“I take my cat on adventures but he just sleeps right through them”
(Source)
The trickster nature of the fox, a tale as old as time…
you want the sound, trust me on this one
I may have reblogged this already but I DO NOT CARE
We are celebrating the anniversary of Terry Pratchett’s birthday. In this post, we share five great characters from Terry Pratchett.
Terry Pratchett was born 28 April 1948 and died 12 March 2015. The English author of fantasy novels was awarded the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2010. He wrote the Discworld series, beginning with The Colour of Magic.
Suggested reading: The Greatest Fictional World Builders Teach You To Write Fantasy: Terry Pratchett
He is known for his down-to-earth fantasy novels with their wonderfully over-the-top characters. These are five of the best.
5 Great Characters From Terry Pratchett
I’ve realised that what I miss about fantasy is it being truly escapist. I miss it depicting places where I would actually want to go.
Every dang kid I knew waited for their Hogwarts acceptance letter. Reading the books and seeing it on screen gave you this warm, fuzzy feeling and a feeling of longing, even when they were in danger and fighting monsters and evil wizards, you want to be there.
You want to go to Middle Earth, see hobbits and elves and dwarves and run through this land of incredible beauty, mysticism and magic.
You want to be in the TARDIS, seeing the universe.
The more recent trend of fantasy is this gritty, dark realism and places where you would just never want to go. I don’t want to go to Westeros. I don’t want to be in The Hunger Games, I don’t particularly want to be in The Witcher universe. I’m living in the world of Black Mirror and I hate it.
Fantasy used to say “hey our world kinda sucks but here’s a cooler one”, but now it says “hey our world kinda sucks, but here’s an even worse one.”
That isn’t to say that the above are bad. They’re not.
But I miss beautiful, escapist fantasy that gives me a break. That takes me somewhere magical, somewhere otherworldly and gives me messages of hope and optimism in the face of darkness. I really, really miss that.
As a great man once said, “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory”. If I want to live in a world full of injustice and suffering, I can just watch the news.
Same fam tbh.
“I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“[M]y friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, ‘What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?’ and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”
Quoted by C. S. Lewis. "On Science Fiction"
Just because it’s “escapism” doesn’t mean you’re not running to something.
“The direction of escape is toward freedom.”
- Ursula K. Le Guin
I love the ambiguity of the term ‘WIP’. Is it a project in it’s third draft? A final draft being queried? An idea I came up with six months ago and haven’t written anything about yet? You don’t know. Nobody knows.
Least of all the author
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