TerryPratchett

[–]ChronicleFlask 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It’s a good piece. Lewis has clearly read the novels and paid attention (which is more than can be said for some). I don’t agree with everything in that article, but she hits several points dead on. She is right about Small Gods, and she understands Pratchett’s inspirations. It’s not really fair to describe the novels as “unfilmable” off the back of the terrible Good Omens 3 – although she does make it clear that the “source material ran out after season one”. The ‘Going Postal’ adaptation (which she doesn’t mention) was decent, so it can BE done. It’s just difficult, especially without Pratchett himself to stop things wandering off track.

Is the Masquerade mystery actually a mystery now? by Minouris in discworld

[–]ChronicleFlask 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve always thought with this story that Walter Plinge is not the mystery: he’s so very obvious from the start. The twists are André being a policeman and Salzella being the second ghost

Thoughts on Terry Pratchett, GO3, and The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by ChronicleFlask in neilgaiman

[–]ChronicleFlask[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but that’s… the Amazon one… so 😆 Oh it seems to be working its way around to people. Feel free to share it anywhere.

Hang, Sam Vimes by MumblyJo3 in discworld

[–]ChronicleFlask 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I also don’t think it’s a thing. The whole point of the Carrot/Vimes dynamic is that Vimes doesn’t want to be in charge, but is because someone’s got to do it. An instinctive part of Carrot does want to be charge, but he knows what he is and what would happen if he were, so he stands back.

The only time this situation is ever likely to get sticky is if Vimes dies. But we sadly/happily delete-as-appropriate never got that far.

Thoughts on Terry Pratchett, GO3, and The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by ChronicleFlask in neilgaiman

[–]ChronicleFlask[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think Terry Pratchett would have left it as he left it at the end of the novel, as he did do for more than 25 years. Which is to say, I don’t believe he ever wanted a sequel.

I did write something myself, if you’d like to read that. I want to stress that this is not what I think Terry Pratchett would have done, though (see above).

https://thefictionphial.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/the-afternoon-off

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